Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-08-01
news ABOUT CLOVER
Town Is Without Coal and Shipments
Slow as Result OF Strike.
WOMAN PREACHER ENDS MEETING

Large Numbers of Glover People Will
Go to FiIbert Tomorrow-BoIl Wee
vii Is Doing Great Damase-other
News Notes of Metropolis of North
ern York.
(By Staff Correspondent.)
Glover, July 31.-Strike Of the coal
miners and the railway shopmen is
having its effect in Glover through
freight deliveries especially. There Is
practically no coal in town and Clover
people are beginning to wonder wheth-
er or not they will have to do without
this winter. Numbers of them who
have been using coal for fuel in past
years are making arrangements to
burn wood this winter, taking the po-
Sition that it is unwise to await much
longer the outcome Of the strike situ-
alton. AS the result of this attitude
farmers of the neighboring country
who have cord wood for sale have
noted increased inquiries Gbout wood,
and numbers of them have during the
past week or ten days hauled an unus-
ually large amount of wood here. Clo-
yer business men are unable to get
much assurance from the railway au-
thorities relative to freight shipments.
Mr.. Hope Sifford of the Glover Hard
ware company, said Saturday that his
firm had a carload of lime on the road
somewhere which had been shipped
ago and he had been unable to get any
satisfaction as to when it would ar
rive. Glover business men say that
freight shipments that ordinarily re-
quire five days coming through, now
require three weeks to a month. The
situation is one that is causing much
uneasiness in Glover.
Weevil Making Progress.
There is no question that the boil
wecvil is making progress in his CAM
paign Of devastation and destruction
of the cotton crop in this section, des-
pite the fact that Glover farmers are
fighting him and fighting him by every
known method. Will Reece, q we'll
known farmer living near here, has
been getting an average of about rs
weevils day off ten-acre crop and
1t appears to him that no matter how
carefully he and his assistants look the
crop for weevils and pick them off,
there Is n number equally as large to
be found the next day. His experience
is that the weevil is attacking not only
the squares and blooms, but the big
bolls as we'll and 1t looks to him now
as though there is little chance or no
chance to make half crop, much less
a whole. Other farmers cite similar
experience. The weevil apparently
comes and goes in sort of hide and
seek fashion-now you see him and
now you don't. Glover farmers are
sticking to the fight, however, and are
determined not to give up so long as
there is the slightest hope of success.
Glover Defeated Mutual.
With ]. K. Henry, Jr., of Chester,
star Erskine college pitcher, in the
box, the Hawthorn mill team of Clo-
Yer, won easily from the Mutual mill
team Of Gastonia, in q game Of base
ball on Hawthorn Field Saturday aft
ernoon, to 0. There were several
hundred fans out to see the game.
Glover lost to the Gastonia "All Stars"
in q slow and one-sided game here
Friday afternoon, by score of 13 to 6.
The local lineup for Fridays game
was not nearly so strong as that in the
game Saturday and the Gastonia
bunch had walk-over.
On To FiIbert.
1t is expected that business will
practically be at a standstill in Clover
Wednesday, due to the fact that hun
di eds of people from this town and
community will go to Filbert for the
big political picnic there Glover al
ways does send a big delegation to the
Hilbert pow-wow and because of the
fact that there is unusual interest in
matters political in Glover this year,
the delegation bids fair to be much
larger than usual.
Couple of Freak Shows.
Folks in town Saturday were enter
tanned with n couple of free freak
shows. A quack selling medicine guar
anteed to cure anything from Boil
Weevil Blues to Political Propaganda
Of the wrong kind, held forth on the
square. He exhibited what he claim
ed was deadly species of lizard found
only in the Mexican wilds, oil taken
from it's tail being the principal ingre-
dent in the oil that he wanted to sell.
He sold some medicine; but most of
the folks didn't want to buy a medi-
cine made from such q horrible look
ing varmint. A little further down
the street a crippled man was doing
stunts with chair and 4 barrel, and
passing the hat. A couple of freak
shows in ono day is little out Of the
ordinary for Glover.
On Vacation.
George Henry and Joa Rorpott u,oIl