Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-06-15
HAPPENINGS IN THE STATE
Items Of Interest From All Sections of
South Carolina.


]. M. Perry, founder and head Of the
Perry Business college, died at his
home in Greenville last week.
The annual commencement Of Cedar
Springs institute for the deaf, dumb
and blind, is to be held at Cedar
Springs, June II.
Class standings at the military
academy at West Point, N. Y, this
year show that J. D. Arthur Of South
Carolina is No. 8.
| G. L. Anderson, prominent citi-
zen Of Greenville, and president Of the
Maplecroft cotton mills of Easley, died
at his home in Greenville, Thursday.
Total dispensary sales in the fifteen
wet" counties of South Carolina
during the month Of May, amounted
to $212,475.26. Charleston county lead
with sales aggregating s51.1Ol.29.
R. C. Fields, who was shot by c. B.
Thomas in Abbeville county last We'd
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day. Fields was tenant on the farm
of Thomas.
M. C. Hart Of Spartanburg, was in
jured at Hendersonville N. c., Friday,
when he fell from a train which he at
tempted to board. His injuries are
not fatal.
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Matthews, Calhoun county, has been
elected to the head Of the department
Of English in the Southwestern Uni
versity, Dallas, Texas.
Fred C. Link, road foreman Of en-
gines Of the Seaboard Air Line rail-
way and we'll known throughout the
state, was killed in a wreck near Bir-
mingham, Ala, Wednesday night.
Col. H. B. Springs Of the Second
| regiment, has announced that the
summer encampment Of the regiment
will be held in Greenville during the
period between July and II.
Allen R. Hawkins, member of the
Greenville county legislative delega-
| tion and one of the trainers of the
Sinkler- Hawkins compulsory educa-
tion law, has resigned his seat in the
house.
OF the twenty-six school districts
in Dillon county, eighteen have al
ready complied with requirements
whereby compulsory education will be
effective in their respective territories
next year.
The committee to select six towns
in South Carolina in which live stock
| markets will be established, have
named Greenville, Greenwood, Rock
Hill, Columbia, Florence and Charles
ton.
State dispensary constables seized
the gasolene freighter Mary T. Mister
in a creek near Charleston Wednesday,
the boat being loaded with contraband
whisky and wine valued at more than
$4,000.
At it's recent commencement, Fur
man University of Greenville, con-
| ferred the degree of doctor Of divinity
upon Rev. c. A. Jones Of Benefits
willie. This was the only D. D. degree
conferred by the school.
Curtis Rogers, a 14-year-old boy of
Columbia, alleged to have been kid
mapped several months ago by F. L.
George, a fortune teller was located
in Herrin, Ill.,, recently, and has been
returned to his home.
r. T. McMahan Of Union, was ar
rested last week by United States
Mashall c. ]. Lyon, on the charge of
using the mails to defraud. He will
be tried in Rock Hill when the west
ern Federal court meets in that town.
The first wheat of the new crop to
| be ground in Lexington county, was
| handled last week by the Laurel Falls
flour mill, near Lexington. The coun-
tvs wheat crop is said to be unusu-
ally large.
Enoree presbytery in special ses-
sion in Spartanburg Friday, by vote
Of to 6. declined to indorse the &C
| tion Of the board of trustees in NOV
| ing Chicora college from Greenville
to Columbia.
]. D. Noe, recently elected chief of
police of Greenville, to succeed Chief
| Holcombe, deceased is probably the
largest man physically in South Caro-
lima. He Is feet inches in height
and weighs $50 pounds. All Of his
clothes have to be made to order.
| j. L. McElroy, the young mill ope-
rative who killed his sweetheart,
| RoXie Steadman, at the Beaumont
mill village in Spartanburg last Feb
ruary, was convicted of murder with
recommendation to mercy in the court
| Of general sessions at Spartanburg
Friday. He was sentenced to life i'm
prisonment.
Governor Manning on Friday. issued
parole to Arthur Young, a negro
who was convicted in Chester county
in 1907, on a murder charge and sem
fenced to life Imprisonment. Young's
sentence was reduced to ten years by
former Governor Blease. Gov. Man
ming granted the parole on account Of
the serious illness of the prisoner.
T. H. Spearman, for II years a mail
clerk, and member Of one Of the most
prominent families in the state, was
arrested in Greenville Friday. by secret
service men on the suspicion that he
has been robbng the mails. He is be-
ing held on bond of $4,000. 1t is al
legged that the secret service men
found s19 in one Of Spearman's shoes
when he was arrested, s13 of which is
said to have been decoy money they
had sent out.