Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-04-03
WITHIN THE TOWN.

Clark the slayer OF BenJaiHil Afhi
strong, was released from Jail on bond
last Friday.
Measles are epidemic. Several
cases have developed among children
of the Graded school.
The county board Of commission
ers will hold its regular monthly meet
ing tomorrow in the Office Of the su-
pervisor.
- The Herald Square people gave a
good show last Saturday night. The
audience, however, was small. The
show last night was also good.
- Superintendent Allen of the York.
vile Graded schools was on the look
out for April fool pranks on the part
of his pupils, but the day passed OH
without any unusual occurrence of the
kind.
People in a position to know say
that more vehicles are retailed In
Yorkville than in any other town In
the Piedmont. 1t would be difficult,
perhaps to prove this assertion by the
figures for the reason that to get the
figures would be next to impossible;
but there Is no doubt Of the fact that
the vehicle sales of this town are
large.
- The show windows Of the Main
street stores, the dry goods stores, es-
pecially, have developed into an inter-
esting and attractive feature OF the
commercial life Of the town. Some
unusually handsome and expensive dry
goods are being handled In Yorkville
now, and window dressers Of the var
ious stores are trying to outdo each
other in the display Of their artistic
talents in the show windows.
- There was a crowd Of thirty or
forty Cloverites in Yorkville yester-
day, most Of them coming down on
the early morning train and some re-
turning on the first passenger, while
the greater part Of them remained
over for the late train. They ',ut In
the time greeting their friends and
Quite a number of people also came
I'M from the southern portion OF the
county, coming and going on the
same train.
cut at the overhead bridge" on the
Southern last Sunday afternoon, the
front trucks Of an extra freight jump
ing the track at that point and bounc-
ing along the crossties for a distance
of two hundred yards or more. The
accident was due to reckless running
and bad condition of the track. The
understanding is that the track had
been reported: but nothing had been
done TO remedy the situation. Nobody
was hurt. The unlucky train was fol-
lowed by another shortly afterwards
and the two crews were able to get the
run-off back on the track after little
delay. The northbound passenger
train was delayed at Yorkville for
something over an hour because Of the
wreck.
Ine tltClIlC lle5lll "llNS NNe 'N'''>
pretty lively capers last Thursday
night. Ordinarily the wires seem dis
posed to behave themselves very well;
but when Il spell of wet weather comes,
existing defects shows themselves. A
Kings Mountain street wire had beer
rubbing against a tree until 1t lost Its
Insulation. When the wet weather
came the current began to make for
the earth through the tree. the wire
soon became red hot at the point OF
contact with the limb and burned In
two. The loose ends fell across tel
ephone wire, and raised a racket at
central. About the same time, some
wires on the Craven old house, next
the Yorkville hotel, got up contact
with some guttering and thence with
the ground and made a blaze that re-
quired the attention of Mr.. Barnwell.