Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-05-27
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soipe Items Of Fact, some Of Comment
and All Helping to Give an Idea OF
What Our Neishbors Are Saying and
Doing.
eastonia Gazette; May "a: Planning
a quiet but steady campaign to. en-
large; the membership of the Gastonia
Chamber of Commerce, the member
ship committee held a long session
Monday night at the Country Club.
Instead ofmeeting at, the offices OF
the chamber, the committee met at the
club enjoyed "a ;sumptuous dinner
served by Caterer Donald Birch, and
then put in a couple of hours on plans
.-.........Mr. George E. Haithcock, real
estate dealer, recently purchased q
brick residence from R. w. White on
North Boyce street. He is having 1T
re-roofed and the interior worked
over. Mr.. j. M. Atwood is doing the
work.......Funeral services over the re-
mains of the late Squire Ben Bradley,
which we're conducted at the First
Presbyterian church at 10 o'clock this
morning, were attended by large
copcourse of sorrowing relatives and
friends from various sections of the
county. ,......-Her friends will regret TO
known that: Miss Lola Davis has been
sick for several days past at her home
on East Main avenue...,-........At re-
cent meeting Of the local post of the
American Legion plans were made for
the securing and erection Of bronze
tablet containing. the names Of all
Castor county: men who died In SER
vice in the late war. 1t Is proposed
that this memorial be erected in the
courthouse or in some other public
place in the city. The post adopted
this at the suggestion OF. Congressman
Bulwinkle who was present at the
meeting. He made the striking point
that not one man OF every hundred in
Castor county today could give the
names of all the CASTOR county men
who died in the war. He stressed the
fact that there should be some form Of
memorial erected so that posterity
should know the names Of these hero
es. The Legion will proceed at once
to the purchase and erection of such
a tablet. '-..,s..'
Cleveland Star (Shelby) May "a:
Mr.. Burt L. Walls, job printer at The
Star office was taken seriously III Fri
day and was sent to his home In Con-
cord. It Is hoped that he will be suf-
ficiently we'll to return today to his
duties.............Mr. w. H. Hartness, the
popular manager OF the Eagle Roller
Mill, whose, illness was chronicied IN
!: Fridays Star was taken to the Cas-
tonia hospital Monday for treatment.
He has been steadily growing worse
and his family and physicians are
quite uneasy over his, condition.....----By
order of the county commissioners
the recorders court will use the main
court room hereafter for the transac-
tion Of business. County Superintend-
ent ]. Y. Irwin will move into the room
heretofore used by Recorder Falls ana
the two rooms vacated by Supt. irwin
will be converted into rest room and
toilet for ladies. This will be fitted up
nicely by the county and at the sug-
gestion of the Women's club for the
convenience Of ladies from the country
. who come to Shelby and have no pri-
vate place in which to rest...::....Jack
Williams who is serving two year
sentence on the chain gang OF NO.
township for robbing Joe Cook wash
burn of money taken in sales at his
Eastside Mill store last Fall, made his
escape from the stockade few days
ago. Williams got tools with which
he cut his chains while others about
the camp were employed in building
new kitchen. He had served two
months of his time....-...--..Mr. G. w.
Pierce who lives in the southern part
of town near the Shelby mill says he
Is having daily visitors at his home TO
see the very, unusual sight OF lul9
grown cocklebur, .four. pods in the TOP
at this time of year when the Cookie
bur was never known to mature ear
lier than the fall season.."..."Ihe
overhead bridge on n. LaFaEetle
street which has been undergoing re
pairs by the Seaboard railroad force
is now completed and open for traffic.
Agent Smart says the roads around
the station have also been repaired.
........A tenant house on the plantation
Of Mr.. James A. Wilson east OF Shelby
near Cleveland Springs was destroyed
by fire about o'clock Thursday even
ing. The house was occupied ny
James Moore, colored, and practically
everything in the house was destroy
ed, Moore's wife being sick at the
time..........A wedding Of unusual in
terest was soemnized at the home OF
Mr. and Mrs. I. b. Goforth. OF King S
Mountain, on Wednesday, May is, ut
$50 o'clock, when their daughter,
Rosalynd Miriam, became the bride or
William Hazel Crenshaw. Of Mt. Holly,
Rev. E. l.. Kirk Of the Methodist