Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-09-12
LOCAL LAcoNIcs
Increase for Chaingang.

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York county changing yesterday to-
tailed, s52 and the number. will be in
creased by the latter part of the week
due to the fact that a number OF prls-
oners up for trial at, the present term
of court have already pleaded guilty
and drawn chaingang sentences. IS
No Bond Cases. ~. ~
| Solicitor Henry announced yester-
| day that no cases where the DEFEND
ants are out on bond would be tried
/ at the, present term Of the court OF
general session butt that he proposed
to continue all such cases until the
regular fan term in November. This
is in accordance with u rule that has
prevailed for, number of years.
Sherer Loses Homo. -, -
The home Of Luther Sherer of Sha-
ron No. /, was destroyed by fire last
| Friday morning while the family was
away attending family reunion In
the neighborhood Only a very small
quantity of furniture was saved. In
surapce in the sum OF $1,000 was car
ried Mr.. Sherer had the misfortune
to lose his home by fire about seven
years ago. r.! ~ r.
Baseball. =. 49,. s, ~.
Hickory Grove woa from Bethany In
| n game OF baseball played at Sharon
on Friday, tie score being Z to A.
The feature of the game was the
| pitching of Stegall, for Sharon who
managed3to threw out SIX runners
whom he caughtgnap ppfhgion first base.
AT Cloveffon Saturday Hickory Grove
again defeated Bethany by a score of
Is to 8. ~ T"J9t - .s.
L .sH 4
Progress Of West Road.
Top soiling work on the; West road
has been practically completed from
the Howell's Ferry road to about the
residence OF Z. N. Stephspson on York
No. 81 Work Of grading the West
road has reached a point about the
home of, X. b. HsFtness Of Yor1yille
No. 5. The distance from that point
| to Sharon is about three and one
half miles and the road in It's present
condition can easily be Travelled by au-
| tomobile.
Mcleod to the Voters.
Hon. Thos. q. Mcleod dropped into
Yorkvile yesterday as, one of the last
points; to be made in, shis whirlwind
campaign between primaries, His
ecmiig was unannounced until a few
hours before his arrivaB when a BAN
nered automobile was driven around
the town announcing. that he would
speak at the court house at 1870
O'Clock. There were present about
| $50 people, including quite a number
fof ladies and children. . Mr.. Mcleod
was introduced by Hon. J. S. Brics.
who once served with him in the ssn-
ate. Mr.. Mcleod spoke along his
usual lines, denying that there had
been any special extravaganza I'm the
| government or that there was room
| for a material reduction In taxes. The
audience was; upon the whole, quite
friendly. and the speaker was warmly
appiauded. There, was present butIa
small representation of the. opposition
party.
Many Clover People Present. Nt.
Many Glover people were IN York
willie early yesterday morning expect
ing that william c. Fafies.f charged
! with the killing of four people in Clo-
yer last Wednesday would be placed
on trial. There was an erroneous re-
port in circulation that FAIRIES had
been brought up fromi the penitenti-.
ary in Columbia on the C. & NV.
train and there were many who were
anxious to get a glimpse of the al
legged killer. Mr.. and Mrs James M
Taylor OF Clover, parents, of three of
the quartette slain by. FAIRIES last
| Wednesday, were in y YOrkvflle early.
They and their SON. Frank Taylor, 10,
testified before, the grand jury as Gid
Tom Perry, neigh Dor and fishing COM
panion of FAIRIES. The bill of indict-
| ment against FAIRIES charging him
with the killing of Cladde Johrson,
| Newton Taylor, Fred Taylor and Miss
Leila Taylor was one of the, first bills
presented the grand Jury and It was
just o. few minutes after they retired
to their room that they returned with
a true .bilL%lrA nuInbers OF relatives
of FAIRIES were among those in the
| court room early yesterday morning.
Every seat was taken. .H'G
Burial Of Fred Taylor. ,,.l
Gastonia Gazette, Monday. With sew
eral hundred people paying respect to
his memory the remains of Fred Tay-
lor, thes last of. the FaTies victims in
the. recent tragedy at Clover, s, c.,
were lovingly laid to rest in the Olney
cemetery in South ,Gastonia Sunday
morningo Rev. Mr., Huggin, Methodist
minister OF Glover, was in Icharge Of
the funeral and the burial service was
| cSolNtEy % SpOke1l 4Dy -
Council No 6S, Junior Order OF United
American Mechanics. One of the most
pitiable sights human eyes can behold
was the spectacle of the broken heart
ed Taylor father as he sat in
crumpledi up heap at the head OF the
grave, shaking as one with the palsy
and moaning, 20 God, take me to be
with my children" His grief stricken
anguish wrung tears Of sympathy
from the dryest eyes and stalwart
men were seen to clench their fists
and snap their teeth together as they
remembered the awful slaughter OF IN
nocents and came face to face with
the sorrow and misery of him UDon
whom the crushing blow had fallen,
AT meeting of the Junior Order SAT-
urday night 1t was unanimously de-
cided to raise a special fund with
which to employ an able lawyer to as
sist in the prosecution of FAIRIES.
Claude Johnson and Fred Taylor were
both members in good standing OF the
Gastonia Council. r. Il
The CASTOR County Fair. 80 ~
Best judges to be secured have been
obtained for many Of the departments
of the big CASTOR county fair. it is
stated. Extension service officials in
Raleigh, realizing the standing Of the
fair at Gastonia, are cooperating splen-
didly this year and are doing all possi-
BILE to secure the best men obtainable
in all lines for assignment there Tha