Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-07-15
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News and Comment About Things In
and Around the Country

liamS Furniture company OF this city,
on yesterday filed petition in volun-
tary bankruptcy, making a general as
signment in favor of their creditors.
The firms liabilities are given as $l2,-
900 to $4,000, with assets of $4,000 to
SIS, 900. Mr.. and Mrs. w. Mac. WILL
son returned last Wednesday from a
months visit to relatives and friends in
various parts of Texas and Oklahoma.
While in the Lone Star State. Mr..
Wilson travelled more than $500 miles,
visiting Galveston, Fort Worth and a
towns of the great southwestern state.
..At Shelby tomorrow the congress
sional convention will nominate Hon.
f. Y. Webb for e-election to congress
from the Twelfth district without op-
position. In November he will he re-
elected by large majority. The DEM
Ocrats of the district will line up solid
ly for him. w The CASTOR County
Farmers Union held q business session
at Dallas Saturday which was well at
tended. Among other matters of husi-
ness the Union appointed a committee
to confer with a committee from the
CASTOR County Rural Letter Carriers
association with reference To selecting
place for holding the annual fall cell
ebration the first Monday in Septem-
ber. This committee is composed or
Messrs w. B. Carson, +. =, Lineber-
ger and w. G. Rhyme. Next Saturday
afternoon at 4 o'clock this committee
will hold joint meeting with the Gas
tonia rural letter carriers to discuss the
matter of holding the celebration in
Gastonia. On Saturday night at D''-
las the county association Of rural let
ter carriers will hold a meeting at
Dallas for the purpose of definitely de-
Gliding as to the place for holding it.
Rock Hill Herald, July IL: In this
issue OF the Herald appears the ordi-
nance adopted by the city council last
Thursday night regulating the sHow-
ing of prize fight pictures I'm Rock Hill.
Miss Edith Rawls of Yor'tville,
spent a few days with her cousin, Miss
Lula Hahn. The marriage end we'd
ding reception tonight of NJ SO Bessie
Starnes and Mr.. John Kce claims the
attention of a large majority of society
folks The event will take place at the
brides home. The ceremony will he
witnessed by a limited number. but
afterwards a reception will he held,
which will, no doubt, be largely at
tended. The attendants will be as fol-
lows: Maid of honor, Miss Emma Big
gers of Charlotte. Bridesmaids: Misses
Mary Starnes and Rose Kee, sisters of
the bride and groom respectively. -.
Mr.. Walter r. Rawlinson left Sunday
afternoon for a delightful northern
TRIP. In Charlotte he joined a party of
400 college men who had a special train
to New York to attend the big con-
clave of the Kappa Sigma fraternity.
The meeting will be held at the Wal
dorf-Astora and will continue five
days. When this is over, Mr.. Rawlin-
son will spend some time in sightsee-
ing and visiting relatives in the north
ern cities. .... This morning about s
o'clock, where the Charleston division
tracks across Nor h Wilson street, L. p.
brennan met with very serious ac
cident, the result of which cannot he
determined just now. Mr.. brennan
was driving the laundry wagon and
had gotten almost across the main line
track when the shifting engine, COM
ing from the direction of the coal
chute, struck the wagon. Mr.. Dren-
nan was seated on the wagon and see
ing that perhaps a horrible death lay
before him screamed only once. His
right arm is fractured, his right ear
is bruised and his back is also bruised
as the result. The laundry wagon was
knocked down the track for a distance
of fifty feet and the wheels and the
lower part were broken into splinters.
The horse. it seems. had fallen upon
the track or was knocked there, but
the engineer succeeded i'm stopping the
engine in time to save it, but only after
the hoof of the left hind foot had been
badly cut.
Lancaster News, July 13: Mr.. r. A.
Dobson of Gaffney, who at one time
was engaged in the practice of law at
Kershaw, is a candidate for the house
Of representatives from Cherokee
county. He has the best wishes of his
fri in ic art Of hn fnr
success in his race. The supreme
court has affirmed the judgment of the
circuit court in the case of John 4.
Bridges appellant, against the South
ern Railway company, respondent.
A storm Of Cyclonic proportions swept
through the Longsville section last
Thursday evening. Fortunately the
force of the wind was confined to q
encountered no dwellings. The barn.
stable and wcllhouSc of Mr.. Dudley
MCManus, however, were blown down,
and many trees were prOStrated. Pass
ing through a body of woodland the
wind twisted and snapped uff like pipe
stems trees from two To- three feet i'm
diameter. Mr.. Thomas Adams. son
of Mr.. and Mrs. c. +. Adams of the
Flat Creek section. and Miss Pats"y
Roberts, the handsome daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. ]. r. Roberts of Lnngsvillc.
were married last Sunday morning,
July 10, at the home Of the brides pa
rents, 10y Notary Public w. +. Estridge,
in the presence of number of invited
friends and relatives. .... During a
severe storm in the upper portion of
the county Friday evening two mules
belonging to Senator II. Y. Williams
We're killed by lightning, on his plan
tation in the WaXhaws. The animals
were hitched to a wagon and were be-
ing driven by cnlOred boy, his father,
Joe Cunningham, being in the wagon
with him. AS the team was nearing
the lot an electric bolt struck a pine
tree nearby, killing the mules and
shocking the old man and his son into
state Of unConSCinuSneSS. Cunning
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