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YTT.VT No. 60 NEWBERRY2 S. 0. FRID.Y. JULY NO. 190TW5 V N..Ff 4- .6N -N- I - RESIDENT TAFT WILL YISIT CAPITAL CITY ACCEPTS COLUMBIA'S CORDIAL INVITATION. hamber of Commerce and State and City Officials Prepare for tihe President. The announeement in the State yes erday morning that President Wil lam H. Taft would visit Columbia -as received with much pleasure by State and city officials and members of thi Chamber of Commerce. Sev eral days ago, it will be recalled, a fo.rmal invitation was sent the pres ident and a committee would have gone to Washington but for the tele gram received by Gov. Ansel stating that the president was not in Wash ington and would not return for some time. The dispatch from the Wasihington correspondent of the State said that he president would go from Augusta o Anderson and from Anderson to olumbia and as soon as the dates re definitely fixed special -committees -ill be named to meet President Taft nd arrange for his reception here. hese details will be planned later. There have been visits here previous ly by candidates for the presidency but.it has- been many years sinee a "leading citizen of the land" honor ed Columbia. Just after the Spanish American war P.resident McKinley passed through Columbia and made a Ghort speech to those who were at the old Blanding street station and Presi dent Roosevelt also stopped a few strenuous minutes on his way to the Charleston exposition, but a formal visit has been rare within the past two decpdes., T'he local organizations will arrange for a proper reception and the outline of the trip will be an nounced shortly. C. C. & 0. BUYS SMALL RAILROAD onnecting Link to Columbia Report ed.-It Is Said Connection Will Be Made to Cincinnati via N&W. istol Herala Courier. Johnson City, Tenn., July 26.-It said on good authority that the C. .& 0. has purchased a short line railway running fronti 8pa.rtanburg to Columbia, S. C. The president and oficials of this road were in Johnson City Sunday, en route with Mr. Car ter in his private car to New York, o close the deal. From Columbi t'he road will be built on to Chareston, and is to be completed within the next eighteen months. '/ The extension on the north end will be built for the seven miles already let to contract, but after that, the work will stop, as arrangements have been made with the Pennsylvania railroad to use the tracks of t:he Nor folk & Western, 'ind direct and through train service will be establish ed at once. The .road to Spartanburg will be completed within something like sixty days, and through traia service from Cincinnati to Spartanbug will become FARMER A SUICIDE. Solomon Hall Kills Himself With a Shotgun, Despite Daughter's Efforts. Hartsville, July 27.-Mr. Solomon Hall, who lives about two miles below town, committed suicide to-day about noon by placing a single-barrelled shotgun to his abdomen, -leaning over it and ipulling the trigger wit-h his te. Death was almost instantaneous. Mr. Hall was a man of about 50 years old and a rather prosperous and la:d working farmer. He was of an erati disposition and before this has given evidence of insanity. It is L:ght that the immediate cause of his rash deed was trouble and des ,aton vertwo of his daughters, eoaehopelessly insane at the Asy um in Columbia. His first attempt at1 nicide today was frustrated by his~ daugh1ter, *ch seized his gun ,e was about tO o s0ot h~h-self. He ke loose from her, ran aroun'otthe seseaand.beffore he ould be pr REGORD'S SUORY OF PATHFINDERS' TRIP NEWBERRY ENTHUSIASTICAL LY WELCOMED SCOUTS. Trip From Columbia. Via Newberry, Greenwood and Laurens To Greenville. The Columbia Evening Record of Tuesday afternoon had the following dispatch from Ne.wbrry. telling of tre trip of the Record'* good roads scout ears on Monday afternoon from Columbia to Newberry, and of the welcome accorded the ears by the peo ple of Newberry county: (By McDavid Horton.) Newberry, July 26 (Special).-This community, long a center of religious and educational interest, today made clear, by its reception of the Record's pathfinders. the taet that in the mat ter of enthusiasm for highway im provement it is abreast of any other in the State, great as the desire for good roads manifested by other sec tions of South Carolina has been since the Capital-to-County tours were com menced. At Blackville, Barnwell, Bamberg, Camden and Hartsville the pathfind ers of the Record .had met with par ticularly cordial receptions and for warmth and genuineness it had hardly been thought these would be surpass -d, but Newberry has moved up to first place on the list; not because in aividuals -have been heartier in their welcome or more. appreciativ.e of the mission of the pafhfinders, but be cause the interest expressed has been more representative of the forces which bring things to pass in the community. Concrete results may already be safely predicted as likely to flow from to-day 's outpouring nd crystalliza tion of good roads ethusiasm. For one thing,the cause of better highways has been brought sharply to the atten t.ion of the town and the county. That is something the importance of which is greater than at first appears. In the party which left the office of the Record this afternoon were: McDavid Horton, news editor of the RAecorel; C. W. Moorman, secretary of the Columbia Chamber of Comnieree; Fitz Hugh Lee Brown, manager of the Columbia theatre, and A. J. Kind, of the Gregory-Conder company, Colum-~ bia, in a Buick touring car, the Rec ord 's "Old Reliable'' pathfinder ear, Mr. Kind driving. Dr. E. M. Whaley, president of the Columbi'a Automobile club; Jas. A. Hoyt, editor and general manager of the Record; Jos. M. Lawrence, a prominent Columbia insurance man, and W. Bruce Ravenel, of the Colum bia firm of Walker, Ravenel & Co., in Dr. Whalevy's Chalmers-Dertoit "30'' touring car. W. R. Fishburne, of the Gregory Conder company, Columbia, and F. Pelzer Youngblood, cireulation man ager of the Record, in a Brush runa bout. Clarence D. Lee, Mrs. Lee and two children, of Lydia, Darlington county; Miss Peacock, of Rock Hill, and At vi:1 McKelvey, of Greenville county, in Mr. Clarence Lee 's Buick touring R. E. Howle, of Darlington; J. A. Kelly, of Florida and George 0. Lee, of Lydia, Darlington county, in Mr. Geo. '0. Lee's Buick touring car. It was three o 'clock when the party left Columbia. A few minutes later tre five cars reached the toll bridge across the Broad river, where a pass for the entire party was presented from Mr. T. H. Meighan, vice presi dent of the company owning the bridge. Beyond the bridge the route lay through the famous Dutch Fork of Lexington count,y, via Spring Hill, Chapin, Little Mountain and Prosper ity. Among the clay shills alternating with sand beds in which the reforma tory farm of the State penitentiary is situated the road is bad, distinctly so); heavy in the sandy stretches, boggy in the clay beds, unbelievably rough among the rocks. Yet in this section live some of the most substantial far mrers in the State, progressive and in tellient men in most matte.rs. Need of education along particular lines is shown most strikingly by thbe bad inuned on Page Three.) GREEHILLE-CAPITAL HIGHWAY IS PLANNED COMMITTEE APPOINTED TO FORM ASSOCIATION. MeetiA.g Held in Laurens After Ar rival of Record's Scout Cars from Newberry. (McDavid Horton, in Columbia Record.) Laurens, July 28.-The se,cond day (Tuesday) of the third tour of the Record's patlifinders had for special features enthusiastic receptions at Green.wood and Laurens and culmi nated last night in a smoker at which were laid the plaus for a Capital-to County road extending from Columbia to Greenville, via Newberry and Lau rens. A committee was appoi,ited to select two other members from -,ach county concerned, the augmented com mittee to draft particular suggestions for the organization of the association proposed and to call a meeting at which the organization will be per fected. Hard to Leave Newberry. In leaving Newberry Tuesday morn ing the Record's pathfinders, W. R. Fishburne and McDavid Horton, were delayed in various ways, principally by the pleasant demands of hospital ity, so that it was 11:33 o'clock be fore the start upon the day's run to Laurens via Greenwood was made. When th.e party started out, the sturdy Brush runabout of the path finders was accompanied by three oth er cars: In Capt. W. S. . Langford 's fast Ford roadster were McDavid Horton and Mr. John K. Aull, of The New berry Herald and News, with Capt. Langford at the wheel. The two escort cars of the Green wood Jou-mal, a Maxwell runabout and -a Maxwell touring car, the runa bout occupied by its owner, Mr. G. W. Gardner, Jr., of the Journal, and the Hon. W. C. Harrison, a member of the house of representatives from Grenwood county; the touring ear driven by its owner, Mr. W. P. Durst, and having for passengers Messrs. John 'Durst and Thomas Durst, John Arrington and Tabor H. Hill. Capt. Langford Leads. Capt. Langford 's speedy roadster had beer .among the cars in the es cort of Monday evening from Pros perity to Newberry. Keenly Iriterested in good roads and particularly ifl atI tomobile touring highways, and hav ing piloted through this section the scoot cars of the Atlanta Jou.rnal and the New York Herald, Capt. Lang ford readily -agreed to aecompany the Record 's pathfinders to Newberry and1 after last night 's meeting decided to go on with them to Greenville. In his car 'he will carry on the run to Green ville Messrs. Elbert H. Aull and Jno. K. Aull, of The Newberry Herald and News. Col. E. H. Aull rode in the Brush with Fishburne to Laurens. The party left Newberry county Tuesday afternoon at 2:37 o'clock, when Saluda river was crossed by the Southern railway bridge at a point 22.8 miles west of Newberry and shortly thereafter drew -up at the handsome country residence of Col. E. H. Aull 's -parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ja ob Luthrer Aull. Here the patfinders received a hearty welcome and a din-1 ner such as may be got nowhere else than in the homes of Newberry coun Grenwood Interested. In Ninety Six, seven miles beyond! the ancestral mansion of the Aulls, the <pathfinders also received a warm greeting but time did not offer for a stop there of more than a few min utes. anid after a short stop the jour ney to Green-wood and Laurens was resumed. The 10.4 miles further to Greenwood. over a splendid road, was covered in 35 minutes, Mr. G. W. Gardner, Jr's., fast Maxwell runabout leading the way. In front of the Ore gon hotel a large crowd of good roads* entusiasts had gathered and these gentlemen, men of .standing and: weight in the -community, all of them, very soon made the Columbia and Newberrians of the party feel at home. Among the number were Mr. A. F. .McKissiek, president of the Grendel and Ninety Six cotton mills; accompanied by Mrs. McKissick, Mr. RECORD SCOUT CARS VISITED NEWBERRY TO GREENVITJ VIA GREEN WOOD AND LAURENS. Newberry's Welcome.-Some Inci dents of the Trip on to the Mountain City. (By John K. Aull.) A welcome which was hearty and sincere, evidencing both N;ewberry's hospitality and her interest in good rpads. was extended the good roads scout cars of the Columbia Evening Record upon their trip through New berry county on Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning, and during their stay in Newberry on Monday night. The'details of the trip are fully covered in the dispatches in the Rec ord from Newberry and Laurens by Mr. MeDavid Horton, which appear in other columns of this issue of The Herald and News. The journey of the pathfinders through the State is ev erywhere quickening and stimulating ,the good roads enthusiasm which has been so manifest throughout Sou'th Carolina for some months past, and their visit to this immediate section culminated in the laying of practical plan, at a meeting in Laurens on Tues day night, for the building of a per manent highway from Columbia to Greenville, via Newberry and Lau rens. The committee which was at that time appointed will meet at an .early date to put the plan into opera tion. Capt. J. Adger, Smyth, Jr., prez -at of the Watts Cotton Mills, of Laurens, in a short talk following t:he appointment of the committee, urged that their meeting be held in Laurens, giving the committee an as surance, on behalf of the people of Laurens, that the automobilists of Laurens and th-e people of the city and county generally, would lend their -hearty encouragement and co-opera tion. Capt. Smyth is a good roads enthusiast who is doing a great deal for tb-e -cause of good roads in this section of the State. The Trip to Newberry. The pathfinders left Columbia on their journey to Newberry on Mon day afternoon. Bad roads were en countbered in Lexington, and the New berry roads are not among th.e best in the world, but good time was made to Prosperity, where the Newberry party met the scouts. From Little Mountain to Prosperity the Record party had been piloted by Dr. J. I. Bedenbaugh, of Prosperity, in his Ford touring car, accompanied by Mr. Jerome Harmon. Newberry's Handsome Cars. At Prosperity the Newberry cars had lined up to await the scouts, and the large number of handsome cars made a magnificent showing. As the members of the Record's party re marked, the Newberry cars were "cars that are cars-every one of them,'' and six of these Newberry cars had gone to Prosp-erity to wel come the party and escort them to Newberry. The personnel of the scout party and of the Newberry party is given elsewhere in Mr. Horton 's dis patches. A Heavy Rain. An exeeedingly heavy rain had fal len in Newberry while the Newberry cars were in Prosperity, the rain ex tending nearly all the way to Pros perity and making the roads very heavy. No trouble was experienced, however, and with Capt. Langford in the lead, followied by Mr. R. Herman Wright, Mr. Forde and the other cars, fine time was made to Newberry. While the mile of road recently built by the government expert has not yet had time to pack, its superiority over the rest of the road after the heavy rain was strongly marked. In Newberry. . In Newberry the cars received a hearty welcome, and a reception was tendered the party on Monday -even It was a matter of regret that Dr. E. M. Whaley, Ed.itor James A. Hoyt,' Mr. Joseph M. Lawrence. Mr. W. Bruce Ravenel, Mr. C. W. Moorman a-nd Mr. Fitz Hugh Lee Brown, of Co lumbia, who had accompanied the scouts to Newberry, could not spend the night here. T;hey returned to Co (tnueda on Page Five.) RUNNING THJ By Col. D. WRIGHT SCORES TRIUMPH. Aviator Makes Flight of an Hour With a Passenger.-Breaks World's Record. Washington, uly 27.-The world's aeroplane record for two men as to both time and distance was broken this evening in a beautiful flight of one hour, twelve minutes and forty seconds-upwards of fifty miles. and at a speed averaging about forty miles an hour, by Orville Wright at Fort Myer, with Lieut. Frank P. Lahm, of the army signal corps, as a passenger. The former record was made last year by his brother, Wilbur, joint in ventor, with him of the machine in which both achievements were per formed at LeMans, France, with Prof. Painleve, of the French Institute, as passenger. That flight was one ]our, nine minutes and thirty-one seconds. Wilbur was an eager spectator of to day's flight by his brother. "You just scotehed your brother's record without really damaging it much," remarked a newspaper man to Orville after the flight. "That's all we meant to do,' re plied Orville, with a smile, which his big brother appreciatively dupl*ated. WONDERFUL RESCUE Little Girl More Than Two Hours in Narrow Well-Fell Back When Almost Out. Fort Mill, July 26.-Word reached Fort Mill this morning of a harrowing accident, and a most remarkable es cape from death, which Sunday after noon befell the 8-year-old daughter of C. Cook, a white farmer of the Belair neighborhood, seven miles from this place. The ehild was playing about the yard and in some way fell into the well, which is 30 feet deep, contains about eight feet of water, and is walled with 18-inch terra-cotta piping. , The child screamed while falling and her parents discove4' at ores that she was in the well. Intelligent effort was immediately directed toward the rescue of the child, who displayed the remarkable presence of mind, safter sinking the depth of thesight feet of water and rising to the surface, of bracing her body with kn~ees~ and back on opposite sides of the piping to avoid drowning. A rope was quickly lowered and the child told to grasp it. This she did, but when drawn to within a few feet of the mouth of the well the child 's strength failed and she fell to the bottom of the well a second time, but again rose to the surface of the water and grasped the rope.\ After the lapse of an hour or more the child was again persuaded to swing t'he rope while her parents for the second time attempted to d.raw her from the well. Again, when almost within arm's reach of the parents, the child let go the rope and for the third time sank to the bottom, but fortunately rose to the surface of the water as former l. T'he rope was again quickly low ered and once more was in the hands of the child. This time, however, the child could not, for the third time, be induced to undertake the ascent-she was all but exhausted, but had sufficient strength left to hold to the rope and thereby save herself from drowning. Another hour passed and little hope of rescuing the child was left. Finally a pair of steelyards was secured and tied to the end of a second rope. This was lowered and the child told to fasten one of the hooks to her cloth ing. In this way she was at last res' ued, after facing death for more than two hours. Monday morning the little ir1 wa at play as usual, apparently little the worse for the harrowing ex perience of the afternoon before. The reason a man lies so much is try-aingt keep up with everybody. E GAUNTLET A. Dickert. (Concluded.) !Our greatest fear in traveling westward, was the danger of running up with Gen. Stoneman, of the Fed eral army, who was on a raid from east Tennessee, with ten thousand horsemen, thrrough North Carolina. We had 'heard of this movement-of Stoneman connecting with Gen. Sher man-before we left camp, but in tended to dodge him, if possible. For tunately for us, the 'raid was called off as soon as Johnston surendered, but the pickets were continued at all fords to arrest soldiers without pa roles. I have no remembrance of counties but in passing Salem, the seat of the great female college of the South At lantic States, a curious thing happen ed to me, something I could never ec count for on any hypothesis. While scouting on the Salkehatchie, in the coast regions of this State, we passed one night through a deserted little hamlet. Every living soul seemed to have left, black and white. In passing out of town, some one looked back and discovered a light in one of the deserted dwellings. Going back cau tiously, we discovered a woman in one of the back rooms with a light, appaTently looking for something about the bed. We asked admittance, which was readily granted by the wo man -and searehed the house from bot tom to top. She seemed to be cultured and very polite and not the least ruf fled by our nocturnal visit, but she would give no reason why she was there alone. She was very uncon cerned and gave us to understana thaV it was none .of our business. The little towin was aboat three' or four. 'miles from the Yankee camp, and wa. entirely out of the zone of our army. We questioned her very closely, but she would give no explanation. We left and started up the streat, but could see her still hunting something about the bed or in the room. Tom Paysinger, th~e closest observer and best scout I ever knew, said: "Boys, there is a man in that house, and I am going to find him."' He went up in the garret, in every closet, crawled under the house and in the outhouses, but no man was discovered. Passing through Salem, or Wins ton-Salem, as it is now called, early in the night, when the moon was shining as bright as day, as we pass ed a large .building, with a double iazza, I saw the woman of the Salke'--.,s iatchie. It had not been more than six weeks since I saw her there. She was standing with a group of ladies on the upper balcony, watching our troops go by. To make sure that she was the same lady, I went close under the balcony and hailed her. She was as much surprised as I at our meet ing, and to my question, "What are you doing here?'' she replied, "And what are you doing here ''" I never could account for it. She was four or five hundred miles from where I first saw her, and there were no rail. roads running to Salem at that time. I figured it out in this way: She was, perhaps, a Northern lady, who had come~ South in her young days to be educated at this aristocratic institu tion of learning, 'had married a North ern soldier, and he 'had come South with Sherman and was stationed for some weeks near the hamlet on the Salkehatchie. She had joined her hus band and this was the- only place near the camp where he could put 'her. Then when the great Northern move ment began, she -thought of some of former professors or former school mates. and had asked the benefit of their hospitality, until times got quiet. This is the only explanation I could ever give. In traveling through North Caro lina we passed through the most fer- 4 tile portion of the State, and the hospitality of the women was un bounded. We kept in regular order while marching, no straggling being allowed, only small parties being per mitted to stop at a time to allow the 1ladies togt +-hem sommthingr to eat