Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-04-05

tronage OF travelling puplc pet"eeh iotN
and Chester. Two trips each way per day
Spot cotton is being quoted In New
York at $3.50. Some local cotton has
been selling at that price within the
past few days.
The food administration has sus-
prnded meatless days during the
month Of April.
There are those who will not b"
able to buy Liberty bonds: but very
few who have any earning capacity
at ALL who cannot buy thrift stamps.
The Winthrop quarantine has been
"a iscd at last and the girls are de-
lighted at the prospect OF again being
able to get to their homes during
week ends.
Who will start a jtncy line he
tween Smyrna. Hickory Grove. Sha-
ron and Yorkville? Such line is
needed and must come sooner OF
later.
Wheat generally is looking good
except for the need Of nitrate OF soda'
very little of which has been avail
able. As to what Is interfering with
the government programme Is not
clear.
We have made arrangements to
send The Enquirer to GuthriesViile'
McConnellsville and Lowryville by the
iitney line 80 that hereafter our sub
scribers at these offices will get their
papers on Tuesday and Friday morn
inps instead Of Tuesday and Friday
York county has fallen to seventh
place in the amount OF its per capita
subscription TO the war savings stamp
loan. Yorks purchases now amount
n little more than one thrift stamp
for each man, woman and child or
as cents. The total subscriptions re-
portrd from this county up to March
%, was sl4,Sl5.5O.
The preparations for the Liberty
loan demonstration in Rock Hill Oh
April 10. are being pushed on an ex-
tensiyr scale, and there Is every rea-
son to expect that the occasion VIII
be we'll worth while. York county
people, Of course. will attend in large
numbers, and there is good reason 10
believe that every county in the Fifth
congressional district will be repre-
sented.
The Rock Hill Herald tells of a
Young girl in that town VINO,
while working in the garden at her
home, was shot through the wrist by
n rife bullet from some unknown
source. Ii is assumed that the acci-
dent was because Of the carelessness
of some irresponsible small boy who'
in his fright over a deed that might
have been Of much serious conse-
oucnce, kept his culpability to him.
self. Judge o. W. Buchanan was
killed at Winnsboro some years ago
under just such circumstances, and
many other lives have been snuffed
out in the same manner Still there
are no adequate legal regulations for
the suppression of just such dangers.
In a recent private letter. James d.
Grist tells Of a talk he had with
French officer. The officer had seen
three years of fighting in France. in
Guiding Verdun, and had come out OF
| II without a scratch. II would dear
IL love to write up my interview with
him." says James D.. but of course
that would be out Of the question.
was very much impressed with this
officer, more especially because / be-
lieve he told me nothing but the
truth. While talking to him there
came over me a feeling that here Is
man who has seen so much OF de-
struction and ruin. and who has so
long stood in the very shadow OF
death. that it would be impossible for
him to indulge In lying through rea-
sons of vanity or otherwise. This OIL
ficer told me things in way that
made me literally see them almost as
with my own eyes.
Information Of the establishment Of
an automobile line between Yorkville
and Chester will be received by the
public with pleasure and satisfaction.
The need for such a line has been felt
for quite a while: but the appreciation
of it's importance has not been rs
clear as il should have been. else the
line would have been established long
ago. In addition to the through
travel between Yorkville and Chester.
there Is a considerable amount Of
local travel to and from points be-
tween. AS matters have been here
tofore. there has been no way Of
reaching Chester In the morning ex-
cept by private conveyance. and peo-
pie from McConnellsville and Guth-
riesville have had no good way Of
making reasonably quick round trips
except by the same means. The jitney
will facilitate and develop travel and
also 1t will facilitate and develop To-
cal trade. There is no reason to sup
pose that the management Of the
Yorkville- Chester line will need any
outside help: but at the same time
we don't mind saying that the enter |
prise Is we'll worthy Of the patron |
age not only Of the business people |
Of the two terminal towns, but In the |
country between.
TIE CATAWBA BRIDGE