Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-10-22
PALMETTO GLEANIN6S
Current Happenings and Event
Throughout South Carolina.

Current Happenings and Events
Throughout South Carolina.
The Chester county fair was held this
week.
Rev. E. v. Babb of Easley, has been
called to the pastorate Of the First
Baptist church Of Newberry.
James Gray Of Chester, sustained
broken leg in an automobile accident
this week.
Mrs. M. J. Miller has been appointed
postmaster at Trenton, vice A. J. Day.
Trenton is the home Of Senator Till
man.
Fire in Easley Sunday destroyed
the large grocery store of F. c. Folger.
The stock Of goods was valued at
$4,000, and the building at $4,000.
Professional robbers cracked the
postoffice safe at Seneca Monday night,
took all the cash and stamps on hand
and secured one registered package.
]. Thos. Arnold, manager Of Chick
Springs hotel, has been appointed a
member Of the Greenville highway
commission to succeed C. 8. Webb, re-
signed.
Gertrude Butler, Anna Sims and
Amos Duckett Of Greenwood, have been
bound over to Federal court under $500
bond on the charge Of selling liquor
without a Federal license.
Governor Manning has appointed J.
A. Hertz, c. v. Boyl<in and D. r.
Sinkler, commissioners Of election for
Charleston. They will have charge Of
the general election in December.
Mrs. velvie Harris, aged IS years,
died at her home in Anderson Of ty-
phoid fever this week. Three other
members Of the family have typhoid
and will probably die.
Harry Simmons youth Of
Charleston, was painfully injured in
that city Monday. while skating on the
pavement. The boy accidentally
skated Off the sidewalk and was struck
by an automobile. He will recover.
Jack Salters, q white man serving
a short time on the Colleton county
chaingang, was shot and killed by VIM.
Zeigler, a guard, Saturday afternoon.
Salters was advancing upon another
guard with an axe when he was shot
and instantly killed.
Auburn college Of Alabama, defeat
ed Clemson college in game Of
football at Anderson last Saturday,
by a score Of IA to O. Three York
county boys, Matthews, Rawdon and
Suggs appeared in the Clemson line
up.
G. E. Hardy for 28 years a member
Of the South Carolina penitentiary
guard, died early Tuesday morning
after a long illness. He entered the
guard service Of the penitentiary In
1885. He is survived by one brother,
w. d. Hardy, Of Newberry.
In the Greenville county court Of
common pleas Tuesday, a jury award
ed w. H. Gay a verdict Of $4,000
against the GreenviIle Traction COM
pany on account Of the death Of Marie
Gay, daughter Of the plaintiff, who was
killed In Greenville December 20 last,
by q street car Of the defendant COM
pany.
Bill Simmons Is dying in a Greenville
hospital Of gunshot wounds received In
a drunken brawl in the red light dis
trict of that city Monday afternoon.
Five young men are being held in
Greenville, charged with completely
in the shooting. Simmons was a boss
in the spinning room Of Greenville
mill. He leaves a wife and several
children.
During the proceedings Wednesday
at the inquest into the death Of Sidney
Cohen, the young newspaper reporter
who was killed in the brawl in the
committee room in Charleston, last
Friday, Jerry w. Dunn testified that
Cohen was killed by Edward Nc
Donald. Whether or not the killing
four men who were wounded in the
fighting are getting along nicely and
all will recover
The death rate in South Carolina
from pellagra, says Columbia dis
patch Of Monday, based on reports in
the bureau Of vital statistics, has been
80 per 100000 inhabitants for the first
eight months Of this year. The death
rate from typhoid fever for the same
period was 26.5. The number OF
deaths from pellagra from January 1
to August 81, inclusive, was 1883, d.
vided as follows: 125 white men, or
percentage Of lis Of the total deaths;
232 white women, 21.4 per cent; 215
negro men, 1873 per cent; 511 negro
women, Az per cent
In an opinion handed down last
Saturday, the supreme court affirmed
the decision Of the lower court In the
case Of Dean Farmer against the Greer
Fertilizer company The opinion,
written by D. E. Hydirick, associate
justice, is as follows: Careful con-
sideration of the constitution and
statutes on the subject shows the in
tention Of the lawmakers that crops
shall not be exempt, under the pro-
visions for homestead and exemption
Of personal property to the he. ds Of
families, from attachment. levy and
sale to enforce the payment Of obli-
cations contracted in and for the pro-
duction thereof. From the standpoint
Of law and morals, such obligations
are Of the same nature as purchase
money obligations and should have
the same protection"
Although attention has been called
to the Federal act requiring stamps up
on notes and other papers held by
banks and other financial institutions,
there appears to be a number still
ignorant Of the requirements, which
imposes a penalty for violation of this
section Of the emergency revenue act.
It is necessary to place upon every
note a stamp Of the denomination OF