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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-03-24
A $1,000 WORD.
Two Papers at the Price Of One and
a Chance at 81, 900, Additional.

The Third Missing Word Contest Of
The Atlanta Weekly Constitution,
In Which $1,000 Will Be Distrib-
uted to Successful Contestants on
the 1st Of May.
The Atlanta Weekly Constitution has
inaugurated its third consecutive "miss-
ing word" contest, which began on the
lst of March and close on the 1st of May
sixty days.
It publishes the cashiers receipt for
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paid to the person, or persons, who, in
subscribing to The Weekly Constitution,
names correctly the missing word in the
following sentence:
1.-THE Right Of s--' is the very
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writer.
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ly Constitution, that great paper and
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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-03-24

TRACT OR BIsCUIT.-Just after the
termination of the late unpleasantness
lady with a basket on her arm
walked through one of the wards of a
certain soldiers hospital. She stopped
beside the bed of one of the sufferers,
German, and asked:
"Were you Union man or Con-
federate."
"Union," he replied.
Whereupon she passed on to the
next cot and repeated the same ques-
tion to the occupant.
"Confederate," was answered, and
she then handed the man a nice fresh
biscuit. The German watched the
proceeding not in the best of humor.
A few days later another lady going
through stopped at the Germans cot
and asked which side he was on.
"Confederate," was the reply.
"Poor man." she said, "here's a
tract for youy" and passed on and the
unfortunate's state of mind was not
improved.
Again, a third visitor in passing
stopped at the Germans side and
asked him the same old question on
which side he was on.
"Dot tepends on vat you got. If
you got piskit I thinks I might be a
Confederate, but if you got tracts I
am Yankee ."-Texas Siftings.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-03-24
THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
County of York.

IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
Jas. F. Hart, G. WIS. Hart, and John R..
Hart, partners doing business as attor-
neys under the firm name of Hart &
Hart, plaintiffs, against Marion r..
Reese, observation-disclosures for Re-
lief-Complaint not served.
To the Defendant above named:
VOU are are hereby summoned and
Il required to answer the complaint in
this action which is filed in the Office of
the clerk of the court of common pleas.
for the said county, and to serve a copy of
subscriber at his office, Yorkville, s. c.,
within twenty days after the service here
of, exclusive of the day of such service ;
and if you fail to answer the complaint
within the time aforesaid, the plaintiffs in
relief demanded IN the complaint.
February 22nd, A. D. 1897.
w. w. LEWIS, Plaintiffs Attorney.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-03-24

A Boys Essay ON BREATH.-A
little boy in the North Side Public
school recently handed in to the teach
er the following composition on "Our
Breath"
sour breath is made of air. If it
were not for our breath we would die.
The breath keeps going through our
liver, our lights and our lungs. Boys
shut up in a room all day should not
breathe, they should wait until they
get out of doors. Air in a room has
carbonocide in it, and carbonocide is
poisoner than mad dogs. Once some
men was shut up in black hole in
India, a carbonocide got into that
there hole, and afore morning nearly
every one of them was dead. Girls
wear corsets which squeeze their dia-
grams too much. Girls cannot run
and holler like boys cause their dia-
grams are squeezed. If I was girl
would just run and holler so that my
diagram would grow. That's all on
breath" ."-Minneapolis Journal.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-03-24
SHERIFF,S SALE.

DURSUANT to all execution to me
Il directed, will expose to public sale
on SALESDAY IN APRIL, now next
ensuing, commencing at eleven o'clock in
the forenoon, at the office of formerly the
Exchange Bank, on Main or Congress
street, in Yorkville, the remainder of the
stock of goods of T. M. DOBSON Il CO.,
Gb,eing that part not set off as exempt.
The goods to be sold consist of gloves,
brushes, looking glasses, picture frames,
dolls, books, toys, ties, buttons, knives,
scissors, spoons, spectacles, rings, hats,
caps, shoes, slippers, cravats, paper, en-
velopes, albums, valises, shirts, under
shirts, suspenders, hose, blankets, over
alls, boys suits, collars, cuffs, umbrellas,
needles, pans, buckets, hatchets, spool
cotton, pants cloth, cashmere, serges,
white goods, silks, ginghams, outings,
flannels, prints, damasks, braids, coun-
terpanes, curtains, augurs, hinges, pair
scales, cabinets, show cases, oil tank,
lamps, and other articles too numerous
for more specific mention. ITO persons
intending to buy any large part thereof,
the goods will be shown before the day
of sale.)
On the same day, I will sell in front OF
YORK COURT HOUSE, within the
hours for sheriff g sales, that lot or par
eel of land in Yorkville, s. c., fronting on
Madison street, which bounds it on the
north, and bounded on the east by lots of
w. Dobson, Grist, Walker and others, and
the homestead lot set off to the defendant
bounded on the south by the Allison lot,
and on the west by the Smith lot, and
containing THREE ACRES, be the same
more or less.
Levied on as the property of T. NJ.
Dobson & Co., at the suit of &c. g. Parish,
trustee, assignee of) Mollie E. Dobson
against Il. M. Dobson u Son.
TERMS OF SALE-CASH and if the
bid is not complied with Immediately
the property will be resold as the law
directs.
JOHN R. LOGAN, s. Y.C.
March 10 20 w4t
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-03-24

Two RATIFIED SPEAKERs.-The lay
leader of prayermeeting in a Yer
mont town, sometimes invaded by
summer visitors, seeing an evident
stranger present, came to him as the
meeting was about to open, and asked
him his name and residence, and Sc
cured his consent to say few words.
At the proper time, he asked, "Will
not Mr.. A., of New York, favor us
with a few remarks ?" When the
stranger sat down, the leader again
spoke: "Will not Mr.. A, of New
York, ask Gods blessing on his feeble
remarks ?"
A story of the same sort is told of a
nervous man, whose duty it was to
move vote of thanks after a lecture.
He foundered along through various
complimentary sentences, and finally
fiickered out feebiy thus: "And so |
propose a vote of thanks for the lee
ture to which we have so ably lis
tened!"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-03-24
If You Will Lay Aside
Your Prejudice

AND COME to US with a desire to
learn why it is not to your interest to
carry high priced insurance, and how we
can furnish you just as safe insurance
for at least 40 per cent. year less than the
other costs, we are sure we can show you
to your satisfaction that the MUTUAL
RESERVE FUND LIFE ASSOCIA-
TION Of New York does business on
plan that is absolutely safe, and will pro-
tect your loved ones even better than
they now are, at even greater cost to
diced to investigate and imagine that the
high price you are now paying makes
your insurance better or safer, or better
than it would be at less cost, we can't do
anything for you but will be forced to
let you go on until time, the crucial
tester, convinces you, against your will,
that you have been deceived.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-03-24

NECEssITIEs.-Just where he came
from didn't appear, but his raiment
might be taken as token that he was
from the backwoods of a country
pretty we'll back, and as he went into
family grocery on Jefferson avenue
he attracted sufficient attention for
the boss to come forward to see what
he wanted.
SCOT any corn whisky ?" he asked.
"We don't keep it" replied the pro-
prietor.
"Ner rye?"
"No."
"Ner applejack ?"
"No."
"Ner old peach ?"
"No."
"Ner moonshine ?"
"No."
"Nothin' in that line at ALP"
"No."
"Well, by gravy" he said angrily as
he started out, "what the dickens have
you got that sign up thar, families
supplied with all the necessities of
life,' for? Durn me eff we can't do
better'n that at the crossroads gro
cery."-Michigan Tradesman.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-03-24

s@r EFFECT OF BAD POSITIONS
An erect bodily attitude is of vastly
more Importance to health than most
people generally imagine. Crooked
bodily positions, maintained for any
length of time, are always injurious,
whether in sitting, standing or lying
position, whether sleeping or walking.
To sit with the body leaning forward
on the stomach or to one side, with
the heels elevated on a level with the
hands, is not only in bad taste, but ex-
ceedingly detrimental to health. 1t
cramps the stomach, presses the vital
organs, interrupts the free motion of
the chest, and enfeebles the functions
of the abdominal and thoracic organs,
and, in fact, unbalances the whole
muscular system. Many children be-
come slightly humpbacked or severely
round shouldered by sleeping with the
head raised on high pillow.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-03-24
A Snare
And DeluSiOn.

IF you have taken out life insurance
l. policy in an Old Line high price ''level
premium" company with the idea that
you would at sometime in the future,
while you yet drew the breath Of life, re-
dividends" we are here to tell you that
you will be. disappointed. Your policy
will prove a snare and delusion. It Is
all right for protection for your wife and
children, as they will receive the face Of
the policy in case of your death, as they
would also in company that charges
you half as much. A life insurance poll
cy isa fraud as an investment for living
man, and is the greatest blessing of which
we or anybody else has any knowledge
as means of protecting the widow and
orphans, after the breadwinner has been
rernoved nv death
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-03-24
If You Have
No Insurance.

And think you should have, we would be
system to you. The Mutual Reserve is
the largest and strongest natural premi-
um company in the world, and the fourth
largest Of ANY KIND. It has paid
about $3.50, 900 to the widows and orphans
of deceased policy-holders in South Car
lima alone, during the past twelve years,
and if all the insurance now carried in
old line companies in the state was in the
Mutual Reserve, not less than S400, 900,
which now annually goes into the Golfers
of the former, would be left in the state
to help relieve the hard times about which
we hear so much.
SAM M. & L. GEO. GRIST,
General Agents, ,............ Yorkville, 8. G.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-03-24
THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
County Of York.

IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
Jennie Roberts, Plaintiff, against Marion
R. Reese, Defendant-Summons for
Relief-Complaint not Served.
To the Defendant, Marion r. Reese:
VOU are hereby summoned and re-
L quired to answer the complaint in
this action which is filed in the Office of
the clerk of the court of common pleas,
for the said county, and to serve copy
Of your answer to the said complaint on
the subscriber at his office, Yorkville, s..
c., within twenty days after the service
hereof, exclusive of the day of such SER
vice and if you fail to answer the COM
plant within the time aforesaid, the
plaintiff in this action will apply to the
court for the relief demanded in the COM
plant.
Yorkville, S. c., Feb. 10th A. D. 1897.
W. w. LEWIS, Plaintiffs Attorney.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-03-24
Aumurulls department.
WHAT He FoUND.-A group of

WHAT HE FoUND.-A group of
merry commercial travellers were seat
ed in a smoking room, when suddenly
Bodkins volunteered story of re-
markable find he once had. "When I
was young man." commenced the
irrepressible B., ~ was employed in a
large house in a city, and, as usual
with persons at that age, fell in love
with a young lady, and in due course
of time was engaged. About two
months before our marriage was to
take place, 1 was suddenly sent to
Australia, on very important business,
occasioned by the death of one of the
firm in that country. I took hasty
and afectionate leave of my intended,
with the promise to write to each
other often.
I was detained somewhat longer
than I expected, but just before I
sailed for home bought handsome
and valuable ring, intending it az a
coming home present for my sweet
heart. AS I was nearing the shore
and reading the paper which the pilot
had brought on board, curiously
enough my eye fell on the marriages,
and there I saw an announcement Of
her marriage with another-a fellow I
knew very well, too-which so en-
ragged me that in my passion I threw
the ring overheard. A few days later
I was dining at this hotel fish was
served up, and in eating it I bit off
something hard, and what do you
suppose it WASP"
"The diamond ring!" exclaimed
several.
"No," said the merry Bodkins, pre-
serving the same gravity, 'it was a
fish bone"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-03-24

s6F An Illinois farmer has discovered
that seed corn soaked in coal oil rem
ders the growing corn proof against
the chinch bug. The seed for five
acres were soaked in coal oil, and that
for forty acres was not. The chinch
bugs ate up the corn in the forty acre
field, but never touched that on the
five acres.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-03-24

pds- REMEDIES For CUTwoRMs.-As
the cutworms will have to be looked
after we here give new remedy
against its ravages. We know moth
ing about its worth, but give it as we
found it. 1t costs very little and de-
serves a trial: "Take 80 pounds OF
bran, two pints of molasses, one pound
paris green, put the molasses into six
quarts of hot water; and the bran
and paris green, mixing thoroughly
until the whole is tinged with green.
Place spoonful of this near the plants
and wherever the worms are, not get
ting too near the stalk. If new lot
of worms hatch, the dose will have to
be repeated. The worms will leave
the plants for the mixture every time.
The bran and molasses tempts them
and the paris green does the killing"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-03-24
TOWN PROPERTY FOR SALE.

THE undersigned offers for sale, the
i HOUSE AND LOT in Yorkville,
known as the Meek House," occupied
by Mr.. o. E. Grist and situated opposite
the o. r. & C. R. R., depot. The house
contains six large rooms and base
ment. The house is in good repair, and
the premises is a we'll Of Of exceIie5t free
stone water.
Also, a cottage on Madison street. 1t
contains four rooms. The house is in good
repair and on the premises is a well of
good freestone water. L. M. GRIST.
January 20 6 If
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-03-24
CENTRALEIME STANDARD.

Trains Nos. 9 and 10 are first class, and
run daily except Sunday. Trains Nos.
60 and 81 carry passengers and also run
daily except Sunday. There is good con-
nection at Chester with the G.. G. q N.
and the c. c. & A., also L & G. r. r: at
Gastonia with the A. q G. A: L.; at Lin,
colnton with c. c.; and at Hickory and
Newton with w. n. G..
Parties desiring tickets to all points
North, East, South and West, will find it
much to their advantage to call at or cor
respond with the General Office of the
Carolina and North Western Railway at
Lenoir, N. G.. L. T. NICHOLS, Supt.
S. #. PENDER, G. F. and P. A.,
Lenoir, n. c.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-03-24

DID SHE GET ONE ?-"Jack, dear," "
said Mrs. Bellefeld to her husband, 81
think it will be cheaper for me to have
a dressmaker in the house for a week
or two than to get my gowns made at
a modiste's. Have you any objec-
tion?" Not if you get real pretty
one.n replied Mr.. Bellefeld.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-03-24

s@ Whatever we may have thought
or done in this world, however various
and multiform our lives may have been,
yet in the tablets of the angel witnesses
but one brief line of record will suf-
fee to be transcribed upon our tombs-
"He did that which was evil in the
sight of the Lord"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-03-24
.a6 While tobacco farmers are great

,aas- While tobacco farmers are great
ly annoyed by the cutworm, there are
many other field and garden crops
that are liable to be destroyed by the
pest. A small number of plants in
garden may easily be protected by a
simple device that could not be ap-
piled on large scale without involv-
ing a good deal of labor. Take bands
of any kind of tough paper and place
them around the plants when trans
planting, so that the lower part of the
band will be an inch or two below the
surface soil, and the upper part an
inch or so above. This will keep the
worms away and never interfere with
the plant.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-03-24
YORK MUSIC STORE.
LISTEN HERB!

THE Lester Piano Company says:
Il 1--WE guarantee that everything about
the LESTER PIANO, from the strings
to the varnish, and each of the seven
thousand parts used in its construction,
are of the highest grade.
1--WE guarantee the LESTER. PIANO
absolutely. If any flaws should develop
under fair usage, we will make it right
without expense to the purchaser, or re-
place it with a new piano.
EVERY purchaser of the "Lester" re-
ceiyes a written guarantee for ten years."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-03-24
NOTICE..

To the absent defendant, M. R. Reese
Please take notice that the summons, OF
which the foregoing is copy, together
with the complaint in this action, were
filed in the office of the clerk of the court
of common pleas, for said county, al
Yorkville, South Carolina, on the 10th
day of February, 1897.
w. w. LEWIS, Plaintiffs Attorney.
Yorkville. S. c., February 10th, 1897.
February17 ID w6t
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-03-24
NOTICE.

To the absent defendant, M. R. Reese
Please take notice that the summons, of
which the foregoing is copy, together
with the complaint in this action, is filed
in the office of the clerk of court for
York county. w. w. LEWIS,
Plaintiffs Attorney.
February "a mar 81 16 w6t
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-03-24
THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
County Of York.
IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.

IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
Edward A. Trescott. Plaintiff, against
Marion R. Reese, Defendant-Summons
for Relief-Complaint not Served.
To the Defendant above named:
VOU are hereby summoned and re-
L quired to answer the complaint in
this action, which is filed in the office of
the clerk of the court of common pleas,
for the said county, and to serve copy of
your answer to the said complaint on the
subscriber at his office Yorkville, S. c.,
within twenty days after the service here
Of exclusive of the day of such service ;
and if you fail to answer the complaint
within the time aforesaid, the plaintiff in
this action will apply to the court for the
relief demanded in the complaint.
February 22nd, A. ID. 1897.
w. w. LEWIS, Plaintiff g Attorney.
NOTICE.
To the absent defendant M. r. Reese /:
Please take notice that the summons III
this action, of which the foregoing is a
copy, together with the complaint, is
filed in the office of the clerk of court for
the county of York.
w. w. LEWIS, Plaintiffs Attorney.
February "a mar3l 16 w6t
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-03-24
OHIO River and CHARLESTON B. B.

THINE TABLE of the Ohio River and
l. Charleston Railway company, to take
effect Monday, January 4th, at 500 a. m.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-03-24

II you want realistic and entertaining
narrative of railroading in the west, read
1.-The Great K & A. Train Robbery
when it is published as
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-05-14
JUDGE HART AGAIN.
European Powers Not Looking
COmplacentlY On.

MR.. EDITOR Perhaps you will let
me protest against the most unfair
treatment you award my letter, pub
lished this morning, under heading
Another Sinner [ did not suggest
that either the powers of Europe or the
United States were culpable for any
action. or want of it. taken by them in
their treatment of Turkey. The point
l made was touching the wrongfulness
of your assertion that Europe looked
complacently upon the crimes COM
mitted by the Turks. That assertion 1
designated as unwarrantable and out
rageous, and l equally hold that a sim
liar slur cast upon the United States
would be just as objectionable. That
was the whole and sole purpose of my
letter, and 1 did not take you to task
for not numbering the United States
among the nations that look upon
Turkish crime with indifferent compla-
cency." Perhaps you will pardon me
for saying l don't even understand
how feeling Of complacency can be