Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-05-25
HAPPENINGS IN THE STATE
Items Of Interest from All Sections Of
South Carolina.

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South Carolina.
| A hospital to cost $4,000, will be
erected in Aiken In q short time.
| D. B. Traxler on yesterday. as
sumed his duties as postmaster at
Greenville.
It is understood that a new $50
room hotel Is to be built in Charleston
soon.
Eleven young ladies received di-
plomas from the Columbia hospital
Friday night.
Governor Manning has appointed
]. 8. Graves a member Of the Beau
fort county dispensary board.
Work on the courthouse and school
house at Ridgeland, Jasper county,
has begun. Ridgeland is the county
seat Of Jasper county.
Greenville will, on June 2s, hold q
primary for the selection Of a mayor,
six aldermen and two police commits
sioners for that city.
Capt. R. H. Kennedy, prominent
citizen Of Greenville, and a former
chief Of police Of that city, died Fri
day night Of Bright's disease.
Miss Agnes Suber Of Newberry
county, died last week as the result
Of injuries received when she was
run down by an automobile recently.
Commencement exercises for the
training school for nurses at the Bap-
tist hospital in Columbia, were held
last evening, twelve young ladies re-
ceiving diplomas.
Miss Maggie Dean Of Greenville, 20
years Of age, died recently Of blood
poisoning, caused by a young friend
picking a small bump on her face
with a pin.
N. H. Bull Of Orangeburg. has
rendered the city council Of that
place large lot to be used as q play
ground for children for period Of
two years.
Lieutenant Governor A. J. Bethea
Clarendon county on September IA,
to elect a successor to the late Sena-
tor Applet.
The News is the name Of new
weekly paper which has made its ap-
pearance at Lexington. 8. g. Lea
phart and M. g. Sarratt are the pub
fishers.
DR.. w. B. Patton Of Cross Anchor,
Spartanburg county, will very likely
enter the race for congress from the
Fourth congressional district. There
are already four candidates in the
field.
A. M. Sox Of Columbia, has been
awarded the contract for the con-
struction Of a Carnegie Library at
Camden. His bid was S4,994. The
library is to be completed by octo-
Der /.
Two new rural routes will be es-
tablished in this state, effective June
16-one at Cross, Berkeley county,
and the other at Dunbarton, Barnwell
county. Both routes are to be tri-
weekly.
According to the last monthly re-
port Of the department Of asricul-
ture Of the United States, there are
$500 acres Of early potatoes planted
in Charleston county, and 1900 acres
in Beaufort county.
W. H. Irvine, one Of the largest
landowners in Greenville county,
filed a petition in bankruptcy in the
United States District court last
week. His liabilities were scheduled
at $213,5s6.42, and his assets at $780,
824.15.
During the four months ending
May /, the insurance commissioners
collected from insurance and other
companies under his jurisdiction and
turned over to the state treasurer
the sum Of s11O,3Ss.52. OF this
amount, sS3,5o3.37 goes to the several
counties in the state
]. C. Kinard Of Newberry college,
has been awarded the $50 prize Of
fered by the Women's Temperance
Union of South Carolina for the best
essay by college student on the
"Permanency of q Nation as AZ
fected by Alcohol" Second place was
awarded to Miss Lula Bess Worton
of Columbia college
The Central Trades council of Spar
tanburg on Tuesday night, adopted
resolutions indorsing a movement
for an eight-hour shift system for the
Spartanburg police force. The police
are now on duty twelve hours per day
and a petition has been submitted
to the city council Of that city, ask
ing for an eght-hour shift.
The state borrowing board, which
is composed Of the governor, the
state treasurer and the comptroller
general borrowed 100000 Friday to
meet the running expenses Of the
government until taxes come in. The
money was obtained from the Nation
al bank Of Sumter al rate Of 2.69
per cent per annum.
The order by the Charleston coun-
ty court directing the exhumation Of
the body of Belle Percival, otherwise
known as Anne Louise Purcell, to see
II the body contains certain marks
which may certainly identify 1t as
that Of one who was the alleged
child Of Bridget Purcell Of the Do
minion Of Canada, was affirmed last
Thursday by the supreme court in a
decision written by Associate Justice
Gage and concurred in by all the
judges. Belle Percival died last year
in Charleston, leaving an estate worth
approximately s50,OO0. At the time
Of her death 1t was supposed that she
left no heirs. A woman claiming to
be the mother Of the young woman
has appeared and begun proceedings
to keep the estate from being escheat-
ed to the state of South Carolina.
The Woman's Auxiliary to the
board Of missions Of the South Caro-