Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1922-06-15
NEWS OF Y01x COUNTY.
Items Of General Interest Found
In the Yorkvills Enquirer.

In the Yorkvills Enquirer.
Frank Roach post of the Amer
lean Legion, Rock Hill, will erect
monuments to the memory of Sol
dier Frank Roach, for whom the
post was named, and to James
Lynn, a Rock Hill boy who also
lost his life in. the World war,
Post Commander Thos. w. Hney
said Saturday. - .....
Farmers around Tatuni, Marl-
boro county, are paying one-halt
cent each for boil weevils picked
from cotton on their respective
farms, according to William Glib
son of Tatum, who, with his fam
lily, recently visited Magistrate
h. l.. A. Smith and fumily ut
Hickory Grove.
DIR. Joe Sims, well known phar-
macist Of Sharon, was run over
and painfully injured By an au-
tomobile said to have been driv-
Ell by Paul White at Sharon, Sun
day night. DIR. Sims was struck
by the automobile while crossing
the street near j. l.. Whiteside g
store. He suffered badly Strain
ed ankle and other bruises.
That there is less corn planted
il, Bethesda township at this time
than there has been at similar
period in years is the opinion of
MIR. Will Aycock Of Bethesda
township, who was in Yorkvills
Monday. Mr.. Aycock said that
lie had recently received letter
from his brother, Mr.. Ed Aycock,
who lives in Ellis county, Texas,
saying that 10 inches of rain fell
in 20 hours in his section of Texas
last week and that hundreds of
acres of cotton and other crops
were washed away.
While there is no official an
nouncement to that effect forth
coming as yet, it is understood
that the new 2O,OOU spindle mill
20 be built i'll Clover by pvrs0ns
interested in the Hawthorn Spin
ming mills will be known as the
Hampshire mills. NJ. l.. Smith.
general manager Of the new miffs,
and John r. Hart, attorney for
the mills, left Saturday for the
East, where they will have a con-
ference with the stockholders rel
ative to the new mill project.
Further evidence of the unw!ll-
ingness of farmers of Rock Hill
and the community to sell cotton
on rising market is found in
the fact that while the price has
been going up all this week not
more than 200 bales of cotton
have been sold this week, accord
ing to Rock Hill buyers. The
buyers were offering ~ cents II
pound Saturday for strict mid
ding, but little was offered at
the price. A Rock Hill ware
houseman estimated that there
ore at least 10000 bales of cotton
in Rock Hill warehouses. Prac-
tically none of the cotton that has
been sold on the Rock Hill mar
ket in the last several weeks has
been taken from the warehouses,
according to the warehOuscman.
That worthless. checks are in
creasing in number rather than
decreasing, despite the fact that
the recent General Assembly
passed a law supposedly with
"teeth' in it relative to the mat
ter, is the opinion of various York
county magistrates and business
men interviewed yesterday rela-
tive to bad checks. When the re-
porter inquired the whereabouts
Of prominent business man he
was told that che is out III the
country trying to collect some
bad checks given him recently in
payment for goods And the
clerk went on to say: "Really, il
is getting so bad that we are al.
most afraid to cash anybody s
check. You have no idea how
bad it is."
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