Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-12-15
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'|VThomas F. Mellow, Esq, went t.
LANCASTER, Thursday, on business.
| MIR. Pack Williams is engaged as ;
salesman at 1.-THE Everything Store"
| lNr. r. T. Allison, who has been sicl
for nearly a month, is able to be abou
again.
| Miss Maggie Moore is in Washington
ID. c., this week with relatives ant
4 friends.
} Mrs. Jane Gullick, Of Gastonia, spen
Thursday and Friday morning will
the Misses Cody.
| Mr.. Mason L. Carroll is visiting
Friends in Tennessee. He will be alb
sent about ten days.
Rev. w. G. Neville paid short visi
to his father, who lives in Oconee coun
ty, near Walhalla, this week.
Captain Lewis went to Charleston OF
Monday to attend a meeting Of tn
board of visitors Of the Citadel.
Mr.. s. L. Hobbs, of the Parlor Gro
Gerry, spent Thursday and Friday II
tLincolnton, N. c., on business.
Mr.. Geo. w. S. Hart leaves mex
Tuesday to spend Christmas with hi!
mother at his old home on Wadmalav
island.
lMr. L. r. Williams, manager Of th'
York Implement company, Is in Col
umbia this week attending the United
States circuit court as a petit juror.
Mr.. T. N. Thomasson and famil!
have removed from his farm, four miles
north Of Yorkville, to this place ant
are occupying the Dobson residence OF
West Madison street.
IA Mr. Brooks Inman Is investigating
the matter Of shipping rabbits with {
view to taking hold If he can SCI
enough in it to warrant the experiment
The express charges to the markets ar
the most serious obstacles in the way
Spartanburg Journal: Congressman
Finley is trying to get an appropriation
for the Great Pee Dee between Cherav
and the railroad bridge. The. improve
ments recommended by the secretar.
of war were to cost $11S,350, and s4,00
for its maintenance.
Mr.. w. H. Herndon, one Of the bes
farmers Of this immediate vicinity
made this year nine bales Of cotton OF
eleven acres Of land. Although thi
was good, compared with what mos
farmers did this year, 1t was not goot
for Mr.. Herndon. He has made, will
good season, more than two bales t.
the acre. Mr.. Herndon Is now engaged
in turning land for next years crop.
I~Rishop Ellison Capers comes to York
vile today and will preach here tomor
row Sunday morning. Rev. j. c
Johnes desires that a special Invitation
be extended to old soldiers throughou
the county-the bishops former com
rades. The bishop was a model soldie
himself during the war. He has beel
doing soldier duty ever since, and n
has an especially warm place In hi
heart for those with whom he Tough
side by side from 1861 to 1865.
In renewing his subscription las
Wednesday, Mr.. w. o. Youngblood, o
Fodder, remarked that he had beel
taking THE ENQUIRER continuousl!
since August, 1855. The paper was es
tabhshed in January Of that year
During the war, he says he took tw'
copies-one went to his wife and th'
other to the front. There are perhaps
half a dozen or more such names OF
the list; but this cannot be recalled
with facility. The writer recollects
however, that Mr.. J. L. Parish. wh'
lives on the northwestern outskirts o.
Yorkville, has been subscriber to TIL
ENQUIRER since the first issue of thu
paper.
Washington Post: The Associate Re
formed Presbyterian Synod of th'
South, at the meeting recently held a
Louisville, Ca. elected Rev. Oliver
Johnson, Of Leslie, S. c., member o.
it's board of home missions. in place o.
Rev. John r. Chalmers, Of Charlotte
N. c., who retired because Of ill-health
The so-called psalm-singing Presbyte
rians of the South, or Seceders, as they
are commonly known, are small de-
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earnest and aggressive in their church
work. The membership of the denom'
ination, under the active work Of its
home. mission board, has increased
more than so per cent. within the last
ten years. They are among the best
church builders in the South, and are
constantly invading new fields. Bir-
mingham and Huntsville, Ala, are
among the places which they have re-
Gently fixed upon as points to establish
new churches. Within the last month
beautiful churches, free from debt, have
been dedicated by them in Corsicana
Texas and in Rock Hill, S. G. The
board of home missions has oversight
throughout the denomination Of all city
missions the opening of new work, the
assignment Of laborers; in short, super
vision of every church which receives
aid from the funds of the synod, which
Is the highest ecclesiastical body In