Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-01-17
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.


but his physician, DR.. Houseal, was
hopeful that he would be able to be at
the Inauguration today.
Spartanburg, January IA: Criminal
court, after a two weeks session, has
adjourned in this city. Business was
completed DAY before adjournment,
but a number Of appeal cases were
heard. This has been one Of the most
exciting terms of court In the history
of Spartanburg, and an unusually large
amount of business has been transact
ed. The city clubs were given an In
spection, one handed clean bill, while
the other was indicted. The gambling
raid made by officers was investigated,
and in fact almost everybody In town
was afraid to venture out for fear OF
meeting the sheriff with a bench war
rant to appear as witness against
somebody or something. The town has
been totally cleaned out and freed from
immortality.
There were Is boys in South Car
olina to produce more than 100 bushels
Of corn on one acre." This statement
is made in the annual report OF Ira
w. Williams, state agent Of the United
States farm demonstration work,
which will be sent to the general as
sembly through the state department
Of agriculture. Referring to the Boys
Corn clubs, Mr.. Williams says: This
Bows Corn club has probably been
more successful in the state, according
to reports, than elsewhere and the rec
ord breakers Of the large number Of
boys who produced over 100 bushels
are Jerry Moore, who produced 22S
bushels and pecks at cost or AZ
cents per bushel; and Archie Odom,
who produced 1T bushels and pecks
at cost of 23 cents per bushel. These
records have been invaluable to the
state and have advertised the fertil-
ity Of our soils as probably nothing else
could"
w. B. West, former state dispen-
sary auditor and former chief feed
stuffs inspector, but now chief fertili-
ger inspector Of Clemson college, has
addressed a letter to the department Of
agriculture in which he suggests that
the weight and grade Of each package
Of corn, meal, grits, rye, wheat, barley,
rice, wheat flour, rice flour should be
plainly printed In black on the outside
and that standard weights and meas
ures Of the United States government
should be the standards adopted. My
reason for making the above sugges-
tion," says Mr.. West, "is that In the
matter of corn, for instance, there Is
now much room for fraud. Many con-
sumers, both in the city and country,
purchase a sack of corn and ask no
questions as to the weight, and / am
informed by reliable merchants that 1t
Is not unusual for 100-pound sack OF
corn to be sold as a 'bushel sack and
at an advantageous price"
Columbia Record: Representative
Osborne Of Spartanburg has filed In tba~
house the bill drafted by Secretary j.
Porter Hollis Of the South Carolina
child labor committee, to repeal all
exemptions to the child labor law.
Under the present law, exemptions are
provided where the children are those
Of widowed mothers, or are compelled
to work, and In such cases the commits
sioner of labor Is authorized to issue
permits. It Is claimed that this prtvi-
lege is abused in certain instances,
and children have been imposed upon.
The total number of such children
working in the cotton mills is said to
be about 300. The bill provides that
no children under IL shall be allowed
to work in any cotton mill. The bill
also provides that In case OF night
work the age limit shall be 16, that is,
no person under 16 shall be allowed to
work at night in cotton mills. The
child labor committee will also pre-
sent, as a companion bill, one seeking
to require marriage registration so that
the ages of children may be arrived at
with accuracy, as under the present
conditions parents often give incor-
rect ages for their children that they
might be employed in the cotton mills.
Columbia Record: Mr.. Charles Au-
gustus Calvo, Sr., founder and pub
Usher of the Columbia Register, and
for a number OF years state printer,
died in New York Friday, according to
information received by members OF
his family in this city. He was In his
63d year. Funeral arrangements had
not been made, but it was expected that
the body would be brought to Co
in Charleston in 1848, but when very
young, his family moved to Columbia.
He was married in Chester to Miss An
geline Effle Thompson and has lived In
Columbia until within the past three
or four years. At the time Of his death
he was engaged as proof-reader on one
of the magazines in New York. He
was a skilled printer, as well as an
able writer and editor. The Register
was one of the principal journals which
supported the Tillman movement. Mr..
Calvo published it until 1895 or 1895,
when his health failed. The collapse
Of the Register followed. He went to
New York three or four years ago,
where he has been up to the time Of
his death. Mr.. Calvo was a member OF
number Of secret orders, including
the Masons. He was a member or
Trinity church Of this city.
Columbia State: I. w. Bernheim Of
Louisville. head Of the wealthy whisky
house of I. w. Bernheim & Co., has
sent to the state Of South Carolina
check for $34,700, representing his part
as a stockholder in the Richland Dis
tilling company Of graft against the
state Of South Carolina. In addition
to this Bernheim has given $4,000
cash bond to appear in court at Ches-
ter to testify against other parties i'm
plicated in the wholesale robbery Of
the state. The check was brought to
Columbia yesterday by Thos. B. Fielder
of Atlanta, member Of the firm Of An
derson, Fielder, Roundtree & Wilson,
and has been placed in the state treas
ury. The portion of this fund belong.
ing to the state of South Carolina Will
be distributed among the public schools
Of the state under the bill introduced
by Mr.. Stevenson. The judgment
against the Richland Distilling compa-
ny was 100000. In addition to the
check from l. w. Bernheim, the real
been seized by the state of South Car
alma and will be sold at an early date.
Among the other stockholders Of this
company are the Blocks Of Macon, Ga,
the Lanahans Of Baltimore and J. S.
Farnum of Charleston. The manager
Of this distillery in the heydey and
glory of the state dispensary was
Briggs M. Wilson, now Of Albany, Ca,
who has given the state Of South Car
alma valuable evidence, although in
fear of his life, he has not returned
to this state to testify in any criminal
cases. Wilson is a brother-in-law OF
Farnum. 1t is stated that when Far.
mum pleaded guilty in the courts or
Richland county, he also gave the
commission valuable evidence in push
ing this claim.
Orangeburg special Of January IA,
to the Columbia State: The lawyer,
John J. Jones was sentenced today at
2.15 D. m. by Judge Memminger to
serve ten years and one month In the
state penitentiary at such hard labor
as he may be able to perform, for the
killing of Abe Pearlstine at Branchville
on December Is. The court room was