Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-10-10
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What Our -Neishbors Are Saying and
Sono Items of Fact, Some of Comment
and All Helping to Give an Idea OF
Doing.
Fort Mill Times, Oct. 5: Ninety
half-gallon fruit jars filed with what
was said to be the best grade of Neck
lenburg county home brew corn
whisky were taken Sunday afternoon
from a cow stall on the premises of n
negro, living on the Pineville road,
some distance from Charlotte. The
jars were buried in a small stall and
were discovered when raiding officers
began punching into the ground with
q pitchfork. The implement struck a
li6 and the discovery paved the way
to the seizure of the As gallons. No
arrests were made.-..--.----...-James h.
Epps, member of the Fort Mill town
ship road commission, stated yester-
day that he had quit the job. That
the affairs of the commission had not
been run according to law, that as a
member of the commission he had not
been consulted by the former chair
n,ttn. and that he did not think there
was now anything left for him to do,
since the funds of the commission arc
exhausted, ,...-.--..,Fort Mill property
owners will this year be called upon
10 pay a tax of 20 mills for support
OF the town government against the
levy of Is mills for the same purpose
last year, according to an ordinance
adopted by the town council Tues
Cay night Speaking last night of the
increase in the levy, Arthur c. Lytle,
mayor. said council was forced to
raise more revenue to meet indebted
ness incurred by a former council, to
retire on January 1 a street. bond of
$1,000 which will then mature and to
secure funds with which to finance the
sanitary department, which, prior to
this year, had been supported by
monthly or quarterly collections from
property owners. Mayor Lytle also
said since the present council went
into office the first of the year more
than the usual annual amount had
been spent on street improvements,
that the streets of the town were now
better lighted than at any time in the
past and that the police protection af-
forded the public was more adequate
than 1t formerly was....--..-.-..... Oscar
Gamble left Monday morning for CO.
lumbia to accept a position with an
electrical supply concern which haa
been secured for him by the employ
ment bureau of the national govern
ment because of disabilities he receiv-
ed in the service in the World war.
For several months he had been en-
ployed as a salesman at the store OF
the Fort Mill cooperative association.
Chester Reporter, Oct. s.: Mrs. Jas.
w. .Bankhead, of the Slower communi-
ty, died at her home yesterday morn
ing, alter an illness of about three
weeks. The funeral services will be
held this afternoon at $3.50 p. M, at
the historic old Hebron Presbyterian
church aid burial will take place in
the Hebron graveyard--.-......-.The regu-
lar month y meeting of the city coun-
ell was held Tuesday evening, with
Mayor Byrs presiding, and Aldermen
Hamilton, White, Davidson, Whitlock,
Lee, Refo, and Young present. Chief
of Police Grants report for the month
of September reads as follows: Arrests,
81; fined, %; continued, 3; sent to
gang, L; discharged, a; fines, S262.OO
.-..-.-.----The three white night schools,
which are now a regular part of. the
city school system, opened Tuesday
with an attendance approximating 200,
as follows: Baldwin Mill, 100; Eureka,
SO; Springstein, 40. Miss vii Lon
Gray, State Supervisor Of Adult
Schools, was present, and assisted
with the preliminary work. There
will be three sessions a week-Mon-
day Wednesday, and Friday evenings
and ten teachers, not including the
Supervisor Miss Arnold. The colored
night school will open Tuesday night,
October 10th.
Gastonia Gazette, October 6: Gas
ton county Christian Endcavorers to
the number OF 27O, assembled for the
fall rally at the First Presbyterian
church Thursday night Preceding the
night service 100 Juniors from six