Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-02-28
ESTABLISHED 1865
VIEWS and INTERVIEWS
Brlei Local Paragraphs Of More or
Less Interest
PICKED UP BY ENQUlRER REPORTERS
Stories Concerning Folks and Thlnss,
Some of Which You Know and
Some You Don't Know-condensed
For Quick Reading.

sporting goods such as baseball
gloves and other baseball parapherna-
liza are going to be great deal cheap
er this year than they were last" said
DIR. r. L. wylie Of the Glover Drug
Store the other day. Baseball gloves
that sold for SO each last year,
for instance, will sell for SIS this year
and other baseball goods are in pro-
portion" DR.. Wylie said that he was
looking for more baseball interest in
Glover and vicinity this year than
last.
Dodgers.
"The thing that makes me so bloom
ing mad about some Of these folks
who owe my firm and won't pay" said
a Rock Hill business man who was
talking it over with Views and In
terviews the other day, 'is that al
though they owe me they won't spend
any of their cash money with me. /
have in mind the case of a man living
near Rock Hill who owes my firm $3.50
for shoes. I've tried and tried to col
lect that money but never have been
able to get 1t. And since have been
trying to collect he's quit coming into
my store at all but is spending his
cash money somewhere else. Believe
me If l haven't learned lot about
human nature since these stringent
times began I don't know who has,"
Customers of the Bank.
Yes we come in contact with many
types of humanity in the conduct Of
our business" said the cashier of a
popular York county bank in an inter-
view with Views and Interviews the
other day.
"The man we like is thes man who
has an established reputation for
straight forward dealing, who comes
to us in a straightforward manner,
tells us what he wants, and complies
with the established requirements.
When this mans paper is due, we
know exactly what to expect. He will!
either take It up in a business like
manner, or make satisfactory arrange
ments for it's renewal. Il II does not
suit us to renew the paper he viii not
grumbIe. He, will give us credit Tor
having done all we had promised to do
and will govern himself accordingly
That we will do everything in our
power to stand by such. a man to the
limit goes without saying.
But the fellow that gets on your
nerves is the fellow who desiring to
borrow $3.50 comes at you as though he
would do you a. favor. He tells you
that he might want TO borrow $3.50; |
that he does not have to tave it at all;
but that he will take It and IL it doesn't
suit you to let him have it. he will get |
1t from the other fellow. It seems that
he ought to have sense enough to know
that we know that If he had $3.50 Of
his own he would not have come to us
to borrow it, and that If it had been so
easy to get 1t from the other fellow he
need not have come to us with that
kind Of a spiel"
Great Freeze of 1885.
mo 1 have never seen team
driven across Broad river on the ice;
but l would not say it has never been
DONE" said Mr.. ]. ]. ]. Robinson of
York No. 2 the other day.
Mr. Robinson lived on the river a |
short distance below the present site of
the York Cherokee bridge for many
years, and was familiar with condi-
tions there. That was why Views and
Interviews asked him for seme infor-
nation about the ice on Broad river |
during his recollection.
February 1886 was the coldest spell
of weather mind anything about" he
said. That was the year that the |
bluebirds were all killed, if you re-
member. There were lots of bluebirds |
in this country then. They were al
most as plentiful during the winter as
English Sparrows are now at all times. |
l would not say that there were as
many bluebirds as there are sparrows;
but there were more blhebirds than
there were of almost any kind of birds.
1t was several years after that winter
before again saw bluebird; but you
can see them occasionally now-not
nearly so many as there used to be;
however.
''Well it was dreadfully cold from the
middle Of January as 1 recollect, on
into March, and there was but little to
do for the greater part of the time ex-
cept to stay about the house and look
to the firewood. Also we had to draw
water for the stock, for the springs and
branches were all frozen.
The river froze from bank to bank
and the ice got thicker and thicker,
BateauX went out Of use, and people
who had business on the opposite side
OF the river went across on the ice.
Just anybody walked across, and while
l did not see it understood that a
negro rode across on a mule.
When the breakup came an ice
gang was familiar in a bend short
distance below our house and the river
was banked up for nearly a mile. The
ice was piled up like little mountain.