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VOL XLVI 6 NEWBERRY, S. (C.. YPDAY. JULY 3. 1909 T THE NEWS OF PROSPERITY. Barbecue on 23-Speech by Prof. Sligh.-Mr. Moseley Home. Death of Mrsf1 Bray. P..osperity. July 15.-The Palmet to elub will meet with Miss Della B(1wEr; on Tuesday afternoon. "4Wo man in Storv and History" is the generial subject. Papers will be read by Miss Kohn. Miss Moseley and Mrs. iorris. and music will be furnished by Mrs. Quattlebaum. Mrs. Murrell, of Peaks. returned Wednesday after a pleasant stay at Dr. Wheeler's. The many friends of Mr. H. C. Moseley will be pleased to hear that lie is onee inore in our mirlst. He and Mrs. Moseley and Mrs. White return ed Saturday from Savannah and will remain here during the summer. We are happy to say that he is doing fairly well and is cheerful and dt lighted at seeing the friends of his ybuth. Mrs. J. L. Wies has gone to Ashe ville where she will remain three months at Dr. Carroll's famous sani tarium. She' has been suffering for some time with throat trouble. The best wishes of al for a speedy restor ation to her wonted health and place in everything pertaining to the bet terment of things, go with her. Mr. H. J. Rawl returned Wednes day from a visit to Lexington. Miss Rosalyn Summer was in the city Saturday. Miss Lucile Wise, of Saluda, is the Zuest of relatives here. Miss Marie Lathan spent several days with Mrs. Maxey Harmon last week. Mrs. W. H. Hiller has been in our city for several days. Miss Annie Moseley is in atten dance upon Miss Brockington's house party at Manning. Mr. F. 0. Black, of Wards, was in the city Saturday. We are glad to say that he was so favorably impress ed as to accept the position in the high scho>I. Mrs. Lizzie DeWalt and Miss Mary DeWalt Hunter left today for Hen dersonville where they will be joined by Miss Nannie Simpson and will rempin there for some time. Mr. Ernest Counts went to Florence Monday to attend the funeral of Mrs. Bray. Tuesday evening the business men and the young boys crosse dbats. The game was fairly well played, consid ring the fact that only the boys were in practice. The score resulted in favor of the youngsters. The date of the barbecue has been chanzed from Saturday to Friday, July 23. It is hoped that all who can wil! come. Besides the feast of meats, cream. eake. and lemonade there will be a spe chi b'y Mr. Wilbur K. Sligh. He will apeak r n a live subject,. "Good Road.''" Transportation will be furnished withoat extra charges. Al the plbns for a saeccessful 'cue have been fomalated, so- you need not be afraid t?e game will not be worth the candle. D:-. E. N. Kibler, our popular den tist. was elected to the presidency of the Dental association at its recent annual meeting held t.his year at Glenn Springs. Mrs. Howard McWaters and child ren. cf Atlanta, are the guests of Mr. J. L. Wise's family. Miss Kate Thompson, one of our most popular graduates has accepted the school at Mt. Pilgrim and will assume her duties Monday moiing. Mrs. B. B. Schumpert has gone to Newberry to spend several days with friends there. Mrs. L. S. Bowers is spending this week with relatives in Newberry. Mrs. Missouri Long returned last Thursday from the Columbia hospital. 2e will remain for several weeks wth atr m&. Mr. Irvin Long, on Mc Nairy street. Mr. J. L. May. our accomodating agent of the C., N. & L. has just re turned from a visit to his pineapple farm near Fort Pierce. Florida. Mr. F. E. Schumpert has gone to Dalas, Texas. to spend some time with his brother, Mr. Fred Schum pert. Mr. Granville Wyche made a flying visit to Columbia Wednesday. Mrs. T. D. Copeland, of Clinton. is Svisiting her parents. Mr. and M!rs. H. C. Moseley. A goodly number of our n)eonle are going to take advantage of the excur sion to Spartanburg the 16th inst. Supt. and Mrs. Ed. Black and little Sara, passed through the city en route for a visit to their parents, Mr. N.L. Black and Mr. John Rauch, near Saluda. This Wednesday morning at the early hour of 3 o'clock Dr. Beden haugh and family and Mrs. Thompson Wheeler. Mr. Melvin Mathis and fai ilv. Mr. Geo. Steele and family, left for Augusta in their autos. They made the trip in good rime, t-legraph ii- their safe arrival about nine o clock. They returned tonight. Mr. W. J. Sheely, of Silver Street. spent Sunday in town. All Pro.perity was grieved to learn Sunday morning of the tragic death of Mrs. Kate Smith Bray. at the Old Dominion hospital in Richmond. Va., where she iad gone for treatment several days previous to her death. Her condition was such that she was left under the care of a nurse and while the nurse stepped to the other side of the room to (et her a -drink of water. she jumped from her second story window and injured herself cruelly, living only a. short ihillp af terwards. Mr. Bray was immediately called from Florence by plione bft his wife had left him ere he reached her side. Mrs. Bray grew up in our midst. She was a most lovable girl, always cheery. kind and helpful. She was a niece of Mrs. R. L. Luther of town and hence a visitor of frequent welcome to her native town. She was a most loyal, enthusiastic work er in the Lutheran Mission church at Florence, and will be greatly missed, Mrs. Bray leaves two children, a son about 5 years of age and an infant of six months. Mrs. Bray's remains were interred at her home town on Monday afternoon. The press all over the State has united in paying the highest tribute. The floral of ferings which came from far and near were many and attested fra gantly to the regard and esteem which aT1 held who knew her. COLUMBIA SORE. Reported That Her Firemen Won't Attend Any More Tourna ments. Union Progress. Mr. Alexander McDougall, one of the inspectors of the Industrial De partment of which Hon. E. J. Watson is the commissioner. was in the city' esterday inspecting the mills of Un .on. Mr. McDougall was the jumper on the Palmetto team from Columbia last week. and his presence yesterday in this city gave rise to the report that he had come to Union represent ing his team, in order to demand and secure the $200 cash prize which his team lost by ruling of Nozzle Judge Walker. However. Mr. McDougall is quoted as saying 'that -be came here ony on his official industrial duties, and that so far as his firemen team contesting this is concerned he en pects to have nothing more to do with it. Indeed he does not intend to have anything to do with the team irr the future. and the Columbia firenten, ib is st-ated, will not attend another tour nament beca ise they allege that the firemen throughout the State are working against them. It is stated that Mr. McDougall said that he was satisfied, and that he intended to let The matter drop. but that he had 'heard screfning to the effect that the Columbia team might still put in its claim. STRIKE OF NUESES OVER. Atlanta. Ga., July 14.-The strike of the twenty-four pretty nurses at the Presbyterian hospital is over. It was "compromnised'-' as one of the soft-voiced strikers explained-by the nurses returning to work under the old terms and conditions. That is, 21 of them returned and the remain ing three were willing, but the hospi tal authorities told them to "pack their clothes and go.'' Pi'he young womh c laimed 'that they were overworked and under-fed, and that there was another reason which was worse thani both the others. What this reason was they have not revealed. Anyway, the nurses bor 'owed from other hospitals have been returned and peace reigns over the * THE IDLER. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The Idler has received the follow inz note from the editor of The Her ald and News. enclosing proof of an article by Mr. Blease in reply to what The Idler had to say in the last issue -f The Herald and News: "We enelose yon herewith proof of article by Mr. Blease. which speaks for itself. We have Mr. Blease's per mission to hand it to you for reply. if you desire to make reply. -0 "The Idler doesn't want to get in to ally *ontrOversy with any one. and if it did. it would not feel competent to engage in an argument with Mr. Blease as to bonds and obligations of other kinds. and the construetion of Acts. I want to say, though, that Mr. Blease minunderstood me if he thought I meant to say anythin' against the new court house. I am proud of the building, and every eit izen in the county ought to be proud of it. because it is a credit to the county. And the county needed it and Mr. Blease is to be heartily commend ed for going ahead and taking the stand he did ir\ the matter. But why quibble over words? What is a bond, but an obligation of the county? What is a note but an obli gation (,f the county? Could the 'an nual tax levied to pay the note given to the sinking fund commission on which money was secured to build the court house, be repealed and the credit of the county be maintained? Isn't the county as much legally lia ble for the payment of a note as for the payment of a bond? Didn't the act providing for the erection of the new court house recognize that there was no real difference. when it au thorized the commaissioners iof thet sinking fund to lend to the county on the "note or bond" of the county treasurer? I don't know. Questions seem to be the order of the day. and I am simply falling in line and ask ng some. -0 Wasn't it intended in the act for the ereetion of the court house to get the money at once and altogether. so that the new building could be erected and paid for afterwards? Isn't that what the advocates of bonds for good roads claim to be the advantage of* bonds over an annual tax. Would~ Mr. Blease have attempted to build the new court house by levying the same annual tax which came in every year, and doing a little work on the court house, and then waiting until next year's tax came in, and then do ing a little more? -0 That was what The Idler was try ing to stress. Whether you call if a note or a bond, it is getting the money in a lump sum, so that sub stantial work may be done, and not patch work. In Mr. Blease 's article in The Her ald and News some time ago he quot ed from a speech he made at Half are's Mill, in which he said: ''I fav or good roads, and want them but ad vise you all not to vote any bonds, but vote a tax if you please, and then if the money is not properly handled you can have the tax repeal ed at the next session of the legisla ture'' ete. Now, there, in Mr. Blease 's own words, is th.e reason he urges an annual tax in preference to bonds. Now, let 's see the difference between an annual tax and bonds or a note, if you please. Could Mr. Blease's annual tax to pay the 'note" of the county given fo.r money to build the court house, be repealed now? Suppose the work had not been done properly? Could the county have refused to pay its note, any more than it could refuse to pay its bond? So, after all, what's the difference? Isn't a note a bond, and isn't a bond a note? Oh, I don't mean in strict legal phraseology, but T mean to all intents and purposes?. What's the difference? -0 That 's the point I was trying to make. I don 't know whether I have made myself clear or nor. Mr. Blease goes on at some length in his argu were placed around the money foo tie building of the new court house, and says the county treasurer stood between the board and the people, and could have refused to pay any warrant issued by them that was not for the purpose set out in the act, etc.. etc. Well, the act says that the money borrowed for the purpose should be held by the county treas urer. "and shall be paid out by him on the warrant of said commission, signed by them. or a majo'ity of them. which warrant shall state the particular purpose for which it is issued." That strikes me as being rather mandatory. I don t know, though, and that is neither here nor there. --- But that looks to me like paying out money on the order of a majority of the commission. The roads act ordering the election on the bond is sue allows the payment out of money o-n a warrant "signed by the chair man and treasurer and at least five of the other members of the commis sion and countersigned by the clerk.'' I haven't meant to get into any controversy, and I am sorry I said anything about it at all. I don't want to run the county and I don't want to tell anybody else how to run it. If the people want roads it will be up to the people to get them. If they don't want roads, why it's all right with me. But you can mark this pre diction; if they ever get roads they have got to issue bonds to get them. because an annual tax that would do any good without a'bond issue would have to be made so high that I doubt if a man like me, who doesn't pay anything but poll tax and street duty, could stand it. -o Mr. Blease. as I called attention to before, has been talking about not having a man on the board from each township. Now, on his court house commission, Mr. Blease had five town -ships repitsented-Nos. 1. 4. 6, 8 and 10. On the roads commission there are the same number of town ships represented-Nos. 1, 3, 6. 9 and 10. On each board Nos. 1, 6 and 10 are represented. and on Mr. Blease's board Nos. 4 and 8 were represented. while on the road board Nos. 3 and 9 are represented. Th-ere is not as much difference between the' number of townships represented on the two boards as there is between a bond and a note. Now. I am through with it. I doubt if I would have said any more at ai, though, had I not wanted to asenre Mr. Blease that it was not my inten tion to reflect on the new cou t houw building nor on the mann?r of its erection. It is an ornament -o the city and to the county, and is a fit building for a temple of jiwtice. -0 I had some other things to write about this time. but I thiul: T w il postpone them until I hava a little further time to cogitate and mem-T tate. The weather is a little too warm to labor much. Did you ever see such warm weather? But I am not going to talk about the weather. This is a great and glorious country we live in--the best section of the world-even if it is hot. The Idler. Newberry, S. C., July 15, 1909. Editor Herald and News: T note that The ''Idler'' in The Herald and News writes: ''Would Mr. Blease have attempted to build the new court house with the same annual tax which is now be ing levied to take up the bonds floated by the act passed by Mr. Blease ''Mr. Blease wants a commiu-.oner from each township to handle the people's money, and t.hat commission er named by the people. Was there a commissioner from each township to handle the bonds for the erection of the new court house, and were the commissioners named by the people?i ''Mr. Blease tells us that in levy in bonds for building roads we will be up against the same kind of pro nosition we were up against in vot in bonds for building some railroad which we have ne-ver yet got. Were ve up against that kind of proposi tion in building the new court house? We have an elegant building, and Mr. Blease deserves zreat credit for gc'ing a.a anbnding the county for its erection, even without a referendum to tha people. and the commissioneds gave the ounty one of the nicest court houses in the State.!' This is no surprise to me for I have been expecting to hear from the new court house in this discussion but, sir, I am delighted with the court house and "Blease's political grave stone" as some have called it is a thing of beauty and will be a joy forever to this generation and I am glad that somebody is planting grass on the ground for it is customary in this day to euss a man while he is living and put grass and flowers -on bis grave when he is gone. I am glad to see some of the grass now. Mr. Idler evidently did not read the a- -ider which the -ourt house was built and I request that you pub lish it here so that the people can see the difference between it and the bond act: An act to provide for the erection of a new court house in. Newberim county. Section 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of the State of South Carolina, That George S Mow er, J. Monoe Wicker, J. A. Sligh, C. H. Shannon, J. R. Perdew, W. D. Senn, and Otto Klettner, be and they are hereby, appointed and constituted a .commission, with full power and authority to procure plans for and erect a new court house for Newber ry county, in town of Newberry, and to select and purchase a site for the same. See. 2. That said commission shall have the power and authority to pro vide for fire-proof rooms and vaults, with modern metallic furniture, for the safe-keeping of all public books and records of the county in said new court house. See. 3. That said commission shall not expend more than forty thousand dollars in the purchase of said site and the erection and equipment of said new court house. See. 4. That the commissioners of the sinking fund be, and they are hereby, authorized and empowered to leod to the county of Newberry, on the note or bond of the county treas urer and county auditor, the sum -of forty thousand dollars, at a rate of interest not exceeding five per cent. per annum, for the'purpose aforesaid. The commission herein appointed is authoriz,d to borrow such sum from the commissioners of the sinking fund on the terms aforesaid or elsewhere, as it may be able to do to t.he best advantage. Sec. 5. For the purpose of paying said lo:.. a 'ax of one-half ot a adil on the dollar shall be annually levied by the county auditor on the taxable property of the county,- and collected by the county treasurer at the same time and in the same manner as the other taxes. .T-he tax thus collected shall be annually paid on the note or -bond of the county . treasurer and county auditor given for the loan a-foresaid, and said tax shall stand pledged for the payment of said loan, and shall be colle< tel until the loan is paid in full. Sec. 6. That the money borrow -ed for the purpose aforesaid shall be held by the county txreasurer 'and shall be paid out .by .hi*f on the warrant of said commission, signed by them, which warrant shall state the partieu lar purpose for which it was issued. Sec. 7. That the said commission shall at all times keep a full record of its proceedings, and shall publishi quaterly a full statement of its dis bursements until it shall have com pleted the work, when all of its rec ords shall be permanently lodged in the county commissioners' office as a record therein. Approved the 17th day of Febru ary, A. D., 1906. The court house commissioners were from numbers 1, 3, 10. 4. 8 and 6. none of them having a controlling vote on any question and represented every t-rade and profession, the poliiti cian, the lawyer. the doctor, the mer eant, the farmer, the carpenter an'd builder. and the preacher. The believ -er in singing hymns and the believer in singing psalms. None left out, none discriminated against. And all of them tax and debt payers. No dodgers. Not a number I township nor a one bank board. Aain. Mr. Idler. the sourt house was not built by bonds but by taxes. Exactly what I am advocating for goo roads No bonds were floated as you suggest. And the money bor rowed was not deposited in a bank at a lower interest than we pay the )ank when they loan us but was "Held by the county treasurer and paid out by him on the warrant of the commission which warrant shall state the particular purpose for which it was paid." Any expenditure of a dollar of this money except for the purposes stated in the act would have been a breach of trust and the treasurer stood as the representative of the peopie be tween this board and the people and could have refused to pay any warrant issued by them that was not for the purpose set out in the act or any member of the commission could have stopped payment of any warrant is sued by the majority if he had be lieved that it was not being properly spent and in accordance with the act. Here the money could not be spent except that the people got what it was appropriated for and if they had not got it they would not have had to pay. Under your bond act if the bonds are issued we have got them to pay roads or no roads. Under the court house act it was "court house ork no money'" and it was not a re funding in. forty years by somebody possibly not yet born but the men who built was the men who settled up the entire affair which has been done and they have retired with the "well done thou good and faithful servant" from all of the people of Newberry county and of every judge that has seen it and all people who have visit ed it from elsewhere. Read both acts, study both, and you will quickly see the difference. One for bonds, bonds, and the other by taxes. One to be handled by the pres ent generation; one by whol The delegation that had the court house act passed had the backbone and manhood to make improvements when needed and its record for the material development of this county and the improvemnts in the affairs of the county is second to none and they have no apology to make as the re sults speak for themselves and loud er than words. I am for good roads, yes, get them, Ibut do it like we got the court house, by taxes and not by bonds. Richland county has got as good roads as there are in South Carolina and Supervisor Sam Owens, one of the finest and ablest, is building them without any bonds. I answer, yes we can build good roads. by taxes if we will get somebody that knows how and who will make every person liable to road duty do his part and not jump about all over the county and do patch work and then excuse every fellow or his hands who has got a few votes in the coming pritnary for fear of get ting defeated. Respectfully, Cole. L. Blease.. YORK JURY DISCHARGED. * Yorkville, July 14.-Judge Mem minger this morning dumfounded a panel of petit jurors by dismissing them on the ground that they were unfit for service in his court. The ease was one in which the usual count of carrying concealed weapons was tacked on to an indictment for as sault and battery with intent to kill. The testimony showed quite a serious fight in which two Russells shot two Robinsons, the bullets being fired from the rear. There was a good deal of conflict -in the testimony as *ta the merits of the fight, but no dis pute as to the fact that both of the Russells had pistols. The jury &e quitted the Russells on all counts. That was last nigh.t. When court convened this morning Judge Mem minger had the clerk to call the pan el and said to it in effect that if a jury saw proper to accept a plea of self-defence from a man who had shot another in the back it was not within his province to set the verdict aside, but where men were unable or unwill ing to be guided by the plain law and' evidence in a case of carryi-ng con cealed weapons in the face of the fact that there had been no attempt to deny the charge he was unwilling to go on trying cases with such .jurors. He therefore instructed the members of the panel to apply to the clerk for - kheir pay and consider themselves dis cbarged from further attendance. Then turning to the clerk his honor instructed t.he drawing of additionail. nuor to fill not the veire.