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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-08-04
GOOD ROADS PICNIC.

One thousand people from Chester,
Rock Hill and the immediate country
gathered at Wooten's pasture above
Lewis Turnout yesterday for the
good roads picnic held jointly under
the auspices Of the Chester commerce.
al club and the Rock Hill chamber or
commerce, says the Chester cores
pondent of the Columbia State. me
people decided to begin work on build
ing the highway between Chester and
Rock HILL Monday, August IA, and
subscriptions Of both labor, mules ana
money were made. Something like
81, 900 was subscribed on the spot, the
people being unanimously Of the opln-
ion that with proper cooperation OF
the citizens and officials concerned,
the work can be completed at once.
The gathering was a representative
one of the best farmers and business
men of the two counties.
Farmers offered teams and hands
while many subscribed money. Presl.
dent Long and Secretary Creighton OF
the Rock Hill chamber Of commerce,
President Caldwell and Secretary
Marion OF the Chester commercial
club. #. L. Johnson Of Rock Hill and
4. II. Wherry of Lewis. were the NOV
ing spirits in the days work, and In
spired by the good roads speeches the
people responded with a will. This
road put In first class shape will give
modern highway from Columbia to
Charlotte for both Richland and Fair
field have already first class roads and
this link will make the chain COM
plete.
The picnic was held about a mile
north of Lewis in a beautiful grove.
The trains stopped just opposite the
grounds to accommodate the people
j. Porter Hollis of Rock Hill i'm rous-
ing speech welcomed the people. he
said good roads next to good schools
meant much to any community: that
he was glad to see Rock Hill ana
Chester pulling together; that the line
separating the two towns was only
imaginary and that 1t was wiped out
today and hereafter they were one
town and one people.
Col. r. NJ Mixson of winston
opened the speechmaking. He Is
representative of the Southern COM
mercial congress and spoke on good
roads from a standpoint of the whole
south.
prof. F.. Horton Colcock. dean of
the civil engineering department In
the South Carolina university, urged
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-08-04
ABOUT PEOPLE.

Mr.. Wallace Marshall Of Yorkville,
is visiting In Anderson.
Miss Mabel Berry of Yorkville, is
visiting friends in Chester.
Miss Erleen Mitchell of c. ster, is
the guest of Miss Thelma lnman, in
Yorkville.
Miss Minnie Fleming of Spartan
burg Is the guest of Miss Annie Ashe
in YOrkville.
Miss Nellie l. Hart of Yorkville, is
visiting Mrs. j. Lowry Guy. on Ches-
ter r. f. ID. 4.
DR.. ]. d. Mcdowell and family Of
Yorkville, are spending sometime at
Pauley's Island.
Miss Mary Scott Of Yor'5ville R. F..
D. 3, is visiting Mrs. J. NJ Hubbard
at Huntersville, N. G.
Miss HazZie Belts of Yorkville r. F.
D. 3, is spending the month of August
in Lesslie and Rock Hill.
Mrs. w. H. Poston of Savage, S. c.,
is visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
j. w. Dobson, in Yorkville.
Mr.. r. B. Youngblood of the South
ern Power Co, Charlotte. is spending
several days at his home on Yorkville
r. f. ID. 6.
Col. and Mrs. Asbury Coward arrived
i'm Yorkville yesterday, and will spend
the next two months here They are
stopping with Mrs. Helen Adickes.
Misses Lima Allison and Marie Moss
of KingS'S Mountain, y. c., and Miss
Annis Nichols of Old Point, are visit
ing Misses Louise and Violet DObson i'm
Yorkville.
Governor Blease has appointed Mr..
J. Frank Ashe of McConnellsville a
delegate to the International Dry
Farming conference to meet at Colo
RADIO Springs on October 16 and 20.
Mr.. Willie Sherrer and family of
Glover r. +. D. 4: Mr.. William White
side and family of LynwOod. N, c., and
Miss Sallie Whiteside of YOrkville r.
F.. d. |, are the guests of the family
of Mr. Fl. II. Sherrer I'm Sharon.
Mr.. j. M. McGill of Hickory Grove
was in YOrkville yesterday OH business
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-08-04

Because John Gary Evans happened
TO say in his speech at Filbert that he
was out of politics does not justify the
Columbia Record to say, "A case OF
forcible ejectment" John Gary Evans
had right to run for office as many
times as he pleased, and the people
had a right to turn him down when
ever they pleased, we hope they both
will continue to exercise their rights
Manning Times.
Just a little ambiguous is this para
graph; but constituting it's meaning ac-
cording to the letter Of it, we would
gather that the Times means to say
that it hopes Mr.. Evans will keep a
running and that the people will keep
on turning him down.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-08-04
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

Gaffney, August /: All Of the par
ties charged with selling near beer In
Cherokee county have been rounded
up by the sheriff and his deputies.
They all gave bond in the sum Of 5000
each yesterday for their appearance.
The case has been set for Monday and
will be tried In Magistrate William
Phillips court on that day. The pre-
liminary will doubtless be most in
teresting and much speculation Is be-
ing INDUCED in by those interested in
the matter. The defendants, Of whom
there are some eight, engaged counsel
yesterday in the persons OF Col. T. b.
Butler and Capt. ]. B. Bell, both Of the
local bar, and the case will certainly be
most hotly contested throughout. The
outcome Is awaited with great interest
by people, not only In this city and
county, but over the state as well.
- Edgfield, August 2: On Monday
very interesting case, mandamus
proceedings, was argued before Judge
DeVore at chambers. During the
first Of the year Mr. Matthew Banks,
under authority Of the dispensary law
commonly known as the Carey
Cothran Act-was commissioned by
his excellency, the governor, as dis
pensary constable or detective. Soon
after his appointment, in obedience to
the directions Of the governor, Mr..
Banks came to Edgefield, and Tor
about three months was engaged In
the performance. .of the duties incident
to the office I'm this town and through
out the county. The statute under
which he was commissioned directs
that he shall be paid out Of the ordi-
nary county funds In counties where
no dispensary Is established, II he
should operate in such counties. On
presentation Of his bills, duly verified,
the county board of commissioners
paid him for the first month that ne
was here, but for reasons satisfactory
to themselves refused to pay him for
the other months, and the proceed
ings were brought to compel them to
issue their warrant In payment Of his
salary and expenses for those months.
The real issue In the case seems to be
whether his salary was fixed by law
and 1t was mandatory as mere min
isterial duty upon the board to issue
the warrants, or whether the board as
a quasi-court was vested with the dis
cretion to say what his salary should
he and whether or not he had earned
II. The respondents contended that
thev had such legal power, while the
petitioners position was that as to
those matters, the power was vested
in the governor. The case, having
many phases and bristling with points,
was argued at great length. Judge
DeVore held that the commissioners
had the legal power to inquire wheth-
er or not the services had been rem
dered. and, therefore. having discre-
tion in the matter mandamus would
not lie, but that the remedy was by
appeal. The case involves among
others the interesting question Of what
powers the governor has under the
act, and what authority and power in
fixing the salary Of his appointee and
Of sending him into the various coun-
ties Of the state. It Is said that there
are some questions involved |. at have
never been adjudicated by the courts
Of this state. The case will be appeal
ed to the supreme court.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-08-04

AS the result of certain speeches he
has made, arraigning the money power
as the greatest, most powerful and to
the real liberty of the people, the most
dangerous trust this country has ever
seen, Woodrow Wilson is now exciting
the opposition of certain influences
that have heretofore been patting him
on the back But if any public man
has ever struck a real keynote to the
source of all unjust oppression, there
is little doubt of the fact that Wood
row Wilson is close to it now. There
is no power in American political, So
cial or industrial life that is greater
than the money power, and there is no
power that is more thoroughly organ
lied or more efficiently directed.
Neither is there any power that is more
completely or securely entrenched
against the great masses Of the people.
OF course it is not to be denied that
the money power suffers turmoil and
strife within its own ranks, as the re-
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-08-04

If Yorkville would follow the exam
pie of some of the other towns that
have sought to advertise themselves
through Charlottes water famine, she
would offer the North Carolina town
five million gallons a day. The fact
that the water is not available here
would be of no more consequence than
in the case Of the other towns, where
it may be or may not be available, for
it is a thousand to one shot that Char
lotte is not going to try to call the bluff
anyway. 1t is not necessary for her to
do so while the Catawba river is as
close as 1t is, to say nothing of the
nearer creeks from which supplies are
now being pumped.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-08-04

Condition of Cotton-Reports on the
growing cotton crop for 1911, received
by the department of agriculture con-
tinue to indicate that the yield this
year will be one of the greatest II not
the greatest in the history Of the in
dustry. The condition Of crop on July
25, as announced wednesday, was S9.l
per cent of normal. This was nine
tenths of one per cent higher than a
month ago and 81 per cent above the
average on July 25 for the past ten
years. Based on the average condition
of the crop on July 25, for the past
ten years and the average yield per
acre for the same period, the condition
reported today, If 1t should continue,
would indicate a final total yield OF
207.25, pounds per acre which upon 34,-
100000 acres, the estimated final acre
age, allowing the abandonment Of
per cent of the acreage, means a total
cotton crop of 14,093,000 bales Of 500
pounds each. This estimate Is un-
official
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-08-04

Yes, there are mosquitoes in York
vile, not so many as In Charleston;
but still some mosquitoes.
Of the eighteen items of reality and
personally advertised for sale by the
sheriff under tax executions next Mon
day, only some seven or eight will ac-
tually be put on the block, the others
having been redeemed by the payment
of taxes, penalties and costs.
There will be a pretty good gather
ing of Red Shirts in Yorkville on the
first Monday in September merely for
the sake of the patriotic doings Of THE
old days; but II the occasion is to he
made anything like what it can be, P
should be, there must be some goof
committee work, an attractive pr6
gramme and complete arrangements.
The sheriff has on hand some twelve
or fifteen gallons Of whisky that has
been siezed by Constable Jackson, and
which Is to be poured into the street
after 1t has been held thirty days. Con-
stable Jackson has not been able to
make many cases up to the present
time; but he Is making a fine record
for the seizure of contraband.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-08-04
PRAYER FOR RAIN.
President Of Farmers Union Asks De-
vout People to Offer Petitions.

NOuI TOOpiO " SHCI EOhAhISHo.
Following the long drought in South
Carolina, the worst in years, Z. w
Dabbs, the president Of the South
Carolina State Farmers union, has Is
sued greetings to all ministers OF the
gospel, the officers Of all churches IN
the state and devout men and women
in the state to set aside next Sunday
as a day of prayer for rain in South
Carolina.
The greetings follow:
ITO All Ministers of the Gospel and
officers of All Churches and De-
yout Men and Women in South
Carolina
"Greetings: From the information
that has come to me from many sec
tions Of our beloved state a condition
of drought prevails that Is in many
localities as bad as 1881. The Farm
ers' union, recognizing as ii does in
our ritual our dependence on Almighty
God for all of the blessings of life, and
for life itself, 1 trust that the good
people of this state may not think II
amiSS in me, as the head Of this body
of farmers, TO request that next Sun
day, August 6, be set apart as day Of
prayer for rain. Those who have been
blessed with rains are requested to
JUN 10 III Jul prayer lOl, Idlh, anu
all in Thanksgiving for the showers
wherever they have fallen.
"E. w. Dabbs,
president S. c. Farmers Union.
Mayesville, S. c.
Attest
u. Whitner Reid,
"Sec'y. S. c. State Farmers
Union. Columbia, S. c.
August 2, 1911"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-08-04
LOCAL LACONIcS.
Clean Up at Sharon.

Responding to a call from the pull
pit on last Sunday. about S5 or 100
members Of Sharon congregation met
at the church last Wednesday morn
ing and went into a general cleaning
up. The cemetery was put In fine
shape in about two hours and the
grove was overhauled in an hour and
a half more, the work being COM
pleted by II a. m The cemetery and
church grounds present a greatly i'm
proved appearance.
MarshaIPs Red Shirt Cavalry.
Fort Mill Times: The Times is In
receipt Of the following list of officers
of Marshalls Red Shirt cavalry, which
was furnished by one Of the papers
Gold Hill friends: Captain, j. w. Mar
shall; 1st lieutenant, A. w. Parks; End
lieutenant, s. H. Epps; 3rd lieutenant,
b. M. Faris; 1st sergeant, w. H. Crook;
End sergeant, Andrew Bales; 3rd SER
geant, d. c. Epps; color bearer, w. R.
Warren. Marshalls Red Shirt cavalry
was organized in 1875 and did valuable
service in the political campaign Of
that year as in several subsequent
campaigns. The organization had
about forty members, of which not
more than one-half are now living.
York Churches Get New Pastor.
Edgefield, August 8: The an
nouncement that Rev. T. P. Burgess,
the pastor of the Presbyterian
churches at Edgefield, Trenton and
Johnston has decided to leave Edge.
field, has been received here with pro-
found regret. Having accepted a call
to the Presbyterian churches of Alli-
son Creek, Beth Shiloh and Beershe-
ba, he will enter upon his duties there
about September l. For more than
eight years Mr.. Burgess has labored
faithfully in Edgeheld, during which
time the churches to which he has
ministered have greatly prospered. He
Is universally beloved, having as many
warm friends among the other de-
nominations as among his own flock.
Open Season For Doves.
Huntsmen who confine their appetite
to the smaller species Of game will be
they may sally forth into the fields and
bang away to their hearts content
but only at one kind of bird, the mod
est dove. The statutes Of the state Of
South Carolina prohibit these birds
being hunted between March / and
August Is, so after the middle Of this
month huntsmen may go cunning for
these denizens of the field. The season
for hunting doves opens before the
season for hunting any other kind Of
game. The season for partridges opens
November Is. The last legislature
amended In certain respects the pre-
vious act respecting the hunting Of
game in this state. These amend
ments, however, do not affect this por-
tion of the state. The penalty for hunt
ing birds out of season is $40 for each
bird killed or Imprisonment for one
day for each dollar fined or unpaid.
The limit of penalty, however, is
placed ct 500 or 80 days lmprison-
ment 1t Is also unlawful for one to
bait any fields for the purpose Of at
tracing birds there to shoot them.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-08-04
BIease and Evans.-If it was the

purpose to get up scrap between
Governor BleaSe and John Gary Evans
at the picnic at Filbert last Friday,
we think the governor did the proper
thing i'm declining to go. The picnic
was held under the auspices of the
WOOdmen, fraternal organization.
and not political enterprise. If
those in charge. after inviting the
governor. also invited men who are
known to be unfriendly to him, they
We're discOurteous. and he was per-
fectly right to decline to lend himself
for the perversion of the principles of
the order We have no doubt that If
Ex-Governor Evans desires a debate
with Governor Blease he will be ac-
commodated. but it must not be at the
expense of a secret order of which
Rlease is a member and tries to up
hold its principles. Evans is a de-
lightful speaker, a brainy man, and
we should like to hear these two dis
tinguished characters in a joint de-
bate, but we should regard it unfortu-
nate for the order of the Woodmen,
did it as such, cOuntenance partisan
politics at any Of its functions.-Man-
ming Times.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-08-04

charge and that he had heard that
Wayman had the officers take him on
trips to Wisconsin, Minnesota and
Michigan so as to keep him from ap-
pearing before the Sangamon county
grand jury. At times White had four
officers with him.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-08-04

From Congressman Underwoods re-
marks, it appears that the chairman Of
the ways and means committee does
not propose to allow Mr. Bryan to lead
the Democratic majority any further.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-08-04

If that near beer" test, case In
Gaffney results in favor of the right to
sell near beer" as it probably will, then
look out for a throwing down of the
bars in all beer sales. 1t will mean
heer beer beer everywhere.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-08-04

And so an opportunity to secure the
free admission of certain products and
manufactures into the United States
is the price the nation has had to pay
to let Hoke Smith play some more pol
itics down in Georgia. Some statesmen
come quite high.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-08-04

In these days when there is so much
rivalry among the humbugs that seek
to perpetrate the biggest shams, the
business of sham exposure, inviting an
element of the really useful should fur
nish all the more opportunity for
glory
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-08-04

We positively do not see how 1t Is
possible for those fellows on the News
and Courier to be doing such good
work, knowing how hot it is in Char
lesion at this season.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-08-04

The enthusiastic reports of bumper
crops over the country at large, do not
afford any particular encouragement to
the people of this section, because the
crops here look anything but good.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-08-04
YORKVILLE. s. c.;
FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1911.

The action of Great Britain seems
to have put quietus on the ambition
of Germany to secure a slice of Moroc-
can territory.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-08-04

1t is an unquestionable fact, how
ever, that the north has squeezed mil
lions and millions of dollars out of the
south by means Of the tariff.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-08-04

No, the Filbert picnic has not been
entirely forgotten yet. There are those
who are still unable to understand why
things were thus.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-08-04

Maybe it is the real purpose of the
Democrats to cut the cotton schedule
to pieces; but somehow we are inclin-
ed TO look upon 1t as only bluff.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-08-04

and was in an especially good humor
because he had learned after reaching
this place that his locality had gotten
a real good rain, the first it had had
for months.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-08-04
men actually lined up before the chief
marshal, Col. Asbury Coward, the fig
ures were announced as follows:

lOldI .l,Ooo
The banner, quite a handsome and
costly affair, was accordingly awarded
to Rock Hill.
AS indicated, between 1876 and 1880,
the Red Shirts became very popular
throughout the state, and ii continued
in vogue for a year or two longer;
but as Republican resistance finally
died away, which it had done almost
by 1882, the Red Shirt was
put away and forgotten.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-08-04
The alorkrills Gnqairer.

Entered at the Postoffice in Yorkville
as Mail Matter Of the Second Glass.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-08-04

islator who claims he was bribed TO
vote for William Lorimer for senator,
completed his three-dayS' story on di-
rect examination before the senate
Lorimer committee yesterday. He has
yet to measure wits with counsel for
Lorimer in redirect examination,
which promises to be as extended as
the direct one. Most of the day was
devoted to telling how he spent the
$1,000 "Lorimer money" and $500
Jackpot" money White asserts he
received and in relating his attempts
to have his sO-called confession print
ed At the end of the day the manu-
script was put in evidence. The story
lOld at the first Lorimer inquiry was
varied by repeated fusilades OF queS-
tions from the committee as TO White
alleged public spirited motive in ac-
cepting the bribes and then exposing
them. White stuck 10 his testimony
that he was working all the time for
the good of the public. 1t was also
varied by differences with the teStl-
mony of James keeley, general mana
ger and editor of the Chicago Trl-
bune, as to the price which White
asked for his confession" manu-
script. White testified today that he
only asked $500 and not $4,000. He
told how he objected to the contract
because IL Sdlu he OucTSu 10 Sell HIS
story to the Tribune. White said he
did not offer to sell it, but he could
not tell Senator Jones what words he
would have used to describe what he
had done. The witness said he was
told that these words made no differ
ence. He said he went 10 the Tribune
with his manuscript because Edwin
r Wright, president Of the Illinois
state Federation of Labor, suggested
he see Editor Mccormack of that pa
per White complained that he did
not have counsel when he made the
contract and that he was placed in
custody the very night he signed it
and kept in custody for nearly eight
months. When he protested against
il. White said the officers told him
that they had papers that might Sur
prise" him. He testified that he heard
States Attorney Wayman of Cook
county tell the officers to keep him in
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1911-08-25
Y. C. M. G. A. NOTES.

One Of the best addresses Of the sea-
son was that delivered by State Secre-
tary w. M. Parsons at the Young Col
ored Mems Christian Assn last Sunday
afternoon. Mr.. Parsons who has charge
Of all the Y. M. G. "A. work of both ra-
ces in Iowa spoke in the highest terms
Of commentator Of the work that is
being done by the Y. G. M. G. A. and
rendered the services of himself and
his several assistants for numbers on
the mid-week lecture course which the
officers Of the "Y'' are planning for this
fall and winter. Rev. T. L Griffith
will be the principal speaker next Sun
day and will speak on Assn work IN
Chicago where he visited quite recently
State Fair visitors are cordially invited
to visit the Y. G. M. G. A. gymnasium
and reading rooms at Ninth and Park
streets. Open each evening to ladies
and men from 8 It'll TO- Lodgings furn-
is he'd at 25 cents per evening.