Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-02-19

four hours late last night due TO q
blowout above Dallas, N. c. The
train reached Yorkville about 1921
o'clock.
- Between 500 and 900 persons saw
the first installment of the new serial
photo-play, The Master Key" which
was exhibited on the screen Of the
Lyric theatre Tuesday afternoon and
evening. The play is quite different
in character from the TREY o
Hearts," the last serial picture ex-
hibited.
- Chief Of Police P. w. Love has re-
covered from his long illness, and
this week, regularly resumed his
duties as day policeman. Policeman
Richardson has gone back to his old
Job as night man, and Mr.. T. W.. Nc
Claim, who has been serving during
the illness Of Chief Love, has severed
his connection with the department.
DR.. Mary Glenton, medical mis-
sionary among the Chinese for a pc
riod Of twenty years and who has
been in the United States about two
years, delivered a lecture in the
Church Of the Good Shepherd, We'd
nesday evening on mission work In
China. There was a fairly good sized
audience in attendance upon the lee
ture.
w. A. Edwards Of Atlanta, archi-
tect Of the new York county court
house, was in Yorkville this week for
the purpose Of passing upon the brick,
terra Gotta and partition work in the
building, which work has been COM
pleted. The work was declared salts
factory and Mr.. F. D. Underwood, the
sub-contractor, left Yorkville yester-
day. The work of the steamfitters on
the building will also be completed
this week.
Although the price Of bread has
gone up to six cents per loaf in most
States, the price remains five cents In
Yorkville, and there Is little probable
ity Of Yorkville grocers increasing the
price at present. The bakers who
ship bread to Yorkville are reducing
the size Of their loaves to some ex-
tent and where a loaf weighing II
ounces heretofore sold for 5 cents, the
loaf now weighs only about ten
ounces.
Few people in Yorkville have been
able to do any gardening yet, al.
though quite q number anticipated
iiiohii6 a khio "COhp iioo NV -
rain Of Monday interferred. A few,
however, have succeeded in planting
Irish potatoes, peas, etc. One One
fact Is noticeable, viz: 1t Is not near
so difficult to obtain labor to do
gardening work as has been the case
heretofore. there being quite q num-
Der Of negroes around Yorkville who
are anxious to obtain such employ
ment.
Students of the Yorkville Graded
school hope to have a fine athletic
field by the latter part of the school
year. A field adjoining the present
athletic grounds has been leased, and
money has been secured to grade the
baseball diamond. The thick hedge
which has until last summer formed
a barrier between a fielder and a ball
knocked to a great distance has been
cut down and will be kept closely
trimmed. The work Of grading the
field has been begun and will be COM
pleted in plenty Of time for the county
school field day meet, in April.
Marbles" is now the prevailing
game among the small boys of York.
Vile and promises to remain in vogue
until baseball weather sets in. Num-
bers Of boys, both white and black,
have been playing the game during
the past few days and many stock
ings and knickerbockers have been
observed bearing a muddy complex
ion. Several Yorkville stores that sell
marbles have done q better business
in the past two weeks than at any
previous time in several months. Sew
eral Of the boys have large col
lections Of marbles, including the clay,
china, catgut, agate and tiger-eye va
~rieties, although the last named speci-
mems are comparatively few. Some
Of the boys are really good marble
players and can direct the little
spheres with the accuracy of a rifle
in a wise. Marbles will very likely
interest the boys for the next three
or four weeks, after which baseball
and tennis wild hold their interest
during the spring and summer.
- The Winthrop College Glee club
played to a large audience In the
Yorkville opera house Tuesday even
ing, and taking all in all the college
girls performance was quite a cred
table one and highly pleasing to the
audience. Solos by Misses Sada Will
hanson and Helen Darby brought
forth much applause and the Glee
Club quartette-Misses Carita Randle,
saba Williamson, Maggie May Scale
and Jean McAlpine-were repeatedly
encored. Possibly the most pleasing
and best received number on the pro-
gramme were the recitations by Miss
Margaret Cheyne, who delighted the
audience with her two selections
THE Conquered Coquette" and THE
Quaker and the Maid" A vocal solo
by Miss Ethel Hoffman and piano Sc
lections rendered by Misses Annie
Roddey Miller and Frances Milling
brought forth much applause from the
audience. The Glee club, which was
composed Of about fifteen Winthrop
students under the direction Of Miss
Louise Siddal, teacher Of vocal music
in the college. spent the night In
Yorkville and returned to Rock Hill
on the early train Wednesday morn
ing.