Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-08-21
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FROM CONTEMPORARIES.
News and Comment That II of More
or Less Local Interest.

or Less Local lnterest.
CHESTER.
Lantern, August 16: DR.. G. B. White
is off for a two weeks rest at Blowing
Rock and Catawba Springs, and his
office will be closed during that time.
.... Miss Annie May Lipsey was mar
ried Wednesday evening to DR.. Joseph
Simpson Wise, Of Lincolnton, N. c.
The ceremony was at the home Of her
father, Mr.. Robt. w. Lipsey, the Rev.
H. c. Buckholz officiating. Only the
family were present. DIR. and Mrs.
Wise left yesterday morning for their
home at Lincolnton.. ]. M. Bell,
manager of the telephone exchange,
has had his energies taxed this sum-
mer. About the time he would get the
damages of one electric storm repaired
another would come and give him as
much more work to do. He had more
than so Instruments to repair as a re-
suit of Saturday nights lightning. A
good deal of other work is needed; but
he can't get at it. Reasonable people
will not complain in the circumstances.
...... When w. H. Newbold, ESQ.,, came
to his office, over The Lantern office,
this morning, he could not unlock 1t,
the key refused to turn, and after ex-
hausting his ingenuity in efforts to
open the door, he went off and got
ladder and climbed in at a window. On
examining the door from the inside he
discovered that it was not locked. -.
Mr.. S. A. Murphy has just returned
from Fort Lawn, where he has been
the past two weeks nursing MIR. ]. w.
Daniel, who has been very sick with
typhoid fever. Mr.. Murphy reports
that he is now clear Of fever, and able
to sit up. Mr.. Murphy left Wednesday
for Worthy's Ferry to nurse Mr.. and
Mrs. H. C. Worthy, who are very sick
with typhoid fever. Mr.. Murphy has
been quite successful in his cases this
season, and it is to be hoped that he
will bring Mr.. and Mrs. Worthy
through all right. MIR. R. A. Lati-
mer and daughters, Misses Kittie and
Bessie, went to the vicinity Of York
Vile Wednesday to visit his old home.
His brother, the Rev. T. D. Latimer, Is
also there. Col. R. M. Wallace, COL
lector Of the port ut Charleston, ar
rived here this morning to visit his sis
ter, Mrs. McAliley. Her sisters, Mrs.
Mag Roach, of Cuero, Texas, and Mrs.
Calvin Brice, Of Woodward, are also
with her, as also Mr.. Wallace. ....Mr.
Henry Williams, formerly a postal
clerk on the Narrow Guage line be-
tween Lenoir and Lancaster, died last
Saturday at his home in Abbeville
county. He had malarial fever, which
ran into consumption. He was we'll
known by a number Of our readers.
CHEROKEE.
Gaffney Ledger, August 16: Mrs.
Elizabeth Moss. an aunt of Mrs. M. H.
Jefferies, who resides at the corner
Of Limestone and Jefferies streets, de-
parted this life at the home Of Mrs.
Jefferies Wednesday morning at 5
o'clock. Mrs. Moss had been sick sew
era months, and was advanced In
years. Mr.. r. M. Gaffney, Wednes-
day, received a telegram from Lauder
dale, Miss, bearing the sad intelligence
of the death of his niece, Inez, daugh-
ter Of the late ]. P. Gaffney, who died
a little more than week ago.. 1.-THE
tremendous rains Of the past few days
has put Broad river in an ugly mood.
Yesterday morning the river was up 16
feet and was still rising. Considerable
damage will no doubt be done to crops
by this last freshet.. The creeks and
rivers in Cherokee have been out over
the bottom lands again this week, and
have about used up what corn was re-
manning on them..... A Gaffney mer-
chant who is connected with firm
which enjoys large country trade was
sitting in front of his place Of business
yesterday afternoon whiting on a
stool made out of a goods box. A Led
ger man remarked that 1t was a re-
minder of stories told Of the cross roads
stores Of Georgia, when the merchant
remarked that there were few cross
goods that the city stores these days.
The fact Of the business Is that the
country people do not come to town so
promiscuously as of yore, and when
there Is falling off of visitors from
the country there is a corresponding
falling off Of trade. But this state of
affairs will not last long because 1t will
soon be cotton picking time and then
things will begin to liven up......T Tues
day morning between 9 and 10 o'clock,
while Mrs. J. B. Burgess was engaged
in gathering some beans in a field near
the house. she was attracted by the
cries of one Of the two children she had
left at the house. She also noticed a
smoke arising from the barn. Hasten
reaching there that the barn was on
fire. Fortunately there was nothing in
the barn but some wheat straw. 1t
burned like tinder and before anything
could be done the barn had been con-
sumed by the flames as well as stack
Of straw near by. No other damage
was done except the scorching of few
shade trees. the leaves Of one Of which
were entirely consumed. Mr.. Burgess
carried no insurance on the barn, and
while the loss is slight it was COM
plete.
CLEVELAND.
Kings Mountain Democrat, August
IS: Chief of Police Jones, who was
murdered at Shelby by Jim Lowry, was