Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-05-10
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Notes and Comments About Matters OF
Local Interest.

congregational meeting of the First
Presbyterian church held immediate
ly after the regular morning service
Sunday the committee on the selec-
tion of a pastor made it's report,
strongly recommending Rev. E. E..
Gillespie, now pastor of the York
Vile, S. c., Presbyterian church, as
the most suitable and available man
for the pastorate. This report was
accepted and by a unanimous vote
call was extended to Rev. Mr.. Giles
pie to accept the pastorate of the
First church here. Messrs. ]. Lee Rob-
inson, w. T. Rankin, A. c. Jones and
lJ. H. Kennedy were appointed a
committee to present the call and
went to Yorkville yesterday afternoon
for this purpose. The call was pre-
sented to Rev. Mr.. Gillespie and he
agreed to take the same under consid-
Grafton. He will visit the church here
at sometime within the near future
before making his decision on the
call. Rev. E. E. Gillespie is a native
of Greensboro and was educated at
Guilford college and the University or
North Carolina. He was ordained to
the Presbyterian ministry in 1897 and
was for two years evangelist in the
Orange Presbytery in this state. For
the next five years he was superinten-
dent Of home missions in the Synod
Of North Carolina. For the past seven
years he has been pastor Of the York
willie Presbyterian church, where his
work has been crowned with marked
success. He is an able preacher and
an excellent pastor and there Is a
great hope on the part Of the MEM
bers Of the First church that the way
may be open for him to accept the
pastorate here.
CASTOR Progress, May 7: Miss
Helen Lowry, who has been one OF the
efficient teachers in the city schools
here, left yesterday afternoon for her
home at Yorkville, S. C.......A town
election was held at Cherryville yes
terday Mayor D. P. McLurd was re-
elected, defeating Mr.. ]. B. Houser by
safe majority. Several days ago
the citizens of Cherryville assembled
in mass meeting and nominated a
ticket for municipal officers and a
hotly contested campaign was waged
to defeat the present administration,
which was standing for reelection.
]. B. Houser headed the new ticket
for mayor and was the only candidate
on the ticket to meet defeat. Messrs.
r. ]. Morrison, M. L. Mauney, E. M.
Webb, A. L. Houser, ]. P. Dillinger,
T. E. Summers and w. L. Hendrick
were elected aldermen, defeating the
old board. Mr.. Mauney's name was
run on both tickets. :. The spring
session Of the A. R. Presbytery was
held at Pisgah church a few miles
west of Gastonia Saturday, Sunday
and Monday, adjourning yesterday
afternoon to meet again in the fall
with the church at Sardis, of which
DR.. r. G. Miller is pastor. The open
ing sermon was preached by the re-
firing moderator, Rev. ]. M. White,
Of Statesville. The moderator-elect
is Rev. ]. L. Oates of Yorkyille. S. c..
Mostly routine business was transact
ed and the more important things
claiming the attention of the meet
ing were the consideration Of five
young theological students, who are
candidates for the ministry, Rev. w.
M. Willis, and Rev. r. L. Kerr, of
Mooresville, were given license to
preach. OF special interest to the peo-
pie of this section is the fact that Rev.
w. P. Grier has accepted the call to
the Glover and Crowder's Creek
churches, a former charge of DR.. r.
NJ. Stevenson. Rev. A. T. Lindsay is
pastor of Pisgah church and he and
the good people of that community
furnished the visiting ministers and
others royal entertainment during
the session of the Presbytery.
Lancaster News, May g.: Marsh
Aldrich, a dudish looking negro boy
who wears knickerbocker pants and
fancy hat and who is about 16 years
old, was caught plying his trade as
blind tiger by Rural Policeman Tant
Hunter Saturday. Marsh has evident
ly been on the job for some time and
is quite an expert for one so youth
full and innocent looking. A number
of bottles of the "oh-be-J Joyful" were
found in the young tigers lair where
he had laid in a good supply for the
Saturday trade. -. 1t has been in
dustriously circulated all over the
state that Blease would carry Lancas-
ter county against Judge Jones for
governor. The action Of the county
convention Monday in unanimously
endorsing the judge for governor by
rising vote and sending him by the
highest vote as a delegate to the state
convention, should make the Sircula-
tors of such reports ashamed Of them
selves. In fact there no serious op-
position to Judge Jones in the county,
and if the other counties in the state
will give such majority against
Blease as Lancaster county will do, he
will be literally beaten out of his
boots. .... Mr.. Clarence w. Caskey,
who was taken to Johns Hopkins hos
pital about ten days ago and there
operated on for tumor of the brain
died at the hospital in Baltimore Mon
day morning at o'clock. The re-
mains reached Lancaster yesterday
morning on the early train from Rock
Hill and were inferred in West Side
cemetery, the Rev. NJ. M. Brabham,
Of the Methodist church officiating
Mr.. Caskey was in his oath year. a
prominent young man of exemplary
habits. He was a Master Mason and
a member Of the Presbyterian church
at Athens, Ga, where he had follow
ed his occupation as contractor for
several years. His last work was the
building of the home of his father in
Fact End Resides his father and