Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-06-02
Sfraps and faets.

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tputs into, effect a change which will
effect more than $4,000 postal clerks
and carriers through the country.
,Barl,stt informed the president that
thousands of emI )yes, by reason OF
the exhausted appropriations Tor auXlla
liary clerks. were compelled to work
from one-half to two hours overtime
each day. The president is under.
stood to favor employing additional
clerks, in sufficient numbers to take
care of-all overtime employment. To
..carry this out the president, II was
..said, will ask congress for an addl-
.tional or deficiency appropriation.
For the first time since the date
of issue, all Liberty bonds-s sold at par
;or better on the New York stock eX-
Change last Wednesday. Heavy trad
ing in Liberty bonds at highest
prices and transactions embracing
several lots of $1,000,000 were the out
standing features of the bond market.
Continued ease of money and invest
.iment, buying by individuals and cor
.Iorations in anticipation of June IN
.terest1 and dividend disbursements
:gaye stimulus to the days extensive
'burchases of these war flotatlons.
Nfaximum and minimum quotations OF
.:these Shopds so far this year afford IN
.terestfngS comparisons. The high OF
Zoo. .06 for the 1-2's compared with
"a low Of 94.4S's; the first AS of 1882
,47 sold as low as 9S.10 and as high as
4.lO0.10; the second Las or 192t-4Z
.;rangedS from $3.50 to 100; the third
"A las of 1928 and 96.S2 to 10000 and
ithe coupon fourth 4 LAS, in which
dealings often have been very large,
rose from 95.72 to 10000. AT the low
uuotarfons of last year most OF these
bonds were yielding from to almost
6 1-2sper cent: On the present basis
OF eAtuss. the 3, LES net exactly 3 IL
pei! cent and the AS and 4 Las from
to IA per cent. In fine, predic-
tionsI of treasury officials made early
in the year that all of Uncle Sans
war. fotations soon would reach par,
7or better, have been fulfilled.
- A big load is off the mind of Sergt.
Alvin York, the Tennessee noun
taineer whose exploits. in !, the Ar
gonne, where he captures single
handed a battalion Of German infan-
try, brought him the title Of "the
greatest hero of the World war from
Marshal Foch. d. The deed to his fine
4pD-acre farm on Wolf River, Fem
Itress County, near Pail Mall, was pre-
sented to him last Tuesday. II came
to him every penny paid for. The
presentation was made by j. L.
Wheeler, trustee of the York Fund.
When York returned to America in
1919 he refused all offers to appear on
the stage or in the movies and COM
mercialize what he termed IAN act of
God" announcing his determination to
devote his life to the education of his
people When he arrived in Tennes-
see, the Nashville Rotarians started
n subscription TO purchase farm for
HIN. near Pail Mall. They raised sew
seral thousand dollars and bought the
farm, leaving $4,000 unpaid. The
sergeant it was thought would be able
to pay off the remaining through
rrups he would raise. He married,
and in due course Alvin. Jr., arrived.
,Yhe drought of 1921 hurt his corn
t.erop, and the price defiation reduced
iits yield. A mortgage payment was
.tdue in the fall, 1t looked Alike York.
y.Nould face foreclosure. The Nash
lvi''e Rotarians again became active
iand money was raised not only to pay
1he instalfmenb I!bdt 10 %1ehr off ithe
entire, indebtedness.
T-Warning against the next war was
made Wednesday by Admiral Charles
.Plunkett, u. S. NJ, at the Memorial
Day services, held under the auspices
of the American Legion, in the world
war section at Arlington cemetery.
..If the war had gone through, 1t
would have gone on gloriously and
stopped all wars. If it had been al
lowed to come to its legitimate endsT
the wonder and mystery that sur
grounds the werld today would not
have existed. The peace we dreamed
would follow would have been real,",
Admiral Plunkett said. THE time
jpay como when we may hear the call
do arms again and when it does we
will know when to stop. We were so
Strictly neutral before we ertered the
World war that we leaned over back
wards" he asserted. 1--WE did not
caution our youth that democracy,
when all the world is against it, must
be ready 10 fight for its existence. AL
ways in the past we depended on the
volunteer system for our armies. but
this last war looked so big that the
draft BECAME necessary, and will be
The method on which we will be de-
pendent in the future: But the young
men did not understand the principles
for WHICH they were called upon to
fglit.S nor did those who called them
comprehend precisely, but all of us
remember how speedily we travelled
the road straight TO defend that which
we hold dearer than anything else.
Never in the history of the world did
? nation adapt itself to war as Amer
ica did"
= The New York Journal of Com
merce prints a summary of acreage
Snd crop conditions in which it puts
the acreage at approximately 27,747,-
400 and the condition at IT'S per cent
She acreage reduction rs compared
with last years acreage amounts to
81. With the exception Of 1921. when
fhere hyas a drastic cut to 25,59S,000
acres, it is the smallest acreage in
several years. In 1920, 35,504.000
acres were, planted: in 1918, 37,207, 900
acres and 36,052,O00 acres in 1916.
LargeE acreages' were planted in the
years 1913 and 1911, amounting to S37,-
45S,O00 and $36.6S1 900, respectively.
The next smallest to the present esti-
mate was in 1915, with a total of 32,-
100000 acres. lust what may be ex-
pected.. from this acreage is a much
discussed topic, and estimates range
from 100000 bales to as high as r.
100000 bales, although at this time
such estimates are manifestly little
more than guesses, especially as plant
ing is not yet completed. Following
the governments method of calcula-
taon. the indicated yield will he about