Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-03-31
LOCAL LAcoNicS
Woman's Missionary Union.

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Women's Missionary Union of the
York Baptist association met with the
Glover Baptist church on last Friday,
March q. An interesting programme.
touching on the various features Of the
Unions work, was carried out, and
much work Of importance transacted,
including the organization Of a Young
Woman's Auxiliary with the Glover
church. Lunch was served on the
grounds. Altogether the meeting was
quite a pleasant AMI profitable one.
The annual meeting will be held with
Flint Hill church in September.
Death Of Mr.. j. A. Brown.
Mr.. ]. A. Brown, for many years a
citizen Of Sharon, died at his home In
that place yesterday, following a Sc
we're illness Of a week. He had been
suffering with a complication Of dis
eases for several years. Mr.. Brown was
about 10 years Of age, and Is survived
by a sister and brother, Mrs. M. E.
Deal, Of Blacksburg and Mr.. ]. c.
Brown whose home Is in Texas. The
deceased was for many years mem
ber of Woodlawn Presbyterian church.
where the funeral was held at two
o'clock today conducted by Rev. w. B.
Arrowood. ,.
Meeting Of Dairymen.
Professors McClain of Washington
and Mason of Clemson college Of the
livestock and dairy divisions Of the
department Of agriculture. met num-
ber Of people interested in dairying
and livestock in Yorkville, last Satur-
day, and addressed them on the sub
ject of building silos and silage, and
the importance of raising good live
stock. Following the addresses Of the
experts a temporary organization
looking toward the effecting Of the
Yorkville Live Stock association was
formed, with DR.. R. A. Bratton as tenn
porary president and Mr.. j. A. Tate as
secretary. Permanent officers will be
elected and a membership campaign
will be begun at an early date. Pro-
fessors McClain and Mason spent Sat
urday afternoon visiting several farm
ers in the vicinity of Yorkville. in COM
pany with DR.. Bratton.
Is This a True BilI7
TT would be a good idea, said a
well known farmer and business man
of the vicinity Of Yorkville, TO the re-
porter few days ago. III you would
sound warning to US to a certain
danger connected with the use Of
Florida potato slips. I have ten acres
of land that is polluted with nut grass.
and cannot account for it in any 9TH
er way than that the seed came here
from Florida In potato slips. I do not
mean to say that there Is no other nut
grass about; but there was none on my
farm until planted Florida potato
slips have compafed notes with
others and have found that their ex-
perience is very like my own. I would
be willing to give $500 to get rid Of the
nut grass on this ten acres referred to-"
The gentleman quoted did not care to
have his name quoted; but said that
he was perfectly willing to stand be-
hind his statements.
Hawk Trap Still Working.
The novel hawk trap OF Mr.. John A.
McGill, Of Hickory rove No. Q. men,
toned in The Enquirer some months
ago, Is still working. AS our readers
will remember, the trap is a peculiar
affair, consisting Of an undated steel
trap on the broken end Of the naked
limb Of a blasted tree. The hawks and
owls would select the place for look
out purposes, and lighting on the plat
form of the trap would get caught. At
trap ten hawks and owls had been
caught. Mr.. McGill was in Yorkville
last Saturday and reported that he
has caught six more birds since the
previous mention, two of them, big
hawk and an owl very. recently, max
ing sixteen in all since last fall Mr..
McGill said that the business of the
trap has not been so good during the
past few months, and he was some
what divided in opinion as to the rea-
son. For one thing he was quite sure
that the killing of sixteen hawks and
owls in any one community was call
culated to make the birds both scarce
and wary. Not Ion" ago he conceived
the idea Of having two traps instead Of
one and batting them with rabbit legs,
and both Of the recent catches have
been made since the batting Of the
trap.