Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-01-17

Royal Baking Powder Co.-Reminds
YOU Of the absolute purity Of Royal
baking powder See fourth page.
Since the rush at the last Of Decem-
Der. tax collections have been slow
rather than otherwise.
If the county campaign should take
place at this time of the year. the road
question would fare rather more exten-
sively than it does.
There is still a good deal Of dog
tall cotton to be picked; but the own
ers Of it do not seem to care much
whether they pick it or not.
It is rumored in New York that Sully
Is behind the market again. 1t Is pref
ty we'll understood down south that the
Farmers Union has been behind it all
the while.
There is still some cotton coming in;
but there Is no rush about it. Some of
the farmers say that most Of the cotton
has already gone out of their respective
neighborhoods.
Suppose somebody should succeed in
arresting a gang Of suspected safe
crackers as was done over in Lancaster
the other day. We are Of opinion that
unless an armed guard were kept over
them, they would leave whenever they
got ready. The York county jail cam
not be relied upon to hold prisoners Of
this kind.
Because of the steadily advancing
price Of wood pulp, the publishers Of
The Enquirer have deemed 1t a wise
business move to lay in stock Of pa
per sufficient for a years supply and
have accordingly made a contract for
an entire carload to be delivered as
soon as it can be brought from the
mills. This paper is to be Of the same
high grade we are now using, the best
that is being used by any southern
newspaper, and there Is to be enough
of it to print 264,00O copies Of The En-
quirer
Referring to this merger litigation
now in progress between the state OF
South Carolina and the Southern rail-
road, suppose the state wins, how are
the people to be benefited? OF course,
the property involved is to be operated
by one or the other Of the big systems.
That It should be operated as inde-
pendent lines is out of the question.
But where would it be better for the
Seaboard to have 1t rather than the
Southern. or the Atlantic Coast Line
rather than the Seaboard. AS we see
it, that Is about all there is to the mat
ter, and we do not understand where
the people most interested, those VINO
support the property, are coming In tor
any better than they are getting, no
matter which Of the big systems should
carry off the bone.
The members of the South Carolina
general assembly and probably the gov
ernor and the other state officers are
to be at Rock Hill tomorrow. The gen.
eral assembly is to come on the invita-
tion of President Johnson Of Winthrop
who has chartered a special train for
the occasion. Lees birthday, a legal
holiday in this state, occurs on Sunday
and the general assembly decided to
observe Saturday instead. DR.. j. Il.
Save introduced a resolution providing
for the acceptance of President john
sons invitation, and it was adopted
unanimously The object of extending
the invitation and the object of its ac-
ceptance is that the members OF the
general assembly might see for them
selves the situation at Winthrop and
the needs of that splendid institution
To harbor fears that Winthrop Is not
to be properly provided for would be to
assume that the members of the gen
eral assembly have very poor idea OF
what would best promote the welfare of
the state.
The entire first edition of the "All
Through the Year Cook Book pub
lished by the ladies Of the First Pres
bvterian church Of Yorkville has been
exhausted, and the demand continues
strong. There were seven hundred
copies of the edition, and the books
were sold at GO cents each. There
was some advertising also, not scat
tered through the volume, but in the
back and that brought some income.
Altogether the ladies made profit
of something like $500 on the venture;
but that has not been the all impor-
tant consideration. The book has prov
ed to be compilation Of real value,
and during the past year or more, it
has been selling strictly on its merits,
without advertising, canvassing or
other effort on the part of the ladies
who had the matter in hand. Most
people who now have copies are no. d.
ing them at much higher valua-
ton than the original purchase price,
and the ladies have given more or
less consideration to the idea Of put
ting out a new and revised edition.
AS to whether they will do so, cannot
at this time be definitely stated; but
whether they do or not, people who
have copies of the original edition
will do we'll to hold on to them. Their
value can never be any less than 1t Is
now: but the time will come when it
will be held in as high esteem as
souvenir as for it's practical value.
ABOUT PEOPLE.
Mrs. John G. Barnwell is visiting rel
atives and friends at Boykin.