Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-04-10
Atisfellaneous 8eading.
FROM NEIeHBoRlNe CONTEMPORARIES.


News and Comment That Is of More or Less
Local Interest.
YORK.
Rock Hill Herald, April 6: Miss
Chel Ruff is visiting relatives in
Winnsboro. Miss Edna McFadden
is visiting friends in Fort Mill. Miss
Pearl Poag has returned after a visit
to relatives in Fort Mill... little
Edwin Conner Stradley is still very
sick with pneumonia. Mrs. Fannie
Beckham, of Lindsay's is visiting Mrs.
w. H. Stewart. Mr.. W. P. Roddey
is quite sick at his home on Ebenezer
avenue in Oakland. Mr.. and Mrs.
Jesse Moore are visiting at the home
of Mr.. Walter Moore. Mrs. E. V.
Durham, of Charlotte, spent Wednes-
day in the city with Mrs. Emma Lon
don. Miss Minnie Friedheim Is at
home from the College for Women In
Columbia to spend the Easter holidays.
Mrs. Minnie Ratteree will spend
the Easter holidays in Columbia with
her daughter, Miss jamie, at the Col
leee for Women. zee. Mrs. ]. H. Sossa-
mon, of Charlotte, after visit to her
daughter, Mrs. L. F. Sossamon OF this
city, went to Chester Thursday y......
Miss Margaret Douglas, who has been
teaching school a few miles from ROCK
Hill, returned to her home In Black
stocks, Thursday, the term OF her
school being out. .....Our memories are
indeed short. We are complaining OF
the cold April, declaring that 1t is
worse than in years; but the record
kept at the Carolina hotel shows that
Yesterday q year ago the thermometer
registered 32.......T The physicians or
our city have organized the Rock Hill
Medical association, with DR.. j. Rod-
dey Miller, president; DR.. r. l.. Moore
vice-president, and DR.. ]. E. Massey
.Jr.. secretary and treasurer. The op-
iect which the association has In view
is the promotion and maintenance OF
friendship among the members at all
times. as we'll as for study and i'm
provement. The association will meet
once each month, when papers on sub
iects of Importance to the PROFESSION
will be discussed. The membership Is
now nine. Owing to the fact that
the State reunion Of Confederate vet
Grams will be held this year on the 10th
of Nav. the Daughters Of the Confed-
eracy of our city will not provide an
elaborate memorial service this year.
The ladies and children will gather In
the cemetery in the afternoon and dec
crate the graves of the veterans burleo
there. Later on the Ann White Chap
ter, U. D. C. will provide program Tor
extensive ceremonies, when Rev. j.
I,owrie Wilson will deliver an address,
and on that occasion the iron crosses
of Honor will be presented to the vet
Grams. :. Mr.. E. w. Myers, OF the u
S. Geological survey, who has peen
visiting Rock Hill for about four years
for the purpose of surveying the Ca
tawba river at the Southern railway
bridge, once every three months, was
in the city Thursday, and visited the
river in the afternoon. He reports that
the height of the water above low
water mark was 1912 feet at 2.SOo'clocK'
The highest he has known the river TO
be since he has been making the sur
vev was Is feet above low water mark.
Thursday, while Mr.. T. w. Ross
was at work with a force Of hands al
the Neisler cotton ginnery, Mr.. Ross
became involved in some trouble, SO
far unexplained, with one Frank Mack
ev. q colored man, when Mr.. Ross drew
his pistol and fired one shot at the
man. The ball took effect, penetrating
his body about two inches above the
heart, passing through the bone, and
lodging somewhere in the body. The
wound is in such place that the at
tending physicians did not feel justi-
fled in probing for the ball. The wound
Is a. serious one; but the physicians
think Mackey will recover. After the
shooting, Mr.. Ross went to the office OF
MAGISTRATE Beckham and offered 10
surrender to that officer. No state
ment whatever has been made by any
of the parties and we have been una
BILE to ascertain the cause of the shoot-
ing. Mr.. Ross Is as quiet man as
lives in the city and the shooting was
surprise. He has long been engaged
in the business of driving deep wells
Frank Mackey, the wounded man, II
will be remembered, was assaulted
while walking along White street last
fall when he was serious cut by WHO
Bill and another man, and gallon jug
full of whisky was taken away from
him.
Hickory Grove Sun, April 6: Mr.. D.
Jeff Smith went to Charleston Monday
to serve as juryman in the U. S. court
Rev. P. B. Ingraham is able to
be out again after confinement TO MS
room several weeks with the grip......
Mrs. S. r. Cade, Of Bordeaux, S. c., and
child, arrived Tuesday to visit her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. It. Slaugh-
ter. Rev. A. j. Hensley closed MS
school at Grover, N. c., and went to
Columbia last Saturday to spend MS
two months vacation in the universi-
ty. Mr.. A. M. Bridges, manager OF
the phone service at Blacksburg, was
in Hickory Wednesday and placed an
extension bell in the central office here.
We had the pleasure of enjoying
some fine instrumental and vocal mu-
sic rendered by Rev. and Mrs. j. L.
Oates in the parlor Thursday evening.
Mrs Sallie Boyce, of Lancaster, &C
companied by two of her children, WIS.,
tied her sister-in-law, Mrs. Alexander