Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-05-14

Deatn OF Mr. II. y. fe8ram.
Mr.. T. Chalmers Pegram, brother Of
Mr.. J. Breck Pegram, Of Yorkville,
died at his home in Gastonia last Mon
day afternoon.
Day Mt Bullock's Creek.
Memorial Day exercises will be held
at Bullock's Creek church next Satur-
day afternoon at o'clock. Captain
John D. Mcconnell, Of McConnellsville,
will deliver the address of the occasion.
WtConnellsville Crops.
Mr.. j. Frank Ashe, Of McConnells-
vile, was IN Yorkville yesterday on
business, and when asked about crops,
said people generally were through
planting and had good stands of cotton
in moist places and Indifferent stands
in dry places. LAS for wheat and
oats" he said, they are gone"
Ebey Caught Him.
Titus Glenn, the Negro preacher who
Was sent up from Rock Hill some time
ago for burglary, escaped from the
chaingang last Monday evening about
sundown. He had half hours start
before he was missed. The dogs were
put after him and trailed him beauti-
fully for three miles when they caught
him. and according to Supervisor Cor
don, bit him sufficiently" although
that was nothing like what he got that
night with q strap.
For the Small Boys.
The following is the text of the law
in regard to the killing Of birds and
robbing birds nests: mo person or
persons shall at any time or place with
In this state, take, kill, sell, expose for
sale, export beyond the limits Of the
state, any mocking bird. nonpariel,
swallow, bee bird, red bird, woodpeck-
er, thrush or wren, under a penalty Of
IS for each bird so taken, killed, sold,
exposed for sale or exported beyond the
limits of the state. No person or per-
sons SHAH destroy or rob the nests Of
any Of the said birds, under a penalty
Of $10."
Memorial Exercises at Ebenexer.
Memorial exercises at Ebenezer last
Monday afternoon, under the auspices
Of the S. D. Barron chapter Of the U.
d. c., were largely attended. People
were there from a radius of six or
eight miles, and not half Of the great
assemblage was able to crowd into the
little church. Capt. Iredell Jones pre-
sided, and Rev. A. S. Rogers made the
opening prayer. Prof. s. p. Barron was
junior orator, and Col. D. P. Duncan
senior orator. Both orations were in
teresting. The closing prayer was Of
fered by Rev. Mr.. Beasly. After the
exercises in the church, the people
marched to the cemetery, the Catawba
Rifles in front, followed by the Confed-
crate veterans and the Daughters Of
the Confederacy. All the soldier graves
in the cemetery received their tribute
Of flowers.
An Gen. Hoke Sees 1t.
Lincolnton correspondence Charlotte
Observer: General R F. Hoke, who is
authority on the western extension Of
the c. & NV. railroad, having work.
ed on this extension for several years,
says the work is being pushed forward
rapidly. They are working about 1000
hands. The road will strike the South
ern this side Of Marion and ruin with 1t
to Newton and from there to Lincoln
ton, which will be a distributing point
for coal, shipping over the s. A. L. to
Wilmington and over the c. & NV,
this line will be the best road that
crosses the Blue Ridge, as 1t crosses
about 1000 feet lower than any Of the
other roads and Is O direct line from
the finest coal fields in the country to
the coast, and Is also direct line south
and to the coast from Cincinnati and
the west. This will mean a great deal
for the Charleston and Wilmington
shipping industry and for Lincolnton as
a railroad centre.
A Reminder Of 1916.
There are those who say that corn
seed will run out" after awhile, but
that depends as much on the man as on
the seed. Mr.. T. E. Harper, Of Bal
loon, was in Yorkville yesterday, and
he had evidence Of this fact in the shape
Of three remarkably large ears Of up
land corn from the crop he harvested
last fall. The history he gave Of this
corn was quite interesting. In the
year 1845, as all the old people remem.
Der, there was one of the most COM
plete failures Of the corn crop that has
ever been recorded in this country.
People hauled corn from the noun
tains Of North Carolina and Tennessee,
and brought 1t here from the mouth Of
the Mississippi by way Of Charleston.
During that year Mr.. Harper's father,
the late James Harper secured a guam
tity Of corn in Columbia, and had a
little Of it left the next spring for
planting. Mr.. James E. Harper died
in 1852; but Mr.. T. E. Harper has been
PLANTING the same corn ever since, and
Judging from the specimens he left
here Tuesday, nobody in all this coun-
try can boast Of a finer variety.
The Cane Seed Matter.
Prof. A. r. Banks telephoned from
Rock Hill on Monday morning, con-
cerning the paragraph in THE ENoUI-
RER Of last Saturday, noting the seeds
on the canes in the Fishing Creek bot
TOMS He says that the same phenom-
enon is being reported from all Sec
tions of the surrounding country. Mr..
w. H. Stewart, who is operating farm
near Rock Hill, states that last spring
he cut the canes off branch bottom
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