Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-08-25
Misttllaneous Reaains.
FROM CONTEMPORARIES.

FROM CONTEMPORARIES.
or Less Local Interest.
CHESTER.
Lantern, August 21: Mrs. T. M.
Dobson and Misses Maggie McFadden
and Ella Cody Of Yorkville, spent Wed
nesday in town on their return from
Lancaster to Yorkville.. Col. w. G.
Stephenson of the Kings Mountain
Military academy, passed through
town yesterday evening on his way to
Yorkville. ..... Mr.. Alexander CraW-
ford, who has been salesman In Mr..
E. A. Crawford's store for more than
year, went to his home at McCon-
nellsville yesterday evening, where he
will remain until Clemson college
opens, about September 1st, when he
will enter college. Mr.. Crawford, In
his quiet way, made many friends dur
ing his stay in town.. The Hazel
wood rifles are formulating plans to
give big barbecue and picnic on
September 3rd at Cornwell. They hope
to have a battalion drill parade on
that day and with this in view they
have invited the military companies at
Liberty Hill, Fort Mill, Rock Hill and
Chester to be present and participate
in the exercises. Adjutant and 1nspec-
tor General John D. Frost has also
been invited and it is expected that
he will deliver a military speech II he
can make it convenient to attend. On
account of a great many members OF
these companies being employed IN
stores, etc., it Is feared that they call
not be present, but the barbecue and
picnic will be held anyway, and good
time Is expected. LAS little Eugene
Ward, the four or five-year-old son
of Superintendent Ward of the Eureka
mills, was attempting to cross the rail-
road track at the Eureka yesterday
afternoon, he was struck by a hama
car and his thigh and collar bone were
broken and a cash was cut in his head.
Drs. Pryor and Miller gave the little
boy all the relief possible as soon as
they could reach him. They cannot
vet tell the extent Of the injuries, nor
what will be the result.
LANCASTER.
Ledaer, August %: Mr.. William
Wherry died at the home Of his faith
er, Mr.. F. M. Wherry, near Antioch
church in this county, at l o'clock a.
m., after an illness Of three weeks of
fever. Mr.. Wherry was about twenty
five years Of age. He engaged in bus
mess here the first of this year. run
ming a market with Mr.. Porter on the
Davis corner. In the spring he re-
turned to the farm, and since the es-
tablishment of R. F. D. routes in this
county in July has been installing
mail boxes on the routes. He was
young man of pleasing manners and
was liked by all who knew him. His
remains were taken to Leslie In York
county, his former home, yesterday
for interment. ..... Cards announcing
the approaching marriage of Mr.. J. II.
Craig of Birmingham, Ala, son OF
Mr.. B. H. Craig Of this county, to MISS
Dennie Watts, daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. James s. Watts of Oakman, Ala.
have been received by friends and rel
atives of the prospective groom in this
county. The happy event will take
place Wednesday, September I'd, 1903.
In the First Baptist church at Oakman.
1T was generally thought that gall
stone occasioned the death of our es-
teemed townsman, Mr.. ]. M. Heath,
and it was so stated in the account OF
his demise in our last issue, but Dr.
Mackey informs us that an autopsy
revealed that death was caused by the
bursting of an aortic aneursim near
the liver and pressing against the pau
cereas. An operation could have
availed nothing. Death was inevitable.
Mr.. John S. Wright, carpen-
ter, formerly of this county, died at
Camden last Friday of chronic dysen-
terry, aged about fifty-five years. He
married Miss Lon, a daughter OF the
late Uriah Candy of Cedar Creek
township, this county. He leaves sew
eral children surviving him. His re-
mains were taken to Rock Hill Sat-
urday and buried by the side Of his
wife. He was member of Walnut
Camp w. o. W., and carried $l.oo9
insurance in the fraternity.
GASToN.
Gastonia Gazette, August 81: Mr..
Legare Carson, whose right arm was
crushed year ago while he was coup
ling cars near Greenville. was award
ed sc, 500 damages last Tuesday by the
supreme court Of South Carolina. A
verdict for this amount was rendered
in the lower court last November, and
the railway company appealed. On
Tuesday the judgment of the lower
court was affirmed. Mr.. Carson Is
well-known in Gastonia and his friends
will be interested to know Of his sue
cess in the suit. Miss Carrie Cald-
we'll OF Sharon, York county, arrived
yesterday morning to visit her aunt,
Mrs. John H. Adams. 49,. .Messrs. Geo.
Gullick. w. A. Leeper, Robert Ratch-
ford, and ]. D. B. Mclean were among
the South Point visitors i'm town yes
terday. I'VE are dry yet" said Mr.. Nc
Lean, there hasn't been rain enough
to run in my yard since July.
Cotton is opening. The first open boil
we have seen was brought in yester-
day afternoon from his fathers farm
by Master Averitt Mclean. Who will
bring the first bale of cotton?. 49,. Mr..
Forrest Floyd went to Steele Creek