Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-08-23

scctS are about three inches long, of a
reddish brown color. and in making
their light from place to place on the
big farm, create great noise by the
whir or their wings. The county au-
thOritieS--thOse in charge Of the farm
are worried over their presence, and
are at Il loss for remedy. The first
appearance of the grasshoppers was
when the wheat crops were ready to
be gathered. They came I'm millions,
and at the county farm cleaned and
ruined a seven-acre field of the grain,
in addition to damaging n large per
cent of the other wheat that had been
Sown. After the wheat had been har-
vested they disappeared, and remained
away until q short time ago. Now
they are back in greater numbers than
before Just at this time the grass
hoppers are playing havoc with the
corn crop. 4 field Of between ten and
twelve acres. has been literally cut to
pices. so that hardly anything will be
gathered. Little was said of the mat
ter at first but the insects have now
come in such great numbers. that anX-
iety is felt. There is no way to get
rid of them, and they threaten the
whole of the corn crop with destruc
ton.
- Conway Field: 1t would be a Won
der to some people to learn that there
are still wild bear in Horny county. at
least in section thereof. The sport
mans paradise, where not only are
found the noble stag and Elusive par
fridge, but the wild old Bruin himself.
is this extreme eastern section of the
state. A correspondent, writing from
Burcol, states that on Sunday, August
I, Mr.. w. L. Squires, of that section.
whose stock had been bothered by wild
animals, heard a hog squealing off in
the thick swamp, and as this was kept
up for some time he took his gun and
ran to the place. When he arrived he
found a big bear had caught one Of
his hogs, and he had just torn the hog
open. Mr.. Squires fired one of the bar
rels of his gun and the bear ran. AS
he turned to run he gave him the other
Earrel. AS the second did not take him
up and he ran off into the underground.
Mr.. Squires called his dog and when
the bear trailed out by the dog. the
hear was dead. He had gone about
one hundred yards with the two loads
of shot in him. With the help Of his
son Mr.. Squires carried the bear out
of the swamp. He was of large size
and would have weighed at least 200
pouiluS. lie uOS tlldl was klllcu was
two years old and we'll grown. The
correspondent states that the bears
have been unusually bad i'm the
swamps this year They have de-
stroyed more or less hogs every year
it seems.
Anderson special of August 22 to
Greenville News: Featherstone's s
characterization of those who have
distributed a circular derogatory to
him as mean, dirty, contemplate
towards and the usual interchange
or compliments between Messrs. Lyon
and Evans were the only features Of
today's campaign meeting, held in the
county court house, except that Mr..
Featherstone received a beautiful bas-
ket of flowers from the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union, q dele
cation from which occupied a bench
at the rear Of the court room. Gen.
Milledge L. Bonham, the county chair
man, presided in admirable fashion
and held the speakers strictly to the
schedule. There was an interruption
Of an hour at o'clock for dinner, the
afternoon addresses being delivered by
Messrs. John T. Duncan, ]. Frazer
Lyon and Barnard B. Evans. The au-
dience of 300 persons, including a
dozen ladies, was Indifferent and SEEM
ed to view the whole affair largely as
passing show, applauding points
scored by the various candidates with
entire impartiality. Messrs. Feather
stone and Blease divided honors on
the applause. Mr.. Featherstone ex-
pressly exonerated all his five oppo-
nents from connection with the cir
cular headed, rs He Appreciated By
His Neighbors," an anonymous hand
Dill Whic. has been circulated in all
those counties not already visited by
the campaign party. Mr.. Feather
stone said the inference was left that
this circular originated in Laurens,
but inquiry had convinced him that it
was neither printed nor sent out by
Laurens people. He ascribed it to
paid agents of the liquor interests in
this State. None of the candidates for
uncontested offices was present Mes
sers Hyatt, Lyon, Evans and Richard
son arrived on the midday train and
spoke out of their turns The speeches
of the two candidates for attorney
general were pointed and personal in
the extreme, although they varied lit
tie from utterances made previously;
but neither addressed his remarks di-
rectly to the other and both kept with
in parliamentary limits.
- Columbia Record: Intimations of
big fight this fall between the farm
er and the cotton buyer have already
been hinted in connection with the
recent decision Of the supreme court on
the cotton tare case. But within the
last few days there have cropped out
in various parts of the state the infor-
nation that the bagging and tie ques-
ton Is going to cause even more trou-
bic than was at first supposed. A
Record representative has talked to
number of cotton buyers and the gen.
eral siGmG taken by them in the cotton
tare situation is that they will not buy
cotton /: there is more bagging on the
bale that the six yards heretofore car
ried, and six ties. The per cent tare
act of the last Legislature will serious
ly affect the cotton sales in this state
unless some genera! understanding is
reached. An interesting letter on the
subject is from Mr.. d. r. Coker of
Darlington county, which is as fol-
lows: THE last legislature passed an
act making it illegal for buyers of cot
ton to make any reduction from the
weight or price of any bale of cotton
on account of bagging and ties, pro-
vided they are not over 6 per cent of
the gross weight of the bale. / learn
ed a short time ago that one of the
largest and strongest firms of export
erS doing business in this section
would instruct their buyers not to pur-
chase any cotton that carried a great
er amount Of bagging and ties than
was formerly allowable. e. six yards
of bagging and six ties. l Immediate
ly wrote to learn the attitude Of
number of other firms who buy in
on stern Carolina and find that I'm all
cases they are much preJudiced
against cotton which carries as much
as per cent of bagging and ties and
will either refuse to buy it altogether
or will discriminate against it heavily
in price. After looking into the mat
ter most carefully, | have come to the
that it will not be to the
farmers interest to change the weight
of covering on his cotton, but that he
should continue to use the amount of
bagging and ties heretofore allowable.