Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-10-18
HERE AND THERE

laundry man the other day. "All de
young men and all de oller menses dey
wcara soft collee and washee at home.
Me no gettee de collee bizness me had
got when dey was only stiffee collees."
u noticed beggars always follow
circus" remarked an observer this
morning. 81 saw two one-legged men
soliciting aims in the streets in Rock
Hill Saturday although there was no
show in Rock Hill that day. But L
noticed the same two doing, business In
Yorkville early yesterday morning.
Hard looking, hard boiled professional
beggars."
- Two colored women living in wide-'
| ly separated sections came to York
vile for the enthusiastically. They
had not seen each other for some time.
This was the conversation heard on
the street:
"Howdy Liza"
"Howdy."
"HOw's yo' alp
"Ah is sorter poorly. All is been
havin' series put in nah arm foh to
cure de rheumatic an ah hurts all de
! time"
y have been a resident here twelve
years and want to say that this is the
most representative body Of men of all
classes and callings that | have ever
seen together in a public meeting" de-
clared Rev. T. T. Walsh addressing
members Of the Loyal Order of Moose
and their invited guests at the Moose
banquet held in Yorkville, last Thurs
day. evening. Rev. Walsh said that he
wanted to congratulate an organization
that could bring together such a large
! representation of the leading citizens
Of the town of all occupations and
callings.
- Cotton is getting rather thin in
York county fields because of the
energy of the cotton pickers during the
past month and while occasionally one
strikes field which gives the appear
ance Of hardly having been picked over
at all, those fields are the exception
rather than the rule. Inquiry among
farmers in all sections Of York county
is that they are paying from rs cents
TO 81 per hundred to cotton pickers.
However because of the lightness Of
! the crop most Of the cotton is being
! picked by members of each farmers
! family.
THE peddlers are cleaning the
country o. eggs" remarked J. D. Hope,
well known Sharon merchant the other
afternoon. 1T used to be that farmers
| Of the surrounding territory brought
scores of dozens of eggs to Sharon and
we did pretty good commission busi-
ness in eggs. But now peddlers driv-
! ing in automobiles seoul all Of western
York county for eggs, buy them at the
Farmers door and carry them to Rock
! Hill, Chester, Charlotte and other
| larger towns. II is about as hard TO
! buy eggs in Sharon or Hickory Grove
now as it is to buy them in larger
! town.
| Numbers of ex-service men of York
! and adjoining counties are going to
| Rock Hill, this week to see the gov
ernment Clean Up Squad that is ar
! ranging to give physical examinations
to all men in bed physical or mental
! condition believed to be the result Of
their war service. There are a num-
ber Of veterans in York county, it is
said, who are in bad physician shape
and whose infirmities date back to
their service days. The Clean Up
| Squad arrived in Rock HILL Sunday and
will be engaged in examining both
white and colored soldiers at the
! Chamber Of Commerce Hall until Sat-
urday night. Officers of the four
posts of tho American Legion in York
county are very anxious that all eX-
service men who are disabled will go
to see the Cleap Up Squad.
- Dody Phillips of Chester who play
ed such great baseball in Yorkville the
past summer rs n member of the
American Legion Larrupers is setting
college football athletics in South Car
Olina on fire. Phillips is unquestion-
ably the greatest football player in
any college IL the state. He is at
tending EISliina Theological Seminary
ut Due West. \ Due West dispatch of
Friday telling of Erskine defeat of
| Charleston college at Due West
Thursday says: Phillips, and the other
ten men OF the Erskne team romped
through and over end around Char
lesion colleges eleven he @ yesterday
fO" a II to 0 victory. The playing of
the whole Erskine team was splendid,
and Phillips. Shannon ard Kennedy
tore through the Charleston line at
will. Phillips doing some especially
fine broken field running, one of his
runs being for 5S yards, through the
whole Charleston team. In fact, it
seems to take the whole Charleston
team to stop the great back.
A YOrkville man had his little son
pCrchcd on his shoulders IN front OF
the MackOrCli- Ferguson Company's
store yesterday morning as the circus
parade went by. Listen to a few.of the
questions the little fellow asked and
his fathers answers:
Daddy, what are them big things?"
elephants, my SON."
Daddy, what is an clcphant?"
Those big things you see" my son.
Daddy why do they have two tails?"
Il don't know my son: but they are
not both tailS-One of them is trunk