Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-09-23
Friday, September %, 1921.

son was talking yesterday in a Nc
COnnellsville store about the boil
wcevil and went on TO say that the
wcevil was doing greater damage in
his section this year than was antici-
pated several weeks ago. The weevil
has also hurt cotton pretty badly in.
the McConnellsville section. '"Why
tie weevil is after automobiles now,"
said Mr.. Stevenson. Report has it
that Il wcevil has already carried away
tic flivvcr of a man living near Low
ryville ard the gtory goes that he
then jumped in n big car but was un-
able to take it away. All right said
the weevil to the big car as he turned
the steering wheel loose, my tribe will
be bigger next year and we'll take
this big car too.'"
G. Campbell (BnD Sandifer, soda
jerker in Yorkville drug store served
throughout the World War as a men,
Der OF a military police outfit ranking
as a non commissioned officer. Like
most he-soldiers, "BilP' got consider
able Rawlings out from time to time
and he came out of the service q lover
of enlisted men and with no well de-
fined affection for officers, joyful and
glad in the knowledge that his dis
charge made him equal with all men.
But here comes the funny part Of this
story; A colonel, lieutenant colonel,
couple of majors, a couple Of cap
| teins and lieutenant with the 51st
Artillery now passing through York
vile dropped into the drug store where
"BilP' works the other day and lined
up at the soda fountain. "Bilp' looked
at the eagle, the oak leaves the bars,
ETC., and incidentally looked the Of
ficers over. Then he greeted them
about as follows: Hello fellers,
what'll you have?" The officers gave
"Bilp' the naughty stare and then
growlcd, dope" And bill" continued
to grin.
There is a wonderful difference in
the character of the cotton mill trade
now as compared with what it was
when l first began to get acquainted
with it ten years ago." said Yorkville
grocerman to Here and There on We'd
nesday. when 1 first began to sell
goods to the cotton mill operators
about here" the grocerman continued,
Il was not long in learning that I
must be exceedingly careful, else I
| would soon be out of business. or
course there were many mill employees
who were just as good for their obli-
cations as anybody; but they were the
exception rather than the rule. II
seemed as if the majority, maybe not
that bad but most, were out to beat
you, and had to be very careful. AS
careful as 1 could be it was common to
have a family skip out without warn
| ing and owing a bill Of month or
two for rations and other things. But
| don't find 1t that way now. OF course
! there are some who are no good just as
there are in all other lines of work;
l'but the average mill worker will now
measure up as high in his sense Of the
sacredness of his obligation as any
body. No, l am not saying that of all
who work at the mills simply because
! they do work at the mill; but am
| here to say that the average mill
worker is all right. II he owes you he
will pay you, and If you are dishonest
with him, or treat him unfairly he
will drop you like a hot brick"
"Old Man Cad" Dover alleged daddy
rabbit" moonshiner of the Kings
Mountain battle-ground section is
doing a thirty day sentence this hav-
ing been imposed by Federal Judge H.
H. Watkins, following his plea Of
guilty TO a charge Of making liquor at
the recent term Of United States court
in Rock Hill. "Old Man Cad" recently
completed chaingang sentence for
the same offense following his plea of
guilty in the court OF general sessions
last spring "Old Man Cad who is
about SO years old, talked his case to
the reporter as he sat on his bunk in
the corridor outside the steel cells in
the county Jail the other day and
chewed his snuff brush. "The judge"
said he, gave me 800 or 80 days. I
could have paid the 500 but l didn't
have much to do right now so decided
to just serve it out" Sheriff Fred
Quinn doesn't keep "Old Man CAD
| locked inside the steel cells like ~the
other prisoners but allows him the run
of the big passage around the cells and
the old moonshiner says that he is
comfortable enough. Il never knowed
no better than to make liquor" he said
the other day. my nanny died when
was little b,t of a thing and never
knew my father. I had to hustle for
myself when / was a little bit Of a
shaver and have been busy ever since
making a living somehow" "Old Man
Cad" is a picturesque figure with his
wide brimmed black felt hat on his
head and his snuff brush ever in his
mouth.