Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-12-20
news ABOUT Glover
Many Heavy Hogs Have Been Slaugh'
tered In Past Few Days
MINSTREL SHOW drew Big CROWD
Hawthorn Mill to Build Large Com
munity House-Cheek Out for Nine
Years Brought in for Payment
Other News and Notes Of the Me-
tronolis of Northern York County.

Years Brought in for Payment
Other News and Notes of the Me-
tropolis of Northern York County.
(By a Staff Correspondent.)
Glover, December 19.-The reputa-
ton of various residents Of the cotton
mill villages here for raising big hogs
every year is up to par again this
year. During the past week ''tn
number of big porkers have bee kill
ed and there is an abundance OF sau-
sage and spare ribs and cracklings and
other pork meat in both villages. SO
FIR Mr.. Campbell Henry holds the
palm for having the biggest log of the
season at either village. His hog,
which he killed recently netted 533
| pounds. George B. Wallace killed one
q few days that netted 492 pounds
]. a. Deas's hog weighed 465 pounds
and James Faris killed one that
weighed 476 pounds after it was dress
ed Robert Prices hog which he re-
Gently killed for Christmas netted
474 pounds and Will Barrett recently
killed one that netted 404 pounds. M.
NJ. Pendleton who lives near Glover
killed two big pokers recently, one
netting 455 pounds and the other 45o
pounds. There are numerous other
people in the town and the surround
ing country who have wheeling big
hogs that have not yet been killed.
But nobody will hardly beat the
Campbell Henry hog here,
To Build Community House.
Tie management of the Hawthorne
Mill here Is laying material on the
ground preparatory to the erection OF
community house for the benefit OF
operatives Of the mill. The commun-
ity center will be located near the
baseball park which was erected by
the mill management last summer
and will fill long felt want in the VII
lage. The community house which
will be a large building Will be OF
brick construction and the work will
be pushed to completion as rapidly as
possible.
Minstrel Big Success.
So large was the crowd desirous OF
seeing the minstrel show put on by
local talent which played in the opera
house hero last Tuesday night that IL
was necessary to put on two perform
ances. The crowd was said to have
been the largest in attendance upon a
show or entertainment at the opera
house in several years receipts from
the sale of tickets totaling $112. The
minstrel which was directed by one Oh
the teachers in the Glover school was
presented under the auspices of the
Glover School Improvement associa-
ton and the understanding is that the
money received from sale OF tickets
will 90 into q fund being raised Tor
the purpose of providing library 1or
the school, At the present time the
school is without a library and the
need for one becomes more and more
apparent every day, according 10 W.
s. Reid, superintendent of the school.
The library fund now totals a goodly
sum and the school children Will nave
n number of valuable reference books
and other works at their disposal soon
after Christmas.
Debate Tuesday Night
Considerable local interest centers
in the debate to be given by hish
school pupils in the graded school
auditorium Tuesday evening on the
subject, Resolved, That the United
States Government Should Provide
ADEQUATE Compensation for Ex-sol-
diers." The debate which is 10 be
held under the auspices or the III
erary society will mark the first gain
erine of Glover people in the new high
school auditorium which is nearing
completion. High school pupils inter-
estcd in the debate have been WORKING
hard in getting all the facts 'nd he-
ures possible that are calculated 10
uphold their respective question. Ine
subject Is an interesting one ana IL Is
believed that the high school deoaters
will present arguments pro ana con
that are we'll worth while.
Unusual Record.
Mr.. w. A. Barrett Is now rounding
ont the oSth consecutive year of his res
idence at the Clover mill village here'
q record considered further remark
able by reason of the fact that he has
been living in the same house during
aIl those years. The Goth year of his
residence H. the mill village expires
on January II. While Mr.. Barrett
holds the record for consecutive resi-
dence at the mill, there are others
there who have been identified with 1t
lonSer than he has. Among them are
Nessrs. ]. r. Parrish and w. r. Kitten
although both have moved away III
times and returned later
Christmas Trees This Week.
There are to be at least three
Christmas tree entertainments in Clo-
ver this week and the understanding
is that there are to be others In the
community surrounding. Both the
Methodist and Baptist Sunday schools
are going to provide n Christmas tree
for the little folks and the school is
800,