Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-08-09
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IN COUNTIES ADJOINING.
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LANCASTER,

| News, August I: TWO young neSroeS'
about Is years old, Sim Reed. son OF
Jim Reed and Strait McMullen. son
of Leonard McMullen, had difficulty
NEAR town Friday in which the McMul-
len boy was struck over the head with
a baseball bat, fracturing the skull.
lie was operated on by DR.. K. Z.
Brown There is some chance for him
to recover His assailant, Sim Reed,
lis in iail Mr.. Robert Pardue,
whose illness was noted in the News
some days ago, died Monday evening,
at his home in the Sincerity section.
He was a victim Of fever. Mr.. Pardue
was a son of the Rev. John Pardue and
was about 40 years Of age.
CHESTER.
Reporter, August 5: Mrs. w. M.
Kennedy and daughter, Miss Belle, left
for their home in Yorkville this morn
ing after spending several days with
the formers son. DR.. w. M. Kennedy
Mrs. w. l. Kirkpatrick and her
children, Charlton and Louis, of Bas-
comville, are visiting relatives in York
county. Mrs. j.. G. Wilborn OF
Yorkville, who has been visiting her
sister. Mrs. s. NJ. Jones, returned home
this morning. Mrs. w. G. Latimer,
who has been visiting her son, Mr. q.
IC. Iatimer left for her home in YORK
willie this morning. .MessrS. John
O. Darby, j. Frazer Hardin and other
i ,,,.fl 10 ph
hood, tell a strange story of the carry
ings on of a turkey gobbler the prop
erty of Mr. George Porter, who lives
on the plantation Of Rev. S. r. Hope
near Lowryville. This gobbler evil
IDENTIFY became thoroughly imbued with
the doctrine of gobblers rights and de-
cided that the prerogative of Matching
out young fowls was no more to be-
| long to the female portion of his tribe
exclusively. He met with but little en-
couragement at first, in his reVolu-
tionary ideas, but by his importantly
finally made good. for Mr.. Porter put
forty-two guinea eggs under the COB
bier and bade him Godspeed. The old
IIellOW SluCh W lcoN iiS''N "N'' $1,000
finally strutted off his nest the proud
mother CD of thirty-siX as fine little
guineaS as you ever saw. His work OF
caring for the brood, We are told, mas
been no less successful, thirty-two OF
the guinea chicks being alive at this
time with every evidence of growing
into full sized fowls.
Lantern, August G: Mr.. S. c. Nc
Keown of Sumter. and Misses Susie
and Ethel McKeown Of Cornwell,
passed through this morning on their
wax to Yorkville. Mr.. McKeown is OIL
on a weeks vacation and arrived at
Cornwell yesterday afternoon. Miss
Mamie Broom of Jackson Greek, Fair
field county, who has been visiting a
sister in Yorkville, spent Saturday af-
ternoon here on her way to Fort Lawn
t" visit her sister, Mrs. r. l.. Broom.
l. Mr.. VIM Quinton died about 8
O'Clock yesterday afternoon, August D.,
1907, at his home on Saluda street near
the railroad. after a lingering illness.
His trouble is thought to have origi-
mated from a hurt he received in his
side fourteen years ago with an axe
handle. He was about 60 years old
land was a veteran of the Civil war,
having gone out with the "siXteens."
Saturday was the Rev. j. h.
Simpsons birthday when he was 73
iyears-young. His last two birthdays
he was on the lofty mountains of the
west. and he would have been on
mountain last Saturday if one had
been near enough. AS it was, he just
went up on 1.-The HILL" in Chester. 1t
ie worthy of note that on his birthday
he received card from his son, David
Moffatt, written on Ben Nevis, Scot
land, 1000 feet above the line Of per-
lpetual snow. On the same day, he re-
ceived a card from his daughter, Miss
Eunice, who wrote at an altitude OF
900 feet and in sight of snow, in the
mountains of Colorado. These two
were both on high mountains, perhaps
1000 miles apart. Their father was
between them, but some 5000 miles
from either
GASToN.
Gastonia Gazette, August 6: Mr. 10y
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