Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-08-26

Winklereid when he gathered up the
spears of the holly square" and
made way for liberty" he gathered
up twelve stalks of corn. He asked
the newspaper man to count the ears.
There were twenty-six ears on the
twelve stalks. In other places In the
field the following tests were made:
In 33 feet there were 80 stalks, with
Sc ears; I'm another 80 feet were 54
ears, and in a third 30-foOt space
there were So ears. Here is Mr.. Cald-
wells estimate of his crop: There
are A. rows, with 311 stalks to the
row. Averaging 2 ears to the stalk
there will be 29,234 ears. Allowing
140 ears to the bushel, there will be
2OS bushels. But Mr.. Caldwell says
1t will not take 140 ears of such corn
as his to make a bushel. The ears
are larger than the average corn by
several sizes. Therefore. he is figur-
ing as a high mark on $50 bushels to
his acre. The corn was planted on
Good Friday. To date 1t has cost Mr..
Caldwell $6S.50. Joe West. who Is a
great corn grower. makes the follow
ing estimate Of Mr.. Caldwell's crop:
17.766 ears, $50 ears to the bushel.
Total yield, 118 bushels. The news
paper man went to Mr.. Joe Vests
field and, with Mr.. Vests and Mr..
Caldwell's assistance. made the fol-
lowing estimate: 55 rows, 1881 ears
to the row; total number Of ears, TO-
349: allowing $50 ears to the bushel,
50 bushels. 1t cost Mr.. West $25 to
raise this crop. The calculation above
is liberal one, and 1t Is believed Mr..
West will make at least 80 bushels.
Aiken, August %: d. Ramsey
George, assistant postmaster at the
Aiken postoffice, has been removed
from his position after an investigation
by detectives Of alleged irregularities
in the office. Ernest Brown, hereto
fore mailing clerk, has been promoted
to assistant postmaster. Whether or
not Mr.. Georges dismissal from the
service Is permanent or not can not be
ascertained, and the postoffice officials
decline to state. The matter has grown
out of complaints made of letters hav-
ing been opened at the Aiken office
Mr.. George has been dismissed, the Of
ficials say, because he declined to give
a statement to the detectives when the
investigation was made. Mr.. George
states that ne did not give the state
ment because he had been accused OF
opening a letter or tampering with
the mails in some way, and the de-
tectives refused to allow him to have
his attorneys present, and acting on
their advice declined to be closeted
with only the detectives to give out a
statement and undergo a catechism
The affair has created a sensation
here. Mr.. George is one of the best
known and most highly esteemed
young men Of the city. He has been
connected with the postoffice several
years and was rapidly promoted. He
was a swift worker, and especially
pleased the patrons Of the office.
- Columbia State: Scholarships for
the various state institutions were
awarded at the sessions Of the state
board of education, which has been In
session at the state house for the past
two days. The scholarships are for the
four state colleges, Winthrop, Glenn
son, University Of South Carolina and
the Citadel. Scholarships awarded at
large are given for only one year and
will be open to competition in the next
regular examinations in the summer
of 1911. At Winthrop four Of these
scholarships were thus filled. Beau
fort, Berkeley, Chesterfield and Dor
chester, each was assigned one of these
appointments, but in these four coun-
ties every applicant taking the schol-
arship examination July 1st failed to
pass and the places were filled other
wise. At Clemson there will be eleven
vacancies in the scholarship appoint
ments for the session 1901 unless
additional recommendations are made
from the several counties where schol-
arships have been awarded. or these
Beaufort has three, Georgetown two,
Williamsburg one, Sumter one, Fair
field one, Newberry one, and Chester
two. No appointments at large could
be made for the Clemson scholarship,
because the state board Of education
can act only upon the names OF appli-
cants recommended by the several
county boards of education and declar-
ed eligible by the Clemson faculty.
The four at large appointments in the
University of South Carolina would
have been made in the counties OF
Aiken, Berkeley, Kershaw and New
berry If eligible applicants had taken
the examination held in these counties
July 1st. The Citadel scholarship to
be filled from Lee county was referred
to the Citadel board Of visitors for fu-
ture recommendation. The state sup
ports free scholarships as follows:
Winthrop 124, Clemson 167, the Citadel
6S, the University 43. 1T Is pitiful
and pitiable comment on the free pub
lie school system that sufficient
number of boys and girls are not pre-
pared to take advantage of this offer
of a free education" said Superintend-
ent Swearingen last night. The two
Clemson vacancies in Chester were
won July Sth, by the same applicants
who, later, on August II, won the Cit
adel scholarships. The Clemson places
will be filled later upon the recommen-
dation of the Chester county board OF
education. To avoid against this con-
tingency in the future, the Following
offered by Prof. Rembert was adopt
ed: That in cases where the same
applicant has won the county scholar
ship from two or more institutions, for
this year such applicant be allowed 10
make his choice, but for the coming
years, so far as the authority OF this
board holds, he be awarded the schol-
arship first won" Regulation 20 of the
state high school board was adopted
as follows No state aid will be CIV,
en- to any high school when the total
paid in high school salaries exceeds the
total paid in common school salaries,
exclusive of the amount appropriated
for such high school by the state high
school board" Applicants from forty
two districts FOR new school buildings
were approved. The date Of the next
teachers examination was set for Oc-
tober nth