Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-09-27
WITHIN The TOWN.

The Ladies' Aid society of the
Baptist church Is installing a first
class system Of electric lights.
"A small party Of Catawba Indians
were in Yorkville Wednesday and yes
terday offering pottery and other ar
ticles for sale.
= Ordinarily September Is a hard
month, but several Of the supply peo-
pie report larger collections than US
ual up to this time.
- The Hotel Shandon has hung out
a handsome new electric sign. The
sign was put together by Mr.. Barnwell
and lettered by Mr.. Gaines.
= Yesterdays weather made season
able very handsome set of furs that
the Strauss Smith Company Is dis
playing in one Of its show windows.
The Thomson company and ]. O.
Wray have helped the appearance OF
their store fronts by placing hand
some gold and silver signs around
their show windows.
= Mr.. williams, of the firm Of j. l.
Williams & Co., Is very well pleased
with the way the fall trade has been
opening. He says It has been better
than he expected this year.
The fact that q hungry man car
buy q good meal or get q quick lunch
at any time, helps the situation very
materially. People from the country
are especially appreciative.
The grounds around the G. q
NV. station have been greatly i'm
proved by covering Of crushed gran
| lite, which will reduce the amount OF
mud about the depot in wet weather.
= The concert in the Wesleyan M
L. church by the Claflin quartette last
Wednesday night was not so largely
attended as the management had rea-
son TO hope. The attendance, how.
ever included several white people
and all of them thought the perform
ance very creditable.
The Fannie Miller Book club was
reorganized at a meeting held at the
residence Of Mrs. G. II. O'Leary yes
terday for the purpose. Officers Were
elected as follows for the ensuing
year: Mrs. w. B. Moore, president;
Miss Maggie Gist. vice president; Mrs
@. H. O'Leary, librarian; Miss Bessie
Barron, secretary; Mrs. j. r. Hart
treasurer.
- Instead Of going home in his au-
tomobile Monday. Mr.. 8. l.. Miller left
| his machine in Yorkyille in charge OF
Mr.. John Barnwell, and during the
past few days, with Mr.. Millers con.
sent they've all been taking ride
Mr.. Miller expects to return to Column
| bia as soon as the weather looks
right. He does not like the Idea o.
automobiling in the rain and mud.
Mr.. Arch Barron had the misfor'
| tune yesterday morning Of having the
fore finger Of his left hand severely
chewed by q bull dog. A shepherd dol
belonging to Mr.. Barron and a bul
dog belonging to Mr.. Tom Ferguson
had a mixup and the shepherd dos
was chewing the bull dogs ear Mr.
barron attempted to separate th'
brutes and caught hold Of his dog tt
pull them apart; but the bull dog un'
able to see the helping hand got Mr.
Barron's finger between his teeth. ant
as a result the digit had to be dressed
II by q physician. The dog wasn't con-
sidered mad, but Mr.. Barron was!
A millinery opening in Yorkville II
always a noteworthy event and that oi
the Yorkville B. & M. company OF
Wednesday was no exception. From
the announcement made by the firm ir
Tuesdays Enquirer and the invitation
| extended to the ladies to visit the fal
millinery opening on wednesday
1t was quite naturally to be ex'
pected that Miss Shafer who has
charge Of this department, would have
display that would be above the
commonplace, and to judge by the ex-
pressions Of some Of the ladies who
visited the store, their expectations
were fully realized. A notable feature
of the display was the showing made
in the big south show window. This
consisted Of an artistic arrangement OF
trimmed hats. ostrich plumes, wings
tips, ornaments. ribbons, yelling, etc:
which effectively showed the new fal
styles in millinery. Up stairs there
was a rather bewildering display OF
beautiful pattern hats with all the
necessary trimmings. ETC., that go tc
make up an attractive millinery dis
play. The reporter asked Mr.. John
Sandifer which was the front of one
| of these creations, and he remarked
that he didn't know for sure. but II
looked to him like 1t might either be
"a-gwine or a-coming," but, OF course
the ladies know.
- There has been a considerable still
among the patrons Of the graded
school because Of the somewhat unu-
sual procedure of the superintendent
| in ordering the summary removal from
| the Wentworth's Arithmetics and Al
gebras belonging to the children those
pages containing the answers to the
various examples given In the DOCKS
The first that most of the patrons
knew Of the order was when the chill
dren Of the lower grades came home
with their books and told how the cut
ting had been done by the teachers
That there was pretty general indig-
nation Is easy to imagine. One pa
tron wrote the superintendent note
setting forth that the book was private
property and demanding that the su-
perlntendent replace 1t with new
one. The superintendent replied that
the leaves had been removed by his
orders that II the patron desired to
send his child to school he must sub
NIT to the rules; but that II he desired
to take his child out of school the su-
perintendent would restore the books;
also that all the books from the 4th to
the 9th grade were to be cut. The
patron then appealed to the trustees
verbally. They wrote him joint let
ter to the effect that the superintend-
ent had authority to do what he had
done and that they did not intend to
interfere. This correspondence took
place on Thursday, Friday and Satur-
day. 1t was understood that the bal
anCe Oh Ine DOOkS were W ue Sul oii
Monday. In the meantime there was
lots Of talk among patrons, some few
defending the action of the superin--
tendent and trustees: but most OF
them holding that the cutting was a
high handed proceeding and declaring
that they would not submit to 1t.
There was no further cutting on Mon
day, and this, of course, made more
talk. The cutting was resumed on
Tuesday, some Of the pupils acting on
instructions from home In most cases,
refused to allow their books to be mu-
tilated. 1t was announced that those
who were unwilling to permit the re-
moval Of the answers from their books
must suffer the advance deduction OF
33 1-3 per cent from their yearly aver
age, so they would have to make the
maximum in order to pass to the next
grade Notwithstanding this threat
ened penalty. quite a number refused
to submit to the cutting.
The following contribution handed
in from an authentic source yesterday