Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-01-09
WITHIN THE TOWN

Business has not yet fully gotten It's
bearings; but the testimony Of the 10
cal business people with whom the re-
porter has talked, is to the effect that
1t is rather better than at this time
last year.
Mr.. w. H. Fowler is soliciting sub
scriptions to the capital stock Of the
Yorkville Cotton Seed Oil mill. 1t Is
proposed to organize new corporation
separate and distinct from the Victor
Cotton Oil company to which the local
plant belonged, and continue the busi-
ness Of making oil, ginning, selling
seed, hulls, ice, coal and the like, and
grinding corn and wheat. The capital
stock Of the new company is to be $40,
900. The stock is being subscribed
quite readily.
Yorkville Camp, No. 3S, w. o. W..
gave their annual banquet in the Wood
man hall last evening in connection
with the installation Of officers for the
ensuing year. About eighty Of the
members Of the local camp and their
friends were present at the exercises
and all seemed to enjoy themselves to
the fullest extent. Mr.. Geo. w. Will
liams presided at the installation cere-
mony. and the following were installed
for the present year: Consul comman-
der, ]. Q. Wray; Advisory Lieutenant,
John w. Miller; Banker, w. r. Lati-
mer; Clerk, D. T. Woods; Escort, ID. K
Whitener; Watchman, r. L. Marley;
Sentry, B. F. Marley; Manager, Daniel
Whitener. Following the installation,
Hon. D. E. Finley presided as toast
master, and the responses OF various
members and friends was the decided
feature Of the evening. Among the
speakers Of the occasion were: Messrs
]. A. Tate, Thos w. Boyd, r. c. Allen
Joe w. Smith, ]. c. Wilborn, Jos. g.
Sassi, ]. A. Marion, F. C. Smoak, Dr
M. J. Walker and T. H. DeGraffenreid
In concluding the evenings entertain
ment, the toastmaster gave brief his
tory Of the Yorkville camp-how its be-
ginning was in law office some Ia
years ago and how by the faith and
perseverance Of its charter members II
had grown to its present membership OF
120 and was still increasing. Its bene-
fits were many, and the speaker would
especially impress the young, as 1t OF
fered protection to the home and tend
ed to make the morals Of man better.
- The presentation Of Ivanhoe at
the Lyric theatre last Tuesday prov
ed an event in the history Of NOV
ing picture entertainment in York
vile. Altogether more than 30O
people saw the picture and they in
cluded quite number from the sur
rounding country as well as several
nearby towns. Yorkville was well
represented and among those who
went out were many people who sell
dom take interest in this most popu-
lar form of entertainment. The school
children. especially those of the high
er grades, were among the most en-
thusiastic spectators as well as the Sc
yerest and most intelligent critics.
While the picture presentation OF the
romance follows the text Of the story
closely enough to be easily recogniz-
able, for obvious reasons, mainly ply
sical, there are many adaptations and
substitutions. The graded school pu-
pills were as quick to note the changes
as were the older spectators, and with
everybody, the beautiful Jewess, Re-
becca, was decidedly the 'favorite.
She was applauded quite frequently.
The only drawback in connection with
the presentation of the play was the
fact that the theatre was not large
enough to hold the crowd, and many
people went back home rather than
wait from one to two hours for
vacant seats. Manager McManus was
generally congratulated on the COM
plete success Of the show and Is we'll
pleased. "Entailing as 1t did, very
considerable extra expense, much
more than the entire gross receipts of
ordinary nights" he said, the most
1 hoped for was not to lose too much.
I just wanted to show my patrons how
anxious I am to give them the best
there Is to be had. However, 1t would
not be fair to leave the impression
that it has been altogether with my
compliments. The people patronized
this splendid feature most literally.
and 1t is up to me to give them other
attractions later on"