Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-12-11
Aurkrille Gnqnifer.
YORKVILLE, s. G.. :
THURSDAY MORNING, DEC. II, 1879.
KINGS MOUNTAIN CENTENNIAL.

The meeting of the delegates, on the 25th of
last July, at Kings Mountain Station, for the
purpose of making arrangements for the CEN
tennial celebration of the battle of Kings
Mountain, 7th of October, 1880, adjourned to
meet in Yorkville on the 1st day of January
next. The time for the meeting is rapidly
approaching, and we feel that we need hardly
impress upon those who composed the meeting
.of the 25th of July, or others feeling an inter-
est in the celebration, the Importance of full
meeting on the 1st of January next. Not
only should there be full attendance of the
delegates, but the gentlemen composing the
various committees, should, in the meantime
give the subject some thought, and come pre-
pared to report progress and plans, pursuant
to, the resolution adopted last July. 1t is not
desirable that this celebration-the centennial
of the turning point in the struggle OF our
ancestors for liberty and American Indepen-
dence-shall be merely local in it's character,
nor confined to the States of South Carolina,
North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia and V1r-
ginia-the States whose gallant sons shed
their life blood on the historic ground-but
that the celebration shall be emphatically a
National affair, second only to the proposed
celebration of the surrender of CORVALLIS at
Yorktown, as the event to be commemorated
in York county is only second in Importance to
the final scene in the long and bloody contest.
Georgia and North Carolina are alive to the
Importance of the occasion, and while we are
assured that these States will be well represen-
ted in the meeting on the 1st of January, rep
resentatives from every county in this State,
as also from all sections of the Union, are
earnestly and cordially invited. The result
of the engagement at Kings Mountain is the
: glory not alone of the States Immediately rep
resented in the battle, but of all the original
Thirteen, and the freedom which that battle
wrought is the heritege of our common coun-
try, from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
caublish from the proceedings of the
neeting of July 25th, the following names
constituting the various committees appointed
p It that meeting:
Executive committee A. Coward, chair
man; Capt. w. T. r. Bell, secretary; Capt.
]. NJ Ivy, treasurer ; Col E. P. Howell, w.
Waddy Thomson, Gen. JohnStone Jones, Col.
&Petty, Col. Chas. r. Jones, R. Y. McAden,
Gov A. II. Colquitt, Gov. W. D. Simpson,
Goy>TA Jarvis; J. c. Chambers, Simpson
~ inn ions and correspondence Judge
VIII. WEace, Col. B. Mcdowell, DR.. j. s.
Lawton, DA J. w. Tracy, J. W. Garrett:
On troopsAGen. J. B. Gordon, Gov. Wade
Hampton, Gen. Matt. w. Ransom, Senator
Z. B. Vance; Col. John P Thomas, Major G..
~ ~ Col. J. H. Rion.
pOlice-Frank McGinnaS, r. II. Garrett;
J. NJ. Hambright, Ira Hardin, R. E. Porter.
On transportation w. J. Houston,
W. 4; Mauney, W. 0. Weir, v. Holmes Har-
din, Maj. A. B. Andrews, V. Q. Johnson.
On, ways and means-B. C. Yancy, Col. L.
D. Witherspoon, j. S. R. Thomson, Rankin
Falls, B. F. Logan, J. S. Bratton, E. G. By
ers, Col. VIM. Johnston, P S. Baker.
On historical records: Rev. Robert Latham,
Col. Moore, j. G. Ramsay, A. H. Stevens,
, Edward Cantwell, D. G. Stinson, A. Hardin,
B! Seahorn. -,
On monumental E. Hutchison, Dr.. A.
p Campbell, F. G. Latham, R. P. Waring,
DR.. j. NJ. Miller.
On preparation of grounds-Dr. J. R. Logan,
DR.. A: F: Hambright, A: v. Falls, J. A. Deal,
J. W. NJ. Harry, Freno Dilling, WIS. Goforth,
Emanuel Patterson.