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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-04
WITHIN THE TOWN.

Mr.. Joseph Lewis, whose critical
illness was mentioned last Tuesday,
died this morning.
Yorkville's railroad connections
could be still further improved with a
little persistent work.
Manager Johnson thinks that his
first minstrel show is going to draw
the biggest house he has had yet.
And the Victor Oil mill has taken
the ice wagon off the streets. 1t has
certainly not been needed during the
past few weeks.
The question of the date of the fire
that destroyed the York county court
house was raised about the court house
yesterday and settled by reference to
the files of The Enquirer. 1t was on
Monday morning, November 81, 1892.
Although this town does not show
much increase in population during the
past ten years, hardly more than 25
per cent, there has been an increase of
not less than 300 per cent in business,
and the business increase continues in
about the same proportion.
Mr.. w. H. Herndon has closed a
deal with the Southern Realty and
Auction company of Greensboro, n. c.,
to develop and sell his property and
they are now laying out the streets and
stalking off the lots and will be ready
in few days to offer you this fine
property at auction.
The fire department was called out
this morning at about $50 o'clock on
account Of small blaze on the roof of
Mr.. r. /. deLoach's home on Kings
Mountain street The fire was extin-
guished before the hose wagon got to
it; but the run was a good one, the dis
tance of something like a half mile
having been made within less than five
minutes from the time of the sounding
Of the alarm.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-04
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Sharon Camp, w. o. W.-Invites sis
ter camps and the public generally
tc a monument unveiling at Bull
locks Creek next Wednesday.
Yorkville Opera House-Announces
the coming of Vogel's Big City Min
strels for next Monday night. Tick
cts on sale at l. w. JohnsOn's store.
w. G. Wilburn, Kings Creek-Will APP
preciate return of a purse lost on Il
Southern train d few nights ago.
Daniel Whitener-Will pay reward for
return of a gold watch lost on Ches-
ter road October 30
w. B. Good, Admr.-Advertises the
sale of the perscn1i property of j
D. Hamilton, deceased, at Bullock's
Creek, November 10th.
Iona McGill. Admrx-Gives notice OF
auction sale of personal property OF
estate OF L. B. McGill, deceased, on
November Il.
Mrs. Dora Gladden-Is prepared to do
vet and dry shampooins, and mas
saying ut her home on Charlotte
street. Yorkville.
Jackson Bros, Clover-Are telling
you about their stock Of shoes. and
want you to come and see them for
yourself
Jno. r. Hart. Mayor-Publishes an
ordinance relative to the payment of
town taxes for the year 1910.
F. NJ. Lynn, Sharon No. 2-Has taken
up a heifer. about two years old,
and wants the owner to come for IT.
Amuse-U Theatre-Programme this
evening includes "Wilful Peggy" and
The Little Mother at the Baby
Show"
J. 3 WhitesiGes. Hickory Grove-Has
seed wheat and oats, corn, baled
oat straw, hay. etc. for sale.
Union Pank, Rock Hill-Em-
phasizes the importance of self-de-
pendence on the part Of young men
who aspire to success in life.
j. O. Wray, The Leader-Insists that
you visit his store for real bargains
in fall merchandise during his re-
nova, sale.
First Nationa! Bank, Yorkville-Says
that many young men have failed
Of success because they did not cul-
tivate the banking habit.
Thomson Co.-Invites you to spend
Saturday with it for fall shopping,
and says it can assure you of the
best in quality and variety.
Kirkpatrick Co.-Requests that
you put its name at the head Of your
shopping list. where you find ev-
erything as represented
York Supply Co.-Sells the Vulcan
turn pillow. says it is the best and Of
fers to let you try it. Field seeds.
Herndon & Gordon-Have white fish.
roasted coffees, fresh groceries, and
want every dollar due them on ac-
count.
]. NJ. Prian Co.-Among its new arriv-
ais, mentions pickles. sausage, cof-
fee. candies, etc. Cake ingredients.
Carroll Pros.-Ask you to try pack
age of National oats-pure, white,
rolled oats-quality guaranteed.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-04
REAL ESTATE VALUES.

"Only those who give the subject
close attention are aware of the fact,
probably; but there has been more
outcome in real estate values in York
county during the past four years
than in any other line of investment
that can be mentioned, and more than
that, if you will take my word for 1t,
we have not yet begun to approach the
top"
So said Mr.. J. c. Wilborn, the well
known YOrkville real estate man few
DAYS ago, when a representative of The
ENQUIRER asked him for his views as
to the general real estate situation,
and further on in the conversation he
made some other equally striking OBJ
servations and gave facts that are CAL
culated to convince even the most
skeptical.
II used the comparative period of
four years." Mr.. WilhOrn resumed.
merely because that is the length OF
time I have been especially identified
with the business. The upward ten
dency first became noticeable about
ten years ago; but it has been more
marked during the past four years than
during the previous six years. In fact,
think | am safe in saying that there
has been twice as much increase IN
value since | have been in the husi-
ness. than during the six years pre-
vious
How would you go about getting at
q tangible estimate as to comparative
values?" was asked.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-04
ABOUT PEOPLE.

Mss Bessie GraysOn of Glover, is
visi ing friends in Rutherfordton. n. c.
Mrs. ]. II. Carroll and daughter,
Sara, are visiting friends at Brevard,
n. c.
Miss Rcbecca LyleS of WinnsbOro, is
the guest of Miss Leon White in York
vile.
Mrs. ]. w. Mcfarland of Yorkville
r. +. d. No. 3, is visiting relatives in
Forest City. y. c.
Miss Isabelle Erwin of Washington,
d. c., is the guest of Miss Margaret
Moore in Yorkville.
Mr.. O. R. Huskey of Gaffney, has
taken a position in Mr.. ID. T.. Boney's
office in YOrkville.
Messrs. f. Manning StauntOn and
Quinn Wallace of YOrkVille, are at
tending the automobile races in Allan
ia. Ga, this week.
Mr.. J. II. McMurray. Jr.. of Rock
Hill, is spending several days in York
vile this week, on account Of the i'll
ness of his brother, Mr.. j. p. McMur
ray.
Mr. J. Ernest Lowry, who has Eeen
visiting i'm Tampa, Fla. returned to his
home i'm YOrkville this morning. He is
accompanied by his son, Mr.. j. Brat
ton Lowry of Tampa, who will spend
sometime here.
The following Yorkville people, in
addition to those mentioned in the last
issue of The Enquirer, attended the
state fair in Columbia this week: Mr..
and Mrs. D. T.. Finley. Or. r. a. Brat
tOn Thos. +. Mellow. Esq, Mrs. j. K.
Alston, Misses Hattie Lowry, Agalice
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-04
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1910.

bill, proposed by initiative petition,
amending the Oregon primary law, and
extending it's provisions to presidential
nominations. allowing voters to desig-
nate their choice for president and vice
president; providing for direct nomi-
nation of party candidates for presi-
Dental electors; for election by party
voters Of delegates to their party ma
tional nominating conventions.
One Of the suggested amendments to
the Oregon constitution proposed by
initiative petition provides for verdicts
by three-fourths of a jury in civil
cases. Another proposed amendment
increases the initiative and referen-
dunn and recall powers Of the people.
Conservation of natural resources
will be passed upon by voters Of Wis
consin in the shape of proposed
amendment to the constitution, au-
thorizing the state to make annual ap-
preparation for acquiring, preserving
and developing water power and for
ests of the state. In Minnesota, pro-
posed constitutional amendment au-
thorizes the legislature to exempt from
taxation lands Of private persons to be
used for purposes Of reforestation.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-04
MERE-MENTlON.

Jos. ID. Wallace, a wealthy grocer OF
Lawrenceville. Ga, Monday night
went suddenly insane and shot his
wife and son to death and then com
mittcd suicide. ..... The betting IN
New York and Ohio on next Tuesdays
election is to l and to 2. that the
Democrats will win in both states. ....
Semi i-official information at Berlin is
to the effect that Germany has given
notice to England that British ma
rines at Lingah, Persia, must be with
drawn at once. ...T The appeal from
the death sentence in the case OF DR..
Crippen, will be heard by tho British
court of appeals tomorrow. Geo.
w. Yeandle, a juror, was arrested in
New York Tuesday, charged with hav-
ing demanded a bribe from the de-
fendant in a case he was to sit on.
\ 100000 fire was caused at Millers-
burg. Ky. Tuesday, by sparks from
q locomotive. .....An Atlanta doctor
was fined $25.75 Tuesday, for tear
ing down a diphtheria warning card
in violation of a rule of the city health
Ge1artment. A strike of 100000
coal miners is threatened in Wales
over dispute as to the employment
Of non-union miners. ......A number
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-04

of shipping disasters occurred off the
west coast of England Monday night,
due to terrific gales. .Brigands of
Mexico on Monday kidnapped Grace
Rolph, Pender, Neb., girl at Chicay,
state Of Tamaulipa... Messrs. Cay
nor and Greene. who are serving
terms of four years each in the Fed
eral prison at Atlanta, Ga, will prob
ably be released shortly on parole.
They were sent to prison in con-
nection with the Savannah harbor
|stealings ..... Commissioner of Ag-
riculture Hudson of Georgia, esti-
mates that the cotton crop Of that
state was damaged fully $750,00O by
the cold weather of Friday and Satur-
day.. An interstate commerce COM
mission bulletin just issued shows
that during the year ending June 80,
there were 3,S04 persons killed and
S2,374 persons injured by the railroads
of the country. The ballot to be
used in the elections in South Dako-
ta next Tuesday, is more than seven
feet in length. There are more
than $4,000 insane persons confined in
the various aSylumS of New York
state. The expenses Of New York
city for next year are estimated at
$174,O79,335, an increase of $780,
951 ,O65 over the expense budget Of
1910. .... Henri Dunant. founder of
the international RLd Cross society,"
died at Heiden. Switzerland, Monday
night. .Al Livingston, an auto
mobile driver, was killed on the At
lanta speedway Tuesday, while prac-
ticing for the races. Political
experts predict a Democratic majority
In the next congress of seventeen
members. John W. Dean, an
Atlanta constable, was sentenced to
pay fine Of $500 or serve six months
on the chain gang Wednesday on a
charge OF eXtortion. Rev. J.
Wilbur Chapman, the evangelist, is
conducting the most successful revival
In Chicago that that city has ever ex-
perienced... Chicago stock yard
operators predict decided fall in the
price of bacon and hams within the
next two weeks due to large receipts
Of hogs.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-04

Is il possible to organize q white
Republican party in South Carolina?
We are a bit doubtful about the prop
ostion. Unless our estimate is badly
at fault. there is not more than one
man out of ten in South Carolina who
has a clear understanding OF what
either party stands for. There are
many political leaders who do not
know any difference between the par
ties other than the names. They do
know that hundreds call themselves
Democrats where one calls himself a
Republican. They feel that about all
the people who are agitating for a
Republican party are actuated more
by a desire for office and authority
than by any other consideration: but
they do not seem to realize that ex-
cept for the hope of Office and author
ity there would not be anybody to
keep the Democratic party alive eth
er. 1t is undoubtedly to the interest
of the great mass of busy people who
hold the state together to have two
fairly evenly balanced parties so one
can make the other do the square
thing-so that when one becomes
over-bearing and corrupt, the other
can bring it to time; but South Caro-
linians have been used to one party
for so long that they will hardly be
brought at this. late day to see the
desirability of dividing. Maybe there
is not much use anyway. The people
of the state very frequently divide on
men and measures as it is now, and
there is argument against, as we'll as
for the proposition that party lines
should be more sharply defined.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-04
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

j. A. Banks of st. Matthews has
been selected president of the State
Fair association to succeed Mr.. JOHN
G. Mobley.
In the game Of football between
Davidson and the Charleston college
teams in Columbia, Wednesday, David
son won from Charleston college by
score of q to 6.
Grabfelder & Company, liquor firm
of Louisville, KY, has settled claim
held against it by the state amounting
to $4,000 for $4,000 and costs. The
Grabfelder people had previously Of
fered to pay the state $4,000 in full sat
isfaction of all claims; but the amount
was refused.
Mr.. James Mattison Sullivan, aged
55 years, one of the three railroad
commissioners of South Carolina, died
in Columbia last Wednesday morning
at 9 o'clock of paralysis, with which
he was stricken on October II. HIS
term had about twenty-six months to
run.
- Columbia State, Thursday: That
j. C. Boyd, adjutant general, ana
William #. Brock. assistant adjutant
general, had attended annual en-
and rifle shoots and re-
ceived the pay for their rank In ad-
dition to their regular salary from
the state for the time spent ON the
encampment and rifle shoots was the
given in communication
from Lieut.. Col John r. Lindsay, dis
bursine officer for South Carolina, to
the officers of the National Guard OF
the state, who met here yesterday for
a general discussion OF the organiZa-
tion. The communication or Col.
hicntpG-
sion. Over three-score officers met
here Yesterday to revive the Ma
tional Guard association and discuss
plans for the improvement of the state
militia. There was an informal meet
ine at noon in the city hall, at whicis
matters to the afternoon
were discussed. Several
changes in the military code Of the
state were decided upon at the af-
ternoon meeting. A committee was
appointed to present the changes to
the general assembly through the
office of the adjutant "rnsaral. The
following officers We're present. Gen.
Willie Jones. Gen. Boyd, Gen. ThoQp-
Lieut.. Col. w. w. Moore.
Lieut.. Col. 13abb. Lieut.. Col. Springs.
Lieut.. Col; /Yeadon; Maj. Frost, Wes-
len, Newpnam, Hyde, Drew, Bateman.
Allen. W. B. Moore, Cole, Rembert.
Silcox, Cutler. Richards; Caps. Le-
gard. Warren, Reese, Richardson
JackSon, Raines. Epps, Spratt, Earron.
Doyle, Rhett, Walker. McKeown.
SSEns, Rawlins, Claffey, Herlong, Ham
inond, Schroeder, Burke: Lieuts
Wiler, Parks. Galloway, Levy, SIM
mons, Yanincy Simpkins, Glover.
Rice. Smith, Boland, Shull, Shehane-
Covington, Evans, Town.
send, Able.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-04
PUTTING ON BRAKES.
Just Little Doubt as to Whether
Bryan Is Helping Harmon.


A Columbus, Ohio, dispatch contains
this by no means startling tidings:
The Paulding Times, one of the in
fluential Democratic newspapers in that
Democratic northwest territory. has
bolted the nomination of Judson Har-
mon for reelection as governor OF
Ohio. 1t opposes Harmon on the
ground that Harmon opposed Bryan
in his three presidential campaigns
and that he is a man whose every act
as chief executive of the state has
shown that he is in sympathy with
corporations and their interests"
1t serves to disclose Mr.. Bryan's
hand If that were needed, for Mr.. Bry-
an laid his cards down face up last
week when he declared that he would
sooner vote for an insurgent or a pro-
gressive Republican than a standpat
Democrat. though he really meant that
he preferred any Republican to DEM
ocrat like Harmon Of Ohio, or Wilson
of New Jersey.
nent the following anecdote, that is
exceedingly popular in circles made
up of railroad trainmen:
"A brakeman who had not been long
employed was going up a very steep
grade on his first run. With unusual
difficulty the engineer succeeded in
reaching the top. At the station, look
ing out Of his cab, the engineer saw
the new brakeman and said, with a
sigh Of relief: I tell you what, my lad
we had a job to get up here, didn't we?'
We certainly did, said the brakeman,
and If hadn't have put on the brakes
we'd have slipped back"
1t Is now become the office of Mr..
Bryan to put on the brakes to stop
the progress Of his party on the way
to success at the polls. He has OPEN
ly bolted the nominee Of his party for
governor in his own state, though that
man was for many years one of his
most ardent political supporters.
The political situation in Ohio Is a
picture of the general political chaos in
thirty states or more. The Bryan men
are in revolt against the Democratic
ticket and 1t would seem that the COL
ored voters are ready to bolt the Re-
publican state ticket.
Next Tuesday, quite likely, will bring
surprises.-Washington Post.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-04

once, and that sounded good: but If
there has been any investigation, the
public has not been advised. When
the information of the outrage first
came out, people who are more or less
familiar with this kind of thing winked
the other eye and said nothing. They
could not understand how an honest
investigation could fail to disclose all
the facts under the circumstances; but
they really did not expect anything to
be done, any more than when a store
was robbed of a lot of shoes and other
articles on the way 20 Kings Mountain
battle-ground a year ago. At that time
great many people were led to reason
that if the purpose of the militia be
to protect life and property, at least
ordinary discipline should be main
tanned. The people of South Carolina
have a right to know something about
these things, and the result of the in
vestigation of this alleged outrage at
Salley would he pesculiarly interesting.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-04
Wanted For Murder.

There came to the office Of the sheriff
Of York county a few days ago a cir
cular descriptive of a negro deserter
from the United States army and Of
fering a reward of $50 for his arrest
and delivery to the nearest army post.
On the circular were two cuts of the
negro, one a full front view and the
other a side view, and the fellows s
name was given as Walker A. Pratt.
The circular stated that when the fell
lOOW joined the army something over
two years ago, he gave the residence of
his father as Charlotte and his mother
at Chester. On reading the circular,
Sheriff Brown and Deputy Sheriff
Quinn were struck with the description
as suggestive of a negro, Walter Wray,
who killed Ed Williams, another negro
in Fort Mill township near Pineville on
December &c, 1897, and they sent the
circular to Magistrate McElhaney tor
further investigation. Magistrate Nc
Elhaney found a negro who knew
Wray, and who was positive In ms
Identification of Walker A. Pratt as the
same man. The recollection of Depu-
ty Sheriff Quinn Is that Wray was liv-
ing in Charlotte at the time of the KILL
ing and had come down to Fort Mill
township during the Christmas holl-
days on a visit. The local authorities
are doing what they can to find out
whether the negro has been in or Is
still in this locality and 1t is their pur-
pose to watch the matter up to the eX-
tent of bringing the fellow back mere
for trial in case the army authorities
manage to get hold of him again.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-04

1t is said that the administration
frowned upon the white Republican
convention in Columbia because Book
er Washington and other prominent
negroes gave it to be understood tfat
any effort to put the negro out of the
Republican party in the south would
be met by transfer of the allegiance
of negroes to the Democratic party
in the north. Just how that would
work we do not fully understand; but
we have an idea that if it should be-
come an established fact that the
Democratic party of the north were
deriving it's strength from negroes.
there will bc some less enthusiasm for
the Democratic party i'm the south.
But i'm whatever view of the matter.
it is a little tough that the politics
of the southern whites must forever
be dominated by negroes.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-04
The Military Officer and the Civil

The Military Officer and the Civil
ian.-The Columbia State has made
several pointed i:iqCiries as to the eX-
penditure of money appropriated for
the state militia, these inquiries tend
ing to show that the money has been
wasted, to use no harsher terms. The
Yorkville Enquirer scores a good point
when it enquiries, sarcastically, if the
State really thinks q civilian has any
right to know what becomes of the
money appropriated for the militia
The average officer of the militia
particularly the average officer of high
rank-thinks the civilian is fool and
an interloper when he begins to dis
cuss militia affairs. The militia Of
ficers contempt for the civilian is as
great if not greater than his contempt
for the enlisted man.-Anderson Daily
Mail.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-04

The attendance of the state fair this
year was very large, larger even than
last year when President Taft was one
of the exhibits. The greatest feature
as usual, was the opportunity afforded
for the meeting of people from differ
ent parts of the state That there was
a good crop of "Rubes" and that the
cane racks and popcorn stands did a
good business, goes without saying.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-04

The idea that juror who is sworn
to be guided by the law and the evil
dence should allow his verdict to be in
nuenced by friendship for the parties
to the case or their lawyers is an eX-
tremely dangerous one; but sometimes
it has it's effect. When serving on ju-
ries, sure enough men forget every
other consideration than a set deter
mination to discharge their duty re-
gardless of circumstances.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-04

year ago In the face of the growing
receipts which now total more than
100000 for this year, treasury Of
ficialS affect to be satisfied with the
showing of the month and expect a
gradual Improvement from now on.
Twenty-Five new national banks came
into existence in October with the
total capitalization of $2,500,0OO. The
majority We're small banks with cap
ital of $4,000 or less. The total ma
tional bank circulation ia now $724.-
.S74.3OS. an increase of about $4,000
600 over last month. The total cash
in the treasury at the close of the
months business was $1,759,6 1852.
an increase OF $4,000. 900.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-04

The late Captain w. L. Roddey used
to say that man could make an hon
est living on a farm with less intelli-
gence and less work than anywhere
else on earth. and he was correct; but
he did not stop there. He went on TO
argue that there was as much oppor-
tunity for man who had ii i'm him,
to get independently rich on g farm
as there was anywhere else. Captain
Roddey as is generally conceded. was
4 success in everything he undertook
and knew what ne was talking about.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-04

Charleston, which has had a slogan
contest on for some time past, has at
last adopted this: "CharlestOn-Im-
port Export Seaport Charleston! Rah!
Rah! Rah, Tiger" That's all right,
especially since it had begun to look
like they were going to make it,
"'Mumm's' the word"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-04
LOCAL LACONICS.
Old Landmark Gone.

The Andrew Jackson old home, a
two story dwelling between Stroup's
store and Filbert, was destroyed by
fire last Monday night. The house
which was the property of Mr.. ]. NJ.
Stroup, was occupied by John Bird,
colored Bird lost most of his house
hold furniture and came near losing
his life in an unsuccessful effort to
save $45 in cash from a trunk.