Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-07-24
ROCK HILL HAPPENINGS.
A Chambers Rumor-Personal-T
Road to the Rtver-BigamOus Mar
riaEe-Other Notes.

Correspondence OF the Yorkville Enquirer.
Rock HILL, July ga reported case
of glanders in the country was visited
Saturday by DR.. Louie Freidheim. He
says the rumor was without any foun-
dation whatever.
On the 4th of this month, daugh-
ter of Mr.. Samuel L. Johnston, OF the
Manchester mill, was married, her age
being only IA. The father Is outraged
and was on the streets today declar-
ing that there ought to be law to
punish the minister or other person
who would perform the marriage cere-
mony where a child Is party to the
contract.
Mr.. George D. White, of this CITY,
who was a bookkeeper in the CONNER
cial and Farmers Bank, has gone to
Charlotte to accept similar place IN
the First National Bank. Mr.. White
Is capable and popular, and Will take
a lot of trade from this city TO Cnar-
lotte.
Mr.. Will Banks, of the Columbia
State, is in the city, visiting his pa
rents. He is accompanied by his pref
ty young wife and baby. Mrs. A. K
Banks, who was injured several weeks
ago by a fall, is much better; but Is
not yet able to walk with ease.
Tonight, Messrs. S. Freidheim, }. r
CASTOR, Robert Lindsay, G. K. ChreitZ,
berg, and several other young men VIII
20 to the home Of Mr.. Henry Massey
where his popular daughter, MISS !hi-
lian has a number OF pretty Vlsltors
from other communities.
A petition has been circulated here
asking the county commissioners not
to order the opening of the road to the
bridge favored by the Commercial
Club committee, on the grounds that
the cost would be too great ever tC
assure the building Of the road, even II
the people of the city should agree to
shoulder the burden. The petitioners
ask that road running from the bar
ry house in Oakland, to the old Neely's
ferry road via the Matthews mill. be
selected instead, their contention being
that such a road would cost less Dy
half and that by its building many
more people would be benefited and
accommodated. 1t now seems 70 a
man up a tree, watching the Warlne
factions, that unless they get together
there will be no new road built or
opened either. The petition referred 70
was signed by all Of the farmers IN
the India Hook community, by good
ly number in Ebenezer, and 1t pears
the signatures of not a few in this city.
Mr.. ]. X. Owens will leave tomorrow
for Horny county, where he Will De ell
gagged in summer school work.
The Woodman services at Edgmoor,
yesterday, by Rev. ]. Fl. Thacker, were
large attended, and the congrega-
ton heard a good sermon. About 70
choppers" were present from this city
and they all enjoyed a good dinner
with the hospitable people of the
neighborhOOd.
Western beef and mutton are now
kept in our markets There seems to
be much scarcity of country raised
beef cattle, or the price is too high for
our butchers: but they sell steak Of
that kind at 12A cents.
Sloan Wilkerson, a mill operative
from Fort Mill. led Miss Alice Tarle-
ton, a blushing maid Of the loom. to
the hymeneal altar Sunday. and the
couple were happy in the smiles and
careSSeS of each other. But Sloan
loved not wisely. for he had living
wife, who, however, was basking in
the Illicit love of one Estridge, two
children having been born to the cou-
pie, both having been left by their un-
natural mother in the custody OF the
father. When the facts came to the
knowledge nf the brides father, this
morning, he at once swOre out a war
rant against him for bigamy, and In
the hearing this afternoon before Judge
BeckhanI, the facts of the first and