Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, December 11, 1908, Image 2
Scraps and .facts.
? The withdrawal of the American
troops from Cuba, says a Washington
dispatch, will run into April. According
to this programme American troops
will be available for service In the islands
during the transition from the
provisional to the regular government
and for a reasonable time subsequent
thereto, so that if disorders arise they
will be on hand for duty. One transport
will be used in bringing the troops
back to the United States and they will
be landed at such ports as may be
most convenient for them to reach the
stations to which they may be assigned.
The first of the troops will
sail from the island January 1.
? Secretary Cortelyou announces that
the Panama canal bonds have been
sold at an average of 102.4368. The
lowest accepted bid was at 102.2778.
There were 1.79 accepted bids amounting
to $30,000,000. Six hundred and
seventy-six bids were rejected,
amounting to $72,808,800. Among the
successful bidders were: Fish & Robinson,
New York city, five bids. $2,000,OOo;
Chase National Bank. New York,
three bids, a million dollars each; the
National City Bank of New York, $10,242,760;
Florida National Bank. Jacksonville,
$100,000 at 102.55; Herman
Myers, Savannah, (la., $100,000 at
102.46.
? Washington, December S: The
Democrats of the house are planning
to demand an investigation of the purchase
of the Panama canal property
and in conformity with this programme
Representative Rainey of Illinois, introduced
a resolution directing the
speaker to appoint a committee of five
to "ascertain how much of the $40,000,000
which appears on record to have
been paid to the French company, was
really paid to that company." It is
said that the national Democratic committee
requested Rainey to present the
resolution. The resolution provides that
the committee shall ascertain if any
portion of the $40,000,000 was directly
or indirectly paid to American citizens,
to an American syndicate and if any
member or senator profited by the
transaction. Following the introduction
of his bill for a searching investigation
of the purchase of the Panama
canal property, Representative Rainey
made a demand on the interstate commerce
commission to see the records in
the case. Mr. Rainey says he will inspect
the records carefully and see
where the forty million dollars paid for
the canal went to.
? Washington, December 8: President
Roosevelt and President-elect Taft
publicly put themselves on record today
in advocacy of the issuance of
government bonds for the construction
of permanent public improvements to
conserve the natural resources of the
nation. President-elect Taft presided
at the joint conservation meeting this
afternoon at the Belasco theatre in
this city at which President Roosevelt
made the principal aaaress. Air. nwsevelt
and Mr. Taft pave their unqualified
approval for the carrying out of
expert plans for conservation of the
nation's resources. An audience, which
filled the theatre and which included
Andrew Carnegie, John Mitchell, senators,
congressmen and the governors
of several states, applauded every sentiment
expressed. The joint meeting
brought the members of the conservation
commission and the delegates to
the great Southern Commercial congress,
the members of the Rivers and
Harbors congress and others interested
in working out a comprehensive plan
for making the most of lands, minerals,
forests and waters that belong to the
public domain of the United States together.
? Union City, Tenn., December 8:
Eight indictments charging alleged
members of the night rider band of
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degree were returned by the grand jury
late today, the Indictments alleging
that the eight men named, Garret
Johnson, Sam Applewhite, Arthur
Cloar, Fred Pinion, Roy Ranson, Bob
Huffman, Tid Burton and Bub Morris
had a part in the actual putting to
death of Capt. Quentin Rankin at Walnut
Log on the night of October 18,
last. All of the men indicted today
are under arrest and when their cases
are called for trial tomorrow the prosecution
will announce as ready. The
defense, however, will doubtless ask
and be granted a brief delay. The witnesses
upon whose evidence the indictments
were drawn are Col. R. Z.
Taylor, the associate of Capt. Rankin,
who narrowly escaped a similar fate,
P. C. Ward, the hotel keeper at Walnut
Log, Ed Powell, a farmer who declared
that he was forced to accompany
the band on the night in question, and
Frank Ferrin, a member of the clan
who has turned state's evidence and
upon whose testimony the state depends
largely for a verdict. Of the men
indicted today, live are those whom
Judge Matthews at Nashville ordered
released under bond last week.
? Washington, December 8: A total
of 11.010,864 baies of cotton ginned from
the growth of 1908 to December 1 and
26,922 active ginneries against 8,343,396
bales ginned to December 1 last
year and 26,854 ginneries ?i year ago
were announced in the census bureau
report on cotton ginned today. The
1907 crop was 11.057.822, of which 75.5
was ginned to December 1, the 1906
crop 12.983,201, were 77.2 to December
1. and 1905 crop 10,495,105, with 82.8 to
December 1. In 1906 then* were 10,107,868
bales and in 1905 there were 8,689,663
bales ginned to December 1. The
report counts round as half bales and
excludes linters. It includes 200,818
round bales for 1908. 154,636 for 1907
and 227,145 for 1906. Sea island bales
included 68,497 for 1908: 55,299 for 1907;
and 41,250 for 1906. Today's report
gives running bales ginned to December
1 and active ginneries, respectively, by
states, as follows: Alabama 1.171.4U4
hales and 3,429 ginneries; Arkansas
776,153 bales and 2.073 ginneries: Florida
58,677 bales and 251 ginneries;
Georgia 1.736,737 bales and 4,481 ginneries;
Kansas and Kentucky and
New Mexico 1,374 bales and 5 ginneries;
Louisiana 397.179 bales and 1.645
ginneries; Mississippi 1,207,291 bales
and 3,422 ginneries: Missouri 45.750
bales and 70 ginneries; North Carolina
554.002 bales and 2.681 ginneries; Oklahoma
432,077 bales and 973 ginneries;
South Carolina 1.052,547 bales and 3.1S4
ginneries: Tennessee 278,679 bales
and 625 ginneries: Texas 3.200,221
bales and 4.091 ginneries: Virginia 8.773
bales and 92 ginneries.
? At the annual dinner of the North
Caro?ina society in New York last
Monday night, president-elect Taft discussed
the negro question in the south
as follows: "We believe that the
solution of the race question in the
south is largely a matter of industrial
and thorough education. Some southerners
who have given expression to
their thoughts seem to think that the
only solution of the negro question is
his migration to Africa; but to me
such a proposition is utterly fatuous.
The negro is essential to the south in
order that it may have proper labor.
Their ancestors were brought here
against their will. They have no country
but this. They know no tiag
but ours. They wish to live under
It and are willing to die for it.
They are Americans. The proposition
to increase the supply of labor in the
south by emigration from Europe, it
seems to me, instead of being inimical
to the cause of the negro will aid him.
As the industries of the south continue
to grow in the marvelous ratio already
shown the demand for labor must increase
Primary and industrial eduea
tion for the masses, higher education
for t lie leaders of the negro race, for
their professional men. their clergymen,
their physicians, their lawyers and
their teachers, will make up a system
under which their improvement, which
statistics show to have been most noteworthy
in the last forty years, will
continue at the same rate. On the
whole, then, the best public opinion of
the north and the .best public opinion
of the south seems to be coming together
in respect to all the economic
and political questions growing out of
present race conditions."
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YORKVILLE. S. C.i
FRIDAY, DECEMBER II, 1908.
Pkesident-elect Taft is to arrive
in Augusta, Ga.. next week to spend
a part of the winter. Arrangements
have been perfected to keep him constantly
under the protection of secret
service officers.
One of the most interesting discussions
in the newspapers right now is
whether Mr. Taft will be able to make
political inroads in the solid south.
Northern Republican papers are sure
that Mr. Taft will be able to accomplish
more than any of his predecessors
have accomplished, and southern papers
and politicians are sure that the
effort will amount to nothing.
Ir has grown rather common to
hear people charge the present low
price of cotton to the Farmers' Union.
We have heard this charge coming
from farmers, who no doubt made it
in good faith. But before we would
oe willing to accept the charge seriously,
we would like to hear some of
the arguments on which it is based.
We are prepared to admit that in the
holding movement fight, the Union
failed to win. That fact is too clear
to warrant dispute. But surely no one
will attach blame for such a strong
fight as the Union has made in such a
commendable cause. Blame may lie
against the Union for having raised
such a large crop this year; but then
the same blame will lie against all cotton
raisers, who are not members of
the Union. There is no good ground
for putting the responsibility on the
Union alone. Also it Is a fact that as
.ow as cotton is now, it has been much
lower when there was no Union. There
is absolutely nothing wrong with the
general theory of the proposition that
so long as the entire cotton crop is
held off the market, the price is bound
to advance to a figure that the producers
are willing to take. There is no
j definite limit to that price under fifteen
[ or twenty cents either. But neverthe.ess
this holding movement has developed
a lesson that ought to be of great
value if the farmers will only grasp
its real significance. However effective
may be the holding expedient in ad
vancing the price of cotton, it is pretty
plain that to be able to hold cotton,
the holder . must necessarily be the
owner of it. He cannot hold cotton in
which some one else has a preponderating
interest. The thing, therefore, is
for the south to produce no more cotton
than it can actually own. Then
inere will be no trouble about the
price. It will be about whatever the
producer may choose to ask.
To Increase Earnings.
Mr. Clarence H. Poe, editor of the
Progressive 1-armer, was one of the
opeaaers at the meeting of tne boutncrn
Commercial congress, in Washington,
this afternoon, and he outlined
.-.oine of the plans by which, according
to his idea, eacn farmer in tne soutn
can earn $500 more per year. He hnds
trom a census report mat tne average
annual value of products per farm in
tne North Atlantic states as $984. in
the South Atlantic as $484, or exactly
$500 per year less; in the North Central
states as $1,074, in the South Central,
$536?or $538 per year less.
Broadly his scheme for getting this
$500 a year more is a system of education
which embraces young and old,
not only the farm boy in the school,
out the adult farmer and farmer's wife
as well. Mr. Poe argues that every
man whose earning power is below par,
uelow normal, is a burden on the community;
he drags down the whole level
of life, and every other man in the
community is poorer by reason of his
presence, whether he be white man. or
negro, or what not. "Your untrained,
inefficient man," he says, "is not only
a poverty-breeder for himself, but the
contagion of it curses every man in
the community that is guilty of leav.ng
him untrained. The law of changeless
Justice decrees that you must rise
or fall, decline or prosper, with your
neighbors. You will be richer for his
wealth, poorer for his poverty."
He does not think that the average
business man in the south is half
awake to the possibilities of this effort
to bring the average farmer's earnings
up $500 a year with regard to his own
individual prosperity, and we agree
with him. Add $500 to the earnings
>f the southern farmers and the country
would take a bound toward prosperity
hitherto undreamed of. But
there is much room for rural development.
and perhaps Editor Poe is not
taking too hopeful a view of the prospect.?Charlotte
Chronicle, Tuesday.
Intelligent farmers of twenty or more
years' experience, have only to look
back over a comparatively short time
to see that their earning capacity has
been steadily increasing, and this seems
to offer about as satisfactory proof as
one could desire as to general correctness
of Editor Poe's theory. We are
firm believers in the idea that the present
and future prosperity of this country
depends more upon agricultural development
than upon any other possible
avenue of progress. That the
average farmer has many disadvantages
to contend with, there is no use
| trying to deny; but of all these disad[
vantages there is hardly one that will
not yield to the application of better
agricultural methods and the application
of better agricultural
methods is only a matter of
knowing how. The average farmer
jof today has information that the average
farmer of twenty or even ten
years ago, did not dream of; but there
is no limit to the things that are vet to
be learned. That limit will still be
hardly less appreciable than it is now,
even after the present producing capacity
of the average farmer has been
| doubled.
Year's Cotton crop.?The total
production of cotton in the United
States for the year 1908-09 will amount
to 6.182,970.000 pounds, not including
(inters, which is equivalent to 12.920,000
bales of 500 pounds gross weight, according
to the estimate announced by
the department of agriculture last
Wednesday. The estimate of production
by bales gives.
Virginia 131,000; North Carolina
619.000; South Carolina 1,118.000;
Georgia 1.844.000 Florida 61.000:
Alabama 1,273.000; Mississippi 1.
560,000; Louisiana 472,000; Texas 3,917,000;
Arkansas 1,009,000; Tennessee
340,000; Missouri 54,000; Oklahoma
40,000.
GETTING FROM UNDER.
Trustees Wash Their Hands of Seminole
Securities Company.
It was the affairs of the Seminole
Securities company and the Southern
Life Insurance company that was referred
to in the paragraph reproduced
in the last issue of The Enquirer from
the Spartanburg Journal. At least, it
so appears from subsequent developments
in the papers. Messrs. W. A.
Clark, YVilie Jones and T. S. Bryan of
Columbia are the trustees in a deal
whereoy the Seminole Securities company
purchased a controlling interest
in the Southern Life Insurance company.
Since the bursting of the sensation
quite a number of startling facts
nave come out. Garlington, the president
of the Seminole Securities company,
insists that everything is all right,
and that if the recent purcnasers 01
oeminoie stock want to hold on to a
good investment, they must sit steady
.n the boat. Messrs. Clark, Bryan and
Jones, upon the strength of whose
names much of the Seminole stock has
been sold, have become uneasy about
the situation and have written an open
letter to Garlington in which they
charge that both the Seminole company
and the Southern Life Insurance company
are the victims of fraud. Their
letter, which is dated December 5, but
which was not made public until yesterday,
is as follows:
"Dear Sir: We have just learned
from an authentic source that you and
those associated with you received
from the Southern Life Insurance company
a very large commission, reported
to be in the neighborhood of $70,000,
for carrying through the deal between
the Seminole Securities company and
the Southern Life Insurance company,
whereby the former company purchased
of the latter $150,000 of the stock.
This stock was purchased, as you know,
at a very high price and we, as trustees,
were informed that the money
would go Into the treasury of the
Southern Life Insurance company, so
that the financial standing of that
company would be increased and thus
increase the value of the stock. It
now appears that this much of it has
been diverted. We regard it a fraud
upon the stockholders of both of these
companies and a flagrant breach of
trust on the part of the officers of each
?ompany connected with this transaction.
We are, therefore, unwilling any
longer to be associated in any way with
the affairs of the Seminole Securities
company and avail ourselves of this
first opportunity to notify you that we
withdraw from any further participation
in the affairs of the Seminole Securities
company, and refuse to act any
further under the agreement entered
'nto between the undersigned and the
said company of date January 31, 1908.
except as we may be advised to be
oroper and necessary to protect the interest
of the present stockholders or to
enforce the collection of any causes In
action which may have been placed in
our hands by the Seminole Securities
company, and further forbid that you,
or any of your agents, should longer
use our names in connection with the
said Seminole Securities company.
"Respectfully,
"W. A. Clark,
"T. S. Bryan.
"wine jones.
"Trustees."
Since last January, Seminole stock
has been sold extensively throughout
he state, and there are perhaps several
thousand dollars of it held in York
county. Quite a number of railroad
men are among the purchasers. There
is a rumor that can be authenticated
that the railroad people bought largely
on the recommendation of a prominent
gentleman who started in the race for
the United States senate last summer.
This gentleman withdrew from the
race before the opening of the camoaign,
and there are those who say
that one of the reasons of his withdrawal
was a direct intimation from
the railroad people that they would certainly
do all they could to get even
with him for having induced them to
make an investment in which they had
already begun to lose confidence.
THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE.
Long Document Illustrated With Photo
Engravings.
Congress was given an object lesson
last Tuesday. President Roosevelt was
the pedagogue and the subject was deforestation.
In his annual message the
president drove home his conservation
policy by means of half-tone reproductions
of photographs showing the
shocking results of timber waste in
northern China and eastern Asia all
taken by a special agent of the agricultural
department. This was the
second time an illustrated president's
message has been sent to congress.
The former occasion was after the
president's notable trip to Panama.
The message was explicit. Adequate
measures were urged for the proper
care of the forests of the country,.for
the improvement of rivers and harbors
and for the conservation of natural
resources generally. Large appropriations
are asked for carrying on the work
of the conservation commission, which
receives a full measure of praise for
the great amount of work it has accomplished
in making an inventory of
the nation's resources.
The Appalachian-White Mountain
improvement and the inauguration ot
effective Federal control of the waterways
of the country are advocated.
But conservation does not take up
all the message. As was to have been
expected and in line with the policy of
the administration, increased naval
strength is urged.
Among the other matters touched
upon in the message are the following:
Finances.?Seven years of Roose-clt
administration show a net surplus of
$100,000,000 and a reduction of taxation.
Corporations.?Federal government
should have complete control over an
interstate business, railroad, telephone
and telegraph, through the interstate
commerce commission; but the companies
should be removed from the domain
of the Sherman act and be permitted
to form proper combinations.
Labor.?There should be a shortening
of hours of all labor, abolition of child
labor, diminution of women labor, a
progressive inheritance tax, more extended
industrial education and sweeping
application of the employers' liability
act.
Courts.?Supreme court judges
should have salaries doubled; remedy
for intolerable delays of Justice and
over regard for legal technicalities?
should be devised; provision should be
made that no restraining order issue,
except where irreparable injury would
result.
Forests.?We have crossed the verge
of a timber famine, but we can prevent
further mischief, and it would be In the
highest degree reprehensible to let any
consideration of temporary convenience
interfere with such action.
Waterways.?Action should be begun
forthwith for the improvement of
inland waterways, action which will
give us not only navigable but navigatA/)
..IpaIH.
cu i n ci o,
Postal Savings Banks.?Recommen- I
datlon for such banks, with govern-1
ment security renewed.
Parcel Post.?Should be established
on rural routes.
Foreign Affairs.?This nation's foreign
policy is based on the theory that
right must be done between nations as
between individuals.
Statehood.?Immediate admission of
New Mexico and Arizona.
Hawaii.?Fortifications should be
rushed to make islands impregnable.
Philippines.?May expect independence
in another generation.
Army.?Promotion should be for
merit, not seniority; officers who fail
to attain a certain rank at a certain
age should be retired; cavalry should
be reorganized and infantry and artillery
increased.
National Guard.?Should be perfect [
ed bv details of regular officers; schoolboys
should learn to shoot,
j Navy.?It is desirable to complete as
soon as possible eight battleships of
the best type; the general board should
be turned into a generul staff, as In
the army: promotion should be for
merit
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
J. \V. Dobson?Offers store room, two
horse farm and livery stable for rent.
C. E. Spencer, Attorney?Has money
to lend at 8 per cent on improved
farms in York county.
D. M. Hall, Yorkville No. 1?Offers a
number of shoats and pigs for sale?
good stock at right prices.
J. X. McElwee, Rock Hill?Will pay
railroad fare one way and furnish
dinner free to customers from Yorkville
and vicinity buying goods to
value of $5.
T. W. Boyd. Supr.?Will let a bridge
contract at Gulon Moore creek on
December 17, at 11 a. m.
R. D. Alexander?Can be found at R.
E. Montgomery's shop and will repair
almost anything.
Hazel Grist, Clerk?Republishes notice
of annual meeting of board of county
commissioners. with a chance of date
to December 29.
York Supply Co.?Wants you to think
of it when you are thinking of building
a house?it wants to supply the
material.
Loan and Savings Bank?Suggests one
of its Savings Banks for your girls
and boys for Christmas.
Yorkville Hardware Co.?Makes a
few suggestions of suitable articles
for Christmas presents for your
friends.
Bank of Clover?Publishes its statement
of condition at the close of
business on November 27.
York Drug Store?Extends an invitation
to everybody to see its large
line of "gifty" things for the holidays.
Carroll Furniture Co.?Is ready to supply
you with new rugs, art squares,
water sets, toilet sets, etc., for presents.
First National Bank?Wants to know
if you have money to invest and If
so it wants you to invest in its certificates
of deposit.
Thomson Co.?Will continue its Mill
Syndicate sale for another week. Be
sure to see the holiday goods and
toys.
Strauss-Smith Co.?Is selling the remnant
of its stock at forced prices
as the store must be vacated January
1st. Spool cotton at 48c dozen.
It is no doubt understood that there
will be no Issue of The Enquirer on
Christmas day, which this year falls on
Friday.
Mr. W. R. Burgess of Sharon, has
sent The Enquirer office some specimens
of second crop apples that are
very nearly mature.
It is not too late to begin the making
of a winning club for one of the
handsome premiums being offered by
The Enquirer. It is worth almost anybody's
while to try.
Most of the bird hunters insist that
oartrldges are scarce. They say that
there are fewer coveys and the coveys
are not so large. There has not been
i great deal of hunting up to this time.
Mr. L. A. McGill of Bethany, sends
'nformation of three heavy hogs raised
by negroes in his neighborhood. Sam
McGill slaughtered a hog a few days
ago that netted 412 pounds; Monroe
Lowry slaughtered one that netted 369
pounds, and Rufus Adams slaughtered
one that netted 335 pounds.
T"U? it*** vooon11 v niinnlnfprl to
judge the corn submitted in competition
for the premiums of $5, $3 and J2
recently offered by The Enquirer for
the ten best, second best and third best
ears grown in the Farmers' Union largest
yield contest, has not yet been able
to get together. A day is to be fixed
at some time In the near future at some
time convenient to all the members of
the committee and announcement of
the result will be made immediately
afterward. The committee as previously
announced, consists of Messrs.
W. S. Wilkerson of Hickory Grove,
John L. Rainey of Sharon, and C. J
Hughes of Filbert No. 1.
The annual meeting of the different
state educational associations, including
the teachers, the school improvement
workers, the county superintendents,
the town and city superintendents,
the kindergartens, the college presidents
and the primary teachers is to
be held in Columbia on December 30
and 31, and January 1. Superintendent
McMackln of York county, is on the
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programme ior a uisuussiuu ui mc
question. "What Improvements Should
be Made In the Methods of Conducting
Examinations of Teachers?" There is
i separate programme for each of the
various associations. It is expected
that more than a thousand teachers
will be in attendance on the meeting of
the consolidated meetings.
$48.94 AN ACRE.
Mr. J. L. Wood, who was one of the
competitors in the Farmers' Union
prize acre contest and whose best acre
yielded 61 bushels and 34 pounds, has
furnished The Enquirer with a statement
of expenses and receipts which
show a clear profit of $48.94 cents an
acre. The statement which includes
both acres is as follows:
Expenses.
Preparation $ 1.00
Guano 18.70
Nitrate of soda 14.50
Applying fertilizer 1.50
Seed 50
Cultivation 5.00
Harvesting 4.00
$45.20
Receipts.
Fodder at $2 per 100 $ 14.25
Shucks at 1 cent per lb 10.80
Corn at $1 per bushel 118.03
$143.08
Taking the total expenses from the
total receipts, we have $97.88, and dividing
this by 2 the profit of a single
acre is $48.94.
WITHIN THE TOWN.
? Mr. Louis Roth says he had eightyfive
people for dinner the first day he
opened his restaurant and has not had
less than thirty for dinner any day
since.
? At the regular meeting last night.
Yorkville Camp No. 38. W. O. W. elect
ed officers for the ensuing year as
follows: J. W. Miller, C. C.; John F.
Gordon, advisory lieutenant; J. J. Carroll,
banker; D. T. Woods, clerk; Forest
Smith, escort; W. Morrison, inside
sentinel; B. F. Marlev, sentry; E. W.
Long, manager; J. H. Witherspoon,
captain.
? The annual bazaar given under the
auspices of the ladies of Trinity church
was held in the restaurant room of the
Parish hotel on Thursday, and as
usual was a most delightful occasion.
The bazaar was composed of a number
of booths in which the ladies offered
various articles of fancy work,
candies, etc. They also had on sale
sandwiches of various kinds, hot coffee,
and at night oysters and other appetizing
dishes. The bazaar was quite liberally
patronized and the occasion was
most enjoyable generally. The proceeds
from the bazaar were quite satisfactory.
THE SPECULATIVE MARKET.
Following is a summary of yesterday's
developments in the cotton market
as given in an Associated Press
dispatch of last night from New York:
The cotton market more than lost
yesterday's gain during the day's trading.
closing barely steady at a net decline
of 16 to 21 points. The market
opened barely steady at a decline of
3 to 7 points with the active months
selling 5 to 8 points net lower right
after the call in response to disappoint
ing cables and a growing impression
that the trade was not crediting the
official estimate of the crop.
A rally of 3 or 4 points followed the
Initial break as a result of covering
and buying for a turn, but offerings
became heavier again in the afternoon
with stop loss orders uncovered on a
scale down, and prices broke just about
the low level of yesterday morning on
the active months. Advices from the
south, indicating that interior holders
were not influenced by the government
estimate but were offering cotton freely
on practically the same basis as
yesterday, were undoubtedly one of the
factors on the decline. The market
closed at practically the lowest prices of
the day. Larger estimates for tomorrow's
receipts at leading points were
used to emphasize claims that the government's
estimate of the crop was out
of line with the movement and private
cables from Liverpool stated that the
official figures would have to be confirmed
by future census and into-sight
figures before they inspired much confidence
abroad. Commission houses
were good buyers of the late months
on the decline.
Receipts at the ports today 59.378
against 67,574 last year and 57,207 last
year. For the week 425,000 bales
against 459,291 last week and 368,793
last year. Today's receipts at New
Orleans 7,763 against 15,787 last year,
and at Houston 12.908 against 12.613
last year.
ABOUT PEOPLE.
Mrs. J. H. Thornwell is quite ill at
her home in Fort Mill.
Mr. H. C. Strauss spent Wednesday
In Spartanburg, on ousiness.
Mrs. R. A. Chandler of Mayesville,
is visiting her mother, Mrs. W. B.
Steele.
Rev. Henry Cauthen and family, left
Wednesday for their new home in Walterboro.
Mr. M. B. Jennings left for Columbia
Wednesday to appear before the supreme
court.
Mrs. J. W. Torrence of Oastonia. is
visiting in Yorkvllle, the guest of Mrs.
\f. S. A. Bludworth.
Mr. E. M. Stanton was called to his
home in Bethel township yesterday on
account of the critical Illness of his
mother.
Miss Gilley Neely, who has been
spending several weeks with Miss Ella
Neely, left Wednesday for her home
in Edgmoor.
Mr. L. E. Thomas of St. Petersburg,
Fla., is on a visit to his mother,
Mrs. D. E. Thomas at Filbert. He expects
to remain until January 15.
Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Black have issued
invitations to the marriage of their
daughter, Miss Mae to Mr. Frank Leslie
Pickett. The ceremony is to take
place at the home of the bride's parents.
at Lockhart on December 16, at
3 o'clock p. m.
Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Pearson of Bennettsville,
S. C., have sent out invitations
to the marriage of their daughter,
Miss Clara, to Mr. James Felix
Walker. The ceremony Is to take place
at the home of the bride's parents on
Wednesday afternoon, December 23.
Mr. Walker, the groom to be, Is a native
and former citizen of Yorkville,
and has many friends at this place.
YORK'S REGISTERED VOTERS.
For the benefit of the public especially
in connection with school and
other elections, it is the purpose of
The Enquirer to publish a list of the
voters of the county as shown by the
recent registration. The publication of
all the names at one time would fill an
entire issue of The Enquirer, and it is
therefore deemed more advisable to
take up the work by installments.
People Interested In these lists win do
w?ll to clip them out as thev appear in
The Enquirer and paste them in scrap
books. In the list given below will be
found all the registered voters of
Bullock's Creek.
No. Name Occupation Age
1 J. F. Watson, farmer 37
2 J. A. W. Mitchell, farmer 29
3 M. W. Latham, farmer 42
4 J. R. Brandon, farmer 31
5 N. A. Galloway, farmer 38
J. J. Sherer, farmer 45
7 J. E. McAliley, farmer 29
8 J. G. White, farmer 28
9 Haskell Carroll, farmer 26
10 Kelly Inman, merchant 50
11 Jas. E. Childers, farmer 45
12 T. S. Lambert, farmer 30
12 Thos. Mitchell, farmer 24
14 W. G. Palmer, farmer 59
15 J. P. Duncan, farmer 71
16 J. A. McAlily, R. F. D. carrier 30
17 J. M. Mitchell, farmer 27
18 M. E. Good, farmer 56
19 A. C. McKnight, farmer 62
20 G. F. Mitchell, farmer 21
21 H. D. Cranford, farmer 27
22 W. S. H. Mitchell, farmer 31
23 V. D. Howe, farmer 28
24 W. S. McMurray, M. D., 28
25 W. G. Brown, farmer 42
26 H. C. Robins, farmer 21
27 A. W. Sherer, farmer 24
28 W. B. Good, farmer 52
29 S. R. McAliley, farmer 31
10 J. M. Lathan, farmer 21
11 J. M. Smarr, farmer 49
32 J. D. Smith, farmer 31
73 P H Hnrtnn farmpr fi2
34 Walter R. Latham, farmer 25
35 J. M. Vanburen, p. c., farmer 47
36 Rev. J. B. Swann, minister 50
37 W. C. Robinson, farmer 28
38 W. T. Smarr, farmer 50
*>9 J. D. Nelson, farmer 47
40 F. W. Nelson, farmer 34
41 W. R. Bell, Jr., farmer 31
42 W. L. Cranford, farmer 34
43 W. E. Harris, farmer 35
44 J. W. Feemster, farmer 40
45 A. P. Hafner, farmer 40
46 J. E. Bankhead, farmer 55
47 W. J. Blair, farmer 60
48 J. D. Bankhead, farmer 23
49 J. S. Plaxlco, farmer 34
50 W. L. Plaxico, farmer 22
51 E. S. Dowdle, farmer 21
52 J. E. Robins, farmers 22
53 E. McSwain, farmer 68
54 W. A. McCullough, farmer 34
55 J. C. McCinbry, farmer 47
56 R. L. Sherer, farmer 53
57 G. M. Horton, farmer 47
58 F. M. Pruett, farmer 48
59 J. R. Mickle, farmer 48
60 Jno. M. Sherer, farmer 82
61 J. M. Nelson, farmer 61
62 B. Hi Horton, farmer 23
63 A. L. Purcell, farmer 46
64 B. L. Jenkins, farmer 50
65 J. D. Good, fanner 48
THE COUNTY HOME.
Although there are indications that
the matter of building a modern county
home is to be agitated, possibly to
the point of action, Supervisor Boyd
does not think the change desirable.
Discussing the question last Wednesday.
he said:
"On its face, the proposition looks all
right. I have no doubt that we could
care for a given number of paupers
in a modern home more economically
than we could care for the same number
under the present arrangement:
but that is not all there Is to it.
"It is pretty hard to get white people
to go to the present county home.
There is nothing especially attractive
about the place; but with a modern
hullrlintr. nrovided with all aceommo
dations, the conditions would he more
inviting, and I am of opinion that there
would soon be a material increase in
the number of inmates. People who
are not willing to go to the farm
would he glad to go to a modern home.
"Then also, I think that a modern
home, if we should go in to it, would
cost a great deal more than most people
are calculating on. There would
have to be a large building for the
whites and another for the negroes,
and also one or more hospitals and
probably a trained nurse or two.
"There has been criticism from time
to time, about use of the convicts in
raising cotton on the farm. It has been
stated even that the convicts have 1
been used to pick cotton. As I see it,
the convicts have never heen used ,
ahout the county home farm except
under conditions that were businesslike
and sensible. They have certainly
not been used to pick cotton so far
as I have any information. And the
.ittle cotton that has been raised on
the farm has not had any appreciable
effect on the market so far as anybody
has been able to figure it out. As I see
it. such cotton as has been raised at
all has been raised at very nearly a
clear profit, mostly with labor that
would have otherwise been lost."
As to exactly how many acres there
are in the county home farm, Mr. Boyd
is not certain. He thinks there are
something less than 400. He Is doubtful
as to whether it would be possible
to sell the farm for as much as $8,000,
and as he sees it, this would not he
nearly sufficient for the erection of
the buildings that would be necessary
for a suitable modern home.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT TAVORA.
Mr. W. F. Downs, the well known
machinist at the Tavora cotton mill,
was Instantly killed at about 0.30
\r mnrrtlntr hv o r?r?lHon.
u Viwvn ?cnin v?cvj uiv/i iniig wj uwiuvii
tal contact with the 23,000 volts of
electric current that supplies the power
to run the machinery of the mill.
The accident occurred in the transformer
house at the mill. Something
nad suddenly gone wrong, with the
current, and Mr. Downs and Mr. J. T.
Hamsaur, the superintendent had spent
some time looking for the trouble. After
making several tests they telephoned
the Victor Oil mill, only a short
distance away on the same line, and
nnding everything all right there,
could come to no other conclusion than
that the trouble was in their own transformer
house.
Superintendent Ramsaur and Mr.
Downs were in the transformer house
alone. They had opened and closed
switches and tried different wires.
Mr. Ramsaur had just started toward
the door leaving Mr. Downs at the
transformer. There was a hissing, popping
noise, and turning his head, Mr.
Ramsaur saw Mr. Downs standing,
holding a wire overhead with his left
hand, and lire flashing at the point of
contact with his hand and at his feet.
The unfortunate man was unable to
speak. He was completely paralyzed
if not Instantly killed.
Though almost transfixed with the
horror of the situation, Mr. Ramsaur's
first impulse was to rush to the assistance
of his fellow-worker and
friend; but Just before what would
have been the last fatal instant, it occurred
to him that to touch Mr. Downs
would only mean death to himself and
to no purpose. In another moment he
realized that the absolutely necessary
thing to be done under the circumstances,
was to throw open the air
brake switch on the outside. This he
iCl'UllipilMlicu its nuuu ms pussiuic, auu
with the current shut off, the body of
Ylr. Downs dropped to the door.
It Is very well understood among
electricians that in the case of an electric
shock, even by a current as powerful
as 23,000 volts, It Is often possible
to bring about a complete resuscitation.
Mr. Ramsaur, Mr. J. Y.
Lucas and others worked faithfully
at the body of Mr. Downs as
long ts there was any reasonable
ground of hope; but without any encouragement
whatever. There was
some muscular twitching during the
first few moments after the interruption
of the powerful current that was
passing through the unfortunate man's
body, but no sign of returning life.
It seems that there are two switches
near the point at which the current
from the main line enters the transformer.
One is an air-brake switch,
just outside the transformer house, and
the other Is an oil switch, just outside
the transformer. With the air-brake
switch open the current is stopped
outside the transformer house, and
before it gets to the oil switch.
The oil switch is on the same
side of the transformer and is in
the nature of a double precaution
for the complete control of the current.
Mr. Downs was a man who thoroughly
understood his business. In looking
for the trouble he had opened and closed
both switches several times. A
n-obable cause of the trouble, was that
me of the conducting wires had pulled
loose from its connection without
ihowing Its disconnection. Where the
wires were known to be live, their '
condition would be tested with a 1
piece of wood. In case of certainty
that the outside switch was open, an
Mectrician would have no hesitation
about testing the wires with his hand,
t is believed that Mr. Downs had for- 1
jotten the status of the outside switch,
and under the impression that it was (
jpen, tested the wire with his hand,
Mr. W. F. Downs, the victim of this
deplorable tragedy is from Fort Mill.
He was about 40 years of age, and has ''
been the machinist at the Tavora mill
for several years. He was a man of
line intelligence, and excellent charac- 1
ter. He was sober and industrious and '
understood his business thoroughly. J
He was held in high esteem by all who
knew him. He Is survived by his 1
mother and a sister and leaves two i
daughters.
There was an inquest by Coroner 1
Louthian and a Jury yesterday and the
facts developed as to the tragedy were
about as described in the foregoing.
l
LOCAL LACONICS. 1
Cannon-Adams.
Rock Hill Record: Mr. R. S. Cannon,
the clever and efficient manager of
the Catawba Power plant, north of the
city, and Miss Lida Adams, one of Gas- 1
tonia's popular young ladies, were {
married yesterday at that place at 11 '
o'clock. The ceremony was performed '
at the home of the bride. Mr. and {
Mrs. Cannon came over yesterday af- (
ternoon via Charlotte and drove out '
to the plant, where they will reside. y
Mr. Cannon has had charge of this J
plant since it began operation, and no
one is more popular among our peo- 1
Miss A flams Is verv nleasantlv re- '
membered in tiie city, having visited
at the home of her aunt, Mrs. M. H.
Adams, a number of times in the past
year or two. Their many friends in
this city will Join us in wishing them
a most happy future in their new life.
? Columbia State, Wednesday: The
county business agents and the county
presidents of the State Farmers' Union
inet here yesterday. The most important
business of the occasion was the
election of Mr. J. M. Holman of St.
Matthews, Calhoun county, as state
business agent. There were present
representatives from nearly every
county in the state. State headquarters
of the Union will be established
in Columbia at 1232 Washington street
on January 1. These offices will be
next door to the present offices of theFarmers'
Union Sun. A special scs- *
sion of the Union will be called to ;
meet in this city during the latter part
of January. It is expected that the
meeting will continue for three days.
The cotton acreage for next year and
other important matters will he brought
up, and It is probable that there will
be representatives present from every
county in the state when the convention
meets. s
CANAL FREE OF SCANDAL.
So Declares the President and He
Threatens Prosecution.
"If they can be reached for criminal
libel, I shall try to have them reached,"
said president Roosevelt In speaking
yesterday afternoon about, "those
Americans who have been guilty of infamous
falsehood concerning the acquisition
of the property and the construction
of the (Panama) canal itself,"
according to a Washington correspondent.
It was to a committee of 100 of the
lakes-to-the-gulf deep waterway association,
headed by Governor Deneen,
of Illinois, who were received by the
president in the East room of the
White House that he made this declaration.
Governor Deneen had presented a
copy of resolutions adopted by the association
and made a few remarks to
which the president replied as follows:
i nave reii, as tne governor nas wen
put it, that no more important service
could be rendered to this country than
the building of the Panama canal between
the Atlantic and the Pacific; and
one thing I am proud of in connection
with the building of that canal is that
there has not been legitimate cause for
the breath of scandal connected with
any feature of the proceedings. We
have cause to be ashamed of only one
set of Americans in connection with the
building of the canal, and that Is of
those Americans who have been guilty
of infamous falsehood concerning the
acquisition of the property and the
construction of the canal itself. If
they can be reached for criminal libel,
I shall try to have them reached. If
not, at any rate all the facts we know
or ever have known are at the disposal
of each and every one of you here, and
of any one in congress or of all congress
if they wish to see them.
"Next only In importance from the
physical standpoint to building the
Panama canal comes the question of
developing the use of our own waterways.
That must be done by the policy
of Irrigation at the head waters up
in the arid regions; and where you
come from, gentlemen, it is to be
done by making our sea coast take a
big loop in from the Gulf of Mexico
to the Great Lakes-, and we will see
that the work is done just as honestly,
just as efficiently, as the Panama
canal work has been done, and no
work could have been done from beginning
to end more honestly or more
efficiently."
MERE-MENTION.
The shah of Persia has been condemned
to death by a secret revolutionary
society of that country H.
E. Roseberry, a former preacher of
Wilmore, Ky., was last week sentenced
to three years' imprisonment from
Chattanooga, Tenn., on a charge of
abandoning his family. He requested
that he be sent to the coal mines and
that the word "reverend" be not connected
with his name A cargo of
10,000 canaries reached Philadelphia on
Monday from Rotterdam There
have been eleven Incendiary fires In
the lumber yards and woodworking
plants of Philadelphia during the past
month Frank A. Munsey, owner,
has begun the publication of a Sunday
afternoon edition of the Washington
Times, displacing the.morning issue of
that paper The epidemic of typhoid
fever now prevalent at Reading,
Pa.. Is said to be due to the water supply
of the city being contaminated by
the surface drainage at a country home
ten miles from the city where there
tiropo uovocqI puutiu <?f fvnhnlH fpvpr '?
few weeks ago. The number of cases
of fever on Wednesday numbered
more than 560 A six-day bicycle
race in which sixteen teams entered,
will be brought to a close at Madison
Square Garden, New York, tomorrow
night. The record of a six days' race
is 2.733 miles, made in 1899 The
East Side bank of Portland, Ore., was
held up Monday night by three masked
men and robbed of $15,000 Catholic
churches, colleges, priests and
nuns throughout the country have been
swindled out of $5,000,000 by the Fidelity
Funding company of New York, a
wildcat concern, which failed a few
weeks ago with liabilities of $4,000,000
to $5,000,000 and assets of $2,000
A woman plaintiff in a case at Kingston,
N. Y., has had twenty-two dlfl'erent
lawyers since her suit was instituted
in 1906. The case has never
come to trial Herman Billik, the
noted Chicago murderer who was to
have been hanged today, has been
granted a reprieve until January 20.
The Reading railroad moved more
than 14.000 carloads of coal from Pennsylvania
mines on Monday The
Chancery court of Virginia has handed
down a decision in favor of Mrs. Florence
Maybrlck, who served a term in
an English prison on conviction of
murdering her husband, by which she
regains title to 2,500,000 acres of land
In Virginia, West Virginia and Ken
tucky, out of which she was swindled
by a New York lawyer. The case has
been in the courts for ten years
On June 1, of tnis year, there were
81.158 postofflces in the United States.
An explosion in a military maglzine
at Calcutta, India, killed eleven
ind seriously wounded twevty-six others
A. H. Hyde, a millionaire real
2state dealer of San Francisco, and his
confederate, Joost H. Schneider of Arizona,
have heen sentenced to terms in
the Federal prison at Moundsvilie, W.
Va., on conviction at Washington on
charges of conspiracy to defraud the
government in land deals. They appealed
to a higher court W. A.
Oldham, cashier, tried to shoot H. D.
McDaniel, president of the National
Exchange bank at Springfield, Mo.,
Tuesday as a result of a quarrel over
the afllairs of the bank, which failed
to open its doors for business on Monthly.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEW8.
? Charlotte Observer: J. J. Hardin,
:he young man who was checked up
ibout $.1,000 short in his accounts at
Chester, S. C., several months ago by
he Southern Cotton Oil company, was
irrested in Norfolk, Va., yesterday unler
orders of Chief T. M. Christenbury
cere. Later he was ordered released
,vhen the information came that he
lad made good the loss to the New
Tork Bonding company, the corporition
which in turn had made good
he loss to the Southern Cotton Oil
company. Chief Christenbury acted
inder instruction from the officials of
he Southern Cotton Oil company, who
lave their district office in Charlotte.
[Jardin was Chester representative of
he concern and was a highly popular
,-oung man at the time he slipped, his
:haritable friends claiming that he
tad been betrayed by circumstances.
? Washington special of December
!, to the Columbia State: Among the
lomlnations sent to the senate today,
vas that of Thos. Hester to be postnaster
at Oaffney. Hester Is the man
vho they say about Oaffney was im>orted
from North Carolina last sumner
to displace Postmaster Folger be ause
Folger insisted on attending to
he duties of the office instead of actng
as political agent under Hitchcock
ind John Capers. The administration
ranted a man as postmaster who could
ittend to political matters for them,
ittend conventions, corral delegates
ind so forth. Hester's residence was in
'forth Carolina. His nomination was
leld up in the senate. Upon the adnurnment
of congress President Roose'elt
gave him a recess appointment,
few his name will come up again, but
chether or not his confirmation will be
ought further does not yet appear.
? Columbia special to Charlotte Oberver:
The annual reports of state
officials are usually very "dry" reading',
full of stereotyped expressions and
set phrases hoary with age, large parts
of them being merely revised from
former reports to bring them up to the
calendar year. Rut a striking exception
this year will be the first report
of the new insurance commissioner,
Mr. F. H. McMaster, a former newspaper
man who will make "live" copy of
practically every page of Ids report. Of
course fhe interest will be his comments
on the outrageous graft that has been
practiced throughout the state for
many years on the poor and ignorant
by numbers of irresponsible so-called
industrial insurance companies. He
commends the work of a number of
honestly and ably managed home companies,
but says their efforts have been
greatly hampered by the piratical and i
Irresponsible competition which ran
on unrestrained by supervision," operating
for the most part under eleemosynary
charters In violation of law,
one of these, a foreign company,
claiming a capital of $200,000, a home
office in a New York skyscraper and a
J -.I~ ?*o t *1 AAA >'ov(ofunf oil
UOiutrniHj mpuni ui f i ,wv CAMVCIU U>.
three only on the letter and policy
headings of the irresponsible managers."
The commissioner estimates
the total collections the past year
amounted to $161,844, of which only
$52,422 went to policyholders, the remainder
being paid out to agents and
for expenses. The hundred-odd companies
doing business last spring have
been reduced to twenty-three, many of
the irresponsible ones fading away un- ,
der prospective investigation. But ^
strong remedial legislation is yet need- ^
ed to protect the public in future and
encourage those honest companies
which are doing a helpful work at
home.
? Columbia special of December 8, to
Charlotte Observer: The Seminole Securities
company has an authorized
capital stock of $300,000 and the president
is Mr. John Young Garlington,
formerly of Laurens. The company is
not an insurance company and is not
chartered to do an insurance business,
it was advertised to be the original intention
of the organizers to form the
Sterling Casualty company, the purpose
of which is Indicated by its title.
The securities company was to finance j
cne casualty company and fcr this pur
pose the. stock of the security company
was sold at $150 a share, par value
4100, the casualty company to be started
with a surplus equal to haif the
capital stock. Recently, however, the
securities company advertised a change
tn its plans and announced that it
had purchased an interest in the Southern
Life Insurance company, of Fay- ,
etteville, N. C., and that this company I
would open headquarters in Columbia
and do a life and accident business.
Shortly after this announcement the
life insurance company did open of- i
fices here, in the Skyscraper, and the
headquarters of the Seminole Securities
company was moved to Chattanooia,
Tenn. During the last year the
agents of the Seminole Securities company
have visited practically every
portion of South Carolina and have
jeen remarkably successful in disposing
of the stock of this company at
prices above par, in fact at $150 a
share, payment being made in cash
and notes. The solicitors of the company
were several months ago taken
off the road. As trustees of the company
three of the most distinguished
and trusted men in the state were
named?Mr. W. A. Clark, president or
the Carolina National Bank; Gen. Wl'ey
Jones, president of the Palmetto
National Bank, and Mr. T. S. Bryan,
president of the R. L. Bryan company.
The duty of these trustees was simply ^
to hold the money and securities own- "
ed by the company, and the management
of the company was the duty of
the president, Mr. Garllngton, who Is
now In Chattanooga, to which city he
moved his headquarters after the purchase
of the Southern Life Insurance
company stock. According to the statements
of the Southern Life Insurance
company officials, the company on Julv
1st, 1907, had a paid-up capital stock
~>f $ 15H.700 and was pledged for $8,000
additional. In September, 1908, through
Mr. C. J. Hebert, the Seminole Securitles
company bought $155,000 of treas- J
"ry stcck, increasing the paid-up capital
to $276,700: and the Seminole Se- J
curitles company also purchased from
individuals $'5,000 of stock, thus giv- J
ing the Seminole Securities company
$150,000 of stock, on which $9,000 is
still due. Of this stock 1,060 shares
have been delivered and 440 are held.
The Seminole company therefore has
actually purchased 1,060 shares, par
value $100 a share. For this stock the
Quiit horn I.lfo Tn?nranr>? IVl.nnanv l*e
ceived about $150,000 net or at the net
rate of $140 a share of par value $100.
For this stock, 1,060 shares, the Seminole
Securities company paid at the u
rate of $216 a share, or $228,960. The J
difference between the amount paid by
the Seminole Securities company and
?.he net amount received by the Southern
Life Insurance company is $76 a
share. On 1,060 shares the difference ^
Is $80,560; on 1,500 shares the differ- ^
ence is $114,000. Further, under the
terms of the sale, the Seminole Securities
company is obligated to sell the
remaining stock of the Southern Life
Insurance company up to $500,000.
The difference stated above, $76 a share
or $80,560 on 1,060 shares, represents
the commission In the transaction.
The stock of the Southern Life Insurance
company is not in the name of
the Seminole Securities company, but
in the name of the three trustees. ^
Messrs. W. A. Clark, Wiley Jones and
T. S. Bryan. Purchasers of Seminole \ V
Securities stock say the elegantly \ V.
Pressed agents from Atlanta, whom Mr. 1
larlington employed to sell the stock. m
guaranteed them 12 per cent dividends
certain with 20 per cent additional to
go to the surplus fund. Further reve'atlons
promise a big sensation
throughout the state.
Was Only Joking.?Our esteemed
friend takes us altogether too seriously.
We only intended a little pleasantry at
the expense of Yorkville, and a compliment
to our contemporary, which, by
the way, is one of the best ever.
Yorkville has enough good citizens in
Messrs. Wardlaw, Wilklns, Allein and
Brown to make It a good town, to say
nothing of the natives.?Oaffney Led- J
ger.
AT THE CHURCHES.
BAPTIST. ^
Rev. I. G. Murray, Pastor.
Sunday Services?Sunday school at
10 a. m. Morning service at 11 o'clock.
Annual election of officers. A full
attendance of members desired. Evening
service at 7 o'clock.
CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD.
Sunday Services?Sunday school at
3.30 p. m. No other service.
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN.
Rev. E. E. Gillespie, Pastor. f
Sunday Services?Sunday school at p
10 a. m. Morning service at 11 o'clock. i
Evening service at 7 o'clock. r
TRINITY METHODIST EPISCOPAL. v \ .
Sunday Service-?Sunday school at
3.30 p. m. %
ASSOCIATE REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN.
Sunday Services?Sunday school at
10 a. m.
YORK CIRCUIT.
Sunday Services?Preaching at Clover
at 11 a. m.t and St. Paul's at 3.30
p. m.
Special Notices.
East View.
Rev. I. G. Murray will preach at ^
East View school house at 3 p. in..
next Sunday, December 13:h.
Preaching at Sharon.
Rev. M. P. Cain of Memphis, Tenn.,
will preach at Sharon A. R. P. church
next Sabbath morning at 11 o'clock.
?he (Cotton ifiarhet.
Yorkville. December 11.?Cotton 8. f
New York. December 10: Spot cotton
closed quiet, 10 points lower; middling
uplands, 9.15; middling gulf 9.40;
sales 27,600 bales. Futures opened and
closed barely steady as follows: Dec.
,8.90: Jan. 8.60; Feb. 8.60; March 8.61; t
April 8.61; May 8.68; June 8.65; July ~
8.67: Aug. 8.58; Sept. 8.44; Oct. 8.45.