Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-03-08
miscellaneous Rsaains.
IN COUNTIES ADJOINING.

IN COUNTIES ADJOINING.
News and Comment Clipped From
Neishborins Exchanges.
LANCASTER.
News, March 6: The president has
reappointed Mr.. Martin Cauthen to be
postmaster at Kershaw for the next
| four years. He has made a very ef-
| ficient postmaster and his reappoint-
ment will give general satisfaction. 49,.
Lancaster county, not having required
any state constable to enforce the dis
pensary law since she adopted prohi-
bition, has $64.07 to her credit with
the old state dispensary for liquor
seized by our county and town off,
cials and shipped to the state institu-
ton in Columbia. In the future the
sheriff will have to pour out any IL
quors seized after holding for thirty
telegram Monday from Chief Of Police
Irwin Of Charlotte, N. c., that he had
captured Andrew Mcdonald, colored
and to come and get him. The sheriff
left on the next train for Charlotte
to get Mcdonald, who is charged here
with housebreaking and larceny, and
returned with him yesterday. .... Mrs.
Betsy Copeland, widow Of the late
John T. Copeland, died at the home Of
her son-in-law, Mr.. G. w. Ellis, last
Saturday, after short illness Of pneu-
monia. She was eighty-one years Of
age, a member Of Fork Hill Baptist
church, and> an exemplary Christian
woman. She leaves five children sur
viving her.
CHEROKEE.
Gaffney Ledger, March 5: Saturday
morning while searching the new suit
Of clothes Tom Harris purchased from
Carroll & Byers on the day he muir
dered Mrs. Morgan, Sheriff w. w.
Thomas found in one Of the pockets
$50 in gold. s75 in greenbacks and s2.75
in silver, making a total Of $167.75.
This added to that previously found
makes $S93.S5 as a total of the money
found on Harris person. He had
spent about $25 besides this, which
makes a total of ss1S75 he got from
the person of the old woman. ....... "A
gloom was cast over Gaffney yesterday
morning as the news Of the death or
Mrs. Hattie Pridmore was passed from
one to another. Mrs. Pridmore had
been sick for the past fourteen months
and while her death was not unexpect-
ed still it caused universal sorrow
among her friends and acquaintances.
Death came at 11.15 yesterday fore
noon. Harriet Terrisa Pridmore was
the daughter of Robt. S. and Violet
Wilkins who lived in the Union section
Of what is now Cherokee county. She
was one of eight children, there being
four boys and four girls. Two Of the
girls died in childhood one lived to
womanhood and married but died sew
eral years ago. The four boys were
o. E. wilkins of Yorkville; w. j. and
r. M. Wilkins of this city, and John
H. wilkins of this county. In 1886
Hattie Wilkins married Mr.. Mont Cur
tbs. One child was the result Of this
union. On October 8, 1895, Mrs. Curtis
was happily married to Mr. Hamilton
F. Pridmore. The union has been
blessed by four children, the youngest
OF which is but eight months old. De-
ceased is survived by her husband
and children. Mrs. Pridmore was a
consistent member of the First Bap-
tist church. She was a woman Of un-
usual attractiveness and her friends
were limited only by her acquaintance
with humanity. She will be missed by
more than her immediate family and
many hearts will ache because Of her
death. She was just in the prime of
life. having only reached her fortieth
birthday last June. The funeral will
take place this morning at IL o'clock
from the First Baptist church. The
interment will be at Oakland cemetery.
CHESTER.
Lantern, March 5: Mrs. s. E. Col
vim and son, Master Edwin, spent
ME Cody of Yorkville, who has been
visiting at Blackville, arrived in the
city yesterday afternoon to visit her
cousin. Miss Willie Hare, at Mr.. w.
R. Robinson's, on her way home. .....
The members of the county board OF
control, having been commissioned at
last, held a meeting yesterday and
elected Mr.. Louis Samuels dispenser.
Mr.. Samuels, 1t is known, was dispen-
ser under the old law. 1t had been
generally predicted that a new man
would be elected, bat this was like
many of the weather forecasts. .....
Mr.. w. w. Carroll has gone to Little
Rock for Mack McCorkle, who, with
Bob McCorkle and Ned Wall, was
charged with killing Jim Dixon, an
other negro, near Harmony church In
1904 The others were tried. Wall was
acquitted and Bob McCorkle was found
guilty and sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for life but soon escaped and has
never been recaptured. Mack ran off
and was not heard of for a year or
two Sheriff Peden has been on his
trail several months, however, through
correspondence with parties at Little
Rock, and Saturday message from
the sheriff there announced that he
was in Jail, when a requisition was
secured from Governor Ansel and Mr.
Carroll started for Little Rock. .....
Chester people still have reason to
congratulate themselves on their tele-
phone conditions. OF course there
are some people who will complain
can't help it; they are just built that
way-but there can be little doubt that
we have the best telephone system in
all the country, service and expense
considered. Indeed, we have been
watching telephone news pretty close
ly, and we believe that Chester has
absolutely the most satisfactory ser
vice. regardless Of the consideration Of
cost, and this is from one-third to one