Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

I'll ||jp ^tralD anD Jews. I VOL XL,V NO. 4.1 NEWBERRY, S. O., FRI DAY. MA Y 22 1908. TWICE A WEEK.' $1.50 A YEAR FOR GOOD ROADS. I Mr. L. W. Floyd Urges The People of No 6 Township to Vote Bonds oa June 4W . .. ' WMF? Voters and laxpayers of Six Township: There having $P$Ving been an election ordered on 4th day of June next for the \ purpose ol voting lor or against a bond issue for permanent road improvement in our township, I feel tliat it is a matter of great importance to us, and hope that every ..voter will so interest himself in the work of such improvement that he will cast his ballot for good roads. 1 feel deeply interested in this work, not only as a taxpayer, but for various other reasons. 1 would | like to see the citizens of this grand ' old township enjoying all the adl vantages and blessings which can be had while in this life, and at the same time build up for their children this township, which will be an everlasting source of comfort, consolation and profit to its citizens. In order to accomplish such results, we must do permanent work, such as making our lands rich, building comfortable homes, having good schools, churches, and macadam roads. What a township this would be with such surroundings! Under such a skv of blessing, what would be the value of the citizenship and of the lands? Money could not buy either. Then, let us all join hands and take advantage of the opportunities along this line of progress, as now offered us. I believe that you will all avail yourselves of this privilege on the 4th of June, and will cast your vote solidly for good roads. This is a fine opportunity, and if carried out. will be the best thing that you have ever done along this line. ^V>u have had for years general laws, which have not given yon good roads. ' The chain-gang ha* given you good bridges and a few miles of good roads, but you cannot expect relief from this source J here fore, we must depend upon other means of getting the roads improved. There is not a man, woman or child in Xo. f>. who, if asked if they wanted good roads, would not answer: "Yes. we need them and I want them." Then why sil idlv continuing year after year killing up $300.00 mules, breaking uj $100.00 buggies and wagons, hauling only 1,000 pounds and thei taking three hours to travel a mile when we can all get together undet this law and have $200.00 mules t cheaper buggies and wagons, anc with a team of two mules and oiu driver haul eight bales of cotton instead of,as now. hauling si> "bales of cotton with four big mules: What a difference! Figure up tin wear and tear 011 your mules am see >if it doesn't cost you $30.00 pci I ye,?r. The wagons will cost yot L $10.00 to $12.00 per year, and be^^les, it takes more time and worry gi|jBpc good roads will save you thi: Your land will advance in value B'om $20.00. $30.00, and $50.00 pel Were to $40.00, $75.00 and $100.0c Hpcr acre. Then, why do you liesi ? tate and complain of this extra tax when there is 110 question as t( J your receiving such benefits by hav 1 ing macadam roads? You will ncvei have good roads until you raise tin money by taxation and apply it ii a business manner. Some may ob jeet to the method in which' thi: plan is offered, but the basis of thi: procedure is in line with the busi ncss world of building a major por tion of enterprises throughout tin country. Pake for instance, the rail roads, cotton mills, waterworks street improvements, road improve incuts. and various other enterprise: and improvements. Every few day: the newspapers inform us that ; ccitain town will issue bonds fo street paving, or the building o water and sewerage plants, all Ir taxing the qifizens, issuing bond and putting aside each year a snr plus to pay the bonds when due etc. ' f*? :)ouht tlicrc arc some vvHio d< not fully understand why an/ dec J ( tion is necessary to issue bondfor good roals, as outlined in this act of the legislature. Our township is recognized by the business world as being similar to such corporations as cotton mills, railroads and other chartered institutions, who seek a bond issue ?n order to secure money to develop their properties by such a source, and the general laws describe how this must be done in their case in order tc give a good title to their bonds. Therefore, to give a good title in this case, there are certain lines 01 procedure, described by law in the issuance of township bonds, which are necessary to be carried out without any variation and to the letter of the law. to make them valid otherwise, the prospective purchasers of the bonds will discover the de fects. and a sale of the bonds cannot be made, and the bonds should not be sold. As we wish to put oursclf on record as honest and law abiding citizens, therefore, an election. as ordered in accordance witl: our laws, is necessarv. The law requires that if a majority of the voters favor the good roads, the auditor of the count* shall charge to each property-holdet m \o. r> Township 7 mills on tin assessed value of their p-operties it that township; the treasurer collect;5 this tax. which is equal to 70 cent* on every $100.00 worth of assessor values. When so collected, it i< turned over to the five trustees aiu a receipt is taken for the amount which is about $2800.00. These trustees, having sold the bonds, wil use the proceeds of the sale in buildmg the roads. Xow that we have borrowed the money, how will tin bonds be paid when due in thirtx , years? The Interest which is due tin first of January and July each vear amounting to $1800.00 is paid 011 of the taxes, $2800.00. collecte< i each year, leaving $1000.00. Th< 1 ti us tees deposit in bank $1000.00 a , four per cent interest as a sink inq fund to be used onlv in retiring the bonds when due. If you wil , take the time, yon can figure on 1 how long this tax will be necessarv i You w il! readily see that ? fter a few . years your taxes will gradual!' I grow less. Some one, no doubt, wil [ say, \\ by not use the $1000.00 even , year in retiring the bonds. Becausi t a bond buyer will not purehasi . bonds in that manner?he wants al > his money paid at once, hence he i: . willing to wait thirty vears to ge 1 it that way. Now, to some of you, this ma} seem a long time?and it is a loin . time?and in my opinion it is a plat I by which our children will assist u: in retiring the bonds. The most o . us are carrying life insurance am . are paying the annual premiums foi ' the benefit of our families?beside: - assuming obligations for invest 1 ments. buying homes and buildup houses, all for our comforts aw 1 our families benefits. NTow, win - not assume this small obligation o' . paying only $7.00 each year as taxei ; 0:1 every $1000.00 worth of prop erty for road improvement, whicl - js ;i'i investment equal to any lifi r insurance policy that you can buy ) You cannot question the benefits de - rived. Besides, if your property i , worth $1000.00 now, the good road: ) will enhance its value anothei - $r000.00 in five years. ^ 'h*-' event a special tax shouk - be levied upon the county N'o. 1 1 could and would be exempted fron any such tax because of the for s ward movement which had alreath s been taken by this township fo road improvement. 1 iood roads are like the rural mai c and the telephone?when one placed at your door and in you . home, they are practically indispen - sable, and if you had good road s you would not permit them to h s destroyed. This plan for bavin. 1 good roads does not interfere witl r the present law or any other law 1 which may be enacted for roa< Y working, I he plan now in use o s six days' work and overseers, etc - remains the same. It is likely to be suggested that am advocating this road law bccaus :>| 1 am mentioned as one of the com - missioncrs, and that I am seeking >,this nomination. Anyone who en | tcrtains such views rs mistaken. I am advocating it because of the > I good results derived from good 'roads, together with the benefits I which I know I will receive along , | the lines before mentioned. 1 ask i that you vote this tax on me, as I 'cannot vote myself. ! ' J he kiw re(|uires that none but I leistered voters of this township I be allowed to vote in this election, therefore, it is necessary that you | should have your registration certi| (icate. 11 you haven't your certificatc, do not fail to get'it on Monj day, June 1. which is the onlv day' you can get one belore the day of I election. Don't forget the date of ' the ekction?June 4th. Go to you: voting precinct and vole for good mads, and it will be the best invest' menl you will make this year. I o the good ladies : 1 ask you that \011 think ol difficulties iu driving . to church and the children getting 1 to school during the winter months over such roads a> we have had. . and will continue to have until we | vote to have good roads. And last but not least, you can visit your dear old father and mother, vour ? relatives and neighbors, and make 1 lite worth living, instead of rcniain; iug shut indoors for six months of ; the year. Vour husband and sons 1 can get to town in half the time and ^ return before night, therefore insist I upon the old man and vour sons . aiding in getting good roads. Then ? be happy and content and enjoy | life, and when you arc old. you can . console yourself with a contented v mind, which is the oasis of all hap? piness: and it is mv earnest desire that you will all live long and en? joy all the blessings that can be be. stowed upon a good people like I yourselves. 1 Respectfully, j L. \Y. Floyd, t The Act Providing- For Election In No. 6 j 011 Question Of Issuing- Bonds For t Permanent Road work. . AN AC T to Authoi i/.e Flovd Township Xo. Xe wherry i* County, to issue b<>uds for peri nianent road improvement. Section 1. He it enacted bv the - General Assembly of the Stale of ; South Carolina, that the question ' of the issuing and sale of thirty j thousand dollars wortli of coupon bonds by Floyd Township Xo. 6, in Xe wherry County, for perman'' cut road improvement, shall be subJ mitted to the qualified electors of 1 said township at an election to be s held for that purpose at a time 1 during the year 190X to be fixed 1 by the County Supervisor of Xewr berrv County, at which election 011* ly the qualified electors of said township shall be allowed to vote; * said election to be conducted itn the same manner as general elec>' tions. including the notice thereof. * except as otherwise herein provided s for. The Supervisor of Xe wherry County shall appoint managers to 1 conduct said election, and in case ? any manager or managers so ap pointed shall fail or refuse for any - reason to attend and serve, the s managers who do attend shall have * the right to appoint other managers ' in their stead. For the purpose of this election there shall be prepar1 ed for the use of the voters two > sets of ballots, on one of which 1 shall be printed the words, "For the Issue of liornls," and on the other the words. "Against the Isr sue of I ?onds," and there shall be in said township three voting prei eincts. as follows: Trinity Church, c I.ongsh.ile's Store and Reedersr ville School Mouse. Tf a majority - of persons voting at said election s shall vote in tavor of the issuing of t' coupon bonds in the amount above r stated, then said bonds shall be isli sued and sold as hereinafter pros vided. I Sec. 2. That John I',. Smith, I W. I). Senn. J. Henry Dorrali. . David I'itts and L. W. h'lovd are hereby constituted a Uoard of ComI missioners. to be known as lrloyd c lownship Road Commission, for the purpose of earning out the ?J provisions of this Act. Said Com I mission shall have the right to contract and he contracted with, sue and be sued and plead and he impleaded in any and all courts in reference to the matters embraced within the provisions of this Act. In case <>l a vacancy on said commission by death, resignation or .otherwise, the remafning member.^ I shall fill such vacancy by appoint| ment; said Commissioners to hold office until the provisions of this Act are completely carried out. The said Commissioners shall meet as soon alter the election hereinbefore provided as practicable, in case said election shall be in favor of the issuing ot bonds, and organize bv electing one of their members as Chairman, and also elect a clerk, who shall be the bookkeeper for the Commission, lie shall receive as compensation for lus service the sum of three hundred and fifty dollars per annum, payable from the funds herein provided for. The compensation ot the members of the >aid Commission shall be liftv dollars per annum, payable in the same manner and from the same fund as the Clerk; the said Clerk to give bond in some surety company in the sum ot two thousand dollars. conditioned for the faith-' ful performance of his duty, to be j approved by the Commission, the! premium of which shall he paid ! from the funds derived from the1 special tax levy herein made. Sec. 3. In case said election results in favor of issuing bonds as aforesaid, then the Commission provided for in Section 2 of this Act shall offer said bonds for sale and sell the same to the highest responsible bidder at not It \ss than par; said bonds to be in denominations of live hundred or one thousand dollars, as said Commission may determine, to bear interest at a rate not exceeding six (ft) per cent, per annum, payable annually on the first day of July of eaeii year, and maturing in thirlv years from the date thereof: said bonds to be .-igned by the Chairman <>f the said Commission and countersigned by the Clerk: Provided. I hat the signatures of said officer-, may be lithographed or engraved upon the coupons or said bonds. Said bonds are to be made payable at such place as the commission shall determine; and the said Commission is hereby authorized to levy an annual tax, not exceeding I seven mills, on all taxable property in the said township, to be assessed by the County Auditor of \Tewhcrrv County and collected by the County Treasurer as othet taxes are now levied and collected, which said tax shall be paid to the said C ommission upon warrant drawn upon the County Treasurer by its Chairman and signed by all the commissioners; said funds to be kept deposited rn one or more chartered banks in the city of Newberry, at interest, when not otherwise invested as hereinafter provided. Sec. 4. From the proceeds of the tax levy above provided for the said Commission shall pay the interest due on said Ixmds, and the balance shall constitute, in the: hands of said Commission, a sink- I itig fund for the purpose of relit - I ing said bonds at maturity. The ] said Commission sJiall have the j right to invest any part or all of said sinking fund in real estate j securities in said township, on such : terms as they may deem advisable i at seven per cent, interest payable | {annually. No loan in excess of lifty j per cent of the value of real estate as fixed by the Commission to be i 1 made. Sec. 5. Said Commission is j hereby authorized and empowered, I upon the sale of the bonds herein 1 I provided for. to use the proceeds 1 iof said sale in macadamizing or] otherwise permanently improving I I the following hignways in said j | township : ( 1) Starting at (>'Wall's | I liridge across Hush River, on pub- j j lie road leading from said bridge by Longshore's store. I )oniinick's ] store, thence to County line of j I.aureus and Newberry Counties, 011 same public road, being twelve or I I thirteen miles in length. (2) Starting whore another public .road intersects the roail first above described ai or near the farm of Mrs. Jack Henderson, commonly known as the "Lewie" place, thence on by residence of John K. Spearman, Ml. /ion C hinch, crossing the public road in front of the John T. IVtcrson place, thence on by Mrs. Nora \\ erls' residence to the long brdige over Little Kiver, being live or six miles in length. t.O Beginning at a point at the IVisier Bridge over Bush Kiver, at 1'iester's old mill place, thence ?>n b, Bush River Church. residence 01 J. W. Smith, to the bridge over llush Kiver leading to the town of kinards, being about seven 01 cfgTil miles in , length. Said Commission is hereby authorized to employ a civil engineer and to enter into a contract or contrael/s for the purpose of permanently improving said roads, or. in their discretion, to employ a superintendent to have the work done under tlu-ir own supervision. In case said work shall be let by contract, a bond in such amount ;is said Commission shall determine upon, conditioned lor the faithful performance of sai-re, shall be exexculed with sufficient surely by contractor or contractors, to be approve* 1 by the Commission. The Chairman, or in his absence one of the other members of said Commission > hall sign arr warrants for the payment of any part of the funds derived from the sale bonds, which warrants shall be countersigned by the Clerk. Sec. (>. Before any warrant or warrants can he drawn against the fund arising from the sale of said bonds, or derived from the special levy herein provided for. an itemized verified statement of the account shall be presented to and approved by the Commission. ' Sec. 7. The tax levy herein provided for shall be levied and collected annually until the maturity of said bonds, or until a sufficient fund has been raised t<> retire said bonds at maturity and to pay all annual interest due thereon : and the County Treasu^rr shall be liable on hi> official bone I for the taxes collected under the provisions of this Act. .Approved the 2f>th day of February. A. I).. 1 <)oS. RECEIVERSHIP CASE. Argument on Question of Jurisdiction by Both Sides in Court of Appeals. The dispensary receivership case which has been so frequently before Judge I'ritchard in the I'nited Stales court, in Asheville. during the past three months will be argued before the I'nited States circuit [court of appeals at Richmond t^ day. Attorney Alf. S. Barnard of Asheville, wiho appeared for 'Ihe Fleischmatin company, one of the creditors of the State dispensary and consequently one of the concerns vitally interested in the litigation, will go .'<o Richmond to I argue the case for his client before the court and Attorney (ieneral Lyon and Mr. B. L. Ahney will represent the State's interest. Chief Justice Fuller of the I "nited Stales supreme court will be lhe presiding judge. Fither two district judges or one district judge and one circuit judge will sii with the chief justice. Il is possible that Circuit Judge < ioff of West Virginia, who has been unwell for some time, will be able to sit on the case and in such (Vint Justice fuller. Judge doff and one district judge will constitute the court. Circuit Judge IVitehard will not ! sit bv reason of the fact that the case was tried before him, the hearing before the I'nited States circuit court of appeals being on appeal by the defendants, the dispensarv com111 i - sjou "?\Soitth Carolina, from ludge 1'ritchard's rulings in ufi1 Miming jurisdiction, appointing releeivers and continuing injunction I against the holders of the $800,000 I dispensary trust fund. GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH. Elrst Services In Handsome New Edifice In Prosperity Held on Sunday. Sunday morning dawned bright and clear?an ideal Lord's day. At an early hour the old sexton, faithful for nearly a half century, began ringing the bell, calling the worshippers to the first service in the new ('.race Lutheran church. I'hese chimes heralded an hour of profound rejoicing?not for Lutherans only, but for the entire community?-rejoicing because we could erect and have erected a worthy edit ice to the father, expressive o) our gratitude, rejoicing that we have such an object lesson, such an incentive to better and higher things to all who may chance to pass this way. As the pastor came from the vestry the congregation arose and united heartily in singing, "I'raise Cod b'lom Whom All Messing^ How." The sermon was one of thanksgiving for the riches and blessings bestowed upon us. ami a prayer that the riches of Mis grace may abound in our heart*; and lives, and that we may worship the author and giver ot all these bounties, but not the bounties themselves; that we may bow before (iod, not before man?builded churches. I'oo much can not be said expressive <>l own gratitude to and appreciation of the Rev. M. ("). J. Kteps and bis untiring energy and his Job-like patience in perservering and erecting such a beautiful church. It was a monumental undertaking, and it will stand through wars and years a monument to his laith I nlness and love for a master whom he serves so acceptable. < >n I'riday afternoon, as a faint show <>! appreciation, and in compliment to the silver wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Kreps. his parishoncrs gave them a most bountilul house wanning, (lie ?; >nation^ ranging f. >m provisions to silver plate. ( omir.issiojH-r I'.ingham of \'ew N oil< discussing 11 it* ca-c ot a policeman found guilty of protecting gambling houses, said: " I he man lied too naively in deleiise ot his innocence, lie was like a carpenter employed last month by a newspaper friend of mine. "My newspaper friend writes a good deal at home, and his study being next to the nursery the children s noise disturbed him, and he employed a carpenter to make the wall sound-proof between the two t'i >< tins. " 'I'll fix it all right,' said tin* carpenter, conlidenlK. 'The best thing to do will be Iodine it with shavings.' "lie completed the job, then he called the literary man in. " 'She's sound-proof all right now,' lie said. "'Well test her.' said the literary man. 'You stay here.' "And going into the nursery he called to the carpenter in the study: "'Can you hear me?' " Wo, sir, 1 can't," was the prompt reply."?Washington Star. A recently appointed woman supervisor of the public schools one day happened in a school where a voting incorrigible was being pun.' ,.1 "I lave you ever tried kindness?" inquired she of the teacher? "I did at first, but I've got beyond that now," was the reply. At the close of the lesson the supervisor asked the bov to call on her the following Satitrdav. A boy arrived at the hour appointed. The hostess showed hint her best pictures, played him her liveliest music and set him a delictus hu'eh. and then thought it time to begin her sermon. "Mv dear." she began, "were you ! not very unhappy in Maud before I all the class l?>r punishment?" /iiiii," broke in the ! bov, with his mouth full of cake, "it wasn't me you saw. It was Billy, and he gave me a dime to come and take your jawfing."?Philadelphia I .edger.