Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, July 07, 1914, Page 4, Image 4
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BUSINESS OF
How Big Boys an(
Things,
Every business and every affair of
any kind must be managed in the right
way to be a success. In almost all lines
of business the management is the
most important thirg. The good manager
makes the business profitable and
if the manager is the owner he some
day becomes wealthy.
With some, management of affairs
comes as second nature. They seem to
be born with the precious gift of handling
things properly. They are persons
who can see and act. With others,
managing comes with more aimcuuy,
they must learn it. Some persons are
good workers under the direction of a
good leader," but poor leaders themselves.
They are at a loss as to what
to do unless somebody who can lead is
near to direct and plan.
The art of good management, like
other arts, is learned through study
and practice. Experience makes perfect
in this line as in other lines. If
you have never had a chance to manage
affairs you will find it difficult in
the start. Perhaps you will make some
mistakes and find somn difficult problems
to solve and work out. But by
and by, with experience and an open
mind to see and learn, things will begin
to come easier, and management
will become easier and more effective.
Learning to see what should be done is
as important as doing the thing after
it is seen and understood. The boy or
girl, who early in life learns to keep his
or her eyes open for seeing things and
understanding them, is on the sure
road to success. In the very nature of
the case such a person can scarcely
fail of making a very great success in
life in almost any kind of work.
Learning to see, then, is one of the
first requirements or a manager s education.
Many farmers and many persons
go through life poor and dependent
because they can not manage
their affairs. An example may illustrate
this point: Two boys completed
the country school course a few years
ago in the same class. Both in school
were counted good, bright and wellmeaning
boys. They marired and began
farming on a small scale with
meager capital and equipment. One of
these young men is now rich, while the
other is worth no more than when he
began. The secret of the matter is that
the one who has made money and
climbed fast is a good observer, while
the other is a poor observer. He simply
can't see things about him that are
to his interest to be seen. I was at the
poor young man's farm the second year
after he began farming. On going to
the barn in the evening to milk the
cows we could not find the cows. They
were not in the barnyard. The young
man hunted around a few minutes and
found that they had broken through
the fence and were in the corn field,
gorging themselves with new corn and
spoiling the crop. A rotten fence post
in the fence was tfie cause of the cows
breaking into the field and destroying
the valuable crop. He should have seen
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not see, and he is poor and always will
be poor for that reason.
This young man, who is not progressing
financially, calls himself and farming
"unlucky," while he calls his friend
who is growing rich, a very "lucky"
man. It is unlucky, truly, to be shortsight.
but there is no excuse for any
sight, but there is no excuese for any
young man or woman to start out in
life half asleep and with not enough
ambition and self-esteem to keep the
eyes open. Many a good dollar is lost
by not being able to see little things,
which are easy to see by any one with
eyes only half open. It is easier to
learn to see things than to work hard
to earn and repair; the one is really
brain work, while the other is coarse
hand work. Keeping the eyes open for
little things means keeping the mind
active. Mind work is more valuable
than hand work, although the two must
go together. Learning to manage
means learning to use the mind.
Right here I may say that the services
of good farm managers are in
great demand at present, and the demand
will increase with time, as our
country develops and industries are
extended. There is a large opening in
this field, while there is opportunity for
all talented girls who may care to take
up such work. The demand already
for skillful young men to manage
farms, ranches, orchards, dairies,
creameries and numerous other similar
institutions is greater than the supply.
The salaries paid are also very
good. It is needless to point out what
nositions hovs can fill, but as an in
stance of what girls may do, a young
woman is the landscape gardner for
one of the leading railroads of this
country. She plans and plants all the
lawns, shrubbery and tlower beds at
and nearr railroad depots. She merely
does the planning and manages the
work, laborers being furnished to do
all the actual excavation, digging, fertilizing
and planting. Her skill as a
planter and manager is what makes
her valuable.
In the common schools, high schools
and agricultural colleges farm boys
and girls acquire knowledge of various
kinds for farm, orchard, live stock,
poultry and garden work. But in the
schools are practically no opportunities
fur the learning of management except
only in a general way, through observation.
Planning and management are
done by older heads, the boys and girls
attending the schools only learning book
lessons and assisting in the experimental
work. Boys and girls from towns
and cities securing an agricultural
education have no chance to learn
management through actual practice
because their parents have no farms on
which they can work during vacations.
A few students are hired to work on or
manage small farms or plants during
their summer vacations.
Young folks living on the farm have
a good chance to learn the .art of farm
management. They can accomplish it
if they go about it in the right way,
being ready to assist and having their
eyes open for opportunities. This is as
true for girls as it is for boys. On
some farms there are girls, but no
boys, and in such cases the girls can
have the whole Held to themselves.
There are many ways in which the
big boys and girls of the farm can
learn to become efficient managers.
For instance, often either the father or
mother, or both, must leave home for a
day or more on business or for some
other purpose. In many cases where
there are big boys and girls in the fam [
THE FARM.
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ily the father and mother will make
trips and remain away from home for
several days. If they are assured that
the farm will be managed properly
while they are away.
Here is where the young folks have
a chance to learn. For instance, when
either the father or mother, or both,
talk of leaving the farm for a few days
the big boy or girl of the family, who
i tinnVioo tr\ loom hnnr tho urnrlr nf mnn
aging affairs would seem, can offer to
take hold, run things and be responsible
for everything during the absence
of the parents. Encourage your parents
to go visiting or make a business trip
for a week and offer to take hold and
run things yourself. They will be
pleased if you make them feel that you
are able to manage. In case of both a
big boy and a big girl, both can offer
to assist in the management, the boy
looking after the live stock and field
crops, while the girl can look after the
house, the dairy and the poultry.
Now, when you are given a chance to
manage the farm or a part of it for a
full day or longer, remembering how
things have been done, what ought to
be done each day and at different times
of the day, and keeping things moving
are the important things to think about
and look after. Keeping the eyes open
for details and little things will count
for most. Feeding and watering all of
the animals every night and morning
may be the main work, while cultivating
or harvesting special crops may be
important in some cases. Doors and
gates must be closed, wagons and implements
sheltered, the dwelling and
barn kept in good order, and every
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and nothing slighted. Extra precaution
should be taken to avoid fire, the
injury of live stock, or the destruction
of any property on the place. The
good manager is one who can produce
and at the same time avoid unnecessary
loss. The good manager is able
to save as well as make. The ability
to save and stop wasteful leaks is one
quality that makes a manager valuable.
But while your father and mother
are away for a few days you can show
your ability further than merely keeping
things together while they are
gone. You can actually produce something.
In the case of the boy, he can
do some plowing, planting, harvesting,
fence building or whatever needs to be
done at the time on the place. If the
ouy litKt-s Keni'rai kooq care 01 inings,
and at the same time does something
extra and perhaps original, his parents
on returning can plainly see that he
has ability along original lines, and
they will place more confidence in him.
If the girl, besides preparing the meals,
keeping the house clean, feeding the
chickens, and milking the cows does
something new in the house or on the
jgrounds about the house, her mother
may know that she has native ability
in management. The many things
which either the big boy or the big girl
can do of an original nature while the
parents are away from home are easily
planned and executed by one who is
willing to take hold and make an attempt
at doing something. Think of
what either your father or mother has
wanted done for a long time but could
not find the time to do it. Attempt
this work and try to do it even better
than your father or mother could do it
in the alloted time. You will enjoy the
nuii\ iiiiiiiriisci.v 11 juur iietwi is ill 11,
and it will become a means of starting
you on the right road in learning the
art of farm management, which also
means ability in the management of
other affairs. Working out your own
plans without aid is good training.
Big boys and girls of the farm have
learned many things in school that
might be turned to good account in
the training for management. It would
be impossible here to name all the different
ways in which your special
knowledge and experience could be
used. A few only can be suggested.
One way in which any big boy or
girl on the farm can learn management,
and at the same time perhaps
materially assist their parents, is in the
keeping of a set of farm account books.
Some farmers keep careful accounts of
all their business transactions, while
others do not keep any kind of books.
If on your farm account books are
kept, you could offer your services to
do the work. If no books are kept, you
could offer to keep a set. In either case
the experience would be valuable training
and a means of applying your education
in a very practical way. Keepintr
furm nmmntc r?r o cof r\f fnrm
books is very interesting, instructive
and profitable work. The best farmers
are now keeping accounts, and the future
farm manager will be compelled to
not only keep a full set of books of all
business, and other transactions, but an
account of each crop, each field, the
live stock, dairy cows, poultry, and, in
fact, everything of the farm that could
not be definitely explained here.
To those who have never studied
bookkeeping or have never kept a set
of farm books, I might say that a daybook
and a ledger are all the books
that you will need for simple accounting.
In the daybook you will enter all
sales and purchases for the different
days of the year, making entries, with
the date for each day transactions are
made. A simple way to do this is to secure
a daybook, with two ruled spaces
for dollars and cents on the right hand
of the page, with a ruled space for
dates on the left. In making the daily
entry, place sales or money coming in
in the dollars and cents column to the
extreme right hand of the page, and
things purchased or money spent in the
column to the immediate left of this on
the right hand side of the page. The
footing of each dollars and cents column
at the right, then, will giv? the
respective amounts or totals of money
spent and the money taken in.
The ledger is the book in which separate
accounts are kept on separate
pages. For instance, you may have an
account with poultry and eggs. At the
end of each week or month all accounts
with the poultry are "posted" in the
ledger and accordingly checked off in
the daybook to show that the .accounts
have been carried to the ledger. In this
account, which is similar to all the accounts
you will carry, you will credit
the poultry with all eggs and birds
sold, with dates and amounts, and you
will debit them with feeds, houses, fixtures
and the like. For example, when
shells, chick feed, nails, netting, incubators
and such things are purchased
for the poultry business, they will be
entered In the ledger in the debit column
opposite the sales column. At the
end of every week, month or year, by
footing the debit and credit columns
of the ledger under poultry you can tell
just to the cent what your poultry has
earned or lost for the farm. Of course,
to make the account worth anything
the hens must be charged for all expenses
in repairing their houses and
such things. Similar accounts can be
kept with the hogs and cattle. When
hogs are sold they will be credited with
cash amount of the sale. In like manner
they are to be charged at market
price for every bushel of grain and bag
of mill feeds eaten. The difference between
the cash sale and the amount of
feeds consumed will represent the net
profits on the hogs handled.
If you have had no experience in
keeping an accurate set of books, the
clerk in your town bank will readily
show you how to make the entries and
balances, which are simple for all the
bookkeeping needed on the farm. You
will acquire skill in this line with practice.
Keeping accurate accounts with
dairy cows is now becoming generally j
popular as well as very useful on the
general farm or in the special dairy. In
keeping an account with every cow you
will loarn just how much the cow is
making over her feed. At every milking
her milk is weighed and entered on a
sheet, morning and evening, of course.
Her milk is tested for butterfat to determine
its value. At the end of every
month her total milk yield is found by
adding the column of her daily production.
The total for the months of
her lacteal period for the year will give
her a total milk yield for the year.
I thie it is pflsv to estimate her
yearl.- earning from the local market
value of cream or whole milk. She is
charged with feeds in the stable, pasture,
and with incidentals. The difference
between the cost of her feed
and care and the value of her milk will
represent her earning.
You will learn to like keeping accounts
and records and the work will
aid you much in learning the art of
managing.
AN ANCIENT GHOST STORY
The Tragedy of the Florentine House
of De' Medici.
There is a story concerning one of
the De' Medicis, a powerful Florentine
family, which, if not true, at
least accords well with medieval
times. This man?I think he was
Cosmo de' Medici, first duke of Tuscany?was
as near satanic as it is possible
for a man to be. One of his
sons, while hunting, in a quarrel
wounded his brother, and Cosmo killed
the offending boy with his own
sword. The duke's daughter fell in
love, and her father, who claimed the
right to dispose of her hand, slew her
also. His wife did not long survive
these tragedies, and Cosmo gave himself
up to so fiendish a career for the
rest of his natural life that he shocked
even his contemporaries. The
above statements are historical. The
story is as follows:
There stood in the environs of Florence
during the seventeenth century,
near the spot where Duke Cosmo
killed his son, a villa which in his
time had been a hunting lodge. It is
well known that the dukes's conscience
tortured him, and it is supposed
that his profligate life after his wife's
death was to drown its voice. The
hunting lodge, where it was supposed
he was staying when he killed his son,
after his demise was for many years
unoccupied. The story goes that in
the duke's will that clause which referred
to the lodge read, "The lodge
where I sojourned when I found it necessary
to maintain my authority as
head of the house of De' Medici by
punishing my son, I bequeath to the
devil."
Xo one could be found who was willing
to buy the place under such a
title, and for years after its owner
passed away, so great was the horror
of his memory that no one would rent
it. At last, however, an Italian gentleman,
Signor Cavalli, bought it for a
song and converted it into a villa. He
was a young man just married to a
young and beautiful wife.
One evening shortly before dinner
?it was during the gloaming, before
candles were lighted?Signor Cavalli
was in the library trying to read in
the dusk. Signora was in her room,
directly above, making her toilet.
Suddenly the husband heard a thump
directly over his head as of a body
falling on the iloor. He ran upstairs,
and there lay his wife inanimate before
her dresser. He took her up,
carried her to a lounge, placed her
on it and sprinkled water on her face.
Thus revived, she looked at him with
an expression of horror.
"What is it, carissima?" he asked.
She closed her lids as if to shut out
some horrid picture, then opened them
and said:
"The duke!"
"What duke?"
"Cosmo, Cosmo and the devil?one
or both. The features were those I
have seen of the first duke of Tuscany,
but they were also those of the
devil. They looked at me from the
mirror."
"Some one must have come upon
you to frighten you."
"That awful face did not belong to
any human being. It was dead Cosmo
turned Lucifer."
The wife clung to her husband during
the rest of the evening and passed
the night * ith him in a chamber at
the other end of the villa. The next
morning she begged him to take her
away from the place, and he was
obliged to do so, though he returned
the same afternoon. He clung to the
idea that some one had purposely
frightened his wife and for a motive.
He knew that certain persons, Duke
Cosmo's heirs, were interested in getting
possession of the property, and
he believed they were taking advantage
of the clause in the will respecting
it to frighten away any one who
should buy it. hoping to secure it for
a nominal price.
Cava Hi slept on the night of his return
in the room where his wife had
been so terribly frightened. If any
one could scare him out of the house
he had bought he was welcome to do
so. He was indignant at the outrage
that had been practiced upon him and
placed under his pillow a rapier and a
pistol with which to take care of anyone
attempting to disturb him. He
went to sleep with his hand on the
pistol.
Nothing unusual occurred during
the night. He slept in the room several
nights and before going to sleep
for the last of them resolved that on
ihe morrow he would go to Florence
and endeavor to persuade his wife to
return with him. He was awakened
at midnight by seeing a light shining
through the bed curtains. Pulling :
them aside he saw two young persons,
a boy and a girl, each holding a
candle, walking slowly across the
room. In the boy's side was a gaping
wound; in the girl's breast was
another.
Strangely enough Cavalli did not
feel frightened, though he was appalled.
But in another moment another
figure appeared behind the two, which
froze the very marrow in his bones.
A man whom he recognized as the
same one his wife had described as
having been in her mirror, walked
behind the two young persons. This
little procession passed to the wall,
apparently walking into it as persons
walking down into water disappear
beneath the surface.
As soon as they had gone, Signor
Cavalli sprang from his bed and,
rushing from the room, went down
the staircase into the library below,
where he spent the remainder of the
night piling wood on the embers he
found on the hearth. In the morning
ne it'ii iiit* piu.ue anu lejumeu 111a wne
in Florence.?Exchange.
WONDERFUL GULF STREAM
Its Course Fixed and Its Variations
Move With Precision.
Ninety billion tons of water are carried
hourly through the Straits of
Florida by the Gulf Stream, according
to Admiral John E. Pillsbury, U. S. N.,
in a communication to the National
Geographic society. This stream, he
says, is probably the grandest and
most mighty of all terrestrial phenomena.
"If this one single hour's flow of
water could be evaporated the remaining
salts would require many times
more than all the ships in the world
to carry it," says Admiral Pillsbury.
"It is difficult for the mind to grasp
the immensity of the great Acean river.
When one is on board a vessel,
floating upon its waters, one is not as
much impressed at the power and
grandeur of this wonder of nature as
he is when he stands before a towerinir
mountain an immpnso loehorf or
a fall of water such as Niagara, but
when one remembers that the mighty
torrent, speeding on hour by hour and
day by day in a volume equal to all
the largest rivers of the world combined,
carrying its beneficent heat to
temper the climate of continents, one
begins to realize that of all the forces
of the physical world none can equal
this one river of the ocean.
"It is interesting to note in the history
of the Gulf Stream how great its
influence has been on the fortunes of
the New World. Before the discovery
of America, strange woods and fruits
were frequently found on the shores of
Europe. Some of these were seen by
Columbus and to him were convincing
evidence that stranpe lands were to
the westward. These woods were carried
by the Gulf Stream and by the
prevailing winds from America, so
that in part the stream is responsible
for the discovery of the New World.
Ponce de Leon, while searching for the
Fountain of Youth, discovered this
stream. He sailed southward along
the coast of Florida, thus stemming
the current. He says they found a
current that, though the wind was
good, they could not stem. It seermd
that their vessels were going fifet
through the water, but they were Being
driven back in spite of the strong
and favorable wind. One ship w&is
'soon carried away by the current and
lost from sight, although it was a
clear sky.'
"The theories as to the cause of
ocean currents have been many. In
recent times the course of currents
has been laid to rivers, and the Gulf
Stream chiefly to the Mississippi. In
actual fact, about 2,000 such rivers
would be required. In the tropical regions
there is a steady movement of
the air from east to west, known as the
trade winds. Winds blowing over the
surface of the water induce a current
in the latter due to friction. At first
it is only the merest skim that moves,
but gradually the motion is communicated
from layer to layer until at last,
if the wind is long continued, as in the
trade wind region, the movement extends
to lower depths, 300 or 400 feet,
or perhaps more. These trade wind
currents continue across the Caribbean
until they reach the obstruction
of the Honduras and Yucatan coasts,
from which they escape into the Gulf
of Mexico.
"Another source of the Gulf Stream
is the wave caused by the wind. Every
ripple carries a certain amount of water
in the direction toward which it is
flowing, irrespective of the current
caused by its friction, and when the
waves become large, tons of water are
hurled from the crest into the trough
every time the wave breaks. In a
large area like the Caribbean, having
a comparatively constant wind blowing
over its wnole surface, this action
is practically a simultaneous movement
of the surface waters to the
westward.
"There is every evidence that the
Gulf Stream is governed absolutely by
law in all its variations; its course
through the ocean is without doubt
fixed: its fluctuations are by days,
months, seasons or by years, nut they
do not vary materially one year from
the other. So we may conclude that
of all the physical forces on this earth
that are subject to any variations at
all, the great ocean currents are most
immutable."
Educating a Prince.
The education of a prince is usually
painful to the prince. His head is
stuffed with knowledge that must or
may be useful to a sovereign. The
course of study prescribed for Napoleon
III when a lad leaves the reader
wondering that he did not turn out a
dullard. The German princes of today
are living proofs that mental vitality
will rise superior to tutors' arts. King
George must have ideas of his own on
the subject of the education of an heir
to the throne, for the Prince of Wales
at Oxford is not distinguished either
by his garb or by the treatment he receives
from any other undergraduate.
His grandfather, when an Oxford student,
wore a special gown which placed
him apart as one particularly to be
honored. The Prince of Wales wears
the plain ordinary academicals, calls
for no honors and leads the life of the
average good-natured Oxford man
who is well off but not ostentatious of
his wealth. His democracy permits
him to take a share in all the sports
and permits others to feel that he demands
no deference. It is noted that
In* hnu ?? mi ti 1 t ll A AV llpH PHOP.Q (if thp
place, and has fallen as easy a victim
to the Oxford tobacconists as if e were
the son of a Northumberland squire.
Altogether he deports himself as becomes
a well-meaning lad who asks
only a fair field and no favor.?Boston
Transcript.
I'C The wager, paid the musical Instrument
workers of this country :
amounts to about $30,000,000 annually.
TALES OF OLD SANTE FE TRAIL ,
Remarkable Story of How Bill Cole
Escaped From Death is Recalled.
Few men came nearer death on the
old Santa Fe Trail and lived to tell
the story than William Cole, mail driver
and plainsman in Kansas prior to
the Civi! War. Cole owed his life to
a lucky accident which he, at tirst, believed
lost him his only chance to escape
from a band of marauding Indians.
Cole left Independence in October,
1859, as helper on the mail coach then
operated between Independence and
Santa Fe by Hall & Forter, frontier
contractors. Michael Smith was in
charge of the coach, with Lawrence
Smith, his brother, as second helper.
There were no passengers, on account
of the outbreak of the Kiowa Indians
a few weeks before.
The trip from Independence to Cow
Creek was made without incident.
There the mail coach met a party of
soldiers under Major Sedgwick. Indians
had been reported on the trail
ahead, so Major Sedgwick detailed 40
men to escort the mail to Pawnee Fork
55 miles distant, then considered the
most dangerous part of the trail.
No Indians were encountered, and
the party had supper at Pawnee P^ork,
thinking all danger was past. As was
customary, the mail coach continued
its journey as soon as supper was
over. Short night drives were made
each one of the twenty-one days consumed
in transporting mall to New
Mexico.
The Smith brothers and Cole drove
quickly away from the soldiers, singing
snatches of songs heard on their
last trip to civilization. At Jones's
Point, two and a half miles from the
soldier's camp, several Indians rode
alongside the coach.
"How! How!" they called. Cole answered
them. Lawrence Smith, who
was driving, became a little scared and
lingered his rifle nervously.
"They mean murder," he whispered
to Cole. Cole made light of his fears,
saying they were too close to the soldiers.
"A cracker or two II satisfy them,
he said.
All travelers carried hardtack crackers
then. Acting on his own suggestion
Cole crawled to the rear boot of the
coach and began opening a tin of
crackers. While he was behind the
curtain more Indians rode up and fir- i
ed a shower of arrows at the two i
Smiths. Michael was killed. Law- ,
rence began to shout. A rifle ball then j
ended his life.
Cole jumped from the boot back into ,
the coach at the first hostile sound. He
grabbed a rifle and hastily fired. Then ]
he picked up the whip and cracked it
over the heads of the nine mules
hitched to the coach. They started off
at a gallop, the Indians following. For
half an hour the race continued. It
was nearly dark. Finally as Cole turned
to shoot the mules swerved from
the trail, struck a gully and threw
Cole headlong.
But what apparently meant death 1
on va/1 HIq lifo Wlfhnnl a'oannno ho 1
started running down the ravine and
in the gathering darkness made his
escape to the soldiers' camp. A scouting
party went out immediately, finding
only the scattered contents of the
mail bags and the bodies of the
two unfortunate drivers.?Kansas City
Star. |
Royal Mexican Ghost.
The hot springs of Las Siervas, near
Valle de Canizos, in a remote part of
the state of Guerrero, Mexico, have
been visited by few people from the
outside world, says the Boston Transcript,
but they are famous in the legends
and history of the Indian tribes /
of that part of the Republic. "
According to the natives, the waters
of the springs possess great medicinal (
properties. In ancient times the f
springs were the favorite bathing re- ^
sort of the noble families of the Te- u
paneca, Alcolhua and other tribes that c
lived in that region. C
On both sides of the chief spring ?
there are huge rocks with hieroglyphics
and the figures of women beauti- ^
fully carved. Judging from the robes ^
worn by the women, their stately ap- i
pearance, and the jewels around their 1
necks, the figures must represent ?
princesses or ladies of very high rank. ^
The spring is at the entrance to a
grotto that has never been explored, t
From the grotto a rumbling sound re- t
sembling distant thunder is to be
heard all the time. According to na
tives, the rumble is caused by the
ghost of King Excamina, who ruled 4
over that part of the country three or four
centuries before the Spaniards
discovered America.
Kinp Excamina. the tradition says,
was as bad as man could be. He murdered
people merely for the pleasure
of seeing them die and committed every
crime. He had his palace constructed
in another cave, which communicated
with that of the spring by
a tunnel. There Excamina, in company
wjth some of his favorites, had
orgies that lasted weeks and months.
80 CTS.
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A GALLON
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LET US MAKE YOUR ICE J
CREAMS? fl
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With a splendid equipment we are
prepared to furnish a First-Class
Quality of ICE CREAM, in any desired
flavors, DELIVERED AT YOUR _
HOME, anywhere in Yorkville, at
80 CENTS A GALLON.
We use nothing but the BEST ingredients
and use every precaution to insure
CLEANLINESS, and can supply
your needs on SHORT NOTICE.
LET US HAVE YOUR ORDERS. a
THE KANDY KITCHEN
JOHN DEMAS, Proprietor. c
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Builders' Hardware %
o
When you are ready to build anything,
whether a shed, fence or residence,
you will find that Hardware si
of one sort or another is an impor- c
tant item of the cost. We can help b
you here. We buy in large quantities
for our own building operations and
carry practically everything coming
under the classification of Builders'
Hardware, including Nails, Screws,
Hinges, Butts, Locks Valley Tin,
Roofings, Window Weights, Sash
Cords, Hasps, etc,, and besides carry -
a full line of the Best Paints, Oils,
Varnishes. Putty, Glass, etc., and are r,
always glad to serve you and give you I
the advantage of the Very Lowest
Prices. See us for your Hardware ,
Needs. ^
LUMBER PRODUCTS? "
h;
Before buying anything in Lumber, in
rough or dressed, see us. It will pay ni
you. L>:
J. J. KELLER & CO. s!
FOR CHILLS TAKE
"93"
We Guarantee it
to Do the Work.
SHIEDER DRUG STORE
D. Ij. SIIIEDKlt, Proprietor.
Of Importance
to the Farmer
If you are a farmer we wish to Impress
on you the many advantages as
well as the convenience of doing business
with this Bank.
Right now, at the commencement of
spring. Is a good time to put your
business on a systematic basis.
After you have once used the check
plan of paying all bills you will realize
the risk of the haphazard loose-money-in-the-pocket
method you are now
using.
This bank will be pleased to furnish
you with a bank book and checks
when you make your first deposit.
Bank of Hickory Grove
HICKORY GROVE, S. C.
Peters' Shoes
IF YOU HAVE NEVER WORN A
PAIR OF PETERS' OXFORDS, You
cannot know how good, how comfortable,
how stylish these Oxfords really
are. We have been selling PETERS'
Shoes for quite a while and they have
never yet failed to give complete satisfaction
to the wearer from every
standpoint. Come in and let us show
you why PETERS' OXFORDS are the
Oxfords for you to buy.
LADIES' OXFORDS?
Our line of Ladies' Oxfords is very
complete and includes the best styles
and the best qualities in Ladies' footwear.
We can suit you in Quality and
Styles.
GROCERIES?
Just remember STROUP'S when
you need Groceries?Heavy or Fancy.
We have the goods and we have the
prices, and we want to sell YOU.
J. M. STROUP
THE CITY MARKET
WE always handle the best beef,
iam, bacon, sausage, cheese and butler
to be had, and keep things sanitary
and clean even In the good old
iummer time, regardless of the price
af ice.
PROMPT SERVICE
Our motto is Personal attention,
Prompt and Efficient Service. Call,
send or telephone for what you want.
BUTTER AND EGGS ,
We are always in the market for all
the eggs there are, and all the good,
ttlean, well handled butter we can use.
C. F. SHERER, Proprietor.
On the Charlotte Road
You will find A. D. DORSETT'S
3ROCERY STORE. There you will
ind an exceptionally good stock of
"ancy and Heavy Groceries?Clean, (
^resh, Well Selected and at rteasonible
Prices. If you want anything in
?ur line, Phone us. Purchases of 25
?ts. and over Delivered Free.
5RY GOODS, SHOES, ETC.
In addition to Groceries, I also c^rry
l pretty good line of Staple Dry Goods,
Shoes, Notions, etc., and all of these
roods are offered at most reasonable
>rices. At least it is worth your while
o visit DORSETT'S before you make
>urchases of Staple Dry Goods, Shoes,
Motions. Etc.
5VERALLS?
I sell CARHARTT'S Overalls, and i
hese are recognized everywhere as
>eing the BEST Overalls made. They 1
:ost a little more?they are worth it.
"ry a pair?you'll like them.
A. D. DORSETT
Miarlotte St. Yorkvllle. S. C. 1
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Comfortable
Bill km FURNITURE. .
(OTHERS AND
ilUI-CHAIRS
re conducive to restful satisfaction? t
specially the lovely and costly ones r
,-e are now offering at most tempting ,
rices. Summer Rockers and Armhairs
in great variety for indoors or .
or porch or piazza. We are showing (
full line of Household Furniture, f
tugs and Carpets. Matting and Oil'loths,
at attractive prices.
York Furniture Company
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BUGGIES !
You may or may not Intend to buy '
Buggy just at this time, but?
We want you to remember us when
ou are ready to buy. We may not
arry the largest stock of any dealers
1 the world, but?
We carry enough good Buggies to
apply any reasonable demand, and we
now that we can interest you not
nly in Quality and Style, but?
In Prices as well. We know coniderable
about Buggies and Buggy
onstruction. We do not know it all,
ut?
j.
Know enough to give you the Most
tuggy Value for Your Money. See us.
CARROLL BROS.
FILBERT PICNIC
11 II10 public is invited to the annual
picnic to be held at Filbert
a JULY .'11 ST. All the candidates
>r governor have been invited and
ave accepted, and all the senatorial
mdidates except Governor Blease.
ave indicated their acceptance of
ivitations. Governor Blease may or
lay not be present. Music by brass
and. Public will please bring tl
iskets. D. C. CLARK. ?
?. t. 2t. For Committee. .V1
SKIN DISEASES OBSTINATE
But they can be cleared away by
purifying the blood and building up
the system with Mrs. Joe Person's
Remedy. X, W. Winton, Ahoskia, N.
C., had a child severely affected with
skin disease. Doctors' medicines failed
to do any good, but two bottles of
the Remedy made a perfect cure. "I
cannot say too much in praise of Mrs.
Joe Person's Remedy."
Mrs. Joe Person's Remedy is pronounced
by many the best blood medicine
In the world. By purifying the
blood and renewing the health and
strength of the body, it drives away
rheumatism, indigestion, nervous dyspepsia.
scrofula, eczema and other ills
that come from bad blood. Your
druggist should have it; if not, send
us one dollar for large bottle. Remedy
Sales Corporation, Charlotte, X. C.
Mrs. Joe Person's Wash should be
used in connection with the Remedy for
the cure of sores and the relief of inflamed
and congested surfaces. It is especially
valuable for women, and should
always be used for ulcerations.
/ Like 'Em Fat
Phone 117, when you want the Best
Meats in town?Choice Veal, cut special.
Hamberger Steak at 15 cts lb.
Always tender. NO BONE.
We have Fresh Irish Potatoes and
Cabbage all the time.
Ee?*s and Butter never run out at
SHERER'S.
When you have a Fat Beef, a Calf
or a Sheep to sell, let me know. I
buy anything with hair or wool around
It, if it is fat.
When you have anything to sell,
It pays to let the Old Man know;
Why sell it to some one else
When I can pay you more?
OLD GEORGE
THE BUTCHER.
W Your orders for Commercial Stationery
will receive prompt attention
at The Enquirer office. Let us have
your orders you want the Best.
Fruit Jars
When you are ready to begin your
Canning and Preserving, remember us
for your JARS. We have the popular
MASON JARS in all sizes, and also
have the ECONOMY (big mouth)
JARS, and also have Extra TOPS,
and RUBBERS for both styles of Jars.
Let us supply you. You will find that
our prices are Just right, and that the
Glass Can is the best for saving Fruits
and Vegetables.
? LAWN SPECIALS ?
We are showing a beautiful line of
FLOWERED LAWNS In beautiful
and desirable patterns, worth 18 Cts.?
Now 10 CTS. Yard
We also have LAWNS, in White and
Colors, in 5 CTS. and 10 CTS. qualities.
These Lawns will help you to
comfortable living these days.
SEE US FOR GROCERIES.
G. W. WHITESIDES & CO.
SHARON, S. O.
Wedding Presents
JUNE, by common consent and also
by custom, is unquestionably the one
month of the year which can be designated
th < "Wedding Month." In anticipation
of these happy events I have
received a choice line of CUT GLASS,
CHINA and SILVER WARE, especially
ailltoH fr.r or\ ft a tnf tho Tnnn l.rlHau
I am especially proud of these additions
to my stock,, because they indjida
many pieces that arfe of the verymew^
est patterns and dainty to the last limit
of daintiness and such as would please
any bride. If your friends are going to
marry this month (or later) remember
to visit SPECK'S before you buy gifts
for the bride. You'll find the suitable,
the pretty gifts at this store and prices
as modest as the brides.
Also have a new line of extra pretty
Jardiniers.
T. W. SPECK, Jeweler
iW Your orders for Commercial Stationery
will receive prompt attention
at The Enquirer office. Ijet us have
your orders you want the Best.
Choice Fresh Meats
WE ARE DOING OUR VERY BEST
TO GIVE THE PATRONS OF THE
YORKVILLE MEAT MARKET THE
VERY BEST MEATS AT REASONABLE
PRICES.
We want YOUR business, and to got
it we know that we must give you the
Market Service that YOU want. We
are making every effort to do this.
We are butchering the ver" best
and fattest beeves that we can buy.
After the meat is brought to the market
it is put in our large refrigerator
and kept thoroughly chilled until it
Is put on the block for cutting. We
have a thoroughly competent Butcher,
and are using every precaution and
care to furnish our customers Meats
that are thoroughly SANITARY. Our
prices are as low as we can make
them and do business.
FRESH FISH every Friday and Saturday.
Ice Cold Drinks all the time.
We sell Butter and Eggs, and also
Buy Butter and Eggs.
YORKVILEE MEAT MARKET.
See Us For
Groceries of Quality
rRY A SACK OF PORCELAIN Flour
?Absolutely nothing better made
out of wheat.
If you drink Coffee, try Barrlngton
Hall, a high grade, steel cut Coffee, of
iniform size, with all chaff and impunities
removed?-better coffee and
nore cups to the pound?Try it.
We also have other brands and can
dease you in Coffees. See us for
Japitol Household Tea. Baker's Chocdate
and Breakfast Cocoa.
SEE L'S FOR
Blue Ribbon Extracts, Spices, Pure
L^ard, Snowdrift. Flake White, Kintan's
Reliable Hams, White Cap Pineipple.
Peaches, Olives, Peanut Butter,
:tc.
Dlw\tin ')"? ? I'tlt* DnCt fl i*/w?4kV?li?4j
I "Hilt I*'l IJV^i \IMA.l?IV3,
SHERER & QUINN
YOU CAN GET
MOST ANYTHING YOU f
WANT TO EAT AT THIS
STORE
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SEE ME FOR? 1
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CHEWING TOBACCO a
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SMOKING TOBACCO
CIGARS
CHASE AND p
SANBORN a
COFFEE AND TEAS r
I. W. JOHNSON
THE COFFEE AND TEA STORE. ?
39" Your orders for Commercial Stalonery
will receive prompt attention ~
t The Enquirer ollioe. Ix*t us have
our orders you want the Rest. y
ANNOUNCEMENTS
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER ^
17^ HI ENDS of HENRY R. MERRITT
; of York Township, bog leave to
announce him as a suitable man for
appointment as COUNTY COMMISSIONER,
subject to the recommendation
of the Democratic voters in the
primary election.
51. t. t.e.
FOR HOUSE OF I
REPRESENTATIVE? ^
WE are authorized to announce ' r;
EMMET W. PURSLEY of V
King's Mountain township as a candidate
for the House of Representatives,
subject to the choice of the Dem- ^
ocratic party in the approaching primary
election. t. t.e. '
WE ore authorized to announce
E. M. DICKSON of York Township,
as a candidate for the House of
Representatives, subject to the action
of the Democratic party in the approaching
primary election.
50. t. te ^
I HEREBY announce r yself a candidate
for re-election to the
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
subject to the action of the Democratic
party in the approaching primary
election.
52. t.e W. B. RIDDLE. t
FOR COUNTY SUPERVISOR
WE are authorized to announce H.
J. ZINKER, of Bethesda township,
as a candidate for County Supervisor,
subject to the choice of the
Democratic party in the primary election.
53 t te*
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WE are authorized to announce
F. ESS CLINTON as a candidate
for COUNTY SUPERVISOR of
York County, subject to the voters of
the Democratic party.
50 t te.
FOR TOWNSHIP SUPERVISOR
BETHEL TOWNSHIP
WE beg leave to announce R. S. A
RIDDLE as a candidate for
Bethel Township Supervisor, subject
to the choice of the Democratic voters
in the primary.
50. t. te. FRIENDS. V
WE are authorized to announce
E. N. MILLER us a candidate
for re-appointment as SUPERVISOR NB
OF ROADS for Bethel Township,
subject to the recommendation of the
Democratic voters in the primary election.
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52. t. t.e.*
KING'S MOUNTAIN TOWNSHIP
WE are authorized to announce
R. M. ROBINSON of Clover, as
a candidate for Supervisor of Roads
in King's Mountain .Township, subject
to the choice of the Democratic
voters in the primary election.
WE are authorized to announce
W. H. HOWELL as a candidate
for SUPERVISOR OF ROADS in
King's Mountain Township, subject
to the recommendation of a majority j|
of the Democratic voters in the pumary
election.
FOR COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT
OF EDUCATION
WE are authorized to announce
J. C. CORK as a candidate for A
the office of COUNTY SUPERINTEN- ^
DENT OF EDUCATION of York
County, subject to the rules of the
Democratic primary.
52. t t.e.
FOR MAGISTRATE?YORE
TOWNSHIP
AFTER due consideration by the solicitations
of friends, I hereby announce
myself as a candidate for the W
office of MAGISTRATE for York township,
governed by the rules of the
Democratic party. N. J. N. BO WEN.
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Enameled Cooking
...WARE...
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RIGHT NOW YOU PROBABLY
HAVE USE FOR A LITTLE
MORE ENAMELED WARE IN
YOUR KITCHEN?SUCH AS
PANS, KETTLES,
DISH PANS, A
PRESERVING KETTLES, *
PORRINGERS, ETC.
LET US SUPPLY YOUR NEEDS.
OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT.
Yorkville Hardware Co.
For Last *
nppinuui/fi
TO CHOPS *
I HAVE IN STOCK A
FIRST-CLASS
TOP DRESSER
AS GOOD AS NITRATE?
AND MUCH LOWER.
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IN PRICE.
LOUIS ROTH
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Kodaks
WHEN YOU GO ON YOUR VACATION,
BE SURE THAT YOU
TAKE A KODAK WITH YOU?
MAKE PICTURE RECORDS OF
^THE PLACES YOU GO AND
THE NEW FRIENDS YOU
ivi/trvr.?iuu bii JU i inti
PICTURES IX LATER YEARS.
GET YOUR KODAK HERE.
REMEMBER. THAT WE CARRY
A FULL LINE OF KODAK ^
SUPPLIES?FILMS. PAPER, T
DEVELOPERS. ETC.
IF WE HAVEN'T JUST WHAT
YOU WANT?TELL US?WE LL
GET IT FOR YOU.
YORK DRUG STORE.
Garden Plowing
iTAULK MANURE?We can furnish
Stable Manure for garden use in
any quantity at any time. See us.
In addition to our regular Livery
nd Draying business, we are also at
11 times ready to do your GARDEN
LOWING. As soon as your garden
i dry enough to plow, let us know
nd we will do your plowing foi you
.ithout delay. Phone us.
LIVERY
If you want a turnout, single or m
ouble, for pleasure or business drivrig,
we can furnish what you want
nd you will find our charges most
easonable.
DHAYIXG
We are always ready to do all kinds
f Light and Heavy Hauling, either in %
own or country. Let us do yours.
M. E. PLEXICO & SON
Rebuilt Typewriters for sale at The
our orders to The Enquirer Office.