Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1904-10-07
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S. c., by the Rev. James Russell, Sept.
%, 1904, Miss Annie Nicholson of Rion,
to Mr.. John Humphries of Savannah
Ga Mrs. Esther Cochran and son,
Master Robbie, Miss Helen Reid and
little sister Of Lewisville.. went to
Yorkville yesterday to spend few
days. go. Mr.. and Mrs. r. H. Sherrer
Of Sharon, York county, were In the
city Friday. ...... Rev. H. c. Mazyck
arrived in the city yesterday to sue
ceed Rev. H. o. Judd in the pastorate
of st. Marks Episcopal church In this
city. .... Mr. w. ]. Simpson, who has
been suffering with inf1ammatory
rheumatism for several weeks, left
Saturday for Hot Springs, Ark. Mr.. ].
L. Davidson accompanied him. Mr..
Emmett Rodman of Rodman, went to
Glover yesterday to enter the Bethany
Presbvterial school.
LANCASTER.
Ledger, Oct. 5: Mr.. Leonard Wright
an employee at the cotton mill, mar
rowly escaped being killed last Satur-
day by the elevator weight striking
him on the back Of the head and TAX
ing off his scalp as he was looking
down the shaft for the elevator to come
up. Drs. Crawford and Funderburk
sewed the scalp back and Mr.. Wright
is getting along very well. The
eight-months old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Foster Weaver of Heath Springs,
died last Saturday, Oct. 1, 1904, of
pneumonia, and was buried at Salem
Sunday. :. .Messrs. John Crawford, M.
S. witherspoon and D. Reese Williams
of this place, have been appointed
marshals for the Mecklenburg fair
which comes off at Charlotte, Oct. 25
to 2S inclusive. "A tenant house
on Mrs. Sallie Caskey's plantation In
Cedar Creek township, occupied by
Sam johnson, colored, was bnrne3
about 2 p. M, last Sunday. The negro
lost all his furnishings and $50 pounds
of seed cotton. The fire is supposed to
have originated from rats and
matches. No one was at home at the
time. ...... Mr.. Oscar Hough, son of
Col. L. c. Hough Of Kershaw, died last
Friday afternoon, Sept. 30th, 1904, af-
ter a protracted illness Of fever He
was about eighteen years Of age and
this place, Monday. Oct. 3. 1904. of
cholera infantum, the little daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Jordan, aged eigh-
teen months. The interment took
place in Westside cemetery yesterday
afternoon. i
Gaffnsy Ledger, Oct 4: Mr.. Pearson
Cody, while sitting by his fire Sun
day morning, had the misfortune to
have his clothes catch on fire, and be-
fore assistance could reach him, he
was so badly burned that he died Sun
day afternoon at $50 o'clock. Mr.. Cody
had never been married; he was
Confederate soldier and was buried by
friends in the lot at Oakland cemetery
belonging to the Moses Wood Chapter
of the Daughters of the Confederacy.
He was about seventy-five years old.
Governor Hayward having ordered
Mr.. Henry to Kershaw to investigate
the recent lynching at that place, Mr..
Henry got Mr.. ]. c. Mcclure Of Ches-
ter to come to Gaffney and act as So
licitor for him in his absence. Mr..
Mcclure arrived yesterday afternoon
and will begin his work in the court
when it convenes this morning. AN
infant Of Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Bird died
Friday and was buried at Oakland
cemetery Saturday afternoon at D
o'clock short service was held at
the grave by Rev. G. P. Hamrick. 80.
Last Saturday night in a difficulty
near Ezell, between John Linder and
Robert Hicks two young white men OF
that section, Linder cut Hicks in sew
eral places and wounded him so Sc
verely that Magistrate Geo. D. Scruggs
committed Linder to Jail yesterday to
await the result of Hicks wounds,
which may prove fatal. The de-
posits in the National Bank were
greater Saturday than on any single |
day in it's existence before. ..... Floyd |
Baker left Friday morning for Balti- |
more, where tomorrow night he will
be married to Miss Helen Brohawn, Of
that city. AT a meeting of the
Thickety Mountain Baptist associa- |
ton, colored, Sunday at Suck Creek
church, in this county, while a major
ity were conducting themselves prop
erly, whisky flowed freely among
many, and late in the afternoon, Flem- |
ming Littlejohn and his brother Cliff, |
got into fight in which Cliff shot
Flemming in one Of his knees, the ball
coming out near the ankle, which |
makes a severe wound. Cliff took to
the woods at once and made his es-
cape. After the Littlejohr fight, fifteen |
or twenty other negroes engaged in a |
general row which broke up the SER
vice. Thev were, however, too drunk |
to do much other harm. State Con-
table w. F. Moore, suspecting that
some such work would be going on at
this big meeting, attended it himself, |
and after a while located the cause of
the whole trouble; and upon investiga-
ton, found that whisky was being
sold to the negroes through a cat hole
in the door of a nearby house. He
broke into the house and after looking
around little he found r. L. Huskey, |
white man, up the chimney. He
pulled him down and brought him to
the city and Huskey gave bond for his
appearance at court.
GASTON.
Gastonia Gazette, Oct. 4: Two cou-
Piles were married in Glover last Sun |
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