Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-10-03
Scraps aud Saets.

pelt Manning; D. S. Henderson,
Aiken: Fred N. Deminick, Newberry;
Sam ]. Nichols, Spartanburg; CLAUDE
N. Sapp. Lancaster; d. Gordon BAKER
Florence; w. A. Stuckey, BishopViile'
w. ]. Talbert. Parkersville; J. n.
Vandiver, Anderson.
Proprietors of small stores In AT
lanta are complaining that thelr
trade is being hurt by the fact that
numerous similar small stores, operat-
ed by Greeks, are being run on sun
days the same as weekdays. Many
Of the little Greek stores have sooa
Fountains attached, and with this as
An excuse, IL Is said, the Greeks sen
fruit. vegetables and everything else.
The situation is not quite clear to the
Greeks. who are law-abiding people,
as people go. They can't get tnroush
their heads the simply elemental prop
osition that 1t Is moral act 10 sen
soda water and cigars on sunday ous
an immoral act to sell penanas anu
aranoes The CITY officials who have
the law to enforce, find a great deal
OF difficulty in explaining.
-Tbe department of agriculture on
Tuesday announced that winners ot
the state prizes in the boys corn cup
contests in the southern states wouiu
visit washington and be welcomed Dy
the department December II. II 10
probable that winners OF state prizes
in the girls tomato raising contests
win visit here at the same time: fnere
now are about 10000 boys In the corn
clubs in the southern states ana apSu'
o. Ann girls in the tomato clubs.
PRESENT Indications are that there VIII
he more than 200 boys in the south
er,,- states whose corn crop will aver
a. be more than 100 bushels to the acre
although this was bad year TOT
corn in the south. Twenty-Five push.
els an acre has been the average Oh
the United States for several years.
The deuartment is working out plan
for crop rotation and hog raising. DIV
which, with two acres. 1t Is oeiieVeo,
a bow will be able permanently 10
make enough to keep family OF
FIVE. .-l
In a proclamation issued last
Tuesday by Governor B. w. Hooper,
the announcement Is made that the
tennessee legislature win be convened
ON October 13, in second extra ses-
sion to consider the prohibition law
enforcement bills killed by the filibus-
ter in the house last week. The procla-
mation saws: "'In the fight for the
enforcement Of the laws in this state,
I desire to appeal directly TO tne
great masses Of our citizenship ior
support and cooperation. Tne oe-
yelopments Of the last Few weeks
have demonstrated to my mlnd that
an overwhelming majority OF the peo-
are determined to put an END TO the
open, fragrant and disgraceful nuih-
A. slox IN
state. knowing the existence or TINS
wholesome sentiment, ! call upon the
people for its public expression
throughout the length and oreaoth
Of Tennessee. The question Whlcn
now confronts the people Is, shall the
laws Of the state be enforced In the
city as well as in the country, or snail
the outiawed saloons corruptly doHl-
nate not only the cities, but the legis-
lature and the entire state. l, there
fore. appeal to the people OF every
county in the state to rise above tne
narrow confines of partisan hmlta-
tions. to assemble at the county seats
and elsewhere and to instruct, en-
courage and support both the gov
ernor and the general Assembly IN
the restoration of the majesty Oh the
law" ...a- .. .
"A neatly embossed bank book,
with leaves of gold-tinseled paper,
which bears the name Sarah Rec
tor" is the only outward sign that one
of the occupants Of an humble CABIN
near Beland, a few miles west OF
Muskogee, Indian Territory, is the
richest negro or negress In the Worio.
A ter-year-old freeman g1ri, her
ROYALTIES from her oil lanos amouhs
to twice the salary Of the president Oh
the United States per year. FROM
two wells in the Gushing oil held, one
month old and the other recenty
day. OF this one-eighth, or 475 BAR
reis. goes to Sarah Rector, who owns
the land, and who leased 1t through
her guardian, T. ]. Porter, Stock
man, to the Prairie Oil and Gas COM
pany. The price paid for the lease
on 100 acres Of land was bonus OF
81 per acre. The Prairie recently
sublet to B. B. Jones OF Bristow, ana
Jones Immediately sank a we'll on one
forty-acre tract. The well came In
at 2,s49 barrels a day. and Is holding
up at 1000 barrels. The second We'll
on the opposite side Of the forty, Is
doing 1900 barrels. Sarah's 40 par
rels a day sell for $l.03 barrel, or
slightly over $475 per day. This
amounts to $14,250 per month, or
$4,000 a year. And all this from
two wells. Four other wells have al
ready been started and Ave more To-
cations staked, so that nine more weits
will be in within sixty days. Sarah
contentedly lives with her parents In
the little cabin on her guardians s
place. Her people are tenant farmers
and cotton pickers, though well edu-
Gated for negroes. Every safeguard
is being used to protect Sarah's in
terests, and by the time she Is ola
enough to go to some big coloreo
boarding school for girls she will use
for the first time part of her fabulous
wealth.
The new parcel post regulations,
saws a Washington dispatch, are
working so we'll in New York city
that the mails are practically as heavy
as during the usual Christmas sea-
son. A large number OF parcels are
being mailed for delivery in the hrst
and second zones under the reduced
postage rates. Advertising matter con-
stitutes a large part Of the increased
weight of mails, but the bulk Of 1t
apparently relates to the parcel post
or mail order business Of department
stores and merchants. That the par
eel post will more than pay its own
way is beyond question, according to
officials Of the post Office department.
While Postmaster General Burleson
will not predict a surplus for the fiscal
year, which ended June 80, other Of
ficials Of the department insist that
there is no possible doubt on that
point. They further declare that a
surplus Of approximately $4,000
900 is a certainty, due largely to
the establishment Of the parcel post.
Postmaster General Burleson takes
the conservative position that he
wants to show a surplus that cannot
be explained in any way by any kind
of figuring He told a correspondent
that he had in contemplation two
further changes in the parcel post
system that would make an annual
surplus a certainty. The exact nature
of these changes he would not indi-
cate. The present surplus Is made
up largely of increased postage reve-
nues from the sale Of fourth class
mail matter between January ! and
June 80. For that six-month period
the revenues from fourth class matter
approximated $14,000,000. For the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1912, the
,ooaiptS woro onnrOxim telv S12 600.