Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-04-28
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

| The Abbeville Chapter, United
Daughters Of the Confederacy, has
/ started a movement looking to the
publication of a book containing the
names of the soldiers who gave their
service to the Confederacy during the
civil war. They set forth, and very
properly too, that these names arc
available now only in a book In the
office of the clerk Of the court OF Abbe-
vile county, and are not as accessible
to the general public as they should
be. The idea of the chapter is to
raise the money necessary for publish
ing the book by private subscription,
and then to sell copies Of the book to
all who wish to buy at fair price.
- Columbia, April %: Upholding
the constitutionality Of the act Of 1909
| with reference to whisky storing, the
supreme court late today affirmed the
Anderson county court In the case OF
the state against A. B. FAINT, who was
convicted on an indictment charging
him with unlawfully storing whisky.
FAINT demurred on the grounds that the
act of 1909 was unconstitutional. The
supreme court takes the position that
the indictment was sufficient as II
charged an unlawful storing Of whis-
ky. The question whether the act
violates the interstate commerce clause
of the Federal constitution was not
considered by the supreme court as
there was nothing to show that the
whisky was under the protection OF
interstate commerce.
- Columbia, April 25: The Order Of
Owls Is in bad" in South Carolina,
as the expression. goes. Insurance
the officers of the company In a most
vigorous manner. He Is going to re-
quire the home nest Of the order to
make good its promise or stop doing
business in this state. From what the
insurance commissioner can learn
through the representatives OF the
company who have been for confer
ences, the order Is little other than a
social club and, according to the offi-
GERS the home nest does not pay bene-
fits or doctor bills. One OF the repre-
sentatives admitted in a way that
about all the nest would do was to
employ counsel to defend a local nest
should suit be brought for violation of
the whisky law. A representative Of
the company, claiming to be state or
ganizer in South Carolina, has been
at work in this state for several weeks.
He tried to organize a nest in Green
wood and the insurance commissioner
stopped him. Over in Greenville this
same organizer secured IS from 300
prospective members. The people in
Greenville are mad and letters have
been received at the insurance depart
ment denouncing the Owls as being
fraud. The commissioner addressed a
letter to the home nest demanding that
the money be returned. A represen-
tative of the company told Insurance
Commissioner McMaster that the or
der was founded by two lawyers in
Indiana several years ago. They were
not rich men at the time. Since then
they have accumulated II Is said more
than $1,000,O00 with the expenditure Of
very little money. They receive 60
cents from each Owl in the United
States which amounts to about 100000
a year. The initiation fee amounts
to large sum and then large profit
is received from the sale OF regalia.
The insurance commission Will require
the Owls to come under the fraternal
laws of South Carolina II they expect
to do business in this state. The rep
resentatives Of the company said that
the local nests were responsible FOR
the promise Of the sick benefit and the
free doctors. The home nest will not
pay any benefits according to the COM
missioner. There was an Owls organ
ization in Columbia with several hun
dred members to which an initiation
fee was required. The club was closed
out some time ago by the police on
the charge of Illicit sale OF whisky.
While here the other day Commission
er McMaster asked the man said to be
state organizer what the benefits OF
the order were. "Oh. WELL" he replied.
1T is something to be an Owl" He
then smiled. Should the order con-
tinue to try to do business in South
Carolina, the insurance commissioner
will very probably appeal to the postal
authorities of the United States to for
bid the order from sending misleading
circulars through the mails on the
grounds that the home nest does not
pay benefits.