Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1904-06-17
aMiseellaneous Grading.
FROM CONTEMPORARIES.
News and Comment That Is of More
or Less Local Interest.
CHESTER.


Lantern, June IA: DIR. j. M. Brice
will go down to Woodward this after
noon to see his brother, Mr. Sam Brice,
who is very i'll with typhoid fever....
Mr.. w. K. Thomas of Carlisle, spent
Sabbath nil Mt in the city on his way
to Yorkville to see his brother-in-law,
who is sick. {. Mrs. L. T. Nichols, state
officer, Mrs. w. B. Cox and Mrs. T..
F. Reid, representing the Palmetto club,
Miss Bessie Lindsay the Sin Nombre
Book club, Mrs. Alice Smith and Miss
Porah Wachtel the Park association,
Mrs. ]. G. White the Up-To-Date club,
Of this city, and Mrs. w. ]. Cherry OF
Rock Hill, representing the Tea Cups
club. left on the Southern for Newber-
ry this morning to attend the meeting
of the State Federation Of Women's
Clubs. -. A big barbecue and basket
picnic will be given Saturday, June
18th. in the Mcclure bottoms. on Sandy
river, by the citizens and school Of
Baton Rouge township. The public is
cordially invited. The candidates are
expected to do a little talking. Bring
big basket and come. Mrs. w. j..
Cherry and little son of Rock Hill, have
been visiting at Mrs. M. J. Boulware's
for few days. Mrs Cherry is on her
way to the meeting of the Federation
of Women's clubs at Newberry.
LANCASTER.
T,,,o Dav Wy w Patch-
ford, pastor of TirZah Presbyterian
church in the southern part Of Union
county, N. c., is a remarkable old gen.
tleman. One of Mr.. Ratchford's neigh
bors and a member Of his church was
telling us about the great old man a
few days ago. Mr.. Ratchford Is over
10 years old and has never been sick
day in his life and never took dose
of medicine. He has never taken a
drink of liquor nor q chew of tobacco,
never shot a gun or went bathing in
any pond or stream, never visited on
the Sabbath and never struck one Of
his children although he has reared a
large family. Mrs. Baker, widow or
Rev. ]. A.. Baker who died several
weeks ago of typhoid fever at Halle
Gold mine, is quite i'll Of fever at the
home Of her father, Rev. T. A. Dabney
at this place where she moved shortly
after her husbands death. Colonel
Springs has remitted to Chairman
Marshall Of the Hampton monument
commission, 5000, the amount collected
by him on subscriptions for the Hamp-
ton monument at this place and Ker-
shaw. $14590 of the amount was rails
ed by him al Lancaster and the balance
of $54.1e was from Kershaw. Arrange
ments for the erection Of the statue on
the east side of the Capitol grounds
will soon be made by the commission
as the necessary amount has now
about been raised. 49,. Mr.. John San
ders, an aged citizen, died at this place
last Saturday Of cancer and was buried
Sunday in Westside cemetery. He was
about 65 years Of age and leaves a
widow surviving him. He served In
the Confederate army and made good
soldier. .... County Treasurer Cauthen
has finished his annual settlement with
the county auditor and with the coun-
ty supervisor and Superintendent Of
education. The amount of taxes
charged was $50, 1883: penalty, s1O4.6S
total, s52,243.61. The amount un-
collected on account of nulla bona eX-
ecutions, abatements and poll releases,
was s213.06, making the total amount
collected, s52,03O55. The amount COL
lected from tn: dispensaries for the
eleven months ending April 80, was
s11,242.46, divided equally between the
county and the towns Of Kershaw and
Lancaster; from the Communication road
tax s20650: from fines, costs, ETC., ST.
636.17. The amount Of expenditures
has already been published in the
treasurer's annual report.
GASToN.
Gastonia Gazette, June IA: Mrs. Nc
Lurd, wife Of Mr.. J. o. McLurd, died at
4 o'clock yesterday morning at her
home in Bessemer City Of consumption
after an illness of several months. A
husband. who is an operative in the
Southern Cotton mill. and seven chill
dren survive. The funeral and burial
will take place at Bessemer this morn
ing. go. Mr.. Jim Lindsay took dinner
the other Gay with his neighbor, Mr..
Monroe Whitesides. There were plenty
of good things to eat, of course; but
there was just one thing in the line of
cold victuals" which Mr.. Lindsay said
he was bound to mention. This was
jar Of peach preserves which Mrs.
Whitesides had put up twelve years be-
Lindsay dined there and they were
perfectly preserved, not trace of
mould about them. Good? Well, don't
punish fellow by talking about them.
Peach preserves are good the next day
after they are made, they are better the
next winter. but when they've been set
back getting good for twelve years
oh. hush! Just as Mr.. Lindsay finish
ed, Esq. Sam Morris said that he had
the privilege not long since of tasting
some peach brandy and honey that was
ten years old. The honey was put in
the brandy that long ago and it was
set away to mellow. Was it good?
Mr. Morris said-but it would hardly
be fair to tell what he said, further than
that he had the privilege of tasting it.
What he did with the privilege is an
other matter. -. Miss Kit Webb, a