Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-02-19
HAPPENINGS IN THE STATE
Items Of Interest from All Sections Of
South Carolina.

itSTHS OF I1tCTSSt ITOTH ~ SSSkiono VI
South Carolina.
The Clemson college students will
very likely hold their spring encamp-
ment In Greenville.
Clarence M. Babb was on Tuesday
reelected mayor Of Laurens, defeating
Allison Lee 420 to 17S.
The directors Of the Columbia
Chamber of Commerce have passed a
resolution c%ondemning the Graydon
ffty-car bill.
James H. Burdine, a prominent cltfr
zen Of Anderson and a veteran Of the
civil war, died at his home in Ander-
son, Monday, aged 70 years.
w. W. Baker has resigned as depu-
ty sheriff at the Wylie cotton mills in
Chester. He has been succeeded by
W. H. Bigham.
Revenue officers destroyed two large
Illicit distilleries in Pickens county
last week. Two men who were ope-
rating the plants. were captured.
The city Of Spartanburg is to build
a new school building in the northern
part Of the city right away. The
building will cost about s35, 5000.
Sam and s.. j. Wessinger, father and
son, Of Anderson, cut Lawson Mered-
it'll, a one-armed man, severely in an
ARRAY at the Riverside mil. in Ander-
son last Sunday.
Governor Manning has accepted an
invitation to address the South Caro-
lima firemen at their annual tourna-
ment. which will be held in Green
wood in May.
The Richland county bond issue bill
providing for the issuance of $780,
900 bonds for road purposes, has been
passed to a third reading in the leg
iSlature.
During the first fifteen days Of Feb
ruary, twenty-one men enlisted for
service in the United States army
through the Greenville recruiting sta
ton.
The Sixteenth company Of coast
artillery, U. S. A., which has been
stationed at Fort Moultrie near
Charleston, left hat city this week
for the Panama canal zone. where they
will be stationed in the future.
Walter P. Powell, a young machin-
list, who was badly injured when he
was caught in a gin at the plant Of
the Southern Cotton Oil Co., in Flor
ence several days ago, died Monday
of his wounds.
The Bailey Military institute Of
Greenwood, has received 10000 rounds
Of ammunition from the United States
war department, the ammunition to
be used by the cadets in target prac-
tice during the spring.
DR.. Harvey w. Wylic, the pure food
expert who has a national reputation,
has accepted an invitation to address
the South Carolina Dental association
when that body meets in Columbia
April 81 to 80.
The colored Methodist church and
parsonage at Mullins was burned on
last Sunday. The buildings which
were erected two years ago at a cost
of several thousand dollars, were not
insured
The Federal commission to study
the economic value of convicts for
highway construction, is spending the
week in South Carolina. The commits
sion will study conditions in Richland,
Marion. Saluda. Charleston and Berke-
ley counties.
f. f.. Hall, demonstration agent Of
Richland county, this week, received
: COO peach trees which will be dis
tributed among farmers of that
ty. The sprouts were purchased from
a Tennessee nursery and the price paid
was about . 1-2 cents each.
Both the senate and house have
passed the bill introduced by Rep
resentative Rogers of Spartanburg
which requires all cotton mills in the
state to pay off their employees week.
~ instead of bi-weekly as is now the
case The bill further provides that
employees be paid off in money rather
than orders on mill stores.
Thirteen owners of launches plying
on South Carolina waters were fined
by Judge H. a. NJ. Smith in the United