Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-09-14
PALMETTO eLEANINes
Current Happenings and Event
Throughout South Carolina.

Current Happenings and Events
Throughout South Carolina.
A jitney bus is being operated in the
town Of Greenwood.
]. s. Townes, a we'll known grocer
Of Chester, has filed petition in bank
ruptcy.
The Dean building, one Of the larg-
troyed by fire Friday morning.
Tho Charleston fire department has
purchased a new fire engine at a cost
J Of $10,50O. 1t is Of 109 horse power.
A white man has been arrested in
Anderson county charged with crimi-
nal assault upon a colored girl.
]. NJ. Hardy has secured a contract
to build a new girls high school build
ing in Sumter. The building will cost
$2s.750.
Although it maintains dispensaries.
Aiken county Is in debt to the extent
Of $4,000 and has not the money to
pay the county officers.
Citizens Of Spartanburg propose to
make a Good Roads" tour this week.
None save Ford" cars will be allowed
in the procession of automobiles.
James N. Mcbride Of Florence, has
been appointed agricultural agent of
the Seaboard Air Line railway. He is
a graduate of Clemson college.
A great deal Of cotton has been sold
on the Darlington market Some Of the
long staple variety sold for 16 cents
per pound.
Rev. Kirkman G. Finley Of Colum-
bia, has been elected president Of the
state Conference for the Common
Good.
]. ]. Lipes was arrested in Green
vile last week on the charge Of allow
ing negroes and whites to eat at the
same table in his restaurant.
w. A. Nesbit, prominent citizen
of Greenville, and q former member
Of the house Of representatives from
Greenville county. died Friday. aged
So years.
William Banks, editor of the Col
umbia Record, has been appointed a
trustee for the state negro college at
Orangeburg, to succeed ]. w. Floyd
Of Dillon, deceased.
August Kohn Of Columbia, was
elected secretary and treasurer Of the
southern Surety and Casualty con-
ference at the meeting Of that organ
ization in Asheville, N. c., last week.
Frank Hudgens, secretary Of the
Chiquola cotton mills at Honea Path
in Anderson county, was acquitted Of
the killing of Arthur Burts. a negro
on July 8.
Hon. Thos. G. Mcleod Of Bishop
vile, has been appointed a special
judge to preside over the fall term Of
court Of common pleas for Greenwood
county.
The state penitentiary proposes to
hereafter treat sick convicts from the
county chaingangs on condition that
the counties pay 20 cents per day for
their board while In the penitentiary.
william Ball, negro boy, Is in jail
in Charleston charged with shooting
4-year-old Wentworth Short to death.
Ball is about II years Of age. He
claims that the shooting was accident
al.
Governor Manning has issued re-
QUESTION papers on the governor Of
Florida for the return Of ]. E. Shirah
who is wanted in Richland county on
the charge of wife desertion and non
support
James B. Duke, president Of the
Southern Power company, spent sew
eral days in this state last week in
specting his holdings. He gave it as
his opinion that the war In Europe
would last at least one year longer.
George w. Tidwell, twice convicted
in the Greenville county court OF gen.
cral sessions, Of manslaughter in con-
nection with the killing Of r. Emmett
Walker, has been released on bond In
the sum of $4,000. pending his appeal
to the supreme court.
The state rifle shoot to select a
team for the national contest which
was to have been held at the state
range near Columbia September 13 to
Is, has been postponed until Septem-
Der 20 to q. The shoot was postponed
because one Of the officers failed to
make report.
]. B. Thackston, game warden OF
Greenville county last week arrested
two negroes, charging them with kill
ing mocking birds, robins and other
non-game birds whose slaughter Is
prohibited by state law. One Of the
negroes was fined $50 and the other
$50.
Martin Myers a Bamberg county
farmer and w. F. Myers his son, were
found not guilty last week Of the muir
der Of Luck Wilson, a negro, at the
negro's home in Orangeburg county.
The defendants plead self defense and
temporary insanity. The negro had at
tempted to assault a woman relative
of the defendants.
Congressman ]. w. Ragsdale, Of
South Carolina, speaking before
the United Association Of Postoffice
Clerks, says a Los Angeles, CAL, dis
patch of last Thursday, denounced
the present pension system as "ini-
quitous," and said he intended to work
for the passage Of a law which would
give pensions to civil employees Of the
Federal government as well as to SOL
diers.
The superintendent Of the city
schools, Frank Evans, today went be-
fore Magistrate D. L. Jennings and
applied for a warrant for the arrest
of negro woman, Connie Merrill, be-
cause Of her alleged violation Of the
South Carolina compulsory education
law In that sba uould NOT answer the