Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-09-30
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. What Our Neishbore Are Saying and
Doing.
Chester Reporter, September 26: An
other smash-up is reported as having
occurred at South Fork bridge late yes
terday. afternoon. Two soldiers on a
motorcycle ran into an automobile that
WAS stouped at the bridge, when not
knowing the lay Of the land and the
dangerous character of the place they
plunged into the car at high speeu'
Both vehicles are said to have been
considerably damaged, but no one was
hurt. Another accident is said to nave
occurred at the Mobley's creek bridge
on the Ashford Ferry road, caused oy
two cars colliding............-...At meeting
of the directors of the Chester SUNDAY
School. Baseball league this morning
the report Of S. E. 'Wylie, who audited
the books and records of the associa-
ton, was received and adopted. The
total receipts Of the association for the
season were s1,717.39. Bills paid and
audited, s3O973; cash items paid,
SlS.71; cash in bank, and disbursed
among the four Sunday schools, ST.
3SS.94. The receipts from the post
season series, amounting to $137.14,
were turned over to the High School
Athletic association, and Superintend-
ent Brockman was given 4 check for
this amount this morning. Mr.. j. b.
Bankhead was the efficient secretary
and treasurer, and Mr.. WylieJ audit
showed all records to have been accu-
rately and carefully kept..........-.-Super-
intendent NJ. E. Brockman, Captain
James Brice and Mr.. Beemer Harrell
attended a meeting of the executive
committee Of the South Carolina High
School Athletic league in Columbia on
Saturday the object of the meeting be-
ing to arrange q football schedule for
the various high school football teams
of the state. Owing to the fact that
many OF the teams had already made
their schedules, this committee found
1t difficult to proceed, ard teams like
Chester, which had not made sched-
ule, found it difficult to arrange one.
Chester's schedule, as far as arranged,
which is subject to change, is about as
follows: Friday, October 18th, Clinton
at Clinton; Friday, October 18th, Fort
Mill, here; Friday, October 2lst, York
here; Friday, October 2Sth, Lancaster
or Kershaw; Friday, November 4.
Rock Hill, here. Friday, November
18th, Winthrop Training school at
Rock Hill; Friday, November 18th,
Kershaw or Lancaster; Thanksgiving
Day, Abbeville, here. Effort is being
made to arrange a game with Union on
the Chester grounds for Friday after
noon of this week.............Mrs w. S.
Brown, who has been i'll for two weeks
at the home of her daughter, Mrs. ]. II.
Barber, is improving slowly....."..Dr. c.
NJ. Rakestraw has called our attention
to the following from the Savannah
Morning News, and if any are induced
to try this method of fighting the boil
weevil, and are able to raise cotton
successfully, and incidentally increase
the egg output, we'll accord the entire
credit to the genial doc" J. Ham
mond Eve, superintendent of the
Southern Cotton Oil company, vouches
for this story because he knows the
man who told ii TO him to be thor
oughly reliable ard trustworthy: A
farmer near Foysythe, Ga, has discov-
cred a new, novel and copper .riVited,
IL not copyright, method Of beating the
boil weevil at his own game. The
method is the simplest imaginable. The
farmer experimental with a tract of
twenty acres on which he had planted
cotton. Before the plants reached the
age at which they were susceptible 10
the weevil's onslaught he turned his
chickens loose in the field. 1t happen
ed that he had a great many chickens,
so he scattered them about so or so to
the acre. To get them accustomed to \
the range he did little preliminary
feeding. When the boil wcevil showed
up the chickens were on the job. AS fast
as the bugs would appear the chickens
would gobble them up. TIE chickens
did absolutely no damage to the cotton. |
Neither did the boil weeVilS. The
chickens didn't give them a chance.
The farmer raised more than bale to