Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-05-01
LOCAL LACONICS.

mas u6lQ OI dDOul ~ dCl0S Ou WhAoh hS
has put over $50 loads of stable manure
during the past two years.
Wheat Prospects.
Inquiries of farmers from different sec
tions of the county indicate that the wheat
acreage this year is somewhat like 20 per
cent. greater than last year, and in most
sections the crop is quite promising.
Wanted.
Each community in York county to put
forth its representative citizens to solicit
subscriptions in labor and money for the
Improvement of the public highways
running through their respective neigh
hoods.
Unwarranted interference,
The postmaster general has ordered thai
the name of the town Of Rock Hill be
changed to "Rockhill." The Herald Is
indignant about the matter and justly So
Though the change is but slight, 1t Is SIM
ply not matter ofthe postmaster generals
business.
New Pastor.
Rev. D. C. Freeman, recent graduate
of the Louisville seminary and a native
South Carolinian, has accepted a call to
the pastorship of the Baptist church OF
Yorkville. He is expected to reach here
on or about the 5th instant.
Are You Registered?
If you are not, you ought to be at che
first opportunity. Major Beckham and
Messrs. Gordon and Witherspoon are sit
ting about doing nothing most ofthe time
now but after while they will be so busy
that you may find it extremely difficult
to get certificate. Better be registered
before the rush.
Democratic Rally.
The Democratic County convention is to
be held in Yorkville on next Monday.
The principal business of the convention
will be to elect delegates to the State con-
vention, which will send delegates to Chi
cago, and also to elect new county exec
utive committee to serve during the next
two years.
Big Lumber Contract.
The York Cotton mill authorizes have
let out the contract for furnishing the lum-
Der that will be needed for building the
biggest part of their plant, to Crow q Son,
of Kershaw. The contract calls for 255,-
600 feet. The building contracts are now
under advertisement and will be let out
Monday or Tuesday.
Here Is q Good Idea.
THE ENQUIRER has information to the
effect that prominent citizen Of Rock
Hill, who can easily get the necessary
support on his side, proposes that the
people of Yorkville, Rock Hill and along
the road between the two places, unite In
building a first class permanent road
from Yorkville to Rock Hill, by which
ever route that will give the most assis-
ance.
Pension Applications.
The county pension board was in ses-
sion in the court house again on yester-
day. Most of the applicants who applied
at the first meeting were present looking
after their claims. The necessary blanks
had not yet arrived, however, and as yet
no final disposition has been made Of any
of the new applications. There will be
another meeting Of the board.
Catawba Falls Picnic.
Tomorrow is the day for the big annual
picnic which has been held at Great Ca
tawba Falls, down at the corner of Ches-
ter, Lancaster and Fairfield counties, on
each first Saturday in May, as far back as
the memory of the oldest citizen runneth.
The picnic is usually attended by great
crowd Of people from a radius Of 40 or so
miles or such a matter, and in about 9
cases out of 10 big rain interferes with
the fun.
For Maintaining Nuisance.
Chief State Detective w. H. Newbold,
accompanied by State Constable Thomas
son, went down into the southwestern
part of the county last Tuesday night and
arrested Dock Boheler, white, on the
charge of maintaining nuisance at Lock-
hart Shoals. 1t is alleged that Boheler
has for sometime been carrying on a
liquor business on large scale in the
vicinity of the factory. He was taken
before Trial Justice Leech, at Hickory
Grove, and admitted to bail in the sum of
$500.
Got Down to Business.
The chaingang is now operating on the
Pinckney road, on the outskirts of York
vile, and individuals who have passed
along that way during the past few days,
say that the work is being done in first
class manner. One of the principal diff
culties with the Kings Mountain road
was that it was thrown up too high, and
while the bed was still soft and loose it
was given over to traffic. The result was
that it was badly cut up and unevenly
packed down. In later operations this
mistake has been avoided. Superinten-
dent Gordon is learning rapidly by eXpe-
rience, and where the convicts go now
they leave behind first class dirt roads,
with the worst places fixed in something
like permanent shape. With the addition
of the two mules recently authorized by