Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, August 06, 1909, Image 2
? mips and Jarts.
? Washington, August 3: The wave
of prohibition that has been sweeping
over the United States cost the government
exactly J7,641,978.42 in revenue
In the fiscal year ending with
June 30. The loss is calculated from
the returns from spirits and fermented
liquors in the preceding fiscal year.
Of this large sum the heaviest loss
was traceable to the decreasing manufacture
and use of whisky. Beer,
porter and other similar liquors came
next in the proportion of lost revenue.
The acting commissioner of internal
revenue, Robert Williams, Jr., says in
Vilo ronnrt that thft rpvomno from whin
ueni s room reacneu nve minutes pasi
Ave, the Payne tariff bill as the measure
will be known, was laid before
the president. He picked up a pen
supplied by Chairman Payne, of the
house ways and means committee,
and which was used by both the vice
president and the speaker in signing
the bill, and attached his signature.
? Why Spain is fighting in Morocco
is clearly explained by Mr. Vivian,
foreign editor of the New York American,
who says: Whether Spain succeeds
in crushing completely its anarchical
anti-militarist revolution by the
simple method of shrapnel at short
range, the war in Morocco remains an
unsolved problem. The causes for that
war are these: It is a commercial
war, as are all wars of aggrandize ent;
one of those wars founded on
'.he proposition: "You have something
that we want; we will give you
for it either an old brass button or a
new steel bullet." The "something"
which Spain in the present case wants
is the riches, the mineral riches that
lie in the sun-roasted hills twelve
miles to the southeast of Melilla, the
principal port of the Spanish "sphere
of influence" in Morocco. A group
of Spanish financiers has spent much
money in digging out these minerals,
and has succeeded in interesting the
Spanish government in the exploita
tion of the mines of Beni Bu Fruor.
The mines are rich, but almost inaccessible,
and it was decided to run a
railroad down to them from Melilla.
Now, a railroad to the Moors?and indeed
to most Mohammedans?is as
aggravating as a red cloak to a bull.
It means interfering with their nomadic
habits, the seizure of some
sheik's right of way and a check on
predatory privileges. The proposed
railway, at Casablanca, it will be remembered,
was the beginning of all
the bloody trouble thereabouts. The
Riffs and the Kabyles, fierce tribesmen
of the hills, blocked the proposed
railroad with their flocks of armed
horsemen; the sultan of Morocco refused
to interfere to protect foreigners,
whom he considered interlopers;
Melilla was invested, and the old feud
between Moor and Iberian that began
hundreds of years ago is once more
being fought out.
? The United States in less than
three centuries has grown from a fewstraggling
colonies along the eastern
coast to one of the greatest nations in
the world. Of its eighty million inhabitants
one-third still live in the
original thirteen states of the Union.
Another third live in the territory
ceded by the original thirteen states to
the general government and in which
great states one by one grew to maturity
and were admitted to the Union.
The other third live in the country
mainly beyond the Mississippi. Still
the growth and progress of the United
States is only just reaching the stage
from which it will proceed in full development
to its climax Not even all
the land has yet been appropriated to
the purposes of civilization. Counting
Alaska, there are still 754,895,000
acres of unreserved land, practically
free to the adventurous man who will
claim and develop it. Much of this,
however, is not fit, without irrigation,
to become the home of even the hardiest
settler. But with the policy of
irrigation upon which the government
of the United States has now fully entered,
the 61,177,000 acres yet unsettled
in Nevada, the 46,532,000 in Montana,
the 44,778,000 acres in New
Mexico, and the 42,769,000 acres remaining
in Arizona, may yet in great
part be reclaimed from what is now
practically a desert and become the
home of a vast population. There are
also many millions or acres now covered
by swamps In the older states
which will eventually be wrested, like
Holland from the sea. to the uses of
man. Of these swamp and overflow
lands there are in all," as the government
statistics show, about 75,000.000
acres, of which Florida has 18,500,000
and Louisiana has about half that
amount. Beginning with 1820, the
earliest year for which records were
kept, the total number of immigrants
into the United States since that time
exceeds 26.000,000. while in 1905,
ky fell off more than $5,500,000. A
peculiarity of the report Is that the
people of the United States, while
throttling a thirst, have left their
craving for narcotics apparently, go
unchecked. The increased revenue
from tobacco exceeded $2,000,000,
and the army of cigarette smokers
contributed a good proportion of this,
the increased amount paid in as a result
of the growth of this habit being
$722,245.30. That the cigarette is
supplanting the cigar is shown by the
fact that the loss of revenue on cigars
over the previous fiscal year was nearly
$500,000. There were more than
5,000,000 gallons less distilled spirits
consumed, nearly 2,500,000 barrels
ale and beer, and 152,185,834) fewer
cigars smoked. On the other hand,
the cigarette smokers of the country
burned up 703,105,065 more cigarettes
than in the previous year.
? Washington, August 5: The tariff
has been revised and the extraordinary
session of congress has been
brought to a close. Both houses adjourned
sine die officially at 6 o'clock
tonight. The actual adjournment
was taken in the house at 5.38 p. m.
and in the senate at 5.58 p. m. The
closing hours of the session were attended
by scenes of a most interesting
character. The revision had been according
to the desires of some, and
with the hearty disapproval of others,
and the last two days had been consumed
by members of the senate in
expressing their satisfaction or dissatisfaction.
The conference report
on the Mil was agreed to by the senate
by a vote of 47 to 31 . The vote
was taken' at 2 p. m., and soon afterward
the concurrent resolution making
certain changes in the leather
schedule was adopted by both houses.
President Taft arrived at the capitol
at 4.45 p. m. It was his first appearance
there since his incumbency as
president, and there was a constant
procession of handshaking statesmen
t . ough the president's room from
the time of his arrival until his departure
at 5.50 o'clock. Just as the
hands of the gold clock in the presi
1906 and 1907 more than a million,
on the average, came each year. In
1908, there was a decline in this incoming
wave of immigration. At present
the number of immigrants is again
on the increase. The percentage of
this foreign increase is also interesting.
Thus in 1900. the date of the
last census, there were 10.460,000
persons of foreign parentage in the
United States, or 13.7 per cent of the
total population. In 1890 they formed
14.8 per cent; in 1880, 13.3 per
cent; In 1870, 14.4 per cent; in 1860,
ia-2 npr pent: and in 1850 9.7 per cent.
They hung out a new copy of the
state flag over the state capitol in Columbia
the other day, and a little boy
wanted to know what sort of weather
it Indicated.?Anderson Dally Mall.
Did you tell him? If you have not
done so already, say to the little boy
that this flag promises a warm, refreshing
shower of higher aspiration.
Tell him ;hat it indicates that the
clouds of ignorance, suspicion and distrust
are passing, and that under, over
and between them is already to be
seen the golden sunshine of better
educational facilities, greater and more
ambitious industrial development,
more magnificent agricultural achievements,
and other good things without
number. Through sunshine and shadow,
through storm and through calm,
through good report and through evil
report, that splendid old flag has aiway
stood for the highest and best and
you "tell the little boy that there has
been no change.
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The state of Vermont has been
thrown into a state of hysteria by the 1
arrival of the Tenth regiment of negro '
troops at Fort Ethan Allen. There ,
are very few negroes in Vermont; but c
the Vermonters think they already
have as many as they need, and the J
leading paper of Montpelier has .
sprung a sensation throughout the ;
state by setting up a cry for the en- i
actment of a jim crow car law. All
the papers of the state are taking ^
shots at the subject and they are mak- (
ing the situation quite interesting, c
However, the alarm is quite unneces- s
sary. But few negroes will go to Ver- 1
mont voluntarily, and even the negro
soldiers win not remain in tne army
very long, if the government establishes
a policy of keeping them in such a
cold climate. However, it must be confessed
that the manner in which the
Green Mountain boys are squirming
over the situation and prospects, is
more than half amusing down this
way.
We see that our editorial on "More
Money for Karm Work," which appeared
in the Partners' Union Sun of
July 16th, has been used by the Yorkville
Enquirer and credited to the Anderson
Daily Mail, which lif:ed it bodily
from our columns with unscrupulous
ease. This may be good newspaper
ethics in this day and generation,
but when we were a cub reporter in
days gone by it was not so regarded.
We regret very much having overlooked
the original appearance of the
editorial in the Sun, else we certainly
would not have given the credit
elsewhere. We are staunch believers
in the propositi! n that anything that
is worth reproducing is worth crediting,
and that failure to give proper
credit works injustice to ourselves as
well as the people who have thus been
deprived of the fullest reward of
their meditations and labors. We feel 1
sure that the Mail must also have
overlooked the matter of credit, else 1
it would not have neglected to give the
same, because of all the papers in the
state, none has more editorial ability
to spare than the Mail, and none can
better afford to be generous as well as
just.
Tiikkk is a noticeable feeling <>f apprehension
throughout the northeast,
especially up in New England, that the
manufacturing and commercial supremacy
so long enjoyed by that section
is seriously threatened, and that
the danger is from the west. There
is no question of the fact that New
England has been having velvety times
in manufacturing lines for several
generations, and there is no question
of the fact either, that the west is a
great and growing country: but while
we have tremendous respect for the
business perspicacity of the New Engenders,
we are inclined to think that
tney are a little in tne (tarK just now
as to the quarter from which they are
most threatened. The great south ha
begun to feel herself again and it will
not be a great while until she begins
to make herself felt of otheis. This is
the coming part of the country; and
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Rntertd at the Postofflce In Yorkvllle
as Mail Matter of the Second Class.
YORKVILLE. S. C.?
FRIDAY, AUGUST 6,1909.
All the dispensaries were closed on
Augrust 2, and the state Is now under (
absolute prohibition, especially in so
far as the law Is concerned. The understanding
is that dispensers are pos- ,
itively refusing to sell liquor to anybody,
and no liquor is to be had at retail
except from tigers. The counties
particularly affected are: Abbeville,
Fairfield, Kershaw, Lee, Florence,
Richland, Sumter, Lexington, Aiken,
Orangeburg, Williamsburg, Georgetown,
Bamberg, Dorchester, Berkeley,
Barnwell, Colleton, Hampton, Charleston,
Beaufort. It is quite certain that
several of the counties mentioned are
going to vote out their dispensaries,
but how many and which ones, it is
impossible to predict with much degree ,
of accuracy.
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M'HK anu-spunn^ laws, uui a. IV
years introduced in this part of the j
country are still somewhat of a Joke;
but not so throughout the northeast. ,
There the laws are very drastic, the
penalties in some of the states amounting
to fines of as much as 5500. All
the railroad trains, the street care and
the public buildings, display warning
signs against spitting, and the people
of those localities obey the warning.
In most of the larger cities people have
to be very careful as to where they
spit. It Is a fact, however, that tobacco
chewing is not nearly so common
throughout the northeast as it is in
the south. Most tobacco users in the
north confine themselveg to pipes, cigars
and cigarettes. The object of the 1
anti-spitting laws, of course, Is the
prevention of disease,
if our friends of New England ever
lose their Industrial supremacy, we
are inclined to believe that it is the
south which will next loom up in the
lead.
A NKW York letter tells a story to
the effect that sometime In September
the people of the United States are to
be asked to absorb approximately
$400,000,000 of railway securities,
the money to be used by the transportation
companies in Improvements,
extensions and otherwise. What the
railroad financiers will ask for, will be
almost exactly what it Is estimated
that the farmers of three of the
nortnwestern siaies win receive iui
their crops this year. But the most
significant fact about the proposed
financing is, that a leading railroad financier
predicts that the larger part
of these loans will be taken up by the
farmers of the country?men who dig
their wealth from the soil?and this
In the face of the fact that a decade
ago a greater part of the farms
throughout the northwest were under
mortgage to money lenders of the
east. It is a fact that the farmers of
the west and the south are today producing
more on the farms than the
railroads are able to transport, and it
is predicted that within live years the
railroads will require not less than
1,000 millions for extensions, doubletracking/
equipment, etc., in order to
be able to handle the vast productions
of the American farmer. So swift has
been the reaction from the business
stagnation of two years ago, if will be
easy for the railroads to secure all the
money they need and more. The
American farmer is fast coming to his
own in the financial world. His yield
per acre has doubled and trebled, and
the prices received for his products
have increased at the same ratio.
Dispatches of the past three days
from Spain give very little satisfactory
news of developments in the Moroccan
war and the Insurrection in Spain.
All dispatches with Spanish date lines
are being closely censored by the military
authorities and it is hardly to be
presumed that they describe conditions
as they really exist, but these together
with the cables sent out from
nearby news centres, enable the readers
of the newspapers to see that
Spanish affairs are still in a most deplorable
shape. The Moors are still
jiving the Spanish troops in Morocco
a great deal of trouble. On Tuesday
the tribesmen renewed their attacks
on the Spanish garrison at Malilla,
having been reinforced by 12,000 or
more tribesmen. To add to Spain's
troubles many of her own troops are
mutinying and deserting their colors.
Many of the royal troops have been
killed and they in turn have apparently
been unable to do much damage
to the Moors. The tribesmen have
destroyed much of the railroad and
other property under the control of
Spain. The Moors are concentrated
In the vicinity of Melilla by thousands,
while the Spaniards are cooped up,
unable to use even their limited numOers
to the best advantage. In the
home country, according to censored
Madrid dispatches, comparative order
has been restored throughout the empire
by the most repressive measures
by the army. Several thousand strikjrs
and revolutionists have been shot
to death and wounded, the number
killed at Barcelona is placed at 2,000
and the wounded at 2,500. The insurrection
at home is due to politics, in
an effort to establish a republican
form of government and also to an
jffort to place Don Jaime, the pretender
on the throne. Madrid authorities
are claiming that the government
>f Alphonso will be able to control
i.o situation and maintain its prestige.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? President Taft has promised to
rlsit Anderson from Augusta next
vinter. The exact date is to be fixed
ater.
? Congressman Bartlett of Georgia,
las secured the pasage of a bill allowng
the construction of a waterpower
lam across the Savannah river beween
Edgefield S. C., and Columbia
:ounty, Ga.
? The case against several Seventh
Day Adventists on charges of workng
on Sunday, was tried before Magstrate
Stradley and a jury at Green ille,
Tuesday morning and resulted
n an acquittal.
? Jasper Kelly, a young white man,
,vas arrested by an orderly at the
:amp grounds of the First regiment at
Greenville on Monday night, on the
;harge of "boot legging," that is,
selling whisky to the soldiers from his
jockets. He was turned over to the
;ity authorities.
? Columbia, August 4: A letter has
jeen received at Commissioner Watson's
office from Mr. James Wilson,
he secretary of agriculture, stating
hat the matter of appointing a coton
expert to go to Europe and other
'oreign countries for the purpose of
gathering data that would be of inerest
and benefit to the cotton prolucers,
had been referred to the dejartment
of commerce and labor,
rhis plan was put forward in a resoution
passed at a meeting of the State
Farmers' Union, held in Columbia
several weeks ago, and Commissioner
Watson presented the matter to the
^resident, which was then referred
;o the department of agriculture. The
iMntllntr c\t n not ton pvnprt to t hp. for
dgn markets is of special interest to
jvery cotton grower in the state, and
he decision of the department of
commerce and labor will be awaited
with interest.
? Washington Herald: The state
bank examiner of South Carolina reports
that in November, 1908, there
were 242 state, private, and savings
banks and thirty national banks in
that state, making a total of 372 with
an aggregate capital of $13,660,431.76;
surplus $6,758,151; deposits, $43,[(28,107.83,
and with total resources in
round figures of $75,000,000. The
Charleston News and Courier supplements
these- figures with an inquiry of
its own that indicates, from incomplete
returns, deposits by farmers
alone of nearly $10,000,000. This indicates
diversity of crops, prosperous
labor, business methods of farming,
and higher intelligence and better living
among the farmers and their families.
The returns as to these rural deposits
are most conservative, since at
this season many farmers withdraw
their accounts in order to meet the
current expenses of harvesting and
marketing their crops.
? *_?i eenviue, <\ugu?i i: a souu
phalanx of six hundred and more
sturdy South Carolinians, khaki clad,
marched down the main thoroughfare
of Greenville this afternoon headed by
Governor M. F. Ansel and his staff,
forming a military pageant at once inspiring
and interesting. Governor
Ansel and his staff were mounted,
closely followed by the First Regiment
band. Then came in phalanx
formation the twelve companies composing
the First Regiment. The
march was down Main street from the
Ottaray to the intersection of McBee
avenue, thence returning to Main and
Washington, where the regiment
wheeled into Washington. Thousands
of Greenville people lined the streets
to witness the review, which was with
the reception and dance at the Ottaray
tonight, a fitting climax to the ten
days encampment of the regiment in
the mountain city. Tomorrow morning
the soldiers will break camp and
return to their homes. The barbecue
given to the entire regiment at noon
at the fair grounds was served by the
ladies of the city, and was one of the
most enjoyable features of the encampment.
one UIU uveu a vatm u??v> w wv ^ w%.,
and It offers you a safe place for
keeping your funds.
Yorkvllle Hardware Co.?Calls your
attention to the fact that it carries
a full line of piping, engine flttingB,
belting, etc.
Herndon & Gordon?Tells about the
advantages of using Blackman's
medicated salt brick for the diseases
of your work animals and cattle.
Carroll Furniture Co.?Extends an invitation
to you to prove the quality
of Columbia Indestructible records
for all cylinder talking machines.
See fourth page.
J. C. Wilborn?Has two desirable
farms added to his list of real estate
offerings this week.
Mr. Roy Carroll, who lives on Yorkvlllo
No. 7, lost a valuable mule this
week with lockjaw.
Every citizen of York county who
is interested In better public schools
and longer sessions, should make it a
point to attend the educational rally
in the court house on August 11.
"Work together and build up,"
should be the motto or every community
in this locality. Any kind of a
vandal can tear down, but it takes
men to build up. Let the various communities
of York county get their
shoulders to the wheel in the common
interest and there is no limit to what
they can accomplish.
The Enquirer wants the news, and
it vyants all that is of interest or
value to any considerable number of
our peopL . There is not a paper in
the country that goes after the news
with more energy in proportion to its
means; but we cannot get all the news
without help from the public. Assistance
is always acceptable.
The few local flouring mills are busy
enough for the time being; but it
would be worth ever so much to the
country if our people would only produce
enough wheat to keep these mills
busy all the year round and warrant
the establishment of additional plants.
We can easily raise all the wheat we
need for home consumption and have
some to ship, if we only will.
Mr. W. D. Grist, editor of The Enquirer,
returned Tuesday afternoon
from his hurried, but somewhat extended
trip to New York and New
England, after an absence of ten days.
During his swing around the circle, he
found time to write several letters, descriptive
of scenes and impressions by
the way and these will be published in
consecutive issues of The Enquirer,
until the story of the trip has been
fully told.
At the request of the D. A. R. committee
in charge, Col. Asbury Coward
is to give his assistance in shaping the
coming celebration in connection with
the dedication of the King's Mountain
battle monument as it should be.
Col. Coward is exactly the man for
the place. He was chairman of the
executive committee In charge or the
Centennial celebration of 1880, and that
was one of the best managed affairs
of the kind that has ever been seen
In the south. But, of course, Col.
Coward can do very little without assistance,
and the people of the county
and state, especially the county, should
not wait for repeated calls to come to
his aid.
One of the beet things the farmers
of this county can do to promote their
own present and future comfort and
interest, is to move for the more general
extension of telephonic communication.
Every farmer in the county
should have a telephone In his home.
There are very few who can really afford
to be without one. As conditions
now stand, there are many neighborhoods
that are completely isolated?
homes that have no telephone within
from three to five miles. This should
not be. Ninety per cent of those who
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iiuve xiu puuaca want iiiciu, uut t ncj
are waiting until prices get cheaper.
That will not do. The way to get a
phone is to go after it and put it in.
Manager Babington of the Piedmont
Telephone company, says he is going
to give Yorkville one of the most complete
and thoroughly up to date telephone
exchanges to be found in this
country. Tiie work of improvement
in telephones is constant, and the Piedmont
Telephone company has been
getting lots of experience as it has
been going along. Yorkville is to have
absolutely the best there is, not only in
the matter of central office equipment;
but in the matter of posts, cables, etc.
"Some of you people," Mr. Babington
remarked, "are kind enough to say
that the telephone system is good
enough as it is: but if I do not show
you an improvement of something like
50 or 100 per cent, I will acknowledge
that I do not know as much about the
phone business as I think I do."
If the ceremonies in connection with
the dedication of the King's Mountain
battle monument are as largely attended
as they promise to be, the occasion
will be one long to be remembered,
and we desire to warn the good
people of York county now that if they
allow any bad impressions to creep in,
especially on account of bad roads,
they will regret it. The road to the
oaiuegrounu, esp<*;iuiiy uviu dcuiuiij
and beyond is in fearful condition. It
is positively dangerous. There will be
thousands of people probably, who
will want to go to the dedication from
Yorkville, Clover, and Hickory Grove.
Unless the roads are fairly good, they
will come in from the other side, and
what all the northwestern portion of
York will lose by the failure of some
of our distinguished visitors to see the
country will be difficult to estimate.
Those roads should be fixed up. We
feel quite sure that the township commissioners
will help, and If they are
not able to do enough, we think the
end In view is easily worth the serious
attention of the county board of commissioners.
The people living along
the various roads to the battleground
should not fail to look after this, their
opportunity.
SPECULATIVE MARKET.
Following are the developments In
the speculative market yesterday as
summarized in a dispatch of last
night from New York:
Rarly weakness in today's cotton
market was followed by a rally anu
the closing tone was firm with prices
net unchanged to 6 points higher. The
market opened steady at an advance
of 5 points on August, but generally
2 to 6 points lower and inside of the
first half hour sold off to a net loss of
12 to 14 points on the active months.
The decline reflected a renewal of
bear pressure and the execution of
stop-loss orders which had been received
by commission houses over
LOCAL AFFAIRS,
NEW ADVERTI8EMENT8.
C. E. Spencer, Attorney?Has money
to lend on Improved York county
farms, repayable in easy installments.
R. L. Wylle, for Committee?Invites
the public to a picnic at Clover on
Aii<riisf 18 under the ausoices of
Bethel and Clover conclaves of
Heptasophs.
J. C. Bell and Others, Trustees?Of
District No. 6, give notice of a special
school tax election to be held at
Guthrie8vUle school house on August
28th.
Loan and Savings Bank?Advises you
to put energy into your actions and
do something better than anybody
else you know, if you want to succeed.
It promises absolute safety for
funds deposited with it.
York Drug Store?Tells you to quit
shaking with chills. It has all the
popular remedies for this malady
and especially recommends its chill
pills.
T. W. Speck?Is showing the latest in
souvenir spoons?they are called
birth spoons?one for each month,
and each has the sign of the Zodiac
and flower for the month.
First National Bank?Recites the
story of the old maid who didn't
marry and gives her reasons. But
aia nn/u? o Konlr onH an Hn vnn
night, probably in response to requests
for additional margins. Once this
forced liquidation had been absorbed
the market steadied around 12.04 for
January?a shade above the low figures
of yesterday?and later improved
on foreign buying, local bull support
and covering. The detailed Texas i
i weather reports showed no precipitation
and continued high temperatures
with the forecast for generally clear
weather in that state tomorrow and
reports that continental buying orders
in the local market were for the purnn?A
of hedeina aealnst future spot
requirements, undoubtedly helped
the Improvement, while there may
have been some buying in the late
trading, on reports that the tariff bill
had passed the senate. At the high
point of the afternoon January sold
at 12.22 and the close was at 12.18
bid. Southern spot markets officially
reported early were unchanged to }c
lower. Trading was active here at
the start but became rather quiet later,
and notwithstanding the improvement
in prices sentiment remained
more or less mixed, with bears meeting
the bullish reports concerning
crop deterioration in Texas by claims
that it would be Impossible to absorb
the early new crop movement around
the present level.
Receipts at the ports today 672
bales against 2,510 last week and 3,418
last year. For the week 18,000
bales against 14,347 last week and 21,983
last year. Today's receipts at
New Orleans 89 bales against 151 last
year.
WITHIN THE TOWN.
? The Southern railway is having a
new water tank erected at its Yorkville
depot.
? The recently organized Commercial
club is now comfortably located In Its
rooms in the Wylle building.
? The rock crushing plant recently
purchased by the town council, is being
erected on the Parish hotel burnt
lot.
? Mr. Wm. Dickson has bought the
family grocery business of Mr. W. W.
Jenkins, and has moved into the Jenkins
store room on the corner of Congress
and Madison streets. The City
Meat Market is to occupy the room
between Carroll Bros*, and Herndon
& Gordon, Just vacated by Mr, Dickson.
THE EDUCATIONAL RALLY.
The educational rally announced by
Superintendent McMackiii to be held
in Yorkville on next Wednesday,
August 11, will easily be all that has
been promised and more,
i Quite a number of the most progressive
trustees have advised Superintendent
McMackin that they will
give the teachers that day, come themselves
and brinng others, who are interested
in educational development.
In addition to Hon. J. Wright
Nash of Spartanburg, and Rev. J. H.
Boldridge of Lancaster, selected by the
state board. Superintendent McMackin
has secured the promise of a few
remarks from that most able educator,
Col. Asbury Coward, and also from
Hon. John Porter Hollis, and Hon. J.
C. Wilborn, all of whom may be depended
upon to contribute something
well worth while.
In some respects, this will undoubtedly
be one of the most notable educational
rallies that has ever been
held in this county, and the people
generally should contribute their best
efforts to made it a big success, especially
in point of attendance.
FOR KING'S MOUNTAIN.
Subscription^ on account of the expense
of entertainment on the occasion
of the dedication of the battle monument
at King's Mountain on October
7, should be sent to Mrs. G. Hi O'Leary,
Yorkville, and she will cause them
to be promptly acknowledged in this
column.
The understanding Is, that if the aggregate
subscriptions are more than
sufficient for entertainment on a scale
creditable to the occasion, the surplus
will be made the nucleus of a fund
to be used in the erection of a suitable
pavilion for the accommodation of
future visitors to this historic battlefield.
Subscriptions to date are as follows:
Previously acknowledged $139 50
Additional subscriptions:
Clarence Bratton, Palestine
Texas 10 00
Mrs. O. E. Wilklns 2 00
Mrs. R. C. Alleln 1 00
'J. A. Latta 5 00
Dr. R. A. Bratton 5 00
Total $162 50
This is only a small fraction of what
is absolutely necessary for entertalntainment,
and it is hoped that the people
will begin to wake themselves up
at once.
YORK COUNTY MUTUAL8.
The annual meetings of the York
County Insurance companies?the Mu
tual Live Stock Insurance association,
the Farmers' Mutual Life Insurance
company and the Farmers' Mutual
Fire Insurance company, were held in
Yorkville last Tuesday.
The object of the meetings wag to
hear the reports of Agent Boney and
elect officers for the ensuing year.
In the case of the Farmers' Mutua
Fire Insurance company, the sgent's
report showed $786,000 of insurance in
force on 927 policies, $568.72 in Are
losses during the yea, and a cash balance
of $3,293.32 on hand. Mr. J. L.
Rainey was re-elected president, Mr.
D. E. Boney wag elected agent and
treasurer and directors were elected as
follows: J. W. Jackson, Bethel; J.
Frank Ashe, Bethesda; W. S. Wilkerson,
Broad River; J. P. Blair, Bullock's
Creek; D. P. Less lie, Catawba; A. J. ,
McGlll, Cherokee; J. Q. Howe, Ebenezer;
J. L. Kimbrel, Fort Mill; J. A.
C. Love, King's Mountain; L. R. Williams,
Yorkville.
The report of the Farmers' Mutual
- - * ?1 _
i^lie lnsuiiiiiue cuiuptuiy ouuncu f
006,000 Insurance In force on 1,006 policies,
all claims paid to date and bal
ance of $3,922.61 on hand on July 31.
Mr. W. S. Wilkerson was re-elected <
president; Mr. J. Frank Ashe, vice
president; Mr. D. E. Boney, secretary (
and treasurer and manager, and dlrec- i
tors as follows: W. S. Wilkerson, J.
Frank Ashe, W. S. Lesslle, W. H.
Herndon, J. E. Bass, J. K. Allison, W.
D. L<esslie, W. W. Lewis, D. E. Boney.
The report of the Farmers' Mutual
Live Stock Insurance association,
showed $331,350 of Insurance in force
on 724 policies, and a cash balance of
$489.98 on hand. Because of the absence
of a quorum, there was no reelection
of officers, and the incumbent
officers hold over as follows: J. Frank i
Ashe, president; D. P. Lesslle, vice
president; D. E. Boney, secretary and
treasurer, and the following directors:
R. L. Campbell, Bethel; J. Frank Ashe;
Bethesda; J. W. Qulnn, Broad River;
T P Rlalr Riillork's Creek: D. P. i
Lesslle, Catawba; T. A. Barron, Ebenezer;
B. M. Farla, Fort Mill; W. M.
Faulkner, King's Mountain; J. M.
Brlce, York.
BASEBALL NOTES.
The game for this afternoon will be
called at 5 o'clock.
Most of the stores closed yesterday
at 5 o'clock for the ball game.
Yes, everybody knew that If It was
possible for Yorkvllle to have a good
ball team, Mr. J. H, Wltherspoon
would find the boys that would make ;
the team. He seems to have succeeded
very well. Certainly better than
anybody else has up to this season.
Oh, yes. It was a good game all
right; decidedly the best seen in Yorkville
for a number of years past, and
there was a good crowd of baseball |
lovers out to see It. There were prob
ably as many as 400 people there; but
this estimate is not made up by counting
the quarters that were given to the
collectors who saw to it, that all had a
chance to help pay the expenses.
Counting the lovers of the game at a
quarter a piece there were only 140
who saw the performance. Good ball?
amateur or professional?costs money,
and good ball Is worth the price. If
you want to contribute to the expense
fund you can do so at the ball
grounds or leave your cash at one of
the drug stores.
Forest City, 3; Yorkvllle, 1. That
tells the story of the first game between
these two teams played yesterday
afternoon on the local grounds.
The visitors played good ball and are '
on to all the frills that are necessary to
win. They know how to use the stick
when it is their turn at the plate: they
know how to run the bases and they <
!uiow how to make the circuit just of- <
ten enough to keep up the Interest?at
least they did yesterday. But the
Yorkville boys know a few things about
the game, and while the game was
young, impressed the visitors with tne
fact that to win they must work; that
information was brought out in the first
session. Yorkville was first at bat and
as all the Innings were much alike, a
description of the first chapter will do
for all. Llndley swatted the ball for
a safe hit and reached the first sack;
Davidson made a sacrifice hit to the
pitcher and was thrown out at first,
advancing Lindley to second; Abell
pushed a fly out to second base and
the flagman on the sack gathered it
in, doubling on Lindley, sending Yorkville
to the field to pick daisies. The
visitors come on deck with an "Isn't it
easy" look, but Williams' hit was gathered
in and beat him out at first;
Blanton jolted the ball and stopped at
first; McDaniel's fly dropped into
Faris' buckets at second, and he doubled
the play, flagging Blanton down
as he was loping down the avenue for
the second station, retiring the visitors
for the first chapter. The line up was
as follows:
Yorkville. Forest City.
Faris 2b Williams.
Abell rf..., Blanton.
Wltherspoon ....lb McDanlel.
Betts c Harris.
Berry "... If Yarborough.
Llndley ss Billings.
Washington ...cf Harrill.
Davidson 3b Utley.
Smith, H p Rhlnehart.
The score by Innings was as follows:
H R E.
Yorkvllle .. ..000 100 000 9 1 5
Forest City ...000 110 lOx 7 3 4
Batteries?Rhlnehart, Williams and
Harris; Smith, H., Abell and Betts.
Umpires?Moore and Willis.
Scorer?Gist Finley.
AS MR. FINLEY SEES IT.
Congressman Finley Is quite emphatic
In his views on the Payne-Aldrlch
tariff bill, which he considers a most
unjust and iniquitous measure. After
the passage of the bill through
the house last week, he delivered
himseli about it as follows:
"The i'ayne-Aldrlch bill, which has
been under consideration by congress
since the 15th of March, is beyond
question, a more objectionable measure
than any tariff law ever enacted
In this country. The reductions
amount to little or nothing from a
material standpoint Free hides, free
oil and a small temporary reduction on
lumber and on a few items In the Iron
and steel schedule are some of the
largest reductions made. None of
these will affect the price of manufactured
articles to any considerable extent
to the consumers.
"It Is well known that the Iron and
steel manufacturers of the United
States would have a monopoly, practically
speaking, without any tariff.
?T? tViA Inr^or Itamo n f Irnn ctool
XII 111C lai 5^1 IbOltlO VTJL it vii( awwi)
sugar and woolen goods the consumer
will receive absolutely no relief. The
same Is true of the bill In all of Its
provisions. The consumer will be
called upon to pay more for the necessaries
of life than at present.
"The trusts and monopolies have a
bill to suit them. It Is not expected
or Intended that the Payne-Aldrlch
bill will raise sufficient revenue to defray
the expenses of the government.
This Is necessarily true because the
rate of taxation is so high on imports
as to be prohibitive to a large extent.
A Republican congress having this in
mind has provided in the bill for an
unlimited issue of bonds not to exceed
two hundred million dollars at any
time, but the authority to issue is continuous,
the money to be used to meet
the expenses of the government. The
total amount of bonds that may be issued
under Section 40 of the bill is unlimited,
so that the bill might be called
a law to enable trusts and monopolies
to Increase their profits at the expense
of the consumers and to provide
for a bond issue in order to raise
money to defray the expenses of the
government.
"It Is impossible for the Republican
party to revise the tariff for the reason
that the special interests control the
party. After making a promise of a
tariff revision to the people and carrying
the election for president In 1908
on this issue, and having an overwhelming
majority in the house and
senate, the Republicans have labored
for four and one-half months to revise
the tariff and the result is a downright
failure. I am sure that the
American people will resent this bun
co game put up Dy me nepuuuuma
and repudiate the party at the first
opportunity. The masses of the
American people are in favor of an
honest revision of the tariff, and one
that will be fair to the consumer."
ABOUT PEOPLE.
Miss Mabel Berry is visiting friends
at Shelby, N. C.
Misses Marilla and Sophia Ewar.
are visiting friends at Smyrna.
Mrs. O. E. Wiikins and daughter,
Miss Sarah, left this morning for Atlanta,
Ga.
Mr. James A. Sherer of Yorkville,
left Tuesday night for Norfolk, Va.,
for a few days.
Mrs. T. E. McMackln and two children,
are visiting relatives and friends
near Bethany.
Miss Maggie Byers of Sharon, is
spending a few days in Yorkville with
Miss Lilla Herndon.
Miss Annie Stevens has returned to
Yorkville after spending several
weeks in Monroe, N. C.
Misses Ola Allison and Elizabeth
Finley of Yorkville are visiting Miss
Anna Roddey Miller in Rock Hill.
Mr. and Mrs. John M. Hubbard of
Huntersville, N. C., spent several days
this week with Mrs. A. J. Dunlap.
Mrs. H. E. McConnell of Chester, is
visiting relatives and friends in Yorkville,
the guest of Mrs. John S. Jones.
Miss Wilmoth Jackson, who has
been teaching school at Plum Branch,
In spending a month at her home at
Newport.
Miss Mary Eunice Grist leaves this
afternoon on a short visit to the family
of her uncle, Mr. D. W. Hicks, at
Raffney.
Misses Alee Starr, Annie Stevens
and Eliza Neville leave this evening
to visit Miss Nancy Witherspoon in
Guthriesville.
Mr. J. T. Alexander of Nichols, S. C.,
No. 2, is visiting: at the home of nis
brother, Mr. W. H. Alexander, on
Yorkville No. 4.
Misses Bthel and Elise Latimer, of
Yorkville, ate spending this week
with their uncle, Mr. R. G. Ratchford
on Yorkville No. 3.
Miss Nancy Witherspoon of Guthriesvllle,
who has been the guest of
Miss Alee Starr this week, returns
home this afternoon.
Mrs. Thos W. Speck and children,
Mary and Tom, ure spending several
weeks in Norfolk, Va., with the family
of Mr. R. S. Withers.
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Witherspoon of
Westminster, are In Yorkville on a
visit to Dr. and Mrs. J. H. Witherspoon
and other relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Raines of Columbia,
are spending a while with Mrs.
Raines's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John
C. Dickson of Yorkville No. 1.
Mr. Frank Spigner of Columbia,
who has been the guest of Mr. Edward
Finley for the past three weeks,
returned to his home on Monday.
"Messrs. E. Manning Stanton, assist
ant cashier of the First .National
bank, and Mr. Frank C. Riddle left
Wednesday for a visit to New York
and other points north.
Miss Clam Alexander of Yorkville
No. 4, who returned home from the
Rock Hill hospital last Wednesday, Is
getting along nicely, and expects to be
nut In a few days.
Miss Com Clark, came down from
Gastonia last Friday to attend the funeral
of Mrs. M. J, Clark and remained
over until Wednesday, when she returned
to Gastonia. J
Prof. James "3. Kennedy left last
night for Washington, D. C., where he
...in unonil oovpral wppks in the con-1
gresslonal library, going to his work
at Wells college, Aurora, N. Y., about
September 15th.
Mr. W. Lee Gettys of Bethany, returned
home Wednesday after a two
weeks' visit to his grandparents. Mr.
and Mrs. H. H. Sherer of Sharon No.
1. He was accompanied by his grandmother,
Mrs. H. Hi Sherer, Mr. Bruce
Sherer and his aunt, Mrs. L. T. Dowdle
and little son. Hugh John of
Hickory Grove No. 1.
Gastonia Gazette: Editor W. D.
I?rist of The Yorkville Enquirer arrived
in Gastonia on No. 37 this after
noon, en route home from a jaunt c
through New England. He went c
from Charleston to New York by v
steamer and visited many points of in- q
terest in Vermont, Connecticut, Mas- li
sachusetts and other New England e<
states. He talks most Interestingly of
the places and people he saw and his P
letters to The Enquirer have been L
read with intense interest by that pa- tl
per's large family of admiring friends, v
His views of the New Englanders, b
their customs and manners, which we t<
hope to read In an early Issue of The tl
Enquirer, will undoubtedly be both ti
Instructive and entertaining. His h
many friends In Gastonia will be ex- r?
ceedlngly glad to know that his little t<
daughter, Edith, who had a narrow si
escape in a runaway accident last Sat- g
urday at Yorkville, was not seriously tl
Injured. S
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cOCAL LACONIC3. G
Until January 1, 1910. ?
We will send The Yorkville Enquirer ?
from this date till January 1, 1910 for
80 cents. ?
Calls For Rev. 8. R. Hop?, J<
At recent meetings of the congrega- tlons
of Richburg, Fort Lawn and Ce- Y
dar Shoals Presbyterian churches, it
was decided to call the Rev. S. R. Hope *
to the pastorate of these churches. "
Gaatonia Wins. tl
The third election on the question of n
moving the Gaston county court house d
from Dallas to Gastonia was held yes- k
terday with the result that Gastonia tl
wins, 2,965 to 2,326, a majority of 629 y
votes. There was intense interest in b
the election; but no disorder. The vote h
was the largest ever polled in Gaston "V
county. Dallas offered <21,000 for the d
court house, but Gastonia is to pay r
$43,000. There is great rejoicing in J'
Gastonia. k
The County Commissioners.
The only development of general interest
recorded in the minutes of the
August meeting of the county board
of commissioners last Wednesday, relates
to the consideration of a petition
asking the sanction of the board for 8
the erection of a bridge over Taylor's
creek near the road leading from Rock
Hill to Oakland church in Chester
county. The petitioners agree to erect
concrete piers free of cost to the county
under the supervision of the county
uuu.ru, ciiiu iu upexi up rigitia ui wuy
to the approaches. The supervisor
was instructed to obtain the necessary
rights of way, provided he can do c
so with satisfaction to the county, in 8
which event the petition will be grant- J*
ed. J
li
Application for Remittitur. A
Columbia special to News and Cou- b
rler, Thursday: The Catawba Power b
company has died an application for b
a stay of remittitur in the case of W. e
W. Auten against that company. Mr. r
Auten brought suit against the power
company on account of water being o
backed on his land. When the case 3
was first tried the Jury returned a ver- a
diet of $2,650 for the plaintiff. An b
order was granted by the court grant- 0
ing a new trial unless the plaintiff I
should within a given time reduce b
the verdict to $2,000. The verdict b
was reduced accordingly. The defen- 3
dant next appealed to the supreme 1
court and the decision of the lower "
court was affirmed. The company to- ?
day filed an application for a stay of c
remittitur in the case. fi
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MERE-MENTION. t
a
The monoplane in which M. Bleriot j
crossed the English channel, has been 8
purchased by a Paris newspaper, and j
will be presented to the government i
museum.... It is reported from Paris u
that the French government will call e
an international conference to discuss f
the question of aviation as applied to 0
warfare Five cadets at the mil- c
itary academy at West Point, are to be v
expelled as the result of an investiga- 8
tion into the hazing of Cadet Sutton, a
who was brutally beaten on the night a
of July 20. Sutton has been in the f
hospital since the hazing The a
British steamship Waratah, from
Sydney, Australia, to London, with 3,- o
000 passengers aboard, is reported as p
being lost... .Louis Grant, an Ameri- i,
can, is under arrest at Manila, cnarg- js
ed with an attempt to smuggle 460 a
poundr of opium and seventy-two w
ounces of cocaine into that port. Since p
the importation of opium has been ti
prohibited in the Philippines, the w
price has jumped to 335 a can v
The legislature of Georgia has passed a
and Governor Brown has signed, a law p
forbidding the use of "trading stamps" w
in that state. Trading stamps are a
used as trade inducers... .Mrs. Tony ti
Panilla shot her husband to death w
and stabbed Mrs. Peter Pizanni to ?
death with a butcher knife at Canton, a
O., Sunday. The Panilla woman had tl
followed her husband and the Pizan- p
nl woman from Deans, N. J., and, in a
a jealous rage killed them both o
Edward O'Reilly, a cowboy, left San tl
Antonio, Tex., on Sunday for Wash- p
ington, D. C., on horseback, carrying g
an invitation to the president to visit f
Texas. The distance is 2,200 miles p
and the rider expects to average thir- ft
ty-flve miles a day During the
month of June there were 1,176 per- c
sons drowned in the United States, c
and 106 in Canada, according to a re- tl
port of the United States life saving c
bureau, just issued The legisla- ?
ture of Georgia has killed a bill pro- tl
viding for a tax on incomes in that a
state Throughout the district recently
visited by earthquakes in Mex- ii
Ico, thousands of persons are suffer- v
ing from hunger and exposure tl
The mosquitoes have been so bad in j<
the vicinity of Lake Charles, La., the p
past week, that many head of cattle ci
have been killed by the insects........ n
Child No. 22 was born to Mrs. Chas. cl
Dickey at Canaan, Me., Monday. The tl
couple has been married seventeen g
years and all the twenty-twd children tl
are living Two children, boy and p
girl of a wealthy Italian of St. Louis, n
Mo., were kidnapped Monday and the li
kidnappers are demanding $25,000
ransom The Chicago board of d
review has increased the $10,000,000 tl
r?rrvr\n*?tv ooaooamont Offfllnkt H
the executors of the Marshall Field es- ft
tate to $12,500,000. This is the largest g
personal property assessment In the t<
country and the tax will exceed $200,- ei
000 The legislature of Alabama h
has passed a bill agreeing to an in- n
come tax amendment to the constitution
of the United States Two tl
jurors have been secured for the sec- b
ond trial of Patrick Calhoun at San al
Francisco. The second trial is now in oi
its third week The new one cent
piece is now being circulated from the lc
Philadelphia mint. The new design ft
bears a bust of Abraham Lincoln in- h
stead of the bust of an Indian. Sev- ti
eral million of the new cent pieces
have been turned out, but the demand
exceeds the supply... .George Johnson,
white, was lynched near Platte h
City, Mo., early Monday morning, for
a murder committed June 20 i
President Diaz of Mexico, has sub- le
scribed $1,000 to a fund for the relief
of widows and orphans of Spanish a'
soldiers killed in Morocco Two
fire companies and a hose cart were "
called out in Atlanta, Ga., Tuesday, to
extinguish a fire which destroyed the
peach basket hat of a young woman ST
in the union station. That hat was "
ignited by coming in contact with a
cigar lighter Three men were J*
drowned in the Pee Dee river near "
Wadesboro, N. C., Tuesday. One of
the drowned men was the ferrymen and
the others were trying to rescue two pl
other men from the water and were a'
ftmu/nprl hv the cRDslzine of their .
boat. ... .G. A. Kimball, defaulting jj;
cashier of the Citizens' bank at South- 111
era Pines, N. C., has returned to that c<
place and confessed to the embezzle- c<
ment of the bank's funds amounting e:
to more than 516,000. He was released
on a $3,000 bond The s(
Great Northern railroad has inform- ^
ed Governor Sanders of Louisiana, w
that it will assist the good roads' ,
movement In that state by hauling all ?
road materials free of charge
In a state election held in Texas on
Tuesday, the people voted to adopt a J*
constitutional amendment validating ?53,000,000
of school district bonds p
which the courts had held to be llle- ?
gal A great irrigation reservoir
in Weld county, Colorado, used
for irrigating 4 0,000 acres of land,
broke Monday and cut a swath half a hi
mile wide through the richest farm- tr
ing lands in that section. The damage si
is more than 5500,000 Fifteen ai
of the seventy-three lumber concerns Hi
of Mississippi, indicted by the state on ol
charges of violating the anti-trust 01
laws of the commonwealth, have com- m
promised with the state by agreeing to M
pay penalties of 5800 each. The oth- m
er fifty-eight concerns will be prose- tr
uted.... Rev. Frank B. English, reently
elected president of Rust Unier8lty,
Holly Springs, Miss., was
uletly asked to leave town after showlg
undue familiarity with ..he color- ^
d population of that place. He left. m
The three-cent street car fare
roposltion advocated by Mayor Tom
>. Johnson, was defeated in an eleclon
at Cleveland, O., Tuesday by a
ote of 34,926 to 30,944 A Plltsurg,
Pa., bridge painter fell sixty feet
> the ground on Tuesday, turning ' ?
hree somersaults and lighting on his ^
Bet. He brushed his clothes, walked
ome and said he would take a short
est A bulldog so badly bit and
sre a New York woman Tuesday that
he will die from the wounds A
reat labor war, including not less
tian 100,000 men, is on throughout
weden, and the army has been moilized
to assist in keeping the peace.
Turkey Is planning a war with
Ireece for the possession of the island
f Crete.... The government of Perla,
it is reported, has offered the deosed
shah, Mohammed All, a pension
f 975,000 a year if he will divulge
he hiding place of a vast store of
BWAla helonainar to the government ^
More than 100 people saw a
oung man commit suicide on the
treets of Albany, Ga., Wednesday. A
riend of the suicide was shot in the
and in an attempt to secure the plsd1
A public execution by gulloIning,
was the scene that a great
10b of Parisians witnessed Wednes- ^
ay afternoon. The victim of the
nlfe murdered his mother and was
he first public execution in fifteen
ears... .Congressman Heflln of Alaama
had a fight with an automobtlit
on the streets of Washington on
Wednesday afternoon. But little
amage was done After delibatlng
for twenty-seven hours, the
ury in the case of the state of Aransas
against Earl Diel, white,
harged with rape, at Little Rock,
rought in a verdict of not guilty.
ROCK HILL HAPPENING8.
ad Oaath of Mr. 8. C. Campbell?
Questions About the Water 8upply
and the 8e'werage Bonds?Mr. Cherry
Returns From Alabama and Georgia
Trip?Twelve Cents For Fall
Cotton.
AoiTMoondmca of tho Yorkvllle knottier.
Rock Hill, August 6.?Mr. 8. C. ^
Campbell, one of the proprietors and
eneral manager of the Rock Hill Ice
ompany, died Wednesday morning at
.45 o'clock, at the home of his brothern-law,
Mr. D. J. McDonald on East
lain street, of typhoid fever. He had .
een sick about four weeks. There
ad been a decided improvement in T*
lis condition for the past week, howver,
and he was thought to be on the 1
oad to recovery, until some time
Tuesday, when he began to have hemrrhages,
which soon caused his death,
dr. Campbell was about 29 years of
ge. He was born near Pittsburg, Pa.,
ut moved to Pawnee City, Neb., when
luite a young boy. He came to Rock
fill nearly four years ago, and estab
Ished the Rock Hill Ice company, his
rother-in-lrw, Mr. McDonald, and a
dr. Orton being associated with him.
?he deceased was a young man of
nany fine and admirable traits of
haracter and his untimely death has
aused much genuine sorrow and re- A
ret in Rock Hill, where he has many
1. A fuh.M
V twill 11 ICUUO. A TCI J oau ftvsbvwtv.
ibout Mr. Campbell'* death Is the fact
hat he was to have been married In
.bout two month* to Miss Mamie
ohnston, daughter of Mr. & H. Jo in ton,
superintendent of the Highland
'ark Mill. Besides a sister, Mrs. Mc)onald
of this city, the deceased is
urvived by an aged father and mothr,
residing in Pawnee City, Neb. The
ormer had been notified by telegraph
>f the turn for the worse in his son'*
ondltlon, and was on his way here,
Then he received a second message
aylng that his son was, dead. Mr. V
nd Mrs. McDonald left Wednesday
fternoon at & o'clock with the body
or Pawnee City. They expected to
.rrive at that place some time Friday..
Mr. R. T. Fewell, resident manager
f the Water, Light and Power com- ^
any of this city, is in receipt of a j
itter from Pennlman & Brown, chemits
of Baltimore, who about a month
go, made an analysis of a sample ofj
rater from well No. 3, which the comany
recently drilled near the cemeery
and pronounced it unfit for use,
withdrawing their condemnation of the
rater and pronouncing it pure after
nalyzing a second sample sent them. A
t is now believed that the first sample
was not properly taken and handled,
nd became contaminated after It was
aken from the well. At any rate, the
rater is now pronounced pure by these
taltimore chemists, and also by the
tate chemists of Maryland and of
his state, and one or two In Phlladelhla.
There has been some prejudice
gainst this well all along, on account
f its being so near the cemetery, but
he company contends that there is no
os8lble chance for surface water to
et into the well, nor of contamination
rom any source, as double piping was
ut in tne wen wnn tne space oeinwn,
lied In with cement. The condemnlg
of this water by the Baltimore
hemlsts a few . weeks ago, naturally
aused considerable uneasiness among
he people and by order of the city
ouncil, the supply of water from this
rell was immediately cut off, and both
he standpipe and reservoir drained,
nd all the mains flushed.
As was stated in this correspondence
1 the last lBsue of The Enquirer, the
alidlty of the bond issue voted for in
his city last February by a large mairity
for sewerage and waterwork
lants, will be tested In the supreme
curt. Mr. W. B. Wilson, city attor- ^
ey, stated at a meeting of the counI!
Tuesday night, that he considered
ie Issue illegal but that he could not
Ive a positive answer until he Baw
le decision on the Gaffney bond Issue.
[e Siowever, recommended that the
ia'i.e^ be tested In the supreme court
i ortfer to get a definite decision,
fcii*. W. J. Cherry returned Wednesay
afternoon from a ten days' trip
ir >ugh the state of Georgia and a por/>.,
of Alabama. He reports that the
uk and melon crops in Georgia are
ood, but corn and cotton are no bet- %
ir than In this state. Crops are much
arlier down there than here. Fodder
a3 been pulled and cotton picking is
ow In progress.
President D. B. Johnson of Winlrop,
and Hon. J. Porter Hollls, have
een Invited to speak at an educatton1
i ally to be held at Heath Springs,
n August 10.
Mr. John T. Roddey bought several
?ts of cotton the first of the week for
ill delivery at 12 cents. This Is the
Ighest price that has been paid on
lis market for future deliveries.
Compulsory Education In Georgia.?
:ere are the requirements of the comulsory
education bill now before the
gislature:
It applies to children between the
ges of 6 to 18.
It requires only 60 school days of atrndance
each year.
It does not affect children who have ^
ad schooling up to the fourth grade W
ram mar school. And it enforces only
lat much schooling on those affected.
It does not require attendance by
lose who live more than three miles
om the nearest school house.
It takes cognizance of the fact that
lere will be some children who are
hysically or mentally incapable of
ttending school. It takes cognizance
t the fact that there will be some chil- ?
ren whose attendance would work a
ardship on parent or child. All such
ises are to be considered by the
>unty board, which is authorized to
icuse from attendance.
It provides for the building of no
:hool houses?it does not create nero
schools?it will not load the state 4
1th extra expense.
In short, the bill is drawn with all
sference to existing conditions In the
ate?and it alms only to enforce the
Iving of a chance In life to those
hite children who are being blighted
V the ignorance and laziness of their
irents.
Could anything be more humane??
tlanta Georgian
? Anderson Daily Mall: Mr. Caloun
Harris, secretary and assistant ?
easurer of the Orr cotton mills, is
tort in his accounts. The exact
mount is not known yet, but it is beeved
that it will be many thousands
' Hnllarc nprhnnn ns much SS 150.
)0. Mr. Harris was arrested this
lornlng on a warrant sworn out by
[r. J. D. Hammet, president of the
till charging him with breach of
ust.