Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-02-26

| Revels. deceased. ~
STAR Theatre Today presents The Fable OF
| ,b,. Kittenish Superanus and the World Waa-
| ry Snipes"--two reel comedy. Tomorrow
| Vengeance of the Dead" four reel drama
|
| ]. r. Pursley is having his resi-
| n,nce, about mile south Of Glover.
remodled by the addition Of second
story.
| Rev. 3. r. McLendon expects to
commence meeting in Chester, about
the 18th of March. provided the state
or his health at that time will permit
The Bethany Tigers" defeated the
| clover basketball team II Glover last
| Friday by a score Of 81 to 3. Not
withstanding the one-sided appear
| unce of the score, the game was said
| tn have been very interesting.
In some Of the counties farmers
| have been making donations to the
| Red Cross in the form of seed cotton.
| In Marlboro county we note that
these donations OF cotton have been
sufiit .cnt to make up several bales.
Star N. Stacy of Glover, who is
probably the most successful tomato
grower OF the county. Is going in for
another big crop. He has had his
seed planted for about two weeks ana
expects TO begin resetting his plants
within ten days or two weeks.
Several farmers in the western sec
tion of the county who sold cord
| wood to Geo. =. Groves are still walt
| ing for their money. Graves was to
pay for the wood each week but did
moi do so, and when the woodscllers
| pressed him. he claimed TO have
| invested the money that the govern
ment paid him into other wood con-
tracts from which he has not yet re-
ceivcd returns.
Something should be done to i'm
prove the roads between iorkville
/ and Glover and Yorkville and Rock
Hill. The people have been piddling
at those roads long enough. and It Is
time that they were taking hold OF
,.;the road problem In real earnest. II
will cost several thousand dollars
| mile to make fit those roads: but
what OF that? First class roads Will
be worth the money.
kAouse~sivre, may use- wheat flour
f5ubstitutes in any manner they wish,
the food administration has pointed
out in statement declaring that
| some grocers misunderstood the rule
| recurring purchasers Of wheat flour TO
agree to use so per cent of other
cereals in bread baked at home. The
administration, however. has request
| ed women to bake victory bread at
home, containing twenty per cent or
more OF substitutes.
Twenty -four negro selcctmen fol-
lowing the Stars and Stripes to the
tune of "Bonny Blue Flag" by drum
and fife, was the strange spectacle
that was witnessed in Yorkville last
| Saturday morning. There was moth
ing pre-arranged about it, and there
| was nothing ludicrous. The drum
| and fife were as honest and as sincere
as If they had been playing Yankee
Doodle" instead There was just as
much of the Spirit Of '76" in it, and Of
the spirit of '76" there was plenty.
| Those negroes were as keen and as
eager as amateur soldiers ever get to
he. They wanted to go. and II some
thing had turned up to send them
back home they would have actually
shed tears. But the idea Of the Bon
ME Blue Flag" on drum and fife be-
hind the Stars and Stripes! Under
any other circumstances It would
have been impossible not 10 laugh.
We have seen It intlmated in print
that certain farmers have expressed
indifference about trying TO raise n
surplus of food this year: but we have
never heard any farmer give express
sion to such q suggestion, and we do
come from any farmer OF this sec
tion. There has never been a time
when the duty Of ever individu-
al was palmer than 1t Is now. 1t Is up
not only TO the farmers to raise food
but every other individual who can
to do the same thing. 1t Is a case
of self preservation for the farmer and
for everybody Anybody ought to be
| able to see the steadily diminishing
stocks in the stores, how 1t is not
possible to buy many articles that
were formerly quite common. II
ought to he clear and 1t is clear that
! If II is that way now, 1t is going to
be a great deal worse next winter
than it is this winter. People who
have cotton are getting what seems
| like a good price for It; but anybody
ought TO be able to see that two dol
lar corn is more profitable than thirty
cents or even forty cents cotton. Very
likely the next cotton crop will sell
for a good deal more than the last
cotton crop has sold for: but even at
that the price OF cotton will not be
as high as the price Of food will be.
Not raise food this year. Why, a man
is crazy TO think Of such q thing
that Is. il he expects to exist next
year.
PIG CLUB CONDITIONS.