Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-02-07
VIEWS and INTERVIEWS
Brief Local Paragraphs OF More or
Less Interest.
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Stories Concerning Folks and Things,
Some of Which You Know and
Some You Don't Know-condensed
For Quick Reading.

Some You Don't Know-condensee
For Quick Reading.
Yes, we have had two or three fer
tilzer men around this year" said a
Yorkville business man in answer to
question by Views and Interviews yes
terday. "They are later than usual;
but they do not appear to be especially
anxious about selling-not nearly ike
they used to be. The fact is that the
fertilizer people are about as hard hit
as some of the rest of us. They have
not been able to collect for last year,
and in a good many cases they are stll'
carving notes of year before last.
They are not hunting people to buy on
credit any more At least they are not
disposed to put out their stuff except
on assurance much better than they
REQUIRED formerly. No, we did not buy.
We have some fertilizer on hand; but
we are up a tree. We don't know
what to do"
Potatoes for money SToP'
every year about this time it is the
same ching" remarked a local dealer
day or two ago. why in the world
don't somebody put up potato house
in Yorkville. No, would not say that
it would pay for everybody about mere
to. go into potato raising for living;
hut the trouble is nobody has any po-
tatoes. l am talking about sweet
potatoes of course. Last fall you could
buv them at rs cents bushel. They
went up to dollar, then a dollar and
a quarter and now we have to pay
about two dollars. 1t certainly seems
TO me that somebody should build
potato house this spring in time for
the next crop. The potatoes can be
made for q little of nothing and 1t
takes only little intelligent attention
to save them. There is no risk to the
proposition and it don't take much
money. Why can't we have potato
house here in Yorkville. If somebody
will promote a company I'll take some
stock"
Financing the Weeyil.
'It is hard, mighty hard" said a
prominent merchant who has been in
the supply business for long time Ito
make up your mind to turn man
down when he comes to get you to run run
him again after you have run him all
these years and he has paid you every
cent he promised. l just don't see how
l am going to do it, that's all"
quite right you are" replied the
party to whom the remark was made.
But you must remember that the
time comes when the best loved friends
must part. 1t is not up to me to tell
YOU what to do in this case. You will
do as you have always been doing. II
that fellow has something with which
TO secure you satisfactorily, boil weeVil
or no boil weevil, 1 imagine you Will
take care of him as long as you can;
but if it is solely a question of asking
you to supply him again for o'd times
sake while he devotes himself alto
cether to the raising Of a cotton crop.
with which 10 feed the weevils, I think
YOU will probably think again before
you do it."
D. Substitutes for Liquor.
Major Geo c. Bowen, Federal Pro-
h1bition director for South Carolina is
getting his state organization in shape
to make it's operations against the
whisky traffic as effective as possible
with the means at hand. He recog-
nizes that he has much work to do
in South Carolina. and he wants the
help of all good citizens in running
down the Internal traffic, not only az
to so-called whisky; but as to the nu-
merous drugs and extracts that are
being sold to the habitues of al
cohol. With reference to the substi-
tutes for whisky that are being used,
he writes:
II am very we'll aware Of the fact
that there is throughout the state be-
ing sold hundreds Of various so-called
medicinal extracts, etc, for improper
use. These are the hardest kind OF
cases with which we have to contend
and the parties selling such stuff are
the worst form of criminals we have
in our land because their wares craze
instead Of merely intoXicate, ruin the
constitutions of the parties imbibing,
and viii surely increase insanity
amongst our people and lower the ply
steal condition of our race"
Scattered Audiences.
81 feel like I want to thank you for
that paragraph in Fridays Yorkville
ENQUIRER about scattered audiences"
said local minister to Views and In
terviews Yesterday. while of course
the paragraph did not tell anything
more than US ministers have said on
scores of occasions before, it will hep
that much more to impress the point.
ut is usually at prayer meetings ana
informal gatherings that we try to
emphasize the concentration of the
audience. 1t is not practicable at
regular church service for an obvious
reason that really ought not to be sc
obvious. Custom and habit of gene
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