Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-10-31

Improve the roads and dredge the
creeks.
It is a good fall in which to SOW
large quantities of small grain.
Mr.. J. e. johnson a few days age
found a British copper coin that was
minted in 1886, and which is stamped
with the head Of George II.
The Southern Power company is
having filed in all the counties In
which it operates, a $10,000,000 mort
gage to the Farmers Loan and Trust
company of New York.
There is no estimating the benefit
that would accrue to Fishing creek
bottoms by a thorough dredging from
the c. & NV. railroad crossing
down to the McElwee old mill site.
Sheriff Brown cut up an old still
near the Galloway old mill in Kings
Mountain township the other day that
is a curiosity. The thing had been
patched until it could be patched nc
more. There was no evidence that the
still has been in use recently.
The tax rate in Cherokee county Is
$1825 on the thousand dollars, and In
that portion of York county which II
is proposed to cut off, the tax rate is
only SIG. BY the time Cherokee's
floating Indebtedness of 100000 OF
more is provided for, the tax rate over
on that side will be considerably in
creased.
Messrs. w. S. WiIkerson, ]. Bulce
and J. J. ]. Robinson of Broad River
township, were In Yorkville last Sat
urday to look after the matter Of ex-
changing books of the children Of the
Wilkerson school in order to comply
with the new law. They brought down
something over a hundred pounds OF
books. Investigation developed the
before December Is, 1912, and accord
ingly they decided to take the old
books back home and save the patrons
of the school the expense Of making
new purchases at least until that e&-
pense become absolutely necessary.
The new comet that has made its
appearance in the eastern heavens
and been watched by many York coun-
ty people during the past week, was
discovered by c. c. Keiss of the Lick
observatory on the morning Of July
9Th last. The discovery was made
possible by small streak Of light or
the very edge of a plate on which 9
photograph of the heavens had just
been made. Suspecting that a comet
was responsible for the phenomenon
the heavens was swept the following
morning with large glass, wher
the comet was plainly visible
1t has since been observed and
studied more generally. 1t car
easily be seen any morning with 8
good opera glass. say the scientists
The comet has been given the name OF
it's discoverer. The new terrestrial Wis
itor is the subject Of a great deal OF
study on the part of astronomers ir
every part of the United States, and
local amateur sky gaZers are also very
much interested. The comet is de-
scribed as being very small, apparent
ly hurtling through space at q great
distance from the earth, and not un-
like Halleys comet, through the tail OF
which the earth passed about one year
ago. The comet is in the constella-
tion of Auriza, and Is moving towards
the southwest almost in a direct line
for the Pleiades. 1t appears quite
bright under q small telescope ir
the early morning. The comet has 8
firm and sharp nucleus and a faint
tail. The streamer is nearly four de-
grees in length. The visitor is of the
first magnitude A Photographic spec
trum of the comet closely resembles
Halley's comet both before and after
perihelion. Unless the comet changes
there Is no danger Of its coming ir
close proximity to the earth. Being
a new comet, its orbit has not beer
determined by astronomers. 1t Is sc
small that it can hardly be distin-
guished in the heavens unless the
searcher knows precisely for what he
is looking, although it Is quite plair
after it is once found.