Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-07-25
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Notes and Comments About Matters
of Local Interest.

Notes and Comments About Matters
of Local Interest.
Lancaster News, July %: Mr.. Sc
I.orn Self, a young man, had mirac-
ulous escape from death or great bod
lily injury, on Monday, when he fell
into a we'll fifty-two feet deep. He SUI
fered some bruises but, strange to re-
late, no bones were broken. The ac-
cident occurred on Mr.. Van d. Sn,alrs
premises in the Primus section. MI
Sell had been down in the we'll, which
was being made deeper. and being
overcome by foul air, was drawn to
the top in an unconscious condition.
On reaching the surface he fell back
ward into the bottom of the well. In
stead Of being crushed to death or at
least horribly mangled, as might nat
urally be expected, he was actually
revived by the terrible fall. On re-
covering consciousness he tied the
rope himself around his body and was
drawn in safety to the surface by his
companions. .... Mr.. K. E. Wylie has
been appointed as Lancaster county s
representative on the reception COM
mittee for the Red Shirts reunion In
Columbia, August 9 and 10.
Gastonia Gazette, July 21: Mrs.
Lizzie Ferguson Jackson, wife Of Mr..
Lucius Jackson died Wednesday night
at $50 at her home in the Crowders
Creek section south of Gastonia. The
news of the death Of this lady will
come as a shock to her many friends
in CASTOR county. 1t will be remem-
hnN oh hn NIrnG .
married to Mr.. Jackson, eldest son of
Mr.. John Frank Jackson. Mrs. Jack
son was about 22 years old at the time
Of her death and in addition to her
husband and an infant child, is sur
vived by her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Alfred Ferguson, and by six brothers,
Messrs. Boyce, Thomas, Robert, Sam
uel, Edward and Laban Ferguson, and
one sister, Mrs. Leslie Crawford. The
funeral services and interment took
place yesterday afternoon al O'Clock
at Crowders Creek A. r. P. church, Of
which the deceased was a devoted
member, conducted by DR.. r. M. Ste
venson, of Glover. .... Those who
chanced to pass by the Arlington mill
sunday afternoon were given the OPP
portunity Of gazing upon scene that
was ilorrifying and disgusting in the
extreme. One that was enough to
make the blood CT the good people
boil with indignation to know that
right here in CASTOR county, with her
numerous schools, and where the peo-
pie are progressing rapidly in every
respect, there are people in the sub
urbs of the town who actually have
MT got good, hard common mule sense
enough to get out of a shower Of rain
and who will crowd up around an ig-
norant negro woman and listen with
mouths wide open while she pretends
to expound the word of God. Never
the-less such Is the case and a white
man who makes his living at the ex-
pense of the poor ignorant mill people
and who has been before a justice Of
the peace in Gastonia on a serious
charge had the audacity to bring
those trifling, no account negroes out
to preach to what is known as 1.-The
Unknown Tongue Sect" and that In
broad open day light. While they
were yelling at the top Of their voices
and going up and down like jumping
jacks, this man was standing side by
side with Perry Cunning scotching
for them by holleling amen! Preach
ii to 'em brother!" An official Of the
Arlington mill came cut and put them
out Of the grove in front of the mill
and a Mr.. Martin took them over into
his yard where they wound up the
performance. To give the reader some
idea of the fanaticism and craziness
that is existing around us / Will at
tempt to put into print a very small
portion Of the negro woman's dis
course. Mind you there were white
women with little children by their
side and babes in their arms that went
wild with enthusiasm over the great
religious truths that 1t contained:
And God tole ole Nora that there wuz
a-gona be a flood an for him ter bull
a crate big ark-ah, said he's a-gona
destroy the whole wurl with water
cause the people wus a gittin TOO
mean to live, an they wouldn't pay no
'tention to what he said to 'em-ah. An
ole Nora went an took an cut down a
whole lot o'Gofer trees and commenc-
ed hammerin an sawin, and the
folks made all kins o fun Of him, an
called him a fool-ah, but ole Nora
kept on a buildin an buildin till he
got hit done, an it wuz three stories
high-ah, the fust story represns con-
version, an the secon story represens
sanctification-ah,a an the top story rep
sesens the Holy Ghost-ah, an when ole
Nora got de ark done he goes out an
begins TO gather up the animals an
beases and fowls, an all kins O. creep
in things and begun to drive 'em in de
ark-ah. Yes there wuz the elephants
an de giraffs and de leopards and de
Lebrases all a marchin in two by two
an a little turkle dove come in an COO
oo-ood an ole Nora knewed they wuz
all in-Glory-ah, then he goes up to the
top story an sot down in a rockin
cheer an crossed his legs, an God sen
a angel to lock up de door, and throw
away the key, an rin down de little
windah-ah. an all dis time de people
KEEP a etin an a drinkin, an a marryin,
an a givin in marriage an callin ole
Nora a fool" This was accompanied
by the socalled holy dance. The most
disgusting rart of the whole affair
was the white women shaking hands
with these negroes and dropping their
hard earned dollars into the collection
box TO keep them up in their laziness.
Is 1t not time for the law-abiding peo-
pie Of CASTOR county to rise up as one
man and make ii so not for this low
down white man and his gang that
they will be afraid to show their sor-
ry skins in a thousand miles of Gas
tonia? And should the law not pro-
tect the simple. unlearned people
from being deceived by the heinous
wolf i'm sleeps clothing and from his
defrauding them out of their hard