Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-11-21
sourH CAROLINA NEWS.

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lumbia, Thursday.
- A child of Mary Owens, negro,
was burned in tenant house in Bam-
berg county last Saturday. The moth
er had left the child alone while she
went about her work as cook for
neighboring family.
- The Federal department of agricul-
ture has agreed to the establishment
of q boil weevil station at Florence;
but the understanding is that the
state of South Carolina will be expect
ed TO assist in q liberal appropriation.
= The Chester Hardware company OF
Chester, has filed a voluntary petition
in bankruptcy with liabilities of about
100000 and nominal assets Of about
the same amount. The sale Of large
quantities oil goods in the boil weevil
section of the state is given as rea-
son for the failure of the company.
- Samples of South Carolina grown
sweet potatoes will be shipped to sew
eral European countries shortly IN an
effort to create a foreign demand ior
the product, according to statement
at Florence a few days ago by L. b.
Young, president of the state Potato
Growers association. Mr.. Young an
nounced efforts were being made TO
establish permanent connections
abroad for handling potatoes.
-Dwinnel Casey, convicted of muir
der in Spartanburg county in April,
1920, and sentenced to life imprison-
ment, and who through numerous ap-
peals has been able to keep off the
chaingang, on Saturday abandoned his
third appeal, and announced that he
was ready to so to the gang. 1t was
expected that he would be received on
the Spartanburg gang yesterday to be-
gin serving his sentence.
DR. Henry Wade Dubose, pastor OF
the First Presbyterian church of Dan
vile, Va, has accepted the call of the
congregation of the First Presbyterian
church of Spartanburg, it was an
nounced to the members of that church
at the morning service Sunday. He is
not expected to take over the pastor
ate for a month yet. DR.. Dubose Will
fill the place of DR.. A. D. P. Gilmore,
, who accepted call from Whining
ton, n. c., church early in the fall.
A young married woman of the
Enoree section of Spartanburg coun-
ty. Jumped into a we'll so feet deep
last Wednesday with suicidal intent
The six feet Of water in the well, how
ever, proved cold enough to make her
change her mind and when help arriv-
ed in answer to an alarm from her
younger brother, she had climbed to
within five feet of the top. Upon off,
cial examination she was declared to
be Of unbalanced mind and sent to the
asylum.
According to H. B. Dominick Of
| the state department of education, all
papers submitted by teachers in the
! schools Of the state at the recent eX-
aminations are now in the hands of
the Board Of Examiners and work has
begun on the grading of the papers.
Mr.. Dominick would make no estimate
as to the time that would be necessary
| for the completion of the task of grad
| ing the papers and announcement of
| the results The members of the Board
| of Examiners who will grade the eX-
animation papers are II. B. Dominick,
McLain.
Deputy Sheriff w. A. Clamp of
Anderson shows no partiality when it
comes TO violators of the law, and on
Friday morning searched his brothers
| car, and when he found whisky in it,
arrested him for violating the pro-
hibition law. When John Clamp was
brought to the county Jail, in the
Sheriff's office he is said to have at
tackled his brother, the officer, and in
defending himself the deputy dealt
lJOlln Il pOWtllul pIJW.s lHtll JOliliJ lIA'
officers say, drew his knife, but Of
ficers intcrfered and took care Of John
in the Jail. 1t was said that John
Clamp was drinking at the time. Later
the father-m m-law of John Clamp went
on his bond, and he was released on
$3.50 bond. Harvey Clamp, a cousin,
who was with John Clamp at the time
hc was arrested is also held under
bond of $500
- For the fourth time. the supreme
court of South Carolina on last Friday
heard arguments in the case of Edmund
BigEam. under death sentence for the
murder of his brother, l.. Smiley Big
ham. i'm Florence county and indicted
also for the murder of his mother, Mrs
| L. s. Bigham; his. sister, Mrs. Margaret
, Black, and two adopted children of his
: sister, John and Lee McCracken. The
case was taken under consideration BY