Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-06-26
CHAT FROM CHEROKEE.
Plenty of Rain-condition of Mrs.
Mitchell-Work of the Sessions Light
na.eonaI Manfion

Plenty of Rain-Condition of Mrs.
MitchelI-Work of the Sessions Light
Personal Mention.
Correspondence Of the Yorkyille Enquirer.
Wilkinsville, June 24.-Mr. c. W.
Whisonant, who was caught in the
machinery of his mill some days ago,
and pretty badly hurt, is all right now
He had a very narrow escape.
Since last Friday, we have had a
good deal of rain and some hail in diff
ferent sections, which did consideraD pie
damage to crops. Thickety and Gill
XIV creeks were high and crops, hay,
etc. upon the lOwlands were badly hurt
if not entirely ruined.
In company with Rev. G. B. Ratch-
ford, your correspondent went over to
see Mrs. Daisy Mitchell, wife of Mr..
Martin Mitchell, who is lying very low
at the home of her parents, Mr. ana
Mrs. VIM. E. Good of Hopewell. Mrs.
Mitchell went to the hospital at Char-
lesion, but could get no relief from the
treatment she received there.
Drs. Youmans & Hope OF LocKnart'
are now treating her case. The trou-
BILE is principally with her stomach
which will retain neither food nor
medicine.
Nice monuments have been placed
at the graves of DR.. Thomas b. Whlte-
sides and ]. Edward Leech, who are
buried at Salem.
ChiIdren's Day will come off at Sa-
lem on July %. DIR. Robert Adams
president of the Presbyterian college
at Clinton, will make an aouresS OH
Christian education.
The North Pacolet Interdenomina-
tiOnal Sunday School convention will
meet at Mesopotamia church next Sun
day, the 2Sth instant.
Proposals for the sale or donations
to the United States of site Tor the
Federal building at Gaffney will De
received between now and July ID. al
which time the same will close and
the government will decide upon the
matter of finishing up the work
Measles are now getting in tnelr
work on this side of the river.
Court is now in session at CARNEY,
Judge Hydrick presiding. Since the do
ing away of the dispensary in this
county, the criminal docket has been
unusually light, and two or three days
Of the criminal court are long enough.
Five cases plead guilty last Monday,
of these we might say two defendants
were from North Carolina, two from
York county and one from Spartanburg.
Miss Grace Whisonant, who has been
IedCHlnS Ill lAduCoSlSl, 10 oPOiNiAS tAOA
vacation at her home at Wilkinsville.
Miss Fay Whisonant, who has been
at Chicora college, is also spending her
vacation with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
C. w. Whisonant at Wilkinsville.
Rev. George B. Ratchford preached
at Salem last Sunday. He is son OF
Mr.. James Ratchford, who several
years ago went from Yorkville to
Texas, where this young man was born.
Mr.. Ratchford is now supplying the
Gaffney and Salem Presbyterian
churches He has many relations in
York county, whom he has never seen.
He breaches at Salem every third Sab
bath.
Last Sunday evening, during the
rain storm, lightning struck tree
near the chimney of Mrs. John r.
Pender and stunned the family. On
Monday a tree was struck in the yard
of Dolph Lanier and shocked his wife
so severely that she hasn't yet recov-
cred from 1t.
Sam Strain has a graphophone, with
which he amuses the children and the
darkeys when they come round.