Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-12-12
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Local Interest.
YORK-Rock Hill Herald, December
s: Miss Laura Gillespie is visiting Mrs.
T. B. Jenkins, in SUMTER. Miss Irene
Tnomasson, of Fort Lawn, is visiting
Miss jamie Biggers. up to yester-
day at noon 6S city voters had register
ed-67 whites and one colored.. Rev.
]. C. Stoll and family will remove to
Chester next week, where they Will
make their home. Mrs. q. w. Kill
liam, nee Miss Daisy Holer, of Hickory,
N. c., is visiting her parents In this
city. Mr.. E. r. Avery has bought
the Meldau house and lot in Oakland,
now occupied by himself and FAMILY.
REV. A. E. Holler and wife, or
Scotia, S. c., are visiting the formers
parents here, Mr.. and Mrs. A. D. Hol-
ler.. Rev. and Mrs. w. E. Thayer
and Mayor Waters are in attendance
upon the Baptist State convention In
session at Greenwood. Mr.. X. u.
Galbraith accompanied Mrs. Galbra1th
to the city this week and has been WIS.,
iting at the home of Hon. w. B. Will
H.. 5. ~
and Mrs. Judge Henry Starbuck, of
Tarboro, N. c., visited Misses Aline
and Corrie Mobley this week.. We'd
nesday, Mr.. D. L. Lovelace, at the
Highland Park mill, killed hog which
netted 551 pounds. This is the heaviest
hog of the season so far. The
Greenville convocation Of the Episco-
pal church in the diocese Of South Car
olina, will hold it's next meeting in
Rock Hill during the early part of
February. Mrs. J. E. Brodie will
break up housekeeping next week and
go to her husband in Alabama.......
Mrs. M. E. Pegues, mother of Mr.. J.
Browning Sykes, Of our city, left on
Thursday for Ardmore, in the Indian
Territory, where she will spend the
winter with her son, ]. H. Sykes.......
Presiding Elder H. w. Bays has sup
piled Rev. J. M. Pike to the pastorate
of the Laurel street church. He was
for several years editor of The Way of
Faith, published in Columbia, but this
year he has been in charge of one OF
the churches in Charleston. Mrs.
August Kohn, the accomplished wife of
the well-known correspondent Of the
News and Courier, represented that pa
Miss Mary Hemphill, one of the lead
ing woman writer's in our state and g.
very charming young lady, represented
her paper, the Abbeville Medium.
CHESTER-Lantern, December Z:
The clerk sold last Monday the follow
ing real estate: House and lot Of Mrs.
Harriet P. Estes Roach, on Columbia
street, at suit of Spratt Building and
Loan association. Bought by B. D. Re-
fo, for $500. House and lot Of Maggie
M. Hooper, on church street, at suit of
E. C. Stain. Purchaser. John Frazer,
$1,215. One-third interest of the late ].
H. Smith in 400 acres on Catawba riv-
er. Bid off by Thos. Gresham at $1,000.
Also one-half interest of same in the
Cotton hotel building, in Chester.
Bought by w. M. Nicholson at $1,000.
The Kee lands were sold in seve-
raj tracts as follows: 1913 acres bought
by w. c. Kee, at s1,9SS.75, and 139 acres
at $1,56375; 1914 acres by J. T. Kee at
$2,32S. and 80 acres at 1878; 65 1-6 acres
by Miss Carrie Kee at 1882; 65 acres by
J. B. Wylie at $3.50, and A ga acres at
s4O9. So A tract of rs ga acres on
Broad river, at the suit of M. e. Wade
VS.. H. o. Waters ct al, vas bought by
w. N. Walker and A. l.. CASTOR for
1881. ... Married, by the Rev. j. e.
Grier, Thursday, December 6. 1900, Mr..
VIM. A. Corkill and Miss Moultrie
Buchanan. BY the Rev. H. c. Buck
holz, at the Baptist parsonage. Decem-
ber 4, 1900, Mr.. U. r. Revels, of Guth-
riesville, and Miss N. L. Brakefield, Of
Lowryville ... Last Saturday morn
ing, Mr.. w. w. Coogler's building on
Gadsden street, caught fire from flue.
and about a square of the roof was
burned. A reel ran down. turned on
their hose and extingu;shed the fire
before many knew anything about it.
The chief damage was done to the
plastering by water The building is
used for a boarding house and was in
sured.