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70L XLVI NO T-; . NEWBERRY, S. C. FRII AY. SEPTEMBER 24. 1909 TWICE A WEEK. $1.50 A YEAR -N N The above is a picture of the R. F house on May 30, 1908, just after th ho:el by The Herald and News. Several of the carriers of the com T-ose in the picture are: Top Row-S. Berley Hawkins, Wa: Seeond Row-O. B. Sligh, John A. Third Row-W H. Eddy, MDuffie Fourth Row-W. E. Perry. Lewis hardt., All of the carriers ia the piture who haA been succeeded by J. N. Hav ubstitute on Newberry No. 2. Rural Free De Service In During The Past Decade It Rapidly, And Today Cov tire CouIntYm-An IMi Development ( In The Herald and News several weeks ago it was s,ated that Judge W. G. Peterson, carrier on rural route No. 1 from Newberry, was carrier on the first rural mail route established in Newberry county. This was a mistake. While Judge Pdlerson's route is one among the first estab lished in Newberry county, the first rural free de'ivery route in the coun ty was from Slighs, and the first car rier was Mr. Oscar B. Slighi, a s&u of the Rev. J. A. Sligh, for whom the station of Slig.hs was named. Mr. Oscar B. Sligh is ELll carrier on route No. I from Slighs. For some five years, however, his brother, Mr. Ru fus A. Sligh. held the position, Mr. Oscar B. Sligh having preceded and suceeeded his brother, Mr. Rufus A. Slizh, in the work. The route from Slighs was estab lished about 1898. The second route in Newberry county was from Pros perity, with Mr. S. C. Barre as car rier. This route was established shoii.ly after the route from Sligh ifact, almost simultaneously with it. Mr. S. C. Barre died some months ago. He was succeeded on his route by his son, Mr. Charles P. Barre. Mr. Barre was succeeded by Mr. J. N. Hawkins, whose route is still Prosperity No. 1. R.:.ate No. 1 from Newberry was the thir . free rural delivery .rou:e esta.b lishned in Newberry countv. The first carr:er on this route was Mr. Osear H. Peteren,~ a son of the present carrier Judi: W. G. Peterson. This route was put into operaition on September 1. 1901. Judge W. G. Peterson. who was :argely instrumental in the estab lishrnent of~ this route. succeeded his son as carrier. and has held the po sition since. Mr. .John A. Pdaerson. carrier on :-oute No. 2 from Newber rv. estahlished later, is also a son of Judge W. G. Petersom. In recurring to the fies of The Herald andx News, to corredt: the er ror above noted in regard to the first rursl free delivery carrier in New berry county. an article was noted in| whic i+ wa stated thalth in the opin D. Letter Cariers of Newberrv count ir annual meet,ing and the dinner wvhic tv who were in service at thati time we ren G. Peterson. Boland, Y. T. Dickert, J. W. D. Johns .Metts, W. S. Seybt. Joe Harman, Ch Henderson, R. C. Counts. Thos. E. Wi hown above are still in service, with ti kins, on Prosperily No. I. Johnnie I livery Mlail This County. Has Grown Steadily And ers Practically The En ortant Fac r In The )f This Section. iou of the writer, the three things which had contributed most :no the development of the South during the past decade were the sentiment in favor of ,betder roads and the build ing of good roads, free rural deliv ery, and rural telephones. In that article the extension of the rural tele phone service was spoken of. Perhaps nothing has cont#ribute.d more to the development of this part of the Sout-h during the past few years than the growth of the rural free delivery service. Newberry Among the First. Newberry county was among the first counties in the South to receive this service. The Third Congression al district was at that time repre serJ.ed by the Hon. A. C. Latimer. Mr. Latimer was especially active in the work of ,establishing free rural de livery routes, and his district was among the first in the South to re ceive the beueffis from this important service of the government. The Toute from Slighs, in Newberry county, was among the first in Mr. Latimer's dis trict. one or two routes proba.bly hav ing been established in 1:'he upper part of the district before the Sligh's route was put into operation. Growth in This County. Tfhe rural mail delivery service has grown in Newberry county until to day there are twenty-four routes starting from poinits in Newberry county. branehinn out into different (e(ion 115of the county, and in addi tion to these there is a route from Peaks. in Lexington couraty. wvhich comes into Newberry county; a route from Blairs, in Fairtield county, which cireulates alm3o~t altogether in N ewb)erry county, and a route, known as Prosperity No. 5, which joins at Sluda river' a ro4ute fr'om Prosperity and ca.ries the ma:il on into Saluda cony--aig really. twenty-seven rural free delivery mail routes for Newberry condri. Newberry Leads in the State. Among the first counties ia t.h? IA ...... ... y taken in front of the old eourt h was tendered them at the Crotwell re not present. on, J. D. Smith. rles P. Barre. eker. Frank P. DeVore, Johnnie Buz e exception of Charles P. Barre, uzhardt, in the above picture, is service, Newberry county has naken the lead since the service has been firmly established. At the meeting of the State R.-ural Letter Carriers' as sociation ii Rock Hill tihis year the president was Judge W. G. Peterson, carrier on -route No. 1 from Newberry. He was succeeded as president by Mr. Thos. E. Wicker. carrier on rural route No. 3 from Newberry. Mr. Wicker is not only president of the Sth Carolina R.ural Letter Carriers' association, bu:; ~he is a member of the executive committee of the National association of Rural Letter Carriers. He is- also a dele gate from the South Carolina associa.. dion to the National association now being held in Rochester, N. Y., and is now in attendance upon the sessions of the National association. The rural routes in Newberry coun ty and the carriers are as follows: Routes From Newberry. No. 1-W. G. Peterson. No. 2-John A. Peterson. No. 3--Thos. E. Wicker. No. 4-W. H. Eddy. gio. 5-Frank P. DeVore. No. 6--Thomas Chalmers. No. 7-Y. T. Dickert. Routes From Prosperity. No. 1-John N. Hawkins. No. 2-S. B. Hawkins. No. 3-Joe Hartman. No. 4-R. IC. Counts. No. 5-Thompson Shealy, who at Saluda river takes the mail from Prosperity and carries it on into Sa luda county. Routes F'rom Pomaria. No. 1-W. S. Seybt. No. 2-L. A. Shealy. No. 3-G. W. Setzler. Routes From Slighs. No. 1-0. B. Sligh. No. 2-J. Magnus KempsoTn. Route From Little Mountain. No. 1-John A. Boland. Routes From Chappells. -No. 1-M. L. Connelly. No. 2-Brooks B. Webb. Routes From Silver Street. No. 1-M. D. Sheppard. No. 2-W. E. Perry. Routes From Kinards. No. 1--J. D. Smith. No. 2-J. W. D. Johnsoni. Route From Whitmire. No. 1--McDuffie Metts. Route From Peaks. No. 1-John 0. Chapman. Route From Blairs. No. i-Lewis Henderson. It will be seen that in little less J S. FARNUM FACES A RICULAND JURY DEFENSE LOST OUT ON A MO TION TO CONTINUE. Farnum Charged With Having Given A Bribe or Rebate to Member of Dispensary Board. ('0lumbia State. The case of J. S. Farnum. charged with bribery, was called in the circuit court i Columbia on Monday. This is the first of the dispensary "graft" cases on which Attorney General Lyon has been at work for three years. The defense for J. S. Farnum made a motion for continuance, but the at torneys for the prosecution got the better of the argument and Judge R. W. Memminger ordered the case to trial. It was 4:30 Monday afternoon when the ease was called and as the argument consumed over an hour, Judge .321emminger agreed not to go! further into the trial that afternoon. Assoeiated with Mr. Lyon in this case are Mr. W. H. Cobb. solicitor; Mr. Marshall P. DeBruhl. assistant: attorney general; Mr. W. F. Steven son, attorney for the dispensary in ve4tigation commission; and Mr. B. L. Abney. Others employed fori phases of the case are E. McC. Clark son, E. M. Thomson, U. R. Rembert. Attorneys for defendant, J. S. Far-! num, are: Mordecai, Gadsden, Rut ledge & Hagood of Charleston, Ernest F .Coehrane, United -States district attorney; Nelson & Gettys of Colum bia. Other lawyers present to repre-.1 sent other persons acensed are Bell inger & Welsh, W. B. Grnber and M. P. Howell of Walterboro, Weston & Aycoek. Attorney General Lyon announeed that the probable order of the eases to be tried would be: the two against Farnum, one against John Black, and bhen some of the bribery cases. On the court's calendar are enter ed five eases to be tried connected with the alleged dispensary grafting. They are numbered from 49 to 55, inclusive. The first ease, No. 49, on the calen dar is that against J. S. Farnum; the charge is bribery, the bribe being al leged to have been given to Joseph B. Wylie in the sum of $1,575. Case No. 50 charges J. M. Rawlin .on, J. B. Wylie, John Black, James, S. Farnum, John T. Early, Morton A. Goodman and H. Lee 'Solomons with conspiracy to defraud.* 'Case No:- 51 arraigns M. A. Good man, L. W. Boykin, J. B. Towill, W. . Tat'um and Dennis Weiskopf for conspiracy to defraud the State out of $22,500 in the label deal. Number 52 charges John Black with accepting a bribe. In case number 53, James S. Far" num is charged with bribery. -Number 54 on the calendar is the east- against J. S. Farnum, J. M. Raw linson, J. B. Wylie and John Bl:ack eonspiracy to defraud the State out of* $4,00. Number 55 is the case against Den-* nis Weiskopf, perjury. No attorneys are named yet. News and Courier. Demurrer Overruled. Columbia, .September 21.-With the overruling of the defendant 's demur rer in the Farnum case this morning, and with tme refusal of Judge Mem minger to quash the second and third counts of the indictments, the prelim iary skirmish in the first of the al leged gra.ft cases was concluded and the real battle reached. Fighting inch by inch, attorneys for the de fence attacked the indictments under which James S. Farnum, of Charles lo, is charged with bribery in con netion with t,he dealiugs with theI State dispensary board. The State put up a vigorous defence of the in dictments as drawn, and won its sec ond victory of the trial. although Judge Memminger declared that he was convinced that there was consid erable weight in the position taken b': Fr'num's attorneys. There were two main propositions before the Co'urt to-day in the con hi,deration of the indictments. The first, in brief, was the contention of the defence that the second and third counts in the indicemnt against Far m,m shoud b uashed because the Solomon or th A Legend of th By Col. D. illegation is not included that the ;ame is against the form of the stat ite. Upon this point the State showed ha t the offence was a comman law one ind that the statute upon which the bribery charge is brought in first ount does not include all forms of bribery. The demurrer set out several Prounds upon which the indictments as to the various counts were alleged to be fatally defective. In general the ground. were that it could not be tol.d in at least two of the counts the second and third-whether Far num or Wvlie was the State official refered to in that the wording of the indictment was defective: that in the counts that are based upon the state ute the charge cannot be brought against a member of the board, in that the Constitution and the Code names who are executive officers and the statute on bribery eases states that the crime shall be confined to legislative, executive and judicial offi cers. Upon this point the State's contention that the members of the board of control of the dispensary were executive .officers was upheld by Judge Memminger; that the indiet ment did not allege with sufficient cer tainty the crime charged,.so as to give the defendant the benefit of a plea at bar was another contention in the de murrer. This part of the defence's ontention caused a great deal of dis ussion and numerous citations were 6iven on both sidse. Selection of a Jury. Contrary to all expectations the se ection of a jury to try this case oc eupied but a short while. From the time the trial Judge announced that the empanelling of the jury should begin until the last juror had been worn and took his seat was ' only eigteen minutes. This is very prob ably the recoitd in cases of such a grave nature as't!be ont now in court, and was a complete surprise to all who had.kept up with the preliminary fight inflie case. Onliy 'eighteeni jurors were- called be fore the panel was seedred. Of this number six were ptf3 on their voir dire-. The State asked that three be put on t': eir voir dire and the defence challenged in like manner three. Those who were put on the voir dire were asked the statutory questions by Judge Memminger. The stringency of the voir dire of the jurymen was added to when the eft ce requested that the question be asked whether or not the juror had said that he would like to see those connected with the disepnsary con vited. The question was in addition to the usual statutory questions in uch cases. Judge Memminger asked the questions himself. Four of those who were sub.ject to* this examination were rejected, t,hree by the dtfence, alt.hongh all answered tie questions in a manner indieating that there was no bias. The Jurors Chosen. E. Powell. of this city, a grocer, was the first juror called, and he was accepted by both sides. F..L. Legrand, farmer, was also selected without uestioa. H. S. Fox, a merchant tail r of this city, wvas re.jected by t;be State after being put on his voir dire. E. H. Frost. a dispensary clerk, was put on his voir dire and accepted. The following was accepted with >ut question by both sides: F. N. ones, an electrician; W. L. Caugh nan, a livery man: G. H. Spires, a nil employee; L. H. Hornsby, a farmer; H. S. Cockran. a farmer; .D. r. Shari. a farmer; J. H. S.hannon, ~rmer: :nd H. W. Desportes, hotel lerk. John Brazelle was accepted after voir dire. Those also rejected were: B. A. Rai B. R. Wood. L. L. Taylor, W. P'. Muller. B. H. Wilson. The jury as empanielled is W. L. (Continued on Page Two.) e Red Jacket. .e Dutch Fork. N. Dickert. "This tale I tell is a story of old, I give it to you, as to me it was told. No, I will not vouch for one word of it. I write it just as it has come down to us, among the many other legends of historic old Dutch Fork. Away down in that "God's con try,' the land of lovely women and good Dutch oven bread, in the forks of Broad aiid Saluda rivers, lived a family, by the name of Fundelwinder, or oid Fundel, as -the head of the house was called by his neighbors. At the time of the coming of the late War Between the States it was a home of peace, thrift 'and content ment. . The country of Dutch Fork is a kind of place in the abstract, illusive, evanescent,. a mirage to those ap.. proaching from afar. But it is veri tably a country, notwithstanding, for it was the home of my ancestors. Formerly coming South, from the old -North State, along the old Buncombe road, the first of the great arteriei of trade that ran from the mountains to the sea, the traders, the farmers and drovers, 'taking their wa-res to our Capital City, called all below Spar tanburg, Dutch Fork. Union people called those down in Newberry by that name, while Newberrians who did not relish the title called all below her dividing line in Lexington, Dutch Fork. Now, this Duteh Fork, like an cient Gaul, was divided into three parts. The upper section was known as the "Stone Hills; the broad belt of pine barren that ran tast and west through it was called the "Piney Woods," while that down near Co lumbis was called "The Fork." The family of whom I speak lived near one of these div-iding lines, and consisted of Fundelwinder pater, his good wife; two grown sons and two oid maiden sisters-Tena, no doubt a .corruption of Christina, and Polly. These two sisters took charge of do mestic affairs and directed the house hold economy, more especially Tena. She was the factor factotum, for ev everything she said or ordered went without question. Mrs. Fundelwinder was a good, easy soul, and gave way without complain to her sisters-in law, feeling, perhaps, that their broth er had h<Aiored her suffi'cien.tly by bringing her into thei.r family, and that she should be content with her station, and to allow Tena and Polby to run the household. Polly, the younger, contented herself mostly in carrying out the wishes and policies of 'Mis,'' -as she termed her older sister, and was always worried lest that personage would overdo herself, or some of her instructions might miscarry for want of stress on her part. Sis did .the baking, milking and weaving and churning, while Polly attended the lesser duties, such as cooking and sewidg, while the mother was always a -tired soul, giving her self up to much lamentations about things that never came to pass. Day by day the spinning wheel hummed, as Polly glided back and fom, the long, endless yarn winding around the spindle, Polly singing all the time one of her favorite hymns, while the loom in the back shed kept up a continual ban~g, bang, as Tena was weaving off yard after yard of twilled and sin gle sley. All these people made all their wearing apparel. flfhe younger of .t.he sons, a youth in his latter teens, at the time this story begins, had long since gone off to the war, in Capt. Drury Nunnamaker's company. and the father wa-s on tht coast. in the artillery. The first born was left at home with the women, not to take care of, but to be cared for, by Tena. Now, this first born was named Sol omon, after the wise king of the house of Judah. He never was nicknamed by *his young comrades, like other boys, and called Sol; he was always (Continued on Page Six.)