Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-03-12
Miseellaaeuus 8eadins.
IN COUNTIES ADJOINING.
News and Comment Clipped From
Neighboring Exchanges.
CHESTER.

ing several weeks with Mr.. Jas. Hueys
family at Lewis Turnout, went home
Wednesday morning. ..... Mrs. Flora
Belts of Lewisville, who is visiting her
son, Rev. Robert c. Belts at Brad
dock, Pa, had the misfortune to slip
and fall when getting off a street car
about two weeks ago and dislocated
her hip joint. In a few days pneumo-
mia developed and she has been dan
gerously i'll. A message to her daush-
ters at Richburg yesterday said she
was a little better, though she is still
very sick. All three Of her sons are
with her. .... The dispensary was
opened this morning at the old stand
and with the old stock. 1t was known
to but few that the place would be
open and there was no rush. Mr. +.
M. Nail kept tally for the first minute,
and ten entered during that time.
Dr. r. Lowry Wylie left for Glover
Wednesday morning to take charge OF
the drug store he has purchased from
Mr.. F. E. Clinton. Mr.. Wylie Is
young man of the strictest integrity
and will be valuable addition to any
community. According to announce
ment in Tuesdays Lantern, Messrs.
L. M. Pinckney Of Charleston, and o..
w. Kelsey and c. r. VanEtten Of New
York, met a good number of our citi-
zens at the court house that afternoon
to present the proposition Of the South
Carolina Public Service corporation to
build a system Of electric lines in this
state, Chester being one of the most
important points. Mr.. Pinckney gave
briefly a sketch OF the inception and
organization of the scheme, the plans
for building and operating and the ad-
vantages that would accrue to the sec
tions of country through which the
lines would pass. The route OF the
proposed road is from Charleston via
Summerville, Hollyhill, Orangeburg to
Columbia, continuing from Columbia
through Winnsboro, Chester, Rock Hill
to Charlotte, N. c., with a division
running from Orangeburg through
Norway, Springfield and Aiken to Au-
gusta, Ga. Another division will run
from Columbia westwardly through
Lexington, Saluda, Greenwood, Abbe-
willie and Anderson to Greenville, loop
ing back through Spartanburg and
Union to a junction with the Columbia
and Charlotte division at Chester. An
other division runs from Saluda
through Newberry and Clinton to
Laurens. The business of the corpor-
alton will be freight, passengers, mail
and express. AS the street car line
serves the individual in cities, so will
the railroad Of the South Carolina
Public Service corporation serve the
farmer and merchant, because with an
electric railroad freight and passen-
gers can be handled in a manner that
Is impossible with steam railroad.
LANCASTER.
News, March 8: Mrs. Leroy Springs,
whose condition was considered quite
serious a few days ago, was reported
as resting comfortably yesterday, and
her physician at the hospital in Bal
timore where she has been for some
weeks, expressed themselves as hope
full that the crisis had passed. .......
Mr.. S. S. Perkins and Miss Maggie
Pardue were married Thursday even
ing at 8 o'clck by Rev. Chalmers Fra
ser, D. D. 1t was quite a surprise for
they had confided the secret to only a
few OF their closest friends. They
were married at the Presbyterian
manse. Married. Sunday, March 8,
by Notary Public w. F. Estridge, Mr..
William d. Faile and Miss Letha Fall
kenberry, all of Flat Creek township.
..... Mrs. Martha Thompson, widow
Of the late Eli Thompson, and mother
Of Mrs. ]. F. King of this place, died
at her home near Edgmoor, in Chester
county, Wednesday after a protracted
illness. and her remains were brought
here Thursday and taken to New Hope
church and inferred by the side Of
her husbands. Mrs. Thompson had
lived in this county all her life until
the early part of this year when she
moved over in Chester county. She
was about fifty years of age and leaves
eight children surviving her. The
eleven-year- daughter Of Lewis
Potts, colored, on Mr.. w. ]. Cunning
hams plantation west Of town, was
seriously burned last Monday. She
was mending up the fire when her
dress caught, and before her father,
who was in the yard and ran meeting
her as she jumped out of the door,
could eXtinguish the flames half her
clothing was burned off. One side
Of her body, neck and head were bad
ly burned. Dr.. Brown is attending her
and now thinks she will recover from
the injuries. .... The dwelling on the
plantation of Mr.. ]. w. Cunningham
west Of town, occupied by our general
bachelor friend, Mr.. Roy Cunningham,
came near going up in smoke Monday.
A pan of ashes had been left in the
cook room from which the floor caught
afire. When discovered the blaze had
up TIE wall anu was Tic
ceiling and a large hole had been
burned through the floor. A few min
utes more and it would have been i'm
possible to have extinguished the fire.
...... Mr.. John M. Nelson, perhaps
the oldest man in the county, has been
gathered to his fathers. His death oc-
CURED at his home in the Unity Sec
ton. on Tuesday last, March 5, Of
dropsy. He had passed more than four
score years and ten on earth. having
been born Nov. 5. 1916. The greater
part of his life was spent in the vicin-
ity where he died. in the vocation of
farming. He was a quiet, peaceable.
law abiding Christian citizen, and his
passing away closes the career Of a
man whose exemplary life will leave
It's impress upon his community For
years he was an elder in Unity A. r.
p. church
GASTON.
Gastonia Gazette, March s: Mr.. Ar