Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-05-31

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Carlisle: Mr. Benjamin Ratchford of
York county: Mr.. Clarence Ratchford
of TirZah: Rev. Charles Ratchford of
| Virginia.; Mrs. Ella Bankhead of York:
Mrs. j. P. Walkup and Misses Alice
and Bertha Ratchford of TirZah. ..
Mr.. r. o. Steele of Mobile, Ala, son of
II. c. Steele of this county, was opera
ted on for appendicitis on Thursday
of last week. and a card to his father
! announces that he is doing nicely.
An interesting and closely contested
game of ball was played here Thurs
day afternoon between the Lancas-
ter and Kichburg teams. The score
was to l in favor of Lancaster. .....
Mrs. Clara Hilton, an aged lady, died
at her home near Kershaw last Mon
day. She was the widow of Samuel
Hilton and was about So years old.
She was a daughter of George Miller.
The following sons and daughters sur
| vive her: Messrs. John and George
Hilton of Florida; Mrs. Mike Lilies of
Rock Hill; Mrs. Lottie Catoe of Be
| thune: Mrs. d. f. Gardner and Mr.. j.
NJ. Hilton of Kershaw. Mrs. Hilton
was a member of Flat Creek Baptist
church for many years preceding her
death.
Fort Mill Times, May 26: The grand
stand and fence at the local baseball
grounds are about completed and the
manager of the ball team is arranging
| for several games to be played at home
in the next fortnight. 1t is probable
| that a game will be played with the
Carhartt mills team, of Rock Hill, Fri
day afternoon. ......A squad of fifteen
members of the Catawba Rifles, Rock
Hills military company, visited the
Fort Mill Light Infantry rifle range,
| two miles south of town, yesterday and
spent the day in target practice. The
officers were well pleased with the
scores of the marksmen and pronounce
the range a good one. .... The endOw-
ment fund of Davidson college has
been enriched by a gift of $1,000 by
Hon. VIM. Mack, LID, to establish
the Joseph Bingham Mack ministerial
scholarship. The gift will pay prepet-
ually to the college the tuition of one
candidate for the ministry, and the
scholarship is named in honor of DR..
Macks father, DR.. ]. B. Mack, who was
for a number of years in the past and
again in recent years a trustee of Da-
wilson. DR.. VIM. Mack is an alumnus
of Davidson, class of 'S3. He is now
the head of the American Law Book
Publishing company, New York city.
He is an old Fort Mill boy and his
success in life has been gratifying to
his friends in this section. In the
recent county Democratic convention
in Yorkville, nothing was said about
instructing the delegates to the state
convention in Columbia last Wednes-
day what their attitude should be on
the proposal to restrict the right to
vote in the party primaries to qualified
electors, but it is of interest to the
Democrats of the county to know how
the delegates voted. There were ten
delegates in the convention from York
county and they voted six to four
against the proposed amendment,
which would have changed the party
rule allowing every white Democrat
who has been a resident Of the state
one year and Of the county in which he
offers to vote 60 days prior to the next
general election the right to vote in
hn ,N,.i,, ic ttn1nrOtnn1
Delegates Lewis, Saye, Spencer and
Crawford voted for the amendment
and that Delegates w. B. Wilson, ST.,
Cherry, Campbell, Kirkpatrick, Quinn
and Alternate w. r. Bradford voted
against il. .. While sitting in store
room at 2 o'clock one afternoon not long
since where there were several men
talking on different subjects, writes
Mr. ]. H. Coltharp. several chaps pass
ed going home from school. One of
the men remarked that the teachers of
the present day do not put in half the
day in the school room. Another one
of the party remarked that under the
present method of teaching it will take
DbN VI Sul dl lllH ~ NCdlS W
get an education. Well, we thought this
assertion rather exaggerated and quite
amusing. On my way home thought
over what had heard about schools,
etc, and my mind wandered back to
my schoolboy days. The first school
| attended was in 1S45. The next in
'46, being the most notable. | will give
some Of my recollections Of it in this
letter. 1t was taught by Mr.. Meredith
| Shurley in a house about half a mile
south of where J. p. Epps now lives.
1t was organized by Stephen Pettus
| (who was killed on the 9Th Of March
| following by one of his negro mem.
The school was To run for ~ months,
as it invariably took 12 months to
make n year i'm those days. School
| opened the 23rd day of January and
was run seven days per week with
out any interruption until the 18th day
of December following. The principal
books used in that school were the blue
| back speller, the Old and New Testa-
ments, Webster's dictionary, Pixies.
Smylie's and Coughs arithmetics My
elder brother, then 90 years old. had
not been to school but a few months
and could barely write his name. Prof
Shurley gave him lessons in the blue
back speller and Pixies arithmetic
Shurly boarded at my fathers that
year and during the fall and winter
months he and brother started to
school at ; a. m, carrying a pine torch
for light. They never got home until
near dark Brother worked through
Pixies, Smylie's and a good portion Of
Coughs arithmetics that year. His
arthmetical problems were written in
blank books he got for that purpose.
We still have them in our possession.
There We're several young men and
young ladies attending that school.
The names of the men were NJ. ~, s..
II. and Lark Johnson. w. NJ. and Err
win Sutton, II. II. COltharp, c. H. Pet