Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-04-29

Gastonia Gazette, April 26: On their
return trip by automobile from Durham
Sunday night a party consisting Of
Mrs. w. Y. Warren. Miss Clark, Miss
Reid. Margaret Warren, J. R Warren,
and Mfr. George n. Wilson, had an al
most miraculous escape from death or
serious injury. The accident happen
ed near Newelrs when on taking q
ing, missed the curve slightly, strik-
ing the railroad track with such force
as to burst tire. He then lost con-
troll Of the car, which plunged across
the tracks into a ditch, throwing all the
occupants of the car out. Fortunately
none suffered any: injury beyond some
painful bruises. and they were brought
home by another car"which happened
to be paNings e.. Fire .wtich9ofigrfat
ed when a small oil stove exploded in
the store of Chaplin & Hester. West
Gastoni::" about $50 this morning. did
slight damage. The fire department
responded promptly but the fire was
put out before the truck .arrived.-........
Gastonia is to have free open-air con-
certs during the summer months.
thanks to the public spirit of the Py-
THAN band, the city council and the
City Land & Investment Company.
Accepting an offer of the latter con-
Germ for the free use OF the large and
shady lawn of the old Gray home place
at the corner of South Street and
Franklin avenue until such time us this
vacant property is needed for building
purposes, the city council has apDro-
priated sufficient funds TO erect there
on suitable band stand. City Mama
ger w. J. Alexander has already COM
menced the construction of the stand
and it will be completed and ready
for use within the next few days.
When superior court convened this
morning the first case called was that
of the State against Lester Null, Il
young white man of Harden, indicted
on three counts for trafficking in Ii
quor When the States witnesses were
called it developed that they were Of
ficers and none Of them were in court.
"Why aren't these men here,S' S'ddesfed
Judge Harding. "They ought to be
here 10 testify if they are witnesses.
Sheriff Carroll vouchsafed the infor-
nation that they had been called out to
the country. An hour or SO later these
officers, Deputy J. ". Cole, Special
Officers Adam Hord and r. +. Terrell
returned to town with IL 20-gallon still
which they secured on the farm of
Wiley Farris in the SunnySide conf
munity. The still was hot when Fa!ris
discovered it. He phoned TO the officers
here and in very short time the latter
were on the spot and brought the still
right back to the courthouse. The men
who were operating it were seen by
some children on the Farris farm but
they got away.-........Two of the most
largely attended funerals ever held in
Castor county were those Of Corporal
Howard CASTOR Oates, Of Co. ID 10th
infantry. held n. Pisguh a. Il. j..
church Friday afternoon, and of Sgt.
Henry o. Carpenter Of Co. d. Hath
Engineers, held at Chapel Lutheran
church Sunday afternoon. The bodies
of both soldiers arrived in GastOni;l
Friday morning from lIobokcn, y. j.,
coming by way Of Camp jackson, S.
c. The body Of Corporal Oates was
taken to the home Of his parents in the
I'isgah ncighburhOod. where it lay
until the hour for the funeral. Practi-
.ally tho whole population of the Pts
Eah and Linwood College sections Of
ihe county were present at the funeral.
Many were in attendance from Gas
tonia, York, Kings Mountain and
Bessrmcr City Seldom has such II
crowd ever gathered at Pisgah church.
The funeral services were conducted
by Revs K. r. Caldwell pastor Of the
Bcssemer City \. r. =. church, j. Il.
Hood. of Pisgah, and y. r. Lindsay, of