Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-09-22
Ati5trllaneuu5 Rading,
WITH NEIeHsoRING EXCHANGES
News and Comment Cleaned From
Within and About the County.
LANCASTER.

News, September 49, The L. & c. is
now running it's trains direct through
to Chester over its own line, making
the first trip yesterday since the wash
| ing away of it's treStles by the flood. A
new schedule will go into effect on
] the 25th instant. The morning train
will leave here at 6.45 and return at
at and return at s.. .Capers Cauth-
en-, convicted before Mayor Hughes Of
selling liquor and sentenced to pay a
fine of $50 or serve 80 days on the
chaingang, has paid his fine and says
| he is still in the hide business.
A called meeting of the First presby-
terry of the A. r. P. church was held in
Charlotte yesterday one of the objects
Of which was to dissolve the pastoral
relation between the Rev. o. w. Car
michael and the Lancaster and Shiloh
churches .... The members Of the
Farmers Union seem to be guarding
we'll the secret of the minimum price
of the cotton as fixed by the Union.
| Twelve cents is thought to be the
| limit, but no one outside the Union
really knows what the figures are. At
any rate, very little cotton is being
sold. from which it may be inferred
that the farmers are stan ling loyalty
| by their organization, whatever the
price may be. One of the largest cot
ton buyers in the south, who resides in
another state, was heard to remark
the other day that he expected to See
cotton go to u cents if the farmers do
not keep it off the market or at least
sell it slowly and conservatively. Any
think like a rush of the staple on the
market, in his opinion, would send the
price tumbling downward. The situa
| tion therefore is up to the farmers. If
they act in concert they will no doubt
realize much better prices than those
now being offered; but if on the other
hand, any considerable number Of them
throw their crops on the market, there's
no telling where the price will go.
CHESTER
Lantern, September IS: Miss Daisy
Brown of Rock Hill, who has been
spending some time with relatives near
Great Falls and in this city, went home
Tuesday afternoon. .... Mr.. and Mrs.
w. H. Pope and children of Rock Hill,
came down Wednesday morning and
went ten miles in the country to visit
Mrs. Pope's father, Mr. E. C. Starnes.
Hh 90 Il
crs of the C. & NV. Ry company was
held at the office of Col ]. H. Marion,
attorney, yesterday. The business was
chiefly routine, but the report of Cen
creased cost of operating, during the
past year and the damage sustained on
account of the late floods was of much
| interest. The old board of dire ctors
was elected and Mr.. w. A. Barber was
continued as president and Judge J. ].
Mcclure as secretary. 80. Miss Rose
Lyle died at o'clock yesterday morn
| ing, September II, at the home of her
niece, Mrs. J. D. Glass at Edgmoor.
She has been i'll for several months
in which her thigh was broken or dis
located, and her suffering has been
great She was so years old and is
survived by an aged brother, Mr.. John
| Lyle and a sister, Mrs NJ. NJ. Walker.
The funeral service was to be at the
home this morning at 10 o'clock, con-
Quoted by Rev. r. A. Lummus, and the
burial will be in the cemetery at ECg-
moor. w Mr.. Austin Grant, son Of
Mr. T. N. Grant, who operates a cotton
Pedens Bridge road, was severely in
jured while working about the gin a
few days ago. His left arm was brok-
en- and his hand severely cut, but 1t is
hoped that there will not be much
permanent injury. He was in town
yesterday. ... Mr.. w Holmes Hardin
requests US to announce that the an
nual horse show will be held between
the dates of October 18th and 22nd.
The exact date has not been decided
upon at present, but it is very likely
that it will be in time for next Tues
days issue. Mr.. Hardin says an in
teresting programme has been arranged
and requests everybody that owns stock
to prepare for the show, and help make
| it the greatest and best ever held.
.... We believe that the primary sys-
tenn should be retaine but with some
change in the rules Most Of the OBJ
jections come from good people who
| feel that honest candidates and their
friends are placed at disadvantage by
the lax rules which favor the dishon-
est candidate and his heelers. No man
should be permitted to vote in the pri-
mary who is not entitled to vote in the
general election. Chester county has
demanded this for years and the best
people of the state demand it, but in
some way every motion to change the
rules in this particular is defeated,
which is not creditable to those whose
influence is dominant. The restriction
| is so manifestly in the interest of an
honest primary that we cannot see how
any patriotic citizen can object to it.
We know nothing about the facts al
legged by Mr.. Startling, supervisor of
Richland county, who was defeated
for reelection by close vote, but the
rules permit such abuse as those Of
which he complains, as follows: So
long as the present rules governing the
primary system obtain will never Of
fer again for any office. I made the
charge that citizens Of Kershaw and of
Lexington counties voted in the pri-
mary this year. l have proof to back
up these charges, but when l investi-
gated the matter thoroughly, found out
that these persons violated no law and
had a right, under the rules governing
the primary, to vote in this county. If
a person comes in this county five days
before a primary election he has the
right to vote; just so he gets his name
on the club roll the required five days
before the election. Sixteen men, who
| live l., KarSbaw county came 70 this