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V '" ' 1 ^ L Q L jmu^a IS3UEO S?MI- WEEKLY. ' ^ | ? ~ - ' ??????i^^?^i^???? ' ^ l. m. grist's sons. Pubiuher,. $ ^amilg Jlru-spayer: s*'or llie promotion of (lie political, forial, Agricultural and (Commercial interests of (he people. t TER"?^^coprfriT*o?*T?*NCS A ESTABLISHED 16ss YORK, S. C., KRlQ-AY, DKCIdMBER'IO, 1919. * ' 3STO. 101 [F 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 Don't Know?Condensed for Quick Reading. "Say," said a clerk in a Hock Hill store yesterday. "I know that people would have sonrc little feeling for us in connection wun tneir wnrisuuas shopping if they were only made to think, and 1 know that most people who do Christmas shopping can be reached j. through The Yorkville Enquirer. Woujd you mind doing a fellow a favor by printing this in your "Views and Interviews" column or any old where in . the paper. I am suro everybody will appreciate it." And he passed out this: Shop early. Shop fast. Here it is only j a little less thrn a week till Christmas. Cot out and do that shopping. Shop now and get the pick of the stock. Shop now and avoid the jam and crush of next week. Shop now and get the 4 advantage of a price that may soar next week.. Get in the habit of shopping early in the day. Clerks are not tired. You will get better service. They will feel more like waiting on you. Shop in the morning before the day's crowd has mulled the goods over, be fore the clerk's temper is all on edge. Shop in the morning when both you and the clerk are in a good humor. Have a heart for the clerks. They are real human beings. They have^ feelings. They arc not automatons. Give them the advantage of every dount, and note the service you get. Shop early. Shop intelligently. Shop cheerfully. His Last Year's- Poem. j "Hearing of that beautiful Christmas poem, "The Night Before Christmas" recited by a pretty little school girl at a school entertainment last night reminds me of a parody on it that was popular with we fellows who were on the Rhine this time a year ago," said a York county man who saw. many months hard going in France, Belgium ajid Germany.. "It went: Tls the night before Christmas, and all through the house I Not a soldier was sober?each one had j, - - *r&SS?i w j;rdhtfr man -beer; And drunken lieutenants are sprawled there and here. ? The majors are loaded, the sergeants ' the same. And not a corporal knows his own name. While captains and privates parade up the Rhine All shrieking tov cognac to mix with their wine. As for chaplains and doctors?(My what a sight) They'll never get sober till next Christmas night. The pantries are busting with turkey and goose With cranberries, oysters?Oh what's the use? With everything good sent by kind Uncle Sam To his gallant defenders who don't care a cuss Whether Christmas is spent over here or hack there. With our good commissary, why should we care? Nuts, candy, good beef, dry champagne and cigars. .i\ll furnished free gratis to us sons of Mars. 4 Some Christmas, I'll say, on the bunks of the Rhine, And it's memory long like a bright star will shine. My stock-ings are hung where they'll get the fresh air. Goodness knows that they need it? ' I've only one pair. But Santa will And then and fill them I'm certain I've opened the window and pulled back the certain, And then lay me down my Christmas repose When bang went the shutter across my poor hose, I woke with a jump?thought I heard a loud scream, And I knew that my Christmas was only a dream. But I thought ere again I was pounding my ear I've lots of good reasons for good Christmas cheer. I am here?I am whole?we have walloped the IJoche ^ So I say from mv heart Marry Christmas By Gosh! Wanted to Save Trouble. Farmer living on Yorkvillc No. 1 came into The Yorkvillc Enquirer office a few days ago and into the circulation manager's office. "Can I pay V for The Enquirer for five years ahead?" he asked. "You can," was the reply of the C. M., but 1 wouldn't advise you to do it. I>iro things can happen in five vears. You might get mad at some ^ , .. thing in the newspaper in that time P for instance and want to stop it. You might die before that time. The Enquirer might suspend publication l>er fare that time is out or one of many . other innumerable possibilities might occur." The farmer took out a checkbook and he wrote one for $11.2-". "Oh . that is all right," he said. "By paying for it for five years I am saving myself a lot of trouble. 1 might get mad * at The Enquirer within five years; but I'll cool off in time to come to my senses through realization of what 1 have known for years in that it is the best semi-weekly newspaper in the \ state. If I die before tlie end of live years T want to perpetuate a good thing in my family anyhow, and as foi its suspending publication I know good and well that it will come right on as long as the world holds together and all things are equal and as for any possibilities 1 believe that the eliances are all in my favor." And the circulation ] manager entered the name on tlie mailing lists and after it made the notation Going to Do Likewise. "The York county board of education has recommended a two weeks holiday for all the school children of the county," said John E. Carroll, j superintendent of education yesterday, "and 1 have about decided upon a similar Christmas season for my assistants Misses Garrison and Saunders I as well as myself. Of course I will be in and out of the office during the holidays Out nobody need be surprised if they don't find me there." \ The Worm May Turn. "You know," said a prominent citizen of Sharon who loves everybody and everything that is good, "I have been held up, held down, sandbagged, walked on, flattened out and squeezed. First by the l.'nite.l States government for Federal War Tax, the excess profit tax, liberty bonds, thrift stamps, war savings stamps, for state, county and city taxes, the capital stock tax, merchants license aril auto tax and every society and organization that inventive mind can invent and extract whatever 1 may or may not possess, l-'rom the Society of John the Rn-ptist, the ('. A. rt., the WoiWan'8 Relief the Navy League, the Red Cross, the Black Cross, the Double Cross, the Children's home, the Dorcas Society, the Jewish Relief, American Relief, Belgian Relief, etc., etc., ad infinitum. The government has so governed my business that I don't know who owns it. I am inspected, suspected, examined and re-examined, informed and required, restrained and commanded so that I don't kriow who I am, where 1 am, or why I am here. All I know is that I am supposed to be an inexhaustible supply of money for every human need, desire or hope of the human race, and because I will not sell all 1 have and get out and beg. borrow or steal money to give away, 1 have been cussed, boycotted, talked to, talked about, lied to, lied about, held up, hung up, robbed and nearly drained and the only reason I am clinging to life is to see what the thunder is coming off next." Right on the Job. Patent preparation pushers arc right on the job in York county territory since announcement of Judge* Sense's recommendation in the W. Starke Alston case as published in The Yorkville Enquirer. The judge, it will be remembered directed a verdict of not guilty against the negro druggist on thd grpun'dUtet tho law on the subjqct ^nfHie sale <>fe-rl?rc;,"'w?'S blind. Oily haired, sleek looking, slant eyed, dish-faced, sallow complexioried I trioif woarine button shoes and a cul tivatid cough, and hearing a suitcase full of preparation, directions on which said that it was a pood laxative and also pood for kidney affections and j that it contained so many per cent, of alcohol touched a York county druppist Tuesday evening. "You can sell with perfect safety. Tt is as pood as it says and then some. Fellow over in Florence is already on his seventh gross in less than two months. Fellow in Sumter has sold two pross in less j than a month. Everybody's doinp it. ! It is within the law and yet it ain't. | It says it has only 10 per eent. of alcohol and yet it has that much and ! then some. Dot evcrythinp else heat off the hoards, it's a winner. If tlicy want somethiup for the kidneys or for , the liver, it will do the work and (he I whispered low) if they wa it something ! to drink, it's a pood one. Let me put you in three gross. You can't lose on | my proposition." The druggist said he I guessed not; that he was full up. PIONEERS OF AVIATION. Present Plans arc Result of Many Years of Experimentation. Alan has recently reacted the point j where lie can claim to have conquered I the air. Thus is fulfilled a dream as old as human thought. The story of | Icarus and l is wings, whose melted j way caused so disastrous a full. aiuLof this modern prototype, Darius (Ireen, is well known, hut real historical personages who weic pioneers in the liei?. j of aerial investigation are not so well j known. Over in Japan there is preserved the story of a mm named j Kokichi, who in ol.len times so offend I ed tlie authorities of Okaya "la by his | attempts at aviation that he was forced into exile. There was an aviator of mystery in j France during the middle apes?a crazy nobleman who flew across the Seine in a rude sort of rnaehin". I'm ! feasor Lniiftlcv, who i:i 1SS7 made investigations of aerial problems with his j"Whirlinir Table," Jlirain Maxim who spent $100,()im ia const! uetiitK a Iiukc flyinfT machine in 1839, arul Octave Cliannte whose experiments with Kliclcrs inspired the Wright ltrothors, are three men whose names should he remembered as fathers of modern aviation. It is interesting to note that with the conquest of t!ie air all of the Kteal physical desires of mm have been accomplished. To what fields of endeavor will lie now turn his attention? ? The riivnnistjuu-'. s sun oundiir; the kilting of Harold Kuber, the 12-year'. old son of Mr. and Mrs. \V. K. Salter. ' of !' ak. whoso dead bo ly was found ' in tho woods near Cork, on December I 12. ais- detailed in a letter received by '! (Jowrnor Cooper, front Solictor liCiooryo Hell Timmorman of l.exinatoi. i who is in vest tenting the ease. ConI siderable mystery surrounds the ease, 1 | the assumption from collateral evi donee being that the youth Vas imiri doivd. \"o arrest:: have been made. I ! ,!> ! JmrA \ 'm^wl - / :W^*&%flBN eJ ;r i vv: : y ? ic i | ?' itsM ifeilot a creati vfSz 1 But Old Santa Cla I (?Lr While lie chuckle GflADE CROSSING ALA P.M. Valuable Dsvicc I nvcnCjcl by So Carolina Ofi'icc.- l-alicni. Tiio Conic-Par'-., a v.Viklj put lis! I hi the int< rests ? :' 111- |. *i ! t.?. \Vnlter I teed (bneinl ll?. pit-1. \\ : I itirCton. features in its entrant i:> ! tin- story of ;:n inv ni'oii In an <?:Ii patient from South Cnolina, ('apt IVrcy .M. I VIthaia. ? i' <?r?- :i?:'!e. ! undergoing t rent mi i ' in tiif i,< for wounds ic"(>iv? il thr '.::;li | :vi tni*o detonation of a lr ml rn rule. Captain fYll.hen.i was in ! :?<.I September 1!>1\ at 1 in the n urse enforced idleness lias given in thought t?? matters eonm ted wiiii profession, ]!? worked out in bis m the details of a wartime, di-viee j grade crossings and \ In b- I | """ 1 " " %A fr ., -' . .. - \ . y ' ' < <>'.*' =- ?*?= h^lfes^ipl s it before Christiras, when all thi arc is stirring?cot even a mousi ins listens, as common sense bids :s and whispers?"Some wide-aw A * - > - ?... : , . ."kd r ( ijoii.'.li !>> i"1 ' '< i'iIxi t 11 went. ?inj I ii.In ill.1 iiir[U'n!.( ; : ll"i> ? !' WilltiT I'lll! lilll Ili't'il Ml'l lillMt :i IHOii: I, ;i !t? : u'.v .? (' Illii t I in*- : {>; ?l i c:. t iott Co!" lit! its |?:il. :.t. 11 i:i'* is now in i-o:nriimir.iii<>.i with c;i|?i li:" i i!i;:ts who w ill Il-l'icc t!.c in- < \? nt i' >u oil Jin' llliikft. "Thf ir.:irh!nr.V says Tin- t"om - "'.I I . 11:!!*!;. simply ron-Tot-- ' I .I.;,; ilir r??: i i iii >vlii< ii is lilt : ? I I It ,>> Pur, SliSIK-'llill ll IIV SP'l-l -Mi1 ital " ; ) ' tin* sides of i::t j i rem: way. Winn :i inoinr t-n: passe.- | yr, t ii' i r ilit- device the l>:?r is ?!??|?iesscd.: mil \. !inli throws it clapper a;:n inst a; om , !Nmvy .mnv-r nioimtc.l en one i f ih< ' trtt II,.], arches. Tlie '.t'ong inty he hiatal nhovc ; even the ro.nl of :tn approaching train ;,,,] :' ! in ipiVt may It In-anl i t?? yards. ti? The culvert undei ?e tilt will crny off OM . ti. scouring m i en o>" rain valet VjJ1 i? U Z thchous^^^ v t, ake kids!" . (1i,t which minht impede the idinning of tl?o bar. ('<->iit;tm r iin I. is received stion.*; ir.dor.veiits < f lii;-: invention Irom many of highway commissioners." 'a plain I' !t!:: tn was for some years ingiiucr on hydro-electric and ;t i* di-vt Inpini :r s in South Carolina. (i'l.ernoi* Cooper on Wednesday iitcd :i lull pardon to restore c-itJu.lii;. 111 .1. Kinest Cannon of Anderi convieti ! la.'^t February and seared 1o serve nine months' imprisnent. Hie charge being breach of st with fraudulent intent. Tiie notice. "Ladies are requested remove their combs." appears now theater programs in London, beise of the vogue of tiie huge Spaneonilis among the smart women. A THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS Santa Clans Sends Message To The People. PEACE AND GOOD WILL TO ALL ijitf , ? "Wmevolent Old Gentleman Persuaded Into a Talk Uses Tho Yorkville Enquirer as a Medium for the Wide Circulation of His Advice and Desires. Just about the middle of the hand?nmn York county bridge that spans Catawba river between Rock Hill and Fort Mill, I met a benevolent looking old gentleman yesterday morning bright and early. His countenance bore such a kindly expression that I was reminded of Mr. J. B. Wood (Of Clover; he had a big bushy beard like that of Uncle John Willlford of Yorkvllle. He carried a cane like that of Dr. W. C. Erwin of Yorkville. The very atmosphere around him seemed to bear cheerfulness and sunshine even as does that which surrounds Mr. Paul Q. McCorkle of Yorkville and he walked as pert and as spry, despite the weight of many years, as does Mr. Milus Carroll of the Cotton Bel? country or Mr. Barney Barron of Rock Hill. He smoked a cigar with as much pleasure and contentment as the late Mr. R. G. McCaw smoked them, and he walked as soldierly and erect as the late Mr. R. C. Allein was wont to walk. There was a twinkle in the old fellow's eye like the twinkle that comes in the eye of "Judge" W. A. Barrett when he starts to tell a good Joke, and withal his personality was as pleasing as that of the officers in the courthouse la toward any person who has business with them. ( I,was in somewhat of a hurry, having i business in several sections of the county before the day was done; but there was something about the old fellow that caused me to become inquisitive and to entertain a desire to interrogate him a bit There could be nothing but sociability in a composite of the gentlemen mentioned above and the old fellow was us kind as could be. "Rather cool on the river," I ventured by way of an opener. "Yea, sir," ho replied In his kindly way and with a wink in his mischievou^ eyes; "but did you know as them tljat are cold can get any klna. of a stove they want over"at*i^ord'8 "Furrfti ture storo in Clover, or the People's Furniture store In Yorkville or at the York Furniture and Hardware Company or the York Hardware Company or Walter Hayes' place in Sharon, or at any one of the number of places In Fort Mill and this town of Rock Hill I have just left?not to mention a heap of other places?" "Yes,' sir," I replied, rather taken aback; "that is true and it is strange I hadn't thought of It before." "Yes, if boys like you did more thinkin' you'd be a heap better off and a heap warmer," returned the old man, smiling. And I agreed. Then his tone became as even and as smooth as that of Uncle Bob Sherer of Sharon and he said, "Now, sonny, don't you get raw, with me. I wouldn't say nothing to hurt your feelings intentionally no more than Rev. O. L. Jones would, and I try to spread the doctrine of the brotherhood of man and the joy of living and sunshinr and happiness just as much as Miss Bessie Mason or Mr. John Warren Quinn or Mr. Jim Sherer or any other good Christian in York county tries." He puffed his Muriel cigar a box of which he said he had purchased from the City Pharmacy at Clover a few clays before, and he spat Into the river. "Sonny," said he, "know you who I be?" j I confessed my ignorance. "I'm the York county representative 01' Santa Claus," he said. "Don't I look it?" And then lie inquired quickly on top of his other interrogation?''don't you believe in Santa Ciaus?" "Certainly I believe in Santa Claus," T replied quickly. "Anybody who believes in the things that are worth while and who believes in his fellow man believes in the spirit of Santa Ciaus." "Well," ho replied sharply, "I am glad to hear you say it. Some of yoj boys and girls when you get to the age j where your mothers don't ^ash your ears and comb your hair, lose all interest in Santa Claus. And put this in your p pc and smoke it?it won't cost j yon nothing. No matter what becomes j oi you or where you finally arrive in I this world, don't you ever get to where you don't believe in Santa Claus. It is as important and essential to real ! happiness and joy in life to believe in | Santa Claus as it is to believe in relii gion or to believe in dreams. And dreams and dreamers, son, are the architects of fact, the makers of emi pires, warriors for higher things than J empires and for higher seats than j thrones. Grief has only streaked their : heads with silver; but has never I greyed their hopes. Dreamers are ' at gonauts, the seekers of the priceless fleece of Truth whom, through all the I ages, the voice of destiny has called from unbroken vasts. Dreamers and ! believers in Santa Claus, my lad, are the men and women whose brains have 'wrought all human miracles; in lace ot stone their spires stab the skies and |their golden crosses kiss the sun. It was a believer In Santa Cl&ua and dreams lad, who drew lightning with a kite from the clouds. Dreamers and believers in Santa Claus are the men who are blazer* of the way; the men who never wear doubts bandaged on their eyes. Men to hold courage and hope." ' The old gentleman paused and then he spat again. "My it wasn't necessary for me to say all that say to convince you that I am a partner of Santa Claus, was it?" he asked. , "I am glad you said it," I returned. "1'ih Just on an inspection trip of York county," he said "to see that all t the merchants have everything they < need for Christmas and that everybody Is all ready for the coming of Santa J Claus. While I have been only a good ' part of the way I have reason to be- v lieve that all is set. "I was over at Hickory Grove the other day and I noticed that thoee 'i fellows have everything folks in thai section could wish for in the way Of ? ' Christmas goods. J. N. McGlll's Sons Company and Wiikerson and Moorehead, and the drug store of J. M. and O. R McGill and everybody who does business there is well supplied with jj& Santa Claus articles. Those people up at Smyrna have a plenty too, and it is so with the people who do business in McConnellsville and Guthriesviile and at every country store in that section. Every business house in Sharon has a sufficiency of Chistmas goods. Teu should take a look in Pratt's or G. W. Whitesides & Company's store or in jr. D. Hope's or Shannon & Plexlco's or J. M. or A. F. Plexlco's, Hill's; Caldwell's, J. L. Whitesides or Sam Hope's and any of the others I may not have named. "I needn't say anything about Rock Hill in detail. There are too many of 'em to talk about. But I notice that G. C. Deese & Co., W. G. Reid it Son, the drug stores, 'Toyland' and all the others have articles that were not in exlstance when I was a boy. , "Up at Clover the Clover Drug Store and the City Pharmacy, and D. M. Parrott and M. L. Ford and H. P. and F. H. Jackson, E. B. Price, R A. Counts, the Stroups^ Sherer, the Mutual Grocery, W, J. Good?everybody has been supplied by my friend Santa Claus'and they are all anxious to pass them on. . ' "Fort Mill is well supplied and Wood St Pyrsley and Will Land have lots of things at Filbert and YorkvlUe has a plenty. Just drop into R. B. Hope's, Carroll Bros.', Sherer & Quinn. Dick' son Bros. B. Levy, the Tortc Hardware ' CbrfHJhTf5^%ie ""York 'Hardwire * and furniture uompany, roriusun a, i Youngblood, York Drug store, Feinstein's, J. M. Stroup's, "York Supply Company, Fanners' Hardware and Supply Company's, Kirkpatrlck, M. Bratton'a, W. E. Ferguson's, McConnells, Yorkville Candy Kitchen Shleder-Snelling Drug Co., Sanitary Market, Stewart's, Louis Roth, Sharer's Market, B. F. Smith's, Carroll Supply Company's. J. E. Johnson's, Frank Morrison', J. M. Brian's, Nivens 1 Brother's, and Just everybody." 1 Santa Claus'a representative paused again and spat again. "Sonny," he said, "you write pieces sometimes for The Yorkville Enquirer, don't you?" I said I did. "You can reach more people through The Enquirer in one Issue of the paper than I could reach in any other way in ' \ a month. I want you to tell folks something through The Enquirer for the benefit of Santa Claus and. Christmas: "Tell 'em to greet the mail carriers out of every York county postofflce with a smile ,on Christinas morning. Tell 'em not to leave any pennies In the box that morning because the mall carriers want to get home early to enjoy Christmas, too. Tell 'em If they are having anything good to eat Christmas to offer some to the mall carriers, as a matter of Christmas cheer. "Tell 'em to go to church Christinas day if there are any services at their respective churches. Tell 'em to give - - V. * tk. nmhnni ai least a uoiiar eavu iui un v>|n?>u. or anybody they know of who need* the money that day. 1 "Tell the kids to be careful with thoir firecrackers lest the fire departments in the various towns of the county have to come out. "Tell 'em to enjoy themselvee and help everybody else 6njoy themselves as much as they can." The old man threw down his cigar and drew out a pipe which h Mghted. "Goodbye sonny," he said, "J reckon 1 I'll be going on toward Fort Mill." He walked on off the Fort Mill end of the bridge and I proceeded to crank my Ford and go on toward Rock HilU "Say," the old man yelled: "Tell 'em to get all their haircuts and shaves early on Christmas Eve so that Banks McKinney and Andrew Wilkerson and Holly Barron and Charlie Miller and Clarence Harvey and Pendleton and Charlie Dickson and all the other % barbers over the county can have a ' rest. Tell 'em to have their shoes fixed right away so tnai Mr. Aninony and Mr. Blanton and Mr. Hope and Mr. Bean and Mr. S. J. Bell's crowd and all the rest of the shoe repair men can ' i have a day. Tell 'em?tell 'em all to ' | believe in Santa Claus." ! And the old man waved his hand. 1 and cane in hand, walked on behind the hill on the Fort Mill side. 1 ?Mndame Blanche Hermine B&rbot, > widely known organist died in Chax' leston this week, aged 77. She was organist at the Cathedral of St John I the Baptist in Charleston for thirtyseven years. J