Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-08-29
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News From Within and Without
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UUNDLNULu lOh Voioh S
Some Items of Fact, Some Of Comment
and All Helping to Give an Idea OF
What Our Neishbors Are Saying and
Doing.
Rock Hill Record, Aug. 25: The
! Barber Lumber Company this after
noon sold to S. w. cambridge of Char
lotte the corner lot at East Main and
Hampton streets, known as the Bar
ber-Sykes lot, or the F. H. Barber
home. now occupied by Mrs. j. B.
Fewelns boarding house. The con-
sideration was between forty and
fifty thousand dollars.........-.-The Record
is informed that Mrs. ]. H. McManus
has bought from Dr. ]. E. Massey the
two-story residence which she now
occupies on Chatham avenue.............
Ethelbert Proctor of Blenheim and
Miss Eloise Steele, daughter of John
H. Steele of Oak Ridge, were married
Saturday afternoon by the Rev. John
c. Bailey. Only the immediate rela-
tives were present. There were many
beautiful presents. The groom Is just
back from France. They slipped away
in a car in the direction Of Charlotte.
Rev. Paul H. Moore, formerly
pastor of the Ebenezer Presbyterian
church, together with his family, Is
on a visit to Mr.. and Mrs. Lindsay
Caldwell. Mr.. Moore is now located
at Tuscaloosa, Ala-...-.-...Miss Nevada
Smith Of Ogden and John c. Williams
Of Rock Hill were married Thursday
night at the home of the srooms
father, James Williams, by Rev. F.
w. Gregg. assisted by Rev. Mr.. Coker.
Lancaster News, Aug. 26: The Lam
caster graded schools will open Mon
day, September Sth, at 9 o'clock. In
preparation for the opening both
buildings are being cleaned, new desks
installed, a new Steiff piano pur-
chased and some addition has been
made to the science laboratory. Be-
cause of the large enrolment ex-
pected both auditoriums have been
divided into class rooms. Three new
teachers have been added to the Cen
trail school faculty and one to School
No. 2, making a total Of % teachers.
............ Sheriff Hunter and Chief Bell
went down to Pleasant Hill late Sun
day night and corralled Sam Reeves
and Roosevelt Lee, negroes, who were
charged with highway robbery. They
are alleged to have held up Sauls
Vaughn, a crippled negro, at the point
of a pistol and relieved him Of three
dollars and quarter. Lee confessed
to his part in the transaction but
Reeves maintains his innocence. They
were placed in jail.-............Friends here
received q telegram this morning from
Giant Elliott w. Springs saying he
was in a race Of airplanes from Roos-
|evelt field to Toronto and back, dis
tance of 1000 miles. and that he was
third to leave the field at two o'clock
yesterday afternoon, but was first to
to the world and the prize Is $4,000.
Captain Springs Is flying a Spanish
machine Of 800 horsepower.
Gastonia Gazette, Aug. rs: A serious
|accident was narrowly averted Satur-
day morning on South Marietta street
when jitney car belonging to Mr. Lee
Ramsey and driven by his son crash
ed into the milk wagon Of Mr.. Sloan
Robinson, tore one Of the rear wheels
off and scattered parts of the wheel,
spokes, milk and butter and other
dairy products for the distance OF half
a block down the street. Bystanders
say that the jitney was travelling at
the rate of 80 miles an hour and
furthermore took the wrong side Of the
|streetAt the Lutheran Chapel
parsonage, East Gastonia, Rev. A. l..
Boliek officiating, Mr.. Charles l..
White and Miss Sue Rhyme, both of
Dallas, were united in holy wedlock
July Is, 1919. At the Lutheran par
sonage In East Gastonia on August 15,
l1919, Rev. A. l.. Boliek officiating. Mr..
Emanuel Clemmer, Of Lowell, route
two and Miss Pearl Page, Of Belmont,
were united in marriage. At the home
Of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Cloniger,
near STANLEY, on August 20, 1919, Mr..
Melvin b. Stroup and Miss Mamie
Smith, both of CASTOR county, were
united in marriage, Rev. A. l.. Boliek
officiating After having driven a
horse belonging to the Coil-Wads-
worth Livery Company Of Concord.
from that city to Gastonia- a distance
of 46 miles, in eight hours, Charles
Williams tied the horse to telephone
post on Franklin avenue yesterday
afternoon and left 1t to die while he
made his escape before he could be
|apprehendcd by local officers. Specta-
tors and passersby on Franklin avenue
saw the hoy. a youth of IS or 20 years
of age, drive up and hitch the horse
to post near the residence OF Mr.. w.
d. Smith in front Of the warehouse
and remarked to him that he ought
to remove the horse from the street
which at that time Of the afternoon.
{ o'clock, was full Of passing autos.
Williams remarked that he was first
going to find his father and went on
up the street. Passersby unhitched the
horse and turned it into a vacant lot
nearby where it died shortly after
from the effects Of the long hard
drive Of 46 miles......Mr. and Mrs.