Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, November 16, 1915, Image 2
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? The lower house of the Georgia
legislature in Atlanta on Friday night,
passed a bill to prohibit the manuacure
or sale of liquor in Georgia.
The bill already has passed in the
s-.nate. The only change in the bill
1 .ado by the house was that the proposed
law would become effective May
1. 1916. instead of January next, as
provided by the senate. The bill delines
liquor as "any drink containing
more than 1-2 of 1 i>er cent of alcohol."
It is generally understood that Gov.
Harris will approve the measure. The
vote in the house was 142 to 22. Advocates
of the bill declare it will eliminate
all breweries, so-called "near
beer' saloons and "locker clubs.''
? There is a lot of doubt and confusion
surrounding the circumstances
of the recent sinking of the Italian
steamer Ancona. The Italians are trying
to make it appear that the steamer
was sunk without warning and by
a German submarine. Austria acknowledges
the sinking of the Ancona.
but claims that it was not until after
it had been warned and had tried to
escape. The statement is that the
captain of the Ancona was allowed
three-quarters of an hour in which to
get his passengers and crew off. It is
stated also that the ship was nearly an
hour in sinking after she had been
torpedoed. The Italians are evidently
trying to make the case appear to be
one that the United States should be
bound to take cognizance of. The
Washington government, however, has
heard nothing direct either from the
American minister ut Rome or Vienna.
? Cotton used during October was
500,635 bales, compared with 451,899
bales in October last year, the census
bureau on Saturday announced. Cotton
on hand October 31. in consuming
establishments was 1,345,749 bales,
compared with 715,623 a year ago, and
in public storage and at compresses,
4,171,474, compared with 3,777,469 a
year ago. Linters consumed during
October, and not included in above
figures. 68,944 bales, against 30,102 a
year ago. Linters on hand October 31
in consuming establishments 130,031
bales, compared with 65,174 a year
ago, and in public storage and at
warehouses *71,372 bale?, against 41,753
a year ago. Exports were 674,655
bales against 497,132 in October a year
ago. Imports were 131,506 bales
against 12,150 a year ago. Spindles
active during October were 31,379,385
against 30,461,320 a year ago.
? The Georgia legislature has agreed
upon a really drastic prohibition law
to go into effect on May 1 next. Under
this law no more whisky, wine or
malt liqucrs are to be manufactured
or sold in Georgia except in small
monthly allowances from outside the
state for personal use. All locker
clubs are outlawed, and drinks cannot
be sold or dispensed at clubs, social
or otherwise. No one tan offer a
drink to friend or boon companion except
at home and only then to a bona
flde guest. No newspaper will be allowed
to advertise liquors for sale and
the railroads and other public carriers
will be prohibited from bringing
liquor into the state except under
strict compliance with allowance
regulations. Heavy penalties are laid
on sheriffs and other officers for failure
to enforce the law. The liquor
men of the state fought the law to
the last; but now say they want to see
it strictly enforced because they believe
that is the most certain way of
securing its repeal.
? Inspired by the success of the military
encampment at Plattsburg last
summer where hundreds of business
and professional men received training
ior out; mount uvm uuiicu uioisb
army officers, Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood
announced last Saturday that the
government would conduct another
along exactly similar lines at Camden,
S. C. "This encampment," Gen.
Wood said, "will begin probably early
in February. It will be for the same
purpose and run along the same lines
as the one held at Plattsburg. Camden
was selected because the encampment
was wanted in the south and we had
to select some place which was not
too far away from one of our army
posts to march regular troops there
conveniently, The men who attend
the encampment will receive training
In military calisthenics, rifle practice,
offensive and defensive field work,
camp sanitation, trench digging, signaling
and marching and in the general
duties of a soldier." Gen. Wood
said that already many applications to
attend the camp had been received.
? Published charges, attributed to
Dr. Joseph Goricar, former AustroHungarian
consul at San Francisco,
that Austrian consuls in the United
States, working under the direction
of Consul-General von Nuber and
Count von Bernstorff, the German
ambassador, are active in propaganda
for destruction of munitions factories
and fomenting strikes among the
workers will be referred by the state
department to the department of
justice for investigation, says a Washington
dispatch. The Austrian embassy
here denounced Goricar's published
statement as untrue and announced
it would try to find some way
to prosecute mm. uoncar, tne embassy
said, left his post on leave and
failed to return. Secretary Lansing
today declined to comment on the
charges. Goricar is credited with
making the statement that he resigned
after fifteen years in the Austrian
consul service because he declined
to perform the work of a spy. He
charges that while consul at San
Francisco, Commander Maximilian
Burstyn, the Austrian naval attache
in Washington, ordered him to gather
plans of the fortification of San
Francisco harbor and along the
Pacific coast and to get especially details
of the work at Bremerton navy
yard. When he refused, Goricar is
credited with saying he was transferred
to Berlin, and after five months
was ordered to Vienna, where he feared
to go because of his pro-Slavic affiliations.
so he fled to Rome, where he
resigned last December. Goricar's story
contends that the German ambassador,
working with von Nuber, is in
touch with the Austrian consuls at
Cleveland, St. Louis, Pittsburg, St.
Paul, Chicago and Philadelphia, who
spread propaganda among the foreign
workers in the munitions factories,
and such activity, Goricar alleges, extends
even to controlling the foreigners
through fraternal and secret organ
iziitions.
? Booker T. Washington, the noted
negro educator and founder of Tuskegee
institute, died at his home in
Tuskegee, Ala, last Sunday, four hours
after his arrival from New York.
Death was due to hardening of the
arteries following a nervous breakdown.
The negro leader had been in
failing health for several months, but
his condition became serious only last
week while he was in the east. He
realized the end was near, but was
determined to make the long trip
south to bear out his oft-expressed
statement that he had been "born in
the south, have lived all my life in the
south and expect to die and be buried
in the south." Accompanied by his
wife, his secretary and a physician,
Washington left New York for Tuskegee
Friday. He reached his home
Saturday night. Specialists who had
examined Washington said he was
suffering from a nervous breakdown
and hardening of the arteries. His last
public appearance was at the national
conference of congregational churches,
where he delivered a lecture October
25. Washington is survived by his
wife, three children and four grandchildren.
His brother, John H. Washington.
is superintendent of industries
at Tuskegee institute. Washington
was born in slavery near Hale's Ford,
Va., in 1857 or 1858. After the emancipation
of his race, he moved with his
family to West Virginia. He was an
ambitious boy and saved his money for
an education. When he was able to
scrape together sufficient funds to pay
his stage coach fare to Hampton, Va..
he entered General Armstrong's school
for negroes there and worked his way
through an academic course, graduating
in 1875. Later he became a teacher
in the Hampton institute where he
remained until 1881 when he organized
an industrial school for negroes at
Tuskegee. He remained principal of
this school up to the time of his death.
The institute started in a rented
shanty church and today it owns 3.500
acres of land in Alabama and has
nearly 100 buildings valued at $500,000.
Washington won the sympathy
and support of leading southerners by
a speech in behalf of his race at the
Cotton States exposition in Atlanta in
1895. Of undoubted ability and breadth
of vision, his sane leadership enabled
him to accomplish more for and
among the negroes of the United States
than any negro of his time. In adition
to his prominence as an educator,
Washington gained considerable
fame as an author. He received an
honorary degree of master of arts
"rom Harvard University in 1896 and
was given an honorary degree of doctor
of laws by Dartmouth college in 1901.
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Entered at the Postofflce at York as
Mail Matter of the Second Class.
YORK, S. C.:
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 16, 1915.
A Swiss statistician has figured out
that thus far five million men have
been killed in the European war. That
is enough to prove that none of those
fellows who started the orgy of blood
had any idea of where It would lead to.
That in placing official advertising
officials should be governed by the
commercial principles of value received,
and that newspapers in making
their charges should not exceed the
rates prescribed by law, strikes us as
fair, reasonable and just. How our
esteemed contemporary, the Fort Mill
Times, should be able to intimate any
other construction to the matter is
more than we can explain.
The strike problem at Greenville and
Anderson is one very well calculated
to try the poise and capacity of any
governor. Governor Manning is trying
to do the best he knows in the
matter, and he is entitled to public
sympathy. It is easy enough to say
that the right thing is this or that, un^?-?V?
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else is "politics." As a matter of fact,
however, politics is but a secondary
proposition. Right is more Important.
One of the worst things about the
British attitude to the ocean-wide
blockade against neutral goods and
especially the contraband order against
cotton, is that Great Britain sent five
times as much raw cotton to Holland
and Sweden during the first six
months of 1915 as those countries received
from all the world during the
first six months of 1914. This means
that Great Britain has been buying
our cotton at prices fixed as the result
of her own interference with our neutral
rights, and has no doubt been
selling to Holland and Sweden?really
to Germany?at a long advance over
the price paid to us.
It was the pleasure of the editor
of The Enquirer at Due West last
week to meet for the first time, Mr.
Hugh Wilson, formerly of the Abbeville
Press and Banner and for half
a century the nestor of the South
Carolina weekly press. Mr. Wilson,
who is now in his 77th year, retired
from active work some years ago; but
has by no means been forgotten by
the brethren of the press, notwithstanding
the fact that in the present
list of South Carolina newspaper
workers are many who have taken on
the harness since he put it off. The
editor had never met Mr. Wilson before,
but was advised how to recognize
him. "You cannot miss him,"
said Mr. A. S. Kennedy of Due West.
"He wears a silk hat, a Prince Albert
coat and a narrow white tie, and he
is the only man in town in the same
style of dress.'' And sure enough there
was no trouble in identifying the venerable
editor without further assistance.
Mr. Wilson is considered an A.
R. P. in all except that he has never
actually joined the church. He affiliates
with and helps to support the
church in Abbeville. He is noted for
his very decided opposition to A. R
P. missionary work in Mexico and
India, holding to the view that the
A. R. P.'s can make better use of
their lime and labor in the furtherance
of home mission work in this
country; but the leaders of the church
generally are so well pleased with
what has been accomplished and is
being accomplished in the two foreign
mission fields, that Mr. Wilson's
views have not commanded a great
deal of support. But notwithstanding
this little difference, all the preachers
of t^e denomination have a high appi
tion of Mr. Wilson and he was
th '.clpient of much consideration
at iod.
We do not agree with those folks
who want to do away with the biennal
primary campaign. Of course there
are a lot of sayings and doings in the
campaign that ought not to be. Blackguardism
is possibly more common
than it ought to be. And It seems impossible
to prevent the incumberance
of the lists with impossible cranks
who could not be elected under any
circumstances. But we do not know
of any better method for securing the
real choice of the people. It is true
that we have been subject to frequent
disappointments in the personnel of
the successful candidates. Often the
people have elected some other fellow
when we thought they should have
elected the candidate of our choice.
But we are not prepared to say that
they have ever failed to make the best
selection that was possible under the
circumstances. When we say this we
have in mind the fact that, not being
able to find what they want, men often
give their votes to whatever they think
is next best. It is true that demagogy
is more or less common in primary
campaigns, and to us this is objectionable;
but we are not prepared
to say that any one has ever been successful
solely by reason of demagogy.
We are aware also that much money
is spent in every campaign, money that
virtually amounts to corruption money,
and this is mcst deplorable. Every
effort shtuld be made to put a
stop to it. But don't let us give up
the primary campaign. The abolition
of the primary campaign will be followed
by the abolition of the primary
system, ana that will mean a speedy
return to the convention. The convention
would be all right if the people
would take proper interest in it;
but they simply will not, and as soon
as th?y lose interest the full power of
nominating and electing officers passes
into the hands of a few wire pullers.
Best thing to do is to let the primary
campaign alone.
While passing through (Jretnville
the other day, the editor of The En
quirer dropped into ^the courthouse
and called on Sheriff Hendrix Rector,
the well-known official around and
about whom Greenville county politicians
have been making such a siir
during the past three years. The editor
had never met the famous sheriff
and was curious to know what kind
of a man he really is. The sheriff, altnough
busy at the time of the call,
received the editor with due courtesy,
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ly such subjects as were broached, political
and otherwise. The editor had
formed the notion somehow, that the
sherift was a 250-pounder six-and-ahalf-footer,
of fierce and uncivil mein,
calculated to frighten the timid, and
make people of quiet, law-abiding
habits take the other side of the
street. But this impression turned
out to be all wrong. He is a medium
sized man of rather slim build, clear
complexion, piercing eyes, and selfreliant,
self-contained manner that
seems to attract rather than repel.
The editor explained that he did not
have any intention of writing up an
interview or anything of that kind;
but there was just one thing he wanted
the sheriff to answer, and the sheriff
said to fire away. "I do not know
anything about Greenville county polltics,''
began the editor; "but I do know
that you are a storm center over here
and I want to what the trouble is. Do
you get drunk on Saturday nights and
raise cain? Do you owe everybody
that will let you and not pay anybody?
Have you got two or three wives and
a lot of children who cannot acknowledge
their daddy in public? Or what
is the matter anyway?" The sheriff
listened until the question was completed
and then with an amused smile
replied, that he denied all the charges
and all the implications. "About the
only thing I can tell you," he declared
with impressive earnestness, "is that
there is a little bunch of people around
here, not more than a hundred of
them in all, who are obsessed with the
idea that they are called upon to run
everything according to their own notion
nnii that the laws of the land
are to be applied only where it suite
them and held in abeyance where they
want it otherwise. And to me, all
people look alike before the law,
whether they have standing or prestige
or not, and of course, I don't
suit" The sheriff went on in a matter
of fact manner to tell how the legislative
delegation had put him on
straight salary, taken the jail and dieting
of prisoners from under his control,
deprived him of the right of appointing
his own deputy even, and
how it takes more than he can make
to run the office properly. "I have
been virtually without any income for
nearly a year, he said; but I am still
holding the fort and ready for a test
of the question as to whether the legislative
delegation owns the people or
the people own the legislative delegation."
The sheriff told how the grand
Jury had recommended the purchase
of an automobile for the sheriff, and
that no attention was paid tc the recommendation
until afterward it was
decided to buy two automobiles, one
for the sheriff and one for the supervisor,
and the sheriff declined to take
his under the circumstances until he
found that otherwise it would be turned
over to the rural police force,
which has been set up as a kind of
opposition executive institution, over
which he has no control. The editor
spent less than ten minutes with Sheriff
Rector, and the one thing that impressed
him more than anything else
was the fact that while the sheriff is
cognizant of numerous obviously unfair
things that were being done to
him by members of the legislative delegation
and other political opponents,
he showed but little, if any bitterness
of feeling). He seems to be able to
see quite a lot of humor in it all, and
he seems to have an abiding conflx"
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of a majority of the citizenship of
Greenville county.
Although peculiarly blessed in the
matters of climate, soil, an abundance
of good water, and natural resources
without limit, the greatest asset of
York county is her splendid citizenship.
Of course there are all kinds J
of people in the county, including
some who are not especially desirable;
but the average is high, as high as is
to be found in any county in the state,
in the south, in the Union. We are
not saying this merely for buncombe;
but rather because we believe it to be
true, and because we feel it is something
to be proud of. If we should
undertake to give a list of our best
and most useful men according to our
estimates, that list would be a long
one, and it would include a good many
names about which there would be a
difference of opinion. In fact we are
not right sure that we would mention
a single name about which there
would be complete agreement; but as
to that we have neither time nor incli
nation to quarrel. All of this is preliminary
to a few words of commendation
of Mr. J. M. Cherry of Rock Hill,
more particularly because of what he
Is doing for the farmers of York county
and of South Carolina. It Is not
our purpose to refer to Mr. Cherry as
a Santa Claus philanthropist or anything
of that kind. He is a good man
all right?broad minded, generous and
liberal?as good as the best of them,
here or elsewhere, and no doubt subject
to some of the faults that are
characteristic of the worst of us; but
that is not the point. Mr. Cherry is 1
a man of considerable means. How .
he acquired those means, we do not \
know, except in a general way; but i
we do know that he acquired them I
honestly, and that is about as far as ]
anybody has any business to inquire, i
The point of interest here is what Mr. 1
Cherry is doing. First, we will say j
that looking ahead to the future ,
growth and importance of Rock Hill, *
he bought a big body of farm land on
the northern boundaries of the town. ,
extending far into the country toward ,
the river. His idea, according to our i
Interpretation, was that some day this j
land would be in great demand for ,
town lots, etc., and he would make a j
big profit on his investment. There is i
nothing out of the ordinary about that, i
Almost any man with surplus money J
is liable to invest in land that he has ,
reason to believe will increase in value. (
But having bought the land and real- \
izing that it would be a while before .
he could take down the profits he ex- i
pected from "unearned increment," '
Mr. Cherry set about to earn the in- J
crement, and the plan was that very
common and prosaic one of farming.
He was laughed at all right. Farm- '
ers laughed at him and good business
men laughed at him. About the time
of the purchase of the land, one of 1
the best business men in Rock Hill. 1
said to the writer hereof, with a good 1
natured chuckle: "Cherry bought that 1
land at a high priee because he did .
not know what else to do with his
money; but he has found a place now '
wnere ne can dispose 01 an me money ,
he has and a little more." And the ,
writer was in complete agreement
with this comment. But we have been
glad to see that it has not turned out
that way. It is true that Mr. Cherry
began his operations at a rate of expense
that seemed to give certain prospect
of the early fulfillment of the
general prophecy. He spent his money
in a way that seemed to make all
hope of immediate returns absurd.
Then he went into grain, grass, clover,
legumes and alfalfa, along with some
cotton and corn. He has also been
giving much attention to cattle. All
along he has been working on the
principle of cotton as a surplus only,
and that the best.and cheapest way of
producing nitrogen is to grow it He
has already proved most of his theories,
and is proving the others. The
farmers of the surrounding country
and of York county generally, as well
as from many other parts of the state,
are getting the full benefit of the bold
and expensive experiments he is making,
without being subject to the pioneer
risks involved. As we understand
it, Mr. Cherry's farming operations
are now paying their way, and
for that circumstance there is general
pleasure, for all men of reasonable intelligence
are bound to realize that
whatever the profit Mr. Cherry Is deriving
his greatest satisfaction comet
from the knowledge of the benefits he
is conferring on the country generally.
MANNING AND THE STRIKE
Governor Trying to Conciliate Strikers
and Owners.
Governor Manning gave out the following
statement Saturday night:
"From the beginning of the strike
at Brogon mills, I have been making
an effort to get the two sides to an
amicable settlement. I have been especially
active along these lines during
the last week, but apparently the situation
is no nearer a settlement than
before. Nevertheless, I am. not discouraged,
but am still trying to find a
common ground on which they can
meet.
"At the Judson mills in Greenville
prospects for a settlement are more
favorable.
"In both mills the managing officers
have conceded the right of the employes
to organize.
"Thus one of the fundamental
sources of disagreement has been removed.
"There is one thing which both
sides should understand clearly. No
violence will be tolerated.
"The sheriffs of Anderson and
Greenville counties will be held sternly
to their duty to maintain order. I
do not anticipate that they will force
me to take the preservation of order
out of their hands, but if I am convinced
that either of the sheriffs is
not fulfilling his duty, I am prepared
to act.
"There is right and wrong on both
sides, and the bitterness is Increasing.
As good citizens of South Carolina, I
feel that both sides should agree upon
gome pldn that will terminate the
trouble.
"Arbitration in such agreements has
been universally recognized as a safe
basis. The public is everywhere much
Inclined to believe that the people who
avoid arbitration put themselves in the
wrong.
"The communities in which these
mills are situated and the state of
South Carolina are deeply interested in
a just setlement being reached. Private
differences of this sort will not
long be tolerated by the people of the
state. Some means must be devised to
bring all parties to an amicable frame
of mind.
"At present I am gravely considering
recommending to the legislature a
compulsory arbitration law in the form
of a board of conciliation. I am not
committed to this proposition, but am
studying its workings in other places.
"All citizens will recognize that our
people have the right to organize if
they wish to do so. It will also be
generally recognized that the lives and
property of our people must be protected.
"I will stand to both propositions."
MERE-MENTION
Paul Root, aged 18 years, fullback
of the Eastern Illinois normal school
football team, died in Charleston, 111.,
Sunday of injuries received in a game
on Saturday Effle Fincher, 17
years old, is in Jail in Anniston, Ala.,
charged with shooting Mrs. M. Eason,
because the latter had made remarks
about her. The Eason woman,' will
probably die Prince Albert, ^the
second son of the king of England, is
ill ....Only two of the six American
passengers who were on the steamship
Ancona, sunk last week by an Austrian
submarine, were saved W.
T. Ferguson died Friday morning at
his home near Clyde, N. C., of burns
received several days ago while attempting
to extinguish a fire in his
barn The body of Father Benoit
F. Favard, a Catholic priest, was
found floating in the Elizabeth river
at Norfolk, Va., Sunday. He is believed
to have committed suicide....
The Liberty bell has been sent from
San Diego, to Los Angeles, Cal., on' lts
homeward trip to Philadelphia.
After sensational proceedings lasting
five days, a Berlin court has found the
Christian Scientists who attended the
famous actress, Buthe von Arnauld,
during her last illness, guilty of homicide.
The Christian Scientists were
sentenced to six months in prison
General Villa of Mexico, announced
Friday that hereafter he would pay off
his soldiers in American money
Robert Woolfenden, head of one of
the largest English cotton houses, died
jn Liverpool, Friday Robert Dean,
a 7-year-old negro boy, confessed to
the police of Thomasville, Ga., Friday,
that he placed an iron spike on the
Atlantic Coast Line's tracks in the
yards of Thomasville last week, causing
the pay train engine to overturn
and killing the engineer, Hugh B.
Tayor John Taylor, a negro, was
lynched at Aberdeen, Miss., on Friday.
The negro is alleged to have attempted
to kill a deputy sheriff General
von Bissing. German military
commander of Belgium, has imposed
upon that country a war contribution
of $8,000,000 per month Sixteen
hundred Italian reservists sailed from
New York Saturday for Naples, Italy.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS
? The state college press association
meets in Spartanburg this week.
? Farmers of Spartanburg county
propose to organize a creamery company
within the next few days.
? An unknown man stole two bales
of cotton from a freight warehouse in
Florence last week and managed to
sell them.
? Columbia Record, Sunday: John J.
McMahan of Columbia, will introduce
at the coming session of the legislature
a bill to provide better salaries for
governor and other state officers and
judges. The scale proposed is: Governor
$6,000, lieutenant governor, $1,000,
secretary of state, comptroller general,
ittorney general, treasurer, adjutant
general and inspector general, state superintendent
of education, members
if the railroad commission each $3,000
ind justice of the supreme court and
judges of the circuit court, each $5,000.
? A verdict for $10,000 damages
was awarded against the Southern
railway In the court of common pleas
in Spartanburg Friday afternoon in
the case of Mrs. C. E. Case, as administratrix,
against that company. The
suit was for $60,000 damages and
grew out of the killing of C. E. Case
it a grade crossing of the Southern
it Cora mill or East King's Mountain,
N. C., one year ago last August. The
action was rather unusual in that the
accident having happened in North
Carolina, the law of that state governed
though the trial was in South
Carolina. Mr. Case was driving an
automobile when struck by the train
and killed. The verdict is said to be
one of the largest rendered against a
railway company in this county in
several years.
? The Judson mill of Greenville,
which has been closed since October
26, because of a strike, resumed operations
yesterday, practically all of the
operatives going back to work. At
'imes there were serious indications
>f probable violence, and a strong effort
was made to have the governor
call out the militia. Sheriff Rector refused
to ask for the military, insisting
hat he could handle the situation and
he worked with both sides until he
finally effected a compromise under
" hich operations were resumed. On
yesterday the operatives assemble! at
he request of the sheriff, and after
prayer by Rev. M. Caldwell, Sheriff
Rector and President Greer made
speeches. The operatives cheered bcth
the sheriff and the mill president, the
a'ter having become more conciliatory
han he had been. After the settlement
Sheriff Rector announced that he had
ie?n won over to the principles of
inionism and said he would sign a
?ard and give the union $5.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
Hugh G. Brown, S. Y. C.?Gives notice
of sale of real estate involved
in suit of E. W. Kimbrell Co., vs. R.
S. Torrance, defendant
W. F. Jackson, No. 7?Is in the market
for second-hand saw mill.
"X," care Enquirer Office?Wants to
buy second-hand saw mill.
Enquirer Office?Will pay reward for
return of lost bunch of keys.
McConnell Dry Goods Co.?Is showing
an express shipment of smart shoe
styles. New short coats and ladies'
coat suits. Outings at 8 1-3 cts.
Ferguson & Youngblood?Offer Caro1
lina Belle roasted coffee, ground, 31
lbs. for 85 cts. Hog feed.
York Drug Store?Recommends the
use of Rexall olive oil emulsion for
1 people who are run down from effects
of colds, grippe, etc.
' W. E. Ferguson?Has a variety of new
arrivals for Thanksgiving dinners,
as well as a lot of staple groceries.
R. E. Heath Co.?Is ready to supply
bird and rabbit hunters with Winchester
loaded gun shells. Groceries
at closing out prices.
First National Bank, Sharon?Makes a
few remarks about knockers. Forestall
Miss Opportunity with a bank
account
McElwee, Love & Co., Clover?Are after
the trade of people who are not
now trading in that town. They invite
your business.
City Pharmacy, Clover?Sells and recommends
Tanlac?the master medicine,
to sufferers from Indigestion
and stomach troubles. Nunnally's
candies.
J. M. Stroup?Calls attention to the
superior qualities of Royal tailored
clothes for red-blooded Americans.
York Trust Co.?Advises you to prepare
in the harvest days for the
days of winter. Insurance of all
kinds its specialty.
First National Bank?Suggests that
there are other things than thieves
and fire to protect your money from
?your own self particularly.
Thomson Co.?Is showing new express
shipment of ladies' coat suits, $10
to $15. Men's and boys' clothing,
blankets, domestics, shoes, etc.
Kirkpatrick-Belk Co.?Wil have special
sale of table linens next Friday.
A big purchase recently made In
New York to go on sale.
"Please cut out my ad. I have found
my steer," said, Mr. C. Frank Sherer
yesterday.
Some folks were telling yesterday
that there was a slight snow fall in this
vicinity Sunday night.
We were able to print a cut of that
blpr chrysanthemum in the last Issue of
The Enquirer, through the courtesy of
the Charleston Post.
Mr. J. P. Adams of the Bethel section
said yesterday that a lot of wheat and
oats is being sowed by farmers in his
section, almost if not q^ite as much as
last year. Mr. J. P. Barnes of the
Guthrlesville section, said that in his
opinion the oat and wheat acreage in
his section was fully up to that of last
fall.
Considerably more small grain has
been sowed this fall than was sowed
two years ago up to this time; but
not nearly half as much as was sowed
last fall. Last fall's sowing was not
more than it should have been.
Those interested in our dictionary
offers will note an important change as
stated in the coupon printed today.
The previous offers hold good as per
the terms of the offers stated in the 1
coupons. So far more than a dozen
dictionaries have been awarded under
the various offers.
The Enquirer would be very inconsistent
if it should attempt to find ]
fault with anybody for declining to
pay that unreasonable and unjust occupation
license tax. We have already
pointed out that the whole business is
unlawful in that it does not pretend
to comply with the statute which requires
that all such taxes must be
levied on a oasis 01 gross incume u?
capital invested. Of course if the law
says national banks are not subject to
the occupation tax, then that settles
the matter, although we submit that
in a matter like this we can see no
more reason why a national bank
should be exempt than we do why any
other bank should be exempt. The
reason for the exemption is that the
law makes the bank exempt. But the
law does not make state banks exempt,
and the reasoning that would
exempt a state bank because of the
exemption of a national bank, would
also exempt any other business.
R. F. D. EXAMINATION
An examination of candidates for
the position of rural free delivery mail
carrier was held in the courthouse
Saturday under the direction of Miss
Maggie Olenn, assistant postmaster at
Yorkville. The examination of appli- 1
cants was made necessary by a vacancy
on one of the Fort Mill routes.
The position pays $100 per month.
Those who took the examination
were:
Horace L. Foster, Hickory Grove; S.
M. Ouinn. Smvrna: Victor K. Plexico.
Sharon: John A. Lee, Yorkville; W.
O. Sherer. Sharon: J. E. Cockerell, \
McConnellsville; J. H. Currence, Clover;
J. Webb Moore, Yorkville; C. R. (
McGill, Hickory Grove; S. K. Moore, ]
Clover; T. O. Whisonant, Smyrna; R,
B. Whltesides, Smyrna; S. L. Caldwell,
Smyrna; Robt. L. Scogglns, Yorkville;
Walter W. Love, Yorkville; C. B. (
Slaughter, Hickory Grove; E. C. Hood,
Hickory Grove; Jeff D. Whltesides,
Hickory Grove. I
PRI80NERS IN JAIL.
Twenty-seven persons are In the
York county Jail awaiting trial at the ,
approaching term of the court of
general sessions for York county,
which convenes next Monday, November
22. There are also a large number
of defendants out on bond. Fol
lowing are those In Jail: - ,
Fred Thoinasson, Jake Love, Ed
Robinson. John Hlnes, Jesse Dixon,
Robert Kelley, larceny; Charley Gill, 1
Sam Hood, Boy Watson, Allison Cloud, '
Sam Wright. Bob Castles. Price Dun- ,
lap, S. Young, house breaking and !
larceny; Jim Stroud, using horse without
consent of the owner; John 1
Barnes, abandonment of wife; Wilson (
Glenn. Lona Reld, Jum Hayes, Wal- j
lace Smith, Minnie Harris, assault and
battery with Intent to kill; Will 1
Snooks, assault with intent to ravish; 1
Lewis Tigler, disposing of property i
under mortgage; W. E. Gardner, Is- <
suing fraudulent checks; Pink Rice. I
Duke Clawson, murder. I
BRYAN AT WINTHROP I
Hon. William J. Bryan, former sec- j
retary of state, and one of the foremost <
leaders of the Christian thought of ]
the world, spoke at Winthrop college '
yesterday afternoon on the subject of j
the "War in Europe and Its Lessons j
iw \jo.
The faculty and students of the college
alone made up a large audience:
but this audience was greatly augmented
by people of Rock Hill. Yorkville
and other towns and the surrounding
country.
Mr. Bryan spoke for about an hour
and a half during which time he held
his audience almost spellbound with
his marvelous eloquence, wisdom and
earnestness. He talked about various
ihings; but more particularly abou'
the war and its lessons, and took a
strong position against the furvor of
preparedness that is now spreading
among the government leaders. He
did not undertake to criticise the administration:
but he made it clear tha*
extensive preparation for war was a
certain challenge to fight. He pointed
out the astonishing mileage that could i
be added on good roads with the heavy
expenditure allowed for the army and
navy establishments and he argued
that In case of necessity these roads
would prove a better defense than
cannon, ships, etc. He urged the responsibility
that rests upon America
to point the right way in this great
crisis of the world's history.
THIRD WEEK JURORS
The following thirty-six Jurors were
drawn this morning to serve during
the third week of the approaching term
of the circuit court:
C. L. Torrence Fort Mill.
R. T. Fewell Ebenezer.
A. N. Morgan Catawba.
n ^ Oootnn SVlrt Mill.
\V. * L. Baber V..".V 3.7 "York!
D. L. Moss Fort Mill.
C. B. McFadden Catawba.
J. E. Armstrong Fort Mill.
A. L. Black York.
W. H. Spencer Catawba.
R. M. Mitchell Bullock's Creek
W. Hi Jackson .... King's Mountain.
T. S. Lambert Bullock's Creek
W. A. Thomasson .. King's Mountain.
B. B. Brandon Bethel.
S. J. Bell Catawba.
J. T. Young Fort Mill.
T. W. McSwain .... Bullock's Creek.
J. F. Bookout Bethesda,
J. A. N. Glenn Bethel.
J. M. Ferguson Catawba.
J. B. Kirby Broad River.
W. H. Crook Fort Mill.
F. L. Balril Bethel.
T. W. Ross Catawba.
J. T. McAbee King's Mountain.
S. A. Mitchell Bullock's Creek.
A. J. Barry Ebenezer.
R. J. Brown Broad River.
J. M. Poag Catawba.
J. R. Barron Catawba.
A. R McElhaney Fort Mill.
W. A. Fewell Catawba.
Jessie M. Moore Bethesda.
J. M. McGill Broad River.
H. D. Cranford .... Bullock's Creek.
TAXING THE BANKS
The recent publication of the list of
those who had paid the municipal occupation
tax disclosed the fact that
neither of the local banks, both of
which had been duly assessed, were
in that list. Upon inquiry of a member
of the town council, a representative
of The Enquirer was informed
that the First National bank claimed
exemption under the law, and
showed authority for it, and that the
council had decided that if the First
National bank could not be taxed, it
was not right to tax the other bank
cither.
With a view to securing Information
as to the law on the subject, the editor
of The Enquirer made inquiry of
the attorney general and that official
has kindly favored us with the following
comprehensive and satisfactory
reply:
"I am in receipt of yours of the
6th inst in which you ask to be advised
whether or not there is any
Federal or other law that would exempt
a national bank from the payment
of a municipal occupation
license tax, levied in accordance with
an act of the general assembly on the
subject
"In reply I will say that it has been
held by the United States courts from
the beginning that national hanks
are instrumentalities of the federal
government, created for a public pur- ;
pose, and the respective states and
their agencies Are wholly without
power to levy any tax, either direct
or indirect, upon national banks, except
as permitted by the national
banking act. (
"Section 5219 of the revised statutes
allows the states to tax the shares
in national banks by allowing such |
shares to be included in the valuation
of the personal property of the owner
or holder of such shares, and also allows
the state to tax all real property
of national banks, but does not permit
any license or occupation tax. Such
being the case I am of the opinion
that a national bank is exempt from
a Municipal Occupation License Tax."
THE A. R. P. SYNOD
The next annual meeting of the Assoclate
Reformed Presbyterian synod
of the couth, will be held with the
Yorkvllle church on Wednesday after
the second Sabbath of November,
1916.
Such Is the choice of the Scccder supreme
court as expressed at Due West (
last Friday by a vote of 76 to 58.
4* --*1? ? 6 *v? * miama /\#
Wnen me question ui me ui
the next meeting camo up, Rov. J. L.
Oates presented the invitation of the
Yorkville church, and Rev. J. R. Edwards
presented the claims of the (
church at Fayetteville, Tenn.
In connection with hia invitation,
Mr. Oates made an earnest and persuasive
address and also submitted {
assurances of welcome from Mayor '
Wilborn and from Mr. Carl H. Hurt,
secretary of the Board of Trade.
The claims of the East Avenue i
church in Charlotte were r.ot presented.
Rev. W. W. Orr and Mr. J. H. y
Ross, the especial representatives of
that church, having realized that the ,
Yorkville church had the advantage,
generously and gracefully surrendered ,
in favor of Yorkville.
On a vote the matter was decided as
above, and those who know, say that 1
under the circumstances Fayetteville
showed remarkable strongth. Rev. Mr. '
Edwards, the pastor of the church at j
Fayetteville. Is held in.tho highest ea- 1
teem by all the members of synod. '
Rev. J. W. Carson of Newberry, and <
H?on. Asfobel G. Bricc of Chester, <
were nominated for moderator. Mr. ,
Carson withdrew in favor of Mr.
Brice and Mr. Brice's election was j
made unanimous. ,
Mr. Brlce Is the first non-preaching <
elder to be elected moderator of synod
in the history of the organization. .
He has been the treasurer of synod
for many years, and because of his j
wise and prudent council, has won the
confidence of all.
The regular time for the meeting of 1
synod is Wednesday after the first '
Sabbath in November; but the time
nf the next meeting was changed at <
the suggestion of Hon, J. E. McDonald 1
who called attention to the conflict
with the next general election In which
some of the delegates might desire to
participate.
HELD GREAT MEETING
Mesdames W. J. Nelson, B. A.
Scruggs and Miss Emma Dowell of
Rock Hill: Mrs. M. M. Richardson
and Miss Beulah Matthews of Clover;
Mesdames L. G. Grist and J. H. Machen
of Yorkville. and Miss Mozelle
rhomasson of Union, delegates from
several York county Baptist churches.
returned to their respective homes Friday
night after attending the threeday
session of the 13th annual meeting
of the Woman's Missionary union
at the Baptist church which was held
in Spartanburg Wednesday, Thursday
ind Friday of last week. The delegates
declare the meeting just ended to have
been one of the best in the history of
the union.
Statistical reports showed that the
various auxiliary societies throughout
he state were increasing In membership
and good work to a very satisfactory
degree. The delegates from
uver the state, several hundred in all,
neard a number of inspiring addresses
f>y noted church workers, both men
?fAmon onrl porpivA/1 t llPFPf rOlTl
suggestions which are calculated to j
prove helpful to them in their own re- (
spective activities in church work. s
Orangeburg was selected by the ^
lelegates as I he place of meeting of the i
inion in 19H5.
Mrs. J. D. Chapman was re-elected t
president and the following other r
ecommendations of the committee on J
nominations were unanimously adopted
at the closing meeting Friday: Mrs.
EV. H'. Hunt, Newberry, vice president; f
Mrs. C. E. Watson, Greenville, vice
jresident for the northern division;
lira. L. K. Stuckie, Orangeburg, vice J1
resident of central division; Miss j
Elary Adams. Darlington, vice presi- J
lent of the eastern division; Mrs. ^
Elamie N. Timman, Edgefield, vice *
>resident of the western division; Mrs. b
P. T. Hyde, Charleston, vice president e
if southern division; Mrs. J. B. Fizer,
Columbia, corresponding secretary, re- E
elected; Mrs. E. A. McDowell, Fairfax,
recording secretary; Miss Jessie King,
Columbia, treasurer; Miss Annie Olmer,
Columbia, auditor.
Mrs. G. E. Davis of Orangeburg, was
elected superintendent of the Y. W. A.;
Mrs. Edwin Carpenter, Georgetown,
superintendent of the R. A.'s; Mrs. W.
J. Hatcher, Johnston, superintendent
of Sunbeam bands. Mrs. J. B. Boatwright,
Mulllns, superintendent of
missionary study.
The following were elected to the
local advisory board: Mesdames. C. E.
J. Foster, W. D. Wakefield, E. G.
Burts, H. I. Horton, J. D. Moore, A.
Quattlebaum, M. O. Krepps, W. O.
Whitescarver, W. H. Mobely, _W. T.
Derieux, r. C. Gaines, J. N. Joraon,
C. O. McKnight, C. A. Jones and I*
Hi McAteer. Mrs. Jas. A. Hoyt was
elected an honorary member of the
board.
The following delegates were elected
to represent the union at the state
Baptist convention to be held in
Greenville in December: Mesdames P.
D. Chapman, R. C. Hoyt, J. A. Brown,
M. N. Tillman and R. P. Searson.
WITHIN THE TOWN
? Former Governor Cole L. Blease
has accepted the invitation of Big
Chief Tribe No. 61, Improved Order
of Red Men, to make an address on
the subject of Redmanship while he
is here on business at the fall term of
the court of general sessiona The
date of the former governor's address
has not been set owing to the fact that
Mr. Blease is not sure Just when his
presence will be required here. The
address will be in the tribal wigwam
or in the courthouse and the public
will be invited.
? Bob Miller, a white man who was
arrested Saturday afternoon by Constable
Peters on the charge of theft
of clothes and other propeky from a
negro some time ago, did not remain
a prisoner long. The authorities have
been after Miller, an old offender, for
some time, and Saturday afternoon.
Constable Peters found him in Mr.
Louis Roth's store. Miller appeared to
be entirely willing to come along
peaceably enough but the officer had
Just proceeded toward the Jail with his
prisoner, when the latter pulled away
and in the scuffle which ensued escaped,
leaving his coat in possession of
the constable.
? Baptismal and communion services
were held in Trinity Methodist church
last Sunday morning. Four members
were added to the church roll on profession
of faith and eleven by letter.
? Mr. Bayner O. Lilly and Miss Nelle
Moore were married at the home of
the bride here Sunday night, Rev. Jas.
H. Machen officiating. Miss Moore is
the eldest daughter of Mr. W. T.
Moore and for some time pua. has
been teaching music at Filbert. Mr.
Lilly is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C.
Llllv of Filbert, and is engaged in the
mercantile business at Filbert. Both
the young people have many friends
throughout this section.
ABOUT PEOPLE
Mr. Felix McClain of Clover was
among the visitors here yesterday.
Dr. A. M. Barnett of Yorkville, spent
Sunday with relatives in Gastonla.
Mr. V. L. Smith of Yorkville, spent
Sunday with relatives in Rock Hill.
Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Inman of Florence,
visited relatives here this week.
John Demas of Yorkville, spent Sunday
with friends in Gaffney and Gastonia.
Mrs. W. F. Putnam of Yorkville,
spent Sunday with relatives in Rock
Hill.
Mr. J. P. Adams of the Bethel section,
was among the visitors here
yesterday. %
Mrs. J. R. Cannon left last week to
nnend some time with relatives in Con
cord, N. C.
Mrs. W. I. Barber of Chester, visited
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R E. Montgomery,
here Sunday.
Mr. Vernon Proctor of Lancaster,
visited Mr. and Mrs. Tracy Proctor in
Yorkville this week.
Mr. P. D. White of Chester, spent
Sunday in Yorkville with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. White.
Mr. James Faulkner and Miss Margaret
Faulkner of Clover No. 4, were
visitors here yesterday.
Mi88 Bonnie Plexico of Rock Hill, is
visiting the family of her father, Mr.
M. E. Plexico, in Yorkville.
Mr. Oscar Plexico of Yorkville, has
accepted a position as coach of the
BIack8ville, S. C., football team.
Mr. J. Miller Drakeford returned to
Columbia Friday, after spending sevsral
days with relatives here.
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar M. Faris of
Yorkville No. 8, spent Friday with Mr.
and Mrs. I. Hi Boyd near Yorkville.
Miss Eunice McClain of Rock Hill,
/sited the family of her father, Mr.
\V. T. McClain. on R. F. D. No. 1, this
sveek.
Mr. Luther Hartness of Yorkville
No. 5, left this morning for City Point,
Vsl, where he expects to secure employment.
Mr. Clarence Clinton has returned to
Sranlte Falls, N. C., after a visit to his
parents. Mr. and Mrs. p. E. Clinton, on
R. F. D. No. 7.
Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Long and children
of Greenville, are spending a few
Jays with the family of Mr. and Mrs.
J. W. Quinn here.
Mrs. Ralph Stevenson has returned
to her home in Camden, after spending
some time with her mother, Mrs. J. W,
Campbell, at Clover.
Mr. D. W. Daniels, of the Franklin
Lightning Rod company of St. Louis,
Mo., spent several days with Mr, J.
C. Wallace in Yorkville last week.
Miss Rita Wltherspoon has returned
to her home here, after a visit to her
sister, Mrs. J. M. Hemphill, in Chester.
Dr. John I, Barron on Saturday received
a message from his uncle, Mr.
W. R. Barron, announcing the death of
the letter's daughter, Miss Julia Bar-on,
in Marion, Ala., on Friday afterloon.
Winthrop girls who spent Saturday
ind Sunday with relatives and friends
lere were: Misses Esther McMurray,
Marie Inman. Louise Quinn, Ruby
Moore, Elizabeth Grist and Louise
3ates,
Mr. and Mrs. 8. K. Lowry of Yorkville,
returned home Sunday afterloon
after spending several days in
Dharlotte where the former underwent <
in operation. (
Mr. T. M. Martin of Yorkville No. I.
,vho is suffering with pneumonia, and i
>ther troubles in the Fennell infirmary, i
Rock Hill, Is not improving as rapid- (
y as was expected.
Mr. Beatty Carson of Yorkville No. (
I. is suffering with a fractured arm as (
Via roonh r\t Vila Koine fhrGtrn from
lis wagon last week when his mules
jecame frightened. <
Mr. T. B. Barnett, who lives a few 1
niles east of Yorkville, has purchased
the residence of Mr. W. F. Pierce
in Charlotte street and contemplates
noving here within a short time.
Among the Bethesda township peoile
who were visitors here yesterday
vere: Messrs. J. P. Barnes, J. Frank
Vshe. Lester Harshaw, S. H. Love, Dr.
N. C. Whitesides J. T. Crawford, E.
L Crawford and J. M. Williams.
Mrs. W. F. Marshall and Miss Lessie
Witherspoon left yesterday for
Jreenville, where they will attend the
itate convention of Daughters of the
American Revolution as delegates from
Cing's Mountain chapter.
Mr. and Mrs. B. F. King of St. Mathews,
have issued invitations to the
narriage of their (daughter, Miss Olive
Lthleen, to Mr. John Russell McElwee
if Rock Hill, the ceremony to take
ilace at the home of the bride on
he evening ?of November 25.
Mr. Blakely Plexico has returned to
lis home in Yorkville, after attending
he falro at Rock Hill, Chester, Columns,
Spartanburg and Charlotte, where
ie entered his horse, "Superman," in
he races. Mr. Plexico succeeded in
ieing among the winners in each race
ntered except one.
Mesdames W. F. Marshall and D. E. '
Joney are delegates from Winnie Da
vis chapter of Yorkvllle to the state
convention of the United Daughters of
the Confederacy, which meets In Aiken
tomorrow. Miss Mary Williams, who
is a vice president of the state assocla- 1
tion, will also attend the annual meeting.
Rev. Dr. R. M. Stevenson, formerly
of Bethany, Crowders* Creek and
Clover, now editor of the Associate
Reformed Presbyterian and a professor
in the Theological seminary at Due
West, is completing a handsome
nine room residence in Due Wed. He
expects to get into his new home within
the next eight or ten days.
Rock Hill Record, Nov. 12: The
state convention of Daughters of the
Confederacy met at Aiken today and
will continue through Wednesday. The
J- ? ? T-? ?i- triii
ueicgaics hum i\uvr nui auu men
hostesses are: Miss Louise McCown,
Mrs. Frances Lofton with Mrs. W. J. '
Piatt; Mrs. B. M. Massey, Mrs. M. L.
Hall and Mrs. Nelson Johnson; Mrs.
E. El Cloud. Mrs. James Reid with
Mrs. William McCarter. C. M. Whisonant
spent the week-end in Hickory
Grove with relattvea The condition
of Mrs. John T. Spencer of Lesslle remains
critical and her death may occur
at any time. Her sons are at her bed- 1
side. "
Among those who attended the Llttle-Grayson
wedding at Grover, N. C..
last Wednesday afternoon were: Misses
Sarah Little. Ina Gunn. Mrs. T. C. ^B
Castles and Mr. J. El Lipscomb, Green- ^B
ville; Mesdames Mary E2arle and W. A.
Blalock. Blacksburg; Mr. and Mrs.
W. F. Logan. King's Mountain; J. 8.
McSwain. Shelby. N. C.; Mr. and Mrs.
I. C. Grayson. Miss Bessie Grayson.
Messrs. Frank and Maynard Grayson,
M". and Mrs. S. C. Pursley, Mrs. H. C.
White, Ml88ee Annie Rhea White and
JJla Howell. Messrs. James and Boyce
Faulkner. Albert and Choate Quinn.
Bethany, J. E. Blggers and Miss Mary
Biggers, King's Creek.
LOCAL LACONICS
Rock Hill Defeated. ,
The Rock Hill High school football
team lost its first game of the season
in Sumter F*riday afternoon when ^B
it was defeated by the Sumter team,
13 to 13. Rock Hill defeated Sumter ^
in Rock Hill several days ago.
York County Ginnings.
Joseph M. Taylor, special agent of
the census department in collecting M
ginning statistics in York county, re- 4
ports that prior to November 1, 1915,
21,891 bales of cotton were ginned In
the county as against 24,028 up to the
same date last year.
Inspecting Broad River Roads.
Supervisor Thos. W. Boyd spent last
Thiirn/tflv In Rrrtfiri River townahlD. in
the Hickory Grove section. Inspecting
the roads and grade crossings. According
to the supervisor there are a
number of grade crossings in that section
in need of immediate attention.
Burton-Fari s.
Rock Hill Record. Nov. 16: Miss
Mary Burton and Mr. John T. Fiaris,
both of the Allison Creek section of
the county, were married last night at
the home of Rev. and Mrs. J. T. Dendy
of Ebenezer, Mr. Dendy performing
the ceremony in the presence of a few
close friends and relatives.
York Cases in 8upreme Court.
Following is the roster of cases in
the supreme court from the sixth Judicial
circuit, which includes York .
county: 1. Southern Railway Co. vs.
Kimball et al. 2. Cureton vs. L. A C.
Railway Co.. et al. 3. Strait va City
of Rock Hill. 4. Saye et al. vs. HllL
5. DuBose vs. Kell.
Negro Cleared of Charge.
Tom Hampton, colored, was acquit- 4
ted by a Jury in Magistrate Crawford's
court at Guthriesville, Wednesday, on
the charge of stealing cotton from
the held. It was alleged that Hampton
took 200 pounds of cotton from
the field of Mr. R. T. Sandifer, near
Lowryville.
Hickory Grove Won.
The Hickory Grove High school
basketball team defeated the Winthrop
Training school team of Rock Hill, in
a game at Hickory Grove Friday afternoon.
The score was 21 to 16. The
team line-up was as follows: Hickory
Grove?Quinn. White, Brennan, Quinn,
White: Rock Hill?Poe, Miller, Garrison,
Roddey, Moore, Law; referee,
Slaughter.
Mrs. Beulah Christenbury.
Gastonla Gastonlan, Nov. 16: Mrs.
Beulah Christenbury, wife of John
Phpia*?nhnrv Hlprf at h??r hnma al the
Clara mill this morning at 4.30 o'clock,
of tuberculosia The deceased was
before her marriage, a Miss Queen, and
her home was at Clover, where the
remains will be carried for burial tomorrow.
The deceased was 27 years
of age and is survived by her husband
and four small children, the oldest
being 10 years old.
More Schools Open. ^
Several more Tork county schools
entered upon their 1916-16 terms yesterday
morning. Among them were:
Philadelphia, with Prof. J. Roy Grayson
and Miss Marie Moore in charge; ?
Tlrzah, in charge of Misses Ethel
Caldwell, Eva Mitchell and Gertrude
Hiers; Cotton Belt, Misses Kitty Blair,
Ina Ashe and Mrs. Sumter Cain, and
Filbert, under the direction of Misses
Lottie Belle Simrill, Willie May Grayson
and Lizzie Woods.
Petition Being Circulated.
Chester News, Friday: We understand
several citizens at Lewis' Turnout,
Smiths and Rodman are circulating
a petition which is to be handed
the Southern railway, regarding the
schedules of trains on their road. Parties
in the above mentioned section of
Chester county do moat o( their trading
In Cheater and the present schedule
Is very inconvenient. So far we
have not heard of a petition In Cheater
but would not be surprised to see one
any day.
Enrollment Increased. .
Mr. Rodney Love, principal of the *
Smyrna school, who spent Saturday
and Sunday with his parents near
YorkviUe, said that he expected the
school enrollment to be l&rgelv increased
this week, on account or the fact
that many children of the Smyrna section
who had not yet entered school ^
owing to their being omployed In the
fields, were now up with their work
and would enter the school. The enrollment
since the school opened several
weeks ago has been about 35 and it is
confidently expected that the attendance
henceforth will be 60 or more,
Want Special School LeviesThe
superintendent of education has
received petitions from New Zion
school district No. 54, and Clark's Pork
school district No, 35, asking that an
election be called In their respective
districts on the question of voting a
2-mill special tax for school purposea
The petitions are signed by one third
of the freeholders and one-third of the
voters in the two districts, in accordance
with law. There are at present
only four school districts in York ~ ~
county which have not a special school
tax in force. They are New Zion,
Clark's Fork. Bethel and Hoodtown.
Convict Still at Largs.
Will Crosby, the negro convict who m
escaped from the county chaingang
last Thursday while a portion of the
gang was at work on the Rock Hill
road near White Hill church, is still
it large. A reward of $26 is offered by
Supervisor Boyd for his capture.
Crosby is said to have been seen at a
negro house on Mr. M. L?, Thomasson's
place Thursday afternoon and he
managed to cut his shackles there
with the aid of a harrow tooth. It is
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the Filbert community Friday afterloon.
The State Warehouse System.
There are now 135 warehouses In
the state warehouse system, according
to a statement made to the editor of
The Enquirer by Hon. John L. McLaurin
last Friday. "We have storage
capacity," he said, "for something like
J00.000 bales. At the present time we
have receipts out for about 30,000
hales; but of course, this is continually
changing, sometimes more and ^
sometimes less. There Is not much
lisposition to store. You know, when
cotton is up to 12 cents." Mr. McLaurin
mentioned the fact that a warehouse
at Bishopville had been filled to
its capacity of about 4,000 bales, and
the owners had made application for ^
he taking in of additional houses B|
Engineer Hurt in Wreck. fl
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