Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-10-30
ROCK HILL AND VICINITY.
Chamber Of Commence Proposes I'm
provements-Personal and Other

Champer OF SommoHCS FFoP0Sos tH
provenents-PersonaI and Other
Matters.
correspondence OF the Yorkyille Enquirer.
Rock HILL, October 2s.-The Cham
Der of Commerce gave supper In Nc
Elwee's cafe Friday evening and the
guests Of honor were the mayor and
city council, II might be said that II
was a case Of spider and the fly, which
need not be quoted, but II 1t was, the
purpose was not the same exactly
The spider may have meant to be phi
lanthropic In assimilating the fly, le-
gend does not say, but the fly did not
so understand the proposition In this
case at hand the Chamber OF Com.
merce meant philanthropy, and carried
council to assimilate a good supper
first and then assimilate q few sugges-
tions In regard to matters touching the
city's welfare. OF course, the mayor
and council themselves being promi-
nent members Of the Chamber Of Com
merce could not feel other than pleased
at this. The fact is that the Chamber
Of Commerce and the city council
wanted to get together whether one
assimilated the other or not, They got
together all right and during the even
ing two very important issues were
discussed-pavemepts and the tag
payers oath. BY a rising vote the
Chamber. Of Commerce put itself on
ments for the entire city and proposed
the plan that the city advance the
money for the work and give the prop
erty owners ten years In which to re-
pay the money without interest, a
committee was appointed to lay the
matter before the council at its next
meeting. 1t Is stated that one bank OF
the city has said that 1t would loan the
city one-half the amount, limiting II
to certain figure, at per cent, AT
per cent, the Identification and COM
fort gained would be a great thing not
only sentimentally and aesthettcally
but in business way: would probably
pay. The Chamber also put itself on
record as favoring the doing away with
the oath now subscribed to In making
tax returns and as endorsing the Ohio
law in this matter, A committee was
appointed to take the matter up with
the legislature. This committee Isl
Mayor John T. Roddey, ]. q, Anderson,
C. w. F. Spencer, Rev. ], w, Wills, L,
l. Johnston.
Mr.. Will Campbell came up from CO.
lumbia Thursday night with his arm
in bad condition from cut aeciden-
tally received In Columbia, He was
running to catch the first section OF
No. 81 when he stumbled and fell into
a gutter thrusting his arm into brok-
en- bottle lying there and receiving a
bad cut which bled profusely, A tele-
gram was sent asking for a physician
to meet the train at Winnsboro, but
Mr.. Campbell preferred to wait until
he reached Rock Hill before having
his wound dressed. He was attended
by DR.. l. H. Bigger on his arrival.
There was considerable excitement
at the Southern passenger station
Thursday afternoon when some box
cars jumped the track on the Wy" run
ming along the eastern edge OF the
platform and crushed into the plat
form and shed. A portion OF the shed
was torn away and several rails wreck
ed. This might have caused block
In traffic on the Rock Hill Consolidated
Mule Power railway, but as the east
bound parlor train on that line had
just left the college and 1t only took
about an hour to clear the track, this
did not amount to a calamity.
Mr.. Alexander Fewell, son OF the
late Samuel Fewell, and Miss Azile
Lumpkin Of Rocky Mount, Chester
county, were married at the home OF
the brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Rich
ard Lumpkin, Wednesday morning,
Rev. c. P. Carter officiating. They
came to Rock Hill at once and were
met by the groom's brother, Mr.. }.
Barnett Fewell, who entertained them
at his home near the Catawba dam.
The groom is in the employ OF the
Southern Power company and has Tor
some months been making his home at
Great Falls, which is near Rocky
Mount.
Miss Belle Moser, the niece Of the
Misses Lowry, who live In Black
street, was married Wednesday even
ing to Mr.. Isaac Rosser Of Charlotte.
The ceremony was at the residence and
was performed by Rev. Watson b.
DUNCAN of st. Johns NJ. E. church.
Prof. w. F. Moncrieff, who for sew
eral years was a professor in Winthrop
college, was one of the principals In a
personal difficulty which occurred In
Centenary college, Jackson, La, one
day last week. The other principal
was the president Of the college, Rev.
DR.. c. G. Miller. The cause Of the
trouble arose in Prof. Moncrleff's con-
duct of the mess hall Of which he had
charge. In the scrimmage DR.. Miller
was stabbed six times, one wound be-
ing serious, but not necessarily fatal,
and Prof. Moncrieffs hand was badly
injured and his eye blackened by
blow from a chair welded by the
wrathy preacher.
News has just reached his parents
here that Lieutenant E. Ross. Tomp-
kins of the 18th cavalry U. S. regulars
was in the recent storm off Florida and
Cuban coasts, and that his regiment
and the accompanying 14th suffered
severely during the transportation from
Key West to Cuba. Sixty or seventy
men and horses were lost on the way.
Lieutenant Tompkins reached his des-
tination safely though the only news
sent by him was a cablegram with one
word Safe"