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Entered at the Postoffice at Xewberry, S. C.. a< 2nd cla-s matter. E. H. A I'LL, EDITOR. ? ! Tu sday. May 12. 1914. We would be glad to have the1 Greenwood Journal tell us who are "the best people" and why arey are "the bust people." The old veterans will receive a hearty welcome in Newberry t-Jday. Their ranks a' e thinning very ;'as .j Bur sj h ng as one remains he will al- j ways receive the homage that is his. We wonder s ;me:imes what these i signs at some of the c-o'ners mean.: which read sumethicg about autos slow down to four miles the hour. Better tear :hem down if thev do not i mean anything. -? *" - * Senator Smith says he is delighted j with the result of the county conven- j tious and takes them to mean an en-1 dorsomenr of his couVse as senator. | That is very charming and it must be delightful to feel that your course | * ? * ^ 1- - 1-1- 1-3 1 is endorsed. 11 prooauiy wouiu ue( even a little more delightful if the j primary would tell the same s.ory. We have heard the remark that the chain gang was used :o build roads j around the town and the people onj the outside never got any benefit. If any on? believes that we would be delighted to take him over three miles of the capital-; o-capital highway, leading from the town of Xewberrv towards Laurens. If he does not agree with us we will set 'em up. Of the 75 j 1 miles of the road from Dyson by i Greenwood and Laurens which we traveled rhe other day these three miles were the worst. One of the i best inducements the business men | of this community could offer to the | people to come here is to have good j roads over which they could make the j trip with some degree <of comfort. With rhp nnmhpr nf automobile* in- ! creasing it is almost absolutely nec- i essarv that we have some sort of traf-; fic regulations which will be observ-1 ed and enforced. If no; we may ex-1 pecct to have some casualties and possibly the loss of some life. But no use to make regulations unless they are going to be observed, and if j the drivers of cars will not observe them then the law must be enforced. The wonder is there have not already J been some very serious accidents. J * ?"?" ^ An onv nf I A11J UllC ? nv-r otuiiuo vu auj v/x tuv street corners may see reckless driving a: almost any time. Of course, | we understand that every driver of a j car feels that he is careful. It is al-j ways the o her fellow who is reck-! i less. ' Thereto-e, these remarks are s rot personal but genera!. And for the general welfare. We came very! near being run over the other day in | crossing one of our very narrow , stree*s by a very expert driver. Of j course, it was entirely our fault, because we could not. l3ok both ways a: the same time. Thercywas no signal or warning. The car just brushed ! by at some 1"> or 20 miles the hour, j We do not know the driver. i - - i We still believe that the Southern Po^ver company could .furnish us curi rent cheaper than we can generate it; by steam and wi.h a small plant, and ' that it would be to the interest of the I town to make a deal with them to ! take over our plan*. This is said j i with no inrention of finding fault with | our plant or or' criticism of the man agement. We believe thev could furI n:sh us power cheaper than the town : is able to furnish i\ Now and then the wind may blow ^own a tree across the line and a little time will be 'aken to repair the< line, but this company generally has a j)"etty good reserve on hand and no one would suffer. A tree is liable to 1 r'if? tnwn wirpc m t UC luv. V.^ A any time. These cotton mill presidents are | considered pretfy good business men. or they would not hold their positions. If it is to their interest to go to considerable expense to change thvir plants so as to use power from \ is company we can no" see why it would not be tJ the interest of tile i smaller c msuniers to d so. As it is, we are fo'ced to list* tin- current from the town or have none. We have always been told ha it was cheaper to generate electricity by water power than by steam power. If it is not. V. II \ i;u 11J MM II niciiiiwiio v.\j?vno? building dams. The business manag< r of The Herald and Xews though: he had an understand!. g with t.'.e business manager of tile Observer so that the two papers would have a uniform charge i\a- political advertisements, but it seems ia th-Te was a misunderstanding?all pleasant?except that they did not understand each other as to the price which was agreed upon. We have made up our mind to charge - "> cents the inch per ins.-ri -n for poli ical advertisements, which is per cjluma. We thought the Observer nad agreed to w I do the same. The editor says that iie can 'not get the consent of his con-' [ science to charge mere than 10 cen s he inch, the amount he charges i'or i display advertisement from the merchants who stay with us year in and year out. We are sorry of tnis misundemanding. The Herald a<:d News will charge 2") cents ;he inch for all j such advertisements where any charge is pretended tj be made. This <i/ivov iconiont r ra n on T and slmnlrl ' i O *.* W ^ not have the same rate that the regular display advertisement takes. It takes about 4o words to the inch, so vou can make your own calculation and know jus: about what it will cost I you in The Herald and News. We t shall be glad* to keep our old friend, i t.;e politician, with us, but if we pre-; tend to charge you it will be at 2." J cents the inch, 01 litt-e more than a half cent the word, or ?!2 1-2 cents the hundred words. The fact is H> cents :he ; inch is too cheap for display adver-j tisements and we should increase that . .. I rate. And it is our purpose to do it. : j There siiould be som? way to get ou: an injunction or some s->r, of J staying proceedings to stop people1 j from trying to use the road from i \ Ohappells to the Saluda river bridge: :or wagons alonside the railroad bridge, or the road leading to it,. from ei her the Xewberry or the | i Greenwood side. Did we say road?: We beg pardon. It would be a mis- j r.omer to call it a road. It is not fit. j for a negro to ride a donkey over. Tae approach on the Newberry side is really dangerous; the railing is all down and the whole thing is in a di- j lapidated condi.ion. If some team j should fall ihrough the suit for dam-j ages would be justified and it would ! cost the county more than to build the approach. I'ntil the' e is some | ' provision to get to the approach trere j is no; much danger of a great deal use | being made of the bridge. On the j Greenwood side there is a sudden 1 1 jump off perpendicular cf about two \ f. et. But any one who knows about i the condition, of the hill on the far side will no' make an eft'Tt o ap-. i proach. the bridge. j We suppose the people in the neigh-[ lor;io:>d of Chapre'ls desire to have i i iill communication with Greenwood ! county around Dyson cut off. They j have about succeeded. In the years gone by we had travel-! ed tiiis rjad and wiiiout knowing made an effort to go over it the other day in making a visit to the old home. The distance this way is only 25; miles. In order to avoid this road | we came back by Greenwood town j' and Laurens, a distance of 75 miles,! i and made it in about the same rime 1 and with less damage to the machine1 and much less weariness to the flesh. We will take the supervisor of New-| berry over the I^aurens and Richland J roads of the capital-to-capital high-1 way if he will go. We would like for him sind the Lexington supervisor "" " r i make the trip together. . K AKTHQI'A KK HH!X;s FATAL DKSTWTTIOX i I Hundreds Probably Killed in Disaster >VIiieli Overtakes ( antania, Italy. Cantania, Sicily, May 9.?A great | earthquake las: nigh; brought death j and destruction : :n:?:i> villages near 1 Mount Aetna. T11? umber of up i i toni.u .t was officially placed at 17:;, with about M"??? injured. A lar.ue par of 1hj devastated territ ?ry lias not been inspected. The affected zone extends from .laffarana, the highest village on Moun Aetna, to tne sea between Aci Keale on tile south and Oiarre o.i the n li It includes Linera, t.ic centre of tli disturbance, Pasano and Santa Verenina l:i Itinera alone 11 / persons were killed a d 300 injured. In B ngiardo 13 dead and '1~ injured have been taken from the ruins. At Cousin ini 10 were killed and many injured. At Pass i Palnio two p rsons were killed; at Malati. 11'; a Santa Ve eri. six: Santa Tecla. two; Santa .Maria Virginie, eight: Arbiti. four. The villages and many smaller places were leveled. T.ie entire distrie today presented a spectacle of desola ion. ruin and death. Many of the injured had no" beeu taken from the debris. All irain service has been abandoned, owi^.g to the collapse of bridges, broken tracks and obs ructed tunnels. i Live in Danger Zone. F>r centuries :his section has suffered from earthquakes, owing to the activity of .Mount Aet..a. V?'t it is thickly populaated, as .he land is fertile, vineyards gr -wing with littl-- attention. At .he central point of t/>e disturbance dozens of bodies were lying along the roads, many so badly crushed they were unrecognized. The injured lay in the open, awaiting assistance. Wi.iere Li.iera s ood is a mass of 5? TO-? ~ ^ /iwi I'Uins. JLiiuse uuuses wiuuu uiu iiwi. c llap.se entirely were so broken as >o emphasize the ccaipleteness of the disaster. The village consisted of about SOU inhabitants. ; Most of the people escaped because ihe shock occurred when the men and some of the women were working in the fi jlds. From the vineyard they saw heir houses falling, at their homes- they found only wreckage, with s:me of their people buried beneath; it. This accounts for the fact that1 most of lie victims at Linera were j women and children. i Many Buried in Kuins. i Gens. Tramucci and Moccagaita arc in command of the work of rescue, which is/being taken up vigorously by soldiers, firemen, policemen and Red Cross volunteers. Ii is expected, however, that weeks will pass before 1116 run extern ui I'-ie ui?>ci?i,ci tan ut accertained, as it is believed . many peasants are buried underneath ;heir lioines in the isolated country distric s. At Catania the strongest shock las ed seven seconds. Electric lights we e extinguished and the stree. railways were put out of service. People ? ,,1 rusnea irom me aoti&e;, suups auu cafes. Many jumped intj boats and others crowded intj the squares. At the hospitals pations ran to the courtyards imploring help. Many pitiful incidents occurred. Ai Bogiardo an old woman, the only survivor of a family of 18, reentered a half wrecked house to search for her grandchildren. She returned with a li:tie girl alive and rushed in again. Almost immediately the house collapsed, burying her under the wreckage. At Consentini a young soldier, who should have left Thursday on his reur.i to Libya, obtained a leave of absence tor three days to attend 'he marriage of his sister, which was to I'"''" nwnrro/l ^linflnv Hp IS a 1110118 Iltt * ^ V/V'V V* x i v. vt ^ . ? the victims. i .Mgr. Vigo, bishop of Aci Reale, remained 24 hours in attendance on the injured villagers. i i \ .Tile vicinity of Catania lias probably suffered more uian any o her sec.i mi in the world from volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, Catania itself is built on a bed of lava at the i foot of the volcano of Aetna and most of i's s reets are paved with lava. Cantania has a population of 140, 000 and is the largest city in Sicily. ' Ii lies to the soiiih of Messina on the east coast. Ever since its founda;ion in B. C. 72K i: has been visited fre- 1 quently by earthquakes. I;i 121 A. D. it was partly destroyed by an eruption of Mourn Aetna. In 116t> it suf- 1 fered severely from an earthquake. In 1669, during an eruption of Aetna, a great storm of lava flowed toward Catania but in the nick of time its course was diverted and the town saved. In 1693. when the whole of the island of Sicily was affected by an earthquake. Catania was destroyed. |! After the earthquake and tidal wave at Messina and Calabria 011 De- j cember L'N, l'.wS, official figures gave i the number of deaths as 77.2S3 but it was estimated that from 150,000 ;o! 200,000 people lost their lives. Damage t.) public and private property amounted to about $1,000,000,000. The United S:ates took a prominent j Specia - log 01 I SMART MID-! lVlav - - ? -?? You are co to be Miss Annie I MILLINER / - 942 Main St. % Beai in F > i You mav be a good ju( I taken in on quality. Y niffed once, but it's you: by the lesson of experi /\ A messages: une is corn the other in the paper; thoughts, the other, the that Mayes' Linen Lawi The next besc thing to writing paper is to kno I havd paper of quality. I BETTER GOODS Mayes'B The House of < part in .he relief work and with the ; fi:ii diivc'Jr of funds placed at their disposal by the J atory, said ton American public sailors from the n)ents djd not fnited States fleet erected large num- Qf ,he earth(]u bers of houses. , . , ihat earthquak under the surfa >arrow in Area. . . result of a vo Florence, Ttaly, May, 9.?Father Al- Moun; Aetna. 1 Show-^1 Models I SUMMER IDEAS | 1 and Thursday 13-14 ?1*_ 11 j ruiauy ui gcu present Smith & Co. 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