Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-11-01
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GASTON

Gastonia Gazette, October 29 Mr..
John ]. Smith, a prominent veteran
and merchant of Clover, S. c.. is in
town today, shaking hands with his
many friends here. Mr.. r. B. Bah
ington returned Saturday night from
a business trip to Atlanta, Ga. On
Friday night he was one of the guests
at the Democratic dollar dinner CIV
en- at the Kimball House to Lieut.. Gov.
Stuyvesant Chandler of New York,
who was the principal speaker at the
Georgia state fair. ...... Prof. G. A.
Fellows, principal of the Kings Noun
tain graded school, rendered his res
ignation to the school board last We'd
nesday night, giving as his reason for
resigning his inability to manage some
of the boys. Prof. Fellows is a very
quiet gentleman and preferred to re-
sign rather than to have trouble with
pupils and parents. The school board
is making strenuous efforts to find a
suitable teacher to fill the vacancy
The position pays 500 per month. -.
A wedding of interest to many Gas
tonians was celebrated yesterday at
Spencer, when J. Ed Smith and Miss
Daisy English were married at the
brides home. After the ceremony the
happy couple left for a bridal trip to
northern points. Mr.. Smith is Gas
ton boy who has been for a number of
years in the service of the Southern
railway. He is now engineer on Nos.
80 and 40 between Spencer and Allan
Ia. He is brother Of Mrs. George
Armstrong of Belmont. His bride is a
native of Virginia and is a popular
young lady Of Spencer, where both
have O host of friends. Mr.. Smith has
wide circle OF friends in Gastonia
who will be interested in learning of
his marriage. The meeting of the
Daughters Of the Confederacy held last
Friday afternoon was of unusual in
terest. One of the features Of the
meeting was the report Of the state
convention held in Greensboro recent
ly. Mrs. r. L. Swan and Mrs. l.. l..
Jenkins, delegates to the convention,
gave in a most interesting way ap ac-
count Of the proceedings. The cleo
tion Of officers for the coming year re-
suited as follows: Mrs. T. l.. Craig,
president; Mrs. L. L. Jenkins, 1st vice
president; Mrs. D. r. LaFar, End vice
president; Mrs. Mary Morrow, cor
responding secretary; Mrs. A. A. Nc
Lean, recording secretary; Mrs. S. A.
Kindley, assistant recording secretary;
Mrs. J. H. Separk, treasurer; Mrs.
Minnie Curry, assistant treasurer;
Mrs. j. P. Culp, historian; Mrs. D. NJ.
Of thirteen out of the fourteen local
Farmers Union of the county met at
Bessemer City last Saturday and or
ganized a county union. Outside of
the delegates there was only fair at
tendance, but great interest in the or
ganization was manifested by those
present. A partial list of the county
officers includes ]. w. Lowry Of Low
ell, president; Mr.. Lewis Of Gastonia,
vice president, and D. A. Stroup of
Bessemer City, secretary and treasur-
er. There is an executive committee
of five with the power to act an all
matters of Importance. A resolution
was passed advising all the members
to hold their cotton for Is cents as far
as it was possible to do 50. After a
vote Of thanks to the school manage
ment for the use Of the hail. the union
adjourned to meet the first Saturday
in January with the lanyard local.
about four miles southeast of Gastonia
The prospects seem good for the or
ganization of a number of additional
local unions in the county. Mr.. j. G.
Armstrong, the organizer, goes from
here to Mecklenburg county,. BY
order of the postoffice department the
Gastonia postoffice-along with every
other postoffice in the country-count-
ed and weighed all the mail dispatched
from this office for seven days, COM
mencing at midnight on October 18th
and closing at midnight on october
18th. The following result Of the count
will prove of interest to Gazette read
ers: Number of letters, 1928; reve-
nue. therefrom, $149.35; postal cards,
.2,577; revenue, $61.12; packages OF
newspapers in the county, 2,049; pieces
of third-class mail, transient, So; rev.
enue, 80 cents; first-class packages, 2;
revenue, 81 cents; pieces third-class
matter, 2S3; revenue, $739; pieces
fourth-class matter, 129; revenue
$6.15: penalty matter, 2,911; no rev.
enue; total number of pounds, exclu-
sive of newspapers, 294.25; total
number pounds, newspapers included,
1,03425; total revenue, $191.66. -. .Cluff
Gist, colored, who seems to be trav-
cling dispensary, was landed by the
police officers here Saturday. He was
arrested by Policeman Hicks just af-
ter he stepped from the train and a
search Of his baggage revealed forty
one pints of blind tiger booze. He was
lllSu pSlOlS hdy vi al ilollOii6 oiiN
bound to court in the sum of 5000. In
default Of bond he was committed to
Jail to await trial at court. The only
other case Saturday. was one against
John Jones, also colored, for hitching
a horse to a shade tree on the side
walk. He was fined 81 and costs. Sew
eral cases were disposed of in the po-
lice court yesterday morning. They
were as follows: Charlie Johnson,
drunk and disorderly, fined $3.50 and
the cost; Dave Harmon, drunk and
dsorderly, fined IS and the costs; w
A. McVickers, drunk and disOrderly
fined 81 and the cost; Ess Irwin, drunk
and disorderly, fined $3.50 and the
costs.
n Remains of irrigation systems A.
900 years old have been eXcavated in
South Africa