Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-07-05
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FROM CONTEMPORARIES.
News and Comment That II OF More
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Rock Hill Herald, July 2: Since our
trip to Yorkville two weeks ago, the
crop conditions along the road have i'm
proved very decidedly. The best cotton,
considering size, stand, uniformity and
healthfulness of color, is on the farm of
Mr.. w. ]. Miller. Corn is everywhere
looking well. Mr.. J. M. Spratt, who
has for several years been secretary
and treasurer of the Fort Mill Manu-
featuring company, having resigned
the position, Mr.. w. B. Meacham, cash.
ier of the Savings Bank in that town,
has been elected Mr.. Spratt's successor.
The latter agreed to give Mr.. Meacham
assistance in the bank If he would also
take the place with the manufacturing
company. =. Miss Sue Floyd, of Spar
tanburg, who has been visiting Miss
Lois Steele, left for Yorkville, Saturday
afternoon, where she will spend awhile
before returning to her home. She was
accompanied to Yorkville by MISS
Steele. Mr.. P. w. Hardin will leave for
Lancaster today, where he goes to take
the position of supervisor of track and
trestles on the c. & L. road. Mr.. Har-
din will be succeeded by E. P. High,
of Spartanburg. Mr.. S. D. Farris
sustained a painful, but not serious
fall a few days ago. He was leaning
against one Of the posts Of the piazza
at his home in India Hook when 1t gave
way, throwing him violently to the
ground. Mr.. Farris is confined to his
bed. He was visited Sunday by Mr..
and Mrs. VIM. Mitchell. ..Gentle-
men from Fort Mill inform us that
there is some agitation for the estab-
lishment of a dispensary in that town.
The movement has not taken shape
but we are told that there is no doubt
about the earnestness of the men who
are feeling sentiment on the subject. 1t
is said, too, that If majority OF the
names of the freeholders can be OBJ
tanned to a petition, the dispensary ad-
yocates would have strong hope or
success.
CHESTER.
Lantern, July 1: Mr.. Jacob Stone died
at Wilksburg on Friday, the 9th. and
was buried on Sabbath at Brushy
Fork. He was a Confederate veteran,
and was about 80 years old at the time
Of his death. Several children survive
him. jackson Hemphill, a highly
respected colored man, and one OF the
old Hemphill slaves, died Saturday IN
the nth year of his age, and was buried
Sabbath at Mount Olivet.. Mr..
Langley, of Lancaster, died IN the
city on Saturday morning at O'CLOCK
and his body was shipped to Lancaster
on the 10 o'clock train that morning for
burial. :. The first home-raised water
melon that we have heard OF this sea-
son was one presented to The Lantern
office yesterday morning by Mr.. T. M.
Grant. He says that the first one he
ate from his patch was June 24th, and
he has been eating them ever since....
Judge George w. Gage Is at home this
week. He will return to Charleston
next week to preside over the court Of
common pleas. He will join his family
at Blowing Rock, N. c., In about
month. There was some excite
ment yesterday morning over the body
of an infant found buried near the Oil
mill. Coroner GLADDEN. set about hold
ing an inquest, when colored man ap-
peared and explained that it was a
still-born child Of his wife's, and that
it was buried there a few nights ago
on account Of a storm coming up......
Mrs. Margaret Clinton Simrill, for more
than sixty years citizen of Chester,
passed to her eternal reward on last
Saturday at 1926 a. m. She was born
near Bethel church, York county, April
3, 1916. During the. year 1888 she was
married to Mr.. J. D. Simrill, and in
1S41 the young couple moved to Ches-
ter, purposing to establish home In
what was then a small village. For
fifty-five years they journeyed side by
side along life's difficult pathway, un-
til 1898, when death removed the hus-
band and father. She was the mother
of four children, three sons and one
daughter. The daughter, Mrs. Mary
Johnson, of Lancaster, and one son,
Mr.. ]. R. Simril Of this city, survive
her. For more than fifty years she was
a faithful member of the Methodist
church.
LANCASTER.
Ledger, July 2: Mr.. Harvey J. Faile
died at his home near Flat Creek, about
1 o'clock a. m, last Saturday after an
illness of two weeks of typhoid fever.
He was about AZ years Of age and
leaves surviving him widow and four
or five children. He was son Of Mr..
J. Thos. Faile and a brother Of Mr..
John R. Faile, Benz. F. Faile, Mrs. T.
A. McManus, Mrs. James Faile and
Mrs. j. E. McManuS. Among those
who graduated from the South Caro-
lima Military academy last week was
Mr.. John M. Beatty, a son of our towns
man, Mr.. R. T. Beatty. He has made
a good record at the Citadel, and his
future career will be watched with in
terest by his many friends here.......
Cards are out announcing the marriage
OF Mr.. Judson w. Hasseltine and Miss
Daisy Belle Cauthen, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. ]. T. Cauthen, at Kershaw, at
high noon on July 10th, 1902. The GER
emony will take place in the Kershaw
Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Has
seltine is head bookkeeper of the Ker-