Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-04-15
WITHIN THE TOWN

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yesterday morning about daylight.
The old Palmer house, on East Lib
erty street, next to Mr.. Geo. w. s..
Hart's residence, and one Of Yorkville's
old land marks, is being torn down.
The Yorkville track team will not
challenge the winners at the Rock Hill
meet for the reason that all the records
made at the Rock Hill meet were far
below the records already made by the
Yorkville team.
- The First Presbyterian church of
Yorkville, has let a contract to ]. J..
Keller & Co., for the erection Of a
manse on the lot recently purchased
from Mr.. w. O. Rawls, next to the
church property. The building will cost
approximately $4,000.
The ladies of the Methodist church
served bountiful dinner to the pub
lie in the old Rose hotel yesterday, and
quite a number Of people attendant
upon court, as well as the towns-peo-
get an unusually good meal. A sub
stantial sum was realized to help swell
the fund that Is being raised to repair
the Methodist parsonage.
ON account Of the heavy rain Of
Friday, the York County Fair in the
opera house did not come to a close
Friday evening, but the second and last
exhibition was postponed until Satur-
day night. Although the weather was
unfavorable, a fairly good-sized audi
ence was present and the opinion Of
people who saw both shows, was that
the exhibition of Saturday night was
even more . creditable than that Of
Thursday night. The Tirzah brass
band was again on hand and furnished
excellent music, which did much to-
ward making the show a success. The
U. D. C.'s were well pleased with the
cash returns from the fair and quite a
neat sum was realized, Miss Catherine
M. Paul, the director of the fair, left
yesterday for Chester, where she will
organize a fair similar to that held in
Yorkville.
Mr.. Leonard Castles Of Filbert, was
badly cut and bruised as the result of
a runaway accident in Yorkville, Sat-
urday afternoon. Mr.. Castles was driv-
ing out of the lot in the rear Of the
Thomson company's store, when his
horse became frightened and ran out
across the cement sidewalk. Mr.. Cas-
ties was thrown out Of his buggy In
front of 1. w. Johnson's store, his head
coming in contact with the buggy
ed an ugly cash across the top Of his
head. His hands and arms were also
painfully bruised. The horse ran up
the street and was stopped in front of
the store of the Yorkville Banking and
Mercantile company and was uninjur-
ed. Mr.. Castles received prompt and eff
ficient surgical attention and within
short time after the accident he was
able to drive home.
The law requires, or tries to require,
the town council to publish an itemized
statement of receipts and expenditures
in order that tax payers may be able to
see the uses to which their money Is
being applied, who Is getting the same
and what for. The members Of the
town council are under oath to obey
the law. The Enquirer has more than
once heard the intimation that The En-
quirer is interested in this matter only
because of the amount 1t expects to re-
ceive as advertising. No one has had
the courage to make such charge in
print over his signature, and Of course
there Is nothing for The Enquirer to
say but that the intimation Is con-
temptible. But even If this intimation
is true, what has that to do with the
law in the matter or the oath or the
members of the town council to obey
the law? The Enquirer desires to say
that 1t is not interested in the publica-
ton of these reports from any other
standpoint than to see the law obeyed.
1t would like to see the law obeyed
because 1t believes in government by
law. The Enquirer does not charge or
intimate that any Of the towns money
lis being Improperly expended. The En-
quirer does not charge that any indi-
vidual who is getting the towns money
Is not giving value received. But The
Enquirer does insist, however proper
may be the uses to which the revenues
Of the community are being put, there
Is no higher or clearer right Of an in
iiVidual than to have specific informa-
ton as to just how the money he pays
as taxes is being used.