Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-01-11
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Shaves and Hair Cuts.
See where the BARRIERS in Anderson
have reduced the price of shaves from
20 cents to Is cents and hair cuts
from 35 cents to 25 cents" said this
morning BARRIERS customer. Il guess
the old price will soon become common
over the state since this slump has to
hit everybody"
Expecting Big Dieting Bill.
I'm expecting that we are going to
have big prisoners dieting bill this
year-at least much larger than last,
Supervisor Hugh G. Brown remarked
the other day. There will no doubt
be lot of prisoners in the county Jail
this year who won't bc able to get
bond so readily because Of the financial
stringency and / figure that it is go
ing to be necessary to keep them in the
Jail a good while, which will of course
increase the dieting bill. That's the
way things look now at any rate"
With Fear and Trembling.
Il am going to Columbia determined
to do what l can toward seeing that
the sta { is run as economically as
possible this year." said Representa-
tive Robert NJ. Mitchell the other day.
II will have to admit though that am
entering upon this session in some
what of spirit of fear and trembling"
Mr.. Mitchell went on to say.
The Mule Necessity.
Mason H. Blair of the Blairsril!e
section of Bullock's Creek township
tells this one:
Two negroes in my section who
have been riding in Fords were riding
along in &. buggy pulled by mule the
other day.
Dis heah, amt nuthin' LAX turnin'
on de juice-of a Fo'd, is it" remarked
one negro.
Nope remarked the other; but hit
takes CT heap O. fooiin wild mule to
git dc juice ter turn on a Fo'd.'
Number Will Diminish.
"I don't believe there will be as many
income tax payers in South Carolina
for the year 1920 as there were IN
1919" remarked Sam Johnson. income
tax expert of Rock Hill, who was dis
cussing the subject with Views and In
tcrvews on the train the other even
ing. There were about 10000 income
tax payers in South Carolina last
year." MI. Johnson went on to say. "Of
that number Il great many were
farmers Because of the decline in the
price of cotton and other crops there
arc going TO be hundreds Of farmers
subject to the tax in 1919 who will not
be liable for 1920
Not Enough Men.
1--WE will never be able To make any
arprccablc Roadway toward stopping
the sale and manufacture of liquor IN
South Carolina until we have Il lot
more officials devoting their time I"
that purpose than we have now" said
the other evening NJ. S. Turner, Federal
prohibition agent in charge OF the
Spartanburg office and whose terri
tory includes York county. There are
only seventeen Federal prohibition
agents in South Carolina" NJ. Turner
went ON to say. Il find that county
and state officers give US the best
possible cooperation wherever l go;
but the number of men is rot enough.
In my opinion the state of South
,,,ll II
Sl5OO00 for the enforcement or the
prohibition laws
George Rooster Says:
Construction will expedite recon-
Structiun.
II hystcria be laughter, then jazz is
music.
It's easier to smash an cgy THAN is
price.
Marconi might try inventing wireless
politics.
The bill! collector pats his sole into
his work.
The business of the bootlcGGcrS is
tightening up.
Sober thoughts are now first, not
second, thoughts.
The successes in life arc not made
hv rho hunters for sure things.
The supreme court will have to be
thc ultimate decider as to cider
oh, we'll. the short skirts keep mc'
frrm walking into open coal holes.
What Il pity Europe has not as muc!
food for stomachs as for thought.
II will not he easy To prov" l-h"s
Nicotine is John Ear!cycorn'S tWlh SIS
ter.
The Autoists Song.
An automobile owner waS SlnE'at
this morning:
"AIy auto 'tis nf ;hc". short road Il
povcrty. Of thee chant. ] blew pli'