Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-03-10
ESTABLISHED 1885
VIEWS and INTERVIEWS
Brief Local Paragraphs OF More or
Less Interest.
PICKED Up BY ENQUIRER REPORTERS
Stories Concerning Folks and Things,
Some of Which You Know and
Some You Dont Know-condensed
For Quick Reading.


Some You pon,t Know-condensed
For Quick Reading.
Met John E. Jackson, Of Shady Nook
Poultry Farm in the post Office Mon
day and he was sending some lots OF
eggs for setting to customers by
parcels post.
"How's business" I asked him.
Pretty fair" was the reply in tone
that indicated anything but dissatis-
fication.
by the way are you doing any busi-
ness in the line of selling incubator
chicks?"
"Yes, some?"
What do you get for the chicks?'
Twenty cents each"
Pretty good price isn't it?'
Il can do it for that"
Selling many?"
Not a great many. You see l have
not the facilities just now and deliver
les of machinery from the manufactur-
ers are SO slow. l had an applicant not
long ago for 20 cents each for from
500 to 1000 chicks per month from
March till June; but l had to turn it
down because was not prepared to
handle it. I expect to be able to fill
an order like that later on, however,
Can a man pay 20 cents chick for
chicks to raise as friers%
81 would not say that. would not
want to try it. Ny chicks are in
demand mostly for breeding purposes,
and that makes difference. The larger
customer, 1 just mentioned wants to
stock a poultry farm and think l will
be abe to supply him later on"
Just as Advertised.
I'VE proved two things by taking
that negro Jim Lowry to Shelby said
Constable Johnson after his return
Tuesday morning. "One of them was
that Jim was exactly as advertised;
and thhe other was that he was not the
man who was wanted.
Among the hundred or more people
who were in the sheriff's office when
we got there, there were at least a
dozen who professed to know the man
wanted, and all Of them said that Jim
was not the man. Some of them said
that the nogro went by the name OF
Jenkins and others thought he was
Barron negro; but how they ever
happened to give such an exact des-
cription of Jim Lowry do not know"
After Sheriff Logan had decided
that Jim Lowry was not the man
wanted, one Of the men said to Jim:
You had better thank your stars that
YOU are not the man, for If you were,
your hide would be so full Of shot
holes before morning that it would not
hold corn shucks.'
But 1 don't think the fellow was
serious about it. Even if he was seri-
Gus, / think he was hardly correct. L
have no idea that such a thing would
have been attempted-not at this late
day-and If it had been attempted, 1t
would hardly have been permitted
without some stiff resistance.
Jim was pretty dubious about going
up to Shelby; but I'll have TO give him
credit for showing right smart nerve
about it." .. "'..
No Risk on Cotton.
People engaged in what is known as
the plantation supply business are
more at sea at the present time than
has ever been known before at this
season. No matter what has happened
to the price Of cotton heretofore,
whether it has fallen from s to or 6
cents a pound, whether the price OF
commercial fertilizers seemed prohiol-
tive, there has never been time when
the supply people and the banks would
not make a credit arrangement based
upon cotton to be raised the coming
season; but not so now. Things are
at a standstill, and the supply people
are at sea. So are the banks so far as
the next crop of cotton is concerned.
Talked to one of the leading supply
men Of the county few days ago. He
has been in the supply business FOR
many years and has made thousands OF
dollars out of it. He did not get badly
stuck year before last, nor did he get
stuck last year. Year before last, when
the notes of his customers came due in
the fall he went after his money. Year
before last, 1T will be remembered that
cotton began to topple from high prices
early in the fall with q suddenness
that was astounding. Most supply men
even were ratified over the situation
and believed so strongly that prices
would go up again that they neglected
TO press their accounts. This man
however with the splendid business
judgement that belongs to him went
after his collections and got in his
money.
Makes no difference as to the identity
of the man. If the reader is not willing
TO take the word of Views and Inter
views with regard to the matter, he car
just forget it. The first question ask
ed of the gentleman was this:
"If you please, want to know what
is the situation in the supply business
this year as compared with this time
last year. What are your plans witf
farO1ar M