Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-04-13
WITHIN THE TOWN

A number Of stores have begun
closing at 6 o'clock.
There was a sharp electrical storm
in Yorkville for a few minutes early
Sunday evening, the first Of the year.
- Yorkville's share Of the 1 per cent
tax levied on insurance premiums for
the year ending December 81, 1914, is
1920. The total tax in the state
amounts to $~14,047.69.
A number Of pupils Of the York
Vile Graded school went to Rock Hill
Saturday to attend the athletic con-
tests in connection with the first meet
Of the Catawba High School Orator.
cal and Athletic contest.
&C. & NV. passenger train No. 10,
due in Yorkville at 1888, was about one
hour late this morning because OF the
derailment Of the engine tender a
short distance south of the twelve
mile post.
will Mcknight, a well known ne
gro of Yorkville, who had conducted
a blacksmith shop for more than
thirty years, died at his home Fri
day afternoon, following an illness or
about a week with pneumonia. He
was about So years Of age.
Almost a full house greeted the
amateur exhibition 1.-The Patriot
Girl and 1.-The Culprit Fairy" given
in the Yorkville opera house Friday
night. The various members Of the
cast carried out their respective parts
admirably and the artistic scenery also
called for much favorable comment.
ALL the lights in the new court
house were turned on last night ana
the reflection was thrown out alorS
Main street Tor some distance. The
heating and plumbing systems have
been completed and all that remains
to be done before the building Is to
be turned over to the county Is to in
stall the furniture.
- Yorkville's baseball team has
three games scheduled for this week
two at home and one away. The
Yorkville school team will go to Rock
Hill Wednesday to play the Winthrop
Training school. Friday the Rock
Hill high school team will play III
Yorkville, and on Saturday the Ches-
ter High school team will come TO
Yorkville for a game.
- Beginning next Sunday there Will
be a change Of schedule in Southern
train No. III, Columbia to Yorkville.
which train now reaches Yorkville at
80 p. m. BY the change effective on
April IS this train will not arrive I'M
til 0 10, being detained at Rock Hill
about one hour to make connection
with No. 80 from Columbia, which
will be due at Rock Hill at 9.45 p. M,
one hour later than at present. BY
this change passengers from Yorkville
on 1876 at 80, will make connection
at Rock Hill with No. 80 for Char.
iotte. There will be no material
changes in the schedules Of the other
trains. Nos. 81 and 80, heretofore
running between Washington n
Jacksonville, Fla, will hereafter run
only between Charlotte, y. c., and Sa-
vannah, Ga.
During tie month ending April
IL, the first month under the gallon
a month" law has beer in force. more
packages of liquor have been receiv-
ed al the Yorkville express office than
were received the previous month. The
quantity of liquor received, however,
has not been so great owing to the
fact that packages now being received
here contain anywhere from n quart
to one gallon, whereas many of those
received before the law wen into eff
feet contained one, two, three n
four gallons. From February IL to
March -, 362 packages Of liquor were
received at the Yorkville office. Four
of these went back to the shipper be-
cause Of the excess Of the contents
over legal requirements. From March
II to April IL, the total number OF
packages received was $40, all within
legal requirements.
The idea of a home coming week
has been proposed for Yorkville. No
definite plans have been determined
upon: but early in July has been sug-
gested as the date. This home coming
idea originated In New England some
years q and was carried out by
many towns in Massachusetts, and ad-
Joining states with much success. The
Anderson Daily Mail instituted such a
movement for Anderson county about
five years ago, and had several big
DAYS in Anderson as a result Of a gen.
eral in%gathering of the children of the
town and city who had gone abroad
I'm previous years. The pleasures or
the occasion centered around, first, a
reunion of relatives and friends; next
%picnics, baseball. balloon ~ascensions
and other pleasant and interesting di-
versions. There are hundreds II not
thousands of Yorkville and York coun-
Nv citizens and descendants Of York
Vile and York county citizens abroad,
and if they can be gotten together
again for a few days or a week. the
occasion will he both pleasant and