Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-11-07
aliseellaneus1s Grading.
WITH NEIeHBoRINe EXCHANGES
Notes and Comments About Matters of
Local Interest.

Lancaster News, November 8: Mr..
Robert NJ. Caskey, son of Mr.. John H.
Caskey of Lancaster, who went to
Missouri to live two or three years
ago, was married in Jefferson City,
that state, last Saturday evening, to
Miss Ida Flucht of Jefferson City. Mr..
Caskey is a clever, steady young man
and his many friends in Lancaster
will learn with interest Of his import
ant step in life The Capital City
News of Jefferson City, of Sunday,
October 90. gives the following ac-
count Of the marriage: Last evening
at 6 o'clock at the Christian church
parsonage, Rev. A. M. Liverett united
in marriage R. NJ. Caskey and Miss
Ida Flucht both of this city. Mr..
Caskey is linemap enployed by the
Western Union Teleg1 oh company,
and is we'll known. Mrs. Caskey has
host of friends who extend congrat-
ulations.. Mr.. w. ]. Bailey, the
hustling and efficient manager of Col.
w. C. Hough's plantation in this vi
cinity, met with a bad accident last
Saturday. A shed fell on him, severe
ly hurting his back and left leg. He
is still confined to bed with his painful
injuries. Mr.. Vance Welsh, we'll
known young man formerly Of Lam
caster, died suddenly in Columbia on
Wednesday evening. He was a son of
Mr. and Mrs. R. z. Welsh, who some
weeks ago removed from Lancaster to
Irmo, near Columbia. He was about
33 years of age, and leaves a widow.
formerly Miss Della Wadsley of Spar
tanburg.
Rock Hill Herald, November s: One
of the negroes employed in placing The
street car track on Main street, drop
ped one end of a heavy steel rail this
morning, catching his little finger.
The member was cut off, but after
having the wound dressed the negro
continued at his work and the injury
did not appear to be giving him any
trouble. While workmen were eX-
cavating for the car line on Main
street Wednesday afternoon they ran
into, or rather the plow did, the old
city we'll, which had been covered
with a heavy piece of iron when the
we'll was discontinued more than a
score of years ago in order to make
way for the tram cars. The iron COW
ering was partially displaced, out
luckily no one fell through the opening
made. go. While playing at recess
yesterday at noon, together with a
crowd Of playmates, little Walter
Hayes, son Of Mrs. Gibb. had a very
narrow escape from death. The little
fellow. so the Herald Is informed,
climbed up to the window frame Of the
transformer house at the Manchester
mill and placed his left hand on one
Of the live wires of the Southern Pow
er company, which was charged with
voltage of 1000. The little fellows
arm was terribly burned and the suf-
fering was intense. 1t is thought,
however that part of the arm will
have to be amputated.. .... While as
sisting his son yesterday afternoon ].
LOChS, WSl hllOWH ilNiiit3
four miles southeast of the city near
Leslie, suffered a serious accident
which necessitated the amputation of
his arm just below the elbow. The
accident occurred about o'clock in
the afternoon. Mr.. Locke was feeding
a corn shredder when in some manner
his arm was caught in the machine.
His hand and arm were torn into
shreds almost to the elbow. 1t was
with some difficulty that the unfor-
nate man extricated his mangled arm
from the teeth of the machine.
Gastonia Gazette, November 8: Yes
terdays King Mountain Herald chron-
icles the death on last Thursday, Of
Mrs. Sarah Ann Catherine Peterson,
at the age of so years, months and
26 days She died at the home Of her
son, Mr.. HI F. Peterson, in Kings
Mountain. On last Thursday Mr..
]. L. Herndon, a prominent citizen Of
Kings Mountain, was married to Mrs.
Mary Hammitt Of Gastonia. The
ceremony was performed by Chief
Justice G. w. Kendrick.. A wedding
which came as a surprise to his nu-
merous friends here was that Of Mr..
George F. Hovis of the clerical force
at Kennedy's drug store, and Miss
Kate Randall which was solemnized at
the home of the brides mother, Mrs.
r. NJ. Randall, at Blacksburg, S. c., at
s o'clock last evening. Mr.. Hovis left
Gastonia for Blacksburg on No. Al
yesterday afternoon, and returned tol
Blacksburg on No. 40 last night with
his bride. They are at home at Mr.. |
w. L. Coons.. BY order of Mayor
Craig all the slot machines in town, |
perhaps dozen, were put out of COM
mission. The spiral spring machines
have been in use here for quite a |
while and right recently some more
pretentiOus machines were put in,
which the mayor and other city Of
ficials thought were plainly barred by
the laws governing such things. ..
CASTOR county farmers are holding
their cotton. There is no guess work
about it whatever For the first time
since it was built several years ago,
the warehouse of the CASTOR County
Farmers Union Warehouse company.
in East Gastonia, is full of cotton,
stored there by the farmers of the
county who have made up their minds
not to sell at the prevailing low price.
Steps are to be taken Immediately
looking to the building at once of an
addition to the warehouse sufficiently
large to accommodate all the cotton
that is likely to be offered for storage
during the coming winter. An
nouncement is made of an approach
ing wedding which will be of interest
to many Gazette readers. 1t is that of
Capt. Leonard Huffstetler of Gastonia,
and Miss Rena Munday of Lenoir. The
marriage will be solemniZed on We'd
nesday, November 29th, at the home
of the brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs. L.
L. Munday, at Lenoir. Captain Huff