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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-07-15

Cheering News.-"Say.' the hot ana
tired agent declared wrathfuily' III
sick and tired Of climbing these stairs
to your apartment to ask you 10 pay
This BILL Now just what are you going
10 do"
"Sumething that will please yon' l
a1n sure" the debtor responded soo''-
inylv "On the first Of the month |
.,,,, ,,n;nr to move to building that
has = good elevator service.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-07-15

Making It Easy sor Him.-"Ah, ME-
Pasp. do you mind If | borrow your
boe and whpelbarrow for a while!
And. say, you have a new rake
haven't you? Let me take that also'
and your spading fork and watering
Lot. And you might-
Suppose | lend you my garden 'oo'
Mr.. Hooks, and let you take II fleht
alon. with the rest Of the stun! re-
turned r. X. Rasp 81 find / cannot
cultivate it without Implements 50
YOU may rs we'll nave it,
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-07-15

Identifying Tt wonder muSeu
Claudinc of the rapid-flre restaurant
"wbether the case chairman mas su'
ND with that swell red-headed guy Is
ANYTHING serious? She says it's only
Ilatonic."
"platonic-the cats foot.' returned
Hcloise of the same ESTABLISHMENTS
..vbcn a fella slaps a girls jaws rish'
in public there ain't nothin lla'oh'c
about it. That's love-"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-07-15
eis-Soom-Woof! !-l'arner::

EiS-bOonl-VVO T4TT-1
lcrc education sure docs pay. rake
nv boy just home. Went right ih.o
tho field where that savage bull oI
mine is kept. The bull starle" 'o'
him, The boy just stood pat ana
gave his college yell.
Friend: Well. what did the bull d"'
L,r,nrr. He iuincd in with him.
Sow they're regular EHS.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-07-15

Cause of Gratitude.-"We all nave
abundant cause for thankfulness. be-
gan the Rev. O. Goode Evans.
YES" replied J. Fuller Gloom
"I-or instance. ] am extremely thank
ful that was not born twins. IL IL
o,l can do TO get along with one such
cantankcrous crank as am, ana II
there were two Of me they probaniF
would drive me crazy.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-07-15
ool>inq Promising.-'Do you th'nt

Looking Promisins.-"Do you 'h'hN
that young man you have had to sun
,I,v simmer so often really means bus
mess. Madge?'
81 am beginning to think So molheF'
Tic. knows always prepare lhe Hu"-
dny night supper myself and he mas
taken lately TO complaining about inc
cooking"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-07-15

Move at Ease.--An old lady. leaving
,.,,,r,.h ,fi.r u service which had been
attended by !; crowded congregations
WAS heard 10 say: "lf every"h" else
would only do as do and stay quietly
in his place till everyone else has gone
out, there would not be Sucii Il rraH"
:It the door"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-07-15

A Home Episo debate one after
noon. Il fcw days ago, four men came
into town i'm IN automobile looking
wildly for the sheriff. There was,
plainly, b'Ond un the moon. One of the
uliartctte is a quiet. peaceful, induStrl-
Gus farmer and husband, whose wife is
alleged to have been spirited away by
q slick "furincr." Such an episode
would have created small flutter in
"Nuo Erik or "Sh1kaggu" where. as
the fleeing couple whzZCd away in one
direction, the lonely husband would
have been burning The air i'm an oppo-
site course with Il new wife. But with
us who 20. on should go. to church tr-
cry Sunday; who believe what Goa
hath Joined together let nat man put
asundcr: and demand that where one
loves the other lE!r OF the deal must
love back in equal measure. we do not
stand for such proceedings. She'iii
IIill, with his uslill skill and ingenuity.
got un the trail Of the gentleman who
is said to have holStrd that with three
strands Of II wunan'S hair he could
lead any woman HStIa%, ana soon ~
Gated The ubjrct of his search. lie Is
now resting l,rhind the Calhoun bars
with an alleged arcumpIirc in the dc;L.
Calhoun Times.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-07-15

His Destination. - Friend - -"ThHt
movie actor is very n"'nponS. TIC
boasts that he has arrived.
DIRECTOR He has. This Is where
he gets OFF, boston Transcript.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-07-15
General Rains Needed.

General rains are needed through
out the Sharon section. The crops
rive indications Of the general need.
There are some unusually gond patch
es Of both cotton and corn to be seen
here and there; but the majority IS
rather small and rather stunted and
heavy rain would help nightly in the
opinion OF many farmers.
Sharon's Most Patient Man.
Old job didn't have much on Uncle
Joe" plcXico. manager of the telephone
exchange here when it comes TO pa
iience. Uncle Joe" sits at the tele-
phone exchange here all day making
connections, answering thousands OF
auestions-some of them foolish and
others not so foolish. playing checkers
with folks who drop in and want to
play checkers when he has the time,
waiting on the trade in his store ana
through it all keeping his tongue.
When storm comes up or there is
Il little wet spell and tn" telephone
wires arc grounded extra trouble is
srcllcd for Uncle Joe" But ne never
gets peeved. He never looSes his pa
tience.
Lady dropped into his office We'd
ncsday afternoon.
81 do want some new batteries for
my telephone. can't hear what you
say when YOU talk to ME. cant near
what anybody says ..,.
"Yes'm," replied "unclc Joe" with a
blink.
The lady talked on and Uncle Joe
just said "Ycs'm."
He never gets rilcd. Hardly ever
gets out OF humor.
Subscribers to the telephone eH-
change here recognize pretty generally
that it wouldn't he IL so without
"l'ncle Joe
Typhoid Fever.
Several cases of typhoid fever are
reported in Sharon and vicinity. None
Of the patients, however. are consider
cd in very grave danger.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-07-15
Fridya, July Is, 1e2l..*ss' =.

county Jail Saturday by Landrum AL
lison, foreman Of the county chain
gang. He will probably remain there
until the next term of court, at least
Judge Bowman. did not open the hos
pital authorities report on Hender-
sons mental condition yesterday.
Henderson is accused Of having killed
Floyd and Frank. Kirby, five and sew
en-year old sons Of Mr.. and Mrs. Wof-
ford Kirby, Of the Blue Branch Sec
ton OF the county. November 20, 1870.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-07-15

- Lest we fnrgct-hcalth is the basis
nf wealth.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-07-15

- \ LOT Uf III; ask the price f"r"rc
we know tine value.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-07-15

If You're doing good work. don't
worry; somebody will find it out.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-07-15
SHARON news LETTER
Work Of the West Road to Begin at
Smyrna Next Monday.
SUPERINTENDENT SHEALY TO RETURN
Several Cases Of Typhoid Fever in
the COMMUNICATIONS Are Begin
ming to Need Rain Pretty Bad
Other Notes.
(By a Staff Correspondent.)


Other Notes.
(By a Staff Correspondent
Sharon, July 14-Inrormation re-
ceived here today is that work on the
West road from Smyrna to the York
township line is to begin regularly
next Monday morning. The contrac-
tors with their road machinery and
hands who are already at Smyrna,
have been busy this week establishing
Il commssionary and getting every
thing in shape and will he ready to &c
to work Monday morning.
SheaIy Coming Back.
Prof. j. W. Shealy, superintendent
Of the Sharon school last year has
been reelected and has accepted the
place. He is spending the summer at
his home near Leesville. Lexington
county and will return to Sharon early
in September to make arrangements
for the opening Of the school here.
A Dull Week.
1t has been a rather dull week in
Sharon. Practically no cotton has
been sold and there have been very
few people in town. Merchants re-
port that they have done practically
nothing and in fact would have been
almost as well off If they had closed
up and gone fishing. Quite number
Of them including several ladies, did
20 fishing Wednesday. The big party
went over on Thickcty creek in Cher
okee county, There had been big
rains over there and the water was
high so they came back to Kings
Creek where they caught enough fish
to make big pot of soup and to fur
nish the nucleus for big time.
Postmaster on the Job.
r. l.. lleXico, Sharon's new post
master is fitting right into the job and
is giving satisfaction to patrons o'
the Sharon office. Mr.. PleHico has
been in harness for several weeks now
and with the assistance Of T. II. q
Caldwell the assistant postmaster is
handling the mails like a veteran. The
yostofficc still remains in Caldwclls
store although it will soon be moved
to Il building all its own. Sharon was
advanced to the third class Of offices
some time ago and under the rules OF
the postoffice department II separate
building is required for third class Of
fees
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-07-15

-- Good ta$tr is u mcIclIantalile COM
modify.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-07-15
MUCH OBLIGED

TO YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS for
calling at our place yesterday-the
Fourth. We hope you had a pleasant
day and will come again. We will at
all times be ready to serve you to tfs
best of our ability in anything In our
line.
When we can serve you in anyway
lust tell us how.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-13
Weak Point in the Argument

Question-My attention has been called
to the Grison Refining Company, of Ell
Dorado. Ark, who are Offering units" at
500 each for subscription with which to
build a Ryan Process plant. which they
claim will pay 250 per cent dividends
yearly-their capital is given as 5000, 900.
They claim this refinery is to be IA dupli-
cate of one already in operation there con-
structed by Mr. Ryan. and earning 800 or
4C0 per cent. The Mr. Ryan has been
come cted with various oil companies in
Guiding the Standard. 1t is supposed to
have patented process for refining oil
claiming gasoline can be made at less than
cents a gallon. Is there any Significance
i'm calling their shares units instead of
capital stock? Is their proposition a. pos
sible one and can you give me any inform
alton about them and your opinion regard
ing their profits?-R. S.
Answer-The only weak point about
the argument is that if Mr. Ryan or
any one else had process in success
full commercial operation by which 800
to 400 per cent profits could be made
in refining oil, he would not have to
have his stock peddled around the
country and sold in units" or any
other way. In fact, he would have to
devote at least small portion of his
profits to hiring special policemen to
keep in order the horde of inves tors
who would besiege his Office begging
for a chance to put some of their hard
earned savings into the stock of his
company.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-13
Good Investment Securities

Question: would very much appreciate
your advice as to the best investment
high rate OF interest as safe investment
Of the money Will return I am a single
man we'll along in years and have other
income from an estate besides the returns
from the stocks and bonds listed below.
also have a good salary from my business.
AS give very little attention to the stock
market do not care to have stock that
requires constant attention to the trend in
Wall Street. My personal investments are
as follows: United States Liberty bonds
first loan, $500, X per cent; second. $500,
Az per cent; third, 5000, 4h per cent;
fourth $1,200,- Az per cent; Victory loan,
$100. d% per cent: These were all bought
at the time of their issue Forty Ave shares
Standard Oh Of New Jersey preferred; ;;
$4,000 United States Steel 5 per cent; So
600 State of San Paulo per cent; $4,000
Republic Of Chile per cent; fifteen shares
five shares Pennsylvania Railroad; fifty
shares Southern Pacific. Any assistance
that yau can render me will be greatly ap-
preciated.-A G. II.
Answer-We think that the list of
securities which you submitted are all
good and proper investments for a man
in the position which you have outlined
as yours. For the $4,000 which you
have available now we suggest that you
purchase $1,000 each of the following
bonds: Central Steel first mortgage
IS, due 1941, selling at about SO, to
yield trifc over 8 per cent; State Of
Queensland Is, due 1941, selling at
about 102 to yield about 600 per cent;
Northwestern Bell Telephone rs, 1941,
selling at about 105, to yield $50 per
cent, and Montana Power, first and re-
funding 5s, 1943, selling at about SO, to
yield $50 per cent.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-13
Profit Taking and Loss Taking

Question: would like to ask if you
would kindly give me your opinion of the
following, not for investment, but for
profit taking. and IL it is reasonably safe !:
Cities Service preferred, now selling at "a :
National Transit (Standard OiD, when it
hits about 22 New York Central per
cent, due 1912. now 76M; New York Cen
tral convertible per cent now 72A and
New York Central refunding 3 "a per cent
now 6SA !; Atchison, Topeka g. Santa Fe
adJustment per cent, selling at TAX and
Atlantic Coast Line first consolidated 4
per cent? Do you consider the French
Republic ~ per cent bond safe invest :
ment? l hold fifty shares of the Boston
d Montana Development Company that I
nave had for many years; can you tell me
anything about this company?-L. McC
Answer-We cannot advise YOU
about profit taking in securities of any
Kind, except to remind you that there
is such thing as loss taking also. We
cannot undertake to give advice about
speculation, and the mere fact that you
wish to speculate in bonds and pre-
ferred stocks does not change the ma
ture of your question. All the bonds
you name are, as matter Of fact, high
grade investments, and we can recon-
mend them unhestitatingly from that
point of view, but we cannot tell you
how their market price may f1uctuate in
the future. We think that the French
7Es are good investment,
New-York tribune., 1921-11-13

year a cash payment at the rate of SIS
per year for each share held. In case
of death or disability, the corporation
Will pay the employee or his estate the
amount of subscriptions paid, plus
dividends, the special allowance of SIS
Fer share ana the subscribers pro rata
share of the fund created from special
allowance payments which have been
forfeited by persons who have trans
ferred their stock or have left the cor
poration's service, less per cent in
terest on deferred installments. The
New York Central plan appears to fol-
low the same general outline. The
amount of stock which may be pur-
chased by any one employee is limited
to fifteen shares, deferred payments
carry per cent interest, and dividends
on the stock are credited during the
period while payments arc still being
made. Each monthly installment is to
be not less than one twenty fourth of
the total cost. In case of death or
disability the employee or his estate
Tor the number of shares which his
payments already made would cover, or
to. receive in cash the amount paid in
with interest at 6 per cent, or, in case
of disability, to complete his payments
within the period originally fixed
Space limitations will not allow a de-
tailed description Of the plans which
have been adopted by other companies
to finance the purchase of stock by
employees, but so far as we have been
able to examine them they seem de-
signed, like the Steel Corporation and
New York Central plans, to facilitate
the desire of employees to invest their
funds in a security in which the en-
ployees themselves have the greatest
possible interest and the value of
which they are in the best possible
position to protect and to judge in
telligently.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-13
United Fru;t

Question: widow and have very
little to invest. and friend recommended
United Fruit to me. AS safety is the first
consideration, do you think it a good in
vestment?-E. B. S.
Answer-Kansas City Southern SIS of
1850; Chicago & Western Indiana 4s of
1862; Western Maryland 4s of 1862;
Southern Railway Development and
General lien 4s of 1856; Wheeling &
Lake Erie 4s of 1919; Ann Arbor 4s of
1895; Baltimore & Ohio, Toledo &
Cincinnati division As of 1869; Iowa
Central SIS of 1888. We have arranged
the bonds in the order of our prefer
ence. The first four are, in our opin-
ion, fair investments. The remainder
are not so good. Among unlisted bonds
possessing good degree of safety with
high yield we can mention the Central
Steel IS, 1941, just issued at 98h, to
yield abouV $40, and Shawsheen Mills
Is, 1881, recently quoted at SO, to yield
about 7.10.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-13
New Haven Euronean Loan

Question: have about $4,000 deposited
in savings banks at interest at per cent
per annum and should like to invest the
same in safe securities that would yield
me at least per cent-that is If 1T is
possible-always considering safety and
certainty to secure dividends the first
item. I not interested in Liberty
bonds, as am now carrying So. 900 worth.
Will you kindly give your opinion on
some of the following. Lake Erie g. West :
ern Railroad Company second mortgag ge
gold 5s. City OF Toronto Municipal per
cent gold bonds, Nebraska Power Com
pany first, Toledo Edison Company first,
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific first, Puget
Sound Power and Light Company 7ia
gold bonds, series A. I should also like
some information regarding the New York.
New Haven & Hartford Railroad bond
issue which they refer to as the "French
issue" and which is soon to be retired
o. Il. N.
Answer-We think all of the bonds
that you name are good investments.
The New York, New Haven & Hartford
European loan, as it is called, were
originally debenture bonds, but are now
secured equally with the other deben-
lures with the first and refunding mort
gage bonds. They are due in 1922, but
whether they will be paid or not is
another question.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-13
Not for a Workingman

Queston-Will you advise one who reads
your investment column? ] am me,
dollars that is now in bank. have in
closed a circular advertising the coming
you think of it? Is this money to buy up
old stock that ia due? Spence & Co. have
an agent in town selling stocks in the
years. Are they o X? Was thinking Of
placing $500 @ ,S on January in Prudence
when money is more plentiful?--F. c.
Answer-As we understand it, the
Public Service Corporation of New Jer-
sey is not trying to sell it's securities
directly to its customers, but is trying
to get people who use it's trolley serv-
ice and who are consumers of the
electric current and gas, which it fur
market. We are very much in sympa
thy with their plan, believing, as we
suppose they do, that the diversified
ton of their securities among their
own customers will benefit both by
creating a strong body of public senti-
ment in favor of the company, which
in turn will tend to increase it's bus
ness, and hence increase the value of
it's securities to those who have bought
them Nevertheless, we hesitate to
recommend the securities of the Public
Service Corporation as investments for
workingman with comparatively linn
tied capital. The company has had q
hard time, and while it may have
turned the corner there are many Other
stronger investments much better
suited to man in your position. AS
to the stock of the Rogers Milk Com
pany, we think that it is even less
suited to your requirements. What you
ought to have is good bond, secured
bv first mortgage on tangible proper
ty. If you believe in the security of
New York real estate, we think that
the Prudence Bonds are safeguarded in
every way possible for such 9 security.
The interest rate is fixed for the life
Of the bond and will not change, no
matter what happens to money rates
generally.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-13
A Good Beginning

Question: am the holder of the follow
ing bonds and would be pleased to have
is my first venture in bond investment.
having drawn my savings from savings
banks. Am thirty six years of age, single
investments; $500 Great Northern U.s. series
A, 1895: $1,000 Portland Railway. Light
ernment of French Republic TVS external.
1941; $500 Rochester Gas and Electric
Corporation Is, series B, 1916. DO you
think there is any chance of the French
government bond interest not being paid
when due. and should I sell this bond and
reinvest or would you advise holding this
Gus issues.--F. A. K
Answer--For man in your position
we think that the list of investments
you submit to us is all right We be-
lieve that the interest and principal
of the obligations of the French Re-
public will be paid when due.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-13

ouestionnwould appreciate your advice
on the following preferred stocks: Ten
shares Steel per cent, $1.0S0; 10 shares
Standard Oil OF New Jersey. per cent,
$1,o60; 10 shares Virginia Carolina Chem
ical. per cent. $3.50. The steel and Oil do
not worry me any, but what had better do
with the Chemical? What does accumula
tive mean when applied to dividends !?
Please criticize the above and show me the
best way out OF had 1 better hold on -
@. F. NJ.
Answer-You have made a good Sc
lection in your United States Steel
and Standard Oil issues and we should
not disturb them. AS to Virginia
Carolina Chemical, we believe that this
company will eventually make up to
the preferred stock holders the divi-
dends that have been deferred The
word cumulative" means that all un-
paid dividends must be paid up before
any dividends can be paid on the COM
mon stock. Virginia Carolina was
hard hit by the collapse in prices fo1
farm products, but the outlook is GER
teinly better than it was several
months ago.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-13

Those same investors, however, went
through another experience which all
investors, no matter what class Of
securities they purchase, must face
every so often. They saw the secur-
tiles which they had purchased dcprc-
ciatc in market value to point con-
siderably below the price which they
had paid. Some of them became dis
couraEed and sold their holdings at
the low prices prevailing during 1920.
Others, of course, held their bonds.
Employees who buy the securities Of
the corporations with which they are
connected and hold these securities
over term of years will sooner or
later have the same experience. They
should realize that the market value
OF a security is not necessarily test
of its intrinsic worth; that the money
which they have saved and paid for
the securities would, except in rare in
dividual cases, probably have been ex
pended for non-productive purposes,
and that their own daily work is help
ing to insure sound values for the
company's securities, which must soon
The employees stock purchase plan
of the United States Steel Corporation
was established in 1902. Under it en-
ployees are divided into classes, ac-
cording to salary or wages, and the
amount of stock which can be pur-
chased by any individual is limited in
accordance with the amount of salary
or wages. Payments are made in
monthly installments, which are dA
Quoted from each months pay check,
and payments must be completed with
in three years. Dividends are credited
to the account of stock in process of
being paid for and interest at the rate
of per cent is charged. Employees
who have paid for the stock and are
continuously in the employ of the cor
Ioration for five years receive each