Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-10-01
Mistellaneots &eaaina.
FROM CONTEMPORARIES.
News and Comment That II of More
or Less Local Interest.


in The Herald office Thursday, says the
corn crop along the river in his section
is exceptionally fine and the area pu1
in is large. The sick are nearly al
better, with the possible exception OF
Mr.. Barron Steele and Mr.. w. j. In
gram, who are still quite ill. Miss
Strauss Mills will be able to sit up in
a few days and Mr.. Hope Starnes is
now free from fever. Mrs. r. T. Fewell
is still confined to her bed; but is some
better. <. Aleck Pettus, son Of Err
win Pettus, aged about % years, who
works on Capt. Roddey's McFadden
place in Fort Mill township, not far
from Thorn's ferry, died Thursday af-
ternoon from the effects of a wound he
accidently received last Sunday while
handling a rusty pistol. He was es-
teemed as a very reliable man and was
married, his wife surviving with three
children. .....G. Walt Whitman, not
having been permitted to run in the
recent primary as a candidate for the
$50, the necessary entrance fee, says in
a card to the public that he is thinking
of Offering himself for slaughter in the
general election as a rebuke to Col.
Willie Jones, Who he says, composes the
state executive committee. Poor OLD
Walt! .. .A-Mrs. Dorothy Nunnery, wife
of Mr.. Joseph Nunnery, died at her
home near Wylie's Mill, Tuesday night,
and the next day her remains were in
TERED in the cemetery at Harmony
church, after services by Rev. Mr.. Var
borough The deceased was about 60
years Of age and for the past six years
had been a desperate sufferer from
nervous troubles, the disease being
manifest in palsy. Mrs. Nunnery was
q daughter Of the late DR.. Samuel Nc
Fadden, of Chester county, and sister
of Clerk Of Court ]. c. McFadden; Mrs.
Urian Jordan, of Fort Lawn; Mrs. w.
H. Edwards, of Chester; Mrs. Jane
McCosh, formerly of Rock Hill; Mrs.
VIM. Ferguson, Of Corsicana, Texas,
and Mrs. John Gauldin, of Spartanburg
county. On Monday night of this
week the cabin of Lizzie Bolton, on the
farm of Mr.. J. B. Fudge, near Edg-
moor, was entered and robbed of $2S.25,
earnings of the woman which she had
been scrupulously saving for some
time. 1t is believed the cabin was en-
tered in the afternoon, while the wo-
man was in the field at work, and that
the burglar hid himself, if a man it
was, in the loft, and from there, when
the woman came in, he watched her
and saw her handle her
money and place it in the pocket of a
dress which she hung on peg behind
the door. When opportunity was pre-
sented he stole the money and made his
escape from the house.
CHESTER.
Lantern, September 26: There is a
contest between the Wilksburg boys
and the Olive boys as to which can
catch the most foxes. Sheriff Cornwell
and the Wilksburg boys caught fox
last Wednesday night on Rocky creek
and brought one of its feet to this office
as testimony. They say they don't
have to go on the sand hills where
the foxes are lazy and dissipated, but
they can catch them in the up country.
They hear nothing of the Olive boys
catching any since they returned from
the sand hills. ...Greenville is clam
oring for relief from the burden of dis
pensary cases on the court dockets.
1t is said that the expense far exceeds
the revenue which the county gets from
the dispensary. A county court has
been suggested, but some think that
this would be too expensive, since un-
der the law, it would require full
panel of grand and petit jurors. The
plan which seems to be most favored is
to secure an act Of the legislature CIV
ing to magistrates jurisdiction in all
dispensary cases except those that
charge the keeping of a nuisance. The
Record suggests the Columbia plan,
viz, to have all the cases on the dock
ct mol pressed or dropped or other
wise disposed of without trial.. "......
Mrs. Hannah Wachtel died at her res
idence on Pinckney street this morning
at half past one. She had not been
we'll for the last 10 years and had been
unusually unwell for two or three days
She will be carried to Columbia for
burial and will be buried Sabbath
She leaves six children: Mrs. Peppers
and Mrs Saches, of Chicago; Mr.. M
H. Wachtel and Misses Rhea, Cora
and Ella, of this place. Miss Rhea is
visiting in Chicago. Yesterday John
Ferguson was bringing Will Page, a
Negro charged with taking money
from a house, to this place. They were
coming from Edgmoor on the Seaboarc
in a baggage car. At a stop the Negro
saw his opportunity and jumped from
the car. He has not been recapturec
at this writing. .....At a meeting o1
taxpayers Tuesday afternoon to deter
mine what special tax, if any, should
be levied next year for the support o.
the public schools, the attendance was
better than usual. A motion wa:
adopted making the special levy q
mills, as heretofore. The question o.
another school building was discussed
the building for white pupils being
crowded to overflowing. The prevailing
sentiment was that when a building
is erected it should be a good one
Messrs. A G. Brice and J. L. Glenn
who had examined the law on the sub
ject, expressed the opinion that an ac
of the Legislature would be necessar!
to realize an issue of bonds. 1t was re
solved, as the sense of the meeting