The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, May 01, 1908, Page SIX, Image 6
FOOD IS SCARCE.
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Caring for the Living In Storm See
tion j8 Now a Problem?Injured
Doing Well.
Atlanta, On., April 27.?Practical
Jy complete returns from all portion!
of Ixiuisiann, Mississippi, Alabami
and Georgia show that tine death lis
in tiro wind, rain and elcctical storn
of last Friday, Saturday and Sunday
will not be more than 400. The num
ber of injured stands tonight at abon
J,200, with reports indicating that j
number of the persons hurt in thii
Btorm probably will dio.
Relief measures have been extcndei
by the United States government t<
Hattiesburg, Miss., Purvis and othei
towns in the four States. In additioi
to lcdenil aid the Slates took promp
measures today for the prompt as
sistance of those made homeless b^
the storm and for hospital accommo
dations for those injured.
The department of the gulf offeree
fieorgia any :iid necessary late today
f?ov. SiniIh, for (ieorgia, immediate
]\ wiivd lor information as to whether
federal assrslauce was neeessai'v a I
any /mini within the Stale. Similai
action was tak. ri in Alabama, Mississippi
ami Louisiana, and at soiik
points Slate troops have, been caller
out to guard devastated districts am
to aid local authorities in relief work
Tents and supplies have been sent tc
many of the towns wrecked.
The flood which threatened part..'
of Georgia today caused no loss ol
life, but did considerable property
damage.
Reports from all parts of the four
fStates show that a number of' death. have
resulted from injuries received
in the storm.
The property loss will probablv exceed
$2,000,000.
New Orleans, April 27.?'Will
about 'f2> newly made graves distri
hilled broadcast over nearly I lie en
tire width of Louisiana, Mississipp
ami Alabama, the dead in Kriday's
tonighl, ami il was possible to sa\
tonight, ml il was possible to s,?n
with accuracy that, the death list it
these Stales would nol exceed ,'{50
The lew who may yet be added to the
fatalities are possibly a score of tin
200 most seriously wounded in hos
pitals throughout Ibe Stales. The re
ma.in.ing injured, numbering abou
3,000, were reported on the road to ro
cove ry.
I he gravity of today's situatioi
centered in the problems of the liv
ing, namely, hunger and 'shelter. A
- least one stricken town was reporte<
'to have eaten literally its last mea
at noon today and was relying oi
charity for its supper. Fortunately
the great territory over which tin
Ktricken districts were scattere<r lef
an opportunity for the unharmet
neghbors inl'erspersed everywlren
throughout these centres of want t.<
furnish relief more quickly and eft*
ectively than would have been pos
sible had the disaster been confined
to one place. Cities, little and big
on all sides of the tornado belt mad.
rapid preparations today to shi|
supplies and men fnto the tornade
districts. iXew Orleans started t
money subscription and also shippe'd
food to Amit,', the worst damaged
town in this State.
Amite was I lie town which reported
today. Otherwise (he lilllo lown
was making rapid progress toward rehabitat
ion. the primary feature ol
the r?'s| oral ion being there opening ot
si reels by dragging trees, roofs and
oilier wreckage off roadways. Tin
CiUirchc~, every one of which waavrecked,
wciv among lire lirst edifices
to rise in the form of temporary
pavilions above I he ruins.
At Purvis, Miss., today cook
stoves were about ihe most valuable
assets in the community. A few ol
them had been brought from tin
wreckage and under the direction ol
the authorities their use was loaned
first to one family and then to anolh
er. Purvis was one of the few com
munities still reporting fresh list:
of injured and dying, who were foutu
in the outlying country, some of then
.in a desperate stale from lack o
care. These unfortunates were m.udi
as comfort hie as possible. So I'ar a
known, all were* negroes. Supcrin
iendeut of Education T. \\\ Davis, ii
charge of the relief work at Purvis
said in describing the situation:
"Wihal we will do largely depend
upon what is done for us. We our
selves have no resources. The debri
must he cleared awav, the dead stoel
removed, the injured oared for. W
have put on a small force of worker?
but will not be able to continue liter
unless money is rapidly forth com
i ng.''
Amite, Purvis and several ot lie
stricken towns were given bad scare
last night by heavy winds, but Ih
only fatalities reported in this seclio
from the storm were nenr-Sehna
Ala., where four negroes perished.
WOULD'PREVENT
SPRING FLOO
The greatest (lovelopmcnt of wj
power that lias y>ver taken place in
United States lias been accomplis
- during the last few years on the
3 crs which drain tire Southern Appj
J chain Mountains, according to an i
t ei-al report on the water resources
1 t,lis region. It is estimated t
V there is at least 2,800,000 indicti
horsepower developed by the strei
t which have their headwaters on I
i watershed, and more than half of I
indicated power is available for eo
oinic development.
' Only a comparatively small pari
> this has been made use of yet, but
l' portion that lias been utilized
' been one of (Ire most important J
1 tors in the recent industrial devel
ment of the South. In the future
use of this power on J its value
- bound to increase tremendou
Manufacturing plants are constat
1 increasing in number in the rcg
. and if is reasonable to expect thai
time the center of the cotton weav
. industry in the United Slates ina,v
moved from the streams of New K
land where it has remained fur
long, nearer l<? the source of sup
j fur the raw material.
I Moreover, waterpower, or po
r originating in (he streams, will
more and more in demand here,
> everywhere else in the country, on
count of the increasing cost of i
; power through dwindling fuel resc
: ees of the country. Already the wa
- power costs much loss than the fi
and the difference will inovita
grow greater. One great difficulty
i I lie users of water power, not only
I the South bul along the New E
land streams as well, though possi
. In a less degree, is the fact that
can nol lie depended upon the y
around, bul must, be supplemen
i and replaced for some weeks
- mouths -every summer by cosily t
- power, because I he streams run
i low Id h(> of service.
More ilian this, as (he years go
' "'ill owners are painfully aware t
i I he low-water periods are grow
i longer and longer. This is been
< the iuresis at (h<> headwaters of
< streams are being cut off, with the
' snll that the melting winter stv
and the spring rains pour off; the
nuded and uardened land in dova;
t ting floods, sending down for a
- weeks far mure water than they
use and moreover, reducing the er
> city and usefulness of their millpo
- by filling them with hundreds of I
t of sand and soil which the flc
^ scour off the unprotected uj
I slopes.
1 Nowhere are business men wi
? awake to the danger tban in
South. Tf indiscriminate cutting
the forests on the crests of the wa
shod can be stopped, there is a po
bilily, according lo a recent reporl
experts, of increasing the deve!
ment of power up to anywhere fro:
In .{() times the .1 ,-100,000 horscpo
a I present available. Without it,
most nothing can be done. The m<
<>d proposed to develop the Appi
ehian river resources to the total
42,000,000 horsepower is by s(or
I reservoirs, which would catch the s
j. plus waters of the spring and ret
them until the summer months wi
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Hot Stove?
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: /Wick Blue Fla
, M the kitchen actually seem
9 1 his, in itself, is wondc
s Perfection" Oil Stove doe:
6 thing that any stove can <
< Hi all-round cook-stove. M
? and fully warranted. I
dealer, write our nearest :
?
^1^ some lamp. Burns for
mellow light. Just win
S talk. rca(''nK or lo I'K^t
e not with yourdealcr, w
It STANDARD O
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(he mills now have to fall hack on
>d8 fuel or close down.
The United Stale Geological Surlier
vcy has kept records of stream flow in
tl10 the Appalnchains for a number of
hed years and recently they made a careriv
ful study of the possibilities of storala
reservoirs in that region. The
oftl- Forest Service has published their
i Df report under the title "The Relajiat
tion of the Southern Appalaehain
itcd plater Power," as Forest Service
wis Circular 144, and will send it free to
this anyone upon application. The experts
this Geological Survey who made
,on. the investigation, af!er picking out rosorvoir
sites and estimating their ca^
0? pac'ity and the area from which they
the wou^ receiy,e the run-off, consider the
has f'?urcs Kiwi above extremely conaerPac
valivc. Even with only 1,400,000
Ion- li?i*Rcpower, the annual return at $20
per horsepower per year would amount
are '? $28,000,000. That is equal to a
.' gross income of 3 per cent on a capi"jj;
tal of about $033,000,000. These figion
,ucs s(V,n '? jtiKlify a considerable
, . ' outlay of money to achieve the benc'j
fits promised.
Rutherford News.
~0 Rutherford* School, April 20.?>Ru
. therl'ord Farmer's union met on last
,,,l> Sahmlay.
Air. T. W. Amick, of Peak, was the
WC1 guest of his son, Air. G. II. Amick, and
K his brother-in-law, Mr. ,T. P. Pawls,
ns Saturday and Sunday, returning to
,nc" his -work at. Peak, where he is erect110
ing some dwelling liouses for Mr. J.
"l" K. Summer.
iter
1 Mrs. Delia Ilutclnnson and daugh!
ter spent a short while with her sis f
ter, Mrs. G. H. Amick, of this see
tion, last week.
_ We are having plenty of rain now,
II and the cotton and corn that was
planted a few days ago is rapidly
' r coming up. The fruit of this section
led was lu>' damaged during Easter. The
' cherry crop is short, but wo have a
> I favorable outlook for a large crop of
, ^ I blackberries.
too
A\ < were greatly shocked to hear
I of the death of Mr. J. IT. Smith. "Mr.
Sinitii was a Confederate soldier and a
. good and faithful on,^ and was a good
1 citi/.en. This community suffers a
|l.M greal loss in his death. The bereaved
M family have our sympathy and may
God comfort, them in their bereaveV"
nrent. llis chair around the fireside
<.t~ is vacant which cannot be filled; his
voice is stilled to be heard no more
and in the church his seat is vacant.
Cftn It. will be a monument to his memory
l^,l~ as long as the church stands, for
,u ' "when we go in church we will look and
?"s say where is the vacant scat of our
,0( S brother who we will see no more in
>^?r this world. We will see no more his
feeble gray head bowed in prayer and
idci will hear no more the feeble voice
jn the choir singing praises to Cod.
He has gone to rest but it. is the work
tcy- of the Maker and Ruler of all things.
|RS1" His will shall be done, not ours,
t of n.
lop
for sale.
1 10 IT. P. horizontal engine; 1. 20
>(]?. II. P. steel boiler; I laundry wagon;
\\n- lot of old iron, piping, etc. Offered for
of sale as assets of the Newberry Steam
a<re Laundry Co. Terms: cash. See the
iur- undersiged if you wish to purchase.
ajn IT. C. Holloway, Receiver,
lien 4-17-4t-st.
Cool Kitchen
How do you expect to endure
the broiling days of
* summer if you prepare all
the food over a glowing coal
,-m^ fire?.
You need a " New PerfecjAjf
tion" Oil Stove that will
do the cooking without c.ook^
ing the cook. It concenin
trates plenty of heat under
IJ the pot and diffuses little
Va. or none through the room.
Therefore, when working
with the
EKFECTI0N
ime Oil Cook-Stove
s as comfortable as you could wish
srful, but, more than that, the "New
5 perfectly everylo.
It is an ideal
ade in three sizes, J \\
f not with your -r~r^
kgency.
Lamp \/'
i substantial, strong- | |
hours with a strong, r , . J j&j
it you need for oven- rj
rite our nearest agcncy, ^
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Weeders
Cultivators
Harrows
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...READING...
It is not our policy to hand you out a
bait for breakfast and follow it with a
lemon for dinner and supper. Shoddy,
shop worn goods?such as you generally j
find at "Special Bargain Sales" are too |
dear at any price. There is not one sin- |
gle item in our line on which there is not 1
a lower price than any other firm can
consistently offer. We mean honest serviceable
goods at'Bargain Prices'. Study
your own interest?come?if we don't
Show You a Glean Gut Saving
on any every purchase pass us by. The
large trade we command was not built in
a day or by "Special Bargain Sales." j
Only by persistent hard and honest toil ^
have we gained the confidence of the
public. Spend your money where the
dollar gives the best results.
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Yours for Bargains, j
o. klettner!
The ^air and Square Dealer.
YOUR BANKING!
THE NEWBERRY SAVINGS BANK.
Capital $50,000 ... Surplus $30,000 1
No Matter How Small, Ho Matter How Large,
The Newberry Savings Bank J
will give it careful attention. This messaged
applies to the men and the women alike.
JAS. McINTOSH. J. E, NORWOOD,
President; Casbton 1
JOB PRMI
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