Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-12-11
attending court in the case Of Ford
against the C.. & NV. railway.

attending court in the case Of Fore
against the c. & NV. railway.
Messrs. Smith and Hope Byers ar.
rived at Sharon, Tuesday evening on g
visit to their parents, Mr.. and Mrs
John A. Byers. The Messrs. Byers are
in the employ Of an iron construction
company and have recently been work
ing in Minnesota.
Prof. A. R. Banks, at one time super.
intendent Of the Yorkville Graded
school, has withdrawn from the facul'
ty Of the Fraser Fitting school at An
derson. Prof. Banks has returned Il
Columbia, where he resided before 60
ing to Anderson.
Col Robert w. Hunt, Of Atlanta, un'
til recently superintendent Of ticke
collections Of the Southern Railway
has been appointed division passenger
agent at Nashville, Tenn. Col. Hunt !!
we'll known in Yorkville and in othel
parts Of the county, his former posi-
tions with the Southern having
brought him in contact with many peo'
pie here.
Mr.. John L. Dabbs Of Charlotte, wa.
on Wednesday elected illustrious po'
tentate Of Oasis temple, Ancient Ara.
bic Order Mobiles Of the Mystic Shrine
to serve during the next year. Mr.
Dabbs is a son Of Mr.. L. J. Dabbs, wht
some Of the older Yorkville people will
remember as farmer living on TIM
southern outskirts of Yorkville, pre-
vious to 1884, during which year the
elder Mr.. Dabbs moved his family Il
Rock Hill and later on to Charlotte
Mr.. John L. Dabbs Is the southern rep
resentative Of large New York con-
Germ that carries on the business o.
importing dyestuffs for mills from Eu'
ropean countries, and he told the writ
er Wednesday, that during the tim'
since the beginning Of the European
war his firm has done an amount o.
business almost equal to that usually
done within a period Of eighteeI
months. Mr.. Dabbs Is York rite ane
Scottish rite Mason and stands higf
with the fraternity in North Caroline
and elsewhere.
A representative Of The Enquirer, II
Charlotte, Wednesday, had the pleas
ure Of meeting Mr.. Thomas Mallard, 6
son Of Mr.. Jim Mallard, who with hi!
brother John, ran beef market II
Yorkville in the room now occupied b,
the Lyric theatre, in the early nineties
Everybody in Yorkville and vicinit!
knew tom" Mallard. He was only
DOy Ol SlflecIl llcIi, pul hC hou oSotS -
Of friends among Yorkville people. HI
left Yorkville twenty-five years ag'
and went to Henrietta, N. c., wher!
with his father he continued to sci
beef. Later on he drifted to Columbia
and then to Union, where he took 1ol
as a helper to his uncle who was chile
engineer in one Of the mills Of Union
Later he went back to Henrietta TO
eighteen months, after the death OF hi
father then to the Spartan mills a
Spartanburg as a machinist, at $1.25
day and also worked for quite awhile
in the machine shop Of the Morgan
Iron Works Of that city. Moving on. n
worked in Florida, then in Atlanta, Ga
and In the Seaboard Air Line shops
Abbeville. Two years ago he went Z
Newbern, N. c., as master mechani
in charge Of locomotives, and rollinl
stock Of the central division OF tn
Norfolk Southern railroad, and her
he expects to stay. An engineer OF th'
Norfolk Southern said wednesday
Before Tom came to us failure OF en-
gines was always expected when w
started out with train. Since he CAM
to US, II there has ever been failur'
of a locomotive during the past tW.
years I don't know anything about 1t.
Mr.. Mallard was in Charlotte to atten'
the Shriners' meeting.