Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-07-23
HAPPENINGS IN THE STATE
Items Of Interest From All Sections Of
South Carolina.

Items Of Interest From All Sections Of
South Carolina.
George A. Derrick, former auditor Of
Lexington county, died suddenly this
week.
The governor has appointed E. A.
Bethea supervisor Of Dillon county, to
succeed ]. B. Smith, deceased.
Local managers Of Western Union
Telegraph offices in the state held
meeting in Columbia this week.
Judge Mendel l. Smith, who Is suf-
fering with typhoid fever in a Columbia
hospital, is said to be recovering rapid
ly.
1t is estimated that Spartanburg
county farmers have already market
ed 5000 bushels Of wheat Of the new
crop.
Frank Proveaux, a white man, who
lives in Colleton county. is in jail at
Walterboro, charged with attempted
criminal assault.
The South Carolina Sherifrs associ-
alton held meeting in Greenville this
week. Governor Manning was one Of
the principal speakers.
Miss Edith L. PARROT, state agent Of
the home demonstration work in South
Carolina, Is attending the state meeting
Of Oklahoma demonstrators.
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were so deaths at the state hospital for
the insane. 1t is said that SO Of these
deaths were due to pellagra:
Mrs R. H. Kennedy, who has been
organist at Christ church in Green
vile for 81 years, has resigned the
place and has moved to New York.
M. J. Morris, assistant chief Of the
Charleston fire department, was killed
last Saturday when an automobile in
which he was racing to a fire, collided
with a police automobile
The Columbia Duck mills, one Of the
most valuable milling properties in
the state, have been sold to the Mount
Vernon Woodberry Cotton Duck COM
pany for $550,000.
J. w. Elder, a member Of the Spar
tanburg fire department, was probably
fatally injured Tuesday afternoon when
he fell from the second story Of the
fire departments quarters to the
ground, sustaining injuries to his back.
John X. Mcpherson, a prominent
Laurens county farmer. who was shot
by Will Martin, also well known in that
county, few days ago, died Of his
wounds Monday. The principals in the
affair are related by marriage.
Three members of the Richmond
Volunteers, company E, second South
Carolina regiment, who were bitten by
a mad dog while In encampment at
Greenville are receiving Pasteur treat
ment and are said to be now out Of
danger
Governor Manning has recommended
C. T. Mason Of Sumter county, to Sec
retary Daniels Of the navy, for ap-
pointment as member Of the national
inventions board. Mr.. Mason is the
inventor Of the high tension magnetic
and is said to be a close friend Of Thos.
A. Edison.
Gordon Poteat and E. M. Poteat, Jr.
sons Of DR.. E. M. Poteat, president or
Furman University, Greenville, were
ordained as ministers Of the gospel in
Greenville Sunday night. Their father
the young ministers will go to the
foreign field.
The body Of a man badly decompos-
ed, was found in a Texas Oil company
tank car in Charleston. Tuesday, while
employees were cleaning out the car
preparatory to sending 1t out The car
had been loaded with gasolene. Owing
to the condition of the body, 1t could
not be ascertained whether the man
was white or black.
Greenville News: Condemnation pro-
ceedings which the United States will
institute for land in the western part
Of this state, the land being in Spartan
burg, Oconee, Pickens and Greenville
counties, have been filed with Clerk
Knight Of the Federal court for the
western district Of South Carolina.
There are some go or 10 different tracks
with about three or four hundred
claimants to the various tracks Of land
which the government is to purchase
for forest reserve, or rather a con-
tinuation Of the great forest reserve
Of North Carolina The department Of
justice, not wishing to have any flaws
in the titles when they shall be secured,
demands that the papers be served in
dividually upon each Of the claimants
and this means that United States
Marshal Lyon, will have job on his
hands serving all these papers. South
Carolina is the only state in the union,
according to the department Of justice,
where notice could not be served by
newspaper notices; but here this can
not be done in the opinion Of the de-
partment and so the papers must be
served in person. Prices for most OF the
land have been agreed upon and the
government will take the rest, paying
whatever the jury thinks is just and
proper in the case. These cases will
likely come up at the next term Of
court in the fall.
Columbia Record: Mack Flowers,
the 11-year- old wanderer whom the
police have been caring for during the
past week, will be committed to the
state reformatory at Florence. The
legal steps for the transfer Of the GUS
tody Of the lad are now being taken
by the police recorder, w. P. Etchison.
The commitment papers will be filed
with Sheriff Mccain, who will dispatch
a deputy to accompany Mack to the re-
formatory, where, the authorities hope,
he will be transformed into q better lad
and a more useful citizen in after
years. He was wandering aimlessly
about the country, swinging" freights
and riding the blind" according to the
story he related to the recorder. Mack
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