Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Entered at the Postoffice at New berry, S. C., as 2nd class matter. Friday, June 18, 1909. WITH THE SCOUT CARS. Last Thursday morning when Dr. E .0. B. Mayer came to the office of The Herald and News calling our atten tion to the proposed capital route of the Atlanta Journal and New York Herald scout cars which were to start from Atlanta on Monday morning, E and we found that Newberry was not on the map, as published, we did not have much idea that it would be pos aible to have the ears come this way. However, we undertook to geL busy ( and through the efforts of Dr. Mayer i and the citizens of Newberry cooper- y ating the party was brought this E way. It may be, as some people seem to think, that this is an advertising scheme on the part of automobile manufacturers and two great news papers but even if it is they are do ing it at considerable expense to themselves and in addition to this and whatever benefit they may re ceive directly from the advertise- C ment, we believe they axe stimulating a greater interest in road improvement and there is no subject which could more properly engage the attention and endeavor of the people of this State than the improvement of our highways. After it was determined to take the rorte via Abbeville,. Greenwood, and Newberry to Columbia we deter mined to send a party from Newber ry to meet the scout ears at Green- T wood. In Tuesday's paper was given the personnel of the party from New- T berry and the cars which went out to 2 meet them and to explore the different a routes. We were in Mr. Z. F. Wright's Whit steamer driven by Mr. Herman ~ Wright, and Mr. W. C. Moran, who ~ is also an expert driver of the White ~ Steamer, was in this car, and he and ~ Mr. Wright divided the time. We left Newberry at 10:40 on Mon- ~ day morning and drove out to Mr. H. T. Fellers where we stopped for an hour and enjoyed a real good country dinner. We desire to say here that we believe Mr. Fellers has one of the prettiest and most convenient coun try homes in this State, and we hope at some future time to say something more of it.t It is on a high elevation just 12 miles from Newberry and he has all ~ of the modern conveniences which ~ you could have in a city home. He t has also one of the best farms in the county. Leaving Mr. Fellers' we drove on towards the .railroad bridge at Dy Dyson's expecting to go that way. ~ At Mr. A. P. Coleman's he insisted I that the road via Island Ford had t been worked this side and was in ~ excellent condition and the route that ~ way was much better than by the a Dyson bridge. We believe that Mr. a Coleman was sincere in what he stat- a ed but if there is a worse road in ~ South Carolina than the one leading t down to Island Ford on this side of the river we sincerely hopea tihat no n one will undertake to call it a road. t. Just how Mr. Herman Wright manag- r ed to take our car down this road is p a miracle to him and the rest of us, ~ but he did it without any damage c to the ear. As we approached the c river, however, there was a deep mud E hole and the road turned square to t. t'he left up an incline of 45 degrees I out of the mud hole. Here we t. "stuck'' and for two hours we did some work in prizing our car out of 3 the mud and building a camway , across the road.b From the Greenwood side to Green- 3 wood vic. Ninety Six is an excellent a road and we moved along at about 25 n miles an hour making the run from f Ninety Six to Greenwood in less than d thirty minutes. F The night was spent at Greenwood C and the next morning in company with several ears fro Greenwood e we met the party at Abbeville. T' Abbeville party had prepared a nice b lunch and receptionl for ihe party and ou say in this progressive city was d 0dt ver plasant. On the return trip Tuesday the 'r-eenwood citizens provided an ele ant lunch at the Oregon hotel which ,as enjoyed by the scout party and he Newberry party together with 1any of the citizens of Greenwood. Laurens also sent a delegation to xreenwood whieh went with us to Lbbeville with a view of making an ifort to induce the ears to go to aurens. We left Greenwood something after our o'clock with Mr. W. C. Waldrop nd Capt. W. S. Langford in Capt. angford's roadster as pilot, follow d by Mr. Herman Wright and Mr. V. C. Moran in Mr. Z. F. Wright's hite Steamer, for Newberry via ross Hill, that route having been se eeted as the best. The run from xreenwood to Newberry would have ieen made in about 3 hours if it had Lot been for a detour which was nec ssary seven milesout of Newberry oh .eount of Mr. Clary's th.reshing ma hine blocking the road on a bridge, vhich necessitated a detour around by Ir. Dave Pitts'. Mr. Waldrop makes a most excel ant pilot and Major Cohen and the est of the party connected with the cout cars frequently spoke of him s the best pilot they had had on all f their trips. The roads in Greenwood county re in much better condition than the oads in Abbeville, Laurens, or New erry, though the road from Saluda iver to the Newberry line th,rough ,aurens was in fairly good condition. 'he road from Belfast to Newberry ould easily be put in good condition or automobiles, the main trouble be ng that there are many holes and ts which ned to be filled. At Greenwood on Monday after oon the Mercha,its' association held meeting to which Supervisor Feagle nd the Editor of The Herald and Fews were invited, and Mr. Thorn 1ade a talk on the use and the re lts accomplished by the King Road )rag. Mr. Feagle promised to put ome of these road drags to work in his county. If they had been used n the Belfast road it would have een probably as good as the Green rood road. The supervisor in Green rood uses the scrape and keeps the hain gang mostly working the roads nd by use of the machinery which e has and by keeping his chain gang onstantly on the roads the roads in his county are in fairly good condi ion. The interest which the people in le towns and along the road seem to ake in the coming through this see ion of these scout cars setrikes us 3 evidence that they are interested 1 having this highway through this stion, but still now and t.hen you lay find a citizen in the county who ;opposed. to working roads because e is opposed to the automobile using em. We had just as well make up ur minds that the automobile is here stay and that its use is going to do 3 much or more than any other gency in the making of better roads, Qd the people who do not use auto obiles will reap the benefit of bet r roads. The list of the parties in these two ewspaper ears is given elsewhere in 2s paper. The reception which they ceiver at Newberry was heartily ap reciated by all of them and personally e ar.e very much gratified at the re ption tendered the party by the damber of commerce through Dr. 0. . Mayer, as president, and also by Le Elks club through Exalted Ruler .H. Dominick and other members of 2e club. We came from Greenwood in the rew York Herald White Steamer hich was driven by Mr. Bob Lam ert. After spending the Nnight in Fewberry, the party left at nine 'clock promptly on Wednesday Lorning for Columbia, being piloted som Newberry by Mr. W. C. Wal rop as far as Prosperity, and f-rom rosperity by Mr. E. A. Jenkins., of olumbia. By invitation of Maj. Cohen we ae >mpanied the party in Mr. H. J. La ar's Oldsmobile as far as Colum It seems to us that tihe Columbia 1alioan ha but one purpose in eUm ingt Ntxberry and that was t impress upon the scut cai' that dh ilroads between) Columbia and Newbei rv were 'exeCrable'' as The Stal reporter expresses it. The roads ai not as good as they ought to be bi Maj. Cohen and his party said thE had seen as bad roads on their tr] and with the material at hand a along the route, it would be vei easy to put the roads in good cond tion. Even with the bad roads if Y had had Mr. Waldrop as our pil< from Newberry to Columbia we coul have made the trip easily in tv hours and thirty minutes. As it w. the trip vis made in three hours ai forty minutes, and we lost more thE an hoar by stops along the road. M Jenkins car suffered a punctured tir which delayed the party for som thing over thirty miuutes and aft going a few miles he had anothi stop in order to put air in this tii which lost about ten minutes, ai another stop of ten minutes for wa er made something like fifty minut delay on account of these three stop 'The last stop the scout cars passE Mr. Jenkins and left him and his ci in the road. Twelve miles out from Columb' the party was met by ten or fifteE automobiles and another stop of te or fifteen minutes was made to pa: take of refreshments which wei brought out by the Columbia party. The distance 'as measured by MA Lamar's Oldsmobile from Newberi to Columbia is 43.4 miles. Tlie road for five or six miles C the Lexington side of Broad river in good con-dition and from Broad ri, er into Columbia a distance of thr( miles it could scarcely be better. It seems to us as Columbia is or of the points decided u.pon on th capital route that the people thei should be satisfied and noi be so ai tive in their opposition to the roui via Newberry, Greenwood, and Abbi ville. These scout cars are going ove three routes between Atlanta an New York. They came down frol New York via Charlotte, Sparta: burg, Greenville, and Anderson ini Atlanta. They are going back ov< this capital route, passing through ti capitals of South Carolina, Nort Carolina, Virginia and they expect1 return via what they term the Bri tol .route. Report is then to be mai on these three routes and one of ti three will be adopted. Of course it may be a long time bi fore any highway is built betwee New York and the South but with ti interest which is taken in automobil' and the money some of the rich me are trying to find ways to spend is not at all improbable that a grel highway will be built, and, of cours it would be worth a great deal t any county to have such highway pas tArough it. At any rats as we have said al.read the automobile is here to stay and w firmly believe that this movement b these two great newspapers will d a great deal to stimulate the buildin of better roads and if it accomplishe that it will be worth all the troubl and expense to which the people alon the route 'rave gon.e in an effort t have tha cars go through thei.r set tion. Editor Aull of the Newberry He: ad and News is opposed to th State Press association meeting Clemson college. Surely he is ne opposed to the editors finding out th truth about Clemson. And the on] way they can find out the truth by going there.-Anderson Daily Ma Editor Aull is not opposed to th State Press Association or the editoi "finding out the truth about Clenr son.,, On the contrary he would be pleas ed for the Press Association and es ery other citizen of South Carolin to know "the truth about Clemson. We do not think, however, thati would be the proper place to hold a: annual meeting, and we did say tha if the Piress Association desired t, visit Clemson and inspect the insti tution with a view of~ seeing for them selves the conditions at Clemson tha it would be better for the Press t< o there at their own expense and no as the guests of the institution. ani a w-k's entertaiinment" to be e paid by "the authorities of Clemson - out of their own pockets.' e Our experienee with the Press As e sociation is that the members prefer it as a rule to pay their own hotel bills y at these annual meetings. We stated p that we had no objection to the As 11 sociation making a visit to Clemson .y from Greenville and so far as we are i- concerned the Association may meet 7e at Clemson fox a week if it is desired. >t In saying what we did we were only Id expressing the opinion of a humble ro member of the Association, and we is would not pretend to speak for the id Association. Mn This habit of accepting the hospi r. tality of institutions by editors or e, others in order to find out the facts e- and conditions of the institution ac r cording to our experience and obser :r vation has never conduced to the find re ing out of the actual facts. id We have known legislatures to ac t cept invitations to visit institutions s and afterwards when it came to mak s- ing appropriations for these institu id tions heard members say they would tr like to vote against some of these ap propriations but they had received ia such royal entertainment that thcy n felt that they could not do so. M We do not pretend to indicate that r- this would be the case with the Press .e Association if it should accept enter tainment for a week at Clemson col r- lege, w*ich entertainment was paid Y f:r out "the pockets of the au torities at Clemson,'' but it is nat ' ural that the persons who, acept such is hospitality would feel more like say - ig pleasant things about those who ,e rendered that entertainment. The Press Association can do as it te pleases, as it no doubt will, but if it is is going to Clemson "to find out the ,e truth about Clemson'' it ought not to go as the guests of Clemson and :e the authorities and let the authorities 2- pay the expenses out of their pock4ts. That is all we said and all we meant er to say. SA grapevine telegram tells us that the Clemson students know that af Ifairs up there are "rotten,'' and that . t they are looking for a wholesale er house cleaning. Also that they say, ie that the conduct of affairs there is ;h very much on the family party plan. ,The disinfection is bound to come :sooner or later, and the sooner it is sover~ with the better it will be for the le institution and for the State.-Sum ie ter Herald. We would like to know just what e- you mean by "the family party n plan." SNOTICE Or SALE. O. W.nmn LeRoy having made an as tsmeto for the benefit of his .eedi t trstoHenry 0. Long on May 31. t 10,notice is hereby given that on ~ a, the 26th day of June, 1909, at the late o place of business of 0 .W. LeRoy in the town of Newberry, S. C., begin sning at eleven o 'clock a. in., we will sell at public outcry, to the highest y bidder, unless disposed of at private e sale before that time, the following goodls and ehattels, of the assigned es tate of 0. W. LeRoy, to wit: 0 1 Four sider planer. u gI iron vice. s 1 rip saw wood top. e 1 No. 16 turning late and tools. g2 emory stands. 1 mouilding machine. ' 20 horse power Atlas engine. 1 40 horse power James Biggs Co. boiler. 1 cut off saw. e62 feet shafting, more or less, with tall pulleys, belts, etc. All buildings, brick, shingles, lum ber, doors, sash and other building material. 1 one horse wagon. 1. tenor machine. 1 shaper. e 1 mortieing machine. s 1 iron vice. , 1 rip saw. .1 gr-ind stone. 1 Fay and Egfian planer. ;- 1 motaor dry kiln, cape 10,000 feet !- 1 gig saw. a 1 iron safe. ,1 heavy two horse wagon. 1 drill press. t One horse. n Terms of sale: Cash. t Mr. Wistar Daxenport can be found on the ground where this property is until June 21, 1909, and will take pleasure in selling every1 - thing herein advertised except ,the t machinery.I Henry 0. Long, Assignee of 0. W. LeRoy. I tGeo. B. Cromer, F ~ Agnt or rediorsof . W.LeRy. - Your Are you di it, and it alor Then you sl ing rent. A salary iE rary means c Suppose it duced, or cul If you had A Home you wouldn't If Renting It is not we upon the "DI these are m cannot well ing, and that BUY A Come in a have in the w cant lots and FOR SALE: Th Savings Bank Stoc every six months. J. A Don't Fi FACTC GREA T SC NO' ~aves you from $85.00 to fhe J. L.J] I31 6-1 2 SEI DOO R SHINGLE: LIME, MANTI G RAT E! LOCIE We want to q SUMMEI Salary! apendent upon ie? houldn't be pay but a te npo >f support. should b re off altoge ther. if Your Own minditso much. ,then what? 11 to always look RK SIDE," yet atters that we avoid consider is why I say to L HOME. nd see what I ay of farms, va cottages. ree shares Newberry ;k, paying 4 per cent. BURTON. aliI to See -THE--- . >RY SALE >F THE HULZ PIANO NV'ON. $197.00 on each instrument. -AT Bowies Co., 18 Main St. Us -FOR S, SASH 3, PLASTER CEMENT. .ES, TILE 3, PA INTS :S, ETC uote you price^. I BROS. Co.