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jp}t Retold QIUI jem " Entered at the Postoffice at Newtmrry, S. C., as 2nd class matter, E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Tuesday, lAaigust 3, 1915. There should be a good attendance at the meeting in the court fcouse Wed-: nesday morning to discuss the road via Whitmire and Union and Glenn Springs to Spartanburg and the mountains. The people from the low country are going to have a road up to Spartanburg. Newberry is the better way, but if our people sit idly by tne road will likely go up on tfce other side of the river. Col. Watson will he here and will have a government engineer with him to survey the road, / and it is desired to have a good number of cars go on to Whitmire and Union and Glenn Springs. Who will go? See Mr. B. C. (Matthews. "Everybody Gets Rid* Except Cotton Planter" says a headline in The Newberry Herald and News. Evidently ' iCol. Aull has forgotten that we are ?*v>at nr? cn/?h miraolp l&liJLi Uiici c aiiu cxatxv ih^s happened to us.?-York News. Of course every one knows that tf:e country newspaper does not come in tile class of those who are even expected to get rich. Fact is our experience has been that they do well just to keep jogging along. That main highway ? automobile highway, if you desire so to call it? l/vxr- o/wnt.rv t/\ trip mountains '11 Viu bug ivr?? vw v?w about which Col. Watson bas been talking and for which he has been working means more to Newberry than some of our people seem to realize. Tbe best and most feasible route is via Newberry, Whitmire and Union, hut in this day such good things are not thrust upon you. You must get out and hustle for them. Newberry has let several good things go around ber simply because she sat idly by and let them go. It wil not take much effort in tfcis case, but we must at least show our interest. The distance from Columbia to Spartanburg by this route is 110 miles. The road in Richland is now being put in fine condition. The Lexington portion needs to be relocated and worked between Chapin and Little Mountain, j The other portion of the Lexington end i needs a little attention. Between Newberry and the Lexington line there is need of a scrape and some work. From Newberry to Wmtmire 02ere; will be need of work, but the people j along this line and at Wihitmire are awake and this portion of the road will be worked or the money forthcoming to have it done. We understand that the Union supervisor is ready and willing to co-operate. It will mean a whole lot for Newr berry to have tiiis road put in fine ^^nrtitirvn and adnnteri as the main highway from the low country to Spartanburg and the mountains, but there | must be some interest taken at this point or the road may go up on the other side of the Broad. A meeting is to be held in Newberry next Wednesday and we would be pleased to eee a large number of our people present. Not only ti:e town people, but the people from the coontry. Let us ihave this road. It will not interfere dn the least with the Capital-to-Piedmont highway via Laurens to Greenville. THE GERMAN COTTON BUYERSAN INVITATION. So far as the question of financing the coming crop of cotton is concerned, the Southern farmer may rest easy. The only problem to be confronted will be that" of a foreign market for the cotton. If the Washington administration succeeds in bringing about a satisfactory arrangement with Great j Britain by which the way will be opened to the neutral countries?and The Observer believes a way will be opened?the Soutfa need not now be -disturbed with visions of the nightmare of low prices. For the first time in history the Southern cotton farmer 'will have the federal reserve hoard hack of him. This hoard has been taking' time by tfce forelock and the probabilities are that when the crop j comes on it will find the protection of a practical financing plan. This will < be based on the warehouse system. And that there will be & demand for.; ? vjr iT.rr'p; .?*.'-?* Vf :*je?^???iste?a3?9i^HHiHBi ^ .. i .-I the warehouse cotton is evident by J recent developments, the most inter- j esting of wind.: is that German agents! are in this country at present endeavoring to arrange for the purchase and 1 storage in this country of a large part | of the 1195 crop. The Washington i correspondent of the New York Journal of Commerce went to headquarters to have verification of this report. He j applied directly to members of the federal reserve board, and was told t):at: while they have heard the report and .have given it their consideration, they j are absolutely without verification. "" - ? ? Viinlro the hnnrri 1X16 corrtrspviivi-cin does not desire to have tl:e matter brought to its attention, but would prefer the German agents to work independently "with full knowledge that their plans will receive the hearty cooperation of domestic interests." The further interesting information is advanced that the German agents are trying to arrange first for a credit loan in the United States with which I to purchase and store the cotton. They believe that such a loan would be prof-, itable, because when peace is declared j they anticipate that cotton will go to! 12 cents and higher. At present they! can buy and store cotton for about 8 i tViora r>nn 1 rl hp 110 : ceil IS. V/Ci La-iiii j iuvi v objection to tfce German cotton buyers thus entering the market, and The Ob-1 serve begs leave to suggest to these German agents that Charlotte, North Carolina, will be found a desirable place for the location of a purchasing agency. Cotton flows in here from seven railroads and in Charlotte and surrounding territory are about the best warehouse capacities and facilities in tJ- e South.?Charlotte, N. C.f Observer. This is interesting, and coming from such reliable authority, is based upon facts. It only emphasizes what we have been trying to say for some time that the most important thing /for the cotton growing section now is a safe and sane warehouse system, in order that our cotton may not be forced on the market at one time, but marketed gradually, and tIMs can be don& only with a safe warehouse system, and such a system that those who have money will advance it on cotton stored in warehouses. There is plenty o? money in this country, and we believe that the difference between the coming fall and last fall, so far as cotton goes, is tl-at this year it will bp considered I ~ a good safe collateral, while last year it was not so considered. The price should go beyond 8 cents - -? ><) .'W'Tq. it win. We <t JUOUiiU. ? UWiV. , V, -V .. _ would like to see the German agents get into the cotton market in this country. That would be a good way for the Germans to get some cotton and they could hold it in this country until they could get it across the water. But tfce important thing in this statement from the Observer is that there will be a demand for warehouse cotton in this country if these German agents come over and get in the market. And if financial arrangements can be made, as we understand they can, then we need warehouses where the cotton may be stored. And in this way not forced on tfce market. If arrangement can be made to advance say 8 cents the pound on cotton stored and on long time and at a low rate of interest* there will be no occasion for the grower of the product to be forced to sell it at a sacrifice. All of us should join with the Observer in extending a most cordial invitation to these agents to come down! * * i and be among us ana Duy our uuuuu, j if they are willing to pay us a fair price | for it, but if they are not, then we are| going to store it in warehouses and get some money on it at a low rate of interest and on a basis sufficiently large so that we may make out and get along until such time as tfce price ad-j vances. As soon as the war is over the price of cotton will advance. WHY MASSING IS DJ BAD. Gov. Manning has offered a reward of $50 for the capture of Charles Rob-! inson, a negro who is alleged to have killed Lucius Crittenden, a white man, in Abbeville county, several weeks ago. Nobody will object to the offer of tl:is revard. The negro ought to he cap-j tured, of course, and if the reward of $50 will insure or hasten his capture nobody will object to the payment of the money. Some months ago Mr. T. M. Dodd, an aged and respected merchant of Anderson, was beaten to death in his store and his assailant escaped and has never been captured. It was as foul a murder as was ever committed in South Carolina. Gov. CVfanning was asked to offer a reward for the cauture tfSfiCKT l"tr,. of they murderer, but declined to do so.; saying that the matter was one for the I local officers :o handle. if Gov. Manning could not offer a| reward for the capture of ti e murderer of this old man?who was a good man, harmless ana respecieu?wny should he offer a reward for the capture of the murderer of Crittenden in Abbeville county? If it was the business of ti e local j authorities in Anderson county to cap- j ture the murderer of old man Dodd,! why was it not the duty of the local authorities in Abbeville county to cap- j ture th-e murderer of young Critten-' den? 1 ' - H-. ?.ill ir.n feopie generally win see \jruv. _n<xu- j ning's inconsistency, and they will comment upon it. His friends' will not be able to explain it. His contradictory action in these two cases i may explain to V:im, and to his friends, why t'nere is so much criticism of him as governor.?Anderson Daily Mail. Gov. Manning's friends may be able to explain his apparent (?) inconsistency by the fact that the sheriff of Abbeville county is a friend and sup-i I % I pnrtpr r,f the sroiyernor and f.'.is ap- i, pointee and he wants to help him out while the sheriff in Anderson county was an outspoken friend and supporter of Gov. Blea.se. You know Gov. Manning is running a non-partisan ad ministration and does not show anyj i | : favors to one side or the other. He rises above all little partisans!.ip and! I looks only for the man in all his actions and appointments. You know; j the Dail Mail was a warm supporter of ! Manning. ! - > <S> THE IDLES i <8> i | There are several things that d ' serve my serious consideration?no not that?but I should say that deserve j the serious consideration of the people I of this community, and some one must | bring these matters to tLe attention of | the people. Of course, I know those ! nrVirt writ a mo nntAS and epnH TUP TTIPS ! sages to call attention to certain mat- j l ters and who want to see some one I ! I , lambasted, so to speak, would not want! me to mention their names, and Ij I would not for the world, for then they j i can join the chorus of those wLo crit-; icize me and say that I am a knocker and always butting in where I have no business, but that does not in the least concern me or deter me from saying j what I think. It is true I am some- i times of the opinion that I am en-: ! +/Vrt tn rmKlir? ATlinimi ; I Lil tij IUU lUUiUVA V&i V vvr |/uw?<v w j i or w! at people say or think. Well, J that is neither here nor there. I have a few observations I would like to make and none of them is intended to be personal or to wound the feelings of any one. They relate to things concerning the welfare of this community and when I speak of tl.em there are going to be people to say that I am knocking and kicking. ?0? Some little while ago I had something to say about the arrest of "Bill" Smith for running with his "cutout" j on?as I said then, I don't Know mat i exactly understand what ti:at is?anyway, a jury said he was not guilty. If ihe was violating the law he should have been held to account; but I said then and say now, there are so many things that are so much more serious 15 at go on before our,eyes every day, that I do not see so great an offense in making a little noise. Every day and every night I see some of these cars drive around the corners of these narrow streets without making the slightest signal for the crossing, and I going sometimes twenty or more miles I ~ T Viotro ccpn tl'iAm AU lil/UJ , a. 11 \1 lxi^ii x uuiv ?#? v-? going at that rate at night without any light at all. Just last Saturday afternorn I happened to be walking in Caldwell street just before reaching Main street and I saw a small crowd and I stopped and asked the trouble. There was a pretty badly dilapidated bicycle | along side the sidewalk, and I asked wi'iere the rider was and what the cause was, and if the rider was dead. A negro boy promptly spoke up that wad Mia rider and he was not dead and not even hurt, but his little machine was torn in half. A big car had run over it and had gone on as if nothing l:.ad happened. Of course, the boy and the bicycle should not 'have been in the way, and wThen the horn sounded they should promptly have gotten out of the way. And even if no l:orn is sounded you must get out : of the way, of at least some of these : drivers, or you are in imminent danger : of losing life and limb. These streets i in Newberry are very narrow and the i " '* ? J TYiol-a cnrno f rQ ffi o ro.crn 19 - U! LJ< MIUU1U 'Juon\; oumv nuiuv i v^quiv tions and then enforce them. Another i car that same Saturday afternoon ' shot around the corner from Friend ' street into Caldwell and ran afoul a ' little dog of Mr. Guy Brown's and the ; little fellow struck a run and Ibad not j been heard from at last account?. Of i Be in Tii Highest Oi Two Days 1 Sale Begin: un.?? u/??f m TT IIC1I TT Cdl-lTlOl West course, the dog should not have been ! on the street, or if it was it should j promptly, even by intuition, have; known that the car was coming around ' tiie corner at a high speed and gotten j out of the way. I try to follow the i aflvice of President Harrison of the Southern railway and stop, look, listen, whenever I come to a street crossing, but our streets are so fearfully: narrow that it keeps you busy looking and listening. Two young lives have been snuffed out in this county in the recent past, and I do not say teat they were the result of careless driving, but these things should be an admonition to those who drive cars to be more careful. It is just like I read in tne Observer the other day, it is generally ? V j the good swimmer mat gets anownea and the expert driver t) at has the accident. He gets over confident and thus becomes careless. There is another thing I would like for some one to answer me. It is this: Why do so many of these cars which seem to have no business except the pleasure of the little fellow v.} o is at the steering wheel drive so often around the square and through the narrow business streets, especially on days when these streets are filled with wagons from the country. It seems to me they could get more pleasure by going around where traffic was not so congested, but I have seen them drive around ti e 'Mollohon block several times oft a Saturday afternoon. By the way, the street force is still on the streets. I am sure that I saw some of them at least cleaning out some ditches and throwing the debris in the middle of the street. And tl.en T am sure also that I saw some of them hauling grass and filling up holes and leveling up some places in the streets. Yes, sir, hauling grass from tJ e ditches to make streets. That is a new material, and I expect to watch it and see how it works. There's lots of it around and about, and I have no doubt it will soon be on a par with the burr clover industry in Newberry, and other people will be growing grass with which to build streets. I heard some gentlemen talking about it tfce other day, and one of them suggested that possibly it was desired to collect flnri rptain in the eround some humus, and that be had heard that grass and trash were the things with which to' obtain this humus. This fellow had been hearing some of these agricul- | turists who make speeches and talk ' about humus and all that sort of tl'.ing, and maybe had heard Mr. Mills at the court house the other day, and he. thought that was t!:e object without j knowing the meaning of humus. In Latin humus means the earth, the soil, the ground. Mr. Webster says it is soil formed by the decomposition of vegetable matter, and as I understand > these new and modern scientific agriculturists, it is l):e making of a soil ; that will hold the moisture. I am sure that the street force is not putting this grass in the middle of the , streets for any such agricultural purposes as we are told is produced by the decay of vegetable matter, and that they have discovered some new prop erties in this peculiar grass that will make an enduring street. We sure j need to discover something that will j improve the streets. I would like for some one to show me just one good i street in the whole town. I have been living here in tfcis town now nigh on ] to fifty year and the streets are in ] worse condition today than they were when old Mr. Miller wan street boss. < [f this town had just started twenty . years ago and paved only two blocks 1 i year and saved the balance of the i money that hae been thrown away, we i - .?*-r i . . . V ?-M.: Z*. ,-iy !fC, > 1 < ... ne For the OF 1*. II iaiity Mimin Only-August 6l s 8:30 a. m. t\ tin Co. Says It's -Martii " ?" J tA^Oir at lflOCf tV>o dictfl T1 Pl> I of forty blocks of paved streets, and. a pretty good balance in the treasury, j So long as the town goes on hauling ; grass and sand and filling in the low pieces with that there will be no streets in Newberry worth while. Of course, these gentlemen who Lave been elected to run the town know more | about it than I do, or the people would not have elected them, but I do not know any law to prevent me from < holding and expressing an opinion on the subject, and that opinion is, with j all due regard and respect for the gen- ; tlemen who have been elected and the people who elected them, that ti- is town t - % .1 is wasting from $15,000 to $20,000 a year on the streets that would be better left in the pockets of the taxpayers. Take it from me, this is a great truth, i ?o? 1 By the way, I see that tl.e Observer 1 suggests Palmetto as the name for the park and says away back yonder some- i wnere this branch of Scott's creek was known as Palmetto, and The State 1 comes along and says at first blush it is not much stuck on the name Pal- ! metto, but would like to know why ] Sratt's rreek bore tf.e name of Pal- ! metto. Truth is, why. should we call < the park Palmetto. True, this State is known as the Palmetto State, but there i grow.s no palmetto in this part of the State, and I think such a name would be anything but appropriate, but if '* some one will just come along and ^ give five i undred or a thousand dol- '< lars I have no doubt the park will be < called anything he would care to suggest. Money and not labor is what will county, and it takes money to build a park and keep it going. '* The Idler. i ] KAISER'S CORFU ESTATE. One of the Most Beautiful Villas in the World. i1 I. Brooklyn Eagle. 1 The kaiser, it will be recalled, owns ,< a-vast estate on the Island of Corfu,, 1 the largest and most northly of the ( Ionian islands, lying off the coast of 1 Epirus, at the mouth of to e Adriatic. c This island belongs to Greece, and if 1 that kingdom should enter the war on the side of the allies the kaisers { villa and grounds at Achillson, five miles south of Corfu, upon whica : many million marks have been squan- 5 dered, would become the property of 1 the Greek crown. The villa, of mar ble, was erected in 1890-91 for the * Empress Elizabeth of Austria; at a ( cost of $5,000,000, and has been great- ] ly improved since coming into Kaiser ] Wilhelm's possession in 1907. The : L i building is in tne Italian renaissance | style, and at its back are a istyle and j t?ree terraces, with a large number of \ statues. Upon the broadest terrace is a fine "Dying Achilles," by Herter. The park descends towards the sea, in terraces, and at a commanding* site a small temple has been raised o<f the poet Heine, done by the Danish sculptor, Hassellriis. Designs for the charming villa were the work $)f an Italian architect. Rafaelo Cavito. T:"e latest rumors are that a Swiss; hotel corporation will purchase; the place and convert it into a resort.? , ! I Brooklyn Eagle. \ ? f The Double Life. c v Col. George Harvey said at a ban- I quet in his honor in New York: r "We editors like criticism, especial- t ly when it is of the very favorable 2 *ind that I've received this evening. 1 "But not all criticism is favorable, e ? r 2ven tor tne most suceessiui eunuio. t A. good many editors, in fact, often 5nd themselves in the position of the ricfi old broker, whose little grand ^ t- * i =====98c Sale ' ium Ware 1 th and 7th August 6th Oak, It's Oak - % n Lo. " 'Uncle, how long do people live?' " 'The natural span of a man's life/ the uncle answered, is, as the Good Book tells us, three score years and ten.' " 'Oh, then, you'll live to be 140, won't you, uncle?' "The old man looked around the foom crowded with relatives and , . laughed heartily. " 'Why, no,' he said. 'Why no. How do you make that out?' . " 'Isn't it true, then,' s&id the little girl, 'isn't it true what mamma says ; about you living a double life?*"? Washington Star. Her Innocent Bov. 1 %Aunt Rosa, who had presided in tf-e kitchen for many years and was a person of high privileges in the family, came into the library in a highly flustrated state, wiping fcer fat hands upon her apron, says tlhe Literary Digest She was plainly both distressed and indignant. She addressed herself without preable to the master of the house. "Mister Willie," she said, "please, i, suh, len' me $15, suh. Dey done 'rest my boy 'Rastus ag'n. Dey got him shet up in jail, an' dey 'fuse to let him Dut 'lessen I pays bail." , "What has the lazy rascal been do- j ing, Aunt Rosa?" "He ain't done nothin' 'tall, Mister Willie?nothin'^tall. De boy was Jest i settin' on de do' step wiv a knife in ais han', an' a ornery nigger come by, f and fell on it, and rip hisself open? 3at's all, suh." >OTICE. If there are any outstanding claims igainst the Booster Chautauqua club, I L'uey should be presented to Charles Barre, treasurer, at once. NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS. M Notice is hereby given that a meeting of the stockholders of the Little .viountain Oil Mill and Fertilzer Company will be held at the offices of the company, Little Mountain, S. C., Sep:ember 1, 1915, at 4 o'clock p. m., to consider the following resolutions, idopted by the board of directors July 10,1915, proposing that preferred stock [>e issued: Resolved, That the Little Mountain Dil Mill and Fertilizer Company issue I L,350 stares of preferred stock, of the I aggregate amount of $13,500; ti_at the 1 stockholders and directors who are M now liable for the debts of the com- . |-.j pany, either as makers or endorsers J ^ >f its notes, shall have the preference >f taking such preferred stock in proportion to the amount of their respect- fl| ve liability; Uiat such preferred stock shall be a lien upon the net profits of :he corporation and, if the property of , :he corporation should be sold under foreclosure, or in liquidation, such preferred stock shall be a lien upon :he proceeds of sale, after paying ex- I senses and the debts of the corpora:ion; t:.:at no dividend shall be paid fl :pon any other stock in any year until V he preferred stock authorized by these ^8 esolutions shall have received a aivdend of eight per cent.; that such preerred stock is to be regarded as colateral to secure the payment of notes ind obligations of the company on \l:ich the holders of such are liable, f|jf tnd any payment made on this preerred stock out of the earnings of the x>rporation, or out of any sale of its )roperty, is to be regarded as a paynent on the obligations assumed by he respective holders of said stock, nd the payment in full of such ob igations out of the earnings or property of the company shall retire sucfe ireferred stock in full. By order of the Eoard of Directors.. W. P. Derrick, JH President and Secretary. flH