Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-05-16
ROCK HILL AND VICINITY.

ky.-ViSlt OF 6ISnop SapeTs--Sd-
tawba Power Company In Hard
Luek-YouthfuI Cow Thief-Heavy
. HaiIstorm In Clay HilI-commence.
mont Exercises at Winthrop-New
Municipal BuiIdins-The c. M. A.
cadets-Edsmoor sehool-condition
Of Mayor Hull. ..
Correspondence Of the Yorkville ENQUIRER.
Rock HILL, May 16.-Rev. w. E.
Thayer has decided to accept the call
extended him about two weeks ago,
and which he has had under considcrd.
ton ever since, to the pastorate Of the
First Baptist church Of Winchester,
Ky. He read his resignation to his
congregation Sunday morning and an
nounccd that he would remain with
his church here until July, closing his
work here with the services to be held
the fourth Sabbath in June. He will
not go to Kentucky until September.
He will do some work in Charleston
in July and will take a much needed
rest before taking charge Of his new
about June 1st, where they will re-
main, very likely, until September.
Bishop Ellison Capers preached
Sunday morning and evening, at the
Church of Our Savior, to large
and attentive congregation. 1t was
his annual visit to this church and
class of eleven were confirmed at
the morning service. Previous an
nouncement had been made of the
bishops visit and the church was lit
terally packed with people, who were
anxious to hear this able divine preach
and expound the Scriptures. His dis
course was very interesting and IL
structive and was enjoyed very much
by the large congregation.
The storms Of the past few evenings,
and especially that Of Saturday after
noon have done considerable damage
to the wires Of the Catawba Power
company, and have caused this COM
pense, and caused their customers
some inconvenience. There were NO
il.,hts at the college Friday night ;nd
the storm that passed through the up
country Saturday afternoon completed
the work and left the entire city In
complete darkness. The merchants
had to use lamps and candles, whicn
but very poorly lighted their stores
The. damage to the Manchester mill
line has not been repaired yet, and
tue mill was run by steam power yes
terday The lights and power were
turned on again in the city about IL
o'clock Sunday night. The line run
ming to Charlotte was also put out Ut
business and the old steam engines
were brought into service again
Sunday night to light the city. II
was an unfortunate but unavoidable
accident, and the company has been
working hard ever since Saturday
night to locate the trouble, and re-
pair the damage.
The telephone company has also
suffered much loss from the storms.
They have had a double force Of hands
at work the, past week repairing the
damage and are overrun with work
still.
About o'clock Friday morning Dos
ter Robson drove a young COW to d.
w. Davis meat market In this city and
offered her for sale to Mr.. Davis The
boy Is about Is years old and gave his
name as Westbrooks. Mr.. Davis sus-
pected that there was something
wrong. He had seen the cow before
and knew that she belonged to Mrs.
Nancy Duncan Of Ogden, and on the
pretense of going after money to pay
for the cow. Mr.. Davis went on and
ascertained by inquiries over. the
phone that this particular COW was
missing from Mrs. Duncan's pasture.
In the meantime the negro made his
escape and was making extraordinary
fast time going In the direction OF
Chester, when he was halted and cap
tured about an hour later by Constable
M. B. Dunlap near Ogden. He was
brought back to Rock Hill and placed
In the lookup. After his arrest the
boy confessed to stealing the cow and
said he took her from the pasture
about 10 o'clock Thursday night and
came part Of the way to Rock Hill
that night, camping in the woods
with the cow In order to get to town
early Friday morning. Mrs. Duncan
had no trouble In recovering the COW
and 1t was decided to compromise the
case on account Of the little negro's
youth.
Mr.. w. H. Shell and Miss Fannie
Hendricks of Charlotte. arrived in the
city on the o'clock train Monday
morning and were married shortly af-
ter they arrived here by Major T. c.
Beckham in his office on Main street.
1t did not require a prophet to tell
that the couple were looking for some
one to tie the matrimonial knot for
them and they appeared much at Ease
after the major had pronounced the
words that made them husband and
wife. They returned to Charlotte on
the 9 o'clock train, apparently very
happy and tickled almost to death at
the trick they had played on the old
folks.
A very severe hail storm visited the
Clay Hill section Saturday afternoon
doing some damage to crops on the
farms Of J. r. Wallace, Andy Steward,
w. W. Auten. ]. r. Land and VIM.
Ashley and others. Mr. j. r. Wal
lace from whom I got information Of
the storm, said the heaviest damage he
had seen was on Mr.. Stewards PLAN
tation, where nearly all the cotton, In
many places was destroyed by the
heavy hail stones. The storm was
about one fourth Of a mile In width
and passed on down into Fort Mil
township, where l learn the damage
was still greater.
The announcements and programme
of commencement exercises at Win
throp college are being sent out. The
exercises will begin on Sunday, June
4th, and close Tuesday night June 9Th.
at hard work and study and are now
pondering late and early over exami-
nations and preparing for commence
ment and dreaming of a happy vaca-
ton.
The plans and specifications for the
new municipal building have been In
the hands of the committee appointed
to look after the work for the past
two weeks: but as yet bids for the
contract for erecting the building have
not been advertised for nor have any
other steps been taken, on account of
the illness of Mayor Hull, who Is
chairman of the committee.
The c. M. A. cadets returned from
Columbia Monday evening after a ten
days encampment in that city. They
had fine time in Columbia and were
delighted with the trip, but evidently
were glad to get back to Rock Hill
again. Sergeant Robert Crawford.
son Of DR.. T. H. Crawford and one OF
the smaller boys in the school won the
gold medal in the competitive drill.
The boys all made a fine showing In
the drill and the manual Of arms was
gone through many times before the
contest narrowed down to Cadets
Crawford and Massey, and a decision
was reached between them.
The Edgmoor school, Miss Millie
Lynn teacher. closed Friday night
with an entertainment consisting OF
songs. tableaux, recitations, ETC.. by
the school children. A large crowd
was present to witness the exercises
including several from this city.
The condition Of Mayor j. j. Hull at
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