Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-12-13
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

%. L. Schumpert, a well known law
yer of Newberry, died at his home I'm
that city last Saturday.
- Mr. Giles L. Wilson has filed his
resignation as state bank examiner to
take a position as national bank eX-
aminer.
- The Daily Piedmont of Greenville,
was placed i'm the hands of a receiver
last Saturday. The publication Of the
paper will be continued, the only
change of importance, being the man
agement of new editor, Mr.. j. r. Nc
Ghee having resigned.
In the Spartanburg police court last
Saturday, Tom Hunter, a superstitious
negro was fined $50 or thirty days.
/, for boiling a cat alive. Tom believed
that a certain bone taken from the
anatomy of a cat that had been boiled
alive would change his luck, so he
proceeded to boil the cat. He first
caught his cat, placed her in an iron
pot, weighing the top down with rocks,
and proceeded to build fire under the
vessel. The cat was duly boiled, Tom
got his bone, but 1t brought him hard
luck and put him in jail.
The winners of the prizes for the
boys grand sweepstake classes open to
North Carolina, South Carolina and
Georgia, at the corn exposition, were
announced last Saturday by the expo
sition commission as follows: Best
| ten ears of corn, any variety, one farm
level, value SIS, and S25 in cash, won
by Ethridge Nixon, Lamar, S. c.; best
single ear of corn, any variety, doors
swing churn, value SIS, won by Henry
w. Plowden, Manning, S. c. The prize
of $25 for the best individual display
was won by Yancey Mathis of st.
Charles, s. c.
Attorneys throughout the state are
much interested as to who will be elect
| ed associate justice to the supreme
court by the state legislature to fill the
place created by the passage Of the
constitutional amendment increasing
the number Of associate justices from
| four to five. Hon. r. w. Memminger
of Charleston, a circuit judge, w. B.
Gruber Of Walterboro, an attorney, and
| T. B. Fraser, a Sumter attorney, have
| announced their candidacy for the po-
sition. ]. P. Carey, an attorney Of
Pickens, and w. F. Stevenson, another
attorney whose home Is in Cheraw, are
also announced as possibilities. The
house Of representatives will have "a
attorneys out Of total membership Of
124 and the senate will have 16 lawyers
| out Of their AZ members. 1t does not
look as If there will be any contest for
| the speakership of the house according
to a Spartanburg lawyer. 1t seems
that Mendel l.. Smith Of Camden, has
the field to himself. Dr. C. T. Wyche
of Newberry, and DR.. Olin Sawyer
of Georgetown, having withdrawn from
the race.
- Charleston special Of Friday to the
Spartanburg Herald: This afternoon,
while the bishop was out riding In an
automobile and the young ministers
and their wives were taking an excur-
sion around the harbor in the magni-
ficent launch Of Mr.. Henry Williams,
there was a most remarkable meeting
in progress at Bethel. DR.. s. A. Steel
closed his sermon on The Old Paths
Of Methodism" with such a burst Of
earnest eloquence that the Methodist
blood began to boil and from all over
the house the shouts Of "hallelujah'
prevailed. DIR. Steel came down from
the pulpit, and while the ''ole timers"
sang. Il Am bound for the Promised
Land" men and women came forward
to shake hands with the preacher, who
still continued his preaching, though
the air was filled with shouting. Down
one aisle and up the other the throng
marched until everybody had clasped
the hand of the preacher. DR.. Samuel
A. Weber and others Of the older men
Of the conference stood beside DIR.
Steel during this wonderful demon
stration and talked as much as he did.
1t was a glorious time and the Meth
odist spirit knew no bounds. The SER
vice began at $50 o'clock but ii was
dark before the church was emptied.
Turning an actual deficit Of $50
day into a profit of 500 day is feat
accomplished by the Atlantic Coast
Lumber company at Georgetown, the
largest single sawmill plant in the
United States. This Is being done by
converting slabs and sawdust into
wood alcohol. At first regarded as an
experiment, officers of the corporation
now realize that the plan Is success.
A year ago 1t cost this mammoth COM
pany just $50 day to dispose of the
waste material Of the mill. A $25,000,-
900 corporation though 1t Is, saving
Of $50 day Is a good sum. A scheme
was devised for converting the slabs
and sawdust into wood alcohol, the
legislature by special act permitted its
manufacture and the Dupont Powder
company financed the scheme, the
proposition being that If the inventor
were successful in making alcohol the
company would be reimbursed. 1t now
appears that the huge concern is. doing
this thing. The powder company needs
a great deal Of alcohol in the manu-
facture of dynamite and other explo-
sives and was quick to seize a prop
osition calculated to lessen the cost Of
raw materials. In addition to solving
a problem for the Atlantic Coast Lum-
her company, the invention Of plan
to take care of the refuse will even
tually revolutioniZe the sawmill in
dustry-or at least give to the business
profit that has heretofore been waste
matter. The experiment at George
town, therefore, is being watched with
interest by saWmill men everywhere.