Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-06-12
WITHIN THE TOWN.


- There is renewed talk of the pas
! sage of a general license tax ordinance
for the purpose of raising additional
revenue for the town.
- The recent statement placing the
floating Indebtedness Of the town at
Sc, 400, left out Of consideration a note
for $1,000, and Treasurer Boney says
that so far as he knows there may be
number Of additional outstanding
accounts.
- Teachers for the Graded school
have been elected as follows: Baxter c.
Riddle, superintendent; G. c. McCel-
Wy, principal, Miss Nora Williamson,
Miss Margaret D. Marion. Miss Maril-
la Ewart Miss Mary Cartwright, Miss
Miss F'rederica Lindsay, Miss Sudie
Allison. Substitute, Mrs. John S. Jones.
- Chief Love is picking up quite a
number of fines for violation Of the
ordinance requiring that vehicles left
on the streets must be close up against
the right-hand curbing. Careless peo-
pie forget occasionally; but no excuses
are accepted. More attention is being
paid to violations of the ordinance
against speeding also.
The new council has given notice
Of it's intention to insist upon the
strict enforcement Of the ordinance
prohibiting the sale Of soft drinks, to-
bacco and the like, on Sundays. The
ordinance has been on the books for
many years, but it has been a dead
letter so far as drug stores and res
taurants are concerned. and other
business people have disregarded it at
will
- Extensive preparations are being
made for the picnic to be given in the
Ancona mill pasture on July 4, by Big
Chief Tribe No. 81, Improved Order Of
Red Men. Solicitor Albert E. Hill,
Grand Sachem Of the state is expected
to be present and to make the address
Of the occasion, and Red Men from
about thirty "paleface" applications
under consideration for adoption in the
tribe at the present time, and accord
ing to the programme as 1t now stands,
most Of these will be initiated into the
mysteries Of the forest on the night
of July 4. A general order has gone out
for all the local Red Men to repair to
the picnic grounds tomorrow afternoon
to begin putting the same in shape.
The action of the town council Of
Yorkville in doing away with the free
light and free water privilege meets
our hearty approval, and although we
would rather the members of the coun-
Gil had been willing to serve without
compensation at all, we see absolutely
no objection to the reasonable COM
pensation agreed upon-two dollars
month for each member. The objec-
ton to the free light and water idea is
based entirely on the knowledge that
it was unjust, inequitable and unlaw-
full. The Enquirer has more than once
stated that the town council had no
legal right to give away light and wa
ter because those commodities were
under the jurisdiction Of the commits
soners Of public works; but our OBJ
lection went behind that proposition,
into the principle Of the thing. We
raised objection even back in the days
before the board Of commissioners Of
public works was created. Aside from
the fact that the thing is wrong in it
self, all men understand how small
and insignificant wrongs are develop
ed into big wrongs. The people are
familiar with the record Of this par
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limited to the minimum, was to go to
members Of the council only. Then
the privilege was extended to other
members Of the town government, and
later the limit was taken Off The peo-
pie became stirred up, not so much on
account of the fact of the free light
and water as because Of the tendency.
and the practice was discontinued.
After a few years the system was in
augurated again, and now after so
long a time the people have again put
stop to it, The fact Of the whole mat
ter is that this town has not been well
governed in the past. 1t has been sub
jected to damage and other suits that
could have been avoided with proper
management. and it has been bled one
way and another under pretense Of
progress and the like. The people have
submitted to various wrongs with re-
markable patience, and even now
there is considerable Indifference as 70
just how things are managed. The
present council, though divided in it's
views as to what is best for the COM
munity, has made a very good start.
and though badly handicapped on ac-
count of accumulated debt and insult
fcicnt revenues, bids fair to improve
conditions from what they have been.