Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-06-23
WITHIN THE TOWN

- Chief of Police Ed Steele. who
knows about such matters, says that
without a doubt Yorkville is the
cleanest town in South Carolina, both
as to bootlegging and vice.
A woman who lives at the Lock-
more Cotton mill, was on the streets
Yesterday begging for bread for her.
self and three children. She told peo-
pie to whom she appealed that she had
been without work for two weeks and
that her three children were sick.
- The directors of the Loan and Saw
ings Bank and the Peoples Bank &
Trust company have held their semi
annual meetings and both banks will
pay their usual Semi-annual dividends
on July l, the Peoples Bank & Trust
company 4 per cent, and the Loan and
Savings Bank per cent.
- The Cannon Mill Company of
YOrkville has reduced wages of all
employees of the mill ten per cent. eff
fective last Monday. Three fourthS of
the mill machinery is being operated
four days a week while the other
twenty-five per cent. is being operated
on full time.
The Redpath Chautauqua will
come again next spring, fifty citizens
of the town having again guarantecd
the chautauqua people the sum of 81,
$50 for return engagement here some
time next spring. a representative of
the chautauqua spent several days here
this week working on the matter and
it required no little effort to get the
necessary number of guarantors. The
recent Chautauqua here cost the guar
antOrS 81 each.
A preacher of the Holiness church,
commonly called Holy Rollers" held
forth Monday evening on South Con-
gress street, for an hour or so preach
ing in what he called the unknown
tongue to 4 number of followers and
number of curious people. During his
discourse he WAS interrupted by two
young men of Yorkville, who have
some knowledge Of the Bible, and there
was quite an argument during the
meeting.
At a meeting Of the town council
held yesterday afternoon the council
discussed the practicability of effect
ing an entrance of the new West road
into Yorkville by West Liberty street
and took under advisement an offer
made by Supervisor Brown some time
ago to lend the county cOnvicts and
road machinery to build that part of
the road within the corporate limits of
the town. II was decided to request a
joint meeting with the county board
of commissioners at some time in the
near future at which time it is hoped
to perfect plans for bringing the road
into IOrkville by the West Liberty
street entrance.
- So far there is little interest in ra-
dio telephones in YOrkville and there
is only one radio outfit in the town,
that being the property of Mr.. W. w.
Barron, well known dealer in electrical
supplies. While Mr.. Barron has given
a number of radio demonstrations and
all of them have not been
successful because of too much static
in the atmosphere, making
them useless. Some time ago there
was some talk of trying to interest the
general public in the purchase of an
outfit to be set up in the city hall. In
formation has come to those interest
'd that the radio telephones are of lit |
tie value in the summer, due to too
much static and people generally have
apparently lost interest in the subject. |
The american Athletic Girls" a /
baseball team composed Of five women
and four men lost to Il piCked-up team /.
If YOrkvillc on the high school
grounds here yesterday aftcrnoOn-5
to !. During the first few innings the .
girls took the lead and it looked like .
they wCr" going to get away with it. /
Three Of the girls, the first bascnian, |
second hascman and center fielder |
were real baseball players and did