Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-09-17
/ABOUT PEOPLE.

Miss Josie Camp will leave today
for Winthrop college at Rock Hill.
Mrs. Eldred Griffith, Of Charlotte. is
IN Yorkville on visit to her sister,
Mrs. w. w. Lewis. p.
Geo. w. s. Hart, Esq, left last Sat-
urday for weeks visit to Wadmalaw
island, near Charleston.
-tMiss Amelia Kennedy left on last
Saturday for Kingstree to resume her
work in the Kingstree school. Il
Mr.. C. P. Lowrance went down to
Kershaw on Monday. He will proba-
bly, return to Yorkville today.
IMr. O. Latrobe Coward, youngest son
Of Colonel Asbury Coward. of Charles
ton, is spending q week in Yorkville.
Mr.. Brice McCaw left on Monday for
Newport, where he will spend sometime
with the family of Mr.. VIM. J. Miller.
Mrs. George NJ. ,Lowrance. after WIS.,
iting her daughter. Mrs. Crowell. at
Albemarle, N. c., for the past month,
is expected home this afternoon.
Mr.. Philip Johnson, Of Eagle Lake,
Fla, is in Yorkville on visit to the
home Of Mr.. John A. Latta. Mrs. john
son has been here for sometime past.
Mr.. Daniel Fowler, Of Greenville
county, has accepted position at the
Victor Cotton Oil mill, and arrived In
Yorkville last week to assume his du-
ties. ....r
x Messrs. Barron Kennedy, Paul H.
Moore and John Jenkins, and Misses
Nellie Schorb and Bessie Atkins left on
Yesterday morning to attend school at
Due West. ~.
Lieutenant James B. Allison, Of the
United States army, who has been
spending the summer in Yorkville with
relatives and friends, leaves this Tues
day afternoon, for Vancouver Bar
racks, Washington. He has been as
signed to duty as aide-de-camp on the
staff of Brigadier General Geo. M. Ran
dali. commanding the department of
the Columbia.
1.-THE following young ladies left York
@ille. via the Southern for Rock Hill
yesterday morning, for the purpose OF
entering Winthrop: Misses Mary Will
liams, Straussie Walker, Agalice Nc
Cav, Carrie Beard and Mamie Grist,
of Yorkville; Belva Saunders. Ina
Ashe and Lilly Love, Of McConnells-
VILE: and Miss Evlyn Tompkins, OF
Ninety-Six, who has been spending a
few days in Yorkville as the guest of
Misses Bessie and Mary Williams.
XMr. and Mrs. j. A. James, Of Char
Iotte, N. c.. passed through Yorkville
last Saturday on their way to Spartan
burg in an automobile. They came
from Charlotte by way Of Wrights
ferry, and had quite an unpleasant ex-
perience by reason of the muddy roads
on this side Of the river. They left
Yorkville at about IL o'clock, going up
the Kings Mountain road and intend
ing to make their destination by way OF
Grover, Blacksburg and CARNEY. Mr..
james is the Associate Press operator
on the Charlotte Observer. Mrs. James
was enjoying the trip very mucn' out
was somewhat apprehensive as to the
condition of the roads ahead, especially
as they had been described to. her as
being worse than those over which she
had just travelled.
News and Courier, Monday: Deputy
Collector of Customs Withers has re-
ceiyed orders from the United States
treasury department placing him In
charge of the custom house until q new
collector Is appointed to succeed the
late Colonel r. M. Wallace. Mr.. With
ers has closed up the old books and be-
gun on an entirely new basis. Colonel
Wallace was under bond in the sum OF
s50, 1000 for the proper fulfillment of his
duties. Mr.. Withers, however. is d.
rectly responsible to Secretary Shaw
for the performance Of his official work.
The responsibilities under which the
acting collector now labors are not new
to him. Throughout the past summer,
during the absence Of Colonel Wallace.
who was in ill-health, Mr.. Wtthers had
charge of the local office, and he trans
acted the business Of the customs de-
partment with the utmost satisfaction
to everybody.