Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-10-24
VIEWS and INTERVIEWS
Brief Local Paragraphs OF More or
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Stories Concerning Folks and Things
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Some You Don't know-cendensed

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for Quick Reading.
Colored man walked into store VI
at Clover the other morning. He hat
with him a couple of his womenfolki
and he was just tlousy" with money
having sold a couple of bales of cot
ton at S5 cents. That smile and gen.
eral air that can generally be recos'
nized in some people when they have
money was wrapped all over him. Hs
grihned like a 'possum on a dry day
and in spite of his dirty, ragged over.
alls he looked like congressman who
was well satisfied with the speech hs
had just delivered at the county fall
somewhere in advocacy of the League
of Nations Hurry up and git move
on yo' Joe" said one Of the females
evidently his wife. Joe's eyes were at
tracted to box Of cheese, some pot
ted ham and a loose box of crackers
"Mistah," he said to the clerk. gimme
a box o, dat ham an half pound o
dat cheese an er dozen er dem
crackers Then turning to his wife
he said, woman. ah Is der man oh
de house, cause totes de cash an an
amt gwinter trade er bit till an salts
fies nah stunmick."
y Sure Enough Roads.
'T drove car 700 miles without
touching dirt. said Mr.. s. L. Court
ney, well known automobile dealer OF
Yorkville, who returned to YorKville
recently after a trip to Detroit, Mich.
Mr.. Courtney made the return trip by
automobile and for TOO miles OF the
distance of more than 1,20O miles
from Detroit to YorlSville, he travelled
altogether on concrete and asphalt
roads. Thus his statement that zoo
miles were traversed without touch
ing dirt. "People In the northeast
know nothing but good roads" said
Mr.. Courtney, reven as am hope
full that the day Is soon coming when
the people Of the south will know OF
no other kind. These good roads in
Michigan and the other states that
trayersed cost more than $4,000
mile to build but they are worth 1t
and more as all the people will testify"
= Stew geef Popdtat Dish. ~
Maybe you never thought Of it,"
observed well known citizen to
Views and Interviews as the two sas
in a restaurant in York county town
a day or two ago: "but 1t is fact
that no restaurant in this county that
did not serve stewbeef could do busi-
ness. A great majority Of the people
who patronize restaurants In TINS
neck of woods want stewbeef to eat
and nothing else. Personally l don't
see why. 1 wouldn't eat a plate OF
the. stuff II it were served with peach
brandy sauce and brought in 10y the
prettiest waitress between Kalamazoo
and Omaha, Nebraska. But they
surely go for the stuff. Just count
the people in here now that are eating
stewbeef." The count was made.
There were eight people in the place
and six out of the eight were eating
stewbeei.
A Bit of Luck,
"I made a lucky deal in connection
with the buying of the fixtures for the
bank" remarked V. Q. Hambright'
cashier of the First National Bank OF
Clover the other day. ut was prac-
tically impossible to buy new fixtures
for the bank at the time ! wanted
them and | was at loss as to what to
do. One of the Sifford boys who was
working in Orangeburg, happened to
oyerhcar a remark that the fixtures of
a bank down there were for sale and
bought them from Charlotte concern
The next day the parties from whom
/ purchased informed me that they
were sorry they had sold to me since
the following day they had an offer
to sell them for twice what they sold
them to me-"
Increase in Taxes.
Believe me, there has been some
increase in taxes since l came to
Glover in 1906" remarked promi-
nent Glover citizen last Tuesday. He
was engaged in hunting up his regis
tration certificate and other papers In
order that he might vote for the good
street that Glover is to have. Tan
receipts from 1906 to 1918 were al
fastened together. This will give
an idea as to the way taxes have in
creased in just few years" he said
"My taxes in 1906 were slightly Over
81 as you see here and last year the!
were over $43." And when asked i
the value of his stuff wasn't a darr
site more than it was in 1906, he sale
he guessed it was.
Collections are Good.
That collections among York count!
merchants who do a time business
has exceeded their more sanguine ex
pectations is the consensus Of opinion
of q number of leading York count!
merchants who have recently beer
asked about the matter. ut beat
anything 1 ever knew before" said
we'll known merchant Tuesday. ''
suppose my firm has something lik
$4,000 worth of stuff out on time thi
year, and over half of it has alread