Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-12-09

agent here, and also received the let
ter you wrote to the agent. am pres
| ident and sole owner of the local bank
and can assure you as to my financia
standing. AS the mayor CT the city
hesitate to refer you TO lawyer, since
am the only member of the bar il
this vicinity. If | was not also pastor
of the Methodist church / would also
tell you to go to -"
The Jap Got His.
Although he has no seat at the con-
ference table on disarmament now
holding forth in Washington, Gene
Hutchison, secretary to Congressman
w. F. Stevenson is very much inter
ested and is naturally getting all kind!
of dope possible about it. Mr.. Hutchi'
son sent Views and Interviews thi!
clipping from a Washington news
paper the other day which relates {
humorous little incident in connection
with the conference:
Japanese alertness is illustrated by
this story: They say that when the
representative of the Japanese en-
bassy vert to the State Department
with the list of the refreshment re-
quirernent of his people, the official
concerned, after glancing over the ex-
tremely brief schedule, remarked: II
see you do not intend to do much en-
tertaining" Quick as a fash, the Jap
anese said, reaching for the paper,
Excuse me, see have brought the
wrong memorandum" Within half an
hour he was back with a catalogue
which compared favorably with the
memorandum submitted by other en-
bassies. No complaints have been
heard about Japanese parsimony in
liquid entertainment.
Hardly Breaking Even.
Talked the other day with sala-
ried employe Of the business office of a
large mil corporation in another
town. The conversation was of pri-
vate nature and for obvious reasons
the name Of the individual In question
is not to be mentioned. But the relia-
bility Of the information may be taken
on the authority of The Yorkville En-
quirer.
What about the prosperity Of the
yarn industry at this time?" was asked
why, we are doing better" was the
reply.
Making any money" =.
mo, not that; but we are losing less
than we have been losing since July.
Came within a few dollars of striking
even on November business"
What is the trouble?'
Just cannot sell our yarns at
profit. Big buyers are holding off in
the hopes that prices will be lower, and
we are piling up our production in the
hope that prices will be better. Be-
cause Of the peculiar character Of our
product, we are doing better than some
of them; but l think the makers OF
standard hard and soft yarns are far
ing considerably worse than we are.
81 can't tell you why, but l am sure
that European conditions cut big fig
ure. For instance, would not know
German mark If should see basket
full; but all of us in the cotton mill
business understand that when the
German mark goes down, cotton yarns
seem to go down in sympathy"
Hidden Under Sheet Of Paper.
Did you ever kill anybody by run
ming over them?" asked Views and In
terviews, of a Southern railway engi-
neer last Saturday night. We'll" re-
piled the engineer after slightshesi-
tation, something like ten years ago
there was n dead negro picked up on
the side of the road after had passed
along, and they said / had run over
him. But l don't know for sure. II
was like this continued the engineer.
.I was running between Augusta ana
Charleston, on a train leaving Augusta
about 2:45 in the morning. 1t was
slow schedule and just before day one
morning Just this side of Denmark, l
saw ahead Of me big sheet of paper,
such as is sometimes used for lining
the inside of cars loaded with flour,
living on the rails and ties. We were
lust drifting along at about fifteen
miles an hour and l did not pay atten-
ton to the paper and passed over 1t.
Later when reached Charleston the
trainmaster came up and asked me If
knew anything about killing negro on
the track near Denmark. l told him
that I didn't kill any negro. Yes, you
did said the trainmaster. DO you re-
member running over a big piece OF
paper at that point? he asked. Yes, /
remember running over a piece of pa
per' I replied Well said the train
master, there was negro under that
paper and the west bound train picked
him up dead Well l replied, J
might have killed him, but l certainly
didn't know anything about it. And
concluded the engineer, II am not right
sure vet that l killed the negro. just
before ran over the paper, had pass
ed several negroes on the side of the
l,t.0x IDEA