Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-02-04
WITHIN THE TOWN

The weekend business last Sat-
urday was better than for several
weeks. All Of the stores put out lots
| Of goods.
At a meeting Of the board Of direc-
tors Of the Yorkville Creamery asso-
citation yesterday, Manager Norris was
instructed to pay 80 cents pound for
butter fat delivered during January.
The policy Of the board of directors is
to pay as much for butter fat as 1t
can without losing money.
The county board of registration
held it's regular monthly meeting yes
terday and issued fifteen or twenty
registration certificates. Mr.. l. G..
Num- was present for the first time
and put in the greater part Of the day
studying the registration laws. The
interest In registration yesterday was
mainly on account Of the special tax
elections.
- Tigers sold one hundred pints of
cheap liquor yesterday at rs cents a
pint. That was the information of the
police and constables in the afternoon.
They got on to the fact that liquor was
being sold some time before IL o'clock.
The principal evidence was the appear
ance of numerous bottles, all alike,
with cut Of cow over the cork and
corkscrews with which to open. After
considerable work the base of opera
tions was traced to Turner's livery
stable, and late in the afternoon a
white man, r. c. Hall, Of Charlotte,
was arrested and committed to jail on
the charge Of being one Of the opera
tors. He denied his guilt, however.
According to the police, there were four
or five men, all from Charlotte, inter-
ested in the enterprise. The whiskey is
said to have been of very low proof
worth fifteen or twenty cents a pint,
and the estimate Is that If hundred
been in the neighborhood of $75 or $50.
- The principal effect of the amend
ment to Yorkville school district act.
introduced by Senator Beamguard last
week, will be to do away with the an
nual special tax election and provide
that when the tax of mills Is voted
again, the said tax will continue to be
voted annually until the people vote 1t
off. The amendment Is to section of
the present law and section as 1t Is to
be amended will read as follows: Sec
ton 4. The board Of trustees created
under and pursuant to the third section
of this act shall, between the first day
of April and the Goth day of July in
each year, call together an annual
school meeting, by notice for ten days
in a newspaper published at Yorkville
the voters resident In said district to
assemble at the place appointed at II
o'clock in the forenoon, at which meet
ing the trustees shall submit full re-
port of their transactions for the cur
rent or previous year, with their rec
ommendation as to local tax; and on
the fourteenth day thereafter, notice of
the election to be published in the same
newspaper for ten days, three man
ayers, appointed by said trustees, shall
open a poll at the court house inYork-
Vile, in said district, not later than IL
O'Clock m, and to be kept open until
5 o'clock p. m, at which election the
qualified electors Of said district shall
vote for or against the assessment and
levy Of such local tax upon al the tax
able property within said school dis
trict as the trustees may have recon-
mended for the school year commence