Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-01-12
#iseellameons &eading.
FROM NEIcHBoRIHe CONTEMPORARIES.
News and Comment That Is of More or Less
Local Interest.


visiting relatives in town......Mrs. w
H. Brice, nee Miss Willie Belle Reid
visited her parents in the city the past
week. Died, in Chester, January
9Th, Robert Joseph, son Of Mr.. and Mrs
R. E. White, Of meningitis, aged sever
months. .. DR.. J. w. White came ovel
from Lancaster Sunday and Monday
was shaking hands with the many gooc
friends he left here. ......A welcome Wis
itor to the city last week was Mrs. J. j
baltimore, of Shelby, we'll remembered
in the city as Miss Mamie Cabiness
She was married about two months
ago. :. Rev. J. H. Thornwell went tc
Lancaster Monday to be present thai
night at the raising Of Rev. Chalmers
Fraser to the Esquire rank in the order
K. of P....... Miss Crombie, the teach
er of cookery at Winthrop, was recent,
ly elected to an important position ir
her home town, Alleghaney, Pa, ano
having been released by the board, left
yesterday. Miss Julia D. Johnson, re.
ferred to in our last issue, succeeds
Miss Crombie. by the registration
Of recent months the names Of num-
Der Of poll taxpayers have been secur.
ed. They would have continued to es-
cape this taxation; but will have tc
walk up to the captains office and set.
tie in full. The National Union Bank
has quite a batch Of such bills to be
collected. . Quite number Of friends
sat at the table of Mr.. A. B. Fewell al
his hospitable home in Ebenezer last
Saturday night, the occasion being q
'possum supper; but the supper en-
braced so many good dishes that it was
voted a suberb feast. Mr.. and Mrs
Fewell are delightful entertainers.
While in the act of making up a bed
in an upper room Of the store Of A
Friedheim & Bro, Monday night, Lutte
Broomfleld dropped a pistol on the floor
accidentally, when it discharged, the
ball passing through the f1eshy part OF
the right leg, near the ankle, producing
a painful, but not serious wound.
The first of a series of services to be
held during this, the week Of prayer
was being conducted in the Baptist
church Monday night when the alarm
of fire was sounded and a great many
nervous people precipitately fled from
the building. In a very composed way
DR.. Sprunt dismissed the congregation
with the benediction. Miss Bessie
H, daughter of Rev. ]. M. Pike, Of this
city, has accepted the place of teacher
of elocution in the East Mississippi Fe-
male college at Meridian, and will
leave today to enter upon the duties OF
the position. Miss Pike Is a graduate
of the Methodist college in Columbia
where she recently took post grad
uate course in elocution and music.
Trustee A. M. Lee, Of Charleston, pre-
sented Winthrop college with a COM
plete set Of about so volumes Of the
Edition of the Poets-Cromwelrs edi-
tomas a Xmas present. Mrs. Perry
late Governor Perry, has recently pre-
sented Winthrop with a full set of her
fathers works, containing his address
es, memoirs ETC.. There was g. very
outrageous cursing affair between
Louis Cureton and Zan Massey, both
colored, Monday night, in front of the
n midst
the blasphemous war, Fan pulled a pis-
tol and shot Cureton twice in the left
foot. One ball struck him on the big
toe and glanced; the other took effect
in the top Of the foot and came out at
the instep. Neither wound is serious.
The neighbors who heard the noise say
the cursing was terrible. The burn
ing Of a stable in the western part of
town, belonging to R. B. Colbert. Mon
day night, called out the fire depart
ment: but as the building was small
and filled with hay. the stable and its
contents were almost consumed before
a stream could be gotten on the blaze.
The department was detained in CROSS
Ing with the hose the deep cut through
which the Southern Railway passes.
owing to the fact that 1t was thought
best to run the hose under the rails. A
splendid stream was thrown, however,
and the fire was put out effectual'y.
The hook and ladder company did fine
work in saving Colbert's home. A
horse in the stable was badly scorched
before it could be secured. 1t belong
ed to Colbert. The building was not in
sured.
CHESTER-Lantern, January 6: We
learn that Mr. Clyde Price, a young
man Of Halsellville. fell from tree, a
distance Of 40 feet, while climbing after
a squirrel. His shoulder and arm were
somewhat hurt, but he received no ser
ious injury. He pulled off the limb he
was hanging on. Perhaps other limbs
befriended him on his way to the
ground. Mr.. VIM. B. Simpson, OF
Rodman, who has been i'll for sometime
with Bright's disease, died Saturday
and funeral services were held at Union
church on the Sabbath by the pastor
Rev. c. B. Belts. Mr.. Simpson was ar
elder in Union, and left large number
of children and grandchildren in thai
church. He had besides very large
connection, and we learn that an unu'
sual number attended the funeral. The
deceased was in his 69th year. Sat
urday afternoon a man fell from the
top of the standpipe, which he was
painting, and was instantly killed, only
gasping a few times after he struck
the ground. He had painted, perhaps
a third all the way to the ground, ant
had begun again on the upper ring
He was suspended by rope attached
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