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

but to make it general. 1t will be un
der control Of the police and marshals.
Messrs. l. Med. Hood, ]. w. Dunno
want, and John Frazer were added to
the barbecue committee. Captain Reed
tells us that citizens are responding
encouragingly to the entertainment
committee, and the indications are that
this will be necessary, as applications
are coming in rapidly, and reports
from various sections of the state lndl-
cate that the attendance will be large.
A number have already been assigned.
GASTON-Gastonia Gazette, June
90: Mr.. p. o. Grist, who has been
member of The Gazette's composing
staff since January, bade US good d-bye
Yesterday morning, and left for his
home in Lenoir. We all regret his
departure and send our best wishes
along with him. ......."'The ball game
Saturday at Mountain Island, between
that team and Kings Mountain was
won in four innings by the Island boys
score s to2. A dispute about the
rulings of umpire McGinnis, cut the
game short. Mountain Island made
S runs, 13 hits and 8 errors: Parker
made a home run. Kings Mountain
made 2 runs, hits, and 4 errors.
Struck out by Parker 5, Ragan ?. .'.'''''
His old comrades in CASTOR will hear
with sorrow that Mr.. Fred Fite has
answered his last roll-call. He died
in Mecklenburg on Wednesday night
of last week, after an illness of only a
day and night. He was 55 or 60 years
of age, and leaves a wife and eight
children. Mr.. Fite was born and rear
ed near Belmont, was brave soldier
of Company H, Twerty-third North
Carolina, popular and beloved by his
comrades. .....'."The black and tan rat
terrier pup" who for so many years
has been the almost inseparable CON-
panion of Rev. B. F. Martin in his
ministerial travels lay down quietly
Tuesday night and died. He was first
owned by Mr.. Judson Huss, and for II
years was a familiar figure in Gastonia
dog circles. He was great church
going dec, behaved during the service,
stood up when the doxology began,
and waited until the congregation was
dismissed before going out. He didn't
allow known hypocrites to shout, and
on one or two occasions tore the dresses
off of some colored sisters whose week
day walk didn't square as 1t should
with their Sunday shoutings.' 1.-The
Midgets and the Hornets are the latest
additions to the junior league of local
baseball cranks. The Midgets, whom
their manager, Mr.. George Glenn, pre-
ferably dubs the "Fidgets," played the
second nine of Kings Mountain last
Monday afternoon in one of the pref
tiest, cleanest games of the season on
the latter's grounds. At the end OF
the ninth inning the score stood to
|9. At the end of the tenth, Kings
Mountain won out by breaking the tie
into 10 to 9. Coney Cole, p, and o.
car Nell, c., constituted Gastonia's
battery, and Sam Cansler, p, and o.
car Rudisill, c., did the work for Kings
Mountain. Ragan the crack pitcher,
umpired. Cole struck out IA men,
Cansler9. The Midgets are practicing
with the Hornets, aud are going to
play McAdenville next Monday. ''''':'
Who said there is no profit in sheep
raising? In a note received Monday
night, Rev. E. F. Jones writes US from
Watauga county as follows: MIR.
Philip Greer, near Zionville, N. e.,
had % head of sheep last fall. They
were of good stock and he treated
them we'll. From the % he sold S4Ol
worth of wool. A few days ago he
sold 25 head, for which he received
SlO7, and now has 20 of his best
sheep left. One lamb, weighing ia
pounds at FIVE months old, he sold tor
five cents per pound or 500. Good
for a North Carolina lamb. Mr.. Jones
writes that these lambs 60 to the north
ern cities.
CLEVELAND-The Shelby Auro,
ra, June 2S: John Spencer, OF Gah'
new, came very near meeting his death
on Friday afternoon, at the hands OF
Joap Barrett, who lives near Cherry
VILE. He was fearfully and shocking.
ly cut, bis head being almost severed
from bis shoulders. 1t is miraculous
that he still lives. He bled most pro-
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