Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-04-07
NOTE AND COMM ENT.


In Chester the other day Judge
Purdy fined juryman IS for not being
In his place when his name was called.
II will probably be about ninety
days before the power Of the Catawba
Power company is available In York.
Vile.
The first of the April showers" fell
last Tuesday night, and others have
been falling at frequent intervals
since. ..
Magistrate r. L. A. Smith Of
Broad River township, filed his quar-
terly statement with Treasurer Neely
last Wednesday. and took a receipt
for $3.50 fines collected.
There was a light frost this morn
ing, and although people are more or
less anxious about beans and other
tender vegetables, 1t Is too early yet
to form a definite idea as to whether
or not there has been any damage.
A Bethel township farmer told the
reporter a few days ago, that he has
known Of cases where farmers are ac-
tually putting fertilizers under peas.
People used to sow peas to fertilize
their lands" he said. Now they are
fertilizing the peas to make forage"
Mr.. John z. PIexIeo of Bullock's
Creek township, was In Yorkvilie
yesterday. He told the reporter that
he notices lots Of good cotton land
planted In corn. He Is Of opinion
that there has been a considerable
reduction In the use Of fertilizers:
but says that more people are using
fertilizers under corn than hereto
fore.
Mr.. J. M. Briee advertised last week
that he had taken up stray shoat'
AS matter Of fact ne had had the
shoat for several weeks and had re-
Trained from advertising because he
thought It might belong to one OF his
neighbors who would call for 1t soon
Immediately after the appearance of
the advertisement there came claim
ant for the shoat in the person OF Mr.
Robert Love, who lives several miles
away.
Il has not been definitely decided
yet whether the York Cotton mills VIII
use the electric power Of the Catawba
Power company. The management
has not been able to figure out any
considerable advantage so far as the
main plant is concerned. The matter
of putting cotton manufacturing ma
chinery in the company's big store
building is under serious considera-
ton, however. and II this is done elec-
tricity will be used as the motive
power.
The yarn business has been pretty
dull for some time past, because the
commission men are only buying from
hand to mouth. They insist that
there is tremendous surplus Of cot
ton; that 1t has got to come sooner OF
later at lower price and they In
tend to wait for 1t II they can. In
the meantime the stock Of manufac-
tured goods is steadily growing small
er and smaller. At no time in years
have there been SO few manufactured
goods on the market as now.
"lf the wheat crop turns out all
right this summer and cotton is low
next fall, ii viii be the making Of this
country" said a leading farmer Of the
county to the reporter q few days
ago. "But little wheat was sold last
fall unfortunately. Many people re-
ported that they desired to sow wheat
but for some reason were unable to
get 1t in. 1t is quite probable that the
high price for cotton that was ruling
at that time had something to do with
it. But IL cotton goes down again
and the people go back to raising
their own stuff they will be all right