Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1921-08-18
NEWS OF YORK COUNTY.
Current Items of Interest Found
in the Yorkville Enquirer.

dealers III tne nearest market,
farmers of the Hopewell section
are using butter for lard. accord
ing to leading farmers of the
Hopewell community.
Considerable improvements are
being made to the plant of the
Bowling Green spinning mill,
which is under the management
of c. n. Alexander of Glover. The
mill buildings have recently been
painted and considerable remod-
cling has been done.
Prof. w. S. Reid. superintend-
ent of the Glover graded school.
said Saturday that he was una
bile to announce ut this time when
the work of the next session
would be entered upon. 1t will
probably be the last of October
however. since it is believed that
the new school building will have
been completed by that time.
The management of the Glover
cotton oil mill has under way
plans for the erection of Il large
brick building in which will be
housed an up-to-datc ice plant.
The building. which will be erect
rd near the present ice plant,
Will be IL structure about 40 by
90 feet and the contract for its
erection has been let to Mr. Sam
Mccall. The building will be Suf-
'cl"ntly large TO accommodate IL
2D-ton plant.
Horace johnson. special cOnSta-
bic. now knows why il requires
so many automobile tires to keep
hlS machine travelling. 1t is be-
cause of the hard usage to which
The machine is put in travelling
lrEg distances and over all sorts
OF roads and by-paths in per-
forming his duty Il aprohibitiOn
officer. Constable johnson kept
record during July of the mile
age that he covered during that
month IN the performance of his
duties. The total distance trav-
"ird by auto was about $3.50
miles. a new set of, tires is re-
qulrrd for the machine about
every two months.
II remember that fellow =. J.
Kirby very wcll.' said w. n.
Hradford of the Beth Shiloh
mrighborhood. 81 got to know
hlm when | was IL guard on the
chalngang about ten years ago
lie Was sent up for cruelty to
one OF his children. According to
my recollection one of the neigh.
h"rS reported to the police that
the child had been brutally whip.
ped and left in the yard with Il
smoothing iron tied to it. Kirby
was sentenced to pay u fine OF
60 10 the chaingang for 30 days
While on the chaingang he seem
eel 10 take pleasure in telling how
T." had sold liquor and violated
other laws
Mr.. II. T.. Ferguson. well known
cattle dc'lrr Of Iorkvillc. was
discussing the cattle business th,
other day. Business is away of
JUST now. said he. and accord
my To all indications il will b,
Tor some time. While it is a fact
hat people do not eat as mucr
steak and beef in the summer a.
they do in the winter that is no,
aliC"c' her the reason for tn,
great slump of the past few
months. When the World wal
c9E." 10 an end the United State.
l"d on hand thousands and mil
li'aS of pounds of beef bought
Tom the great packing houses tC
furnish the soldiers. The govern
mcnt since then has been getting
rid of this great store bv selling
l. 10 the general public. The
butchers who sell fresh beef fin,
that they cannot compete Will
the government prices and conSe
qucntly the beef business is on
the down grade while hundred.
OF butchers have gone out of bus
mess. There will be no chang,
IN The situation until the govern
mcnt supply is consumed by tn,
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