Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-09-19
GARNERED With SCISSORS
News From within and Wllhoul
the County.
CONDENSED FOR QUICK READING

Some Items of Fact, Some OF Comment
and All Helping to Give an Idea OF
What Our Meishbors Are Saying and
Doing.
Rock Hill! Record, Sept. IS: J, H.
Riser of Lee5villc, is now member
OF the Winthrop faculty. Mr.. R'ser
has taught in d number of schools OF
South Carolina and Georgia and Is an
exceptionally efficient young man. He
has been recently specializing in ag-
, ricultural training and will teach this
subject at. Winthrop College. Miss
Alta Fewcl has joined the staff OF the
Standard Drug Company of this city
......,The Record is informed that at
the next regular meeting of the City
Council in october, w. b. Wilson, Jr,
will be elected City Recorder:
Miss Hattie Wise, Winthrop gradu-
ate, was married on September 3. at
Gaffney to Norman l.. Wessfnger. She
has for two years been nome demon
stration agent in Cherokee COUNTY.
Miss Louise Brunson. Winthrop girl,
was married at Sumter last Wednes-
day to Roger w. Andrews.
Gastonia Gazette, Sept. 16: Miss
Ethel Adams Of Glover, was in town
this morning en- route to Greensboro
where she goes to enter the North Car
o1ina College for Women.-.-----Miss Nell
Pickens, county home demonstration
agent, underwent an operation for ap-
pendicitis this morning at the Gastonia
Sanatorium. Her many friends in the
county will be glad to hear that she
is recovering from the effects nicely.
........ Mrs. James "A. Estridge is a pat
lent at the Gastonia Sanatorium, where
she underwent an operation for ap-
pendicitis this morning. Her many
friends will be glad to learn that she
stood the operation we'll and will hope
for her speedy recovery.------A card
from Miss Willie B. Otey, who is at
the Walter Reed Hospital, Washington
d. c., received this morning at The
Gazette office states that she will be
home in another week. Miss Oteys
hearing Is being much improved by the
treatment she is undergoing at the
hospital.
Chester Reporter, Sept. IS: A car
load Of mules and horses. twenty four
In number, consigned to Mr.. Robert
T. Allison of York, was turned over on
the c. & NV. Railway this morning
near the Eureka Mill, and one of the
animals killed and several injured.
The animals had been delivered to the
C. & N. w. by the Seaboard, and were
being brought out on the main line by
the latter preparatory to shipment to
York, when suddenly the upper part of
the car seemed to slide Off the trucks,
and the animals were precipitated down
a steep embankment, one being instant
ly killed and several hurt.--...-----.-The
fourth quarterly conference of Bethel
church was held Sunday afternoon.
Presiding Elder ]. r. T. Major in the
chair. Reports showed the addition
Of sixty-five members to the church
to date by vows and certificate. Other
reports, too were encouraging. Three
men were added to the official board
Of the church: Messrs. r. E. Cousar
and w. r. Williams were elected stew
al DIS. and Mr. ]. Steel Caldwell a trus-
tee--Mr. Fletcher Dye, of the Ross
Vile neighborhood, was painfully,
though not seriously, hurt Friday
morning when his automobile turned
who is in charge of squad on the
public road was on his way to work,
and in pulling aside to give a team
part of the road overturned his ma
chine, which is said to have turned
over twice before settling Two OF
Mr.. Dyes brothers were with him, one
being slightly scratched, while the
other was unhurt.
Gaffney Ledger. Sept. t6: ]. Harvey
Witherspoop, superintendent of the
city schools, has announced that child
ren becoming six years Of age by Oct
ODST ISL are duIIlllleu W tle CITY
schools during the first school month.
Children who are six by January 1st
are admitted at any time during the
first school month after the Christmas
holidays. All except first grade pupils
are admitted at any time during the
year. Cherokee county is going to
receive S623.3S as its share OF the ad-
ditional license fee on premiums COL
lected by insurance companies for the
semi-annual period ending June goth,
1919, according to statement issued
by the state insurance commissioner.
Spartanburg county will receive s3,-
165.75; Union. ss31.45; and York, ST.
745.S7. THE total amount to be paid
to all the counties in South Carolina
is $59,93016.......A.F f. Littlejohn, OF
the staff of the News and Courier,
Charleston, spent the weekend in the
city with his parents. Mr.. and Mrs. ID.
L. Littlejohn on Buford street. Mr..
Littlejohn says the boil weevil is ruin
ing the cotton farmers in Charleston
county this year, the pest being so
thick in some places as to appear like