Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-12-02
VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS
Brief Local Paragraphs OF More or
Less Interest.
PICKED UP BY ENQUIRER REPORTERS
Stories Concerning Folks and Things
Some Of Which You Know and
Some You Don't know-Condensed
for Quick Reading.

for Quick Reading.
yep, lots of York county folks had
a !ot to be thankful for last Thanks
giving day just like folks of other
counties had" remarked a local man
the day after Thanksgiving. For in
stance Sheriff Quinn and every other
county officer was thankful that there
were no fights or other untoward dis
turbances and that they had a day OF
pleasure and ease. School children
over the county were thankful for two
days off and the prospect Of no more
school until Monday. Clerks in Stroups
McConnelrs, Feinstein's, Kirkpatricks s
shannon & Plexicos, Parrotts and
every other store in the county were
thankful for a day of rest from cater
ing to and humoring an aggravaiingly
fastidious public. Stenographers in the
court house were glad that they could
chew gum to their hearts content II
they wished and leave all thoughts OF
pounding the keys of a typewriter be-
hind for a day. Soda water singers
were thankful for the adoption OF the
Sunday hours. EX-soldiers were
thankful because of the absence of ha-
ted mess sergeants and the memory OF
last years Thanksgiving. York coun-
ty rural carriers were happy because
of a day off the terrible grind of it
all and postoffice employees because
they could at least observe holiday
hours. Oh everybody had something
to be thankful for and reckon every
body was"
Not Running the Postoffiee.
"It would appear that this person
thinks not only look after the circu-
lation of The Yorkville Enquirer
which is quite a task in itself; but
that am a kind of custodian of Uncle
Sans mall" groaned the circulation
manager Of The Enquirer as he hand
ed Views and Interviews letter to
read. The letter said: Dear Sir: /
will drop you few lines in order for
you to please change amy paper from
Smyrna to Glover. Please change it at
once and all my other mail"
Sitting on Their Hands.
She teaches school in York county
and she is terribly serious and in ear
nest about it as she ought to be. She
was telling her school troubles to the
reporter yesterday and of course she
was listened to with sympathetic in
ar fn ,,ri,1oary dpnD rt-
ment," she said, "and forty pupils to
teach. Some of them are wee little
tots and others are rather large boys.
They give me lot Of trouble, the big
ones by reason of their behavior at
times and they don't seem to think |
mean them exactly when / order them
to stop talking or whatever else they
might be doing contrary to school dis
cipline. have tried standing them in
the corner and l have tried standing
them on one foot. That didn't make
them mind. So whenever they nrisbe-
have now l order them to sit on Their
hands for a while and find that after
they have done that a time or two
they Will DehaNe all TlSnl'
For Former Service Men.
Homecoming Day exercises in
honor of returned soldiers of the COM
munity were observed at Union Pres
byterian church over in CASTOR county
on Thanksgiving day." said Mr. Dave
Brandon, we'll known farmer of Bethel
township who was in Yorkville, FRI
day. practically all the boys of the
neighborhood who were in the army
during the war were present as were
many others from the surrounding
country who had been invited. y fea-
ture of the exercises was the big dim
ner which was served. There was
plenty to eat and more than plenty
and everybody had a good time"
A Dry Day.
Some contrast this THANKSGIVING
day to Thanksgiving day a year ago IN
Yorkville," glumly commented an eN-
liquorhead of Yorkville last Thursd#..
"A year ago liquor was more or less
plentiful in the town; but toda% ]
haven't seen a man who even looked
AXE. he had a drink. | had little one
early this morning. little ono that
my wife had hid away some time back,
But mainly have been like old rath-
er Hubbard. You have heard a"out
him. haven't you?" and he proceeded
to recite:
Old Father Hubbard
Went to the cupboard
To get his poor self drink.
But when he got thcre
The cupboard was bare.
So he got him drinH
At the sink =,
Reminder Of Reproachful Days.
During a brief trip over the King :
Mountain road the other day. the at
tention of Views and Interviews was
called to the dilapidated remains of an
insignificant looking little hut which
no man of the present day, unac'
uuainted with the local history Of thi-
section, would even think of as being
the noted landmark that it is. The hut
about 10 feet wide by y feet lonI a rC
probably eight feet high, is located al
the point where the Kings Mountair
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