Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-04-10
WITHIN THE TOWN.

Work has been commenced on
the residence of Rev. w. c. Ewart
on Wright avenue.
Mr.. A. Rose has purchased the
Cant. F.. A. Crawford residence on the
corner of Congress and Madison SITS.
At a congregational meeting held
last Sunday morning. the Yorkville
Paptlst church voted to call Rev. W..
f. wilkins of Columbia, to the pas
torate.
Mr.. O. E. wilkins has purchased
from Mr.. B. N. Moore the handsome
LOT on the corner of Madison street and
Wright avenue. and will erect a res
idence thereon.
THE fine new Instruments recently
ordered by the Yorkville Cornet band
have been received and distributed
among the members. Everybody Is
delighted with their quality and ap-
pearance, and Prof. Herndon thinks
they are as fine as he has ever seen FOR
tlre money. The professor, by the way,
is enthusiastic over the prospect he
thinks he has the material for a first
class band, and that Is what he intends
to have, or know the reason why. The
boys have arranged to commence prac-
ticing at once. They expect to have
Professor Herndon with them for at
least one week now, or more probably
two weeks, and then for as much time
afterward as possible. Sheriff Brown
Is well able to hold instruction work
up to a high standard between times,
and 1t will not be a great while before
Yorkville can have first-class band
music whenever occasion requires.
There was quite a large congrega-
ton out at the First Presbyterian
church last Sunday morning to hear the
annual sermon to the militia by Rev.
DR.. ]. l.. Stokes, chaplain Of the Jasper
Light Infantry. There was a full turn
out of the Jasper Light Infantry un-
der command of Capt John K. Hart,
and the South Carolina National Guard
was further represented by Col. w. w.
Lewis, and Major w. B. Moore, of the
First regiment and several members OF
Col. Lewis's staff, including Major NJ.
]. Walker. and Lieutenant w. L. Will
liams, of the medical corps, Lieutenant
]. ]. Keller and Sergeant Major r. II.
Dobson. DR.. Stokes based his sermon
on three appropriate texts and discuss
ed "the soldier" the citizen soldier
and the christian soldier" applying
the lessons adduced to the relations OF
every day life. 1t was an able sermon,
and was very much enjoyed by all who
heard 1t.
The sales Of the "All Through the
Year Cook Book" hold up I'm manner
that Is very gratifying to the ladies
having charge Of the enterprise. No
special effort is being made to encour-
age the demand; but all the same 1t
continues steady. Mrs. McNeel Is In
constant receipt of orders from the
surrounding country and from distant
Of ha
vile Banking and Mercantile compa-
to yesterday morning and several 9TH
er ladies have done nearly as well.
Quite a number of orders have been re-
ceived at THE ENQUIRER office from
people at q distance. The available
supply Is now reduced to only a few
hundred copies, and If, when the pres
ent edition Is exhausted, the ladies do
not see proper to have 1t duplicated,
there are lots of people who will have
occasion to regret that they did not
buy when they had the opportunity.
In tearing away the old brick
kitchen on the property that Mr.. G.
II. O'Leary recently purchased from
DR.. A. Y. Cartwright for the purposes
of the Shandon hotel, the workmen
found a tombstone that seems to sug-
The memorial Is soapstone slab.
bearing the inscription, so far as 1T
can be deciphered, ELIZA Alue Hill.
Porn, October 1914, aged 9 years and
10 months" Just what it means no
body knows. 1t Is generally known
that in old times soapstOne, taken
from a quarry at some point on ALL
son creek. was used for headstOnes
throughout this section: but as to-
whether this one ever marked a grave
and was afterward displaced by mar
BILE cannot be told. Neither is there
anv certainty as to who the child
might have been. There resided I'm
the town about this time, however.
the family of Randolph Hill. a son
of Col. William Hill. Col. William
Hill was the owner of the iron works
on Allison creek. famous i'm revolu-
tionary times. Randolph Hill was a
lawyer and a brother of d. H. Hill,
the Confederate general. He. like
all other members of his profession
i'm his day. figured prominently in
politics. He was q follower of Cal
houn in notification times. and ira
dition has ii that he and the late Col.
w. G. Beatty came near fighting a
duel as the result of differences grow
ing out of that excitement. The mat
ter was settled by good offices of mu-
tual friends But. az stated, as to
whether this old headStOne has any
direct relation to or connection with
any of those things cannot now be
told.