Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1922-09-21
NEWS OF YoRx oouNrY.
Items Of General Interest Found
in the Yorkville Enquirer.

Il
in the Yorkville Enquirer.
Mrs. Lucia Ewart (R. E.) Quinn
Of .Yorkville, who. was defeated
Tuesday in the race for county
treasurer, gave birth to a:son FRI
day morning. Mother and son are
reported getting along nicely.
Jas. ID. Grist> Of Yorkville went
tc Columbia Monday evening to
represent the York county Demo
cratic executive committee at the
meeting Of the State executive
committee in the capital Tuesday.
DR.. Campbell, the State executive
committeeman from York county,
Was unable to 60.
Chief of Police r. Ed Steele
left for Roanoke Va, Sunday eve-
ming. to bring back r. E. Mont
gomery, DR., formerly of York
vile, who was under arrest IN
.oanoke under a charge Of tax
ing an automobile. the property
Of T. K. Thomasson of Yorkville.
1t is predicted that the Mo-
vomber term of the court of gen
eral sessions is going to be the
busiest that York county has
known for several years at least.
1t is said that there are an unu-
sually large number of defend
ants out on bond, almost twice as
many as is the usual case at the
November term, and that if all
the cases are tried the criminal
court will be in session at least
two weeks.
Fire in Rock Hill Saturday
evening about. 8 o'clock destroy
ed two warehouses. and contents,
iAcluding more thon 100 bales of
cotton and a large quantity of
sced, -hulls and meal The were
houses were owned by Ed Fewell
aud the cotton was also the prop
erty of Mr.. FeweA. A portion
Of the other contents we're also
owned by him, while there Were
Number Of merchants who had
stocks of feed stored there. The
loss is estimated at several thous
sand dollars, covered by inMr-
ance. .... :
Following was the official vote
in York county as. tabulated last
Thursday by the executive COM
mitteel: For governor, Cole L.
Biease 2,900, Thos. G. Mcleod
1855; superintendent of. educa-
tion, j. H. Hope 3;6O2, John E.
Swearingen. 1,6O7 county treas
urer, Mrs. Lucia Ewart Quinn
2,474; Walter ID. Thomasson
2.7O1; county supervisor, Thos.
w. Boyd 2,200, Hngh G. Brown
3,O26; probate Judge, James L.
Houston 2,641, G.. p. Smith 1851.
Plans are being made for the
staging of big celebration at
Boyd''s bridge, over Catawba
river, connecting York and Neck
lenburg counties, at the time the
bridge is completed about Decem-
Der 15, according to r. S. Riddle
Of Bethel, who was in Yorkville
Thursday. 1t is proposed to in
vite the governors. of the two
States to meet with the people of
York, CASTOR and Mecklenburg
counties at the time the bridge is
tccmpleted. Reports from the.
bridge site are that construction
work is now proceeding rapidly
Allard H. Gasque, who was
nominated for Congress from the
9th South Carolina district over
Congressman Phillip H. Ston last
Tuesday, has q number of perso-
nal friends in York county. Mr..
Gasque; who is superintendent OF
education for Florence county, a
position that he has held for. many
years, is also State secretary Of
the Junior Order United Ameri-
can Mechanics. He is well known
to members of the Junior Order
IN York county and they are
much gratified to learn Of his sue
cess in his race for congressional
h1nors..
Gov. Wilson G.. Harvey and
Mrs: Harvey spent a few minutes
in Yorkville shortly after noon
Monday. They left Columbia last
Friday morning on visit to the