Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-11-14
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

Boil Weevil has been discovered ir
Anderson county.
- Practically every town in Soutl
Carolina observed armistice day in
some manner last Tuesday.
james E. Dobbins, Anderson coun-
ty farmer, recently sold q quantity
Of long staple cotton in Anderson for
6S cents a pound.
Fire last Sunday destroyed the to-
bacco stemmery of T. D. Martin at
Florence entailing a property loss ol
SIS, 900 fully covered by insurance. The
origin of the fire Is unknown.
james T. Crews, for the past 35
years a member of the Laurens fire
department and for many years chief
of the organization, has rendered his
resignation.
Thomas B. Madden, for many
years assistant postmaster OF Column
bia has been nominated to be post
master of that city by Senator Dial.
- Kafer's bakery in Florence was
damaged by fire to the extent Of about
81, 900 this week. Insurance was car
ried in the sum of $4,000.
Anderson College at Anderson,
Rev. John z. White president is to
have an additional dormitory which Is
to cost s150,000.
- According to report from the
state highways department for the
year up to November /, the total re-
ceipts for the period are $390,S75.61.
- Charles w. Stansll, Jr., student of
the Columbia high school, died at the
Columbia hospital this week of spinal
meningitis.
Rev. f. r. Pendleton. pastor of
the Baptist church at Pendleton, An
derson county has resigned his pastor
ate.
- Bamberg county farmers are con-
sidering the idea Of going into the
livestock industry and diversified
farming in an effort to defeat the boil
weevil which is making rapid advances
in that county.
- Mrs. Sally Cunningham, a well
known and highly esteemed ladv Of
Anderson, was run over and almost
instantly killed in Anderson, this wech
when she was struck by an automo-
bile driven by Sam w. Power, a rural
mail carrier.
- Sixteen pints of blockade whiskey
regulation soda water crown captured
in Greenville last Sunday resulted in
the arrest of Porter Owings who with
two other men had the whiskey in
his possession.
- The supreme court on last Tues
day held in a majority opinion that
the primary election held in Charles
ton on August 10, is not effective in SO
far as the office of mayor is concern
ed. In the primary, the incumbent
Tristan T. Hyde, was renominated by
majority of one vote on the face OF
the returns, the vote being 3,24l tC
3,240. This count did not include n
contested and mutilated ballots. The
executive committee delegated con-
sideration Of these II ballots to sub
committee which found that John p
Grace, the defeated candidate, accord
! ing to the first returns, was entitled tC
enough of the votes in DISPUTE to give
him a majority Of Il. The executive
committee adopted the report OF III,
sub committee by vote of l3 to II
The case reached the supreme court by
writ. The court passed only on the
legality of the procedure and not as tc
questions of fact. The Charleston ex-
ecutive committee will be called upon
to designate a date for another pri-
mary. The general election is
scheduled for December 4. The petit
tion Of the Hyde supporters sought tc
have the present mayor declared the
nominee but this the court declined &c
do on the ground that from the record
before the court the justices could not
determine (which of the candidates
for mayor received the majority of the
votes that were and ought to have
been counted. Associate Justice Hy'
drck delivered the majority opinion
which is concurred in by Chief Justice
Gary and Associated Justice Fraser
1.Associated' Justice Watts and Gage
dissented.