Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-09-26
WITHIN THE TOWN.

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Press Office is pretty well filled with
fruit again this season.
+|There are about 130 operatives at
the Sutro mill now and the weekly
shipments are larger than ever.
fThe Jasper Light Infantry Is drill
ing five days a week these times, pre-
pairing for inspection and the propos-
ed visit to the State Fair.
%essrs. Riddle & Carroll have just
completed the erection Of cotton seed
warehouse on the Carolina & North
Western railroad, near the depot.
The cotton receipts last Saturday
were lighter than for some days pre-
vious. 1t was probably because Of the
decline in the price below ten cents.
The gentlemen in charge of the
Yorkville subscription for the benefit
Of the Galveston sufferers, have not seen
fit to hand in the names Of the sub
scribers for publication.
~ The biggest trouble with the water
meters will come next winter when
the pipes begin to freeze ard burst
Water consumers will have to be more
careful about their pipes than hereto
fore.
X The cotton pickers, having just
been paid for their weeks work, were
on the streets Of Yorkville in great
force last Saturday afternoon and
night. They made trade move along
briskly.
= The York Brick Works are not en-
gagged in a mail order business; but an
incident that occurred on Monday Is
suggestive Of something Of the kind.
During the morning there came a tel
ephone order from Lowrysville for
5000 brick, and the order was filled
the same afternoon.
The minstrel show in the opera
house last Wednesday evening
Goodies Colored Aristocracy-was dis
appointing. It was regular. "coon"
show, and not quite so good class as
some others Of the same kind that have
preceded 1t. There was not very
large audience out. So far as the local
show-going people are concerned, the
novelty seems to have worn off such
entertainments.
AT a meeting held Monday, the
Kings Mountain chapter, D. A. R., de-
cided upon Tuesday, October 8, as the
day for the removal Of the remains Of
Colonel James Williams from the
Mintz farm IN Cherokee county, to the
Kings Mountain battle ground. The
owners of the land on which the re-
mains of Col. Williams now repose,
have been written to; but no serious
objection is anticipated.
@"Here," said a well-known busi-
Dkss man to the reporter a few days
a customer Is about to take up. The
party gave me a check for $42 that he
had just received for bale Of cotton.
That pays my paper and I will give
him back just $40. When this paper
was made, it was expected that it
would take pretty nearly an entire
bale of cotton to settle It,"
Mrs. S. A. Pearson had quite an
adventure with white tramp who
tried TO break into a rear window Of
her house last Sunday night. Mr..
Pearson was away from home and
there was no one with Mrs. Pearson
except lady friend. Upon hearing a
noise at the window Mrs. Pearson
seized a shotgun and told the wouldbe
intruder to leave. He did not go and
Mrs. Pierson fired two shots in rapid
succession, upon which the fellow took
to his heels. So far as is known neith-
er shot took effect. The indentity Of
the man has not been established; but
it is supposed that he was a tramp.
The shooting occurred at about 8
o'clock.
Mr.. ]. J. Keller is telling that his
foreman. Mr.. Koontz, can make on a
planning machine a round roller with
a square hole through it. Mr.. Keller
tells the story as a joke; but there Is
some good foundation Of fact for it. 1t
seems that the cotton spinning mills
use on some Of their machines the
rollers described. They buy them and
pay a good price for them. Sometime
back a mill man told Mr.. Keller what
was wanted and inquired as to wheth-
er he could make 1t. Mr.. Keller laid
the matter before Mr.. Koontz, and to
Mr.. Keller's surprise that gentleman