The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-03-08
COLUMBIA NEWS NOTES.
Matters of General Interest Gath
cred by Staff Correspondent.
By w. III. McCaw.

CUduSGS
anti-dispensary people, the State board
of directors by vote of two to one,
decided to grant prohibition to the
little town of E1loree, in OraneeDurg'
which had by petition been urging the
board to remove its dispensary slnce
last summer. and passed resolution
closing the dispensary there the lst OF
Jan. Chairman Hub Evans, VINO
voted against allowing the community
prohibition, bad the matter taken up
to the supreme codrt on tie petition
of Dispenser Weeks, against whom
there was complaint as to the manner
in which be had been conducting the
Elloree dispensary. The people OF
Ellorea frankly acknowledged that
there was nc fault to find with Dis
peDser Weeks, they merely wanted
prohibition, which their county board
had refused to grant. The legislature
has come and gone without making
any change in the dispensary law, anc
now the supreme court has perma-
nently enjoined the State board from
| carrying into effect its resolution clos
ing the Elloree dispensary on the
ground that both the spirit and the
substance OF the dispensary law forbids
| the State board closing any dlspensary
once opened, and this fully sustains
| Chairman Evnas, who contended that
the State board had no jurisdiction in
such a matter and that dispensarles
may be closed only under the Brice
act. which requires the entire county
to act in an election, the county vot-
ing out its dispensaries levying half
mill to enforce prohibition and
forfelting the share in the dispensary
school fund, which act the legislature
just adjourned resolutely refused to
amend.
A movement has started in Oconee
to vote out the dispensaries, and 1t
lis not unlikely that this county will
follow the example of Cherokee,
which voted out its dispensaries under
the Brice act. The church people are
| behind the movement in Oconee and
they are moving with energy and
great enthusiasm and zeal.
DR.. r. G. Reed, of the faculty of the
Columbia Theological seminary, will
likely accept a call he received recent
ly to the pastorate Of the Presby-
terian church at Gastonia, N. G.
The Columbia health board, the first
to act under the new act authorizing
cities and towns to pass and enforce
compulsory vaccination ordinances,
has established vaccination depots
for free vaccination and compulsory
vaccination becomes compulsory after
the 18th of March.
Columbia, March 3-.Mr. John NJ.
Graham, the Dublin, Ca, boat build"
or, is expected here today to begin
work on "The Columbia which is
to be operated as a freight boat be-
tween this city and Georgetown and
give Columbia and Intervening towns
| the benefits of water rates. The lum-
Der and other materials for the boat
are already at the Senate street land
J ing on the Congaree, where the work
| of building will be done. Since the
government appropriation for COM
pleting the work of opening up the
| Congaree to navigation is now certain
the work of getting the boat line III
operation will be pushed to compile
tlon with all possible speed. Behind
| the enterprise is $40, 600 stock COM
pany.
Under the new franchise tax law
Vice President Andrews of the South
rem has sent a check to Comptroller
| General Jones for S21, 600, the largest
return so far made. NJ. Andrews
| writes that the calculation was mace
upou the proportion of mileage IN this
State, but the law requires tax apon
| the gross receipts for railroads, which
may make some change in the amount
| she Southern pays. The matter will
come up in the form of protest before
the State board in a few davs. The
tax upon the Coast Line will amount
to about $4,000 The largest check
from a domestic corporation was for
81. 1CO from the Charleston Mining
company. The receipts under the new
law are exceeding all expectations,
and in the end may double what was
estimated, $50, 600. Some Of the small
er domestic corporations have written
that they will fight the tax in the
courts, but the larger concerns, which
are hit the heaviest and which en-
ploy the best legal talent, have paid
without kick.
immigration Commissioner Watson
is about to complete arrangements for
the establishment of a Boer colony in
this state. Extensive advertising the
department has been doing in South
Africa has resulted in application
from a prospective colony there for
large tract of land in this State for
trucking and fruit-growing purposes,
| and a number of tracts are desired for
cattle raising on large scale.
An entirely new kind Of cotton man
| ufacturing business for this section Of
the country is the Whitmire Manufac-
turing company. which was charted
by the Secretary of State today to
manufacture handkerchiefs at Whit
mire, in Newber1y county, on capi-
tai of s1O,O The corporators are J.
Y. Thompson, ". H. Raser and
W. c. Scott. Mr.. Raser is president
and treasurer and Mr.. Scott Secre-
tary.
| commission was iesued to the