Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-10-02
LOCAL LACONICS.
We Will Send The Enuuirer

From this date TO January 1st, 1909.
! for so cents.
Plenty of Partridges.
The outlook for a good partridge
crop this season is good. Many Of the
birds are more than half grown and
there seems to be lots Of them.
Death of Mrs. John Brown.
Mrs. John Brown died at her home
in the Beersheba neighborhood on
| Tuesday night, and was buried in
Beersheba cemetery on Wednesday
She is survived by her husband; but
leaves no children.
Election Commissioners.
The governor has appointed cleo
ton commissioners for York county
as follows: Federal-R. w. White
sides, j. Q. Howe, c. P. Blankenship.
Stated. P. Leslie, P. M: Burris, j.
E. Latham.
Of Consumption.
Mr.. Ennis Burns died at the home of
his father, Mr.. w. A. Burns in the
Beersheba neighborhood on September
%, after a long and wasting illness
with consump ption, in the 31st year OF
| his age.
Meeting at Sharon.
Services in connection with the Sac
rament Of the Lords Supper to be ad-
ministered next Sabbath, were com,
menced in the Associate Reformed
church at Sharon last Thursday night.
Rev. ]. P. Knox of Columbia, is doing
the preaching-two sermons each day,
Of Typhoid Fever.
Master Clarence, the son Of Mr.. U.
NJ. Pursley of Leslie, died in Rock Hill
last Wednesday of typhoid fever. He
had been moved from Leslie to ROCK
Hill about two weeks before. The de-
ceased was about 16 years Oe age. The
| funeral took place at Neely's Creek
church yesterday.
| Work on the Monument.
The contractors are about to the sur
| face of the ground with the concrete
foundation of the Kings Mountain bat
tleground monument. They followed the
seams of slate rock to depth Of about
u feet on one side and about 18 feet
on the other, and have been filling the
excavation, 24X24 feet with concrete.
| The work on the main shaft has not
yet been commenced. Up to this time
the expenditures of the contractors ag-
gregate something over $4,000.
Coming Next Tuesday.
| The Gentry Bros show has been to
Yorkville once and the hundreds or
people who saw it were we'll pleased
| with the performances Of the dogs, po-
MES and other trained animals. One
OF the advance agents advises The En-
uuirer that at the time of the first Wis
| it, the show was divided into four Sec
tions, only one Of which came to this
place. Now the four sections have been
consolidated into two sections, and the
%l,ot 70 will
be more than twice as large as that
which came on the first visit.
| Another Bank For Fort Mill.
Charlotte Chronicle: Steps are being
taken for the organization of a second
bank at Fort Mill, S. c., with a capital
stock of $4,000, business to begin
about January 1st of next year. A
subscription for stock is now being TAX
en-, prominent among those taking
shares being Dr.. T. S. Kirkpatrick and
Mr.. w. B. Ardrey Of Fort Mill, and
Mr. w. A. Watson of Charlotte. Work
will begin on the bank building and
officers will be elected within a few
weeks. The growth Of Fort Mill war
rants the establishing Of this institu-
ton, there having been in that city
only one bank, the Fort Mill Savings
Bank, which is a prosperous and pop
Qldf INSTITUTION. lie advancement VI
the town along progressive lines amply
provides the city for another financial
enterprise.
Gold For the Rainy Day.
"A bulky bag of gold containing $8,-
600 of the yellow metal was found"
says the Charlotte Observer, "in the
bottom of the late Mr.. J. P. Bales
safe when those having charge Of the
disposition Of his estate opened it at
the Bales home near Fort Mill, S. c.,
few days ago This money was in an
out-of-way place in the bottom of the
safe, where it had been, some of it at
least. for more than a score of years.
Its discovery came as a surprise, al
though members of the family had an
idea that there was pile somewhere.
Mr.. Bales was most provident man.
was known to reserve all the gold that
came into his possession but no one
believed that he had accumulated such
sum. Aside from this sum in ready
cash, Mr. Bales left an estate con-
Sisting Of 1000 acres Of fine land and
from $4,000 to 100000 in stocks, etc.