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Pape Eight THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, June 12, 1952 Yarborough’s Mill On the Enoree River Article on Quaint Old Mill of This County, Reproduced From Sunday Magazine Section of The State When an enterprising man of its beauty and productiveness, i named Yarborough erected a water mill on the Enoree, back in the hMOs, .farmers of the surrounding region gratefully made him weal thy with the tqils from their grain- fields. Fertile red soils, recently stripped of their wilderness growth, were yielding great crops of wheat and barley and rye; fields of the native Indian corns tore annua! and never failin* har- vests of potential cornpones and hominy grits. And sof or decades the Yarbor oughs prospered. Ten' thousand t j:>hcls of wheat alone became a normal season’s grind. Corn and Despite frantic clearings of mofe land the harvests became smaller and more uncertain and what had 1 been a flood of grain at the mill dwindled at times to a mere trickle. Meanwhile, more and more farmers and city folks found it convenient to buy their flour in barrels and in 24-pound sacks at the grocery store, and improved transportation favored the building of large central flour mills in the larger towns. Each year sa x w fewer farmers at the smaller local mills. 1 And so. when fire destroyed the original Yarborough plant on the the lesser grains poured in wag-, ^ noree ,' n ^ caused no grtat onloads through their hoppers and, flurr y a community that once between the huge grindstones. The J wou ^ have regarded the .o.>s as a r :!1 in its beautiful natural setting ; rna s 1 ° r calamity, m the riverbank became a land- But thc P ower source was sllTl mark for miles around, so that < ventually the whole area became known as the Yarborough Mill sec tion. v But changes were taking place i r. the farms and in the towns that!' there, fifty horses strong, and in good years enough cornmeal was ground to make its utilization profitable. In addition many' sur rounding farmers had turned to cattle raising and were bringing! in mixed grains to be ground for eventually were to undermine the feed The mill was rebuilt and 1S rr..., as an institution and relegate i m 0 p Crat j on today. Among com- i. .o its piesent status as a nal ^° r J mercial water mills it still rates l n 1econornic llC Ci ^* e , near the top in capacity, for even lour. r\side. / today a farmer can take a hundred ■BuTh'Ms Ttf 'gfaifTTTTFPr-amr 'haye'Tr ground in a tbn-hour day. And the mill is still a notable — 1 Mort irrerdtrotre—nf- these" rhtm’tes hud begun in the fields on the in stant of their clearance. Erosion. longi held in check by a lush i beauty spot on a river that is • growth of canes, brush and natural ^ known for scenes of loveliness at grasses, tookannual-toll of -fer^irrTTy^Turn; t..;ty far greater than the trifle of John Holmes succeeded his fath-1 gram exacted at the mill. It has er as miller at Yarborouglfs forty been said of the Carolina Piedmont: years ago, and is still on the job. country that no comparable area in He has ground over ten thousand America was so rapidly stripped bushels of wheat in a season. Father's Day lo Be Observed Sunday, June 15 Hercules and Achilles were country bumpkins, indeed, com pared to the modern Dad whose virtues and foibles are character- irrd on the 1952 Father’s Day greeting cards. _____ True, there are no marble statues to honor him as yet. But Sunday. June 15, the family's “unsung hero’’ will be as lavishly praised as were those legendary warriors of long ago. Patience and understanding, guid ance and companionship, are key notes to a father’s place in our hearts, the cards point out. These themes are illustrated in gaily col ored designs and elaborated on in good-humored verses w’hich have a sincere. heart-to-heart-^ quality. Something like this: Any POP can feel bright When his kids are polite And obedient as can be. But the POP worth while Is the one who can smile After raising a BRAT like me! Many of the new designs sug gest how Father’s Day might be tpent. Several show Dad going hunitng or fishing. A few picture him out on the golf course, or at his favorite bowding alley. One shows a father and son playing baseball, over a verse that de- clares: I’m in there PITCHIN’ For the man who often Goes to BAT for me— A man who's strictly Big League stuff as any Good Sport will agree! In recent years. Father’s Day cards have given considerable at tention to Dad’s domestic chores. He’s been represented as the fam ily’s financial wizard, babysitter f.rst class and a buy who wmuld dismantle the entire kitchen sink just to leplace a single washer. There have even been greetings ibowing Dad as he crawled out of a dog-house in the back-yard. Nary a word, how-ever, on such familiar Synod School For Youth In Session Here This Week Synod's Leadership School fori Presbyterian young people opened ! at Presbyterian college Monday i and will continue through next j Monday, the 16th. This school is I held each year for members of the eight presbytery councils of the Svnod of South—Carolina, 48 tential council members, and their j adult advisers. Courses are offer-1 ed to train young people for coun- j cil responsibilities and to offer in spiration tor their work The Rev. Eugene Daniel of Nash- 1 ’ ville, Tenn., candidate secretary for the board of world missions of the' Presbyterian church, U. S., will be j the inspirational speaker for the j vesper hour each day. Dr. Joseph | Gettys of Richmond, Va., Bible i profesor at the assembly’s training | school for lay .workers will lead the j Bible hour each morning. Other leaders will include the Rev. Ted Jones of Columbia.re-j gional director of religious educa tion for South Carolina; Miss Mel- vina Hobson of Columbia, associ-1 ate regional director of religious) education: the Rev. Leslie Patter-! son, executive secretary of the; synod with offices in Columbia;! the Rev. C. K. Douglas of Walter-) boro, chairman, of synod’s commit-; tee of education; the Rev. Bert j Wilkinson of Sumter; the Rev. John Groves of North Augusta; the Rev. Warren Gaw of York; the Rev. James Wharton of Greenville; the Rev. Clyde Plexico of Seneca; the Rev. Sam Lipsey of Newberry; the Rev. G. A. Anderson of Clin ton; Mrs. Hubert Wardlaw of Lan caster; Mrs. J. W. Poore of Ware Shoals: Miss Beth Branche of Sum ter and others. The school is under the direc tion of the Rev. William H. Boyd of Ware Shoals, synod’s adult ad visor and chairman of the sub committee on youth work of the education committee. The presiding officer for the week is Charles Robinson of Greenville, vice-president of Sy- scenes this year. Instead, the trend, js towards completely unrestrained ; noa s ^ ou th Council, compliments for, as one cards puts it, ‘ The swellest POP in the whole earn POPulation!” The main exception to this gen eral trend is a fairly large num ber of Father's Day cards that feature "King for a Day'’ senti- associated together, you need phy ments. One fondly adds that | sical strength, mental, discipline of ‘ Kings can do no wrong!” But your mind, and the strength of so- Commencement At Thornwell (Continued from page one) most of these cheerful greetings t.mply promise a 24-hour ban on all worry and care, with someone catering to Dad’s every whim. cial relationships. It is extremely important, he said, that you learn early how to work graciously and nidely with other people. Then A typical design show’s Dad you need the strength of the soul arched in an easy chair, monarch through association with Jesus cf all he surveys, but with a pile Christ and people who love Him. cf ashes from his pipe on the floor. How can you grow in such Yet, Mom overlooks the mess, strength, the speaker asked? By « « • : 1 _ r* , « . . r* Vx • C « 1 r\ r\ mr VN 1 I _ . I M _ - _ : ▲ 1 1 A W . 1 _ X A L. _ r while giving him the Sunday pap ers and a Father’s Day kiss icr luck. Its greetings begins: “To that wonderful HUSBAND of Mine.” Another card pictures Dad snoozing in the backyard hammock and bears this affectionate verse: It’s your day, DAD, So take it easy! Dern it—You’ve earned it! Novelty cut-out cards, it seems, are especially popular this year. One is patterned after an old- fashioned pocket watch, for “Wishing the BEST of DADS the TIME’ of his life on Father’s Day!” And a pair of moccasins will re mind Dad that “No one else can fill your shoes!” i Appropriate designs and verses have also been created for your grandfather, father-in-law, or "To the Father of My Sweetheart.” As living within the rules of the game through obedience. Live within the law, he said, because it is right and life becomes better when you make such the dominant purpose in your life. The present day above all others, calls for men of strength who live peacefully in the bonds of world-wide brotherhood. Christian adjustment is the only one that can be made and stay ad justed. These ideals come through Christian living, generosity and fairness. Remember, he said, head and heart must go together with their direction given over to Jesus Christ. 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