Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-12-16

service man who is sort OF lawyer
and who knows all about the workings
of the L. S. Veterans bureau which !:
supposed to look after compensation
for disabled men. A man who feels
that he has compensation coming tC
him pays this fellows expenses tc
Washington. The military lawye:
goes to the office of the Veterans bu-
reau in Washington and he sits righ,
there until he finds the proper official
to take the case before. He doesn't
leave until every thing is Strengthened
out and he has every guarantee that
the monthly check of the disabled mar
is going to come regular. The scheme
Is pretty expensive to some Of the
boys; but it gets results"
Liquor Not so Plentiful as Formerly.
,'It is all bunk about there being as
much drinking now as there was when
we had dispensary, or when we could
get liquor legitimately by express
said the barber, as Views and Inter-
views was getting shaved the other
day.
| A fellow who had had a drink of
white lightning, and who wanted
another; but did not know where TO
get it had made the remark that called
forth the BARRIERS declaration.
"Of course it is all bunk. Who is in
better position to tell than me?
Don't about all the people who drink
liquor come TO the barber shop, and
is il not a fact that there are some who
never come unless they have drink
OF course that is so. I have been in
the business more than fifteen years
and I have had q chance to- observe
some things.
Yes, l take a drink occasionally and
sometimes l get drunk; but 1 don't
make habit of it. 1t will slip up on
any man who drinks once in whi'e.
OF course there are those who say they
never get drunk; but all have to say
is that if he drinks at all don't be-
lieye him when he says he never gets
drunk
But ] was talking about liquor
drinking before and since prohibition.
There is plenty of drinking now; but
not nearly as much as there used to be.
1t used to be that more than fifty per
cent. of the men who came in to have
work done smelled of whisky, and now
we often work all day, sometimes
even all day Saturdays, without getting
a whiff OF it. No do not mean that
is regular thing Very often we have
run Of customers who show sings OF
liouor: but I do not hesitate to say
that where = one -Dman .siss bdrinKins
"white lightning these days there arc
half dozen drinking this 'Pcptone"
stuff or "Predigested Beer or gin
ger" or something of that kind. You
don't often get the old corn whisky
smell. and rye whisky is rarer still.
But counting all that, there is not near
as much drinking as there used to BE-
and I don't mind saying that while l
like a drink myself am glad Of 1t. l
have got more respect for mysef "heh
1 am sober anyway
Talking Boil Weevil.
There were three of them in the
smoking compartment Of the South
bound c. & NV. when Views and In
terviews entered last Tuesday after
noon, on his way to Columbia. They
were unknown to each other as well as
TO Views and Interviews. But il turn
ed out that one of them was farmer,
the other two travelling men. One OF
the travelling men was selling, or try
ing to sell fertilizers. The other was
from Charleston. He did not say what
he was selling. The farmer was from
Georgia.
The merchants are not buying any
thing" said the fertilizer man, "ano
although it is rather early, l am going
in. No use to be out on expenses, with
nothing doing"
These people up here have made
good crops Of cotton" remarked the
Charleston man. but the merchants
are not buying. They seem to be N
the shadow of the boil wcevil."
That's the fellow that broke up my
business and put me TO working for a
salary said the fertilizer salesman. !
had a good trade, had lots of goods IN
the country; couldn't collect anything
and had to give il up"
4 That's what's the matter with me,
volunteered the farmer from Georgia.
Il expected to make 200 bales Of cotton
this wear and got IS. I'm bankrupt.
I'm going where there is business To
| see if | can't get new start, ana IL
| make it expect TO go back to my
farm and take a new start.
you know what is going to happen
to these people up here next year:
asked the fertilizer man. They are
going on planting cotton another year
and they are going broke. One of the
merchants UP here at Yorkrille tod
mo that he had travelled all over his
county during the growing season;
that although the government reported
/ ,ott,,, condition in August at 81 per