Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-05-01
LOCAL LACONICS.
Pastor of New Hope.

Rev. J. Z. Johnson, of York county,
has been elected pastor of New Hope,
Fairfield county, A. r. Church.
The Enquirer Until 1st of January, 1893.
THE SEM1-WEEKLY ENQUIRER will
be sent to any address, from this date
until the lst of January, 1898, for $l.3O.
SaIesday For May.
Next Monday is salesday for May. BY
reference to the advertisements elsewhere
in this issue, it will he seen that there will
be auction sales of land by the clerk OF
the court and the sheriff.
Painters and Carpenters.
Captain T.. a. Crawford is making eX-
tensive improvements on and about his
residence on the corner of Congress and
Madison streets, and the whole place is
being developed into one of the prettiest
into town.
Pitching Horseshoes.
The long spring afternoons have begun
to drag heavily with the officers about the
courthouse and number of members of
the bar, and they have begun to divert
themselves at the game Of pitching horse
shoes.
Memorial Day.
Mrs. J. J. Hunter, president of the Con-
federate Memorial Association, requests
THE ENQUIRER to announce that May III
will be appropriately celebrated as memo
rial day. The programme ofthe exercises
has not yet been fully arranged; but it
will be announced later.
Change of Schedule.
A slight change of schedule will 60 in
to effect on the Carolina and Northwestern
railroad, tomorrow, May 2. BY the
change, the northbound passenger train
will arrive at Yorkville at 7.23 a. M, (cen-
trail time) and the southbound passenger,
at S.1l p. m.
It Is a Beauty.
Mr.. George T. Schorb has just received
from the factory fine Lester piano to
take the place of one he sold Mr.. f. A.
Gilbert It is a beautiful instrument, and
although the price is only 1850, Mr..
Schorb says that it has no superior in the
county, even at Winthrop.
Getting Ready For Business.
Mr.. II. B. McClain has just received a
powerful engine and boiler for use at his
brickyards. He has been making brick
for sometime past with an engine that
was rather too small for the work re-
uuired; but with the new outfit, now
ready to put up, he is no longer liable
to meet with any such trouble.
The Oxford League.
Rev. A. n. Brunson has been attending
meeting of the Oxford League in Col
umbia. The purpose of the league is the
study of the Bible, psychology and So
GEOLOGY. It's members are young minis
ters throughout the state, and the present
meeting, which has been in progress for
several days, has been quite successful.
Railroad War.
A special to the Columbia State, says
there is a railroad war in Gatfney City.
Anticipating that the o. r. & c. railroad
will want to come into the town over its
right of way, the Southern is busily ell
gagged in laying sidetracks so as to pre-
vent such an arrangement. The proba-
bility is that there will be some big law
suits over the trouble before it is finally
settled.
Goes Under Again.
Rock Hill Herald, Wednesday: The
Rock Hill Printing Company's outfit, i'll
Guiding the material of the Weekly Index
and Daily Sun, was bought by J. j. Hull
at public auction, on Main street, last
Tuesday. The sale was brought about
on all account of foreclosure of a mort
gage held by j. w. Hammond on James
II. Evans.
Sandifer- Burris.
The marriage of Miss Jessie Sandifer
to MIR. A. A. Burris, took place at the
residence of the brides parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. L. Sandifer, six miles southwest
of Yorkville, on last Wednesday. The
parlor of the Sandifer home was beauti-
fully decorated with flowers for the occa-
sion, and the happy pair stood under IL
stately floral arch as the ceremony that
made them one was performed by Rev.