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jj?k jtrolU aaH jmi Sstered it the PostofSce at Newf^Tj, S. C., as 2nd class matter. B. H. AULL, EDITOR. Friday, July 27, 1917. PEACE RESOLUTIONS. "R-tr vntp nf 214 to 11 tf. with 17 not ^ / Toting, the German rcichstag yesterday adopted a resolution again declaring to the world that Germany is ready for an honorable peace. The text of the resolution justifies the aseertion that Germany will regard as nn honrable peace a peace made in accordance with President Wilson's a/Svina ^ thp Antpntp rulers that the best interests of the world will be eerved by the ending of the world war toy peace without victory. The Ruseian revolutionists have already re peatedly expressed their adhearence to the Wilson formula as tc the kind of peace that should be made. The German resolutions do not alter the status as to the participation of the United States in the world war. Despite a ot of beclouding talk this country entered the war because of the use the Germans made of their submarines and for that cause alone. The reichstag has made it plain that it will not oppose the continuance of such use of the submarines so long as England and JYance will not consent to the xaaking of peace with Germany. So far as this country is concerned, the issue of peace or war is not really in Sts hands but in the hands of England and France. We may bring pressure to bear upon them in beiialf of peace, but so long as they reaa&in at war Germany will continue unrestricted submarine warfare and eo long as she does-we will remain at war with her. Tiie reichstag reiterates the declaration made 'by the kaiser at the beginning of the world war that for Germany it was sjmply a war of defense and that Germany entered it iwth no lust for conquest. Some will believe this declaration, while others "will not. Proof will be furnished by the peace terms Germany asks when jeace negotiations are entered into. Some of the peace objectives stated the reichstag's resolutions sh< Id \ -be peace aims of this country ,also. iPor. instance, we stand for the freedom of the seas and, unless we are +>?/% caoa moan? llitamjci c, iicrcui/xii vi we freedom from illegal English blockades, against which we protested, as *i?ell as freedom from illegal submarine warfare, against which we fight.?Greenville Piedmont. That is just about what we have wanted to say but as you have said "t ?o well we are going to use it, with the proper credit of course. But are you right sure that we entered the war that we might sail the ceas where we please? It seems to us that if Mr. Wilson wants a peace that is without indemnity and without annexation and Germany is willing to that sort of peace there could be no harm in opening negotiations and at least find out if Germany is really in earnest and means what she says. Report states that lightning hit an airplane on the Belgian lines. It "WO'jld require some speedy lightning to p!ay such pranks with automobiles in Columbia. Simply couldn't catch them.?Columbia Record. In cur little experience in Columbia we had concluded that the rules of the ronil were pretty well observed in that town. You ought to come over to Newberry if you want to see som? cars move about. We do not know bow they compare with tne ngntning, . tn;t they have a move on them occasionally. And then we observe nj , r?iles of the road. A car may be on either side of the road and it may pass you on either side and without warning. The only thing is to try to keep out of the way for "I am coming." The Rev. Dr. W. M. Vines, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Charlotte and a minister of wide reputation, test Sunday preached a stirring sermon to the coast artillery, of which he is chaplain. "This is the field of Armageddon," he said, "In the Teuton4c offensive we have a Jesse James gang on a collossal scale. The men who are so fortunate as to be sent to France will "be fighting for God Almighty. Better death than a miserable coward." Evidently Dr. vines aoesn t believe in the doctrine that no mention of war should be made in the pulpit.?Greenville News. A man who can talk like that ehould s-et oS quick to the firing line, as we have no doubt Dr. Vines will, m I as he is chaplain of il:e Coast artillery. Our experience is that the ( brave man does not talk so loud about j his bravery and "miserable cowards". and all that sort. i \ Recently we heara a distinguished | man lecture at a public meeting on, ; the necessity for economizing in the | use of food and at the picnic dinner, a few minutes afterward we saw ' ;m eat three kinds of pie and se\ ^ arieties of cake.?Greenville News. And did you notice what he did for I the fried chicken and the good old country ham ? As poor as the editor ig he would like to join hands wiUi some twenty or thirty or more persons to put the road between Newberry and Prosperity in good condition and keep it that way. A little work regularly done would do he job. There used to be a time the auto dealer was interested in good roads hut that time is gone. The rougher the roads the more breaks and the sooner the -car wears out and f t-Via mora ronair worlr to hp done &nd v * V|TMa? ?i w* > V . and more cars to be sold. The average man no longer says he will buy. a car when the roads are improved' bui he wants a car road or no road, j This roatf. should b? double tracked and relocated and a small fund from each auto driver would raise a suffim'ant fnri/3 frt I'AAn it UT). Wft hODC U ? tuu\| WV -? ? . .. ^ - . travel it two or three times a week for the next few months and we would like to see it in better condition so that III could move along smoothly. There is a bad clay hill just beyond the Fair place and just a few yards beyond is a heavy sand bed ; which if moved to the clay would fix if 2nd so on all the way. Just a little of the right kind of work and cooperation. And we are sure we could get the cooperation of Super-, visor Sample. What say you Dr. Hunter and others at Prosperity? If the publication of the expense Account of Christie Benet on trips to Washington for the governor are meant.as crit-.Isms we cannot ses where any blame attaches to Mr. Benet. Surely no one going even as a private individual could make the trip for less than lie did and going as the representative of tbe state of course the expense would naturally be a little more. We do not see the point in publishing it. We have no doub: the business or mission upon which Mr. Benet went was necessary and we are sure he attended to it as well as the governor could have done. As to the governor's trips to New York if he went on business for the State why the State should pay for them. UI course, n costs me goveruur iuuic to travel than it did Mr. Benet. As to the expense accounts of the various laws and order constables we think it is right for the people to see how they are spending the law and order fund, or at least to be given some idea of the way the money goes. We do not feel that it was right to spend money for drinks and piano playing V ! and all that in the "bawdy houses or to bribe people to get testimony as ap-| peared in the reports of expenses pub-l I Ground Limestoi | Your Fert We have been made over this section for a Lin finely ground and this m< It releases the potash and corrects the ac'iity and p makes the soil very mucl 1 Zi. ?i. Images it easy IU get an corn and grain by putting condition. Order Early? I Anderson Ph Oil Coi Andersoi W. F. FARME lished some time ago, but in this day every one must ride in a Ford or an automobile and it take^ gasoline and i tires and tubes and repairs to keep! these things going, and maybe the ex-; i pense accounts as printed are eni tirely correct even if a little extrava-' gant, but if it suits the people that i is their business, and it be-j ing their busness we say it i is well to print some of these ?1- - j- il +T. expense accounis so mai uiey, mcj people, might have some Mea or attempt to form some idea of how the' money was going. Any way a little! publicity can do no harm. I THE CROPS ARE COMING. Iphave made several short trips itu the country in the last few days, and! the recent rains have been pretty gen-j eral and the crops ahe growing beautifully. And there is just lots of cor;i planted, and it is looking well. . And ; the cotton is coming right along. Sunday ai'cernocm i hooked up III and drove out to spend ^ few minuts3 i with my friends, Mr. and Mrs. B. B.j -" I Leitzey. Bur says that when I come; I am always in a hurry to come back, I ' i but that is not correct. .Anyway on, this occasion I remained long enough j to get some "powerful" good fried: chicken, and it was home raised too.' We drove over for a few minutes to' I tne county home, but Mark Smith had( gone away, but Supervisor Sample I drove up and we took a look at thej corn crop. And Mark has a good crop and something like 75 or 80 J acres in com, and a good crop of cot-( ton, some 25 or 30 acres. In fact,' Mark seems to be a pretty good farm-! j er. And he has some fine watermei-' ons, and there are some fine peaches j on the place, and Mr. Sample has set out a lot more fruit trees. We do not1 see why there should not be almost1 enough grown on the place to furnisn1 iood for the county home and a good i part of the chain gang. They raise something like 30 or 40 horgs each f year. But then it takes a good bit j of rations to feed the 20 or 30 inmate.;, ! and the 30 to 40 on the chain gang, j i not to speak of the help that Is neces- \ sary to carry on the work. Any way,! everything looks mighty homelike and i clean and neat around the home and; that is the way it should be kept. I i I noticed that in the graveyard. there was a monument to a cornea-; f I erate soldier. I have forgotten for the moment the name, but he was something like 80 years old when he died. There should be some way to provide for these old vets without sending them to the county home, but I have no doubt he was well cared for f arViilA thprp fprtainlv h* would b0 " V?*W W ? V I if he happened to be there now. And then I have made two or three trips down to the old home during the week. There are lotes of peache3 there this year and we are trying to Dut ud some for winter use. They are small but fine. I am beginning to trp to practice what I have been preaching all these years, to grow on the farm a sufficient to live on, and by the way, I sold the hotel a sack of i r? i ?i?fmr w:it I L1C TT 111 IWUUVC ilizer Bill. i the distributing agents . oestone that is unusually ikes it Quickly available. 0. t/ ! plant food in the soil, ulverizes the hard spots, i more productive and early stand of cotton, the soil in first class i Prices Right osphate and i upany i S. C. 1 R, Secretary. MMMM?? 1 Irish potatoes the rather day?home raised. And Henry Jackson has some as fine corn on those creek bottoms as you will find in the county, and th?? old hills have some good cotton. I saw there the other day some garden fence pickets cut out of poplar that I was told when a boy that my grandfather made and put up in his life time, and he died about 1850, and they are good^nd sound yet, though almost worn away by rain or some-; thing. He built the old home that is t there in 1830, and the weatherboar l] is wearing aVay, through perfectlyi sound. Supervisor Sample opened a public' road through the place out to St.' Pauls, but 1 was so long getting the. bridges across the little branches built, that the road has grown up iii weeds, but the bridges are now Daiii and I would be glad to have Mr. Sam- ^ i pie have the road worked out so that the people on this side might have a j nearer read to church. I would likej to cooperate with him in relocating I i this road in a few places so as to take j off some of the heavy grades. I know j this does not interest the public, but sometimes I can't just help vmting some things that do not interest the public, and those who are too busy +.r? poa/1 it m q it ijiflt skin it nv<?r an.1 '-""V J 1- -- - ? no harm will be done. This is a delightful old place and with the hills and the streams and babbling brooks and fine old spring where the water comes from out the everlasting hills, would make as fine summer resort as the mountains of western North Caro- j lina, and if I just had the means to j fix up a little I would move down! there at once. Bnt enough. E. H. A. THE DRAFT LIST. ;We stated in the last issue when we published the list of the young men drafted from this county for the great wz.r that there were posibly errors in the names as we noticed that the numbers in the several daily papers did not coincide. It was re markable that the lists were so correctely printed. We notice from the papers that the Associated press made ; r HELPINt Tilt lfl? The Feden Ana KUc lie tn WAIMMAW VftV carrying cotto The vast fui Banking Syste mate Farming | MEMBER I FEDERAL RE SYSTEK I The Nation B. C. MATTHEWS, T. K President Send for Bookkt Make This Business . ? If 95 Per Cent Of the world was NO! friend Uncle Sam wc build a couple of ne1 t . . i r .1 f about tne size or tne i to replace the worn out But the fact that 95 pe business IS done by cl reason why you shoulc This Bank will not only ness but will render im turn for it. Exchang 'The Bank of several corrections. We found sev-1 eral errors in the list we printed. It was our intention to correct these and state the corrections in this issue but we have decided not to reprint the names until the official copy is received. We had thought it would have ben in the hands of the exempt-inn hi* voatordav Kilt tit\ tr? 3 bJVU WWi V* Kf J J Vk/bv* V*V?J aw v% V v v v o'clock yesterday afternoon the board had not received the official list from Washington, so we have decided to let the matter of correcting the names remain until we get the official list. Ac crvmi aq it is received we will azain print the list corrected so as to have the record. Those who purchased liberty bonds are now receiving what is called an interim certificate which they had better take good care of because it is in place of the bond and when the bonds are ready for distribution this interim ; FARMEf i con il Reserve Bai er .M ? orrer speuai n in bonded wa nds of the Fed m are available and Business r OF 11F Y0" one or SERVE TORS dr< tell you h i 1 1 | helps you a! Bank of TAUMCTAMr u T P ANN ? V/i 1 V11 I J* x ^ Cashier Asst/G "HO W DOES IT Bank Your ? Home. of the Business done by check our luld be compelled to v w "Money Factories" Bethlehem Steel Plant money. \ r cent of the world's leek is another good I do yours that way. i r appreciate your busiexcelled Service in re s ;e Bank : the People" certificate will have to be surrendered in order to get the bond. Hold on to your certificate. i Jotlee. i j All persons are hereby forbidden to j credit my "wife, Nancy Smith Blount, ; v.-ith anything that is to be charged I to my account. She left our home ' without reasonable cause. W. J. BLOUNT, 7-19-3t Dillon, S. C. i Policy Holders' Jfeetin?. The policy holders of the Farmers* jdj ! Mbtnal Insurance association of Newbery county will meet in annual ~ses- ^ s::cn on Saturday, August 4th, at 11 , o'clock a. m., to elect one director j from each township and any other | business that might come up. All polj icy holders are urged to come to this j meeting. An effort will be made to j organize a live stock association. L. I. EPTIXG. Secretary. R. T. C. HUNTER, Presidtnt. j -24-tt V IS WITH L iON |J iking System facilities for rehouses. leral Reserve i only by legitileeds. ! are not already | AITD nrDACl KJKJSX LSLJL UJ1op in and let us ow this System 9 m w m Newberry ON, iW. W. CROMER ishier Asst Cashier BENEFIT ME" i