Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-04-12
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| Rock Hill Herald, April g: Major A.
H. White left yesterday for Charleston.
where he goes to attend a meeting OF
the premium committee Of the South
Carolina Agricultural society. Our
merchants have finished opening up
their spring stocks and trade is now,
and has been fully up to the average
since the first of January. 1t is true,
money Is not as plentiful as in times
past, yet everybody appears to have
little Of the circulating medium........
Some persons wish to know when the
big snow Of April came. It was Sun
day, April Is, 1s49. There had been five
or six weeks Of spring weather. For
est leaves were about half grown.
Field crops and gardens were luxuriant.
Early lots of wheat were beginning to
head. The snow began in this county Z
to eight hours. The general estimate
was that it was a 6-inch snow. Next
morning there was a hard freeze. All
vegetation was killed. The dead
peaches made the ground beneath the
trees black when they fell. 1t remain
ed cold several days after the snow.
That was before the days Of weather
bureaus and records of temperature.
bill, introduced by Congressman Fin
ley, providing for the erection of gov
ernment building at Rock Hill, Is still
before the committee to which 1t was
referred. Mr.. Finley Is doing all he
can for the measure, and while he is not
sure Of favorable report from that
committee, he is hopeful. It seems
that four such bills have been intro
duced from South Carolina-George-
town, Spartanburg, Florence and Rock
Hill. It Is always easy to get such bills
through the senate, hence the passage
Of the Georgetown bill by the senate
does not assure that city Of public
building. The trouble comes in get
ting the matter through the house Of
representatives. Since the senate pass
ed the Georgetown measure, that coun-
ty has been placed in the congressional
district with Florence. This may affect
the proposition very much. for Con-
gressman Scarborough would doubtless
favor Florence. as the location of
Georgetown gives that place such nat
ural advantages that 1t will be COM
paratively easy to secure an appropria-
tion later. Whereas 1t is now or never
with Florence. It will be remembered
that when Messrs. Wilson and Ander-
son visited Washington in the inter-
est Of a public building and the way
seemed somewhat dark for Rock Hill,
Congressman Finley proposed that the
congressman from the South Carolina
districts concerned in securing public
buildings ascertain from the committee
the amount Of money that is likely to
be given this state for that purpose
and then request that If only three Of
the four towns are to be favored. that
the committee make an equitable dis
tribution of the sum proposed and erect
four buildings instead of three. This
scheme of Mr.. Finley's was accepted by
Congressman Scarborough of the Flor
ence and Georgetown district and Con-
gressman Johnson Of the Spartanburg
district. Their acceptance has since
been withdrawn, however, since they
are inclined to the belief that if the
committee should agree to the erection
Of four buildings. it would give to each
100000 as readily as s5O00O-that it is
not so much a question of money.
Spartanburg has hard worker in Con-
gressman Johnson. and that city doubt
less will be cared for. However. South
Carolina Is not asking for much, and
the several congressman seem to be
united in their efforts to secure the
passage Of these four bills.
| CHESTER.
Lantern, April 8: Corn is not as high
as it was a short while after Christ
mas. 1t is retailed now for IS cents
per bushel, and finds a ready sale. 1t
sold for IS cents and 81 per bushel a
while back. Mr.. G.. e. Latimer
went up to Philadelphia, near York
VILE. last Sabbath to see his mother.
49,. Mrs. T. A. McNinch had the mis-
fortune of falling out of the back door
Of her nome, near Capers Chapel, one
day last week and was considerably
bruised up from the fall, but no bones
were broken. It is a coincidence
worthy Of mention that on the same
day last year, April 3rd, Mr.. McNinch
came very near being killed by fall
from a wagon.......Mr. J. I. Hardin
went to Lancaster last night to see his
brother-in-law, Engineer G. A. WALL
who was badly hurt yesterday by fall
ing from the top of a box car. He was
trying to cut off some limbs that were
too near the new broad gauge cars,
when limb to which he was holding
broke and he fell with the axe head
foremost to the ground. Some Of his
ribs were broken. and his head, neck
and arms were badly hurt. 1t is hoped
that his injuries will not be fatal. The
accident happened near Bascomville.
| GASTON.
| Gastonia Gazette, April 8: Quite
number of Gastonians left yesterday
morning on No. 80 for Charleston,
where they will spend North Carolina
week viewing the beauties Of the ex-
position. The party consisted of Mr..
and Mrs. A. NJ. Smyre, Mrs. J. L.
Neill. Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Lee Robinson,
Mrs. r. H. Carroll and father, Mr.. w.
NJ. Froneberger, Mr.. w. H. Jenkins
and little son, Harry, Messrs. Robert