The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, August 03, 1915, Page FOUR, Image 4
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.
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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
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a good safe collateral, while last year
it was not so considered.
The price should go beyond 8 cents
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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!
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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?
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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
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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.
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<S> THE IDLES i
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| 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
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, 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.
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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
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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
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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:
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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
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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
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Only-August 6l
s 8:30 a. m. t\
tin Co. Says It's
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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
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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
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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
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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 :
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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.? ,
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Brooklyn Eagle. \
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The Double Life. c
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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
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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
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th and 7th
August 6th
Oak, It's Oak
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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