Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-09-23
ESTABLISHED 1866
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ANY partridges down your way?'
Views and Interviews inquired OF
w. A. Mitchell, prominent young far
mer of Bullock's Creek township, the
other afternoon.
"Oh, 4 few" replied Mr.. Mitchell;
but" he added laughingly, Il don't
want to catch you or anybody Else
down there shooting them. | never
realized until recent years just how
valuable birds-any kind of birds ana
especially partridges, are. I've quit
hunting myself and | hate to hear oi
anybody killing partridgcs. With the
exception of crows there are very Few
birds in this country that do any harm
to crops. They tell me that the part
ridge is a great destroyer of insects
and crop pests and ! know from e%-
perience that il is so. Now we have
the boil weevil and if each partridge
eats a dozen boil weevils early next
spring the partridge will have helped
the farmers like everything. No, sir
want to see the birds-especially
partridges increase in number
The Clean up Squad.
Miss Ellis of Atlanta. representa-
tive of the American Red Cross ana
advance agent of the government
Cleanup Squad" now touring South
Carolina in the interest Of disabled
soldiers was a visitor in YorKville
Monday and while here conferred with
officials of the American Legion and
the local chapter of the Red Cross rel
ative to the coming of the Clean UP
Squad to Rock Hill during the week
Of October 1872 Local officials
pledged their utmost support in the
work of bringing eX-service men be-
fore the squad for examination
EVERY man who served in the woild
war" Miss Ellis went on to say, lis
entitled to an examination by This
Gquad which will have its headquarters
in the Chamber of Commerce building
in Rock Hill. If any eX-service man
is disabled 10 per cent. or more since
his discharge from the army he is en-
titled to an examination and to com
pensation and the squad will see
that he gets it. 1t would be well for
every eX-soldicr to take this eXamm-
alton whether or not he is in bad ply
sical condition. The Clean-Up Squad
will be in position TO give all informa.
tion about disability claims and COM
pcnsation and government insurance
and every service man in York county
owes [ to himself and his country to
appear before this squad and be eX-
amined. 1t is necessary that each man
bring his discharge with him. With
out the discharge or certified copy
of it the squad can render no assis-
tance."
ST Per Hundred in Texas.
See you had an interesting article
in The Yorkville Enquirer of TUESDAY
in regard 10 crop conditions in TEX
rs. | have here a letter from rcla-
tive in Texas in Which he encioscs a
Fort Worth, Texas dispatch telling q;
the demand for cotton pickers and the
price being paid III the state and you
are welcome to use it iif you wish
said a Rock Hill man this morning:
Fort Worth, Sept. 1S.-Western Tex
no is calling for few cotton pickcrs as
compared with former years, said
employment officials in Fort Worth.
who daily register requests from un-
employed men for work in the fields
Of the state.
Fort Worth has sent approximately
200 cotton pickers to the fields TINS
season. it was announced. Although
calls for pickers are received daily, the
number wanted is few. The prevail
ing wage for pickcrs in Texas, employ
ers report. is 81 hundred POUNDS.
Many unmarried mon, they say. are re-
mctant to accept this wage without
provisions for meals. However,, ie"
employers are offering to eat thcl:
help. as boarding in the fields is tcrm-
eC. They employ the men with the
stipulation that the workers "cal
themselves"
The cotton labor situation. as point
cd out at the Fort Worth cmploymC
office. is indicated in the announce
mcnt that one cotton oil mill here
which usually began operations ;hc
frs, of September will open this yc.l
on October 20. Another similar mil
has suspended operations indefinitely
The cotton picking in this region vi!
be finished carly this year, farmers
predict. =
Some negro families that work a
various jobs in the city during othci
saosons have gone 20 t"e fields for th'
COTTON picking. Among these are col
ored women, who receive 81 for doin:
. family washing in town. but who re
ceiye 81 or more for picking lO
hounds of cotton. They say they pre-
rcr to pick cotton ut this wage thar
wash clothes.
Nest of the demand for cotton pick
org was from south Texas. said w. :
George. head Of the employment "l
Gce Even there, the decreased d"
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