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E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Entered at the Postoffice at New erry. S. C., as 2nd class matter, t cOT Tuesd-iy. July. *)'0, 1907. P11 wil WHAT IS A CHAMBER OF COM- du MERCE? be. We have not heard any noise like ret starting that hospital about which we wrote some days ago. Abbeville has to already raised something like $6,000 for a hospital; Greenwood is agitat ing the subject, and we hope the suggestion contained in the Herald no and News as to Newberry will not els be 'permitted to pass by without at- Ye tention. We have as fine physicians Ne here as any of these towns, and while eit this is a healthy community, yet it would be a good thing to have a first- ce class hospital, because people do some- ins times get sick, and there are, unfor- rv tunately, times when it is necessary pa to have surgical operations perform- _ ed.-Herald and News. As we said, the Newberry paper makes the right sound. The above er is well and wisely said. We know er it to be a fact that what the Herald ct and News says as to the physicians m and healthfulness of Newberry is true. ma -The same can be truly said of Lau- -be rens. As for the hospital, it would ber be a god idea, but you can't get that be or the Atlantic Coast Line parlor car has unless citizens support the newspa- beN pers along these lines. So far as the ces Laurens chamber of commerce is ed concerned, it is a new organization ha n( has and the committees haven't got the hang of things yet. Newberry has had one of these bodies for some PO time. Will the Herald and News wh kindly tell us just what a chamber wh of commerce is organized for?-Lau- she rensville Herald. coil The question asked by our contem- anI porary is a very broad one and the answer might be very broad also. We wo: suppose it depends largely upon the . point of view. vol A chamber of commerce may be or- h ganized for the purpose of fitting up lea nice rooms, in which the members may assemble for social and pleasant intercourse; there may be also at tached a reading room in which the leading periodicals and newspapers ee of the day may be found, and the the purpose of some may be to have ac- in eess to these leading magazines and res periodicals ; t.here also may be a nice toi pool and billiard room connected with foi 'er of commeree, and the main pre idea and purpose of some of the mem bers may be that a chamber of com- Jul merce is organized for the purpose tra of having a pool and' billiard room, vel where this pleasant and innocent mo amusement may be indulged in by the if1 members; then it may be that a chain- fla ber of commerce is organized for the liv purpose of permitting its auditorium boi to be used as a meeting place for the litt civic association, the bachelor maids isi and others who desire to have their the meeting place in a pleasant and de-- o.n lightfully fitted up room; then a sit chamber of commerce usually has a - president and a board of governors. wh who elect a seeretary and who ap point a number of committees on var-. no ious subjects, who are supposed(to do the certain things, which it is presumed tai will be for the good of the ehtire plc commr aity. Some of these things might be to look after the railroads loy and see that the city is not diserim- s1y inated against and to take up thie me very matter of a hospital and get ab< the people together and united in an; their efforts to build one, and then, kn there might be another committee on tio railroads, whose duty it is presumed to be to look after such subjects as siti securing a parlor car on the Atlantic wit Coast Line, and showing the railroad as authorities that the sentiment of the hal community is heartily in favor of such .ma improved service: then 'there might for be another com'mittee, whose duty it fra is presumed would be to get after the boi people. who have charge of the pub- the~ lie roads and to keep after them un- ani til there were some 'iood ro'lds built is leadinig into the e~tv in which the the chamber of commrr is presumed to eor be o'peratin:g: then. there might be the anotl'er committee, which would keep me beHind the city athe.rities and show res there that the sentiment of the com- not munity, in which the chamber of com- sta merce is located, is heartily in favor of paving some of the streets in the i ecy so as to keep apace with the pro- da; ze;es of the times: then, there might cot be another gereral committee, or He rather spec?ial committee, whose duty po01 it is presumed would be to see if it wh were possible to wi2en the streets in pr( the city in which the chamber of com- imi merce 'is located, in the event, of "i course, the streets were not already the suffleently wide: then. of course. it bri is ijart of the duty of a chamber of a ecammer'ce to have occasionallv a ban- dei one?. at which all of the memblers5 and ent their invited guests may assemble, ihe and ths.ast duty usually brings ont i fi -lrert numb( r of the mem)ers. r I e;11*P t o H ld\,a f ile f timpe for ithe enli-htenment of our I it emnorary. )f course it is presumrre(d that the sident of a chamber of commercee see that all of these and other I ties are performe.1 as they should Just what flhc duty of the see arv is we are somew-hat at a loss know, and we %vill not undertake t 11nnmerate just now. t AS TO A HOSPITAL. aurens has three or four patients a at the hospital in Columbia, and ewhere. We don't know how many wberry has, but The Herald and ws is agitating a hospital for that v; which is a good idea. and we >e The Herald and News will sue qd in its undertaking. If such an titution be established in Newber Laurens won't have so far to send :ients needing hospital treatment. jaurens Herald. knd Newberry has some three or a r in the hospital all the time eith in Columbia or some where else. 5omehow no one seems to have ight the inspiration from our re rks and no movement has been de looking to the hospital in New ry. We suggested that the ladies P in to agitate the subject and may they can arouse the men. Chester 0 a hospital. The movement at Ab- P ille and Greenwood has been sue .ful and the money has been rais and the hospital for these towns 0 been assured. Ve'wish we possessed some magie rer of arousing from slumber those a o ought to be up and doing and a ought to get out of their selfish Ils. We would then do something ! a good many somethings for this aunity. They need to be done I if they were done everyone would nder why they were not sooner f ie. s to the hospital some of our b in doctors ought to get behind , movement. Who will take the i THE LABOR QUESTION. WVe publish in this issue the pro dings of the state convention of Farmers' Union, which was held Greenwood last week. Among tIle olutions adopted is one which tehes upon a very live question be *e the people of t.his state at the ~sent time. Before and since the decision of r ige Brawley on our labor con et laws the condition has been 1 -y unsatisfactory. There has been a re or less trouble all the time, and i the resolutions adopted by the Far A Unions last wy?k shou4d be e ed up to by those who employ Ia- 1, ers upon their farms. there will be le necessity for labor contract leg tion. If it is not lived up to, all legislation which we ma.y put up the statute books still leave the ation very unsatisfactory. he following is the resolution to ich we refer:C 'We obligate and bind ourselves :to employ the hands of our bro- a r union farmers without first .ob ning the consent of the farmer em yer. 'Second, that we regard it as dis al to our obligation and subver e of the best interests of the far-. r~s to disobey the spirit of the ve resolutions, and that we hold i and all men who deliberately and , >wingly act contrary to this ac- o a as not good citizens.'' t rhe great trouble with the labor .ation, as it seems to us, has been * those who employ labor as well ' with the laborers themselves. The it, -which some farmers have, of king contracts away in advance labor, and inducing the laborers m the plantations of their neigh s. has contributed very largely to unsatisfactory labor conditions, until this practice is stopped, there oing to be difficulty in handling labor situation. We desire to mend the resolutions adopted by Farmers' Union to all other far r who emp)loy labor, and if these olutions are lived up to. we will have a labor condition in this te to any great extent. e were in Spartanburg the other rfor an hour, and through the irtesy of our friend. Mr. C. H. nr, of the Journal, we had an op -tunity to see something of the work ~ ich has been done by this live and ' gressive city in the way of street j rovements.. he public square and the main 'rough.fares are laid in vitrified ek and it makes a very pretty and very dlesirable street. The resi ice streets are paved with a differ co(mpoeition, which costs about onw~ or a liittle less than the vit ed bricr. T+ hase ounnation nL nacadami. bu the surface is very soft md smooth. and it is said to be very 2 h. T i y if,] Sparianb(ur. 1h ma w abem s:x miles of this ]2 i t a di tion 1- havimg the public Ipe quare an ud 0he nmin thoroughfares Ip aid in viirified brick. Of course it takes money to do this vork. but no town. a fier it has reach d the size of XeWherry. can grow nuch more until some work has been ,ne .wards the building of perman t streets. ME Newberry has grown very mach in ne: lie last two years, but we have got en to that point now where it is in- an lispensable to further growth that we ch hould do something else besides have ur street hands going around throw pg briek bats, cutting grass and dig- Wil AIr ditches and cleaning out ditches tel f we ever expect to keep in our class. )f course we understand there are ther things which we need and which It i aust come, but it seems to us that to-, here is no more pressing need at resent than that we sho-id do some hing towards permanent street work. Spartanburg has grown very rap rily in the last two ypars and evi ence of this gowth is seen on every ide. 0 NOTICE. 0 The undersigned as members of the pric telief Committee,' appointed for the Cluj urpose of soliciting funds in aid of bett e persons suffering loss by reason l f the fire of March 29th, beg to re- offe ort that we have on hand $274.39 re aining after giving aid to all worthy pplicants suffering loss on account f the said fire. ter The Tresurer of the Committee has eceived $826.39 and paid out $552.00, -hich as stated above leaves a bal nee on hand of $274.39. The Committee is at a loss to know tha1 rhat to do with the balance on hand soli nd have determined to turn it over use o the Bachelor Maids, a charitable rial rganization, on the 15th day of Au- sica ust, 1907, unless contributors to the it V und object. Any contributor desir ag a return of the pro-rata share of is contribution can file his claim rith the Treasurer, before August ] 5th, at which time the balance then froi n the hands of the Treasurer will be eas: urned over to the Bachelor Maids. A. T. Brown, Ch'm'n. -W. H. Hunt, John B. Mayes, M. L. Spearman, Sec'y. and Treas. NOTICE. A The undersigned have been request-' d to audit the books of ML L. Spear- Ma ran, as Treasurer of the Fire Relief. ~ommittee. We beg to report that we ave carefully examined the receipts nd disbursements and find them to e correct. As Treasurer Mr. Spea;nnan has re ived $S26.39 and paid out $552.00; eaving a balance on hand of $274.39. Respectfully submitted, ' Jos. H. Hunter. J. E. Norwood. J. Y. McFall. FRSALE OR RENT.K 185 acres of Ian diving partly in auda and partly in Lexington ountv' and on Saluda river will sell , r rent cheap--has about fifty acres f well timber-land. For other infor ration apply to A. D. F. Nichols, toute 4, Leesville, S. C. Residence 2 V iles from Simpson ferry. 2t-pd REETo women for collecting names and selling our novel ties, we give Big Premiums. ~end your name to-day for our new plan f Big Profits with little work. Write -day. Address C. T. MOSELEY Pre rium department, 32 E. 23d Street, Tew York City. K VI N ALWAYS ACCEPTABLE. A box of our Confectionery. s It is abcolutely pure and whole- 0 ome, fresh made and delicious to 0 he taste. You will fid every va ity of good Candy here at lowest rices for the best. What better present at Easter Time than a box.a f our pure Candy? THINK OF IT. Barbecue. [r. S. J. Cromer will give a first - )brheene nt Mt. Bethel on July Tlhere will be st me 1 prolmient ikers pre.-ent on that occasion. The lie is invited. 4ew Market. have opened a first class at Market on Friend street, t door to the Observer office, I am prepared to furnish yice meats of all kinds. kll orders entrusted to me I receive my personal at tion. { ,ome to see my market. s the cleanest and most up- ] late market in Newberry. J. A. WRIGHT, Friend Street. hone 232. WANTED LD PIANOS AND ORGANS ir which we will allow the highest es towards now Instruments. No rates to offer, but we Pledge er Instruments for -he same or molley..thn those at club rit.e rite Malones Music House, Co bia, S. C., for speeial prices and is. THE VICTOR. 'he popularity at:d reputation : the Victor enjoys is due to its I-as-a-rock construction. The of the highest grade. of mate and skill, mechanical and mu 1, that the world affords, makes ,hat it is. - For the Cottage. For the Mansion. 'he prices of the Victor range n $io.oo to $1oo.oo, payable in r monthly installments if desired. HEAR THE VICTOR AT SALTE R'S. 't and Variety Store, in Street, Newberry, S. C. WACQI Just received, c 1-2 and 2 3-4 \A e will sell thes s the strongest, ~agon on the m Buggi We carry but o ~actured by The lie, Ga. These a the best and n arket. Our pri uy a Summers]I ctured at Barnm o more broker lafts, broken s rly parties hand ome and see ou 3d you will buy M.Fe flITTER Shoe Pc or Ladies' Shoes sponge and requir as th 3ilt Edge Trench Gloss rhe Paste Polish v quires rubbing. 3aby Elite Sheno1a )iN Paste which wt the best FOR CANVAS' White, Blue, Gray,I We have full line DUE WEST FEMA DUE WEST, Th a l place fo uet study toroug wo :ariie.e lo arngi Hal ith elBrn ragons. For the a Wagons regard! best made and el arket. es!Bug ne line of Buggies Summers Buggy Buggies are consi eatest job ever o: ces and Terms at Buggy Company's ville, Ga., and you i wheels, split bc prings or bent tor ling these Buggies r stock of Wagons from YANS IOR E'S )lishe applied with a ing no rubbing e. 25c. Io. rhich re loco lOc. regard as Ioc. SHOES .avender all lOc. of all these. LE COLLEGE S. C.4 rk, sweet Christian ininuences,an oks adsg. Deigh tfuladei stanaes s for theoftstoe. 4 iieme st will ing inostrock, mn ess of Brfis dered by all to fered on this -e reasonable. Buggy, manu have the best. >dies, cracked is. We are the in this county. and Buggies &.co.