Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-07-07

a premium of $3.50, making total
of $t52,55O. Six bids were submitted.
The school board expects 10 begin at
once to arrange for relieving crowded
conditions in the schools by building
additions. The first work will be at
the Ebenezcr Avenue school where ar
rangemeEts will be made to take care
of $50 additional pupils.
Farmers Trying Poison.
Information from Bullock's Creek
and Broad River townships is that the
farmers in those townships are begin
ming to turn to the use of calcium of
arsenate in fighting the boil weevil.
The farmers have been employing the
method of turning out all hands to
pick UP the weevils but most of the
cotton is so large now that they are
unable to find them. They are still
continuing their policy of picking up
squares. Information is that several
merchants in western York now have
supplies Of calcium arsenate and that
they are selling large quantities of it.
Only Two Weeks of Court.
There will be only q two weeks
session of the court of general ses-
sionS in York county for July. The
jury commissioners on yesterday drew
from the jury box the names Of
thirty-siX jurors TO serve during the
third week At meeting of the local
bar association held yesterday after
noon the lawyers decided that there
We're only enough cases ready for trial
at this time to keep the court engaged
in civil matters one week and hence
the jurors drawn to serve during a
third week will not be notified TO ap-
pear.
Erskine Alumni.
OF about 125 alumni of Erskine col
lege in York county, siXty-seven were
present at a get-to-gether meeting and
banquet in the hall of the Rock Hill
Chamber Of Commerce last night.
Rev. DR.. r. c. Grier, president of the
college was among those present and
Rev. ]. L. Oates, d. D., Of YOrkville
presided over the programme. After
some speech making, county organi-
zation was effected with Rev E. b.
Hunter of Sharon, as president and j.
H. b. Jenkins, Jr, Of Yorkville as
secretary and treasurer. The county
orga nization Is to be made up Of three
units, one at Glover with Rev. w. p.
c. E. McCaw chairman, and one at
Yorkvile with Rodney Love chairman.
The next meeting of the association is
to be held in Yorkville.
Money Not in Sight.
Broad River township road COM
mission is asking the county commits
sioners to provide the money to build
bridge across Bullocks creek in
connection with the road being built
between Sharon and Hickory Grove by
Broad River township, but the county
will be unable to provide the funds
for such q bridge for some time to
come, II was stated yesterday by Su-
perviSor Brown. "Of course we will
build the proposed new bridge on this
road" said the supervisor. 1T will
cost several thousand dollars to build
it. We haven't the money at this
time and it will be some time before
we do have it." The supervisor said
it was his information that the Broad
River township authorities would not
be ready to bridge the creek for some
time yet.
Land PeddIers in Bad.
Gastonia Gazette, Wednesday: Some
sufficient to encompass the incarcera-
ton of James w. Roberts and James
w. Riley in Belmont when Insurance
Commissioner Stacey w. Wade was
advised that these twain were peddling
a portion of the state of Texas, ten
dollars down and easy installments.
Oil, or something, might be found
under the lots, or perhaps gold mines.
Mischief got afoot when Mayor w. d.
Crawford of Belmont addressed
telegram to Mr.. Wade late Wednesday
afternoon, informing him that these
real estate peddlers were selling "un-
developed Texas lands" to the villag-
ers, and wanted to know if they were
properly licensed. Mr.. Wade said
mo" by telegraph, and Mayor Craw-
ford said "in Jail" in less than an
hour.