Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-12-16
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF
Items of Interest Gathered From All
Sections of South Carolina.

tanburg and Union have recently bee
mustered into the service.
- Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Powe Duval
celebrated their fiftieth, golden wed
ding anniversary at their home il
Cheraw, last Monday.
- Broadus Thompson of the BoyEin
section of Kershaw county, shot an
killed q large black eagle in Watere
swamp near Camden, q few days ago
The bird measured seven feet from til
to tip OF wings.
- Mary Alice Compton, aged 9, dieC
Friday in Florence from burns received
in the home Of her parents at Lake
City the day before when her clothin:
! became ignited at an open fire neal
which she was dressing.
- John Gaffney, aged 10, of Blacks
burg, had the misfortune to have one
of his hands badly injured Saturda!
by the explosion of a dynamite car
with which he was eXperimenCin-;. 1t
was, necessary to amputatc two fingers
of his left hand.
y Wilton E. Lee Of Anderson has re.
ceived notification from the home SER
vice bureau of Paris that the grave of
his son, Wilton Harold Lee, Company
NJ. 18th Infantry, Thirtieth Division
has been located. That he is buried in
an American cemetery at Bony tAisne)
and the number is 1873. plot c, ceme-
terry No. 6S3 :.
"A notable change in schedule will
bs in2usaratsd on the Lancaster and
Chester railroad, effective Sunday,
Dec IA, relates a Chester dispatch.
Train No. IA will leave Lancaster at 7
q. m instead of '5:45 a. m, as present
arriving in Chester at $3.50. Train No.
16 will leave Lancaster at 8 p. m. in
stead of at $3.50 p. m. Train No. 10
will leave Chester at 10:30 a. m. arriv-
ing in Lancaster at 1890 p. M, and
train No. II will leave Chester at z
d. m, arriving in Lancaster at $3.50
p. m. Train No. IA will connect with
No. 81 at Chester for Columbia, but
will not connect with No Sc for Char
lotte nor make the Carolina & North
western connections. No. 16. the aft
ernoon train, will connect with both
Nos. 28 and 80 for Charlotte and No.
q for Columbia.
OF the $50 persons given the pre-
ventive inocluations against rabies
sent out by the laboratory of the state
board Of health, only two died accord
ing to the report Of the executive COM
mittee. The report Of DR.. F. A. Coward
to the committee gives the number OF
Wasserman tests made during the first
IL months as. $1,000, the largest num-
ber ever given at the state laboratory.
There were a total of 13,45S eXami-
nations made for various diseases at
the laboratory. OF this number, O.
S5S were positive, 10,530 were negative
and 70 doubtful. Hookworm was the
disease given most treatment, total
of 2,SsS, of which 1897 were negative.
The total number Of tests made for
typhosus was 2,657. Of which 1,772
were negative, Sc positive and five
doubtful For gonococcus 1882 tests
were made; 404 for diptheria, 64S
for plasmodium and numbers of minor
for other diseases.
- South Carolina is paying its Con-
federate veterans the smallest amount
of pension of any state which forncd
O. part of the Confederacy, according
to Col. D. w. McLaurin, pension COM
piled figures from various Confederate
states showing the amount appropriated
by each and the average pension paid
veterans. South Carolina foots the
lists with an average pension OF $50
per annum. The figures for the other
states. as compiled by him are: Texas
levies five cents ad valorem on the
s1OO worth of property. They pay
500 to each pensioner. Tennessee ap-
propriates 100000 They pay their
men $50 and the women $12O. Okla
homa appropriates 100000, each PEN
sioner receiving S100. Arkansas levies
two mills on all property; each pen
sioner gets 500. Georgia appropriates
S1,193,S29. Florida appropriates SS32,-
$50 and pays the pensioners in two
classes, S240 and $50. Louisiana ap-
propriates $711,O00. Each pensioner is
paid S120. Missouri pays each pen
sioner $120.
w. T. Riley, Jr., president OF the
First National Bank of Allendale, has
returned from a trip to the boil weevil
country whittier he went with j. II.
Hewlett and G. II. Bryan Of this town,
says an Allendale dispatch Of Wednes-
day. The two last named will return
in q few days They visited Americus,
Albany, Moultrie, Thomasville, Cairo.
Ga, and Dothan and Enterprise, Ala.
They went right into the boil weeVil
infested country and saw the trans
formation in methods of farming that
have followed in the wake of the pest
Mr.. Riley reports that wherever the
farmers have accommodated them
selves to new conditions they are more
prosperous than before the coming o.:
the boil weevil At Dothan in 1914,
the Dothan National bank had de-