Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-07-17
THE NEWS in CHEROKEE.
Tire MANAGEMENT Of HowelPs Ferry
Notes About People.
r,ornosnondence Of the Yorkyille ENQUIRER.

<ETTA JANE, July 15.-Dr. Miles J.
Walker and Mr.. Brooks Inman, OF
Yorkville, were in this section last
week visiting friends and relatives. DR..
Walker has extensive farming interests
here that he Is looking after. and Mr..
Inman is a brother Of our neighbor, Mr..
Clough F. Inman, of this place.
1cMadame Rumor says that the future
management of Howell's ferry Is now
in the hands Of Mr.. w. S. Wilkerson,
of Hickory Grove, and he will at once
take steps to put the ferry In operation
This Is certainly good news for our
people. OF .Mr. Wilkerson's business
tact the people Of York county know
too we'll for me to speak. He Is sue
cess at whatever he undertakes, and he
WILL beyond doubt, put the ferry IN
better and safer condition than 1t has
been in for many. many years.
Next Sabbath the Fair Forest con-
gregation will celebrate the f1ftieth an
niversary of the pastorate Of Rev. A.
A. James. Services will begin on Sat-
urday, and the communion will be held
on the Sabbath. That day will also be
the fortieth anniversary of the first
battle of Manassas.
<Several deaths have occurred within
the last few days. Some Of them the
result of accident. Mr.. Mike Thomp-
son, aged about 80 years, was thrown
from his wagon, loaded with wood, last
Monday, near Lawn postoffice, and died
on Thursday. He was somewhat OF a
remarkable man. He served through
the: Confederate war in Company l,
18th S. c. regiment. and was never sick
or absent from duty or roll call. He
was slightly wounded in one OF the
battles, and went to the field hospital,
where the surgeon dressed his wound.
when he returned to his command, took
up his gun and went to work again.
He was a poor. unlettered man without
q family. It Is said Of him no better
soldier ever lived. 1t was just such
men as Mike Thompson who put stars
and bars on the collars Of their supe-
rior officers, and made the history of
which the south so much boasts today.
He was buried at Corinth last Friday.
Lay Member Alex. Mooney conducted
the funeral services.
Mr.. John Griswell, learn, was killed
in a we'll at Gaffney last Friday. He
was a professional we'll digger: but 1t
seems that he neglected some precau-
ton in his line that perhaps might
have saved his life.
Yesterday we had a nice shower OF
rain. It was very much needed when
it came. and put the ground In good
order to plow and hoe this morning.
Farmers are complaining greatly
about cut-worms. They. are playing
havoc with the young corn. In some
places they have destroyed it all, or so
nearly so. that the remainder isn't
worth working out. The wholesale
killing Of birds Is responsible for this
state of affairs.
Wheat crops have fallen far below
the estimate. From five to: twenty
bushels for one sowed is about the gen.
eral average. OF one crop we learn
the farmer sowed three bushels and
only got three bushels and a peck in
return. This is, Of course, an excep-
tional case. His wheat was late and
the rust struck 1t soon.
We understand from good authority
that an effort will be made during the
next meeting of congress to establish
a great national park In the mountain
regions Of North and South Carolina.
Secretary Of Agriculture Wilson has
been prospecting over that section and
will make a report to congress. This.
We are inclined to think. will be fav-
orable toward the enterprise. Our peo-
pie can go to figuring out the advanta-
ges and disadvantages 1t will be to the
country. We hope. however. that Cow
pens and Kings Mountain battlefelds
will receive the special attention of
congress and that they will be made
national parks. Congressman Finley
said truthfully, (not boastingly) two
years ago at Cowpens. that there were
more important Revolutionary battle
fields in his congressional district
alone, than there were in all of New
England put together. J. L. 9.