Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-05-20

busy hauling cotton, selling goods and
one thing another At Hickory Grove
most of the folks had gone to attend q
funeral in the neighboring county Of
Cherokee and at Guthriesville and Nc
Connellsville it was dinner time and
people were too interested in that d.
version to listen to Judge" Wilborn,
the Chautauqua boosters or anybody
else. So the Judge, was pleased; be-
cause it isn't an easy matter to make
a speech when the weather is pleas
ant and one is at ease, to say nothing
of Il time when the sun is boiling and
the dust is flying and all of that.
Only one mishap occurred on the
western trip. Just after the party left
the home of Walker Goforth on the
return from Sharon, q mule little
larger than Texas jack rabbit be-.
ing driven by a colored man to u bug
gy, didn't like teh idea of passing so
many automobiles all decorated In red.
He wanted to walk along cotton
field and thus give the chautauqua
boosters the whole road. The driver
decided that the road was wide enough
for both parties. Consequently there
was considerable flirting and sidestep-
ping between the mule and the COZ
ored man. The mule finally won, KICK
ing clear out Of the traces and break
ing buggy shaft which the negro SAID
would cost 9S cents to repair. One OF
the party gave him 98 cents to fix the
shaft and cents to put him IN a
good hurnor and everything rocked
along nicely.
It had been expected that Clayborn
Stroup of the firm of J. M. Stroup and
William S. Moore of the Peoples Bank
and Trust company, would sell tickets
to everybody at Hickory Grove. The
booster party had hardly struck the
main street in the town when the two
young men spied three pretty brunettes
standing in front Of store. the very
fact that a chautauqua was to be held
evidently escaped their minds then and
there. They made for the brunettes
and the brunettes didn't run away ana
in about a. pair Of minutes they had
lean Hood at the Hood Drug company
in Hickory Grove, mixing pineapple
ices and other things Of that sort that
Young ladies like. After some time
Moore's' attention was sufficiently de-
tracted from the brunette attractions
in order to persuade him to leave a leW
tickets on sale with Leon NJ. Allison
at the Bank of Hickory Grove.
Getting down to McConnellsvlile tne
Darty tOlQ the PllidSSiS oboee sAiS
chautauqua- Then somebody spied "a
biz jar Of pickle.; in the store Of J: P.
Williams G. Co. Miss Minnie Thomas
son, popular Yorkville Central ven.
tured that she liked pickles ana Wasnt
in love and a half dozen other ladies'
said amen. Then somebody fished up
enough money to buy pickles and plens
ty Of crackers. and again the sale OF
nb,,,ta,,n,Ia tickets was forgotten.
Then ]. II. Carroll and H. c. Smith
and Clayborn stroup and Ed Gettys
and few others sauntered into me
store Of w. O. Harshaw & Company
and looked longingly at pork and eeans
and sardines and so on and so forth.
Carroll suggested that they would be be
home in thirty minutes, SO the store
missed a few. sales-for cash r. credlt
and most likely the latter. =.
Then to home and in record time.
No punctures: no blow-o -outs; no
wrecks: plenty Of 4dust-no record OF
any chautauqua tickets sold. :