Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-07-02
Mr.. j. r. Reid of Rock Hill, lost a


Mr.. j. r. Reid of Rock Hill, lost a
mule by lightning last Thursday.
The bridge over Susybole creek was
swept away by freshet a few days
ago.
The matter of establishing Third
Associate Reformed church Is under
consideration in Charlotte.
The annual convention Of the Rural
Letter Carriers association Of South
Carolina is to be held in Greenville to-
morrow and Thursday. Congressman
Finley and Johnson are to deliver ad-
dresses on the work of organization
and the benefits Of free delivery.
The Charlotte News thinks that as
the result Of the recent election where
by the town Of Yorkville proposes to
exempt new manufacturing enterprises
from taxation for a period Of five
years, the town will have many such
enterprises that it would not have had
otherwise.
The coIored people Of Glover are ar
ranging for a big time on July q, the
occasion Of a celebration under the
auspices of the "F &, A. A. Y. M"
They are advertising a red-hot game
of baseball and plenty of eating in the
shape Of "roast beef, fish, fresh pork
and watermelons."
Even the postoffice department has
begun to feel the effect Of the advanced
price of paper and on that account
has gotten out new schedule OF
prices for the various kinds Of writ
ing material 1t is selling. Four cents
per thousand has been added to the
price of stamped envelopes.
The war department is taking its
own time about the erection Of the
handsome monument for which con-
gress has provided on Kings Mountain
battle-ground. That the monument
will be erected in the course Of time
is quite certain; but the government
is certainly very deliberate about the
matter.
It is a good natured, but a reckless,
dare devil crowd that Southern train
crew makes when released from res
possibility at an out Of the way place.
The station at Kingville, twenty miles
below Columbia, Is one Of the most
unspeakably, lonesome railway sta
tions in South Carolina. The passen-
ger crews of the Charleston division
of the Southern have to lay over-tksre
every night; but they take 1t by turns
so that the same crew does not have
to go through the punishment more
than one night in five. This applies
| to passenger crews. They amuse
themselves in various ways, sometimes
hunting where there is very little to
hunt and sometimes fishing. The lay
over generally includes about eighteen
hours, and it is not infrequently that
time hangs heavy One day recently
this writer was caught at Kingvtlle
for wait of several hours, and except
for the good fellowship Of the train
crew would have had solitary time OF
1t. There was no boarding house at
which a breakfast could be had, and an
offer of SO cents for a cup Of coffee was
turned down with indifference. The
train crew finally extended an invita-
ton that included first-class break
fast of nicely fried fish caught from
the lagoons in the nearby swamps Tic
night before, bacon, eggs and other
substantials that would have been very
acceptable even to a man who was not
so hungry. But all this is for the pur-
pose of illustrating the temper Of the
train crew. One of the men was re-
turning from a short tour into the
woods, where he had gone for the pur-
pose OF getting a shot at something
he did not care much what-with a
new Winchester rifle that he was anx-
ious to try. AS he came into sight
lanother member of the party, who had
been engaged in wiping the locomotive
picked up bottle that was lying
nearby and holding it out at arms
length bantered the man with the rife
to shoot. The distance was about for
ty yards. Almost without a moments
hesitation the rifleman leveled his
piece, took careful aim and fired. The
bottle was splintered into a score OF
pieces and the bottle holder went
about his business rubbing his hand
where it had been struck by a piece
of glass and laughing as though II
were all n good joke. 1t Is pretty
rough pranks that these fellows cal
fun: but nineteen out of twenty Of the
railroad boys are generous, open-heart-
ed men. who are glad of the opportu-
nifty to do a kindness and who would
not be guilty of anything mean or low
under any consideration.