Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1904-05-24

Miss Georgia Charlton Of Savannah,
who has been visiting the Misses ;
Witherspoon for several months, left
yesterday for q visit to Mrs. H. M.
Dunlap in Rock Hill.
Having closed the term Of the Low
ryville High school, Mr.. ]. A. Watson
and Miss Annie Watson, who have
been in charge, have returned to
Yorkvile for the summer.
The fourth days session Of the
Southern Presbyterian general assem-
bly, in session at Mobile, Ala, was
opened yesterday morning with pray
er by Rev. w. B. Arrowood Of Bethel.
Rev. w. C. Ewart announced last
Sunday that the session Of his church
had granted him a vacation Of two
weeks and it was his intention to be
away the first and second Sabbaths OF
June.
Mr.. J.. A. M. L Stewart of the Clay
Hill section states that the warm
weather of Sunday and yesterday has
had very beneficial effect on cotton.
He reports good stands on sandy soils
and poor stands on red soils; but
thinks that a rain within the next few
days will improve the situation Won
derfully. Mr.. Stewart does not know
Of but two or three fairly good wheat
crops in his neighborhood.
Mr.. G. A. Stewart, of the contract
ing firm Of Stewart Bros, was In
Yorkville yesterday with his father,
Mr.. J. A. M. L. Stewart. He has been
located for some time past at Clifton
Station, Va, where he has been engag-
ed in the work Of double tracking the
Southern; but last week he moved his
plant to Collettsville, N. c., to take a
contract on the extension Of the Car
olina and North Western road toward
Blowing Rock. He reports the COM
pletion Of the double tracking of a
thirty three mile section of the South
ern from Alexandria to Manassas juno
ton and the letting Of the contract
for another section from Manassas to
Orange, about sixty miles in all. From
what he said 1t seems that the idea
that the double tracking Of the South
ern Is to be pushed to completion at
once. is a mistake. Only sections upon
which the traffic is heaviest are to re-
ceive attention now, and the work will
be completed later. AS to what the
c.. &. NV. PROPOSES to do, Mr.. Stew
art. does not know. He only knows
that he has three mile contract; that
the work is fairly heavy and that he
intends to push 1t through as rapidly
as possible.
Col. James L. Strain Of Cherokee
=. county, spent last Friday--night and
the greater part of Saturday in York.
vile on his way home from the
Charleston reunion. He was the guest
Of Mr.. w. M. Kennedy upon his arrival
and took. dinner Saturday with Con-
gresham Finley. The balance OF the
time he spent with a number Of York.
vile friends and put In about an hour
as a most welcome visitor to THE EN-
ou1RER office. Col. Strain Is well
known to most Of our readers, and Is
highly appreciated by even those who
have never had the pleasure Of his
personal acquaintance. His letters
and other contributions have been
source Of entertainment and instruc-
ton for more than thirty years. He
lis colonel only by courtesy OF his
friends who think that though he has
never been commissioned he Ought to
have been. Since the war he'has been
going through life on only: one leg,
having contributed the other to the
service Of his country at Richmond,
Va, in 1864. But that is about the
only defect the colonel has, physically,
morally, or intellectually. There was
not a better soldier in the Confederate
army, and there Is not better citi-
zen In South Carolina He has a vast
fund of useful information acquired
solely though his own efforts, and
his love- sympathy and charity for
humanity have no bounds. He is the
soldier of all soldiers who should have
been in charge Of completing the Con-
lfederate rolls of the state, and II the
LEGISLATURE ever sees proper to have
South Cardinals part in the war OF
secession properly recorded, the colonel
ia the man to do the work Colonel
Strain enjoyed the short time he spent
in Yorkville very much and his friends
and acquaintances enjoyed his Visit
| S,,lI,, q q much as he did.