Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1922-04-13
NEWS OF YORK COUNTY.
Items Of General Interest Found
in the Yorkville Enquirer.

uii tHe cOttOn mills OF ROCK Hill
are now running OH full day time,
it was stated Saturday, and the
indications were they would be
able to keep the pace indefinitely.
AT the cooperative marketing
meeting in the court house Friday
Dr. j. b. johnson made graceful
acknowledgment of the broad
liberality that was exhibited by
the York county banks in agree
ing to put up the money that en-
abled the pushing of the coopera-
tive marketing work in the coun-
ty and his statement was received
with applause.
j. h. Rector, white man, who
has been in Jail for some time
past charged with disposing of
mortgaged property, abandoning
his wife, carrying pistol and vio-
latiOn of the compulsory school
attendance law, was released last
week when a brother who lives in
Gastonia, N. c., came to his aid.
Rector paid 800 fine in disposing
OF the mOrtgaged property case,
$50 i'll the pistol case, $40 in the
violation OF the compulsory at
tendance law matter and gave
bond to support his wife.
People of Tirzah plan to hold
another large agricultural picnic
III Oates grove this summer and
they plan to have something OH
u much larger scale than they
had last summer. Receipts from
the picnic We're more than suffi-
cient to pay all expenses and it is
understood that there is still some
money in the treasury of the pic
nic association. Hon. j. SkOttOwe
Wannamakcr of st. Matthews,
president of the American Cotton
association, has writteW that he
hopes the people will decide to
hold the agricultural rally this
summer as usual and that he hopes
to be present.
Request that the South Carroll
ma tax commission reduce real es-
tate values in York county 20 per
cent i'll the assessment for 1922
is made by j. Il. Crawford of Nc
COnnellsville, chairman of the
York county board of equaliza-
tion, in letter to the State tax
commission in Columbia. The re-
quest to the commission follows a
resolution passed by the county
board last Friday when the mem
bers of the board were unani-
mOusly in favor of such reduc-
tiOn. Nm his letter the chairman
of the county board points out
that while good many of the
counties will make reductions
themselves the York county board
decided to leave the matter up to
the State commission.
DIR. Hayden of the State board
of health inspected the children
in the white and colOred schools
of YOrkville for vaccination. 1t
was said that DIR. Hayden found
u number of children in the 10th
and llth grades of the white
school who had not been vacci-
mated and about 100 children in
the negro school. An inspection
of the school, at the Cannon mill
showed that all children there
were vaccinated. DIR. Hayden told
the school authorities that he
would give them until Monday to
have all children vaccinated. He
insisted that town council pass a
special ordinance requiring vacci-
nation of all school children, and
this the council proceeded to do.
although the rules of the local
board of health already provided
for vaccination.
Although SO working days time
has already been lost OH the
BOyd's Ferry bridge project ON
the Catawba river between York
and Mecklenburg counties be-
cause Of the .unfavorable weather
conditions, employees of the Hard
away Construction company, iii
charge of the undertaking, are
quite confident that it will be
completed within the $50 days
working time which remains for
them. They admit, however, that
it is largely a matter of how the
i river behaves. Five times already
has, the stream Overflown the
banks and filled up the great