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E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Entered at the Postoffice at New Aerry, S. C., as 2nd class matter. Tuesday, June 1. 1909. THE PRESS ASSOCIATION. President E. H. Aull, who has been endeavoring to get all the details ar ranged for .the annual meeting at Greenville and also to aseertain if a sufficient number desire to take a side trip this year makes the following statement in regard to the meeting and the proposed trip of the South Carolina Press association: "I have just returned from a trip to Greenville and Atlanta, the pur pose of the trip being to arrange the details of the Press association meet ing in Greenville on July 6-8, and to get information as to the proposed side trip from Greenville at the close of the meeting. "The local newspaper men at Green vill -as well as the citizens generally are very much interested in this me;et ing of the association and are exceed ing anxious that every paper in the State shall be represented. "I am sure that this is going to be one of the most pleasant of the many conventions which we have held. The Ottaray, the new hotel which has just been completed at Greenville, is cer tainly one of the handsomest and best equipped in the State, and I do not know any anywhere that excels it. "Miss M. Quinn, who is manager of the 'hotel, as she herself, expresses it '"was brought up in the business,' and from a personal interview with her I am sure that I can state that she will spare no pains nor money to entertain the association as it possi bly has never been entertained be fore. i* "The hotel will be opened, I under stand, on the 12th of this month and everytbing will be well organized by the time of the meeting of the asso ciation. "There are other attractive fea tures in addition to the entertain ment and the program which I am :sure wi!] make it desira,ble on the part of every member to be present. "We hope to get out the official program in the next few days. In the 'meantime I can announce that Sena tor Walker, of Georgetown, who had been invited to deliver the annual ad dress, was forced under advice of his rphysician to decline. I am sure that the members will be glad to know that I !have just received a telegram from Prof. Lee Davis Lodge, of Lime stone college, accepting an invitation to deliver this address, and those who heard him last year in an infor mal way will know what to expect on this oceasion. "Miss Quinn, of the Ottaray hotel, is going to tender the association, with her compliments, a banquet on the evening of Thursday, July 8. This will be a very elaborate banquet and in connection with the local press and committees we hope to arrange an attractive program of short after dinner talks. "I have the promise of the presence of three prominent Georgia editors and authors, representing the three papers published in the capital of Georgia. Mr. James R. Gray, manag-! jng editor of the Journal, hopes to -arrange so as to meet with us. I ex tended also a personal invitation to Mr. Frank L, Stanton, of the Atlan ta Constitution, and :he said that while he had not been outside of At-j lanta in 17 years, it would be a great' pleasure to him to come to Southi Car olina, his native State, and he hoped - to be able to be with us, and that he haa in mind for a number of years a. visit to his native city, Charleston. MIr, Lucian Knight, of the Georgian, will also probably be with us at this time, and, of course, we all expect to have Mr. J. P. Caldwell, of the Charlotte Observer. "I would like to have some indica tion from the members at once as to whether or not they desire to take the aide trip whieh has been proposed. "The distance this year is slightly more than it was last year, and, therefore, the cost will be a little in creased over last year. The~ trip sug gested is to leave Greenville immed iately after the banquet or at 1 :35 a. m.~ July 9th, and sleeper will be ar ranged for those who desire to take it, and they can remain in the sleeper until breakfast after arrival at Atlan ta. Spend the day in Atlanta, stop ping either at the Piedmont or Ara gon hotel, leaving Atlanta on Satur day, July 10, and arriving at Tallulah Falls about five o'clock in the after noon, -spend the night and Sunday and Sunday nigsht at Tallulah Falls, leaving Tallulah Fails Monday morn ing in time to reach GJreenville so as to get the afternoon trains out of Greenville 'for home. "I T ill not complete the arrange nents fkor the trip unless there are at least 25 members who desire to take it, therefore, it is important that you advise me at once. Tentative arrange ients have been made with the rail roads and with the hotels, and the to tal cost will be about $15.00.' In a circular issued by Latham Alexander and cmlpaliy it is estimat ed that there has been a total decrease of cotton aereage in the United States for 1909 of four and seven-tenths p(r cent., or 1.570,985 acres less than last year. This estimate is based upon 3,906 replies from the cotton belt, of aver age date May 25. Only two States show increases in acreage-Florida one half one one per cent. and Texas three per cent. It is estimated that in South Caro lina there has been a decrease of five pe- cent. The tendency which has prevailed for a number of years to increase cot ton acreage has probably been check ed this year on account of the increas ed price of wheat and corn and a de termination on the part of the farm ers in the cotton belt to increase their acreage in small grain. The salary of tie postmaster at Prosperity has been increased from $1,100 to $1,200. Quite a number of postmasters in this State have suffer ed a slight raise in their iay recently. Why could not some of our progres sive citizens get together and organize a country club. We do not mean club in an offensive sense but a good quiet place a few miles in the country where the automobilists could drive and meet their friends and take a Irest. We have all the fraternal or ianizations represented in Newberry but we need to develop more strongly the social side, especially of our bus iness men. They do not get together often enough in a purely social way and if they could be brought together oftener in this way it would help to develop a more generous and liberal business spirit. Mr. J. B. Lee has been nominated for mayor of Spart.anburg, which means an election. Mr. Lee is a pros perous and progressive citizen of this growing city and will make a live and active mayor, just what all these pro gressive Piedmont towns should have. We need mayors who have a correct appreciation of what is right and wVho have the courage to go ahead and do these things even if there should be opposition from some few influential citizens.. Mayor Baker, of Greenwood is one of t.be sort we have in mind. There was opposition to moving of the wagon yard out of the squasre but he is going right ahead wit!h the work and is putting in parks. We need in these municipalities men who know what is right and then who have the courage to 4lo things whetirer they are for the moment populal' or not. Men who can and will do things. It is now Dr. Hemphill. We con gratulate you most sincerely, Dr. Hemphill. We will not accept any excuse from you for absence at t!he press mneeting- at~ Greenville in July. The selection by the board of trus tees of the Pope property for -the graded school building is the best that could be done. There is no more desirable location in the city for a school building. It has plenty of land for the new building and a sufficient left for ample playgrounds. It is conveniently located and the Pope residence is one of the most suibstan tially built houses in this city and can be fitted up for school purposes without a great outlay of money. It does seem to us, however, that if the property is desirable at the price paid it would have been cheaper at the first offer. The first offer included the dwelling and about three acres of land more than is included in the lot as purchesed and $2,500 for three acres is very cheap, but then with the streets that are given it is cheap property as purchased. Now we want to see the trustees get busy and put up a modern building and remodel the dwelling so as to turn it into the high scoolilinngn and put the preen bonu i gnarepor11 ua. so far as uhsical eqipmeit is concern ed we will have as -0md school outfit as any citv of its elass in South1 Caro lina. Mr. W. AV. Ball :hias resig_ned from lie editorial staff of the News and Courier and has accepted a desk (il the Columbia State. There is no bet ter writer on the press in this State than Billy Ball and we congratulate the State on securing his services. When we get that mile of experi mental road completed, the people are going to demand more miles of road of a permanent eiharacter. The peo ple are seeking good investments. All they need to realize is that perma nent roads is one; of the very best in vestments they can make, and they will realize this when a good start is made somewhere in the county. Under the Act passed by the recent legislature, South Carolina is to have, legally, complete prohibition for two weeks, beginning on the first Tuesday in August, and in the counties now wet elections are to be held on the third Tuesday in August to deter mine whether or not the dispensaries in those counties shall be reopened. Newberry now .being legally dry, we are not as a county affected by the act. There are now twenty-one wet counties in the State and twenty-one dry counties. We desire again to call the atten tion of the people of Newberry to the fact that this is cleaning up week in Newberry, and to urge upon them that they assist the authorities in re moving all trash and cleaning up the eity. Next week is commencement week, and Newberry ought to be madf as attractive as possible to the many visitors who will be here. The board of health, the city council and the civ ic association are working in conceri in this movement, and they desire and should have the co-operation of al citizens. This cleaning up is meant to apply to the premises as well *ai the streets. And we hope the work will not stor with this week. The 'health as wel] as the appearance of the city will be promoted by a thorough cleaning up, and then by keeping the city thoroughly neat and attractive every week in the year. "There are big enterprises,'' says the Columbia Record, "that are look ing towards Columbia and that are coming here from the outside. And why?' There are two reasons, and the two are akin. The location of the city alone insures a normal, natural steady growth. The people who live here and who own property here have faith in the town.'' Faith in a town, evidenced by work, is what it takes to build it up. A town is bound to grow when its people, realizing that what benefits the town must benefit its citizens, pull together for its upbuilding. And the fellow who is always "knocking'' his town ought to go somewhere else to live. ** * * * * * * ** * * * ** * * * *THE IDLEE. * * * Well, it is done and the Pope lot as been selected for the location for the graded school building. It is al right. I am not going to kick. I did think the board should have selected the first offer of the Pope lot that was made, but then I have not looked into the situation as closely as the board should have done and no doubt did do, and I am willing to abide their decision. The location is alright and cannot be imp)roved upon in this town. I think everybody will be satisfied, that is the grleat majority, for it would be a great misfortune for all of the people of this community to agree upon any proposition. It would be so unusual that it might shock most seriously the nerves of some of I have been thinking about offering a reward for t'he superintendent of the city streets. Wonder if anybody has seen him lately. He had com menced a nice job out in Boundary street some days ago and I thought he was going to do a first-class job the way he had started but I passed up ,ht way the other day and 'his iob ilju about hair tinidhled and I -za w 110 Sign of the superintendent or of his force and the work not done. Even a stump is left half way cut out of a ditch and a lot iore of the good work started not finished. I wonder if it is good street judgment to work streets Iin this way. -Monroe is a (OId sui)erinlteldellt and does --ood work but it Is not ecolloniv to start a job and go off and leave it in this unfinished condition. The farmers say they are gettin too much raip. It was only a little while age they were complaining that if rain did not come pretty soon there would be no crop made t:his year. It has always been a wonder to me why peopl.. spend so much time and energy talking about those things over which they have absolutely no control. And worrying about them. too. What we need to do is to give attention to those things over which we have do minion and try our very best to make the world better and brighter and bet ter for our having passed along this way, for we are sure not to pass this way again. Well., well, have you been over in College street recently?1 The weeds are ripe and high enough to mow with a cradle. That wouldn't cost much and as the college commencement is coming on why not send a man over there and have this street m-ade pret ty and attractive and clean for the commencement week. Now, do it even if it does rain a little. -0 Speaking about street, of course the heavy rains we have had recently make it very difficult to keep the streets in good condition but it prov es one thing beyond peradventure and that is the importance of doing per manent work. When the force goes around filling up holes and cleaning out ditches only there is never an end to the job and when a thing is done apparently nice it only takes a good rain to show that it was only tempo rary. The city should do more per manent work even if it does leave a little debt for our successors. They will be more able to pay it. -0 There will probably be a large -erowd of people in Newberry next week from different parts of the State. While I haven't a great deal at stake I want to venture a little ad vice. Say something good about your town, your people, your schools. your manufacturing enterprises. If you have to speak of any of your neigh bors speak kindly and comp.limentary. It will make you feel better. -o It certainly has rained and the streets are washed and in pretty bad condition. It looks like another June freshet. It seems to The Idler that the change of schedule on the Southern is against the merchants of Newberry, and so far as I can see there is abso lutely no reason for tihe change. Un der the old schedule th.e people from up t'he road who wanted to come to Newberry to trade had only about one ~hour and forty minutes and now by briinging this train from Columbia forty minutes earlier it will give them only one hoar. Result: The people I at Chappells aiid along the road who have been coming to Newberry and who prefer to come here will go to Greenwood and Ninety Six. Wonder! Iif our merchants see the point and if they will submit like lambs at the slaughter. What is t:he matter with the chamber of commerce. I heard the other day that some fishermen caught a "cooter'-a real turtle in the mill pond at Singley 's mill so big that John Aull, of Jalapa, says that when they pulled the "coot er'' out of the water the pond went down eighteen inehes. -0 Talking about rains and fish and mill ponds and .streets reminds me to ask why if is in so many properties that no arrangemen.t is made for: emptying the water din the streets or' caring for it after it gets into the street. You just go along any of these paved sidewalks and you will see the water rushing over the side walk like a cataratet. I have not been about much but it seems to me that the water from the lots ought not to rush over the sidewalks as it does. Will somebody who has been some where .tell me if that is .the way they do in other towns. The Idler. The municipal autihorities of Ber ln have decided to introduce another feaure in the municipal administra tion of tuberculosis. Heretofore mu nicipal effort has been confined to the maintenance of one or two homes for crable consumptives. but it is recog nized that, as useful as this is. it alone cannot cope with this disease. They have resolved, therefore, to de vote more attention to preventive FE LLE RS Sift 0 EXTRA V Cast them aside an< with what you hav< week and you will you in your declini Start your bank account at once. The Comn Of Newi 4*0 Paid in Our SJNO .M. KINARD, J. President. 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