Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-06-04
aaiseellaneul1s 8eading.
IN COUNTIES ADJOINING.
News and Comment Clipped From
Neishborins Exchanges.
LANCASTER.

| News, June /: Miss Gertrude FoS-
ter Of Lancaster, who taught the past
year in Chester graded school and was
RECENTLY reelected for another year,
has resigned to accept a position III
the Sumter school. .... Miss Cornelia
Elliott returned Thursday from a few
DAYS visit to her sister, Mrs. Lloyo
Moore in Fort Lawn. 80. Mrs. F. E.
Smith and children Of Tirzah, YORK
county, are visiting Mrs. Smiths pa
rents, Rev. and Mrs. M. ]. Long OF
Lancaster, Route 5..... There Will De
Sacrament at Unity A. R. P. church
tomorrow, Sunday. Preaching began
there yesterday, by the Rev. w. l.
Love. Mr.. j. N. Bigham and Miss
Nettie McCorkle of Monroe, were mar
ried last Sunday, May 26th, by Notary
Public R. H. Sapp Of this county,
Mr.. James B. Hunter Of the eastern
portion of the county, who was oper-
ated on for appendicitis few days
ago, at the Pryor hospital In CHESTER
is reported to be getting along nicely.
CHESTER.
Lantern, May 81: Miss Leila De-
Vega has issued invitations to the
marriage of her sister, Alexandria
Wylie, to Mr.. Ross Carpenter Sanford,
on the evening of Wednesday, the
twelfth of June, at 9 o'clock, one thou
sand nine hundred and seven, at Saint
Marks church, Chester, South Carroll
ma Mr.. w. A. Bowles, who started
to Hot Springs few days ago, ex-
pecting to go on to Indian Territory
after q day or two, took sick at Men,
phis and returned to Atlanta where
his daughter lives. A letter had just
been received saying that he was much
better when a telegram was received
this morning by his son Mr.. w. r.
Bowles saying that he was very Ill;
come at once" He left on the next
train. >. =. Miss Mary Belle Caskey,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Caskey, near Pleasant Grove, and Mr.
Henry o. Tenant Of Cornwell, were
married at 4.SO o'clock Wednesday af-
ternoon, May 80, 1907, at the home OF
the brides aunt, Miss M. j. Wallace
where she made her home. The cere-
mony was performed by Rev. G. G.
Brown. Officers report a man un-
der arrest at Statesville, N. c., thought
to be Nathan Upchurch who killed
Robert Belk at Lando a few years
ago. Mrs. w. B. Lynn took her son
Olin to Atlanta Tuesday, where he Is
being treated at the Pasteur institute
as a safeguard against hydrophooia~
A letter to Mr.. A. c. Lynn yesterday
morning said the treatment had been
commenced and he was getting along
well. We heard yesterday OF a
shocking occurrence in the Harmony
neighborhood Wednesday. The facts
as told us over the phone are that MI.
Patterson Gibson, was out In his corn
field shooting crows and when ne
went home he set his gun down in the
house In little while his SIX year
old son picked the gun up and told his
little four year old sister that they
would go squirrel hunting and that
she could be the squirrel. Not real
izing the danger, the little boy raised
the gun and fired, the load striking her
| in her neck, and death resulted almost
Instantly. The little body was buried
at Mt. Prospect church yesterday.
GASToN.
Gastonia Gazette, May 81: Mr.. I. N.
Kendrick will organize the Oak Ridge
Conclave of Heptasophs at Bethel
Tuesday night. Mrs. w. r. Mar
shall, Master Rogers Marshall and
Will E. Marshall arrived Wednesday
from Raleigh and will spend the sum-
mer in Gastonia, occupying their home
on South street. Col T. G. Fry OF
Greensboro, former manager Of the
Hotel Guilford- -Benbow, has leased the
Falls House for a period Of twelve
months and will be here June 7th to
take charge He will be accompanied
| by his wife and daughter and SON;
the latter will have charge Of the Of
flee. Colonel Fry has been in the no.
| tel business for q number OF years
and is known throughout the south
as a successful hotel man.. Rev A.
S. Anderson, the newly appointed min
lister Of the Loray Presbyterian
church, arrived Tuesday night and
will take up his work at once. Mr..
Anderson will move his family here
in the near future and will reside near
the Loray park. Mr.. Anderson is a
graduate of the Union Theological
seminary at Richmond, Va, and Is an
able young minister. ..... The barn OF
Mr.. r. ]. Bingham in West Gastonia
was destroyed Wednesday by fire, the
origin of which is not known. Mr..
Bingham also lost his horse by the
fire and some hay, but his buggy and
harness were saved. The loss Is esti-
mated at $500. The barn is situated
near the railroad and it is thought by
some that the fire was caused from a
spark from a passing engine. While
the fire company was at the above
place, the fire alarm again sounded, on
account of a fire in the chimney at
Long Brothers store There was no
damage done at the latter place.