Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-09-27
HERE AND THERE

They were talking about What Ihcy
were going to do next year on account
Of the boil weevil-wcrc several
farmers-and one Of them remarked
that in his opinion there would be
more peanuts raised in this county
next year than hasuevcr been known
before.
81 want you people over here to use
smaller bullets" jokingly remarked
Dr. w. W. Fennell, to Here and There,
! lille in Yorkville the other day. "Thcse
small bullets like they use IN most
other places give trouble enough, but
these big bullets, such as they use mere
and down in KerShaw, are still more
difficult TO handle"
That business is picking up is the
common testimony. Only this morning
a travelling business man told Here and
There that his collections last Satuf-
dav were better than they had been
for months. OF course we have been
selling goods all along some for cash
md some on credit; but for some time
collections have been simply bum. |
believe things are going to be better
from now on.
ut is all very we'll to talk Of the
freight rates not having anything TO
local furniture dealer to here and
there, but we know better than that.
Take those tables over there for in
stance. We sell them at SIS each and
- cents out of each dollar of the cost
price goes for freight. In other words
where We paid Is cents for tables we
paid % cents for freight. OF course II
does not run that much. all along the
inc In the case of rugs, for instance
the freight does not amount to more
than per cent. of their value. That
is because of the unbreakable charac-
Ter. the smaller bulk and the higher
lost price i'm proportion. But freight
rates are some high, higher on furni-
ture dealers than on most other peo-
pie
They were talking in the sheriffs Of
fcc-two county Officl2lS-which two
does not make any particular dliter-
cree: but if anybody wants TO know
Srecilica.iy. they can ask the sheriff.
Somehow. it don't matter how, the
question Of gossip" came UP. one OF
them said that many people ABOUT
here missed their calling. From tne
way they get hold Of all the idle gossip
that is going, they should have gone
into the newspaper business. IhanH
YOU" remarked the newspaper man
that is complimentary" Then the Of
fetal took it back, 2aying that he did
noL mean it that way. After an awk-
w..rd pause. the other official re-
marked that he did not hear or
remember one-tcnth Of the gossip that
was related in his presence; but he
went on laughinGly, lit has occurred
to me that il yOu really want TO get
tho news YOU must so away from
home. II seems to me that | get more
news of Yorkville by other people else
where asking me about 1t than l get
here on the spot and oftentimes 1t Is
straight. too" Then he laughed again
as though he was not certain whether
he had said something foolish. You
are not as far off on that proposition
rs Won seem to think you are, SAID the
newspaperman. Anyhow, it is no joke.
Go awpv from home TO hear the news,
is 4 saying that has been handed town
for so many generations that no one
knows the origin of it. 1t - a fact
that YOU may hear more important
gossip about your town elsewhere than
Won can hear at home. There may be
different WAYS to account FOR II; Dut
one is like this: The people IN one
town are not so COnSiderate OF the
shortcomings Of another town as they
are of the shortcomings of the people
of their own town. a man in Rock
Hill, for instance, feels less c nstr2int
about talking about somebody in
Yorkvillc than he would feel about
talking about somebody in Rcck Hlll.
Distance. YOU know, lessons the feeling
of responsibility, and man in York
willie who knows something queStlona-
he about somebody in Yorkville is
more apt to tell it in Rock Hill or Clo-
ver. Ard then the Rock Hill or Clover
man is pretty apt on opportunity, 10
ask the Yorkville man for further de-
tails. That is one reason why you
hear the news; but of course there are
other reasons"