Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-06-22

Water Bond Question DrOpped-Oth-
cr Matters of Interest.
Corresnondence OF the YorkYille ENQUIRER.


| Rock HILL, June 1.-THE city elec-
, ton on the question Of issuing bonds
to buy the waterworks and, electric
light plant will not be held. Thirty
one of the PIT freeholders who signed
/ the petition asking the holding of the
| election, withdrew their names from
the petition, thus leaving the council
! without other authority than to refuse
: the election. Attorney w. b. wilson
rendered his opinion that corporations
are freeholders within the meaning Of
! the constitution, and that an officer of
each had the lawful authority to sign
the petition. Mr.. Wilson says, Sec
tion 13, Article of the constitution
!! prescribes as a condition precedent to
/ the holding of such an election a petit
/ tion from majority of the freeholders
of said city or town as shown by the
taxbooks.' l am, therefore, of the
opinion First, that any person whose
name appears on the tax books of the
city as a freeholder. has a prima facie
right to sign the petition" 1t is said
the whole matter will now be dropped.
| But pity 'tis tis true"
The cotton growers of Catawba town.
ship will meet at Mt. Holly, as adver-
tised, on Saturday next. A suggestion
I has been made that the meeting should
/ be held at Leslie, as that place is more
central, and this may probably be the
case. President Wilborn returned home
| today from California and I under
stand he says the cotton growers of the
state will not meet in convention until
in August.
Mrs. H. B. Buist, who has been ap-
pointed chairman of the York commit
tee that will get up an exhibit for the
NC p,,i1l of
exposition, with power to select a COM
mittee of eight ladies to work with her,
! has selected the following: Rock Hill,
Mrs. B. NJ. Fewell and Mrs. w. L. Rod
dey; Yorkville, Miss Lessie Wither-
spoon and Mrs. Joe Aston; Fort Mill,
Mrs ]. H. Thornwell; McConnellsville,
Mrs. Edna Love; Glover. Mrs. L. NJ.
Smith: Ebenezer, Mrs. j. H. Miller.
These are considered fine selections.
! There were about 100 Woodmen in
the Baptist church last night to hear
the annual sermon of Rev. w. E. Thay-
er. His congregation was delighted.
i; He talked about love-not sickening,
sentimental or puppy love; but such
love as is contemplated in his text,
which was contained in John, iii, 14-17.
The preacher rasped those church Off
GERS who build ShackS for the poor and
charge nearly as much rent per annum
as the shells of the building cost. In
dignation was depicted in his face as
he referred to this class of PhariSees,
who have stolen the livery of heaven to
. serve the devil in. There must be some
such creatures in Rock Hill, as he de-
clared his heart had been Sickened
within a week past when he had wit
messed the misery of the poor in these
, novels, prepared by Christian men
! (God save the mark) for God AL
mighty's poor, unfortunate mothers
and fathers and their pale-faced chill
dren. There was evident sympathy for
and concurrence in the just excoriation,
and everyone present seemed to have
: in mind some hypocrites who was known
by just such work as this, which the
preacher declared ne loathed and that
his very soul was disgusted.
Miss Lillian Stevens, daughter of
Captain J. H. w. Stevens, Of this city,
and graduate of Winthrop. has been
| elected teacher in the fourth grade of
our graded school. Miss Ella McDan-
! iel, of Bennettsville. a graduate of the
Winthrop music department, has been
given the place of teacher Of vocal and
instrumental music in the graded
school.
There is proposition here to secure
quarters in common for the U. c. ",