Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-05-26

Large Tract Purchased from r. M
Robinson for Site-Means Big In
crease in Towns PopuIation-Clo-
yer High Loses Chances of Baseball
championship-Larse Amount OF
Cotton Sold.
(By Staff Correspondent
Glover, May 25-A new spinning
mill capitalized at $1,OO0,000 will be
built here by the Hawthorn Spinning
Mills Company, construction work to
begin Immediately, according to an
nouncement made today. The new
mill which will be equipped with 90
900 spindles which spindleage will
very likely later be increased, will
manufacture yarns Of sizes 40s to Cos
and the understanding is thatpit will
largely be q feeder for the large
Hampton Mills of Massachusetts. The
new manufacturing plant will be a
two story structure after plans de-
signed by j. E. Shrine, mill archi-
tect of Greenville, S. C. Engineers
were here today selecting a site for
the new mill which will be built either
between the Hawthorn mill and the
main portion of town or else in the
rear Of the Hawthorn mill on a tract
of about seventy acres recently pur-
chased from r. NJ Robinson of Glover
at price said to have been $3.50 an
acre.
With a few exceptions, the stock
holders of the Hawthorn Mill at Clo-
yer will be owners of the new spin
capital stock is to be paid in at the
present time, a call for the remainder
will likely be made soon after, since
it is the intention. to increase the
spindleage to more than 10000 later
on. No officers of the new company
have yet been elected; but it was
stated today that NJ. l.. Smith of Clo-
yer, general manager of the Hawthorn
Mill will very likely serve the new
mill in the same capacity Thomas
Mcconnell, of Northampton, Mass,
president OF the Hawthorn Mill is in
this section looking after business
matters in connection with the new
MILL
1 Building of the new mill will mean
an addition of several hundred to the
population Of the town of Glover.
The present Hawthorn Mill employs
about 800 people it is stated, and the
new mill will employ fully as many
people if not more. There are about
seventy-fve houses in the Hawthorn
Mill village and there will be as many
if not more in the village to be built
in proximity to the new mill.
Glover Loses Out.
Glover Highs chances of winning
the state high baseball champion ship
went glimmering at Union, last Tues
day afternoon when the locals lost to
the strong Six Mile Academy school
of Pickens county by Il score of 15 to
Z. There is talk of Clover's protest.
ing the result of the game to the high
school athletic association Of the state
on the ground that the opposing pitch
er used sand on the ball and that he
did not comply strictly with the rules
of the game. Most of those who saw
the game, however, are Of the opinion
hot 1c nd n y
they lost to n superior team and that
was all there was to it. Then too, ac-
cording TO some of the fans, the Clo-
yer players made more errors-costly
errors, in the game at Union than they
had m58e in all the other games
played this year. Quite number of
game with Six Mile which school will
he a contender for the state high
school championship now that Clover
has been eliminated.
Organizing Minstrel.
Fred Rudisill, a professional min
strel director and brother of Will
EtuulSlll Oi clover is mere organizing
an amateur minstrel show. Quite a
number of young people of the town
have agreed to take part and good
progress is being made in practice.
Farmers Sell Cotton.
1t is estimated that at least 200
bales of cotton have been sold on the
Glover market during the past week
or ten days. Most of the cotton sold
has been in small lots, the property
of farmers who wanted to sell only
part of their holdings while the
price was around 20 cents.
Changes in the Faculty.
Unofficial information is that there
will be a number of changes in the
faculty of the Glover High school an
other year. While w. 5. Reid, the SUI
! perintendent will be reelected, it is
said that a number of members of the
present teaching corps will not be re-
! elected. The board of trustees will
| hold their annual election in the neal
| future it is said