Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-03-15
LOCAL IAcONlCS
Food Administrator.

Food Administrator.
DIR. J. Il. Johnson has appointed Mr..
w. NJ. Carothers food administrator
for the India Hook school district.
vice the late T. J. Steele.
.Fiddler's Convention.
There is to be fiddler's convention
in Rock Hill tonight. II Is expected
that quite a number of local artists
will take part and n big time Is ex-
pected.
Tax Executions Tomorrow.
The time in which state and county
taxes may be paid with the per cent
penalty, expires today and after to-
morrow executions are to be issued
against all delinquent taxpayers.
Winthrop Girls Want to Vote.
Senators Tillman and Smith have
been presented by Mrs. Helen Gardin-
er, vice president of the National
American Woman Suffrage association.
with Il petition bearing the signatures
of several hundred students and men,
bers Of the Winthrop college faculty
urging their support OF woman sur
frage Federal amendment.
Income Tax Expert.
Mr.. w. y. Mcclure OF the internal
revenue department, is 10 De In Rock
Hill next Monday. Tuesday and We'd
nesday. for the purpose of giving as
much assistance as may be- desired 10
those who have not yet made their re-
turns. Anybody who applies TO Mr..
Mcclure. within York or any OF the
surrounding counties, will receive all
the assistance in his power.
U. S. District Court.
The United States district court.
Judge Johnson presiding, Is In ses-
sion in Rock Hill this week. Quite
large number OF cases are being dis
posed of. These include mostly IL
quor cases. white slave cases, and
prosecution of abandoned women for
violation of the laws relating TO their
presence at military camps. One wo-
man, government witness from
Greenville, attempted to commit sui
eide Tuesday night by the poison
route, but was not successful.
Must Send Four More.
Local Board No. =, will send four
more white men to Camp Jackson be-
fore the end Of the present month.
So said Chairman Brice OF the board
yesterday. There has been call In
this state for some extra men and
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teen of them-seven from each local
board. The understanding Is that II
the meeting OF this requisition goes
beyond the boards quota OF the hrst
draft, II will be allowed In the next
call. Local board No. has already
furnished a number OF extra men as
volunteers. and it's present idea IL that
IL will send only four more in response
10 this extra call. II Is possible. how
ever, that the plans Of the board may
be changed.
In Charge Of Military Police.
Rock Hill Herald: Major w. a.
Fair, In charge OF the military
police at Camp Sewer. Greenville, who
Is here for court as witness against
some of the offenders taken into Gus
tody by the government, states that
IL Is a hard problem to properly con-
troll the immoral element about the
camps. The provost guard Is ably as
sisted by the civil authorities, but IL
Is hard to catch the offenders. The
soldiers caught are given military
punishment, but the state laws per-
tanning TO prosecution are such that
II Is next to impossible to secure sur
ficient evidence to insure stiff sem
tence. However, the evil Is being
gradually overcome. Major Fair thinks
and when the raw men have been a
little more disciplined the trouble can
be more easily handled.
Twenty five Miles an Hour.
The lawmakers Of South Carolina
do not want automobile drivers to
drive anywhere with unnecessary
recklessness: but still they are to be
allowed to go as fast as twenty-five
miles an hour instead Of only fifteen
miles as heretofore, provided con-
ditions are favorable. The act as
amended at the last session Of the gen.
eral assembly is as follows. Section l..
That section COL, Code Of Laws, 1912.
Vol. 2 (criminal code) be amended by
striking out the word fifteen on line
five thereof, and inserting In lieu
thereof the word. twenty-five, so
that said section when so amended
shall read as follows: Sec. COL. No
person shall operate a motor vehicle
on O public highway at rate Of speed
greater than is reasonable and proper
at the time and place, having regard
to the traffic and use Of the highway.
and its conditions, or so as to endan-
ger the life, limb or property Of any
person, or in any event at a greater
rate than twenty five miles an hour,
subject, however, to the other pro-
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