Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-02-03
ESTABLISHED 1856
Views And INTERVIEWS
Brief Local Paragraphs Of More Or
Less Interest.
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Stories Concerning Folks and Things
Some of Which You Know ane
Some You Don't .Know-condensee
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Light, mighty light" said Capt.
Ross, of the C. & NV. the other day
when asked about the condition of
travel over his road. II cannot say
that 1 can remember when travel was
lighter"
Almost Bursted.
Lloyd McNair, Southern railway en-
gineer, who always has good story
to tell and can tell it, gave Views and
Interviews this one night or two ago.
One of the negroes who works about
the railroad shops in Columbia, had
been sick for week or more and when
he showed up for work again, one Of
the boys said to him:
whats been the matter with you,
Sam?
"'Ah's been laid up with de Fluenza.'
"'Were you very sick, Sam?'
"'Well, sab, ah says an was, yas sir.
Nah tempture went up to'two hundred
and fifty
""what? Your temperature went up
to ESQ?
"'Yas, sir, and the doctah said eff hit
had gone up five pounds more ah'd
died."
Plenty of II.
a There is plenty OF moonshine Ii
quor to be had in Clarendon county at
anytime" said well known gentleman
of Clarendon county, who spent several
days in 'Yorkville this week, to Views
and Interviews. I was told by ELI
able party just few days ago that
he knew Of six Illicit stills located in
one swamp in our county and all of
them are making booze"
well, do the prohibition officers not
make any attempt to clean the stills up
down there?"
VERY little" said the gentleman.
mot nearly so much as they do in the
upper part of the state, especially in
Anderson county, where l notice ac-
counts of stills raided almost every
day. was told a short time ago that,
one more or less prominent man in
our section had said. 'sYes, L am run
ming a still and / am going to keep on
running 1t and drinking the whisky as
long as live"
Advertising the ku klux
THAT was pretty good advertise
ment of the Ku Klux," said one the
other day, when they sent that money
to Chief Youngblood, in Rock Hill,
with instructions to give it to the poor,
and at the same time volunteering the
information that they were 125 strong,
organized for the purpose Of assisting
in enforcing the law against evil doers.
Did it ever occur to you how they
could assist the representatives Of
duly constituted government in en-
forcing the law. The police have to
be on the lookout for criminals and
after arresting them must submit them
to due process. Are the Ku KluX go
ing to do something like that or do
they. propose to act as judge, jury and
executioners? And if they act as
judge, jury and eXecutioners, what
about the police. Surely the police are
not willing to delegate their duties and
suppose criminals undertake to do
things secretly and throw out the i'm
preston that they are Ku Klux, how
are the Ku KluX. going to exhonorate
themselves? Seems to me that it is an
impossible situation any way you
take it."
Cold Don't Feaze Them.
Mr.. j. r. Hudson, a former York
county man, who has been living in
Arkansas for many years, writes from
his home at De Queen:
81 see in The Yorkville Enquirer that
my old neighbors and friends are very
much alarmed about the boil weevi
and that they are hanging their hopes
to cold weather to get rid Of the pest.
This is all wrong. We have had the
boil weevil here for fifteen years and
we know. If the mercury should go
down to 20 degrees below zero it would
not help you particle. We are plant
ing practically no cotton this season,
because last year we did not average
more than bale to about twenty
acres. The crop of the whole county
was only 1,400 bales. The only hope
you have of making few hundred
, pounds of seed cotton to the acre is a
dry June and July. The hot weather
does not hurt them; but you can kill as
many as you can get covered up with
hot dust. Go through the rows once
week with long single tree that will
knock, down weevils from both sides
and then go along and press them into
the dust. That will help some; but !
am not going to tell you that it is
worth it, If there comes a shower suf-
ficient to wet the ground, the weevils
will be revived. There is nothing for
you 70 do but to quit cotton"
Price of Cotton.