Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-05-07

held out as one OF the signers OF the
petition asking the town council of
Yorkville to call an election on the
question Of changing the name Of the
town. The signature reads, STANDARD
Oil Company, r. T. Allison, agent"
If this signature Is duly author
lied, and as to that we do not
know, because no evidence was sub
mitted to demonstrate the fact, It
would seem to be in very bad taste
for this big corporation to be inter-
fering in the local political affairs of
this town. OF course, anybody under
stands that the political privilege Of a
freehold can be exercised only by the
holder of the fee to that freehold, and
in this case, unless there has been
specific authority, that signature Is q
nullity from a legal standpoint The
fact remains, however, that the sigma
ture has been duly counted along
with the others.
The cotton market seems to be
breaking slowly, the price now being
a cent under what 1t was a week ago.
This break may very easily be taken
as proving the theory that the recent
rise was for the purpose Of stimulating
planting, and that may be true; but
we hardly believe that such Is the fact.
1t has been established beyond dispute
that Germany, Austria and Russia are
hungry for cotton for which they are
willing to pay fabulous prices; but
since the British order in council but
little cotton can reach any Of these
countries, except that Russia can get
a little by way Of Vladivostock and
the Siberian railroad. England has all
the cotton she, needs at present, in
cluding that which was properly hers
and that which she held up on it's way
to other countries, particularly Ger
many. Both Denmark and Holland
would be glad to get cotton; but can
not do so. AS to whether this situa-
tion Is going to continue for a long
time there is no telling; but events
in Europe are moving along with in
creasing rapidity just at this time, and
there seems to be about as much prob
ability for change for the better as
there is for a change for the worse.
Mr. J. r. Pursley of Glover, is prob.
ably-one Of the most successful farm.
ers Of the northern part Of York coun-
ty, and he is making much pro-
gress in his business. He has been re.
ferred to in these columns from time
to time in connection with various
fine crops, and 1t Is common thing to
hear people who travel up and
down the c. & NV. railroad, speak
of his farm as one Of the best to be
seen between Yorkville and Gastonia.
Mr.. Pursley Is a great believer in
properly run terraces and he alst
proves his faith in the Efficacy Of
winter cover crops. When he took
hold of the farm he Is now cultivating,
it was in bad condition as the result
of many years of abuse under old time
methods. There were gullies in 1t that
would hide a horse, and the fields
that were once the principal reliance
of the owner for the best crops, were
barren. He filled up the gullies by
gradually cutting off the banks with
plows and disc harrows and he stop
ped the teaching Of the soil by means
80 tota n n
telligent use Of commercial fertilizers
all along the line, and has built up
the fertility of the soil steadily and
surely. His plantation is now many
times better than it was when 1t came
into his possession, and he Is making
it better and better every year.
Along in the early SOS Yorkville,
Rock Hill and Blacks Station voted
out the barrooms that had previously
been doing business in their respect
i've towns, and to keep the matter
from coming up continually ever aft
erward, they induced the general as
sembly to prohibit the lawful sale Of
liquor within their limits, perpetually.
When the dispensary law was enacted
in the early eos there was tackled on
to it a provision that exempted from
it's provisions all towns that had pre-
viously been made dry by legislative
enactment This included Blacks
Station" Some time after that the
people of Blacks Station decided that
it would be n nice thing to change the
name of their town to Blacksburg,
and they did so. Then not great
while later it was suddenly discovered
that while the conduct of a barroom
business was prohibited in Blacks
Station, there was no such prohibition
against the town of Blacksburg, and
accordingly the towr opened a dis
penssry, the first one established in
York county. The dispensary contin-
ued until Cherokee county voted the
dispensaries out. While Of course, the
changing of the name of the town of
Yorkyille can have no effect on the
liquor question one way or the other,
we suspect that there are other things
that can be just as vitality affected.
TEACHERS EXAMINATION.
Fifty-six persons are taking the ex-