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E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Entered at the Postoffice at New berry, S. C., as 2nd class matter. Friday, April 16, 1909. FOR BETTER PASSENGER SER VICE. Last summer and the summer be fore The Greenville News strongly advocated an improvement of the passenger service over the lines of the C. & W. C., C. N. & L. and the Atlantic Coast Line between this city and Charleston. We felt then, and feel now, that the amount of through traffic over this line is suf ficient to warrant an improvement in the service. The companies interested, if they have the comfort of the public at heart, should put on a chair car ser vice between Greenville and the seacoast. The demand for this in the summer season is most pro nounced. Not only is the public en titled to greater consideration, but we believe that a chair car service would pay the railroad. The News is agitating the move ment -early and hopes that the local commercial organizations as well as the trade bodies at every point be tween Greenville and Charleston will take this matter up and see if any thing can be done in the way of im proving the service which at present is so far short of being satisfactory. -Greenville News. We are glad to see that the Green ville News has taken up this matter.. There is no doubt that the passen ger travel on the C. & W. C., the C. N. and L., and the A. C. L. between Greenvill-e and Charleston is isuffi cient to warrant better accommoda tions. We hope the patrons of the road all along the line will take this matter up and through their organized bodies make a strong presentation of it to the railroad authorities. It is a very long, tedious, and tiresome jouriey from Greenville to Charleston, and a parlor car attach ed to the regular train would add very much to the comfort of the pas senger wvho has this journey to make. Especially, as the News says, the demand in the summer season is urgent for such accommodation. This is a matter which might en gage the attention of the railroad com mittee of the Newberry chamber of commerce, and it seems to us that the Columbia people as well as those of other communities along t'he line ought to urge this additional accomo dation. We suggested only the other day that the Southern resume its chair car service between Columbia and Greenville on the C. -and G. division. An accommodation car we suggest ed for the Southern would be a grea-t accommodation to passengers on the Coast Line as the train leaves Green .ville about twelve, too early for din izer, and . does not reach Charleston until after nine o'clock. The train from' Charleston to . Greenville leaves Charleston about eight o'clock and does not reach -Greenville until about three in the afternoon, KING ROAD DRAG. The Carrier and Patron has a very timely editorial in a recent issue on co-operation in communities. It speaks of the "co-operative ru ral telephone lines, creameries, ware-, houses, ginnies, and similar insti tutions where farmers have banded together to accomplish ends impossibl to individual effort." In som-e communities cooperative stores are important factors and save money1C to th05e wIlo sul)iort threm The- editorial says: "The co-opera tive idea is only a develpment of the :neighborly spirit which exists to a large degree in every farm commun ity. If our people would only act up on the suggestions made to them by progressive spirits and a's neighbors undertake to improve conditions about them a vast cehange would soon b-e seen all over the land. Down at the bedrock of our rural troubles lies bad roads, w'hich increase the cost of rea'mortation on evervthing carried from farm to market and in the op posite direction. Neighborliness could lng ago have put good roads in place of bad evervwiere if sOlle progre. _;ive sQUlId oi caci road had lindued The editorial is very true when it says that the "bedrock of our rural troubles" is to be found in bad roads. The point which is intended to be made is to call attention to the use of what is known as the King Road Drag, a very simple device which may be made at home at a nominal cost. These drags could be used to very great advantage and with good re sults and at very small cost in every community if the proper spirit of co-! operation and neighborly help pre vailed in that community. They have been used -quite extensively over the middle West and in sections of the East. The Carrier and Patron in speak ing of the use of this device in other sections enunciates tthe truth which probably many of our Southern peo ple will not admit in this sentence: "It is so simple that Southern peo ple have been slow to adopt it. Our people have expensive tastes and pre - to give more money for a .less valuable arti-cle." We believe that this is true to a great extent of the Southern people. If it were something that was high priced and complicated and did not produce as good results our people would more readily taken on to it. We would like to see communities in this county form a road drag club and try the experiment on some of our roads. Mr. T. E. Wicker in several articles in The Herald and News sometime ago explained how to build one of these drags, and how it should be op erated, and while we are waiting to issue bonds for the building of per manent roads or on the chain gang to do road work, we might try the ex periment of the King Road Drag. The c-'t of :.e exp,tritrent -ould ba -erv sm.i l and we believe the be:ic fits woId c. 0, .:eat .A C. pJ)ple would wonder why they ,had neglect ed so 'simple a mna'.ter and vet ;o useful so long. To Conclude in the language of the Carrier and Patron "be neighb'rly in something that will really pay in money, pleasure, and convenience,'' and give the road drag a trial. W. C. T. U. BAZAAE., Will Be Held in Newberry May 5-7 -List of Those Who Have Made Contributions. As announced in 'he Herald and New's several weeks ago it is the pur pose of the members of the W. C. T. U., of this place, to hold a bazaar in Newberry on May 5, 6 and 7th. This bazaar is to be hield in order to real ize funds to carry on the good work which the m'embers of the local chap ter 'here have undertaken, and the na ture of this work is very worthy, and those who are so earnestly engaged in it deserve the thelp and co-opera tion of not only all of the merchants in the city, but of each and every citizen. The following is a list of the mer chants who have contributed to the May Festival and Bazaar. Hill & Sligh; C. J. McWhirter; C. L. Havird; T. J. Davenport; E. M. Evans; T. 'N. Parks; J. C. Sample; Mayes Drug Stre; L M -Player Boozer Bros.; Livingston & Lonniek; Shelly & Summer; Gilder & Weeks; Somi berg Bakery; Coca Cola BottlingI Co.; S. B. Jones; W. H. Anderson Ten Cent Co.; Fellers & Morgan; Dr.I W. E. Pel'ham: W. 0. Miller; C. & G. S. Mower C.'; Pitts & Grizzard; Copeland Bros.; Ewart Perry Co.; Caldwell & Haltiwanger; Summer Bros.; H. H. Rikard; Win. John son; Newberry Hardware Co.; 'Dr. Van Smith: Mr. Jesse Burns; Mr. Will Bedenbaugh. UNCLAIMED LETTERS. Letters Remaining in Postoffice at Newberry, S. C., for Week End ing April 10th, 1909. Mrs. Asstel; Mrs. W. B. Barr; Mrs. Thos. Baity; Mrs. Henrietta Brown; Betsir Blufo'rd; Mr. Mannie Crom.er; N. B. Cotton Mill! Miss Loty Den nis;; Mr. Riny Geld an; Mr. Welter Golden; Mr. Robt Kelley; Mr. Golden Legge; Miss Onie Mack; Mrs Sallie MCrackin: H. C. Pugh; Mr. Frank Ray: Mr. Simon Reford: Mr. Alonizo Rowe; Mr. W. D. Rutherford. No. 5: Ms. Ammelisher Savish; Rev. Larrie Smith: Nannie Turner; Mr. H. B. Truesdale. All persons calling for these let ter wil plea eay that they were * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * THE IDLER. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Tlie way my notes in the last pa Ier were mixed makes mne feel like saying something that I ought not to print but I guess it is best not to say it, so I will not. The editor says he has troubles enough already and as his entire force, or nearly so, has been and is on the sick list, I will let it pass this time. --o I was talking to a merchant down the street the other day and he says lie is willing to vote bonds for schools and sewerage, but he .certainly would vote against any proposition to move the wagon yard form the public square. He wants the wagons and the drivers and the owners to assemble as they always have on the public square so that he can go out and buy chickens and eggs and geese and in vite the drivers into his store to trade. No, sir, lie thinks it will ruin trade to put a park in the public square or in any way to attempt to beautify it. Trade is what the wants. Make money. Build your parks in the suburbs, do anytIhing, but don't men tion moving the wagon yard. -0 Well, I suppose there are some people who really believe that hav ing a wagon yard right in front of their doors* will give them trade. I think it is alright and that business would be just as -good and better if there were no public square and no wagons permitted on the square, since we 'have one. But every man is en titled to his own opinion. -- I noticed the other day over the windows of one of the upstairs Main street offices a new kind of awning. Have you seen it? If not it is worth looking at. It has a beautiful kind of rare fringe or laee of some sort but it does not do much good in keep ing the sun out. I have no doubt patent has been applied for. -0 They say that the people are sign ing the petition right along asking for an election to extend the sewer age. It is rigiht. The election will be ordered soon and the vote should be unanimous. It is a necessity. -0 The board of trustees of the grad ed school have a pretty hard propo sition before thiem in the matter of selecting a sua' s!, site for the loca tion of the new se!hool building. Every site offered, I suppose, is con sidered by t.h*se offering it as tL e most desiri. se andr mxost suitab:e a a the most reas)rb'he in p)rice. T're ought to be plenty of room for p.ay ground. If I had any property. I would prefer not having the school located too close to it. If some of the sites offered are accepted there will not be much money left to put up buildings, and to repair~ build ings. Have you ever been over to the union depot about train time when there were a good many persons buy ing tickets. The agent must have to travel several miles each day betweeg t!he two windows, the one for the col ored waiting room and the one for the white waiting room. I -suppose Mr. Childs and Mr. Williams think the agent needs exercise or they would arrange the office a little more con veniently. They should remember, though, that it is a great loss of time in racing from one window to the other. TI have seen ~a good many tick et offices but I .do not remember ever to have seen one any more incon veniently arranged. -0 I suppose t'hey do not care to go to any more expense, though this would be small, because they have- under consideration the proposition to put up a pressed brick modern depot in Cadwell street apart from the freight station. That is what ought to be done. -0 Mr. Supervisor Feagle, and Mr. Dr. Wyehe, Mr. President Chamber of Commerce, what has become of that one mile sample road you were- go ing to build under the direction of that government expert? Please tell the public something about it. -0 Speaking about roads, I have not heard of the bond issue for some time. Mr. President Sligh, when are you going to begin your campaign of education? I have heard that Jolly Street is opposed to the bonds. I would like to hear from some of the voters .down tihere before I decide what I must do. I only stroll around on toot and any sort of road will do0 me. --0 I would like to see the suipervisor take otY abiout a month and build a goodl elay and sand iroadl between Newberry and Prosperity. He could do t'his with the chain gang in a few weeks and then we could instal a ti ll1 a tl 111 Jilble f 1 . t Ie prese . 1. The tril> with a good road could be liie ea14ily everY twelty minutes. Suppose you build this road, Mr. Supervisor. as soon as you finish the work on the new court house grounds. Cotton :has gone to ten cents. A good time to plant more corn and sow peas. -0 I have been asked to state what are the necessary qualifications to be come a member of the Sons of Veter ans or the Daughters of the Confed eracy. I will refer this question to Adjutant 0. L. Schumpert or to Col. D. A. Dickert, to Mr. W. G. Peter son or to any other real live Confed erte Veteran. -0 The editor of The Herald and News has handed The Idler the fol lowing very pertinent, timely, and important list of questions from In quirer: Mr. Editor:-May an Inq6er ask a few questions of The Idlell He or s)he seems to be pretty well Liformed; and maybe can give us some light on matters otherwise dark.' Now, Mr. Idler, have you noticed in the papers ;how the a.i-,horities in towns planning new school building~s have been on tours of inspection to towns having new building) Even tho' Columbia ;has the beautifully *equipped Taylor street building, do you see that, in case other eilc: might have somethi:ig better, the silperin tendent, Mr. Dreher, has b -sn on two trips of inspection? ALo do ycu see that a party of Georgia school men hiave been to Columbia to see the equipment and plan of the Taylor street buildi,,.;? Also th::t Sn1-t. Tate of Charleston with some of his official board 1aving in view a1- er building for Charleston, will in a few days start in . tour of.- in-pection? And so it goes, but Mr. Idler, have you heard ol gn y of t-he sheol o'i cials in this tommunitY do. an.y thing of this kind? If yo,i have, Et the people wa3 tave to pay the-e in creased taxe:, l-now abouL i: won't you? In any of these places men tioned have you heard anything of using people's money to try to,eon vert some old building into a modern school building? Another matter, have you seen in any list of advertisements for teach ers anything said about a drawing teacher, a music teachei- (singing), a domestic science teacher, a teacher of manual training, etc.? Or even for a teaeher who would com bine some of these branches? But, Mr. Idler, you know, don 't you, that among all thoroughly up-to-date school men, these days, the undisput ed opinion is that to -make an all round man or woman, children must be taught a good many things besides a few text bo.oks? And it does seem that out of $40,000 additional funds provision might be made for some few of these things. iDoesn 't it seem so to you? I have asked these questions of other people and !have 'had them put to me; but as the public generally seems to be in the dark, maybe a close' observer like yourself, and one given to finding out things may help us out. May I come again? Inquirer. Now, Dear Inquirer, I am de-lighted that you have asked these questions and I will pass them on to the school officers. -0 Of coarse, before our $40,000 are spent, or any lot .is selected, the architect should be chosen and other school systems should be examined and we 'should get the advantage of such experience. The purchase of the lot is very important. The best interest of t:he school is the only thing to consider. A competent ar chitect could be of great assistance to the board even in this matter. -_o We don 't need any old building. We have put up suffieient money to get an up-to-date and modern school building. -0 But, Dear Inquirer, you should re alize that the school authorities are up against the real thing and what ever they do somebody is going to say they should have done the oth er thing. Give t'hem good advice and as you suggest they should send some one competent to judge to other r>laces and see what has been done and then improve upon even the lat 'est. The Idler. ANUAL MEETING STOCK.HOLD ERS. The annual meeting of t'he stock h'oldes of The Newberry Cotton Mills will be held in the rooms of The Chamber of Commerce at New berry, S. C., Wednesday, May 5th, 1909 at eleren o'clock. Geo. S. Mower, Sec. 4-16-09 3t 1taw. adverised C. J. Purcell, P. M. -.PJ-RAPI ful P activ It is economy to us It saves labor, health an Where the best to baking powder or leave place or do the work c Males' B FR E E The Mexican Re is one of the i novelties in the dom. 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