Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-09-02
STATE NEWS M BRIEF
items of INTEREST From All Sections OF
South Carolina.

Items OF Interc5t from All oectiohs OF
South Carolina.
Fire in Anderson last week destroy
ed property valued ct S2O,00q.
The. Bank of Johnsonville has been
organized with a capital stock OF
S25,000. gFs4
John E. White, Jr.. has been elected
secretary of the Anderson Chamber ot
Commerce to succeed r. E. 'Crabel, re-
signed.
Ra:ney Milan, an army mechanic
employed at. Charleston, was seriously
injured Friday. while cranking the
propeller of an army acroplane in
which Lieut.. Col. H. A. Dargue was
about to take fight.
A new bank has been oganized at
Heath Springs, with capital stock of
] $4,000. W. T. Gregory is spresident OF
the institution.
The. Mary Mcknight farm of $50
acres near Florence, was sold last
week. for $4,000. The property was
cut up into small tracts. 81
Governor Cooper is in Washington,
attending conference of governors
called for the purpose ,of discussing
the high cost of living problem. :.
Adjutant General w. w. Moore has
been authorized to organize second
battalion of National Guard of In
fantry in this state.
j. H. Mcclellan purchased 60 acres
of land from ]: w Busby near the city
of Anderson last week. He paid $39S
an acrelfor the land.
Graduates of Summerland and New
berry Colleges in South Carolina at a
meeting held in Columbia, Friday. de-
termined to try to raise 100000 for
the two institutions
s. j.. Carroll of the Long Branch
Church section, of Barnwell county. is
the proud possessor of Q vest that is
at least seventy-five years old. The
vest is a hofneopHn garment made
from Barnwell county cotton.
1t is, quite: likely that President
Wilson will attend the Thiitieth Di-
vision reunion at Greenville on Sept
ember 20, or September 80. He will
probably come to Greenvilie from
Louisville. :
Col Leon s. Roudicz has been ap-
pointed Inspector of the South Caro-
lima National Guard, relieving Lieut..
Col. Welsh who has been assigned to
duty with the militia bureau at Wash
ington. yrg.T'
M. C.. Sigh, policeman Of Benefits
vile fred five shots from pistol at
DIR. Lucius L. Tool, a dentist OF Co
Iumbia in Columbia Thursday even
ing. All of the shots went wild but
DR.. Tool was struck in the face when
he closed with Sligh1 who is believed
to be demented.
y Lieut.. James G. Dozier of Rock Hill,
member of the 11Sth Infantry of the
Thirtieth Division who won the con-
tgressiopal medal and the British war
CROSS has been notified that he will be
awarded the French croix de guerre,
information having come to him from
French Ambassador Jusserand in
Washington.
Rufus r. Wilson Of Boston, secre-
tary of the Worlds Cotton conference
issued a statement in Columbia,
Thursday following conference with
j. Swottowe wannamaker, president
of the American Cotton Association in
which he declared that the war be-
tween the two cotton organizations
had been called off. 1T
The city Democratic convention of
Charleston at meeting held in that
city Friday adopted resolutions con-
firming and ratifying the results of the
August 10 municipal Democratic pri-
mary as declared by the executive
committee on August %, and tabled a
motion submitted by a Hyde. delegate
protesting against the procedure of the
executive committee and recording dis
approval of it's action which were al
legged TO be unfair, arbitrary and ille-
tssaI.t The voteiwas strictly partisan
one, the delegates Of the Grace fac
tion, being in control