Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-01-25
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FROM CONTEMPORARIES.
News and Comment That II OF More
or Less Local Interest.
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| Rock Hill Herald, January %: Mr..
iG. L. Vaughan. who works the GID
son place" in Lancaster county, near
the S. C. & G. E. railway bridge, mas
brought suit against the railroad COM
pany for $1,000 damages sustained TO
his crops on the river bottoms by the
floods of last spring. Mr.. Vaughan al
leges that the sweep Of the rushing
water over his bottoms was rendered
much more violent on account or the
long embankment on the opposite side
of the river approaching the river
bridge, extending perhaps to within 5o
feet of the waters edge. Mr.. w. j.
Cherry, Esq, represents Mr.. Vaughan
while Messrs. Hart & Hart, OF YORK
VILE N. w. Hardin, of B.acksburg,
and Allison & Allison, Of Lancaster,
are the attorneys Of the railroad. The
railroad company is also threatened
with another suit growing out OF the
same trouble. Mr.. Cherry, as attorney
for the Misses Gibson, has notified
the railroad officials that the embank-
ment in question in each successive
flood forces an unusual and violent flow
of water over the river bottoms owned
by the Misses Gibson, and that If the
embankment is not removed, suit Will
be brought for injury to the Gibson
bottoms subject to the violent overflow
as alleged, and an injunction will be
asked against the continuance of the
embankment in it's present shape. The
embankment that is giving so much
trouble is over the ground where the
long trestle formerly stood, and that
was filled in about two years ago.......
Lee Kirkpatrick, colored, broke into
the meat house Of Lucy Douglass, at
Tirzah, a few nights ago, and stole two
hams and a shoulder. He was ar
rested and plead guilty to Magistrate
R. M. Anderson, but that officer sent
Kirkpatrick to Jail to await the action
of the circuit court, the offense not be-
ing within a magistrates jurisdiction.
Vaccination has been proceeding
very satisfactorily. There is now but
little opposition. The mill authorities
are cooperating with the health board
and there has consequently been no
trouble from that quarter. A new case
of smallpox was discovered in the Man
chester mill village Sunday, the patient
being a member of the family or Mr..
Wilbur CASTOR. Nearly all the oper-
atives have been vaccinated, as have
been the members of their families.
At the Highland Park mill vaccination
has been very general under the direc-
ton and at the expense of the mill
authorities. One of the operatives at
that mill became obstreperous last
week and swore that he would kill any
physician or other person who would
attempt to vaccinate himself or any
member of his family. The mill officers
gave him his time, settled and notified
him to get job somewhere else. That
was the right thing to do, and the
mills prompt action is to be COM
mended. Up to yesterday the drug
gists in town had received $3.50 vaccine
points and had disposed of 3,4SO. A
large per cent. Of our people had been
successfully vaccinated four years ago,
,i4l x.;r the
work for a few weeks longer the dis
ease will be stamped out and the town
rendered immune. Information
was received here yesterday morning
that Mrs. Lavinia E. Presley, mother
of DR.. w. A. Presley, Of this city, had
died at an early hour that morning of
dysentery at the home Of her daughter,
Mrs. S. Watson Reid, in Charlotte. DR..
Presley spent Sunday and Sunday
night at her bedside. Monday morn
ing he came home, her symptoms ap-
parently being much more favorable
than the day before. Monday after
noon he was summoned to return to
Charlotte, which he did that night, be-
ing at her bedside with his sisters
several hours before death came. The
deceased was the widow Of the late DR..
VIM. Presley, of the Steel Creek COM
munity in Mecklenburg county. She
was a sister of the late Joseph w.
Steele, of this county, being a native
of Bethesda township. She had been
making her home in this city with her
son, and only recently went to Char
lotte. While we have no information
to that effect, it is assumed that her
remains will be buried in the Steel
Creek church yard. All who have ever
known Mrs. PRESLEY will mourn her
death, as she was a good woman in all
that that word implies. Below we
publish letter written by Mr.. J. Ed
gar Poag to the tenants at Springstine.
When it had been written, the fact
came to our knowledge and we re-
quested and were given a copy Of 1t
for publication. 1t Is written in Mr..
Poag's quaint style, but is full of good
advice, and is to the point, as our
readers will appreciate: To the Ten
ants at Springstine:-We trust you
will all read the following article with
interest and profit therefrom. Re-
member the main thing to success is
honesty, truthfulness, economy and in
dustry. Be true to yourselves and to
your friends and trust. Remember,
we were all put in this world to build
up and not to destroy. Do all your
work in careful, Industrious manner.