Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-06-30
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his pretty new cottage on Kings Noun
tain street.
- Secretary Strauss, of the graded
school board of trustees, is still receiv-
ing applications for the teacherships
recently disposed of by the board.
Manager J. P. White, of the York
vile baseball team, telegraphs from
Greenwood that the Greenwood team
has made arrangements to play in
Yorkville next Thursday, Friday and
Saturday.
- To meet the increasing demands
of the local patronage, a section OF
new delivery boxes has been added in
the Yorkville postoffice. The Office
room has been remodeled to accommo-
date the addition.
III. II. Beard, on Monday, released
the pigeons referred to in TEE En-
ou1RER of last Saturday. The wealth
er was cloudy on Saturday and Sunday
mornings, and the pigeons had to be
held over until Monday.
Next Wednesday, the Fourth, will
be observed in Yorkville by pretty
general suspension of business. The
reporter has not made the round OF
the entire town; but the understand
ing is that the stores will be closed.
- Since the closing of the Baptist
High School, thieves have stolen some
$500 worth of lead plumbing from the
Kings Mountain Military academy
building. If the guilty parties can be
discovered it is likely that some OF
them will have to sweat.
For revenue or not? This is the
vital question in connection with the
conduct of the local water plant. 1t
the plant is to be conducted for reve-
nue., then there must be authority from
the general assembly. As matters
now stand, the municipality cannot
legally engage in the water, or any
other business. The fact that it has
been conducting q water business does
not make the matter either legal or
right. In the circumstances, however,
there is no legal or other obstacle in the
way of the towns furnishing water to
its citizens at cost. The water is there
available, and the citizen who at once
puts back what he takes out does not
impose upon his fellow owners of the
plant. To find out the cost Of putting
q gallon of water in the standpipe re.
quires the simplest calculation. The
result of the calculation shows the
price that can be fairly charged the
citizen in the present circumstances
for taking a gallon of water out of the
standpipe. If the town had the legal
right to engage in the water business
and should decide to sell water to citi'
zens at profit, then reason and JUS
tice would say that the town should
furnish the gallon pot. If the citizens
expects to use the towns water on the
sole condition that he put back as
much as he uses, then he should bear
the expense of the gallon. pot through
which measurement should be made.
Although law, equity and reason all
back up the proposition that the citi-
zen is entitled to the use of the pub
lie water at actual cost, in view of the
great convenience and trifing ex-
pense, there are few who would object
to paying profit Of 100 per cent. But
the deeper the municipality dips into
the water business for profit, the more
numerous and vexatious will be the
complications in which it will become
entangled. The whole question is not
so important from the standpoint of
dollars and cents as from the stand
point of fundamental principles.