Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-12-06
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS

information as of December 1 was
to the effect that Rev. B. F. McLendon
was desperately i'll in the hospital a.
Tarboro, N. @ He was expected TO
spend this week at Spencer, but in
stead sent this message: Desperate
ly i'll. Pray for me-"
- ST George, December /: Meeting
here today in annual conference South
Carolina Methodists instructed the
finance committee to insure the life of
each member OF the conference in the
sum Of $4,000 Funds to pay the first
premium will be derived from a
Christmas offering, and in the future
will be carried regularly in the budget
of the conference. A resolution was
defeated that would have required
prospective students to insure their
lives in the sum of $1,000 before nego-
tIating loans with which to complete
their education.
With the exception Of but three
states, more persons ten years Of age
and over, according to population, in
South Carolina, are engaged in gain
full occupations than in any other state
in the Union. Nevada, Rhode Island
and Massachusetts are the three
ahead. Fifty-five and three -tenths, or
674,357 of the total of 1,219,S16 persons
in the age classification were so en-
gagged. OF these IT'S per cent. or 1885,
$50, were males. South Carolina has
the largest per cent. of gainfully oc-
cupied females in any state, or 1874.
The dead body Of Mrs. Mary ].
Siebels, member of a prominent Col
umbia family, was found on the right
of way Of the Seaboard Air Line rail-
road about half a mile from Midden-
dorf last Saturday morning. She had
left Columbia at $3.50 the previous af-
ternoOn for New York, and the pre-
sumption is that she fell from the
train while passing to or from the
dining car. There was a bruise on the
dead womans left forehead, and a
scratch on her throat. In her purse
there was railroad ticket to New
York $40 in curreny and a few dollars
in silver. In Columbia she made. her
home with her nephew and his wife,
Mr. and Mrs. John J.. Siebels; Dut most
of Ter winters were spent in Florida.
- Augusta Ga. December 4: A Sc
uuel to the Beldoc mystery in which
the wife and three children OF j. w.
Lee. prominent planter, died sud-
denly few weeks ago Of n strange
malady, believed ut the time to have
been caused by poison, has taken place
at Martins, S. c., about Is miles from
Allendale, according TO information
received in Augusta today stating that
nine persons are desperately, Ill at q
boarding house there after eating bis
cults made from -four taken from the
Lee home at Beldoc. The popularity
of the situation is that the affair oc-
CURED at the boarding house Of Mrs.
r. +. Crecch, who is sister-in-law
of j. w. Lee, who now lies Ill at the
University hospital here.
- Governor Cooper has appointed
A. Foster McKissick, of Grecnville and
Bright Williamson OF Darlington as
members of the port utilities commits
sion of Charleston. In the recent elec-
ton in Charleston TO determine
whether or not the city would take
over the port terminals it was decided
by n big vote to take over the prop
crty. Under this election five port
utilities commissioners were chosen
and the question voted upon provided
for the appointment of two others by
the governor. The five elected were:
NJ. Rutledge Rivers, Albert jottile.
Walter Pringle, ]. l.. David and II. A.
Mallory. The mayor and one alder
man are also on the commission,
which was completed with the two
appointments by the governor.
Columbia, Dec. 2: The state OF
South Carolina became eligible for the
initial federal appropriation of SlO,-
600 under the Sheppard -Towner ma
tcrnity statute recently signed by
President Harding, when Governor
Cooper this afternoon accepted the
provisions Of the act. The act provides