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Newspaper
Yorkville Enquirer
Location
York, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1908
Page
4
Mrs. Foster travels from New England to Paris with a phrasebook She and her nephew navigate a reception with a famed French artist The aunt reads a sentence aloud in French by mistake The artist and nephew smile as the translation shown provokes astonishment and a shared joke
A Revival tale from Rock Hollow describes Deacon Budd and Sister Briney confessing themselves as miserable sinners. Both speakers boast their humility and claim they belong behind the door, highlighting showy piety in a Travelers Magazine anecdote.
A Scottish milk boy was halted by two police who asked if his employer added anything to the milk. The boy jested that the employer puts in the measure every time he takes some out, exposing the innocence behind the suspected adulteration in a witty retort.
Former Idaho Senator Dubois in Aurora compares Mormonism and polygamy to a hopeless bad thing. He cites Jacob Smithers as an example, describing the criminal jailed man making paper boxes while a visitor remarks on his fate. Smithers replies he is in for life.
Mrs Drew's husband bought an automobile and dominates conversation with praise. She urges neighbor Mrs Ferrell to ride it, claiming it is nearly noiseless, reliable, fast, and modern with a Highfly Clippinger patent sparker, while noting her own light-running Lockstitch machine with hemmer tucker and buttonhole attachment.
A quarrel erupts as a peddler confronts a hostile homeowner. The woman warns of scalding water and insists on selling her a patent automatic tea kettle that boils water in under two minutes. The seller mentions a nearby red haired neighbor trying to keep loose next door.
In 1868 Judge Little of North Carolina, a sharp yet fiery jurist, angered a lawyer by ruling against him who threatened an appeal. The judge, in a moment of remembered propriety, retorted with a blunt reply that mirrored the lawyer's tone and underscored his blunt approach to court decorum.
Mrs A recounts that after meeting a suitable suitor for her daughter Alice at a ball she invited him to dine and hired an accomplished cook for him. The gentleman, however, did not marry the daughter but wed the cook.
A Miami News Record account tells how a Seminole brave who broke tribal law by trading sacred kettles for whiskey was banished from sharing meals with his people. The tale recounts the kettles’ theft from a shipwreck, the white men who bought them, and the later enforcement of the punishment on the untrustworthy offender.
The March Lantern notes Mrs J M Gibson and Beatrice visit Yorkville relatives and Mrs G W Foster of Greenwood travels to Yorkville to see family. J T Jackson returns from Yorkville. Mrs Thomas Mellroy visits Avon. John White, Edgmoor resident, dies at 84 with funeral at Harmony Baptist. Lancaster reports quarry upgrades at Magill and upcoming court term with homicide cases and magistrate Caskey handling numerous trials.
The New Broadway Magazine highlights Jamaica Bay as the premier future port site east of Coney Island. Proposals call for 9,000 acres around the bay, drainage and walls, and $113,000,000 in building docks and facilities to speed freight and mail to the city.
Real estate listing by J C Wilborn details 143 acres near Sharon and McConnellsville, 125 acres woodland, 195 acres W H Sparrow Place with two dwellings, 137 acres Bethel area, 333 acres west of McConnellsville, and a home at Filbert plus a 1 8 room house. Prices range from 6.50 to 23 per acre, with a total tract offered for 4000. Also seeking three small farms near Yorkville.
AM prepared to clean gentlemen's at clothes and ladies' skirts in thoroughly satisfactory manner at reasonable prices. Work may be sent direct to my home or left at W. E. Ferguson's store.
The Enquirer notes a township competition where the top entrant earns a seventy dollar quarter leather top buggy. It highlights the clubmaker’s drive to gather names and secure the prize.
The Yorkville Enquirer advertises a 1908 club premium contest offering nine premium buggies from Rock Hill Buggy Company with rubber tires for the largest club. Subscriptions cost 2 annually, with reduced six month and monthly club rates, plus tiered premiums for clubs of various sizes and additional prizes from four to fifty names.
The contest runs until March 28 at 6 o clock. Clubmakers are liable for all names they return or cause to be returned and must settle payments before premiums. Transfers are restricted. only unfulfilled portions may be moved to new subscribers under strict conditions. Subscriptions must be paid for to count and premiums issued. After March 28 prices rise to two dollars unless new clubs form.
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