Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-12-15
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

THE supreme court has granted an
order that will serve to keep open the
Anderson dispensary until January g.
when II Is understood that the ques-
tio.s involving the constitutionality OF
the Brice law are to be argued.
There was a Brice law election
in Fairfield county last Tuesday, and
the vote was in favor of retaining the
dispersary. The boxes heard from up
up to Thursday morning gave 3ae
votes for the dispensary and 290
against it. Fairfield is the second
county in the state to vote for the re-
tention of the dispensary.
- The association of city superin-
tendents of schools and principals or
schools and the association of county
superintendents will convene in Co
!umbia on December 9th and 2Sth
the joint meeting being addre ssed on
the 2Sth at the state house by Prof.
Joseph S. Stewart of the University OF
Georgia, who will speak on "Hlgn
Schools" a subject to which the school
people generally of this state are just
now deVoting much time, attention ana
study. On Wednesday evening State
Superintendent o. B. Martin will give
a Review of Educational Progress
During the Past Year" to the county
superintendents, and Superintendents
D. D. Stevenson Of Fairfield and A. II.
Gasque of Florence will tell them
about THE Best Methods Of Handling
Text Books" The next morning some
Needed Changes in the School Law
will be the subject of a discussion be-
tween ]. R. Williams and B. F. Sample,
and Messrs. E. B. Wallace and Kirby
Rivers will handle Some Needed Inn
provements in the School Work II;
f. Nicholson and J. E. Carroll Will
then take up How to Secure Efficient
and Sufficient High Schools" On
Wednesday evening President I. L.
Bakers annual address will be deliver
ed to the city superintendent ana
principals, after which Mr.. Frank
Evans will talk on Relations of High
Schools to Colleges" President H: n.
Snyder of Wofford college on "English
Our College Entrance Requirements
on Latin and Creek" and E. c. NC
Cants on college Entrance Require
ments in Mathematics" The next
morning this gathering will listen to
S. H. Edmunds on "At What Age
Should Formal Education Begin" to
DR.. ]. l.. Mann on secondary Schools
in Germany" to Prof. w. E. Moncrieft
on Critical Relationship in School
Work" There will be general discus
sion of all these topics in both conVen-
tionS.
- Columbia State. Wednesday: The
amount of privilege tax is climbing
up close to the $4,000 mark, and
If the checks come in for the next
few days of this month as they have
been coming during the last two weeks
that astonishing record will have been
lnt nj
last year that the enormous sales of
fertilizers, as indicated by the re-
ceipt of privilege tax. disproved the
claims of the cotton association as to
reduced acreage. However. another
view of the matter may be taken
and il may be aScribed to the plant
ing of increased acreage in grain ana
other crops that such Il volume OF
con merCia fertilizer was put on the
market. The sales of the year 1904
exceeded ary previous year by $lO,-
900 and now the sales for 1905 eX-
ceed the sales for the same time in
1904 by $l3,O43.3S. The total
amount sold in the year 1904 was
$l1S,O0O while up to December 18th
of this year the sales have been
$127,2577S. 1t is believed that there
is another reason for the marked in
crease i'm the amount of fertilizer sold.
The legislature has required that cot
ton seed meal be taxed. 1t has been
taxed before as a fertilizer but not
as a food stuff, and great many
people would buy it for feed for the
the cattle and would use it for fer
tiliZer. This is what caused the leg
islature to take action taxing the meal
when bought even for cattle feed.
1t can hardly be realized that the in
come from this tag tax was but S3O,-
900 when it was started 10 years ago
and that it has increased 100000
year The rate of tax is 25 cents on
every ton of commercial fertilizer
The farmers claim that they have TO
pay the tax, that the 35 cents is
added into the selling price of the man
ufactured product. but 1t is questiona-
BILE if the doing away with the tax
would get the farmers fertilizers at
any better price.