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VOLUME LI., NUMBER 63. NEWBERRY, S. C*, FRIDAY, AUGUST S, 1913. TWICE A WEEK, $1.50 A YEAB.
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ANSWER IS MADE BY j
COMPTROLLER GENERAL
KEJOLNDER TO ATTORNEY GOT"?
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JLKAJL rttrLi.^.
Invites Attorney General to TaVe Disputed
Warrant Before Board of
Claims.
The State, 5th.
A. W.Jones, comptroller general,
yesterday addressed to Thos. H.
Peeples, attorney general, the following
letter, in reference to the comptroller's
refusal to approve a warrant
. -drawn by Mr. Peeples for expense incurred
in entertaining the National
Association of attorneys general in
Charleston:
"Absence from the office on official
business has prevented an earlier reply
to your letter of July 26 with reference
to your claim for expenses of
entertaining the convention of attorneys
general in Charleston.
"I can not return this original
claim, as it is now a record of this
nffippt If vou wish copy of the same
I will have one made for you.
"My reason for declining to draw
a warrant for the claim as preserved
is that the appropriation does not provide
for the payment of the expenses
for entertaining this convention, hut
only for the payment of your acr.ual
expenses in attending the convention."
"You quote my statement that the
expenditure of the appropriation is
within your discretion, and I so recognize,
but you did not quote me in
full. It is a legal discretion, wliicb
<loes not authorize the diversion of
\ the appropriation to other purposes
than those ior wnicn 11 is maue. x
also am a constitutional and bonded
officer of the State and responsible
to the people for any diversion of public
funds which I may knowingly permit
Before issuing my warrant i
mj^t be able to put my hand upon
an act of the legislature specifically
directing the payment of the .fund in
question. If such an act does exist
and has been ignored by me, the i
claimant has his remedy in the courts |
and may obtain a writ of mandamus j
to compel my compliance with the j
law.
"V/-?n S9V vnu rin not know that 11
?ave the right to question any warrant
that you may draw and present
to me for payment. If you desire enlightenment
on that subject, you can
probably obtain it from the courts or
from your own examination into tb-e
statutes. I have nothing whatever to
do with the question whether or not
it was proper for the legislature to
provide for the entertainment of this
convention or whether it was desirable
that they should do so; nor am I to%be
effected in the performance of my
duty by the advice and wishes of the
hospitable people of Charleston. Before
I can pay for the entertainment
of the convention, the legislature
musi so direct.
"C note you state you will have the
<;laim .discounted at one of the banks
and present it to the next legislature
for payment. This is a matter with
which I have no concern whatever,
but I desire to call your attention * to
the act creating the board of claims
(28 Statutes, p. 199), and if-you will
allow me, I would suggest that you
submit the claim to that board, of
-which you, the secretary of State and
myself are members. The intention
Of tfi.6 legislature 111 ci eaiuis |
"board was to have these claims examined
into and reported upon be-j
fore their meeting and the report of j
th*j board is to be submitted to thej
ways and means committee of the
house of representatives ten days be\
fo:e the convening of that body."
\ TO APPLY FOR BAIL
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!)(*mi nick Brothers Will Make Application
August 8.
Saluda, Aug. 6?Application for j
Tnil' on behalf of 0. L. and E. L. Dom- I
inick, who are chafged with killing
Phil W. Perry in this county on July
23. will be made by their counsel at
Laurens before Associate Justice
Watts cm August 8. At this hearing
the State will be represented by Solicitor
George Bell Timmerman of the
eleventh circuit and B. W. Crouch of
this bar.
Newberry Sup'vsr. Sends Resignation
Columbia Record, oth.
The govprror today received the
resignation of \Y. A Hill as supervisor
for Newberry county to take
effect .August 15. Mr. Hill was recently
appointc-d prsfmaster for Newberry.
His successor will be appointed
by the governor within the next
few days.
THE SEWS OF EXCELSIOR. |
Bridge Washed Away?Annual Pic-;
nic at Pilerim?Key. Anderson
Preaching.?Good Rains.
Excelsior Aug., 4.?We had a .heavy
rain and wind storm in this section
Thursdav nieht doins some damage to
the crops.
Mr. E. M. Cook spent Thursday at
Bradley on business.
Mr. J. H. Werts ana family, spent
Friday with the Rev. Z. W. Bedenbaugu's
family.
Mr. Luther Wheeler-has been on a.
visit to his brother, Mr. J. F. Whee?er.
Prof. Eddie Werts, of Memphis,
Tenn., &as been spending a few days
with Mr. T. L. Wheeler's family.
i\t!ee Toc?io T.nriok is visitins rela
tives in Columbia.
Dr. R. C. Kibler has been spendi
ing several days with relatives at
Old Town.
Mr. R. C. Counts and family of Columbia,
came up Saturday to spend
a few days with their friends in this
section.
Rev. Jas. D. Kinard and family, of
Greenwood, after spending a few
days with 'her father's family at
Peak stopped over here on their return
home to visit his brother, Mr. H.
J. Kinard and wife.
The annual Sunday school picnic
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of Mt. Pllrgim church will De neia
on Wednesday, August 13th. Tiiere
will be speaking and good singing by
the school along with one or two other
addresses. The public is cord-.aliy
invited to come and bring well filled
baskets and spend a pleasant day together.
The Rev. W. R. Anderson, of Laurens,
stopped over in this section for
a few hours on Monday while on his
way home from Blairs, where he
preached on Sunday. Mr. Anderson
promised to come again soon and
spend a few days and preach for us
v.qt-0 \fr Anderson is a arood speaker
j and 'has many friends in this section
who are always glad to see him.
i Mr. and Mrs. Aumerle Lorick, of
j Irmo, have been up spending a few
I v*. with his father's family, Mr. J.
i D. Lorick.
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| The bridge on tie public road near
I Excelsior school house that Supervisor
Hill recently removed and filled
in with a three foot piping w'&s
completely washed out by the rain on
Thursday night, making it unpassable
for traveling. The washout made it
j very inconvenient lor persons gums iu i
the Little Mountain reunion on Frii
day as theyOiad to drive some distance
to get around. Mr. Hill did
a nice piece of work but it will require
two piping to carry the water
in place of one. This should be fixf
ed at once.
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LEYER MAY RU> FOR SENATE.
Congressman from Senrentb District
Seriously Considering' Hatter.
News and Courier.
Columbia, August t>.?congressman
A. F. Lever, who made an addr^
here this afternoon before the conference
for the common good on "A
National Program for the Development
of A merican Agriculture," has
^een the centre of interest' Scores
of people have Ir^en ask'ng if he intended
entering the race for the United
States senate next year against
I Senator Smith and Governor
Blease. When approached about
! tae mater late this afternoon
Congressman Lever, with that inscrutable
Lever smile, would admit nothing
further than that he was serious/
lv considering the matter. Congressman
Lever's room at the .Jefferson
Hotel was thronged with visitors aJl
""J if ic L-nnvvri thnr I
tne aiternuuii emu it xo
many men from different parts of
the State urged him to enter the senatorial
race, and that he received many
fiattering proffers of support. Many
from different counties called at. his j
I room and" cifered to back him if he!
would go into the race, but beyond j
! the statement that he was seriously
i considering the whole matter, he
j would not commit himself.
j Mr. Lever left for his home in Lexi
ington county to spend tonight. He
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returns here tomorow for the conference
of the common good and will
leave for aWihotnngs
leave for Washington tomorrow night.
He is confident that the currency om i
will pass and does not +hink congress
will finish up until late in the fall. He
is enthusiastic over the national administration
and pleased with the
prosperity which the country is enjoying.
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HOW CATTLE TICK
HURTS THE SOUTH
DANGER TO HIDES WORTH CONSIDERING.
Eradication of Pest AVould Bring Its |
Own Reward and That Very
Soon.
"Washington, Aug. 5.?According to
figures gathered by one of the veterinary
inspectors of the bureau of
animal industry, the presence of the
tick among the cattle of ilic South
net only lessens the value of the cattle
on the hoof but causes the grading
of hides that have been infested
with ticks as No. 4 quality.
The same hide, if free from tick
inark^, would be grade No. 2. The
difference in price between these two
grades (/ : hides is 3 cents a pouud.
as the hide of Southern steers weighs
nbout 42 jotnds, the pres2nc;- of the
tick in the hide causes a loss in the
l.ide alcne more t.han ?1."<? por hide.
Government specialists poait out that
the cost c.1 tick eradica:-)i is only
about --J Ct-D-ts per head so t - a: if
the counties make a systematic campaign
to '.radicate the tivjk. the increase
"in value of the hirlc alone
would ray I'oi the cost of tick eradication
zrA leave the farmer a net
cost of about. 76 cents per hide.
The hide situation is becoming
rather serioits. A prominent tanner in
Pennsylvania states. ^
"For the class of leather we makewe
prefer Southern hides for chrome
on account of the close texture and
fine grain, but on account of/the ticks
we have had to practically stop purchasing
Southern hides."
This is particularly significant as
the demand for chrome leather is increasing
so that the normal demand
for Southern hides will be still further
decreased.
A large percentage of the chrome
leather now produced is finished with
the grain left on so that all imperfections
and tick marks on the grain
side show very plainly. In the old
days when all the leather for upi ?rs
was made from bark-tanned stock,
all leather was buffed and the grain
was removed. For this leather tanners
could use clean hides that were
covered with imperfections and tic*
marks and make fairly good leather.
The situation today, as it. has been
explained is very different as the public
is demanding more and moro
grained leathers for which large proportions
of Southern hides will not
be available until the tick is eradicated.
Tennessee will probably be the first
State to be entirely free from quarantine
for ticks. It already has eradicated
the tick in 51 counties and all
that now remain under quarantine are
parts of Marion, Wayne, Hardeman,
McNairy and Decatur counties and
all of Hardin, Henderson and Chester
counties. It is hoped that by September
I*these counties will be free from
ticks , and the entire State out of
quarantine.
According to the specialists of the
department of agriculture, it has cost
less than 50 cents; per head to eradicate
the tick in Tennessee and the
cattle owners as a result have gained
not less than $7 per head, thus
adding to the value of their stock.
There are some 500,000 cattle in the
Counties already free from ticks and
the immediate benefit to these owners j
has been not less than $3,500,000. The j
cost of tick eradication has been only
$250,000 so th&t the investment paid
for itself nearly 14 times over in a
very short time. This does not include
the additional nrofits which come
from the fact that now that the tick
is eradicated more cattle can be raised
on each farm and that the cultivated
fields are made more productive by
the increase of the amount of fertilizer
row available.
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Death of a Young' (Jirl.
Pear! Eoiine. daughter of Mr. and
.Mrs. J. W. Pitts, died Wednesday
midnight of congestion, after one day's
illness, and was buried at Trinity
church grave yard Friday morr.ing
at 11 o'clock, service by the Rev 0.
A TQff^r?ot Qho iv5is ninp vpnr-5 nlfl.
This sudden bereavement to the family
in the loss of a sweet and innocent
little girl at such a bright and
^promising time of life is felt bv the
community, and deep is the sympathy
of all for the sorely afflicted
parents in the hour of their distress.
Mahon Smith and Will Meadows accompanied
the bride and groom to
Prosperity in the automobile Wednesday
night. The car was driven
! by Mr. J. C. Sample.
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GOING 10 THE SENATE
SAYS GOVERNOR BLEASE
DENIES ROIOR THAT HE SEEKS
3d TERM AS GOVERNOR.
States Positively That He Will Be
in the Race for U. S. Senate
Next Summer.
Columbia, August 6?Governor
Cole. L. Blease, when asked this
morning for a statement in regard to
the Washington dispatch in The News
and Courier to the effect that it is
rumored that Governor Blease will
seek a third term as governor instead
of entering the race for the United
States senate, said:
"I have seen the article in this
morning's News land Courier. It is
only another one of the many newspaper
lies that are now being, and
have been *)r some time past, sent
out from Washington trying to save
somebody from defeat. The statement
that 'a considerable proportion of
South Carolina voters who are supporters
of Blease for the governorship
have said that they will vote for
Smith for re-election to the senate. |
is a lie out of the whole cloth, and i
and this man cannot substantiate this j
statement by giving names. I have i
seventy-five thousand friends in ;
South Carolina who will vote for me j
for the governorship or for the 1
United States senate against anybody, j
I am stronger with the people than I !
have ever been, as is evidenced wher- j
ever I speak.
"The statement contained in saia
article, 'By the time Senator Smith's
present term is over most of the small >
amount of patronage that comes to
the junior South Carolina senator by
'reason of the change in administration
at Washington will have been
distributed,' certainly places Senator
Smith's candidacy for a second term
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upon a very low plane, which I hardly
think will meet his approval. I am
erfins: to the senate to represent allJ
o W - of
the people of my State and benefit I
each of them by helping to enact good. j
sound, honest laws, and am not going ,
there to represent only a few federal
pap-suckers, whom I might be able to
place at the milk counter.
"K. P. M. will have to invent a new
one. This one will not go down.
"I will be a candidate for the Unit- :
ed States senate in 1914, and I shall ;
win, regardless of who or how many |
may be in the race. They laughed ;
summer when I said I would be j
re-elected governor. I* am still on
the job, and I will be elected to the
United States senate in 1914, despite
the liars." ' j
Blease to Seek Third Term?
News and Courier.
Washington, August 5.?South Car- I
olinians who have recently been in
Washington have mentioned a rumor
which they say has been discussed invarious
parts of oeir Sr:Ue, to the effect
that it has been suggested to
Governor Blease by some of his j
friends that instead of running for j
the senate next year :he seek a third j
term as governor. - .
' In support of this advice, according
to the story, it is urged that there
are a great many more people in the
State who are aggressively interested
in keeping Blease in the gubernatorial
chair than are interested in
sending/him to the senate. By > the |
time Senator Smith's present term is
over most of the small amount of
patronage that comes to the junior
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Soutn Carolina senaun ijv i ca.-juii v/i.
the change in administration at Wasi> j
ington will have been distributed; and j
it is hardly necessary to remark that,
a senator cannot grant pardons or
cut off the heads of State officers.
Precedent in South Carolina is J
against more than t\vo successive
I terms in the governorship, but it is 1
noted that precedents have never had j
muc'.i weight with Governor Blease.!
and that they do not affect his follow- :
ing. On the other hand, it is said, j
that a considerable proportion of i
j South Carolina voters who are supj
porters of Blease for the governorship
have said that they will vote for
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smitn xur rc"ciutuuii iu
on the ground that he has been active
and energetic, particularly in behalf
of the farmers and that he* deserves
to be encouraged.
1A good deal of interest is felt here
as to what Governor Blease will "have
to say about the rumor that he is
thinking about running again for
governor and undertaking to get a
legislature in complete sympathy
with his policies.
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<S> THE IDLEIL $
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It has been so hot that I just
couldn't write or think, and I 'hope
the readers of The Herald and News
will excuse my absence from the
columns of the paper. And then, maybe,
there are some who would just
as soon that I should not write any
more any way. However that may
be, I want to tell you, lest you forget;
Friend street sidewalk has
has been paved all the way
to the depot and nice paved
crossings have been made at the depot,
and the street in front of the
postoffice has been nicely fixed.
Now if Mr." Mayor Wright ^will just
go on taking my advice, and fix the
street that leads up to his handsome
residence from the frostoffice, it will
begin to look like the old town is going
to wake up.
And lest you forget, let me tell you
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suiuttuuiig eise. iue syeeu urumauuc
has been decreased from six miles the
hour to twelves miles the hour, as
the Observer put it, and they teH me
they are really enforcing the ordi- j
nance?especially in the suburbs of
the city?and it wont be long before
they reach the main thoroughfares in
its enforcement, if the good work
goes on. Let everybody keep to
tb^ right now, and there will be some
safety in driving and walking the.
streets. And don't forget to sound
the gong as the law requires. And
they are holding down the motorcycles
as well. It 'is. a pity that you have to
have laws to make people respect the |
rights of others, .but it seems that ]
human nature is so constructed that'
it is necessary, and so long as It is,
it is just as well to have them, if
you are going to enforce them, but if
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not, wipe thenK off the books. Some,
fellow has handed me the following. I
reckon he is a little sore, but that is
all right if this ordinance doesn't
go uip in a spurt?is that a good word?
?like the dog muzzling ordinance:
s "Whether 'tis better to bide behind
a tree out College street, to try to
catch automobiles speeding, or to
bang around Main street, where the
traffic is heavy and the danger is
greatest, does not seem to be the
question in Newberry. For soiae
times, at least?hardly good English,
but expressive?a policeman gets, behind
an oak in College street, out towards
the fcollege, when, alaslMain
street is sadly unguarded."
That reminds me that there is a
law requiring all dogs to be muzzled.
And they tell me that dog days began
a few days ago. I don't know much
about that, as I never could keep up
with all these things, but I read in
the paper the other day where more
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than three hunarea aogs iieiius uLa.u j
been sent to the Pasteur institute in
Columbia this year, and dog days had
not yet begun. And all these heads
showed signs of rabies. Don't you
laink, Mr. Mayor Wright, that it is
time for you to begin to enforce the
dog muzzling ordinance, or repeal it?
Yoif would feel bad if some poor child
should be bitten by some worthless'
cur snd die from the effects of the
bite. Or for that matter, if it was
bitten >y some fine bull dogt or fice
or whatever name called. I know that"
one can become very much attached to
a dog?by whatever name^called, even
an old hound dog?tout is a dog to be
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compared 10 the life 01 a Human ucing,
and the suffering and pain and
.'igony which may result from the biting
of some child by some dog. I
trow not. Then enforce or repeal the j
ordinance. Tie reason 1 put it that j
way is if you rpeal it, then we are put I
on notice to defend ourselves, and will j
rot depend on protection from the
police and the law. I don't get around
the streets very much, but I am
sure if you will walk out on the i
square most any day you will see a
number of dogs running at large.
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r <see from the papers that the civic
association lias arranged playgrounds
at the two public school buildings.
This is very nice, but I cannot helD
thinking how much more good for the j
children and the people ot the community
could have been dona if the
ladies of the civic association had
just taken up that park proposition
of mine and pushed it to success, as^
t'hey could have done. And I told
them time and again that they could
(have all the credit?that The Idler
got his satisfaction from the doing of
things and not fron^ what may be
written in marble or the praise of
mere men. Then we could have had
playgrounds and a keeper. I suppose
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CONFERENCE FOR THE
COMMON GOOD OPENS
CONGRESSMAN LEVER AND EDITOR
POE HEARD BY MANY
Prominent Xen and lVomen of State
Meet in Columbia to Take Part
in Epoch-Making Gathering.
(Columbia, August 6.?Prominent
men and women of South Carolina
gathered here this afternoon in large
f numbers to open a two days' session
of a "conference for the common
good.', Presided over by W. K. Tate,
State supervsor of rural schools, as
president; the initial sesion presaged
the deep and lasting interest which
this conference is to have on the people
of South Carolina. There is encouragemeut
10 look for larger attend
| ance and added interest at to-mor'
row's meeting. |
I "Co-Dperation for Rural Develop!
mont" was the general topic of tlie
I opening session this afternoon. F0I7
lowing the outlining of the general
i purposes of the conference by President
Ttate, "A Message to commonwealth
Builders was brough.
to the conference by Clarence
Poe, of Raleigh, N. C., editor
of the Progressive farmer.
This was followed by a talk from the
Rev. W. H. Mills, of Clemson college,
on "The Part of the Church in Rural
Development." A. F. Lever, congressman
from the 7th district and chairman
of the house committee on agriculture,
delivered a a impressive dis
course on the subject, "A National
Program for the development of
American Agriculture." There was
discussions *on all these topics.
Death of an Infant
The_4-mpnths..old son of Mf. and
Mrs. Ellis McCollum, of West End,died
Tuesday night of cholera infantum
and was buried at West End Wednesday
afternoon at 4 o'clock, service by
I the Rev. A. M. Gardner. v ?
Death of Miss Boazman.
| Miss Mamie Boazman. daughter of
| Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Boazman,_of Chappells,
died at her home Wednesday
midnight, after a lingering illness,
Murine which she had been taken to
the hospital. She was 30 years old. ~
The burial took place Thursday afafternoon
at 4.30 o'clock, in the old
family burying ground near the home.
The suffering of the sick one is ovep
with, and while she is at rest, we
can but sympathize with the living
at the loss of a loving one.
of course, there will be a keeper and
care taker for each of the grounds
and that will cost more than if it had
all been connected with the park. But
it all suits me and I am glad to see
anything doing because it is better to
do and live than to stagnate and die.
I am told that at the playgrounds in
Columbia and" wherever they have
playgrounds it is found necessary to
have a director and caretaker. The.ie
little playgrounds will be a step towards
the park. Let every one give
encouragement to the work of the
good women. They want to do something,
It is mighty hard to do so
without the aid and cooperation of
the men.
Cooperation is the need of this day
need the pull-together spirit to be
developed. If we could just make
the people see and realize how much
lighter the load would be sometimes
I think there migfnt be a chance to
get them together. It is a hard job.
I use to hear that if you would keep
dropping water on a stone that it
would make an impression after
awhile. I am going to keep on trying
and hoping.
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There is to be a conference in Columbia
this- week for the commor
good. That sounds mighty fine. I
suppose that means for the good of
everybody. They have some good
subjects and some good men. assigned
to discuss them. Talk is good in its
place but the common good needs
something more than talk. The people
must be made to see. Talk can
help in that work. Any 'how I wish
I could attend this conference and
hear what these good people have to
say, so that I could come back and
-help some one else and keep on x
spreading the good work. l - nope
there will be a number of men and
women present at this conference
from Newberry. It may be that some
one there will tell the people bow to
get together and the advantages of
cooperation.
^ " The Idler*
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