Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-07-30
HAPPENINGS IN THE STATE
Items Of Interest From All Sections Of
South Carolina.

Items Of Interest From All Sections Of
South Carolina.
Governor Manning reviewed the First
regiment in camp at the Isle Of Palms,
Wednesday.
Several buildings were struck by
lightning in Kershaw county, on last
Tuesday.
Anderson county farmers organized
an alfalfa club last week, making the
third to be organized in that county.
Walter A. johnson Of Battle Greek,
Mich, has been elected physical direc-
tor Of the Presbyterian college, Clin-
ton.
Charles Patterson, colored, is in Jail
in Columbia, charged with the burning
Of barn belonging to B. B. Langford
at Blythewood, Sunday.
Prof. A. Mason DuPre has been ap-
pointed a member Of the Spartanburg
w. G.. Blake, resigned.
o. P. Mills, president Of the Mills
Cotton Manufacturing company Of
Greenville, died at Cedar Mountain, N.
c., last week, aged 75 years.
Governor Manning has invited the
governors Of fifteen states to the
to1 oh
is to be. held in Charleston, December
1917.
DR.. Walter w. Wolfe, who was en-
gagged in the practice Of medicine at
Fort Motto for thirty years or more.
died in a Columbia hospital Sunday.
He was 81 years old.
]. R. Robinson, a young white man
who was working as lineman in
Greenville, was killed Monday after
noon when $500 volts Of electricity
passed through his body.
William Cleland, 10 years old, was
drowned in the Tugaloo river near
Madison last Wednesday afternoon.
The body was later recovered, being
taken In a fisherman's seine.
The sixteen mills comprising the
Parker Cotton Mills company. propose
to close down their plants from July
81 to August 8, for the purpose, 1t Is
said, "of giving their employees holi-
day."
The act of the general assembly ex-
empting bonds Of the city Of Column
bia from taxation, has been held to be
unconstitutional in an opinion recently
handed down by Judge Ernest Moore,
in the case Of the Carolina National
bank against P. B. Spigener, treasurer
Of Richland county.
A. G. Prevaux, alias Graham Brown,
was committed to Jail in Charleston
last week, charged with being an escap-
ed convict from the Dorchester county
chaingang Brown posed in Charleston
as a state constable and raided quite a
number Of Charleston blind tigers by
himself.
w. A. King, mayor Of Mt. Pleasant,
sent a telegram to Governor Manning,
Monday, protesting against the closing
of the dispensary at that place while
the First Regiment was encamped at
the Isle Of Palms. He represented that
the soldiers could get all the whisky
they wanted from Charleston, and the
only effect Of closing the dispensary at
Mt. Pleasant was to cut that town out
Of the revenue.
Kershaw Era: Newton Kelly and
John RADON, Jr, Of the West Wateree
section Of Kershaw county, were in
Kershaw last Saturday morning to
take the southbound train on their re-
turn home. They had been in the vi
cinity Of Chalk Hill school house in
Kershaw county, where they organized
on Friday branch Of the Farmers Sc
cret Organization. In conversation
with the reporter for the Era Mr.. Kelly
stated that the organization was styled
secret for mutual protection Of its
members, that 1t could best do its
work as a secret organization, and that
there was no embodiment Of harm in
its signification. He said further that
Lee county was already thoroughly or
ganized, and Kershaw county near
ly So