Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-12-19

There will be one more issue OF The
Yorkville Enquirer during the year of
1919; that of next Tuesday, December
23. The next issue following will be
that of Friday january 2, 1920.A -..
There is an Associated Press dis
patch in this issue that tells OF the
tremendous advance in the price OF
muskrat skins and in another column
there is an advertisement Of ,Messrs.
Shubert & Co., Of Chicago. one Of the
largest ard most reliable fur houses In
America making offers as to what they
will give for the skins of muskrats
and other fur bearing animals. There
are plenty of muskrats in York county
and in the case of people who know
how, they are not difficult to trap
Mink is still more or less plentiful, the
raccoon is also still, in the land ito be
caught by those who have the dogs
and the energy. The prices that the
Shubert people are offering would seem
to make the hunting and trapping Of
these animals worth while. N
DR.. Thomas A. Crawford, who passed
away in Rock Hill on last Tuesday
was an able and faithful physician
and a good and useful citizen. He has
to his credit as much in the way CT
good works as most men of his day
and generation; but for one thing he
deserves a monument. That is for his
earnest, persistent and reasonably
successful efforts in behalf Of good
roads. OF course other people worked
in this behalf, and DR.. Crawford had
not a few as influential andNenergetic
CO. o-laborers as himself. But by COM
mon consent DR.. Crawford was recog-
nized as leader in the movement. and
it is an indisputable fact that es the
result of the constructive work led by
him the good roads idea was developed
and extended. The doctors influence
spread to all parts of the county and
to other counties, and in one way and
another resulted in even more than he
knew. OF course, that was not all. In
various ways DR.. Crawford contributed
to the welfare and happiness Of his
fellows, spiritually as well as mater
tally, and we'll may it be said that his
life was one that was worth while.
"But in the old four page FORM" eX-
planned a critical subscriber, Il always
knew where to find what I wanted,
while now with all these pages, you
hardly know where to look for any
thing" And that subscriber is partly
right, and partly wrong. 1t is easy to
understand that -four pages will not
carry as much as eight pages. When
The Enquirer consisted of only four
pages, the task of the editors was to
condense all the important news down
into the space available. Of the
thirty-two columns that made up the
four pages, there were usually from
10 to IL columns Of advertising, leav-
ing from 20 to % columns Of reading
matter. Altogether in last Tuesdays
paper there were "a columns of matter,
and Of this SO columns were devoted to
advertising, while the reading matter
took up 32 columns, as much as the
entire contents of the old four-page
form. Certainly it is not possible to
condense as much interesting and en-
tertaining reading in 20 columns as
can be condensed into 80 columns, and
no one should be expected to get the
contents Of the "a columns as quickly
as he could get the contents of the 32
columns that were formerly served up
to him. 1t Is not as much question
of finding it, however as it is Of getting
to it. Before the change it was COM
mon to have to leave out Of the paper
from one to two or three columns of
matter that had been carefully set up
and made ready for presentation; but
which had to be left out for lack OF
room. And while still there is more or
less matter to be left out it is not
nearly so much as formerly.