Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-10-21
VIEWS And INTERVIEWS
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Stories Concerning Folks and Things
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"You know we are going to have te
put some kind sof aEcheck on schoo
teachers 30 far as holding them te
contracts is concerned" remarked
York county school trustee in talking
II over with Views and Interviews last
Friday. Some time ago. In TACT
back In the summer, the trustees OF
my district employed q young lady te
teach our school for both the summer
and winter terms. There was nc
written contract but q verbal under
standing fair and square that she was
to teach, both the summer and winter
terms. She taught the summer term
all right; but at the end OF 1t she
received sa offer to teach winte'
term in a school in another county al
an increased salary of $40 month
We couldn't afford to pay her that IN
crease and do you know she threw us
down cold and now we are withou'
a teacher. I have heard OF a number
of cases that are similar. OF course
one can hardly blame the teachers for
wanting all the money they caa get
and the Lord knows they get little
enough. Still. a mans word is q
mans word and woman's Is wo-
mans. It seems to me that there
should be some means whereby the
teachers should be held to their
agreements. &
Bale Will Buy a Wagon.
"Despite the increased cost OF liy-
ing the high prices for cotton now
prevailing means more real money
chan did prices several years ago
when everything else was lower re-
marked Mr. John c. Dickson, well
known farmer Of Yorkyille No, !. who
was talking about conditions generally
in the store, of Shieder- Smelling Drug
CoSnpany the other afternoon. IA few
ysarssago,. said Mr.. Dickson, "the re-
cSipts. from "a bale. Of cotton were
not sufiicient to buy q good two horse
wagon. Now one may buy a good
fwagon- from the proceeds Of a single
bale of cotton and, have a little change
left oyer. or course prices are high
bur give me high prices every time as as
-conoared 80. ths Ola order OF things"
Lancaster Leading.
~ can't understand why it is that
IancaAter can AFFORD to pay SO much
more for cotton than Yorkyille," said
4 local merchant last Saturday. Ian
caster Is being quoted as the leading
cotton market OF the state and there
isn't any doubt about it. The York
Vile cotton market is the best now
that the town has ever known;/ but
still we are far short of Lancaster
In this connection the following from
t,e Wa1haw, N. c., Enterprise Is IN
teresting: Much comment has been
occasioned recently by the Lancaster
cotton buyers paying much more for
cotton than buyers at Waxhaw. Mon
roe or Charlotte. The writer was IN
Lancaster one day last week and
asked several Of the business men
there the reason for this, and they
said that Col. Springs returned from a
trim to New York couple of weeks
ago; and issued orders to his buyers
TO stock UP, on. cotton at whatever
price II took to get 1t. Accordingly
his buyers began paying little more
than other markets and they have
Kept q cent or two ahead OF the market
ever since. The condition is only
temporary and when 1t Is past the
Lancaster market will probably slump
back to its normal place of little
below waxhaw and Monroe. But
while it lasts It is a bonanza; for the
farmers and they are hauling 1t from
all over this section to Lancaster. One
day, last week Lancaster paid out
about $4,000 for cotton.
Banking Business Booming.
york county's banking business
has reached proportions which it never
attained before" commented Z well
known York county banker yester-
day." and the clerical force in practi-
cally every bank In the county that i
know anything about is taxed TO its
utmost capacity and then some
Several of the banks are greatly In
need of additional clerical help which
is hardly to be had at anything like
the wage that the banks can afford to
pay. have never known such a de-
mand for bank clerical workers in this
section as there is now"
Completely Out Of Debt.
'rWell am completely out OF debt
for the first time in several years and
/ have more cash money than have
had at any one time in several years
and still 7 have some cotton" com,
mented q York County farmer the
other day as he put six cents dowr
on the soda fountain counter ane
called for d dope" While dom
think that we farmers are getting al
that is coming to us for cotton, still
we are getting nearer a fair profit fo
Il than we ever did before and things
are sorter booming" He drank hi