Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-05-23
"BOLL WEEVIL SPECIAL"
Young AaCkOrelI ReSumS Story Of
Trip in Worn Out Ford.
LIFE is HAZARDOUS In OIL TOWNS

Obtain and "T Tourists" Almost Forced
to Take Berth In the Army-Mueh
Bad Weather and Rough Roads Are
Encountered-The Boil WeeviI Still
Chugsins Right On.
Thco Mackorell, son Of Mr.. r. ].
Mackorell of Yorkville, who with Joe
Herndon and J. B. Grant Of Yorkville,
left here more than two months ago
in second hand Ford automobile,
dubbed THE Boil Weevil Special"
with a view to seeing a good portion
of the United States and who is keep
ing a diary of his travels, sends The
Yorkville Enquirer second install
ment of the diary. Young Mackorell
is now in Dodge City, Kansas. The
first installmcnt of the travel story
left the boil weevil tourists" as the
trio style themselves, at Haynesville,,
La, and that account covered the trip
of the party through April 4. Young
Mackorelrs second episode" as he
terms it, is as follows:
April 5-We started out this morn
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of "Bangum Spur" which is about four
miles from Haynesville. On the Wy
to the town we tried for job on every
oil well that we came to without sue
cess. We went on into the town, and
found out that there were three peo-
pie for every job, so we had no chance
there. Don't think we would want
job there anyway for it is the toughest
town on the map. Just the night be-
fore we got there some "Hi-Jackers"
held a man up and when he told them
that he had no money, they just shot
him, saying he would be better Off
dead than broke The first shot did
not kill him and they went back to fin-
ish him, but he begged them not to
shoot again and they did not; but he
died after being taken to hospital.
That is just a sample Of how hard
some of the Louisiana oil towns are.
April 6--This morning we went out
to the oil tank farms to see what the
chances for a job out there were.
When we got there we asked the boss
about work on the tanks and were
turned down. We then tried the cook
house for a job as hash singer" The
head cook told us TO come back at IL
o'clock and he would give us JOB.
We went back at LII readytto, work;
but when we got there he said we were
ten minutes late, so we didn't get the
lob. That simply dsgusted us, so we
decided to leave for Dallas. Texas, the
next day. The rest Of today we spent
in fixing up to leave.
of for Dallas.
April I've arose early this morn
ing and had a good breakfast and then
cranked the old boil Weevip and
started out for Texas. We rode all day
over some real rough roads and about
s o'clock arrived in Shreveport, La.
We found a tourist camping ground,
and pitched camp, cooked supper and
went to bed.
April S-When we awoke this morn
ing it was pouring down rain. we got
breakfast ready and after eating we
lust sat down to wait until the rain
was over. II rained until dinner time,
so we Just decided to stay in camp un-
I'll Monday and give the roads chance
TO dry. We met some other tourists,
and all got together and had very
pleasant afternoon in spite of the RAIN.
April 9-We did not get up this
morning until IL o'clock, as we had
nothing to do. We had dinner and
, then took a stroll around the town
We came back to camp about O'Clock
and found out that a tourist had just
arrived and had with him a monkey
and a buffalo. The monkey was very
tame and so we had a great time play
ing with him the rest Of the evening.
We went to bed early, as we wanted 10
get n good nights rest before taking
an carly start for Dallas, Taxes.
April love arose early this morn
ing, had breakfast, broke camp ana
started out for Dallas Every one mad
told us we would have asphalt roads
all the way to Dallas; but I'll say they
, sure lacked Il lOJ Oh DelHB dSphoAt
though they were rough we Jogged
along pretty steadily until about
O'Clock at which time we entered the
little town of Longview, Texas.
san6storm was coming up so we had TO
get under cover We put the boil
Weevil" under a shed and we went In
side building In about an hour 1t
was all over so we started on again
and about o'clock we drove into
Tyler, Texas which is about eight
miles from Dallas. We pitched camp
there on the side OF lake. Just as
soon as we got the tent up and every
thing around the camp fixed for the
night we went fishing in the lake and
caught a good mess Of fish which we
-had for supper. The moon was
shining bright, so after supper we
went boating Since the man who
owned the lake was not around we
had a good time. After about an hour
of that we turned in.
Met Acquaintances.