Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-07-04

to the Judge Of probate, license will
not be granted in North Carolina to
couples under y years Of age. Many
of them therefore, under that age come
to Yorkville for license and If they can
make satisfactory showing Of Is years
Of age, no further questions are asked.
Almost every day young couples from
North Carolina come to Yorkville for
marriage license.
Judge" w. A. Barrett of Glover, one
of the old men Of Kings Mountain
township, is still hale and harty at "a.
was, Mr.. Barrett said: why, still
feel pretty young and healthy despite
the fact that l have lived my allotted
three score and ten and am now living
on borrowed time. l spent yesterday
in the fields cutting wheat and did a
pretty good job of 1t, too. MIR. j. j.
Wilson Of Clover, the Oldest man in
Kings Mountain township, still enjoys
good health despite the fact that he Is
"a years of age or rather will be II
he lives until next December. He has
complete possession Of all his faculties
and takes as much interest In affairs
generally as he did forty years ago.
Messrs. John Knox, r. j. Love and
other very old men Of Glover are also
enjoying fairly good health and give
promise Of many more years Oh health
and happiness.
Here and There happened to be in
Greenville the other day for an hour or
two and while strolling along Main
street struck up chance acqualn-
tance with an old gentleman who,
when he learned my name and where
Interesting
little story about Yorkville, or rather
an incident that happened in Yorkyille
Just after the close Of the War Be-
tween the States. The gentleman was
"a Mr.. Hayne. He said that his family
refugeed in Yorkville during the latter
part of the war and lived In the "Old
Jail" He was in Johnson's army and
managed to get back to Yorkville,
coming without being paroled, about
ten days before the soldiers began
drifting in and drifting through from
Lees army. There had been quite a
lot of commissary supplies accumu-
lated in Yorkville, consisting Of bacon
and leather. Colonel Coward had re-
turned home in the meantime and at
once organized a sort Of nome guard
for the purpose Of taking care OF
these commissary supplies and distrt-
buting such as were needed to SOL
diers from other parts passing through
the town, with the assurance to local
people that after the passersby were
through passing the supplies then on
hand would be distributed to York
county people. Finally the last of the
returning soldiers had gone by and a
day was set for the distribution Of the
remaining stores. The bacon was In
the court room of the old courthouse
and the leather was in the yard under
guard of several soldiers, Mr.. Hayne
among them. The bacon was distri-
buted all right and in quantities that
made it go round fairly well. Out in
the yard, however, things didn't move
so smoothly. First one man and then
another would seize a piece Of leather
and walk away with 1t. Finally q wo-
man, Mr.. Hayne didn't know her name
and that doesn't matter, picked up a
side Of leather, at the same time that
another woman took hold Of the other
side Of the same piece. They began to
tug at 1t and neither would let 60, and
finally they went at 1t hammer and
tongs in a good old rough and tumble
fight, in which both hit and scratched
quite freely. After bit the husbands
of the two women came up and separ-
ated the combatants. Then one Of the
women paraded up and down the side
walk, her clothes torn and her hair
down her back and her face bleeding,
shrieking defiance to all comers with,
II can whip any woman in the coun-
ty." But" said Mr.. Hayne, there was
no more fighting and have never for.
gotten the incident"