Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-02-14
No. l, in answer to questions last Sat-

| Not long ago Mr.. WnlteSlueS dhl
Messrs. r. C. Faulkner, Star N. Stacy
j. D. Smith and Arthur Quinn made
accommodating trip to the home of Mr.
Sloan across Catawba river in Neck
lenburg county for the especial purpose
of finding out how Mr.. Sloan was
coming with pretty bold experiment
he has been making in raising pea
nuts.
"Mr. Sloan told u.s." said Mr.. White
Sides" that he had planted forty acres
in peanuts, had sold a few and Still
had almost 1000 bushels on hand. He
said he had been offered cents g
pound or so cents a bushel for his
crop, but was not willing to sell be-
cause he thought that too little. Also
he made 500 bales of hay on the ~
acres, and this he has been getting $40
a ton for-about $500.
I'VE estimated the value Of the crop
at $2,100 for what had been sold and
what Mr.. Sloan had been offered for
the balance"
Asked as to the quality of Mr..
Sloan's peanuts, Mr.. Whitesides said
that he did not think much Of them. Mr.,
Sloan was without previous experience
and had planted a large variety that
were several joints in length, and they
did not fill out we'll. Mr.. Sloan said
that he lid not use any commercial
fertilizers of any consequence and that
the cost of raising the crop was about
the same as that much acreage in cot
ton.
81 have never raised peanuts, on an
extensive scale" commented Mr..
Whitesides; but we have been raising
small patches about our place all my
life. We have, generally planted the
small Spanish peanut, and would say
that they were much better than those
raised by Mr.. Sloan. In fact l don't
hesitate to say that we have frequent
ly raised as good peanuts at our home
as you often find in the stores"
Mr.. Whitesides did not appear to be
carried away with enthusiasm on the
peanut question; but he said he was
going to try 1t on a small scale-not
enough to hurt and he thought that
the other members of the party felt
about the same way over the PROPOSE
ton.
q Mr.. Whitesides, by the way, Is one
of York county's most substantial
farmers. He has always managed to
make his farm self sustaining, and has
generally made some money"
Eskimo Pie. -
Have you tried any Eskimo pie yet?
Eskimo pie is new kind of ice
cream--hot chocolate poured over Ice
cream. The new confection cana to
town Saturday and a local drug store
that obtained ten dozen pies" sold
nine dozen OF them in less than three
hours. Tho confection is not only new
in" Yorkviile, but all over the country,
for 1t is the recent invention Of Chris
tian K. Nelson of Chicago.
: Nelson. went to Chicago from Oma-
ha fifteen months ago with ID cents in
his pocket.
Today the 19 cents has grown to a
steadily increasing fortune Of six fig
ures.. It'll be over a million before
Nelson pays his income tax.
What did it?
The idea!
Nelson's idea was to cover a square
of cold ice cream with a layer of hot
chocolate, thus making a confection
with real ice cream inside.
He got that idea while he was man.
aging his fathers ice cream plant out
in Onawa, la. And he furthered it
while he was studying chemistry at
college. g.:
When he was graduated he peddled
the idea around from ice cream facto-
ry< to ice cream factory. Everybody
laughed at him.
Cover cold ice cream with hot choc-
olate? Man. you're crazy!" they'd say.
But Russell Slower, manager Of an
ice cream plant at Omaha was different.
He thought Nelson's idea could be put
over. And together Slower and Mel
son did put it over:
That's why you see q big yellow
sign advertising Eskimo Pie" in your
confectionery store window.
For Nelson's the inventor of Eskimo
pie.
Nelson is not making it. His COM
pany, composed of himself Slower and
others, is selling licenses to firms in
other cities to manufacture the con-
fection.
Today more than 100000 Eskimo
pies are being eaten daily. And Mel
sons company gets five cents royalty
on every dozen pies.
And Nelson's busy with an adding
machine trying to figure up his in
come.
Don't lose heart" Nelson advises
others. 81 kept plugging at my hunct
and plugged-that's why succeeded
"Just don't give up. 1t seems to ME
that too many people are only too cas-
lily licked"