Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-10-10
VIEWS and INTERVIEWS
Brief Local Paragraphs Of More or
Less Interest.
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Stories Concerning Folks and Things
somo of Which You Know and
1 Some You Don't know-condensed
for Quick Reading.
Shortage in Shines.

Some You Don't know-condense
for Quick Reading.
Shortage in Shines.
"This compulsory school attend
ance law is going to cause shortage
in shine boys" remarked Holly Bar
ron of the o. X. Barbership, York
vile, a day or two ago. Goodness
knows It is hard enough to get 'em
now, but with the law requiring all
co1ored boys under IA years of age to
go to school am afraid our patrons
may have to go shineless for while
anyway" Some of the shoe shine
boys in Yorkville make as much as
$3.50 a week. @s
~ No Reason Why Not.
Big, awkward, red d-faced chap tapped
the newspaper man on the back the
other morning, Say" he said, Il
want you to print my name and say
something about me in The Enquirer
like you say about other people some
times" He looked quite silly and
fool.sh-like as though he were asking
for something and didn't know what
he wanted, He is nice fellow. He
stands fairly well sin his section of
York county according to all report.
He pays the grocer and the preacher
and the doctor. He doesn't quarrel
with his mother-in-l law and he says
he loves his wife. What can 1 say
about you." asked the newspaper
man. II don't know. he said in
a stammering tone. And he didht;
Neither did the typewriter professort
But anyway--this Is it.. ~
Rector An Expert Woodsman.
THAT fellow Rector who was here
working with us this week is some
trailer" remarked a York county pro-
hibition officer thoIwas talking it
over with views and Interviews I'm
front of sherer &NQuinn's store5.4the
other evening. He referred to u J.
Rector, United States revenue officer,
who is a brother Of the late Hendrix
Rector, former sheriff OF Greenvtlle
county. I'VE were up lin Kings
Mountain township last week looking
ont for blocks s Y .bs the officer quoted.
Rector was with me when we ran
upon peach of plant of about 100
gallons capacity. But that's a little
ahead of my story. We saw fellow
come out of the bushes about a mile
and half away from where we finally
located the distillery. That fellow has
been to that still as sure as shooting,
said Rector, let's trail him. We look
cd all around and finally we discovered
bruised bushes, made by his coming
through them. couldn't see thing
and wanted to give up the back-track
but Rector wouldn't hear Of 1t. We or
rather he, back tracked that fellow
fully a mile and q half by observing
broken twigs and crushed leaves and
all that sort of thing and sure enough
the back-trail led right up to the dis
tillery. When we got there Rector
asked me, What kind of a gun have
you" | told him a .3S calibre and he
pulled out his own which was bigger
than mine. Take this one too he
said, and go over there on that hill.
I am going to cut up this still. If you
see bush move anywhere around
here you shoot and shoot quick, and
shoot with my gun and yours too
told him there was no use in that be-
cause York county moonshiners were
not in the habit Of shooting at Of
ficers, always being too anxious to get
away. That may be true, my friend
he said, but you see l don't know 'em
and l have been shot at quite a num-
Der of times during my hunts Tor
stills over this state. 1t isn't pleasant
and l take no chances. If you see
anything move while / am cutting up
this still why you shoot Nothing
moved" concluded the York county
officer. y
Some Folks See it That Way
Several fellows standing in front of
the postoffice in Glover Tuesday morn
ing were discussing the fine prospects
for a good 'possum crop this fall and
the scarcity of reliable 'possum dogs.
II can't explain it, fellows" said one,
"but you hunt 'possums because you
like to hunt 'possums and 1t don't
make any difference whether you make
a good catch or not, you'll go again
the first chance you get. There's
something connected with man in his
sporting makeup that is bound to
come out, and-well, to make a Ions
story short, he's gotta go 'possum
hunting. That's all. Out in the brac-
ing night air, all alone with his dogs
and with nature all quiet like, he's
got time to do some thinkin' and some
times he does lots O. thinkin'."
Then and Now.
Discussion in front of the Peoples
Bank and Trust Company the other
morning ran to the high cost Of liv-
ing and there was a little cussinG
along with the discussion. "Of course
it costs like everything to live now but
it does not cost near as much as 1t
did during the War Between the
States" was the argument of a Con-
fodarota ,.atarap who was among the