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VOL XLV NO. 87 NEWBERRY, S. C.. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30. 1908. TWICE A WEEK. $1.50 A YEAR Energy and I Building i A TOWN BACKED BY GOOD FIRMING LAND ENTEPRISING BUSINESS 'ME] PULLING TOGETHER Commodious and Attractive Homes One of Most Modem Ginning Plants in This Section of Country. Silver Street during the past fe years has rapidly increased in in portance as a to wn and as a busine. centre, not only because of its natu .l advantages, but also because th people of the community are publi VIEW OF GINNERY OF THE SI spirited and progressive. Public spi: it and harmonious work are needE to build up a town, and when the. are combined in the effort to make -town grow, and when the town backed by rich farming lands anl favorably located as a distribitir point, it can not but experience healthy and rapid development. .Such has been the history of Silv( Street during the past few years. It was only last year that sever, of the business men of the commui ity, having faith in the future of Si ver Street, organized the Silvi Street Warehouse company, capita ized at $5,000. The purpose of ti cQmpa'ny was to .eonduct a gener; warehouse business. Dauring th year a ginnery as modern as coul be purchased in the country has bee installed, and the company is sucesel ing beyond the most sanguin.e exmpe: tation.a of its originators. This is merely an instance of ti work which is being done, showin the determin:nation of 'the people< the community -wo' realize its at vatatges, to build up and to develo Silver Street ais a town and as a bus ness centre. Located on the Columbia an ,Greenville line of the Southern rail war. Silver Street is the na.ture market and distributing point for th surrounding community. The cour try surrounding includes some of th best farming l.ands in Newherry cour tv and in Soulth Carolina. Goo homes and attraetive homes are' th almost univ-ersal rule, evidencing th prspI'tyofthe pople. A scho 'ublic Spirit )f Silver Stree is located in the town, a.nd a modE new church building will soon be process of construction. In this issue The Herald and Ne presents cuts of some of the st N buildings and the attractive hom and -also cuts of some of the prom ent business men who have aided . making this section of Newbei county what it is today. The town and the homes for mi around are connected with each o1 er and with Newberry and the o side world by the Farmers' Dead F - Telephone line, which connects s Newberry with the Bell telephoi - giving its subscribers long distar e connection with every section of t country. The Dead Fall line, whi ...... .... L VER STREET WAREHOUSE C( r- was recently built, will accommod. d one hundted subscribers. More i e tended mention is made of it el a where. is . The Southern railway has a. co is modious freight and passenger de ig at Silver Street. The railway ag( a is Mr. W. R. Edmunds. Silb Street is not only the shipping po r for people in Newberry county livi in proximity, but it is the near i railroad station for numbers of p . ple across the river in Saluda coun 1~. and it draws a great deal of busini r and the merchants seeure a great di 1- of trade- from that county. Ir fa e Silver Street is only about one Tf d to 'the right of the direct road fr< s Newberry to Saluda Court Hiou d making it easily accessible to Salu n people livng on this side of Salu .. Court House. The Saluda ri' e. bridge is only about three miles frt Silver Street, being in the neighb' hood of only two miles from De g Fall. f The post office and the office 1- the Southern Express company a p located in 'the general merchand i- establishment of Sheppard Brothe Mr. Motte G. Sheppard being p< d master and the agent of the expr< e ompany. ITwo rural mail routes start fr< this post office, and these, in conne tion wi;th the mail routes from Ne berry going in that direction, gi free delivery to practically eve home in that section of the couni The carriers on the two routes frc Silver Street are Mr. Walter Per and Mr. Duke Sheppard. -Silver Street Warehouse Co. The Silver Street WYarehouse coi paiii was organized last year, with empital stock .of $5,000. A warehou was erected at a cost of about .$1,5( and up until this fall, when the gi ney a installed. only. a gener warehouse business was conducte During this year' the ginnery was a ded. and it was put in ooera.tion September 2. The ginning plant the most modern whieh could be .pr chased, and the ginnery is one of t best equipped for work in this se h on of the South. The plant consis il of four Lumus air-blast gins, of se e enty saws each. made by F. H. Lii t-ms Sons Co.. of Columbu~s, Ga.: e 50-horse power Atla, engine, and S60-horse power Lombard boiler, t dengine being built by the makers e the famous Atlas engines, in Indian e and the boiler by the Lombard Jr< re in rv es h all at ee HENRY 0. LONG. he the cinnery is about forty bales of ch cotton per day. The gins are of the new air-blast type, whieh xemoves the lint from the seed as it is ginned with powerful air-blasts, and which is a vast improvement over the. old process of removing it with a brush wheel. The press is operated by a hydriulic pump, which gives a swift, steady pressure. The seed cotton is taken from the wagons with a suction pipe, and it is a matter of a very short space of time until the bales of of lint and the seed-clean seed. be cause the air-blast gins thoroughly clean the seed-are ready to be de livered. The company buys cotton seed, and if the customer desires to sell .his seed, they are carried through a pipe from the ginnery.and deliver ed to the warehouse, which is near-by, as shown in the cut of the ginnery and warehouse, which is.presented in ). this issue of The Herald and News. ute If the customer does not desire to part with -his seed, they are delivered into a receptacle situated along the pipe between the ginnery and the warehouse, and he drives his wagon m- under this receptacle, and the seed ot are delivered into his wagon. mnt The ginnerv was erected at a cost er of about $6,000. The purpose of the mg company was to get a- uear perfect a plant as they could secure, and con 1st siderable 'ime and expense we-e giv en by t.hem to the selection of what ty, they should decide, after thor.jr' as nesokn w.:o l1e ver y best. That al they have succeeded is evidenced by et, the plant itself. With machinery of 1e the latest pattern, and with a plant >m harmonious in its details thro>ughott, se'. it has to be seen in operation to be dfully appreciated. dar The plant gives employment to ,mabout ten hands, in charge of Mr. Joe Clark Berry, of Saluda county. ad The president of the company, Mr. of .A4. ~rs ise ry t m'- ~ . n-t n. v1 aH. 0. Long, giv es a great deal of~ d. personal attention to the ginnerv, and Mr. D. L. Ham. one of the officers of the co mpany is manager of the ware - house. The directors of the company rare Messrs. H. 0. Long, 1). L. Ham, e and B. M. Havird, w:hno own all thej - stock. ofiesae ts Theofiesa: v.. H. an. Long, president, secretary -adteasurer: D. L. Ham. manager. a Directors: H. 0. Long D. L. Ham. B. a M. Havird. d In addition to its other business,t o~f the Warehouse company handles ai a, large amount of fertilizers each sea-i af Mr. Henry 0. Long, the president 'i )f the Warehouse company, is one of :he most energetic and enterprising 'oung business men of the upper see :ion of the county, and he has done a )reat deal to aid in the progress and idvancement of Silver Street and the ;urrounding community. Mr. Long is ilso one of the successful farmers of ;hat section. He makes his home vith his father, Mr. J. W. Long, a 1ut of their home appearing in this )aper. .Mr. D. L. Ham, one of the promo ers and officers of the company, has ilso given his most earnest endeavors -o the advancement of the best inter sts of his town and section of the !ounty. He is a successful business nan and planter. The Merchants. There are three general merehan fise establishments at Silver Street, mnd Mr. D. G. Livingston does a mer antile business in the store room in Front of his home at Dead Fall. Mr. B. M. Havird has been in busi .ess at Silver Street longer than any )ther merchant 'there, having con lucted a mercantile establishment in :he town for the past thirteen years. During that time he has held the en bire confidence of his customers, and bie has done a large amount of busi iess and given thorough satisfaction hroughout. In addition to his mer ,antile interests Mr. Havird has been and is now prominently identified vi-th other interests in the town. The general merchandise establish rnent of Sheppar 'erothers, is situat ?d on the right of the railroad, going from Columbia towards Greenville. being the only store on that side of the track. The Messrs. Sheppard Brothers have been in business at Silver Street for several years past, and during that time they have built up a large and successful business, and they are carrying a well-selected stock of goods. They are located in a steel siding building, vnieh pres ents a handsome appearance, as is shown by the cut in this issue. While Mr. John P. Long has been in the mercantile business at Silver Street for only about a year, he has established his business firmly, and has a fine patronage. He is located in a itwo-story steel siding building, a out of which is presented in this paper. His stock of goods is well se lected, and special attention is paid to the needs of his customers. His business, already large, is steadily in. reasing in volume, and will continue to increase. All of the merchants at. Silver Street are energetic and exnterprising, and they are imbued with that pub. lie spirit which is characteristic of the people of the community ge'neral ly. The building in which Mr. D. G. Livingston conducts his mercantile bsiness at Dead Fall is more fully referred to elsewhere. This building as an interesting history, having Seen erected long before the War Between the States. Mr. Livingston ias a nice line of general merchan lse. Mr. T. S. Blair buys cotton seed at silver Street for the Farmers' Oil fil, at Newberry. Silver Street School. The school at Silver Street is aught by Miss Trannie Fulmer, of ht. Willing. The school building is ttractive, and Miss Fulmer's work s thorough. Her scholars number boat twenty. The trustees of the c.hool are Messrs. J. P. Long, G. ash Suber and T. M. Watts. The Churches. Mt. Zion Baptist church is located ibout one mile from Silver Stree: .'nd s among the oldest chnrehes of New >erry county. It was organized in July 1832. the officiating ministers aving been Revs. Daniel Mangum nd N. W. Hodges. Rev. Mangum erved the church as pastor for 18 ears. The church was then served v Rev. Jas. F. Peterson for 15 years. t is now served by Rev. J. F. Ca on. The Lutherans in Silver Street are organized a congregation, and. Jr. Henry 0. Long has given a lot n the town and specifications for he building are being prepared and t is ex!)eeted that work on the build ng Will be~ commenced very sooni. he congregation :t present is organ ze with only about 20 members but they have already in hand some $1200 or $1500 for the erection of t'he building. 'he congregation is being served at present by Rev. S. P. Koon, pastor of St. Luke's Lutheran church. Mr. Koon preaches in the afternoon about twice a month. A Sunday school has been " organized with Mr. D. B. Wheeler as superinten dent. The officers of the church are Messrs. D. B. Wheeler, J: F. Still well, Q. A. Epting, H. 0. Long, B. M. Havird, and D. L. Ham. .. ..... VIEW OF GINNERY OF THE SILV For many years Mr. T. J. Maffett ] e, ducted a general merchandise bus iness at Silver Street and his was I the only sture there. His widow still lives in the town and owns a large farm adjacent. The old Spearman 1 homestead which is within a half ) mile of Silver Street is one of the I most complete and comfortable coun- 1 try homes in Newberry county. Mr. James Henry Riee, Jr., secre tary of the Audubon Society, is de termined to prevent the making of fine lady birds with fine feathers. . . ... .. .f OFFICE OF THE SILVER S TELEPHONE LINE. Farmers' Dead Fall Line Modern and N Well-Equipped, With Excellent Service. The Farmers' Dead Fall Telephone Line is one of .the most modern and j best-equipped rural telephone lines to be found anywhere. TI e movement to build this line, which took shapet OLD SOTRE AT -I some time ago, was in keeping with the progressive spirit of the people whom it places in constant touch with C the whole outside world. The sub scribers formed 'thiemselves into ai company, withI the following officers:| Presidet-J. Fred. Schumpert. IVice-president--D. G. Livingston. i Secretary-Henry 0. Long. js Trasenr-James F. Stephens.I The line was completed in narea >f this year. It was constructed of he best material, and it is extremely eldom that any repairs are needed. r'he 100-phone drop switchboard is ocated at the residence of Mr. D. G. .ivingston, at Dead Fall, the central )ffice being in chairge of Miss Effie ee Buzhardt. At present there are twelve sub cribers, as follows: J. Fred. Schum )ert, B. L. Dominick, J. F. Stephens, ,reston S. Livingston, J. P. Blair, D. X. Livingston, Ar>thur P. Werts, .. ~% - - - - ; - - - - ER STREET WAREHOUSE CO. Elenry 0. Long, D. L. Ham, B. M. HIavird, Silver Street Warehouse .ompany, Hilliard Long. The line has a working arrange neut with the Southern Bell Tele )hone company both for local and for long-distance service. giving its pat cons service wherever the Bell ex ends-and the Bell covers almost the ?ntire United States. The Bell peo ple speak in the highest terms of the Dead Fall line, saying that it is one )f the best county Inies with which thev connect in their entire service. The company is prepared to take in . TRIEET WAREHOUSE CO. yter suibseribers who may desire the ~ervice, and sev'eral more are. espeet id to be added in the ver'y near fu :ure. As stated, it egsadegcommoi~date >ne hundred subscribers. Although John D. Rockefeller has bree hundred million dollars, he is itheut even t.he title of "!colonel,'' scept. of course, during the winter hat he sports in Augusta, Ga. ~EA~D F'ALL. DEAD FALL. ne of the Oldest Settlements in the County-The Old Store Build ing and Its History. Dead Fall, one mile to the left of ~ilver Street, is one of the oldest ettlements in Newberry county. The ittlment was there many years ao.