Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-03-01

at the exposition. Among tne mosl
valuable paintings available he took
two life-size portraits belonging to
Miss Mary Ellen Mckee, who kindly
loaned them. for the exhibit. These
were painted in 1921 by Freich artist
who was travelling the rough back
woods Of Chester county. 1t Will be-
seen that it was about 81 years since
the work was done. One Is a picture
of Miss Mckee herself, and the 9TH
er is that Of sister who died In early
life. Both were taken In childhood.
Miss Mckee is holding a doll In her
arms, and 1t Is said that she still has
in her possession the dress in which
the picture was taken. The styles OF
those days differ somewhat from
those of our day. The owner Of these
paintings Is now 81 years old and Is
resident of our town. Another valua-
BILE attraction which Mr.. White took
was a perpetual motion" made by
the late Charles Whitus, and was OBJ
tained from Mrs. Whitus. This is a
marvel Of mechanism, the work OF
genius. It is impossible for a person
with no mechanical gift to describe
this piece Of ingenius workmanship,
but nevertheless we can say that 1t Is
one of the greatest efforts Of mechani-
cal skill we have ever seen. In con-
sists of 1856 different pieces and its
owner could operate it with apparent
success. It has been four years since
it's completion. Mr.. Whitus worked
at 1t constantly for eleven months,
completing it in that time. No doubt
it will be the centre Of a great deal of
attraction and will help out the Ches-
ter exhibit to considerable extent.
Mr.. White has been instructed that all
the exhibits must be on the grounds
by the 1st Of March. The last Of the
county's exhibits will likely be sent
down next week. No one can afford to
miss seeing the Chester exhibit when
the exposition is visited.
Lantern, February 26: Two recruits
ted to Jail yesterday for robbing box
car. The preliminary trial has not been
held yet; but will come up before Mag
istrate Williams, probably, today. In
the meantime they are held in custody.
Policeman Anderson ran upon them
Sabbath night while one Of them was
in the box car and the other was on the
outside. Some apples and a package
of Mrc fnfY,oanf all that
missing from the car.......Mr. s. G.
Strait, a young business man Of Smiths
Turnout, was in town yesterday. He
says that times are not so hard In his
section, that there Is much more money
in circulation than one would suppose.
In response to the announcement Of
Superintendent Of Education Knox, AZ
applicants for certificates to teach in
the public schools Of Chester coun-
| ty presented themselves for examina"
tion Friday. These consisted Of three
white males, three white females, 20
colored males and 16 colored females.
The examination was conducted by Su-
perintendent Knox, and Messrs. s. B.
Latham and R. B. Caldwell, who con-
stitute the board. ......T The smallpox
situation is not at all alarming; but
there are few cases in Chester.
Archie Howard a calored barber broke
out with smallpox Mst Friday, and now
the yellow flag is seen at his house on
College street.
UNION.
Times, February %: At the last
meeting Of the council, the mayor
called attention to the fact that the
habit Of using cocaine by the Negroes
and many Of the poorer white people
was growing to an alarming extent,
whereupon the council instructed the
mayor to appoint committee to draft
an ordinance to prohibit the sale and
use of this drug as far as possible.
The mayor appointed the following
committee: V. E. DePass, G. C. Perrin
and w. E. G. Humphries. You should
be surprised to know how many peo-
pie here use this drug. The sale Of
it should be prohibited except upon a
prescription from a physician. lon
Saturday night, 9Th, Mr.. Will Four
shees was given a drink by some Ne
groes, which put him to sleep. He
was then robbed Of money, jewelry,
shoes, handkerchief, etc. The drink
was supposed to have been drugged
with cocaine. This happened on Pal
mer's Row at night. The parties i'm
plicated and tried before the mayor
Monday morning of this week, were
Julia West, Eloise West, Jim Boozer,
Peter Jackson, - Greer, Vira John
son, and Julia Motifs. The mayor find
ing testimony sufficient turned the
above parties over to the magistrate.
The case was worked UP by Chief Po-
lice F. M. Isreal, Milo Evans and r.
T. Lee. Besides this robbery, Mr.. Ben
Greer and several others have been
robbed recently in the same locality Of
watches, jewelry, money, etc. The
police say they are determined to
break up this robbing business and
will leave no stone unturned in rum
ming down the guilty parties in every
instance. I'VE regret to learn that
Mr.. Chas. E. Graham had the misfor-
tune to lose his store house at Cross
Keys, and entire stock of goods on
last Saturday night by fire. 1t was
a total loss to him as he did not carry
a dollars insurance 1t seems that
hot fire had been kept in the stove
all day on account Of the extremely
cold weather. The store was closed
about dark and in half an hour after