Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-06-25

and he will do the same thing in all
similar cases. Col. Bob is pretty near
ly all right.
Or. j. |. Barron has given to Mr.. R
S. Mcconnell an ancient musket of
British make that Is reported to have
seen service In the battle Of Kings
Mountain. Dr. Barron does not know
a great deal about the history Of the
musket, except that it was picked up
somewhere by his uncle, the late DR..
Robert Latham, and DIR. Lathan's in
formation was that ii was among the
guns captured from Ferguson's troops.
The difference in advertising by
means Of circulars and through The
Enquirer is about this. Something
like one out of six circulars reaches a
reader, and each Enquirer reaches
about six readers. The proportion of
effectiveness Is therefore about l to IL
in favor Of the newspaper, to say
nothing whatever of the prestige OF
the newspaper advertisement, over the
circular advertisement. The circular
Is not only worth less. but 1t costs
more.
People living within two and one
half miles Of the court house will do
well to take notice as to how they will
be affected by the act that places them
within the Yorkville graded school
district. 1t Is only within the past few
days that the act has been brought to
the attention of The Enquirer, and we
would be recreant to our plain duty
should we fail to call attention to the
rather remarkable situation II entails.
II the act holds good, all real and per-
sonal property within two and one-half
miles of Yorkville will be taxed for
the benefit of the. Yorkville graded
school, and this whether the owners of
this property care to avail themselves
of the school facilities here or not
That this is a rather strange piece of
legislation, there seems to be very lit
tie question, and as to whether the
people living within the big belt with
out the corporate limits Of the town
are willing to stand for it remains for
them to decide. If they are entirely
agreeable to the arrangement, no harm
has been done.
Since the appearance of the last is
sue OF The Enquirer, the official
statement Of the quarterly disburse-
ment of the county board Of commits
sioners for the quarter ending March
81, has made its appearance, and The
same is reproduced elsewhere. 1t
seems that the type for this statement
was set up in Charlotte. This we
Judge from the fact that it Is linotype
work. and also from number OF OBJ
vious errors that would hardly have
been made by a York county printer.
Because of the official" nature Of the
publication, however, we have not seen
proper to correct any Of the supposed
errors: but have endeavored to confine
ourselves to a faithful reproduction
throughout, not even taking the liberty
Of comparing the figures with the
original. We desire it understood,
however, that this publication on the
part Of The Enquirer is purely vol
untary: that We are prompted solely
by a desire to give our readers the
news, and that our direct compen-
sation is even less than that Of the
non-tax paying foreign concern that
made such a miserable job Of the type
setting. But we do not want to be
understood as complaining. We are
not. There was no way in which we
could have been compelled to do this
work But really We hope that the
type setting on the next report will be
such as to make it more trustworthy.
The obvious purpose of the act
extending the limits of the Yorkville
school district to two and one-half
miles each way from the court house
was to counteract the effect of pre-
vious act that provided for the trans
fer OF the children from one school
district to another, general or special.
Under the act referred to, people living
without the district and not subject to
lowed to come in and enjoy the benefits
of this district without having to pay
tuition. BY some kind of a compro-
mise, 1t was arranged that pupils
transferred from another district
brought with them their per capita of
the constitutional tax and other free
school moneys and paid the difference
between that amount and the graded
school tuition fees out Of their pockets.
But this arrangement was not alto
gether satisfactory in that it was very
doubtful as to whether it had the full
warrant of law, and the act published
elsewhere was evidently intended as a
remedy. But if this new act accom- |
plishes its object and whether 1t does
or not, seems to be an open question, |
it is attended by other complications. |
In the first place the area the act seeks |
To bring into the Yorkville school dis |
trict is about five times as great
as that originally incorporated. |
This will be shown by a mathematical
calculation. Upon the former district, |
there is a bonded debt Of twelve thou
sand five hundred dollars. This debt |
was incurred by the qualified voters of
the school district. 1t seems rather
hard that this should be saddled upon
the people of the territory to be added
without their consent, but such seems
unauestionably to be the effect of the