Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1904-12-16
NOTE AND COMM ENT.

The Christmas turkey Is roostins
on the highest limb this season.
Tho c. & N. w. is the first railroad
company to pay Its taxes to Treasurer
Nicely this year. Agent Bray on We'd
nesday turned over check for $l,'
600.29.
~ wish II was forever instead OF
until January 49," said DR.. ]. Il. Saye
chairman Of the county board OF con-
troll when he learned that the dispen-
sary will have to be closed until a new
dispenser can be elected. And the doc
tor said It with an emphasis that left
no doubt of his sincerity. ..-..,
The Enquirer notes with pleasure
the continued publication Of the
Southern Home, weekly news-maga-
zine by Hugh r. Murchison Of Colum-
bia. We have not been insensible OF
the merit Of this publication; but we
feared It would be unable to exist In
competition with the better supported
high-class publications Of the north.
There is need for just such a journal
as the Southern Home, and we sin
cerely hope it will not fail Of liberal
support. .-
Mr.. w. Thompson jackson recently
completed the burning Of his first lot
Of brick at his brickyard on the
southwestern outskirts Of Yorkville,
and he reports that the demand Is
much better than he expected. He is
now retailing the best quality at $3.50
a thousand and has no idea that his
supply will last until he can get a
new start In the spring. Mossrs ]. J..
Keller & Co., are also gettini rid Of lots
Of lumber and the general Indications
are that the people are doing lots OF
building and repairing.
ayes, know of Mr.. Chaa. M. Glib
son, the Young's Island truckman. and
he Is all right" remarked Mr.. II. Q.
McElwee In the presence Of the re-
porter yesterday. Mr.. Gibson has
large trucking interests and sells lots
of vegetables In Charleston and else
where. He will do what he says, and
the people up this way will make no
mistake in buying their cabbage
plants from him. I think they will
find the arrangement a decided ad-
vantage. The reporter has run across
several people who have bought cab
bage plants from Mr.. Gibson in the
past, and all have been pleased with
the results.
"Ths probability is that the state
Of South Carolina is going to have to
pay that fraudulently issued Blue
Ridge bond script" remarked York.
vile lawyer, in the hearing Of the re-
porter day or two ago. "Lyles has at
last gotten the matter fairly before
the United States supreme court, and
that court is always for the creditor
as against the debtor" Speaking of the
pending case another gentleman said:
this looks like a bona
fide case; but the probability Is that
1t is friendly all round. Mr.. Lyles
has been engineering the scheme for
years, and it Is more than possible
that the present case is a put up Job!
all round"
Capt. w. q. Moore Is congratulating
himself on having done good days.
work for Yorkville recently, for there
n~no -ouestion- -cfstne- mat 70 hfm
more than any other one man belongs
the credit of having secured the $780,
900 spinning mill that is now virtual
ly an assured thing. Capt. Moore has
been working for months to secure tho
Of a knitting mill In
Yorkville, and had the capital all but
raised when he learned that his broth
ar, Mr.. T. P. Moore, was running
around the country with a wad Of