Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-03-27
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.


years OF age.
The state pension board finds
that the list this year will be much
reduced compared with last years fig
ures, although the appropriation this
year Is $225.0OO as against 100000
last year. The reduction, which
amounts to about ten per cent, Is
accounted for on the score of an in
creasing number Of deaths among the
veterans. Up to this time the list
has steadily increased, the new appli-
cants far outnumbering the deaths or
removals to other states. The list
last year numbered over 5000.
Due West correspondence Of the
News and Courier: Erskine college
is to be congratulated on being able .
to secure the services Of Mr.. David
A. Monroe as commencement ora
tor on June 5. Mr.. Monroe Is the
well-known editor Of one of Ameri-
cas- foremost publications, the North
American Review, and his name was
suggested to the committee by Ma
jor j. c. Hemphill of the News and
Courier. Due Westers may hence
forth look forward to something
really fine from this noble son of
Scotland.
john Gaylord. young white man,
was shot and killed at the old Colonel
Rembert's place, near Herriott's Cross
roads, in Lee county, last Friday night
by Grover Mathis, a young white man
Of the st. Charles section. Gaylord
lived only eighteen minutes after re-
ceiving the fatal bullet. The alleged
cause Of the contention was an insult
offered by Mathis to young lady un-
der Gaylord's protection. Mathis came
in carly Saturday morning and surren-
dered himself to the sheriff. Both par
ties are well connected.
Hon. U. x. Gunter, attorney general
Of the state of South Carolina, died at
the home Of his father, Mr.. u. X. Gum
ter at Batesburg, last Sunday, after
having been seriously Ill since June.
He died Of consumption. Mr.. Gunter
as only about thirty-five years OF age.
He had BEEN In politics practically since
early manhood, first private secretary
to Governor John Gary Evans, then as
a magistrate In Spartanburg, then as
sistant attorney general under Hons.
w. A. Barber and G. Duncan Bellinger,
and later he was elected attorney gem
eral on his own account He was quite
successful In politics and had his ca
reer not been cut short by his untimely
death, would have no doubt reached a
much higher position.
"A dispatch from Columbia says
Of the recent bid of the Carolina
Glass company on dispensary bottles
| as compared with former bids when
1t held a monopoly. The Carolina
| Glass company, which the committee
| found selling in 100 crate lots at
$40 a gross for half pints, $485 a
| gross for pints and 1856 gross for
quarts in January when officers of
the concern were put on the grid
IRON, has come in with bid of $2.70
tor half pints, $4.10 for pints and
$3.50 for quarts. The company also
offers new style" for $2.75 for half
| pints, $4.15 for pints and $7.16 for
quarts. Demijohns, which were SELL
ing at "a cents each, and are yet SELL
ing to the dispensary at that price,
are offered at 81 cents each. Now,
as will be seen, the Carolina company
has come down from q monopoly of
the business at prices above all 9TH
ers, when 1t did business several years
with the dispensary to the extent Of
200 cars a year, to black listed sup
plant for business, with a bid below
all the others. 1t looks as II the
board was placed in the predicament
Of awarding the contract to a higher
bidder or patronizing a blacklisted
concern. There are some, however,
the contract was deferred until the
| Carolina concern Is the only one able
| to fill the orders, when 1t will
| be in position to elevate its bid slight
| ly. All this might have been cleared
up had the newspaper representatives
been admitted to the sessions of the
| board. These figures come from Mr..
Lyon, who calculates the difference
| between the bid of the Carolina con-
4. n -. n
was operating on In January at $248
car for half pints, $3.50 car for
pints and $196.56 a car for quarts,
total difference Of $4,000 on the or
ders for 800 cars ahead the legislature
took away from the Carolina COM
pany.
The case of Rev. C. w. Creighton,
a member OF the South Carolina con-
ference, which was taken up at the
recent annual meeting Of that body
at Spartanburg and referred to
committee for further investigation,
was again entered into at Green
wood last Thursday. Mr.. Creighton
is editor Of the Christian Appeal, and
the charges against him have grown
out Of the fact that he has been pros
ecuting In his paper a campaign
against the system prevailing
throughout the conference Of COM.
pensating presiding elders on basis
Of per centage on the salaries paid
to ministering preachers. Mr.. Creigh-
ton holds that the system has built
up and developed a ring among the
presiding elders and that they are
giving more attention to the matter
Of securing and increasing their re-
spective salaries than they are to the
welfare Of either the church as a
hn1 hn Inf
disposition at Spartanburg to try to
get rid Of Mr.. Creighton without pub
licity; but Mr.. Creighton would not
have 1t that way. He demanded a
hearing, and 1t was at last agreed
that the hearing should be given by
a committee, which was charged
with the duty OF making an investi-
CATION and a report The investigat-
ing committee consists Of Rev. w. A.
Massebeau, Rev. Peter Stokes, and
Rev. T. c. Odell, with Rev. w. B,
Duncan officiating as presiding elder.
The following presiding elders were
present as witnesses: Revs. A. j.
Stokes, r. H. Jones, j. w. Kilgo, II.
B. Browne, w. P. Meadows, ]. Marion
Dargan and ]. S. Beasley. The pro-
ceeding3 were behind closed doors;
but the newspaper correspondents
have been writing some interesting
stories that have probably been given
out by Mr.. Creighton. Mr.. Creigh-
ton claimed the right to be repre-
sented by counsel and secured the
consent of Rev. j. w. Daniel to act
i'm that capacity; but the committee
would allow nothing Of the kind.
Unable to force the committees ac-
quiescence in the matter Of counsel,
Creighton insisted on his right to have
a stenographer to make record Of the
proceedings. The committee had an
official stenographer and held that
this was all that was necessary; but
Mr.. Creighton would not yield. Miss
Myrtle Davis was present to take tes-
timony for him. Members Of the
committee asked her to retire. Mr..
Creighton instructed her to remain
and defied the members Of the COM
mittee to put her out. The situation
was very unpleasant; but Miss Davis
held her ground. Because of the Ill
ness of Miss Aldrich, the stenogra-
pher for the committee, no hearing
was had on Friday. Feeling runs strong
over the whole matter among the
Methodists at Greenwood. Two prom
inent citizens became involved I'm
personal alteration on Thursday and
came to blows. They were sum-
moned to appear before the mayor