Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1922-08-31
NEWS OF YORK COUNTY.
Items of General Interest Found
in the Yorkville Enquirer.

IN the Yorkvile Enquirer.
Charged with killing her hus-
band, Harper Williams, in Rock
Hill Thursday night, Alma Will
liams was committed to Jail on
Friday. She has confessed the
killing, according to Sheriff
Quinn. <-....-
Miss Rachel Wylie, a teacher
III the Yorkville graded school,
returned Monday from tour of
Europe. She arrived in New York
last Saturday ON the steamer La
France. Other York county mem
bers Of the party included Misses
Helen Elliott o Neal, Aletha Fen
nell, Mary 'O'Neal and Kate Whit
ner of Rock Hill.
The first bale of new crop cot
tor offered on the Rock Hill mar.
ket was sold in that city Satur-
day, Aug. 26, by Horace Brown,
well known farmer living near
Rock Hill. The cotton, which
graded strict middling tinged,
was bought by II. L. johnson for
% cents pound. The bale weigh.
ed 495 pounds.
Ira B. Dunlap, deceased presi-
dent of the National Union bank
of Rock Hill, carried the largest
amount of insurance of any South
Carolinian who died last year,
according to the Insurance Field,
j national insurance magazine
published in New York. The life
of the late Mr.. Dunlap was in
STred for $4,000.
Deed to the property on which
Tirzah> church is located as con-
veyed by John Carrel to the mem
bers of the congregation was
flied for record in sthe office of
the clerk of court Monday. The
deed is 80 years old and the
parchment OH which it is written
is yellow with age, while part of
the writing is lost because of
holes that have appeared in the
paper through folding.
So far there have been no eligi-
bic applicants for the two four.
year scholarships to which York
county is entitled at Clemson,
those who took the examination,
having failed to pass. The one
year scholarship has been award,
ed to VIM. H. Grier of Fort Mill
and the agricultural scholarship
to B. R. Smith of York No. /. The
Citadel scholarship goes to Thos.
G. Mcfarland of York No. 3.
The congregation of the First
Baptist church of Rock Hill has
extended call to DIR. Walter L.
Alexander, now pastor of the
Mantura Baptist church of Phila-
delphia, to become pastor of the
Rock Hill church. The congre-
cation is hoping that DIR. Alexan-
der will accept the call, as the
Rock Hill church has been with
out a'pastor since the resignation
of DIR. j. P. Tucker several
months ago.
Governor Harvey has revoked
the parole granted some time ago
to Andrew (Buck) Adams, Rock
Hill, who was convicted of grand
larceny in July, 1920, and senten-
ced to serve two years on the
roads. Adams was paroled by
fol mer Governor r. A. Cooper.
Adams, who is an ex-soldier and
the son of former superintend-
ent of the Carhartt mill at Rock
Hill, is said to have recently been
convicted of a crime in Chester
county.
While travelling into. Hickory
Grove Thursday with an auto
mobile truck carrying six cows,
Porter b: Good of the Bullock's 3
Creek section was only slightly
bruised when the truck rolled off
a fill and turned over twice. Five
of the six cows, it is said, were
thrown out Of the truck, while
the sixth COW remained in the
truck despite the fact that it
turned over twice. One of the
cows suffered broken horn and
1t was deemed best to kill her.
Two other persons who were with
Mr.. Good ut the time of the acci-