Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-01-09
The small grain and cover crops are


looking good.
There is really no more reason now
why the United States should go into
Mexico than there has been at any time
during the past fifty years.
We think that DR.. r. A. Bratton is
entirely right in what he said on the
court house location question in his in
terview published in the last issue of
The Enquirer. The views expressed
were straight, sensible and to the point.
The farmers who sell cotton in York
vile have a right to a public weigher,
and they should have one. It is due
also to the business people Of the COM
munity that public platform be es-
tablished.
York county's alfalfa, crimson clover
and vetch crops are going to count for
much this spring. The first harvest
is now only few months off.
It is getting time to look out about
getting early tomato plants.
Let the good work of the Boys Corn
club go on. 1t has been of inestimabie
value to the participant boys and to
the county as whole. Those boys who
have been doing their duty in the club
are boys who are well worth while.
That paragraph recently sent in by
our Glover correspondent giving the
names Of hog raisers at the cotton mill,
together with the weights Of the hogs
raised by each, is going quite round
Of the papers, indicating widespread
interest in the subject.
This year promises to be an unusu-
ally interesting one in all the activi-
ties Of life, industrially, commercially,
agriculturally and politically, and all
York county people who would keep
up with what is going on should take
The Yorkville Enquirer, unquestion-
ably one of the best newspapers in
South Carolina.
A travelling man said yesterday that
he had seen some beefsteak selling iu
Charlotte at a dollar pound. 1t was
some extra choice cuts and he did not
mean to convey the idea that this was
the market price; but he asserted in all
seriousness that there was no good
steak to be had over that way for less
than 80 or 35 cents, and people who are
in position to prepare for the future
market will do we'll to take the hint.
Pretty good idea that meeting of the
legislative delegation with the people;
but now to get to the best Of it, peo-
pie who may not like such suggestions
as were made should remember that
they also have say. 1t is up to them
to write to the representatives and tell
them what they think. The represen-
tatives will not object. On the con-
they receive from the people whose
representatives they are.
At the delegation meeting Wednesday
it developed that approximately one
third Of the ordinary county fund is
used each year for the support Of the
chaingang, and that the chaingang
builds less than ten miles year. There
are approximately 1900 miles Of public
roads in York county, and at the rate
Of ten miles year it would take 120
years for the chaingang to get over all
the road. This, however, Is thrown out
only as suggestion and not as an argu-
ment to clinch the absurdity Of equal
distribution Of the chaingang benefits.
Under the law as it stands, the chain
gang is supposed to be employed only
on certain Of the main thoroughfares
while the smaller tributary roads are
worked by the township supervisors
with township funds. The completion
of tributary road to a thoroughfare
obviously gives the people living in the
territory road the benefit Of the thor
oughfare.