Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1904-11-25
Friday, November 25, 1904.
v instead of Thanksgiving.

Day instead Of Thanksgiving. 1t
seems as If everybody who ever goes
hunting at any time always gets away
with dog and gun on Thanksgiving.
There were thousands Of guns pop
ping throughout York county yester-
day, and birds and rabbits were kill
ed by the CARLOAD. as,
all that could be desired.
The enrolment of the Wilkerson
school In district No. 9 has become so
large as to require the services Of an
assistant teacher. The trustees have
decided to provide the Dye school In
the same district with patent desks.
Including the Wilkerson school there
are now FIVE country schools In the
county that employ; more than one
teacher. The other four are Gold Hill,
Gains Spring, Leslie and Ogden. r d.
A pIow dealer remarked in the pres
ence Of the reporter few days ago
that IL he had the sale Of all the plow
points that are used on two horse
plows In York county, he would be
content to rest on his income and make
no effort to further increase his bus
iness. The profit on a single plow
point, OF course, Is q small item;' but
in the aggregate the sales OF plow-
points amount to something enor-
nous.
Capitalists of Charlotte have on foot
a scheme to connect their city with
surrounding towns by means Of troll
lev lines, and it Is understood thar
steps have already been taken to Sc
cure g right Of way from Charlotte to
Gastonia- Prominent citizens OF Beth
el are becoming very much interested
in the proposition, and are talking OF
trying to induce the promoters Of the
enterprise to consider the idea Of ex-
tending their lines to Yorkville and
Rock Hill.
The increased use Of two-horse
turn plows and the still more effective
disk piows is becoming more notice
able every day. AS far back as twen-
ty years ago the sale Of two-horse
turn plow was a rare transaction. The
average farmer was actually afraid OF
such an implement. He had an idea
that III his land should be broken up
to a depth OF s or 10 inches 1t would
be three or four years before he would
be able to make another crop. Now
all of the leading farmers are going
after two and three horse plows, and
the demand. for disk plows Is sufficient
to warrant their being brought into
the county by the carload. There are
no longer anv doubters on the subject
Of the iefieacy Of deep plowins and
thorough cultivation. -".
TherS 10 no doubt OF the fact that
there is more malaria along the west
bank OF the Catawba river, since the
ever been before. All Of the old peo-
pie Of the neighborhood testify to this;
but It Is still an interesting question
as to whether the dam Is responsible
for this situation. Doubts have aris-
en- from the fact that there have been
cases Of malaria as far back as eight
or ten miles from the river, and this
seems to prove that 1t would hardly
be fair to charge the malady to that
source The reporter nad talk Oh
the subject a few days ago with an
able ADD experienced physician. This
physician Is fully conversant with the
situation. and he Is inclined to the
opinion that there is no doubt Of the
responsibility Of the dam. 1T Is a
settled fact now" said the physician.
that malaria Is disseminated only
through mosquitoes. The back water
has given rise to more mosquitoes and
more opportunity for the dissemina-
ton ofsmalaria- You must not under
stand that all mosquitoes carry mala-
ria, for such is not the case. All mos
quitoes, however, are capable OF car
rying malaria The germs of the dis 4
ease 60 through a process in the In
sect, and the disease is transmitted to
human subjects by injection. Then by
the same process the work Of trans
mission goes on from one subject to
another. There is no reasonable doubt
in my ymind that the mosquito Is en-
tirely responsible for the dissemina-
ton of malaria, nor is there any more
doubt that typhoid fever owes its orr
gin to infected drinking water. No
man Is liable to have typhoid fever
except; through infected water, and
malaria is, never transmitted except
through mosquito bites" -....