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Scraps and 4?acts. ? Secretary of Agriculture Wilson was a witness before the congressional committee Investigating the WileyMcCabe imbroglio yesterday, and he placed the responsibility for the creation of the Remsen board on Roosevelt. "A number of fruit growers came to me," said Mr. Wilson, "protesting against the ruling of my department prescribing the amount of sulphur in preserved fruits. They said a thirteen million dollar industry was being ruined by that ruling. I told them to go ahead and preserve fruit as before and I would see that nothing was done until the question was referred to leading chemists. I referred the matter to Mr. Roosevelt, who gave me a list of the board he wished appointed to pass on the matter. I made the appointments. This is the board Dr. Wiley claims hampered him in the enforcement of the pure food laws. ? Havana, August 20: Jose. Maria Villa Verde, managing editor of the newspaper Cuba, and his nephew, Manuel Villa Verde, an editorial writer on Cuba, were seized today at the residence of the former, placed on board a steamer and deported to Spain. The Cuba has been continuously assailing the government of President Gomez, and today, acting under a presidential decree, a squad of police visited the residence of Senor Villa Verde and demanded admission. This being refused, the police battered down the doors, seized the two Villa Verdes and without giving time to make any preparations, rushed both on board the steamship Alfonso XII, which sailed this evening for Spanish ports. A presidential decree Issued this evening concerning the deportation denounces the Villa Verdes, who are Spaniards, as pernicious foreigners actively hostile to the Cuban government, and hence subject to deportation. The action of President Gomez is unprece dented. Tne ctman consmuuuu uuw ( not invest In the president the authority to order any person deported. The elder Villa Verde was one of the most ] prominent Spaniards in Cuba. For /nany years he was editor of El Diarlo de La Marina. ? Plans for the president's coming 1 trip through the west and to the Pa- j ciflc practically were completed last . Sunday. The Journey will be almost as extensive as that taken by the pres- ' ident on his famous "swing around I the circle" in 1909. when he traveled ] more than 13,000 miles and visited 33 states. He will break ground for the Panama canal exposition at San Francisco, make several score of addresses , and attempt to scale the 14,000 feet of Mt. Rainer's slope. According to 1 the present arrangement the president 1 will be gone six weeks. In that time , it is expected that he will make close to two hundred speeches, from plat- ' forms, from the rear end of his pri- < vate car and at other places not on | the regular schedule. Republican lead- j ers look upon the trip as the most important politically that the president has mapped out since he entered the White House. He will go through all the states in the west in which ' they recognize the domination of the I progressive Republicans who are | counted on to oppose his renomina- . tion next year. With adjournment practically assured for this week the ' president feels that he can get three weeks rest at Beverly and be in trim ^ shape then to stand the admittedly hard grind of forty days on a private ( car. The president probably will < leave Beverly Sept. 17, returning east , about Nov. 1. He will go west through Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado and Nevada to the coast. ? Washington, August 18: Renew- ( ed protests against the issuing of preliminary cotton estimates by the agri- ' cultural department were made in the ' senate today by Senator Smith, of i South Carolina. He presented tele- j grams from agricultural commissioners of eight cotton growing states de- 1 claring the government estimate of a i record breaking crop of cotton was i not borne out. Senator Smith intro- ? duced a new resolution calling upon the secretary of agriculture to make 1 4an immediate Investigation and re- 1 port conditions of the cotton crop. , Senator Smith declared that the cotton market dropped }20 a bale on the strength of the government's report ! of a -3,000,000 bale Increase in this year's crop. "This estimate was made June 28," he declared, "before part of the crop was out of the ground." He I said he protested to Secretary Wilson, ; and was Informed that the secretary did not know the preliminary report had been issued, and that it wouia noi ' occur again. But on August 2, Sena- < tor Smith added, another glowing ] preliminary report was issued. "I should hate to draw in the senate of 1 the United States," Senator Smith f added, "the conclusion that I feel i might be drawn from this remarkable t report of the agricultural department. Either the commissioners of all the ! cotton states, men right on the i ground, familiar with conditions, are , utterly mistaken, or else the agricultural department is wrong in its de- ! ductions that there will be a record i crop this year." j ? There are no Indications of ex- < treme changes in temperature this week. A disturbance which is now over the northwest will probably move eastward accompanied by showers. < The weather bureau in its weekly weather bulletin, issued Sunday night, says: "Fair weather with moderate ' temperature will continue Monday ! and Tuesday in the lower lake region, j v%?. Atlontln Qtntpc and \p\V IIIC w..uv..? , England. A disturbance now over the northwest will move eastward, i preceded and attended by showers i and rising temperatures that will cov- | er the northwest and the central plain states Monday and Tuesday, with showers continuing Tuesday in the ] latter district; the Missouri and upper ( Mississippi valleys and the upper lake . region by Tuesday, reaching the middle Atlantic states and New England Wednesday and Thursday. The disturbance will be followed by a high , area now on the north Pacific coast, bringing with it falling temperatures that will reach the north-western states Monday and Monday night, the great central valleys and the upper lake region Tuesday or Wednesday and the eastern portion of the country Thursday and Friday. "Generally fair weather will prevail after Wednesday in the central west, and after 1 Tuesday in the extreme west, except in the central and southern Rocky Mountain region where local showers will continue while In the west Gulf states the weather will be generally 1 fair. Another low area will probably appear in the British northwest toward the end of the week attended by rising temperatures." ? Chesterfield, Va., August 21: Quick action marked the opening today of the trial of Henry Clay Beattie. Jr., on the charge of murdering his wife while with her on a motor ride one month ago. Twelve jurors were selected before court adjourned, but four of these will be challenged by the defense and four others will be chosen from a special venire 01 thirty men summoned to appear in court Wednesday, to which the court adjourned. Beattie when arraigned pleaded not guilty. The jurors, all but two of them, are farmers from the county. The two exceptions are a quarryman and a contractor. The Jurors selected in the order named are as follows: N. W. Farley, quarryman, 36 years old; R. H. Covington. 33 years old; John D. Dance. 4 8 years old; E. L. Wilson, 48 years old: A. L. Fetrolf, contractor, 34 years old; Irving M. Bass, Jr., 30 years old: 1 V. W. Condre, 53 years old; W. Wr. Lundy. 59 years old: M. C. Robin- , son, 44 years old. Beattie pleaded not guilty in a clear, even voice. All motions of the defense for postponement were denied, and motions to j quash the indictment were overruled, so that when the morning session was adjourned the preliminaries had been disposed of and seven of the prospective jurors were in the box. The afternoon session moved more slowly. A second venire of twenty men was exhausted after tedious 1 questioning, but five more jurors, sub- 1 ject to the four peremptory challenges of the defense, were added to the seven selected previously. Judge Walton adjourned court, giving the sheriff until Wednesday to summon the additional venire. There were perhaps 1,000 persons around the old court house during the day's pro- 1 ceedlngs, but few of them were from ( Richmond. The majority came from , Chesterfield county, and perhaps 200 ?all men?were able to crowd into the court room. Beulah Binford, the 17-year-old "girl In the case." did not appear at the court room. She Is held in jail in Richmond as a material witness, but it was not deemed necessary to bring her here today. Paul Beattie, the prisoner's cousin, one of the prosecution's principal witnesses, was also left behind. Mrs. Claudie Powell, a married sister of Beulah Binford, was on the grounds and attracted much attention. She said she came because she was interested. The prisoner showed little or no nervousness when the indictment was read. At times young Beattie whispered suggestions to his lawyers. H. M. Smith, Jr., and Hill Carter, and frequently he scanned with interest the newspaper "extras" giving the details of the proceedings. SherifT Gill took Beattie back to the jail at Richmond tonight. $hr \lorkiillf (Enquirer. Entered at the Postofflce In Yorkvllle as Mall Matter of the Second Class. YORKVILLE. S. C.? TUESDAY, AUGUST 22,1911. The people who think that Just anybody can beat Blease are Just as fool- | Ish as those who think that nobody I can.?Greenville Piedmont. If that is not a bullseye, the prize will I belong1 to a better marksman. . j The usual method of fighting Senator El D. Smith In his effort to get a square deal for the farmers, is to try to laugh him down with ridicule. That has worked to a greater or less extent; but it looks now as if the conspirators have overreached themselves. The setting aside of the verdict of a |ury for an error of law merely means mother attempt to get at the truth; but the setting aside of a duly confirmed verdict of a jury and the sentence of the court by means of a parJon seriously raises the question as to whether the people are really enjoying self-government. Old man Wilson, who runs the agrimltural department, has not been taking care of Dr. Wiley as he should; but it looks like Dr. Wiley is going to be taken care of by the general public that he has been serving so faithfully. The main objection there has been to Dr. Wiley has come from folks who jbject because of the doctor's interference with their business of poisoning people for profit. We do not think there is the slightest doubt of the fact that what the lublic weigher people asked the York lelegation for was a bill that would arovlde for the weighing of all cotton nfflo i Q1 tl'olcrhor Jy unr uiontici voivu viiiviwi .. v.0..v. [f the York delegation tried to pass such an act and passed something else nstead, it is up to this delegation to :ry again, because otherwise it will ook like the delegation either does not (now what it is about, or it is playing louble with its constituents. We do riot believe either one of these last two impositions is correct. Give Senator E. D. Smith the credit :hat is due him for his efforts to put i stop to the fell Influence the agricultural department has been using to lepreas the price of cotton. Farmers everywhere have been suspecting for a ong time that the agricultural department's estimates were only worked up for market purposes, and that their in:ent and efTect was always bearish, but is suspicion is of very little consequence unless backed up by a club, lothing has resulted. But the efforts jf Senator Smith on the floor of the senate is causing the farmers of the south to open their eyes and encouraging the farmers to look for a fair 1 Several of the papers are strongly considering the idea of putting Mr. Lyon in the field against Mr. Blease next summer as a candidate for the <overnorship. We find it difficult to imagine a more interesting situation, >r one that would make a livelier campaign. Both Blease and Lyon claim to know things against each other, and if they should go into a campaign they would have to tell some things that the people want to know. If it should turn out that each has a correct estimate of the other, then what a beautiful chance it would be for the News and Courer's "leader" to win, especially if that leader be a man like Mr. Featherstone or Mr. Chas. A. Smith. So pleasing is the prospect that one finds it tedious to have to wait until next summer. The Enquirer has no personal interest in either of the contending routes of the proposed North and South road between Yorkvllle and Clover and no other interest except the possible illwill of people who think we have not as much right to an opinion as they have; but we want to say that as we see it, if the county board of commissioners fail to adopt the route that will open up the Bethel country to Yorkville, regardless of the comparative expense, they will work a great injustice on the people of Bethel and the town of Yorkville, and such benefit as they confer elsewhere will not be a nearly sufficient plea to offset that Injustice. As we see it. common sense, and the law both commend and approve the Lincoln road route. We are reproducing from the Columbia State of last Sunday, a communication from Col. U. R. Brooks, which seems to take more or less violent exception to the article which recently appeared in The Enquirer on the subject of the "Red Shirts," The colonel starts out by referring to the article as "purporting" to give a correct history r?f the Red Shirt movement. Just howhe pot that idea, we do not know, as in the introductory of our article it was stated that "we have been to some little trouble to turn back to the files of The Enquirer for such information as might appear." We were not trying to write a history of the Red Shirt movement at all; but only to review such data as is to lie found in the files of The Enquirer. "From that time on." (the nomination of Hampton, August 14. 1876). says Col. Brooks, "none of the lukewarmness The Enquirer says, existed." The way The Enquirer stated it was: "But shortly after the opening uf the state campaign in the latter part if August, things began to warm up and soon the entire state was aflame." Really we fail to see wherein Col. Brooks has emphasized the enthusi asm, after it did break out, more strongly than we did. "Notwithstanding what The Yorkvllle Enquirer says," again remarks the very much perturbed colonel, "I see not the least reason for receding one iota from the position I took in that speech. On the contrary the more I study the history of that movement, and the more I examine all the evidence relating to it, the more I am convinced of the correctness of my statement." As to whether the colonel intends any humor here, it is not ours to say; but we are bound to confess that we are more than half amused. We have never had any Idea of making the colonel recede from anything. We would have assumed, of course, that he knew so well what he was talking about in the first instance that he could not be more convinced nf thp eorreotness of his statement: but now since he tells us that he Is becoming more and more convinced, of course it is clear that he is not a receder. However, ail the statements made in The Enquirer's editorial stand. The article was just what It purported to be, no more and no less, and it was correct. We can see no reason for Colonel Brooks's attack on our article. except to get his own speech reprinted, and that could have been done without the necessity of alleging discrepancies, which really did not exist. Referring again to the article of Col. U. R. Brooks, reproduced in another column, the following telegram, dated Columbia. 10 a. m? August 16, 1876, is of some interest: "The State Democratic convention met last night with J. A. Hoyt of Anderson, as temporary chairman. Col. W. W. Harllee of Marion, was elected permanent chairman. "No action was taken indicating the policy of the convention as to postponing nominations. It is believed that a majority favor immediate nominations, and that a state ticket will be nominated today. "Gen. Wade Hampton seems to be the only candidate spoken of for governor. "H." The foregoing dispatch was sent by the late Major James F. Hart, a gentleman unusually well up on the doings of the day, and if Butler was being so seriously considered as the gubernatorial candidate, it seems strange that the major did not know of the fact. It will be noted that Col. Brooks states that Gen. Butler nominated Hampton ? A ?*? ? + 1i A a a moHar rtf fa r* UII AU5UOI XI. no a. tuw, however, the convention did not meet until the night of the 15th and according to Major Hart no nomination had been made up to 10 o'clock on the morning of the 16th. As to when the nomination was actually made our files do not show. The succeeding issue of The Enquirer merely gives the results of the convention without giving any more dates. MERE-MENTION. By an explosion of a caldron of molten metal in an iron plant at Jollet, 111., Saturday, four men were killed, two fatally and nine others seriously hurt. The explosion caused the building to collapse and nearly 100 men were imprisoned in the ruins.... Chas. McKegney, aged 20, was shot to death in New York Saturday morning in a race war between whites and blacks that had lasted all of the previous night Lore City, O.. was practically destroyed by fire Friday. Several business blocks were reduced to ashes... Twenty-five persons were more or less injured by the overturning of four coaches of a Big Four train in the outskirts of Columbus, O., Friday Chas. R. Crisp, son of the late Speaker Crisp, will be a candidate for congress from the newly formed twelfth district of Georgia. ... .It is rumored in Washington that Solicitor McCabe of the department of agriculture, is to get the "pink slip," as the result of the Wiley investigation and that Dr. Wiley is to hold his job and not be hampered in his future efforts to enforce the pure food laws Claude GrahamWhite, the aviator, says that within twenty years people will be flying from New York to London in aeroplanes 1,000 feet long, driver) by motors of 75,000 horsepower A New York rumor is to the effect that Col. John Jacob Astor has ordered his sea-going yacht provisioned for a long voyage and that with his fiance, Miss Force, and her parents as guests, will take a long sea trip and be married while at sea Mrs. James Snyder McCullough, widely known under the name of Myrtle Reed as an author, committed suicide by poison in Chicago, Friday.. The steamer Re DTtalia from Genoa, arrived at Quarantine, New York, Friday with 395 passengers aboard. During the passage three little girls had died of cholera. .. .The bark Bertha, famous as a whaling vessel, was wrecked on Sow and Pigs reef near Buzzard bay, Massachusetts, Friday night. Eight of the crew of thirty-five are missing... W. M. Matthews, a street car motorman, shot five times into a crowd of boys in Atlanta. Ga., Friday, killing one and seriously wounding another. The boys were guying the motorman. The Georgia legislature closed its 1911 session last Friday The Southern railway handled five special trains of excursionists from Atlanta and points west for Washington and points north last Saturday W. G. Beattie, an aviator, broke the world's passenger carrying record at Chicago Saturday by staying in the air 3 hours and 38 minutes with one passenger... .Charles Noel was found guilty at Lexington. N. C., Saturday on a charge of abducting a girl for white slave purposes, and was sentenced to serve fifteen years in the state penitentiary David Korshack, head of the alleged "arson trust," was arrested at Vancouver, B. C.. Friday. On June 3, the store of the wholesale clothing firm of L. Dreyfus & Co., of Chicago was destroyed by fire. L. Dreyfus confessed that the fire was of Incendiary origin and accused Korshaek of doing the burning. Dreyfus later committed suicide... .Congressmen Rucker and Boohrer of Missouri, had a fight on hn nf tho hnunp nt Wnshlncton. Thursday afternoon. One called the other a liar. No serious damage resulted Cotton pickers are so scarce In portions of Texas adjacent to Galveston that planters are offering $1.50 to $2 a day for pickers. Cotton is being badly damaged by remaining unpicked. Race troubles between whites. Mexicans and negroes Is said to be the cause of the scarcity of labor Up to Friday the remains of eighteen sailors had been taken from* the wreck of the battleship Maine in Havana harbor There were seventy new cases and fifty-four deaths from cholera at Constantinople, Thursday Eighteen white men are on trial at Calhoun. Ky., charged with participating In a lynching at Livermore, Ky., last April, when a negro murderer was shot to death... Because of the necessity for retrenchment 2,500 employes of the Harriman system are to be laid off for an Indefinite period One person was killed and five seriously injured at Stockton, Cal., Sunday night when an automobile plunged over a thirty foot embankment Harry N. Atwood, the aviator flying from St. Louis to New York, expects to reach New York city tomorrow night. Where the Doctors Differ.?We note that some of the wise guys are suggesting that the man to beat the present incumbent of the governor's chair is one J. Eraser Lyon. This is all tommy rot. He would stand no more chance of being elected than a snow ball would in the lower reeions. The man to put tne crimpers uu una ?cumade Napoleon is our fellow-citizen, the Hon. Richard I. Manning. His public life and private character is above reproach.?Sumter Herald. And what can be said, for that matter against the public life and private character of C. C. Featherstone or Charles A. Smith? But our friends who want whisky can see good only in their kind of a man.?Greenwood Journal. LOCAL AFFAIRS, NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Winn & Jones?Will be at Glenn & Allison's stables, Yorkville, Thursday, to buy all mules offered which are fit for service. J. L. Duncan?Gives notice of sale of personal property of J. P. Duncan, deceased, at his late residence on September 2nd. Committee?Invites the public to ^a picnic at Smyrna next Saturday, under auspices of Ladies' Aid Society of Smyrna church. Bank of Clover, Clover?Offers $5 reward to the seller of the first bale of 1911 cotton on the Clover market. Yorkville Hardware Co.?Wants you to see its crockery and glassware. It is showing big lines at right nrlnoo I" VVMI Herndon & Gordon?Have brooms at 25c each. Another shipment of ' Lucky Fino" coffee, Jelly tumblers, fruit jars, fruit cans, and have sold 2,800 loaves of "Old Homestead" bread. J. C. Wilborn?On page four offers three additional farms for sale, located in different parts of the county. Loan and Savings Bank?Shows you how $100 will grow in the bank if allowed to accumulate with its interest alone. It wants you to let your money grow with it. National Union Bank, Rock Hill? Points out that there is just one way to do business and that's the best way. It says it has prospered by doing business in the best way. J. M. Stroup?Calls attention to the Royal tailored line of clothing he is now showing and invites you to see samples and styles. From such information as can be gathered, It is very doubtful as to whether there will be a full week's business for the approaching term of the court of common pleas. There is olentv of business on the calendar; but it is thought that the probability of its being taken up is very small. During this public weigher controversy the statement has been made and reneated that Yorkville had an official nubile weigher back in the 70's, and that the system proved unsatisfac tory, etc. We are Inclined to think the statement Is Incorrect. Several older citizens of whom we have made Inquiry. say they have no recollection of an official weigher In the town, and we can find no record to substantiate the assertion that there was one. Mr. R. R. McCorkle, who lives half way between the Lincoln and King's Mountain roads said yesterday: "If the Bethel people had as good a way to get to Yorkvllle as the King's Mountain people have, and the King's Mountain people had as poor a way as the Bethel people, then I would be for the King's Mountain road; but since the proposed North and South road will not help King's Mountain township people a particle and since it will help Bethel people tremendously, giving them as good a road to Yorkville as they now have to Rock Hill, why of course I will have to give my sympathy to Bethel. The comparative cost of the two routes I do not think should cut any figure, as the main idea of the whole undertaking is to benefit the most people." Mr. S. Elmore Boney whose visit to Yorkville with Mrs. Boney, was mentioned last Friday, returned home Saturday afternoon. Mr. Boney, who is a former Yorkville boy, has won for himself quite an enviable position in South Carolina newspaperdom, and it ha 8 been by hard work. After securing the foundation of a good education, he taught school for a while and then commenced kindergarten work on the Union Times. Shortly afterward the News and Courier secured his services as a traveling representative and from there he went to the Laurens Advertiser and edited that paper with much ability until the News and Courier secured him again about a year ago and installed him as news editor. Most of the work he is doing is impersonal and the readers of the News and Courier have no way of telling to Just what extent they are Indebted to him for the excellent service he Is giving; hut when hp caps out from the office to write a special story, newspaper veterans are Invariably struck with the thoroughgoing manner In which he discharges his task. Besides this, Mr. Boney Is an unusually agreeable young gentleman, and makes a fine Impression on all with whom he comes In contact. If he does not make headway In the newspaper world It will be for reasons other than his fitness and ability, and what those reasons are do not occur to us. It is a fact that almost every cotton market of importance In the state has a public cotton weigher. The exceptions are where the cotton sellers and the local business people have not gotten their eyes open to the full advantage of a really competitive market. It is quite possible that it may take a long, hard fight to establish a public weighing system in Yorkville on a proper basis; but in our opinion the fight is well worth while, and If the task is to be undertaken at all, it should be undertaken right. The town and county should provide the platform as is done in the case of many other markets, and the public weigher should be chosen in a fair and satisfactory manner. Sometimes weighers are chosen in joint session of the county board of commissioners and town council, and sometimes by a vote of the cotton producers within a stated radius of the market he is to serve. This is probably the fairest way. It would be better if the whole .matter could be provided for in a carefully prepared general law; but whether this be done, or not, The Enquirer sincerely hopes that Yorkville will be able to secure the establishment of a public platform to be presided over by a public weigher. We think this is a fair way to get at the matter and we think it is business like. The principal advantage we expect from the establishment of such a system is the development of competition, and while increased competition may be a hardship on the buyers, it can hardly fail to make more business. Of course it is not to be claimed that a public weighing system would eliminate the possibility of combinations. It is a fact that there has been much complaint of combinations even in towns where there are public weighers; but a public weighing system would add to the freedom of the i..A j Un/vir n./MiU ntfont. lIliirKfl, tllKI una 111 iiocu nwuiu went- j ually prove beneficial. And there would be no hardship on anybody. At least no one would be deprived of an}' right now enjoyed that is inherent. WITHIN THE TOWN. ? The butter output at the creamery last Saturday was 375 pounds, showing a still further increase instead of a falling off since the discontinuance of the practice of paying the milk route men by the creamery. The patrons are now managing to get their milk to the creamery at their own expense, and so far as has been heard, are making no complaint. On the contrary most of them are agreed that they are still getting a great deal more for their butterfat than if they should make butter themselves and put it on the local markets. According to reports everything is moving swimmingly, and the enterprise is giving good promise of making good all that has been claimed for it. NORTH AND SOUTH ROAD. It will be like salesdav in Yorkvllle next Thursday, if anticipations with regard to the meeting that Supervisor Bovd has called for the hearing on the proposed North and South road prove correct. Since the call of the previous proposed meeting, both roads have been profiled, one from Yorkville up the King's Mountain road three and onehalf miles to the Quinn place, and thence to Clover by way of Filbert, and the other up the Lincoln road about four miles, and then to Clover by way of T. N. Thomasson's, J. B. Woods's and Allison Creek trestle. The Enquirer has not seen the two profiles; hut understands that there is a very considerable difference in estimated cost, amounting to seven or eight thousand dollars, the Filbert route being that much the cheaper. The advocates of the Filbert route among other things will argue less cost of original construction, less cost of subsequent maintenance and will claim that it is as nearly direct as the other. They will also lay stress on the practical benefits of the country. The Bethel people will argue among other things that the first consideration is the number of people to be benefited, and will endeavor to show that the fixing of two particularly bad places between Yorkville and the turning off place will be of very great benefit to large numbers of Bethel people, who are now unable to get to Yorkville economically with heavily loaded wagons. Both sides, it is understood are' prepared to come before the board with promises of liberal help; but neither side has seen proper as yet to make known the amount of Its proposed offer. AUTOMOBILE COLLISION. An automobile collision tn&t proved pretty rough on one of the cars and came near resulting disastrously to the occupants of both, occurred on the King^ Mountain road Just without the corporate limits of town last Tuesday night. The drivers of the cars were Messrs. W. R. Carroll of Yorkville, and J. E. Johnson, superintendent of the Neely cotton mill. Both cars were full of passengers, and all of the passengers were more or less shaken up, but none of them were seriously hurt. Mr. Carroll had his lip cut somewhat and Mr. Johnson was painfully bruised In the breast by being thrown against his steering wheel. Mr. Johnson's car was pretty badly wrecked, and although Mr. Carroll's car was injured also, it was able to get away from the scene of the trouble without assistance. Mr. Johnson's car had to be towed away. Unless the matter shall be amicably arranged otherwise, the understanding is that the afTair will go to the courts for a settlement. SECOND WEEK JURORS. The following venire of petit Jurors was drawn this morning to serve during the second week of the approaching term of the court of common pleas, and will be summoned to give their nppearance on September 11: R. B. Youngblood York. O. S. Poe Catawba. R. P. Jackson King's Mountain. C. W. Eason Fort Mill. John F. Robinson Bethel. M. R. Blggers King's Mountain. J. Meek Burns York. A. J. Clinton York. M. .T. Adcock ....Fort Mill. V. D. Howell Bullock's Creek. S. E. White Fort Mill. J. W. Morton Catawba. W. Lon Plexlco Bullock's Creek. S. M. Graves Broad River. W. A. Jolly Catawba. Henry Riddle Bethel. E B. Mitchell Bullock's Creek. W. A. N"lchols Broad River. W. H. Herndon York. p. l. Williamson Ebenezer. W. M. White Fort Mill. J. H. Oulnn King's Mountain. G. M. Cobb Broad River. J. H. Hays Catawba. S. M. Carothers Catawba. J. Thorn Neely Catawba. John A. McGlll Broad River. H. W. Black welder Fort Mill. D. P. Steele Cataiwba. J. E Thomas King's Mountain. G. W. Wllkerson Broad River. P. B. Neil York. C. W. Roach Catawba. H. B. McDanlel Broad River. B. M. Faris Fort Mill. A. A. Young Fort Mill. ABOUT PEOPLE. Mr. Paul Barron of St. Matthews Is visiting friends In York county. Miss Josle Carroll of Yorkville, Is spending several weeks at Blowing Rock. Mr. L. R. Williams of Yorkville, is attending the U. C. V., in Columbia this week. Mrs. B. O. Jennings ai Miss Annie Ashe of Yorkville, are spej Ing a week In Brevard. N. C. Mrs. Albert Hill of Spartanburg, Is visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Schorb In Yorkville. Mrs. J. M. Riddle of Lancaster, Is visiting her daughter, Mrs. R. J. Mackorell in Yorkville. Mr. Robert Black of Gaffney, spent Sunday with the family of Mr. J. M. Brian in Yorkville. Mrs. J. G. Barnwell, has returned to her home in Yorkville, after a visit to relatives in Camden. Miss Minnie Whiteside of Hickory Grove, is visiting Miss Zula McKnight on Yorkville R. F. D. 4. Mrs. John B. Bowen and son, J. B., Jr., of Charlotte, are visiting Mr. T. P. Moore's family in Yorkville. Mrs. J. R. Ashe, who has been spending the summer in Canada, returned to her home in Yorkville last Friday. Mr. R. A. Burrls of Charleston, Is spending a few days in Yorkville, ?uu /V# Tlf T T3o hnr wmi me laiiiiij ui iui. ??. *-?. ^u.wvi. Miss Annie Wallace, who has been spending sometime at Blowing Rock, has returned to her home in Yorkville. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Sadler, and Mr. J. P. McMurray of Yorkville, are spending several days at Hendersonvlile, N. C. Mr. Guy Louthian of the Jacksonville, Fla., Times-Union, is visiting the family of his father, Mr. L. W. Louthian in Yorkville. Master Robert Turner Allison, who has been spending several weeks at Blowing Rock, has returned to his home in Yorkville. Messrs. C. C. and J. William Cunningham of Waxhaw, N. C., spent Sunday with their uncle, Mr. J. C. Wilborn in Yorkville. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Reld of Rlchburg, have returned to their home after spending several days with the family of Mr. J. W. Betts near Yorkville. Mrs. E. E. Gillespie and children, who have been spending the summer with relatives in Gulf, N. C., have returned to their home in Yorkville. Misses Mary and Nannie Kate Brian, who have been visiting in Bowling Green and Lowell, N. C., returned to their home in Yorkville, yesterday. Mr. R. E. Gwln and daughter, of Yorkville No. 5, have been visiting the family of Mr. G. C. Grler and other relatives and friends in Union county. Mr. W. S. Nell of Yorkville, moved his household goods to Rock Hill today, taking them through the country in a long string of wagons. Mr. Nell will make his future home in Rock Hill. Mrs. L. L. Smith, of Yorkville, accompanied by Mrs. Glenn of Gastonia, went to Baltimore yesterday to undergo a surgical operation for the relief of a nervous disorder with which she has been afflicted for several years. Mrs. Joseph C. Kirkpatrick of Chester, and granddaughters, Misses Ray Kirkpatrick and Sarah Youngblood, have been spending a few days with Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Youngblood at Sharon. They returned home today. COTTON WEIGHER MATTER. The question as to whether the ii'umj loiiiiiiiBaiuiici a tuiii^iiiCTi mm the letter and spirit of the cotton weigher statute, when they appointed the employees of three local cotton buyers as public cotton weighers, after having already appointed and commissioned an unattached, Independent weigher, is to be heard and decided upon its merits by Associate Justice Gary at Abbeville next Saturday. This Is In accordance with a rule signed by the associate justice, on motion of John R. Hart, Esq., last Saturday. The proceedings have been instituted in behalf of James E. Burns, plaintiff, against Thomas Boyd, W. A. Aycock and L. J. Lumpkin, as supervisor and county commissioners of York county, respectively, and Paul N. Moore and VV. T. Moore, John A. Latta, B. N. Moore and W. R. Carroll. Following is the text of the complaint in the case: 1. That both plaintiff and defendants are now, and were at the times hereinafter stated, residents of the said county and state; and that Thomas W. Boyd and W. A. Aycock and L. J. Lumpkin are now, and were at the times hereinafter stated the duly elected and regularly qualified supervisor and commissioners of the county of York, respectively, and are, and were at the times hereinafter stated, in the active discharge of the duties as such supervisor and commissioners. 2. That on or about the 5th day of July, 1911, the plaintiff was regularly and legally elected public cotton weigher for the cotton market of Yorkjville, South Carolina, by the said county commissioners; and that in pursu ance of said election, he has given bond ha and otherwise complied with the re- frc quirements of the law, and now stands wl ready to enter upon and discharge Tl the duties of public cotton weigher for Vt said cotton market. an 3. That on or about the 9th day of tn August, 1911, over plaintiff's protest, is the county commissioners of said rh county undertook to, and did, appoint w< other alleged public cotton weighers, on to wit: Paul N. Moore, W. T. Moore pi and J. Robert Lindsay, Jr., the said ap- he pointment being made upon the re- ro .1 ? u ~ c n xt t - quest uiiu tu uic moiauuc ui d. Moore, W. R. Carroll and John A. ta Latta, the last three named being, and an having long since been, the principal ar I cotton buyers at and upon said market. CI [And in this connection, plaintiff alleges that Paul N. Moore and W. T. Moore A are now, and have long since been, regularly employed by B. N. Moore and Hi W. R. Carroll respectively as cotton w< warehousemen, clerks, and to perform to any other duties required of them, and mi that J. Robert Lindsay, Jr., is a minor, sti and is thereby incompetent to fill the ev position of public cotton weigher. of 4. That there is annually sold upon wi the Yorkville cotton market about th eleven thousand bales of cotton, and se that plaintiff is amply competent to th expeditiously and accurately weigh In said cotton and otherwise comply with fai all the requirements of the statute In th reference to public cotton weighing, ve And in this connection, plaintiff alleges ev that the amount of cotton brought to of said market Is not sufficient to warrant hs the employment or appointment of di more than one public weigher, and, ar should more than one be appointed, m that competent men who are unbiased on and not in the employ of other persons, as or receiving salaries from other per- po sons, Arms or corporations, cannot be de obtained to act as public cotton i* weigher. d! 5. That the defendants. B. N. Moore. W. R. Carroll and John A. pa Latta, stated to the county commissioners that if the said Paul N. Moore, Ac W T Mnnre and J. Robert LIndsav. Jr., were appointed cotton weighers ct that they would make no charges for At the services In weighing cotton, but CY that they would be paid by the said efl defendants, B. N. Moore, W. R. Car- rrx roll and John A. Latta. And in this rii connection, plaintiff alleges that the procuring of the appointment of these fol clerks of the said cotton buyers as S. public cotton weighers is but a sub- en terfuge to defeat the true Intent and CI spirit of the act, and that the said ap- w< polntments were procured for* the prl- 11a vate convenience and private weigh- fel ing of cotton of said cotton buyers, bo and that the said Paul N. Moore, W. ne T. Moore and J. Robert Lindsay, Jr., of being in the employ of the said B. N. ee Moore, W. R. Carroll and John A. an Latta, is In spirit and In fact the mak- to ing of the cotton buyers the weisrher ha thereof, and being in the employ of in the buyers the said public weighers nil are incompetent and disqualified fr< from adjusting the differences that HI may exist between the buyer and the lai seller by reason of the cotton graining he in weight from moisture, or to an promptly settle any dispute between ne buyer and seller as to the true weight, of and to perform other acts of an un- an biased and unprejudiced nature that oh are required of a public cotton weigh- ed er. And in this connection, plaintiff is alleges that he is informed and be- ab lieves that the said John A. Latta, W. ar R. Carroll and B. N. Moore intend to he purchase cotton at their private ware- re< houses and weigh the same upon their R. own scales at said warehouses (said aii cotton so purchased not being for storage), the said W. R. Carroll, John foi A. Latta and B. N. Moore each own- q ing cotton warehouses upon whose platforms the cotton purchased by them Is weighed. 33 6. That plaintiff being notified of his appointment as public cotton Ca weigher for the cotton market of ?" Yorkville, and relying upon such appointment, purchased suitable scales for the weighing of said cotton at a cost of seventy-two and 11-100 dolIars, and further entered into a con- ?a tract for the rental of a house in the tei town of Yorkville at and for the sum 80 of ten dollars per month; and plain- an tiff alleges that said scales will be use- an less to him except as a public cotton weigher, nor will he use or occupy said house unless he be a cotton an weigher at the town of Yorkville, but will nevertheless have to pay rent for. K1 same, to plaintiff's damage in the be sum of two hundred dollars, which fr< said damage plaintiff alleges was caus- j1l ed by the acts of the said defendants, bI< John A. Latta, B. N. Moore and W. R. Carroll in the procuring of the ap- bo pointment of J. Robert Lindsay, Jr., su Paul N. Moore and W. T. Moore, re- c?< respectively, as public cotton weighers, the said last three named, plain- E. tiff alleges, being Incompetent and disqualified from filling the position of public cotton weighers. J?I 7. The majority of the board of county commissioners state that they t0) have elected the said Paul N. Moore, y? W. T. Moore and J. Robt. Lindsay, Jr., w public cotton weighers at and for the cotton market of Yorkville, South Carolina, and that, upon their com- ? plying with the requirements of the statute that the said county commissloners will (if they have not already J"" done so) duly commission them as M1 public cotton weighers, and the said Paul N. Moore, W. T. Moore and J. Robert Lindsay, Jr., assert that they propose to discharge the duties of cotton weighers at said cotton mar- So lt6t. 8. That this plaintiff is without remedy except by the interposition of this honorable court. ^ Wherefore, plaintiff prays that an Order may be issued enjoining and re- I>o straining the said Paul N. Moore, W. T. sti Moore, and J. Robert Lindsay, Jr., from weighing cotton at the cotton market of Yorkville, South Carolina, rei and that W. R. Carroll, John A. Latta wi and B. N. Moore be enjoined and re- ed strained from having said clerks or ( cmpiujrcca, vi auj wuv* v>v?? w v... ployee, to weigh cotton for them upon ne said cotton market, and that the elec- is! tion by the county commissioners of stt Yor* county of Paul N. Moore, W. T. Moore and J. Robert Lindsay, Jr., be declared to be illegal, null and void, lefi and that the said Thomas W. Boyd, isf supervisor and W. A. Aycock and L. pr, J. Lumpkin, commissioners be enjoin- . ed and restrained In the election or no appointment of any other cotton th< weigher at the said cotton market ur) other than the plaintiff herein, and for such other and further relief as to J the court may seem Just and proper. hie vlt LOCAL LACONIC8. Jg Death of Kirby O. Rainey. to News was received In Yorkville this morning of the death of Mr. Kirby O. Rainey, son of Mr. and Mrs. John L. ,0 Rainey of Sharon. The young man has been under treatment for several years and has undergone much suffer- me ing, both mental and physical. He was ot^ about 27 years of age. The funeral Ta will be held at Sharon tomorrow, at 10.30 o'clock a. m. 8cj York's First Bale. ret Rock Hill Record: The first bale ^ of new cotton of this season was brought in Friday morning by Mr. L. '* J. Owens, of the River Bend section ' of this county. The cotton was bought by Mr. T. L. Johnston, the price paid being 12.76. The seed was bought by Mr. R. H. Cowan at twen ty-nve cents. no) Sent to Asylum. ovi Foy Knight, the escaped lunatic, who was arrested by Deputy Sheriff m' Quinn last week, was taken to the asy- ? 1 lum on Saturday by an attendant sent coi up from that Institution. During1 his "J? short stay in Jail, Knight told Sheriff vl8 Brown that he did not expect to re- " main in the asylum a great while. nui Knight is 27 years of age. 8?a t tnC Editor Congressional Directory. ate James B. Bell of Gaffney, editor of eei the Cherokee News, has been select- pre ed by the Joint committee on print- bef ing to become the editor of the Con- ati gressional Directory at a handsome as salary. He succeeds James S. Hen- air ry. This position is one of the best the to be had at the capital and requires ( a large degree of executive ability. Loi Capt. Bell will take charge of the leg work about October 1, at which time bri he will go to Washington and begin the the preparation of the directory, I which must be out by December 1. Set The New Catawba Bridge. C Rock Hill Record: Material for Gr< the new Iron bridge over the Cataw- the ba river, at Ivey's Mill, in the River rec Bend section of this county, is being up| placed on the grounds; in fact, one vis car of the iron for the same was stit unloaded last week, Mr. J. J. Hoke of i iving the contract for the hauling >m Lesslie's station to the point lere the bridge is to be erected, le Roanoke Bridge Co., of Roanoke, i., have the contract for this bridge id it is expected it will be ready for ifflc by Oct. 1st. A splendid road being opened up on this side of the /er approaching the bridge, and i understand one will be opened up i the Lancaster side. When cometed this will give the people from re a much better outlet and better ads leading both to Charlotte and mcaster and will shorten the disnce to Charlotte five or six miles id avoid some very bad hills which e on the route now traveled to larlotte. Raid In Kagtown. Gaffney Ledger: Deputy Sheriffs enry Lockhart and Joe Watklns jnt on an expedition Into the Kegwn section of this county Saturday ornlng at an early hour and deroyed one of the largest distilleries er seen In Cherokee county. Both the officers stated that the plant is the largest and most complete ey had ever seen. It was easy to e that it was in active operation at e time as the fires were still burng and everything pointed to the ct that those who were operating e plant had "hit the high ball" a rv few minutes before. They had Idently received some Intimation the approach of the officers and id made good their escape. The stlllery was of 100 gallon capacity id quite a large amount of the uoh desired "white lightning" was hand at the time. No arrests have yet been made but It Is thought isslble that there may be some later tvelopments. The Kegtown section notorious for Its blind tigers and Btillerles and quite a large number ive been destroyed there In the ist. scident to Mr. P. G. McCorkle. Mr. Paul G. McCorkle, formerly of ester, now of "Vorkvllle. who went to iheville recently to visit Mrs. Mc rkle. who Is in that city for the bent of her health, on last Friday nisrht ?t with quite a serious accident, the rcumstances of which are described the Asheville Citizen of Sunday as Hows: "P. G. McCorkle of Chester, C., who with his wife has been a est at the Glenn boarding house on lestnut street for the past three ?eks, was the victim of a rather unual accident Friday night, when he II from a second story window of the arding house upon a pile of brick ar the house and sustained a number bruises and while he was not danrously hurt, his bruises are painful d he is confined to his room unable move. Mr. McCorkle is blind and s, it is said, the habit of walking his sleep. About 11 o'clock Friday erht, he awoke as he was hanging )m the window sill by his fingers. 8 grip shooed and he fell several feet riding upon the brick pile. He was ard by inhabitants of a nearby house d was carried to his room by the ighbors of Mr. Glenn, the occupants the Glenn residence having retired d having failed to hear him fall. A ysician was called in and the woundman was given immediate aid. It believed that he will be able to be out within a short time, as no bones e broken and it is not believed that is internally injured." Information :eived in Yorkvllle yesterday by Mr. R. McCorkle, was to the effect that r. McCorkle, though still In bed, is tting along as well as could be hoped r. ath of Mrs. M. A. Avery. Rock Hill Record: There fell leep in death Friday, at Anderson, ie of the notable women of South irollna; one-who had suffered much, dured much, and done much for e state?Mrs. M. A. Avery. Mrs. rery died at the home of her iin>Vttor r?a P P T.QnchHn n n eenville street at 2.16 p. m., Friy, August 18. Her death came afr a short illness, and was due to me heart trouble. She died calmly d peacefully, as befitted her life d her Christian faith. Mrs. Avery is the widow of Dr. E. T. Avery of >rk county, who was a sufferer long those who were persecuted r alleged connection with the Kuux-Klan, in consequence of which was for years forced to live away )m his home and his family. Duri all those troubulous times, his nos wife supported, reared and eduted their family. To them were rn eight children, of whom Ave rvive her, her husband having preyed her to the grave by a number years. Her surviving children are: R. Avery, of Birmingham, Ala.; '. S. DeLeon Avery, of Baltimore, 1.; J. W. Avery of Chester, and Iss Ella Avery and Mrs. R. C. tughlin. of Anderson. A son, Vicr J. Avery, died in Texas a few ars ago. and another son, Dr. aightstill Avery died, at Anderson o years ago. A daughter died in fancy. She is also survived by three iters, Mrs. E. D. Mobley, of Rock ill; Mrs. R. A. Coulter, of Ebenezer; rs. Miller, of Florida, and by two others, Mr. Simon Massey of Fort 111, and Mr. D. Massey of Newport. A REVIEW OF CONGRESS. me Notable Legislation Was Aohiev* ed at This Session. Washington, August 20.?Congress 11 adjourn before Tuesday night? sslbly tomorrow?and the most enuous session of recent years will ss into political history. The net jults of the session, in comparison th the ambitious programme adotftat the outset, were not large. Canadian reciprocity was brought as ar reality as the executive and legative departments could advance it; itehood was assured for New Mexiand Arizona; campaign publicity psiation was enaciea in a lorm saiactory to its most earnest advocates: ^vision was made for an enlarged use of representatives based upon ; last census, and a few other meas?s of minor Importance were passed. Democratic house, the first since 15, seized upon this session as a ve:le to convey to the country the ws of the Democracy on the subt of tariff revision, but executive (approval rendered futile all efforts impress those views upon the stats' books. Two tariff bills, one materially reclng the existing duties on wool and olen goods of all classes, and the ler placing on the free list articles machinery and tools used by far>rs, and amended to include many ler items, were vetoed by President ft. He based his disapproval upon i grounds that the bills had not been entlflcally "prepared and that tariff rlsion should wait until reports on i different schedules had been made the tariff board." A cotton revision 1 awaits a similar fate. The house, under the leadership of preBentative Underwood of Alama, chairman of the ways and means nmittee, and Speaker Clark, endeav;d to pass the bills over the veto but i necessary two-thirds-vote could t be mustered. These failures to irthrow President Taft's veto mesjes were a strong factor in deterning leaders to bring the session to close and it is not likely that the lgress will be in session to receive a e message relating to the cotton reion measure. rrust investigations, almost without mber, were Instituted during the sion and some of them?notably >se bearing upon monopolies in the el and sugar industries?were prosited with vigor, and they still are in )gress, constructive legislation to ir on Federal regulation of corporons, is regarded as certain to come ? a# V*/\fin Inn 11 leloa a nH nlona a. rcsuit ui mcoc mivjuu ?v.o, auu FIfcM.u eady have been instituted to revise f anti-trust laws. Charges were revived that Senator rimer was elected by the Illinois islature through the medium of bery and a second investigation by * senate was gotten well under way. t senate inquiry Into the election of rntor Stephenson of Wisconsin, was lered. Jeneral arbitration treaties with ?at Britain and France were sent to senate by President Taft, but they eived a frigid welcome because the ?er house contended that one proion of the treaties usurped its conutional prerogatives. Presentation the treaties strained hitherto cordial relations between the foreign relations committee and the state department and as a result President Taft has made it plain that an issue has been raised which he will carry to the country in the hope of procuring ratification when congress reconvenes. Friction in the department of agriculture over the enforcement of the pure food laws has been aired by one of many investigations originating In the Democratic house and a countrywide issue raised over the question whether the activities of Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, the government's pure food expert, have been made ineffective. Proceedings in the house under caucus rule, led by Mr. Underwood, precipitated a sharp controversy between \ Mr. Underwood and William Jennings ^ Bryan. Mr. Bryan was aroused because of failure of the house caucus to include in its tariff programme at the outset the revision of the iron and steel schedule. He attacked Mr. Underwood on this ground, but the latter was given an overwhelming vote of confidence wiieu me inaiier was rnaue an issue on the floor of the house. During the controversy the ways and means committee was at work on an iron and steel revision plan but It remained for the senate to act upon this schedule. With the acquiescence of house leaders, the senate tacked an iron and steel schedule upon the cotton bill. It will be reconcurred in by the house tomorrow, regardless of the death It Is certain to meet when it reaches the White House. Legislative decks in both houses have been cleared except for disposition of the cotton tariff revision bill and the bill to terminate the national monetary commission. When the special session convened April 4, the house was organized by the Democratic ways and means committee and this body made the committee assignments. The new system eliminated what was known for many years as the czardom of the speaker. The committee also directed the deliberations of the Democratic caucus and framed the legislative programme of the session. The programme adopted and rigidly adhered to by the house until the closing weeks of the session included action on Canadian reciprocity, a farmers' free list bill, reduction of duties on the wool and cotton schedules, increasing the membership of the house from 391 to 433, providing for a constitutional amendment looking to the election of United States senators by direct vote of the people, a revision of the campaign publicity law and statehood for New Mexico and Arizona. While the house was successful in carrying out its plans, few of the measures will reach the statute books. The resolution relating to popular election of senators was amended by the senate and was sent to conference, from which it cannot emerge this session. The statehood bill was vetoed by President Taft because the Arizona constitution ratified the recall of the Judiciary, but a substitute resolution, eliminating the recall feature, later was passed by both houses. In the senate, with many of the old leaders missing, a remarkable alliance was formed between the Democrats and insurgent Republicans led by LaFollette, Cummins and Bristow. After the first few weeks of the session It worked harmoniously until the closing week, when occurred one of the most spectacular legislative upsets in many yeara The severance of the coalition came on consideration of the cotton bill. When Senator Cummins withdrew an amendment to attach iron and steel revision to the cotton bill, the Democrats seized upon It as their own and were able to pass It'when regular Republicans refrained from voting or absented themselves from the chamber. SOUTH CAROLINA NEW8. ? Columbia, August 18: The South Carolina State Farmers' Union will erect a cotton warehouse in Columbia to cost from (200,000 to (600,000. The following announcement was iTiuue luuuy uy j. v* miner nviu, mo state secretary and treasurer, In accordance with a resolution adopted by the South Carolina State Farmers' Union at the annual meeting, held in Columbia, July 26-27, 1911: Steps have been taken to organise the Farmers' Union Warehouse company, of South Carolina; H. T. Morrison, McClellanville, S. C.; B. F. Keller, Cameron, S. C., B. Harris, Pendleton, S. C.; Alfred Aldrich, Barnwell, 8. C., members of the organization committee appointed at the state union meeting, met In the office of the secretary of the State Farmers' Union and made formal application to the secretary of state for commission to act as a board of corporators. The capital stock of the corporation will be $200,000, with the privilege of Increasing to $500,000, with shares at the par value of $10 each. The purpose of the corporation is to do a general warehouse business, Including the storing and dealing In cotton and other farm producta An active campaign will soon be commenced In each county to raise the capital stock. ? Many merchants throughout South Carolina are withholding from sale corn meal, grits, and other corn products, until samples of their stocks can be examined at the departmental laboratories and pronounced safe for food, according to communications received by Col. E. J. Watson, commissioner of agriculture, commerce and industries. At Olendale, in Spartanburg county, where a number of cases of pellagra have developed, and 4 corn meal has been found to be dangerously spoiled. It is stated that not. a particle of corn products Is now being sold. Since the Issuance of the report, the people have been unwilling n Kim until fho vnnHa In th? stores have been pronounced safe by the / state chemists, and the merchants, aware of the heavy penalty for disposing of spoiled stuff, have discouraged buying until the chemists have examined their goods. No report has yet been received from the laboratories as to the samples which have been taken in all the grocery stores in Columbia, and up to noon Saturday the special inspector sent to Investigate the manufacturing establishments in other states, from which the spoiled corn has been sent out, had not sent In his report. It is prob- 1 able that by Monday some further light will be thrown on the matter. BULLOCK'S CREEK NOTE8. Rain Badly Naadad?The Excursion to Georgia?Unveiling of W. O. W. Monument?Bethel Presbytery?Other Matters. OorreatWDdence of tha Yorkrille Enauirtr. Bullock's Creek, August 21.?This section Is dry and needing rain again. Cotton is opening fast in some places. Fodder pulling is In progress. Messrs. Jas. E. Bankhead, J. W. Feemster, Norris Clack and Ray Bankhead went on the excursion from Hickory Grove to Georgia last week. They are highly delighted with their trip, and say they visited a very fine country. Messrs. Feemster and Clack are expecting to go there to live. Rev. Charles B. Ratchford of Grottoes, Va., has been visiting relatives and friends here. He preached a fine sermon at Bullock's Creek on Sunday, August 13. Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Cranford have returned from a visit of several days to friends in Lancaster. Miss Jane Swann is visiting in Yorkvllle. Mr. Garland R. Gilchrist's monument was unveiled at Bullock's Creek cemetery on Sunday, at 11 o'clock, by the W. O. W. Camp of Lockhart. An able and appropriate address was made by * ??. T T nr?nt ITnlnn A laree rwrv. Ui X-#. ?? aKUV/u w? w -- number of Woodmen, relative? and friends were present on the occasion. Bethel Presbytery will meet at Bullock's Creek church on Tuesday, September 5, at 11 o'clock. School will open at this place on Monday, September 11. Prof. V. J. Rector of Wellford, will be the principal, and Miss Juanita Neely of Rock Hill No. 4, will be the assistant. Mr. John D. Good is putting material on the ground for a nice new residence near Mr. W. B. Good's store. He expects to move his family from Greenville to this place. Mr. E. M. Bankhead has given the contract to Mr. W. W. Blair for a handsome eight room dwelling to be built near where the old one now standB. ju 1