Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-02-08
People are still able to get about ol

People are still able to get about on
the local trains; but not many of them
are trying il ever the highways.
That is a mighty strong presentation
that Congressman Stevenson has put
to Mcssrs. McAdoo and Hoover with
reference 10 the meal situation.
Tuesday it looked as If the cold snap
would never pass and Wednesday was
almost a typical spring day. suggest
i've of the time TO start n garden.
After all. that Rock Hill to Catawba
river concrete road is about the right
thing. Even If il does cost ten thous-
and dollars q mile il will he worth the
money.
J. II. Separk and associates have
made application for a charter for the
Myrtle mills, to he incorporated with
$500. .OOC capital. The statement Is that
the mill is to have 10000 spindles. 1t
will be Gastonia's twenty-sixth mill.
II has been officially announced that
the administration has taken charge of
all the fuel oil resources Of the ma
ton, and 1t is suggested also that
Kerosene and gasoline will probably
come rcXt.
There has been less farm work done
within the past two months than in
any two months OF the same season In
the recollection of the oldest inhabi-
tant. and it has been simply because
the people could not work.
Members of the ten organized and
partly organized farm loan associations
of Mecklenburg county. n. c., are agi-
tating the question Of consolidating all
the local organizations into one big
county organization. The idea is well
worth consideration, not only In Meck-
lenburg, but in other counties. O.
big s, AZ assseis len On SaaR be operated etlM
expense per member than a small e.
sociation, and the stronger association
will make things better for all the
members.
Mr.. J.. F. McElwee, food administra-
tor for York county, said on his return
from the Monday meeting of the ad-
ministrators in Columbia, that there
was little to give out, further than had
already been given. The principal OBJ
ject OF the meeting was that the food
of the various counties
might arrive at q common understand
ing of what was to be expected OF them.
There was discussion of the ineQuali-
ties OF the order that requires farmers
and others who already have plenty OF
meal to buy more meal in order to OBJ
tain flour, and proposals were made to
Mr.. Hoover with a view to securing q
better regulation of the matter. MIR.
McElwee said that Food Administrator
Elliott is seeking to secure the conser-
walton of food in South Carolina to the
best possible advantage without work.
ing unnecessary hardships upon any
body.
When the ambulance driver who met
the train at Chester on Thursday Oh
last week to take Ray Bonter to the
hospital, learned that the young soldier
had spinal meningitis, he left his
charge in the ambulance to Shift for
himself and fed in fear. That Is q
story that was circulated far and wide
during Friday and Saturday. AS TO
whether the story is trus we have been
unable to learn. Such things are COM
mon, however, and there would have
been nothing surprising about 1t. But
whether that story is true or not, this
statement is true: Two young ladies
of the Chester Sanatorium, Misses
Inez Anderson and Carrie Tenant,
measuring up to the demands Of the
occasion, in full appreciation Of the
danger, volunteered their services. and
gave the young soldier every possible
care until he died. 1t was brave, pa
triotic thing that these young ladies
did, and the example they set is worthy
of emulation.