Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-12-30
MERE MENTION

Under tho law allowing the use OF
brandy for pies, each of the San Fran
cisco bakers, with one exception. took
100 gallons of brandy from bond last
week. The total withdrawal amounted
TO $500 gallonS...........The Soviet gov
crnment last week turned over TO the
American relief commission the sum OF
slO,OO0.0G0 with which to purchase
American supplies in the. famine
stricken Vo'ga What Is
believed to be Il natural flow of oil was
discovered on the site Of new Y. NJ.
G.. a. building being erected in Angus
II, Ga. 1t is not thought, however, that
the oil will be found in commercial
quantities WILDER Nolivia Glenn.
who rules Zion City, near Chicago, put
a stop to the Santa Claus tradition IN
his bailiwick by mStructing his people
to give presents to his people as usual;
but TO tell the children that the pres
cntS came from above" ..Chrlslm mas
business was much heavier in Doth
New York and Chicago this year than
il was last ycar..--.........Tne story thdt II
man who has been caught in Poland,
is able to tell all about the great wall
Street explosion, turns out TO be some
what of i hOaX............Thc CITY Oh chi
cago has gone hot after the bootleg
liquOr industry that has been running
roughShod over things. The autholl-
ties have come TO realize that if they
do not control the bOoileGEerS, the
DOut!cggerS will control tEem......-..tlVe
armed bandits held up the Italian
branch of the Citizens Trust and Say
incs bank of Columbus. Ohio, on
Thursday Of last week and got away
with $lO,0O0...............-.Harry Church, the
young Chicago miscreant who murder
ed two automobile salsemcn after hav-
ing lurcd them to his home under pre-
tense that his father wanted tu buy an
automobile from them, has been SEN
tenccd to be hanged~.........Thc depart
mcnt of agriculture is reported 10 be
meeting with fine success in Kidding
the state OF Washington Of snakes by
means of mustard gas. In the lava
beds near Hagum were many rattlerS
that could not be gotten at; but mus
tard gas brought them out in large
nunberS--baby ratt!ers OF few inches
in length and great monsters nine feet
long. Heaiy's. for years one ui the
hest known restaurants in New York,
has gone out of business on account OF
prohibition..P President Harding has
signed the bill appropriating s20,0O0,-
OOO TO be expended under the Supervis-
ion of the Russian relief commission.
The appropriation is Immediately
availabe.........S W. Grouse, 60-ycar-
old farmer of the vicinity of Winston
Salem, y. c., was sentenced last week
to one year on the roads for making
LIQUOR, a still having been found on his
place. His son, Coy y. Grouse, appear
ed before the judge with the statement
that il was he instead Of his father
who wttS guilty and the son was allow
cd 10 serve the sentence instead......-...
Pinckney Steven Benton Stewart
Pinchback. the only negro who has
ever held the position Gf governor of
an American state, having served as
governor OF Louisiana from December
&. 1872, to January Is, 1875, died III
Washington on December 20, aged "A
years. He was lieutenant governor OF
Louisiana when the then Governor
WIrmouth was driven out Of Office by
imnca chmc.t .... Congress TOOK q re-
cess from December u To- January !,
leaving the -lynching bill over I'LL
the last named date.....-...~."BIshop IL. I.