Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-03-29
GARNERED With SCISSORS
News From Within and Without
the County.
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Some Items Of Fact, Some Of Comment
f and All Helping to Give an Idea o1
What Our Neighbors Are Saying ano
Doing.
Fort Mill Times, March "a: DR.. 7. S.
kirkpatrick, we'll known Fort Mill cit
izen, was stricken with appendicitis
last Friday and. Sunday was removed
from his home to a hospital in Rock
Hill, where he was operated upon
Monday afternoon. Yesterday reports
from DR.. Kirkpatrick's bedside were
that his condition was satisfactory and
that if no complications set in his re-
covery. might be expected within a
short time. Prior to the operation, Dr.
Kirkpatrick's condition was consider
ed critical by the attending physicians
and both his daughters, Mrs. L. q.
Gather Of Statesville, n. c., and Mrs.
Allen Graham OF Greenville, arrived
. in Fort Mill Sunday to be with him in
his illness.-...... Seventy of the "
members of the Tom Hall Guards, Fort
Mill company of the National Guard
of the United States, were present
Tuesday evening for the first annual
inspection Of. the company, made by
Mai. B. F. Ristine, inspector-instruc-
tor of the North Carolina National
Guard and Maj. F. w. Glenn of the
quarternaster corps, National Guard
Of South Carolina...-..W- r. Bradford
of Fort Mill is to be one OF the judges
ut the annual inter- society debate at
winthrop college Friday evening at 5
O'Clock. James w. Barber, son oil
= Mr.. and Mrs. Alex Barber Of Fort Mill,
who became connected with the army
Y. N. C. A. at the; outbreak Of the
World war; recently has been trans
ferred from" Camp Jackson, Columbia
TO birmingham Ala, where he is sta
toned as officer of vocational and ex-
ecutive work under the army. Mr..
Barber has number Of men under his
supervision in Birmingham..-.....-R. RI.
Gordon and his family, who live two
miles west of Monroe, N. c., saw
good sized bear in a, field near their
home Tuesday morning. The bear
was headed in the direction of South
Carolina and was making good time.
Mr.. Gordon and his family were in
their yard and got good view of the
bear. Mr.. Gordon went to sawmill
nearby and told the men there what
he had seen and they all started out
on a hunt for the bear, but as they
had 10 dogs the chase had to be aban-
,'oned The bears tracks were plainly
seen IN plowed ground.
Lancaster News, March IS: If the
people of Lancaster want paved
streets. they can have them. 1t is not
a question of what can be done, but
one OF what will be done. Everybody
knows where the money comes from
with which to pave streets and build
roads Everybody knows that the
streets of Lancaster can be paved and
will be paved whenever somebody sets
out with a determination TO pave
them. They will never lie paved until
somebody does that..-.....Accorling to
igGre. compiled by Sam L. Rogers.
director of the bureau of the census,
Department of commerce. there had
T
the 1920 cotton crop up to March Il,
2s,la6 bales against 23.91s bales Of the
4Ee date last year. Total in the state
5,s3s,47O against :1.362ia77 last year,
9.ss.......The birthday party given :cSSt ;SEt
Dixie school house on; Friday night #
March II, was decided success, a
labge crowd was present and every
body had a nice time, A delightful
salad course >and cake was served.
The sum of $500 was realized.
Chester Reporter, March "a: Mr..
III: Bagley. of Richburg. section mas
ter on the L. &; c. Railway. was
stricken with apoplexy while at work
Tuesday afternoon. and died instantly.
The train had passed. and Mr.. Bngley
was engaged in reading a letter that
had been tossed to hi@ when he was
seen to stagger and fail backward.
Death was almost instantaneous. MIR.
Bagley, who was most highly esteem
cd ;leares a wife and several children.
He; was about fifty years Of age. Fun
eral services were coducted at the
house Yesterday afternoon by Rers.
R.sRoy Brown and A. @. Rice. Inter-
ment was at Union gravcyarh.........Thc
death Of w. A. Wilkinson, who was
under indictment for murder in the
courts Of Chester county, occurred at
Winston Salem. y. c., on January
18th, but was not known here general
ly until day or two ago. Wilkinson
was tried about two years ago, the
case resulting in Il mistrial; but last
fall, when it was intended to try the
case again. was unable to appear. The
cause of death is set down in the
death certificate as myocarditis. At
the time Of Mrs. Wilkinson's murder
the couple were occupying the house
at the city's Sandy River water sta