Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-09-11
Miseetlaneons Rtadina.
FROM CONTEMPORARIES.
News and Comment That Is of More
or Less Local Interest.
YORK.


YORK.
Rock Hill Herald, September Z: Mrs.
H. B. Buist returned Wednesday from
a visit to Yorkville... DIR. H. w. Bays
left Thursday morning for Chesterfield
county, where he goes to hold quarterly
conferences. He will be absent about a
week. Mr.. T. H. Degraffenreid, of
Yorkville, was in the city Thursday en-
route 20 Davidson, where he will at
tend school. Master Albert Freid-
helm went to Yorkville Tuesday after
noon. He will attend the K. M. M. A.
this session. The Golfer dam erected
in the river by the Catawba Power CO.,
was full of water continuously from the
4th to the 31st of August. Tuesday the
big pumps were put at work ana os
Wednesday the water had been taken
ont but the mud settings were about
three feet in depth and the companys
force has been engaged in taxing tnat
ont Policeman L. D. Wilkerson mas
sent in to the mayor formal reslgna-
lion of the place he has been holding
as a member of the city's police force.
He was impelled to take this step pv
easons of his own. A meeting or the
city council will be held at an early
day to fill the vacancy....T The first bale
of new cotton was sold on this market
Thursday morning by Mr.. F. n. Barper.
Tbe staple was classed good middling,
the price paid being 81 cents. Later
Mr.. T. w. Whitesides, of Edgmoor'
brought in a new bale, which was
classed as strict middling and sold for
8 cents. Mr.. j. T. Roddey was the pur-
chaser of both bales. Jim Horn, a
colored boy from Chester, who was In
the employ of Mr.. Wright, and at
work on the dam Of the Catawba Power
company, was drowned in the river
Wednesday morning. He was in fiat
boat with five or six other persons, and
for some reasons jumped out OF the
boat and was drowned. At the time
the boat was not more than 20 feet from
the bank; but at that point the river
is very swift and he was unable to re-
sist the rushing tide. At last accounts
the body had not been recovered.....
Thursday morning while force OF
hands were engaged in cleaning the
driftwood from the Airline railroad
bridge over the Catawba river near
Belmont, a colored man named Sam,
in the employ of the Southern railway,
was drowned. He is said to have come
from this county, near Rock Hill. Sam,
with several others, went out on the
driftwood with pick and axe to clear 1t
from the piers. The unfortunate man
had only gotten in a position to go to
work when he was seen to disappear
among the trash. AS soon as possible,
several Of the force went to the rescue;
but up to IL o'clock Thursday the body
had not been recovered. 1t is thought
the man became entangled in the drift
and trash and was unable to extricate
himself.
CHESTER.
Lantern, September 6: Mr.. S. B.
Clowney got here this morning with the
first bale of new cotton. 1t weighed 4SO,
classed strict middling, and was bought
by S. M. Jones & Co., at 81. Mr.. j. G.
l.. White also has a bale in town. 1t
happens that these same two farmers
brought the first two bales last year
August oath. Clerk Of Court w.
Brown Wylie, Mrs. Wylie, her sister,
Miss Emma Kennedy, and Miss Marie
Carroll, of Yorkville, came down Tues
day and left on the Seaboard that even
ing for Washington, New York, Buffalo
and other points, joining on the train
Mr.. and Mrs. R. C. Brownlee, their son
Irwin and daughter Louise, Mrs. w. F.
Pearson and Miss Lola Bell, Of Due
West -. :. The old Alexander house,
owned by the Springstein mills and
used for storing waste, was burned
Wednesday night between IL and l
o'clock. The building and contents
that belonging to the mills were insur-
ed. One end of the building was used
as a chapel in which religious services
were conducted by the Presbyterian
church, the Rev. James Russell in
charge. They had an organ and other
furniture, which were lost without in
surance. There was a horse in the
basement; but he was gotten out.
Some barrels of Oil were also taken out
of the basement. The fire was soon eX
tinguished after 1t was discovered but
tine building was like kindling and the
that but little was left. 1t was partial
ly burned several months ago and was
repaired. 1t is not known how the fire
originated either time. 1t may have
been started by loafers smoking about
it, or it may have been a case Of spon-
taneous combustion. Another old house
near by was partially burned, in which
Mr.. Hitchcock was sleeping. He was
carried out, being scarcely able to walk
at his best. Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Lind
say celebrated the 4Oth anniversary of
their marriage Thursday. All their
children were with them and all their
grandchildren but three. They did not
have much to do with planning the Gel
ebration, as they didn't know they
Flowed" to celebrate till the children
came. When it was suggested that the
children's first arrival in the family
was probably not so sudden and unex-
pected, Mr.. Lindsay said, "They didn't
come in such lunches" 1t was on the
3rd day of September, 1861. that Mr..
Lindsay came up from Charleston and
gave Mrs. Lindsay his hand for better