Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-05-23
ABOUT PEOPLE.

Mr.. Jos. F. Wallace is visiting his
daughter, Mrs. w. w. Dixon, at
Union, S. c.
Mrs. H. K. Steele, and Misses Mary
Schorb and Sadie Dunlap are visiting
in Charlotte this week.
Mrs. Hanahan, accompanied by her
granddaughter, Miss Rita Beard,
leaves today for visit to relatives and
friends in Columbia.
Mr.. Lee Nevins, of Fort Mill town.
ship, was in Yorkville Monday, rep
resenting the opposition to the levy of
the special tax in School District No.
26.
Mrs. w. F. Robertson, of Whining
ton, N. c., and Mrs. Fannie Robertson,
of Alexandria, Va, are visiting in
Yorkville, the guests of Mrs. G. w. 8.
Hart.
Miss R. Emma Kennedy, who has
been teaching school at Hardeeville,
Is. c., since last September, returned
to her home in this place on last Sat.
urday.
Mr.. Jno. e. McClain, who came over
from Charlotte recently to take charge
of Mr.. H. T. Crisis repair shop, re-
turned to Charlotte this week on &C.
connt of failure of his eyesight.
Lieutenant w. w. Boyce, of the
Jasper Light Infantry, was unable to
20 to Charlotte with his company on
account of an attack of dysentery. He
was quite sick all day Monday.
Messrs. C. T. Crook and B. NJ. Faris,
of the Gold Hill neighborhood of Fort
Mill township, were in Yorkville on
Monday, having come over to bring
the returns from the recent special
school tax election.
Miss Edith McCollum, of Pleasant
Valley, Texas, who has been visiting
in Yorkville, the guest of Mr. L. R.
Williams's family, left last week for
Mecklenburg county, N. c., for visit
to relatives, on her way to her home in
Texas.
Sumter Herald: Another news
paper change has been made. Col. T.
Stobo Farrow, of Gaffney, who found
ed and edited the Spartanburg Herald
for many years, and who is we'll known
to journalism, has taken charge of the
Cheraw Chronicle, and hereafter will
be editor and proprietor of that paper.
Mr.. j. n. Stricklin, who has had edi.
torial charge of the paper heretofore,
will look after the mechanical part Of
the work and devote his time and en-
ergy to the printing and publishing de-
partment. We wish for the new man.
agement large measure of success.
Lieutenant James B. Allison is now
located at Valdey, Alaska, point well
up within the arctic circle; but not
laid down upon any map that is at
present available. He reached there
about the first of May, and his mother
received letter from him last week.
In the letter was enclosed a number OF
kodak views of the few dreary scenes
in the locality that we're considered
to be of the most interest. One showed
number of apparently half-frozen
soldiers standing on the deck of the
transport just after land had been
sighted. Another showed wooden
shack that had heen erected on short
notice for temporary quarters, and
still another showed an infinite waste
of snow that is described rs being
seven feet deep. The town of Valdey,
to which Lieutenant Allison had not
been up to the time of writing the let
ter, is several miles from the spot Sc
lected for the quartering of the troops.
At this season of the year the nights
are only few hours long, and when
bedtime comes at o'clock, it is still
several hours until dark. From what
Lieutenant Allison said before he left
here, THE ENQUIRER almost feels at
liberty to promise its readers long
letter from him some time soon, and II
the letter comes, it is likely to be in