Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-07-28

The best preventive against mos
quito bites is to kill the mosquito be-
fore 1t comes.
Crop prospects, especially as to corn
| and cotton, seem to be of somewhat
compared with what they were few
weeks ago.
| Some people say they saw lots OF
"tricking" among candidates at Filbert
and others say they saw little Of any
thing Of the kind. 3
The Filbert Farmers Union has sent
out invitations to some Of its FRIENDS
to join it in a little sociable next Fri
day evening, at which ice cream Will be
served.
Quite a number of ladies, wives and
sisters Of the members Of the Cotton
Belt Union, have made application for
admission and they are to be Initiated
at a meeting to be held next Thursday
afternoon.
| When people who know how to guard
| against disease fail to take the simpte
and easy precautions that are neces-
sary, about the best that can be said
Of them is that they deserve whatever
may come. Kill the mosquitoes.
The astronomers tell us that an unu-
|
are to be seen during August, from
August / to 16. The shooters will be
most numerous after the 10th. They
will be seen principally in the north
| west.
| The Charlotte Power company, a
corporation recently organized under
the laws Of New Jersey will probably
become of considerable Importance In
this section within the next few
months. The object Of the company 1t
is understood is to furnish light, heat
and gas and operate electric railways
lin and around Charlotte" 1t has
been given out unauthoritatively; but
nevertheless comprehensively, that the
company will build various trolley
| lines out from Charlotte and it is not
improbable that their system will
eventually include Rock Hill, York
vile, Gastonia and other points. The
Southern Power company owns big
block of the companys stock and will
control it. This is to be taken as a
guarantee that the promised develop
ments mean something worth while
for this whole section.
| In a speech in Union the other day,
Mr.. M. V. Richards, the land and in
dustrial agent Of the Southern rail-
way, had something to say of the value
of the real estate agent to the commu-
nifty. Mr.. Richards, of course, referred
to the commercial value of their work;
but he did not say any more than the
subject warranted This section has
been familiar with the real estate
agent only for a comparatively few
| years There had been some more or
| less sporadic work before; but it was
not until Mr. ]. Edgar Poag took hold
a few years ago and afterward Mr.. j.
c.. Wilborn, DR.. W. M. White and 9TH
ers, that people generally have begun
| to appreciate the Importance Of this
| line Most Of those people who have
gotten rich in the accumulation of real
estate and who have been giving at
tention to the matter a number of
years, remember no long time ago when
it was easy to pick up big values at
small cost. They had only to keep
| their eyes open. The average seller
was a man who owned but one or two
properties, and who bought for one
reason or another to sell them, had no
more idea of their value than he would
have of the value a bent nickel wanted
by a European collector, because OF
It's particular mintage. The cue OF
| the buyer Of course, was to buy as
cheap as he could and often he picked
up bargains at only a ridiculous frac-
tion of their value. But the real es-
| tate agents have changed all that. Be-
sides the general conditions Of the
country the value of piece Of real es-
tate is affected by dozens of other con-
sderations, every one of which
the real estate man is as the average
housewife is with the price Of sugar,
and his educational value to the peo-
Pile generally has been almost incalcu-
| liable. To many people, especially to
| fn1lyS Whn 6anpn6 patfine
something for nothing, the real estate
agent is a nuisance; but to the public
generally and especially to those people
who are willing to pay full prices; but
who do not know enough on their own
account to keep from being badly
scOrched the real estate man Is indis-
pensable. And the advertising the real
estate people do is Of great value to the
general public. There never has been
time when the average investor
could buy with more assurance and
safety than now.