Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-07-02
WITHIN THE TOWN.
ming next Monday?

be a great occasion.
- The greasy pig race promises to
be interesting and laughable.
AS the time for the Fourth Cele-
bration draws nearer, interest grows
keener.
| The Loan and Savings bank and
the First National bank Of Yorkville,
paid their regular semi-annual diVi-
dends of per cent last Wednesday.
| The election on the question OF
levying a tax Of three mills on the dol
lar for the support Of the schools OF
Tuesday, resulted in favor Of the levy
As to 5.
Mr.. j. Q. Wray, chairman Of the
central committee in charge Of the
| Woodmen celebration next Monday,
said yesterday that twenty-seven local
business concerns had signifed their
intention to have floats in the parade.
The Yorkville Graded school dis
trict is now just 500 better off than
at this time last year. The financial
end Of the business Is under the i'm
mediate management Of Superintend-
ent Witherspoon and he Is managing
1t we'll.
Mr.. A. Cody has kindly corrected
the statement in the last issue Of The
Enquirer with reference to the erec-
ton Of the county jail. The building
was erected in 1854 instead Of 1852 as
stated and the contractor was Thomas
H. Smith, father of James E. Smith.
The baseball meeting called to be
held in the court house last Tuesday
was attended by number OF YORK
men and boys interested in the mat
ter, and after discussing the situation
1t was decided to put 1t in charge OF
| Prof. j. H. Witherspoon to see what
can be done in getting together a
| good team. Prof. Witherspoon has
taken up the subject with character
istic energy, and has some eighteen or
twenty boys playing on probation
with a view to selecting the best ma
| terial he can for first class team.
Prof Witherspoon's friends and the
baseball cranks generally, have un-
limited confidence in his ability to get
| together a first class team, IL the ma
terial shall prove available, and when
he says he has a nine that can play
ball, or rather learn to play ball, 1t is
expected that the business people and
| others interested will come down more
or less literally with the wherewith
| necessary to make go OF anything
| in the shape of public entertainment
| that is worth having-cash. Reason
able amount of cash, good ball; no
cash, no ball.
The dog ordinance has been the
| talk of the town since its publication
last Tuesday. There had been but lit
tie agitation of the subject In advance
and the publication Of the ordinance
was the first intimation that most
people had that 1t was under consid-
Grafton. The dog question Is one that
is always loaded. The general assem-
bly, has generally found 1t so and the
experience Of town councils has been
the same. Years ago the town council
passed an ordinance providing that all
dogs allowed to run at large on the
streets should be shot. A number OF
common dogs were shot and after a
while a dog belonging to prominent
citizen was shot down before the citl-
zen's eyes. The citizen made row,
his friends Joined In. 1t was shown
that the ordinance was without war
rant of constitutional authority and
the ordinance was allowed to go on un-
enforced. After this incident dog leg
islation was avoided until few years
ago when the collar and tax paid
scheme was introduced. Quite num-
ber Of people paid the tax, others
dbdged 1t, and the result was more or
less dissatisfaction, though 1t is hard
ly to be denied that there was ma
ter'al decrease in the dog population.
Half in earnest, half in jest, a few
years ago Mr. w. E. Ferguson became
form pledglng the repeal of the dog
tax, and while there was no question
of the fact that he would have been
elected anyway, his platform created
considerable local interest and the dog
ordinance was repealed. Since then
there has been nothing new in this
line until the publication of the pres
ent ordinance. AS Is well understood,
Just as the dog has many bitter enc
mics, he has other warm friends. AS
it happens, there Is nothing to the
present law except the 81 tax. The dog
on which the tax is paid has the same
privileges that 1t has had heretofore,
no more and no less. But from the
heat that has been engendered on the
subject, one would almost be tempted
to suspect that some vital principle Is
involved. About the nearest sugges-
ton to a principle that has been stated
Is that the town council has no more
right to tax my dog in my own yard
than 1t has to tax my horse or my
cow" Those learned in the law admit
the soundness Of this position. but they
answer 1t with the assertion, 'ye5, but
they also have a right to tax your
horse and your cow, If they want to,
and II your real objection Is because
your COW and horse are not taxed, you
may be accommodated in the taxation
Of these animals also" There are 9TH
ers who argue that there is no need to
tax the dogs; that law requiring that
all dogs be muzzled would be suffi-
cient. That looks reasonable enough
at first blush; but 1t Is understood
that the council canvassed this very
idea quite fully and finally abandoned
it on the grounds that the muzzle idea
Is cruel to begin with and that the
people would make more fuss about
having to take the muzzles off and put
them on to let their dogs eat and drink
than they would about paying the tax
How it is going to work remains to be
seen. 1t Is commonly admitted that
there are more worthless and destruc-
tive dogs in the town than there ought
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