Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-09-05
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 anu
Some You Don't Know-condsnsed
for Quick Reading.
T believe I've got the prize snake
story of the season thus far to tell
you," said Mr.. w. ]. Fewell of York
VILE, the other day. "Messrs. Love
and Shillinglaw, who are working on
nv farm short distance east Oh
Yorkyille, killed twenty-eight pilot
snakes in the barn q few days ago.
They first came upon the male snake
"a pretty good sized pilot and kiiiea
him without any trouble. A short
time later they came upon the female
and killed her. 1t was found that she
was carrying twenty-six little snakes
and these were also dispatched with
out much trouble. The big lot ot
snakes We're found in a barn near a
quantity of straw that had recently
been threshed."
warning 10 pOHiSh
Ladies are warned not TO leave their
powder puffs in the election booths
when they go to vote next Tuesday
The managers might get in trouble IL
they take them homo, even though they
did find them. Ladies who use snuft
are requested to leave the snuff boxes
outside the booths. Some of the male
voters who follow them in. might get
choked.
"B. Weevil."
Next Governor Methodist.
mo matter whether Mr.. Blease or
Mr.. Mcleod is the next governor OF
South Carolina" remarked steward
of the Methodist church this morning
"the next governor of South Carolina
will be member of the Methodist
church. Both Mr.. Blease and Mr.. Nc
Leod have been members Of our de-
nomination for years. Governor Man
ming was an Episcopalian; Governor
Cooper a Baptist, and Governor liar-
vey is a Presbyterian. And now we
Methodists are going to have our
turn"
Our Country Correspondent Says:
Bud Billikins says Bill Biffln wants
to be the political boss Of our section,
but he has more kids than Bill and
darned If he amt going to take 'em
to the polls on September IL and vote
'em against Bills candidates just to
show Bill who is who around here.
Miss Melinda Melville, who is spindly
and so, says she certainly is happy to
know that long skirts are 10 be in style
this fall. She says the short skirts
have given the younger girls such an
unfair advantage. Uncle Ipsich Eek
ston, whose candidate was left out in
the first race, says by kinks, there was
something wrong with the count.
Sunday Eating the Cause.
Did you know that people eat more
on Sunday and that more people are
sick during the late hour of Sunday
HIBlI tIis'ii
eny other days in the week?
That is the opinion Of a prominent
doctor who was talking it over with
Views and Interviews the other even
ing.
81 have been watching it carefully
for years." the doctor went on to say.
81 have more calls on Sunday night
and early Monday morning than at any
other time during the week, The rca-
son, I think, is because people eat
more on Sunday than they do any 9TH
er day and those who overeat become
sick on Sunday night and Monday
morning and then send for the doctor.
Il never do count on getting much
sleep on Sunday night and other ply
sicians tell me that it is the same
with them"
Condition of the Crops.
81 predict that the farmers of York
county will make So per cent as much
cotton and as much corn as they did
last year." said John II. Blair of Sha-
ron, York county farm demonstration
Ggent, when asked about crop cordi-
tions the other day. Mr.. Blair has
just completed a crop inspection trip
over practically the entire county. IF
we make more than that I am going
to be very much surprised, although
agreeably So" said Mr.. Blair. "i}o!l
wcevil damage is especially severe IN
O Bulock's Creek township and in Beth
el ;ownsnip and in fact in every town.
ship and every section Of York county
is suffering from the insect. The wee
wills are attacking the grown or speck
led bolls now and they are puncturing
them right along. And / might say"
concluded Mr. Blair, that every farm
er who does not SOW eight acres Of
grain to the plow this fall is going TO
wish he had"
Feeling Good Again.
Bull" the handsome English bull
terrier, the property of J. Frank
Faulkner, city clerk and treasurer OF
Yorkville, has about entirely recover
ed from the dose Of ground glass evil