Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-08-20
SOUTH NEWS

1t is estimated that the cotton
acreage in Charleston county TINS
year in long and short staple is 3d.
900.
j. A. Arant of Chesterfield county,
sold a SIT pound bale Of new cotton to
j. E. Stack & Co., Of Monroe, n. u.
last Wednesday.
The first bale Of cotton Of the new
crop to be placed on the market IN
Calhoun county, was sold wednesday.
1t weighed 400 pounds.
- Work on Charleston's new twelve
story hotel and theatre will be 6
in a short while. The building Will
cost approximately $4,000
e. c. Stoker, a metal worker or
Columbia, fell thirty feet from the
top of a building in Camden this
week, sustaining serious bruises.
ARMY worms have appeared III
Greenyille county in large numbers,
and the farmers are getting instruc-
lions as to how to guard against them.
DIR. George Bennett, a South Caro-
lima 10y who has been doing hospital
work on the battlefields Of Europe,
has returned to this country. He pre-.
diets that the European struggle Will
last at least one year longer.
A@N
Some days ago, D. W. Robinson,
secretary Of the steering committee
Of the prohibition movement, made
application to Attorney General Pee
pies to intervene in the hearing on
the Injunction to be argued today.
Gen. Peoples replied that he had no
objection whatever, stating that II
the court gave permission 1t would
be all right with him.
At the annual meeting OF the
Parker cotton mill merger IN Green
vile last Monday, Lewis w. Parker
invoked a provision Of the state con-
stitution in his own behalf in a way
that opened the eyes OF the otner
stockholders of the merger. Upon the
development Of that heavy jolt to the
mill as the result Of the heavy slump
in cotton futures following the break
ing out Of the European war, Parker
became persona no grata to his COL
leagues of the merger directorate
was virtually kicked off the board:
He was still the nominal owner OF
quite a large block Of stock in the
merger and going into the meeting Of
the stockholders, he asserted his con-
stitutional right to vote his stock for
himself and a basis Of one vote for
each share for each director to be elect
ed. That, is he multiplied the number
of shares he holds by the number or
directors to be elected and cast all the
votes for himself, thus making him
self a. director regardless of the de-
sires of the other members OF the
board.
-Lowndesville, August IS: Miss An
ME Bell, of this place, has had charge
of a school five miles east, for some
time. Last Monday evening n a
dismissed the school and h and the
pupils were walking in the yard when
there came a flash of lightning, which
struck a tree a few yards away, also
struck and shattered n or two tele-
phone posts, also one or two posts hold
ing the electric plant wires, shattered
them, struck the hoisted umbrella,
shivered it, shocked her so n a n
fell unconscious. killed outright one
Of the little girls by her side, a little
daughter Of Mr.. Geo. Hill, ten or
twelve years Of age, and severely
shocked about fifteen Of the other
pupils. The teacher has so far re-
covered from her shock and fright,
as to be able to resume her duties as
teacher, but when a meeting was call
ed Wednesday to decide when the
school should begin again, 1t was de-
termined not to open 1t again during
the remainder of the term, as the
pupils could not be persuaded to go
there again; they all have a whole
some dread of the place.