Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-05-31

age, like, the CHURCH, is sadly in need
of repair! The fence is tumbling down.
The trees around need trimming. The
outbuildings are weak and wobbly and
need assistance. The we'll bucket at
the we'll in the rear Of the parsonage
leaks. One has to draw the bucket up
couple Of, times to get couple or
three glasses Of water. Nobody lives
there now since the church is without
a pastor. The. cemetery needs shaping
up. In fact, the whole place is out OF
order. ;i,;.j:
One who is with ones friends decides
to go on down to Broad river to spread
dinner on the river banks. One is told
that the distance is about four miles
from the church and; that the road Is
about as good, as it is from the church
to Sharon. =, It. is-no better One low:
gears and high gears and slips ana
slides along the bumpy bumps: and
ruts and curves and hills and hol-
lows. About the time one thinks the
river will never, be reached Why there
it is. Just come on it unexpected like
across from Lockhart. ..I:i ~.
Then there Is a search up the river
for a nice cool and shady spot to
spread dinner. There is no such place,
so the party pick :ont the best place
to be found; Then for deviled eggs
and pimeHfo Sandwiches and ham
sandwiches and beef and pickles and
pie and fruit cake and candy and one
thing and another. One is tired after
that long and'srough ride. The stuff
tastes awfully, good. One wants a
drink Of water There is a whole river
full. But not a; drop to drink. No well,
no spring. Perhaps Tom Glenn. color
ed ferryman and some Of his folks who
| live right there think it, isn't good
business to have water there. -
They run, a little shanty there where
they sell Coca Cola and other soft
drinks on ice That is they are on ice
if the Ice doesn't get from under too
quick. On this occasion it did and the
dope was just barely cool. Tom Glenn
has a good thing in his little shop.
Just across the river lies the town Of
Lockhart. Blue laws Of Sunday are
real blue, on Sunday and one doesn't
have as much change to, buy soft
drink In Lockhart".oHn Sunday as he
does to become president of the United
States or something; so old Tom gets
in triple supply Of dopes and Ice on
Saturday ready for, Sundays business.
people come over on Sunday to. buy his
dopes They come OF his ferry--a great
MANY Of them do, He Is allowed to
charge for ferry rides on Sunday and
since he also charges for the dopes,
why he catches 'ern coming and going.
On the Lockhart,,ee side two young
bows own row boats,-c They do a thriy-
ing Sunday business: They charge a
nickel a passenger to cross the river
after a dope and "a nickel back. So
they make a good thing too, since lots
of people drink dopes.
Tom Glenn, the old colored feEryman
is an interesting, character. He mas
been ferryman there for tWenty-tWo
wears. In all that time he has had only
one accident. That, was before Christ
mas. He undertook to take mule
over with other passengers. When the
middle of the river was reached the
mule took a notion it could get over
quicker than Tom could with his ferry
So the mule jumped overheard. Tom
got across the river as usual. The
mule didn't just stayed.
It takes about ten minutes to cross
the river on an average. Tom Is good
ferryman, despite the fact that ne
weighs 325 pounds: He has an asslS.:
ant in the ferry business. When the
channel is reached and the old boat
rocks, the assistant ihoflers, Bear down
hard!" Old Tom bears down that S25
pounds avoirdupois on the guide pole;
The anchor Of a CGn;ard liner couldn't
be more stationary, than the ferry is
when Tom bears down. Tom wears
oyeralls and goes barefooted. His feet
| look like a couple Of those couters they
catch in the Broad quite often. Been
barefooted all his life, he says, and the
shoe n.anufa cturers- don't know now 70
make the style of shoe he would ike.
Then he never knows for sure When ne
is going to have to- swim.
Lockhart is pretty mill village OF
perhaps 1900 people. There are two
large cotton mills there and q power
plant. A branch of the Southern rail-
road connects the village with the
world via Union. The operatives have
clean and comfortable homes with all
modern conveniences. There are sew
eraI churches and a good school and a
good hotel ard in fact pretty nearly
everything good town needs. NO OIL
and gas is sold on Sunday. We nave
church pretty nearly all day Sunday,
one of the villagers explained. "When
we get tired Of going to church we just
set down and,set." Lots of people were
setting last Sunday.
The great steel bridge that is being
built across Broad riyer at Lockhart by
Chester and Union counties is about
half completed: 1t is going to be a.
massive steel structure with strong
concrete pillars. It is so high above
the river that. there is but little chance
of its being washed away. Nobody
will say about that, however. 1t may
be completed fori vehicles to cross IN
another three months But most folks
there think it will be longer than that.
Foot passengers maybe will be cross
ing in less time than that. Tom Glenn,
fat colored ferrylrnan, says he'll be glad
when it is completed, because he Is
getting tired of the ferry job after ~
years. =,
white folks. when dey gifts dat
bridge built, old Tom gwiner throw
away dis ferry pole. and den do moth,
ing 'cept fish for a whole six months
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