Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-10-11

One can buy good car for almost
nothing in Asheville."
Frying size chicken, evidently the
property of some neighbor, walked up
the front steps leading into The York
Vile Enquirer office. The chicken
walked back into the mechanical de-
partment and up against one of the
linotype machines. A linotype opera
tor saw the fowl and grabbed it by the
leg. Ii didn't even squawk. Carrying
it into the office of one of the men,
bers of the staff who was married re-
Gently. he said: Here you, here's a
chicken done come in here and put it
self at your service. Now is good
time to start you a small chicken
| farm And the newly married one
got busy building a chicken coop.
Saw Mr.. A. NJ. Carpenter, manager
editor. of the Spartanburg Journal ana
one of the best newspaper men in the
South in Spartanburg the other aft
ernOon. Mr.. Carpenter was discussing
newspaper story sent out from CO.
lumbia, reporting an effort that Is TO
| be made in the near future to organ
ize strong Republican party in South
Carolina. from which the negro will be
excluded. Yes" said he, there is
/
lima. / believe that. But l do not want
| to be and will not be one of the men
| to assist in forming new party no
matter, what it is called or who is
! forming it."
Calhoun county farmer was talking
to Here and There the other day and
was comparing prices paid for cotton
picking in his county with those paid
in York county. Our cotton crop this
year." said he, has been failure on
account of the boil weevil and unfaY-
| Orable seasons. Lots of farmers are
| just simply broke and a dollar is a
pretty scarce article with them. We
are paying only 80 cents hundred
pounds to cotton picKers this fall and
we are having no trouble in getting
them at that figure. Ninety per cent
of the crop in Calhoun county has been
picked and at least so per cent. of 1t
has been ginned. Our people have pro-
duced more peanuts on lands formerly
devoted to cotton production this year
than ever before. They are getting
500 a ton for peanuts and the crop is
helping out wonderfully
Went over to hear Gypsy Smith, Jr.,
in Rock Hill Sunday night" remarked
Auditor B. NJ. Love yesterday. THE
tent was crowded a collection for in
cidcntal expenses of the meeting was
taken up and DR.. Alexander Martin
| stated before the meeting that it was
necessary to raise $500 for the pur-
pose. We don't want you rich men to
content yourselves with throwing in
half dollar or dollar. We want s. or
SO out of each Of you. A dollar or a
half dollar will do for a contribution
from the children Well, Reid Spen-
atI ctn a
the collection and when they had fin
ished | noticed that they were loaded
down carrying big sacks to the front.
1t was not stated whether the entire
amount was raised or not; but | would
think so, judging from the size OF the
sacks. And everybody seemed to con-
tribute with smile"
Here and There ran into a well
known farmer and race horse owner OF
St. Matthews, on a train at Spartan
burg the other day. The gentleman
was en- route from the state of OHIO
where he had been following his horses
back to st. Matthews. MY horses are
in charge of Blakely PleXicO of your
town OF Yorkville," said the gentle
man. and he is having wonderful sue
cess at county fairs through the state
Of Ohio just now. He has lost only a
few races and the boy is fast getting q
reputation as one Of the best horse
trainers in the whole country. i con
slider myself lucky to have been able tC
employ young PleXicO and am always
confident that my racing horses, whief
are worth thousands of dollars, are
safe and successful in his hands"
In the smoker OF a railway train the
other day. Here and There got into
conversation with Hon. J. d. Lamar oi
Athens, Ca, a nephew of the late l.. q
C. Lamar, who was member of the
cabinet Of President Grover Cleveland
Hon. J. D. Lamar until five months age
lived in Monticello county, Fla, where
he was clerk of the court for many
years. The gentleman got to talking
about watermclons and watermelon
seed. MY home county OF Monticello
(of course that is home, although live
in Georgia now has one claim to dis
tinction that might be of interest tC
your farmer readers at least. We pro-
duce about 10 pe~ cent Of the water
melon seed that are grown for plant
ing throughout the United States
Scores of farmers specialize in water
melon seed-devOte their whole time tc
them and ship them to every part OF
the world where watermelons, are
grown The Tom Watson watermelon
was developed in Monticello by a pen
niless young chap who still lives there
and who is now worth more than $780,
900, which he made through the sale of
watermelon seed