Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-04-23
FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1915.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS

ed by lightning Tuesday afternoon
ear Orangeburg.
The cornerstone Of the Bishop
Vile Methodist church. recently COM
pleted at a cost Of $4,000, was laid
with impressive ceremonies Wednes-
day, Bishop Collins Denny Of Rich
mond, Va, being the chief speaker
of the occasion.
The Greenville News reports that
A. NJ. Richman of Greenville, drove
an automobile from Orangeburg to
seven hours last Wednesday. The
News says this is a record for the dis
lance mentioned in this state.
Ernest Ford Cochran, Jr., only
child Of former United States District
Attorney and Mrs. E. F. Cochran OF
Anderson, accidentally shot hlmselt
with his fathers automatic pistol on
Tuesday afternoon and died or MS IN
juries three hours later, without re-
gaining consciousness.
Governor Manning has addressed
the following letter to the various
county ~dispensary boards Of the state:
Il wish to call your attention to the
wisdom Of carrying as small stock as
possible from nov on. l beg to remind
Won hat in September, this state will
vote on the question of statewide
prohibition. II statewide prohibition
does not carry and the present situa-
ton is unchanged it will be no trouble
to YOU to put in as large a stock as
you need. If, on the other hand, state
wide prohibition does carry and the
dis~pensaries are ordered closed, you
will nave a small stock to dispose or
and therefore can dispose of 1t to the
best financial advantage to your coun-
~. If you have on hand at that time
a large stock it will probably mean a
closing out at a loss to the county,
and i do not have to remind you that
our communities on the slow payment
of taxes caused by the extraordinary
conditions Of this year, need all or the
revenue that they can have. This Is
written in the interest Of your tax
payers and commands your attention.
| hope that you will give this subject
earnest consideration and see this
matter in this light"
Senator Louis Applet of Claren-
dor county died in the Baptist hos
pital in Columbia last Wednesday
afternoon, following al operation for
cancer of the stomach. Senator APP
pelt was born in Troy, n. Y, on March
22, 1857, and came to South Cdrolina
early in life with his parents. He
went into politics soon after attaining
his majority. He was probate judge
of his county for ten years and was
serving his fourth term as enator
He became proprietor Of the Manning
Times thirty years ago n edited that
paper up to the time of his death. He
was also postmaster at Manning dur
ing a period of nineteen years. In the
senate he was chairman OF the COM
mittee on railroads n was also a
member Of other important commit
tees. He was a thoroughgoing and
efficient legislator, and was broad and
liberal in ali he did. He vas espe-
cially distinguished in the senate for
saying what he thought, regardless or
AS IN editorial writer
he was fluent, fearless and forceful,
generally devoting his pen to an ex-
preston Of his personal individual
views of men and measures, mostly
along political lines. He had a strong
following in Clarendon county, and
also q strong opposition. His friends
stuck to him through thick and thin,
and his opponents held out against
him in a like manner. Mr.. Applet
was prominent as a Mason, a knlght
of Pythias and as a Woodman. He
was buried today at Manning with
Masonic ceremonies.
The students of the male colleges
Of South Carolina, writes a Due west
correspondent, are Systematically
studying the liquor question. The
study has beer taken up by the stu
dent bodies of the colleges voluntarily
and enthusiastically. At six of the
colleges the study has been taken up
as IN organized unit, and in most In
stances these prohibition leagues COM
prise the majority of the student
body. These local leagues hold mem
bership in the state organization, n
South Carolina intercollegiate Pro-
hibition association. The college men
have begun the study OF this question
as the vital question before the peo-
pie of the state. The student bodies
and faculties, too. not only see the IN
tense public interest that Is oeing
placed in this issue just now, but they
see that no problem will more imme-
diately and more persistently face the
college man upon leaving college thar
the LIQUOR traffic. Intelligence must
finally decide the destiny OF whisky.
Thus it Is solely for information that
this organization has been taken up.
With purposes AS given above, there
is an organized prohibition league
with five officers at the foiiowing IN
stitutions: Wofford, University OF
South Carolina, Erskine, Clemson,
Furman, Presbyterian college and
Newberry. The first state convention
of the intercollegiate Prohibition as
ISOLATION will be held at Wofford COL
lege on May Z and s. All the colleges
of the association will send a repre-
sentative to compete in an oratorical
contest during the convention. All
the student orators will speak on
some phase of the liquor question.
Charleston Post, Wednesday,: To
date the sales by fertilizer companies
in this State are 81 per cent. Of the
sales to the same date of last year.
The tag tax receipts-the tax is 20
cents per ton of fertilizer-amount
to s132,706 this year against $244,039
for the same period of last year. Re-
ceipts of the tag tax go to the sup
port of Clemson college Despite the
fact that the effect of h war in
Europe has so considerably decreased
the consumption of fertilizer mate
rails and ready mixed fertilizers this
season. the proportion Of home mix
ing being done by the farmers of the
southwest is greater this year than
ever before, fertilizer men say. h
sales of fertilizer materials and ready
mixed fertilizers are off, partly be-
cause of the increase in price and the
scarcity of certain fertilizer mate
rails, and also partly ecaus OF the
failure Of a great many planters to
realize tnelT dCCuSlOIleu pTOllS vi
crops, particularly cotton. A great
many farmers have found themselves
unable this year to make the financial
outlay for ready mixed fertilizers and
have consequently bought acid phos-
phate in larger quantities than usual
and have mixed their W fertilizers.
The material, which is one of the
most important of all those used in
making the various sorts of ready
mixed fertilizers, is easily mixed by
the farmers with cotton seed meal
and other filler" Excellent results
have been obtained by planters in this
section of the country with home
mixed fertilizers in past years and the
results of the increase in home mixing
will be closely watched this year.
- Governor Manning on Wednesday,
wrote Mayor Grace of Charleston, re-
questing that the mayor furnish him
within forty eight hours a detailed
statement Of what liquor places had
been closed in the city. In reply May
or Grace telegraphed as follows: Il