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WARE SHOALS 0. DISCUSSES lolviews History of Incidents Leadiig uip to Present Situation on Ware Shoals-PrUceto Road. The Advertiser has received from .1. F. Macliiroe, Assistant Treasurer of the Ware Shoals Manufacturing Com pany, the commnication below, sent to the Greenwood Index-Journal, which he re(iuested to have pumblished In The Advertiser. The letter is in re ply to a'. report of 'Mr. Thos. W. Coth Tan, of Greenwood, to the Dixie High way Association, in which .1r. Coth ran charged that the obligations of the Ware Shoals people in regard to the )ixie Highway had not beei carried out. The Dixie Highway, so far as The Advertiser is able to learn, is a roitte from the Middle West through this state to Georgia and Florida, orig inally promoted by certain parties in the Mitile West and to he paid for by the counties through which the high way rnns. Part of it in this state runs from Greenville through the upper pmrt of Lauri-ens county to Gr-eonwoU' anid thence to Augusta. Representia tives from Green ville. Green wood and T'mdielleld colnties, it Is learenid pledged $2.060 toward the promnw xpX)nse of the h iiliway of which Oreenwoori conity alone has paid it :ha re. The letter t.f .\r. .\TacFanroe to the fndex-.louiral follows: Ple-ae allow -m- a little space inl you r200 paper to say a word on t1h Dixie I!i-hway proposition. I have read with mu Ich interest. thlie report on the )ixie I igh ay in youIr issue of Thursday, May 1ith, 1920, ra'do by .\ir. 'i'los. W. Cot hran. Let ls ifor the sake of argu.millenlt that the Ware Shoals Maifneturint' Coni pany a-Itual ly foll down on its agremnt' anid is today responlsible for de conditionl of tlie road between Ware Shoals and Princeton: but be fore it soaks in too far, let us review mIat I'es. As a item of history, I liglit Ilit m lion tiat the Princeton-Ware Shoals Good floads Association was organi-iz (d at Prilnceton. S. C., Oct. :1.1, 19!M. 'I'lh writ ir had tilie honor of being Imiade cha irman oif tle mceti ng. The imrpose of the association was to fir AT BOTH STORES DON'T wo iu I. hie.inn. hi I .00. pility .\len'se (i ni b:!....l......... ... J-1 Se our .\lens Sn]iis, ~i'g liromi........... ...... itu ur line~ of \Ien 's Shi All~ IItx yI('s and kinds. *\ 2,1000 uai i.- ts Ien 's 0\ :i. 75 a'i pir; all sizes; .sp eial i ce.... .. . Ilys (Overa lls, for1 l'ong 1si Work, l)Sirts, lim goiod shir ts ......... 6 Boxes Matches, w 48c; Our Price 25 No. 1 St< FFICIAL i DIXIE HIGHWAY ther the building of a good road from Princoton to Ware Shoals. I have a collete record of the life and work of this association in my files. This assoeiation had an agreement with the I Supervisor of Laurens county, Mr. -H. B. Humbert that he was to re-locate the road from Princeton to Ware Shoals (where necessary), straighten, it and widen it. The association agreed to obtain the necessary rights of way and top soil grants, and put on the top soil at its expense which it did; and further, the citizens along the route agreed to contribute work and money to the enterprise. The fact that part of the road was built on this basis is proof enough. As further evidence. I quote my letter to Mr. H-. 1), Hum bert, date(d Dec. 20th, 1917, as fololws: Ir. '.1. 13. Humbert, Supervisor. Laurens, S. C. Dear Sir: This is to aldvise that the Prince ton-Waro Shoals Good Roads Asso ciationi hold tleir final meeting today In (rder to roccive full reports. It seelms the members of the committee have secured the rights of way and top soil grants necessary to Iimrove te road from Princeton to Ware Shioals. I have been requested by the com mittee to drop you a line to kindly ask you to re-locate the old road where necessary, widen and block it out in order to allow the parties along tile route to (o the amount of work whici they have contracted to lo, and further allow the comm it tee to spenl t he money that ias beeti a. propriate(l. They are anxious to be gin work as they want to filnish be fore crop time and urge that. you give Ile matter you r best possible atten I ion. Realizing what you have to contend wi ti. I asure you that your juidgment in this matter has been absolutely cor reet. We started off a little too fast, but I now feel that we are actually ready to (10 something. With I best 'personal regards, and wishg you a .Merry Christmas, I beg to remilainl, You's very triuly, Jas. P. .\aoEnroe, Chiairman. j J.A( 1SAME rry about high prices, -.... ....$1.75 i:l.S ..$2.39 t o $4.05li~% dls, all styles \n . m 2.48 Ill) in $10.00 b . I .im . . . . - ..75c ...........$1.50Mcistm ............6.9c 2u(\Vm .......... ..25c li 4 Suils, worth ttils iie . . . . $12.50 p~es line to select(1 '.k .$18.00 t o $45.00 .'au'I roes anid Slip- 3erni . .$2.98 i o $11.50 14Su he 1a2 (lL you erals good ~ ai)t' #.00O( and ~ 1115ci . .. $2.25 t o $2.955 'lW hi work, all\In' l( . ... .$1.48 t o $2.25 tC~l iiI~~tl i*~ t .lenof worrht lii ldSan, 1 West On Sept. 20th, 1017 my letter to the Supervisor covers the condition at that time. This letter reads as follows: 31r. 11. 13. Humbert, Supervisor, Laurens, S. C. Dear Sir: This Is to advise that I have just returned from Princeton. I twent on purpose to measure the distance from the Turner Wood place to the Green ville 'County line and find it is exact ly 3.6 miles. It occurred to me that we do not lack a great deal of having a good road from Ware Shoals to Lau rens by way of -Princeton. All our work on the Princeton Ware Shoals road is now at a stand still. We have top soiled all the road that you blocked out for ,us with the exception of a gap between Harmony Church 'nd John Dnivis' pligce. We are reserving that strip for the top soil from the J. A. Ballentine land when condemnation proceedings are consummated. If we had the balance of the road blocked out from the Turner Wood place to Princeton and from the Becks line to the Augusta road, I be Mieve we could go ahead with the work of top soiling and turn over a top soiled road to you completed from Ware Shoals to Princeton before the first of January. The stretch from the Beeks line to the Augusta road is what I am par ticularly interes ted in now. You promised to come over on 'Monday. Iooking forward to the pleasure of seeing you again on Monday, I beg to remain, Yours very truly, Jas. F. MeEnroe, Chairman. In other words the situation in a nut shell on Sept. 20, 1917, was that we had top solled practically every part of the road that had been block ed out. for us. The parts that had not been blocked out. were the stretch from the Beeks line to the Augusta road a distance of 1.4 miles and the stretch from the Turner Wood place to the Greenville county line, a dis iance of 3.6 miles. Later the stretch of 1.1 was blocked out and all but. a small portion top soiled. In other words, there remained five miles of Princeton to be re-located, widened and blocked out by the Supervisor. The Ware Sheals Manufacturing BUF GOODS F -Go to J. C. Burns & S W\ork Sirts, best union ('('ial price while they hla $1.60 's Elst ic Scatm IDrawersi. .5, our price......... ..$1.25 D rcss il'ants, good valuts .. ..... .......$3.48 to $10.00 fenw ............ ........$2.48 lues in .\ie's~ Dr. I)ess Shirts .... .... .... ....98c to $6.00 Sik Neickwear%(; t. sp(cially .. .... .... ....50cup1c to$1.50 (Ih, gointg. ont Itime.......$1.79 ..rs............ .....$1.50 mid Clocks nt, maoney-satving SweethIearttt Toilet Soap .. . .5c ilteum l'owder .... .... ....17c U' Tlail etmt I'owder I..........25c lIttonbs ......... .... ....15c littIotns .... .... .... ....10..lc 'ins ......... .... .........5c lair' Pinus......... .... ....5c read i......... ......... ..10c 00e) WVashintg Soap I.... ....25c tshtingi I'owder ......... ....5c odI WadshIintg Soa p..........25c Women'si Sun H ats, speclal .... ......... .....20c to 50c A pron and Driess Gintghtams, Se(, our1 price ......... ....25c MIDDLE NAME I BURNS Laurens St. Company or the 'PrIncetondWare Shoals Goods Roads Association had no authority to re-locate roads or con demn the necessary land. That was the Supervisor's job. All the 'road that was finished and turned over to the county was not kept up by the county. Clearly this is not up to us but it is the county's Job. The Ware Shoals Manufacturing Company at its own cost and expense built a mile of road through Its prop. erty from the canal bridge to the top of the hill and cut the grade in half. It cost about $5,000 to do this. The road improvement that has already been done on the :Princeton-Ware Shoals Road has cost in the neighAbor hood of $12,000.00. This might indicate In a measure that we are still interested. What do you think about It? As additional information, 'I might state that on April 23, 1920, our Mr. 13. 1). Riegel offered the Uhairman of IC' Fore Pala Bloci LNS & 'OR LESS lY Co. They sell same See onrii Rackts full of Men's a nomn's Shoes anid 81lippers, out. samuples and odd( lots, sal. .... .............$1 Sp(elal lot ofi Girl 's anmd ChI I )resseas. lIig valuies, all aget l'.ig line of lloy's Snits, all age up boys. Special . . .. $4.39 Sp(ecial lot and ics ' ti e Voile 'jpec(ial sale o) f l ies ' finte' Silk andl Geor'get e l)r'esses. pri........... .... ... ..$12. See' our line of ladi s fine Shir Silk an G11(eorgi Ie. SpeeQ 5.01( yards( of fini Dress Gi (Chlambrlays sa e at... A bo~ve good1s n~ -t ae to 310< inaore. M\en 's tose .... .... ....... iaadies ' los ~X.. ...... ..... Spe'lal .sale this weeck of goc No. '70 lileaching, worth 4i pii(C .................... I',rs yaird-wide TL. L. Sea worth 36c, our sale price. 40e quality' Cheviots, our1 spee I lot Ladl anid La~ssie (Cloth, 5 S "SAME GOODS & COM No. 2 Sto the Latunus County Commission, Mir. J. D. W. Watts, to pay half the cost of finishing the road from Princeton to Ware 'Shoals. In other words, assuno Ing that it would cost $40,600.00, he personally agreed to- pay half of it, or $20,000.00. Jas. F. MaoEnroe, Assistant Treasurer. "How We Cleared Our Summer Hone of Rats,' by Mrs. Perry. "When we opened our seaside home last May, it was alive .with rats. They'd gnawe(d all the upholstering. We cleaned them out in a week with RAT-SNAP. I prefer this rat killer because it comes in cake form, no mix ing. Saves drtying handi and' plates." Three sizes, 25c, 60c, $1.00. Sold and guaranteed by Laurens Hardware Co., Putnam's Drug Store and Kennedy Bros. Notice of Dfsso'ntfonm. BY authority of the Board of Direc. tors, the stockholders of Laurens G!n & Fuel Company, a corporation, are notiffed to meet at thie oe of' theO For Real SCREA 0 ocialFunct Call e of Swt Cream a Sf Co. LONEY Goods for less mone' 11d Wo. Seur Silks closinig will save (1011 spec'iatl I lot Lad(1ies'W 98 t10 $3.48 $2.51 , on sl hiren 's djustreceived a ess upi. ltst. (!renti) ~.25 to $4.30 i roms ini Ha1 s. I)retss where. 1' ri c up to $14.50 ham ieCs' Lonig IDresses, whltite, spCcial le price Biig Iline of .\lei .00 t o $9.90 ('aps. (Come 'a ilored gin. t he su n Special 1 lot solidi CI 75 to $32.50 all co'lors, w< Waists. $1.15 bottle of ial sale . Oil . .. . .98 to $8239 $1.15 bottle of nlghamts, $ 1.0)01 oc tle.r 30c lo 45c Shoe Il'ol Ih, al at yartd $1.011 bot 1e X $1.1.) bottle \\ 13c to $1.48 R~ed Jay Tohmt L~c to $4.95 . 1 lb. Ep isomt 8 d' yard7 1 lb. Suilphuir, e, our' 30e* size Vick .... ..25c 1i Alarm CIloek e, 0ur 1 Oniitar (fine .. .. ..37c 1 lot 1Box Pap( .... ....20c 400e, Camp Island, 10 pac)I(katge P .......28o (1 hoxes 31tlatch'1 jal pic'ie 33c Se boix Maftehe( pQciatl . .45c 10e spool be~s FOR LESS MONE PAN~ re North Side Square, in sad. cumpany at Lauren, South Oato llhu,. on July 3rd, 1929, at ten .o'clov, A. Nf., to consider 'a resolutibkvidr the ds.motution of -the said corpora-i tion. W. E. MIDNG, President,, '. 1). MENG, 'Secretary. May 31. 192'. 46-4t-A Clthtlin for Letters of:Adinstratdn State of South Carolinar County of Laurens. Whereas, Roxie A. Shoppard made suit to me- to grant her Letters of Ad ministration of the Estate and effects of 0. H. ShOpard. These are, therefore, to cite and ad monish all and singular the kindred and (reditors of the said 0. T. Shep par deceased, that they beand appear before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at LAturens Court iousef Lau rens, S. C., ot the 14th day of July, 1920, next, after publication hereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, iframy/ tilkey have, why the said administration should not be granted. Given undbir my hand this 31st day of May, Anno. Domini 1920. 0. 0. Thompson, 46-2t-A J. P. L. C. M ecialty AT BOTH STORES i all the time. mid Dress Goods. You ir's at. J. C. Burns & C'o. ash I)rness Skirts, wortih at ................$1.25 md1( Summeri 11ats, thle us. maitde in our1 work es...... ....$2.98 to $9.98 'ilk Gloves, lack(' an I sale .... .... ....$1.48 's aind lBoy's I bits and ini andu fit up your nog is getting hot. >r'thI 45i', on salIe at .. . .89c W\amipoles' C'od L iver' ......... .... .... ....90c S. S. S. for thle blood( . .90c s. ,Joe PearI1sonl's lReedy 84c 1 colors .........9c to 253c 'ine of Car'dui .......84c ar'ner's Safe Cure . . . .90c -co....... .... .... ....20o . .... .... ......... ..8c x Salve .... .... ....25c .. . .. ... ... ... $1.75 hox) .. . . . .. .4 8 I andl( Envelo pes, wor)1th evier speiaml.........15c rtper and1( Envelopes .... Sc s, (woth 48e), only . .25c s, special .... .........Sc T hreaid..............8c Pkgs. Arm and Hammer Soda for 25c Burns RBnock