Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-08-15
VIEWS and INTERVIEWS
Brlef Local Paragraphs Of More or
Less Interest.
PICKED UP BY ENQUIRER REPORTERS
Stories Concerning Folks and Things,
Some of Which You Know and
Some You Don't know--condensed
for Quick Reading.

Some You Don't hnoW-Sohoehse'
for Quick Reading.
"While we haven't checked up yet
am pretty sure that we made expenses
from the sale Of refreshments at the
Filbert picnic recently" said John ..
Hall, a member of the picnic COM
mittee the other day. I'VE had more
expense this time than heretolore'
however" said Mr.. Hall.
Having Summer School.
"Allisons Creek summer school
opened this morning" said Mr.. }. Alex
Bigger, well known farmer of the ALL
son Creek section who was in YORK
Vile yesterday Miss Grace Hit OF
Cross Hill, S. c., is in charge" MI
Bigger said the summer term OF the
school would probably be in session Tor
two months.
Road Labor Plentiful.
eve are having no trouble in getting
all the hands we need for road work at
81 q day each," said Mr.. j. Darby
Smith. a member of the Kings Noun
tain township road commission the
other afternoon. 81 don't thins l ever
knew so many people to be as anxious
TO work and we could easily get several
times as many hands as we have both
white and colored for road work at II
a day il we would try and if they We're
needed. The reason Is plain. So many
people lust now are without money and
they are keen and anxious to get hold
of the money"
A Business Mans Prayer.
Teach me that sixty minutes make
one hour, sixteen ounces one pound
and one hundred cents one dollar.
T elp me to live so that / can lie dowh
at night with a clear conscience, with
,ut a gun under my pillow, and un-
haunted by the, faces of those to whom
[ have brought pain.
Grant that / may earn my meal
ticket on the square and that, in earn
ing it, / may not stick the gafr In
where it does not belong.
Deafen me to the Jingle Of tainted
money and the rustic Of unholy skirts,
Blind me to the faults of the other
fellows, but reveal to me mine own.
Guide me so that each night when l
look across the dinner table at my
wife. who has been a blessing to me,
/ shall have nothing to conceal. Keep
me young enough to laugh with my
children.
And when come the smell of flow
ers, and the tread of soft steps, and
the crunching of wheels out in 'front.'
make the ceremony short and the cpl
taph simple-Here Lies Man.
The Storm in Bulloek's Creek.
.I went to see what the creek had
done to my bottom corn just as soon
as / could see after daylight the other
morning" said Mr.. John L. Stephenson
of Sharon No. 2, on Turkey creek, to
Views and Interviews Saturday after
noon. at was a powerfully hard rain
and wind storm, and l was afraid the
creek would be so high that | would
lose my corn. But when I got there
found that the creek channel had not
been more than half full and the wind
hadn't damaged me any to Speak of.
But if it hadn't been for the fact that
the creek had been dredged my bottom
corn would have been destroyed. AS
it is | have an extra good prospect for
bottom corn. But others in Bullock's S
Creek township did not fare so well.
Many of our farmers had their corn
blown down fiat and practically ruin
ed. / heard this afternoon that a
Dodge car that was in the yard at Mr..
Porter Goods, was found next MORN
ing n hundred yards away, having
been driven across the field by the big
wind"
Mixed in Names.
Three old men Of Sharon were sitting
under some trees in the town the olner
day talking politics. Two of them
were bitter anti -Bleasites. The third
was just as great an admirer Of Cole
man Livingston Blease.
"Well, I'm going to vote for Cole
man this year." commented one who
had never voted for Blease.
The Bleaseite said nothing but look
ed at the speaker hard and long.
81 thing I'll vote for Coleman too,
said the second m; who had never
voted for Blease.
That's right" said the strong Bleast
man, 1--WE never voted for anybod!
else in recent years
WHO you talking about?" inquired
the first man.
why Coleman Livingston Blease o
course"
oh" returned the first, Il meal
William Coleman of Union"
THAT is who 1 mean Also" said tn
second man.
''Humph," retOrted the Blease man
81 didn't know there was but one ma
running who had q Coleman in hi
name"
And the three old men parted com
pany then and there, two of them go
Gonna 1irartinp nd pna of tbpr