Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-12-05
WITHIN THE TOWN

Police court fines and forfeiturcs
totaled about S4OO for the month of
according to the monthly
report of r. E. Steele, chief of police.
Country eggs were retailing in the
stores here Saturday at 60 cents a
dozen and were reported by the gro
GERS to be very scarce even at that
price.
No figures were available yesterday
at the city treasurcr's office relative to
the number of delinquent town tax
payers. The books closed December /.
1t was stated, however, that there were
very few delinquents.
Good progress is being made on
the construction of the A. NJ T.. Zion
church (colorcd) which has been in
process Of erection on California street
for the past several months. Most of
the brick work has been completed.
The church will cost the cplored con-
gresation more than $4,000.
The county chaingang is coming
right along with the work Of building
the West road from the G. NJ. Inman
place to the courthouse by West Ii. r.
ty street. The chaingang is now en-
gagged in building a fill on what is
known as the "iail hill" Rough wealth
er during the past few days has some
what retarded their progress.
A black horse the property Of r..
r. Allison broke loose from it's hitch
ing post in front of the Allison home
on Kings Mountain street early yes
tcrday afternoon and ran away. 1t
was not stopped until it had torn up
the buggy TO which it was hitchcd.
The horse was uninjured. 1t is claimed
the horse was frightened by a passing
automobile.
- The weather yesterday was ideal
for horse traders and as is generally
the case on first Monday for Decent
ber, there were n large number Of
them with plugs" and good 'uns"
here. Considerable trading was done,
most of the traders being even swaps
since there was little cash in evidence.
The eating houses did a good days
business because of the presence of
the horse traders. Most of the back
lots were pretty well filled during the
day and il was not until late last
evening that the last of the traders
had left town.
Citizens of Yorkville have 195 hogs
to kill this fall and winter according
to statistics gathered by R. e. Mont
gomery, inspector for the board of
health. Mr.. Montgomery has recently
town and incidentally has counted the
number of hogs in the pens. His
count of 1876 of course does not include
all the little pigs; but he counted only
those pokers large enough to kin for
meat. He estimates that the 1875 hogs
will average 166 pounds each. The
total meat supply raised by citizens
according to his figures, Is 32,550
pounds.
- The curb market" or country
store" conducted through the agency
of members of the Woman's home
demonstration clubs Miss Lula Smith,
president, has moved it's quarters from
the porch of the old Rose Hotel build
ing to the store room of Mrs. ]. T.
Redmond just across the street. De-
spite the fact that Saturday was a
dreary, rainy morning there were a
number of people from the country
who brought in produce to sell. And
there were about the same number
of purchasers present to buy it as
usual, sales for the morning totaling
in the neighborhood of $40. Regard
less of weather conditions it is the
intention to conduct the market every
Saturday morning. Plans are also be-
ing worked out for special Christmas
bazaar to be conducted by the asso-
CldllOll uul lIlS lhC uiStiuS oS''Sct''
THE three children of the late 3.
+. Blalock of the Lockmore Mill viii
lage who have been very i'll with
pneumonia and influenza for the past
ten days were reported yesterday as
getting along nicely. The tather of
the family, his wife and eldest daugh-
ter died recently OF the malady, the
three deaths occurring in the space OF
about forty EIGHT hours. Miss Gala
han, q trained nurse of Grecnville is
with the family having been sent her
by w. r. Armstrong, general mama
ger of the LocIImore Mill. DR.. W. c.
Whitesidcs. town health officer, said
Yesterday that he was unable to say
lust how many cases of influenza there
We're in the town and the surround
ing community since no statistics had
been furnished him. He was of the
opinion. however, that tine total would
run to several hundred. While there
arc numerous cases of flu in the town,
the ma jority OF them arc said TO be in
the cotton. mill villages. especially at
the Cannon and LOCkmOre Mills. The
local physicians have about all that
they can do to respond to calls being
made upon them and it is not unlikely