Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-03-31
VIEWS and INTERVIEWS
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Stories Concerning Folks and Things,
Some Of Which You Know and
Some You Don't know--condsnssd
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Drug on the Market.

For Quick Reading.
Drug on the Market.
Cordwood which last winter yeal
ago sold freely on the Ycrkville marke
at from IS to $40 cord in four foo
lengths, has become a drug on the
market at almost any price, ant
parties who have it to sell are advised
not to bring 1t unless they have it en-
gagged before hand.
Man came into the office of views
and Interviews yesterday and offered
a load of stovewood for sale. He said
it was dry forest pine cut to stove
length, and there was full half-cord.
"Don't need any my friend. Have
enough to do me until Christmas
II brought it from near Bethany
and have been trying to sell 1t at al
most any price, what will you give?"
Don't need it, and don't want it,"
1t was such q load as should easily
be worth $500. It was more than half
a cord.
"You may have 1t for SO. .-.
81 would not mind giving you IS but
I don't need it."
'"You may have it for $3.50. think
/ would throw it off before 1 would
haul it back home"
Sick of Credit.
Had a talk yesterday with certain
business man who has a large number
OF accounts on his books that he can
not collect, and who is resolved that he
will never again sell anything except
for cash.
- "Yes, I am done with it," he said,
"and have quit, I've just simply been
a fool, letting them take away what
I've got like taking candy from a baby.
am aware that have some custom
ers who intended to pay and who would
pay If they could; but there are others
who have had no idea of paying, and
who simply wont pay. I've quit before
they get all I've got. If have to bust
/ had better bust with something, rath-
er than>just give 1t away.
This credit business is a terrible
thing, and we are to blame for it our
selves. We are just a pack OF fools.
Just let business get little dull, and
we get impatient and want to do some
thing. Out Of the desire to do some
thing we sell and charge and sell and
charge. Bills come due, and we pay
until We have nothing to pay with.
Then we go to the bank and borrow on
the collateral Of what Is owing us.
Then before our notes come due we
realize that we cannot collect, and we
have to renew.
I'VE say cash from now on. Most
people appreciate the situation and pay
cash or do without. Some come along
and tell us how, IL we don't credit, we
will lose business. They want us to ac-
commodate them only to the first of
the month, promising, by all that is
good that they will pay then. But we
have been. 1t has been our experience
heretofore that promises Of the first Of
the month would be settled with the
explanation that the money expected
did not turn up and we are left in the
lurch. No, have come to the conc.u-
sion that the fellow who tries to do a
retail credit business in my line is SIM
ply a fool, and I am not going to be a
fool any longer"
A TanuIe+oot Road.
One does not stop to wonder why a
fly gets caught in tanglefoot. 1t has
no better sense. 1t does seem how
ever, that any traveller, when he comes
upon a sign warning him of bad road
ahead ought to have sense enough to
go back far enough to learn how to
get around it. But many of them
don't.
Because of the tearing up OF the
Kings Mountain road, incident to
proper surfacing, and the continual
rains that have been passing, parts of
the road between the corporate limits
of Yorkville and the turn off toward
Filbert have been in a bad way since
last fall; in spite of the most strenu-
Gus efforts of the road force to get it
right
During several days Of last week the
supervisor was able to do a lot of work
toward filling in the gap; but he was
not able to complete it by Saturday
afternoon, when he had to take the
chaingang off, and rains Of Sunday and
Monday night softened things up as
badly as before.
The worst place now is stretch OF
about two hundred yards between the
residence of John Q. Hall and the
Quinn old place, to the north. A rep
resentative of The Yorkville Enquirer
went up Tuesday afternoon TO look
at 1t.
The road was passable under con-
siderable efforts for Fords, and mucf
more efforts for larger cars anc
trucks.
Been pulling a lot Of them ou
haven't you?" was asked Of Mr.. Hall
Yes, several 1t is not so bad now
but it is getting worse. The small
cars have been going over withou
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