Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-06-23
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News and Comment Cleaned From
Within and About the County.
CHESTER.

CHESTER.
Lantern, June 10: Mrs. S. o. Trapp
and Mr. r. +. I.ynns children have re-
turned from a visit to relatives in
YOrkville. Mrs. r. +. Wright
and children returned Tuesday after
tives i'm the Smyrna neighborhood of
York county. ... Last night, on Mr..
w. o. Guys place, Jesse Williams
shot Mary Thompson in the back,
and she is paralyzed from the wound
downward but it is not known yet
how serious the injury may be. Will
liams claims that the shooting was
accidental, and this seems not to be
disputed by others present. He had a
pistol. however, and told the woman
to look out he was going to shoot.
Little Miss Sarah Patrick, of Wood
ward, who has been visiting her cou-
sin, little Miss Elizabeth Mcclure, had
the misfortune to fall out of a little
tree over at Mr.. r. A. Loves Tuesday
and cut her upper lip so severely on
snag that it was necessary to put her
under the influence of an anaesthetic
and take fourteen stitches to sew up
the wound. The little girls had gone
over 20 visit Mr.. Hal McLure'S chill
dren and in climbing the little tree
she set her foot on a decayed limb
which gave way. Her parents were
communicated with and her mother
came up in the afternoon and took her
home Wednesday afternoon.
Miss Lottie Orr and Mr.. Samuel T..
Proctor, of this city, were married at
$50 o'clock Wednesday evening, June
II, 1908, at the home of the brides
parents Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Orr, at
LeWiSville. The ceremony was per-
formed by Rev. W. s. Martin. The
attendants were Miss Maggie Oglesby,
Of this city, and Mr. Isaac Bigham. -.
The home of Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh Mill
len near Richburg was the scene OF
pretty wedding yesterday afternoon
when their daughter, Miss Lois Isabel,
became the bride of Mr.. John H.
Hamilton, of Chester. There were a
large number of friends present, and
the house was beautifully decorated
for the occasion. Rev. r. A. Lum-
mus, of Richburg, performed the cere-
mony. The home of Mr.. and Mrs.
w. p. Timmie, on Church street, was
the scene of a pretty home wedding
Wednesday afternoon at half past sew
en-, when their oldest daughter, Min
ME, became the bride of Mr.. Joseph
Clark Stribling of Denmark, S. c. The
bride is a graduate of Winthrop COL
lege and has been a teacher in the
graded school at Denmark for the past
two years. The groom is a popular
young conductor on Il S. A. l..
LANcAs TER.
News, June 20: Arrangement has
| been made for lecture in the opera
house at an early day for the Hon
John Sharpe Williams the great lead
er of the Democratic side of the house
| of representatives at Washington. The
date will be announced later.
Little Katie CaSkey, daughter of Mr..
Jason CaSkey. of the cotton mill viii
| lage, died Tuesday from the effects OF
| a spell of measles. Had she lived
until the 4th of next month she would
have been four years old. The re-
mains were buried at New Hope, Wed
|
ed here announcing the marriage in
New York last Wednesday of Mr..
James Oscar Williams, formerly of
Lancaster, and Miss Alice Pickett,
daughter of Mr.. Theodore Clarke
Caskin, of that city. Miss Mag
gle Hallman, daughter of Mr.. A. M. l..
! Hallman, of the Creek section, had a
narrow escape, few days ago, from
the hands of a black brute. She was
at branch near the house, washing
some clothes, when, on hearing a
noise, she looked up and saw a negro
man in some bushes within few feet
Of her. She started to run direct TO
the house, when the negro headed
her off, forcing her to take another
route, through some open land. The
negro ceased to follow when the
young lady got out into the open field.
Finally reaching home i'm safety Miss
Hallman told of what had happened,
whereupOn her father and some
neighbors, with guns, searched the
country for hours for the black
scOundrel, but were unable to find
any trace Of him. AT meeting
of the commissioners of public works
Thursday night the bonds, amounting
to $50, 900. voted by the town to be is
sued for the establishment of sys-
casters three banking institutions,
the Bank of Lancaster. the First Ma
tional Bank and the Farmers Bank
and Trust company, each bank taking
$40. 900 of the bonds. at par. with ac-
crued interest to date of delivery. The
bonds, as heretofore stated, are to
bear per cent interest, payable semi
annually. There were several outside
bids for the bonds, but they were not
considered as altogether satisfactory.
The public spirit and the faith in
LancaSterS future manifested by the
local banks will no doubt be appreci-
ated by our citizens generally.
GASToN.
Gastonia Gazette, June 10: The Ga
Zette learns on good authority that,
soon after the first of July the South
ern railway will take active steps look
ing to the rebuilding of its freight de-
pot which was recently burned. 1t is
understood that their architects are
even now drawing plans for this
structure and it is more than likely
that the road will lose no time after
the first of July in pushing the con-
struction of the depot. Mr.. Frank
Nolen, aged q years, died at the
home of his parents Mr.. and Mrs. w.
NJ. NOlen at 1.30 Wednesday morning,
after an illness of many months with
lung trouble. Before the long illness
which ended in his death, Mr.. Nolen
had been for some time clerk in the
establishment of J. NJ. Belk company,
and had a large circle of friends who
sympathize deeply with the bereaved
family. .. Sheriff r. Z. Shuford'
accompanied by officers Kendrick,
Sandifer. s. c. Whitaker and San
derS. left Gastonia about IL o'clock
Tuesday night on search for block
ade still OF which he had been inform
ed by some unknown person and re-
turned Wednesday afternon with Jim
Whitener. a young white man whom
they captured that morning near the
South Carolina line. They found
Whitener engaged in washing the
still, which was located in a lonely
spot i'm a deep hollow. They found
about six hundred gallons of beer not
ouita Sour pnOugh 70 still which eX-