Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-08-30

columbia streets yesterday morning.
Honors were about even, both Fords
being somewhat damaged, though not
severely. Mr.. w. w. Bradley, one of
the two passengers in the Denton car,
suffered an injury to his leg. and had
to have a few stitches taken-..-.....Judge
Ernest Moore, of Lancaster, in de-
cree handed down in the case of Ir.
Summer, of Rock Hill, versus Mr.. J. w.
Bankhead, OF Lowryville, has refused
TO compel Mr.. Bankhead to comply
with the conditions of a contract for
the purchase of land from DR.. Sumner
on the ground that the transaction
was speculative. Mr.. Bankhead PAID
one tenth down at the time the trade
was made, This ruling is in line with
a recent decision Of the Supreme
Court, which held that a transaction
is not binding where of a speculative
cbara cter. "A car of colored base
ball fans from Rock Hill came to grief
the Eureka Mill Tuesday evening, one
of the number, Pearl Bailey, being so
severely hurt as to have to be taken
TO the Pryor Hospital. The driver
seems to have been driving at a high
rate of speed and struck the side rail
of the bridge The car left the road,
but landed right side upward in the
old road. Miss Martha Kirkpatrick
who was struck Tuesday morning by
an automobile driven by George Davis,
is getting along nicely, an X-ray nav
ing shown that no bones were broken.
The young lady was standing at the
back-end of watermelon wagon IN
front of The s. NJ. Jones Co.'S store,
when the car plunged into the rear OF
the wagon, throwing her against the
wagon and injuring her very painfully.
The young man was slowing down his
machine, and probably by accident
pushed the car into low gear while at
tempting to put on the brakc...........A
week or two ago The Reporter carried
a paragraph TO the effect that the
opening up Of the new steel bridge al
Lockhart and the repairs TO the roads
in that section TO be made by the coun-
ty of Chester shortly would open up a
splendid new territory TO Chester mer-
chants, provided they would go after
the trade and Union merchants did not
have their eyes too much on the same
territory. That Union county does not
propose to let this business get away
is evidenced from the following from
The Union Times. which is referred
first to Mr.. l.. NJ. Wootan and his
board for their consideration, then tc
the local merchants, who have the op-
portunity TO bring new business &c
Chester if they can make it more in
viting TO the trade in question TO come
here than go to Union: Last week
The Times published an article from
The Chester Reporter warning the
Union merchants that Chester was go
ing after the Union county trade. since
the Lockhart bridge had been com
pleted and going made easy. A good
friend of ours travelled the road from
Lockhart to Wllkinsville (Wilksburg)
yesterday and said Chester would have
to be up and doing if she wanted any
trade from Union county, for the roads
were perfectly awful in places and
none too good in others. Union coun-
ty boasts of grand roads and we are
stuck up over the fact, however, our
merchants are alive to the question
and are advertising persistently sc
that when Chester gets good roads
our people will not know any road but
the one leading to Union"