Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-03-21
VIEWS and INTERVIEWS
Briei Local Paragraphs OF More or
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Opinion of a Veteran.

For QulcN HeaoinD.
Opinion of Veteran.
Mr.. M. L. Thomasson Of York No. 2,
who has recently been quite sick, is
able to come to Yorkville again. He
was in town last Saturday, looking
none the worse on account of his ill
ness. Asked as to his farming plans,
he said that he did not propose to oper-
ate quite so extensively this year as
usual |
"Of course I expect to plant little
cotton as usual" he said; but there Is
rather too much risk in the business to
attempt too much and I don't think
that will do it."
Hauling by Truck.
The big trucks have practically
killed the hauling Of cotton by rail for
short distances, said railroad official
to Views and Interviews few days
ago.
Recently a Rock Hill concern
bought $50 bales Of cotton at McCon-
nellsyille. The freight rate from Rock
Hill to McConnellsville was S5 centsNa
hundred. The trucks offered to do the
work for 'sl.50 a pale. The rail rate
on a 400 pound bale would be $1.40 and
on a 500 pound bale $1.75. The trucks
of course had it on us, because they
not only agreed to haul the cotton at
a lower rate but to deliver 1t at the
warehouse of the mill. We could only
deliver at our side track"
Will Not Be Candidate.
Mrs. r. E. Quinn, who has been talk
ed of as a possible successor of H. Z.
Neil'as county treasurer, will not be
candidate. That Mrs. Quinn is COM
petent to fill the place there rs no rea-
son to doubt. She has been with Mr..
Neil for many years, and she is famil-
lar with every detail of the business;
but she does not want the place.
mo, will not be a candidate" said
Mrs. Quinn, when asked by Views and
Interviews about the matter. Il have
no idea of being candidate. There is
too much responsibility in the Place for
me. 1t is very nice Of people who have
been kind enough to assure me of their
support: but it would not suit me and
am not going to try it, ..,- :
Dangerous Carelessness.
While looking through the chattel
mortgage index in the office of the
clerk OF the court the other day, the
representative OF The Yorkville En-
quirer was struck with the small per-
centages of old mortgages that had
been marked satisfied"
What does this mean?" asked the
newspaper man of the clerk. Surely
one is not to understand that all these
mortgages for years back are still
alive"
NO" said Clerk McMackin, ut does
not mean that. 1t is more matter Of
careless indifference than anything
else, suppose. 1t is only now and
then that a mortgagor, after he has
taken up his note, comes around and
has the mortgage marked satisfied.
Usually about the only way to get at it
is to go to the books of the mortgage.
Had a man to come in few days ago
with a whole bunch Of old mortgages
that had been satisfied with request
that the satisfactions be recorded"
Dog and the Coon.
Eyes, a dog that knows its business
can kill coon all right" said Mr.. w.
n oF Ao y oioh hhnrhnnA
Saturday, while he and others were
discussing the subject over the coon at
w. f. Jackson's store, recently captur-
ed in the Eastview section.
Uncle John Boyd used to say that
he would not have dog that could not
kill a coon. Uncle John lived in the
Neely Creek section and he was a
great coon hunter, fifty or sixty years
and he caught and killed lots Of coons.
II am not much Of a hunter myself;
but as 1 understand 1t, it is question
of the dog knowing it's business. A
coon can whip any two or three ordi-
nary dogs if it has half chance, and
if it is a question Of fighting in the
water the coon can whip a whole pack
of dogs. But the dog that knows his
business Is a match for the coon any
where, even in the water. He must get
a good grip on, the coon at the right
place and hold on-thats all. If he
will just hold on long enough the coon
will die. A good coon dog learns that"
That State Income Tax.
There is a lot of dissatisfaction about
the income tax law passed at the last
session of the general assembly. or
course, the average man is not es-
pecially friendly to any kind of tax.
Most reasonable people, however, un-
derstand that though government is an
evil, il is a very necessary evil, and
that il cannot be run except by taxa
ton. But even these people develop
impatience under too much taxation,
and some of them are quite hot under
the collar about that state income tax.
Here is the way YOrkville man de-
Iivered himself on the subject to Views
and Interviews a few days ago.
Il don't mind paying my part of the
expenses of the government. There is