Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-05-05
ESTABLISHED 1855
VIEWS and INTERVIEWS
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for Quick Reading.
Saw q statement in The Enquirer
the other day that tho Flbert-C Clover
road was pretty rough and bumpy''
said Mr.. A. J. Parrott, road super
visor of the state highway department.
"That was correct but since then we
have recently gone over the road with
our machines. However, 1t Is smpos-
sible to keep that read in smooth
shape for the simple reason that GER
tain parts Of it are not built out of
the right kind of material. The old
macadam foundation Is the cause of
all the ruts and bumps"
Unexpected Chicken Dinner.
Man driving an automobile came up
Lincoln street in Yorkville, the other
afternoon at pretty good clip. A
foolish black hen tried to cross the
road just at a point reached by the
automobile.
The automobile passed on. Chicken
didn't. A lady whose chicken it was
walked out into the road and rung its
neck since the neck was of no further
use to 1t.
""Well, sir" remarked one who wit
messed the incident: 81 know that
three minutes ago that lady didn't
have any idea of eating that partic-
ulnr hon tono,-row
The Jail Fire Hazard.
Discussing the recent final present
ment Of the York county grand jury
which recommended that some fire
projection be provided at the county
Jail County Commissioner Ladd j.
Lurnpkin said Wednesday: WED like
very much to provide the Jail with
adequate fire escapes but really we
are in a quandary as to what to do. If
the wooden stairs leading to the cells
We're substituted by steel stairs that
might help to some extent. If We
build fire escape on the outside on
the side of the Jail building or in the
rear that might serve as a means for
some; person who might have friends
or relatives incarcerated to furnish
them with way of escape. 1t is a
mean proposition and we don't know
what to do about it."
Beware of the chamois Skin.
There was printed in The Yorkville
Enquirer last week paragraph from
The Chester Reporter, reciting how
Mr.. A. n. Carpenter of Chester, mar
rowly escaped serious accident as the
result Of the ignition Of gasoline that
he was pouring through a chamois
skin for the purpose of removing the
impurities. The paragraph explained
that the gasoline had been "ignited by
the sunlight"
"They have that all wrong" said the
smechanician of The Yorkville Enquirer
to Views and Interviews after reading
the paragraph. Sunlight had nothing
to do with the explosion. 1t was static
electricity. The electricity was gener-
ated through the mechanical operation
Of pouring the gasoline through the
exceedingly fine pores Of the chamois
skin. The same thing would have oc-
CURED IL the pouring had been done in
darkness instead of sunlight. OF
course, it does not happen always; but
il is not safe to use channels for the
purpose of filtering the impurities. out
Of gasoline. You are safe only If the
funnel Of your gasoline tank Is secure
ly grounded"
Big Rat was a Passenger.
Several ladies who were riding in
an automobile over town Tuesday af-
ternoon shortly after o'clock rode on
never knowing that monster rat was
ore of their passengers and that it
got out of their machine when they
stopped in front of the residence Of
Mr.. James M. Starr at the corner of
North Congress and Kings Mountain
L. Houston, ]. r. Barnwell, ]. F.
Smith and Views and Interviews who
happened to be passing at the time
sew a monster black rat hop out of
the back seat of the automobile and
try to make for a safe hiding place.
Due to the fact that the street was Of
asphalt construction with concrete
curbings, %there was no place for the
rat to hide and one. of the gentlemen
finally managed to get in a drop kick
on the rat with the result that he
went to rat heaven. In the meantime
the ladies had driven off, not knowing
of tile rat episode. "Betcher if those
ladies had seen that rat there would
have been some commotion raised in
the neighborhood," remarked one Of
the men. And the others agreed
Supposition is that the rat got in the
autcrGobile while 1t was in the garago
and made its way under the back seat
A Political Record Worth While.
mo, the Democratic party has M
claim to further service from J.
Brice-certainly not as chairman" sale
the Editor of The Yorkville Enquirer
to Views and Interviews the day o.
the county convention.
The occasion of the remark was th'
vigor with which Mr.. Brice protested