Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1904-02-09
Misrtllancous Araain9.
FROM CONTEMPORARIES.
News and Comment That Is OF More
or Less Local Interest.
LANCASTER.

News and Comment That Is OF More
or Less Local Interest.
LANCASTER.
Ledger, February 6: Mr.. Flanagan
Faile a weaver at the cotton mill' lost
one of his hands by accidentally get
ting his fingers caught in loom last
Wednesday morning. The amputation
was made by Drs. w. NJ. Crawford
and T. ]. Strait. Mr.. Faile Is son OF
Mr.. Geo. W. Faile of Flat Creek town.
ship. 80. Almost every man to whom
it was presented signed the petition
which Rev. DR.. J. H. Boldridge carried
around here this week asking the leg
islature to so amend the dispensary
law as to allow towns in which dispen-
saries have been established to vote on
their removal. 1t looks to us like or
dinarily fair-minded legislators, espe-
cially Democratic legislators. should DO
this without being petitioned to do It..
The Republican county conven-
ton which was held here Thursday
elected as delegates to the state conVen-
ton which meets in Columbia on the
oath instant, F. r. Massey and w. r.
Swaringen; to the congressional con-
vention, which meets at Rock Hill on
the 18th instant, R. r. Mobley, Z. U.
McIlwain and VIM. Mckenna-. mrs.
Ragsdale, of this county, widow OF the
late G.. H. Ragsdale, received check
this week from the Farmers Mutual
Life Insurance company, OF YORK
county, for sSO7.S3, the amount OF in
surance carried by her late husband
on his life for her benefit in the COM
pany. The payment has been very
prompt.
GASToN.
Gastonia Gazette, February S: Mr..
Thomas Underwood Of Fort Thomas
Ky., visited his sister, Mrs. q. B. Har-
ry. last week, and was visitor OF more
than usual interest to our town. HE
has been in the standing army for thir-
teen wears, and saw service in the Phil
ippine Islands from 1899 to 1901. Mr..
Underwood was in the following bat
ties: Pei Tsang, China, Aug. 5, l9oo'
Yang Tsan, August Z, assault and cap
ture of Pekin. Aug. IA, engagement at
entrance Of Imperial City, Aug. Is. He
also served in the Spanish war, AFTER
wards doing scout duty in the Phll-
ippines. He came through 1t all, as
he humorously puts it, with nothing
worse than sore heel. AT the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. S. E. Whitney
at Bessemer City, their daughter, MISS
Addie Whitney, will be married to Mr..
George l.. Anderson Of Ridgeway, 5.
c.. on Tuesday, Feb. 16, at 4.3O O'CLOCK
in the afternoon. The bride Is pop
ular young woman Of Bessemer CITY,
and the announcement Of her ap-
preaching marriage to Mr.. Anderson IS
a matter of interest to her many
friends. DIR. H. F. Glenn, county
physician, was called to the home OF
Mr.. VIM. Hendricks, four miles west
of town Yesterday to see the latters
son. Mr.. Hunter Hendricks, who came
home Wednesday sick and who was
thought to have smallpox. DR.. Glenn
found the patient suffering with milu
attack of the disease and Immediately
had the young man moved to separ-
ate house and the entire family quar-
antined. Mr.. Hendricks became Ill at
Gaffney a few days ago and went 10
Charlotte to he home Of relatives
coming to Gastonia Wednesday. He
is a young married man and his wire
is with him at his fathers home. .....
The fox hunters are doubtless having
great sport at Blacksburg. Mr.. Dave
Meacham, the noted sportsman Oh
Lowell, passed through Gastonia yes
terday with a kennel Of his finest dogs
on his way to that town for chase or
two. Rev. Cornelius Miller, the
newly chosen pastor of the Dallas
group Of Presbyterian churches, Will
arrive next week with his family from
Soddy, Tenn, and will make his nome
at Dallas. The acceptance OF this call
by Mr.. Miller fills the last vacancy In
the pastorates Of the Kings Mountain
presbytery. AT the ripe old age OF
50 years, II months, and days, Mrs.
Nancy Hays died about IL o'clock last
Saturday night at the home of her
daughter Mrs. ]. w. Parham, near
Crowders Creek. The funeral services
were conducted at the home Monday
by Rev. G. A. Sparrow, and the burial
followed at Olney cemetery. She
leaves one son, Mr.. ]. NJ. Hays, and
three daughters as follows: Mrs. M.
A. Parham and Mrs. S. c. Ferguson or
crowder's Creek, and Mrs. ]. c. Servis
of High Shoals. Mrs. Hays was recov-
ering from a severe case of la grippe
when she was taken worse and died