Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-10-11
them, just as cheerful like and as gaily


as you please.
1t would be hard job to count all
the hotels, boarding houses and res
taurants in Asheville. One can get ho-
tel accommodations from $50 a day
down to $3.50, and perhaps below.
Most of the boarding houses are run
by widows, who. left without support,
had to start something. But not all of
them. Driving over the city this morn
ing l noticed a rather di,apidated look
ing house with a sign Boarding
House" over the front porch. A big
fat woman, wearing a gingham dress
and a dirty apron, was standing on the
porch, her arms on her hips Over in
the corner of the porch sat one whom
I judged was the 'old man," a dirty
looking pipe in his mouth and his feet
sticking over the bannisters. The wo-
man was talking to him-evidently
bawling him out about something.
Somehow l couldn't help thinking of
that old song which includes the
words:
Everybody works at our house
'Cept our old man."
One sees a lot OF OK teams up in the
mountains. l stopped an old codger
out in the country this afternoon and
asked him about crops-what crops he
raised for living.
He looked me over little while be-
fore he answered and then he said:
well, sub, we rafse considerable corn
and wheat and oats and little terbac
Ger and some rye and lots of apples.
We sell what we don't need without
any trouble. l might say, sub, that
most of the corn and the rye is in the
shape of liquor when we find ready
sale for it, and heap O, the apples
gifts changed into brandy"
And the old duck laughed and laugh
ed at his wit.
Ran into James F. Barrett, president
Of the North Carolina Federation Of
Labor, in Asheville. Barrett is the
foremost advocate of union labor in
North Carolina and he wields Won
derful influence among the working
people. He is a comparatively young
man, very soft spoken, except when he
is angry; courteous and kindly, and in
appearance he looks something like
Baxter McLendon, the evangelist, eX-
cept that his brown moustache and
brown hair are not as thick and heavy
as Mack's. Every member Of labor
union in South Carolina as well as
North Carolina knows Barrett and his
work.
Tell the union people down in South
Carolina that I am coming down there
pretty soon, make q few speeches and
see how they are all getting along"
said he. "Organized labor is making
rapid progress in South Carolina as
well as in North Carolina, but Of course
in both states we've got a long ways
to 60"
Speaking of organized labor, Ashe-
vile is one of the strongest organized
cities in the South. There are 2,76O
union workers in the city, which has
population of about $4,000, according to
Mr. Barrett. Asheville is also great
fraternal city-large bodies of Masons,
knights of Pythias, Moose, Elks,
Woodmen Of the World and other fra
ternities being located there. There
are more than 1000 Shriners in the
city.
sonville, the largest town between
Spartanburg and Ashevi'le, has gone,
and the town has a rather deserted ap-
pearance just now. 1t is the same with
Saluda, Tryon, Landrum, Waynesville,
Marshall and other resort towns. 1t
won't be long before the snow begins
to fly up here.
If Dan baltimore, Joe Riddle, Bob
Stephenson, Hay Moore and a score of
other York county fox hunters would
bring their dogs up here in Western
North Carolina they would have all the
sport they could possibly want and
then some. Mountain guides say that
this country is just filled with foxes.
and while there are lots of enthusiastic
fox hunters in the mountains there are
more foxes than they will ever catch.
OF course it is ideal territory for foxes
hills and valleys and rocks and caves
just the country the fox loves.
Game Warden Dan Woods, Joe Sims,
Walter Maloney. Rev. J. L. Oates and
other 'possum hunters would be in
their glory in these mountain fastness-
es. They say they catch 'em in the
streets in these mountain towns and
there's no use to go for them into the
country. All they are shy on is the
sweet potatoes 10 go around the plates.
Jas. d. Grist.