Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-06-13
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Of South Carolina.
- Greenville, June s: James II.
Bramlett, . fO-year- old car inspector
for the Piedmont and Northern rail-
waS, is in n critical condition as result
of a blow alleged TO have been in
ficted by Barney F. Cleveland. as
sistant foreman of the p. and n. shops
here this afternoon, following an al
tcrcation between the men.
- Darlington. June 0 Striking out
twenty men, Sorrell, pitching for Clay
ton, North Carolina, high school cham
pion, held McColl, South Carolina
champion, to three hits here yester-
day afternoon, the North Carolinians
winning the championship of the two
states, to 2. Thompson, McColrs
pitcher, struck out ten men and allow
ed six hits. s.-. q
- Union, June 0: $The city council
met last evening and elected the po-
Ilicemen and other officers to serve the
town for the next two years: The
election resulted as follows: l.. G.
Wharton, chief of police; Fl. c. James,
w. p. Skelton, G. G. Hodge, Humph-
rey Willard and Ben L. Eller. police
men, W.sD. Arthur, city treasurer;
Gault and DuBose. cemetery keepers
and ]. A. Wilburn. street overseer,
- Anderson, June o: Farther activi
ties of, what is believed to be the Ku
Klux Klan In this county Thursday,
camc to light today when it was re-
ported here today that body Of mask
ed and robed men took Ollie Cromp-
ton of Anderson county, and escorted
him to a remote spot near Cooley's
bridge, near Bolton. then administered
severe whipping to him and adnon-
ished him to stop dealing in liquor.
Crompton is said to have been return
ed to his home later in the night.
Gteenyille, June s.: Three stills
ana one. Hundred gallons of moonshine,
were seized by county and federal of
fcers this morning at Pots Cove, in
the upper section of the county. The
raid, which is the largest made in
many months. Included the destruc-
ticn of 1900 gallons of mash. No ar
rests were. made at the time, but Of
ficers found the hat, coat and over
ellis at separate points along n trail
leading from the still, and believe
that they have evidence that will lead
to an arrest Immediately. Forty gall
Ions of the liquor wasSdestroyed along
the mountainside and sixty gallons
brought to the city. This afternoon
the officers started to pour out the
sixty gallons, a
- Anderson, June S: Another 81 fine
was imposed this morning by Judge
H. H. Watkins, when Ward Huckabee
plead guilty to distil!irg liquor. This
young man-said he was making some
liquor for shis grandmother, and this
story the grandmother corroborated,
soying she was poly and needed some
liquor-thcSoh lady, looked the pnrt,
for she seerficd to be "ailin'.' The
outfit that Huckabee used was
hand affair, and placed in the fire.
place of the room where they were
sitting. 1t was of copper, and the old
lady said that it had been in the fam
lily "for morc'n hundred years, and
they had allps made their own liquor
when they needed it, and they didn't
&,ow 1t was ennybody's business"
Huckabec claimed that this was the
first time that he had ever tried to
make any liquor, and was making it
the way his grandmother told him, for
he didn't know how. Huckabee had
already been fined in the lower court,
so Judge Watkins gave him SEN
tence of 81 or one hour in jail. The
dollar was paid.