Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-08-15
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WITH NEIGHBoRING EXCHANGES.
Notes and Comments About Matters
of Local Interest.

| LdUCdSIOT NOWoy NdSbSk U.s. ~ '.~
been learned that the dog that bit a
colored child, daughter of Anthony
Williams, of the vicinity of Kershaw
last Saturday, as heretofore published
in the News, had hydrophobia. The
head of the animal it will be recalled
! was sent to Columbia for examination
which examination showed all the
symptoms of rabies. 1t is stated that
| several dogs in the community were
bitten by the mad dog before he was
| finally killed Such being the case
the bitten animals should either be
| killed or locked up Charles Thorn
the little son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph K,
Connors of East End, died yesterday
morning at 11.3O o'clock of gastr1tis,
after an illness of two or more weeks
He was eight months old on Tuesday
| of this week. He was an unusually
bright, lovable child and was idolized
by the young parents, who have the
sympathy Of the entire community In
their great bereavement. The funeral
| and burial will take place in West Side
cemetery this morning at $50 O'Clock.
| During an electric storm here
| last Wednesday night, about eleven
| o'clock, the residence of Mr.. H. M.
Parks, on Market street, was struck
by lightning, damaging roof and cor
ner of the building. Fortunately no
one was hurt. 49,. On THURSDAY al
| ternoon, Aug. 10th, at six O'CLOCK a
marriage combining the wide interest
of the Carolinas was solemnized at the
First Presbyterian church, the bride
being Miss Frances Lee, sister OF
Mrs. John A. Stewman and Mrs.
Oliver Blackmon Of this city, and Mr..
r. d. Crow Of Monroe. n. c., being
the groom. The church with its sim
pie decorations Of ferns and palms
banked in luxuriant masses, which
with the last soft glow OF the setting
sun and the assembling Of the wed.
ding party, completed a beautiful
marriage scene witnessed by a large
gathering of friends and quite num-
Der of out-of-town guests. ..... one or
the most disastrous hail storms within
the history of the county visited the
Fork Hill, Rich Hill, Flint Ridge and
Louisville sections Wednesday after
noon, extending into the neighpor-
| hood of Heath Springs and Pleasant
Hill. Crops on a number Of farms
were well-nigh ruined. Among the
heaviest sufferers are Messrs. John
M. and George Hinson, William and
Ernest Bowers. There are others
whose names we have been unable 10
learn. The damage altogether amounts
to many thousands of dollars. Mr'
John M. Hinson alone, 1t is stated, has
sustained a loss of seven thousand
dollars. Both cotton and corn were
stripped by the storm and blown
down by the severe wind that ac-
companied the stones Of hail and rain.
The damage by wind extended even
into the Elgin section.
Chester Lantern, Friday, August IL:
Governor Blease at Feasterville, ex-
pressed some good ideas on education
al lines. 1t has all along been the con-
tention Of the Lantern that the appro-
priations for state colleges was becom-
ing a burden and that the rural schools
should have some Of the money which
is continually being poured into the
treasury of the state colleges. How
ever far apart they are along other
lines, Governor Blease and the Lam
tern have the same idea on this point.
Miss Macie Stevenson, who has
for the past twenty years been labor
ing in the Mexican mission field, was
given a reception by the ladies' socie-
ty of New Hope A. R. P. church In
Fairfield county on Tuesday evening.
Refreshments consisting of ice cream
and cake were served. Miss Steven
son Is now on visit to her kin people
in the New Hope neighborhood. She
has done a great work in the A. 4. 2.
missionary field in Mexico. Mr.. A.
P. Moore died on Wednesday afternoon
at 2 o'clock, Of heart trouble, at the
residence of his son-in-law, Mr.. ]. w.
Webb, on Elizabeth street. Mr.. Moore
was 67 years OF age. His wife has
been dead for several years and he has
made his home with his daughter, Mrs.
| ]. w. Webb. The remains were taken
to Fort Mill for interment.
Gastonia Gazette, August II: Po-
liceman and Mrs. S. B. Brymer have
the heartfelt sympathy Of the entire
community in the bereavement which
they sustained Wednesday night in the
death of their siX-months-old infant
SON. Death was due to q complication
of WhOoping cough and pneumonia.
The little fellow had never been strong
and all the efforts of physicians and
family were unaVailing to restore him
to health and strength. Funeral SER
vices were conducted at the residence
on Willow street yesterday morning,
Rev. j. ]. Beach officiating. and the lit
| tie body was tenderly laid to rest in
Hollywood cemetery. Three other chill
| Qr6n Oh MI. anu
riouSly i'll from whooping cough. .....
In the account elsewhere in today s
Gazette of the BoogertowL icnic, men
ton Is made of the fact thu Mr.. w. w.
Mendenhall of the southern part of the
county, had on display in the decora-
tions Of the speakers stand some open
bolls of cotton from his farm. This
morning Mr.. Robert Motion, whose
farm is in the lanyard neighborhood,
about four miles south Of town on the
| Union road, brought to the Gazette five
open bolls of cotton which he picked
yesterday in his cotton fields. Mr..
Mendenhall and Mr.. Motion are the
first, so far as the Gazette has learned,
to report open bolls of cotton in the
county this year. Miss JEANNE
Pendleton Ewing of Washington, d.
c., has been spending the summer
with her sister, Mrs. George A. Spar
row. Miss Ewing is well-known to
many of our readers, for her beautiful
little poems in Smiths, the Youths
Companion and other magazines as
we'll as her stories Of New York life.
Register of Deeds Smith has re-
Gently issued marriage licenses to
white couples as follows. w. H. Dunn
and Ellen Ballard, Mt. Holly; c. Hall
man and Susie Dellinger, Cherryville;
Thomas L. Hill. Rutherfordton, and
Bessie Ramsey, Gastonia; Ed Hinsley
Mayesworth, and Eugenia A. Stowe,
Belmont; j. w. Kirby, Anderson, 5. c.,
and Mamie Newton, Gastonia; j. r,
Lindsay and Mamie Black, Bessemer
City: w. II. Noles, Gastonia, and Bes-
sic Cannon, Stanley; Robert Stowe and
Odin Bridges, GastOnia-. .. During the
severe rain and electrical storm which
prevailed over Gastonia Wednesday
about midnight, the residence on West
Third avenue, belonging to Mr.. r. c,
Warren and occupied by Mr.. E. N
Huffstetler's family, was struck by a
bolt of lightning. A hole of consider
able proportion was torn in the roof
and in the overhead ceiling of the
room in which Mrs. Huffstetler and
daughter, Miss Mabel, were sleeping
Mrs. Huffstetler was struck on the arm
by a flying piece of wood or some 9TH
er missile and considerably bruised
Both she and Miss Mabel were slight
ly shocked, but no one was seriously
hurt. The rain which accompanied the
electrical display was perhaps the most
terrific which has fallen this year in
this section. The damage to the house
wasn't not very great.
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