Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-01-08
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News and Comment Cleaned From
Within and About the County.
CHESTER.

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Lantern. January 5: DR.. and Mrs. w.
NJ. Kennedy and Rev. c. z. Mcdonald
attended the golden wedding of DR..
Kennedy's parents in Yorkville on Fri
day.. Married on Friday afternoon, at
the Baptist parsonage, Miss Lena
Yongue of this city, and Mr. ;. NJ.
Graves of Sharon, York county, Rev. j.
S. Snyder officiating .....Mr. and Mrs.
J. H. Mcdaniel, Misses Florence and
Susie Caldwell. Mr. A. G. Brice and
Mr.. ]. K. Henry went to Yorkville this
morning to attend the funeral Of Mrs.
Fannie B. McCaw. The store OF Mr..
]. B. Daniel & Co. at Great Falls was
destroyed by fire early yesterday morn
ing. The building and the stock Of
goods. valued at $500, were totally de-
stroyed. There was $4,000 insurance.
Mr.. Daniel was called over the phone
this morning and gave the reporter for
the Lantern the above information.
Mr.. Daniel said that the origin of the
fire is unknown. He said that Mr..
Gibson, who usually slept in the store,
was not there on either Saturday or
Sunday nights and hence there is no
one who can give any account of the
origin Of the fire. :. The Chester Coun-
ty Medical association met yesterday.
The annual election of officers result
ed as follows: President, DR.. ]. G.
Johnston; vice president, DR.. D. A.
Coleman, of Blackstock; secretary and
treasurer, DR.. w. B. Cox; censors, Drs.
c. B. McKeown Of Fort Lawn, H. E.
Mcconnell of Chester, and r. L. Doug
las Of Rodman. The committee ap-
pointed to secure a speaker for pub
lie meeting on tuberculosis reported that
they had so far failed to get one. The
committee was continued. The associa-
ton was entertained at dinner at the
Mitchell hotel by the retiring president
DR.. W. DeK. Wylie of Richburg. .....
The Industrious and wide awake cit
izens of Rock Hill and vicinity are get
ting a move on them on the question
Of good roads. They are now getting
ready to macadamize the road from
Rock Hill towards Chester and down
the Edgmoor road A citizen Of Rock
Hill in talking to us the other day about
the matter said that it was their in
tention to build the road on into the
Landsford section of this county and
in this effort they are meeting with
the heavy cooperation of the people
along the way. 1t has often been
wonder to us why Chester shouldn't
macadamize the road leading into the
eastern section Of the county. That is
one Of the best sections of Chester
county and the trade from that section
would be worth much to the town.
Why shouldn't the merchants and the
people Of that section get together and
with the cooperation of the county Of
ficials build the road? Why not start
and macadamize the road first to Lam
do and then all in that section? Are
we going to let Rock Hill take the trade
from us. for If they have the good
roads they will certainly get the trade?
Why can't the road be built?
LANCASTER.
News, January 6: Mr.. ]. C. Chambers
of Sharon, York county, spent from
Saturday until Monday afternoon here
with his sister, Mrs. r. z. Allison.
DR.. and Mrs. C. w. Poovey have issued
invitations to the coming marriage of
their cousin, Miss Ethel Van Landing
ham Of Camden, daughter of the late
s. c. Van Landingham, and MI Mump-
ford F. Ritchie, a prominent young
merchant of Concord, n. c. The cere-
mony will be performed at the home
here of DR.. and Mrs. Poovey, Wednes-
day afternoon, January goth, at 2
o'clock. Those of our citizens who
may be disposed to criticise the admin
istration of justice in this county ought
to study the figures in the extract from
Solicitor Henry report, which shows
that Of the four counties in this judi
cial circuit-Chester, Fairfield, Lancas-
ter and York-there were not only few
er criminal cases tried last year in Lam
caster than in either Of the other coun-
ties, but that the percentage Of convic-
tions was higher. In other words, less
crime was committed in this county In
1908 than in either York, Chester or
Fairfield, and that the Lancaster juries
convicted more frequently than did
those of the other counties. 1t Is true
that, according to Mr.. Henry's report,
there were no convictions in homicide
cases in Lancaster, but 1t is also fact
thai there were fewer number of such
cases in this county than in any other
in the circuit except Fairfield, which
had one less than Lancaster. 80. On
last Thursday afternoon, December
31st, at half after two o'clock, the
home of Mrs. Ellen Walkup, near Wax
haw, n. c., was the scene of a very
pretty wedding, when her daughter,
Miss Bernice, was united in marriage
with Mr.. Robert Clarence Ratchford.
The parlor was beautifully decorated
with evergreens and pot plants. AT
the appointed hour the wedding march,
which was played by Miss Mary Ellen
Walkup Of WaXhaw, announced the ap-
proach Of the bridal party. First came
Mr.. S. L. Steele of Yorkville, followed