Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-08-02
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News and Comment About Things In
| and Around the Country.

News and Comment ABOUT hin9S in
and Around the Country.
Lancaster News, July 30: Miss
Frances Finley of Yorkville. Miss Dor
nthy Meares of Ridgeway, and Miss
Julia Witherspoon of Guthriesville, are
visiting Miss Maude Moore. 1.-The
annual meeting of the TirZah Bible So
ciety will be held at TirZah church to-
day. The address will he delivered by
the Rev. w. A. Hafner of Fort Mill....
There will be an educational rally at
Tabernacle on Saturday, August 18th.
Speeches will be made by Prof John
G.. Clinkscales and others. The public
is invited to attend and spend day in
the interest Of education. The Rev
and Mrs. r. L. Robinson were to have
removed this week to Due West, the
former to enter upon his new duties
as president of the Woman's college.
but owing to the illness of the latter,
their departure has been deferred for
week or ten days. Mrs. Robinson
has been sick for several days, but her
numerous friends will be pleased 10
learn that she is now better. .... Col.
Leroy Springs was inconsolable for a
considerable while after reading Mr..
John w. Twitty's communication in
the last issue of the News, because,
forsooth, our venerable Georgia cor
respondent therein charged him with
being a tar heel by birth, when as a
matter of fact he Is an ll-wool-and-
a-yard- wide native South Carolinian.
....A word of explanation in relation
to the game with McCOnnellsville
Thursday afternoon. On behalf of the
Lancaster team l desire to state that
we assume all responsibility for the
abrupt termination of the game, COM
pletely generating the umpire, Mr..
Mackey, from all blame or censure.
We confess that we acted hastily in
the matter, which action we now re-
gret exceedingly, and we take this op-
portunity to assure the public that
nothing of the kind will occur again.
of our patronage. Captain of Lancas-
ter Baseball Team.
Rock Hill Herald, July 29: Rev. F.
w. Gregg of Gaffney, is conducting a
protracted meeting at White Memorial
Presbyterian church of this city. Mr..
Gregg breaches each evening at s
o'clock The meeting will continue
through Wednesday of next week. In
some respects this Gaffney pastor Is
unusual. His sermons are simple and
plain, delivered in a beautiful, winning
style, and yet his thoughts are the
thoughts of the gospel as applied to
our every day life. The congregations
are growing with each service and
more and more interest is being man.
ifested. Mr.. Chas. Belts, who for
the past year has been in attendance
upon Erskine Theological seminary, is
spending his vacation with friends and
relatives at Leslie. .... The school at
Leslie has opened for a term of two
months with Prof. Reid Spencer, as
principal. He taught last year in the
state of Alabama. He will teach this
fall in Rock Hill 1t is needless to say
that Prof Spencer makes good"
Rock Hill is to be congratulated on Sc
curing his services in the graded school
the coming year. .....A very pretty
home wedding was that which took
nj Wa1naS11N nftarnnnn
home of the brides parents, near this
city, when Miss Nora Roach, the at
tractive daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. w.
c. Roach. became the bride of Mr..
Fewell Sturgis of Yorkville. The COL
or scheme, green and white, was most
artistically carried out in the profu-
sion of graceful ivy interviewer with
daisies To the strains Of Mendels-
sohns wedding march played by Mrs.
]. r. Dendy, the bride and groom en-
tered preceded by Mr.. Ed Sturgis,
brother Of the groom as best man, ac
companied by Miss Susie Roach, cousin
of the bride, as her attendant. The
bride was gowned in a lovely white
Organdy and carried a beautiful
bouquet of ferns and daisies. After
the vows had been plighted as pro-
nounced by Rev. Mr.. Dendy, delicious
cream and cake were served in a most
charming manner. This happy young
Yorkville, where their many friends
unite in wishing them much happi-
ness.
Gaffney Ledger, July 90: Mr.. H. r.
Floyd and son, Hughes, of Grindall,
were in the city yesterday. Mr..
Floyd stated to a reporter for The
Ledger that he had had no rain on
one of his places for forty-six days.
and that his crop was sadly in need
of it,. ...... Work on the construction
of the creamery was begun Wednes-
day morning. The contractors hope
TO have the creamery ready for oper-
alton within sixty days. 1t is located
on East Frederick street. The
Gaffney Manufacturing Co. will shut
down saturday afternoon and remain
inactive for q week This is for a
tWo-fOld purpOSe-tO curtail and to
make some repairs. .....A horse be-
longing to Derbin Jones, driven by
Johnny Kirk, fell into a big gully,
just below Gilliard Cline'S house,
Tuesday, pulling the buggy i'm on top
of himself. Johnny was mixed up in
the affair, too. The horse and buggy
were wedged into the sides of the
gulley so tight it required a team of
two mules to pull them out. Barring
a slight break in the cross bar of the
buggy no damage was done.
Yesterday morning about 10 o'clock.
while engaged about the quarry at
Limestone, Mr.. H. l.. Spears fell, SuS-