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? There were two horrible cave-ins
of the New York subway system last
week. In the first seven people were
killed and a large number were injured.
In the second, one was killed
and three were injured. The subway
or underground trolley lines run under
the principaJ streets, especially Broadway.
They have been constructed by
ditching and tunneling, and bracing
up the buildings and streets from underneath.
The first cave-in was
caused from a blast and the second
? from defective supports.
In both cases street cars, automobiles
and many people went down when the
upper street surface gave way.
? Automobile highwaymen robbed a
man of $2,000 in cash on a crowded
New York street in broad daylight
last Saturday. The man's name was
Chas. Fried, a cashier of the Fleischeman
bakery. He was taking the
moppy from the bakery to the Germahla
bank for deposit. As he was
passing along First avenue, between
Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eightli
streets, two men Jumped out of an automoble,
knocked him down, took his
money away, got back into the automobile
and left before the crowds of
? men and women realized what had
happened. Fried was removed to a
hospital for treatment. There have
been many such robberies in New York
but this is one of the boldest that has
occurred.
? Jute instead of cotton twine will
be used by the postofflce department
during the year beginning November
1, for tying letters. The contract for
furnishing jute has been awarded the
Ludlow Manufacturing association of
Boston, Mass., at $0,099 a pound deem*
v- ~ Kta fnr- fnrninhine
ea iu uc me ivn^oi. wiu *v? ?.%* 9
either Jute or cotton submitted to the
department. Cotton is being used this
year at $0.1323. The cotton twine bidders
were: Beaufort Manufacturing
Co., Spartanburg, S. C., at $0.1687;
Glencoe Cotton mills, Columbia, S. C.,
at $0,165, and the Lancaster Cotton
mills, Lancaster, S. C., at $0.15875.
Subsequent to the opening of the bids
the Lancaster mills was permitted upon
its request to withdraw its bid.
During the year 2,500,000 pounds of
Jute twine will be used by the department.
Cotton is now being used. The
Jute contract amounts to $247,000.
? Wall Street Journal: Large interests
have formed a pool to operate
on the bull side of the cotton futures
market and heavy buying orders have
already been executed and will be
pursued on a large scale as soon as the
arrangements for floating the AngloFrench
loan are Anally consummated.
Identified with the pool are some of
the prominent stock market operators
who have recently made a killing in
the "war" shares. These include a
number of the so-called Waldorf
crowd. It is the present plan of the
pool to buy cotton and hold it for 18
cents a pound, at whidh price it is
claimed the staple should sell before
the end of the year. The arguments
are that the new crop is a small one;
that the issue of an Anglo-French
loan will clear away the obstacles to
the export of cotton to the Allies by
adjusting the exchange market to
nearly if not a normal basis and cor
recung me uncertain nuciuauunD.
that the export demand will be much
in excess of the surplus, and that domestic
consumption will continue at a
record rate owing to the demand for
war munitions and other material.
? Details of fighting between the natives
and American forces near Cape
Haitien Sunday, in which one marine
was killed, ten were wounded and
more than 50 Haitens were killed,
reached the navy department yesterday
in messages from Rear Admiral
Caperton. The marine patrols had
been sent out to clear the lines of supply
from Cape Haiten to the interior,
Two patrols were sent out Sunday
and after the expedition reached
Haut Vu Cap firing became general
and both patrols were engaged. About
50 natives were killed. The patrols
returned to Cape Haitien Sunday
night and Admiral Caperton reported
the supply routes had been completely
cleared of hostile forces. A later
message said Captain Underwood led
an expedition of 50 mounted marines
to Petit Riviere and Delarte Bonite
Sunday and encountered 150 armed
Haitiena They were driven into the
hills after a vigorous skirmish, in
which one marine and two natives
were killed and three natives were
wounded. The marines are holding the
two towns where quiet has been restored.
Among the wounded marines
was Private Frederick William Remani,
who enlisted at Norfolk.
? New York, September 26: The
Anglo-French financial commission
and eastern bankers have reached a
virtual agreement on the details of
the proposed billion dollar credit loan
tr\ rirftot Pritoin Q nH TTVonoo T?mir
members of the commission will leave
here tomorrow afternoon for Chicago
to confer with western bankers over
the tentative terms. Following are
the details of the loan upon which the
commission and the bankers of the
eastern states are in virtual accord.
The amount?approximately $500,000,000.
The securities?joint AngloFrench
notes. The interest rate?5
per cent, to yield the investor about
5} per cent by the notes being offered
at slightly under par. A conversion
privilege at maturity of the notes?
the holder to receive cash or join
Anglo-French 15 or 20 year bonds
bearing four and one-half per cent interest.
It became known tonight also
that the entire tentative programme
had been submitted to London and
Paris and that the attitude of the
home government so far as disclosed is
one of approval. It is assumed that
the parliaments of both Great Britain
and France would have to authorize
the issuance of the loan. If western
bankers are in accordance with the
tentative agreement upon which the
eastern financiers and the commission
have reached an understanding, the
programme will stand barring unforeseen
developments and its final adoption
is as good as assured. This assertion
was made tonight by an
American financier who has been of
the inner-circle throughout the period
of negotiations. A member of the firm
of J. P. Morgan & Co., will be in
Chicago at the same time as the members
of the commission, it was said.
? Atlanta dispatch to the Philadelphia
Public Ledger: The high price
and the continued rise in the price of
gasoline in the south and the wide
difference between the price of the
commodity in Dixie and the north has
been the cause recently of so much
dissatisfaction among motorists and
other users of gasoline that a Federal
investigation has been suggested, and
it is not unlikely that a movement
will be organized looking to such an
investigation. Your correspondent has
obtained quotations from the chief
selling points in the northern, eastern
and southern states. These quotations
show that gasoline a gallon
varies in price from 9.9 cents in Chicago
to 18 and 22 cents in the Carolinas.
In Atlanta, perhaps the principal selling
and distributing point in the south,
the price since August has risen from
12J to 16 rents. Dealers in the south
proiess 10 oe ai a loss 10 Know tne
cause not only of the continued increase
in_the price of gasoline, hut also
the reason for the wide difference
in the price of the same gravity gasoline
in the same dates in different
cities. In point of supply and demand,
it is said, there is no foundation to indicate
that the increase and difference
in price would be brought about. It
has been held by some dealers that the
supply from some of the wells has
lately been diminishing, while information
from other sources is that wells
have been closed and the supply cut
off by this method. Successful manipulation
of local markets by branch
managers for the purpose of showing
increased returns is given as one
reason for the sudden rise in price.
Dealers say that the price of this
commodity is not economically created
over night. Freight rates cut little
figure in the prices prevailing in the
south as compared with those in the
north. The variation in the figures in
various cities, as shown by telegraphic
quotations, is explained, some dealers
say. by local conditions, which have
no stability, and are therefore liable
to change daily. The enormous exportations
of gasoline to foreign countries
at a time when certain oil fields
were dwindling in output and one of
the large oil companies was temporarily
incapacitated to meet its orders
by the recent Galveston storm, are
factors which should be considered in
connection with the fact that there has
been an increase in the consumption
of gasoline by automobiles. Whatever
may be the cause for the condition of
the markets, several state authorities
believe that there is reason to suspect
manipulation of the gasoline
market. States have control only over
the correctness of the advertising o?
various gravities of gasoline, and they
, feel that the question of the difference
in the prices is an interstate question
and therefore proper matter for Federal
investigation. It is understood that
developments may be expected In the
j next several days.
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Entered at the Postoftiee at Yorn as
Mail Matter of the Second Class.
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YORK. S.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28,1915
Judge Ernest Moore says the gallon,
a-month law is constitutional and
Judge F. B. Gary says the law is unconstitutional.
Senator Carlisle of
, Spartanburg, the father of the law,
, says that Judge Moore is right. The
i matter will go up to the supreme
court, and tho decision of that tribunal
will govern, right or wrong.
i The real estate business which, like
most other businesses, has been pretty
fiat for the past year or more, is beginning
to feel the effects of better
prices for cotton, and is looking up
?nmnwhRt As vet the improvement
is confined mainly to inquiry; but that
there will be more or less trading
soon is reasonably certain.
Except for the arrangement that
provides cheap money with which to
finance the stored cotton, the state
warehouse system would be of small
importance. The people who wanted
the cotton would rest assured that
it would have to come out as soon as
the owners ran short of cash and credit.
But now the stored cotton is not
so helpless. Owners are in a position
to hold almost indefinitely and the
presence of cheap money helps the
price whether the cheap money is
actually used or not. Yes, it is the
cheap money that has been the tenstrike
in the situation.
The group of German firms that recently
offered 15 cents a pound for
3,000,000 bales of cotton delivered at
Bremen, has increased the offer to 16
cents. Of course the cotton cannot be
deliveied because of the contraband
proclamation and the orders in council;
but nevertheless the situation is
interesting. Whatever the purpose of
this offer, whether because of a desire
to get the cotton or to affect public
sentiment, there is no possible
doubt of the fact that Germany is
anxious to get cotton, and if she cannot
get it now. she will get it as soon
she can. There is not enough cotton
to go around, even with Germany
left out, and the eagerness that all
consumers are showing to get what
there is proves beyond question that
it will be but a short time until the
American price will be close to the
price that Germany is offering.
Although the following paragraph
that has been sent out from Columbia,
under date of September 25, is little
more than a repetition of what has
already been published in The Enquirer
on the same subject, so positively
are we convinced of the authenticity of
the infoimation it contains that we
deem it important as a matter of record:
"Governor Manning and Warehouse
Commissioner McLaurin held a
lengthy conference in the governor's
office a few days ago, discussing the
advantages of the state warehouse system
and the legislation necessary to
perfect the law governing it. No
statement was given out after the
conference, but it was learned that
both Governor Manning and Commissioner
McLaurin are agreed that certain
defects in the law should be remedied
and that there was practically
complete agreement between the governor
and the warehouse commissioner
as to what is best to be done in perfecting
this law ihat means so much
to the cotton producing interests 01
South Carolina. It is likely that Governor
Manning and Commissioner McLaurin
will hold frequent conferences
on this matter before the legislature
meets in January and the results of
these conferences will probably be
embraced in a message from the governor
to the legislat/ure during the
early part of the next session."
At a mass meeting of the Mecklenburg
County Farmers' Union in Charlotte
last Saturday, according to an
account given in the Charlotte Observer,
steps were taken for the employment
of an official cotton grader
for the county, with an office In Charlotte.
The purpose is to have all cotton
offered for sale or for collateral, to
be officially passed upon by the grader,
who is to be a recognized expert,
using the government's standard. The
expenses of the grader for the season,
including salary, office rent, etc., is to
be $400, and of this amount $257 was
pledged on the spot by eleven local
Unions represented, with the insurance
that the balance would easily be
raised from the remaining local
Unions. Mr. O. J. McConnell, who
promoted a similar movement in
Edgccomb county last year was the
principal speaker. He stated that an
arrangement had been perfected
whereby the ginners sent samples of
each day's ginning to the grading expert,
and the expert next day sent the
samples, together with certificates of
grades, to the owners of the cotton.
As the result of this arrangement, he
said nnnrnvimntplv Tf, cents was saved
to the producer on each bale of cotton
sold at Tarboro, and larger growers
who were able to forward their cotton
to foreign markets, averaged $1.15 a
bale additional. He felt quite sure
that the benefits of the plan would be
much greater in the Piedmont than in
the eastern section of the state. According
to the plans arranged at the
meeting the official grader will be installed
within the next ten days.
"Essentials of the Warehouse Question."
The profitable marketing of cotton
is directly dependent upon warehouses.
A bonded warehouse is a device
whereby cotton is made available as
security for loans.
The following points in relation to
the marketing of cotton should be
kept in inind:
Cotton has peculiar qualities milking
it desirable as a loan security. At
all times it can be sold for cash and.
properly protected, it is non-perishable.
The south is a borrowing, not
a lending, community, therefore the
price of money, or the interest rate,
will be high in the south no matter
what the security is.
Cotton is a security in its nature so
excellent that it should be easy to negotiate
loans on it in the northern
money centers where the rate of interest
is low.
In order to make a bale of cotton
available a security in New York and
Chicago, it must be properly introduced.
The New York banker must
know that the cotton is in existence; 1
that it is of the grade claimed for it; 1
that it is held in a rightly construct- f
ed warehouse, and that it is insured, i
The banker's only means of obtaining
this knowledge is through the ware- i
house receipt. It is, therefore, indispensable
that he have complete con- 1
fidence in the warehouse company. J
Of the value of a warehouse system i
sufficient to accommodate a great
part of the cotton in existence at a
given time there can be no question.
Whether it be a private or a state
system is not of first importance, but i
unless the system be conducted on
thoroughgoing business principles it
will be worthless. If we are to have
a state warehouse system it is essen
tial that its business be carried on
with the same exactness of method
that obtains in the New York banking
j house with which It deals.
A state warehouse system cannot be
operated unless the taxpayers are prepared
to make large initial investment
I in it. It will be worse than useless ,
unless it shall be wholly and perma- i
nently separated from partisan political
influences. i
The people would as well under
stand that the mere fact that a ware- 1
house system Is conducted by the
state gives it no peculiar advantage
or repute. It is not less necessary for
the state to demonstrate purpose and
capacity to carry on the warehouse 1
business with efficiency, if It is to obtain
the confidence of the commercial
j world, than it would be for Smith &
Jones or the Brown company to make
a similar demonstration.
Whether the South Carolina warehouse
system is an established success
or not rests in the answer to this
question:
"Can the owner of 100 bales of cotton
carry its receipt to New York and
there obtain a loan upon it at 6 per
cent or less?"
If the reply be "No," the Inference
is that the system has been in operation
for too brief a time to establish
.commercial confidence, or that there
[ is some other obstacle that impairs
confidence in it.?Columbia State, Friday.
While the editor of The Enquirer
was in Columbia in January. 1912, for
the purpose of trying to help Hon.
John L. McLaurin get his state-warehouse
idea before the people of the
state, Mr. McLaurin told this writer
of certain efforts he had made to secure
the co-operation of the editor of
the Columbia State in the undertaking.
It seems Mr. McLaurin had had
a personal conference with the editor
of the State, then Mr. W. E. Gonzales,
and about the only satisfaction he
got from Mr. Gonzales was a declaration
to this effect: "I don't know anything
about the subject of finance, and
I cannot anora to venture into a neia
in which I would be unable to sustain
myself." The editor of The Enquirer
told Mr. McLaurin then and
there: "You need never expect any
assistance from that State crowd in
behalf of your state warehouse system
or anything else of which you are
the.proponent. They have no use for
you or anything for which you stand,
and if they ever appear to back you
up in anything, it will not be until
you have won the support of the people
to such an extent that the State
folks wont dare try to antagonize you
any further."
Mr. McLaurin seemed incapable of
comprehending the correctness of this
declaration. He insisted that the editor
of The Enquirer was mistaken,
and confidently expressed the opinion
that so soon as the Columbia State
realized what he was trying to do
in the way of assuring to the producing
classes of South Carolina, more
especially the cotton farmers, a fair
share of the proceeds of their labor, it
would* at once throw all its powerful
influence to the cause.
We have recited these facts because
of the light they throw on the peculiarly
mean and sneaking editorial we
have reproduced above, and now by a
statement of certain facts of which the
Columbia State and most of the public
are aware, we will proceed to sho.v
how mean and sneaking that editorial
really is.
The former editor of the State
owned that he knew nothing about
finance, etc. As to whether the present
editor is in the same position, we do
not feel warranted in saying. We will
say, however, that in his statement of
the requirements necessary to make a
bale of cotton available as security in
New York or Chicago, he is either very
ignorant or very careless. The "existence"
of the cotton is important,
of course, and so is it important that
the cotton be sheltered from the
weather and insured against fire. But
above all these the one thing that the
banker wants the receipt to guarantee
is the "title." The state warehouse receipt
does that as does no other receipt.
It will be remembered that at the |
outset of this warehouse movement,
Mr. McLaurin sought to get a fairly
large initial appropriation for the
purpose of establishing state-owned
warxhnnsps Hflvinp heen thwarted
one way and another in his efforts in
this direction, he accepted a law that
gave him nothing but the right to
persuade people to invest their money
in warehouses to be placed under his
management, with the understanding
that these people aloo pay him a rental
of 3 cents a bale per month to help defray
expenses. And the thing that
is hurting some folks right now is the
fact that the people of the state are
showing their confidence by putting up (
their money.
"Can the owner of 100 bales of cotton
carry its receipt to New York and
there obtain a loan upon it at 6 per
cent or less?" asks the State.
Did not Senator Banks of Calhoun
county, say in a speech last winter, (
that he had gone to New York and
borrowed $10,000 on his state warehouse
receipts at 5 per cent straight
interest? If that does not answer
your question "Yes," then what more
do you want?
Does the State not remember that
letter from the Guaranty Trust company
of New York to a South Carolina
banker that was published last
spring, in which the Guaranty Trust
company declined to loan on ware- ;
house receipts except the money went
through the office of the commissioner,
and did not Mr. McLaurin decline
the agreement because "it would 1
deprive the banks of a legitimate
function,'' and did not Mr. McLaurin
go on to say "that if the banks refused
to handle this paper at a satisfactory
rate of interest, he would see to
it that the farmers were able to borrow
money without the interposition
of the banks?"
Except on a basis of what we have |
said at the outset of these remarks, i
we do not understand wnat the state
wants, anyway. In view of all that '
has been accomplished during the past
three years, in the face of so many <
obstacles, it is surely able to see that i
if it really wants a perfect warehouse i
system, all it has to do is to get be- i
hind Mr. McLuurin and help him i
along instead of trying to flyblow and <
hinder his efforts.
But maybe it is something else, i
Now that we remember, the editor of (
the State is a director in the Palmetto
bank. We heard a story sometime |
ago that Senator Tillman, a lifelong
customer of this bank, went there to i
get some 6 per cent money on state t
warehouse receipts, and when the t
Palmetto bank turned him down, Mr. <
McLaurin made arrangements where- |
by the senator got the 6 per cent mon- i
ey from the National Union bank.
Possibly this is the reason why the
State don't like the state warehouse
system.
We happen to know something
about the state warehouse system.
We have been in pretty close touch
with everything that has been done
troin the beginning. We know that
Senator McLaurln has all along been
trying to work with the banks to help
them and to get them to help the system.
His one great desire is to put
the cotton producers of the south in
a position to get their fair share of the
proceeds of their labor. He knows, as
the State says, that the south is a
"borrowing" community; but he believes
that it ought to be and has a
nic?h? ho n "lonrtine" community, to
which status it is his purpose and desire
to raise it. And it is fine headway
he is making, too. Less than four
years ago, he stood, entirely alone,
hunting for somebody, including the
Columbia State, to help him. Now,
judging from the publicly expressed
attitude of President Wilson, Mr. McAdoo
and Mr. Harding, he has the absolute
support of the whole Federal
administration, and he is going right
on to success, too.
Of course, there are people who
say that 6 per cent money for the
farmer is not a good thing. We think
it is; but good or bad, there is no
question in the world of the fact that
the responsibility rests upon Mr. McLaurin
and his state warehouse system,
and if the Columbia State really
thinks that nothrng of Importance has
been accomplished yet, we suggest
that it contain itself in patience.
In the meantime, our contemporary
need not worry about the sending of
receipts directly to the central sources
of cheap money. Mr. McLaurin has already
learned that he can do that if
he wants to; but he does not want to
do that. He prefers to have the cotton
financed by and through our own
banks. Most of them are co-operating
with him, and he is very well
pleased; but If there had been no Nar
tional Union bank to take care of the
loan refused by the Palmetto National
bank, Senator Tillman would have gotten
his money all the same, and it il
probable that like Senator Banks, he
would have gotten it at less than 6
per cent.
GALLON A MONTH LAW
Judges Disagree and the Supreme
Court Will Have to Decide.
Senator Howard B. Carlisle of Spartanburg
county, who was largely responsible
for the main features of the
aallun-a-month law, disagrees with
Judge Frank B. Gary on the constitutionality
of the act He is quoted by
the Spartanburg Journal as follows:
The gallon-a-month law passed by
the South Carolina geneial assembly,
February 20, 1915, is pronounced constitutional
in an Interview secured today
from Senator Howard B. Carlisle,
member of the upper house from
Spartanburg county, who contributed
most of the important features of the
bill. The statement was secured from
the senator today in view of the published
reports that Circuit Judge Gary
at the recent court of general sessions
for Abbeville granted an order which
declared the gallon-a month law unconstitutional,
Judge Gary, as shown,
basing his Judgment on the report of
the supreme court in the case, of the
Adams' Express company vs. the commonwealth
of Kentucky.
Senator Carlisle disagreed with Judge
Gary and supports the ruling of Circuit
Judge Ernest Moore, who had
previously in a somewhat similar case,
ruled the law to be constitutional.
There is much discussion among the
legal fraternity as to the constitutionality
of the law and the opinion of
Senator Carlisle as expressed here will
be of interest Senator Carlisle said:
"I have read Judge Gary's decision
and note that he did not agree with
Judge Ernest Moore, who, in a somewhat
similar case, ruled the law to be
constitutional.
"Chief Justice Gary stated in the
case of Atkinson vs. the Southern Express
company, or rather used the following
words in his opinion: 'As v*e
have already said the recent act of
coiikress iine weuu ia.n / uivcbui ^41toxicatlng
liquors of the interstate
commerce character and invests the
respective states with power to prohibit
importation absolutely only for
sale and use through a dispensary.'
"In order for a state to take advantage
of the Webb law the sale or
possession of liquor must be outlawed
to some extent at least. This has been
done in the gallon-a-month law. It
is unlawful to possess more than a
gallon a month and for this reason it
is clear to my mind that the supreme
court will hold that possession of
more than a gallon will be unlawful
and therefore when more than a gallon
is received it is received unlawfully.
Granting this the law is unquestionably
constitutional.
"The circuit court of appeals, Judge
Woods, rendering his decision, has declared
the Webb law to be constitutional
and when liquor is shipped into
the state for unlawful purposes, for
example, to be sold, received or used,
li is 3unjecx xo xne laws ox me sxaxe.
"An interpretation of the South
Carolina gallon-a-month law is clearly
different from the Kentucky law
as referred to by Judge Gary and It
appears to be that there is no precedent
to be considered in that case."
? The city registrar is under bond of
$1,000 to answer to the charge of issuing
fraudulent registration certificates,
says a Beaufort dispatch of Saturday
to the Columbia State. A white voter,
Esau Levy, is under $500 bond for
fraudulent registration, and a negro
voter is eluding the service of a warrant
for the same offense. Ex-City
Manager Home is out on a $200 bond
charged with carrying concealed weapons
and Mr. Levy is under like bond,
charged with assaulting Mr. Home.
The alleged assault occurred in front
of the postofflce tonight. Surrounded
by a party of over 20 Danner partisans,
Levy stopped Mr. Home, who
came along the sidewalk in company
with J. W. Gray and cursed him for
swearing out the warrant for false
registration. Levy, who had been
threatening violence during the afternoon,
now urged on by the crowd,
struck Home, and ran into a nearby
store calling out: "He is going to shoot
me." Mr. Home went after him, the
crowd in an uproar. A policeman
came up. Mr. Home was charged
with being armed and turned over a
revolver to the policeman and demanded
the arrest of Levy- The policeman
refused. Home weighs 115
pounds. Tonight at a meeting of indignant
citizens the following resolution
was passed and presented to the
mayor by a committee consisting of
George \V. Beckett. George Waterhouse
and W. E. Richardson: "Be it
resolved. That the mayor of the city,
E. C. Danner, be requested to guarantee
police protection for R. C. Home,
Jr., who has been attacnea by political
adherents of the mayor on the
streets of Beaufort in the presence of
the police who refused to make any
arrests upon the ground that the chief
of police had ordered them not to interfere
in the event of disturbances
arising from politics, but only to summon
the parties Involved to appear in
court. We present this resolution in
the face of many rumors of threats of
violence directed against Mr. Home."
The meeting then resolved that whereas
the committee appointed by the
mayor and the chief of police ha,s given
explicit promises that the peace
will be preserved and the chief of police
requests that any threat against
Mr. Home or any other citizen be reported
to him upon which information
he will make the arrest of said
person, therefore it was resolved that
the meeting accept the promises. The
meeting also voted to ask the county
commissioners to keep the rural police
In the city until after the election.
The city registrar has turned down
many men who are registered In the
county, but who had lost their registration
certificates. The recall advocates
some time ago presented a protest
to the mayor, after which the
names of two of their opponents were
stricken from the registration list.
I?nst night a number of the leaders
iliscussed other irregularities and decided
on taking out the warrants
which were sworn out by Mr. Home
before Magistrate Riley of Yemassee.
rn the case of the two charged it was
found their names do not appear on
the county registration books and
therefore they are not entitled to the
city registration certificates that were
liven them. Other evidence is in hand
warranting other arrests.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
G. W. Culberson?Has opened the
Novelty Studio in the Lindsay photograph
studio and solicits your patronage.
Work guaranteed.
J. J. Brown, Greeleyvllle?Offers a 9room
house, new, at Ebenezer, for
sale. On a 1 1-4 acre lot. One mile
from Winthrop college.
W. I* Pursley, Filbert?Is prepared to
do all kinds of blacksmithing and
solicits your patronage.
A. M. McGill, R. F. D. 1?Invites you
to a greasy pole climbing contest at
his store, next Saturday. A watch
is the prize.
Reily-Taylor Co., New Orleans?Recites
an incident of the European
battlefields. Drink Luzianne coffee.
Carroll Supply Co.?Today offers 47J
cents a bushel for cotton seed and
wani ail you nave iu sen.
James Brothers?Are showing new fall
styles in farm motive power, having
received a car of horses and
mules yesterday.
Kirkpatrlck-Belk Co.?One of 11 big
stores that buys and sells for less.
Millinery, coat suits, coats, skirts,
dress goods, shoes, etc.
W. E. Ferguson?Wants you to try
Stone's cakes?9 ounces for 10 cts.
Six vArieties.
Smoak-Brown Co.?Wants you to see
it about a Tyson & Jones buggy before
you buy this fall.
Louis Roth?Has Norway mackerel of
choice quality at varying prices,
and wants to supply you.
York Trust Co.?Writes insurance of
every kind?Are, life, plate glass,
surety bonds, etc.
York Drug Store?Cordially Invites all
the teachers who attend the examination
Friday, to make its store
headquarters while in town.
First National Bank?Reminds you of
how easy it is to spend money when
carried in the pocket Put it in
the bank?pay with checks.
Thomson Co.?Asks you to see its
Schloss Bros.' suits, boys' clothing,
ladies' coat suits and coats, dress
goods and millinery.
First National Bank, Sharon?Says its
business is loaning money and helping
you to take care of your money.
It wants your business. Money on
cotton receipts at 6 per cent
Down in Beaufort, they arrest 'em
for issuing fraudulent registration
certificates; but in some other places
if the "attorney" says it Is all right,
they let it go at that.
The editor of The Enquirer Is in receipt
of a letter from the secretary of
the president, which was addressed
Yorkville, S. C. It was postmarked
September 10, 1915, ana 01 course nus
been in hand for some days.
Now, if there was a Board of Trade
in Yorkville that was really interested
in the commercial welfare of the town
and of the surrounding country, it
would not lose half a minute In
establishing here an official cotton
weigher and an official cotton grader.
And if the. Board of Trade and the
people generally would join in this
undertaking, the town council could
give assistance with the assurance
that any contribution that it might
make would be for a real "corporate
purpose." And furthermore,
this would speedily become one of the
best cotton markets in all this section.
Just note what Charlotte is
doing.
All the people on Clover No. 2, and
hundreds of people throughout the
county, will regret to learn of the serious
and painful mishap that befell
Mr. John M. Smith, the efficient and
accommodating carrier on Clover No.
2, last Friday afternoon. Of all the
fine fellows engaged in carrying the
mail in York county, there are none
who stand higher in the estimation of
their Immediate patrons, or who are
better liked generally. His patrons
and the public will be very much con
cerneu unui nu is auic iu icsuiuc n?o
duties, and it is safe to say that nothing
that outside friends and well-wishers
can do in the meantime will be
neglected.
The paragraph in the last issue of
The Enquirer in which Mr. G. W. S.
Hart was quoted as saying in effect
that it "might injure the school" if he
should give his reasons for resigning
from the board of trustees of the
Yorkville Graded school naturally
caused a good deal of comment, and
possibly some concern. This was to
be expected; but there Is no occasion
for worry, however good ground there
is for curiosity. Of course anybody
ought to be able to see that the resignation
of a member of the board of
trustees of the Yorkville Graded school
is a news Item of sufficient Importance
for a local paper. In a democratic city
where every citizen Is supposed to have
the same right and interest as every
other individual, such an Item might
easily call for a column In the newspapers,
and of course all the facts
would come out. In this place the
public is not supposed to have any
business knowing what is doing on the
board of trustees of the Graded school
or the town council. Of course all
members of the board and all members
of the council do not look at it that
way. There are always some individu
als on both bodies who are broad
enough to understand that the board's
business, or the council's business, as
the case may be, is the public's business,
and who have no objection to letting
the public know exactly how they
stand on any matter. In this particular
case th-> editor of The Enquirer
became aware of the fact that Mr.
Hart had resigned, and having decided
that the public had a right to
know something about the matter, took
the straight, manly course of sending
a representative to that gentleman to
find out. The result- was as reported.
We do not mind saying that the editor
of The Enquirer knows a good
deal more about the matter than has
been told; but he does not feel warranted
in telling the story for various
reasons. One of these reasons is that
he does not care to embarrass people
from whom he secured his information,
and another is the difficulty of
making a conclusive case against the
individuals who are the real cause of
the trouble. This refers to matters
outside of the board of trustees. The
board of trustees had before it merely
an abstract question of proper procedure
and acted correctly thereon. Mr.
Hart was in the minority and resigned,
it is presumed, because he considered
it was his duty to do so. But we do
not think it would hurt the school a
particle if he would tell the whole
story or even only his side of the
story. We will go still further than
that. If the whole truth would hurt
tlie school, then the school ought to
be hurt.
DEATH OF J. M. WILLIAMS
Mr. James M. Williams died at his
home in McConnellsville Sunday night,
following an illness with a complication
of diseases from which he had
suffered since February. The funeral
was held at Bethesda Presbyterian
church at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon,
the services being conducted
by his pastor. Rev. Jno. A. McMurray,
assisted by Rev. J. B. Swann. The
interment followed in Bethesda cemetery.
James Moore Williams was born
four miles west of Bethesda church in
November, 1859, and was therefore
in the 59th year of his age. He was
the son of the late James M. and Jane
Adeline Moore Williams. When a
young man Mr. Williams married Miss
Addle Ashe, daughter of John and
Sarah Ashe. The widow together with
three children, John Palmer Williams,
Mary Catharine Williams and James
Moore Williams, all- of McConnellsville,
survive.
The deceased is also survived by
three sisters and one brother, as follows:
F. D. Williams of Chester;
Mesdames Marion G. Crawford of Belmont.
N. C., and Belle Kuykendal of
the Bethesda section, and Miss Kate
Williams of McConnellsville.
Mr. Williams was engaged in the|
mercantile business and in farming at
McConnellsville practically all his
life. He was for many years a member
of Bethesda church and was known
tp a wide acquaintance throughout
the county.
TO CONDUCT MEETING HERE
Rev. John W. Ham, one of the best
known evangelists of the Baptist denomination,
who r vlue'. u a series of
evangelistic services in the First Baptist
church of Yorkville last year, proposes
to come back on October 10, and
begin a series of meetings which will
continue indefinitely. The services
will be held in a large tent which will
be pitched on the spacious lot of the
First Baptist church.
Rev. Mr. Ham is at present conducting
a meeting In Hamlet, N. C., and
will come here upon the completion of
his labors there. People in Yorkville
of all denominations as well as many
in the country hereabouts have received
the following letter this week,
signed by Rev. Mr. Ham:
Hamlet, N. C., Sept. 26, 1916.
My Dear Sir and Brother:
May I have your attention for a
few minutes in order to lay upon your
heart a matter of great importance
to me.
We are invited by the Baptist church
of York to come and hold a series of
rv? V\a<v1 nnlrttv r% Knilt
uicriiii^o IUI UIUIII, ucBiuiiwift (M/VU*
the 10th of October. W? have accepted
the invitation.
It is my desire and purpose that the
blessing and influence of the meeting
shall extend to all denominations, and
to this end I am writing to personally
solicit your personal co-operation and
sympathy. You can greatly aid me
in making the meeting a success. I
trust that you will find it In your
heart to help us by any means at your
command.
If you sing, I want you to Join our
large chorus choir of one hundred
voices, for which a large platform will
be built. We use the new revival
hymn number two, published by
Homer A. Rodeheaver, who has charge
of the music in the Billy Sunday meetings.
We use one of the largest Chautauqua
tents for the meeting, with the
seating capacity of about 1,500. In
the event the weather Is slightly cool,
we have convenient method of heating
same.
We are engaged in a union meeting
of all the churches of Hamlet, N. C., at
present, with great crowds In attendance.
Trusting to have the pleasure of
meeting you personally, I am,
Yours sincerely,
J. W. Ham.
WITHIN THE TOWN
? Cotton is now being brought to the
Yorkville Oil Co.'s ginnery at a rapid
rate. The gins are taking care of
about 90 bales per day at present.
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L'wvrvi me i/a/ nui oo ui vmvi vi
Police P. W. Love, died Sunday morning.
The horse had been a familiar
figure on the streets for a long time.
? Local merchants enjoyed an unusually
good day's business last Saturday.
Quite a number of people were
in from the country and considerable
cotton and cotton seed were sold* According
to several merchants, collections
were better than on any other
single day in a year.
? An organization known as the
Yorkvllle Graded School Athletic association
has been perfected at the
Graded school with Andral Shercr of
the 10th grade, as president. It Is the
purpose of the organization to secure
as many members from amqng the
student body as possible. Each pupil
is to pay dues of 10 cents a month,
and is to have free admission to all the
games played during the school year.
? In a slow and uninteresting baseball
game the Neely Cotton Mill team
defeated the Clover mm team on tne
Graded school diamond Saturday afternoon.
The score was 12 to 7. Both
teams made numerous errors and
their respective abilities to hit the ball
were about the same. Ferguson of
the Neely mill team, secured a home
run. Batteries: Clover?Wallace and
Barrett; Neely mill?Kenneth and
Lockrldge; umpire?L. M. Grist.
? At a meeting last Friday night an
orchestra composed of the following
persons was organized at the Yorkville
Graded school: Prpf. B. C. Riddle,
Dr. Jas. B. Shirley, Cottrell Thomasson,
Lorin Thomasson, Norman and
Kershaw Walsh, Ferris McDowell
Donnom Spencer and Miss Maude
Eberhardt. Prof. Springs Moore of
the Philadelphia community, will direct
the orchestra.
? Since a perusal of the war news In
the papers the past few days Indicates
that Greece, Roumanla and Bulgaria
may be drawn into the strife at any
minute, John Demas, proprietor of the
Yorkville Candy Kitchen, and the other
Greeks here are very much interested.
While John makes it plain that
he is not going back to Greece to engage
in the fray, still it is evident
from the way he talks that "his heart's
right there." Asked the other day
how Greece, Bulgaria and Roumania
would line up, Demas said he was not
sure on which side Roumania would
go. "Greece," he said, "she flght with
Italian. and Russian and French.
Greece, she like German all right but
she no like Turkey man. Turkey
man him kill Greek man. Greek people
mad. Bulgaria she no like Greek
men about other war. Greece give
Bulgaria the dickens then. Turkey
people give Bulgaria people heap railway
to fight for them. Roumania she
don't know what to do. If Roumania
fight with Greek man against Turkey
man and Bulgarians we will whip. If
Roumania fight with Bulgarians and
Turkey men against Greece me not
know what might happen."
WANTED TO MARRY
People who chanced to be on Main
street in the vicinity of the Shandon
hotel about 10 o'clock Saturday night,
were amused for some time by the
antics of a young couple from Mount
Holly, X. C., who were very anxious to
embark upon the matrimonial sea and
who were prevented from so doing by
Policeman J. A. Richardson, at the request
of the chief of police of Mount
Holly and the father of the pretty
young lady in the case. The would-be
bridegroom, John Mullis, and the
bride-to-be. Miss Ada Mullis (the parties
are not related) left Mount Holly
Saturday evening accompanied by a
gentleman and a lady acting in the
capacity of friends. The father of the
young lady had evidently gotten wind
of the affair and was on the trail of
the runaways about the time they left
their North Carolina home. So close
was he upon them that the would-be1
bridegroom did not have time to get <
his coat and rode into Yorkvllle Saturday
night in his shirt sleeves.
The irate father had gotten into (
communication with Policeman Richardson
before the wedding party ar- j
rived in Yorkviile. His orders were, f
"Hold my daughter until I get there. (
It doesn't matter about the boy."
When a "Ford" automobile rolled up
Main street some time later, contain- '
ing five people, two of whom looked !
like they wanted to get married, the .
policeman politely informed the party j
that he would have to detain them a .
little while or at least would have to '
hold Mim Mullis. It looked pretty
bad for the bridegroom then. He de- 1
cided, however, that he too would stay ;
until the arrival of the father, in the '
hope that maybe he could patch things
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up U11U 5U VII mill iiiv vv* v...u..rf.
The two ladiee in the car were taken
to a local hotel, while the bridepro
~> n and his frifnds paraded around i
the streets awaiting the arrival of the i
young lady's father. In the meantime i
a number of people had gathered j
around and soon the bridegroom was
the center of much curious interest. |
The sympathy of all was with him. i
He looked old enough to marry and
he looked like he wanted to marry.
Some one suggested that he back j
his car into the rear of the hotel, steal
his lady-love out of the hotel by the
rear entrance, violate the speed limit
a little and hit the trail to Chester, !
where he could be married in a little
time. That sounded good to him, but
when he saw the policeman standing
nearby he decided that it couldn't "be
did," and sighing deeply he opined
that there was nothing to do except
to wait on his would-be father-in-law,
go back to Mount Holly and trust to
luck that he and his lady-fair might
soon have a chance to successfully
elope.
About 1.30 o'clock Sunday morning
the yound ladles' brother Instead of
her father, accompanied by Policeman
West of Mount Holly arrived In Yorkville.
The young swain's plea that he
be allowed to marry, since he and his
lady love had come this far, was heard
by deaf ears, the reply being just one
word, delivered in a voice like thunder?"Naw."
The young lady was ,
bundled into her brother's car and a ,
few minutes later the machine "lit !
out" for Mount Holly, followed by the
youngster who couldn't get married In
South O&rollna.
ABOUT PEOPLE
Mrs. Jas. A. Page of Clover, is visiting
friends In Anderson.
Miss Mell Neil of Clover, is visiting
friends in Chester.
Mr. Hope Byers of Sharon, was a
visitor in Y-jrkville Saturday.
Dr. John R. Ashe of Charlotte, vision
ppIoHvm in Yorkville Sunday.
Mrs. W. B. McCaw of New Orleans,
I is visiting Mrs. J. K. Alston here.
Mr. Weldon Nell of Charlotte, spent
Sunday with his family in Yorkville.
Auditor Broadus M. Love is attending
court at Winnsboro this week.
Mrs. N. B. Edgerton of Columbia, is
the guest of Mrs. Joseph E. Hart here.
Leonard Curry of Gastonla, N. C.,
visited friends in Yorkville this week.
Miss Lottie Kluttz has returned to
her home in Chester, after visiting
here.
Miss Nellie Hart of this place, left
today to spend the winter in Charleston.
Mr. George R Grist of Laurens, spent
last Saturday with relatives in Yorkville.
Mr. George Wllkerson of Yorkville
No. 1, was a visitor in Gastonla last
week.
Messrs. R. E. Love and F. E. McClain
of Clover, were in Yorkville Saturday.
Miss Anna Lewis of Chester, visited
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Lewis,
here this week.
Revs. J. B. Talbert and B. G. Pressley
of Hickory Grove, were visitors In
Yorkville yesterday.
Misses Robbie and Amelia Brown of
Yorkville No. 1, spent Sunday with
friends in Gastonla.
Mr& J. J. Edwards of the Tirzah
section, is critically ill in the Fennell
infirmary, Rock Hill.
Mr. Howard White of this place.
left today to resume his studies in a
Baltimore medical college.
Mr. J. P. Wentz of North Charlotte,
N. C., spent Sunday with the family
of Mr. D. M. Hawkins here.
Mr. W. H. Grant of Yorkville, visited
relatives and friends in Spartanburg
this week.
Miss Annie Stevens of this place, left
Saturday to visit relatives in Charlotte
and Monroe. N. C.
Mr. Blakely Plexico left yesterday
with his horse, Superman, for the
Wllkesboro, N. C., fair.
Lindsay, son of Mr. J. C. Parrott of
Filbert, is undergoing treatment in
the Fennell infirmary.
Miss Nora Williamson of Yorkville,
spent Saturday and Sunday with relatives
in Rock Hill.
Mrs. A. C. Ramsey and children of
this place, visited relatives at Hickory
Grove this week.
Drs. B. N. Miller of Smyrna, and W.
A. Hood of Hickory Grove, were
among the visitors here yesterday.
Miss Mary Alexander, daughter of
Mr. R. D. Alexander of Yorkville, has
entered Lander college, Greenwood.
Mr. W. O. Smith of Washington, D.
C., is visiting his nieces, Mesdames O.
E. Wilklns and R. C. Alloin in this
place.
Mr. John S. James, who has been
spending some time in Knoxvllle,
Tenn., has returned to Yorkville for
the winter.
Misses Louise Oates, Janie Land
I and Trmn Williams of Winthron col
lege, spent Saturday with their parents
here.
Dr. S. L. Steele of Yorkville, was
called to Waxhaw, N. C., on account
of the death of his brother, which occurred
Thursday night.
Miss Geoigla Bratton has returned
to her home in Guthriesvllle, after
spending several days with her aunt,
Mrs. R. M. Bratton, here.
Mr. B. E. Coward of Chesterfield i
county, spent last night in Yorkville,
en route to Boiling Springs high i
school, Cleveland county, N. C.
Messrs. A. T. and George Hart, Mesdames
G. W. S. Hart and Ada Faul- 1
coner and Miss Nellie Hart, visited t
relatives in Greenville Sunday.
Misses Mary Harshaw of McCon- ;
nellsvllle, and Ida McEldull of Black- j
stock, visited Mr. and Mrs. W. J. P. ,
Wylie In Yorkville this week. i
Mrs. Daniel Heyward, who has been <
visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Witherspoon here, left Satur- <
day to visit relatives at Rion, S. C. i
Mrs. W. C. Erwin, who is teaching 1
in the Clover High school, spent Sat- 1
urday and Sunday with her parents, '
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Lowry in Yorkville.
J
Misses Sarah and Nellie Menden- ,
hall and Maggie Ashe of the McConnellsville
section, have entered the I
Normal and Collegiate institute in
Asheville, N. C. i
A large number of young people of i
the surrounding community, enjoyed |
a party at the home of Mr. Johnson J
Cameron in the Delphos section, Saturday
evening.
Probate Judge I* R. Williams and
Miss Mary Williams of Yorkville, and
Mrs. W. W. Miller of Rock Hill, visited
the family of Dr. C. Fred Williams
in Columbia this week.
Mr. A. G. Lawrence, who is engaged
in railroad construction work on
the Southern beyond Greenville, left
morning for that point after a visit to
relatives on Yorkville No. 6.
Mr. M. J. Moorhead is in a critical
condition at his home in Yorkville,
suffering with what is believed to be
blood poisoning caused by the abstraction
of an abscessed tooth.
Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Suggs returned
to their home at Spencer, N. C., this
morning after a visit to the family of
Mr. G. L. Suggs on R. F. D. No. 8,
and other York county relatives.
Misses Lena and LI la Howell and
little Miss Margaret Howell have returned
to their heme on Yorkville No.
1, after a visit to relatives and friends
at Bartow, Fla.
Mrs. Paul T. Gordon and sons, Masters
Louis and Tulane, who have been
spending several weeks with Mrs.
Margaret Johnson here, left yester
day for their home in Eagle Lake,
Texas.
The friends of Mr. Q. L. Suggs of
R. F. D. No. 8, who suffered a slight
stroke of paralysis two weeks ago, will ^
be pleased to know that he has so far ^
recovered as to be able to sit up a little,
and steady Improvement in his
condition is confidently expected.
Friends of the young people here
have received announcements of the
approaching marriage in Florence of ?
Miss Blanche Winifred Lawrence to
Mr. Frank E. Ardrey. Mr. Ardrey is
the son of Capt. J. W. Ardrey of Fort
Mill.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Hicklln, formerly
of Guthrieaville, for the past few
years residents of Columbus, Ga.,
rwknt tnHnv in Yorkville. meeting old
friends and acquaintances. Mr. and
Mrs. Hicklin left Guthriesville thirteen
years ago.
Mr. R. Y. Grist, who has held a position
with Mr. W. E. Ferguson for
several years past, has accepted a position
with a grocery firm In Columbia.
Mr. Grist will be succeeded here
by Mr. Lewis G. Ferguson, who has
been in the employ of Mr. G. W.
Bherer. m
Mr. Edward McClaln of the Rock V
Hill police force, son of Mr. W. T. McClain
of Yorkvllle No. 1, is undergoing
treatment in the Fennel Infirmary,
Rock Hill, for tuberculosis of the kidneys.
Information from Mr. McClain
yesterday was to the effect that he was IK
getting on as well as could be ex- ^
pected.
Gastonia Gazette, Sept. 24: Mr. J.
B. Morris returned Monday from a
visit to friends at Kings Creek, S. C.
On the morning he started home he
had the misfortune to be struck and
painfully though not seriously injured
by an automobile. Mr. J. Mack Jenkins
met him at King's Mountain and
brought him home in the former's automobile.
Mra H. L Wright of Clover,
S. C., was the guest of Mrs. J.
Lean Adams yesterday.
LOCAL LAC0NIC8
Filbert Warehouse Received. ^
Deputy Warehouse Commissioner J.
G. L. White was at Filbert yesterday, J
and received the recently completed
warehouse into the state system.
Until January, 1916.
The price of The Yorkvllle Enquirer
for three months is 60 cents. Upon
receipt of this amount, the paper will /
be sent to any address from this date V
to January 1, 1916.
New Hotel for Clover.
Messrs. Smith Bros., have commenc
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ea me erection 01 a huiw ai hutci, tw
be operated by MrS. S. H. Youngblood,
who is now conducting a boarding
house in that place.
Missionary at Bethany.
Rev. J. O. Dale, a missionary of the.
Associate Reformed Presbyterian
church to Mexico, who has been in the
United States since hostilities began
in Mexico, delivered an address before
a large congregation at Bethany
church Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
Barn Destroyed by Fire.
Mr. John Pratt of Sharon, had the
misfortune to lose his barn by fire
Friday afternoon between 6 and I
o'clock. A load of hay and a load of
corn which had recently been placed
in the barn were destroyed. Neighbors
assisted Mr. Pratt in getting his
livestock out of the burning building.
There was no insurance.
Ramah Road Improved.
People from the Ramah neighborhood
have informed The Enquirer of
very considerable improvement in the
condition of the Ramah road by way
of .Zadok and the Barrett old mill. I
The work has been done under the
supervision of Mr. Thoe. D. Quinn..
and the extent of it is quite surprising
to people who were acquainted
with conditions before he commenced.
It is nearly three miles closer to Ramah
from Zadok by the way of the
Barrett old mill than around by way
of Bethany.
Harper Secures His Freedom.
Sam Harper, the young white man
who was convicted of complicity in
the robbery of the stores of Messrs.
J. M. Williams and J. T. Crawford
of McConnellsville, at the spring term
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who was sentenced to serve six months
on the public works of the county,
grained his freedom today, bis term
having expired. Young Harper made a
model prisoner during the service of
his term, and wra used as a "trusty."
May 8ue Town of Lowryvilie.
Chester Reporter, Sept 27: There
is some probability of the town of
Lowryvilie being made the defendant
in a suit for damages, as the result of
an accident sustained recently by a
young man, Mr. R. L. Kitchens, who
was thrown from his motorcycle and
painfully hurt when he ran Into an A
open ditch on one of Lowryville's
streets The plaintiff alleges that he ^
was riding at no excessive rate of
speed, when suddenly he went into a
ditch that had been carelessly left
open, and as a result of the accident
sustained various and sundry bruises
and contusion*. ^
Masons to Erect Temple.
At a meeting of Rock Hill lodge,
No. Ill, A. F. M., Thursday night It
was decided to build a Masonic temple
on the Rock Hill lodge's lot at an
early date. The building will cost
between $30,000 and $36,000, and will
include a hotel which will have thirty
or more rooms. The temple will be
a four story structure, and the' first
three floors are to be used for hotel
purposes. At the meeting Thursday
night the corporation was instructed
to have plans drawn and to proceed
Immediately with the arrangements of
the details necessary to beginning
actual construction work.
A History of Fort Mill.
A brief history of the early days of
Fort Mill is being complied by Thos.
D. Faulkner, the oldest resident of the }
town, who has lived in the community
since 1852, before the railroad from
Charlotte to Columbia was built, says
a Fort Mill dispatch of recent date.
Mr. Faulkner is in his 84th year of age
but his memory is excellent and he well
remembers the site and circumstances ~
of the first house built In the town.
His history will prove very interesting
not only to the people here but also
to the large number of people scattered
throughout the states who at one time
or another made their residence here.
A Vigilant Policeman.
"In policeman Carson Lattimore.
Hickory Grove has an officer of whom
Bhe has a right to be proud," remarked
a well known citizen of Hickory
Grove to a representative of The Enquirer
the other day. "Policeman
Lattimore is on the Job all the time?
day and night. In fact, if he sleeps
any, I don't know when it ia If there
Is anything going on in violation of
the law, he is soon on to it, and you
can bet your boots he'll break it up.
Order in Hickory Grove has been unusually
good since he took charge and
the people of the town have a great : ^
leal of confidence in him."
Newspaper Man Marrias.
Chester News. Sept. 24: Miss Car ie
Conley and Mr. Stewart L. Cassels
vere quietly married Wednesday eveling
at the residence of Sheriff and
Mrs. D. E. Colvin, Rev. J. C. Roper,
lastor of Bethel M. E. church offlclatng.
The ceremony was witnessed
>nly by a few close friends and rela
lives. Mr. and Mrs. Cassels left on
:he Southern for a short bridal trip
:o points in North Carolina. Mr. Cas>els
is one of the owners of the SemiSVeekly
News and is an enterprising
ind promising young man. Mrs. Castels
is the attractive daughter of Mr.
md Mrs. W. E. Conley of Lowryvtlle
ft F. D. 2, and is a very popular and
ovable young lady. The young couple
lave many friends who wish them a
ong, happy and prosperous life.
Mr. J. M. Smith Has Accident.
Mr. John M. Smith, carrier on Closer
R. F. D. No. 2, met with quite a
.erious accident last Friday afternoon,
vhile in the discharge of his duties.
It appears that a wheel come off his
juggy as the result of a nut working
0080, and the buggy went down in the ^
oad. Mr. Smith Jumped out in an ef'ort
to quiet the horse, and dislocated
lis right ankle and broke one of the
>ones in his foot The horse ran
iway, and was badly injured by one of
he buggy shafts. Mr. Smith was giv- ^
n help as soon as possible, and renoved
to his home at Clover. He has
>een suffering considerably; but is