Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-08-22

rom SuCn InTOTIndIIOH DIS CdH Dc
gathered, 1t Is very doubtful as to
whether there will be a full weeks
business for the approaching term Of
the court of common pleas. There is
plenty Of business on the calendar;
but II Is thought that the probability
of it's being taken up is very small.
DURING this public weigher contro-
versy the statement has been made
and repeated that Yorkville had an Of
fetal public weigher back in the 70's.
and that the system proved unsatisfac-
tory, etc. We are inclined to think the
statement is incorrect. Several older
citizens of whom we have made in
quiry, say they have no recollection Of
an official weigher in the town, and we
can find no record to substantiate the
assertion that there was one.
Mr.. r. r. Mccorkle, who lives half
way between the Lincoln and Kings
Mountain roads said yesterday: IF
the Bethel people had as good a way
to get to Yorkville as the Kings
Mountain people have, and the Kings
Mountain people had as poor way as
the Bethel people, then 1 would be for
the Kings Mountain road; but since
the proposed North and South road
will not help Kings Mountain town.
ship people a particle and since 1t will
help Bethel people tremendously, CIV
ing them as good a road to Yorkville
as they now have to Rock Hill, why Of
course / will have to give my sympa-
thy to Bethel. The comparative cost
of the two routes do not think should
cut any figure, as the main idea Of the
whole undertaking is to benefit the
most people"
Mr.. s. EImore Boney whose visit to
Yorkville with Mrs. Boney, was men,
toned last Friday, returned home Sat-
urday afternoon. Mr.. Boney, who Is q
former Yorkville boy, has won for
himself quite an enviable position in
South Carolina newspaperdom, and 1t
has been by hard work After secur-
ing the foundation Of a good educa-
ton, he taught school for while and
then commenced kindergarten work on
the Union Times. Shortly afterward
the News and Courier secured his SER
vices as a travelling representative and
from there he went to the Laurens Ad-
vertiser and edited that paper with
much ability until the News and Cou-
rier secured him again about a year
ago and installed him as news editor.
Most of the work he is doing Is imper-
sonal and the readers Of the News and
Courier have no way Of telling to just
for the excellent service he Is giving;
but when he goes out from the Office to
write a special story, newspaper veter-
ans are invariably struck with the
thoroughgoing manner in which he
discharges his task. Besides this, Mr.
Boney Is an unusually agreeable young
gentleman, and makes a fine impress
sion on all with whom he comes in
contact If he does not make headway
in the newspaper world it will be for
reasons other than his fitness and
ability, and what those reasons are do
not occur to us.
Il is a fact that almost every cotton
market Of Importance in the state has
a public cotton weigher. The excep-
tions are where the cotton sellers and
the local business people have not got
ten their eyes open to the full advan-
tage Of a really competitive market. 1t
is quite possible that it may take a
long, hard fight to establish a public
weighing system in Yorkville on a
proper basis; but in our opinion the
fight is we'll worth while, and If the
task is to be undertaken at all, 1t
should be undertaken right. The town
and county should provide the platform
as is done in the case Of many other
markets, and the public weigher should
be chosen in fair and satisfactory
manner. Sometimes weighers are
chosen in joint session Of the county
board of commissioners and town
council, and sometimes by vote Of the
cotton producers within a stated ra-
dius of the market he is to serve,
This is probably the fairest way. 1t
would be better if the whole matter
could be provided for in a carefully
prepared general law; but whether this
be done, or not, The Enquirer sincerely
hopes that Yorkville will be able to
secure the establishment Of public
platform to be presided over by pub
lie weigher. We think this Is fair
way to get at the matter and we think
it is business like. The principal ad-
vantage we expect from the establish
ment of such a system Is the develop
ment of competition, and while increas-
ed competition may be a hardship on
the buyers, it can hardly fail to make
more business. OF course 1t Is not to be
claimed that a public weighing system
would eliminate the possibility Of COM
binations. 1t is fact that there has
been much complaint of combinations
even in towns where there are public
weighers; but a public weighing sys-
tenn would add to the freedom Of the
market, and this of itself would event.
ually prove beneficial. And there
would be no hardship on anybody. At
least no one would be deprived Of any
right now enjoyed that Is inherent.