Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-03-12
CLOVER CULLlNGS.

Telephone Misunderstandins-A Big
Cooking Main-Buildins Notes.
Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
Glover, March 12.-Sometime ago a
contract was signed by the Piedmont
Telephone and Telegraph company and
a number Of citizens living along the
road running east from Bowling Green
as far as Mr.. R. B. Riddles, providing
that the parties of the second part (the
citizens) were to furnish and set up
the necessary poles and the party Of
the first part (the telephone company
was to furnish the wire, put 1t up, fur
nish the necessary instruments, keep
the line in order for a term Of three
years, give connection with all ex-
changes in the county owned or con-
trolled by 1t, and also with Gastonia
and charge $3.50 per month for busi-
ness phones and $1.50 for dwellings,
and also agreed in the contract that
not exceeding twelve instruments were
at any time to be connected with same
wires-the equipment to be metallic
circuit. The parties Of the second part
have carried out their part of the con-
tract to the letter, and erected an ex-
ceptionally substantial lot of poles
each one being cedar and Of a quality
and size calculated to stand for IL or
Is years. When negotiations were first
opened the representative Of the tele-
phone company stated that the con-
tract would be made II as many as
four or five would agree to the terms.
The wires have not yet been strung,
and no instruments installed, but trou-
BILE Is brewing. Messrs. Will Riddle
and stated that now that the poles
were set up and the company finds
that it can get twenty subscribers in
stead Of twelve, Manager Darlington
has advised them that he will place the
former number on the line. These gen.
tlemen, as well as others who furnish
ed and set up the poles, are opposed
to having more than the number orig
inally agreed upon and propose to try
to hold the company down to the writ
ten contract. 1t is not their desire or
purpose to deprive any Of the conven-
fences they expected to enjoy them
selves, but claim that II the telephone
company makes contracts with more
than twelve persons on their line 1t
must string additional wires. The line
Is to connect with the Glover ex-
change.
A big cooking main was pulled OF
at a point about two miles east Of
Clover on last Tuesday between North
and South Carolina birds. Very little
is known about the affair here, but it
is said that there were sixteen fights
and that the North Carolina crowd
claimed to have won thirteen Of them.
Two citizens living in the neighbor-
hood where the fights took place, and
who were very anxious to have them
stopped, but could not for lack Of much
needed law on the subject, visited the
scene in the afternoon and one Of them
advised your correspondent that when
they arrived no fights were in progress
and none took place while they were
there, but a number of dead cocks
were in sight which was conclusive
evidence Of what had been going on.
This character of sport" is prohibited
by law in North Carolina, but 1t would
seem that South Carolina always has
too many members in the legislature
who stand for this kind Of thing, as
such a bill is defeated each time 1t Is
introduced.
Mr.. D. A. Matthews recently bought
the frame store building that stood on
Mrs. c. A. Dorsett's lot on Main street,
has torn 1t down and Is having it re-
built on the lot he bought from Mr.
S. ]. Clinton on the north side of East
Kings Mountain street. Mrs. Dorsett
is having an addition erected in the
rear of her boarding house to be used
as a dining room. Mrs. Edith Jackson
has purchased a desirable lot on New
street and has awarded the contract
for erecting a handsome dwelling on
it to Mr. W. I. Brison. Mr.. Walter B.
Moore has bought lot on New street
and expects to erect dwelling on the
same during the coming summer.
DR.. Marshall Neil has been quite un-
we'll for the past ten days or two weeks,
and at present is unable to attend to
his large and growing practice, and
which Is being looked after by his
partner, DR.. e. w. Pressly. DR.. Neil's
numerous friends are hoping that he
will soon be himself once more.