Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-01-25
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IN COUNTIES ADJOINING.
Summary of the News That Is Being Pu
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CHESTER-The Lantern, January
90: Miss Annie Hardin and Messrs.
E. H. Hardin and R. B. Caldwell at
tended the Marion Jones wedding at
Lancaster this week. .''''''''It will be
seen that the Chester mills are to be
offered for sale again February 20. 1t
is to be hoped that sale will be made
this time. ..........An architect was here
yesterday looking at the Baptist church
with a view to preparing designs for
Improvement. bob Mcconnell, COL
ored, slipped on the ice few days ago,
at his home on Columbia street, and
broke his thigh. Rev. G. w. Hum
phreys, who has been living in Chester
since he Identified his charge in Lam
caster, has taken charge of churches at
jackson and McDonnough, Ga. His
family will remain here till spring. ''''''
Mr.. Chandler Owen has been visiting
relatives at Charlotte the past week.
...*.Miss Mary Strobel, who has been
visiting Mrs. D. Hemphill, has returned
to Charleston. ..'..''''.Rev. J. S. Moffatt
received telegram yesterday morning
announcing the death of his father,
Rev. w. S. Moffatt, in Arkansas, and
asking him to go at once. He left on
the II o'clock train on the Southern.
CHEROKEE Gaffney Ledger, Jan.
uary 10: Captain j. B. Bell spent
some days the past week in Yorkville
on professional business. .'.''''''Magis-
trate Sarratt committed young white
man by the name of Smith to Jail
Monday for shooting at man Sunday.
Smith was returning from trip to
North Carolina still house. ''''''''Ac-
cording to State Liquor Commissioner
Vance, 10 persons in Cherokee county
had Federal license to sell whisky last
year and only one this year. ''''''.''
Cherokee Investigator, January 1S:
Colonel John L. Black is visiting our
town this week...'.....Miss Eleanor
Urquhart, who is attending the Lime
stone institute, has been sick with
mumps, but is better. '''''''''Mr. j. l..
Hartwell, has been sick but is much
better. .......".Dr. J. P. Hambright, OF
Smyrna, spent day in our town this
week. ..:''...Mrs. M. E. Deal is visit
ing friends in Sharon.
GASTON-Gastonia Gazette, Janu-
ary 10: The local lodge Of /. o. 0. F.
elected new officers at recent meet
| ing. as follows: J. A. Groves, N. u. !;
L. NJ. Smith, V. G.; J. A. Spencer,
recording secretary; Marvin Wilkin-
son, financial secretary; c. M. Nolen,
treasurer. The boys are all putting
themselves in training for a trip to
Shelby where they will shortly 60 to
teach the young Odd Follows idea
there how to ride the goat. ''''''Mr. w.
r. Ford, of Lowell, has bought the
Charlie Elmore property in South Gas.
tonia and has moved his family and
his citizenship to our town. He is
welcomed to the forces which are con-
stantly adding to Gastonia's thrift and
numbers. .........Another marriage cere-
mony has been done up brown
Esquire B. G.. Brown, notary public at
Zeno, S. c., did it. The parties tied
together were Mr.. Ode Summey and
Miss Lizzie Gattis, youthful couple,
from Gastonia. They drove to Mr..
Browns Tuesday afternoon and were
leisurely married, leaving the notary S
house for home while before sunset.
LANCASTER-The Ledger, Janu'
ary 81: A little 3-year old daughter
of Mrs. Robinson, at the factory, mar
rowly escaped being killed Wednesday
last, by a peculiar accident. The
children discovered that by holding
the butt end of an old gun barrel,
which had been used for years as fire
poker, in the fire they could hear a
frying sound by placing an ear to the
muzzle. 1t came the little girls time
to listen to the noise and as she was
raising the muzzle to her ear it was
discharged, a load of shot entering
above her ear and glancing upward.
DR.. Poovey removed the shot. 1t was
narrow escape and verifes the old
saying that gun is dangerous without
lock. stock or barrel. ......''"Hon. Jas.
R. Massey, who has been residing near
Camden for several years, has moved
with his family back to old Lancaster
county. He has moved to his Wade
plantation. His many friends are glad
to welcome him back. ...'''''' Married
by Rev. Geo. G. Leonard at the brides
fathers on Thursday night last, Mr..
Frank King and Miss Lizzie Thomp-
son, daughter of Mr.. E. T. Thompson,