Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-08-08


dire department..--...---M Monday evening
s2.4O0 was paid the members Oh the
Tom Hall Guards by the national gov
ernnent for their service during the
Inst six, months. Mrs. Mildred L.
Wooten, child placing agent for the
state board of Public Welfare, came TO
Fort Mil Friday and arranged to take
to Columbia with her two. little girls
who will later be placed In De Ia Howe
school in Mccormick county.
Chester Reporter, August 8: The boil
weeviI means that there is to be no
such thing as lay-by time, at least not
vet awhile. This terrible enemy OF the
cotton grower is in Chester county now
in full force, and his ravages on some
farms are terrible to contemplate
From prospects most inviting and ro-
seate a few days ago to prospects OF
one-third crop or less is how it is
working on some farms; and 1t is not
likely that many plantations are going
to escape disaster, and. that is work
hard work, constant, unremitting' con-
tinuous work....Messrs. w. c. WHITE
w. d. Robinson, ]. P. Thomas ana
Frank Knox left this morning for
Hartsyille to view the Coker farms,
and to see how Mr.. Coker is progress
ing in his battle with the boil weevii'
Messrs. Paul and Richard Carson
are attending the Citizens military
training camp at Camp Mcclellan, An
niston Ala. Mr.. Paul Carson has been
made nom commissioned officer OF his
COMPANY. Mr.. Aubrey Kennedy is al
so attending this camp.........-~burglars
entered the home of Mr.. w. 7. Betts
ON Hudson street Tuesday night in the
absence of the family, but were detect
ed. and fed before the arrival OF MI
Belts and others who had been sum
monsd.i So far as discovered nothing
was taken. Messrs. Robert David
SON and Mccoy Corkill, who, with sew
eral other college boys, are making q
tour of the West, via Ford write
that after hcving spent almost two
weeks in the wonderful state or Call
fornia they are now on their home
ward stretch. 1t took them between
three and four days to go through the
Nayada desert, and on one occasion
they travelled 1877 miles without see
Ing a town or even a settlement. of
course, during this time they did their
own cooking, and the bread, we VEN
ture TO saw. wasn't exactly like moth
or used 10 make" Their Fourth oil
July was spent at Buffalo Bilrs home
town, Cody, Wyo., and there they saw
a Western roundup. For several days
they worked in the wheat fields oil
Kansas, and after that experience they
wrote that they had blister for every
dollar made, and then some. Chester
gns at 80 cents won't sound as high to
them as the rest of us, for at some
places they are paying as high as 6O
cents per gallon. Henry Massey OF
Waxhaw, q nephew of Mrs. Henry
Stokes, of this city, is a member OF
the same party----~-....At meeting OF
the trustees of the Chester schools on
Tuesday morning, Mr.. John c. Stew
arts bid for $4,000 of school bonds
recently advertised for sale was ac-
cepted. Mr.. Stewards bid was 1Ol and
o premium of $275, or 101i. The
bonds pay six per cent, are non-taXa-
ble, and are redeemable in eight years.
Lancaster News, August l: The
present wooden school building at Van
Wyck, which has been, 1oGad made
quate for the growing needs of that
progressive community, We are tod
will soon he torn down and modern
and ample brick building erected in
its place. 1t is most gratifying to OBJ
serve the great interest in schools and
school buildings throughout the coun-
ty.........Not Brooklyn, New York, but
Lancastcr'3 thriving suburb, under
went a little excitement Sunday morn
inn when two men driving an autOmO-