Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1921-12-22
: NEWS OF YORK COUNTY.
Items of General Interest Found In
the YOrkvilic. Enquirer.

Items of General Interest Found In
the Yorkvilic. Enquirer.
According to the books of the coun-
ty auditor there are only 2S7 gold
and silver watches in York county.
Their as,css, value is S6.4sO.
The total of State and county taxes
paid into the Office of the county
treasurer up to December 10 was
25,596.02. This takes no account CT
the taxes paid into the different
banks throughout the county The
total tax book calls for s632,75O.37.
Up to Monday the dog tax tags taken
out numbered 1850.
Poisoned moonshine liquor killed
Frank Hardin, young negro who
lived several miles south of YorI,i,ie,
Friday afternoon. While no analysis
| of the liquor had been made up to
Monday, the theory of physicians Is
| that the stuff the negro drank was
made of wood alcohol " instead of
| grain. Hardin lived only short
| while after drinking the stuff.
Some of the MERCHANTS of Rock Hill
are agitating movement to try to
get the Seaboard Air Line railroad to
come to Rock Hill. The railroad taps
the extreme eastern edge of York
| county some nine miles away from
Rock Hin and 1t Is argued that while
the cost OF coming into Rock Hill
would be great business that would
| he obtained there would In n short
period OF time offset that cost.
| The management OF the Haw-
| thorne mill at Glover Is laying mate
rial on the ground preparatory to
the erection of Il community house
fn,
mill. The community center will be
located near the baseball park which
was erected by the mill management
last summer and will fill a long felt
want in the village. The community
| house which will he n large building
will he of brick construction and the
| work will he pushed to completion
rs rapidly rs possible.
w. A. Barrett is now rounding out
IN" 29th consecutive year OF his res
idcnce at the Glover mill village.
! record considered further remarkable
| hy reason of the fact that he has
| been living in the same house during
all those years. The 29th year OF his
residence in the mill village expires
| on January IL. While Mr.. Barrett
| holds the record for consecutive resi-
| d'ncc at the mill. there are others
| there who have hecn identified with
II longer than he has. Among them
o-c J. R.=Prrrish and w +: Ritch, a.
| though ho'h have moved away ~
times and returned later.
JAS. W. Cannon, owner of the Can
non mills Of Iorkviile and one OF the
| leading cotton manufacturers OF the
world. died at his home Ut Concord.
| G., Monday evening ut d O'Clock.
| aged about 20 years. lie had been Ill
for several weeks with complications
| sowing out OF heart trouble. The
| funeral services were to be held at
concord Wednesday. Mr.. Cannon was
one OF the pioneers OF the Southern
cotton manufacturing industry and
was. the owner of quite IA string OF
mills in North Carolina South Caro-
lima, Georgia and Alabama, aggregat-
Ing in value many millions of dollars.
He is survived by his widow and nine
| children.
i.ock iii members OF the United
| Daughters OF the Confedcrucy have
had no trouble IN raising by pubnc
| subscription Inc suia of SISOU the
balance due on the new Confederate
monument. wmc.I is ready to he set
up. 'an\asscIs were busy two days
!aSt week soliciting subscriptions to "A
iund To make up the deficit and they
| met with generous response from
the Rock lill pubic. Up to Friday
afternoon the sum of $500 had beer.
| raised and the cinNaSsers expressed
| themselves as being confident the
| entire 81 500 would lie raised without
trouble.
| prohibition officers operating In
! bethesda township Sunday afternoon
destroyed big moonshine furnace
and about 200 gallons OF hcerlw hich
they round on the lands of Peter
| Hardin, negro who lives about five
miles south OF Iorkville. to the west
o' the Chester road. While the dis
| ulierN proper had been moved re-
Gently Sheriff Quinn gave IL az his
| opinion Monday morning that there
| hhd been no less than 500 gallons OF
| liquor made there recently. When
| "e officers arrived they found/1l big
h"N's. each filled with corn mash or
! hcer. Ii was estimated that the boxes
would hold at least 200 gallons of
| mash each and all of them were full,
while the stuff was about ready to
h' distilled into liquor.