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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-11
THE GENERAL ELECTION.

Because there was no opposition,
there was very little interest in the
general election in this county last
Tuesday. and The Enquirer did not
deem it worth while to go to the trou-
BILE and expense of collecting a detail
ed statement as to the result of the
voting.
The total vote in the state election
at the Yorkville box was only sc, and
in the Federal election only So. One
polling precinct was in the front end of
the court house and the other in the
rear end, and probably because they
had forgotten that there were two
boxes, as many as seventeen of the
people who voted in the state election
failed to walk one hundred feet and
vote in the Federal election.
AS to the eight proposed constitu-
tional amendments there was a great
deal of ignorance. The ignorance was
due to the fact that the people had
simply not taken the trouble to inform
themselves. In most cases they did not
care. The only proposed amendment
that attracted even ordinary concern
was that providing for an increase of
the number of supreme court judges
from four to five. To make this
amendment effective several amend
ments are necessary, and most
of the people who voted on the subject
at all voted only on the main question.
Fifteen people were in favor of an
other Judge and 33 were opposed.
With reference to the other amend
ments, most of the votes were no. Vo-
ters frankly stated that they knew
nothing about the matter and in that
case they could think of nothing bet
ter than to vote no" The wording
on some of the tickets was so nearly
identical that even the managers had
difficulty in deciding where they should
be credited.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-11
ABOUT PEOPLE.

Mr.. Ed Hall of Davidson college, is
spending several days in Yorkville this
week.
Miss Marcella Willis of Rock Hill, is
spending this week with Mrs. M. c.
Willis in Yorkville.
Mr.. G.. H. OLeary of Yorkville, is up
and about again, after having passed
through an attack of pneumonia.
Mrs. H. H. Crosland and children
returned to their home in Benefits
vile yesterday, after spending nearly
a month with relatives i'm Yorkville.
Rev. ]. l.. Oates and Elder ]. NJ
Stroup are representing the Yorkville
a. r. p. church at the Associate Re-
formed synod in session in Charlotte.
Mr.. ]. E. Castles and family OF
Smyrna, have moved to Spartanburg
and Mr.. ]. J. ScOggins and family
also Of Smyrna, are to move to Due
West
Mrs. Minerva Mary Humbert who
was once stationed in Yorkville with
her husband, Rev. J. w. Humbert OF
the South Carolina conference. died in
Ncwherry last Tuesday.
Mrs. w. B. McCaw and children
Misses Agalice and Belle and Master
Henry, who have been spending some
time i'm Yorkville, left last night for
their homo in New orleans.
Miss Mary Anderson of Winston
Salem. y. c., daughter of the late
Rev. ]. Monroe Anderson, formerly OF
Yorkville. is visiting in YOrkville, the
guest of her niece, Mrs. f.. f.. Gillespie
Among the York county ladies who
are teaching i'm other counties are:
Miss Eunice PlaXcO, No 6. Anderson;
Miss Bessie Jackson, Dillon. Marion
county: Miss Fannie Allen, Bolton. An
dcrsnn county: Miss Matte Ratteree
Islandton, Colleton county: Miss Ma
mie Ferguson, Silver, Clarendon coun-
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-11
ANNUAL PREMIUM CONTEST.

The attention of former clubmakers
and the public generally, is called to
the fact that the announcement of our
annual premium offers appears else
where in this issue today, and we in
vite a careful reading of 1t by every
body.
In brief, the meaning of the an
nouncement is that the yearly sub
scriber-getting campaign is on; that
we want everybody to help US get all
the present subscribers renewed and
paid for and to get as many new ones
as possible, and that we are offering
liberal premiums for this work.
This contest is fair, free and open.
While II is with much pleasure and
pride that we are reminded of the fact
that the list Of clubmakers includes a
number who have been making clubs
for a generation, still, we are able to
give assurance that this need not in
terfere with beginners 1t is a fact
each year for years past, beginners
have carried off some of the best pre-
miums and last year eight of the Six
teen sewing machines that we gave to
clubmakers went to people who had
had no previous experience in the work
of soliciting subscriptions.
That it has required no very large
number Of names to carry off the pre-
miums except the one offered for the
largest number Of subscribers, IS
shown by a review of the awards last
year.
The largest club last year was that
of Mr.. A. w. Mcfarland of York town
ship and consisted of 259 names. The
second largest club was that of Mr.. jeff
d. Whiteside Of Broad River town
ship, who was awarded handsome
parlor organ for 80 names. He was
followed by Mr.. J. F. A. Smith with
81 names. g..
In Bethel township one machine
went for As names and another for SO
names.
In Broad River township, a machine
was awarded for sc names.
In Bullock's Creek township one ma
chine went for 4S names and the 9TH
er IS names.
In Bethesda, one machine went for
46 names and another for 81 names.
In Catawba township, one machine
went for 33a names, and the other for
81 names.
In Ebenezer township one machine
went for 393 names, and the other tor
80 names.
In Fort Mill township, one machine
went for 40 names, and the other Tor
16 names.
In Kings Mountain township, one
machine went for 64a names and the
other for 81 names.
The matter Of getting up the largest
club merely involves persistent work.
One only needs to commence and keep
at it. There is no need to be discour-
aged because a large number of people
may say, when solicited, that they nave
already given their names to some
body else. The thing is to go after
new ones. There is a large number
of people who do not take any news
paper, and among them are many who
will subscribe when they are shown
the advantage of having a paper like
The Enquirer come to their homes
twice each week
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-11

formerly went from three or four miles
Of Yorkville to Gastonia, Chester and
Rock Hill. for their dry goods, now
people living on the outskirts of those
towns are coming to Yorkville, getting
what they want and coming back
again.
1t has been only half a dozen years
or such a matter, since The Enquirer
would have been very reluctant to try
to say anything especially favorable OF
Yorkville as a dry goods market, for
anything good it might have said
would have surely been discredited
The merchants did not have the stuff
and were unable to make good. Now
it is different. Yorkville merchants are
up to the minute, in dry goods, hard
ware, groceries, supplies, drugs, bug
, gies and wagons, and ask no odds OF
anybody either as to quality or guam
| tity
And why the change? Largely be-
cause of intelligent energy on the part
of a few live men. 1t is not worth
while to individualize. 1t is better to
leave each one to take all the glory to
which he considers himself entitled
But it is a fact that the biggest part
of the work has been done by few
However. the field has hardly been
scratched. 1t is difficult to point out
another town in the state that has a
trading territory equal to that Of York
vile. either as to extent or as to
wealth and intelligence of the people
within easy reach. 1t Is one of the
prettiest fields for business OF every
kind that Is to be found anywhere and
there is really no limit to the develop
ment that IAN be brought about with
the right kind Of effort.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-11

The open season for game, COM
mences next Tuesday.
There are six pages of The Enqui-
rer today. Be sure that you get all
of the paper.
The commissioners of election will
meet in Yorkville next Tuesday for
the purpose of canvassing the returns.
The YorkvilIe Enquirer has a big
list of subscribers; but 1t would be
worth more to the country If it had
more.
There is quite gratifying demand
for agricultural implements, such as
stalk cutters, harrows, chilled plows,
etc, this year. The sale of these i'm
plements promises to be larger than
usual.
New subscribers to The Enquirer
on clubs get the paper from the date of
the entry of their names to January
l, 1912, for the price Of one years sub
scription. That means that subscrib-
ers who subscribe this week get the
paper six weeks for nothing. :.
Subscribers to The Enquirer who
desire their addresses changed for any
reason, should notify their postmaster
or rural carrier. The postmasters are
provided with, or should be provided
with cards, by which they can notify
the publisher without charge to the
subscriber.
Referring to the double entry ques-
ton, Mr. A. L. Black, road supervisor
for York township, a day or two ago,
showed Th2 Enquirer his list of people
who are liable to road duty, and point
ed out on the list four people of the
same name-all John Thomasson. The
remarkable point about it is that the
list is really correct, and all four Of
the John Thomassons are performing
road duty, either by work or paying
the capitation tax.
No reader of serial stories should
miss the opening chapters of the For
tune Hunter" the publication of which
is commenced today. The theme is
life in a small town. The particular
small town is located in Pennsylva-
mia; but discriminating readers in 9TH
er small towns will be able to see also
a picture of things with which they
are also familiar. The characters are
nicely drawn, and most readers will
be able to find somebody they know to
fit nearly all of them. The moral Of
the story is very good and the narra-
tive will mold interest from beginning
to end. Everybody should read the
Fortune Hunter" 1t is worth while.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-11

This is a reasonably careful estimate
of the total annual business of the
town of Yorkville, as made up with the
assistance of several business men who
are best acquainted with the affairs OF
the town.
A similar estimate of the towns
business made ten years ago, and based
largely on detailed statements by pro-
prietors and managers who had exact
information, showed an aggregate OF
slightly less than 100000. According
TO this, during the ten years, there has
ben an increase of s2,325,000 in the
annual business of the town.
There is no pretense that these fig
ures are absolutely accurate; but we
do assert that they are approximately
accurate, and that if the figures OF ten
years ago were slightly under the ac-
| tual facts, the same can be said or the
| figures given as representing the BUS
mess of the town today.
The increase in the towns business
during the first five years Of the period
mentioned did not amount to great
deal. There was increase, but there
was nothing startling about it; but the
| increase of the past five years has been
something tremendous and but few
people have a very comprehensive ap-
probation of it's full significance.
Included in the estimate OF manu-
factures is the business of the four
cotton mills. The figures represent
merely an estimate, and the estimate
| is believed to be rather under than
over the actual amount. The gross
business of the cotton mills, however,
adds very materially to the grand to-
tai
| The most marked and significant
business development is noticeable IN
manufacturing, merchandising ana
banking. The manufacturing business
| is virtually a growth of the last fif-
teen wears, the annual business before
that amounted to less than $5O,OO0:
Since then the cotton mill, cotton OIL
and other smaller enterprises nave
reached proportions that are probably
| in excess of the figures given. The
banking business is considerably more
| than three times greater than 1t was
seven years ago, and the mercantile
business is four times greater at least.
| The business of Yorkville was prob
ably at it's lowest ebb when the Gan
son Dry Goods company was establish
| ed here. The situation then was down
to real hard pam The Ganson Dry
Goods company was able to bring back
q little of the towns natural trade that
had drifted off to Gastonia, Rock Hill,
Chester and other points. j. NJ. Heath
& Co. afterward the Y. B. & M. Co,
helped to start the tide this way again.
and with the subsequent assistance of
IL. @. Wray, the Thomson Co., j. l..
Williams & Co., and the Kirkpatrick
Rplk company, in the dry goods line,
| and various concerns in supplies,
groceries, etc, the situation has been
completely changed. 1t is a matter of
common knowledge that where people
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-11
seeing the change for many years to
Democratic Victory.

OF course, it is always pleasing to
Democrats will be gratified that the
party is to have a majority in the next
house of representatives.; but at the
same time, in view of the circumstance
il is well not to be too enthusiastic
over the prospects.
The Republicans have lost the house
simply because they failed to measure
up to the very reasonable expectations
of the people of the country, and they
failed to measure up to the very rea-
sonable expectations of the people of
the country, because too much power
had made them so proud and arrogant
that they had begun to feel that they
could with impunity, openly and fla
grantly disregard even the fundamen-
tai principles of popular government.
That control of one branch of the
government is better than the control
of none, there is no question. For
quite a long time, the Democrats have
had no say at all in the affairs OF the
government. They could say but that
is all they could do. They had neither
authority nor responsibility; but now
that they have control of one branch
of the government, they have both au-
thority and responsibility.
Heretofore the Republicans have had
both authority and responsibility, and
whether they did do or did not do, they
had to answer to the people. They had
a lot to answer for and that is why the
people turned them down. But during
the two years following the 4th of next
March, the Democrats will have their
work cut out for them. and upon their
conduct will determine the question as
to whether the people of the country
will be willing to restore them to
power.
The whole game for the next two
years is comprehended in the idea of
each side trying to get credit for all
the good things that may be done and
putting the onus Of the questionable
things on the other side, and which
ever side succeeds best will carry the
country in 1912.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-11
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER II, 1910.

committee or the people Of Marlboro
county to give out any statement tnat
was not absolutely accurate, as all OF
them We're anxious that the facts be
known. The mistake occurred in the
method of measuring the corn. We
do not accept any measurements In
regard to the greatest yield in the
state except the absolute weight of the
corn. I think, however, that this pro-
ductiOn is the most remarkable in the
history of the states corn production.
1t is certainly more remarkable than
the Drake yield, if the report as to
how the Drake yield was made Is true;
for, in cost of production, it is by far
the least for the large yields pro-
duced, and the methods are such that
any man could follow and expect the
most profitable results. There were
several boys from this neighborhood
in the contest. This boy IS an orphan
boy. his father having dieI when he
was small. He has two brothers about
his age and size. He did not use but
2,4O0 pounds of commercial fertilizer
and two loads Of stable manure. The
spirit of this boy in regard to accurate
measurement was the best | have
ever SEEN"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-11
"GENERAL BoYD'S EVIDENCE"
Columbia State Makes Interesting

The contribution made yesterday by
Adiutant General Boyd to the history
Of irregularities in the military de-
partment is interesting but not sur
prising.
| According to the adjutant general
Colonel Brock and Lieutenant Colone
Lindsay attended the Camp Perry
shoot without his authority and nc
order was issued for such service un-
til after the encampment, when Colo
mel Brock wrote out and signed the
order himself.
General Boyd says that Colone
Brock was recorded as 'spotter" and
Colonel Lindsay as coach" 1t Is es-
sential for good work by rifle team
that the coach be a scientific rifle
man. a master of the intricacies OF
the art; the superior should be an ex-
perienced rifleman, alert and observ-
ant. Instead of having the assist
ance of such men, the Palmetto team
might as we'll have had wooden In
dams holding the jobs.
General Boyd admits having or
dered General Boyd to attend the
Camp Perry shoot, and having gone
there "after the mOney"-$16.67 a
day. We rise to inquire Of the au-
thorities that be what fund was drawn
upon for the generals pay and ex-
penses TO Camp Perry? He was not
| a member of the rifle team, those 19
berths having been filled. and, accord
ing to a published ruling of the wal
department (No. 90. June g.. 1905),
expenses of officers not members of a
rifle team attending these shoots can
not be betrayed from funds advanced
to a state for payment of expenses for
actual field and camp service for in
struction.
General Boyd says other encamp-
ments were attended by Colonels
Brock and Lindsay on orders issued
subsequently by Colonel Brock. He
might have added that there were also
as many separate encampments and
rifle shoots as observation-disclosures In
Wednesdays State.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-11

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

DR.. C. c. Leech, Hickory Grove-Will
pay reward for return of black,
white and tan hound.
Pollock & Smith, Hickory Grove-Are
ready to gin your cotton, solicit your
patronage and guarantee first-class
service.
#. E. McMackin, Supt. Ed.-Gives no
tice of postponement of date OF
meeting of public school trustees to
December 8, in Yorkville.
DR.. ]. l. Barron-Offers reward Tor
loss of an overcoat between York
vile and TirZah.
Williamson Bros, and r. NJ. Bratton,
Guthriesville-After November IA,
will gin cotton only three days a
week.
Jos. w. Smith, Yorkville No. HAS a
25-year-old filly and a Tennessee
mare for sale.
Enquirer Office-Has old newspapers
for sale.
M. S. Carroll, Filbert-Will sell barred
Plymouth Rock cockerels or eX-
change for pullets.
w. y. Hanna, Smyrna-Lost $40 in
Yorkville on Monday and will ap-
preciate it's return.
A. D. Dorsett-Will have 5000 cab
bage plants the first of next week.
Last order Of season.
Old George, the Butcher-Wants hogs.
He also tells about his meat market,
creamery butter, etc.
Loan and Savings Bank-On page
three, tells you about a good feel
ing that will be yours when you open
savings account with 1t.
D. E. Boney, Manager-1s ready to
write insurance on your life, and
protect YOU against loss by fire and
death of live stock.
First National Bank, Yorkville-Says
there are great fortunes scattered
over the country. You will have to
get yours by saving and it offers its
help.
Carroll Furniture.-With big stock
of furnishings in it's store, asks you
to come and see its lines before
buying.
with it. See page six.
J. l.. Williams & Co.-Offer a variety
of special values, including mating,
rugs, mems shoes, blankets, out
Yorkville Hardware Co.-Wants to
supply machinery owners with
leather and canvas betting, lacings,
hooks. dressing, piping, fittings, etc.
]. @. Wray-Tells you about the good
values he is offering in mems and
DOyS mats, clOlliin6, IuupSi ohocS,
etc.
National Union Bank, Rock Hill
Suggests that you get ready for your
opportunity by saving part Of your
earnings and opening an account
ings, canton hannels, etc.
Thomson Co.-Emphasizes the point
that you get goods Of quality when
you buy merchandise Of 1t. A word
about blankets, comforts, bed
spreads. etc.
First National Bank, Sharon-1nsists
that you be sure in selecting bank
to select one that will be perfectly
satisfactory. 1t will satisfy you.
Herndon G. Gordon-Recite their ex-
perince while trying to do business
on promises to pay"
Kirkpatrick -Belk Co.-lnvites you to
trade with it and bank the difference.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-11
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

j. C. Deaton, white man, got out
of the Saluda Jail a few days ago; but
afterward returned and explained that
he had merely gone to get bond, in
which he was successful. His bonds
man signed for 5000 and he was re-
leased
- Several days ago it was reported
that a boy in Marlboro county had
produced 25S bushels of corn on an acre
this year and that Prof. Ira Williams
had gone to investigate the matter.
Prof. Williams has completed the in
vestigation and finding that mistake
has been made, has given out the fol-
lowing statement: After carefully
investigating and having the corn
measured of the reported 25S bushels
per acre. I find that the worlds
record has not been broken, that the
boy will be second so far as the re-
ports now stand in the yield from the
boys corn clubs in the state. l Will
say. however. that there was no In
tention on the part of the boy or the
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-11
THE REAL ELECTION.

Why, what are they voting on to-
day. | thought they had the election
last summer" was a question asked
last Tuesday.
That was on! the primary where
the candidates were nominated" came
the explanation from a man who knew
But everybody was voting then, and
nobody is taking any interest today
observed the first speaker. why is
today's election necessary"
We'll it is like this. There was cast
in the primary last summer about $500
votes. Today the total vote is not
likely to amount to more than 1,500, If
that. If some other man, other than
a candidate nominated last summer
should get 751 of these votes he would
he elected +"