Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-04-26
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Some Items Of Fact, 5or1e of Comment
and All Helping to Give an Idea 'ls:7 J.. Of i
.: What Our Neishbors Are Saying and and
Doing: t;:>;@, .,.>.l:..., =. s.. -.
Fort Mill Times, April p: The Rev.
]. B., Black, pastor of the. Fort Mil
Presbyterian church, has BEEN a pa
.tient for several days at a. Charlotte
hospital and it is not known when be
viii be able to. return: home; The g..
fieers of the church have granted Mr..
Black an; indefinite leave Of absence
from his work, that he may try to re-
gain his health, which has not been
goed. for some time.-..-.The curves Oh
Andral Ferguson proved too elusive
for. the Great Falls batters SATURDAY,
afternoon and the boys from the river
side town went back home with an II
to o score. to think over.......,.The Rev.
Edward Mack, D. D., professor Oh
Bible history at. Union Theological
seminary, Richmond. Va, spent Mon
day and, Tuesday in Fort Mill at the
home : Of. his mother. Mrs. Harriet
Mack, and with his sisters, Mrs. Eliza
beth Belk and Mrs: ". B. Ardrey..---'.''
Magistrate j. R Halle Sunday after
noon performed his first marriage
ceremony since assuming the duties
of his office two months ago, the par
ties being Miss Mamie Belle Rainey
and Gurnie c. Freeman, both Of Fort
Mil. Wednesday morning he received
hurried call to. come from Ihe
Times office to his store to officiate
at the marriage Of Miss Docia sweet
Of Rock Hill and Giles Mason or
Charlotte, n. c.. who expressed de-
sire to have the. knot tied as eXped'-
tfously as possible, as he'was not sure
fheSS young lady's. relatives would not
alr;ve' to interpose objection..-.-.Mlss
ONE Bell, II year old daughter OF
Mrs: Bessie Bell, who lives in the
Village of mill No. 2, Fort Mil. Man
:;nfacturing company, died at her home
Saturday afternoon at 4.sO o'clock fol-
lowing an illness Of; several months,
which; began. with "a severe attack OF
Influenza she suffered more than,
wear aeo.-....D.. Victor Bales, whose
farm is a, few miles north of Fort Mill
Just: beyond the state line. sustained
a loss of several thousand dollars last
Wednesday morning when his barn.
three horses, two mules and a large
quantity of feedstuff and practically
all his farming implements were de-
stroyed by fire. There was no insur-
ance on the building or contents-'.--
A. number of trees were blown down,
branches were broken from many
others and several tin roofs on pus-
iness.,< houses were damaged by a
severe, wind storm which struck the
Fort Mill section late Saturday after
noon. Power wires also were blown
down by. the wind and 4 part of town
was without electric lights. Saturday
night. j. Hughes Of Lowell, N
&. came 10 r Orl Mill last FiiN's 40 49,
effort to identify the man who was
killed on the track on the Southern
railway Saturday night, April g. by
passenger train No. 2S, two miles
north of town, and left here Saturday
positive in the belief. that the man was
his brother, F. NJ. Hughes, Of Marion
NC. Mr.. Hughes said E. NJ. Hughes
had brought a load. OF apples from
Marion to Pineville, N. c., and that
otter selling the apples. had sent his
team back TO Marion, and he sup
posed, had then undertaken to walk
the railroad track from Pinevillc to
Fort Mill. He was not certain the
dead man had not been robbed. as no
money:yvas found in his clothing, and
that perhaps he had been murdered
and the body placed on. the railroad
track to be struck by the passenger
train in an effort to cover up the
crime. So positive was MIR. Hughes
that the unidentified man whose body
was buried in New Unity cemetery
Monday. April'11 was that of his
brother that he did not think it worth
while to have it disinterred for idcn-
tification.