Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-12-12
ESTABLISHED 1866
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 Don't Know-Condensed
For Quick Reading.

While in Gastonia the other day, l
had a pleasant chat with Mr.. James F.
Thomson, formerly the head of the
Thomson company of Yorkville, and
now manager of the H. P. Stowe con-
Germ. NJ. Thomson is just the same
clean, agreeable gentleman he has al
ways been, and he is still handling the
class Of dependable goods that he used
to handle, and while there is no prooa-
bility of his coming back to Yorkvllle,
it is evident that he has never forgot
ten his many friends in this section.
81 don't believe anybody ever lived
in that old town for any length OF
time" he said, without forming an
affection for it. 1t is certainly fine
place, filed with fine people, 1 can't
help thinking about them often. Fact
is, don't want to help it."
Thomas Has Good Record.
"Moffatt Thomas who lives near Fill
bert has made an enviable record as
football player with the Bingham team
at Asheville, n. c., during the season
lust closed" remarked a friend of the
Young mans the other day. Thomas
has been picked by the sporting editor
of an Asheville paper for the position
of left end on the ALL Conference team
of North Carolina, the team being
picked from among the best high
school players in North Carolina. In
writing of the work Of Thomas the
sporting editor comments: Thomas'
left end, all conference team. Good
scrapper and hard tackler.' During the
football season which came to a close
at Bingham recently that school won
six games, lost one and tied two"
Liquor at Great Falls.
"Chief of Police Cal Steele of Great
Falls and other officers of our town
have been having their hands full try
ing to round up the liquor peddlers'
said q citizen of Great Falls who was
IN Yorkville the other day Last week
they got quantity Of liquor ana
good automobile although later the
LIQUOR was stolen from them. 1t seems
that two tigers had taken an order
from some of the employees at the mlil
office for three cases of bottled III
bond rye liquor and then tried to de-
liver it. When an officer appeared on
the scene an exciting chase Followed
for about three miles. Then the boot
1egger's car broke down near the OF
fee of Magistrate Gibson and the
inuor and car and men were captured.
The officers hid the liquor while they
went to Chester to arrange bona 1or
the alleged tigers. The liquor later
was locked up in Chief Steele's office
and while he was away unknown
parties broke in and stole the booze
thirty quarts in all. There seems to De
no question that the identity OF the
parties who stole the booze is known.
But anyway the bootleggers had to be
released after it was learned that the
evidence had been stolen. The automo-
bile, however, is still in possession OF
Magistrate Gibson"
A County Divided. ..
Views and Interviews was talking 10
q Lancaster citizen who was in York
Vile Saturday in connection with the
Jones-S Springs Stevens row. 1T is
really a most unfortunate affair Tor
Lancaster county, tn controversy is
the citizen went on to say 'Why
practically everybody in Lancaster
county is taking siGes in it and the
county is really suffering on account
of it. For months and months TINS
matter has beer tne chief topic OF
conversation. OF course Charles u.
Jones has a lot of friends and Leroy
SDrings and John T. Stevens, the htl-
rants on the other side have a lot OF
friends. All kinds of rumors have been
and continue to go the rouncs about II
all. Former good friends in many IN
stances have become enemies on ac-
count oil it. AS far as the town Oh
Lancaster is concern"l this quarrel
has simply torn it all to pieces. why
every lawyer at the Lancaster bar mas
been employed in the case on one side
or the other with one exception. That
LAWYER is in politics and therefore de-
clined to get into the case. Talk about
your factional quarrels and about the
warring klans in Kentucky and West
Virginia. Why man they don't hold
p,lm to the Lancaster leaders"
Farming in Indiana.
They were a lot of drummers talB-
ing in the hotel lobby, and the CONVEX
cotton drifted to agriculture in. the
north middle west.
one of the speakers remarked having
sncpt six months travelling through
Indiana. in an automobile, and how he
was struck with what looked to him
like the substantial prosperity of the
farmers up that way.
He made the usual statement ABOUT
the barns being better than the homes
and another speaker said:
Those people up there have good
deal more encrgy than our people, and
do as much work in six months as VIC
do IN twelve.
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