Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-01-20
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Some Items of Fact, Some Of Comment
and All Helping TO Give an Idea OF
What Our Neishhors Are Saying and

ing accident which cost the life OF the
four year old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Bos-'
ser, Boyd occurred at their home in the
Flint Hill section Of Fort Mill town-
ship on January 8. The little boy was
playing in the yard and accidentally
feb into. a pot sof boiling lye frPm
(which soap; was being made T9e
!, whole upper part Of the child's body
was frightfully =. burned and he died
swithin "a hours of the accident, after
suffering intensely. The burial was at
Flint Hill church last Wednesday,
"A new telephone line to reach into the
Belair .neighborhood Of Lancaster
: county is being built by the Fort MIL
Telephone exchange. 1t is expected
that the new line will be completed
and in use within the next ten days
,.A new Ford touring car belong
ing to John Porter caught fire and
burned up, near his home on the Fort
saiin-Rock Hill road Saturday evening
shout q Following meet
ing, last Tuesday evening of the retir-
ing town council of Fort Mill, at which
IA. E.. Ardrey, mayor, presided, the
new council, elected on January 49,,
Was sworn in, with Arthur c. Lytie
,atsits head as mayor. just before go
ing out of office the retiring council
saxed the salary OF the mayor at $3.50
and applied the balance in the treas
safy about $1,000, to the towns out,
stending Indebtedness. The first bus
,iness transacted by the new councii
was the reelection Of c. s. Link as
town clerk and treasurer, with an in
crease in salary from saO. to $50 per
month. George w. Mckenzie was
elected mayor pro TEN and B. j. White,
of Rock Hill was reelected town at
storney. The contract with The Times,
which has been running for many
wears to print the towns ordinances,
the 4,treasurer's: quarterly report anc
4specIal tax notices was renewed at
ys125 per year. A matter of consider
able interest was disposed of in the
decision of council to reorganize the
sanitary department by putting TWO
wagons instead of one in the service
The wagons are to devote three days
of each week to sanitary work ana
the other three days to street work
,afld the employees are to be under the
direction of the chief Of police. The
salary. of the, chief of police was re-
;atlced from $40 to $500 per month.
In his address to the council, Mayor
fLytle referred to the deplorable condi-
lion of the; city cemetery and expressed
the hope that the cemetery committee
would be able. to work out a plan by
which the cemetery could be kept in
better condition. col. 's.
:. Chester Reporter, Jan. 10: There
was parade Of local Ku Klux Satur-
day evening over some of the princi--
1al streets of Chester. There were
from. thirty-five to forty in the party
ali accountered in the white robe OF
the order, and marching along in single
IDLE, without any sound except the
trump of their feet, to disappear as
suietly and mysteriously as they had
come .....-..... Chester county sinned 26,-
2S2 bales Of cotton up to January lst,
Mr. w. F. Marion reports. as COM
pared with S4,0o1 for the same period
the wear previous.--~....M Mr.. Earle Will
son. of Gastonia, n. c., is interested in
the establishment of an ice cream stor-
asf plant in Chester, and is looking at
tSo store rooms that he regards as
splendidly suited for the purpose
Mr. Wilson is engaged in the ice
cream business in Gastonia, and sells
considerable quantity of his product
in Chester. J. s. Harris, OF
Mason City, Nebraska, was called 10
the pastorate of Beaver Creek, Black
stock, Cook Branch and Woodward
Baptist churches yesterday.~~-~...At the
meeting of Chester Post, No. q, Amer
lean Legion, Friday evening 1t was
decided to put on the play, The NIL
Fcrobe of. Love-" in the near future.
Post Commander H. b. Malone told
the members of the handsome auto
,graphed portrait OF Marshal Foch that
has been sent the post by the great
French general, and it was voted TO
spreserve this portrait most carefully
and hang it on the walls of the legion
building, when a permanent home for
the post has become reality. AS
showing how the legion stands ready
TO help it's members. and is in position
TO do so, it was stated that recently
an ex-soIdier from out of town who
was down on his luck applied TO the
post commander, for aid, and job was
readily secured for him at the Spring
stein Mill....The Bulletin of Purity
Presbyterian church contained the
following interesting announcement
Yesterday: with hearts full of graft
tude and praise We take pleasure IN
sewing that Mr.. Chester Alexander has
signified his intention of studying for
the ministry, and that he will enter
upon his theological course next fall.
1t means a great deal to the Kingdom
- ro5 ,,.bo,, man or cuch tyDe as Mr..