Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-08-16
ESTABLISHED 1855
VIEWS and INTERVIEWS
Brief Local Paragraphs Of More or
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.

For Quick Reading.
"It is no easy job to barbecue meat.
] have had my first experience today
white assisting Mr.. Kirby and ! know
whereof L speak" So said Mr.. Vines
d, Howell to whom Views and Inter-
views was talking at Hopewen school
house last Friday. I'VE started to
barbecueing the meat for the picnic
today about 1.30 this morning" Mr.
Howell went on to say, land we had
to keep right after it until it was
ready TO be served shortly after noon
today"
Remembers Kirby.
az remember that fellow S. j. Kirby
very WE'LL" said w. T. Bradford, OF the
Beth Shiloh neighborhood. Il got 10
know him when was n guard on the
chaingang about ten years ago. ne
was sent up for cruelty to one OF MS
children. According to my recollection
one of the neighbors reported to the
no,ice that the child had been brutally
whipped and left in the back yard win
a smothering iron tied to it. KIRBY
was sentenced to pay fine or go 10
The chaingang for thirty days. Whiie
on the chaingang he seemed to take
Measure in telling how he had sold
liquor and violated other laws"
An Effective Advertisement.
speaking of effective bank adver-
tising," said a prominent banker TINS
morning, here is one of the most Ell
fective advertisements l have ever
read in a newspaper: 1t was origlnaly
printed under the caption, Listen TO
This:
June 1914, State Banks of
South Carolina had on de-
pOSit ........-......- .S1-'VV'''0'
June 1921, State Banks or
South Carolina had on de- am
nosit .................... .$ $S1 900, ,OCO
What are YOU kicking about? Go to
work Be economical. Deposit your
money in a strong bank. Prepare your
lands early for fall and spring truck,
ing of all kinds, and, with very smalI
acreage of cotton, Barnwell county
will become the richest county IN the
lower part of the state.
BANK OF BARNWELL.
HARRY D. CALHOUN, President.
Government Hurts Cattle Business.
Mr. H. E. Ferguson, well known cat
tie dealer of Yorkville, was discusslhs
the cattle business the other day.
business is away off just now,' salo
he. and according to all indications II
will he for some time. While 1t Is
fact ahat people do not eat as Hucn
steak and beef in the summer as they
do in the winter that is not altogether
the reason for the great slump Oh lhe
mast several months. When the Worlo
War came to an end the United States
had on hand thousands and millions ol
mounds of beef bought from the great
hacking houses TO furnish the soldiers
The government since then has peeh
getting rid of this great store by SELL
ing il TO the general public. The
butchers who sell fresh beef find tha'
they cannot compete with the govern
ment prices and consequently the peci
business is on the down grade whiie
hundreds of butchers have gone out ol
business, There will be no change IN
the situation until the government
supply is consumed by the public
Miss Melinda Melville, SO Says:
phe more rapidly Il man goes, the
more likely he is to be over'aken ana
tripped up by the wrong woman.
The vital trouble with the modern
girl seems TO be that she IS bound 10
choose between the narrowing uncer-
tainties of marriage and the harrow
ing certainty Of being an old maid.
Summer resort: The Land of near
cream and almost-honey, of near-loVe
and almost romance, of ncar-Sleep ano
almost comfort!
Love is a thing of spirit, as well ~
flesh; and, unless the love you feel
has something in il that seems II
touch Divinity it is not loYe, but ina
gination.
Motto for a Husband: BE sure you II
rieht-then go ahead, and do as you
wife tells you.
The shyness and fright, with which
man asks girl TO marry him. arr
exceeded on'y by the boldness and au
dacity, with which he asks her merei'
To kiss him.
New dances come and new dance
go. but the good old waltz, under
new and more improper name, ever
summer, will go on forever!
II takes n cleaver woman to knoN
when and how to say bright, origina
thiags-and a genius, to know whe
and how not to.
Asparagus Cultivation.
up state people may not know IL
but it is fact nevertheless, that Bam
berg and Barnwell county farmers al