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VOL XLVI NO, 6 NEWBERRY,S. C., TUEcSDAY. JANUARY 19, 1909. TWICE A WEEK. S1.50 A YEAR $300,000 TO BUILD PERMANENT HIGHWAYS MASS MEETING IN INTEREST OF GOOD ROADS. Legislature to Be Asked to Submit Question of Bond Issue to Peo ple of Newberry County This Summer. At a mass meeting of the people of Newberry county, held in ithe old court house on Saturday, under the auspices of the Good Roads League of Newberry county, it was determined to ask the legislature now in ession to submit to the people of the county at an election to be. held this sum mer the question of issuing bonds to the amount of $300,000 for the pur pose of building permanent roads. A commttee of three, consisting of P-resident W. K. Slight, of the Good Roads League; County Superviso.r L. I. Feagle, and Col. E. H. Aull was ap pointed -to place the matter before Nlewberry'c representatives in- th general assembly. - On account of the e'xtremely dis agreeable weather, ethe meeting on Saturday iwas..not as -largely attend ed as it otherwise' would have been, ut there was a good attendance of representative citizens and property lholders of various sections of the county. Preldent Sligh, of the Good Roads League, presided, and stated the -purpose~ of the meeting, at the same -time making a logical argument in favor of formulating some plan for permanent road building, and advo ..eating as it-he best plan a bond issue. TAe main purpose of the meeting, however, he said, was to take definite action looking towards getting the matter in shape to be submitted ito the people. Pisident Sligh referred to the mass mpetings recently held in Spar tan,burg and Anderson, at which it Aad been deeided to request ithe rep resentatives of these counties to sub -mit to the people of their counties this summer the question of issuing bonds to ithe amount of a half million ,, dollars in each county for .permanent road building. Wihatever plan was agreed on by Newberry, he said, it ought to be put in shape now so that it could be submitted to th-e people this summe-, when there were no poli tics, and -when the mat;ter could have a full and free agitation. President Sligh urged the~ value of good roads. The saving in vehicles which would be brought about by good roads, 'he said, would pay for building them, to say nothing of the saving in wear and tear on sitoek. The permanent road work done in Missouri, he said, begun four or five years ago, -had increased the total valuation of farm lands alone two hundred and fifty million dollars. Lt was said tha:t even during the recent panic the value o flands on unimprov ed roads went down, while the value of lands .on improved roads continued to increase. He did not believe the cost 'of building permanent roads for every public road in ,the county would exceed the value of t'he old field pine which wag now burned from,t:he land, which- with good roads could be brought to market and sold. Another important result of good roads 'which President Sligh stress ed was the diversification oft erops whieh they would bring obout. -The Southern farmers coull not hbri n small produats to market at a profit over t-he present~raads, a:i benee they stuck to eotton.' Tim? was~ the proper standard o'f me:remenit from mar-ket. he said. ani.I not miles. Take 'ciekens and eges i'e, m stanlce it took too lonz .o Yng them to market over :he- present roads. Newberry county was as fav'orably situated'for having good r>advl as an~y section of country he had ever seen. The county was small and the mater ial wvhieh would be used in building te roads was scattered from one end of the county to the other. All the stone necessary could be ;ee'ured in tihe lower section of the county anti almost picehed to the roads to be built. Aro)und Newberry there was ranite outeroo)pin1 every wh 're. and there was a streak of the finest r-oL material in the world running out by it-he old Fair place, by Mr. J. Glnn Rikard 's place, and on out by Capt.. H. H. Folk 's-material whi other sections of tha country we: eager for even when they had to p, heavy transportation -eharges to s cure it. Clay and sand. which, it hC been deImonstraited, were all the el ments necessary for fine pernianei roads-leaving stone out of the que tion-the county had in abundane Surely, said he, if the alluvial sectic of -the State-the section towards til coast-could build permanent roa when it was necessary for them go out and buy the material and sh it in, Newberry could build them wi *he material right at hand. Permanent roads, said Presidei Sligh, had never been built except I two means-the toll gate system at a property tax which has usually tal en the form of a bond issue. The tc gate system in ,this age was impract cable. He favored a bond issue as tl only practical method of building pe manent roads. Any public improv ment that is lasting ought to be bori by the generations -iNihich get t1 benefit of it. It was not right t .the present generation to bear all t1 expense of building roads whic would last for all time, if proper] kept up. A property tax of two mil on an assessed valuation of sev( million dollars would bring in on] $14,000 annually. A levy sufficient] low for the people to stand itt wou] not bring in enough to do anythin and it would take a hundred yea' to get over the county, and thei would be an eternal wrangle aboi w-here to start the work. The on] way to consolidate the peoplei'was treat all alike and get enough mozn to reach every section of the com ty in a few years. He believed $300 000 would build exceptionally fir permanent roads in Newberry count, and he favored an issu of bonds t ithe amount of $300,000, which, I figured, could be retired in fift years with a two-mill tax, if a sma part of the money now used in ten porary ivork were added to the r venue from the two-mill tax. T1 bonds could be floated at not moi gthan five per cent. interest, he sai< which would be $15,000 per year. two-mill tax would bring in betwee $14,000 and $15.000. Add about $2,0C from the amount now wasted on ten porary work, so as to b:ing t1 amount up to $16,430 per year, an the bonds could be retired in fift years, provided; the sinking fund con mission which should be created an placed in charge of -a sinking fun< invested the stirplus, after payin the interest on the bonds, at the san rate of interest which the bonds wel drawing. He wanted to see some di finite plan submiutted to the peopl< and in ord'er to get the matter befor the mneeting he suggested this pla to be voted on this summrer, believin it to be tlie best and most feasib] plan. Tihe legislaure could also nam the commissioners who were to e: pend the money. and the peo-ple coul also vote on these, if it was desire< In reply to questions as to the co: of building a mile of road, Preside1 Sligh said that in response to all hi inquiries he had- been told that it d< pended altogether 0on conditions, bi conditions were extremely favorab] in Newiberry county and permanei roads could be built ethroughout ti county, in his opinion, for $300.00 Under ordinary conditi-ons the ave age cost was about $1.500 per mil At $12,000 per .mile, !however. $300 000 would give 150 miles of permtv endt reads in the county-and th cost was allowing a large- margin. D)r. W. C. Brown yae figure increase in the asse-sment of proupe ty, taxes had continually incre?ase< until taxes were higher now than the ever had been. To issue~ bonds woul be to shoulder a b)urden the peop would have to die out of. He bi lieved tie first thing to have dor would have been to introduce desi able immigrants. Land might incas in value with good roads, but woul the ability of the owners to ma ~their ieasedl obligations increase He referred to the labor questio saying the roads couldn't be bui v:ithout labor, and the building< t -n would take the labar)1 away ra the farmn, which were already beir depleted of laborers. Even the rece work done on :the streets and sid, walks of the city, he said, had bee felt on the farms in tihe way of ha ing the farm labor taken -away, bi Vh cause tre farmers couldnt meet the iI ce highe prices which were paid for this d v -class of work. Good roads were need- I e- ed, but before a plan was 'definitely a td decided on, it should be considered ( e- well. Mr. Brown said lie paid sev- e it eanty dollars taxes, and he had not v s- made that aniount clear on his farm T e. this past year. He thought it would >n 1 be. a God-send if the farmers didn't r ie have roads, so that they could not c is haul, cotton to town -and would have s to to stay at home and raise hog and a ip hominy. He -was satisfied the roads I :h were needed, but there was a wide a diversity of opinion as to how to se- J it cure t:hem. The road from Gibson 's r ,y to King's creek today, he said, had t Id not an impassable place in it. We I n had the laws, and if t6ey were enfore- e 11 ed all the roads could be kept in pas- h i- sable condit.ion, and that was all ira b ie cared for. He was not ready to in r- crease itaxes. - t e- ' Messrs. Jno. C. Neel and Jno. c ie Henry Chappell both strongly favor- s te ed a. bond issue, Mr. Neel stressing >r the increased value of land which 2 te would be brought about, and Mr. fh Chappell saying that he already had y a good road to his place, and he b Is wanted to see good roads in every p mn section of the county. Dr. Geo. B. I y Cromer also strongly favored build y ing permanent roads and issuing V d bonds, saying the mud ,tax which the , farmers were now paying was a great r s deal more than the tax which would J e be imposed upon them for permanent t roads. He said it could eartainly do h y no harm to let the people pass on it, s o tnd he nominafted the committee nam- I y ed above to bring the matter to the I- attention of Newberry's representa.. v ,- tives in the general assembly. Tihis v ie 'generation, fhe said, ough.t. to pay for , everything it does which is not per- a o manent, but for permanent work of i e which succeeding generations reeeiv y ed the benefit they should help pay. r 1N lr. E. H. Aull made a talk along b 1- the lines which lie has been advocat - ing in The Herald and News for many U te vears, saying he believed the good -e roads sentiment was growing and that A sooner or laiter permanent roadsr were Z A. coming-and- the sooner the better. E n Six years ago, he said, he had intro 0 duced in the legislature a bill similar i 1- to the one which was being spoken e of now, b;ut at that time the constitu d tion did'not permit separate action by y counties on the road question. This e 1-I difficulty had,. however, now been re! s d moved. The only way to build roads 1,was ito issue bonds. He said there b g ought .to be a campaign committee to 0 e agitate the matter when it was sub *e mitted to the people, and on his mo- a - tion the matter of arraniging a cam-h 3, paign was left to the executive corn- ~ - mittee of the Good Roads League. n D)r. W. C. Brown was willing to b submit the matter to the people. al- a e hog he was not: in favor of the a ef bond issue, and lhe secondeda Dr. ~Cromer's motion, which was carried. h Tihe sentiment of the meeting was Slargely and enthusiastically in favor of building permanent roads, and the a opinion of the large majority seem _ed to be that tihe best way to secure tthem, and in fact the only way, was to issue bonds.I eNEWS OF POMARIA. ( 3. d rRoads in Bad Shape-New Telephoneh e. Lines-Town Officers-Wood ,- . men Officers Installed.n is~ Pomaria, Jan. 18.-The roads inb - and around Pomaria are beginning it-o p s get in bad condition since the rainl te has set in. and owing to the advanced l-)piee of cotton seed there i.s a lot of L hauling going on. v There will not be as much fertilizer d sold here this year as there was last~1 eyear. - The telephone system is setill in; e nrogress arnd we have two more new v -lines almost ready for use. One takes b e in a p)art of the Jolly Sir -t commun- t d 'ity going around by the Fork school ui tcommunity. The other one goes in it ? the direction of the Graham commun- jf i, ity conneeting Messrs. M. H. Folk,t lt'John Graham, J. M. and J. P. Wick- t fer. Dr. E. (O. Hentz, and Rev. Jno. .J. SLong. This connects almost the en gtire eflmmrunlity west of Pomaria. We it are glad to see these gentlemen take d e- 'his step and hope more will be ad- n nl ded soon. r- Tuesday was election day here and v a- he fnllowing onficrs were .electd: -n )r. Z. T. Pinner, inttendant, Mr. eclining to run any more; Jno Lull, J. Thad Kin-ard, Thos. E. I nd Ben. M1. Setzler compose the ounil. No change was mads ept for intendant, and Mr. K] ,as elected in Mr. Geo. J. Wil lace. At the last .-ting of the 1 1en of the ATorld the following ers were installed: Jno. C. Aull, ul commander: Prof. Jno. J. K dv. lieuit; V: L. Smith, banker; . Setzler, clerk: Drs. Z. T. P nd W. T. Dickert, camp physic as. L. Graham, escort; Joe L. S 1an, watchman; Jno. A. Bush, ry; Thos. A. Setzler, Richard lipp and Edgar B. Feagle, manl ommittee. There is, a trong ere and they are taking in. new i ers at every meeting. Mr. R. D. Jones; superintendei be Pomaria Oil and Manufact ampajny' has returned to his mili tarted it in operation last wee] Mr. *E. B. Feagle and Mr. ' LUll went to Columbia last week usiness trip. Miss Allie Martin returned ti ome at Simpsonville, after a leasant visit to her sister, Mr s. Smith, at this place. Miss Ida Merdashaw, of Colm isitted in th, community last we Mr. and Mrs. Jno. D. Shealey aturned from a visit to relativ Alanta. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse W. S ave returned frorq a two w tay with Trelaitives' and friend 'renton. Mr. Jno. W. Alewine stopped ith his brother on Thursday o1 ,ay back to Rock. Hill. Mr. T. R. Coxe, of Simpsonvil t Pomaria on business conni ith the oil mill. Miss Eunice Halfacre, of NeN F, visited Miss Beatrice B( augh at Kibler's Sunday. Mrs. Bessie Sheeley, of Col visting relatives in and near iana. Mr. and Mrs. V. L. Smith and T. Pinner enjoyed dinner with B. Richardson's family Sund: Miss Mary Cannon, of Newb visiting at Pamaria this week. News From Silver Street. Silver Street, Jan. 18.--The w r :has changed and we are h >me mud. Mr. H. 0. Long was on the sic] itst week, but we are glad to see ut again. Work has begun on the church nd will be pushed as fast as post [r. J. R. Perdewv has charge o1 -ork. Mr. Frank Habenicht, of C( ia has accepted the positon hel 'ent for the Southern railroad. re glad to have him with us. Mrs. Mary F. Stilwell is vis r son, K. S. Stilwell. The Rev. Mr. Koon preachi od sermon Sunday evening.. Mr. D. L. Ham has a wee bo; t his home, but he h'asn 't toli ame yet. Mrs. Habenicht, of Colui pent Tuesday night with her 'rank. Mr. K. S. Stillwell and daug rladys, went to Clinton Saturday rove back through .the country is new horse. Mr. Myer Havird bought a pa ules last week. The cotton seed market is oomn here. The price is thirty r bushel. Sci-ib] utheran Church of The Redet (Rev. Edward Fulenwider. Past Reginnin. next Sunday night iht services at the Chure'h o: edeemer will be oif a special n interesting feature of the se rill be the singing which will irgely in charge of the young m Le college. The chapel song sed at the college will be use ese night services. The hymn amiiar and easy. The sermn ese services will be short and al. Every effort will be mad ke th'ese vervices interesting elpful to all who attend. At the mid-week service We a.y night at '7.30 athe address w~ mde by Mr. A. Jackson Bowers A cordial invitation to all the ices of the eiurch is extended nbhic Al PROHIBITION FIGHT Ientz IN GENERAL ASSEMBLI town: ex-j ---- nardi MEASURE rok STATE-WIDE ;on s PROHIBITION. rood- Large Number of Bills Embracing a offi- Great Variety of Subjects Have con- Been Introduced. ibler, Jas. The usual large number ,of bilh inner 'were poured into the legislative hop. ians; per during the,;first week of the ses tock- sion, among them the bills, in whiel sen- there has been so much inteerst, pro . H. viding for State-wide prohibition, tging The house on Saturday adjourned ,amp until Wednesday, today being Gen nein- erat Robert E. Lee's birthday. Thi senate, however, refused to adjourr at of over Tuesday, and met again yester iring day, having invited Hon.; R. W and Shand, of Columbia, to deliver be . fore the senate a suitable address ir L L. honor of General Lee's birthday to on. a day. The Prohibition Measures. her The prohibition measures for thE very passage of which the State-wide pro 3. V. hibitionists will make their fight at this session, are four in number. ThE bia, first provides for straight prohibition ak. in the entire State after July 1, 1909 have following closely the Alabama sta s in tute. No liquor of .a-ny sort is to be sold, but provision is mad-e for ithe ieely sale of alcohol by druggists, under aeks' rigid restrictions, and for the sala ol .s at wine .to ministers for sacramental purposes. Tihe second bill relates to over the enforcement of State-'wide proh-k his bition, being patterned after thE Maine statute. It gives the governor le, is authority to employ, at the\ State'-s eted expense, officers to enforce the law. The governor is .charged with th-e rber- enforcement of the law, and is to ap den- point such officers as may be neces sa,ry. who will be paid out of the nbia, State treasury. The third provides Po- for the closing of all county dispen saries, no dispensary being allowed Mrs-. to buy any liquor after the appro Mrs. val .of the bill; and all county dis . Lenaries ito dispose of their stocks erry. by July 1. The fourth provides for a lice.nse of $5,000 to be imposed by each county upon whiskey drummers soliciting orders in that eounty for eath- liquors to be shipped in from outside tling the State. Three of these bills were introdue c it ed in the senate on Saturday, and him t.wo of them in the house,'the others e not having beeni got in sb-ape by the h engrossing department. 'The bills in ble- troduced in the senate were' the ones the providing for State-wide prohibition, introduced by Senator Otits. of Chero lum- kee, whg seems to be in charge of the e as nrohi1lbit1ion farees in the senate: pro WXe viding for the license tax on drum mer,intrduedby Senator Appelt, in ofClarendon. and providing f.or clos ing .the county dispensaries, intro d a ducedi by Senator Otts. The bill pro viding for the enforcement of the Lrder law had-not. been put in shape for in his tr*oductioni. bia, Sweeping Measure. son Senator Ott,s' measu.re providing for State-wide prohibition is very 'ter. sweeping. It goes considerably in.t and Idetails as eto the restrierions under with which druggists are to operate in handling aleohol for medicinal or i of chemical purposes, and the restric tions are very rigi.d, as are the re )fn a strictions for selling wine to ministers en ts for sacramental purp os. The pun. ishment for selling or fo. violatina er. . n of the prlovisonS of the Act is made not less than $100 nor more mer. th:m e-0$0. or. imprisoinment at hiar' or lao fo.r n'ot less than three momnh the inor more than one year, for the first the Joff enee. and f.or the seco:a' o:- an. kind ub aequent offence impjri.,cnm-ut t rvice ~hard labor for not less than one year be nor more than five years, without n of the alternative of a fine. book IIn the house on Saturday .the d at. bills providing a prohibitive license are tax .for whiskey drummers and pro n at iding for the winding up of the waca- cou nty dispensaries were introduced. Le to The prohibition measures in the house and are in eh-'rze of M. L. Smith. .J. G. Riehards. C. A. Smith and J. P. Car Ines- ev. The $5.000 license fee give.s the 1 be whiskey drummer the rig'ht to sohi J. cit orders in the county where the hi ser- eense fee is maid, and only in that the county, for the period of one year. The punishment for soliciting orders without paying the license is fixed at not less ithan $1,000 nor more than $5,0000. and imprisownent in the county jail for n4t less than six months nor more than twelve months. The other bill as to closing out the eounty dispensaries goes considerably into detail, providing ithat whatever stock is not di.posed of by July 1 shall be sold for cash by the county dispensary board to the 'highest bid der, after due advertisement, etc. Hard Fight Expected. A hard fight is expected between the advocates of State-wide prohibi tion and those who are opposed to it. Among the opponents of the bill are numbered some prohibitionists who do not think it wise to force pro hibition upon the whole State at this time, bhinkinz it in the interest of .temperance to let the counties settle the matter for themselves, believing that most of the counties would soon vote out the dispensaries i f' let *alone. There are other prohibitionis- who want to refer it to the people. Then there are other legislators who are local optionists because they believe in the principle of local option, and then, of cour- , there are those who are opposed to prohibition. It is very doubtful if the State-wide pro hibition measures will pass at this session. While both sides are confi dent, the oppoients of a State-wide prohibition measure being passed by the legislature at this itime are very much more hopeful even than when the session began a week ago. The State-widers, however, also claim that they have gained in , stre'ngth. The final outcome is problematteal, and it is entirely itoo early to ven tare a prediction. Two other bills were introduced in the senate on Fri day that touch, the liquor problem somewhat. One by Senator Otts'is a bill to declare the sale, barter, ex ehange and storage of liquor a nais Cnce. A bill introduced by Senator Hough imposes a license of one cent per gallon upon all whiskeys distill ed in this State. The Inauguration Tomorrow. Both houses on Saturday agread,o fix the inauguration of .the governor and lieutenant governor for tomorrow afternoon at 1 o'clock. -The full program was .arranged. The result of the general election had previously been tabulated in joint assembly and declared. Department of Immigration. A bill has been introduced in the house by Mr. Richards to amend the Act ito establish a department of ag riculture, commerce and immigration, so as to eliminate the "immigration'' fetue adsubstiitute in lieu tee of ''industries,'' making it a depart ment of commerce and labor with ou: the immigration feature. Mr. K. P. Smith has introduced a bill to kill th~ whol.e departmen,t. Fight On Lien Law. IThe annual fight to repeal the lieu law has .already commenced with the introduction of a bill in -the house by Mr. Richards to repeal the lien law, and t:he repeal measure has been re ported favorably by the committee on agriculture. The :house last year passed the repeal measure by a big 'majority, but it was killed by a close vote in the senate.. Criminal Assault. Senator Wharton, of Lau>rens, has introduced in ' senate a ..bill to make assault xun intent to ravish a apital crime. This is in line ,with Governor Ansel's recommendation in his annual message. For The Roads. Various bills have been introduc ed in regard to the roads, one by Mr. Cosgrove, of Charleston, being "a joint .resolution to sumbit ito the qualified voters of the State the question whether bonds shall be is sued for the purpose of building and maitaining public roads." Winthrop College. Mr. Hollis has introduced in the house a bill to provide for enlarging the dining room, kitchen and auditor ium at Wintihrop to accommodate two hundred more students, and to appropriate money for the same. IMr. Richards has introduced a bill to provide for the erection of a monu ment to the heroism of t:he women of this State during the War Between the States. Mr. Lawson has introduced a bill to provide a license for hunters and other mea-a:res boking to th.3 pro&ee