Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-02-20
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IN COUNTIES ADJOINING.
News and Comment Clipped From
Neighboring Exchanges.
CHESTER.


son case. Aside from all considera
tions of sentiment in the county, tn
law which permits such a case eve
to be submitted to the defendants 70
trial has always seemed to us to b
very absurd We believe Judge Gag
did the proper thing in sending tn
case to York instead Of Chester.
Miss Mamie Moore of Yorkville, VIII
has been spending a few days witt
Miss Mary Lyles, went home thf
morning. Miss Lyles and Miss Eli
Fletcher accompanied her for a few
days visit. The meetings at tn
Presbyterian church and Purity chap
ell are being largely attended, and
great deal Of interest is manifested
Rev. R. NJ. McLees Is doing tn
preaching, and he Is all that has beel
claimed for him as a forceful, earn
est and eloquent preacher. Rev. F. II
Wardlaw has charge Of the music
and he is making the song servic
on each occasion an important facto
in the meetings. Mr.. Wardlaw is al
accomplished choir-master, and he /
also the possessor Of splendid Voice
The services will continue through
| Sabbath evening. There was
slight mix up of trains at the South
ern depot Wednesday night which re
suited in the tearing up Of South
1 afnh
of a step on a passenger coach. 1
seems that a Southern freight train
a c. &. NV. freight engine and tn
L. & c. train were all enjoying tn
privileges of the yard at the SAM
time when the c. & NV. enginee
became confused by a signal whicl
was intended for the Southern trail
and backed into the latter. The en-
CINE struck the rear car a glancint
blow with the result already stated
No one was injured.
LANCASTER.
| News, February II: The work o
grading the branch railroad from th'
|
begin next Monday. A Pittsburg, Pa.
firm is the original contractor, but th'
work has been sublet to Major Adams
of Camden, a we'll known and veteran
railroad builder, whose connection
with the proposed road insures it'
proper and early completion. 1t Is ex
pected that the road will be ready fol
use by the first Of May. In &C
cordance with announcement previous
ly made in the News, Mr.. John Earle
Heath, one of Waxhaw's leading yount
business men, was married day befor'
Yesterday, at Belwood, n. c., to Mis-!
Isabel Stacy, daughter Of the Rev. L
E. Stacy, we'll known minister of th'
Methodist church. The bridal couple
have gone to Florida to spend th'
honeymoon The groom is native o.
Lancaster county, being a son of Mr.
A w. Heath, and is now general man
ager of the A. W. Heath Company!
large mercantile interests in the towr
of Waxhaw. .... Miss Bessie Mobley
daughter of the late George Mobley O.
Fairfield, died Wednesday evening o
the grip. She was a most cultured ant
lovable young lady and had man!
friends in Lancaster, where she haC
visited her uncle, Mr.. r. M. McCrorey
Miss Mobley had recently taugh
school in Chester county. ..... .Thert
are a number of cases of smallpox re-
ported in the Flint Ridge section, bu
they are confined, so far as we have
been able to ascertain, to colored peo'
pie. DR.. Brown Of Lancaster, ha!
eleven smallpox patients in that To-
cality. All of them are mild cases
with the exception Of two. .... .Judg'
Cages decision in the motion for
change of venue in the damage sui
by the Morrison estate against Lam
caster county, heard by him at Ches
ter last Saturday, was received herr
day before yesterday. Judge Gage de-
cides that he has no jurisdiction a
to whether or not a fair and impartia
trial can be had in Lancaster county
and therefore refuses to grant the mo-
| ton for a change of venue upon thi
ground. He also determines that 1
would be an abuse Of discretion to con
clude from the proof before him tina
the convenience of witnesses demands
a change of the place Of trial from
Lancaster county and therefore de
clines to grant the motion on thi
ground But he adjudges that there Il
another and distinct ground stated II
the statute, to wit: that a change o
the place of trial may be ordered If il
his opinion the ends of justice woult
be promoted by the change and n
expresses the opinion that the lends o
justice" would be promoted by such
change and accordingly orders tn
transfer of the case to York county
The attorneys for the county Of Ian
caster, Messrs. Ernest Moore and "
c. Hough, announced that the count.
will appeal to the supreme court o
the state from this order Of Judg
Gage their position being that unde
the statute laws of this state Judg
Gage had no power or authority to or
der the change of venue upon tn
ground alone that the lends OF justic
would be promoted by such a change.
GASToN.
Gastonia Gazette, Feb. 16: 1t
likely the weekend train which prov
ed so popular on the c. & NV, las
summer will be put on again as dai
ly train. We hope 1t will be. 1t woul'
be a welcome schedule all along tn
peoples own line. Mr.. an
Mrs Arthur Hinson, Misses Hope Be-
and Lydia Hinson and Mr.. Fred Tyz
ger attended the Whistnant-Dove
wedding at Glover Wednesday might
-. Invitations have been issued by MI
and Mrs. A. P. Rhyme of Mt. Holly t
the marriage of their daughter, Mis-