Fort Mill Times

This week in Fort Mill history, In 1998: Carney hired to assist Fort Mill High band

By Chip Heemsoth

Updated August 1, 2018 12:00 AM

Fort Mill Police Officer Gloria Parker was named as the Fort Mill school district’s first safety officer.
Indian Land native Amy Moore celebrated her 105^th at Spring Arbor in Rock Hill, where she lived with her husband, Grant, 91.
Sean Carney was hired at Fort Mill High School to fill a new position, assistant band director. Carney would help band director Martin Dickey.
Some 50 varsity and junior varsity Indian Land High School football players were preparing to travel to Fort Jackson for five days of intense practice.

Fort Mill School Board member Bobby Whitley stated that the old Carothers Elementary School would not be razed before the property was sold as was previously reported.
The Leroy Springs Fort Mill swim team won the Springs Aquatics for the fourth consecutive year, becoming the first team to do so. The team defeated second place Lancaster by two and-a-half points.
Larry Grant, local attorney and avid golfer, had recorded four holes-in-one, all at the Fort Mill Golf Club, since 1973. Grant was a 1963 Fort Mill High School graduate.
After a number of years in the drapery business, Mary Ann Philbeck was closing her shop on Confederate Street for health reasons.

Elliott A. Bennett, born and raised in Fort Mill and former Fort Mill Police Chief, retired after 25 years as a Treasury Department “revenuer.” During his career, Bennett caught 2,200 bootleggers.
Fort Mill’s latest series of bicycle thefts came to an abrupt end with the arrest of a 15-year-old boy.

Dr. L. W. Ghent of Lancaster located in Fort Mill for the practice of dentistry with his office in Rogers Drug Store.
Fort Mill schools were considering a plan to make daily sessions of school continuous from the opening hour until the closing hour which would be 2 o’clock. The plan would eliminate the lunch hour.

Gratton, a station one mile south of Fort Mill on the Southern Railroad line, was discontinued as a stopping point for passenger trains.
Mills Livestock advertised that it would buy good, sound war mules from 4 to 8 years old.

Chip Heemsoth is a lifelong resident of Fort Mill.

This story was originally published July 27, 2018 at 3:57 PM.