Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-09-22
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
They Want the Cotton.

They Want the Cotton.
Spartanburg merchants have ar
ranged to employ cotton buyer on a
guaranteed salary, and 1t Will be MS
duty to pay as much for cotton as may
be paid by anybody else within hauling
distance Of Spartanburg.
Pitts Not Guilty.
In the case of Reuben Pitts, the
Spartanburg school teacher, who killed
one Of his pupils some months ago, the
Jury returned q verdict Of mot guilty.
The case was concluded Saturday af-
ternoon and the jury remained out two
hours and fifteen minutes,
Compromise Verdict.
Robert Gunnels, the young Green
vile white man who was charged last
week Of having committed criminal
assault on a four-year- Negro girl
was convicted last Saturday of having
made an attempt to commit such an
assault. The circumstantial evidence
in the case was quite complete; but In
the absence Of actual proof the jury
agreed to q compromise verdict,
To Recover Stolen Goods.
Magistrate J. M. Bates of Jones'
willie, Union county, made a. raid IN his
nelghborhood one day last week In the
interest of the Pacolet Manufacturing
company. He found where people had
made stolen cloth into underclothes and
bedclothes, and he, seized, all that he
could Identify. There are still thou
sands of yards Of cloth In the hands of
the thieves Of the country surrounding.
1t Is estimated that fully three thou
sand bales Of the cotton that was wash
ed away by the food Is still unac-
counted for.
The Military Board.
Columbia correspondence Of News
and Courier: Adjutant and Inspector
General Frost will soon issue call for
q meeting of the military board Of the
state. This board was created by the
legislature for the distribution of the
fund appropriated for the support OF
the militia. The board consists Of Gov
ernor Hayward, General Frost, Colonel
Henry Schatche. General Willie Jones
and Captain E. M. Blythe. The board
will meet sometime during the present
week and make distribution OF the
$4,000 appropriated at the last session
Of the legislature for the maintenance
Of the state militia.
Organizing tho Grocers.
Charleston dispatch of September 16:
Organizer Geo. ]. Williams of the Ma
etSSoSAe&eANAA
dressed q meeting Of merchants tonigh,
at the Turnverein hall and at its con-
clusion the Charleston branch of the
association was organized. The pur-
poses Of the association, the promotion
of the interests Of the grocers, were
fully set forth. Mr.. Williams attacked
the trading stamp agencies, declaring
these to be q tax on business and q
means Of cheapening labor and COM
modities. He opposed the proposed
parcel post law which II passed by con-
gress, he said, would work great injury
to all retail trade for 1t would allow
the big department stores to do busi-
ness in every town in the country ir
large volume, and without having to
pay taxes or licenses, the retailers could
not compete and would be crowded out
of business. He stated that his asso-
ciation advocated a pure food law
which was especially in the interest OF
the people. and he went fully into g
discussion Of the plans and purposes
of the association and the benefits
which will accrue to the grocerS ir
joining. He will visit upwards of thir-
ty cities and towns in South Carolina
and will attend the state convention
which meets at Columbia on October
27,