Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-06-30
BLACKSBURG BUDGET.

Destructive Cyclone Last Friday-Improve-
ments at the ostoffice-Accessions to
the Church-Rev. Mr.. Gregg-Personal
and Other Notes.
Correspondence Of the Yorkville Enquirer.
BLACKsBURG, June 29.-The most Sc
we're storm of wind and rain which has
yet visited this section, passed over on
Friday evening last, between 5 and 6
o'clock. For few minutes it assumed
almost the proportions of cyclone.
Trees were uprooted, houses were shaken,
and in some instances, roofs were blown
away. The direction of the wind vas
from south to north, and did considerable
damage to the growing crop of cotton and
corn, especially in the neigtborhood OF
Cherokee Falls.
Two of the most attractive business
places on our Broadway SHELBY street,
are the United States postaffice ana the
new drug store recently opened by Mr..
Thornton, late of Charlotte, N. c. The
postoffice outfit is very handsome one
indeed, beautifully finished in oak. and
with all the departments more conVen-
iently arranged. There are about 800
lock boxes, about two-thirds being with
the new combination locks; the rest with
keys. The place selected for the post
office is the store room in the Iron City
hotel block, adjoining Messrs. Whisonant
& Brown, and recently occupied by Mr..
Wineberg, who has moved his stock OF
merchandise two doors further south in
the same building. Mr.. NJ. NJ. Freeman,
the new postmaster, will take charge OF
the office on the lst of July.
On Sunday morning, q persons unite d
with the NJ. z. church at this place, by
vows and letters. They were received
into membership by the Rev. Charles B..
Smith, of Spartanburg. One of the cam
didates-Mr. Geo. G.. Hammersley, ac-
cording to his religious convictions and
by his own request-received the rite of
baptism by immersion at the hands of
Mr.. Smith. In the afternoon, at 4 O'clock,
the Rev. Mr.. Bailey, pastor of the Baptist
church, immersed l3 persons, and they
were received into full membership of
that denomination. There were also
three persons restored to membership in
the church.
Rev. Mr.. Gregg, late from the semi
nary, has taken charge of the Preshyte-
rian churches at this place and Sharon.
He preached here last Sunday, and the
arrangement is for. him to divide his time
between the two churches, consequently
he will visit Sharon next week.
Mrs. Bruce, of Elberton, Ga, with her
three children, is visiting her mother,
Mrs. Freeman.
Miss May May, a sister of Mrs. J. w.
Duff, Miss Sallie London, and Master
Tom May Parker, all of Rock Hill, are
here visiting Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Duff.
Those of our citizens who have had the
pleasure of an acquaintance with DR..
VIM. Jarvis, of Clareniont, New Hamp-
shire, who spends his winters at Chero-
kee Inn, as the guest of his brother-ln'
law, Major John F. Jones, will be pleased
to know that DR.. Jarvis has been appoint
ed by President Mckinley as consul tc
Milan, Italy, and his appointment con-
firmed by the senate on the 24th instant
He will be accompanied abroad by his
handsome and accomplished wife.
Mr.. J. G. Plonk, superintendent OF
Cherokee Falls Cotton mills, has gone
north for the purpose Of buying machm-
cry for the new rope works that will be
soon nut I'D in the mill. w. A.