Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-05-31

team in a game Of baseball on the COL
ored diamond here Friday afternoon.
The game went for fourteen innings
and the final score was to 8.
When you see the wind blowing
down street, said John Warren Quinn,
the other morning, you can look out
for lower temperature. In the after
noon it was quite cool and MIR. Quinn
said, II told you So"
-R. E. Mcclure, public cotton
weicher for Yorkville, weighed slight
Iy more than 300 bales Of cotton last
week which were sold to local dealers.
The lot included about 284 bales Of cot
ton sold by w. l.. Williams to Paul n.
Moore, cotton buyer.
The Redpath chautauqua will re-
turn to Yorkville for another five day
engagement next spring. That fact
was assured last Saturday when about
| fifty-nine citizens signed a pledge ac-
cepting responsibility for the sum of
81. 200 which the chautauqua pcople re-
ouired in order to- f1x a return en-
gagement.
Dave Murray, well known negro,
formerly fireman at the pumping sta
tion who has been at Whippany, n: j..
for the past three years, has returned
70 Yorlsyille with his family. I was
getting along fine up in New Jersey.
saws Dave, "and making good money;
but I decided to come back mere SO l
could know where am at
Trinity church raised about $3.50
of its 5000 assessment to the $4,000.
000 Christian Education fund last
Sunday morning in less than ~
minutes. The assessment means S9oo
| a year for five years and Rev Mr.
Walker said yesterday that ne was
confident that the full assessment
would be raised before the close OF
next Sunday. Trinity church, &c SAID
has the distinction of paying more
money per capita for church purposes
than any other church in the confer
ence.
Efforts of several merchants Of the
town to have all the merchants 70
| a pree to close their stores on Thursday
afternoons of each week during the
months of June, July and August nave
fallen through, it seems 1t was stated
Yesterday that all of the merchants OF
4 the town with the exception OF one
Arm. had agreed to close on THURSDAY
afternoons; but this firm refused tc
consider the matter at all. Whethel
mr. not the other merchants Will &c
ahead with this regardless OF the un-
willing firm has not been learned. 9.
"A white man named Snipes who is
under arrest in Gastonia, charged Wltf
hurglarizing a store at Bowling Green
yor, county and with several bur-
elaries in Gastonia has confessed 70
Entering and robbing the store OF
Nivens Brothers Of, Yorkyille on sat
urday night q week ago. At the tlme
of the breaking open of the local store
a valuable pistol, about 500 pennies
and a quantity of jewelry were taken
Mr. Banks Nivens of Nivens Brothers
and Policeman Jack McCarter went to
Gnstonia Sunday to see Snlpes IN the
IA II there. He identified pistol taken
from SHINES by the officers as that
taken from the store. Snipes admitted
hreakine into the store but declared
that he didn't remember Whether he
had stolen jewelry out OF that part4cu.
lar store or not He will be brought
| back here for trial after the Gaston'au-
thorities have finished with hiih.
Initial commencement exercises for
the Yorkville Graded school negan
Sunday when the annual baccalaureate
sermon was preached to hlgh scnoo'
students by Rev. DR.. 2. E: Glliesple,
pastor OF the FlfSt FFeSpy .ei i@it
of Yorkville Final exercises are 70 pe
held Friday evening when the aaoresS
to the graduating class VIII be oellse.so Iso
hv Rev J. L. Oates, pastor of the
yorkvile A, r. P. church. Exercises
held in the courthouse last evening
we're given over to recital by junior
nnnils of Mrs. E. A. Montgomery,
teacher of music in the school. Junior
pupils having part in the programme
were the following: Misses Emma
Nivens Blanche Huey, Pauline Moore
Melba Pannell, Gladys Neil, Geraldine
Mcconnell, Fannie Grist, Claire Mont
gomery, Catherine Morton, Rupy
Thomason, Nellie Pannell, Becky NC
Dowell, Martha Pegram, Bernlce Far-
rick, Salie Faulkner. Sarah Sdrro'l
Lois Gillespie, Nancy Sharp' Focel's'
Woods, Alberta Pegram.