Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-05-26
ESTABLISHED. 1866
VIEWS and INTERVIEWS
Brlef Local Paragraphs Of More or
Less Interest.
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Stories Concerning Folks and Things,
Some of Which You Know and
Some You Don't Know-conde densed
for Quick Reading.
''Now that the boil weevil has begun
to show up sleek statesmen will begln
to come around with all kinds of fake
boil weevil eXterminators for sale," re-
marked prominent farmer yesterday.
Thousands of dollars are being PAID
out for worthless devices to eradicate
boil weevils l understand that Glenn
son College cffers to test any piece OF
equipment for the vendor thereof and
pass upon it's worth and 1 would ad-.
wise farmers not to buy any kind or
boil weevil killing or catching device
unless it has the o. X. of Clemson"
One Line Pome.
Kind words never die, never die,
Kind words never die;
Kind words never die, never die,
Kind words never die.
Kind words never die, never die,
Kind words never die;
Kind words never die, never die,
Kind words never die.
His Last Effort.
"T'ye Joined everything that looked
like it was calculated to promote the
interest of the farmers since l have
been farming" said r. H. Cowsn, OF
Rock Hill, Tuesday. This Cooperative
Marketing association looks better to
me than anything that has been at
tempted yet, and 1 think it will be
go; but if it is not a go am whipped
Mr.. Cowan has some two hundred bales
of cotton, much of which he could have
gotten 43 cents a pound for, if he had
only known when to sell it. But he
has no complaint. II could have sold
mine all right" he says; "but anybody
ought to know that all of us con$d not
have sold at that price"
= Musings of Traffic Cop.
Jim's out of luck,
He quit the scene,
A match he struck
Near the gasoline.
Washington Star.
He was fool
And tried to drive
When filled with mule
He can't survive.
Sam Mill, in Cincinnati Enquirer.
He drank quart
OF "mountain dew;
There WIS one car,
But he saw two.
Charleston News and Courier.
1t sure fixed him,
Said his friend Bill Peay.
But can handle it
And it'll never get me.
Squirrels at Play.
"Who said all the squirrels had been
killed out or had disappeared from this
section?" inquired one yesterday.
There is patch of woods next to the
home Of ]. NJ. Brice, on York No. 4,
that seems to be alive with them. 1
CHANGED to pass that way early yes
terday morning and noticed several
playing on the side of the road and IN
the trees nearby. Speaking of squir-
- rels though, while it may be that
squirrels are afraid of n cat young
squirrel is not afraid of kitten. Hap
pened to be out at Nivens Brotherss $
store ON Charlotte street, the other
afternoon. Mr.. Nivens has a pet gray,
young one, given him recently by
friend. He also has q small black kit
ten. The squirrel was busy eating
peanuts and each time the kitten
would approach the squirrel would
make a pass at it with his paw. FL
nally the kitten ran away"
In Bamberg.
In Bamberg county, where the boil
weevl has wrought great havoc in the
past two years, the FARMERS are tuIH-
ing their attention to the raising of
foodstuffs. although they have not Civ
en- up the cultivation Of cotton entire
ly. The following is an excerpt from
n personal letter to Views and Inter-
views from Hon. S. Il. Mayfeld of
Bamberg, well known lawyer of that
town, who is also engaged in farming:
1--WE have 100 acres in tobacco; IA
acres in string beans; about 200 acres
in melons; 500 acres in cotton, and a
very large acreage of corn, oats and
other stuff and are not buying bushel
of corn or a pound Of hay 10 run these
places. Besides we have $50 mules
doing work on the public roads, all of
which are fed from the plantations. If
you want good milk, we can furnish 1t
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