Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-10-06
Friday, October 6, 1922.

Street and c. w. Carroll who lives on
the same street recently remodeled his
residence. H. f. Ferguson who lives
on Kings Mountain Street is paint
ing his residence and r. E. Mont
gomery who lives on West Liberty
Street has but recently moved into
new dwelling.
Hot stuff on the wires Wednes-
day afternoon caused fire to break
out on q cable in front Of the office of
the Piedmont Telephone and Telegraph
Company and for few minutes it
burned fiercely and threatened to burn
telephone pole. Manager N. c. Nc
Corkle soon had fire extinguisher
working and the blaze was out. The
cause Of it all was the swapping Of
"A, 900 volt wire of the Southern Power
Company at a sub station near Glover,
the broken current affecting the tele-
phone toll line between Yorkville and
Gastona. Fortunately.no great amount
of damage was done.
- LCual interest in radio telephony
appears to be on the increase and it is
stated that there are several people
in the town and community who are
installing radio outfits of their own
get-up. r. c. Blackwell who lives off
Kings Mountain street is devoting a
part of his spare time to building a
radio outfit to suit his notion and
while he has not yet been able to per-
feet it, he has reached the point where
he can catch signals from government
wireless stations. His expense so far
has been about $3.50 and he expects
within short time to be in position to
hear with ease concerts that are con-
Quoted by radio in Atlanta, Ca, and
Pittsburgh, Pa. He recently wrote to
the radio engineer of the Atlanta
Journal requesting information as to
how to wire his station and yesterday
received the desired information.
Lamar y Black who lives on Lincoln
street is also setting up a wireless sta
ton. Bratton Land who lives on York
No. /, several miles west Of Yorkville
has complete radio receiving sta
ton fitted up at his home and each
night entertains himself and his
friends by listening in on concerts that
are being, held in Atlanta, Ca, and
Pittsburgh, Pa.
For some time past there has been
talk of friction between the Smith
Brothers and the town council over
the matter of right of way for the
West road>into town. Messrs. Smith
Brothers own considerable plot Of
land lying between and fronting on
West Liberty and West Madison
streets. Relocation of the West
road as desired, will go several
feet over on the Smith lands in places,
and in places the Smith land will gain
pretty nearly the width of the old road
bed. The Smith brothers forbade the
entrance of the road workers on their
property. Asked as to his attitude in
the matter, Mr.. Harry Smith, one OF
the owners of the land, explained his
position about like this: I'm laying
the sewer line into our property on
West Madison street, the town lett the
water way in such shape as to leave
an ugly wash that continues to do us
damage. Written requests for relief to
which we are entitled having been ig-
nored by the city council, we are not
inclined to permit any further liber-
ties with our property if we can help
it. We have proposed to the city coun-
ell that we will allow it such right Of
way as it requires on the West Liber-
ty street side if it will repair the dam
age it has caused and is causing on
the East Madison street SIDE" 1t is
presumed that the controversy will be
settled either on the basis Of the fore
going proposition or by condemnation
proceedings.