Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-06-02
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News and Comment Cleaned From
Within and About the County.
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Within and About the County.
CHESTER.
Lantern, May 90: At the convention
OF the Building and Loan associations
in Columbia Monday to organize the
South Carolina Building and Loan
League Mr.. B. NJ. Spratt. Sr., the
veteran secretary and treasurer of the
Spratt Building and Loan association
of this city was elected second vice
president. The other officers are R.
w. Shand, Columbia, president; VIM.
Goldsmith. Greenville, first vice pres
ident: John T. Melton, Columbia, Sec
retary and treasurer. Miss Virginia
Neville of Clinton, spent Wednesday
night with Mr. and Mrs. A. NJ. Aiken
on her way to Rock Hill to attend
commencement. .... Mrs. Sarah Scog-
gins Of Hickory Grove, came down
Tuesday to visit Mrs. B. E. Wright in
this city and relatives and friends in
the neighborhood Of Richburg. E. Mrs.
s. H. Hemphill returned yesterday
from a visit to relatives at Fort Mill.
Miss Mary McCollum died yes
terday, May 2Sth, at her home at
Leeds. The funeral service and bu-
rial will be at Calvary church today.
Miss McCullum was 81 years old and
was the last of family OF three girls
and one boy. The following stu
dents came down from Linwood col
lege on the c. & NV Tuesday after
noon: Misses Margie Millen, Rodman;
Emma and Julia Anderson, Lando;
Hattie Boyd Grant, Armenia; Rubie
Barron and Hattie Bradford, Chester.
Misses Mary Nicely, Florrie Belts and
Dorothy Robinson. Richburg; Leize
Thomas and Jean Hicklin, Edgmoor,
and jamie Williams and May Glass
cock of Rock Hill, came Wednesday
afternoon. Mrs. Mamie Roddey,
aged 80 years, wife of Mr. John F..
Roddey. died suddenly Tuesday. May
26, at l o'clock, at her home on the
Kell place, near Catholic Presbyterian
church. After dinner was over Mrs.
Roddey was sitting reading to her lit
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her chair. Mr.. Roddey, who was in
the yard, ran in and picked her up
and she only breathed twice after he
laid her in bed. 1t is probable that
rheumatism Of the heart was the
cause of her death. The burial was
in the grave yard at Old Purity, after
funeral services conducted by Rev. G.
G. Brown. Mr.. w. S. Brown, for
merly of this county, later of Rock
Hill and now living in Lancaster, was
found unconscious in his room in
hotel in Columbia last Friday morn
ing, from the effects of escaping gas.
It was supposed by some that he turn
ed on the gas with suicidal intent but
he denies this, and his explanation ap-
pears very reasonable. The hotel has
both gas and electric fixtures, and
when he went to turn off the electric
light he found two buttons on the
wall, near together. Starting to turn
one of them, it had no effect on the
light, and he turned the other. The
IlTSI DelOIS6u W lllS SSio ll-NSNA 80 SN1AN'
the gas was partly turned on. The
odor Of the gas escaping through the
partly open transom led to his rescue
ir time to save his life.
GASToN.
Gastonia Gazette, May %: Miss Ma
mie Devinney of Yorkville, is spend
ing some days in Gastonia as the guest
of Mr.. ]. D. Lindsays family. .... "A
valuable horse belonging to Mr.. John
C. Moore of GastOnia, died in livery
stable at Charlotte last night after be-
ing driven to that place from Gasto-
MIA by Mr.. Moore yesterday afternoon.
The owner was offered $3.50 for the
animal in Charlotte yesterday. with
a $65,O0O appropriation for court
house, free city mail delivery in sight,
bitulithic pavements and concrete side
walks, a $4,000 addition to the graded
school building and other improve
ments in contemplation, Gastonia is
going to give some other towns in the
state some hustling to do to keep up
with her. . The piscatorial artists are
getting busy. Mr.. Henderson Long,
Price Rankin and several others spent
a day and night at Wrights ferry this
week hauling in members Of the finny
tribe. Dallas, it is said, sent a party
Of merry fishermen to Tuckaseege yes
terday and still others are planning to
trv their luck. This is one recreation
politics and prohibition do not seem
to affect. =. AT the home of the brides
parents in York county Wednesday af-
ternoon at $50 o'clock, Miss Jessie
Stewart was married to Mr.. John ID.
Mclean. son of Mr. and Mrs. ]. D. b.
Mclean of Gastonia, and a Well-to- do
Young farmer of the South Point Sec
ton. Rev. w. B. ArrowOod, pastor of
Bethel church, performed the ceremo-
| nv in the presence of few friends and
relatives of the contracting parties.
The wedding was somewhat of sur
prise to the many friends of these
young people, no announcement of 1t
having been made until last Sunday.
Among these who attended from Cas-
tonia were Mr. and Mrs. ]. D. B. Nc
Lean Both of these young people
have a large number of friends who
are congratulating them on the hap
py event.
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