Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-02-24
ESTABLISHED 1855
Views AND. INTERVIEWS
Brief Local Paragraphs Of. More or
Less Interest.
PICKED UP BY ENQUIRER REPORTERS
Stories Concerning Folks, and Things,
Some of Which You, Know and
Some You Done know-condsnsed
For Quick Reading,

Farmers are beginning to make in
quiries about fertilizers" said a ferti-
lizer dealer yesterday. in fact we
have received quite a number of in
quiries this week. Most fertilizers are
little higher in price this year than
last and most of the fertilizer COM
panies and the local dealers don't care
much whether they sell or not unless
they sell for cash. There isn't much
profit in fertilizers for the local dealer
only about So a ton and in many in
stances not that much"
Look Out For Them.
How about sounding a warning to
folks especially the housewives rela-
tive to agents and peddlersT inquired
a Yorkville man this morning. ITS
getting to that time of year, you know
when book agents and. newspaper
agents and other kinds Of agents flood
Yerkville and other towns Of the
county. In fact they have already be-
gun their tour of York county. Watch
out for the girl who wants to sell you
a magazine on the plea that she is try
ing to raise money to go to college.
Six out of ten Of them are crooks and
underworld denizens who never got
through the first reader
. Show Was Pleasing.
I'm feeling good this morning" re-
marked J. Frank Faulkner, manager
of the city hall opera house, "over the
show Rose of Washington Square
which played here Tuesday night.
"The show was characterized by local
people who have seen musical come
dies appearing in towns many times as
large as this, as one of the best they
have seen. 1t was clean and whole
some and proved most, pleasing en-
tertainment in every way. Geo. Dona-
hue, manager of Rose of Washington
Square expressed himself as being
pleased with the box office receipts
which totaled $3S4.50 and gave me as
surance that the show would seek a
return engagement here"
Postoffiee Poultry farm.
"The postoffice will resemble a poul-
try farm for the next couple of months
or so," said w. Frank Putnam, chief.
clerk in the Yorkville office the other
afternoon. People have begun order
ing baby chicks from poultry farmers
over the country and the chicks are
beginning to arrive. On Washington's
birthday which, Of course was a post
office holiday, we had a shipmentS of
fifty chicks from Virginia, consigned to
a man on York No. J., which shipment
remained with US all day because of
the fact that the rural letter carriers
had day off. That didn't hurt the
chicks, however since they can go for
seventy-two hours without food or
water and without any harm, coming
to them. We handled many ship
ments of baby chicks last year and no
doubt we will do so again this year
since the business has already begun.
Under the rules Of the postoffice de-
partment live chicks must not be more
than one day old at the time of ship
meht. The local postoffice has been
doing quite a good business in chick.
ems and eggs since the parcels post
system was inaugurated several years
ago. There are a number of poultry
men around town who ship lot Of
chickens and lot of eggs and the
number that come in here, from other
sections is quite large. Last year a
YorkvilIe lady got a shipment Of
chicks from away out in Missouri. All
Of them arrived here and were deliver
ed to her in good condition. We did a
good business in live alligators last
summer and very likely we will do so
again this spring. The alligators were
shipped from Jacksonville, Fla, to sew
eral young boys here who wanted the
gators as pets. Whether any Of them
are still living or not don't know"
Says Peanuts UnprofitabIe.
Hon. James Henry Rice, Jr., OF Wig
gins, S. c. farmer, author, lecturer,
naturalist and great South Carolinian
whose nature stories are read with in
terest by hundreds of readers Of The
Yorkville Enquirer does not think
much Of the peanut as a money crop.
In letter to Views and Interviews Mr.
Rice says of the peanut:
Il am amused to see how true to
form the windjammers function. Here
is the peanut craze, the same old
panacea offered from Texas straight
on here and discarded everywhere. Two
years ago peanuts were stacked in
every field and by every roadside in
Colleton county. They stood in i'm
pressive piles, cleanly harvested, neat
ly stacked, all directions complied
with.
They did not pay for hauling them
out of the field. They may be fed to
hogs and the hog meat is unfit to eat
and unfit to sell.
Twice as much hay can be got from
pea vines and four times as good; and
with one tenth the trouble.
1T may be that some man has made