Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-08-23
miscellaneous Rraains.
FROM NEIeHRoRINe EXCHANGES
News and Comment About Things In
and Around the Country.
HLaetar ,pfarp Auoust 10. The

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men in behind the movement for the
Chester county fair. which opens for
a three days meet on October 25th
are busy arranging the details for
the occasion. The fight for the re-
tentiOn of the G. & y. W., necesSita-
ted little delay in getting together
1.-THE details for the fair, but now that
this work is about in shape the back
ers of the county fair are going to
work with a vim and intend shortly
to give out the list of premiums and
publish the programme for the falr.
Every day. farmers in all sections of
the county are signifying their in
tention to put on exhibits of their
farm products and the outlook is that
the Chester county fair is going to
beat all others in this part of the state.
The YOrkville Enquirer and the
Columbia Record are pulling The
| States trade with Ellerbe in 1898 on
| that newspaper. In that year The
State made an agreement with Eller-
be whereby the latter was to recon-
mend local option i'm his annual mes
sage and then came out strongly for
his reelection, he being in the second
race with Featherstone, who was
running as a prohibitionist. After
the election Ellerbe broke his agree
ment with The State and recommend
| ed the retention of the diSpenSary
and for this was denounced as a liar
by The State. The Columbia Record
reprinted all these campaign editorials
the other day and they make mighty
interesting reading. This will tend
to weaken the effect of the opposition
of The State to the candidacy of
| FeatherStone this year. The Mis-
ses Pryor are delightfully."- entertaining
| a cOngenial party of young people at
| their lovely home on Saluda street.
The guests who arrived yesterday
are: Miss Sarah Rice of Union,
Louise Epton of Spartanburg, Lettie
Abel of Lowryville, Ruth Shuford of
Gaffney, and Messrs. Stewart Abel
OF Lowryville, Cren Bradie of Clemson,
Oscar and Joe Moore of McConnells-
vile. and Mr.. Arthur Bethea of Au-
burn, Ala. Miss Edna Tinsley of I'm
ion and Mr.. Arthur Tinsley of White
stone, are expected tomorrow and
Miss Marie Epton of Spartanburg,
will join the jolly party Monday.
Gaffney Ledger, August 19: Last
Wednesday a stranger with hoary
locks and unsprightly gait was to be
seen upon our streets. He walked
about and looked in a bewildering
manner at the changes wrought by
time, reminding one of the story of
Rip Van Wrinkle. He was none other
than Mr.. Lee Armstrong, who lived
in the Gowdeysville section of this
county Ohen Union) away back yon-
der in the SOS. In 1871 Mr.. Arm
strong left this section for parts un-
known because of his activities in Ku-
kluxing and this was his first visit
since then-nearly forty years ago. He
was on his way to the reunion. There
was no Gaffney then-nOthing that
could be called town. There was a
cross roads, and few houses at Lime
stone and a store or two. Mr.. Arm
strong was impressed with the Won
derful development which had taken
place. He met many old acquaintances
men who lived in this section at
that time, but who have since moved
10 Gaffney and helped to build the
town. Mr.. Armstrong served in the war
four years. There was four brothers,
three beside himself, and all three
were killed in battle. ...-- DR.. Fergu-
sons Maxwell rum bout has been un-
dergOing repairs at the Irene Garage
for several days and during this time
the doctor has had to drive horse.
The doctor has always used an auto
and il is said that he had become 50
"a
gets into the buggy he grabs the
horses tail and gives it twist in or
der to fire the spark plug. John
LipScomb, familiarly called Jack,
lives in the Goucher neighborhoOd.
Doc SprouSe is tenant on his place.
Wednesday afternoon the two engaged
in a quarrel over the race for county
supervisor. Finally Jack picked up
a homemade AK handle and belabor-
ed Doc about the head and body,
bruising him up considerably. Doc
retreated to his house, secured his
pistol, and, coming back walked up
close to Jack and pulled the trigger.
Fortunately for both the bullet went
aStray and the only evidence Of the
shot was powder marks on Jack S
clothes. Lipscomb swore out a war
rant for Sprouse and the latter was
arrested and lodged in Jail. When
visited by Il reporter for the Ledger
yesterday he showed plainly the evil
| denceS of the beating he had received.
Gastonia Gazette, August 19: 1t is
all over but the shouting All the
| towns bidding for the location of the
Carolina & North Western Railway S
shops have sent in their offers and
the same were opened by General
Manager l.. Il. Nichols this morning.
Hickory, Lincolnton, Chester and Gas
tOnia are on the anxious seat await
| ing the announcement of the decision
of the officials of the road. 1t may
be several weeks before their decision
| is rendered. In the meantime Gas
tOnia is sitting steady in the boat,
harboring sure feeling that the shops
will come to GaStonia. General Man
| ager Nichols was in GaStOnia yeSter-
| day and at the request of the COM
mittee having in charge the formula
| ton of an offer met with them and
| Il body of representative citizens in
the Commercial Club rooms. He was
piled with questions and gave out
what information of a nOn-cOmmittal
nature he could. He stated that the
propositions of the several towns
would be opened today and that So
| far as he was concerned, these prop
OStiOnS We're final; in other words,
there will be no chance to raise bids
He also stated that it would be nee
essary for the several sites to be sur
veyed before decision could be made
When this has been done Mr.. Mich
OILS will lay the propositions before
President w. \. Barber of New York
and recommend the location of the
shops at some one of the four con-
testing points. As yet GaStOnia does
not know just what the other three
towns have offered. Gastonia's offer
| includes, among other items, the fol-
| lowing: \ free site; exemption from
taxes for five years; free water and
lights for five years; cheap electric
power: Il cash bonus of several thou
sand dollars. In addition to the above
IGaStonia gives the road considerably
more business than any other town
on its line and has promise of larger
developments in the future possibly
| than any other town on the road
From every standpoint it is believed
that GaStOmia is without doubt the
place for the shops and our people
feel confident that they will be To-
Gated here. Yesterdays Kings
| Mountain Herald saws that an aDpli-