Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-05-12
LOCAL LACONICS.

LOCAL LACONICS.
Picnic at Fort Mills.
Concord, Fort Mill and Allison Creek
schools unite in a picnic at Fort Mill
today, Saturday.
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Wanted at Clemson.
President Hartzog, of Clemson, has
invited the state summer school to
Clemson this year; but as Winthrop
has such an advantage on the score of
accessibility, to say nothing of any
other feature, it is not likely that there
will be any change.
No Board of Control.
Appointments for the various coun-
ty boards of control throughout the
state were announced from Columbia
on Wednesday. The York delegation
having made no recommendation on
account of the fact that there is no dis
pensary. in this county, no board was
appointed for York. Il
Winthrop Excursion.
An excursion train loaded with Win
tbrop college students passed up the
South Carolina and Georgia Extension
railroad yesterday morning on its way
to Ball Alley, n. c. There had been
no previous notice of the excursion.
Otherwise some of the Yorkville young
men would have no doubt had business
at the depot during the 20 minutes
that the train stopped here.N
Merely Rumor. y
There has been a rum6r on the
streets of Yorkville during the past
few days to the effect that John Hart,
the well-known Negro desperate, was
killed in Union county last week.
Careful inquiry has developed no sat-
isfactory foundation for the rumor
further than that posse, which fol-
lowed Hart, brought back his coat to
Lockhart. 1t is believed that Hart has
gone with party of laborers to rail-
road work at Gainesville, Ga.
The County Board.
The county board of commissioners
held its regular monthly meeting in
the Office of the supervisor on Wed
nesday, all the members being present.
Along with the work of auditing &C
cumulated accounts, the board revised
the schedule of fees allowed with ref
erence to the examination and commit
ment of lunatics. Heretofore these
fees have been fixed by statute; but
at the last session of the general as
sembly, the act was amended so as to
put the matter within the discretion of
the county commissioners, and the
board, on Monday, allowed the fee of
the judge of probate to remain the
same-$5-and cut the amounts al
lowed the two examining physicians to
50 each and milage at the rate of cents
a mile. Hereafter the cost of con-
veying lunatics to the asylum is to be
limited to the actual expenses without
any per diem.
Scarcity of Timber.
Although there is still considerable
quantity of fine timber to be found in
the northern and western sections of
York county, the saw mill men say
that there are no more tracts large
enough to offer much inducement to
lumbermen. Some five or six years
back, a belt of country on both sides
of the state line stretching from
Crowder's Mountain back to the head.
waters of Kings creek, and some five
miles wide, was solid original forest.
There are as many as so old sawmill
sites in this belt, and the land is en-
tirely denuded of timber. From the
best information at hand, every saw
mill within 20 miles of Yorkville is
far behind with its contracts, and
there is not one that is able to get out
a reasonably large bill of lumber on
short notice. The demand for lumber
in this section just now is larger per-
haps than at any previous time in the
history of the country, and most large
consumers seem to be looking to the
northeastern part of the state for their
supplies.