Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-12-08
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What Our Neishbors Are Saying and
Doing.
Chester Reporter, Dec. d: Mr. John
Wise was able to be back at his Of
flee today after being i'll for a week
with flu, along with his wife and little
daughter. Mr.. Wise said the fellow
that wrote anything about the pres
ent wave of flu being light ought to
be put in the State penitentiary, which
we take it is intended for us, as we
remember to have made use OF some
such expression a few days ago.
The congregation of the First Bap-
tist church were delighted to learn
yesterday morning that DR.. w. G'
Moore, OF Wytheville, Va, has accept
ed the call extended him to become
pastor of the church, and plans to
reach Chester early in January to take
I'D his new work. DR.. Moore is ma
tive of Western North Carolina and is
n graduate of Wake Forest College
and Grocer Seminary. He is about
thirty-five years of age, and has a
wife and one child.----.......The many
friends Of DR.. Chas. r. Hemphill will
be pleased to learn that chair in the
Presbyterian Theological Seminary Oh
Kentucky has been endowed in his
honor. The endowment was made by
the Second Presbyterian church OF
Louisville and the chair is known as
the "Chas. Robert Hemphil chair oil
New Testament Exegesis.' The news
of the signal honor done her brother
was given to Mrs. ]. j: Stringefellow
through a letter from Mrs. A. Fl. Seats
of Louisville. Mrs. Seats is happily
remembered here as Miss Carrie
Youngblood, and her mother was Mrs.
Stringfellow's lifelong friend. Dr.
Femphill's gifted pen has recently
completed "The story OF the Building
Of the Theological Seminary"--a
sketch which reads like Providentlal
romance. THE next three or four
SUNDAYS at the First Baptist church
of Chester will be something like
Homecoming occasion for former pas
tors. Next Sunday Rev. ]. 5. Snyder
of Fayetteville, n. c., will preach' on
Sunday December 18th, Rev. Lee McB'
White. of Kinston, n c., will be here
and on Sunday, December S1st, Kew
Fl. C. Buckholz, now located at Pam
plico, s. c., will fill the pulpit.
Gaffney Ledger, Dec. 5: Charles
SelIars. a retired farmer, died sudden
" at his home on Cherokee avenue
Monday morning, suffering stroke oil
apcplexy from which he never ralileo'
A physician was hurriedly called, out
he was beyond human aid......The
Angel of Death the past week ruin
lessly attacked one of the most re-
spected families in the county, carry
ing off three members, all victims Oh
the flu. Yesterday morning MISS
Mary Jane Ruppe, the Oldest dauSh-
ter Of the late Mr.. and Mrs. W. D.
Runpe. of Township No. l, Cleveland
county, North Carolina. just across the
state line answered the call MIS-
Runpe. the mother, died on Thanks
giving Day, and Saturday the father
of the young lady died. Death in caeh
case is said to have been caused by
in4uenza Curl Sprouse, OF Blacl"-
bure. was brought to Gatfney Monday
hv Chief ]. C. Duncan and placed IN
iaiI to answer 10 the charge OF assault
with criminal intent upon the person
of a ffteen-year- Child.-....---..Be-
+veen the hours of ten and four on
E,ridav Chief of Police Bryant, Police
OFFICER Putnam and Special Agent
Miller of the Southern Railway made
an arrest and recovered loot to the
vaIue of s357.OO Some ten days ago
q box car containing goods 1or H"h-
ney was sidetracked here and LETT just
outside the city limits preparatory 10
beipo. shifted closer to town for its un-
loading. During its brief soJourn out
side it was broken into and seVerai
cartons of cigarettes, $1,000 IN ALL were
stolen. The robbery was reported "
the police department. Chief bryant
with the assistance OF Special Agent
Miller. set about to trap the Offenders
The officers obtained information TO
the effect that some of the cigarettes
had been sold, some concealed ana
some apparently abandoned when the
trail got too hot. In the recent fop-
herv of n box car in which some TWO
dozen shirts were stolen, and for when
Red Pryor is in prison charged WIKI
tbe theft. the loss of the cigarettes
wos discovered. Friday morning the
officers clues led them to arrest Il
man named Smith, VINO halls from
Touisiana. Smith is charged with be
i,o associated with Pryor in the theIt
of the cigarettes. The officers found
some of the cigarettes packed in TWO
suit cases in q ditch near the Lime
stone Mills. Two other suit cases NIL
ed with the loot was found on a spur
track leading to the same smiIl ana
more were found apparently abandon
cd in z field near the mill settlement
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