Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-09-04

Dr. w. NJ. helneuy, anu Ielulleu yes
terday. Her daughter, Miss Rachel
who has been here for two weeks went
home with her. Miss Mary b
Gill died at II o'clock Friday morn
ing, Aug. 2S, 1908 at her home at
Richburg after an Hines of several
weeks with some stomach trouble.
She was the only child Of the late Mr..
George c. and Mrs. Susan Neely Gill,
and was born and reared in the neigh
borhOod of Fishing Creek church, A
few years Of her life were spent at
Rock Hill but for the last ten years
her home has been at Richburg. Her
parents are dead but she and her step
mother, Mrs. NJ. E. Fripp, lived to-
gether. The funeral service was at
the Presbyterian church at II o'clock
Saturday morning and the burial was
in the cemetery at Union church. Miss
Gill was a good woman and had been
a member of the Presbyterian church
since her girlhood. .... The South
ern Power company is reported to
have suffered immense damage from
the flood. The upper works which are
on the canal, protected from the main
stream of the Catawba, was compar-
atively free from damage and contin-
ued operations, as was the case at the
plant above Rock Hill. The lower
works, however, at the mouth OF
Rocky Creek, which are on the main
stream and are in course Of construc-
ton. suffered terribly. A good deal OF
the railway track was washed away,
as we'll as a quantity of cement and
other material and appliances for
work and some buildings. Twelve
mules in pasture on an island were
lost. Other parties are said to have
had stock on the island but had taken
them off. The Southern Power COM
pany's loss is estimated at $4,000 to
100000.
GASTON.
Gastonia Gazette, September /: Mr..
]. ]. J. Robinson, of Hickory Grove
York county is spending few days
in Gastonia with friends. He lives
on Broad river in the extreme
western portion Of the county
and says that during the recent
food this stream was 33 feet high,
the highest it has been within the
memory of any living inhabitant of
that part of the country. ..... The
contract for motors, switch boards
and transformers for operating the
Loray, Gastonia's largest cotton mill
and one of the largest in the south,
was let Saturday, says the Charlotte
News, to the Western Electric COM
pany. whose representatives, Mr.. j.
A. Pizzini, of New York, and Mr.. K.
L. Stockton of Chicago, were in Char
lotte along with representatives OF a
number of other big concerns, all of
which were bidding on this job. The
sum involved in the contract, 1t is
further stated, is between 100000 and
S65,OOO, and the contract is one of the
largest ever let for electrical equip
ment in the south. 1t is understood
that the installation of the motors and
other equipment will begin as soon
as possible, the mill in the meantime
using steam power as heretofore. The
Loray has $4,000 spindles and 1,16O
looms and the equipment ordered rep
resents 5000 horsepower. The pow
er, it is understood will be furnished
by the Southern Power company.
]. L. Fits, a Socialist agitator, was
arrested Saturday afternoon on war
rant charging him with obstructing
the sidewalks and the street on South
street. He put up a cash bond of $40
for his appearance in mayors court
yesterday morning. He was tried and
fined $3.50 and the costs. Refusing
to pay the fine or to appeal to superior
court he was sentenced to fifteen days
in Jail with privilege to the county
authorities Of working him on the pub
lie roads