Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-07-29
ESTABLISHED 1855
VIEWS and INTERVIEWS
BrIet Local Paragraphs Of More OF
Less Interest.
PICKED UP BY ENQUIRER REPORTERS
Stories Concerning Folks and Things
Some of Which You Know and
Some You DON'T know--Condensed
For Quick Reading.

Somo or WHICH 1oo INV" 'N
Some You DON'T know--condensed
For Quick Reading.
Several circuses will pay the county
seat visit this fall if the plans OF w.
Frank Putnam, chief clerk in the
Yorkville postoffice, turn out. Putnam
knows more about The circus and show
business than any man around. per-
haps, and he has number Of personal
friends who are leading showmen.
"John Robinson's circus, may play
here this fall" he said the other day,
land the Waiter l.. Main people con-
template coming here this fall. Sparks
also contemp,ates booking Yorkville
and I have n letter from Ringing
Brothers who have the greatest circus
in the world in which they say that
they will send their advance men here
and will give this town every COLI
sideration.'
Old Time Baseball.
Manager Harry Neil Of the Amerl-
can Legion baseball team, who In his
Younger days was one Of the best
catchers that this section ever knew,
grew reminiscent the other day up in
the club and told of baseball in his
time:
II remember" said he, "somc twenty
years ago that baseball interest IN
Lancaster was keen and q game was
scheduled one afternoon between Lam
caster and Kershaw, I think it was.
The manager of the Lancaster team
got in touch with me and asked me 70
come over and to bring pitcher win
me-expense no object. Down Il,
Augusta, ~ that time was Il pitcher
who was one Of the best in the south
and knew it. I knew that for enough
money l could get him and did. we
went to Lancaster. That pitcher struck
out twenty-four men and he and to-
gether were responsible for eight runs.
Yes, Lancaster won the game. Maybe
some Of the old timers over there re-
member that game"
That All Day Singing.
"Yes there is already considerable
interest manifest in that all day sing
ing that Mase Stowe, Meek DICKSON
myself and others expect TO hold In the
courthouse" said Wednesday Mr.. NJ
l.. Carroll, Of Yorkvile. lone trouble
we are up against right now is in OBJ
tanning a sufficient number OF Amcri-
can Tune Books. We expect to use
that book and copies seem to be more
or less scarce. We are hopeful that
al who attend will not forget to bring
books if they have them. we expect
to invite the Pisgah singing school IN
CASTOR county, n. c., to come down ior
the day. A singing school is conduct
ed in the Pirgah neighborhood every
summer and they have some fine sing
ers there. We can't send Il special in
vitation to every singer" Mr.. Carroll
concluded; but we hope that every
body who is interested in singing Will
consider himself Or herself invited
Miss Melinda Melville, SO, Says:
The average man knows exactly
how to rule a woman-if she will only
let him do it.
Thank heaven for henna! Gray
hairs may be respected, but somehow
that isn't precisely the emotion that
a girl longs most to inspire in man.
A man swallows huttery as easily
and naturally as q baby swallows
button and with just as little regard
for the probable consequences.
The worst things that can happen Ia
woman: At ten, to be without play
mate; at twenty, to be without a
lover; at thirty, 10 be without huS-
band: at forty, to be without henna;
and at fifty, to be without philosophy
Those men who are affecting the
new convict haircut must think tha'
nothing can alter woman's love!
III Il HAL dQOlSS "OIiiCii, iS -
scoffed at as q silly sentmcntaliSt: II
he dislikes them he is scorned as
brutal mysoginist-so what can th(
poor thing do?
In order TO make Il novel lurldly IN
tereSting, it used to be necessary tt
paint the heroine's past" in vivit
coors; but, nowadays, you can pain
almost any girls present in its natu'l
hues, and get the same effect
The only feeling that the unsolicited
devotion of a woman arouscs in
man is that tired feeling
Burning Boil Weevils.
How it ever came about nobod
seems to know, but it is nevertheless
q fact that many negroes-in fact
is almost universal on the farms-ar
superstitious about burning DO
weevils," aid this morning 1or
county man who has just rcturne
from a visit to the boil weevil secto
of South Carolina. Somehow they &c
il firmly fixed in their minds that
they do they are liable TO be struck b