Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-02-16
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1919.
LETTER FROM CHEROKEE.

Facts of More or, Less Neishborhood
Interest; and Some Comments About
the Proposed cession Of Slice OF
York.
Correspondence The Yorkville Enquirer
wilkinsville, February 13.-It is ru-
mored that Thomas A. McKeown, for
merly of Hickory Grove, who moved
with his family to Lamar county,
Texas, about twenty years ago, Is
dead. We haven't been able to find
out the certainty Of the report. Geo.
B. Estes, formerly of this county, who
moved to Texas about the same time
and settled at Brookston. has moved
with his family to Paris, Tex. and
gone into the hardware business.
1CMiss Minnie Palmer, who Is teach-
ing school at this place, spent last
Saturday and Sabbath with her par
ents at Sharon.
This day one year ago, Mr.. and
Mrs. S. F. Estes celebrated their gold
en- wedding.
with the exception of what we see
in The Enquirer in reference to the
cutting off of a strip Of York county
to annex TO this (Cherokee) county,
we know nothing whatever. we
heard rumor some time last year
that such a move was on hand, put
didn't know that the work had actu-
ally begun, though 1t is in a rather
remote part of the county from where
we live, and we don't by any means,
know all that is going on. Anyway,
we haven't any objection to having as
many of those good "Seceders as
possible added to the citizenship OF
Cherokee county. They ere, general
ly speaking, good people, people
who recognize no law as equal to the
Ten Commandments, and In this par
ticular they are exactly right, not sim
ply because we say so, but because II
is so, But we can't believe that such
an annexation will ever be completed;
particularly in the face Of the fact
that II may eventually result in the
removal Of the York county court
house to Rock Hill.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bcyce Whisonant OF
Wilkinsville, have some right SICK
children, especially their Oldest child,
Clyde.
and Jesse Kirby, have gone into the
mercantile business at Hickory Grove
and we wish for them fair divide OF
the public patronage.
Mr.. c. Wash McKeown. who is now
in the" hospital at Gaffney. we are
sorry to learn is not getting along SO
we'll with his broken thigh or hip. We
learn that in his sleep he made sud-
den move that injured the fracture
He Is one Of our very best men-an
old Confederate soldier-the orderly
sergeant Of Co. F, 18th S. c: regiment
Kershaw's brigade, McLaw's division,
Iongstreet's corps. He was in all or
most of the principal battles in which
the Army of Northern Virginia was
engaged. Besides he was wounded
and left for dead at Chickamauga-
Nothing cheers him so much In the
confines of his sick room as word or
cheer and the hearty handshake OF his
old comrades or their children. MT.
McKeown is and has been commander
of Camp Jefferies U. c: veterans since
its organization, fifteen years ago.
Mr.. John L. Strain, who has been
under treatment at the city hospital
at Gaffney for nearly two weeks, was
able to return to his home yesterday
morning, much improved In health.
Owing to the continued bad wealth
er the country people have done but
little outdoor work. They can do lit
tie more than make fires and sit by
them.
n Capt. ]. B. Bell of Gaffney, who is
editor Of the Congressional Directory
at washington. has kindly sent us the
January edition of the book. 1t is an
Invaluable aid to one who wishes to
visit or know anything about the ma
tional capital Captain Bell Is York
county boy and has made his home In
Cherokee county, where he gets q
good law practice. He will be at home
and in the practice Of his profession
except when he is in Washington en-
gagged In editing the Congressional d.
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