Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-07-01
LOCAL LACONICS.

LOCAL LACONICS.
Fourth of July.
Practically no business in Yorkvillt
next Tuesday, July 4.
Until January 1st, 1900.
THE TwIcE-A-WEEK ENQUIRER, filled
with the best and most reliable up-to-datt
news, will be furnished from the date o
this issue until January 1st, 1900, for Sl.O4
Rock Hill and Yorkville.
The Yorkville baseball boys wen
over to Rock Hill Thursday to tackle
the Rock Hill boys. They came back
defeated-score 10 to 4.
Trusty Runs Away.
Sam Massey, the cook at the con
vict camp, ran away last Wednesday
afternoon, and so far as the reporter
has learned, has not since been hearC
from. He was a six months convic
and had three months yet to serve.
Intelligent Enterprise.
Messrs. Ferguson & Snider have JUS
had constructed and placed in theil
meat market large refrigerator, cap
able of holding quarters of beef, a con
siderable quantity of butter, and othel
articles that require to be kept cool.
Fine Cotton.
Generally the crops down the Pinck
ney road are not especially fine look
ing. On red lands the stands of cottor
are very Indifferent; but just below
Blairsville, there is crop that is more
than knee high, and which looks like
it has been getting all the rain, work
and fertilizer that is needed.
The Widows Chain.
The June humber of the Epwortt
Orpbanage Record acknowledges the
receipt of the $40 sent by Trinity Sun
day school on account of the "widow's
chain," and also $50 sent by Rev. ]
w. Mcleod on the same account
The editor of The Record says he hopes
to write the widow, when she is found
that that chain has been worth a thou
sand dollars to the orphanage.
Was There Two Much Ammonia?
Spartanburg Spartan: THE YORK
VILE ENQUIRER says that H. C.
Strauss put 200 bushels of cotton seed
S11.70 worth of acid and kainit and
IS worth of seed besides labor on four
acres of wheat and made III bushels
If Mr.. Strauss had put half the cotton
seed and commercial fertilizer and
three bushels of seed on the lot, be
would have made four times as much
wheat. There was too much ammonia
in tie soil.
Death of Mr.. Toab Sandifer.
Mr.. Nathaniel Marion Sandifer died
at his home, near Guthriesville, last
Tuesday morning. Mr.. Sandifer was
born on the premises on which he died
on May %, 1926, and lived there all
his life. His mother was a Marion
and second cousin of the famous Rev.
olutionary partizan. Mr.. Sandifer was
well-known, was of congenial dispo
sition and was quite popular among g
large circle of friends. The funera,
took place at Bethesda.
Changing Engineers.
Textile Excelsior Ed. Reeves, day
engineer at Fort Mill, Is. c. Manufac
turing company, will leave July l
and will be succeeded by Fort Mil
man, relative of the president. The
night engineer, Mr.. Daniels, will leav,
early next week to run the steam plan
in the new mill at Yorkville. He vii
be succeeded temporarily by U. S
Greer, who has been filling a similar
position at the Edna Mills, Reidsville
n. c., and which he resigned on &C
count of his health.
DIR. Moore and the Raleigh.
Charlotte Observer, Wednesday
DR.. Miller Moore, of Rock Hill, S. C.
who spent Monday in the city, inter
ested The Observer and others by tell
ing of his experiences on board thu
Raleigh. DIR. Moore ranks as leuten
ant. He has been on the Raleigh abou
a year. He was on the flagship Olym
pia, but was transferred to the Raleigl
when one Of the surgeons was takel
sick. He was not on the ship at th'
battle of Manila Bay but was in sew
eral skirmishes. He was in the Uniol
League Club the night that Captain
| Coghlan paid his respects to Germany