Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-12-06
LOCAL LACONICS.
New Drug Store For Rock Hill.

Rock Hill Record, December 5: DR..
J. III. Powe. who for some time has
been with the Phillips Drug company,
has resigned his position and formed
a partnership with DR.. ]. B. Bowen,
of Yorkville. These gentlemen will
on January 2, opened up a new drug
store here in the room formerly oc-
cupied by the Bank Of Rock Hill.
DR.. Powe's friends wish him abundant
success in his new venture. in which
The Record cordially joins
A 625 Pound Hog.
Mention was made recently in the
Glover correspondence Of The Enquirer
of hog owned by Mr.. ]. A. Clinton
that was attracting a great deal OF at
tention locally. The hog was killed last
week. It weighed 625 pounds gross
and 5S5 net. 1t was a Poland-C China
ard was 17a months old when killed.
When bought on the first Monday In
March last by Mr.. Clinton for $500 1t
weighed 107 pounds. 1t was 278 days
from the date on which he bought 1t
until it was killed, and the amount
paid out for feed was s20.S0.
Sanitation In Rock Hill.
Rock Hill Record: City council
and the board Of health held a meet
ing Friday night, at which the most
important thing done was to adopt
a new ordinance placing the sanitary
tax on the property owner, thus re-
lieving the tenants Of this burden.
And so life, the high cost Of living,
will be Just a bit easier-for the ten
ant. What the landlords will say will
not be fit for publication. But the
board of health put up an argument
which Is not to be disputed. They
argued that the city every year lost
considerable money from the fact that
tenants move so frequently, thus es-
Gaping the sanitary tax, and this new
ordinance Is to remedy this condl-
ton.
New Bank For Fort Mill.
Fort Mill correspondence Columbia
State: At largely attended meeting
Of those who had agreed to become
shareholders Thursday evening, the
Merchants and Farmers bank OF Fort
Mill was organized with capital stock
of s25,O00 and application Is to be made
to the secretary of state at once LOT
a. commission to open the books or
subscription. The officers are to be
elected on the 18th. The assumption
is that Capt. T. B. Spratt will be CASH
ier and DR.. T. S. Kirkpatrick, presi-
dent. A committee was appointed to
accent one of several offers by owners
of Main street lots to erect a building
for the bank. The bank probably will
open it's doors for business not later
than February /. The Merchants and
Farmers will be the second bank for
Fort Mill.
Trains Nos. III and 118.
At last it is settled that trains Nos.
III and 11S that now run between ROCK
Hill and Columbia are hereafter to run
between Yorkville and Columbia. May
or Hart this morning received letter
from Mr.. w. n. Foraker, general su-
perintendent of the Southern system
to that effect. orders have been issued
for the laying of 'Y" in Yorkville on
a right of way donated by the town
and the change of schedule is to go
into effect on December IS. The exact
schedule figures have not yet been an
nounced; but the understanding is that
the southbound train is to leave York.
vile in the early morning at about
$50 and connect at Rock Hill with the
through train for Columbia, Savannah
and Jacksonville, or certainly early
enough to make connection with the
the regular train for Columbia. Re-
turning the train will get into Yorkville
at 8 or 10 o'clock at night. giving peo-
pie from this section the convenience or
being able to spend a day in either
Columbia or Charlotte without having
to be away all night.
Ducks on the Catawba.
There are great many more DUCKS
on the Catawba river nowadays than
there used to be at this season. They
come earlier in the fall on their way
south, remain longer, and get back ear
lier on their way from the south. A
great many remain all winter. But the
ducks are hard to kill. Their feeding
grounds are from one to two or three
miles apart and when fired at In one
place, they take flights that are too long
to be followed, except with much tedi-
BUSINESS. BY stationing themselves at
different feeding grounds the hunters
are able to get fairly good sport IN
keeping the ducks going backward and
forward. The best place for ducks Is
in the several lakes on the Islands; |
but these are hard to go to, because |
of the difficulty of keeping boats In the
islands. This difficulty is due princi-
pally to the rise and fall OF the wa
ter, which sometimes leaves the boats
high and dry on land and at other
times 80 far out in the water that they |
cannot be reached except by SWIM
ming. The favorite feeding ground for
the ducks is in the lakes on Caroth-
ers's Island. There are several of these |
lakes and the ducks frequent all of
them. There is some duck shooting
going on all the while; but no con-
siderable number of ducks are being
killed. !