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

llOIl,' WHICH, II Is o. UNDERSTOOD DeRlnS
December 10 and comes to a close on
January /.
= The r. =. Lowry house on East
Jefferson street has been sold to A. J.
Parrot Of Filbert by Geo. w. Williams,
real estate agent for $4,650. Mr.. Par
rott will move his family here about
the first of the year, it is understood.
- There will be just as many various
kinds of firecrackers for small boys
and larger boys and girls to shoot this
Christmas as usual according to
local merchants and the Christmas
noise makers have not advanced in
price to anything like the extent that
other articles have.
AT a recent meeting of Philan-
thropic Lodge No. 81, A. +. M, the fol-
lowing officers We're elected: A. T.
Hart, wershipful master; S. l.. Court
ney, senior warden; r. =. Jackson,
junior warden; Geo. H. Hart, treas
urer; Walker r. Latimer, secretary;
John A. Marion, senior deacon; Carl II.
Hart, junior deacon; T. T. Walsh,
chaplain; c. Glenn White, tiler.
There was not much evidence Of
Christmas in the stores last year
During the season when Christmas
chants as well as the people generally
were interested in other things, and
there were but few families that were
in the mood to really enjoy Christmas at
home, while the boys were away in the
war camps of France and the training
camps Of America. But all that Is
past now, and just look at the storesi
A banquet served in the Quinn
Wallace storeroom bv the Ladies Aid
Society of Trinity Methodist church
was a feature Of the annual installa-
tion of the elective and appointive Of
ficers Of Mackey Chapter No. Is, Royal
Arch Masons last evening. Elective
officers installed were: Geo. w. Will
liams, high priest; John e. Carroll,
king; J. r. Barnwell, scribe; w. r.
Latlmer, secretary; C. A. Boney,
treasurer.
- r. It. Beamguard slaughtered his
big hog yesterday. ii came fully up to
expectations, weighing 823 pounds
gross and $50 net. 1t was a Duroc-
Jersey, fifteen months old. About two
months ago the fat began to cover its
eyes, and since then it has been
necessary to guide 1t to its feed
trough. The warm weather Of last
week was very trying on it; and there
was reason for uneasiness that it might
not live until the weather got cool
enough to save it's meat.
We've got to change the name of
our Five and Ten Cent" store to the
Novelty store" said Nathan Fem
stein, yesterday. 1T is this way about
it. know that the town needs strict
five and ten cents store, a place where
hundreds of small but useful articles
may be had for nickle or dime, and
am doing the best can to furnish IT.;
but find 1t impossible to get enough
Of this kind Of goods to fill up the store
room and l must add some larger arti-
cles. And as people naturally expect
to get all goods in five and ten cents
store for a nickel or a dime, I'll just
have to change the name to Novelty
store"
- Misses Alice Garrison and Belva
Saunders, York county school attend
ance officers are this week engaged In
| taking q census Of Yorkyille school
district. In other special school dis
tricts Of the county this work has
been done by special agents employed
| by the respective school districts; but
| it was necessary for the county emu
merators to do the work in Yorkville,
because the district did not have suf-
! ficient funds to pay for the expense.
The census Of the school children OF
the town which includes all, both
white and colored, between the ages
of and IA, will be completed this
week.
| - Moving day is soon to come anon
many residents of Lincoln street. !
Forest Smith whose family has been
living with the family Of Mr.. Smiths
mother, Mrs. Rosa Smith, expects to
move into the residence now occupied
| by w. Brown Thomasson's family. Mr..
Thoma sson expects to move to his
| farm on Yorkville No. 6 about January
II. ]. Z. PARROT who has been living
on Lincoln street anticipates moving
to the H. T. Williams residence on
Jefferson street which he recently pur-
chased. L. G. Baber who has been
living in the II. 3. Laws residence on
Lincoln street expects to move 10 .the
residence now occupied by the family
of DIR. D. l.. Shieder on Cleveland ave-
nue. and Mr.. Laws will move his family
into the residence vacated by MI.
Baber. r. C. Blackwell whose family
occupies a residence on Lincoln street
expects to move before January l.
Local leaders in the fight for equal
suffrage in South Carolina have been
busy this week soliciting signatures OF
women 10 petitions requesting the
South Carolina general assembly to
ratify the Federal constitutional suf-
frage amendment. According to Miss
Maude Miller one Of the local soliciting
committee, many women have declined
to sign on the ground that the state is
mot yet ready for equal suffrage" Miss
Miller and the other local workers
however are not dismayed over refusals
of women to sign. Workers yesterday
asked most of the women approached
these questions: Are you awake to
the fact that 100000 women through
out the world have been enfranchised
in war time? Are you aware that the
women of nineteen states can vote FOR
president of the United States? Are
YOU alive to the enormous demand OF
the women Of this state who in large
numbers are petitioning for the vote?'
Are you ready to fight in this great
war for democracy"
Teachers of the graded school have
addressed a petition to the trustees or
the school district asking the trustees
to nav them twelve months salary for
nine months work. The average sal
airy Of twelve teachers is about $S5 =
month for nine months. The average
cost of board is about $50 and Of course
when during the three months that
they are unemployed and receive no
salary, they must pay board just the
same which cuts down the yearly sal
ary quite bit. The petition bears the