Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1904-01-12
Mr.. BUTLER IN REPLY.
Produces Affidavits to Back Up What
He Said to the Dispensary Diree-

tors.
Editor of The Yorkville Enquirer:
In your issue of recent date certain
citizens Of the Antioch section OF this
county have called upon me to furnish
proof Of three Of my statements before
the state board Of control some time
in December last. They desire PROOF
of my statement that I would produce
affidavits from members OF the Anti
och church that Jenkins distlllery was
not q nuisance.
Mr.. J. H. Hambright, for four years
a. county commissioner Of Cherokee
county, makes oath that he Is a mem
ber of Antioch church and lives WITHIN
three quarters Of mile OF same ana
about two miles from Jenkins distil-
lery and that occasionally he passes said
distillery and that same has been con-
Quoted on a high plane and In a gen.
tlemanly manner, and ne mas never
seen any drunkenness about SAID dis-
tillery and so far as this deponent IS
concerned same has never been nuI-
sance and deponent does not drink al
coholic liquors. Further deponent Is In
formed that in the past year some sew
eral blockade stills have been broken
I'D from one and one-half miles to
four and five miles Of said church"
Mr.. D. D. Dover makes oath that
he Is a member Of Antioch church,
lives in Cherokee county and lives
three and one-half miles from Jenkins
distillery* and has frequently been
to said distillery and has seen no
drunkenness and that so far as this
deponent can learn and hear said place
has not the reputation Of being place
where LIQUOR can be bought and that
said place Is not nuisance and this
deponent can see no necessity OF clos
ing same and your deponent Is not a
liquor drinker."
]. S. Dillingham; makes oath that
he lives within a mile Of Antioch
church, Of which he Is a member, and
near Jenkins distillery, that he has
never heard Of any irregularity there,
that he is IS years of age ana
does not consider the distillery Of Jen-
kins a nuisance. He never takes
drink"
H. Hullender makes oath that ne
lives between Jenkins distillery and
Antioch church, Of which he and his
family are members: has lived there
ever since the distillery has been In
operation and that he has never heard
of any disturbance caused by said dis
tillery anywhere in the community
and neither has the church been dis
turbed by it; has never heard Of liquor
being sold at distillery and does not
consider it a nuisance"
I will not ask you - allow me to
publish all the affldavits Of members
Of the church along the above line. but
at the hearing before the state board
on the 9Th instant, quite number OF
others will be read and after that date
will be on file there, as we'll as quite
a number from members of other
churches, the mayor and chief OF police
Of Grover, two miles from the distil-
lery, and the chief Of police Of Blacks
burg, an adjoining town.
Next they say I said Prof. Sans was
prejudiced against my client. With all
due respect to the reporter, who did
not take a stenographic report of what
was said, I did not say that. said
II was informed the party that car
ried the chain for Prof. Sans was pre-
JUDGED against my clients business"
The third and last question was that
I said there was row" in the church
over the matter. If the aff1davits here
in and those will submit to the state
board do not show a wide difference
of opinion on this question, I am una
BILE to see or know what differences are.
This answers all their questions, and
with this am through discussing same
in print.
TiIos. B. BUTLER.
Gaffney, S. c., Jan. S, 1904.