sentences:  Amity became a main shipping and trade center for the area, and in 1905 the Bank of Amity opened, which now is on the National Register of Historic Places.In 1899 the town's first newspaper, the "Amity Enterprise", went into circulation, followed by the "Four-County Courier" in 1915 and the "Amity Owl" in 1922.Just before World War II, the shortage of cinnabar caused a brief but productive mining industry in the nearby mountains south of the town, a phenomenon which became known as the Quicksilver Rush.