Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1922-04-20
NEWS OF YORK COUNTY.
Items of General Interest Found
in the Yorkville Enquirer.

People of this part of the coun-
try are noticeably growing more
careful in crossing railways in
automobiles, which speaks well
for the intelligence of the people
of this county.
Former Supervisor Thos. w.
Boyd of Lesslie was among the
visitors in Yorkville Monday. Mr..
Boyd said that he had not decided
whether or not he would be a
candidate for county supervisor
this year.
Governor Cooper has set aside
April % as "Cooperation Day"
He wants the farmers who have
not yet signed the cooperative
marketing contract to do so. And
to the end that the matter may
be intelligently presented he asks
that farmers and business men de-
vote the day to general canvass
Of the entire field.
Mrs. Effie Huggins, under joint
indictment with Alfred thinner
man charged with the murder of
Pink Higgins, her husband, No
vember Z, last, gave birth to a
baby boy at the county home Fri
day morning. Mrs. Huggins was
up Saturday morning as usual.
The case against the two was for
mally continued Monday until the
next term of court, presumably
OH account of the birth of the
child.
Zone of the best kept cemete-
ries III the county" remarked a
gentleman who is well acquainted
with the subject, els Laurelwood
in Rock Hill. Some years ago the
Yorkville cemetery rather had it
OH LaurelwOod, but now there is
noticeable some change in favor
of Laurelwood. OF the country
cemeteries perhaps Ebenezer leads
the list. The graves are more
generally marked with suitable
stones and the whole place is
| WSli
1t takes the people long time
to realize the change in the law
as to working the roads. For in
stance, the county board of COM
missioners no longer have any
thing to do with the main road
from Chester to the CASTOR coun-
ty line or the main road from Ca
tawba Junction to Yorkville. The
same is also true of the Saluda
road out of Rock Hill to the Ches.
ter line. All the roads are now
under the maintenance of the
State highway commission, but of
course York county is still paying
the expense of upkeep.
1t is going to take IA good many
thousands of dollars in road work
to make that Boyd's Ferry bridge
OF the Catawba accessible to trav-
elers between York and Mecklen-
burg counties. There is practi-
cally no approach to the bridge
from the York county side at the
present time. There is a kind of
a trail that might be followed OH
foot, or possibly with a strong
twO-horse wagon, running empty
or practically so, but it is not safe
for Ford cars, at least not until
many of the ruts and holes are
leveled up somewhat. If the
bridge were completed at this time
the traveller from Yorkville or
Glover to Charlotte would fare
better by Belmont or Fort Mill
than by the new bridge. And to
make the trip at all practicable it
is going to be necessary to make
new road not only from the
bridge site to the present ridge
road, but the ridge road itself has
got to be worked on considerably.
One sees five times as much
wheat and oats and rye and clo-
yer growing in the fields along
the road between Kings Noun
tain and Shelby as one would see
OH any road in York county for
similar distance. There are hun
dreds of acres of it, looking heal.
thy and green, and folks familiar
with all sections of the county say
it is that way all over. In fact,
such little bit of feedstuffs for
animals is shipped into Cleveland
county, N. c., that few if any
folks get rich out of it up there.
In tho harnvard at ovorv farm