Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-08-05
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CHESTER-The Lantern, August
II: There will be an agricultural pic
mic at Rodman on August 26th. Sew
eral speakers from Clemson college
will be there. Also basket picnic.
Everybody is invited to come and
have a good time. .....'.".By mistake
of our own last Friday we said that
Miss Louise McFadden had been chos-
en- state sponsor for the Sons of Vete-
rams, when we should have said Miss
Kate CASTOR. Though we trust there
is no great harm done, we regret the
error. Chester still has the honor and
it is most worthily bestowed. '''.'''''
Fred Watson, q porter at the Melton
house, is in trouble. Articles have
been missed by boarders at different
times. Mr.. Rohr, who had missed
small sums of money twice, made it
known to Mr.. F. D. Williams, the pro-
prietor, yesterday morning. Fred was
not in his place and a little inquiry
showed that he had bought ticket
to Columbia, and afterwards wanted
it changed to Batesburg and had his
trunk checked to the latter place.
In response to a telegram he was ar
rested and held at Ridgeway. Mr..
Rohr went down on the night train
with warrant to bring him back, and
returned this morning with his prison
er. He was tried by Magistrate Will
liams and sent to the chain gang for
80 days. ...'''"President Hartzog writes
Supervisor Culp that Prof. P. T. Bro
die will attend the farmers institute at
Rodman on the 26th of August and
lecture on road making. An effort
will be made to have him at Rossville
also. 1t is hoped that attention will
be given to this notice. 1t is matter
in which everybody is interested. '''.'''
The ball Friday night was gotten up
on large scale, the preparation and
running expenses costing $500, we
learn. A temporary floor was put
down in the Southern's big warehouse,
an expensive band was employed, the
building was wired and fitted out with
Iincandescent lights, and a dynamo
from the mill and an engine from MIR.
Anderson's ginnery were put in posi-
tion and rugged up to run the indie.
pendent system. These are some OF
the largest items.
CHEROKEE-The Gafney Ledger.
August l: We learn that in difficult
ty near the state line, some days ago,
Horn Wyatt shot and dangerously
wounded Mack Jenkins. Both are
young white men. Wyatt made his
escape TO North Carolina and Jenkins
is thought to be improving. 1.-The
hardest rain that has fallen about
Gaffney since last spring, fell Sunday
afternoon. 1t was accompanied by
considerable wind which has blown
the corn down in some places but so
far as we have heard has not overflow
ed the lowland crops to any damaging
extent. ......County commissioner Lips
comb laid off the new road from Co.
forth's mill to the North Carolina line
last week and Township Commissioner
w. C. S. Wood has opened it out.
This road connects with the new road
in North Carolina that leads to the
new iron bridge across Board river
and will prove a great convenience to
the people of both states. ''''''"'At the
bankrupt sale of d. L. Browns stock
of goods in Blacksburg last Friday,
Mr.. R. S. Cook, of this city, bought
the stock of groceries, and Mr.. r. r.
Brown, of Cowpens, bought the dry
goods. Mr.. r. R. Brown will continue
the business in Blacksburg and Mr..
Cook will move the stock of groceries
to his store in Gaffney. '''''"There was
considerable stir in the city Saturday
when Mr.. w. n. Turner telephoned
Sheriff Thomas that he had seen Lum
Morris, who has a life sentence in the
penitentiary and who has escaped, in
his (Mr. Turner's) watermelon patch
stealing watermelons. Sheriff Thomas
sent to the county chain gang for dogs
and went at once to Mr.. Turner's and
followed Morris's track for some dis.
tance before the dogs arrived. Messrs
D. c. Planter and Barnett Lipscomt
arrived with the dogs about five
hours after the Negro left. The dogs
were put on the track, but made q
poor out running it. Mr.. Turner and
several of his neighbors joined the
party, and every effort was made to
overtake the fugitive; but they failed
to come up with him. Morris was in
company with another Negro, who
was not known by those who saw
them.
LANCASTER-The Ledger, August
2: Policeman Hunter was sent for and
dispatched a mad dog at Rev. J. H
Boldridge's last Sunday. .'''''''''''Mr. j.
F. Hunter left at our office yesterday
a nail II inches long which was taken
from the craw of a chicken which be
had for dinner the day before. 1t was
a young chicken and the nail could
not have been there great while
but the head had disappeared in the
process of digestion and the nail had
had gotten pretty thin. ''''''' The store
of Mr.. /. J. Robertson, near the factory
was burned about o'clock last Satur.
day morning. 1t will be remembered