The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1901-1982, September 03, 1901, Image 2

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NEWS AND HERALD.. PBL1SHED SEMI- WEEKLY, -BY WINNSBORO PRINTING CO. J. FRANK FOOSHE, - - - EDITOR TLRMS, IN ADVANCE: One Year,....................- - 1.50 Six Months.................. .. .75 WINNSBORO, S. C. Tuesday. September 3 - - 1901 The suggestion made a few days ago that there is need of organized labor in the working of the county roads applies with equal force to the working of the streets i.1 town. It strikes us that ii wouldbe the better part of wisdom to get a thoroughly com petent man, well ve in road working and with experience in supervising labor, to take charge of a large force of hands for a few days rather than to have a small force all the while without direct supeivision. This is a practical suggestion and were the streets worked on this plan better work would be done, and that toc at less cost. The condition of Waters Hill near Rock Hill has been such aE to be an impediment to the farm ers of the surrounding country when coming into that progres sive city. But it is not alway, to remain thus. Progressive pri vate citizens are furnishing some money and progressive farmer, are furnishing teams and wagon to put the ill. in a proper con dition. What Rock Hill haj done in this matter of fixing ul the roads leading into it is fo an example for every town in th State that wishes the key to suc cess. A similar investment oi the part of Winnsboro's citizen and neiahboring farmers coul4 effect great things for the prog ress of our town. A town cai make no better investment tha in its street and in the road leading into it. It beats factoriei railroads, etc. A visit to any of the churc cemeteries of Winnsboro im presses one with how rapidl these sacred spots are bein filled. The family square, wher great grandfather and great granc mother together with their child ~~but little more room. Potter' - field f*. the strangers and. th poor is well nigh full. Severa generations have found their las' resting places in these sacrec spots. Provision must be made for the burial of some of the present generation and for th< generations to come. A pubhi cemetery is needed. This nee< could be based upon sanitary rea sons. .But the crowded condi tion of chese cemeteries supphiet the basis for the greater need o a public cemetery.. Let wha space now remains in the ceme teries cf the various churches b set aside for the burial of th older ones of this generation But for the younger ones, fo new corners, for the poor, and fo the strangers let a public cemeter; be provided. A few days ago the editor o this paper spent several hours a Hartaville, the town of Majo J. L. Coker, in Darlington county We say the town of Maj. Cokei for to his indefatigable efforts successful business managemen and public spirit the town is wha it ia~-<ne of the very best sma] towns in the State, in fact model town. Its founder in hi farsightedness incorporated th wise provision that no whiske should ever be sold in it-so1 has no barroom, no dispensary nor indeed can it have. Hartsville is both ' ani agricul tural and manufe.cturing tow: Its situation and its fertile soi make it well adapted to agr ica] tural pursuits. At the time c our vi.sit its cotton and~ eor crops easily surpassed ;uny w had then seen. The gramn ere had been unusually fine, especiall; wheat, that crop for so man; years not adapted to the loi country. What little tobacci was obiserved, was poor, thougl the sh rtness of the crop is mor than cnmpensated for in the goo< prices. Three watermelons weigh mng 214j pounds-70, 71 and 71 pounds respectively-gave prac tical demonstration of the possi bilities of this section in melo: growing... Som~e methods of cultivatio: of crops were noted. We giv only one. Much cotton is plantel in six foot rotvs with a row c peas 'between. By putting th same amount of fertilizers on a. acre Dlanted thus, the yield i very. iGearly if not quite as muel a- where the rows are plantei more ooieIy together. The dif ference is well made up for in the peas, which, without any con sideration for their value for hay or for seed, pay a good dividend in building up the soil. While but few have tried this method, its strongest supporters are those who have tested it most thor oughly. We might add- that the finest cotton we saw was in rows planted as above, and there was also a fine prospect for a pea crop in the same field, the peas being very late. In manufactu.i the town has a cotton seed oil mill and a cotton mill in construction. These man ufacturing enterprises are too common to mention. We shall speak here of another manufactur in enterprise that gives to Harts vile the singular distinction of having what no other town in South Carolina has-a paper mill. From this mill one to three car loads of all grades of wrapping paper are daily shipped to large jobbers. In the making of this paper several Carloads of wood are daily used. This wood was at first obtained near the mill, but it is now shipped in and brings abont $3.00 a cord. The sap wood is preferable, and the short leaf pine is preferable to the long leaf. In converting the wood-only pine is used at this mill-into paper two processes are used. In the one the wood is fed into a large chopping ma chine that devours chunks of wood as readily as a corn shred der does stalks of corn. This chipped wood is then cooked into the finest pulp by a chemical treatment of sulphuric acid and lime. In the other process the r wood is fed into a crusher, whiel is as fond of big sticks of wood - as a sausage mill is of fat meat, And with all your talk about wet 9 sappy pine won't burn, you jus I ought to see what a quantity oJ - water is required in this machin I to prevent this same wet, sapp3 i wood from being consumed b: a the friction of the machine! The ,t quality of the paper made de pends upon the relative propor tion of cooked and ground woo< used, the more cooked wood giv - ing the finer grade. This pape mill represents an investment o over $100,000 and is said to b a fine paying investment. All th --labor used is white, and tho - a ratLiz-is-J!o progessive town. Situated there is the Welch Neck High School, the property of a Baptist Association or rather the crown ing memorial of Maj. Coker's blic-spiritedness. While we d not have an opportumity to go throngh the buildings, the sounds of the saw and the ham. mer on domitory and claa3s-roomf signified that the school last yeal had a succe~ssful boarding patron age (the boarders were about a hundred) and that the prospects -for another year were encourag ing. The reports in regard to the Sactual workings of the school wero also encouraging, and the school seems to have a brighi rfuture befo.re it. What we saw and heard deeply impressed us with the importani Spart this school is playing in its section for the education of the Sboys and girls, especially those !from the rural districts. Omi impressions for the possibilities of a boarding school here ii Winnsboro were deeply strength' Sened. We have been watchina this boarding school developmeni 1the past few years, and are more Sand more convinced that in every Scounty ther'e is need for a board ing high school-the child of the Schurch, the State, or private ben eficience or investment. The bet tr the country schools become the greater this demand grows i our vision is at all clear so fai iseducational matters is con aered~(, such schools are essential to the perfection of our educa tional system. Other towns hav4 ris.n to the demands of the emer gen'-y, several others are nos considering action in the matter ne college in the State hai alreayv decided to act and there are strong probabilities of an. Sther following the example set What will Winnsboro, the' Scounty seat of Fairfield, do? Wil it continue to talk of what has -been in the days gone by, or will it face about to the future? Schwab says that if the steel Istrikers will return to work h4 SIwill then~and not till then lister Bto their grievances. The International Good Roads f:Congress will meet at Buffc BSeptember 16-21. Governor Mc ISweeney has appointed several Bdelegates to represent South Caro: ina. He especially calls upoz all county supervisors to attend A Misinterpretatlon. This paragraph was in. Friday's issue of The News and Herald: For twelve yeW The State has been trying to defeat Ti.man.by opposing him. If itcontinues its support of him it will come neirer making-the job complete iin twelve months. The State resented it. in the following: This is a misrepresentation uuworthy of a gentleman bearing the reputation we have understood Mr. J. Frank Faoshe, editor of The News and Herald, .to have. The State does not object to an intimation that its su port will de feat any candidate, but it doe objeet to the promulgation of an insinuation that it is suporting or has supported Tillman. e senior senator has five years yet to serve in his present office and is not now subject to support or opposition. If the editorof The News and Herald does not know that fact, and if he cannot realize that it is possi ble to agree with a man on certain issues and yet disapprove of him wholly as a person and as a politician, that editor has not sense enough to edit a newspaper. If he can realize the dis tinction and disr rds in a desire to make a hackneye jibe at a contenipo rary, he displays a woeful lack of char acter that should disqualify him frr the work of imparting instruction eitherto the public-or to children. . Of course the editor of The News and Herald knows that "the senior senator has five years yet to serve in his present posi tion." He also realizes that it is possible to agree with a man in certain issues. and yet disapproye of him wholly as a person and as a politician. This position he has announced mora than once in connection with Mr. McLaurin, whom he does not favor at all, though he does entertain and has for a long time entertained some of the same measures that the junior senator now advocater. This editor also knows that the senior senator is "not now subjeci to support or opposition", in.the sense of being a candidate tc succeed McLaurin. Nor wag there any effort on his part tc throw a hackneyed jibe at a con temporary, whom he had misin terpreted, but whom he was i.nt wise endeavoring to misrepresent Prof. Clinckscale's Lecture. A lare congregation gatherei at the Methodist Church Sunda; evening to hear the address r Prof. Jno. G. Clinckscales p E Wofford College. Though q' unwell, the speaker impressed al present with his earnest ni thoughtful words, addressd Abslomn ese."I 56uwn a he that he had to leave on the night train for his home in SPr tanburg. He will also have .o cancel all his engagements for this week. First Week Jurers. The following is a list of, the petit jurors for the September term of court, which convenes the third Monday, the 16th:. W. L. Rosborough, E. E. Rob erts, J. M. Boyd, Watt Mana, W. M. Harvey, Samuel T. Weir, L. M. Blair, J. C. Lewis, C. B. Douglass, Sr., :E. B. Hedgepath, Glenn Peak, Edward A. Davis, H. C. McKeown, C. M. Free, B. F. Castles, Jno. Wylie, Robt. Branham, Jr., F: A. Dye, Edward Nichols, B. Y. Clowney, W. J. Camak, C. D. Chappell, R. 1M Bolick, A. C. Lathan, T. W. Ruff, . S. Spence, T. C. Camak, W. B aines, T. W. Shedd, T. R. Bryce A. F. Peay, Jr., David Weir, Jno D. Leitner, J. W. Brice, D. A. Crawford, Crosby Buff. A Strong Plea for Uoed Roads. .Mr. .Editor: It is pleasant tc see building going on, even od new stores, though there are sev eral unoccupied in town now. II seems that it would be better to build dwelling houses -ind thereby encourabe an increase of popula tion. But new stores are going up and customers must be looked up. The roads around Winns boro are bad and many people who would trade here often gc elsewhere. If the roads were muacadamized for 10 miles in al) directions from Winnsboro much 'trade would be brought whicta now does not come. Would ii pay for the town to issue bondi to the amount of $10,000 to build to build the roads? I believe it would. That amount (with the help of the chain gang) expended on the roads would do much tc build up Winnsboro and its brade more than anything else that ih possible now. Progress. The complete returns of the Lcotton mills from Aiken countj show that upder the new plan o: assessment the assessment o: mills in that county will be re duced from $1,718,952 to $1,500, 1300. In Bichland county the in crease in assessment on the cot ton mills will be considerably over half a million dollars. OUR PROSPEROUS CITIZENS. The Average American a Well-To-Do I Property Owner. The average American, accord ing.to Dr. Henry Gannett, is as sredly prosperous. He owns a farm vorth $3,500, on which there is a mortgage of $500, and his yearly income is about $540. Be sides, he has $750 in railway stock and bonds, and, on deposit in a savincs bank in Columbus, the sum o7 $150. Elsewhere Le possesses other property, includ ing a house-lot in a suburban sub-division, the value of which at present it is not easy to esti mate, as it was purchased several years ago, at inflated prices. His entire estate has an estimated value of $5,000, and his annual income is, on an average, about $750. His property is assessed at about 40 ..per cent. of its true value, and he pays taxes amount ing to $14.60, or 73 cents per $100 of assessed valuation. Friday night at Chester 0. L. Potts, white, fatally shot Will .Stevenson, a colored carriage 'driver 6f the town. The negro cursed Potts and snapped his pistol, whereupon the fire was returned with above results. For O4rr Fifty Years. MRS. WINSLOW'S 6OOTHING SYRUP bas been used.for over fifty years by mili.ns of mothers for their children while teething, with perfect success. It aoothes the child, softens the gums, allays all pain, cares wind calic, and is the best remedy for diarrhaea it will reliev i the poor little sufferer immediatelv. -Sold bV druggists in every part of the world. Twenty five cents a bottle. Be sure and ask for "Mrs. Wislow's Soothing Syrup," and take no other kind. 1-1-17 August 31 t'hirty-six lives were lost and thirteen persons injured in a wreck on a passenger train of the Great Northern railway at Nyock, Montana. The trouble was caused by the freight parting and a part of the boxes ran into the passenger train. TusKEGeE, AT A., July 28, 1878. Dr. J. C. MoFFETT-My De'ir Sr: Justidto yon denand4 that 1 should zue you m experience with your ex eel ent medicine, TELTHIN. Oar Ii'. tie girl, ju-t thirteen mont1s old, has ) hd mucti trouble teethir;g. Every remedy was exhaust, d in the shape of prescriptions from family physicians. Herbowels crtntinued to pass (ff pure b ood and tbrning sever continued for there was a great change-new life had returned .the bowels were regular. and, thanks to TEETHINA. the little bab3 is now dfring well. Yours, &., D. WV. McIvEE, Editor an'd Proprieter Tuskegec (Ala ) To-morrow it will finally be de cidedwhich boat, the Constitu tion ~or- Columbia, is to defend the cup. John Strength and Martin Fuller, of Wetumpka, Ala., have been sentenced to 10 years in the penitentiary for participating in a lynhing.. Jr. McJames, the famous pitcher, is now suffering greatly from, injuries sustained by being thrown from his buggy at his home, Cheraw. His arm is broken in two places and his collar bone is shattered. The present outlook is that the cotton mill property in the State will reach $25,000,000, which is very nearly as much as the rail road property of the State, and in round numbers the total assess ment of the property of the State is only $173,000,000. Chas. W. Nordstrom was lately hanged at Seattle, Wash., for the murder in 1891 of William Mason. This celebrated case has been in the courts for nine years through th tact and skill of his lawyer, James Hamilton Lewas. The doomed man had to be strapped to a board to be hanged. WANTED AT ONCE, A GOOD) MILCH COW. 9--1 J. L. BRYSON. BERKSHIRE PIGS. I have ai lot of thoroughbred Berk shir Pigs for sale'. 9-3 JNO. HI. CATHCARTP. Suvixervisor's Oflice,1 -Winnshoro, S. C., Sept. 2, 1901. Natce is hereby giben that a meeting of the Board of Control for the County of Fairfield will be held in the Super ' eiisor's office on MONDAY, OCTOBE R 7TH. at whichl meeting applicanlts for {~he position of Ispeniser at Rlidgeway, S. C., will be considered. All app)1lications for said position nust be on file With the County Super visor at least t wenty days previous to said date. T1. M. JORDAN, U LYSSE G. DESPORTES, Bord of Control for Fairfield C~o. ote H eads, and Bill, Ilead thers in doing this worn rices and in quick time. tationery. TlEWN "'Seeing is The greatest conv< the one wholly indi who have it, is the I and you will see thai WINNSBOR RE AN-CIMO CLVRUERE T URNI SEED As ood itno th bsse Phon o~.9 RETN CRIMON PAciod, Fie notrane Cbmpan see iln Ftow n aad omayo oseeMansurac Com ponfR'cestr No. . MONEYTO RLOAN. es.Paymentsir insaent Cipny not Glesthn fdive yarand Conokeag WinnsoroS.k. otr GAn s DAVIS, om pany6 MonticellorS..C, Theiciew superioftendent patronae.ir Ie Cotowillsedesnsin reasonable amountr ofirfiel mortiles ofa ra tie~s, atsnd will tra trh paienter tPaymentsoughl witavien of hvnot leem peranentleyeastl andn breragel or p co 00.in chr. A pplyRTo J. . W.ONL DAMiETnYboKro . C oes sr A sre DAV icttor DTheator seinteta the FairayEy-, fiel ad Cthe Mildesiretum rea.04.l mer ofnbared fhamesa op era ive, nil Toroaind the patietl Thetherviuehof wth all i offeredn he eisanntsettl at terlp- mi besnt othe.Are RT. WOH . OBEY *AERICAII T wTN REGIsToro. 2595. to convince at in all yor Wnbess corres pondence you should use printed stationery. The business world has stamp ed it as a business neces sity, and business men have their stamp upon all the stationery they use. It is our business to put the stamp on. We print Envelopes, Letter Heads. s--and we are ahead of : for you at satisfactory Let us print your next SBORO PRINTING CO. Believing." nience of the day, spensable to those elephone. Get one this is so. 0 TELEPHONE CO. I would be pleased to have the ladies call and see a line of Crockery and Glass ware that I have lately gotten in, con sisting of Plates, in three sizes, Cups and Saucers, B a k e rs, Meat Dishes, Bo PitchesEwersisdY a BasnsandedSlop Turn ers or iced tea, Decorated Tum blers, Berry an d Fruit Bowls with Nappies tomatch. J. W. SEIGLER. WHAT --SHALI COOK?. Is a common expression of the many housewives. It should not be. The time is at hand for putting up fruit and vegetables for winter use. We can't furnish you the fruit but we can sell you Jars real cheap, and Rubbers too. See our new line of Turr1ip Seecd. The best and selected seed for planting now. Our Fountain in "Rustic Corner" is dispensing the "coolinest" soda. Try it. JO. H. IcIASTER & C(. 'Phone 39. Druggists. THE LADIES of Winnsboro and Fair field county are most respectfully in vited to come and see our diplae. of nD-to-date Pattern Hats, Uetrimed, Hats for ladies, misses and childres, ad other gods. Having a first-class milliner, Miiss Willisjma, of Baltimore, we are prepared to serve you. Many thanks for past patrons a. and snolielt~ ug a continance of the ume, - ms. WoAG. S. C. McDOWELL, --AGENT FOR ie 'irmers' Itul F'ire Imsrolce hu1f11 1101 of alrlel4 Cout17, 8. C., Solcits your insurance on your coum try property. JNO. J. NE[TL, Secretary. T. L JO8NSTON, President. suflqu y aa iisaat5estats A