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MASS MEETING TO DISCUSS PLANS OF COOPERATION In response to the call for a mass meeting at the court house on Wed nesday there was a fairly good atten-, dance and much interest on the part o 1 those present, if interest could be judged by the speech making prociiv-, ities of some of the ones who were there. The meeting began promptly | at 11 o'clock and in response from the chairman to requests to give ex-, periences the speech making kept' going pretty well. The chairman call-, v ed on about all who were present ex cept the two editors and we suppose j lie thought they would have opportani-, ty to speak to a larger audience a lit- J tie later. If the people would just' do what they say in their speeches! all would be well, but, as Mr. Neel 1 expressed it, there is always more or less buncombe in all such meetings. There are always those who desire to get off some of the extra exuber ance of spirit which they possess. Mr. John m. Kinard one of the sign ers of the call for the meeting called the meeting to order and nominated Mr. 'Alan John3tone for chairman an1 lie was elected and Mr. T. A. Domin icfc was elected secretary. The chairman proceeded to make 3 speech and to tell about his trip lo the boll weevil section as a member of the commission that went there, and of the fine work which a widow -was doing in that section, and the fine foi-TY* TcVifoh che -eras rnnri 11 r.tine. and "how sfce was making money without planting cotton. He said the object of the meeting was to get together to; act for every honorable vocation in the community and to make prepara-f tion for the coming of the boll weevil. | "tr^ ??'<! U Via n cnrf nf OTnOft- i enee meeting to consider the general welfare. Mr. John M. Kinard was then called on for his experience and he said he was not a farmer but he was descend ?d from farming stock and had the instincts of a farmer. The object of * the meeting is to get, together and ?^^ ^ ?1Tra ir* tnQrr Af IlttVO Ut3d.il tU Ileal k laina 1U itbn v<. the coming of the boll weevil. Thert are rpen here, said Mr. Klnard, who are interested in improving condl tionsj We are not here for speeoh making. We are in a terrible condi tion as to shortage of food crops. No-! body can make these but the farmer.; If he does\ not do something to make food no telling what will be the con- j d'lion in the next yeir. This is the most momentous question befor^ ns in a long time. If we take charge of. the situation we can be prepared to meet the condition. A great many do not thmk tne Don weevn is coming, but he is sure to come. No business can prosper unless we prepare for the calamity of his coming. There must be some plan to work together to meet the situation like men. There 4 was a farmer on the street this week who sold 150 pounds of sausage irom one hog and had enough lard from he same hog to last his family for year. This situation touches all of s. The farmer must help to feed he people in town and the people in .own should buy from the farmer to encourage him to grow the feed. The chairman then called upon a; number of othe/s for their expert- J cnces and when Dr. G. Y. Hunter was | reached he told of the importance of raising live stock and the money that could be made out of it if you are prepared to do it. j The call proceeded and Dr. Mcln- \ tosh said when he was reached that; we should give more attention to the ! growing of corn. He said he could go back many years when the people of this section grew corn and every thing we needed to eat. Just about the time he came to Newberry there v/as no corn or hay or oats brought; to /Newberry, the people grew it. We can make corn in this county. What i we need is to learn some sense. It! is an impossibility to grow cotton and buy corn and make money. Cotton is; lower today at 18 cents than it was; four or five vears ago in comparison ; -with other prices. If the farmer will! grow corn he will make money. Cot-: ton is the lazy man's crop. Let tn%! land owners see to it that their tev ^its plant enough corn to do them. The corn question is the live ques tion today, said Dr. Mcintosh. The call proceeded again and when j Mr. T. W. Keitt was reached he said he' liad become much interested in sweet i onH thnntrht tVioro vvsjc mm-iav! am* ? . in that crop. He understood they! were bringing 10 cents the pound: which is $6.00 the bushel. If a num ber of farmers in the same communl-j ty would plant the same kind theyj might get better prices by marketing together. Cooperation is the keynote' of success. He was going to plant \ ten acres to sweet potatoes. The call again proceeded and Mr. S. C. Matthews said we all have had our problems, but we are now up against the hardest problem we have ?ver had to tackle. Every one here "should raise enouih to eat. What is { the farmer's interest is the interest of every one of us. The banks, he was re, stood ready to cooperate in any ay they could to help solve the prob - j e call proceeded and Mr. God-; ' /Harmon said he was reared j and in a time when they grew; own corn and other 'food stuffs \ that he was trying to do it now.J He also believed in making your own fertilizer at home. The call again proceeded and Dr. i\V. C. Brown said he would give a little experieuce. It was hard to break away from your first love. We were required to make radical changes and it was a hard thing to do. Some one said that Texas in the face of the boll weevil had more cotton than ever before. It was because of the increased acreage and largely in the section not yet infested. We are iust as liable to be infested here as anywhere else. He believed the weev il would go to the foot of the moun tains. The weevil was traveling east. This meeting was in the interest pri marily of the farmers. Dr. Brown said he had gone awaj from the all cotton plan and that he sold from his farm the past year more than $700 of other products besides cotton and we can all do it. The call went on and Mr. R. T. C. Hunter aaia it was nara xo interest the farmer. He would >Jant more cotton this year than ever before be cause he thourht maybe it would be the last year. He said we can't do what they tell us and we could not raise earn at a profit but he believed in raising enougn ior your own use. He are not going to do this thing un til we are forced to do it. The call proceeded again and Mr. J. D. Quattlebaum told of his ex perience in growing hogs in a lot and his experience was that he made over 100 per cent. But you have to give it your attention seven days in the week. The call proceeded again and Mr. John C. Neel said tne boll weevil is j comine sure. Whv should not those } who rent land rent it for a part of! the crop grown on the land inetead of for so much cotton. He said if he should go to the bank to borrow $1, 000 with an endorser on the note the: bank would want him to assign toJ his endorser a lien on the crop and, he would want to know how mucu cotton wa3 to be planted and If ; the, larger part of the crop was not cot- j ton there would be nothing doing in: the granting of the loan. He thought! all arrangements had been made for this year and that all the talk that had been made today wag mostly Tmn. comoe. i The call proceeded and Mr. Antirie Buzhardt said it was always a pleas ure for him to raise stock. That cot- j ton \id kept his nose to the grind- ; stone and he said a gocd deal more | which the reporter could not get. Dr. Brown then offered the resolu-1 tions below and made a few remaTKs j giving some of his experiences above :: mentioned. .Mr. T. M. Mills said that there was a market for sweet potatoes at Green-1 ville but they must not weigh less j than six ounces each. He said also ' peanuts and soy beans would find a! market at the cotton seed oil mills at 'Newberry. j The chairman was to appoint a com- j mission of five to be taken from the county. After the adoption of the resolu tions the chairman made another; speech on the general welfare, whieft j the reporter failed to get. i The following are the resolutions. Whereas, the State of South Caro lina, very probably, will be invaded'i by the boll weevil this year, 1917, and that a general invasion of the State will follow within the next two years; That, wherever the boll weevil na3 j become established, agricultural and i economic panic and demoralization has resulted, and that conditions, cli matic, etc., favorable to the perpetu ation and spread of the boll weevil in other States are similar in South Carolina, Resolved, 1st, That every farmer, owner or tenant, shall begin with the present year to raise all possible food supplies for man and animal and only ' * t-/\n tTiatl inui dticagc piauicu w v-vti.\jh vu?? can be highly fertilized and intensive ly cultivated, and that all landlords, absentee and resident, in making con tracts henceforth for lease or rent, will agree and specify to accept some other product than' cotton as part if not all for the rent. Resolved. 2nd, That all reasonable economy be practiced in every line. Nothing shall be purchased that is not absolutely necessary. Resolved, 3rd, That credit to the farmers by bankers and merchants be continued as iar as souna uusiuess; considerations will permit, and that live stock and other farm products be made the basis of credit as well as cotton. * Resolved, 4th. That every reason able inducement be offered to retain the present labor upon the farms by the cooperation of the farmers, mer chants and bankers, so that the la borer will be given the opportunity to vaioo Me frw? nnTVTfcHps Resolved, 5th, That the owners ofi land be urged not to sacrifice their! lands, but make special effort in the j next two years to pay off mortgages i and in any event this may be impos sible that a long time loan be secured from the Federal Land Bank. Kesolved, 6th, That a commission of the business men, bankers and mer chants be appointed to find or create markets for products other than cotton j and that they advise the growing and intelligent handling of such crops as will most readily meet the popular demand. > * 4 3> THE IDLER, ? j^^4><S>4>^><S><$>^<?>^><$>^><S>'^<S>^' I Here's a pretty little poem and ex presses a whole lot besides its beau ty and its beautiful sentiment. In this season of bad weather and the scarcity of all sorts of things to eat and the cry of hard times I like to see a man care and have thought for the dumb animal, in tact it is nice always and the man who does not care for the brutes or the beasts of burden and the animals which are in 1 his control is lacking in something. His heart is not right or is in the , wrong place. The 3fen I Like to Meet. There are many pleasant people Whom one would like to know. Editors and barbers And men who shovel snow, There are laymen, there are draymen, But the ones I like to meet Are the men who pat the horses When they pass them on the street. I It's jolly, on the avenue. To bow and raise your hat To someone so distinguished That your comrade says, "Who's that?*' But the man I really honor Whpn the stinsin? north wind blows 13 the one who always stops to stroke Some horse's frozen nose.?Life. I read in the papers this morning (I don't mind saying this is Sunday that.I am writing because I like to write on .Sunday. It seems to me that I can think better and be les3 dis turbed on Sunday or at night). Well, I say I read in the paper this morn ing where the president has signed the Reed amendment, and that from now henceforth until the quart-a month law goes into errect we are go ing to have the real thing in South Carolina, and I dare say the supply is rather short, and there will' be a real dry feeling in many places, be cause a lot of people were under the impression that even if the Reed amendment should become effective it would not tbe until after July. But the paper said it went into effect at once in the prohibition States. 'And | South Carolina is a prohibition State J until the quart-a-month act goes into effect. And then you can get it for ( medicine. It will be curious to see i how many people will be sick ana j have to have a little. This "bone dry" I proposition will test the grit of a lot; of people who have been in the habit j of taking a little toddy, to see how j far they can make the body obey the i mind, and do without what they have j been laboring under the impression j they have needed. And this reminds me of a little poem I read some time ago on quitting. v On Qnitting. How much grit do you think you've got? Can you quit a thing that you like a 1 lot? You may talk of pluck; it's an easy' I word, l But can*you tell to a jot or guess Just how much courage you now possess? I Don't boast of your grit till you're tried it out, Xor prate to men of your courage stout, For it's easy enough to retain a grin In the face of av fight there's a chance to win, But the sort of grit that is good to i own Is the ?tu?f you need when you're all How much grit do you think you've got? Can you turn from joys that you like a lot? Have you ever tested yourself to i know How far with yourself your will can go? If you want to know whether or not you've grit, Just pick out a joy that you like?to quit. It's bully sport and it's open fight, j It will keep you busy both day and night, For the toughest kind of a game you'll find Is to make your body obey your mind. And you never will know what is meant by grit ' Unless there's something you've tried to quit. ?From the Detroit Free Press. Now, that's pretty good stuff, ain't! it? A lot of folks talk a whole lot about grit and all that sort of thing who have never been put to the test. The people down in this favored land do not know what it is to do without things they want. Some few of the old people who lived during the trying times of the civil war can very well recall that then was a time getting things to eat and to wear. They even had to dig up the dirt in the smoke houses to drain it to get salt. I nev er will forget a lecture I heard ^ a 1 Hnroo Ur. O. OLCCi, il iuccuuuioi. vuvu er, deliver a good many years ago on the wartimes and how he told about the time when the salt was ou? I think he was the same preacher,who THE PROHIBITION MEETING WAS WELL ATTENDED The prohibition meeting in the court house on Monday night was well attended. The court house was about tilled. Mayor Wright presidec and presented the speakers. The first speaker was the Kev. I Stearne who spoke of the work o! the anti-saloon league and the bur den of his talk was to tell what the league was doing and an appeal foi money to help on the work. He passed around a number of pledgt cards for those who desired to hell the work to sign a pledge of ho1* much they would contribute monthb for five years for the expenses of th work. He said it took money to carrj on the work, and he arraigned liquor as being the main cause of all the crime almost that was committed, and laid stress upon the fact that it was mainly responsible for the white slave trade. And he told of a little girl who was getting oniy $4.00 a week who had contributed ten cents a month to save those of her cwn sex from this terrible slavery. And of uuiers wnu were cumriuuuug lljuuij larger sums for the work. Just how many signed the pledges we do not know. At the present rate of the movement it will not be five years before this country is prohibition from one end to the other. Former Governor M. R. v Patterson of Tennessee was the main speaker of the evening, and he delivered a fine address, and told of his own ex perience with whiskey, and said he knew what it had done and would do if its use was continued. He said he would hp willlne to sever his rieht arm if he could take down from the halls of memory some of the ghosts that he had hung up there with the use of whiskey. He said he was at one time a local optionist, and that when governor of Tennessee he had vetoed a prohibition bill, and the opening sentence of his veto me? was to the effect that under onr gov ernment a prohibition measure was fundamentally wrong, but if he could write that sentence over now he would write that it was fundamentally right. It was a fine address and was listen ed to witlf close attention by the au dience. ^ <$> SOCIETY. ? s> Q $ <?/<9>G'Q><?<?><2><$ $ "?><?><? ^ <$<?> < ? The Calvin Crozier chapter held a business meeting Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. D. J. Burns as hostess. On account of the absence of the presi dent, Mrs. Herman Wright presided over the meeting. Two original pa pers were read by Mrs. Duncan John son and Miss Rosalind Hipp. Three new members, Mesdames Jesse Burns, Boyd Jacobs and Charlie Rnff, were added to the roll and demits were granted to Mrs. Alex Hudson, of Washington, and .Mrs. Jesse iWilson, of Spartanburg. At this meeting plans were discussed and perfected for the Masonic banquet, the rummage sale on March 31, and the par-eel post party to be given March 14 a. the homo of Mrs. Herman Wright. In the social hour the hostess, assisted by Misses Octie Griffin and Emmie Dora Burns, served delightful sandwiches and tea. Mrs. E. M. Evans. Jr., was the charming hostess Wednesday after noon to the members of the Young Matrons rook club and a few other friends. After the games a delightful salad course, followed by coffee, was served. Mrs. Evans guests included Mesdame?>*i-Sligh, Mower, Summer, Eurns, Cannon, Goggans, Mayes, Holmes, Smith and Misses Kate Sum mer. Minnie Gist, Ruby Goggans and Octie Griffin. served a church in -Columbia until a year ago, and I often thought I would try to get to Columbia while he was there to hear him preach, but I never did. And then you know they made coffee out of wheat and barley and corn parched just like we parch cof ifcJC 11UW, duu iL noa a pi ttkj substitute. It wasn't so much grit then as it was necessity, but then the folks got along with the substitutes very well. And it won't really be so much grit that will make a lot of 'em do without liquor as it will be necessity, and I am glad of it. I read a pretty good paragraph the other day on the "bone dry" proposi tion. It was a sort of definition of the new term that has 'been coined in regard to prohibition. It reads: "As we understand the bone dry legisla tion, it aims to make it as hard for some of the prohibitionists to get as for the regular old topper." Well, any way let's try it. THE IDLER. P. S.?Since the editor did not print my article in the last paper please let me say that I was mistaken In concluding that the "bone dry'* bill went into effect at once. It seems that I overlooked the passage of the Moon resolution extending the time to tne nrst oi J my. 1 au not. care iur ther to change what I "wrote. T. I. Mrs. Lanra P. Ewart. ! j "A wonderful stream is the River of i j Time, [ As it runs through the realms of (1 Tears, With a faultless rhythm and a musical j ' rhyme, j And a broader sweep and a surge' . t sublime, A ^ k 1 a n /I a f Vi ^ A^aon Af vflafa i It is a wise provision of an all wise , providence that this wonderful stream i can blend so gently and so softly with the ocean of years. And it flows on and on with a faultless rhythm, even through the realm of tears. It Is truly a wonderful stream, this river of time. Sometimes it seems to be' \ rushing and tossing over the break-1 , ers, and then it flows with an eddy k that seems scarcely to be moving, but j always with a musical rhyme, wheth , er it be sad or sweet, and it blends beautifully with the ocean of years. I | J { "How the winters are drifting like , flakes ot snow, ! And the summer like buds between,! , And the year in the sheaf?so they ] come and go ! On the river's breast, with its ebb I and flow | As it glides in the shadow and sheen."; .Another link which binds this com- j 1 nninity to "The Long Ago" has been j snapped. One by one they are pass- j ing?those who linked the present to'; the good old days "before the war,"j ' .vhen this old Southland led all the. world in the development of a beau-' ! tiful and a cultured manhood and;: 1 womanhood. Pity is that this fine; ' 1 old civilization is passj-fcg, and yet, no! ' doubt, there are tiwr^e who will not1 j 1 agree with this sentiment. Somehow ; we have always felt that if it had ] UtftJIl 1C11 IU UUl CUUUOlUg nt n uu >u harve selected that period of the world's history for our pilgrimage j' here, but it was not. : i 1 The death of Mrs. Laura P. Ewart removes one of the oldesl of the citi- \' zens of this community,' and one who: ; had the privilege of spending her young womanhood in the good old days <3f which we have just spoken.1 She was So years old, and up until a short while ago retained in large measure the beauty or person 01 ner young' womanhood. And always the beauty and gentleness of mind and soul. Before h^r marriage to Dr. I .'avid E. Ewart^she was a Miss Gra ham. Mrs. Ewart was the daughter of James Graham who lived in the lower section of the county and who in 182s represented the county in the legis lature. Her mother was Miss Mary Fair, a sister oi' the late Col. Simeon t-air. She had one sister and two brothers. Trie sister Decame me v*ne of John Summer and died many years ago. One brother William Graham , was a graduate of West Point ana afterwards superintendent ci the Citadel Academy. The other Drother, (. Dr. DeWitt Graham, was a practicing physician and for a while practiced j His proression very succeaaiuu) m Alabama but returned to Newberry and died at the old home in the stone hills. Dr. Ewart was a native of Columbia, and upon his marriage to Miss Gra ham ne moved to Newberry where he --n nfi'ninn, marlioino U'hPn tb ft I v\ as piai>u^.iug i war broke out. He was appointed j surgeon of the Third South Carolina 11 j regiment, which position he held for j ; come time, and then resigned and was ! appointed assistant surgeon Confed- j1 Cfotac njw Hp contracted vel- i ^ V W V- v low fever ,and died on board the gun- j i boat Chicora in Charleston harbor in j i September, 1S64. Mrs. E^vart contln- { | ued her residence in Newberry, and ,' i bv her gentle Christian character had j many friends who were endeared to j her. She is survived by two children, j Judge of Probate 'W. F. Ewart and j Mrs. Chas. A. Bowman. I | She was a life long and consistant : member of the Aiveleigh Presbyterian i church and at the time of her death the oldest member of that congrega- j : tion. Tire 'uneral services were held from the church on Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'cLock conducted by her pastor the Rev. E. D. Kerr, and interment in Rosemont. The pallbearers were: J. .N'. McCaughrin, R. D. Smith. .T. L. Keitt, Dr. W. E. Pelham, W. A. McSwain, Alan Johnstone. The March Debate. The annual celebration of the lit nrarv societies of Newberry college I w * ~ . will occur this year on the 16th. The | subject for debate is, Whether the j term of the president of the United States should be limited to six years and he should be ineligible to succeed himself. < The Phrenakosmian society will 11 maintain the affirmative with J. W. 1 Proctor and E. W. Fisher as debaters, J "Roiirk- the negative ( j UUUVi f I will be maintained by W. H. Wicker ! and Abe V godsky as debaters, under f f Captain Bo lie of tht Excelsior so ! ciety. < 'H. W. Boozer of the PhrenakosmI- t ans and Paul Counts of the Excel- j siors will deliver the orations. i i Miss Sara Williamson will be the j ^ 1 Philomattiian essayist. t j The exercise to be in the opera I ' house at 8:30 p. m. CITIZENS MEETING TUESDAY NIGHT NEWBERRY, S. C., MARCH 6, 1917 A meeting of citizens of Newberry was held in the courthouse at eight o'clock to hear the report of the com mittee appointed at the meeting Feb ruary 6th to investigate the question rtr on/4 /\ ?or\Ai?f at Ui OH ccwo UUU CV i vyv* V Wk a meeting to be called by the commit tee. ^Notwithstanding the fact that the committee had given full notie* of the meeting, the attendance was emalT. Mayor Wright presided. The report of the pavement com mittee was made by Geo. W. Summer, chairman, and was as follows: TO THE CITIZENS OF THE TOWN OF NEWBERRY: We, the undersigned, your commit tee. anDointed bv the Mavor of the Town of Newberry under authority of the citizens of said town at a meet ing held on the 6th day February, 19-17, beg leave to make the following A t Your committee met at the couneil chamber on the 21st day of February, A. D., 1917, at which meeting there was present in addition to your com mittee, the Mayor, Clerk and Treas urer of the town and the City Attor ney. Your committee organized by electing Geoj W. Summer, Chairman, and under authority of the committee, the Clerk and Treasurer of the town acted as Secretary. Your committee, after a full investi gation and another meeting held on February 28, 19-17, decided that tha town could safely within the limits issue $35,000 of refunding bonds to refund the floating indebtedness, and ?85,000 of street improvement bonds. Your committee, however, In investi gating the matter and considering the advisability of issuing street improve ment bond, decided that it would not be wise to issue such bonds at this time as there was no provision for the Town of Newberry to levy any assess ments on abutting property owners pay part of the costs of paving streeTo. Should the toyn now issue $85,000 of bonds, such issue would not pave any. large area of streets. If we wait un til there can be an amendment to the constitution which will .permit' jibe assessing of abutting pro-perty owners to pay one half of the paving COSIS EDO men issue \^u,uuu iu uuuus, it wouM enable the town to do twice as much paving and thus be of great er benefit to the town. KYte consider thp nnlv pnnitable wav to do such improvement is for the property own ers benefitted directly by such pav ing to pay at least one half of tha expense. It is impossible for the town to pave every street and it is not fair to those citizens of the town living on streets that are not paved to be forced to pay in taxes their share of the entire paving when such paving is directly beneficial to the property holders who happen to live on the streets that are p'*v d. Should we now issue the eight-fi. ? thousand in bonds for street paving and thirty five thousand refunding bonds, the town would practically be bonded to the limit and it would be years be fore any additional bonds could be issued, and as a consequence the town would only have about half the paving that it would by waiting about two years until the constitution can be amended allowing the assessing of abutting property owners. Whfle your committee realizes that there Is urgent need for such improvement at once, we believe tha' it is far better to delay the matter for two years and do a larger amount of work and do it on a basis that will be fair and just to ->11 of the citizens of the town. We therefore recommend that no steps be taken to issue bonds for Street ItnproveiucuL utuit nit uvaii uu amendment to the constitution can be obtained wbich will allow the assess ment of abutting property owner3. Respectfully submitted, GEO. W. SUMMER. J. A. BURTON. J. Y. JONES. ARTHUR KIBLER. J. Y. McFAl/L. Jas. B. Hnnter move'! the adon tion of the report. Jno. H. Wicker seconded the motion. Remarks wera made by Mr. Hnnter, Mr. Wicker, Dr. J. M. Kibler, Jno. M. Kinard. Dr. 1W. E. Pelham, Dr. J. H. Harms, and Z. F WYight The motion was adopted. It was moved aDd carried that the committee be continued and that it take np the matter of voting $35,0(W in bonds for refunding the city's floating debt. l nere was au uuui uxai uiaiuoaiua by C. T. Summer. Dr. Harms. Mr. Kinard, Mr. Wicker and others as to the advisability of the city's purchas ing a rock crasher and other machin ery for street purposes, but no motion k> that effect was offered. On motion. Mayor Wright was ask ?d to continue his investigations as o the establishing of a gas plant and :o eall to his assistance two others to issist him, thus forming a committee )f three with the mayor as chairman. On motion, the meeting adjourned ?ine die. Dn morion, the committee of which ?eo. W. Summer is chairman was an homed and requested to get in touch md keep in touch -with tntenirban ailroad system of this part of the rorld and use their influence to try o turn one of them this way. W. H. "WALLACE.