Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-12-10
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
The Aiken dispensary board has
decided to put a dispensary in the town
of North Augusta on the South Carroll
ma side Of the river for the purpose Of
the whisky. business of Au-
gusta after the Georgia prohibition law
of the principal residence portions Of
the city, and the people there have all
along been fighting the location Of a
dispensary there.
Chester special Of December s, to
News and Courier: The Methodist
parsonage, handsome and commodious
brick structure, situated just at the
rear Of Bethel Methodist Episcopal
church, was almost totally destroyed by
fire this afternoon. The flames origi-
mated in a pile Of straw under the front
porch and quickly spread despite the
efforts Of citizens and the local fire de-
partment. The major part of the fur
niture and other contents were de-
stroyed although most Of the valuable
library Of the pastor, the Rev. B. L.
Banks, who leaves Tuesday for Dar-
lington, was saved. Insurance on the
building amounted to $4,000. The fur
niture was also partly insured.
AT cotton rally held last week at
Orangeburg, Mr.. Moore, the principal
speaker suggested some plans, one Of
which Is his plan to finance the cotton
crop and obtain fair price for 1t. The
ideas introduced were very valuable
and his plan briefly is given below:
Mr.. Moore advocated the organization
of local companies In each cotton pro-
ducing county with capital Of IS per
bale for every bale produced In the
county. Thus a county with a produc-
tion Of $4,000 bales would have $780,
900 capital for the company. A board
of directors, as in the case Of bank
or other corporation, should be chosen
to direct the business Of the local COM
pany; employ an expert cotton gard
ner; instruct him to watch the local
market and when the foreign buyer will
not offer the minimum price as named
by the southern planters, the cotton
company's buyer should bid 7-8 Of q
cent above the foreign bid and should
do this until the minimum price Is Of
fered. Then the protective buyer to take
all the cotton. II however, speculation
or other causes lower the price below
the minimum then the protective buy
er should again take In all that Is Of
fered below the minimum price.
The Baptist State convention con-
vened in its eighty-seventh annual ses-
sion in the First Baptist church Of Or
angeburg on last Friday night at 8
o'clock and organized by electing Chas.
A. Smith of Timmonsville, president;
Rev. E. NJ. Lightfoot Of Orangeburg,
and Rev. T. NJ. Bailey Of Greenville,
vice presidents; Rev. c. P. Ewtn Of
Landum, secretary. The attendance of
preachers and laymen aggregated
about 800. The session Of Friday night
was taken up with the reading Of the
reports Of various boards and they
showed that the year had been the
most prosperous from every view point
In the history Of the convention. The
to the various benevolent
objects fostered by the denomination
about $4,000. The report
on temperance on Saturday created
Of sensation. It denounc-
ed the Carey -Cothran law and de-
manded the passage Of state prohibi-
ture, recommending that a committee
be appointed to go before that body
asking for the passage Of such law,
and It also recommended that congress
be memorialized and petitioned to
amend the inter- state commerce law
so as to prohibit shipping liquor into
dry territory and to put stop to the
issuance of United States license to
persons living In dry territory. The
report also prayed for the passage by
congress Of the Dolliver- Littlefeld bill
now pending before congress. The re-
port was unanimously adopted. The
Baptists are 10000 strong in the state,
their numerical strength being about
equal to that Of all other Protestant de-
combined and should they
insist on the passage Of state prohi-
bition law there can be little doubt OF
the result.
Spartanburg Herald, Saturday:
The cotton market opened at 11.40 and
closed at 11.40 yesterday. Though the
mill buyers paid a few points higher In
general for the staple, the majority Of
the cotton was bought by Messrs. Dun
bar, who handled over hundred bales.
At an early hour quite a string OF
wagons was lined up in front Of the
Dunbar place on East Main street.
They were not paying just then quite
as much as the other buyers. For
while it seemed as II the wagons were
going to move on and take the cotton
to the other buyers. The farmers
drove down into the square, just like
a circus parade, turned and came back
to the Messrs. Dunbar and sold, TAX
ing a few points less. This was only a
master move on the part Of the growers
TO show to all their spirit, and that they
we're backing the independent buyers.
During the day President e. L. Archer,
Of the County Cotton Growers asso-
citation, called on the Messrs. Dunbar
and expressed his appreciation Of
what they had done for the market
He talked with them to some length on
the subject, and said that he had no
doubt they would get the proper back
ing from the farmers. He appeared
over the fact that the
Spartanburg market was now higher
than the markets Of the surrounding
towns. The merchants Of the city have
seized the spirit as we'll as the farmers,
and they, too, will back the Dunbar
Bros, to the last. One Of the very
largest merchants In the city advised
MS farmer customers yesterday to sell
10 the Messrs. Dunbar II they had to
lake less than the mill buyers paid. He
-old them that II they would do this he
would pay them out Of his own pocket
he difference in the prices to make up
what they lost. Though the Messrs.
Dunbar could not come to the price
hat the mill buyers set, they pougnt
.hree- quarters of the cotton sold here
Columbia special Of December 5, to
he Charlotte Observer: The American
Audit company employed by the dis
commission to check up the
books Of the state dispensary has at
asst made its report, eight months be-
lind the time members Of the company
cad the commission to believe 1t
would make a report, bringing in a
,ill for some $4,000. The work was
lnder the direction Of Mr.. E. A. Rich |
nond of the New York office, and Mr..
Charles Franklin of the Atlanta office. |
The report charges the dispensary sys-
EN- of bookkeeping with all sorts Of
;ins. some of these willfully commit |
ed, bringing an extra wad Of violent
charges against the system as 1t was
operated in the year 1905, when the
minute book Of the board Of directors
vas spirited out Of view never to be
ound again. "A conservative estimate
Il the arbitrary entries coming under
,ur observation" the report says, "and
Investigated by us would amount ap-