Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-03-24
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Lantern, March 90: Mrs. c. +. Har-
nv of Grover n. c. who has been WIS.,
iting her sister Mrs. w. T. Lowrance'
left Yesterday for Yorkville to visit her
sister. Mrs. c. c. Hughes on her way
home The following announcement
taken from the GastOnia News VIII ne
of interest to the relatives and frlends
of Mr.. Wylie who was reared in the
WeIlridge neighbOrhood Of this county:
A wedding of interest is the marriage
of Miss Cora Costner to Mr.. James
Wylie at the home of the brides pa
rents Mr.. and Mrs. +. A. Costner on
the evening of March 25th. Miss Cost
ner is popular bookkeeper for the
Singer Sewing Machine company. The
groom is a native of CASTOR, was TOT
some time city agent for the South
ern road and now is assistant ticket
agent for the Seaboard road at Char
lotte. The barn and stables OF VII!
Pratt, colored. who lives about mile
from town on the West End road was
DESTROYED by fire about 10 o'clock wed
nesdav night. When the fire was no
ticed it had made such headway that
il was impossible to save the stock TWO
horses. one of which belonged to
Pratt and the other to Harry McCrea-
ry. colored. two cows and calf. twen-
ty-five bushels of corn, 200 bundles OF
fodder, buggy and plOw harness and
q ouantity of cow feed and other
things were entirely consumed. The
COWS got out but they were so badly
burned II is not expected they will get
over IT. 4 goat which belonged to
little Melton Woods, was hitched on
the outside of the barn and was saved.
Pratt saws the believing Of the COWS
WAS the most pitiful thing he ever
heard. He does not know how the fire
started and he had no insurance. .....
Miss Mamie Tickle and Mr.. Z. L.
Younger came down from Danville,
Va, Tuesday afternoon, March II, and
were married at the Baptist parsonage
about o'clock by Rev. ]. 8, Snyder
they left on No. 80 next morning for
Some point in North Carolina. where
they will make their home. ..... MISS
Isabel Guy Of Lowryville, and Mr.. VIII
liam Bryan Jenkins Of st. Charles, >.
c.. were married Wednesday morning,
March is, at $50 O'Clock, at the home
of the brides mother, Mrs. ], S. Guy.
The ceremony was performed by the
brides brother-ip- Rev. +. u.
Gregg of AbbevIle. The marriage was
a very quiet affair, only the immediate
members of the family being present.
Soon after the ceremony Mr.. and Mrs.
Jenkins drove through the country to
this city and boarded No. SO Of the
Southern for st. Charles, where they
will make their home. Friends here
received announcements of the mar
riage yesterday morning. Fred Price
cOlored, who was for a few years a
public hackman, but for the past few
months an employe Of Mr. H. S. Hey
man. met with a fatal accident about
4.3O o'clock Tuesday afternoon. AS.
DR.. McConnelrs automobile, driven by
Tom Buchanan, eOlored, was coming
from the depot. Price asked to ride on
the back of it TO Mr. MufTs. Think
ing it was the tin shop that was meant,
Tom Stacked up for him TO get off and
looking back saw Price Frustrated on
the ground where the lane goes back TO,
Lacy street. Eyewitnesses said mat
Price. with a can Of oil In one hand
and a bucket Of lard in the other
jumped straight off the machine and
his feet flew from under him and he
fell backwards. his head striking the
iron cover over a manhole IN the mid
die of the street. He was picked up
unconscious and carried into the piazza
al the home of DR.. ]. S. Allen, colored,
where ne received medical attention
and was later taken to his home on
Columbia street, and died at 10 o'clock
that evening from cohcussion of the
brain.