Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-05-11
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Dealing Mainly With Local Affairs OF
Cherokee, Cleveland. CASTOR. Ian.
caster and Chester.
Gaffney Ledger, May z: Messrs. W.
S. Lipscomb and D. H. Mathis, who
own adjoining farms on route four
are running eighteen plows on the
two farms and using only twenty
sacks of guano. On the same land
and working the same number of
mules, over 400 sacks Of fertilizer were
used during last year. About one-half
of the land this year is devoted to
cotton and the remaining half to corn.
In a letter to a member Of the
county board of education, Hon. j. E.
Swearingen, state superintendent Of
education, says that a successor to the
late E. S. McKown as superintendent
of education for Cherokee county will
be appointed within the next few
days. Mr.. McKown's successor will
be named by Governor Manning. 1t
is known that there are two appli-
cants for the position, these being
Prof. F.. E. Shuford, principal Of the
Cherokee Avenue Graded school, and
Donald Huggin, an attorney at law.
80. Work Of grading the northern
sidewalk Of West Frederick street
preparatory to paving it, has been be-
gun by V. /. Spurgeon, who has the
contract for the job. The property
owners will be required to pay one
half the cost and the city the other
half. Paving this street has been held
up for several months because OF the
refusal of some Of the people interest
ed to agree to the proposition, but all
arrangements have now been made
and the work will be pushed to COM
pletion as rapidly as possible. .......
1t Is understood in local legal circles
that Hon. Charles Carroll Sims Of
Orangeburg, will preside at the next
term Of court for Cherokee county.
This term Is scheduled to convene on
June 2Sth. ..... Sheriff w. w. Thomas
left yesterday morning for Holly
Springs, Miss, where he expects to
find Nero Littlejohn, a negro, who es-
capped from the Cherokee county
chaingang in 1903. If the negro de-
mands requisition papers it will put
Sheriff Thomas to some little trouble
and he may have to stay in Mississip-
pi several days.
Chester Reporter, May 6: Boots"
colored, Of the Lands
ford section, was placed under arrest
Monday night by Sheriff Colvin and
Deputy c. Y. Young on the charge Of
shooting Mr.. A. G. James, and Is in the
county Jail 1t seems that Mr.. James
who is in charge Of Mr.. r. H. Fudge's
blacksmith shop, accused Mccullough
of the theft of various articles from
the shop, and the latter is supposed
TO have hidden near Mr.. James
sleeping apartments in the rear Of
the shop, and as the latter appeared
Monday night, fired upon him from
ambush. The load Of shot took ef-
feet in the thigh, but did not infiict
a serious wound. Mr.. j. l.. Glenn
received letter yesterday, from the
Belgium relief authorities in New
York, stating that Mr.. ]. L. Glenn, Jr.,
who left Oxford University several
weeks ago with other Rhodes scholars
to do relief work in Belgium, is still
at Namur and is doing yeoman SER
vice. Owing to disturbed condition Of
the mail facilities, it Is very difficult
to get letters through, and it has been
several weeks since a letter was re-
ceived here direct from Mr.. Glenn
himself 80. Mr.. Edward Petty, who
lives near Aliens, on the Catawba
Valley railroad, met with a heavy loss
by fire last Friday morning, when his
barn, together with contents, con-
sisting O. 100 bushels of corn, 1000
bundles of fodder, cotton seed hulls,
hay, guano, farming implements, ETC.,
was totally destroyed. Mr.. Petty, we
are sorry to state, carried no insur-
ance. Rev. d. G. Phillips, D. D.,
and Mr.. R. h. Moffat attended the
meeting Of the First A. R. P. presby-
terry at Concord, n. c., this week as
delegates from the A. r. p. church Of
this city. Mr.. Joseph Lindsay also at
tended presbytery as a member Of the
committee on laymen's work.
Kings Mountain Herald, May g.:
Married, at the home Of j. n. Smith,
near Elbethel, Sunday afternoon, May
2, Miss Essie L. Smith and Mr..
Robert E. Ware. .... "A frightful acci-
dent occurred on Newton Farm, near
Patterson Grove, Monday. Mr.. New
ton is the champion potato grower OF
this section. He has tunneled out
under a hill a great cavern for hous-
ing potatoes. During the wet wealth
er of last winter the pit caved in and
buried the few remaining bushels.
Mr.. Newton, not caring to dig the po-
tatoes out he offered to give them
to anybody who would get them.
Mr.. S. G. Plonk, whose potatoes had
rotted, accepted the offer and came
over Monday with a darky and pro-
ceeded to dig for the potatoes. They
had eXcavated a depth Of some eight
feet and had uncovered a good many
potatoes, when, just as Mr.. Plonk had
raised up and begun to climb out to
empty the vessel the earth caved in
and entombed the darky. Rescue
work began and neighbors rushed to
the scene. The colored man was fully
two feet under ground and remained
there for fifteen or twenty minutes.
One huge rock had fallen over his
head which had to be broken with a
maddox before it could be removed.
After a while the old hat appeared and
moved. By this sign they knew the
man was still alive. Dr. Hord was
called to the scene and the man res
cued.
Rock Hill Record, May 6: That ac-
cidents will happen to those most
careful, was shown yesterday after
noon when party Of young boys and
girls narrowly escaped death while
out in a car driven by Orin S. Poe,
Jr. This youngster is said to be about
the most careful driver in the city.
and it was probably due to his cool
head that several Of the young people
were not killed. These young people
were driving out near the Whitner
farm and upon rounding a curve, ran
into a washout just beyond the curve.
Young Poe said he realized that the
car would turn turtle if he did not
keep it going, so he did this, and pos
sibly prevented more serious conse-
quences The car was loaded, the
girls inside and the boys sitting on
the fender, it is said, when the car
skidded into the ditch, the boys all
jumped to safety, except young Poe.
The girls either jumped out later or
were thrown out and three OF them
were right painfully injured. Orene
Poe, daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. +. c.
Poe, had her nose broken and collar
bone broken and was otherwise pain
fully bruised. Margaret Law, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Law, was
painfully cut and bruised. Mary
Schwrar daughter or Mr.. and Mrs.
c. X. Schwrar, was right painfully
hurt. Il piece being cut out of one
cheek. cut in the other cheek, and
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