Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-06-03
Mi5trllancuus Rradina.
FROM NEIGHsoRlNG EXCHANGES
News and Comment About Things In
and Around the County.

Fort Mill Times, June 2: A valuable
horse belonging to McElhaney & Co.
was seriously injured Tuesday after
noon by an automobile driven by
"Bub" McFadden. of Rock Hill. The
accident occurred at the Southern
freight depot. .... In ragged game
of ball characterized by many long
hits and more errors than seemed nee
essary, the Dilworth team of Charlotte
defeated Fort Mill on the local dia-
mond Friday Afternoon by the score OF
10 to s. The Fort Mill boys appeared
to have the game safely tucked away
until the beginning of the seventh
inning. Then a little weird work on
the part of the second baseman, coup
led with two or three bingles for extra
bases, put a crimp in their prospects.
In the eighth two runs were annexed,
but these were not sufficient TO over
come the lead of the Dilworth team.
Nile Carothers did the umpiring and
his work gave general satisfaction.
The batteries were: Fort Mill, Spratt
and Parks: Charlotte, Thompson and
Spong, Spong and PAMELA. The
Rev. w. A. Hafner left Monday morn
ing for Davidson college to attend the
annual meeting of the board of trus-
tees Tuesday morning. Mr.. Hafner is
one of the trustees from Bethel pres
bytery, which will no longer be repre-
sented on the board, as, at the meeting
of presbytery held in Ridgeway some
weeks ago, the. decision was reached to
withdraw the support of the presbyte-
ry from Davidson and in the future
patronize the Presbyterian College of
South Carolina, in Clinton. The
Buckeye Cotton Oil company, an Ohio
corporation, will within the next, two
weeks begin the erection of a large
cotton seed warehouse in Fort Mill.
The building will be located on White
street near the Stewart ginnery and
will be the largest warehouse of the
kind in town. The local representative
of the Buckeye company will be McEl-
haney & Co. Rev. c. B. Ratchford
of Tirzah, was a visitor to Fort Mill
Friday. Mr.. Ratchford is a son of the
Rev. w. w. Ratchford, who, about 40
years ago, was pastor of the Presbyte-
rian church in this place. The elder
Mr.. Ratchford now lives in Union
county, n. c.. and is more than so
years of age. County Chairman w.
ID T- Of N
Fort Mill Tuesday and while here an
nounced that he would call meeting
of the county Democratic executive
committee to be held in Yorkville on
Wednesday of next week to arrange
the dates of the various campaign
meetings and to establish a schedule
of assessments to be levied on the can
didates Mr.. Wilson also stated that
so far he had heard of only one or
two opposition candidates to the pres
ent county officers and that he had no
positive information about even one
candidate for the legislature.
Lancaster News, June I: The r. F..
D. Carriers association of Lancaster
county met Monday, May 80, in the
court house, at 1890 a. m. The meet
ing was called to order by the presi-
dent, D. R. Fletcher of Kershaw. At
ter the transaction of routine business
the election Of officers for the ensuing
year was entered into, and the follow
ing elected: President, D. r. Fletcher,
Kershaw; vice president, c. ]. Sistare,
Riverside; secretary, w. E. Pardue,
Lancaster; treasurer, S. R. Williams,
Lancaster. .... The numerous friends
in Lancaster of Mrs. ]. T. Wylie, of
this place, sympathize with her in her
present bereavement, the loss of her
sister, Miss jamie Chambers, whose
death occurred last Sunday night at
s o'clock at the home of her mother,
Mrs. Margaret Chambers at Edgmoor,
Chester county, after protracted ill
ness. Miss Chambers was about 10
years of age, and was young lady of
decided Christian character and Iowa
BILE disposition. She was a member of
the A. r. P. church. Besides the moth
er she is survived by five sisters and
one brother: Mrs. ]. T. Wylie of Lam
caster; Mrs. w. ]. Nicely of Rock Hill;
Mrs. C. l. Deal of Winston Salem, N.
c.; Misses Carrie and Letha Chambers
of Edgmoor; Mr.. Thomas Chambers
of Asheville, n. c. The burial was at
Edgmoor Monday Afternoon at 5
o'clock The funeral services were
conducted by the Rev. r. A. Lummus.
Chester Lantern, May 81: Fire broke
out this morning in the spacious man.
sion belonging to Mr.. f. S. Carter, a
prominent farmer near Wiksburg,
and totally destroyed it together with
| most of the contents. .... The Fort
| Mill Times says that Mr.. McMahan
made the principal arguments before
the recent state convention for restric-
tion in the primary and these were
shattered by Mr.. Cole Blease. Now
| what do you think of that? Just wait,
Mr.. Times, and you will see not only
Mr.. Blease, but your own position in
this matter shattered" 10y the democ-
racy of South Carolina. Mayor f.
H. Hardin and City Clerk w. A. Lati-
mer, Jr., spent yesterday at Great
Falls, combining pleasure with busi-
ness. They went via Catawba Junction
returning via Fort Lawn. They state
| that work on the foundation of the big
] $500, 900 Republic cotton mill is under
way That the Mebanes, who own the
mill, state it will be finished and in
operation by October 1st. They say
that Mr.. Mebane told them in the
course of a month he would have sew
eral hundred hands at work on the
mill Both of the Mebanes will reside
at Great Falls and will build them
| selves handsome residences there.
Great Falls is now popular place for
sightseers and many parties go there
A party composed of Messrs. X. H. and
r. B. Patrick of White Oak, and J. L.
| White Of Blackstock, are at Great Falls
today. viewing the works of the South
ern Power company and the Republic
l..