Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-08-24
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UNION-Times, August 10: Matt
Stevens, the son of Matt Stevens, who
was killed in the seventies, died in
Spartanburg on Wednesday, '.''.''''
Clarence Sexton, popular youth, has
Joined the heavy artillery at Charles
ton. Young Charley Hart Joined the
same battery sometime ago. .''''''''We
are delighted that McMahan presented
Superintendent Mayfeld with black
eye at the Anderson campaign meet
ing. According to our judgment he
should have had it long before this.
1t will help McMahan all over the
state. Mayor Rodger is having 6 a
very pleasant time at present, burning
brick during the day and holding num-
icipal court until one o'clock at night.
1t recalls the day of Judge Thomas
Mackey. If this business continues it
will be hard to get respectable citizen
to hold the mayoralty.
CHESTER-The Lantern, August
|19: Messrs. J. M. Brice, of Yorkville,
A. H. Brice, of Fairfield, and Charles
c. McAliley, of Chester, were on a
visit to their uncle, Colonel R. NJ. Wal
lace, president of the First National
bank, last week. '.'"" Miss Mary Schorb,
of Yorkville, spent Thursday with Mrs.
I. N. Cross. ...:.....Miss Ella Davidson,
of Yorkville, passed though the city
Yesterday on her way to Union. '''''''''
Miss Addie Stricken, who has been Wis.,
iting friends here returned to her home
in Concord this morning. .'''..'".Dr. W.
G. White, of Yorkville, attended the
Hood Hudson wedding and spent a
while in the city on the way .''''''''Mr.
Samuel A. Hood was married Wednes-
day evening to Miss Pearl Hudson, of
Wardlaw, N. c., Rev. ]. W. siler off.
ciating. Those present were delighted
with the occasion. The attendants
were, Mr.. w. E, Atkinson with Miss
Lucy Lookabill, DR.. B. E. Kell with
Miss Jennie Hood, S. E. McFadden,
ESQ.,, with Miss Selma Smith, of Mon
roe, and one other couple whose names
we failed to get. The bridal party
left on the evening train for New York
and other places. '.'''''"At meeting
of the school board of Chester public
schools on Monday afternoon, the tut
ton for pupils outside the school dis
trict was reduced to 81 per month in
grades l to 4; and $3.50 per month in
grades S and 6. The tuition in the
other grades remains as before.
LANCASTER-Ledger, August 20:
Phil Montgomery, colored, was COM
mitted to Jail on Thursday by Magis-
trate Tillman, of Cedar Creek town.
ship, to await trial at the next term of
court for burglary. He is alleged to
have broken into the house of another
darkey named lizard, on Heath,
Springs & Co.'S. river plantation. '.'''
The first bale of new crop cotton for
this season was sold on the Lancaster
market last Wednesday, 18th instant.
1t was raised by our brag farmer,
w. ]. Cunningham, and was picked
and ginned on Tuesday. 1t brought
ST. cents. ...."Charles H. Crawford has
accepted position with the Farmers
Banking and Mercantile company at
thi. place. He is a clever salesman
and will be glad to see his old friends
from the county and wait on them.
.....''..Tom Mobley, colored, a son of
the notorious Hamp Mobley, got on a
jag at Van Wyck last Thursday, and
had falling out with Clark Porter,
also colored. Tom used his knife
pretty freely. He was brought down
by Constable Crenshaw yesterday and
committed to Jail to await trial at the
next term of court for assault and bat
terry with intent to kill. He resisted
arrest, but was overpowered by the
constable and his assistants. The En-
terprise, August 20: Messrs. W. b.
Moore and J. IT. Thomasson of the
Yorkville Telephone Exchange, are in
town getting up subscribers to line
that will connect Lancaster with Rock
Hill, Yorkville, Gastonia, N. c., and a
host of towns all over those sections
of the country. They will put in the
lines if they succeed in getting so sub
scribers, and there is little doubt that
they will get them ''''. Misses Nance
Fair and Neville Pope, of Newberry,
and Miss Lillian Massey, of Tirzah,
are the guests of Mr.. D. A. Williams