Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-12-19
X WITHIN THE TOWN.

The graded school will take a recess
from Friday, December q. until Mon
day, December 81.
1.-THE local dealers in fire crackers
sold out their stocks last week; but
most of them have succeeded in get
ting in new supplies.
Large numbers Of geese and turkeys
have been coming into Yorkville dur
ing the past few days for shipment, by
Messrs. McElwee & Sherrer and Mr..
Brooks Inman.
Messrs. ]. ]. Keller & Co., are put
ting a glass front in the Kuykendal
building preparatory to occupation by
S. L. Hobbs & Co., who expect to get
in by January 1, next.
Local hog raisers are killing and
sailing down their meat. There is a
considerable quantity Of hog meat
raised in Yorkville- possibly enough to
feed the town for a couple Of weeks.
The firm Of Glenn & Allison COM
menced it's livery business in Yorkville
with only 12 head of stock. 1t now uses
26. The per centage Of increase in less
vance of the per centage of increase in
population as shown by the census fig
ures.
There is a good, healthy Christmas
trade on this year. 1t is better than 1t
has been for years. There is being sold
more good substantial furniture, more
pretty novelties in silver and China,
more fine toilet articles, and other
things which indicate that there are
many people who have abundance and
to spare.
Superintendent Boyce, Of the Asso-
ciate Reformed Sunday school, requests
that instead of their regular contribu-
tions Of money next Sunday, the mem :
bers bring contributions Of fruits and
nuts. Those who may not find it con-
venient to take their contributions to
Sunday-school, may give orders on the
stores instead. =
L~While undertaking to unload bar
rel of molasses, at the Carolina and
North Western railroad depot, last
Saturday afternoon, Lark Hull, color
ed employe Of the company, had his
right leg broken just about the knee.
He was given surgical attention as soon
as possible and made as comfortable
as could be expected. g.
A-barh on the premises of Misses
Gardner, next to the graded school,
was destroyed by fire yesterday morn
ing about 10 o'clock. The origin of the
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small boy and the cigarette has been
suggested as among the possibilities
The fire department responded as
quickly as possible; but the flames had
done their work before the water could
be gotten to them, some 200 yards from
a hydrant. The loss is between s25 and
$50. No insurance.
The appearance Of soliciting agent
of the Atlantic Coast Line in Yorkville
last Saturday, revived the talk to the
effect that this road will take charge
of the South Carolina and Georgia Ex-
tension, and there are rumors Of two
passenger trains day each way" but
as yet there is nothing definite to be
said on the subject. Only the high Of
ficials in charge of the respective prop
critics are in a position to talk author
itatively and they have not seen fit to
take the public into their confidence.
electric light has been giving
trouble again. 1t began Pickering last
week and Mr.. Duval was sent for. He,
found that in putting up the new dyna-
mo he had made miscalculation in
one of the connections. The trouble
was very simple he said but by coin
cidence it bcame complicated. A
friction clutch which communicates
power to the dynamo was broken acci-
dentally on Saturday morning, and a
new one was not to be had this side of
Charlotte. The particular piece that
broke was not Of a nature that could
reasonably be expected to give trouble.
Hence there had been no provision for
duplication. 1t was expected that the
light would be in operation again last
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