The sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1906-1909, May 02, 1907, Image 4
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PICKENS, S. C.:
THURSDAY, MAY 2 1907.
0H CONSISTENCY.
"As long as we have the 'sugar-tit'
we are all right, but take it away
from us and li, ten to our howling."
Hear the syren-voiced Easley Prog
ress as it emits one of its periodical
eruptions:
"After an agreement with the
clerk of the Board of County Com.
missionera that The Progress would
publish all the county advertising at
the same rate it did last year, after
three months had elapsed we were
notified by the supervisor that for
the sake of economy, retrenchment
and reform this contract could not
stand. The commissioner then with
out advertising sent Supervisor E. F.
Looper to Atlanta to purchase twelve
:mules for the county,'which he pro
ceaded to do at a cost to the county,
if we have been rightly informed, of
over $3,700. A short advertisement
inserted in the Progress for a couple
of weeks, we believe, would have been
the means of saving the county in
this one instance enough to have
paid f r nsveral years' advertising,
with no relection whatever upon the
quality of the mules. '1'his is one
species of economy."
For the information of the Easley
Prcgress, we will state that the clerk
of the board is not qualified to meake
contralcts--he can draw theim up for,
and at the re quest of the CoULIiH
sioners, that is all. He is nott a con
missioner neither is he alected by tht
people to transact the business of the
County.
As for "economy, retrenehnen
and reform," The statute bookst pnr -
scribe when, where and how, all It
gal advertising shall be done anld
paid for, and it gives to the paper
that i6 published at the county seat.
the privilege of doing this advertis
ing, and the construction of the law
is not that paper that is away from
the county seat and that is purely a
local paper and printed solely in the
interest of the town in which it is lo
cated, has any right to ask for or fto
Jicit any of the legal advertising. Oat
the other hand, if Mr. Looper sees
that by giving his adIvertising to the
Senttinel-Journal, which circulates all
over this and into neighboring coun
ties, and pays the legal rate for the
same, and by no doing he can save
$100, he is to be commended. Last
year the advertising wvas let out by
con trtact for $200, divided between't
this paper and the Progress, and we
8ot our money every quarter, wheth
er we had done any advertising, or
not. Mr. Looper opposes any such
arrangement and proposes paying for
only what lie gets in the way of ad
vertising and only that, and nothing
more. He is to be commended for
this, and we say this, even thongh
he give the Progress all of the print-.
ing.
As to the trip to A tlanta after
mule's for the county: There wvere a
lot of mules needed and t.hev were
needed right niow. Wha re else wVotuld
lhe haveV( procured sneh mules he dlid,
except ini a tock mai,rket? ( ranting
that there are suc'h matule itn Pickens
couty, it wouldI have taken aL (devil of
aL timte and a t errible1 long priice to
have gottn 'hem. Theuy are in the
handsn of the farmwe, who bought
themri for thiri qulttities, anit ibIeintg
the seaison of the year it is, lo ve nor
money could not hauve gotten them
out of the hands of tneir owners.
Honestly, we do not believe that
there are any such mules as this lot
to be found in this county-they are
no)t ini other counties, for we see by
our exchanges wvhere the super.visor.s
A New Orleans
Because she di
nourishment from h
She took Scoft'.s
Result:
She gained a pouni
ALL DRUGGI
ta to buy mules and the supervisor of
Spartaburg county bought 18 at the
same time Mr. Looper put chased.
No, Mr. Martin, "a short ad in the
Easley Progress for a couple of
weeks" would have been very barren
of the results Mr. Looper would have
had it produce, your opinion to the
contrary, notwithstanding.
Mr. Looper, we understand that
you -- ill have to have some more
mules and we suggest that you send
and get this paragon of wit, wisdom,
high finance, business sagacity and
acumen to wake the trade for you.
He can save the county lots of
dollars and be the means of you get
ting lots of "cussings." T r y
him once, for we know he must be a
good mule trader.
Really, in all seriousness, Mr. Mar
tin you have done the supervisor
great injustice. Your trade with
him was to do whatever advertising
was to be done for this office and
charge the legal rate for the same
You know you t dd Mr. Looper when
he proposed this plan, that it suited
you bettor than the contract.
You know that the legislhture ap
propriated $5,000 to be spent for
mules and scrapes to fix the roads;
you know no such mules as were
bought are owned, much less for sale
in this county; You know that if Mr.
Lo(per had failed to have bought
mules you would have roasted him
for tnt <boiug it; you kenow fhsrsthe;r,
t.hat th'ose mules were bought ,s
h .aply as they coubi1 be gotten hold
of (and if you on't. know this, ask
your relativte, Col. W. A. Neal, -Vio
d st ;idl of his itilun c:, and pe rs o;i
S ive powers to _et the price down as
<lid also Mr. RIt', at stek dealer of
Coltumttnbin); you nayr not know it, iut
sitice those titules vIi:ve bean inl Pic!;
ens county, a stock dea!or of the
cou.ty 1ihas offr ed to buy the lot at.
an advt,nce of $150 over the cost of
thema; you kniow Ibhat former comn
simnners piaid $200 for old mnules, sud
they dlidn't advertise for them either,
and you know you never said ai word
againd t lhe trades; you know of duam
ages being paid to parties that were
exorbitant, but you never said a word
in your paper abhout the boar : that
allowed these claims, you know of a
road in yonr township being let, the
cost of which wais over $800 for a few
hundred yards of work- $100 could
have fixed it or the chain gang could
have built it for less. There were
instances in former admin istrations
that needed writing about worse than
this dteal of Mr. L->oper's but y ou did
not say anything about it, although
you were on the investigating comn
miittee, and a member of the grand
jury and had a chance to find out
these things; you know that the
grand jury rcommnended an addition
to the court hiouse and you know that
Mr. Looper is now preparing to carry
out that recomnmndation. WVhat are
going to say about that? WVill you
fight him be:cauise be dm,es? Well
wouldn't you have fought him if he
hadn't?
Ta'uke thlese remarks in the kintdly
spirit they are given, turn ov'er a
new leaf and be a booster in the
place of a knocker. There is a heap
and friendsn in thlis policy.
Some Are Born Great, While Others
The Eanley Progres of the 17th
u't., amiong othemr very uncalled for
and imnpertinent remarks, gets off
what the versmat,ile (?) ejditor' of that
paper considers a very "smaurt" re
mark in the following notico:
"From the dust and trash that
Went. througeh TA.lno lnast s.Inurd
woman was thin.
I not extract sufficient
er food.
Enut-sion.
I a day in weight.
ST 50c. AND $1.00
coming from the direction of Pickens,
they must have an automobile street
cleaner in operation up there."
Considering- the caliber of the "big
gun" that is behind the Easley
Progress, and we are basing our re
marks on the size of the "bore," we
didnt'L think it shot such a small
"ball," but appearances are deceitful.
This thing, in place of appearing
to be "smart," and the penner of
thase lines being facetious, the thing
has had the opposite effect.
There are times when such things
can be condoned and, by some, would
be considgred really funny, but in
this instance, friend Martin, as in a
good many instances when you tried
to get gay, you have rubbed the fur
the wrong way. We hope you did
not do so intentionally, but we can
see no excuse for you doing so at all.
Remember, Mr. Martin, you live
in a mill town-a mill on ea, h side
of your office, and talk of another
mill in the near future for Easley, a
pr-ject we devoutly he pe will suc
ceed --and you had a lot of people,
transients, with you while these struc
tures were under way, men who were
laboring there as brick masons, car
penters and machinis s, all of whom
enerally went away from Easley on
Saturday evenings to spend the Sab
bath with their families (r friends in
other towns, and it would have ieen
bad grace for this lpaper, or any of
the citizens of this town to speak of
"the dust and Irash ' around the de
Pot in Eisley on Stu rday afternoons.
Now, hoelst, clun't Nou think so?
"Do' unto otthe's as you wish to he
done b."
u may have an aversion to peO
ple ' h0 ta'>or in the various capacities
arouotd c> tou mills, but du not air
your persunal dislikes through the
collltus of a newspaper. It really
hurts v u more than it, hurts those
whom, you are sin rinlg. We might
thin tha Ilot physicians were humnbugs,
that thinwsafre n
eethtlife was a mocker'y, but we
have too~ mucnh sense( Io proclatim our
linms, dlogmas and belief5 from the
housetops. Let those who get en
.oymient, satisfaction, help, relief and
strength from these beliefs con tinueo,
uninterrupted, in the blessings of
their te'achings.
There are numerous ways of labor
ing for our dlaily bread, and cotton
mill work is one of the many, and as
good1 people as there are any where
follow some part of the mill wvork for
a livelihood, andl many of them have
to go from p)lace to place, ns th)e are
sent by t.heir' su)-eriors, and when the
machinery is all put in and the mill
started to running their wvork ceases
and1 ther are then bent to home1 other
town. Our town, at prear-nt, is full
of such mechaijics, and( \hey are
coming and going at all times5, and
for (Ih Easley' Progress to s4peak of
"d(ust and trash'" at tIhis Lime looks,
to theise pelel, at lenast, as a ireclt
slip at themfl, asO, unfortuately, they
are'( nomads1( for thme mioniey.
yoventure the assini that tli.
biggeri part of thle inJc(oe of thatt
pialer~ is fom mill interostst , d1iretly
adiirectly, and the edhit,r lp
good( anid harid to. show thlemf hiow
hi.ghly lhe appeila the ir 5i1))ot
LayV On, \laediuff, it dioes then comn
anllll gieyo( oe lthing to ,.
about.
What in preOttier tha a l)I of
thorouiglhred biids? You can have
therm just as easy a a .you can the
o1 ld ugh ill breed, and they will
net you many timenas mchmny
Get a Move
And buy your DR9
and TOI?ET ART
BOLT"
Up-to-Date Druggists,
Dr. Earle'
W. E. Free
"AT TIHE(4
At the end of s
are more than
result, by fair
prices we expe
low we submit
your consicera
Granulated Sugu
Light Brown Kug
Best green coffee
Good parched co:
- -Butter pilrch,ed c4
1Bet, parched rofl
M\eat, (rib side)
:3 one pound pkg
--Ga!vanized wash
{1 if
Havy gulvanz.,c
--white edilr was
Wrights tuc tand
you a1.50 and ul
Wrightf thn aar
mnen, S$1.00, 81.2-5 :
ild ren'c shk
LPes don'tI
millinery b-- f're I
you F.haetnsi drster.A as
Jof Stheart,.
. Nc. Bute,
natralesie al.
-:-rd l i Per Cet I nR tere:
)U rease. emem r e h
.hoes,anister tes And Heal
cnby tualeire of alow.
.. ILLGETMA
on Yosl
GS,STA" ERY
ICLES f ].
and CO
Pickens, S C
s old stand.
)LD STANI)." A
ix weeks stay we
gratified with the
dealings and low
.t to increase. Be
a few prices for
tion:
ar'18 lbs for 61
ar, 18 lbs for 1
8 lbs for $1
Tee bulk, 141 lbQ
flree, bulk, 1Gc, lb
lee, bulk, 20c
116
a evap apples 2.5c
-tuba, No. 0, -l:l
No. 1 n
I well buck
rlbuckets,
cour se shio.'o
md upward
t, ispect, o
lying.
T1Qi & Co,
Ph:kenS. S. .
ggs, and in fact, any thing tima
red that you are getting the to1
I. M. Mauldin,
Cashier.
E NS B ANKI
LTH CAROLINA.
- - - '$20, 90.oo
- - 20,532.oo
-- - 1 50,000.00
at Paid On Dep)osits-:
octors
good, W. M. Hagood,
.Mauldin, J. McD. Bruce.
.A. Richey, J. P. Carey,
FRE
>ssib)le for their money is thi
In dealino- wi th me SOME
Y Till . WOI(TH of0
for I si away A\BSO
n the 4 ily a high grad
e lbangi / store a larg
:samg r ,the n1umbI.er (
TREE, c ; withi every 5(
11 sell y Goods, Hat
MVerchanidise as5 cheap as y<
anid give you the Range Fri
B. COOPER.