Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-02-15

The report is that wheat Is looking
fine, but oats are not doing so well.
The roads are again asserting them
selves. The red mud has not yet been
Eliminated.
Somebody is going to make an easy
pickup of that $40 we are offering for
the largest number of new subscribers
returned and paid for during February.
Sheriff Brown is particularly anx-
ious to effect the capture Of the ne
groes, John Dickson and Robert King,
both wanted for murders committed
near Rock Hill. Dickson killed Jim
Dunn, another negro on the oath Of
December last, and King killed John
Kennedy on January 13. The sheriff
has an unusually fine record for catch
ing negro murderers, and he Is hopeful
Of bagging these also. He believes that
both negroes are in North Carolina, and
he has arranged to advertise the state
for them as thoroughly as possible.
Webster's New international is the
last word in dictionaries, especially up
to this time. 1t is bound in the same
substantial manner as the 1nterna-
tional," and looks very much like 1t
from without; but the opening Of the
cover discloses a complete revision
throughout, with the addition Of many
thousands Of new words that have not
heretofore found authoritative recogni-
ton in the language. We are In no
sense an agent Of the publishers, and
do not sell the book, but anyone who
may desire to examine our copy Will
be perfectly welcome to do so.
The minutes Of the eighty ninth
annual convention of the Baptist de-
nomination in South Carolina, held in
the First Baptist church, Anderson, De-
cember 10, 1909, are being distribut-
ed. It is q book of 142 pages and In
addition to a record Of the proceedings
from day to day, contains all reports
submitted by the various boards, sta
tistical tables, list Of ordained ministers
and much other information OF inter-
est to the denomination. A summary
Of the statistical reports Of the thirty
six associations composing the con-
vention show that the present MEM
bership is 127,129, a gain Of 1856 over
1908, and that there are 497 ordained
ministers.
II is seldom that a whole neishbor-
hood attests its appreciation Of a de-
parted man or woman in such a strik-
ing manner as was witnessed at the
funeral of Mrs. w. S. Wilkerson at
Hickory Grove last Saturday; but to
those who understand the facts. the
explanation is not difficult. With her
husband, about thirty-five years ago,
Mrs. Wilkerson made her home IN
what was at that time but little bet
ter than a wilderness, peopled largely
by a poor and illiterate class that was
almost friendless and forsaken. They
had their own way to make; but al
though both were endowed with plenty
of intelligence and indomitable ener-
gy, they were also possessed of the
highest virtues Of manhood and
womanhood, and from the beginning,
they made it their task to nelp lift
others along with themselves. BY ex-
ample, advice and assistance, they
stimulated ambitions that had never
before been stirred, and to them belong
the credit for the making of many use
full men and women, who, except for
them, would probably have never been
directed toward the higher and nobler
ideals of life. Many Of those at the
church and tine grave, last Saturday,
were people who had the uplifting as
sistance Of this splendid couple, and
most of the others were men and wo-
men who have been impressed, by OBJ
servation and experience, with their
splendid worth, and who desired to
honor themselves by paying to that
worth, such recognition as they could.