Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-09-24


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There wore Sc deaths from typhoid
fever in South Carolina last month
and Of these there was but n In
York county.
Tho farmers Of York county are
keeping close up with the cotton har-
vest and they have very little time to
look after other things.
Most emphatieaIIy we think that 1t. 1.
simply absurd to impose a license tax
on the horse swappers. We are unable
to conceive Of a single reasonable
ground for such q thing.
I'VE need some more knockers in
Yorkville," observed a we'll known
farmer Of Yorkville No. 8, yesterday
morning. The knockers in the town are
doing lots of good. They have knock
ed the price Of cotton seed up to a
point which 1t would not have reach
ed had they not been here. 1t seems
to me like the knockers are really the
boosters"
II is about time for the Yorkville
Board Of Trade to have another get
together over sandwiches with those
that are wanted invited. If permit
ted, The Enquirer will take pleasure
in sending a reporter to report the
proceedings for the benefit Of those
who are not invited, or who are IN
able to come. Also 1t will agree to
provide a sandwich for itself without
expense to the Board of Trade.
There 10 a very noticeable inclina-
ton on the part Of people throughout
this whole section to speculate in cot
ton. There is nothing new about this,
Of course, for the inclination to specu-
late is always present. But this year
the common feeling is that cotton must
necessarily go up, and nine out Of ten
people seem to have the idea that 1t
is the thing t. buy. Some people are
selling their cotton as fast as they
can get 1t out; but that Is not the
rule. The larger cotton producers
feel certain that prices will steadily
grow better and better.
We do not want anybody to think
that we are asking the town council
for anything whatever. We are not
asking anybody for anything. Thanks
to the kind appreciation that the pub
lie has shown and Is showing for the
service we Ire trying to render we are
comfortable. But we desire the local
public, and the York county public
to know that we think we are being
unfairly treated. From u viewpoint
advertising and job printing r both
strictly business propositions. The
value Of newspaper advertising de-
ponds upon the circulation and pres
tige Of the medium used. By prestige
we mean what the general public
thinks Of that medium-the confidence
and esteem Of the public. Circula-
ton, Of course, relates to the number
of readers. The advertising values
offered by The Yorkville Enquirer
both in the town Of it's publication
and in the county are recognized by
the business people of the state to be
second to that Of no other paper in
South Carolina. 1t Is conceded every
where that nobody does any better
job printing than The Yorkville En-
quirer. Common sense and common
justice requires that the business of a
municipality like this be distributed
equally among the newspapers there
of. We desire the public to know
that the town council Of Yorkville
has, for reasons Of it's own, seen prop
er to ignore the Yorkville Enquirer in
the distribution Of the business Of the
town and that it has neve even asked
this establishment for terms or prices.
1t has given us no reason, and the only
reason we can think Of is that we in
sist upon being our own judge Of our
responsibility to the public in what We
shall print and what we shall not
print, and also that the mayor and
his hackers being interested in a
newspaper of their own, propose to
use the public funds for the support
Of their. own business rather than for
the support Of a business that de-
ponds for it's being on it's service to the
public. AS we have said before, we
do not want this to be understood as
a complaint. We are telling the pub
lie because we think the public should
know the facts.