University of South Carolina Libraries
! The VOL. 3. NO. 89. SEMI-WEEKL THE PATRICK - CONNORS NUPTIALS. tT i was e] Another Account of the Pret- wi?te ty Home Wedding Last beaut Wednesday Afternoon of exqui Dr. J. B. Patrick, of Rock train, Hill, and Miss Carol T. trimn Connors, of Lancaster. of rea like o u iiui'ii iur in? .M'ws. j The handsome suburban resi dence of Mr. and Mrs. Charles 8 Thorn Connors was the scene of ^ the most brilliant event of the . 6 ^ midsummer season, when their ^ daughter, Miss Carol Tompkins ^.jj. Connors, became the bride of Dr. John Burckmyre Patrick, cf Rock Hill, Aug. 5th, at 5.30 p. m. A large number of invitations had been issued. ciated w The guests were met at the c0^jp: front entrance by Mrs. T. J. Strait, Mrs. D. Reece Williams, toun(j Mrs. Joseph F. Gregory and Miss nj^y Cornelia Elliott, and shown into cjate(] the house, the whole lower floor ^ ^ of which was thrown open. , . bridal The wide, long entrance hall con(ju was aglow with pink roses and ^ creen vines, which entwined the broad stairway, the lofty walls gp|en and doors aud pictures. The tjip t( west parlor was decorated in red jj|jeB hearts and m?rriar'? hallo* lir?au ^ ? refreg of them extended across the p room from the corners of ceiling (jjarj( and from points between and ^ . formed a graceful airy canopy. ?0'rrj Vases of rich crimson nasturtiums adorned the mantel, and added . ? , ? , Jones much to the gorgeous effect. In ^ ^ this room was displayed the very elegant and costly wedding gilts. , the g The opposite parlor was the 9jt< ceremony-room and was festoon- j ed in green and white. In a corner was an artistic altar made . a red exclusively of pure haster lilies, 6HtlI) most beautifully massed and ar e J of the ranged. The surrounding wails v were elaborately cascaded with 'n white wisteria a id running vines. M'88 A green and white velvet art '"scic square occupied the middle of Pu,lcl the room. damp A chord from the piano announced the approach of the bridal party. Miss Ivy Crawlord presided a' the piano and ' '1U~^ Mr. John P oac accompanied herj ' with tlie cornet. Mendelsshon's on 1,1 march was impressive ly rend- motln ered. First came Miss Mayme <>rr?( (iregory down the stairs, slowly; Wl" ai^d was, alter a proper interval, Other Jollowed by Miss Irene (Running- bride ham, who was in turn followed l?vab by Miss Connors Melton, of Co- ladies lurabia. These were the ? rides- 8(,mo maids, and were attired in pretty ?f sheer white silks with pink gir- Tin dies, gloves and slippers, and ot-tov carried pint carnations. Next Mrs came the maid of honor, Miss groon Elizabeth Charles Connors, sister Tomp of the bride. She was gowned the bi in lovely rose colored crepe de Miss chine over taffeta, and carried ?? lia I , - Mil 1 ? armful of pintc carnations. Then Hill ; caine the dainty flower-girl, lit- (tasto i tie Miss Nell-Ray Spaun, of Co- Mrs. lumbia, also arrayed in fleecy Conni white with pink sash and ribbons, and socks and slippers. Then fol- brothi lowed, with measured step, the j Hill. Lancas LEDGER l&bz REVIEW 1878 Y. LANCASTER, S. Q, At , leaning on the arm of the A FEARFUL AC of honor, her sister. Mr* Span. , ol Columbia, who I.. 1 I ? * ** '1 " "? ** ^p.nunj' g,vvviicu in iu^iruns i ivictirimuin jooiier satin. The bride made a at Haile Gold Mi iful picture in her robe of Theis Fatally Inj site white Liberty satin, en Three Others and garnished with pearl Hurt-Great De ling*, finished with a yoke Qf pro t 1 lace. A coronal ot wax range blossoms caught the A fearful disaster o linous tulle veil, and a Haile Go'd Mine Moni ver" of white carnations about ten o'clock, i laiden hair ferns completed large boilers at the st erfect toilet. The groom, exploding, fa'ally in; 1 evening suit, attended by Ernest Theis, the pc 5st man, his brother. Mr. eflicient superintendi am Moore Patrick, entered 8eriously hurting thr< an opposite door and met Messrs. B M. Truesd ide at the altar. The Epis Pitman and Elmore Og rector of Rock Hill, the wrecking the boiler R. Maynard Marshall, offi- mill house and partial] I; and the impressive and t^e concentrator re rehensive Episcopal service wounded men were at 1 every voice and was pro- ^rs- Gregory, Brasing ly uttered, during which ly? Gauthen and Sv Dear" was tenderly enun- Kershaw. Mr. Theis, I by the musicians. burned all over and lowing congratulations the lractured, succumbed I party, and guests, were iurieB yesterday morni icted into the spacious din ? His body wa -j* . (vharlotfn v?cf?rrlo,T l uu ui , w uiv^ii wttb raaiani vases and stands of mixed, ment* ' *le vouna did roses. In the center of ma',y friel,d" a".<l ac'l' . , , . in Lancaster who wt ible there was an epernue ot , , , , . allocked and grieved of the valley, tempting , . . , his frame end. ihinents were deftly served 1 he accident is saic retty young girls, Miases , . v been due to a weak 01 ;e Knight, of (jraetoina, W. . .. , . .. , , boiler, and the daniai Mayme and Bess Jones, , . * , ... .. perty is eslimaied to b ne Thomson, U?? Wyhe. ^ this room Mesdames Ira H ybarloHe 0bser i, W. T. Williams and |erday> ,n whijh oity , ly R. Thomson presided of young Thei, reBide ease and affability. As ^ {ollow,Ilg acc0UI nests passed out ol the op- caU8trophe_ The de, idoortrom the one which ,rhei8 occurred( o1 c0l entered, Miss Susie Dunlap, that paoer had Kone ? ck Hill, decorated each with wj? b? nowd ,hat Th( heart, clasped with while 8tales tha, tw0 boiler? ribbon and bearing tlie date >phe rep0rt received h< i marriage. day was to the effect . i . ,, .one exploded: a nearby nook in the hail,' 1 v, i . . >i One ot the most lea Nannie .Johnson dispensed . . . , r explosions that ever o ?u-> punch from a out'glass goyiJj Oaroliaa took i tureen ; and also served lerday morning at 9:< y peanut, sandwiches. I lie at the llaile gold mine , during the afternoon, caster county, two and I ? ^ _ ,i miles Irora Kershaw, 1 her bouquet from 'he , ' iWO 100 horse-powe UK on the stairs and u ? as, b|ew up_ jemo,lslling t bv Miss May me Gregory. iH,use and mammoth s 3 newly married couple leit a,,d seriously injuring a even'inK train to visit the "l,e "f wh"m *as a 8,11 e . and Mrs. A. I.iies,ol t pr of the groom, Mrs. VV J. ... . ., . ,, ' () her than t hat t hi >1 Hock Hill; thence they supposed to have bee go to Caesar's Head and to f.et to?? low in one > mountain resortH. The ers nothing ot a defin is one ot Lancaster's most known a> to the ca iq j .. ,. accident. Boiler No le and attractive young , ' . . , and one of the living i; and the Kroora ;e a hand- n| jron kn?cUB,, off th( and talented young dentist boiler No. 2, which nh II 11 ... v? iiiu. exploded. lhe shock ere were a (rood many out- lic- it8 foree ,b.ein? veO . ble even in Kershaw, i ?n guests, among them were tw? mi|eB away. 1, , \V. J. Orr, mother of the molished everything i ), of Rock Hill; Mrs. R. E. place, some of the >kins, of Rock Hill, aunt of 'he boilers being h riiie; Mrs. R. L. Mason and uPon the 8ides of A /i c A.i cent hills. Mr. O. C. Annie Greeorv, of Atlanta, , . , . , . \ ' who happened to be at VIiss busie Dunlap, of Rock h)n(1 ft pr)gt but ten , Miss Clarice Knight, of fr0ni the ^boilers, whe mia ; Mrs. J. N. Spanu, 4astrophe occurred, wt Emma C. Melton, Miss through the side ot ti sre Milton, of Columbia hon"e "n<l lnt" the " .. ....... -. ,. . . hard bv, and was j Mr. William " Patrick,'uoharme,d The injur er ot the groom, of Rock thk injured, F. M. H. , Mr. Ernest A. Thies 4 ITER I\ ENTERPRISE 189 J JGUST 12, 1908. ICIHFNT ten(ient of the mine, serious * burned about the head and bo< and face and neck cut by talii Explodes d Mr.* B. M. Truesdale, bad ne?Supt. burned. Mr. J. P. Pitman, e ured and gineer, burned and stunned 1 Seriously 4alliiifi piecesot wood and brie Not seriously hurt, ruction Ogburn, burned ai cut by falling timbers. ! The accident took place shoi ccurred ?t ly aftPr 9 O,clock The engjn day morn a^ tjie tjme were running smooi one of the .y, apparently performing the amp mill accustomed duties in their a jilting Mr. customed way. There was not miliar and iufI slack 80 far aS ^ ol th? about the place could tell to i eut, and dicate that there was anythii ?e others, wroug. If the water was low lale, J. P. one of the boilers no one w ;burn, and aware of it. Mr. Thiee, wl house and happened lo be passing throng observed to Mr. Pittman, tl y destroy. eDgineer? that his clock w lorn. The jour minutes slow and su tended by gested that he move it fc ton, Twit- ward a little. This M iringel, of ^,raan proceeded to do. T , ' stepped up on a box to get w o was t^e cjQCjc aQ(j had just accoi his skull p|iBhed his mission and w to his in climbing down when the expl< ing at 1.30 ion occurred. Mr. Thies w is taken to buried beneath the debris, li for inter- face ^eing cut ^y Ay*11* bric and falling timbers and his he man had i, ; i_ i auu uvuv BCIIUUKiy ourue uaintances Messrs. Pitman, Trnesdale ai tre deeply Ogburn, the three other men to hear ot the building, were also hurl to the floor and almost it not i | together covered by the loc ' material which tell all abc defective (hem ze to pro- Fortunately Mr. Pittmau w ?e between not badly stunned though se erely burned and he was able ver ot yes- crawl trora beneath the wrecks . ^ without assistance. Mr. Th le paren s fare(j muc|, worse, however, 1 , contains farecj much worse, however, ; it of the he w ?s rendered unconscious a ui? of Mr. some time was required to e irse. after tricate him, 15 minutes at lea i. Neither Mr. Truesdale nor M ) press, it, . Ogburn waB seriously injur Observer a|jhough their cuts and bur exploded. Were most painful. Mr. I'itin ?re yester- escaped by a hair's breadth, 1 that only caj| being an exceedingly clc one. Mr. Thies suffered t rful boiler most serious injuries. Doct< ccor.'ed lit were summoned and traim plac?- yes nurses were secured Irom a d )7 o'clock tance and everything known ? in Lan- , medical science wax done to sa I one-half i his life. Ttie physicians f when ihe j hoping lor the best. r boilers I I MAII.K MINK WE I.I. KNOWN. t he engine i damp mill The Haile gold mine is one four men, the best known o' its kind in t i of Capt. | Carolina* It was onernfpd i his cily. j \ number of yby Cap*. ? wa'cr is jThie*, of this city, who manag 11 allowed jit, most successfully. When 1 ' :he boil-| ]eft n to retire from active but ite nature ness years ago, he committed i one ot the direction to his son, Mr. Erne 1 blew up A. ThieBjWho has had it in char fragments ever since. lie has made ; dome of prosper as did his father a also then today the llaile mine is regard was tern- as one ot the safest, if any go r precepti mine may be esteemed safe, more than the country, limply de- This catastrophe is the m' about the serious that has ever happen parts ot in its history. There have be< urled fai accidents of one kind and anot] the adja- er before but not on such a sea Gardner, an that of yesterday. No es finding be- mate as to the damage done tl eet away plant can be given until a eai in the ca iul inspection by experts h is thrown been made. The engine hou he engine ftnd all of its contents were d< tamp mill troyed and the big stamp m practically was badly twisted and toT ad are : Yesterday1^ loss was in the i jury indicted to the taithful ei , superin - moves, nartienlarlv tb? o,,T,ori I r ^ J oi?^;vi i Jews PRICE 5 CENTS PER COPY 1;: AN INTERESTING OCCASION ng Unveiling of Monument to Sovereign J. F. Snipes by )v i the Woodmen?From k 1000 to 1500 Persons Present. As previously announced in -j. ,The News, the unveiling of the es |monument to the late Sovereign h-jJohn F. Snipes took place at "*r Fork Hill church August 2, 1908. Cj The unveiling ceremonies were 6e performed by the Dixie Camp, n No. 282. A large number of ig Woodmen from all over the 1U county were present and took a8 part in the procession. At half ^ past ten o'clock the procession tie formed at the Fork Hill Woodas men hall and marched to the church, the Dixie Camp in front, r- j u.. ! uco^cu u.v Hint Dig, gallant sov[e ereign, Hiram C. Steele, bearat ing the banner of the Dixie n- camp, followed by the clerk of as Dixie camp, who bore the Pike )8" pole with long, white streamer. 88 When the procession reached the LIS church they were ushered up the ad aisles in single files amid low id. strains of music from the organ, by Miss Dorah Hinson. At the Uj rap of the gavel the congregaj tion was seated and listened to a )se sermon bearing on the tenets of tut Woodcraft, by Rev. R. Tlios. Blackmon. After the unveiling at5 ceremonies at the crave the sovj v to ereigns again marched back to ,ge the fore&t of the Fork Hill Camp, ies where a bountiful dinner was 'or served, having been prepared by ^or the Fork Hill Camp. 11' The table, about one hundred ;xst leet long, was completely loaded [r. with good things to eat?ju9t ed such things as the good people of ns Fork Hill Camp know how to an prepare- This dinner was only lor the Woodmen and their wives, se lie and families, which in number }rs were about three hundred 9;1 The large audience that was ,s" present to witness the unveiling ceremonies numbered anywhere ve J ire|from one thousand to tilteen hundred. B. F Adams, Clerk Dixie Camp, W. O. W. Lancaster, R. F. 1). No. 2, of |K> lendet t, rather than the mone? itary damage done the plant, j Mr. Thies h quite well known in Charlotte where he has Ire\e quently visited. As stated, he is a son oi Capt. and Mrs. A. I f r * Thies, and a brother of Messrs. ist ,, , - \f. ,i. inies ami tiu* lilies, all of ^.fc 'his city. lie is a bachelor anil 'j one of the m09t thrifty an<I ener tl(. getic business men in South Carolina. It is to be sincerely hoped 'hat he will recover, al111 though his chances are said to be very slim. Mr. O. J. Thies ^ and a local physician and a nurse will go dow n this morning j^n to see if anything additional can be done, ile . . Excellent Health Advice. tie Mrs. M M. Davison, of No. 371) Clifford 'p Ave , Sun Jose, Cftl.. says: "The worth of Rlnetvie Ihttoi-u oo ' ' ?? .......a K<*u?riii i uuiiv rerne|8g cly, for headache, biliousness and torpor of the liver and bowels is so pronounced that I ain prompted to say a word in itB j]| favor, for the benefit of those seeking relief from such afflictions. There is imrre 'n health for the digestive orgaus in a bottle n- of Electric liitteis than in auy other roinedv 1 know of." Sold under guarantee at J. T. Mackey A Co and Funderbork Fbarn macy 50c. w