Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-10-14

section, met with a severe accident at
| her fathers gin Monday. She had been
standing watching a hand cleaning the
saws, and in turning to walk off, the
| skirt of her dress was caught on the
sharp teeth, drawing her on them.
| Two ugly gasheS were cut in her leg,
which were sewed up later by DR..
I.aney of Lancaster. .... Saul Vaughn,
| the well known huStling colored far-
mcr in the suburbs of town, brought to
this office Saturday afternoon sam
pie stalk of half acre of cotton plant
ed by him as late as the 4th of July.
The stalk is five feet high and contains
| thirty-nine fully developed bolls, and
/, when brought here the leaves were
fresh and green. The maturity of the
plant in so short a time is remarkab bile,
especially i'm view of the fact that the
seed were not planted until nearly
three months after the usual planting
season. Sheriff Hunter made hur-
ried trip to Heath Springs Sunday.
| covering the distance in one hour ana
| ten minutes, in response to a telegram
| advising him to come at once TO save
trouble, negro has insulted lady. on
his arrival the sheriff found that the
negro in question had been taken to
Kershaw county and severely whipped
and then ordered to leave the state. 1t
| is said that the negro, whose name is
Rich Thompson, about 25 years old,
| went to the home of a widow in the
| Heath Springs section Saturday night
and knocked at the door The sum-
mons was answered by her child who
went back and reported to its mother
that a man wanted to see her. On her
going to the door the negro made an
improper proposal, whereupon she in
dignantly ordered him off and shut the
door, the negro disappearing in the
darkness. She lost no time in notify
ing her people of what had happened,
who captured the negro and finally
disposed of him as stated, doing so un-
der the impression that, having made
no assault he could not be punished
under the law.
Fort Mill Times, October 13: A
property loss of about 500 was caused
| by fire which broke out in the dye
room of the Fort Mill Manufacturing
company at 11.45 o'clock Friday night.
| The fire is supposed to have originated
from spontaneous combustion. A guam
tity of cotton and some leather betting
were destroyed. Moody Thomas
and Miss Esther Mcdonald, we'll
known young couple of the Steel Greek
section of Mecklenburg county, drove
| to Fort Mill Tuesday evening and were
married by Magistrate ]. w. McElhan-
ey...A number of Fort Mill names
were added to petition circulated here
Tuesday praying the county commits
sioners to open a public road from the
Catawba river bridge to Rock Hill. 1t
| is stated that the new road would
shorten the distance between Fort Mill
and Rock Hill by two miles. The pc
tition will be presented to the county
commissioners within few days. .....
Kirk, the 6-year-old son Of Mr.. and
| Mrs. Shirley Gordon, who live in the
village of the Fort Mill Manufacturing
company, died of fever at the home of
his parents Tuesday morning and the
| little body was inferred in the Fort
Mill cemetery yesterday morning. In
September, Kirk, was sent to the Fort
Mill graded school for his first session,
but in a few days after the school
opened was stricken with fever that
ended his little life. .... The follow
ing invitations were sent out Tuesday:
Mr.. Elias Earle Thornwell, requests
the honor of your presence at the mar
riage of his sister, Frances Harriet to
Mr.. Edwin Sidney Reid, on the even
ing of Wednesday, the twenty-siXth OF
October, at half after eight o'clock,
Fort Mill Presbyterian church, Fort
is the youngest daughter of the late
Rev. Jas. H. Thornwell. d. D.. and is
one of Fort Mills most attractive
young ladies. Her marriage is there
fore an interesting event in this COM
munity. Mr.. Reid is young bank
er of Chatham, Va, where he and his
bride will make their future home. 49,.
]. w. Stallings, a white farmer of
Pleasant Valley. was painfully injured
mile south of Fort Mill Thursday af-
ternoon in attempting to jump from a
wagon to which was hitched a pair of
mules that had become frightened at
the automobile of DR.. II. S. Kirkpatrick.
| The mules bOlted and ran into gully
Just as Mr.. Stallings Jumped, throw
| ing him to the ground with cOnSldera-
BILE force. The impact with the ground
broke two of his ribs. In falling Mr..
Stallngs got between the wagon
wheels, but the driver succeeded in
stopping the frightened team before
| the wheels passed over his body. DR..
Kirkpatrick says that as soon as he
saw the mules were frightened he
slackened the speed of his machine and
passed on not knowing that Mr. Stall
ings was hurt. -. A matter of consid-
erable interest to the owners of Fort
Mill property was the action of the
town council at it's meeting few nights
ago in increasing the tax levy from
TO 8 mills for the current year. 1t is
stated as the reason for the increased
| levy that several hundred dollars OF
revenue have been lost to the town by
the action of the state board OF asses
sors in reducing the assessments of the
local cotton mills, the custom being to
make the assessment for munlclpai
purposes the same as that for state
purposes. The statement is also made
| that the towns revenues have been de-
creased considerably by the removal
| from the tax books of other property
which has heretofore been assessed for
taxation.
Gastonia Gazette, October II: His
| friends will regret to learn that MT
John w. Gaston's condition is border
| ing on the critical. He underwent an
operation for appendicitis at the Pres
| byterian hospital at Charlotte last
Wednesday and is not rallying from
| the effects as was hoped he would. His
many friends hope, however. that he
will recover rapidly. Many hearts
were saddened yesterday morning
when the news was passed from mouth
to mouth that Rev. DR.. II. +. ChreitZ-
berg was dead at his home in Monroe
The sad tidings came in telegram t.
Mrs. L. l.. Hardin, daughter of DR.
| Chreitzberg, which was received here
about s o'clock. Death came to him
i'm the early hours of the morning. Mr.
and Mrs. Hardin left on No. AZ fo1
Monroe. Dr. Chreitzberg had been III
for two or three weeks with typhoid
fever and Mrs Hardin had been at his
bedside much of the time. His condl-
ton was so much improved last week
however, that she returned to hel
home here. Mr.. Gray Spencer. son
of Mr. and Mrs. II. II. Spencer of Gas
tonia, arrived in the city yesterday al
ternoon on No. II from Springfield
Mo. with his bride, who was Miss
Margaret Holt of Memphis, Tenn. They
| u.ara ,,,orriad at tba hnmp pf Mrs i