Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-07-28
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

- Spartanburg Herald: From Greer
comes a weird story. OF all the curl
Gus pranks played by lightning none
perhaps, surpasses in oddity the Ell
feet Of a thunderbolt which fell IN
that city. Instead Of killing. 1t saved
a mans life. While cleaning macnin-
cry in the carding room of the Greer
Manufacturing company, Will He'll
ner was caught in whirllng peit'
His left arm was crushed to a pulp
and he sustained severe injuries on
his head and scalp. Witnesses OF the
accident rushed to stop the machin-
ery. but they would not have been in
time to save the mans life. At that
time. however, an electrical storm
was raging outside. Lightning struck
near the mill and presumably put
the dynamo out of commission, for
the machinery suddenly stopped and
Heffner was saved.
News and Courier: Every now
and then a parcel of land never grant
ed to any person, and hence remaining
the property of the state, Is discovered
and placed on the books. State Land
Agent McLaurin recently inspected q
tract Of about 1900 acres in the noun
tains, which nobody had titles to, and
which turned out to be state proper
ty. A large tract was located recently
in the Savannah river swamps, and
parcels of ten to twenty acres are dis
covered now and then. These are
usually sold on the best terms obtain
able. In the days of land grants, peo-
pie selected the lands they wanted and
then procured grants for them. Some
times there were left unclaimed slices
OF land between grants, and in these
cases these slices have never been taxi
en- up by private owners. Such things
could not occur in western states.
where the whole territory of public
land is surveyed by the state and laid
out in regular sections and quarter
sections.
- Columbia, July 26: In lengthy
opinion written on request of George
E. Vonkolnitz. of Charleston, and
handed down this evening at 7 o'clock.
Attorney General ]. Frazer Lyon
holds that the drainage act Of 1911
which provides for the condemnation
Of lowlands for drainage and the equi-
table assessment of all lands so
drained for the purpose Of paying the
expense of the drainage work Is en-
tirely constitutional. The attorney
general advises that the clerk Of court
for Charleston county. who held up
certain drainage projects upon recelV-
ing from Mr.. VOnkrlnitz an opinion
that the drainage was probably un-
constitutional, go ahead and carry
out the provisions OF the act. This
decision is Of the utmost Importance
to the low country. 1t Is expected
that numbers of movements for the
formation of drainage districts which
were suspended when the Charleston
clerk Of court raised the question Of
the laws validity will now be pressed
forward to conclusion.
Columbia, July %: Much work
was dispatched by the State Farmers
Union during the second day Of the
two days annual session. which closed
this evening. Today officers were
elected and Charleston was chosen as
the place of meeting for next year. A
protest was recorded against the
change made in public school text
books recently by the state board or
education. A committee was appoint
ed to draft a bill upon the rural school
problem The Torrens system or land
registration was endorsed and Clemson
college was asked to employ more fer