Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-08-23
LOCAL LACONICS.

We Will Send The Enquirer
From now until January 1, 1903. for
6S cents in advance.
Fodder and Zadok.
Orders have been issued for the dis
continuance of the offices at Fodder
and Zadok on August 80. After that
time mail intended for the present pa
irons of those offices should be address,
ed to the postofice at YorkV1lle.
County Pension Board.
Duly elected representatives from the
various townships met in the court
house last Wednesday for the purpose
of selecting a county pension board.
The meeting was organized with Capt.
Ireden Jones in the chair, and Mr.. J.
F. Wallace as secretary The FOLLOW
ing gentlemen were elected to serve on
the pension board: Iredell Jones, w. $.
Wilkerson. j. F. Wallace. j. p. Blair.
No further business was transacted.
Crops In Fort Mill.
Candidates who returned from the
eastern part Of the county. Thursday
evening, report crops in that locality
as looking fine. 1t will be remembered
that last year there was almost COM
plete failure. especially in Fort Mill
The Fort Mill crops. however, OF both
cotton and corn. are looking fine. and
except in the event OF some UNFORESEEN
disaster. the probability is that the
WELD will come pretty near making up
for the shortage Of last year.
Bones Of n Big Indian. 4
Fort Mill Times: In some of the ope-
rations at the Catawba Power com"
pany's plant last week. find Of three
l~k
were in the graves a lot of handsome
beads. different from any ever found
in this section before. Upon the breast
of one warrior was found tomahawk.
1t is reported that one or the bones.
when measured by 6-foot mans cor
responding bone, overlapped the latter
fully one-third.
Death of j. II. G. Duff.
Mr.. r. r. McCorkle. Of Yorkville, re-
ceived a telegram Wednesday announc-
ing the death of his brother-in-law, Mr..
]. Fl. c.. Duff. formerly of CASTOR coun-
ty and well-known in Bethel. Mr..
Duff lived at Fayetteville. Tenn. and
held the position of county surveyor.
The telegram merely stated that he had
been found dead in the road and gave
no particulars. He was aged about 81
years and leaves a widow and seven
r. r. McCorkle. Of Yorkville, and Of
Mrs T. c. Pegram, Of Gastonia.
Papers Carried By.
Telephone messages received at this
office during Tuesday afternoon and
Wednesday from Hickory Grove and
Smyrna, indicated much annoyance
from our subscribers at those offices on
account of failure to receive their pa
pers The only answer that could be
given was that the papers had been
mailed as usual, and inquiry at Sharon
had developed that the bundle intended
for that place had been received
promptly. Messages received from
Smyrna and Hickory Grove Thursday
morning announced the final arrival Of
the papers by way or the southbound
train. AS to what the trouble was we
have no information; but will probably
know as soon as we can hear from a
complaint that was mailed to Colonel
l.. nj. Terrell, superintendent of the
railway mail service, as soon as we
were advised that the papers were out
of place.
MIR. Hart Gets Applause.
Following is from the account of
Wednesdays campaign meeting at Rock
Hill, published in The Journal of yes
terday: Lawyer G. w. S. Hart, of
Yorkville, was sitting in the audience,
when Chairman Waters reached his
name on the roll. The chairman heard
no response and was about to pull out
the next speaker when some member
of the audience identified him saying:
Here he is sitting down here" They
hauled him up on the rostrum. and al
though he had prepared no speech and
did not intend speaking here" he made
by far the best talk of any-which is
too doubtful a compliment, perhaps.
to the really clever effort he did make.
He was the only speaker who elected
anything like spontaneous or hearty
applause, and to all appearances he
made an excellent impression. He be-
gan by telling how we'll acquainted he
was with York county during his 2S
years residence in this county. But he
had not and would not pei sonally So