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Ipe ||eraii! skD gem' i?r?'red at the Postoftie-. 5 C. as 2*vi class matter. H. Vv.TLL, EDITOR Friday, February 20, 1914. AS TO SMALL POX. It is not the purpose of The Herald and News to have any controversy with the newspapers at Laurens, or with the good people of Laurens, in regard to the small pox situation. The facts were stated in the last issue of The Herald and News, and as we stated at 'he time we do not consider that the small pox situation is any more alarming in Xewberry than in almost any other section of the State. It was also stated that the opinion prevailed that one of the reasons moving Laurens to quarantine was to get out .of the contract for the carnival i rather than on account of any small pox situation in Xewberry. The Laurens Advertiser says: "While the I people of Laurens are quite ready to I ortmit tho pnmin? of fhp p.nrnival i was a very determining factor in the decision to quarntine against Newberry,'" which is practically an admission that the statement is correct that the moving motion in quarantining was to get out of the contract for the carnival. It is true that the Advertiser adds. "It is probable that it would have been ordered anyway after conditions as do exist were brought to light." The Advertiser takes pleasure in quoting wlhat Dr. Cromer had to say in the Observer, and adds, "If such a sensible man as Dr. Cromer thinks the situation is threatening, surely Laurens had a right to protect herself against it.'" We have no criticism to make of Dr. Cromer, but we will venture to say that Dr. Cromer, as a cit izen of Newberry, should have found out from the board of health what the condition was before writing the few paragraphs that he did which do intimate that the situation was serious. Tii-e beard of health stated last week that there were only 14 cases | in the entire town and that all of these cases were under strict quarantine and that there had been no deaths in thp tnwn and that-thp msm nrvw hprp were about ready to be discharged. The rumor that went out from Laurens was that there were 400 cases, which would indicate, of course, an epidemic, and such a statement to be published throughout the State is calculated to do injury to the town in a business way. In fact we are told1 that some of the delegates that were td come here this week to the Students' Volunteer convention have devcided not to come on account of the extravagant reports on small pox which have been published. We repeat again, there' is no epidemic and m proportion there are no more cases of small pox in Newthan in many other sections of the State, and that the extravagant report sent out from Laurens, and the quarantine nlaced asainst Newberry. Gave been an injustice to the town and real injury has been the result. We have asked the board of health to make an official statement as to the condition. The number of deaths in automobile accidents is becoming appalling. Speed mania is taking a fearful toll. This session of the legislature seems to have developed very few candidates for State offices other than those already announced. Possibly it wa6 because there were already so many in the running. With small pox as prevalent all over the State as it is and has been, the people of Newberry were verymuch surprised at the quarantine established by the city of Laurens. We feel that the action of our neighboring city has done Xewbery an injus tice. Governor Blease continues to send the able-bodied convicts back to the chain gangs of the counties in which they were convicted, to work upon the public roads. He is carrying out the notice tv.at h > has given. th.:t :'u- St.;i" a migh; as well soli its farms, because 1 1 i he is going to put the convicts on the ^ roads. T.lore than 40 have been sent < u back to the counties within the last , r , , r ihree days. j j .op. There have been few measures in j i he general assembly of this State in ! | k recent years w hich has provoked so : ^ much comment and discussion as the ^ t Pnrtnpr bill to nrohibit the teaching v of white persons in negro schools, j c The Herald and News, in this matter, j ^ as in all matters connected with the ^ a legislature, has been keeping its readi d ers posted, giving them .the news as n it sees the news, without regard to anything except the desire to do our t1 duty as a newspaper. a A dispatch from Spartanburg, j published in the News and j J Courier, says to at letters have j 'been published in Spartanburg I frcm Senator Tillman praising r/Mtorrpcsmpn Johnson highly, and w saying that Senator Tillman would G regard it as a calamity for the people 'of Congressman Johnson's district not . e] to return him to congress. Without reference to the merits of the race in tl Congressman Johnson's district, we j had thought that Senator Tillman1 would have learned by this time that ^ the people of South Carolina are able P* ! ir tn hptwpen candidates for of- i I ft' fice without dictation, and that they h: resent dictation or attempted dictation j c< \V from any one. We are informed that Supervisor Patterson, of Richland county, is push- j g. ing forward the work of improving j his part of the Xewberry-Columbia . "w road, and that he says he is going to j make a good road. We are glad the |, Richland supervisor has determined j m to do this work, and to make his part j C? of the road first-class. As The Herald i 01 and News has preached for many j n] years, the question of "good roads is ^ one of the most vital before the peo- ^ pie of this State, and one of the most ^ important roads passing through New- se berry county is the road leading from capital city, to the upper part of the State. And it is not only important to Newberry, but to Columbia and all ei the points along the line. We hope a t the Richland supervisor will make a a( real road. w m||, ce <s> . <e> YARIOUS ASD ALL ABOUT. <S> n< <s> <? N <S> Comments and Clipping- by tlie ^ <?> Local Beporter. <$> <$> > at Sc Somehow we should not believe that w President Wilson intended to keep Wr. ki M. A. Carlisle in prison, and we feel N that he has done the right thing in lc turning the old gentleman out.?Yorkville Enquirer. * * ? ? Wonder if Chief Duncan lhas seen this: "The colored man who now go- 111 es to the express office ("Newbern, s* * - ?.:n u * i\. \y.) aner wiiisney win ue immcu- j iately arrested and taken before the i ^ mayor to be tried for vagrancy." 11 01 -tl Mr. Homer Hill and Miss Florence Goodwin, just over the line in Newberry county, were married a few days ago.?Cross Hill Cor. Laurens Adver- ^ tiser, lSlh. So another two persons have made li a couple to cross "just over the line," j ti: of the State of matrimony from the if county of "Singledom." Jumped from m singledom to doubledqm. in ? ? H Doggone a ground hog, anyhow!? b< Anderson Mail. in 'Patience, it is working out all right, tli * * The ground hog has at least prov- | ed that he is a good judge of shad- vi ows.;?-Greenwood Journal. si \Tnv hie chnrlnw r\&v&r prnw 1p<?s S? * * * | la The community has become inter- J ested in good roads. The people have gone to work to change the Sandy te Ford road, trying to get around the Cl hills.?Tylesville Cor. Laurens Adver- w tiser. "I This pleasant reading for Newberry s* neople who like to (and sometimes do) go to Laurens and visit in the Tylers ille section. That is good work they j rc ire doing, but that was bad work the j m Mty did in keeping Newberry people ! away from Laurens. We will never | get over it. 31 ? te We had a nice snow which we hope 111 will be helpful to the lands, grain and to promise to a good fruit crop.? . 'ylersviile Ccr. Laurens Advertiser, . Juii. ,1 That is a hopeful, helpful, cheerful, : ! nic-efuP little paragraph, full of op- : < iraism. Good grain and fruit crops 1 tromised. God enough. Hope by that < ime all the smallpox will be gone. j i * * ( When you met a fellow and for no ; :nown reason in the w.-iid he refuses ] o acknowledge your friendly salutaion, put It down that he has either j tad a row at home or his liver is j ^ iut of order. When a man leaves, ^ ome on a morning feeling well and I. lappy he is bound to show it. This j pplies to woman also. Thev are not1. i hvays so preoccupied that they can- j ot recognize people. I * ? ? P il Laurens has succeeded in making he State be'ieve that Newberry is a ot bed of smallpoxism. 'Take it j way." j t The ground hog is vindicated.? r ohnston News Monitor Never before in all your life have t ou heard so much about him. ib * * * *j Well, we haven't any complaint to n lake about the weather. Candidate n r? An 11 rl In Arr nr a^f /mi ta + a \t i a a f/>! I UUUU-IIUq UUi \UIC. MC 1C1 >w.?Anderson Intelligencer. n Regardless of anybody or anything u Ise, we state that at this writing looks like spring, but tomorrow may irn up in a different direction. * * * s. It will make anybody laugh to hear ^ Sid Kohn relate a bit of his exsrience with a well known and prom s lent Xewberrv citizen. The reporter its him to tell it every time he sees im. It wouldn't be quite so funny :>ming from anyone else, but it is v I p orth bearing as told by Mr. Kohn. , ? * * I Messrs Gassaway Grant and Bennie a cMahan went to Gregg Shoals last abbath.?Abbeville Medium, 17th. I Messrs Gassaway Blank and Gassa- j( av Blanker remained in the citv last n Lin day. * * ! f: Mr. Leslie, of the Arcade Amuse-! en. company: Wish you would itch a common house fly and run it1 i the lens of your motion picture ^ :achine. You recollect how a fly 0 oked from the films in Pittsburg i a., a week or two ago. It looked a ke "a monster with legs like the 11 mbs of a big tree eves as big as ' tucers and a hugh body covered witu s air t'bat looked like standing wheat." 0 * * * We have information to the effect tat many of the good people of Lauris do not uphold the quarantine ^ o gainst Newberry. It is 'generally iknowledged now that it was spite ^ ork on the part of a few to keep th? t1. nival out. ig 111 Laurens could lift that quarantine r dw, as the carnival has gone froni!a ewberry. *** There are 21 road drags at Gaffney,, v icording to the paper Gaffney Ledger ip lys: "If we had our way about it we n ould put the 21 road drags in Cnero-10 Be to work the balance of the week." i ewberry, look at Gaffney. Gaffney, iok at Newberry. (j * * ti "From Rail Splitter to President" j -Line in Exchange. IFrom preacher to news butcher is. n earer home. !? i f * * * i i There is some difference between a | f. ackage of liquor and a bundle of 1 ghtwood kindling in a grip, as found i at by a policeman in bis "search for j le liquor." ! b * * * i. 1; The Atlanta Journal calls the bird f| Georgia's ete'nal mystery, the bel3ed izzard." If we are not mistaken the : . ling was heard first in South Caro- c na. But there may have been more tj tan one belled buzzard at that tin/?. CI there has been only one it is a jj ighty old bird by this time as people l Georgia heard it before the war. i v. ow old can a buzzard (belled or un- i i jlled) get to be? P. S. Since read- j ig the Journal we are convinced n tere is more than one of the kind. p *** ir A young lady of Laurens was a n sitor in Newberry last week. While R le was here Laurens quarantined it- j ?lf against Newberry. The young, dy wished to return home as her |. m o n'oc limifoH OVi^ * I .'UU nuuibu. VJUC t'JUiUll L gU L.U I aurens from Newberry under the 0 Tins of the quarantine. She went to | olumbia one day and the next day j ent on through to Laurens from that, joint of vantage." Now wasn't that ick. ' u: If you want to go tr. Laurens "real d id" can't you go to Alston and on o: Hind by Spartanburg? T'liere are ai ore than two ways to get to Laurens. 1< * * * j si The people of Gaffney are up in ci ras against the poor service of the T lephone exchange at that place, say- s< g it is sometimes an impossibility L get central to answer, it being of o] e.;i oc*< uiT'nee that some half ;czen in us are required to secure l response, and that wlien y...person | inishes talking and hangs up the re- ! eiver it is often several minutes be,'ore the lines are disconnected. We ; lon't have any such trouble as that i n Newberry. As a general rule the ' ioerators at central a:e polite and accommodating. It is so, nice to be ' pleasant. * * * 'We haven't "heard from him lately, 3ut we suppose Hary Thaw Is still .urking somewhere in the background. ?Anderson Maily. P'r'aps so. But where is lie lurking t is a safe proposition that he is not , still. Still let him lurk hi peace. 1 ,vill know Friday what is to become of i . 11m. * * * Some cr' the almanacs predicted hat February would be a severe nonth.?Greenville Piedmont. i We'l, do you not know by this time hat February has tlie reputation of eing the worst month in the year?,' "he hog was along the line of the alianacs making the prediction. The ' lonth was just clinging to its reputa tion. As October is the prettiest' ^oi-th of the year, February is the L gliest. * * * Y I . s From the bill fixi.g the salaries of' r cunty auditors and treasurers at the ame figures, we get ii that Newberry, ^ *ith $1500, is tenth from highest aunting Chester and Laurens at the ? L ame figure. ? v * * * i * i There is 110 telling what sort of c eather an hour will bring forth.? ; t Greenville Piedmont. {r Exactly. So you have caught on Iso. i: * ii Look out for sore arms?and also s )ok out for smallpox.?Greenville iedmont. You have been reading the news a om Laurens. i ... I Cheer up?It is three hundred and j !xty-three days until the next Val-' ^ ntine's Day.?Greenville Piedmont. <. ic You surely must have a grouch a gainst Va'entine's day. A great a mny people enjoy that day. The very j oung delight in it, the near-young < till take some pleasure in it, and the : Id find happiness in fond recollecons of it. Don't kick it away. ;' * * * ' r i r Mr. a;id !Mrs. Pittard, the pepsi-cola! eople, have a horse that is possessed f -more than the average "hoss ? 9nse " This particular horse knows c ow to unfaster the crib door with his , loirth. Some horses have real intelli- \ ence of high order and he is one of It is more t'aan instinct?it is ! I easoning power. Don't tell us that (t nimals can't reason. Ir * * ? j c 1 1. The bright and smart young boy;1 ho said that the doctor had given his jT apa a subscription for his ailment;s leant well, but was perhaps thinking | * f contests. j* * ; Did you know tin at when the "r" is ja ropped from friend it changes friends r d fiends, which is bad. e * * J Knocking the other fellow is a j1 rlghty pocr way to boost your own !c T ame.?Clinton Gazette. 1 We belive you are right, Gazette, in r act we know you are. * * * S I The governd and a newspaper cor-: s espondent had a little tilt in Colun*-is ia the other day during the asylum v lvestigaticn which made the Sparks ? y for a short while. ; a All this "hulloo"' about small pox is ] ut of place. It never has been any- P li. g like some of the reports have in- i icated. There are only a dozen cases i the city, and 10 of those are in one imily; and all of them except two ill be discharged Friday. * ? The Anderson Intelligencer has lade the discovery that lots of peole who are not willing to do any fihtlg themselves are willing to push a ewspaper into a scrap.?-Note by ock Hill Herald. True note. FRANK MUST DIE >nly Extraordinary Move Now Tan Intervene to Stop Progress - Toward Execution. Atlanta, Feb. 17.?Leo M. Frank, ; nder sentence of death for the murer of 14-year-old Mary Phagan here d April 26 of last year, today was dvanced one step closer to the gal- j )ws wnen ine ueurgia supreme court istained the verdict of the lower i ourt which pronounced him guilty., he opinion, written by Justice AtkinDn, also was signed by Justices Hill,, umpkin and Evans. A dissenting pinion was rendered by Chief Jus-, i!3 Cakes, lto4 blseu!! otaer pastry, arc I? si tfee American la teg Powder will : digestible, wholes tSo ASum?Mo Li - mi - jt. 'jmm-jisag.'zgsfingggBaMamu.njLLj.m^.jm ice F.\d2 and Justice Beck. : Al:h:ugk 'Frank's lawyers today lould make no statement as to what teps they would next take, it was epo'ied that they have not yet given ip the determined battle which they lave waged fcr tfie freedom of the oung factory superintendent. News J ( -iat the highest court of the State . ad denied him the right to be again ( ried failed to shake the iron nerve f the condemned man. He received he tidings quietly, refusing to comtient thereon. While the supreme court's decision j s voluminous, the path of the ruline s contained in the head note which ays. ' "Evidence Supports Verdict,"? "The evidence supports the verdict nd there was no abuse of discretion 11 refusing a new trial." In their dissenting opinion. Chief rustice Fish and Justice Beck held Hat the atrial court errea in aamning the testimony of James Conley nd C. B. Balton, regarding alleged cts involving immoral conduct on Yank's part toward women prior to he murder of the Phagan girl. i Unless an extraordinary motion for new trial, or some other moVe in lehalf of the convicted man is made, Yank will be resentenced within the lext two weeks. The decision of the upreme court nrst must De entered is that of the trial court, after which:entence again may be imposed. >Iay Live Jfontbs Yet Frank's fight for freedom may be prolonged in a number of ways, and onight it was pointed out that months nay elapse before his fate finally is (ecided. According to court officials lere, it is possible that, in view of I he dissenting opinion of two of the' six ji/stices of the supreme court, ^rank's lawyers may move to reargue he case before that body. In the ivent mat sucn a motion was denied; j m attempt then probably would be j nade to get the case before the Unit- \ "1 States supreme court on the j grounds that (Frank has been de- j jrived of his liberty without due pro:ess of law. Another course open to rrank would be to file an extraordllary motion for a new trial before the :<">urt in which he was convicfed. , viould the court deny this motion, ; m appeal could be taken to the State j upreme court. As a last resort, it v?s pointed out. an appeal could be i1 I YOUR ??. Skein Is as INSECUF running off is THE PRODUCTIVE VA SHOULD BE A icy The Mutual Benefit | OF NEWARK, N Will Provide the Necessai LOW RATES, HIGH VALP1 r n nnnrc L. U. rtARtL, Newberr 'v *.n.Tri)L?t.TyCTaargr-, --^ ^jrPure t, hot breads, and j daily necessities ' unify. Royal Bak- j make them more iorae, appetizing* 'me Phosphates made 10 the governor for an extension of executive clemency. J * lYounldn't Waste Grease. 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