Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-04-04
CAPITAL news GOSSIP
Changing Seasons And Changing Con-
ditiOnS.
STREET CARS ARE RUNNING AGAIN

John Gary Evans Will Probably Run
Against BIease-claud NJ. sapp for
consress-Wife of the Safeeraeker
Municipal Campaign ls In Full
Swing.
Correspondence The Yorkvills Enquirer
Columbia, April 3-Richland county
seasons are between three and four
weeks ahead of York county. Several
days of the past week were real warm,
causing men to chuck their vests and
heavy underwear and to make a bee
! line for furnishing stores to buy B. v.
DIS. Great galliniper mosquitoes, for
which Richland county and Columbia
are about as noted as Charleston, have
begun to make their appearance, while
| the crickets and katydids have been
singing at night just as though 1t were
mid summer. Columbia people who
have gardens have been eating onions
and radishes and lettuce Of their own
raising. The farmers are well along
with their planting and in fact there is
every evidence that the winter Is q long
way past. The kids have abandoned
the winter game of marbles and have
gone to talking and playing baseball.
Straw hats have made their appear
ance here and there, while the ladies
who promenade along Main street In
the afternoons are arrayed in the latest
late spring and early summer crea-
] tions. The Greek ice cream venders
push their carts over the city, finding
business good everywhere. and the pro-
prietors of soft drink places find that
business in that line Is picking up.
Jesse Perry young white man Of
Richland county, who got himself In
trouble in York county early this year
when he held up an automobile In
which several Yorkville ladies were
travelling to Rock Hill, is in trouble
again. The young man was arrested
at the home Of his father near Blaney
several days ago, charged with the
theft of an automobile, the property Of
a Columbia citizen. The automobile
was recovered. Perry is in the coun-
ty Jail here.
| II there is any county In the state In
need Of a new courthouse 1t is Rich
land. which has about the poorest
county building Of any of them. ,, The
courthouse here, which is located on
Washington street, was built many
years ago. The offices are small and
Inadequate for the needs of the county
officers. The building needs painting
and, In fact, 1t is In such condition that
little could be done to 1t except 10
tear it down to make room for q new
structure, as was done in York county
several years ago. But according TO
| Columbians, there is little probability
that the county will have a new court
house soon. Times are too hard.
| Mrs. J. c.. Moore, wife Of a safe
cracker who was killed at Trenton a
few DAYS ago and who following the
death Of her husband was arrested and
placed in Jail here, has been released
on bond of $500. The Enquirer, 1t will
be recalled, printed an interview from
a Columbia newspaper, which told her
!; story. While in the Rchland county
iail Mrs. Moore occupied a corner room
on the second story right next to the
police station. A rather pretty Dionde,
apparently about 25 years Of age, she
spent most Of her time gazing out into
the street at passing vehicles. Moth
ing has been heard of her since her re-
lease and it is quite possible that she
has "blown the COOP" as safe-crackers
saw. BY the way Columbia has been
the home of numbers of fe-craokers
and safe crackers wives in the past
In fact there are all kinds Of people re-
siding in the capital city.
Claud N. Sapp, prominent Columbia
attorney, may make the race Tor con-
gress from the Second district this
summer in opposition to Congressman
II. p. Fullmer. Asked the other day
whether or not he would be in the race
Mr.. Sapp said that he had not fully
made up his mind, but indicated that
he would probably be in the race. Il
have Just finished that two months
session in the house of representatives
as representative from Richland
county," he said, land just now L feel
that I have my fill of politics for a
while" Mr.. Sapp is we'll known in the
Fifth congressional district, being a
native of Lancaster, and was an un-
successful candidate against Congress-
man Stevenson several years ago..
Can ex-Gov. John Gary Evans OF
Spartanburg, capture the Democratic
nomination for governor? The dope
around the state house is that the for
mer governor will again seek the
gubernatorial chair as the representa-
tive Of the anti-Blease forces OF the
state. State house politicians argue
that Mr.. Evans has been talking and
writing of politics quite bit during
the past few weeks and that he Is the