Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-03-27


five months old. The funeral was
conducted at Union church, Wednes-
day afternoon at two o'clock by Rev.
r. A. Lummus, assisted by Rev. Oil
yer Johnson. A large concourse of
friends and relatives from Lancaster,
Richburg and Chester were present
to pay their last respects to this
bright and attractive young woman.
Mrs. G. w. Foster of Green
wood, spent Wednesday night at Mr..
r. L. Horns on her way to Yorkville
to spend a few days:
eAsToN.
Gastonia Gazette, March %: Quite
an interesting case was before Es-
quire s. S. Morris yesterday after
noon in which Mr.. Carlos Wright was
defendant and Mr.. L. c. Killian plain
tiff. The charge was obtaining mon
ey under false pretense. Mr.. Killian
claimed that he had been defrauded
by buying a milk COW from Mr..
Wright. The plaintiff alleged that in
the trade Mr.. Wright had misrepre-
sented the COW and instead of being
good COW as described, the cow had
been known to have been sick for
some time. After hearing all the
evidence I'm the case Esquire Morris
decided that the defendant We" not
guilty of the charge and taxed the
Cook has moved into one of the new
dwellings north of the depot and Mr..
r. B. Darlington has moved from The
Huss residence on Main street, into
the residence on Marietta street which
was vacated by Mr.. Cook. Policeman
]. L. Hicks has moved from the Nc
dena into his residence on East Air
line street and Mr.. w. w. Mclean has
moved into the residence on Eas,
Main street near the Avon mill, which
he purchased from Mr.. E. H. Ran
kin. Mr.. Rankin has, moved into the
r. H. Carroll residence on Oakland
avenue, which he now owns. Mr..
John L. Ferguson is going to move
his family here from Kings Mountain
and will occupy the residence Of Mrs.
Jno. F. Wilson on Franklin avenue.
..... The team of four big mules
belonging to Mr.. Andy Cloninger of
Dallas. enjoyed a good run through
town Wednesday at noon. The team
was being driven to an empty wagon
~
when the noon passenger train was
coming into town. The mules be-
came frightened and beat the train
to the depot by a good distance.
the road and there was no damage.
Did you ever hear of road
overseer being praised? Such
thing Is so rare, that case of this
kind in THE YoRKvILLE ENQUIRER
the other day attracted our deeply
interested attention. The item was
clipped from THE ENQUIRER and
is copied in another column of to-
day's paper. Not the least interest
ing point in the article is the fact
that the efficient overseer, Mr.. John
M. Craig. is a valued subscriber to
the Gazette. Naturally we join his
neighbors i'm feeling proud of his
record, and we do not at the moment
think of a better service his neigh
Dor, Mr.. w. =. Boyd, could have per-
| formed for the public and for his
| faithful overSeer than he has per-
formed in thus giving to Mr.. Craig
in the public prints the praise he de-
serves Some people hold that the
| man or the officer who simply does
his duty doesn't deserve any praise
| for il. oh. it's nothing for the man
to boast of himself, but his neighbors
and fellow citizens ought always to
| give a faithful officer the encourage
ment of their praise and appreciation
| for duty well performed. Duty is Of
ten difficult to perform, II costs
thought. time, effort. sacrifice. In
these unseemly days when so many
officers fail through fear or favor to
do their duty. when there is so much
negligence. favOritism, graft, winkine
at wrong, and disregard of law IN
high places it is refreshing to read
a word of praise for an officer VINO
| has been true to his duty.
No CoMPLAINT.-"Say.l look here,
said the angry customer, you said
when | bought this cheese that you
would return my money if 1t wasn't