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Straps and facts.
? United States officials, says a
Washington dispatch, are looking
for the next big scene in the Mexican
drama to be staged at Mexico City.
Huerta is to quit soon and turn over
the government to Foreign Minister
Carbajal. It is hoped that there will
be found some peaceable way to
transfer the Mexican government to
the Constitutionalists so as to avert
a military conquest of the capital.
Carranza has announced that he will
not deal with Carbajal. It is thought
ihat he would be waling to treat with
Curbajal as a leader of a faction and
not as the government head. Administration
officials at Washington
believe that hostilities in Mexico have
almost ended and all hope for a conference
between Huerta's peace envoys
and representatives of the Constitutionalists,
as planned by the
mediators.
? Two hundred and thirty persons
were reported executed in Mexico City
Thursday night by Huerta, according
to news from the south received oy
constitutionalists at Saltillo, Saturday.
One hundred and seventy of these
were said to have been put to death in
the federal penitentiary and sixty outside
the prison of Santiago Tialtellallo.
Most of the victims, it is asserted,
were officials. lighting is reported
within the federal district, the constitutionalists
having attacked Cochimiloo.
San Pablo and the other small
towns in the immediate vicinity of the
capital, and Huerta has been advised
that Paschua will be attacked shortly.
Constitutionalists are reported to be
attacking the federal garrisons at Esperanza,
Maltrata and Orizaba. Gen.
Pena Esperanza with two strong columns
has gone to reinforce Mexico
City, it was said. Huerta, it is reported,
intercepted a mesage from Gen.
Obregon stating that the latter would
capture Guadalajara before July 10,
and had sent a rescue force, which had
arrived within about thirty miles of
the city when it was taken.
? Congress on last Friday appropriated
$200,000 for the relief of sufferers
frr?m the Salem. Mass.. fire. The house
in spite of vigorous opposition led by
Chairman Fitzgerald, of the Appropriations
committee, accepted by a vote)
of 161 to 66 a senate amendment to
the sundry civil bill to provide the
money. The president had urged the
appropriation in a special message and
the Massachusetts delegation had been
pressing for action for a week. Representative
Fitzgerald told the house
that while the sympthy of everyone
went out to the destitute people of Salem,
it was no part of the Federal
functions to appropriate money for
them. "If congress initiates the policy
of making such appropriations," he
said, "then whenever there is a flood
in the Mississippi and the Great Yazoo
Delta is overflowed, whenever fire, or
other disaster or catastrophe affects
any people of the United States, we
may expect the state governments and
localities to come to the Federal treasury
as the easiest place to get money
to take care of the destitute and helpless."
Mr. Fitzgerald called attention
to the refusal of congress to appropriate
for victims of floods in the Ohio
and Mississippi Valleys and other
irreat disasters which left thousands
of people homeless.
? Washington, July 13: Convinced
that his talks with J. P. Morgan,
Henry Ford and other leading business
men have done much to show
the country that the Democratic administration
is the friend, not the
enemy of honest business. President
Wilson today planned further conferences.
He invited S. R. Bertron,
head of a New York banking house,
to call at the White House Wednesday
to discuss conditions and his antitrust
programme. Mr. Wilson also
will see a delegation of Kansas City,
Mo., business men Wednesday, and
other leaders in the business world
are expected to call within the next
few weeks. Letters received from
men who already have talked with
the president, have greatly encouraged
him. President Wilson is not
disturbed by adverse results of the
referendum conducted last week by
the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States on his anti-trust programme.
He believes the question
sent out by the chamber referred
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trust bill as it passed the house and
that therefore the replies do not bear
directly on the present situation
since the Clayton bill has been materially
changed by the senate committee.
? St. Paul, Minn., July 11: A somewhat
listless session of the National
Education was suddenly enlivened today
when Dr. J. H. Francis, superintendent
of schools of Los Angeles, Cal.
vigorously attacked the present school
system. He denounced the "inefficiency
of the average teacher," and characterized
as soul wreckers "certain powerful
interests that are blocking all
forms of educational progress." These
interests were "civic, religious and political,"
he said. Criticism of his
"sensationalism" was uttered by many
leading educators, but the storms of
applause which interrupted him at
every sentence were indicative of the
general attitude of the delegates. "Our
public schools of today," said Doctor
Francis, "are namby-pamby places to
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and some of us become good citizens in
spite of them. The purpose of education
is to make us scholarly enough so
that we may separate ourselves from
the common herd. Teachers who train
a child to believe that he cannot be respectable
unless he is a professional
man are a menace to society. We are
dragging out the souls of our boys and
girls telling them to learn so many
pages a day of matter that meant nothing
to them in practical life." The hall
rang with applause when Doctor Francis
shouted: "Blessings on the girl who
refuses to study algebra?a study that
has caused many girls to lose their
souls."
? Washington. July 11: An administration-approved
plan for a more autonomous
Philippine government as
another step towards independence
was laid before congress today when
Representative Jones of Virginia, introduced
a bill covering the subject.
Mr. Jones is chairman of the house insular
committee and his measure, declaring
the purpose of the United
States as to the future political status
of the Filipino, was the fruit of a long
series of conferences with President
Wilson, Secretary Garrison. Manuel
Quezon, Philippine resident commissioner
to the United States, and Democratic
members of the insular committee,
all of whom informally have
approved it. Supporters of the measure
do not expect it to get favorable
action by congress at this session.
President Wilson has examined the bill
no rufnllv on/1 Coorot War
Garrison strongly favors its enactment.
It is designed to carry out declarations
of the Baltimore platform
toward the Philppines. The bill makes
no attempt to fix a date for Philippine
independence. Its preamble recites tha.
it never was the intention of the people
of the United States in the incipiency
of the war with Spain to make it
a war of conquest or territorial agrandizement.
It asserts that it always has
been their purpose to recognize the independence
of the Philippine islands
"as soon as a stable government could
be established therein." It declares it
to be desirable to place in the hands of
the Filipinos as large control of their
domestic affairs as consistent with the
exercise, in the meantime, of the right
of sovereignty by the United States.
? Washington, July 12: Trust legislation
to complete the administration's
legislative programme will be undertaken
in earnest in the senate this
week, and Democrats and Republicans
alike are straining at the least to get
at the task and complete it as speedily
as thorough consideration of the proposed
measures to supplement the
Sherman law and regulate issuance of
railroad securities will permit. Administration
leaders have estimated
that it will require at least five or six
weeks to pass the three trust bills before
them, the Clayton bill to supplement
the Sherman act, the bill creating
.an interstate trade commission
and the measure giving the interstate
commerce commission authority to
regulate the issuance of securities by
common carriers. Republican senators
think it will require more than
six weeks if the three measures are
considered separately. Some Democrats
also hold this view, and there is a rapidly
growing sentiment in favor of
consolidating the three bills into one
measure. This may be done before the
debate proceeds very far. As planned
at present the interstate trade commission
bill already before the senate
will be disposed of first. The judiciary
committee expects to report the revised
Clayton bill by Tuesday or Wednesday,
while the interstate commerce
committee hopes to have the railroad
securities bill ready to report at the
same time. These committees have
been working night and day since the
senate adjourned Thursday night to
whip the legislation into shape. Many
changes have been made in both these
measures as they passed the house,
changes which will necessitate conference
action after they pass the senate,
but administration leaders in the house
have kept in touch with the action of
the senate committees and also with
the pulse of the business public and
predict that little time will be taken
when the conferees are appointed.
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YORKVILLE, 8. C.t
TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1914
We can see absolutely no reason why
congress should not as readily appropriate
from $300,000 to $500,000 for the
Bethel, Ebenezer and Catawba hail
sufTerers, as $200,000 for the Salem,
Mass., fire sufferers. The hail sufferers
have easily lost more than one million
dollars and the loss was certainly
as much an act of Providence as was
the Salem fire loss.
Why don't those candidates emphasize
the Torrens system of the registration
of land titles? The matter is
never heard of now except when one
occasionally picks up the written platform
of some of the candidates. The
Torrens system proposition can be
made the subject of some real hot
campaigning, if the candidates will
only do it.
Government Seeds.
Seeds sent out by the agricultural department
at Washington are as good
as any that are to be had and generally
better than most seeds.
We make this statement mainly because
of talk that has ben so common
during the past week in connection
with the proposition to secure seeds
from the government.
Seeds being difficult to get elsewhere
when as a last resort there is suggestion
of the agricultural department at
Washington it is common to hear the
remark, "Oh, those seeds are no good?
not worth planting."
This is an old gag that has been
common for a good many years, and
there is a reason for it.
Tho fres Histrihntinn of Reeds bv the
government for several generations
past has been a source of great annoyance
to the old established seed houses
cutting down their business, and often
interfering with profits.
As a result people do not care to paygood
money for that which they can
get free of charge, and as seeds were
free hundreds and thousands of gardners
throughout the country had come
to look to the government alone for
their supplies.
Banding together a good many years
ago to put a stop to free seed distribution
by the government, the seedsmen
of the country devoted their energies
mainly along three distinct lines. In
the first place they brought all possible
pressure on their congressmen
through seed dealers and people who
could be influenced by seed dealers.
Next they started a campaign of ridicule
and protest in the newspapers and
at the same time they inaugurated a
campaign of slander against the quality
of the seeds distributed.
The Enquirer has received many a
press clipping from private seed houses
knocking government seeds, with requests
to publish; but no such clipping
has ever been published in this paper.
The writer hereof has planted government
seeds year after year and has
met with tine success. He knows of
scores of cases of others who have
done likewise.
It is quite probable that government
seeds are scarce and hard to get just
at this time because it is so late in the
season; but no one need fear that
seeds sent out by the government are
not as good as any other seeds to be
had.
County Disbursements.
We are printing today for the first
time for several years a statement of
the disbursements of the ordinary
county fund.
This publication is in obedience to a
provision that was incorporated in the
supply bill at the last session of the
general assembly and which contemplates
the publication of the information
in the newspaper that will give
it the greatest amount of publicity.
The principal value of this publication
is to show where the public funds
go to, who gets them, what for and in
what amount, the theory being that a
careful scrutiny of the county's finan
cial transactions on the part of the
taxpayers will tend to insure the closest
economy in all kinds of expenditures.
We have summed up all the items of
expenditure on account of the chaingang,
and iind that they amount in the
aggregate to $ 10.1S4.H9 for the six
months; but as to how much of that
amount may include items that properly
belong in 1913, there is of course
nothing to show. It is very evident,
however, that if this is a half year's
expense then the total expense of the
chaingang for a whole year must be
close to $30,369.78. It is also noted
that some of the largest payments
were for additions to the plant.
The amount paid out for printing
and advertising during the six months
was $1,128.83. Of this amount $296.44
went to Ij. M. Grist's Sons for a bill
covering the entire year of 1913?
$125.94 for job printing and stationery
and $170.50 for advertising. The other
accounts are: Herald Publishing company,
$ 142.50 for advertising; Fort
Mill Times $114.25, mainly for advertising:
Rock Hill Record, $164.50,
mainly for advertising; York Publishing
company, $00, mainly for advertising;
London Printery, $133.X4, for job
printing and stationery; miscellaneous
foreign printers and publishers, $178.69
for blank books, printing and stationery.
Kxcept in the case of L. M, Grist's
Sons whose bill includes all the public
advertising that was done at the instance
of the county during the year
1013, and all the job printing that the
lirm did for the county during the
year, the other bills cover a period of
from six to nine months down to
July 1.
It has not been practicable within
the limited time available to assemble
the various items of expense connected
with the different departments of the
government, the amounts paid for the
county home, for drugs, for physicans,
for fuel, for postage, for salaries, for
current expenses, and the like; but
those who are interested may easily
pick out these items and add them up.
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MERE-MENTION
Pour persons died as the result of
excessive heat in St. Louis, Saturday.
The government kiosk registered 109
degrees C. G. Pearse of Milwaukee,
Wis., has been elected chairman of
the board of directors of the National
r>nl has
iiiuucauon society. uanmiiu, ?
secured the meeting of the association
for next year Charles K. Field,
editor of Sunset Magazine, and three
other men have been arrested in San
Francisco, charged with disclosing
military secrets of the United States
through publication of an illustrated
article in regard to Panama canal for- J
titications Judge Kendrick J. Haw-j
kins of the Dublin, Ga., circuit, and)
former editor of the Dublin Times,
dropped dead at his home in Macon,
Ga., Saturday... .Lady Hardinge, wife
of the Viceroy of India, died in a London
hospital Saturday, aged 46. The
dead noble-woman was one of the favorites
of Queen Mother Alexandria,
of England... .Unitarian ministers and
laymen from all parts of the United
States are in annual conference at
Isle of Shoals, N. H., the conference to
last two. weeks Dr. Harvey W.
Wylie, of pure food fame has been
elected president of the National Mouth
Hygiene association The Marietta,
Columbus and Cleveland railroad has
been placed in the hands of a receiver.
....Leon Dejean, a negro, died in New
Orleans as the result of Bubonic plague,
last week. Two negroes and one
white man have died from the disease
in New Orleans, since June 27 Be
cause he was aemeu a ugai, ?u?."
Inghoyt, a patient in a Hustings, N. Y.,
hospital, jumped out of a window in
the fourth story of the building, killing
himself instantly Seeing that a
Trenton, N. J., traffic policeman was
off his post last week, William Altsizer
a 6-year-old boy, donned his miniature
policeman's costume, and for more
than two hours calmly directed traffic
in the policeman's stead Lieutenant-Governor
Theodore G. Bilbo of
Mississippi, has been acquitted on the
charge of soliciting and accepting a
bribe Fred Boalt, Mexican correspondent
of the Cleveland, Ohio, Press,
has been ordered deported by the war
department. Boalt was guilty of sending
sensational and untrue dispatches
from Mexico The French chamber
of deputies, by a vote of 461 to 35, has
appropriated money to cover expenses
of French official representation at the
Panama-Pacific exposition... .The Alton
Steele company of Illinois, capitalized
at $1,000,000, has been placed in
the hands of a receiver The Federal
government has purchased 15,575
acres of forest lands in North Carolina.
Two thousand Bibb county, Ga.,
voters cast votes for W. J. Mosely for
Democratic executive committeeman
last week not knowing that Mosely had
been dead ten years Jamaica ginger
has been placed under the ban in
Kansas, the supreme court of that
state holding that any druggist who
sells it may be prosecuted for violation
of the prohibition law The Pennsylvania
railroad has placed an order
for 81 engines and 1,000 steel box cars.
Judas Iscariot and Saul of Tarsus,
negroes with the surname of Kent,
are in jail at Anniston, Ala., charged
with murder..Last Friday night was
the coldest in the 44 years' history of
the Mobile, Ala., weather bureau. A
fountain in the city was completely
frozen over Lee Walke, of Sceven,
Ga., drank a small bottle of cologne in
order to get the alcohol in it. He is
dead Dr. W. A. Winters and his
wife, Mrs. Byrd Winters, charged with
conspiracy in connection with the disappearance
of the doctor's nine-yearold
daughter, have been released at
New Castle, Ind., because of lack of
evidence Samuel Gompers, the labor
leader, has declared war against
Representative J. Hampton Moore of
Pennsylvania, and will seek to defeat
Moore because the latter opposed a
measure Gompers was interested in...
A German aviator last week attained an
altitude of 21,450 feet. The highest
previous altitude was attained by a
Frenchman, who reached a height of
is san feet ahnve the earth After
being on a strike for five weeks, 4,000
of the 10,000 employes of the Westinghouse
companies of Pittsburgh, Pa,,
voted to return to work yesterday. The
remainder are expected to give up the
contention during the next few days.
The police of Berlin last week
raided a house occupied by Servian
students and secured documentary
evidence which proved the existence of
a plot to assasinate the German emperor
Empress, the largest female
elephant ever captured, died in the
zoological gardens, Philadelphia, last
week. Empress had lived in Philadelphia
during the past 38 years The
clipper ship Edward Sewell, which
sailed from Philadelphia in October,
for Seattle, Wash., and last reported
March 23, and since given up as lost,
last week reached Hawaii. The vessel
was badly damaged by storms at sea.
The municipal council of Paris,
France, last week, announced the issuance
of $44,400,000 4 per cent bonds.
In one day the issue was over-subscribed
more than forty times....H. J.
Gamsman, a New York inventor of an
attachment for a camera, was last
week paid $300,000 for his invention by
the Eastman company of Rochester,
N. Y A SDanish company pro
poses to build an aerial railway across
the whirlpool rapids at Niagara. The
span across the gorge is to be 1,180
feet, the longest of its kind in the
world The government of China
is preparing to tloat another loan of
$100,000,000 The Georgia senate
has'killed the proposed Hixon eugenics
marriage law. The bill provided for
mental and physical examinations before
a marriage could be contracted...
The total tax receipts of the state of
Iowa for the year ending June 3, were
$11,524,770.80. After paying all claims
the state still has a cash balance of
$757,860.82 New Orleans rat killers
killed more than 50,000 rats during
last week. The army surgeons are well
satisfied with the Bubonic plague situation
in that city....The fight against
the hookworm is to be carried on
throughout the world. For a time the
fight will center in Egypt, under the
direction of Lord Kitchener The
"dead letter" office of the postofvice
department at Washington, has been
abolished Associate Justice of
the United States supreme court,
died at Atlantic City. N. J., Sunday,
of heart disease, aged 70 years. He
was appointed to the supreme court
bench from Tennessee, by President
Taft in 1909. Judge Lurton was the
fourth ex-Confederate to be appointed
to the supreme court Four
persons were Kiiieu unu eieiucru umers
more or less Injured in an automobile
accident in the vicinity of
Philadelphia, Sunday.
? At Edgefield last Saturday Mr. C.
D. Fortner tried to make Mr. W. L
Witherspoon, a fellow candidate for
railroad commissioner, say whether he
intended to vote for Smith or Blease
but Mr. Witherspoon would not say.
? The Columbia State of this morning.
quotes Comptroller General Jones
as saying that arrangements have been
made to borrow $350,000 from the Palmetto
National bank at 3i per cent,
for the use of the state. The arrangement
was made by Messrs. Jones and
Carter, subject to the approval of the
governor.
? The News and Courier reports Irby
on John G. Richards and M. L. Smith
at Edgefield last Saturday as follows:
"It is amusing to us to hear Mr. Richards
get up all of a sudden and say
that he is for Blease because the present
governor is close to the people,"
declared \\\ C. Irby, Jr., who said further
that Mr. Richards had known
Governor Blease for ten years, and if
he were just finding out now that
Blease was the friend of the people, he
was too ignorant to he governor, and
if. on the other hand, Mr. Richards,
knowing this about Blease two years
ago, had been afraid to declare for him
at that time, then he was too much of
a coward to be governor of the state.
Mr. Irby charged that both Mr. Richards
and M. L. Smith had been cowards
politically when they formed a
mutual agreement not to go to the
state convention as delegates. Mr. Irby
said that he had gone there and denounced
the enrollment rules, regardless
of how it might affect his race for
governor."
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
T. P. Youngblood, Chairman?Offers
reward of $25 for proof to convict
party or parties tresspassing in the
Union school house. Page five.
Gov. Cole Li. Blease?Publishes proclamation
relative to relief measure for
sufferers from the recent hail storm.
Page five.
Yorkville Cotton Oil Co.?Gives notice
that it will sell ice on Sundays only
in case of sickness. Page three.
T. B. Glenn, Manager?Says the Tirzah
ginnery will do ginning free for sufferers
from the recent hail storm.
Page three.
R. Al. Wallace, Chairman?Gives dates
and places at which the registration
board will meet parties desiring to
register. Page three.
Thos. \V. Boyd, Supervisor?On page
n olntomonl it f ol'limu
an^roved and paid by the board of
commissioners for the six months
ending June 30th
Carroll Bros.?On page 4, tell about an
unusual bargain in steel cut Rio coffee,
which they offer at six lbs. for
$1 and ask you to try it.
York Furniture Co.?Offers all of the
O'Leary stock of saddles, bridles,
harness, whips, etc., at cost. See
page four.
Thomson Co.?Continues its mid-summer
sale all this week. Men's clothing
reduced one-third. See page four
for further details.
First National Bank, Yorkville?Wants
you to feel at home with it, and will
do all it can to make you feel that
way. See page three.
McConnell Dry Goods Co.?Asks you to
investigate its claims for yourself so
you will have no more doubts. Page
three.
G. W. Sherer?Wants to supply you
with the best meats. Pays his respects
to those who do not pay their
beef bills. Page three.
First National Bank, Sharon?Says the
way to keep off rainy days is to open
a savings account with it. Page
three.
Kirkpatrick-Belk Co.?Tells you that
tnere are oniy nve aays 01 us uig
sale and invites you to come after its
bargains. Page three.
Lyric Theatre?Will present the third
installment of "Lucille Love, the Girl
of Mystery,' tomorrow. Page five.
Only two more weeks for enrollment,
and those who have not already enrolled
should do It now?today.
The time for enrollment expires
July 28. Those who are not enrolled
by that date will not be allowed to
vote in the primary.
So far not quite $19,000 has been
paid out to the contractor^ who are
engaged in building the court house.
Payments are made on certificates of
the architect as the completed work
progresses.
Enrollment in York county now is
about 900 short of the primary election
vote of two years ago. The enrollment
is still progressing steadily; but as to
whether it is going to reach the election
figures of two years ago, is more
or less doubtful.
Th*r? wan not so much coiner to
town throughout the county last Friday
afternoon as usual. There were
fewer farmers in Yorkville, and the
same was true of Rock Hill, Fort Mill
and other towns and villages in the
county. The common explanation is
that there were good seasons in the
ground generally, and the farmers
thought it best to remain at home and
plough.
WITHIN THE TOWN
? The Xeely cotton mill ball team
defeated the Clover team on the
former's grounds, Saturday .afternoon,
by a score of 6 to 5. The Neely
mill team has played fourteen games
this season and has won thirteen of
them.
FOR THE STORM SUFFERERS.
The Enquirer begs leave to acknowledge
the receipt of the following contributions
to be turned over to the
committee designated by the governor,
4" (n 4Via ? / *! 1 f Oil
lu assiai in me icuvi u? niv UM.?v. v.?
from the recent hull storm in York
county:
Gov. Cole L. Blease, Columbia..? 2.1 00
L. M. Grist's Sons, Yorkville... 2.1 00
PROGRESS OF ENROLLMENT.
The total enrollment throughout the
county as published in The Enquirer
of last Friday, was 2,965.
This included reports from all the
precincts in the county except Bethany
and McConnellsville, which two clubs
had not been heard from.
The enrollment at Bethany up to
yesterday morning was 106. This was
60 short of the total vote of two years
ago, which was 166. It is explained,
however, that some of the Bethany
voters will go to New Zion and others
to Filbert, and there are still quite a
number to be enrolled at Bethany.
COMMUTATION TAXES
The time for the collection of commutation
road taxes expired on June
30, and on that date the total number
of taxpayers together with the amount
of money collected in each township
stood as follows:
Bethel 417 $ 1,251
Bethesda 318 954
Broad River 310 930
Bullock's Creek 460 1,380
Catawba 654 1,962
Ebenezer 423 1,269
Fort Mill 245 735
King's Mountain 562 1,686
York 461 1,383
Total 3,850 $11,550
REPORT OF GRAND JURY.
The grand jury finished up its business
quickly on Monday, and was discharged
during the afternoon, after
submitting the following, signed by J.
A. Barber, foreman, as its final report:
"Having passed on all bills handed
us by the solicitor, and returned same
with our finding to the court, we beg
leave to submit the following:
"The chairmen of the committees
have been looking after their several
departments and will make a final report
at the fall term of the court.
"We request our representatives
from York county to use their influence
in having the dispensary law
amended, making it a chain gang offet
se, without the option of a fine, for
violating the dispensary law.
"The annual report of the probate
judge and public guardian was received
by the grand jury and turned over
to the committee on county offices.
"Thanking your honor and fhe solicitor
and other court officials for courtesies
shown us, there being no further
business, we beg to be discharged."
IN THE STORM DISTRICT.
The following list of land owners
living within three and a half
,.f n>.plf Hill to fhe south.
east, west and northwest, who suffered
from the hail storm, has been prepared
by a gentleman of Rock Hill, at the
request of The Enquirer. The gentleman
who furnished the list, says that
very probably some names have been
left out, because for the time being
they may have slipped his memory:
13. H. Massey, Rufus Williams, 1. R.
dates. J. T. Roddey, Mrs. Kate Hutchison,
W. C. Sanders, W. M. Robinson, B.
M. Kewell, A. Friedheim & Hro., V. R.
McFadden, D. E. Finley, W. V. Slurgis,
R. W. Roach, R. L. Kerr, J. E. Bass, J.
E. Marshall, Ewell Sturgis, Buford
Sturgis, Joe W. Rawlinson, T. C. Rawlinson,
W. J. Rawlinson, Jno. A. Black,
W. W. Boyce, R. S. Fewell, John M.
Fewell, A. B. Fewell, W. L. Plexico, R.
A. Barnett, J. E. Burnett, S. W, Barron,
T. A. Barron, F. R. Black, J. B.
Neely, W. H. Stewart, J. Hope Adams,
W. C. Hicklin, W. T. Nichols. E. P.
Steele, A. A. Barron estate, Mrs. M. J.
Simlril. M. B. Massey, John F. Williams.
W. N. Simril, E. H. Garrison. W.
J. Miller, W. W. Miller, C. W. Boyd, J.
B. Swlnnle, Joe M. Taylor, Andy Jackson.
.A CALL FOR HELP.
Governor Blease, at the request of
the Rock Hill Chamber of Commerce,
Bethel Improvement association and
different individuals, has issued a
proclamation callinp for voluntary aid
for the people who suffered so severely
in the hailstorm of the 6th.
The proclamation is printed elsewhere
in today's issue of The Enquirer,
and it has also been sent to the
Charleston News and Courier and the
Columbia State.
The members of the committee des
ignated by the governor to take charge
of and administer such contributions
as may be made under the proclamation,
has not yet been advised of their
appointment; but they will be notified
at once, and it is presumed of course,
that all will do the best they can to
properly distribute such relief as may
be offered.
In the meantime such voluntary contributions
as may be made through
The Enquirer will be acknowledged in
the columns of the paper and duly accounted
for.
ABOUT PEOPLE.
Miss Gerald Lowry of Yorkville, is
spending the summer abroad.
Miss Lizzie Woods of Filbert, is
spending some time at Montreat, N.
C.
Mr. W. G. White, Jr., of Chesterfield,
is visiting his parents in Yorkville.
Dr. J. E. Thomas of Jefferson, S.
C., is spending several days in Yorkville.
Mr. Otto Baber of Gastonla, N. C.,
visueu inenus 111 luiitviuc, jwiciday.
Miss Fannie Stroup of Yorkvllle,
spent Sunday with friends in Charlotte.
Mr. Will Etheridge of Ridge Springs,
is the guest of Mr. Jas. H. Beckham's
familv in Yorkville.
Mrs. H. Li. Summitt of Yorkville,
is spending some time at Hendersonville,
N. C.
Miss Olga Allen of Glbsonville, X.
C., is visiting her uncle, Mr. H. C.
Allen, in Yorkville.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Porter Hollis and
son, of Rock Hill, visited relatives in
Yorkville, this week.
Miss Mell Beard of Charlotte, is
visiting the family of Mrs. S. C.
Ashe, in Yorkville.
Miss Evelyn Gettys of Yorkville
No. 4, hsis returned home after a visit
to friends in Clover.
Mr. P. Wolfe of Chester, a former
agent of the C. & N.-W. railway in
Yorkville, spent Sunday here.
Mr. W. B. Steele of Anderson, is
visiting his mother, Mrs. W. B. Steele,
Sr., and other relatives in Yorkville.
Mrs. R. R. Peoples of Pineville, N.
C., is visiting her sister, Mrs. Sue.E.
Cain, and other relatives in Yorkville.
Miss Helen Darby of Lowryville, is
spending some time with her sister,
Mrs. J. H. Witherspoon, in Yorkville.
Miss Lottie Dunlap of Yorkville R.
F. D. No. 3, is the guest of Misses
Burrie and Johnsie Stacy, in Clover.
??i? iliinn? or,a Mnctor
VIIM3 nuuic mimuii auu
Frank McElwee have returned to
Yorkville after a visit to relatives in
Atlanta.
Mrs. H. D. Wolfe and children of
Charlottesville, Va., are the guests of
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Howry, in Yorkville.
Miss Banner Quuttlebaum of Aiken,
is visiting friends and relatives in
Yorkville, the guest of Miss Jessie
Baber.
Miss Eunice McClain of Hock Hill,
who has been visiting her aunt. Mrs.
J. A. Sherer, in Yorkville, is now visiting
relatives in Clover.
Mr. L. A. McGill of King's Mountain,
is in Yorkville this week, looking fine
notwithstanding the severe illness he
underwent some months ago.
Mrs. A. Rose of Leesville, accompanied
by Master R. A. Beckham, is
visiting relatives in Yorkville this
week.
Mrs. L. B. White of Yorkville, and
brother, Mr. L. O. Wilson of Lehi
City, Utah, have been visiting Mrs.
G. M. Wilson and other relatives and
friends In Rock Hill.
BETHEL STORM SUFFERERS.
^i?ou a inrfre nml renresenta
tive meeting of the members of the
Bethel Improvement association at
Laney school house, last Saturday afternoon
to further consider business
tuken up and put under way at the
meeting of July 9.
The meeting was called to order by
Dr. T. N. Dulin, the president, and after
prayer by Mr. A. C. Harper, reports
of committees were called for.
The committee appointed to ascertain
the extent of the disaster in Bethel
township, and the number of people
involved reported as follows:
White people affected 568
Colored people affected 803
Acres of cotton affected 4,522
Acres of corn affected 1,647
Bags of fertilizers lost 6,857
Total damage, per cent.
On motion it was resolved to ask the
general assembly to remit such part of
the state and county taxes of the sufferers
as may be deemed right and
proper.
. It was also resolved to take up with
the commissioner of agriculture the
method of securing seeds from the
government for planting.
It was resolved also to send copies of
the proceedings of the meeting to the
representatives of the state and district
in congress, asking their aid in
securing seed from the government.
A resolution was adopted asking the
co-operation of other townships in the
matter of securing aid.
A resolution was adopted providing
for the appointment of county and
township committees to receive and
distribute aid.
Upon motion, it was resolved to ask
the governor to issue a proclamation,
asKing our renow citizens 01 oouin
Carolina and of the United States to
come to our aid with financial assistance,
and to designate a suitable committee
to receive and distribute such
contributions of money as may be offered.
The committee charged with the
matter of conferring with the fertilizer
companies with reference to such adjustments
of losses as may seem right
and equitable under the circumstances,
not yet having had time to discharge
the work assigned to it, was continued
until the next regular meeting of the
association to be held on the last
Thursday in July.
on motion the meeting adjourned.
SEED FOR PLANTING
The campaign that was inaugurated
by the Rock Hill Chamber of Commerce
to raise money to provide seed
for the farms in the hail stricken district
has been pushed with wonderful
energy and success.
Chester raised $213.50, subscribed by
the following:
S. .M. Jones, $2.r>; K. K. Hatner, $25;
Jos. Wylie & Co., $20; M. S. Lewis,
$15; T. H. White, $15; Moffatt Grocery
Co., $10; L. 1). Childs, $10; J. K. Henry,
$10; The Rodman-Brown Co., $10;
John Frazer. $10; Lathan Grocery Co.,
$5; Robert Gajje, $5; R. B. Caldwell,
$5; Chester Hardware Co., $5; J. C.
Stewart, $5; Hardin Motor Co., $5; J.
\V. Dunovunt, $5; J. T. Perkins. $5; G.
B. White, $5; J. B. Westhrook, $5; W.
J. Simpson. $5; W. J. lOrwin, $2.50; J.
10. Cornwell, $1: T. 10. Whitesides, $1;
J. T. Collins. $1: J. A. Barron, $1; R. L.
Crook, $1; Joe R. Wylie, $1.
The following subscriptions were
raised in Rock Hill:
Peoples National Bank, $.100; South
ern railway, $300; National Union
Bank, $250; Chester citzens, $213.50;
Chamber of Commerce, $100; Rock Hill
Fertilizer Co., $100; Gill & Neely, $75;
Roddey-Poe Mercantile Co., $50; T. L.
Johnston, $50; Smith-Fewell Co., $50;
Rock Hill Grocery Co., $50; Rock Hill
Buggy Co., $50; J. M. Cherry, $50;
Highland Park Cotton Mills, $50; Aragon
Cotton Mill, $50; W. G. Reid &
Son, $25; J. H. Milling. $25; Samuel
Friedheim, $25; Arcade Cotton Mill.
$25; Syleecau Mfg. Co., $25; Rock Hill
Furniture Co., $20; Rock Hill Coca
Cola Co., $20; Cloud Dry Goods Co., $20;
Mrs. F. H. Barber,$25; Mutual Goods
Co., $20; Efflrd's, $20; E. H. Johnston,
$10; Jas. S. White, $10; Dunlap, Dunlap
& Hollis, $10; Diehl-Moore Co. $10;
Spencer, Spencer & White, $10; V. B.
Blankenship, $10; J. Thompson Brown,
$10; R. W. Cranford, $10; Beach-lhrie
Co., $10; J. W. O'Neal, $10; The Record,
$10; Sims Drug Co., $10; Catawba
Fertilizer Co., Lancaster, $10; Jones
Motor Co., $10; J. B. S>'tes, $10; J.
Alex Williford, $10; Catawba Lumber
Co., $10; Williamson Grocery Co., $10;
W. H. Hope Mercantile Co., $10; N. B.
Williams. $10: G. H. Greene. $10; R. L.
Sturgis, $10; Johnson-Powe Drug Co.,
$10; Rock Hill Drug Co., $10; J. A.
Barber, $10; Rock Hill Supply Co., $5;
Hugh Allen, $5; W. J. Cherry, $5; J. M.
Ivy, $5; A. E. Hutchison, $5; Mrs.
Mary C. Barber, $5; R. M. Dondon, $5;
Joe W. Simpson, $5; Ruff Jewelry Co.,
$5; Patterson's 5 and 10 cent Store, $5:
E. E. Poag, $5; H. R. McFadden. $5;
Standard Drug Co., $5; Phillips Drug
Co., $5; Pride Ratterree, $5; J. T. Fain,
$5; Ed Fewell, $5; J. N. Stewart, $5;
W. A Hunsucker, $5; P. B. Wells, $5;
W. A. Douglas, $5; E. B. Patton, $2.50;
M. D. Anderson, $2.50; W. S. Lesslte,
$2; Harry L Schlesinger, (Atlanta),
$2; I. T. Stone, $2; J. H Rudislll, $1:
Kershaw Oil Mill. $25; Lancaster Cotton
Oil Co., $25; John T. Stevens, Kershaw,
$25; H. F. Bookout, $10; Hattie
T. White, $10; Universal Filf & Supply
Co. (Charlotte), $5; Geo. J. Vroman,
$2; O L. Derrick, $5; Rev. W. J.
Nelson, $5; Dr. J. E. W. Haile, $5:
Chester News, $3; A. D. Gilchrist, $2;
Colie W. Roberts, $2; J. M. Yandle $1.
Total, $2,480.50.
GENERAL SESSIONS
The summer term of the court of
general sessions convened yesterday
morning in the temporary court room
of the Rose hotel building, his honor,
.Tnde-P Ernest Moore of Lancaster, pre
siding.
Solicitor Henry was absent attending
the funeral of a relative. The state
was represented by J. C. McLure of
Chester.
Upon organization of the court,
Judge Moore made the usual charge to
the grand jury in regard to the powers
of that body and the great influence
for good they have on the county.
As is usually the case at the summer
term, the number of cases to be
tried are few. Only a few prisoners,
all but one of whom are negroes, were
in jail, and all their cases were disposed
of during yesterday morning's
session.
Judge Moore excused the following
jurors:
J. T. Crawford, J. E. Oates, R. J.
White, W. L. Isom, H. P. Jackson, T.
H. Merritt.
During yesterday morning, the grand
jury passed on all bills presented
them by the acting-solicitor, and after
making their final presentment, were
excused vesterdav afternoon. The fol
lowing true bills were returned:
Press iVIassey, abandonment of wife.
James Ingram, Gammie Reld, Wm.
Franklin, I3elton Dunlap, larceny.
Frank Garrison, larceny.
J. E. Turney and Thad Turney, murder?two
indictments.
J. E. W. Haile, mal practice.
Geo. Barnes, assault with intent to
ravish. i
The first case taken up yesterday
morning was that of the State vs.
Press Massey, charged with the aban- j
donment of his wife. The jury returned
a verdict of guilty, and his honor
sentenced the defendant to one year ,
and placed him under a $300 bond on
his promise to support his wife in future,
the jail sentence to be suspended
during the defendant's compliance
with the bond.
Frank Garrison, a white boy of Rock j
Hill, not quite 11 years old, plead guil- j
ty to the theft of 85 cents, and was
sentenced to the reformatory for white i
boys at Florence for a period of one i
year. i
James Ingram, Wm. Franklin and j
Belton Dunlap, negro boys under 14 i
years of age, plead guilty to stealing i
$45 from H. Finch, a merchant of Rock i
Hill. They were sentenced to serve 5
years in the reformatory at Lexington.
Gammie Reid, 12 years of age, was
indicted with the three boys in the ,
above named charge. He plead not
guilty. The jury, however, returned a <
verdict of guilty, and Gammie was '
sentenced to live years in the reforma- .
turv fnr nnlnrprl vmiths
A special venire of eight jurors was
drawn yesterday afternoon but only
six were served. They are: J. D. Clark,
W. B. Burns, H. T. Williams, Quinn
Wallace, R. W. Lowry, G. W. Brown. ,
The ttrst case taken up this morning
was that of the state vs. Dr. J. E. W. ]
Haile of Rock Hill, charged with mal (
practice.
Messrs. Dunlap & Dunlap and Thos. ,
F. McDow represent the defendant and j
Solicitor Henry, the prosecution. There ,
was a good deal of legal sparring ,
among counsel preliminary to the <
opening of the case, especially as to ]
the number of challenges to which the
defense was entitled. Counsel for the
defense claimed the right to ten chal- i
lenges while the state contended that j
five was the legal number. Judge
Moore sustained the contention of the ]
state. <
It is quite likely that the jury will ]
be engaged in this trial the entire day. <
The trial of J. E. Turney and Thad ]
E. Turney, indicted for the murder of ,
Pink Dover, and J. K. Wells, has been ,<
set for tomorrow morning Thos. F.
McDow, Esq., represents the defen- 1
dants, while John R. Hart, Esq., has
been retained to assist the state. 1
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IIX inc. nniL uio i niu i.
A representative of The Enquirer :
made an extended automobile trip '
through a considerable portion of the ,
recently swept hail district, lust Sat- i
urday afternoon, to look over the situation
and gather such information as :
might be available as to the outlook, ]
the route extending through a portion 1
of Ebenezer township and winding up !
at Rock F J
The main road between Yorkville i
and Rock Hill, almost the entire dis- |
tance and especially between Tirzah
church and Rock Hill, is in an unusu- ?
ally bad condition. The clay surfac- 1
ing has been washed from most of the ;
roads, especially on the steeper grades, ,
makinir traveling tedious and difficult <
and sorely trying to the automobile j
tires. This condition of the roads is \
the work not only of the rain thiit fell |
with the hail storm of the night of the *
6th; but of the heavier downpour that j
followed on the night of the 7th. But f
few of the roads leading into the main 1
road were in a condition to be travel- 1
ed by automobile, and extended explo- (
ration was impracticable. .
Already farmers have gone bravely
to work repairing damages as far as j
they could. Some were patching up 1
broken terraces, and others were plow- 1
ing in cotton fields that showed only [
straight, limbless stems, that seemed ]
to show but little promise of budding i
another leaf. In the case of hundreds *
and hundreds of acres of this cotton, t
the surface had been beaten and wash- t
ed almost to an unbroken level and 1
there was little else than the stripped j
cotton stalks, from six to ten inches s
high to show the direction of the rows, t
About the only thing green to be 1
lnii li'oon t hu Pot a? f!<irriu/\n
place and Ruck Hill, except of course, r
the badly blasted trees, were several li
patches of alfalfa. These covered the
earth in line form. The alfalfa was *
close cropped, whether from the hail
or the mowing machine, it was not (|
practicable to learn, but there was no >
apparent injury to the soil or the per- d
feet stand. The apparent evidence was
that if there is any crop that can withstand
a hail storm, that crop is alfalfa;
but when the circumstance was afterward
mentioned to Mr. John T. Roddey
in Rock Hill, that gentleman said
that he knew of alfalfa patches that
were literally wiped off the earth so
completely that it was impossible to
tell that anything had been planted
there.
Throughout the district where the
cotton crop appears to have been completely
wiped out, the corn patches
show varying aspects. There are to be
seen some patches where the corn was
only IS or 20 inches high. The stalks
had been stripped of leaves; but were
already beginning to show signs of recovery.
The same was true of other
corn still further advanced, almost to
the tasseling stage, and although all of
it is apparently ruined beyond any
possibility of hope, there are experienced
farmers who sav that if it con
tinues to receive proper cultivation, it
will yet make some forage and possibly
a pretty good yield of grain.
In Rock Hill, Messrs. C. L. Cobb, T.
L. Johnston, W. B. Byers, J. T. Roddey,
J. B. Johnson and numerous others to
whom the representative talked, were
still talking of relief measures. They
had been telegraphing from Maine to
Mexico trying to get Irish potato seed;
but without much success. Thiy had
located some sorghum and a few peas;
but hardly enough to be worth while,
and Dr. Johnson had gotten hold of a
quantity of golden dent corn over in
Marlboro county, which he had ordered
shipped to him at once. Three of
the Southern railway's farm demonstration
agents were working in the
vicinity together with Mr. McKeown,
the local man, and all were giving such
advice and encouragement as they
could. While everybody seemed to
think that the main reliance would be
on corn, sorghum, soja beans and the
like, there was much strong talk in favor
of Irish potatoes. It was still a
problem as to where the old seed were
to come from, but one of the Southern
railway's demonstration agents urges
that if there is no other way for it that
there is some chance to utilize new potatoes
by cutting them, drying them in
the sun for some time, and sprouting
them in wet straw before planting. He
says he has often known new potatoes
to be made available for seed in this
way.
While the concensus of opinion in
Rock Hill seemed to.be that the first
and most important consideration is
seeds, still it is recognized that relief
measures must go beyond that. There
are hundreds of people who are with
out anytmng to eat, and negro iaDor,
of course, is demoralized. While past
experience has demonstrated the great
difficulty of affording practical relief
under such circumstances, there is a
feeling that organized effort is necessary
and that strong appeals should
be made to the country for aid. The
action of congress in appropriating
$200,000 for the Salem, Mass., fire sufferers
is discussed, and while many
are honestly of opinion that government
aid in such cases is of doubtful
wisdom, still the people are unanimous
in their belief that hail sufferers in
Ebenezer and Catawba townships have
as strong if not stronger claims on
government aid than the Salem fire
sufferers.
Quite a number of Rock Hill's business
houses have been hard hit by the
storm, especially through the financial
ruin of farmers who were being supplied
by them. The statement was
made Saturday afternoon that a single
concern has $18,000 worth of fertilizers
in the hail stricken district, and others
of course have put out larger quanti
Hps of supplies to people who have
been deprived of all reasonable hope of
paying their accounts.
Some of the farmers say that the i
tremendous rain which followed hard
after the hailstorm did more real damage
than the hail itself. The top soil
was washed off and carried away clean i
down to the subsoil making damage
that cannot be repaired except in the i
course of years, and some really conservative
business men estimate that
the damage of this kind amounts in
the aggregate to not far short of half a
million dollars.
LOCAL LACONICS
Sutton Springs School.
The summer term of the Sutton
Spring school began yesterday morning
with an enrollment of about ttf:een
pupils. Prof. T. W. Cooley is
n charge. Miss Ruth Ferguson is to
Leach the school this fall.
Lancaster Man Secures Bail.
D. Reece Williams, Esq., of Lancaster,
appeared before Judge Moore in
Yorkville this morning and petitioned
for bail for George Roberts, held for
the killing of Richard Love in Lancaster
county, last Tuesday. The attor
ney read the testimony taken at the
Inquest, and Solicitor Henry making
no objection to the motion, his honor ;
ordered Roberts released on a bond of
53,000. j
The Haskell Convention. I
A reader has asked The Enquirer for
the names of the York county dele- I
?ates to the Haskell convention of :
1890. Upon looking the matter up, the <
record shows that York was represent
?d by only two delegates?Messrs. A. I
E. Hutchison and Iredell Jones. Ac- <
wording to the report published in The
Enquirer at the time the name of Sen- I
itor E. D. Smith leads the list of the
Sumter delegation. 1
\ Work of the Storm. I
Mr. W M. Setzer, who owns the Jim i
Bigger old place, 13 miles north-east s
>f Yorkville, is in Yorkville on the :
iury. He said that there was still '
plenty of ice in his neighborhood on t
Sunday, and people who saw it thought
it might be there for a day or two
onger. He saw hail stones himself on
Sunday that had been gathered up by .
ihe bag full, six days after the storm.
nu .. U.. t 1 rxA \/t w 1
1 iir nan nwi uinj ucjjwujcu iui. oci
ser's crops, but killed a number of
guineas, chickens and ducks for him.
He says that if the up-rooted trees on
lis place are taken care of, they will
serve the needs of the place for firewood
for several years. A negro, on
lis place, reported having seen a large
snake that was killed by the hail.
Free School Books, Etc.
Superintendent of Education Carroll
said yesterday chat the school terms in
:he hail stricken districts, will not be
shortened on account of the recent
calamity. Funds can be obtained from
>ther sources to make up any deficiency
that may be caused by any remission
of school taxes the general assembly
might see proper to order. He
went on to say that he is now trying to
>erfect arrangements to provide free
school books for children whose parents
have suffered from the storm, and
n this connection, too, he would like
>eopIe who may have secondhand
looks to spare, to know that he will
nulertake to place them where they
will do good and receive due apprecia:ion.
Hail Stricken Cotton.
<)n the 3d day of July, 1903, a heavy
tailstorm swept through a portion of
Jethel township, and stripped the coton
of leaves to the ground, leaving
lothing but the broken, battered and
skinned stalks. The facts were pubished
in The Enquirer at the time. Mr.
5am J. Clinton of Clover, was in the
itricken territory. He worked his crop
>ut, and made some cotton. He was s
ailed up on the telephone last Friday d
vening for definite information about n
he matter. He said that he made c
ibout one-fourth a crop. Several of ^
lis neighbors made a half crop. He s
laid that one year after that, in the c
>arly part of August, hail cut his corn t
top all to pieces. The corn was tas- e
teling and was stripped of leaves and d
ven tassels. He worked it out and e
nade a fairly good crop of corn, almost
is much as he would have made if the c
itorm had not struck him. ll
Death of Mrs. N. E. Plexico.
Mrs. Nancy Kmily Plexico, widow of v
he late It. M. Plexico, and third f
laughter of the late John and Itachel 1
lot till, died at the home of her t
a tighter, Mrs. J. N. Quinn, at J
Smyrna, last Saturday evening, death
resulting from cancer, Mrs. Plexico
was more than seventy years of age,
and was born on Clark's Fork, near 1
the place where she died. All her ?
life had been spent in the Smyrna
section of York county. Since early
childhood, a member of the Smyrna
A. K. P. church, she was widely
known to a large number of relatives,
friends and acquaintances, as a Godfearing
woman of beuutiful life ami
Christian character. The deceased g
was the relict of the late Robert M. J
Plexico, whom she married more
than forty years ago. She is surviv- w
ed by an older sister, Mrs. W. M. *
Kennedy of Yorkville, and a brother,
Mr. J. C. McGill of King's Creek.
The following children survive:
Messrs. M. K., Yorkville; J. E.. 4
King's Creek: J. L., Blacksburg; Victor,
Sharon, and Mesdames Belle
Jeans, Clinton; J. N. Quinn, Smyrna;
Mattie Caldwell, Smyrna. The funeral
and interment was at Smyrna, yesterday
afternoon at 2 o'clock, services
being conducted by her pastor, Rev.
B. G. Pressly.
Rev. Or. J. H. Simpson Dead.
Rev. Dr. J. H. Simpson, whose initial
illness in the Charlotte Sanitari
um, was mentioned last Friday, died at
6.30 o'clock Sunday morning. Dr. Simpson
was horn in Chester on August 3,
1834. He was graduated from Erskine
college in the class of 1854, and after
tcirinu- tho fimruo in the Seminary was
licensed to preach in 1856. He served *
through the Civil war as chaplain of
the Twenty-third regiment. He was
superintendent of the A. R. P. orphanage
during the time that institution
was located at Hickory Grove, and continued
in that capacity for some years
after the orphanage was removed to
Tipton county, Tennessee. This was
after he had served more than twentyfive
years as pastor of a church at New
Lebanon, West Virginia, Dr. Simpson
married Miss Elizabeth Moffatt, who
died fifteen years ago, and was buried
at Purity church, four miles from
Chester. The following children survive:
Mrs. Hawkins, of Clifton Forge,
Va., Mrs. McCormick, of Spottswood,
Va., Mr. D. M. Simpson of Chicago, fc
Mrs. H. E. McConnell, of Chester. The
interment took place at Purity yesterday
afternoon, the services being attended
by a large concourse of people,
including quite a number of ministers
of the Associate Reformed church.
J. Gilbert Enloe Dead.
The dead body of Mr. John Gilbert
tfnloo u/?>ll .knnu'n I n riifferont nnrts nf
the county, was found in a thicket on
the western outskirts of Rock Hill, last
Sunday morning. When found, Mr.
Enloe's head was resting on a coat for
a pillow, and near by was an empty
box that had contained morphine, and
an empty coca-cola bottle. At the In- ^
quest there was testimony to show
that he had left home at about 6
o'clock, Saturday morning, to go take
up his regular duties as salesman for
W. G. Reid & Son. He stopped at a
store near the Wymojo mill, and
bought a bottle of coca-cola, saying
that he would return the bottle in a
few minutes; but nothing more was
seen of him until the finding of his
dead body. He was known to be an
habitual user of morphine, because of
a constitutional trouble to which the
drug gave temporary relief. As to
whether the suicide was intentional is
not clear. The deceased was a son of m
the late John G. Enloe, once prominent
in the political affairs of the county,
and was slightly over 50 years of age.
He was twice married, his first wife
being a daughter of the late Joseph A.
Smith. He is survived by his second
wife and three small children, and ?
three children by his first wife, Mesdames
Buford and Elwell Sturgis, and
Mr. J. J. Enloe.
THE NEWBERRY MEETING
Smithites Wear Cotton Blooms and
Bleaseites Red Badaes.
The candidates for the United B
States senatorial nomination spoke W
last Friday at Newberry, the home of
Governor Blease, and were met by
some two thousand or more people,
fairly equally divided as between the
opposing factions.
Especial effort had been made to *
make the meeting a notable one, and
Senator Smith was driven from his
hotel to the speaker's stand astride a
bale of linters, followed by a crowd of
supporters wearing white cottonblooms.
The Bleaseites were out in
equal numbers wearing red ribbons on
their coats, shirts or hats.
The speakers generally were about
the same as at other meetings except a
that Governor Blease who spoke last,
confined himself mainly to a review of
his political record in Newberry county,
before going as a candidate for the
house of representatives when he was
little more than a boy. He also referred
to the lockout by the Monegan a
mills of Greenville, and said that the B
trouble was started by the mill management
to drive the mill workers out
of town so they could not vote in the
approaching election. To vote in the
primary a voter must have resided at
the precinct at which he offers to vote
at least sixty days next preceding the
primary. If these mill workers are
driven out of Greenville and others
come in from other towns to take their
places then the voters of all concerned
both coming and going will be killed. ?
The governor was frequently cheered. 9
senator smith reviewed his five and
x half years In the senate, telling of
he benefits he claims to have conferi
on the farmers of the country, and
the south in general because of his efforts
in behalf of cotton.
Messrs. Jennings and Pollock made f
their usual speeches and were sublected
to frequent Interruptions; but
everything passed off good naturedly.
There were numerous bouquets of
lowers and boxes of fruit for both
3overnor Blease and Senator Smith,
md Messrs. Jennings and Pollock each
?ot a box of flowers.
Mr Jennings said that numerous
oeople had told him that Governor
Blease would not carry his own county
and expressed grave doubts as to
whether the governor would be in the ?
second race. Voices from the crowd
said "that's right." and others said,
"talk's cheap, votes make nomlnaions."
At Greenwood.
The attendance at the Greenwood ^
meeting was fully as large as that at
the Newberry meeting and rather
nore noisy.
Pollock, being the first speaker, gave
way to Senator Smith, the explanation
)eing that Smith wanted an early start
ro go over into Laurens county where
le wanted to investigate the nature
ind extent of damage inflicted by the
lail storm with a view to taking steps
ooking to Federal relief, etc. The senitor
made his speech along the usual
ines. While he was discussing the
arices of cotton, an auditor asked him
vhy, while he was it, he did not make jf
he price a dollar a pound, "so we could
ill go to farming." The senator replied
hat if the interrupter would farm as
lard as he talks, the price would soon
>e a dollar a pound.
Governor Please came up while Senitor
Smith was speaking, and asked A
low came that change in the pro- ^
rramme without his being consulted,
le said that his place was after Smith
ind he would have his place or not
ipeak at all. Pollock agreed to the ar angement.
The governor referred to
he statements made at Newberry by
he other speaker that his color, red.
ttood for socialism, anarchy, etc., and
lisavowed such implication. He waved
l red shirt of the 1876 campaign, and
laid that it represented the kind of red
lis color stood for. He ridiculed
'mith's proposed visit to Laurens, and
aid he was going over there after
otes; but would get none except his
iwn kind. He said that he had already
riven instructions for the issuance of
(reclamations for the relief of hail
ufferers.
Mr. Jennings made about his usual
peech, the only new matter being the
leclaration to the effect that while a
aember of the general assembly Govrnor
Please had even voted against
V.'iHp Hnmntnn fur thr? lTnitpH Qtntnsi
enate. Mr. Jennings the alleged
ircumstances of a number of pardons 4
he governor had issued, and in each
use commented that it was no woner
that the governor was unwilling to
xplain his record.
Mr. Pollock made his usual speech,
ailing the roll of the foreigners who
lad applied for enrollment in Charles- ^
on and exhibiting the Republican
icket < f the Garfield campaign, upon
rhich appears the name of Col. J. P.
Jibson, of the governor's staff. Mr.
'ollock was fought by tbe crowd
hroughout his speech, as was also Mr.
ennings.