Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-09-30
VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS
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Stories Concerning Folks and Things
Some of Which You Know and
Some You Don't knoW--condensed
for Quick Reading.

/ Some You Don't KnoW--condensec
for Quick Reading.
Following the raid Of big distillerl
on the John Warren Quinn old place In
Broad River township on Monday Of
last week Constable Johnson anf
Deputy Sheriff Quinn went back to the
scene the next day and found two othei
stills near the vicinity OF John P
Moore, colored man. The stills were
old and full of holes and had not beer
used in several years. Moore told tht
officers they had not been used in
dozen years and maybe Moore knows
About two bushels and a half Of niea
were also found by the officers wh'
were quite certain that it was no
twelve years old. OF course nobody
claimed the meal and tits now the
propertyIof the state.
The Gamecoek.
"a publication OF the Gamecock, the
Weekly newspaper published by thu
lNcrary societies or the University OF
South Carolina in Columbia, has beer
resumed. a icopy having reached the
desk of the exchange editor of Tht
Enquirer this week r. G. Thompson
is editor of the publication. and ]. r
Bryson is business manager. n
~ A New Phony Twenty. (.
Mr. Average York County Man
needn't trouble his head over this be-
cause he doesn't have an opportunity
to handle them often since most OF
his experience is with dirty dollar
bills, but news comes from Washington
that al new counterfeit twenty has been
discovered. The new phony bill Is a
$40 note OF the Federal Reserve Bank
of New York. The border of the
note and the background OF clevc-
lands portrait are black instead Of
having fine cross lines and the
treasury numbers are black instead Of
blue.
Tractor Demand Growing.
Demand for farm tractors in York
county issgrowing rapidly accordine
to farmers well informed as well as
tractor agents. The Courtney Tractor
Company of Yorlyille last week re;
tceixed d shipInentSof seven Fords9r
tractors which had already been sold
together with,a large amount of farm.
ing implements that go with Ettc
tractors. 1--WE have booked o large
number Of additional orders" said Mr.
Courtney; "but the big problem is te
get the tractors" 80 @
I clergymen Plan Canvass. n
Rev. T. Tracy Walsh, pastor of the
EChurch of the Good sheperd, Episcopal
of Yorkvilie was in Columbia last
week where he attended a conference
on the nationwide campaign that is
being put on by the Episcopal de-
nomination. Bishop w. A. Guerry
presided and addresses were made by
number of Episcopal clergymen and
laymen. The seventy Episcopal dio-
ceses are asking for ss7,000,000 and
1 300, workers.
Not Seriously Injured.
Information from the bedside of 4
A. McKeown, district farm demonstra
tion agent with headquarters In Rock
Hill. who was painfully injured last
week when he was thrown from an
automobile on the Camp Sewer road
near Greenville by collision with 8
passing truck is to the effect that his
injuries are not serious. 1t was re-
ported Wednesday that Mr.. Mckeowr
was paralyzed from the waist dowr
but DR.. w. w. Fennell of Rock Hill
who made an examination is sure
such is not the case and Mr.. McKeowr
is expected to recover his health and
strength in few days.
Keeping Him Busy.
]. Frank Faulkner in charge Of
Yorkville's fire fighting apparatus has
been earning his pay" here Of late
as he puts it, there having been three
| fire alarms sounded within the pas'
few days. Mr.. Faulkner has beer
busy in not only chasing to the fires
but in cleaning up the fire truck and
hose after the fire and that is quite
Job. "It appears that fires in York
vile always come in multiples oi
three" observed Yorkville man the
other day. 81 have been watching II
for years and I have always noticed
that when there comes an alarm OF
fire after long interval, it is soon
followed by two other alarms" And
| it is o. fact that the rule has held good
in the recent fires.
Nothing to 1t.
There Is a story going the rounds
to the effect that a Federal secret
service man went into a store in Rock
Hill few days ago, asked the price
of a suit of clothes and then demand
ed to see the invoice price after which
fine was levied for profiteering. It's
lie and the same story has been told
on merchants of Yorkville, Clover
Sharon, Fort Mill and every other
town in the county. The story hurts
although most people know that there
is no state OF national law which fixes
the amount of profit merchant may
make on an article of clothing any
more than there is law compelling
customers to buy goods after having
asked the price. Merchants say there
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