Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-09-29
Hlistellaneuus 8eading,
WITH NEIeHBoRINe EXCHANGES.
News and Comment Cleaned From
Within and About the County.
LANCASTER.

!. lANCAS Elk.
News, September 25: Good progress!
has been made this week on the work
of erecting the standpipe for the water
works system. The support will soor
be ready for the reservoir, which vii
be about $50 feet above the ground
, Work is also getting along apace OF
the dam across Bear Creek. "A crowc
went to the house of Mr. Burrel Trues-
dale in the mill village Thursday nigh
to run him off," it is said; but he ef'
, fectually turned the tables on his at
tackers. capturing as many as foul
pistols and three hats. Some three ol
, four shots were fired into the house
Mr.. Seaborn McManus, one Of
the old landmarks Of Flat Creek town
ship. died yesterday morning at hi:
home in the Taxahaw neighborhood
He was stricken with paralysis about
, two years ago, from which he never
fully recovered. He sustained SECOND
stroke last Sunday, to which he sue
combed at an early hour yesterday
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eran and lost his right arm in the ser,
vice of his country. He leaves widow
, and the following named children
Mrs. Mary Belk, Mrs. Matte McManus
Miss Hennie McManus. Mrs. ]. L. Belk
Messrs. w. NJ. and Judson McManus
and Miss Lille McManus, all OF this
county. The remains will be inferred
in the family graveyard today.
CHESTER.
, Lantern, September 25: Mrs. Masor
Ferguson, of Yorkville, spent Wednes'
Z day with her sister, Mrs G. W. Fergu'
, son. .... Miss Martha Mobley re-
turned Wednesday evening from
visit to Mrs. R. B. Davidson, in York
Vile. ....A tenant house in Mr.
Robert Frazer's quarter, near, the
Seaboard depot, was burned last night
between nine and ten o'clock, with
; almost all its contents. The house
was occupied by Ed Kelly's family
colored. The grown members Of the
family, were away and the fire had
made so much progress before 1t was
noticed, the children were barely res,
cued by the first persons who reached
the house. The fire alarm was given
but as it was beyond the water limits
i nothing could be done.... Mrs. l.
| A. Hoist returned Wednesday after
noon from Savannah, Ca, where she
was called Saturday morning, the
18th, Of this month. to attend the fu-
neral Of her nephew, Mr.. Ernest H
Roberts, who was drowned Thursday
night near his home at the isle OF
| Hope. After eating a hearty supper
Mr.. Roberts went into the river to
take a swim and it is supposed he was
taken with acute indigestion and
heart failure and Immediately sank
His body was recovered in almost
twenty minutes and everything posi-
BILE was done to restore him to life
but to no avail. The funeral service
was in the Episcopal church Satur-
day morning and the burial in Laurel
Grove cemetery. He was 80 years
old and leaves a wife and three small
children. His mother is also living
He had been the ringer Of the chimes
of st. Johns church for ten years.
GASToN.
Gastonia Gazette, September 25: A,
his home on the old Dallas road neal
the covered bridge, Mr.. James w. Lay
died Wednesday morning about
o'clock from gastritis, from which dis
ease he had been suffering for some
time. Funeral services were held yes
terday afternoon at l o'clock at Long
Creek Baptist church, conducted by
Rev. ]. A. Hoyle and interment follow
ed in the cemetery there. Mr.. Lay was
an Industrious farmer, though hand
icapped by the loss on the railroad
some years ago of one Of his arms. He
is survived by a widow and several
i children. very regrettable error
resulting from misfnformation given
appeared in the Gazette Of Tuesday
when it was stated that Mr.. w. L
Smith had gone to Glover to attend the
funeral of his mother, Mrs. ]. D. Smith
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his grandmother, Mrs. L. H. higgins
Mrs. higgins died Sunday night, aged
II, at her home near Bowling Greer
and was buried Monday afternoon al
i Glover. Death was due to the infirmi-
ties incident to old age. Mrs. Smiths
friends, who were distressed at the
previous report, will learn with pleas
ure that it was an error. .Sallie Ross
and Mary Gordon, two negro women
of questionable character, were tried
; in police court yesterday morning or
the charge of indulging in an affray
The trial grew out of a difficulty which
occurred in a house on Davis row Wed
nesday night when the Gordon woman
slashed the Ross woman with razor
inflicting a painful wound on the lat
ter's breast. The Ross woman was
4 fined $3.50 and the cost and the Gordon
woman was bound to court in the sun
of $25. .... Mr.. A. c. Stroup, one OF the
county's best farmers and a gentleman
y who is a close observer of conditions
says that he does not believe the cot
ton crop in CASTOR county this season
will be more than 65 per cent of ar
average crop. Mr.. Stroup has been al
over the county for the purpose Of
finding out actual condition Of the croI
on request from the government for
report and gives the above as his esti-
mate. A number Of other good farm
ers and close observers, with whom the
reporter has talked, are all unanimous
in the belief that the crop is In the
neighborhood of two thirds Of an av'
erage crop. There seems to be nc
doubt that as far as CASTOR county is
concerned it is away off in quantity
The general observation is that the
, stalk is apt to deceive the casual OBJ
server 1t looks good but the fruit l: