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VX[4 tED JN tW. VOL XLVI NO. 51. NEWBERRY, S. C.. TUEiS DAY. JUNE 29. 1909 TWICE A WEEK. $1.50 A YEAR THE IDLER. * * * They tell me that the New York Herald printed a picture of the scout cars stuck in the mud and put under .it that it was a sample of the impas sable roads in the vicinity of Newler ry. Well, that is a good joke on some body. I heard that the only trouble the ears had in getting to Columbia was in helping Mr. Jenkins along btit then maybe I am mistaken. I heard somebody say that they had to leave ,him in the road and go in to Colum bia without a pilot, or at least the one they started with from Newberry. The Herald must have got its pitures mixed. At any rate the scout cars came by Newberry atd not by Augus ta and they did not break down or get stuck in the mud in this county, though I am willing to admit that our roads are not what they ought to be. - Mr. Herman Wright and Mr. Moran tell a good story on our supervisor who went with them to Greenwood. They say that when they got stuck in the mud at Island Ford a negro man came along and proffered his as sistance and while they were at work the negro said that they occasionally saw the supervisor of Iaurens county in that neighborhood but that this particulir- road was in Newberry county and they had never seen the Newberry supervisor up there and in fact he :had heard that .Newberry did fiot have any supervisor af all. The Newberry supervisor did not make his identity known. It may be that the negro was'telling too much truth- to suit ihim. At any rate they do say that it was hardly any road at all. I mean telling the truth as to the New berry supervisor not being seen in that section. The editor 'has sent me a peck of meal which he says was left at -the office for me by Burr Leitzsey. He says Burr claims this is a sample of water ground meal. Well, I am not so sure that it is. Then I would like to know where the corn came from. I know that Burr Leitzsey never had a peck of home raised corn in his life, unless it was raised by his father or he bought it from some one. But I am going to try a little of this meal if I can get it cooked according to the proper methods of cooking water ground meal. You know there is an art in cooking it. I want to thank Mr. Leitzsey for this contribution to my uantry which is always very small. That is i mean the contents in niy pantry. C: I should say there is al ways mom in it for something else and any contribution in these times is very acceptable. Now if Burr would send me some country cabbage and a country cured ham then I could judge better of the quality of the water ground meal. You know corn bread eats better when you have country raised ham and cabbage. And then a few Irish potatoes would not be amiss. But I thank you for the meal. --- 'They tell me that even sueh towns as Greenwood, Anderson, Greenville, Spartanburg and Abbeville have done awa - with t:he wagon yards on the publi square and to think that New berry should still cling to the wagon ard public square is something be ond my comprehension. Just think of it, will you. The Civic association should keep everlastingly at.it. That is the only road to success. There will be difficulties and obstacles at first, but you must not be discourag ed. We should have nice little parks in the public square and the wagon 'ard elsewhere. Wake up. We have slept long enough. That "Clerk of the Grand Jury'' should not be so profligate with the us of the King's English. especially when dealing with sc* grave and far reaching subject. And then poetry has no place in so prosy a question as the dealing out of justice and the bringing of vagrants before the bar. Mr. Clerk. an office like yours that is not known to the law should admon ish vou~ not to undertake to hide the fa-s by beingz flippant. Stand to the rak. fodder or nlo fodder. By the war, when you started out afte th agrants I began to think that maybe you were in earnest and I began to think maybe I had better be looking out for a job, for t.hey tell me it does not matter how many U. S. bonds you may be able to clip, if you have not some steady occupation you are liable to indictment and punish ment under the vagrancy laws of this State. But when I woke up and found you were after a couple of ne groes somebody wanted run out of the community I began to rest easy and to contemplate the first of July when I would clip some more coupons and rest quietly under the shadow of the State and continue my course of idleness. -0 I wonder if our supreme court has not lost the record in our county office case. A little matter like that ought to be settled. It will soon be time to have another election and the offices ought to be settled before the cam paign opens. We want to have real live issues to discuss next time. No foolishness. -0 I noticed the other day that the street hands were working in Friend street, filling in holes and making the street smooth, and on asking what it meant was told that it was preparing the street for the firemen to practice on. How would it do for the firemen to select another street and then an other and maybe by the time the tour nament came off we would have a number of streets in good repair for other vehicles besides the hose wag on.. The Idler. SILVER STREET CHURCH. Lutherans at Silver Street Have Nice Church and Growing Congre gation. The Lutheran Church Visitor pub lishes a cut of the new Lutheran church at Silver Street and the arti tiele we print in this connection in re gard to the church. This congrega tion is small but is a very live and progressive one: We of the Silver Street Evangeli cal Lutheran church, Silver Street, S. C., are not claiming to be the most successful mission of the South Caro lina Synod, but we would be glad to win that title. At any rate we are trying to make a good record and we hope our work will "provoke unto love and to good works.''" Silver Street is a small station on the Southern railroad-a station which seems to have a promising fu ture. About one year ago we organ ized a Sunday school there to meet every Sunday, and at the same time began preaching twice a month. These services were held in the school house. Less than one year ago we organiz ed .a congregation, with twenty-two members, and this is perhaps, the youngest congregation in our synod. We at once began work looking for ward to a church building. A large and beautiful lot was donated to us. The executive committee of synod ap propriated $250 to our use. A num ber of individuals gave us substantial enouragement. Soon the foundation of the church was laid and the work went forward rapidly. About this time several congregations of the Ne'jberry conf4renee responded to our appeal, giving us a total amount of about $50. T'he church is now com pleted and we herewith give you a pie ture of it. It is built with auditorium, Sunday school room, recess and tow er, and is very nicely furnished. Our property, according to the usual esti mate of church property, is worth about $2,000, and there would be ne. debt if we had received anything like a general response from the churches of ouir synod. Or, if there should yet be some response. and we b)elieve we deserve it. the debt would likely dis appear in a very short time. On the fifth Sunday in May we held our opening service. The church was erowded to its utmost capacity. .There were t wo accessions. one by infant hap timi and one by confirmation. We now have twenty-five confirmed mem bers. the Visitor goes into every home and we take Tidings in the Sunday school. S. P. Koon. LOST OR STRAYED--Brindle cow andl black .Jer-.ey steer with chain on horn. If f'und ring 71 Newberry. lE_c-_-n TO9 D A. Langford. THE BOND ISSUE. 1 The Herald and News Wants Fair 1 Discussion.-Hon. C. L. Blease I Wants Certain Amendments. The Herald and News, while in fav or of a bond issue for the building of good roads in this county, or any oth er plan that may be devised that williI give us good roads, is willing and anx- I ious at the same time to open its col umns to those who oppose the bond is- t sue. We desire that the matter shall be fully and freely and impartially discussed, and if the verdict of the people should be against our judg ment we will not complain. We are so strongly convinced, how ever, that money put in the biulding of good roads is the bet imvestment of money that the people of any com munity can make -that we favor any plan that is practical looking towards that end. It is not fair in the discussion of bonds, to compare bonds which are to be handled and the money spent by our own people, with bonds which were issued for railroads and turned over to other people, who were not interested particularly in our county; and besides that the bonds which were issued some twenty years ago for rail roads had the condition that , they should be delivered as soon as the road was graded through the town iship. The road was graded and the bonds -delivered. If we had made the condition that the road should be built we would surely have (had the road or we would have kept our bonds. The act of the legislature, it seems to us, throws ample safeguards around the bonds which are to be voted that the money will not be spent .unless we secure the roads, and we are satisfied that the people of this county will be willing to have a two mills tax for roads for forty years if they should. be assured of 200 miles of good macadam or sand and clay road. A two mill tax voted annually for roads would not give us 200 miles of permanent road if it were voted for forty years. The beauty about the bond issue is that we get the roads and enjoy them while we are paying 4he taxes, and if we do leave our ehil dren a bonded debt we leave them something that is worth more to them than the money would be. Eowever, it is a matter for the people to determine for t-hemselves, ~.and by permission of the Observer and the author we are glad to print 'the article following by Hon. Cole L. Blease: Newberry, S. C., June 29, 1909. Hon. W. H. Wallace, editor Obser ver, City. Dear Sir: In the matter of bonds for good roads please allow me t'he privilege of asking the follow-i ing questions: Will the parties whose names are mentioned in the act -as commission ers pledg.e themselves to refuse to ac .ept the position and allow the legis lature at its next session to amend the act by placing upon this board one qualified elector from each town ship in the county?1 Will the senator and representativ es from this county pledge 'themselves a to put into effect this agreement, and name one commissioner, from each township so that all may be repre sented on said board, and not one township -hiare a majority .of the board while .all of the townships have4 'to pay for the bonds? If the bonds are voted will the sen ator and representatives from this county pledge themselves to amend the act of the legislature by putting in a proviso as follows: Provided; That none of the money raised upon said bonds shall be .paid out for any purpose until the road or roads for which it is paid shall have been built! Will the parties whose names are: mentioned in the act as commissioners pledge themselves not to take any step towards raising the money on these bonds until after the next ses sion of the legislature, so as to allow these amendments to secure the peo ple in their rights? 1 Tahis will guarantee the people thit tihe mUoney will bring some re linus alnd not be nsed and the pCI)pl etno return as in the railroad bornds. Answers to these ciuestions will oblige m-y ad make friends for the bonds. \s matters now stand many remem >er the railroad bonds where the peo )le got nothing and are still paying axes to redeem the bonds. As the ommission is at present composed aid with no proviso as mentioned tbove to guarantee that the bonds if -oted will bring improvement in 'our -oads many voters will cast their bal ot against the proposition .that might >therwise vote for it. I would suggest postponement of he election but the act having been )assed the election must be held, yet 1 short delay is better than defeat, md it is better than to attempt to wercome a defeat of this year next ,ear or the next. The sample of good -oads now being built is at a place t seldom gets bad and is no lesson is if built on some red hill like on the WNhitmire, Pomaria or Belfast roads, )r at Rocky Creek or Bush river on :he Bouknight Ferry road. Thanking you for the space and our fairness in opening your columns o a discussion of this all important juestion. I am, Very respectfully, Cole. L. Blease. In the Feild for Governor. Hon. Cole. L. Blease, of Newberry, was one of the visiting members of the bar at the present term of court f general sessions. He has always more or less business on that side of the court for Laurens county, (as he also has in other counties) and' fre quently very important, sometimes in tricate cases, which -he conducts with marked legal acumen, but invariably with strictest fairness and courtesy. He had but a single ease of.homi cide at the present term, in which he suceeded in getting as light a sen tence as could have been expected, his client pleading guilty. Other legal business called him home, and he re turned there Monday afternoon. He was seen by the writer but -a few minutes before leaving, and when asked whether he would be in the field for governor next summer, as rumor had it, he replied: "Yes, I will, with practically the same platform I had last campaign.'' Queried further on his views as to emson and compulsory education, he 3aid: "Let Clemson alone, and no com pulsory education. '-Laurens Her ald. Smith-Plitt. Miss Mabel C. Smit!h, a sister of Nrs. J. W. White, who has many warm friends in this city, will be married tomorrow morning at .:her iome in Baltimore to Mr. Willi-am E. Plitt, of that eity. The ceremony will e performed at 11 o'clock by Rev. A. T. Campbell, pastor of West Balti nore Station M. E. chu-rch, who is :he pastor of the bride. The mar iage of Miss Smith will be a very >eau.tiful home wedding. After a wedding breakfast the bride and ~room will board a South bound t.rain md will reach Newberry Thursday norning. They will be Mrs. White's uests for a few days and will then oon to Charleston and other points. Mrs. Plitt, as Miss Smith, is well ~nown here and by her attract'ie manner and fine personality has a :mmber 'of Newberry friends who wish her mueh: happiness in her mar ried life. MAGISTRATE AUGHTRY 3f No. 4 Township Makes Reply to Grand Jury Charging Neglect of Duty. Whitmire, S. C., June 26, '09. Co the Public: I notice in t'he presentment of the rand Jury for Newberry County at :'e term of Court recently helds' that was presented for neglect of duty .n ,that I was remiss in issuing a war 7ant for a man, who had shot a negro voman. I have not had an occasion to .ssue such a warrant and if any such. :-rime has been committed in No. 4 rownship I am even not yet today rostnizant of the fact. I am not aware of the person or' ersons who made the report but can inhesitatingly say that the report is mroundlss and without any founda :ion whatsoever. Very r'e5pec(tfully. R. M. Aughtry.I Magistrate No. 4 Towns hip, Newherry County. FATAL AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT. Mr. William Rudd Fatally Injured.- T His Automobile Struck by Sea board Train in Greenwood County. Special to the Herald and News. oj Greenwood, S. C., June 28th, 1909. ff -Mr. William Rudd, of Greenwood, Ji salesman for Durst-Andrews Co., t< Swhile going to Abbeville in an auto- p mobile this morning was struck by ao Seaboard vestibule at crossing at tl Salak and fatally injured. He was u taken on to Abbeville where he died. A He was about 32 and married. b . J. K. A. b a * GOOD ROADS DEPARTMENT *p * By the Good Roads League. * t b * * ******** ***** a A mass meeting of the citizens of p the county is hereby called. to meet s, in the court house Saturday, July 3, n at 11 o'clock to take under consid- I ration the road question to the end l that a good roads campaign may be 'I planned for the summer. Every cit- v ixen is invited to be present. The fact s that you have not decided to vote for i the bond issue will make you no less c welcome. It is hoped t:hat this cam- I paign for bonds will be conducted on I very broad lines. It ought to be a eam- I paign of education in the very best i .sense of the word. The proposition < to borrow $300,000 for road improve ment is a big one. It ought to be I thoroughly discussed and understood c before it is rejected or adopted. No man would be justified in votinp- for i it upon the impulse -of -the moment, g nor would one be discharging his full i duty as a citizen to vote -against it i because of preconceived opinions un- t supported by facts. C That we ~need better roads is con- ( ceded everywhere. That our present system of road improvement is vital ly deficient and altogether inadequate e to give us good roads is a matter of 'l sad and disastrous experience extend- s ing tihrough many years. This is com- 9 mon ground upon which all can stand t in the 'beginning of this discussion. a With mind open to conviction and a with an eye single to the best and o highest interest of the entire county c the solution of the road problem il ought to be approrached. It is in this -a spirit you are most earnestly urged b to attend this meeting. Much and lasting good wil4 no t doubt result from a good roads cam- t paign whet'her the.,. bonds be voted or b rejected. We want your presence to E help in planning this campaign. Let n every township have a large delega- C tieni present. Another matter: We want a full is vote on August 31st. The election will C be conducted in the same manner as general eleetions. That means you h must have your registration certifi- A cate and tax receipt in order to vote. e Look up your registration certificate 11 now. If you can't' find it get a dupli- 'p ate before the books close which will b be the first Monday in July. Attention is called agai-n to tihe fact that we 'have for distribution g, 5,000 copies of the act authorizing .b this election. It is of the highest im-'t portance that every voter acquaint himself with all its details. Help dis ~tribute them. e b Big Sale at Mimnaugh's. C Mr. J. A. Mimnaugh has on an un- 6 usually big and .attractive sale. In G this issue of The Herald and News he t; has a display advertisement which it E is to the interest of every man, wo- Ip man and child in Newberry county f< to read carefully, and after reading f' make a visit to this store and see if li these goods. prices and promises are! n not verified. The offers are amazing h but Mr. Mimnaugh says he stands e; ready to back anything he has adver- ti tised. Give this "a.d" a careful pe- ti rusal, and it will mean a purchase for S Mr. Mimnaugh and a saving in buy- hi ing for you. The Frightened Seashore. L St. Louis Times. Mr. Henpeek--We are going to re- N' move to the seashore, doctor. Doctor-But the climate may dis- t* agree with your wife. a r. Hnpek-It wouldn 't dare. y CADETS MINSTRES. he Troupe Will Appear at Newberry Opera House Next Tuesday, July 6. The fun lovers and general publie Newberry will be greeted by the Lmous Cadet Minstrels on Tuesday, ily 6. Newberry being one of the wns stopped at in the tour of the rincipal towns of the State. Man rer Rigby has worked hard to make is appearance of his Troupe even ore successful than that of last pril in Charleston, and with a num ar of added features which are to e used between parts, it will be I )ntinuous entertainment of a high Lass with no long pauses between ets as interesting specialties,will be ut on. While some may think this is n unusual season of the year for a oupe to be on the road it ought to e greeted by an even larger attend nee than during the busy season, for eople are generally anxious for some )rt of entertainment" to b:eak the ionotony of the hot summer months. t is a proven fact that this high elass finstrel will fill this long felt want. 'here will be no chance of unfinished -ork on the part of the amateur min trelsy, since practically the same ea ets are to take the parts that they arried through so faultlessly at the Yrevious engagement in Charleston. n addition to this at least two hours ractice is being held every morning n the Gymnasium of the Army Post M Sullivan's Island where the young oldiers are on their annual encamp nent, and when their duties permit ven longer rehearsals are made. A slight idea of the barrel of fun a store for everyone that attends is ,ained by a glanee at the following ough draft pf the program as al eady made out. Part One will set he crowd' going with an opening horus of unusual merit by the entire ompany. Original gags and end songs iy the sweet singers of the troupe ill have nothing usual about them xcept their .place on the program. hen will follow the specialties, COOn ongs, buck dancing etc., which are uaranteed to hold the attention of e spectators during -the stage prep ration for Part Two. This will be n Olio, opened with the renditions f the Jedburg Concert Band, and in luding two brand new features in e show. The spectacular silent drill nd .the drill of the Awkward Squad y the sons of Ham. The specialties sandwiched between 1e second and third acts will include ie most amusing musical novelties y the depervedly popular Chicago ritone, Mr. Don H. Gesterfield, the usical direetor of. the company. The* -rand Finale will be the Ill-Treated rovatore which 'received such a Iespliting weleome before in 'harleston. It is confidently said by those who ave seen the rehearsals that the new .wkward Squad Drill wijl equal in very .respect the Marion Square anee which was the big hit of the revious show, and, which will itself e -repeated. Tmmediately after showing in Char ,ston the Troupe will take the road y a two or three weeks trip, having ooked twelve of the larger towns of e interior, where the same big show 'ill be -repeated in each case. The sehedule of performances in Ludes-Charleston July 1st; Orange urg, 2nd: Camden, Saturday 3rd; olumbia, Monday 5th; Newberry, th; Abbeville, 7th; Anderson, 8th; reenville, 9th; Union, 10th; Spar mburg, Monday 12th; Gaffney, 13th; ock Hill, 14th; Chester, 15th; with ossibly a show at Lancaster and a w other places. From the reputation r putting up the real article in this ne that the cadets have already tde, it is anticipated that a packed ouse will greet the performance for aeh ngagement, while the interest iat every true South Carolinian. kes in the "West Point of the outh" should be a guarantee of a beral support. Literary Pirate. ondon Ideas. Mr. Henr:y Cochin (ruffled) - Jell, what are yon after now? The Visitor-I am collecting ma rial for "Fox's Book of Martyrs"' ad would like io include you and . ur ail i he hdcl of the work.