Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-09-26
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Some Itsms Of Fact, Some OF Comment
} and All Helping to Give an Idea OF
What Our Neishbors Arc Saying and
Doing.
eaffnsy Ledger, September p: The
annual singing held at Limestone Bap-
Mist church Sunday was well attended
and was enjoyed by all. The old-time
favorite hymns were sung under the
direction of Cherokee county's leading
singers. A special choir from Green
VILE which had been expected was un-
able to be present on account OF a
previous engagement.........J. L. Plaxlco
a prominent banker and business man
of Hickory Grove, spent Friday in the
city, the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. c. X.
White. Mr.. Plaxico was accompanied
by his wife, and was en- route to Clin-
ton, going to that place Saturday
morning. Mr.. H. Fay Gaffney Is
moving his family soon to Columbus
Ca, where they will make their home
much to the regret Of their many
friends here. Mr.. Gaffneys interests
have been in Georgia for the past two
years. Miss Blanche Gaffney left Fri
day morning for Columbus, where she
will enter school. Superintendent
of Education J. L. Walker yesterday
said that q majority Of the rural schools
oil qhnllt
the middle of October. Teachers are
very scarce and rather hard to secure
despite the higher salaries being paid
this year, according to Mr.. Walker.
Rock Hin Record, Sept. 22: Miss
Birdie Lee Reynolds of Swansea and
Curtis Pinckney Smoak Of Rock Hill
were married at the former place on
September Maj. Lindsay Nc
Fadden returned to his duties this
morning at the Diehl- Moore Shoe
company, he being a member Of that
corporation. v. Sanders recent
ly Of the Aragon Mills. Rock Hill, but
formerly of Gaffney, has succeeded A.
FL oIlKk6JhS "a viz &&SN
mitage Mill Of Camden.............Lindsay
Miller, son of DR.. and Mrs. ]. r. Mil
Ter. Of this city, will leave Wednesday
for Johns Hopkins, where he goes to
take. up the study Of medicine. Mr..
Miller graduated with the A. B. from
Erskine College in 1913, and with the
B. S. from the University Of South
Carolina in June, 1919, and is one Of
the 80 men picked from the country at
large who are permitted to study med
icine- at Johns Hopkins, which is quite
an honor.........The friends of Miss Mar
garet Walmsley, daughter Of DIR. and
Mrs. j. E. Walmsley, were surprised
to learn of her marriage to Lewis
Joseph Bellus Of New York City, which
occurred on Saturday morning in
Charlotte. The parents Of the young
lady were present. After the cere-
nony Mr.. and Mrs. Bellus left for
Camp Bragg, where they will reside
temporarily. Mrs. w. S. Neil and
children returned home in Columbia
on Saturday after visit to Mr.. and
Mrs. Roy Neil, on Marion street. Mrs.
Neil entered her daughter, Miss Doro-
q thy, at Winthrop College.......The Man.
chester Cotton Mills, which were sold
recently to the Jobbers Overall Com
pany of Lynchburg. Va, will increase
the spindles to $4,000 and looms to l.
0eo allS ON denim, and the Jobbers
Overall Company will take the entire
output. The mill now has 1,S00 spin
dies and 400 looms.............Mis Mary
Louise Little. recent Winthrop grad
uate, was married in Laurens county
last Tuesday, afternoon to William B.
bailey. a farmer Of that county. Lieut..
Dozier of Rock Hill was a guest at
the wedding.
Chester Reporter, September %:
Mr.. w. Thompson Wilks. a we'll known
farmer, died Thursday evening at his
home in the Baton Rouge section, af
ter few days illness. He was about
IS years of age...."..The state High
way Commission let a contract last
week to the Birmingham Steel Cor
poration for the construction of the
Broad river bridge at Lockhart, for
which contract was let some months
ago, but which was afterwards rejected
by the contractors, the deposit check
being forfeited. The contract for the
construction Of the steel bridge was
let for $4,000. A separate contract
for the construction of the concrete
structures of the bridge was let to the
.Lockhart Power Co., for s26O3s, a total
for the entire bridge of s63,S59. The
contract calls for completion of the
bridge in nine months. Work is to