Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-04-20
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IN COUNTIES ADJOINING.
News and Comment Clipped From
Neishboring Exchanges.
CHESTER.


liams and Miss Maggie Estes, both OF
Chester, Rev. J. S. Moffatt. d. D., Off
ciating. 49,. Two or three days ago,
Mr.. w. ]. Kellers of the Feasterville
neighborhood, told us of some large
fish caught in Broad river. One was
carp that weighed seventeen
pounds. A cat and one of some other
kind were only a little smaller. If
any one doubts the story we can show
some of the scales as evidence. We
cannot mako affidavit, however, that
any of these scales came off the cat
fish. :. The home of Major T. w.
Brice at Woodward was totally de-
stroyed by fire this morning. The
meat house was also destroyed though
the other out-buildings were saved. A
great part of the furniture was de-
stroyed in the flames. The fire is
supposed to have originated in the
roof and probably caught from a
spark from the stove flue. Nelson
Bratton, a young colored man on
Mr.. A. P. Wylie's plantation, was
the victim of an accident Saturday
that may cost him his life. He es-
pied a rabbit and started out with his
gun to kill the creature when the gun
was in some way discharged and the
contents entered the body Of the un-
fortunate negro. The left arm was
badly shattered, and a large portion
of the load entered the left side in
fiicting a great gaping wound. DIR.
H. f. Mcconnell attended the wound
ed man and dressed his wounds.
The funeral of Mr.. L. L. Smith,
whose death was noted in our last is
sue, was held at Capers Chapel Satur-
day afternoon at o'clock. Rev. j.
NJ. Friday conducted the exercises. A
large crowd was present to attest their
affection and esteem for the young
man and his family. Mr.. Smith was
widely known throughout the coun-
ty, and he had many friends in and
around Yorkville. He was the pos
SCISSOR of a genial disposition that won
friends for him wherever he happen
ed to be. These friends will keep
ever i'm their hearts a warm spot for
the companion who enlivened many a
dull and cheerless moment by the
rare sunshine of his smile and voice.
Mr.. Smith was in his thirty second
year. He was a successful farmer,
and was making preparations for a
successful years work when death
rudely brought him low.
GASToN.
Gastonia Gazette, April II: One by
one the old soldiers are crossing over
the river. Last Tuesday morning the
summons came for Mr.. Romulus Rol-
lins, an aged soldier at Bessemer City,
He was buried at Bessemer next day,
amid many manifestations of deep
sorrow. He leaves a widow and sew
eral sons. $50. There was nice we'd
ding in town Sunday evening. Mr..
Thomas Thomasson and Miss Lizzie
Reeves, both of McAdenville, were
married by Rev. ]. F. Armstrong. Mr..
Thomasson came here from Yorkville,
about a year ago, and has won many
friends during the year. Miss Reeves
is the daughter of Mr.. John Reeves
who has been living here for many
years. She is well thought of by all
who know her. The start made by
President James Boyce in his cam
paign to raise ten thousand dollars In
order to secure a like amount from
Andrew Carnegie for a girls dormi-
tory should greatly encourage him
and the other friends of Due West
Female college. Beginning at Jeru-
salem," that is in Due West, he raised
there last week, beginning on the Sab
bath, a third of the required amount.
This with the campaign scarcely be-
gun! The generosity and loyalty OF
the Due West people are commenda-
BILE i'm every way and their action
spells success at the first trial. No
wonder some of them feel like put
ting it up to Mr.. Carnegie to offer
them $4,000. An invitation TO the
fifteenth commencement of the Luth-
eran Theological Seminary in Chicago
has Just been received from Rev.
Brady L. Stroup, and we tender our
thanks for his kind remembrance.
He is among the graduates, and on
next Wednesday evening will leliv-
er his graduating address on the Ma
ture and Necessity of Pastoral Vista
ton. He has accepted a charge at
Leesville. S. c.. upon which field or
labor he will enter after graduation.
Fifty-seven years ago Sunday,
Capt. w. l. Stowe had a good cry in
Yorkville. He says he was a little
boy in school then, ten years old.
He had intended to go to Bethel COM
munion on the third Sunday in April,
lS49, but when the morning came,
behold, the ground was covered wit
snow. And his disappointment found
more relief in tears than in snow
balls.