Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-07-31
Tuesday, July 81, 1905
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

Columbia Record: Miss Blanche
Salley of Salley's and Mayor r. Good
wyn Rhett of Charleston, will be mar
ried on Wednesday, August the Sth,
in Trinity church of this city. No
cards have been issued, the announce
ment of the engagement having been
made informally to their friends. The
marriage will take place from the
home of DR.. ]. w. Finn at o'clock
in the afternoon. A small informal
reception will be given Immediately
after the ceremony for relatives and
intimate friends. The bride and
groom will leave late in the afternoon
for Chicago and will spend the rest
of the summer travelling in the west
ern states.
News and Courier: The meeting of
the board of directors of the National
was to have been held Wednesday
evening, but was postponed on &C
count of rain, was held last night.
The first business was the report of
tie wv
State Press association. Resolutions
of thanks were extended to Capt.
and Mrs. E. II. JahnZ. Mrs. ]. c. d.
Schroeder and the ladies who kindly
assisted her; Mr.. Frank Hummer of
the Carolina Floral company; Mr..
Albert Orth and the Deutsche Zeitung
for special courtesies shown by them.
Communications received up to the
present time indicate that a very
large attendance may be expected at
the National Fest next year. The
most gratifying information comes
from ex-President Henry Kroeger of
New York city, that one of the vari-
Gus Schuetzen clubs there has already
to bring them to Charleston next
May, and that club would probably
bring along their own band, and that
their band is one Of the best in New
York. The committee, headed by
Capt. Jahnz, will go to New York
next week and consult the various
Schuetzen captains in and about New
York to arrange for mass meeting
to be held in some prominent point
in the city in the near future to
further arouse the enthusiasm Tor
the great Fest to be held in Charles
ton next May Other committees will
from time to time go to various parts
of the country to further the inter-
est of the great Fest.
Rev John w. Humbert, one of the
oldest members of the South Carolina
conference and at least twice located
in York county, died in Newberry last
Saturday afternoon. Rev. John w.
Humbert was one of the veterans of
the South Carolina conference, having
Joined on probation at the Greenyille
conference, Bishop Early presiding,
in December, 1859. From that time
to his death he was active in the
work. He commenced his ministry
in the mountains of North Carolina,
Rutherford circuit and since that
time has served churches from the
mountains to the Seaboard. He was
a successful minister having added
largely to the membership of his
church While on the Chester circuit,
1874, he held wonderful revival,
there being ESQ accessions to the
Methodist church and a large number
to other denominations. Mr.. Humbert
graduated from Wofford college In
1859 and shared the second honor
OF the Grass Will LII "a. D. otOhCo'
Five of this class joined the South
Carolina conference-Humber Staf-
ford, A. ]. Stokes Weaver and Weber.
Mr.. Humbert was ordained deacon by
Bishop Andrew at Chester in 1851 and
elder by Bishop Pierce at Sumter I'M
1868 He was born June 10, 1885,
near Knoxville, Tenn, whittier his
parents moved from South Carolina
a short time after their marriage.
His parents, Rev. John Girond Hum
bert and Mary E. Quinn, were natives
Of Beaufort. His forefather, David
Peter Humbert, was a Hugenot, who
came from Genoa, Italy, in 1898, and
received q grant Of land from the
British government in the then Beau
fort district. Mr. Humbert was mar
ried in October, 1865. to Mrs. M. M.
D'Oyley, daughter of the late Gen.
H. H. Kinard. From the time of their
marriage Mrs. Humbert has been his
active assistant in all church work.
For many years she has been also cor
responding secretary of the Woman.s
Foreign Missionary society in this
state.