Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-10-06
The bridge on the saluda road, be-


tween Rock Hill and Chester, which
the county is building, will be 332 feet
in length, instead of 132 feet. as stated
in Fridays issue of The Enquirer.
Quito a number of local Masons are
expecting to attend the ceremonies of
the corner stone laying in the new
graded school building at Gastonia, on
Friday afternoon.
A number of gentlemen were talking
about the special session Of the legis-
lature on the street yesterday One
thought the lawmakers should pro-
hibit the planting Of any cotton next
year; another thought the so-called
Georgia plan should be enforced; still
another thought Mr.. Stevenson's acre
age reduction proposition should be
made law, and others Of the party IA
vored other methods. They could agree
on only one thing-"something should
be done and done quickly"
Tomorrow is the 134th anniversary
of the battle of Kings Mountain fought
in York county Oct. Z, 1880, between
American backwoodsmen under Colo
nels William Campbell, Isaac Shelby,
Cleveland, williams, Lacey and others,
and force Of American Loyalists and
regular British troops commanded by
Col Patrick Ferguson, who lost his life
in the battle. There Is to be no cele-
bration of the anniversary tomorrow
however, because Of inability to secure
good speakers and other attractions.
Last year Secretary of State William
Jennings Bryan was the chief orator of
the occasion.
All of the peace prayers that were
offered in public in Yorkville, Sunday,
were in the right spirit. There was no
disposition to try to fix the blame Of
the war, and it was assumed that one
side has about as much justification as
the other. The feeling Of the Christian
ministry seems to be that the trouble
lies in the general perverseness Of al
legged Christian nations, and no one is
able to figure out how such wholesale
slaughter can find justification in the
teachings Of the Saviour. All are
agreed that the situation is a very
proper subject for prayer; but there Is
not much inclination to assume that 1t
is a subject for advice.
The worlds championship baseball
series will be played between the Bos-
ton Nationals and the Philadelphia
Americans this year. Boston is an en-
tirely new factor in the worlds series,
New York having led the National
league for the past three seasons. The
first game Of the series will be
played in Philadelphia, on Friday,
Yorkville baseball fans will probably
arrange to get returns from the games
by innings as heretofore. Partisans OF
the teams are about equal in Yorkville,
and the community, and it is likely
that they will take enough interest in
watching the returns from the games
to forget for the time being, the war in
Europe, the distressing financial Stu
alton, special session Of the legislature
and other matters of much more i'm
portance.
Mr.. Jas. L. Walker, part owner and
active manager Of the Blacksburg OIL
Mill was in Yorkville few days ago
and while here told story Of a recent
personal experience that has valu-
able moral. Mr.. Walker said that an
old negro asked him his opinion as to
what would be the best course to pur-
sue under existing business conditions,
and that he told the old darkey that he
did not know and further that his
opinion was not worth any more than
the darkey's, and then it was that the
old fellow delivered himself as fol-
lows: We'll, boss, l shore don't know
neither, but does know that Use gwine
to go right straight ahead doin' de best
l kin till runs up against somethin'.
Let us all follow the old negro's plan
and the chances are when we do run
against somethin'," we will push 1t
over
OTIS useless to submit the same ex-
animation for teachers certificates to
negro applicants as that which the
whites are required to take remarked
an official to the reporter the other
day. Negroes simply can't make a
first grade mark. A few Of them re-
ceive second grade certificates, still
more receive the third grade, and many
of them cannot pass at all. There is
no negro institution Of learning in the
state whose standard is as high as
that of white colleges, and most of the
negroes who try to teach are not grad
yates even Of ten grade school. They
take a creditable examination consid-
ering their opportunities; but they fall
far short Of white applicants when the
same examination Is submitted to-
both races. There are a few negro
teachers In the county holding first
grade certificates, and most of those
held are of the third grade"
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