Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-12-02
scraps and fats.

Another Sufiragist delegation is to
visit the White House this week in an
effort To obtain an expression from
President Wilson as to his stand on the
suffrage question. We intend To OD-
tain Il definite statement OF the Demo-
cratic administration attituuc toward
woman suffrage" said Mrs. Jessie Har-
dy StubbS, at the Washington head
quarters last Saturday. we will Try
To see the president at his convenience,
but we are going to see him just as the
New JERSEY de egatiOn did. Our ma
tiunal convention will Ice meeting next
week at the psychological moment
when the president will be reading his
message to congress and his statement
ON woman suffrage. Plans Tor the Wis
il TO the White House are i'll CharSe ul
Miss Florence King, of Chicago, VINO, II
is understood has been mapping out the
questions that are to he put TO the chIei
executive. Senator Helen Ring Robin
son, member of the Colorado legislature,
also will take an active part in the pro-
posed interview with the president.
Many of the delegates To the forty
nfth annual convention have reached
Washington TO take part IN the prelihl-
mary meetings that began Sunday al
ternoOn. The business sessions COM
mcnCc today and will continue through
the week.
The city of ASheville is again
stirred up ON the question of violation
of the prohibition laws of North caro-
lima. Judge Frank Garter, sitting as
committing magistrate, is conducting
an exhaustive investigation. 1t ap-
pears that drug stores, which have q
right to sell on prescription, nave been
made to show receipts and dlspensa-
tiOns of liquor. and where some SUI
gallons of liquor are duly accounted
for. some ten or fifteen thousand gal
Ions have been disposed OF with no
record to show where 1t went. Ihe
owners and managers of the Langren
and Battery Park hotels have been put
under arrest 1t appears that they
have been selling liquor TO guests ana
others promiSCuouSly. most OF their
supplies having been secured by gallon
conSignmentS TO people whose names
could be procured for the purpose.
Judge Carter has frankly stated his
doubts as to the ability of the law to
reach the case. He says the defend
ants are worth million dollars or
more and that they should go TO the
road as poorer people do; but ne Is
sure that if they are sentenced TO the
roads. the best people will sign pc
titions for commutation of their sem
tences TO fines. and that the fines i'm
posed will be less than 10 per cent ot
their profits.
Nearly one-third of the infantry
forces of the United States army,
comprising the several divisions under
Mai. Gen. William y. Carter. is pre-
barring to winter in open field camp al
Texas City, Texas. November com
pletes the ninth month of camp lie
since the division mobiliZed there al
ter the assassination of the late PreSl-
dent Madero of Mexico. Speaking OF
results obtained in this camp, an army
officer said last Tuesday: Although
typhoid fever has prevailed In the
neighboring community, not case de-
Veloped among the 1900 soldiers III
camp. This is an object lesson lol
civil communities. The second dl-
vision has become a unit, not only in
the tactical sense, but in all that goes
tu make up that indeiinable esprit de
CORDS which renders war possible
along humane lines, and success PROB
able in any reasonable undertaking.
The men have set an example OF
good behavior, remarkable alike in
it's consistency and high regard for the
rights of the community. With the
passing of the period of excessive
rain, the commands are again nara at
work with all sorts of drills and eX-
ercises, but particularly with intricate
problems in field firing with ball
cartridges to an extent heretofore
unknown in our army. This firing,
under all conditions of war except the
return fire of the enemy, has develop
ed the keeneSt interest of officers ana
men,
George Washington's surveying,
done in 1871, when as d lad OF Is he
ran lines with chain and compass
through the wilderness of the Virginia
hills for Lord Fairfax. has been check
ed up by government surveyors VINO
have just made their reports and who
found the work of the immortal pa
triOt perfect. Washington, running
his lines with primitive instruments
and bonfires on hill tops, left monu-
ments and boundaries 10 which teen
nically educated surveyors using high
power tranSitS and all the refined and
accurate methods have been able to
find no variation. From the top OF
Middle mountain in the Massachusetts
range, the old Fairfax line may be dis
tinguiShed without the use of instru-
ments and can be followed by bound
ary fences dating from the earliest
days and by blocks of timber which
come up for the county lines and stand
out like squares upon a checker board
Down across the valley off the South
fork of the Shenandoah as far as the
eye can distinguish the line shows
plainly WaShington'S survey blaZes
cut into the trunks of trees and long
grown over have been redlScovered
and all are several feet higher from
the ground than those the wOOdsmen
of today would make. Some authOri-
ties contend that Washington made
them from the saddle with Il long
handled axe. The government has
been retracing the old lines because II
is buying land through the territory
which they run for the Appalachian
forest reserve.
- Washington, November %: An
elaborated anti-high cost of living bill
not only To restrict cold storage of
food but TO penaliZe agreements for
storage. pooling. division of territory,
interference with competition or other
restraint of trade in fOOdStuffS, was
introduced by Representative Nc
kellar of Tennessee. The new bill,
which will be urged Immediately be-
fore the house commerce committee.
would make the maximum period of
storage on beef or its products seven
months, veal two months, pork four
llOnllS, Silttl 'l SbttNS l'ul ilbllNll''
lamb Ur kids three months. poultry
and game three months, fish two
months eggs three months 10 SIX
months with provision for labelling all
over three months. The bill proposed
that cold storage articles must be
labeled with the dates of production.
killing. packing OF manufacturing and
period of storage. II would bar thaw-
ing out cold storage products. would
have regulations issued 10y the de-
partmcnt of agriculture and provide
other precautions. Representative
MCKellar has recently conferred ire
qucntly with Attorney General Nc
Reynolds on the cost of living prob
lem and is understood to have fur
niShcd some information which de-
purtmcnt of justice agents now are
investigating in their pursuit of an al
legged cold storage combination. 1t
was generally inferred At the capital
that his new bill has the approval of
the attorney general. The hill also
provides that packers of meat, poul-
try. butter and eggs and all cold
storage concerns must furnish to the