Taft favored in national committee contests at Chicago
Republican leaders in Chicago moved to advance Taft as the favored candidate in contested southern delegations while critics knapped at Knox Foraker Fairbanks and Hughes. A Raleigh court sentenced five men to five years and a $500 fine for Dunn post office robbery. witnesses included inspectors and a Boston policeman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Republican National Committee
Chicago
National Committee
Taft
Knox
Foraker
Fairbanks
Hughes
South Carolina
Dunn
N. C
Raleigh
Atlanta
Harry Skinner
Post Office
John F. McCarthy
Boston
Mass
James G. Wilson
Pelzer
S. C
J. F. Leonard
James Scanlon
Charles Williams
Harry S. Holland
CC. F. Shaw
Calvin P. Graves
North Hancock
New York
Washington Herald
Yokohama
Japan
Korea
Cotton Plantation Association
New York Financial Chronicle
Campaign fund estimate for liquor interests in the fight
The text asserts yearly liquor profits total 1 548 716 916 dollars and claims 25 percent spent on a political battle. It then halves the remaining amount and states the liquor interests have more than 500 000 dollars per day for expenses against the Anti Saloon League.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anti-Saloon League
America
Carrington A. Phelps
Broadway Magazine
Liquor Federation
Shiuer
Anti- Saloon League
Brown leads Smith in Georgia by about 12000 votes
In Georgia race coverage Brown's statewide majority is about 12,000 votes over Smith. Among Georgia's 146 counties Brown carried 90, with results reported from Yorkville and surrounding counties in South Carolina on June 9, 1908.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brown
Smith
Georgia
Two term rule debated in Georgia election
The author argues Georgia voters should not grant a second term merely for finishing one term. Fitness and acceptability should govern length of service, not automatic entitlement. The piece likens the idea to an illogical rule about a dog turning twice before sitting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia
Carnegie Foundation grants lifelong pension to Col Asbury Coward
The News and Courier notes the Carnegie Foundation executive committee approved a yearly $1,650 pension for Col Asbury Coward for life. Coward began teaching in Yorkville in 1855, served in the Civil War, then returned to education in South Carolina, earning lasting recognition for his dedication. The piece lauds the award as a fitting honor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
News and Courier
Carnegie Foundation For the Advancement of Teaching
Asbury Coward
Carnegie Foundation
South Carolina
Col. Coward
Yorkville
The Georgian’s campaign coverage earns reader trust
In a critique of local papers during a close campaign, The Georgian is praised for reporting news honestly rather than pushing one side. It contrasts with the Journal and Constitution, which were accused of bias and one sided polls. The piece argues a balanced press serves all readers and influences public trust.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Georgian
Constitution
The
Journal
Hoke Smith
Clark Howell
Smith
Howell
The Man Who Sells His Vote Is Dishonest
A fragmented editorial asserts that buying votes corrupts elections and that voters who trade support degrade democracy, while those who sell influence face moral censure and reputational harm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morilio
Honesty and Vote Buying in Politics
The passage argues honesty is the vital foundation of reputation and warns that vote buying corrupts democracy. It notes voters are swayed by promises of private privileges in exchange for votes, comparing buyers and sellers of votes to criminals in crime. It deems vote buying a common vice grafted onto institutions.
Clover Cullings: Meetings, Rail Workers Outing and Local Ball
Clover notes a busy period with a Methodist protracted meeting led by Rev. H B Hardy and Rev D H Comann of Lenoir. A successful old fiddler’s convention followed by an excursion of 175 people from Chester to Clover included a baseball game where Clover beat Mechanics of Chester 17 to 4. Fort Mill slated to visit Clover Friday. peach and strawberry crops flourish as climate resembles Ridge region. Dr E W Pressly returns from Chicago improved after health issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clover
Methodist Church
H. B. Hardy
D. H. Comann
Lenoir
N. C
Chester
C. & N.W. Railway
Fort Mill
Ridge
Saluda
Edgefield
E. W. Pressly
Chicago
Birmingham
Ala
Fire devastates Abbeville inns and shops in South Carolina
The Glen Ethel Inn and several buildings in Abbeville were destroyed by fire last Saturday, with a loss near 50 000 and 20 000 insured. The report also notes a long murder case against Wade Hampton Sellers and a bank currency report showing SC banks with liabilities and deposits totaling over 25 million.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glen Ethel Inn
Abbeville
South Carolina
Local Advertisements Highlight Job, Sales and Notices
Miss Lillie Parish seeks to rent a piano at once. A J Parrott runs for county supervisor pending primary voters. J A Tate seeks re election as clerk of York County court after primaries. J B Scott calls Yorkville Farmers Union meeting June 13. Box 12 Chester seeks experienced dry goods and shoe salesman. J P Ramsey Hickory seeks owner of a dark bay mare taken in. John R Hart Trustee bids for stock of J N Benfield bankrupt. P H Mell pres exams for Clemson scholarships July 3. Carolina Hall Insurance Co Marion promotes past work and offers $1000 policy for $35. Luther Baker touts Ess tee dee for hair. W Dobson fresh barrel of new cut herring at 1 cent. M W White jokes about chicken salad. York Drug Store offers summer toiletries. Lowney s candies featured. A D White Captain invites baseball fans to Chester Yorkville game at Friendly Aid hall. Palace Theatre screens The Lone Microbe Just Married Lady Doctor s Husband. Thomson Co sale on clothes shoes hats. Strauss Smith Co lists reasonable games for women and children. National Union Bank touts strength and service. First National Bank praises CDs. Yorkville Hardware Co lawn mowers. J L Williams Co claims Zeigler Bros Oxfords up season. R B Davidson Co notes Edison phonographs and opera. J C Wilborn offers Bethel plantation for sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lillie Parish
A. J. Parrott
J. A. Tate
York County
J. B. Scott
Yorkville Farmers’ Local Union
Chester
J. P. Ramsey
Hickory
John R. Hart
J. N. Benfield
P. H. Mell
Clemson College
York Court House
Carolina Hall Insurance Co
Marion
Luther Baker
W. Dobson
M. W. White
York Drug Store
Lowney
A. D. White
Yorkville
Friendly Aid Hall
Palace Theatre
Thomson Co
Strauss-Smith Co
National Union Bank
First National Bank
Yorkville Hardware Co
J. L. Williams & Co
Zeigler Bros. Oxfords
Southern Power wires reach forty towns in region
At a Rock Hill Chamber of Commerce meeting last Friday a resolution urged a first class sewerage system for the town, even if costs run to 250000. R T Smith of Bowling Green has been an Enquirer subscriber since 1856.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Mill
Clover
Enquirer
Yorkville
Farmers Union Corn Prize Fund Subscriptions
Additional contributions to the Farmers' Union corn prize fund include J. J. Hunter of Yorkville and FE. M. Williams of Yorkville No. 6 each donating one dollar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmers’ Union Corn Prize Fund
J. J. Hunter
Yorkville
M. Williams
Local residents with travel and visits around Yorkville
A bulletin lists numerous Yorkville residents and relatives traveling or visiting places such as Birmingham Gastonia Spartanburg Blairsville Lexington county and Europe. The entries include trips home for Mrs Witherspoon Card party attendance at Clemson commencement Mason Blair at Clemson and Dr Bowen moving to Spartanburg with Miss Moore joining two weeks in Syrداnthane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. C. Latimer
Birmingham
Mamie DeVinney
Gastonia
Prof
L. W. Jenkins
Spartanburg
Congressman Finley
Margaret Grist
J. C. Blair
Blairsville
J. H. Witherspoon
Lowryville
A. Rose
Lexington County
Joseph G. Wardlaw
Fannie Wardlaw
Europe
Mattie Matthews
Old Point
Mary Simms
Mason Blair
Clemson
Wm. Y. White
Chester
Yorkville
M. W. White
Jas. H. Dickson
Wm. Dickson
Lincoln Street
Mary Bobbie Lindsay
R. I. DeVinney
Wilma O'Farrell
Florida
John N. O'Farrell
Mary Scott
Ida
Lela Dunla
Geo. W. Brown
Gaffney
Brown
Messrs
Quay
Wade Williford
Sumter
Nannie G. Allison
Macie Robinson
Hugh Egger
Sharon
Bethany
Clover
F. D., Davison
Jas. F. Carson
No. 3
Ala
United Confederate Veterans
J. B. Bowen
Margaret Moore
Syrrtanhure
Labor prices fall as local contractors seek workers
In town, fewer contractors attract more labor as laborers arrive from surrounding country and adjoining towns. Contractors pay one dollar a day and expect to secure all needed labor at that rate soon.
Yorkville Seeks Clarity On Town Finances Amid Elections
Citizens press for annual publication of town receipts and disbursements as polls open for municipal races. Voters hear Rev. Wm Black preach at a crowded Presbyterian service while a public works official outlines council candidates and school district trustees.
Abundance of Cabbage Surges in Local Markets
Local cabbage production explodes with spring plantings five to six times higher than last year. Prices plummet from 14 to 2 cents to 3 to 1 cent per pound as markets glut while Yorkville dealers move about 175 000 plants and county sales reach roughly 250 000. Some crop will go to waste. organisers could study markets and buy surplus for shipment to benefit present and future trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yorkville
Hold, Farmers Urged to Hold Cotton for Minimum Price
Harris warns Farmers' Union audience to hold cotton amid tight world stocks. Memphis meeting reported 28,822,000 acres planted for 1908. May 31 crop condition 74. Futures pressure and overseas mills cited. call to hold spots to sustain 15 cents cotton and push price higher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. Harris
Farmers’ Union
Memphis
Tenn
South Carolina
Eastern Exchange
Fiddlers convention at Clover draws large crowd
A full representation of fiddlers and dancers at Clover's Fiddlers convention drew a large audience despite threatening weather. Yorkville band, prize winners, and Judge Beamgaard led a lively program with strong music and dancing and strong town hospitality noted throughout.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clover
Yorkville Cornet
Yorkville
The
Enquirer
Gordon
Shakespeare
Silent Stage Triumph Amid Confederate Echoes
A speaker recalls a performer who emerged on stage as an excellent dancer, while contrasting personal limits imposed by environment with the resolve of men who followed Lee and Jackson who had little use for the word can t.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lee
Jackson
Various National and Local News Snapshots
Armour Packing reduces capital from 7.5 million to 1 million while Mexico guarantees a 250900 fund for a national derby. Embezzlement charges hit M Balbo Riffo in Philadelphia. Iowa politics see Allison defeat Cummins for US Senate. A Hanover county preacher pleads guilty to mail fraud and gets eight months. A Mexican cloud burst kills twenty and damages property worth 20000. Paul Donehoo, a blind musician, elected Fulton coroner. A West Virginia itinerant preacher jailed for life for horse stealing. Iowa Congressman Hull loses reelection bid. US Steel negotiates a 25 million contract with Russia. Dynamite explosion on the Panama Canal kills two workers. Russia executes 766 in three months and imprisons over 167000, including 13000 political prisoners. A trolley crash near Annapolis kills eight and injures fifteen. USS Tennessee boiler explosion off California coast. Montana has eight inches of snow. New York Knickerbocker Trust receivers’ allowance cut to 20000 each. Two Massachusetts balloonists fired upon while over Poestenkill. Continental Hall to be completed with 200000 loan at 5 percent. Sherman anti trust cases delayed until after the November elections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Armour Packing Company
Government of
Mexico
M. Balbo Riffo
Pneumatic Tube Transit Company
Philadelphia
Allison
Iowa
Cummins
United States
Jas. T. Hargrave
Hanover County
Juananato
Paul Donehoo
Fulton County
W. W. Thompson
John E. Graham
Maundeville
W. Va
Hull
House Committee On Military Affairs
United States Steel Company
Panama Canal
Russia
Annapolis
Tennessee
California
Montana
Appellate Court of
New York
Knickerbocker Trust Company of
Massachusetts
Poestenkill
N. Y
Continental Hall
Daughters of the American Revolution
Great Corporations
Union and Clover sermons for Sunday schedule
Reverend W E Love will preach at Union next Sunday morning at 11 o clock and at Clover in the afternoon at 4 o clock. Fourth of July train service details: Carolina and North Western railroad sells tickets July 8 and 4 good through Monday the 6th for one fare plus 25 cents for round trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. E. Love
Union
Clover
T. G. Matthews
Carolina and North-Western Railroad
Cotton Market Reports Prices and Futures in June Notes
Charlotte and Yorkville reported June cotton prices at 11 to 12 cents with steady spot quotes in New York around 11.40 for middling uplands and 11.65 for middling gulf. Futures opened and closed steady with June at 10.10 and March at 4.26, alongside nearby months from July to February.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlotte
N. C
Yorkville
New York
Also Mentioned on This Page
Yorkville Enquirer
Yorkville, 5S. C
South Carolina News
Wade Hampton Sellers
Columbia
Constable Farmer
Sellers
Farmer
Jas. H. Hammond
Charleston
South Carolina Military Academy
Hammond
National Guard
War Department
Adj
Boyd
3D Regiment of Infantry
Archerson Daily = Mail
Clifton Wallace
W. G. Pierson
Local Affairs
Presbyterian Church
Wm. Black
J. E. Lowry
A. Y. Cartwright
John F. Youngblood
James M. Starr
J. P. White
A.S. Barron
H. C. Strauss
J. C. Wilborn
Harris
Fiddlers’ Convention
J. E. Beamgaard
J. Frank Wallace
W. D. Moore
J. P. A. Davidson
S. D. Pressley
J. J. J. Robinson
Tommy Green
S. B. Beamguard
E. G. Pursley
W. B. Moore
E. B. Shillinglaw
L. Pursley
W. M. Wallace
J. D. Wallace
FE. G. Pursley
J. H. Erwin
J. I. Lingerfelt
J. T. Hannon
C. B. Smith
E. ¥. Templeton
J. L. Lingerfelt
Erebus
Davidson
Tilton Heggins
Wm. Caldwell
King's Creek
Florence R. Tilton
Jesse Heggins
Baltimore
R. M. Stevenson
D. D
R. F. Thomasson
Rock Hill
Thomasson
W. C. Wherry
Doyle
Charlotte Observer
Roy Bradford
A. A. Bradford
Bradford
J. KR. McKnight
Hudson Old Place
Lowry B. McGill
Mr. Whitesides
King's Mountain
Whitesides
McGill
L. R. McGill
Winthrop Investigation
Board of Trustees
Winthrop College
Winthrop
Supreme Court
District Board
Winthrop Board
Lyon
Tillman
W. J. Roddey
Johnson
Martin
San Francisco
China
Texas
Kentucky
Joe Brown
Nebraska
Kansas
Enid
Okla
Union and Clover
Gotton
8. C
Aseball
Luther Baber
Hickory Grove
Farmers’ Local Union
Allenged Lei
J.B. Scott
Ford
L. R Williams
Secretary
the Palace Theatre
Connie & Mamie Beard
Landeswell
Bethel Township
J. M. Barnett
Clemson Agricultural College Examination
Clemson Agricultural College
County Court House
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