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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-10-07
CASE OF ANDREW HARpWIcK
Pardon Board Waiting for Action
from judge and Solicitor.

from Judge and Solicitor.
Columbia, October 7.-Before MAX
ing a recommendation in the case Of
Andrew Hardwick, the York county
negro who is serving a ten-year SEN
tence for manslaughter and in whose
case is pending petition for execu-
tive clemency in the shape Of a par
don or parole, the pardon board will
obtain statements from the judge and
solicitor, and the matter will therefore
not come up again until the next
quarterly meeting Of the board. The
pardon board adjourned last Saturday
after having considered forty eight
only in seven. Governor Blease has
announced that he will take immediate
action on the report.
Andrew Hardwick was given SEN
tence Of ten years in 1910, for the KILL
ing Of q negro, Wee Giles. The petit
ton that went to Columbia Is said to
have been signed by ten jurors but as
the case reached the governors office
only a day or so before the pardon
board met, it was not possible to get
the Judges and solicitors recommen-
dations. Affidavits were presented that
John Henry was the real slayer Of
Giles and several signed statements
that John Henry had made threaten
ing remarks. 1t was claimed in the
petition that when the body Of Giles
was exhumed in the early part of 1913
several 3S-calibre bullets were found
and that at the trial 32-calibre bullets
were mentioned as having done the
killing. The petition takes the posi-
ton that John Henry Is really the one
who did the shooting, and asks that
Hardwick be extended clemency.
In addition to the petition for Glenn
ency there is a strong opposition petit
ton asking Governor Blease not to
pardon or parole the negro. The coun-
ter petition says it was brought out at
the trial that Giles was killed with
3S-calibre bullets from a pistol Of
Hardwick's brother, which Hardwick
was alleged to have borrowed or OBJ
tained for the shooting. The counter
petition says also that nothing was
mentioned at the trial about 32-cali-
bre bullets and pleads that the cause
Of justice will not be furthered by the
releasing Of the prisoner. L. M. G.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-10-07
THE CREAMERY AssbclATloN

The stockholders Of the Yorkville
Creamery association held their annu-
al meeting in Yorkville yesterday, took
a comprehensive account Of themselves
and reelected the incumbent board of
directors as follows:
J. T. Crawford, r. G. Ratchford. e.
NJ. Williams, w. M. Stowe. r. z. NC
Farland, C. M. Inman. w. E. Sanders,
I. H. Norris.
The report of Mr.. I. H. Norris. the
secretary and treasurer, was quite in
teresting to the stockholders and con-
tained much that Is worth while to the
public.
Among other things, Mr.. Norris said
that during the year just closed the
association turned out about 10000
pounds of butter, and paid out in
Yorkville and vicinity the sum Of s1O,-
S64.11, which would not have been put
in circulation except for the creamery.
The prices paid for butter fat during
the year were as follows: October,
q cents; November, 28 cents; Decem-
ber, 29 cents; January, 80 cents; Feb
ruary, 80 cents; March, 80 cents:
April, 80 cents; May % cents; June,
rs cents; July rs cents; August, 25
cents; September, 81 cents
In connection with these prices Mr..
Norris said that he is getting more for
butter now than at the same time last
year, and that the outlook Is that
prices are going to be higher all
through the succeeding fall and winter
months than they were for the same
months last year. rs.
"The only difficulty under which we
are laboring," he said, 'is that we are
not getting enough butter fat. II we
could get five thousand pounds month
instead Of less than four thousand
pounds month, we could not only
pay the same price for butter fat that
we get for the butter; but in less than
a year we could wipe out the balance
Of the Indebtedness that has been
hanging over the association, about
81, 100.
Mr.. Norris said that he had been
having no trouble in disposing Of the
plants output. During last summer
he sold butter at Montreal and in other
North Carolina resorts in competition
with the creamery at Hickory, and the
Yorkville butter had measured up to
every competition that 1t had come In
contact with. At the present time
Yorkville butter Is being sold in a
number of South Carolina towns that
have never handled 1t before, and the
demand Is far in excess Of the supply.
Mr.. Norris asserted that except for
the creamery. there would be times
during the year when country butter
would not be worth ten cents a pound
on the Yorkville market. He urged the
great value Of the creamery not only
to the people of the town but to the
farmers, pointing out how the cream
cry furnished a good and steady mar
ket for the product of the cows and
arguing the interest of the farmers to
get more cows, not only for the pur-
pose of selling butter; but to help
build up their lands.
He said that the creamery plant was
in first class condition, and that II
could easily take care OF twice as
much butter fat as 1t Is now able 10
get. But it takes cows to back up
creamery, and II we do not get more
cows we cannot expect to do much
better than we are doing. II we do
get more cows there Is almost no linn
it to the development that is possible
to u.s."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-10-07
ROWS, CORN CLUB

The annual meeting Of the York
County Boys Corn club Is to be held
at Winthrop college, Rock Hill, this
year on October 16 and II. and boys
should have their acres measured and
the results sent in to Mr.. John r.
Blair, the demonstration agent, before
that date.
This year there are to be special
prizes for the best and most compre-
hensive narratives of the cultivation
of the prize acres from start to finish,
and these variations should also be
prepared before the 18th instant. 1t Is
expected that each boy will take to
the exhibit at Rock Hill the three best
stalks from his patch and the ten best
ears. These must be at Winthrop COL
lege not later than IL o'clock on the
morning of October 16. The prize list
Is as follows:
GNirct Rost Weld at cheaDeSt cost
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-10-07

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

w. II. Herndon-Has best cheese,
new mackerel, choice molasses, and
wants to buy hides
York Supply Co.-Wants to furnish
you with bagging and ties; mill feed
and rice flour, fertilizers and field
seeds, etc.
Old George, The Butcher-Sells the
best meats, and wants those who
owe him on account to pay.
Remedy Sales Corporation, Charlotte
Says Mrs. Joe Persons remedy
has record Of thirty years.
The City Meat Market-Choice meats
of all kinds, including boiled ham,
sausage. 1t pays 26 cents cash for
fresh eggs.
]. e. Norris-Will open a plumbing
shop in Yorkville, and wants you to
let him do your work.
B. J. Currence, Administrator-Give
notice that he will apply for final
discharge as administrator of estate
of John Henry Joy on November 8.
J. C. Wilborn-Offers two additional
tracts of land for investments or
for homes.
Thomson Co.-Talks about quality
merchandise and prices. Also about
the various new goods now on dis
play.
Kirkpatrick Belk Co.-Says 1t not only
has the largest stock, but 1t is care
fully selected, and wants you to see
It for everything in its line.
Yorkville Bargain House-On page
four, says its buyer is back from
market and outlines what you may
expect to find at Its store.
Cloud Cash Store-Tells about It's big
line Of new fall goods and quotes an
array Of prices for your considera-
tion. Specials in coat suits.
Shannon Smarr Co.-Give list OF
some goods 1t sells and tells why II
sells hem. H...H 4'.7' &
James Bros.-Ask you to come and
see the bunch Of fine horses now at
their Yorkvilie stables.
Yorkville Opera House-Announces
the coming Of Mutt and JEFF on
Thursday night. Tickets now on
sale.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-10-07

The article in another column on the
subject of the civil service examina-
tions for applicants for clerkships In
the Yorkville postoffice, is published at
the request Of the civil service commits
sion. BY rights matter Of this kind
should be published by the government
as advertising; but at the same time
this particular article will have to be
recognized as having sufficient news
value to warrant its publication las
news. If private corporation wanted
clerical help, it would hardly ask the
newspapers to give notice Of the fact
at their own expense.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-10-07
The State Fair.

We have several good friends among
the weekly and semi-weekly newspa-
per editors who are from time to time
having more or less to say about the
practice Of many Of the editors In
printing railroad advertising in ex-
change for transportation. and we
want to call the attention Of these edi-
tors to the similarity Of the manner
in which they are being worked In the
interest of the so-called state fair.
Now at the outset we do not want to
be considered as hostile to the fair.
In several ways it is valuable insti-
tuition, and should be supported and
maintained; but along with Its agri-
cultural, industrial, educational, po-
litical and social features, there Is a
very important business feature, and
It is here that the newspapers are al
lowing themselves to be worked to
frazzle.
Although this is intended as a
shop" editorial, for the benefit OF the
public we will explain that all that
special correspondence" they see in
the country papers, is press bureau
stuff-that is stuff prepared in Co.
lumbia by specially employed writer's
for the purpose of inducing people to
come to the fair, and published under
the guise Of news" For the publica-
ton of this matter, along with the dis
played advertisement, the editor Of
the newspaper gets free pass called
complimentary" and II he does not
publish it, he gets backbitten as sur
ly, unaccommodatingl leatherhead, who
is devoid of public spirit.
To illustrate more clearly exactly
what we mean, we reproduce here
with one Of these press bureau letters
that was received in the mail Sunday
morning as follows:
"CTo Editor: The State Fair Manage
ment would appreciate your printing
this news item of approaching Fair.
Passes to Fair will be mailed out to
Editors next week; also plate by ex-
press).
| columbia, October 7.-Reflecting
the great prosperity which blessed
South Carolina this year, and promis-
| ing the greatest success Of any pre-
vious undertaking, preparations have
been completed for holding the for
| ty-fifth annual fair Of the state ag-
ricultural and mechanical society In
Columbia, October 81, 2S, 29, 80, 81.
Indications at this writing are that
people from every nook and corner OF
the state will crowd the fair grounds
by thousands and it Is expected that
attendance records will set new high
water mark at the gathering this
year.
The abundant harvests Of cotton,
corn and tobacco, the gratifying re-
turns for the labor Of their hands and
the evidence of natures favor in the
ideal harvest weather, have made the
farmers of the state wear the happy
smile which comes from we'll filled
barns and warehouses and climbing
bank deposits, and they are now
looking forward to the annual gath
ering in Columbia Of their kinsmen
neighbors and friends. when every
body turns aside from business to
renew their youth and to have a
regular good time, this being the
week of the annual state fair in Oc-
tober."
Now, we do not want to be under
stood as suggesting that the fair is
other than a good thing. There is
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-10-07
ABOUT PEOPLE

Mr.. Bamford Garrison OF YorkVille
No. 4, has entered Clemson college.
Mr.. John McClain Of Augusta, Ga ;
is visiting relatives on Yorkyille X.
F. D. s.
Mr.. A. B. Hammond Of Columbia,
has been spending few days In York
Vile.
Mr.. Henry NJ. Shillinglaw Of Smyrna,
spent Sunday in Yorkville with Mr..
and Mrs. John M. Williford..
Mrs. G. H. OLeary and Miss OiiVe
Walker of Yorkville, are spending TO-
day in Charlotte.
Mr.. Sam Kassler Of the Yorkville
Bargain House, returned from the
northern markets, Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. A. Berry, OF
Rock Hill, spent Sunday In YorkViiie
with Mrs. Hattie Berry's family.
Miss Martha Marshall Of Winthrop,
spent Sunday in Yorkville with her
mother.
Mrs. A. B. Hammond and son Of Co
lumbia, are visiting the family OF Mrs.
L. G. Grist in Yorkville.
DR.. A. Meek Barnett of Yorkville,
left Yesterday on q short trip to New
York and other northern cities.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-10-07

fits Of trust regulation and tariff re-
duction can be withheld from the
consumer by the sitting Of enterprises.
None of the administration leaders
entertain the idea that the tariff will
have an adverse effect. On the 9TH
er hand they have pointed out that an
elastic financial system is now neces-
sary more than ever. AS soon as the
December session opens, the admin
istration will begin to centre its at
tention on the antitrust programme.
There is no intention at the White
House to draft the administration.
What is expected to happen Is that
the members Of the house judiciary
committee and the senate committee
on interstate commerce will confer
early with President Wilson and dis
cuss the subject informally. The pres
ident hopes that before the antitrust
bill is launched there will be COM
mon agreement on it in the commit
tees.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-10-07
Postmaster General Burleson, says

Postmaster General Burleson, says
a Washington dispatch, Is preparing
to institute a rigid investigation OF
the statements Of circulation filed in
the postoffice department by the news
papers of the country under the law
requiring such statements twice a
year. The department holds that cir
culation, as defined by the law, means
the net paid circulation Of the news
papers. Complaints have reached the
department that many papers have
based their circulation on other than
that which Is paid, and the investi-
CATION and prosecution Of all such
offenses is planned. The plans of the
department are being supported by
the leading newspapers Of the country
on the ground that the law will be
valuless unless the utmost exactness
in circulation statements Is enforced.
The investigation will be concluded
through the postal inspectors through
out the country, and a complete re-
port on all statements will be gath
cred within a short time. The first
investigation will be directed against
the newspapers concerning which
complaints have been filed, but gen.
eral investigation of all statements on
file is expected to be made. Where 1t
is established that the law has been
evaded, rigorous prosecutions Will
follow to serve as a warning that both
the letter and the spirit of the law
must be met.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-10-07

much to be said of the benefits from
various standpoints. A progressive,
enthusiastic farmer can generally get
practical pointers in his line OF busi-
ness. and the matter of being brought
in contact with other farmers Of this
class from elsewhere, is something
worth while. People who have no 9TH
er object than a few days diversion,
can find it in Columbia. They can get
almost anything they like during fair
week, and there Is no use In trying
to deny that the state fair is an i'm
portant annual event in the life OF
South Carolina.
But there Is another very important
feature in connection with this event.
The fair brings to Columbia each
year hundreds Of thousands Of dol
lars of loose. easy money that will
give itself up for almost any old
thing. The reference above to
abundant crops of cotton, corn and
tobacco" may easily be construed as
having this easy money in mind.
Everybody who has been to Columbia
during fair week has been impressed
with the rich harvest that is reaped
by all manner Of places, Including
the hotels, the boarding houses. the
restaurants, street car lines, the
county dispensaries, the tigers, the
pool rooms, the gambling dens, the
street takers, the side shows and ev-
erything else. Most Columbia people
get 80 eager that 1t Is not unusual for
them to charge for things even that
are ordinarily free, and raise prices
on ordinary commodities.
Now, while we understand the whole
situation well enough to be able to
say that 1t would not be exactly fair
to criticise the management Of the
fair for imposing on the newspapers
of the state in the matter Of free ad-
vertising, we want to say that 1t makes
us feel as silly as sucker to think
that we would allow the people OF
Columbia to work the newspapers as
they have been doing for so many
years.
We plead guilty some time ago to
the charge Of exchanging advertising
for railroad transportation; but we
have never offended, as most other
papers have, in printing this press
bureau stuff for the Columbia peo
pie, either as gratuity or for pay, and
we have never printed the display
advertising except for pay. We feel
that in a case Of having to choose be-
tween giving up that on which we de-
pend for living as free gift to peo-
pie who would not even thank you,
or being accused Of a lack Of public
spirit, we will leave that matter open
and let the other side abuse as much
as they like.
OF course we understand how an
article like this Is going to make
certain would-be deadbeats dislike US;
but that is all in the days work.
Even If they are stung into recog-
milton Of the fact that newspaper ad-
vertising space is a valuable commodi-
ty, that should be paid for, If used,
they will probably entertain grudge
against us for showing the matter up.
But that is all right. We are not
asking the Columbia people or the
state fair association for advertising.
The most that we can hope for is to
bring some of our contemporaries to
a realization Of the fact that they
should either get pay for such adver-
tising as they do for the fair, or not
do the advertising.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-10-07
Ths gurkrills eaqairsr.
Entered at the Postoffice in Yorkville
as Mail Matter Of the Second Class.
YoRKvILLE, 8. O.;
TUESDAY, OCTOBER z. 1918.

If Senator Tillman's bill providing
for the organization Of new Federal
district in South Carolina becomes a
law, it will bring up the matter of ad-
ditional places for the holding OF Fed
eral courts and that probably will re-
new the old and bitter contention be-
tween Rock Hill and Chester as to
which, IL either, shall be designated
as a place for the holding Of said
courts. Talk has already commenced
in both towns, and as Yorkville was
previously interested she may become
interested again.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-10-07
JOBS UNDER CIVIL SERVICE
President Wilson to Put 5000 More
20" Under Cover. 9gU1 TifH

Confronted by criticism aroused by
the exemption Of the income tax
clerkships and the deputy collector
ships Of internal revenue from the OPP
GRAFTON Of the civil service law the
Wilson administration is preparing for
move which will effectually clarity
its attitude toward civil service re-
form. htt ~.
Postmaster General Burieson has
decided to favor the covering Of all
second and third class postmasters
under the civil service. He Is assured
of the support Of President Wilson for
this policy. na 3T
The question that is engaging the
attention Of the postmaster general
now Is whether the classification Of
these offices can be effected simply
through an executive order by the
president. Mr.. Burleson's legal advis-
ers are inclined to the opinion that
action by congress will be necessary
to accomplish the reform. # H
Nearly 5000 postmasterships, carry
ing salaries aggregating $13,000,000
will be snatched from the hands Of po-
litical spoilsmen by this action and
landed permanently under the opera
ton Of the merit system. The classi-
fication Of the offices probably would
be the most important extension Of
the civil service made since the law
was enacted. f.g.e,,
The administrations adoption OF
this policy Is expected to be declared
either In Postmaster General Burleson's
annual report to congress to be trans
mitted by the president or In the next
annual message of the president him
self.
Before this declaration is made,
the legal point involving the power of
the president to make the change
without authorization from congress
will be passed on by the attorney gen.
eral. and decision reached as to
whether or not the president need seek
legislation by congress.
In taking this stand for the extern
sion of the civil service, President
Wilson will be following the example.
Of Mr.. Taft, who urged In two mes
sages to congress that the civil SER
vice law be made to cover not only
the fourth class postmasters, which
he and President Roosevelt had clas-
sified in various executive orders, but
the first. second and third classes as
dispatch TO the
New York Sun. .,. .s. ~,
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-10-07

There has been a good deal OF fig
urative talk about the mingling Of the
waters Of the two oceans through the
Panama canal; but as a matter of fact
nothing of the kind can happen. Ga
tun lake, formed by the waters OF the
Chagres river, is S5 feet above the
level of the seas on either side, and
while the fresh water from the lake
will go to both oceans as ships are
moving OIL one side or the other, there
will be no mingling Of the waters OF
the two oceans.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-10-07
CHARGED WITH ARSON.

After a preliminary hearing before
Magistrate ]. L. Phillips at Blacks
burg last Friday, H. E. Davidson, for
mer secretary and treasurer Of the
Blacksburg Oil and Manufacturing
company, was bound over In the sum
of $1,000 to appear at the next term Of
the court of general sessions for Cher
okee county, to answer to the charge
of arson.
Alleged misappropriation of the Oil
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-10-07
"A Dissruntled Farmer."-We neard

one Of our citizens in town Monday
complaining that his cotton was in the
fields unpicked while the negro chill
dren on his place to whom he fur
nished rations during the summer,
were attending the school under the
compulsory school law. He was in
town looking to see If he could not
find some way to stop the schools so
he could get his cotton picked. He
said that cotton was selling at IA
cents but so far as he was concerned.
it might as we'll be SO, as his was in
the patch and the negroes who had
eaten his rations were in the school
house.-Monroe County IN. c.
News.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-12-18
The Leon Electric Co.
Leon, Iowa

the twenty-five members OF my club
Can it be-"
They sorrowfully grouped them
selves about me, and Fenson, burying
his head on my shoulder, almost wept
as he replied:
Yes, old fellow, it is too true. She
has invited every man Jack down here
to spend Christmas with her, and an
hour ago she skipped back to town
all by herself"
There was a solemn pause. The
truth was painful, but we felt that we
must meet it like men.
Boys" l whispered, I'VE could fol-
low her back; but, inasmuch as we are
all in the same boat, I move that we
stay here for the holiday and have a
ripping old time, and that the secre-
tary be Immediately empowered to tel
ephone her agent that we will take
another three years lease
Second the notion said Fenson.
And it was carried unanimously.
copyright, Frank A. Munsey co..