Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-07-28
8listsllaneuus 8eading.
WITH NEIGHBoRlNe EXCHANGES.
Notes and Comments About Matters
of Local Interest.

temporary, The Enquirer is right about
the judge of probate's compensation,
which, in fact, is absurdly inadequate.
He should get at least half of the mar
riage license fee, if not all of it. ......
The Halle Gold Mining Corporation, a
| Lancaster enterprise recently organ
lied, as heretofore published, has re-
ceived it's charter from the secretary
of state. The capital stock is $4,000
and the officers of the company are:
John T. Stevens, president; Chas. D.
Jones, vice president and treasurer; j.
H. Witherspoon, secretary. AS will be
noted, the officers are all men of large
affairs, of prominent standing in the
business world, being actively identi-
fed with a number of successful finan-
cial, Industrial and other enterprises;
and it goes without saying therefore,
that their operation of the Halle min
ing property will be attended with
| marked success. Master James Bar
ton, a lad, son of Mr.. w. NJ. Barton,
met with a serious accident here Fri |
day afternoon, falling from a dray and
suffering a broken leg. The horse |
turned suddenly and upset the wagon, |
and it is thought that the animal
stepped on or kicked the boy. The ac-
cident occurred on the lot in rear of
Bennett Ferguson company's store. -. q.
According to The Enquirer, the York |
vile creamery lis making and selling |
not less than 1000 pounds of butter a !
week" We are not informed as to |
whether any of the output is sold in |
Lancaster, but we do know that the |
supply of good, fresh butter on this |
market is by no means equal to the de- |
mand. While a creamery might not |
pay here, a dairy farm in this vicin-
| ity ought to do thriving business. |
In the meantime it might be a good |
idea for some of our dealers to handle |
the Yorkville butter, if they are not |
already doing so.
Gastonia Gazette, July IS: Evan
gelist w. w. Smith of Charlotte, is hold |
ing a tent meeting at the corner of |
West Franklin avenue and Clay street, |
near the Trenton mill. The first SER
vice was held Sunday afternoon. Ser
vices will be at 8 o'clock each night |
this week. The public is cordially in
vited to all these meetings. Mr.. Smith |
has had wonderful success in his |
evangelistic work. Last year he held |
meeting in Durham at which there |
were, according to the Herald, about |
10 Go
member of the Missionary Baptist |
church, but his meetings, he says, are
for the purpose of saving men without |
reference to creed or denomination.
The attendance has been large so far
and the prospects are that great good |
will be accomplished. 49,. Their many |
friends in Gastonia will hear with re-
gret that Mr.. J. P. Culp and family |
have moved to Rock Hill, S. c. They |
went at noon today. However, Mr..
Culps business interests will bring
him back to Gastonia at intervals
The principal object in making the
change is to give his girls the advan-
tages of Winthrop college which will
be increased by living in Rock Hill.
-. According to a well-posted horse
man of Gastonia the next few weeks
will see an abundance Of horse flesh
thrown on the markets for sale in this
section. Asked as to why he thought |
so, the horseman replied that the corn
crop was so short that the farmers
had nothing to feed horses and mules
on during the winter and as a conse-
quence they would sell now-if they
can find a sale for their animals-andl
then repurchase next spring when they
get ready to go to plowing again. The
severe drought of this summer has not
only cut the cotton and corn crops
short, but the hay as well. There
would appear to be some ground for
the horseman's reasoning. However
as large number of the farmers have
much work for their horses and mules
during the winter months, such as
hauling wood, doing fall plowing, ETC.,
it does not seem likely that any very
large number of horses and mules will
be sold. That they would have to pay
considerably higher prices to repur-
chase the same stock next spring goes
without say. Whoever buys these ami
mails will have the expense of feeding
them during the winter unless per-
chance they ship them away and sell
them in other markets. While the
newspaper man was making his rounds
on the streets Saturday he ran upon
Mr.. 7. NJ. Dilling, former Gastonian
who has for several years past been
living in the Bethel section of York
county where he is a prosperous far
mer. In response to the scribbler's
uniform question, well, what do you
know" Mr.. Dilling replied, Il know
that I've staid away from Gastonia
longer this time than l have any time
for seventeen years. l haven't been
here since May" he said, nearly three
months" Like all other Gastonians
Mr.. Dilling finds pleasure in coming
back to the old town as often as he can
and his friends are always glad to see
him. With him was his young son
Wayne, about ten years old, who told
the newspaper man with enthusiasm
of an immense crane which he killed
a couple of weeks ago. He ran upon
the bird in a creek near his home.
1t had been crippled and the young
hunter grappled with it, but the crane
was too much for him. Wayne has
tily brought a stick into requisition
and killed the crane which turned out
to be one of the largest if not the
largest seen in that section. BY actual
measurement it was six feet and three
inches from tip to tip, five feet and
three inches from the tip of its bill to
the end of its toes, it's neck was 80
inches long and it's bill eight inches.
The wings were preserved. Asked
about crops in his section Mr.. Dilling
expressed the opinion that in his town
ship, Bethel, cotton would not be 35
per cent of an average crop. COndi-
tiOnS are very had He himself has