Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-04-23
LOCAL LACONIcS.

LOCAL LAcoNIcS.
We Will Send The Enquirer
From this date until January 1st
1908, for $1.3S.
Communion at Bethel.
There was an old time crowd at the
spring communion at Bethel last
Sunday, the surrounding country be-
ing represented for distance Of many
miles.
Did Not Get Caught.
Mr.. M. L. Thomasson, who lives
about three miles north Of Yorkville
who has for years had the reputation
of being one of the first farmers ir
the country to plant corn, did moi
have his crop killed by the frost this
year. He had not planted it. Fol
some reason he waited longer thar
usual and his corn is only just now
about ready to come up. More thar
once in previous years, Mr.. Thomas
son has had his corn crop cut dowr
by frost, and has had to replant, but
this year he has lost nothing but his
roasting ear patch.
Lots of coots.
Although the one mentioned In The
Enquirer of Friday was the only ons
that had been reported up to tha
time, it appears that quite a number
of coots were blown into this section
| by the southwest wind Of last week
At least a dozen of the birds have
been reported as having been caugh
in various places, and Mr.. M. L
Thomasson reports having found ont
dead. Several wild ducks have also
been reported as having been caught
during the latter part Of last week
The probability, of course, is that al
the birds have been blown up from
the seaccast.
Charged With Perjury.
Mary Ellen Smarr and Jack Good
the two negroes who foreswore them
selves in the case Of Jim Bryant
charged with burning the barn Of Mr.
]. Luther Whitesides are to be prose
cuted for perjury. They gave very
damaging testimony against Bryant
at the preliminary and at the tria
went back on 1t all, claiming that theil
previous testimony was given through
fear Warrants were sworn out last
Friday. The Smarr woman, who had
been released, was re-arrested and re-
committed. Good was being held or
another charge and had not been re-
leased.
Another Incendiary Fire.
News was received here this morn
ing of another incendiary fire in the
Steel Creek section of Mecklenbure
county. The barn Of Mr.. Frank Er.
win was destroyed with contents in.
cluding several head Of mules and
horses. The phone lines have beer
working so badly that 1t has been i'm.
practicable to get any definite or sat-
isfactory information; but there seems
to be no doubt that the fire was incen-
diary, the work Of the fire-bugs who
have had that whole section in state
of terror for some months past. This
is the seventh barn burned in this
same neighborhood since last Christ
mas.
Troops to Go to Jamestown
Col. Henry T. Thompson Of the Sec
ond regiment, was in YorkVille last
Saturday for a conference with Col
w. w. Lewis, Of the First regiment
with reference to taking the troops
to jamestown. The question at issue
involves the extent to which the reg
iments will be allowed to make use OF
their pro rata shares Of the Federal
and state appropriations, and what
kind of an agreement can be reached
with the Third regiment, which Will
go to the Isle of Palms instead OF to
jamestown. Colonels Lewis and
Thompson did not arrive at anything
definite in regard to the matter; put
the outlook Is that arrangements VIII
be perfected for the jamestown trip.
chicora Mill Changes Hands.
The following from the current is
sue Of the Textile Manufacturers
Journal will be read with interest by
many manufacturers in Piedmont Car
olina: THE Hamilton Carhardt Cot
ton mills have been incorporated un-
der New York's laws with capital OF
$500 900, of which 100000 is prefer
red and 100000 common stock.
This company has purchased the mills
formerly known as the Chicora mills
of Rock Hill, S. c., which they will
take possession of May 1st. This
plant was one Of the mills incorporat-
ed in the Southern Textile company
and subsequently purchased by the
Bellevue Cotton mills. 1t Is stated
that the plant will be doubled in size
and a dye house added. The output
will be denims and will be used By
Hamilton Carhardt, manufacturer OF
overalls, Detroit, Mich. This concern
is one of the largest overalls manu-
facturers in the country and consumes
large product annually"
The Southbound at Marion.
DR.. j. j. Hagins, formerly Of Rock
Hill, now located at Marion, n. c., be-
cause Of the condition of Mrs. Ha-
gins health, was in Yorkville yester-
day. He thinks, the country around
Marion is wonderful; but says that
the people are simply paralyzed with
liquor. There is so much liquor drink
ing up there that it Is the exception
Of a man who knows what 1t is to be