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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-10-29
THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION.

President Roosevelt on last Saturday
issued his proclamation naming Thurs
day, November %. as Thanksgiving
Day. The proclamation is as follows:
"Once again the season of the year
has come when, in accordance with the
custom of our forefathers for genera
tions past, the president appoints a
day as the especial occasion for all our
people to give praise and thanksgiving
to God.
During the past year we have been
free from famine, from pestilence,
from war We are at peace with all
the rest Of mankind. Our natural re-
sources are at least as great as those
Of any other nation. We believe that
In ability to develop and take advan-
tage Of these resources the average
man Of this nation stands at least as
high as the average man Of any 9TH
er. Nowhere else in the world Is there
such an opportunity for free people
to develop to the fullest extent all its
powers of body, Of mind and Of that
which stands above both body and
mind-character.
Much has been given us from on
high and much will rightly be expect
ed of us in return. Into our care the
ten talents have been entrusted; and
we are to be pardoned neither II we
suuander and waste them; nor yet II
we hide them in a napkin; for they
must be fruitful in our hand. Ever
throughout the ages, at all times ana
among all peoples prosperity has been
fraught with danger, and 1t behooves
us to beseech the Giver Of all things
that we may not fall into love Of ease
and Of luxury; that we may not lose
our sense of moral responsibility; that
we may not forget our duty to God and
to our neighbor.
"A great democracy like ours,
democracy based upon the principles
of orderly liberty, can be perpetuated
only II in the heart Of the ordinary
citizen there dwells a keen sense OF
righteousness and justice. We should
earnestly pray that this spirit OF
righteousness and justice may grow
ever greater in the hearts OF all OF US
and that our souls may be inclined
evermore both toward the virtues tnat
tell for gentleness and tenderness, for
loving kindness and forbearance one
with another and toward those no less
necessary virtues that make our man
liness and rugged hardihood-for With
out these qualities neither nation or
individual can rise to the level OF
greatness.
Now, therefore. I, Theodore Roose-
welt, president of the United States. do
set apart Thursday, the 2Sth day OF
November, as a day Of general thanks
giving and prayer. and on that day l
recommend that the people snail
cease from their daily work and, IN
their homes or in their churches, meet
devoutly to thank the Almighty Tor
the many and great blessings they
IN hn oct
that they may be given the strength
so to order their lives as to deserve a
continuation of these blessings In the
futIlra" "
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-10-29
ABOUT PEOPLE.

w. w. Lewis, Esq, is attending
court at Conway, S. c.
Mr.. J. r. Ashe has gone to New York
to study medicine.
Miss Mamie Lee Grist. is spending
this week in Columbia.
Mr.. G.. c. Ormand left this morning
on business trip to Camden.
Mrs. A. c. Erwin left this morning
on a visit to friends in Camden.
Mr.. Jos. F. Wallace left Monday to
attend the State fair at Columbia.
Mr.. Lewis G. Grist Is critically Ill at
his home two miles south of Yorkville.
Mrs. S. r. Moore and daughter, Miss
Mamie, returned Monday from visit
to Chester.
Mrs. A. ]. Gilkey of Marion, n. c.,
is in Yorkville on a visit to her sister,
Mrs. W. b. Williams.
Mr.. L. w. Jenkins of Spartanburg,
and Mr.. John A. Jenkins Of Rock Hill,
spent Sunday in Yorkville.
Miss Mary Dobson has returned
from a five weeks visit to friends in
ST. George and Charleston.
Miss Lila Herndon spent Saturday
and Sunday in Spartanburg with her
aunts, the Misses Crenshaw.
Mrs. ]. K. Alston left Sunday to at
tend the fair in Columbia, and VIII be
the guest Of Miss DuBose Jones.
Mrs. ]. Mem. Schorb returned to
Rock Hill this morning. after spend
ing a few days with the family Of Mr..
G. r. Schorb.
Mr.. L. r. Williams left last Satur-
day to visit his son, DR.. c. F. Williams,
and from Columbia will go as a dele
gate to synod at Anderson.
Charlotte Observer: Rev. w. Y.
Love of Statesville, passed through the
city yesterday, en- route to YorkVllle,
S. c., to visit his aged mother.
Mrs. ]. w. Terrence Of Bowling
Green, who has been spending some
days with the Misses Bludworth, left
this morning to visit friends in Co.
lumbia.
DR.. ]. H. Saye of Sharon, has been
to Baltimore to consult with experts
there about the case Of blood poison
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-10-29
COTTON CROP REPORT.
Census Bureaus Report Shows 4,40I,-
055 Bales Ginned Up to October 1s-
Bales Ginned BY States.

Bales Ginned BY states.
Washington. Oct. 26.-The complete
report of the census bureau on the
quantity of cotton of this years crop
ginned up to October 18th shows A.
407, ,055 bales, and 24,934 active GIN
neries.
In 1906 there were 4,s31,621 bales,
and 26125 active ginneries. In this
report round bales are counted as half
bales.
The report includes 97,433 round
bales for 1907 and 1914 for 1906.
and 1884 Sea Island bales for 1907
and 1901 for 1906. The number OF
active ginneries and bales ginned by
states as compared with 1905 follows:
Alabama, 419,S34 bales. against 49,
CAT in 1906; active ginneries 3,147.
against 1851 in 1906.
Arkansas, 162,208, against 63,102;
active ginneries 1921, against 1000.
Florida, 1920, against 24,321; active
ginneries 207, against 24S.
Georgia, S7S,315 bales, against 720,-
316: active ginneries 1920, against
4,2S3
Indian Territory, 120,489 bales,
against 103,634; ginneries 491, against
SIS.
Kentucky, 175 bales, against Els:
ginneries l against 2.
louisiana 1SS,104 bales. against
'21.123: ginneries 1912, against 1907.
Mississippi, 398,3S1 bales, against
365,O ,O5S; ginneries 3,1S8, against 1928.
Missouri. 1894 bales, against 1875;
ginneries 81, against SO.
North Carolina, 215,012 bales. against
222.437: ginneries 1898, against 2,487.
| Oklahoma, 120.299 bales, against
o5.075: ginneries 400. against 344.
South Carolina, 536,242 bales. against
996. .551 ginneries 3.010, against 2,S99.
Tennessee. 54.970 bales, against 49,
S5S: ginneries 519, against 533.
Texas, 1,292,029 bales, against l.
99s. .SO7: ginneries 1891, against 4.10s.
Virginia. S53 bales. against 4.099;
ginneries 4S, against 102.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-10-29

LIEUTENANT Governor Chandler OF
New York state, delivered an address
on the grounds of the Georgia State
Fair in Atlanta last Friday to tre-
mendous crowd of people, and in that
address he argued at least two very
sound pieces Of common sense. One
of them is to take the tariff question
out of politics and put it in the hands
of a non partisan commission and the
other is to punish violators of the law
by corporations. by the personal i'm
prisonment of the heads of the same.
1t has long been clear that the politi-
clans can never settle the tariff ques-
ton. and everybody thoroughly under
stands that corporations care little or
nothing about the risk of mourning a
fine.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-10-29
TUESDAY, OCTOBER ae, 1907.
1t is pot known how the fire origi'
mated
Has It on the Run.

1t Is pot known how the nre orisi-
mated.
Has It on the Run.
The three barrels of whisky that
were seized by Sheriff Shuford Of Gas
ton county, at Dallas about three
weeks ago are still on the move. That
Is the information Of Dispensary Con-
stable Sanders Of Yorkville. Upon
learning Of the seizure, Constable San
ders put himself in communication
with Sheriff Shuford. Sheriff Shuford
held the liquor for a week until Mr..
Andy McCarter came after 1t. 1t was
turned over to Mr.. McCarter on Tues
day of last week. Mr.. Sanders and
Deputy Sheriff Quinn went to the
scene for the purpose of seizing the
whisky as soon as 1t reached its desti-
nation in South Carolina The driver
of the wagon, however, did not go In
the direction Of the South Carolina
line; but instead went into Lincoln
and Catawba counties. The under
standing Is that the North Carolina
authorities were keeping a close watch
on the entire movement, and from the
best information obtainable last Sat
urday, the liquor was still somewhere
in Catawba county. n. c.
Tiger at the County Home.
Accompanied by Deputy Sheriff
Quinn, Constable Sanders made raid
on the York county home premises last
Saturday in search Of tigers. Consta-
BILE Sanders had been gathering point
ers about the home for quite a while
and his information was that people
from the country Immediately sur
rounding were buying liquor from a
pauper there named Will Lewis, when
ever they wanted 1t. Lewis had been
getting liquor through the express Of
flee at the rate of about two gallons
week, the stuff coming in the name
of Will Allison. When the officers ap-
preached the quarters Of Will and his
wife, the woman ran; but Constable
Sanders overlook her and found a
quart of whisky in her possession.
search Of the premises brought to
| light nineteen jugs that were empty,
but intact, and fourteen Of them had
a capacity Of two gallons each. AT
different places about the premises
were to be seen fragments Of broken
Jugs and these fragments were In evil
dence In sufficient quantity to indicate
| that they must have represented a
barrel or more Of whisky. Lewis was
not inclined to accompany the officers
without warrant, but they thought
they had abundant evidence to justify
his arrest and brought him along TO
iail
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-10-29

who have been elected to office on the
issue of dispensary corruption going to
let the matter drop where 1t Is. and
are the newspapers which have been
doing so much bowling because OF an
occasional lynching and the frequent
acquittal of murderers, going to ac-
cept the situation and call 1T good.
Verify, it looks so.
If there are to be no prosecutions,
again we ask, What has been the good
of II all? Surely all that hullabaloo Of
last year was not raised merely for the
purpose of securing a little rotation In
the state offices. We cannot believe
Jsuch a thing We are quite certain
that this was not the reason that ac-
tuated the honest voters of South Car
olina.
In their demand for the enforcement
of the laws against murderers and
lynchers we agree with the esteemed
News and Courier and Columbia State;
but unless these papers join in demand
for the prosecution Of the dispensary
grafters, how are they to reconcile
their position?
Most good people desire the strict
enforcement of the laws of the land
more particularly those against moral
crimes of all kinds; but in the knowl-
edge that men in high places stand
convicted of the crime Of stealing from
the whole people, and are yet allowed
to go free of any punishment, how
can any right thinking man insist on
the punishment of some poor devil OF
an outlaw, who has never had any OPP
portunity to be other than vicious?
We are not conscious of any person.
al feeling against any Of the people
who have been convicted before the
bar of public sentiment of corruption
in connection with the state dispensa-
ry. If any of them have wronged us
more than anyone else, we are not
aware of the fact; but that is not the
point.
As we see it. South Carolina is sad
ly behind many Of her sister states IN
the all important matter of respect 1or
the law. The law lacks a great deal OF
being supreme in this state. 1t Is
largely because there are so many un-
punished criminals in high places. and
if these criminals can only be punish
ed according to their just deserts, the
result will be Of untold benefit to pres
ent and future generations.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-10-29

UP to this time southern people have
not been able to see the Wall Street
panic in any other light than as a
great big farce. We wonder what re-
lation the thing really has to the cot
ton market 1t will be remembered
that on the occasion of the Brown
Hayne- -Sully boom money got very
tight. The big financiers Of New York
brought every possible influence to
bear against the cotton bulls. Is 1t
not possible that this last furry was
precipitated for the purpose Of weak
ening confidence and detracting from
the financial strength of cotton bulls?
We confess that We are more than half
suspicious.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-10-29

gentle breeding and refined attainments,
habituated to wealth and luxury,
the tenant of a felon's cell because of
the inexorable march of justice is in
deed one that impresses every thought
full citizen Of high or low degree with
the thought that in this as in other
countries the law may be viewed with
scant respect for a time but that new
ertheless it has day of reckoning.
The conviction in this case is regard
ed as all the more significant inasmuch
as the trials of former insurance Off
cials are to follow which are even of
graver import.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-10-29

SOME time ago Mr.. Roosevelt COM
mitted himself to the proposition that
the best thing to do with ex-presi-
dents was to put them in the United
States senate for life; but within the
past week he has changed his mind on
this question. He says that an eX-
president should not be put in posi-
ton where he would have to criticise
or review the acts of his successor.
There is a growing opinion that Mr..
Roosevelt has no idea of being an ex-
president for quite a little while yet.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-10-29

-FOUR years ago such a rumpus as
that which occurred in Wall Street last
week, would have depressed the price
of cotton five or six cents pound. AS
it was, contracts did not go down more
than a cent, and up to this time, 1t
does not appear that the price Of cot
ton has hardly been budged. The cot
ton dealers are offering less. it is true;
but there is very little evidence that
they are buying a great deal.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-10-29
DEATH OF SAMUEL BLAIR.

Mr. Samuel Blair died at his
home at Blairsvile yesterday morning
at 10 o'clock. and was buried at Sha-
ron this afternoon at 1.30.
Mr. Blair was born near Sharon, on
the plantation now occupied by Mr..
w. S. Love, on March Is, 1924, and
spent practically the whole Of his life
in the neighborhood of his birth. He
was married on January II, 1s4S, and
he and his wife lived happily together
until May II, 1898, when she died on
their golden wedding anniversary.
During his long life Mr. Blair was
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-10-29

noted principally as a straightfor-
ward, upright citizen, who always
manifested a keen interest in the well
fare of his county and state and es-
pecially of his immediate neighbors.
He was reared under the influence of
Sharon Associate Reformed church,
and was a ruling elder at Sharon from
1859 to the time of his death.
The deceased leaves only two living
children, Mr.. j. c. Blair of Blairsville,
and Mrs. w. o. Guy of Chester. There
are about thirty grand children and
seven or eight great grandchildren.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-10-29

If Secretary Cortelyou would just
come to the rescue of the cotton mar
ket when the bears get in the saddle
and successfully beat down prices, as
he comes to the rescue of the wall
Street banks when they get the worst
of a big gambling campaign, the lot OF
the southern cotton producer would
not be such a troublesome one.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-10-29
1I4U1gaI1s

buttons 1t is a good work and well
worthy Of support.
The Winnie Davis Chapter u. D.
c. held it's annual meeting at the resi-
dence of Mrs. John S. Jones last Fri
day afternoon and re-organized by the
election Of officers for the ensuing year
as follows: Miss Bessie Barron, presi-
dent; Mrs. G. w. S. Hart, vice presi-
dent; Mrs. M. j. Walker, recording
secretary; Mrs. j. c. Wilborn, CORES
ponding secretary; Mrs. w. G. White,
treasurer: Miss Leslie Witherspoon,
historian: Mrs. ]. J. Hunter, registrar.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-10-29
Che alurkrille Gnqr'irer.
YoRKVILLE, 8. c.:
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1907.

BOTH the Southern Cotton Growers
association and the Farmers Union
are calling upon their members to hold
on to their cotton. The heads of both
organizations say that if the farmers
will only hold. they will surely win.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-10-29
MccoNNElLSVILLE MATTERS.

Correspondents Of the Yorkville Enoulfer.
McConnellsville, October 20: The
crops are unusually good this fall.
Messrs. j. F. Ashe, P. M. Burris
and ]. o. Moore leave tonight to at
tend the state fair
Rev. J. K. Hall left yesterday to at
tend synod at Anderson.
VIII Latta, a respectable colored
man. who is employed by the Mutual
Gin and Milling company. had his arm
badly lacerated in the gin last week.
Because Of the absence of DR.. Love. he
was carried to Magdalene hospital. at
Chester. He returned home yesterday
IN a fair wav to recovery, and VIII
soon be able to resume work.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-10-29
Prosecute the Grafters.

Is it possible that after all the inves-
tigation the South Carolina state dis
pensary has been through, there are
to be no prosecutions? Are the people
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-10-29
THE VOTING CONTEST.

The Enquirer's voting contest comes
to a close next Friday evening at
o'clock. The present status of the con-
test Is as follows:
Miss Lindsay Clark .......... 1868
Miss Bessie Sandifer ......... .485
Miss Wilmoth Jackson ....... .295
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-10-29
AT THE CHURCHES.

BAPTIST.
Prayer meeting Wednesday even
ing at 7.30 o'clock.
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN.
There will be no prayer meeting
this week.
TRINITY METHODIST EPISCOPAL
Prayer-meeting Wednesday evening
at 1870 o'clock.
ASSOCIATE REFORMED PRESBY-
TERRAIN.
There will be no prayer meeting
this week.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-10-29
Sperial 8otires.
Preaching at Beersheba.

TTGdCTIIT9 dN DCOI oT'OId'
Rev. E. E. Gillespie will preach at
Beersheba next Sunday afternoon at
3 o'clock. A congregational meeting
will be held after service.
2t J. D. Land.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-10-29

treatment of important political pris-
oners, whom he ordered to be treated
like ordinary criminals.
New York correspondence Phila-
delphia Ledger: All New York is talk
ing Of the conviction Of DR.. Walter r.
Gillette, president of the Mutual Life
Insurance company, of perjury as new
evidence that in the mass of the peO-
pie there still exists a stern moral
sense, unimpaired by the intoxication
of so-called general prosperity and
the almost universal competition for
wealth. Many pity Doctor Gillette, but
few can escape the reflection that he
is the maker of his own downfall.
That a jury of twelve good men and
true found him guilty in spite of the
conditions and circumstances which a
large part of the business world has
come to regard as palliating. if not ex-
cusing offenses of that particular ma
ture, is accepted as a most reassuring
sign as TO the future of society. 1t is
true that a keen and profound popular
resentment was aroused many months
ago by the exposures of iniquities in
the management of the great insur-
ance companies, but time has already
served to soften that somewhat, and
there is nothing to show that it opera
ted directly upon the minds of the Gill
lette jurors. The case of the prosecu-
tion was put before them in the cold
est and most dispassionate manner.
Almost the sole resource of the de-
fense was sentiment. The highest out
ward respectability also spoke elo-
quently, although silently, for Doctor
Gillett The spectacle Of this man Of
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-09-26

FIGURES on the material prosperity of
cities are usually based on the amount
paid out on the pay rolls of their in
dnstries but this system of making up
statistics would hardly do for Keno
sha. Altogether too much of the
money paid out in wages goes out of
town or out Of circulation in the hiding
places of the earners, A big per-
Gentage on every dollar earned by the
majority of the foreign born popula-
ton of the city is sent ''back home"
as soon as received and the sums sent
abroad from the city aggregate an
immense amount IN the course of a year
and constitute a serious drain on the
resources of the city. In figuring on
Kenosha resources it is we'll to take
into consideration this fact that a con-
siderable percentage of the wages
earned here is Immediately withdrawn
from circulation-the merchants and
business men getting no beneft-and
that this city probably suffers as
much from the constant drain as any
Gity in the state.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-09-26
BAD FREIGHT WRECK
Eight Cars Ditched on the St
Paul Road North of Somers
Station This Morning
WILL BE BIG PROPERTY LOSS
CFrom Thursdays Dai1y.)

There was a serious wreck on the
st. Paul road north of the Somers
station at ha1f-past o'clock this
on the road being sent over the North
Western road. The wreck was caused
by the breaking of journal on one
of the cars and eight cars were thrown
into the ditch and piled across the
ira ok in such manner that it was i'm
possible for any of the trains to get
past the wreck. The cars were at the
rear end OF the train and for this
reason there was no danger to the
engineer and fireman. The conductor
the time the accident occurred aud
they escaped without injury.
The cars we're loaded with nler-
chandise and this was scattered along
the tracks for a distance of several
hundred yards. The derailed cars
were twisted into a pile of broken
lumber and the property loss to the
company will be a serious one.
The wreckers were sent from both
Chicago and Milwaukee to aid Ia
clearing up the tracks at the scene Of
the accident and it is thought that the
wreck will be cleared away by late
this afternoon. In the meantime ali
cars on the road are being sent over
the NorthW Western.
The point where the wreck occurred
is a sort of hoodoo on the St. Paul
tracks aud in the past few years
several bad property wrecks have oc-
Cured at the same point but in each
case the condition of the track had
nothing to do with the wreck. This
is the second wreck for the St. Paul
on the division for the present weeA
as on Tuesday an engine on the road
crashed into work train on the Chi
cago & Milwaukee electric road but
there was no loss of life. AT that
time the company sustained a heavy
property loss.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-09-26
Why He Was laxative

''Iike every one else, have always
Found Englishmen very reserved" re-
@tes French novelist "Once
&hought I had Sound an exception.
was travelling through the south Of
France by rail and had for a compan-
ION an English stranger, who talked
steadily to me for an hour and half
ia very bad French. When we parted
] said: I am very happy to have had
the opportunity of exchanging my inn
pressions with an affable gentleman
the more SO from the fact that, as a
general thing, your countrymen are not
at all communicative OH said my
fellow traveller, rather confused and
surning red, I only talked, you know.
because it gave me a chance to prac-
tice my French"