Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-10-17

because of the neglect he suffered a
the hands of the army physicians hi
arm will never be much use to him."
Florida Pfospsrous.
+sodthern Florida is expecting tt
4 produce a bumper crep Of citrus fruit,
this year,, said ;Rev,J. 1. Oates, wht
returned. to his, home In Yorkvillt
Tuesday, from BartoyE Fla, where he
has spent the past two weeks in the
interests of the Fdfwafd Movement
of the Associate Rsfprmed Presbyter.
ian church. "The ffpit growers are
going to get big nf3ce for their pro-
ducts" said Mr.. OATES, ssand they are
now making their sbreparations fol-
shipping. The, farndeFs In Florida are
also making prepare Hons to raise a
great cabbage crop. They have learn
ed that the cabbage crpp in the east
this year is pretty inn5h of failure
and they are going q for cabbage on
scale they hkye. never attempted be-
fore. There has beeT little rain in
Florida the past two Months and there
is some suffering because of lack OF
It," Mr.. Oates said tf1at the A. p. p
churches in Florida had twice SUBJ
scribed their apportionIaents to the A
R. P. Forward Movement which seeks
to raise s25O,ooo for church extension.
Depended on tRs Master
@of the sixteen white applicants
who stood the recent 'sxapninatfon for
teachers held In the sypurthouse at
Yorlyille. only one nnafe q mark suf-
fcient, to warrant a fif4ts grade certi-
fcate," said SuperintS1dent Carroll
the other day. There 3s,ho question
but what the examinat I'm was hard
one. I was looking ovef tbe examina-
tion papers of some OF he colored ap-
plicants the other da1 and I came
across the paper of DC of the coll
ored women. who iwrdte I cannot
answer these questtba Anything
that may get viii Aepend upon the
Master and you" t
New substItsitss
well there Is neSe ;substitute for
booze / reckon" reinaf3< "a "a Yorkville
merchant ais he calle ahs newspaper
man into the rear Of atose the other
day where a number fkmpty bottles
marked God Liver" Here stored.
There were a dozen oifso of them and
the merchant said than ley were the
accumulation of one a. eince he had
caused others to be fts1pyed the day
before. IL local map w has drunk
some several hundred "a ons of booze,
patent medicines, ink a fhoe polish
In his day gave. somS Stt on the
newest substitute, Isn't such
a bad drink" hSsaids bottle of the
stuff or two ibottles for asman of my
capacity has enough kick to make a
man look his mother in law in the eye
without flinching more than once, and
it has sweet sort Of taste. don't
know how It might do some other peo-
pie but it has not had bad after ef-
feet on me-. 1t is about as good drink
as paw-paw or sweet papa as some of
them called 1t, whenait was popular in
Yorkville."
Don't Have to Pay.
They were talking about the, price
of cotton in d York county town the
other day-discussing the price in
their town which was little lower
than some other town in the C. unity.
There was cotton buyer in the crowd
and he was asked why he paid less
than some other towns. His answer
was, What is the use to pay more
when the farmers will sell 1t for less?"
And the others in the crowd said that
there was no use.
Didn't Want to Kill Him. .,
York county man got on bender"
on York county combination joy juice,
said combination being a mixture Of
cane seed and corn and peas and
candle flies and stable manure and
goodness knows what else. 1t all hap
peneQ d lew udyS d6o. ihS poo1S
didn't last, however, as long as he
wanted the bender" to last and he
undertook to prolong the agony with
the use of patent medicines and other
things. Finally he got to where he
couldn't get any more Of those and
then he struck York county barber
and boned him for a drink of hair
tonic which contains large per cent
OF alcohol and some sweet smelling
stuff like that which abounds when
some gawky girls cross the street and
some other stuff. But the barber
wouldn't give him the stuff. 81 feel
sorry for you old man." he told the
thirsty one and If had q drink OF
liquor would give It to you because
you need It; but 1 am not going to
give you hair tonic to drink because II
might kill you and it might not but II
it did would always feel like killed
you" And the man went without hair
tonic in his stomach or on his hair
either. Then the crowd in the barber
shop began talking about the evils OF
prohibition, some of them saying that
if open saloons abounded in York
county or the gallon a month law was
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