Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-08-06

Mr.. Roy Carroll, who lives on York.
vile No. Z, lost a valuable mule this
week with lockjaw.
Every citizen of York county who
is interested in better public schools
and longer sessions, should make 1t a
point to attend the educational rally
in the court house on August II.
"Work together and build up,"
should be the motto Of every commu-
nifty in this locality. Any kind OF a
vandal can tear down, but 1t takes
men to build up. Let the various COM
munities Of York county get their
shoulders to the wheel in the common
interest and there is no limit to what
they can accomplish.
The Enquirer wants the news, and
It wants all that is Of interest or
value to any considerable number OF
our peop.'. There is not a paper In
the country that goes after the news
with more energy in proportion to Its
means; but we cannot get all the news
without help from the public. Assist
ance is always acceptable.
The few local Touring mills are busy
enough for the time being; but 1t
would be worth ever so much to the
country If our people would only pro-
duce enough wheat to keep these mills
busy all the year round and warrant
the establishment of additional plants.
We can easily raise all the wheat we
need for home consumption and have
some to ship, If We only will.
Mr.. w. D. Grist, editor Of The En-
quirer, returned Tuesday afternoon
from his hurried, but somewhat ex-
tended trip to New York and New
England, after an absence Of ten days.
During his swing around the circle, he
found time to write several letters, de-
scriptive Of scenes and impressions ny
the way and these will be published In
consecutive issues Of The Enquirer,
until the story Of the trip has been
fully told. .,
At the request of the D. A. r. COM
mittee in charge, Col. Asbury Coward
is to give his assistance in shaping the
coming celebration in connection with
the dedication Of the Kings Mountain
battle monument as it should be.
Col Coward is exactly the man for
the place. He was chairman Of the
executive committee in charge Of the
Centennial celebration Of 1880, and that
was one of the best managed affairs
of the kind that has ever been seen
in the south. But, Of course, Col.
Coward can do very little without as
sistance, and the people Of the county
and state, especially the county, should
his aid.
One of the best things the farmers
of this county can do to promote their
own present and future comfort and
is to move for the more gen.
eral extension of telephone communi-
cation. Every farmer in the county
should have a telephone in his home.
There are very few who can really af-
ford to be without one. AS conditions
now stand, there are many neighbor-
hoods that are completely isolated
homes that have no telephone within
from three to five miles. This should
not be. Ninety per cent OF those who
have no phones want them; but they
are waiting until prices get cheaper.
That will not do. The way to get a
phone is to go after it and put 1t in.
Manager Darlington of the Piedmont
company, says he Is going
to give Yorkville one Of the most COM
plete and thoroughly up to date tele-
phone exchanges to be found in this
Tie work Of improvement
in telephones is constant, and the Pied
mont Telephone company has been
getting lots Of experience as 1t has
been going along. Yorkville is to have
the best there Is, not only in
the matter Of central Office equipment;
Some of you people," Mr.. Darlington
ARE kind enough to say
that the telephone system is good
enough as it is: but If l do not show
you an improvement Of something like
SO or 100 per cent, 1 will acknowledge
that I do not know as much about the
phone business as I think l do"
II the ceremonies in connection with
the dedication of the Kings Mountain
battle monument are as largely at
tended as they promise to be, the oc-
casion will be one long to be remem-
bered, and we desire to warn the good
people of York county now that II they
allow any bad Impressions to creep in,
on account Of bad roads,
they will regret 1t. The road to the
battle-ground, especially from Bethany
and beyond is in fearful condition. 1t
is positively dangerous. There will be
of people probably, who
will want to go to the dedication from
Yorkville, Glover. and Hickory Grove.
Unless the roads are fairly good, they
will come in from the other side, and
what all the northwestern portion Of
York will lose by the failure Of some
of our distinguished visitors to see the
country will be difficult to estimate.
Those roads should be fixed up. We
feel quite sure that the township COM
missioners will help, and II they are
not able to do enough, we think the
end in view Is easily worth the serious
attention of the county board of COM
missioners. The people living along
the various roads to the battle-ground
should not fail to look after this, their
opportunity.
SPECULATIVE MARKET.
Following are the developments in
the speculative market yesterday as
.t,rn1 in, n OF