Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-09-29
FLOURISHING FILBERT
Sketch Of Village Known Far and
Wide Because Of Its PiCniCS.
TAX LEVY IS EXCEPTIONALLY Low

boasts Srly CSai anu Sa''S
tress In the State-Has Flourishing
Churches and School-Garage Draws
Good Business From Scores Of Pass
ina Cars-Farmer Finds Onion Crop
More Profitable Than Cotton.
(By a Staff Correspondent.)
Filbert, September 2S.-Filbert, fam
Gus York county village known
throughout the Carolinas because OF
the annual political picnic that Sc held
here, has still another claim to atten-
ton. Perhaps the only deaf and dumb
postmistress in the state is Uncle SANS
representative at Filbert. She is Mrs.
Ollie Smoak Lynn, and for the past
ten years or more she has held the posi-
ton of postmistress most acceptably.
Mrs. Lynn is courteous and polite and
she handles incoming and outgoing
mails with quickness and dispatch.
The rural mail carrier out OF the Fill
bert office is Mr.. James A. Carroll,
who has held the place for a dozen
years or longer. When the rural car
rier has business with the postmistress
he is not always under the necessity
of making known his business in writ
ing. His association with her in the
postal work for a number Of years
has given him opportunity to learn
quite bit of the sign language used
by deaf and dumb people and he is
therefore nble to communicate with
her first rate.
Has No Policeman.
Although Filbert is an incorporated
town and has its mayor and board OF
aldermen, the village has no regularly
employed policeman. None IS needed.
Occasionally when somebody wants to
cut up or create q disturbance, Mayor
Sam Smith just Deputies one or more
folks to take charge Of the person or
persons who might be cutting up. And
the Filbert citizen who chances to be
standing near when the order is given
quickly obeys and the majesty OF the
law is upheld without cost to the mu-
nicipality. The occasion does not
arise very often, however. The city
fathers" are, Mayor Sam Smith and
Wardens E. L. Wood, ]. H. Clark, W.
w. Lynn and S. NJ White. There are
about 125 souls living within the cor
porate limits Of the village. FOLKS
looking for some town in which to live
where taxes ore not high, might do
we'll to consider Filbert. The only
municipal tax is a street tax of 81, and
If ones crop is bad why it might be
that the fathers" would go slow about
insisting that the 81 street tax be paid
with promptness and dispatch.
Has Two Churches.
Filbert folk2 have two houses OF
worship. The First Presbyterian
church of Filbert is located inside the
town, lust across the street from the
handsome school house. The church
building is Il comparatively new struc-
ture. The congregation of thirty-fVe
members is without a pastor just at
the present time, due to the resigna-
ton of Rev. ]. E. Berryhill, who has
moved to CASTOR county, n. Z. Kings
Mountain Chapel Methodist church is
inst outside the corporate limits of the
village of Filbert and many people
who are living inside are members
there. Rev. J. G. Huggin of Clover Is
the pastor of this church.
Filbert School.
Filbert children have the advantage
OF q ten grade school. The school
house is u four-room structure sur
rounded by q wide lot well suited for
all kinds OF athletic sports, which the
school authorities encourage. School
teachers are Prof. j. Roy Grayson,
principal, and Misses Mamie Louise
Bratton, Gladys Biggers and Miss Ell
der; assistant teachers. School trus-
tees are w. l.. Pursley, John Q. Hall
and j. c. Dickson.
This fall a number Of pupils OF the
Union school district, near f1lbert,
who are ready for the work OF the
higher grades, will matriculate at Fill
bert. The pupils will be carried to
Filbert school day by day in an auto
mobile truck. Filbert school runs
eight months in the year.
Much Cotton Ginned.
Filbert has for. years been the GEN.
ter of q great cotton producing sec
ton. Annual ginnings at the one gin
nery in Filhert for a ten-year average
are 1000 bales. The crop in this sec
ton was n little off last year or at
least it was not brought to the gin
here and the total number of bales
ginned was about 1900. 1t is doubt
full if the total number of bales ginned
this season will reach 1000, due to the
fact that the crop has been considera-
blv curtailed by boil weevil activities
coupled with the drouth.
There are indications that in the fu-
ture Filbert farmers are not going to
give as much attention to cotton culti-
vation as they have in the past. For
instance this fall Dave Jackson, we'll
known farmer living near here, has
three quarters of an acre in white