Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-06-29
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LANCASTER

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| to the Rev. Paul A. Pressly of Lam
caster. =. .Kershaw and vicinity
were visited by a severe hailstorm
Monday afternoon. 1t is reported to
have extended to Taxahaw section
particulars are not obtainable. The
same afternoon considerable hail fell
on Senator w. C. Houghs plantation
near Lancaster, but the extent OF
damage is not yet known. Lancas-
ter continues to have a rain and
windstorm almost nightly. $3.50. Mr..
John Ray, a Kershaw county farmer
was killed by lightning Monday after
noon. He was in a field near West
Vile.
GASToN.
Gastonia Gazette, June 26: The first
cotton bloom seen in the Gazette Of
flee this season was sent yesterday
by Mr.. T. E. Blair Of Glover. 1t was
red one and was plucked yesterday
(Monday) morning. Score a bloom
for Mr.. Blair on the Gath. The
moon changed about six o'clock last
Thursday evening and there was i'm
mediately a change in the weather.
There will be another change Of the
moon next Friday morning at five
minutes past nine o'clock. The
base ball team from Statesville,
which was to come to Gastonia for
two games on the 29th and 30th, has
declined and the dates have been Of
fered to Mountain Island. The
Mountain Island team has been
strengthened and they have asked
for another trial, which will be given
them this week, and the games will
be played at the Loray park at 4.SO
Friday and Saturday afternoons.
The programme committee is making
an effort to have Hon. E. Y. Webb
speak for half an hour or less at the
big celebration here on the Fourth
and to take the battle of Kings
Mountain as his theme. This battle,
so near by, resulted in a victory
which gave tremendous impulse to
the cause of freedom and marked
turning point in the conflict for ef-
fecting in fact the independence
which had been declared five years
before in Charlotte and four years
before in Philadelphia. We sincere
ly hope Mr.. Webb. will meet the
wishes of the programme committee,
of the people who will be here, and
of Governor Glenn himself and con-
sent to make this address. The mon
ument for which his labors secured
an appropriation from the govern
ment is soon to be erected on the
Kings Mountain battle site. This
circumstance and the relation of this
battle to the event we celebrate on
the Fourth will give Mr.. Webb's
theme doubly interesting significance.
CHESTER.
Lantern, June 26: This city was Wis
tied by quite a severe wind, rain and
hailstorm about o'clock yesterday
afternoon and most Of the streets
and yards where there were many
trees, presented the appearance of a
new ground recently cut down, so
numerous were the limbs blown Off.
A tree along the sidewalk at Mrs.
Carl Latimer's home was struck by
lightning and blown down against
the front of her house. Two large
glass in the window were broken
and some of the guttering torn off.
1t is supposed that a bolt from the
same stroke Of lightning entered the
house and followed either the cleo
trio bell or telephone wire to the
sitting room and burned small
hole in the carpet. One side OF the
steeple of the Presbyterian church
seemed to have been struck, proba-
bly, by the same stroke, but very lit
tie damage was done. Several trees
at different places and the smoke
stack at the power house were blown
down and the Methodist church at
the Wylie mill was blown off its
foundation. One side was crushed
in with the other bulged out, but we
have not learned the estimate Of the
damage. The storm ragged for fully
half an hour and the hail was the
severest that has been here in num-
Der of years. The rain fell so thick
and fast it was impossible to see
through it any distance. AT the
Southern depot this morning when
the c. & NV. passenger train was
Just ready TO pull out, three freight
and two passenger coaches of the L.
& c. train which was backing up,
broke loose from the other cars and
struck the rear end of the c. & NJ
w. with considerable force. The
passengers were considerably Jared
but no one was hurt Some Of the
couplings of the mail car were bro
ken which made il necessary to
change the car. There was also
something broken about the engine
but it was not disabled and started
out on its journey after a delay of
about twenty minutes. .... Mrs. T.
II. White and son, Thomas, went to
| Spartanburg yesterday to spend a
few weeks with her father, Capt j.
w. Carlisle. Mr. White accompanied
them and will return today. Mas
ters Carlisle and Wylie White have
been over there three weeks. .....
Mrs Henry Massey of Rock Hill, and
Mrs. ]. c. Wilborn, with her little
daughter Elizabeth of Yorkville,
who have been visiting their sister,
Mrs. S. NJ. Jones, left yesterday
morning for Mrs. Wilborn's home at
Yorkville. Mrs. c. II. Dixon and
son, Master Gus NJ. Dixon of Colum-
bia, who have been visiting at the
home of her brother-in-law, Mr.. P.
IG. McCorkle, and other relatives
here and in Yorkville, went home
Yesterday 49,. Mrs. r. w. Boney
and little son, Elmore of Lockhart,
spent Friday night with Mrs. S. E.
| Colvin on their way to Yorkville to
visit Mr.. Boney's father.
INDIANS ARE POOR SHoTs.-During
a residence of many years among four
different tribes of Indians l found,
with very few exceptions, they were