Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-08-03
Friday, August 3, 1906.

made a contract with Mr.. Thomson
Jackson of Yorkville for about 25O,O00
brick most of which are already made
and about half Of them burned and Mr..
Jackson promises to commence ship
ment just as soon as he can get cars.
There is a market here right now
for at least 100000 brick In addition
to what the cotton mill will use. Clin-
ton & Co., have bought a lot on East
Kings Mountain street, from Capt. w.
lB. Smith, adjoining that recently
bought by Mr. A. d. Dorsett from the
same party, and that firm, together
with Mr.. Dorsett each expect to erect
substantial and commodious two story
brick buildings just as soon as they
can get the necessary brick, and 1t Is
still the understanding that two addi-
tional stories are to be built over the
store room of the Glover Drug COM
pany and the office Of the cotton mill
and the Bank Of Glover, and these
three jobs, to say nothing Of others
that are being talked of, will require
at least 100000 brick.
The Woodmen Of the World will very
likely erect a building of their own.
but as yet have not definitely decided
the kind Of building they Will put up
or where they will put 1t.
Mrs. Hedgepath, widow of Jas. A.
lHedgepath who was accidently killed by
electricity in the transformer house OF
the Glover Manufacturing Co., on July
3, has received a check for $1,000 from
the Sovereign Camp OF the Woodmen
and another for $500 from the Jr. Or
der, to both of which orders Mr.. Hedge
path belonged and in which he carried
insurance to the amounts named.
A protracted meeting Is to be COM
menced in the Baptist church here on
Sunday next and will probably con-
tinue for a week or ten days. The pas
tor is to be assisted by Rev. b. j.
Woodward, who at one time was pas
tor Of the local church and Is very
highly esteemed in the community by
reason of his ability as preacher and
his worth as man and citizen:
| Mrs. Dr. j. w. Campbell and Miss
Macie Nell have recently returned
from a short sojourn at Piedmont
Springs.
| Capt. and Mrs. ~. B. Smith, Mr..
and Mrs. J. Meek Smith and daugh-
ter are at Piedmont Springs, Mrs.
Meek Smith being quite sick.
Mr.. H. L. Wright left last Monday
for Wrightsville Beach, N. c., where
he expects to spend some time.
The Glover Manufacturing com
pany Is figuring on erecting a $4,000
| gallon Standpipe at ltS plant lor
fire protection The tank will be
made of steel and will stand on q
seventy foot steel tower. Although
the machinery of the mill Is driven
by electricity, 1t is at present neces-
sary to keep up steam in the boilers
all the time on account Of the steam
fire pump, and with the standpipe
the steam will not be necessary.
The supply Of watermelons on the
local market is quite large and quail
ity of the fruit good.
The Yorkville and Ozark mill base
ball teams played here last Saturday
the score being II to / In favor oi
Yorkville.
The r. F. D. carriers state tha
the roads over which they are forced
to drive are in horrible condition
and on some Of them even the bridge!
are badly in need of repairs and have
been for some time. Mr.. John Smith
carrier on No. 2, told your CORE
spondent on yesterday of one bridgt
which had been needing repairs bad
ly for months and at which the neces'
sary lumber for making the repair.
had been lying for months, but still
there is no indication that the lum
ber proposed to put itself into the
needed position.