Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-02-24
WITHIN The TOWN


School had a half holiday on We'd
nesday on account Of Washington's
birthday.
= Hal Mackorell has bought lot on
Kings Mountain street between the
residences of Sam NJ. Grist and II. E
Ferguson from Paul Moore.
is it not funny that while every
body seems to be agreed that potato
house would be good thing, NOBODY
has seen proper to go about the build
ing Of one.
THE Mcconnell Dry Goods Com
pany had very satisfactory dollar
day yesterday, their special offerings
stirring up considerable trade from the
town and surrounding country.
THE management of the Yorkville
Cotton Oil company has decided upon
the complete remodeling and re-equip-
ment of it's ice plant, and the necessary
machinery for the purpose has been
purchased. The capacity of the pres
ent plant, which makes white ice, IL
between five and eight tons q day. ms
remodeled plant, which. Will make
crystal ice, will be from ten TO NJ
teen tons a day. 1t is expected tnat the
change will be completed before the
warm weather sets in.
-Theo Mackorell, Joe Herndon and
J. B. Grant have their fiivver recently
purchased from Hamlet Carroll IN
pretty good running order and they
are about ready to start on their TRIP
over a good part of the country IN the
car. They expect to go to florloa
where they will remain q while and
then start to the wheat fields or the
northwest and from thence into can
ada. 1t is their intention to camp by
the roadside at night and they expect
to make the trip with comparatively
little expense.
Have YOU Joined the Ku KluX? 1t
Is understood that two organizers OF
the Order OF the Ku Klux Klan made
famous by Col. William Joseph Simons
of Atlanta and the New York World
have been in town this week and nave
secured the pledges of NUMBER OF
local people to join local KAN Which
will be organized in the event a SUI
ficient number of memberships are
secured. One Of the organizers, II 10
said, represents himself as Il former
Catholic priest who after serving the
Pope at Rome faithfully for years came
to the conclusion that Catholicism was
all wrong and became Protestant,
later taking up work as an organizer
for the Ku Klux who 1t Is UNDERSTOOD
are opposed to the Catholic church ana
all of its works. 1t is said that the
organizers are equipped with long lists
of names of people of the town ana
community who according to their IN
formation would probably animate
themselves with the order and that
they are quite busy interviewing these
persons.
-"Rose of Washington Square," mu,
sical comedy extraordinary, proved
particularly pleasing to critical YORK
willie theatre goers at the performance
in the city hall opera house here Tues
day night. And Yorkville folks, wheth-
er YOU know it or not are critical
critical about anything-second nature
with them. The unanimous decision OF
the court was that Rose of Washing
ton Square" was all right and that
Manager J. Frank Faulkner deserved
great credit for his success in bringing
a musical comedy of such high class
here. Having q consistent plot, the
comedy element, although unusually
strong. was softened by delighttul
touches of pathos. The company:
whose personnel included number or
chorus girls, really good looking girls,
was free from vulgarity, coarseness
and double entendre. In fact, it was all
that a musical comedy could be, ana
Miss Melinda Melville, 80, who sat
about middleways and vamped the good
looking girlies with disapproval at the
beginning Of the show, COMMENTARY
expressCa the opinion to Mrs. Dun
DufferdoD as she went out of the thea
tire that really it was most interesting
and entertaining" There was good
house and the management Of the thea
ire and the management of the show
were very well pleased. There We're a
few vacant seats in the bald-headeu
row; because of the fact that some OF
the bald-heaGc,l boys couldn't scrape
uD the necessary two simoleons Tor
seat there; but most of those VINO
couldn't go to the front, managed TO get
ol.e of The seats further back that were
sold f.! $1.10. Quite a number of peo-
pie from Glover, Sharon, Hickory
Grove, McConnellsville and other
towns around were present and they
too had a most enjoyable evening. The
Rose of Washington Square compa-
ny arrived in Yorkville Tuesday after