Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-10-16

| Parents are urged to cooperate with
| the teachers in this effort to prevent
truancy. Friday, oct. l6, will be given
as a holiday for the schools that they
may attend the fair. They will not be
| excused to attend other days. Quite a
number Of the students will enter the
| various contests. .......M Mr.. j. Turner
Jackson, grocer at the Aragon Mill,
died very suddenly this morning of
| heart failure. His remains will be
| buried here Tuesday He had been in
| his usual good health and his death
| was quite a surprise to those who knew
him. 49,. .Messrs. Ely Parker OF sum
! ter and Tom May Parker have been in
the city several days with the latters
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. E. Parker.
They are selling brooms manufactured
in Columbia, and Mr.. Tom NJ. Parker is
district manager OF the upper part OF
the state They also have the state Of
Tennessee as their territory. ..... Mr.
w. r. Neely Of Edrmoor, who had for
several days been in Charlotte hospi-
tai for treatment, returned to his home
yesterday. MIR. Eugene 5. Mills is
now associated with triedheim's big
store in the shoe department. 49,. The
third quarterly meeting of the cham
ber of commerce was held Friday night,
with fair attendance. Light refresh
ments were served and five new direc-
tors elected as follows: Mr.. w. j. Rod
dey, Rev. +. w. Gregg, DR.. d. b. john
son. Mr. r. c. Poe and Prof. r. G.
Burts. 900. President Johnson has re-
ceived requests from the United States
department and also from the Panama
Pacific exposition, asking for an eXhi-
bit OF the Winthrop college farm school
at the exposition in San Francisco next
year. The United States commissioner
Of Education has also asked Winthrop
college if it cannot offer some scholar
ships to Venezuela pupils. .One or
the most practical features of the
Young Women's Christian assC alton
work at Winthrop is lunch room con-
Quoted by the students for the purpose
of serving lunches to the students. The
lunch room is conveniently situated on
the basement floor Of the Main build
ing near the town girls study room,
and is fitted out with an oil-stove, sink,
shelves and necessary cooking utensils,
china and silver. Soup, crackers, tea,
cocoa, sandwiches and salads are serV-
ed, the prices varying from to 10
cents. The association has no other
design in the lunch room than that or
community service, and lunches are
served at cost Besides meeting an ac-
tual need, the lunch room offers an
opportunity to the students in charge
for training in economy, making ends
meet" and business efficiency. The
work at present is in the hands OF
very efficient committee with Miss Ag-
nes Bryan as chairman.
Chester News, Oct. 13: When the
fact became generally known here last
week that the big Springstein mill was
to close down indefinitely, there were
certainly some blue people in Chester,
as the payroll Of this plant semi
monthly turns loose considerable
money. This feeling among the people
existed until late Saturday, when the
owner, Col. Leroy Springs of Lancas-
ter, arrived on the scene. He quickly
realized the situation, especially Of the
employees, who in all Likelihood, at
least the most OF them, would have
been unable to have secured work ana
hence poverty in the very near future
appeared as a spectre. He knew that
their getting employment out Of the
city would be a difficult undertaking,
since so many of the mills are closing
down. So he transferred the force to
the Eureka mill, his other large mill
here, and last night had the wheels
running night and day. This mill does
not make gingham, so Col. Springs de-
cided the mill shall run, at least, sew
eral months night and day. He says
that he is willing to finance the mill to
his limit in order to provide for his
faithful employees who have remained
by him for many years. Mrs. Su-
san Jackson widow of the late John
Jackson, died at the home Of Mr.. w. c.
Shilyey near Fort Lawn, Sunday morn
ing at the age of 10 years. The funeral
services were held at the house by Rev.
j. r. Moore, pastor of the Fort Lawn
Baptist church, yesterday at noon, and
the burial occurred in the Fort Lawn
cemetery. .........A charming event OF
Thursday evening in Edgmoor, was the
marriage of Miss Willette Walker, the
lovely and attractive daughter OF Mrs.
Hattie p. Walker and Mr.. Roy Murphy,
son of the late DR.. E. Y. Murphy.
Mr.. j. c. Houlbrook passed away at
the Wylie Mill, Thursday evening at the
age of 43 years. His body was sent
to his home at Maiden, n. c., for
burial. DR.. M. J. Walker Of York
vile, counselor of the South Carolina
Medical association, for the Fifth Dis
trict came to Chester, on October 5th.
He met a number Of doctors and or
ganized the Fifth District Medical as
sociation, which includes the following
countless Chester, York, Lancaster,
Cherokee, Fairfield and Chesterfield.
Every doctor present was enthusiastic
and the new association bids fair to be
very successful. The following officers
were elected: President, DR.. E. w.
Presley, Glover; 1st vice president,
DR.. Frank Ferguson, Gaffney; End vice
president, DR.. Sam Lindsay, Winns-
boro; secretary and treasurer, DR.. G. A.
Hennies, Chester. The first meeting
will be held in Rock Hill, on Wednes-
day, November 18th.
Gastonia Gazette, Oct. 49,: Capt"
N. +. Pence Of McAdenville, died sud-
denly about II o'clock last Friday
night Upon retiring he told his wife
that he was feeling better than he had
for several weeks. An hour or so later
he was dead from heart failure. Capt.
Pence was wounded at Gettysburg and
lay on the field and in corn crib near
by for eleven days without food and
with only rain water to drink. A Yam
kee surgeon found that gangrene had
developed, and cut off his arm. De-
ceased was "A years old and was born
in Stanly county. Last Saturday he
was married for the second time, his
bride being Mrs. A. +. Stack, who sur
VlVeS tOSetner WltH SeVeIdi SoHS anu
daughters The funeral was held this
afternoon in Lowell -. Mr.. V. F. Ste
phens, city letter carrier, left Thursday
for Biltmore where his family resides,
in response to a message announcing
the illness of one of his children. Mr.
c. G.. Hill, formerly city carrier here,
but now on a rural route at Flat Rock,
is expected to be transferred here Oc-
tober 18th to take Mr.. Stephens place
With the arrival Saturday after
noon of the long g-lOoked for desks and
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