Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-05-13
HICKORY GROVE HAPPENINGS
News and Notes Of Thriving Commun.
ity OF Western York County.
SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT Held FRIDAY
Muskrat Robs Fisherman of Catch
Many Farmers Find It Necessary to
RepIant Cotton-Oldest Confederate
Veteran Is .83-Resident Building
Residence-Other Matters.
(By a Staff Correspondent.

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(By Staff Correspondent.
| Hickory Grove, May I'm the pres
ence of a .concourse of people Of the
town and community that crowded the
auditorium to overf1owing, final closing
exercises of the Hickory Grove school
were held last Friday evening. The
commencement exercises included a
two-night programme, exercises Thurs
day evening being devoted to work OF
children Of the primary and irtermedi-
ate grades A feature Of the exercises
Friday evening was an address to the
graduating class by E. A. Montgomery,
superintendent of the Yorkville school
The four members Of the graduating
class participated in class exercises.
James Marion Hood read an essay
Patriots of 17S1," the essay dealing
largely with the York county. men who
fought at the Battle Of Kings Noun
TAIN Sophronia Isabel Mckown read
an essay, the Patriots Of 1851" in
which she briefly narrated some of the
history and personal experiences of the
six Confederate veterans now living In
Hickory Grove, during the War Be
tween the States.
Bennetta Elizabeth Cobb read an
essay "Our Boys Who Went Over,
sketching the men, of Hickory Grove
and. community who served, in the re-
cent World War Miss Mary 1nn1an
Hood read the class essay, "Our Class" +"
The programme Friday evening in
cluded q Burnt Cork Dialogue "Rollin'
Bones" participated in by larger boys
of the school; cantata, King Rude
ness" by larger pupils, a song,
Soldiers Chorus" by larger pupils
and the commencement song by the
class.
During the past scholastic year the
Hickory Grove school has been under
the direction of Prof. II. u. Nabors,
teacher of many years Of experience.
Good progress has been made in all
branches Of study and the concensus
of opinion is that the year has been
a most successful one. AS yet there
has been no election of teachers for the
year 1921-22. ..-..
Hail Fell Wednesday.
There was a heavy fall Of hail here
early Yesterday morning along with
hard rain. The rain was badly needed
and the hail did little or no damage for
the reason that there were few grow
ing things to damage.
Fishing in the Broad.
Grover and Fred. Brown, John Bulce
and scores of other Hickory Grove
citizens who take delight in fishing
have been having a lot Of good luck
with set hooks" and ordinary hooks
anG lines and seines in Broad flVcr
this season. There arc plenty Of fish,
especially catfish in the river, ana
there is no trouble in catching them.
When the boys want a mess OF hsh
they send a boy to one Of the smaller
streams after bait Of minnows. Then
all that Is necessary is TO DalI Ile
hooks with the minnows and put them
in the river. The catfish fall all over
themelves grabbing the minnows and
are Of course grabbed in turn by the
hooks.
Sometimes however, the fishermen
are robbed of their catch by the musk
rats that infest the stream. Grover
Brown was telling the other day how
he lost a fine catfish weighing about
a pound and a half by. reason OF the
fact that a muskrat got to it first. The
big fish had become fastened on one OF
the set hooks. When Brown arrived
there was nothing left except the head