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I10r VOLUME XLVIIL NUMBER 88. NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1910. oir THE WEALTH OF COUNiTY. As Taken From the Auditor's Books Slight Total Increase in 1910. The Herald and News sometime ag printed a brief abstract of the audi tor's duplicate, giving some data a to the taxable property as made up b the county auditor for this year. It i 'of more Interest when these facts ar put in comparative shape. That is t say, showing when there has been ai increase or a decrease. The Herald and News presents som further information in regard to th taxable property in Newberry count; and also the tax rate and the tota amount of taxes levied upo. the peo pie. This year was the time for th reassessment of real estate. There ha been a slight increase in the acreag( not that the county has been enlarge but some land has been placed on th tax books that was not there when th last assessment was made. Numner acres, 1910 ....... 382,19 Number. acres, 1909 ------380,71 1Increase ------------ 1,48 -alue, 1910 ... ... ..... ..$2,157,04 Value, 1909 -----...-.2,091,42 Increase. ...$ 65,61 *Value buildings, 1910 . . $ 381,14 Wne buildings, 1909 -.-..-.359,74 Increase i . ' 1,40 The above is for the real estate oui side of the cities and towns. Th value of real estate in cities an towns is as follows: Wlue, 1910 - -- -..$1,131,87 Value, 1909. -.. 1,063,27 Increase....... --- -: B * * Total reWl estate, 1910 .. .. Total real estate, 1909, .. ... 3,514,44 increase...--.-.-.--.-$ 155,61 It will be seen that there has bee a total increase in the assessment c real estate of about $155,000. Ther bas been a decrease in the assessmeri of personal property of about $100,001 Personal property, 1909 .. . $2,717,82 Personal property, 1910 - - 2,601,79 Decrease.....----.... $ 116,03 There has been a slight increase I the assessment of railroad property. Tota,l R. R. assessment, 1910$ 853,45 Total R. R. assessment, 1909 843,33 Increase.......-----------$ 10,12 Total assessment, 1910 - - - $7,125,30 Total assessment, 1909 - -- 7,075,59 Total increase . -.--.-.- 49,7( The fonlowing figures show the tt tal taxes charged up by the audjix for 1909 and 1910 and the differet items: Total taxes collected, 1910, 14 miHfs --...--. -.--.- 133,505.0 Total taxes collected, 1909, 13%A mills..-..-.--.-.... 31,972.1 Increase taxes collected.$ 1,532.8 1909. State tax, 5%/ mills .. .. ..$37,146.3 Ordinary county, 3% mills . . 24,764. Special county purposes, one mill.........----------...-.7,075.3 Roads, one mill. ..-.-.-..-.-.- ,075A Constitutional school, three mills...- .....----......21,226 1910.. State tax, 5% mills .. .. ..-.4 .9704 'Ordinary county, 3%k mills . 24,938. Special county purposes, 3-4 ..i .... ..----....... 5,343.1 Roads, 1 mill.-.-..-.-..-.-.. 7,125.: Constitutional school 3 mills 21,375.1 1909. Railroad tax, No. 1, 2 mills .$ 5,051.5 RRairoad tax, No. 8, 3 mills . 786.] Ralroad tax No. 9. 2 mills . 1,424.: .1910. Railroad tax, No. 1, 2 mills .$ 5,050.1 Railroad tax, No. 8, 3 mills . 73 Railroad tax, No. 9, 2 mills . 1,390.' 1909. Special schools county, .. .$18,768.1 1910 Special school.s county . . . . $18,457. Polls, 1909. .. ..-.-.-..-.-.- 6,2w Polls, 1910 .. .. .. .-.-.-.-.- .5 ,8 Decrease.. .........$ -- 4~ Nuimber ofdogs, 1909 .... 3,4i Nu.mber dogs, 1910 . - - . . . 3,1: Decrease .. ...-.--.---..-. Number horses, 1909.... .. . .1,3 Number horse's. 1910 . .. . .. 1,3' S Decreae.-.--.--.-.--. Value horses, 1910.. .. .... 76,200 Decraase.. .. .. .. ....$ 4,210 Number cattle, 1910.. ..... 4,869 Number cattle, 1909.. ..... 4,620 Increase ............ 249 - Value cattle, 1910.. .. ..$ 54,970 s Value cattle, 1909 .. .. .... 53,655 I Increase.........-...$ 1,315 5lNumber mules, 1910.. ..... 4,052 , Number mules, 1909.. .. .. 3,990 Increase.. ..........62 e Value mules, 1909........$ 260,755 e Value mules, 1910 .. .. .... 259,640 1 Decrease............$ 1,115 - Number sheep and goats, e 1909.. --.-.'. .... 1,280 S Number sheep & goats, 1910 1,159 Decrease............$ 180 e Value sheep and goats, 1909.$ 1,280 e Value sheep and goats, 1910. 1,100 Decrease.... ........ 180 1 Number hogs, 1909.. ....... 4,087 Number hogs, 1910.. ..... 4,036 D Decrease.. .. .. ... -.. 51 5 Value hogs, 1909.......$ 10,230 Value :hogs, 1910.. ...... 10,215 5 Deorease.. ..........$ 15 - Gold an silver, etc., 1909.. 334 Gold and silver, etc., 1910.. 320 Dcrease... ... . ....... 14 Gold and silver, etc., value, e 1909.. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..$ 5,880 Gold ad silver, etc., value, 1910.. .. 5,765 0 Decrease............ a Number pian6S a"d OrgaS, 51 1910.. . .. 4 c. .. . . 6 0 Nurtdbor pianos and organs, 1900...- .. -- 543 5 2 Increase .. . .. ? .; 22 Value pianos and orgadi, 1909..............$ 24,580 Value pianos and organs, 1910.. .............. 24,335 0 Decrease............$ 225 0 Number carriages and vehi cles, 1909.. ......... 4,834 Numbe~ 'carriages and vehi cle, 1910... ........... 4,470 3Decrease.. ...........364 Value carriages and vehicles, G1909.. .... .........$ 84,050 4Value carriages and vehicles, 81910.. .. .... .... ......79,990 _Decrease.. .. ..........$ 4,060 Value merchandise, 1909. . .$ 318,025 Value merchandise, 1910. . . 307,260 tDecrease.. .. .... .. ..$ 10,765 Value manufactures, 1909. .$1,036,410 4Value manufactures, 1910.. 940,360 SDecrease.. ........ .. ..$ 96,050 Value engines, tools, etc, 1910.. .. .............$ 58,635 Value engines, tools, etc., 1909.. .. .... ...........52,815 9~ I ncrease .. .... .......$ 5,820 Value moneys, etc, 1909... .$ 51,335 9Value moneys, etc., 1910. . .. 37,150 Decrease.. .... .......$ 14,185 Value of all credits, 1910. .$ 21,550 Value of all credits, 1909.. 9,365 6 Increas.............$ 12,185 Corporations out of State, 8 stock owned, 1910.. .. ..$ 1,850 0 Corporations out of State, 1i stock owned, .1909.. .. .....1,250 4 Increase.. .... .......$ 600 1 Value bonds not exempt, 5 1909.... .... .... .....$ 950 Value bonds not exempt, 2 1910.................... 350 7 Decrease.. .. .. ........$ 600 Household goods, 1909..$ 355,455 8Household goods, 1910 293,140 4 Decrease.. .... .......$ 62,315 2Bank returns, 1910.. .....$ 379,750 1Banks returns, 1909.. .. ....289,725 7Increase.. .... .......$ 90,025 Penalty for non-return, 1909 $ 68,460 1Penalty for non-return, 1910 35,705 12 Decrease.. .... .......$ 32,755 r9 Special School Districts. L7 jDistrict No. 1, 6 mills, 1909 .$13,596.41 - I District No. 1, 6 mills, 1910. 13,370.00 Chappells, 2 mills, 1910....$ 441.62 Ohappells, 2 (mills, 1909.. .. 425.99 Increase........ .$ 15.63 Pomaria, 1-2 mill, 1910 .... $ 55.74 Pomaria, 1-2 mill, 1909.... 47.76 C Increase.. .. .. .... .... $ 7.98 Zion, 2 mills, 1909.... .. ..$ 71.55 t] Zion, 2 mills, 1910.. .. .... 68.70 s: Decrease.. .... .. $ 2.85 G Little Mountain, 4 1-2 mills, I 1910.. .. .. .. .. .. ..$ 612.41 h Little Mountain, 7 1-2 mills, h 1909.. ..........-.-.-.299.86 b Increase....... -.$ 312.55 ti Trinity, 2 mills, 1910. . .. .$ 114.53 v Whitmire, 4 mills, 1910.... $ 2,083.31 SWhitmire, 4 mills, 1909 .. 1,960.97 . . Increase .........$ 122.33 s Utopia, 2 mills, 1910......$ 145.87 1 I Utopia, 2 mills, 1909.. 144.20 t I - t Increase......... .$ 1.67 q Big Creek, 2 mills,.1909.. .$ 6.05 - Big Creek, 2 mills, 1910 .. 93.89 d Decrease........-.-..$ 2.16 - Johnstone, 3 mills, 1909.. ..$ 530.38 Prosperity, 4 1-4 mills, 1909.$ 1,394.26 Prosperity, 4 1-4 iplls, 1910. 1,268.82 I _ . Decrease..... .. .. -...$ 125.44 Excelsior, 2 mills. 1910 . .$ 202.58 d Excelsior, 2 mills, .209 .. 201.52 Increase.. ......-..-$ 1.06 "THEODORE GIFT OF GOD." Roosevelt So Introduced by Bishop at 3is$o1ary Ifeeting. Baltimore, Md., i4ov. i.-kor a feW hours today ex-President Roosevelt had a respite from the stress of the campaign. Turning from politics to missions, he stopped off at Baltimore on his way to Iowa to speak at a Methodist missionary meeting. Bishop Earl Cranston, of Washing ton, and Dr. Eugene A. Nobl., presi dent of Goucher college, an institution for woment, at this place, took the colonel in hand When he arrived in Baltimore from New York late this 1 afternoon. They took him -to Goucher I college, where he made a short ad- 1 dress to the students and faculty. f There was nothing about the even ing meeting to remind the colonel of the turbulent political rallies at which '1 he has been speaking in his own State. The meetir.g was ~held in connection with the annual gathering of the gen eral committee of the board of for eign missions of the Methodist Episco pal church, the first regular session of which Is to take place tomorrow. On the stage were bishops and leading laymen of the church and the audience was made up for the most part of Mthodists. The hall was crowded to the doors. Bishop Henry W. Warren introduc Ied the colonel as "Theodore, Gift of God, Roosevelt." "Although I am a member of the Dutch Reformed Church," said Roose velt, "I always feel at home among the Methodist, and there are times when my opponents say I talk like a Methodist lay preacher. I only wish I could .talk half so effectively." The colonel told of his visit to mis sions in Africa during his hunting trip and of the work which is being done tthere. As soon -as he finished his speech. Col. Roosevelt went to hi1s train and started for Davenport, Iowa. Her Lost Chance. Mrs.'B--I wonder why Miss Single ton refused the curate when lie pro posed to her?" Mrs. D-A11 a mistake, my dear, a sad mistake; you know she has grown a little deaf, and she did not suspect he was at all "gone" on her. She ac tually thought he was asking her to subscribe to the new organ fund, so he told him she was sorry, but she had promised all her money in anoth-1 er direction. Mrs. B--Then what happened? Mrs. D-The curata felt himself In she's lost the only chanoe she ever had.-London Telegraph. One Seat Necessary. "I see you have only one chair in one for you." "You needn't mind, ma'am. I have none but gentlemocn caflle"s."-Ruhm' HON. J. M. SULLIVAN IS DEAD. alroad Commissioner, Public-Spirit ed Man, Expires After Illness With Paralysis. olumbia Record, 2nd. Hon. James Mattison Sullivan of ie South Carolina railroad commis [on, died Wednesday morning at 9 'clock at his home in this city, 1830 ervais street, of paralysis, , with rhich he was stricken October 17. Er. Sullivan was 55 years old. He ad done faithful, intelligent service :r his city, his county and his State, nd throughout iis career had shown at his ideal of a public official's duty ras quite unusually high. The funeral will be held at 3 'clock Thursday afternoon in St. ohn's church (Methodist) at Ander on. The funeral party will leave Co umbia at 7.15 Thursday morning, raveling in a special car placed at hLe disposal of the family by the southern railway. The interment 1ill be at Silver Brook cemetery, An erson. Mr. Sullivan's home was at Lnderson until his removal a year go to Columbia. It bad been realized from the first hat Mr. Sullivan's Illness was ser >s. Hope of recovery was held, Lowever, and in the last two or three lays there had been some improve neut in his condition. Toward the ast he lapsed into unconsciousnesw. ;athered at the residence when th. ind came were Mrs. Sullivan, her els ers, the Misses Vanme and Jessie Du 3ose, of Atlanta; the Messrs. G. Cul en aulltvan, J. M. Sullivan, Jr., and rcob W. Sullivan, and Miss Alethea ;ullivan of Anderson; with the threo roungest obd1dren, Vence, Jessie and Ln .1iifait One of Mr. Sullivan'9 laughters, Mrs. Nind Sullivan Smath krs, wife of Dr. SmatheM, of Ander Pon, was ill and unable to come ie )olumbia. Two of Mr. Sullivan'E roters, the Messrs. N. B. and W. W )ullivan of Anderson, were here Sun lay, but bad gone home, believing he patient would recover. Law as to Succession., Mr. Sullivan's unexpired term will >e filled by a commissioner the ap ointment of whom is now devolved >y law upon Gov. M. F. Ansel. Mr. ullivan was elected four years agc id would have remained in office or two years and a:bout two months onger, the term being six years. The Pallbearers. The pallbearers, as announced here Tednesday, will be as follows: Active-John H. Earle, of -Green rille, railroad commisioner; Bank st,on L. Caughma, of Columbia, rail ad commissioner; T. B. Lumpkin, ol olumbia, clerk to t11he railroad comn nission; John K. Hood, of the An-ier ion bar; Dr. R. Frank Smith. of Eas ey; 3. S. Fowler, R. S. Ligon, Dr. B. L Henry, of Anderson. Honorary-J. Fraser Lyon of Colum yia, attorney generse. Wilie Jones; d olumbia, brigadier general, N. G 3. C.; W m'1; iitn, of .Abbeville, memn er of congress; G. McDuffie Hampton >f Columbia, Democratic nominee fox ailroad coimmissionei ; Geo. E. Prince >f Anderson, judge of the Tenth judi sial circuit; J. L. Sherard, mayor ol nderson; John R. Anderson, of An lerson, general manager Blue Ridge ailroad; R. B. Pegram, of Charleston tssistant general freight agent South ern railway. Sketch of His Life. Mr. James Mattison Sullivan was yorn at Anderson, September 8, 1855. le was a son of Captain N. K. and mily Sullivan. His father was orn >f the pioneer merchants of the Pied nont and a prominent business mar n Anderson, Pendleton, Walhalla and Eickens, and served with distinctior n Orr's regiment from the beginning the end of the War Between the sections. At the close of the war aptain Sullivan began business ir anderson and was so occupied at thE :me of his death, in 1881. Studied at Davidson. Mr. James M. Sullivan was educated .n the common schools of his nativE munty and was for several years a tudent of Prof. W. 3. Ligon, one oi :he most successful teachers of his iay. He also had the advantages 01 brief collegiate course at Davidsor milege, North Carolina, where, owing .o want of funds, he could not remxalr :o graduate. which vocation he pursued uninter ruptedly until 1897, when he retired, having built up and established, with his brothers, a large trade in hard ware and machinery. The firm, the Sullivan Hardware company, was rec ognized as one of the largest and most successful of its kind in the State. In Constitutional Convention. Mr. Sullivan held no public office until his election as a member of the constitutional convention in 1895. Representative and Senator. The following year he was elected to the house of representatives. He served one term in this body and in the succeeding election he was cho sen, without opposition, State sena tor, serving as such the full term of four years. Mayor of Anderson. He declined to allow the use of his name for reelection and was at once elected mayor of Anderson. He held this office for two consecutiva terms, retiring in August, 1906. He was an earnest adovcate of permanent street improvements, and under his leader ship an issue of bonds was made for the purpose of paving the public square and portions of the principal streets leading into it. For two years after retiring from the mayoralty, Mr. Sullivan was agent at Anderson for the Charleston & Western Carolina railroad. Railroad Commissioner. Less than a week previous to the opening of the State campaign In June, 1906, he announced himself a candidate for railroad commissioner in the Democratic primary. Although the fifth and last mn to enter the race, Mr. sulliva was nomin1ated by al handsome majority and subsequently elected, and has served as a member of the commissi9 up to the present, time. A Loyal Public Servant. Mr. Sullivan was always recognized as a public-spirited citizen, one who stood ready to give material aid in every enterprise for the adavncement of his State and country. Besides ap plying close attention to his own af fairs, he has givea much of his time to other duties, 1R was a director of the Fank of Andersoti, the Aadersoa Water, Light and Power company, and was interested in almost all the enter prises in Anderson. For more than ten years he was president of the An derson chamber of commerce. He was among the foremost citizens in establishing the present school sys tem of that city. His Family. Mr. Sullivan was married, May 16, 1877, to Miss Mary A.' Wan.namaker, of Orangeburg, who -died some years ago, leaving five cildren. They are: Major G. Cu4len Sullivan, of the An de'son bar; Messrs. James MI. Sulli van and Jacob Wannamnaker Sullivan, both engaged in the mercantile busi ness at Anderson; 'Mrs. Nina Sullivan Smathers, of Anderson, and Miss Ale thea Sullivan, of Anderson. Mr. Sul livan's second marriage was to Miss Harriet DuBose, of Atlanta, who sur vives him, with three children, the oldest, a daughter, Jessie; the second a son, Vance; the third an Infant. The family residence was removed to Co lumbia in September, 1909. The Sul livan home at Anderson is one of the handsomest mrsions in that city. Sinking Money. While there is no perfect safety for life or property in this world, the measures adopted by the Bank of England to proteict its 4'easure against the depredations of robbers, exhibit almost the limit of human in genuity. Its outer doors are now. so finely balanced that a clerk, by pressing a' knob under his desk, can close them Instantly, and they can not be opened again except by a special mechanism. The bullion - department of this great British banking institution is nightly submerged in several feet of water by the action of machinery. In some of the London banks the bul lion .departments are connected with the manager's sleeping rooms, and an entrance can not be effected without setting off an alarm near this person's bead. If. in the Bank of England, a dis honest officer during the day or night should take even one from a pile of 1,000 sovereigns the whole pile would instantly sink p'd a pool of water A Correspondent Suggests n== to Secure Some Good Roads. Editor Herald and News: The writer has what he think is a splendid schema to get the roads' put in Al condition, based on the principle of, if you want a thing done, make it to some ona's interest and it will be "an fait accomplii," interest In a direct pecuniary way, devoid of all reference to patriotism, civic pride, etc. Let a man see that the result of his ef forts will be immediate and satisfy Ing, and he will be pretty apt to ba found doing his very best. There is another,future about this plan of the writer that will be referred to later. Now for the plan: Let a committee 4P appointed by the good roads com mittee of the chamber of commerce to see each merchant, lawyer, doctor, and all other public spirited citizens, with a properly drawn up paper, suit ably worded, for their signature, stat ing the amount they will subscribe towards this plan, viz: for the best section of road worked by an overseer. Something of value, say a fine dise harrow, or anything of like value that would be appropriate, and useful to a farmer. Foil the second best section of road a Dixie boy plow; or should the sub scriptions be very liberal, and the writer believe they will, there might be three prizes. A flue buggy and harness, or buggy without the bar ness, depending on the amount sub scribed,, might be given as a irst PrIze, and the disc harrow and D#ie boy plow as second and third, respectively. Now, sir, don't you agree with A writer that with this plan, there wgjji be "something doing." WbZ sir, lifeve that an ovefseef Would SOt 04 only warn out those on is sectol liable to road duty, but he would& see that I#ohfter d4d his ehard of oW or paid his rftd tam, and with et money hire hands, and would after every rain W-itch his mules to one o more split log drags, tnd go over his section, and in. various other ways strive with all his might to win one of these prizes, and should these be enough difference In their value, he would strive for the best, thereby gi. Ing us bettef roads. Why, sir, the writer believes that the rattling of some of those old dry -- bones of overseers would be heard aI. over the county. He knows' of mere than one section of road that has not even had an overseer for two years. The people living along these roads' would be falling over each other'-try lg to get themselves appointed as overseer. This plan Is being used largely out West, and.the roads are looking more like boulevards ad would mke some of our Newberry streets look -like-language fails mes. Mack Adamn. PEANUTS INSTEAD OF COTTON. Peanut Oil Sold in Europe at Higher Price Than Olive' OIL New Orlea'ns, Nov., 2.--Will die goober conquer the boll weevil? And will the cotton mills of the weevil ridden belt be turned into peanut oil manufactories? Judge L. M. Pipkin, of San Anto no, Texas, the owner of a large plan taton in St. James Parish, Louis lana, answers both questions affirma tively, Judge Pipkin, who arrived here last night, declares that peamut production is the salvation of the bot ton planters who suffer from the ray ages of the boll weevil. He says the 'hilly lande infected with the weevil will yield, per acre, from 20 to 65 busels of peanuts, valued at $1 per bushels of peanuts, valued at $1 per easily disposed of at frem $12 to $15 a ton. He says these 'lands will not yield more than $20 to the acre in oeta Judge Pipkin stated that peanut odl Is sold principally in Europe for a better price than alive oil, and that the peanut oil cake is an excelleat stock food. "Many cotton mills In the boll wee vil district," he said, "are converting their plants into peanut mills, where the oil and meal are manufactured.' A feature in connection with te p~eanut Industry which the .judge said must not 'be overlooked, is the fact that three years' cultur of pe anuts in