Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-08-22
TALK OF TAXES
Candidates For County Offices Ad'
dress the Voters of Forest Hill.
The PRUNING KNIVES ARE KHETTED
Bolin Believes Winthrop College Can
Get Along With Much Less Money
Opposition to State Highway Com
mission is Expressed-kennedy Says
it Took Third of Last Years Cotton
to Pay the Tax Bill.

mission is Expressed-kennedy Says
il Took Third of Last Years Cotton
to Pay the Tax Bill.
(By Staff Correspondent.)
Forest Hill, Aug. 1s-Legislative
candidates addressing less than loo
voters of Forest Hill and Bethel town
shin here today continued to talk OF
taxes and remedial measures whereby
the annual tax budget of state and
county might be reduced a few dollars.
Candidate Washington A. Bolin took a
little fling at his seven opponents when
he said that if he had not succeeded
in doing anything else in this race he
had succeeded in directing their at
tention somewhat to the matter OF
taxes and had gotten them to thinking
of means whereby they might be
lowered. Mr.. Bolin also made the
statement that he thought that Win
throp College at Rock Hill could get
along with less than the amount the
state had appropriated for her beneht
last year-something more than $780,
600. He remembered when Winthrop
worried along with 100000 appropria-
tions from the state and he inferred
that the great normal and industrial
college could go back to that figure In
times OF stress like these. Each of the
five legislative candidates who talked
to the voters here today had his prun-
ing knife along and admitted that eX-
penses Of running the government and
state institutions might be shaved
down a mite at several places. An
auditor remarked that perhaps by the
time the campaign was concluded in
Yorkville Saturday of next week some
of them might have it figured out how
to run things on darn nigh nothing"
Meeting in School House.
The meeting was held inside Forest
Hill school house. True, most OF the
people at all times were on the out
side and didn't bother about trying to
get into the rather stuffy school house.
There were never more than forty
voters inside the building but the au-
dience that the candidates spoke to in
meeting assembled was mostly COM
posed Of children and babies who at
times looked at the various speakers
long and curously as if to know what
it was all about.
A picnic was held in connection with
Al
case at Forest Hill. There is no water
close to Forest Hill school available for
drinking purposes and when folks got
thirsty they bought lemonade and soda
pop and ice cream cones at the re-
freshment stand which appeared to do
pretty good business. Shortly after
noon dinner was spread on the ground
and big pot of soup had been cooked
just right. Everybody Jared well.
There is always plenty of dinner at
Forest Hill for all.
Glenn Presdes.
The meeting was presided over by 5.
S. (Vess) Glenn, executive committee
man for Forest Hill precinct. Mr.
Glenn was disposed to give all the
candidates all of the time that they
wanted to speak. l. H. Boyd, superin
tendent of the county home and
former resident Of Forest Hill opened
the meeting with prayer. Candidates
for county treasurer were first up and
they were followed by the candl lates
for probate judge and the candidates
for superintendent of education. The
morning speeches were brief, the
candidates conining themselves large
ly to an announcement of their respec-
tive candidates..
After dinner the legislative guns
were limbercd, a selection by the Tir-
Zah Cornet Band which furnished the
music for the day attracting the crowd
back TO the school house again. T. z.
Kennedy of Sharon, was the first of
the legislative aspirants to talk to the
voters. Speaking of conditions, Mr..
Kennedy said that the prices paid for
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very materially since deflation set in
while salared men were still getting
the same money that they got during
the peak of prices in 1919 and 1920.
Mr.. Kennedy said he would like to see
n law passed authorizing railroad
freight agents to settle damage claims
on the spot even as they collected
freight bills and thus folks wouldn't
have to go through a lot of red tape in
getting their claims settled.
He talked of farm labor and would
pass an act holding responsible a man
who enticed away a crcppcr leaving
the landlord to hold the bag. He
thinks the road laws should be i'm
proved upon and he would do away
with the twenty-sevcn township road
commissioners and put the town
ships on the supervisor and the county
commissioners. Since the county COM
missioners do not get much of salary
he would shave little off the salary
of the supervisor and give it to the
commissioners for their additional
work. lie is informed that as matters
stand now the commissioners only
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