Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-10-09
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Death of an Aged Citizen.
Mr.. J. A. Sturgis died at his home, six
miles east of Rock Hill, last Saturday.
He WAS in the s4th year of his age.
Transferred the City Hall.
Gaffney has transferred her city hall to
Cherokee county for use as courthouse.
The property is worth about $4,000, and
is very we'll suited for the purpose.
Death OF Joshua Holmes.
A postal card from l.. M. Hambright,
at Casa, Arkansas, announces the death
at that place on September %, OF Joshua
Holmes, who went from York county to
Arkansas in 1867.
Assignment at Gaffney.
Spartanburg Herald: The firm of j. &.
Galloway e. Son, of Gaffney, assigned on
Monday. for the benefit of creditors, to MIR.
]. @. Little and st. Charles Gwynn. The
stringency of the times and dull trade
forced them to fail. Their liabilities and
assets are about equal.
The Price OF Cotton.
AS high as 6.35 was paid for cotton on
the Yorkville market yesterday. In New
York, on Thursday, futures closed steady
with sales of l2l,9OO bales as follows
January, 6.53; February, 6.57; March,
6.6l April, 6.65; May, 60; June, 6.7S;
July, 6.76; October, 6.43; November,
Gas; December, $40.
Not q Hayseed.
The following, signed "Fort Mill"
and which appears in the Charlotte OBJ
server of last Tuesday, explains itself
II notice you put down our champion, j.
E. Ardrey, asa hayseed. He says you're
another-that he is from Fort Mill, >.
C.-not Rock Hill or any of its suburbs.
It's Fort Mill that's got the stuff this
time. Please insert the above as correc-
ton"
of For the Circus.
John Robinson and Franklin Bros. cir
Gus was at Gastonia yesterday. Quite a
number of people, mostly Negroes, went
up from Yorkville. When this show was
at this place last year, it was generally
put down as considerable hunbug (;
hut if the accounts Of it that are being
published in the papers are true, 1t must
have improved somewhat during the
year.
As to Licenses.
The city of Aiken recently demanded
license of the o. P. concerns. The o. p.
concerns refused to pay on the ground
that other businesses were not taxed, and,
consequently, they could not be expected
to submit to discrimination. According
", the council arranged schedule OF
taxation against all other busin esses, and
now the o. p. concerns have decided to
pay up along with the rest.
by "Sliding Scale"
The town council of Yorkville has
passed all ordinance fixing the levy for
ordinary municipal purposes and to pay
interest on the waterworks bonds for the
year 1897. The levy is fixed at 4 mills on
the dollar, to be due and payable between
October Is and November Is, after which
last named date, the penalty will be add
ed until December l. The levy for ordi-
nary purposes is "one-and-one-half or
two mills" and the levy on account of
interest on bonds, is "two-and-one-half or
two mills"
York and Cherokee.
Gatfney Ledger: On Tuesday, Com
missioners w. G. Hamrick and j. q.
Black, appointed to settle on the bonded
of Cherokee to the old coun-
ties, met with Commissioners w. S.