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(tie ||enil& an$ Jem Eatercd at the Postoffice at NewS. C., as 2nd class matter. B. H. AULL, EDITOR. Friday, August 3, 1917. WHITMIRE TOWS AXD ROADS. I had not been to Whitmire since TiAw town has srnwn un after the big fire, until Tuesday. Except that I was there one evening to attend the closing of the school, but it rained so in the early evening that one could not get out, and I returned the eame night. I hooked up III on Tuesday morning ? ? * * Ji J ? A. +U/V mrt PI/iAf Knf cany. 1 <J1U I1UI uavc iuc Uja3v,ui uut Mr. C. L. Leitzsey came down from Silverstreet and we drove out to Bur Leitzsey's for early breakfast, and after a good breakfast of country ham and country eggs, us three went on over to the town of Whitmire via the Appalachian highway. The road is food as roads ?0 in this county. Much o'? ? ? ^ better than the road between New-J, berry and Prosperity. It is a great improvement over what it was before , the people at W'hitmire and along, toe way cooperated with Supervisor , Sample some time ago and made a . passable road out of it. There are hills , that should be taken down and fills , that should be made. And, of course, ^ 3 Kq Tm/fonAri The suvuiu w > , road in many places has had a good . top dressing and the places that here- , tofore after a little rain and all through the winter were almost impassable by even a buggy, are now good stretches of road all the year round. But it needs widening and - grading and the fills made and the kooHs taken off. From Newberry for two or three miles a little clay with the sand and the digging of some J drains on either side would make a 1 * l .good road, and the clay is right there, j while you dig the drains you would j fce getting the clay necessary. Then j. there are some other sand beds which *e?d the same treatment. When you get to King's creek theer ' is need , / . _ far a fill. and . the raising of the bridge. . Ot, course that - will take some wor* .< Aod same money/ but it should be tone. There is need of another fill at - Jn&aa creek just before you get to ; u- - Kr. John M. Strber's, and juet beyond ' tbe creek is' a hill that needs to be i .... ..vV. .? SS?: : .. .. "?rthe dirt necessary lor me cui. wmu . i;,: -c. - gmted 4ow?, froBj which & great deal ( **"?. " fee bad. One beauty about working on 1:> * this road is the tact that the people . , -along the way are willing -to cooperate F 1 with the officials and will put up ths ' cash and the labor to improve the road, and that is the spirit that should 5 ^e encouraged by cooperating ?ome- I what by the county officiate as was J -tiaaae by Mr. <s&mpie seme luoe ?i? wfaen the road was first improved. The town of Whttmire has made < great improvements since the big fire. The stores of Cooper company and of Miller Brothers and the company j ctore are beauties and would compare ery favorably with the stores of any place in this neck of the woods. In lact the town has been rebuilt with modern and up-to-date store rooms and not a wooden building has gone mp where the fire was. There is also In this block a nice drug store and on the corner where once stood a' wooden building is a neat brick store! room and all of these are two stories I and make a fine appearance and they j breathe the atmosphere of prosperity. Across the street is the hotel and] the new -bank and Razor's store which j didn't burn. The company store has j, been moved down near the mill and j i it is one of the most complete and , well arranged stores you will find anywhere, and it is neat ana aLu-av-j live. This is a prosperous oommu- 1 nity. < The crops from Newberry all the j way are very promising. Of course, in 1 some places the cotton and the corn 1 are looking better than others, but j taken all together the prospect for a j big com crop was never better in ^ j this county, and the cotton is fine. And 3 the crops all seem to be in good ooa- ; iJition bo far as working of them goes, j && ibe return trip -vre came around J, - ? -- ??*] by the Brick house ari'l Mr. Dun- ] can's. The road oat to the brick hou.?e is not as good as it used to be. Ie needs dragging, but with the exception of? the holes which are characteristic all the roads in this county, and the narrowness of the road bed, the road is better than I expected to see it. You can never have a road until you widen the bed more than is the case i with many of the roads in this coun-j ty. The crops all along the way are I very promising and especially is thatj the case with the corn. Talking about the road those who have traveled this road will remember the heavy sand bed that was for a stretch of about a mile just before and just after youj pass the home of Mr. W. E. Elmore, I former of the Benson Suber place and I just this side of the old Kinard place. Well, that is now the best part of the road from Newberry to Whitroire. And it took very little work and not a great deal of money to fix this. It only needed a little clay with the Band and the clay was right along by the side of the road, and all that, was necessary was to go thehe and make the drains that were needed and l-V? ?4-V??a nlov tVio rfloH Thlc i3 ? "I the most striking example of what can be done by mixing a little clay with the sand, because I do not know any place in the county where the sand was as heavy, and now it is a beautiful stretch of road just as smooth 3md hard as any road should be, and it is a pleasure to drive over it. Just a. little attention and interest and a little cooperation and a little money and we could have good roads all through this county, and we need not spend a great deal more money than we arespending now. But there must be cooperation and a puling together. Fact is, cooperation is p. great thing in any line of human endeavor. To illustrate, on the return trip soon after we left Whitmire one of the tires of III went flat, and as it generally happens it was in a stretch of road where there was no shade in a hundred yards. But by all three of us cooperating it was. but .a little while before we were going .again. Mr. C. U. Leitzsey being a - rural carrier is an expert in taking off and putting on a Ford tire and Mr. B. B. Leitzsey knows how to throw a pump and F? well, I am an expert in placing theJack and jafcfciag up tfee' wheel, so by all of us "coopcs-ating we were -soon. hi the way and no one,was damaged.) I &m going.to try to specify an?? particular crops, but I was impressed svith the fine prospect all along tiie iray, and I am going to pro re the rule jy saying that there is the best pros" * * * -1 perfect for a cotton crop on in* lolug place ju&t beyond the city that I have gver seen on that land. I do not know who is working the place this year, but eren on that field by the side >t' the road the cotton looks good. We drove plong suietdy as I al ways do and we were back to New* bery before or by noon, and spent a couple of tours in the good town of Whitmire and had a chance to view to crops along the way. I have been pretty well over the county during the rk<sat ormnle nt -ar^ks and the DTOS KW5V WW^?V v- T* WW?^ ? 4- pects for <& fine harvest were never better at this season of the year, and there is an abundance of fro it. And I believe the people are making good use of the fruit by calming and preserving and there should be plenty to eat in this county. E. H. A, It seems from all that we can hear there are a good many who have been drawn for service in the army who ire trying to get exempted. We have no doubt that Mr. Frank Wright will make a capable and efficient and courteous express agent, and with no reference to him we want to say that at the same time we regret Lo see Mr. J. B. Shackleford give up the position. He was always pleasant and agreeable and very courteous and accommodating and always on the [ob. He was quick and accurate and made an excellent official. The Herald and News wishes him mighty well in whatever position he may go. We understand thai he is to go with Mower's garage. j JT PAYS TO ADVERTISE. U I In a previous issue we commented I on Editor Aull of the Newberry News, and Herald returning thanks for some; ' nice peaches sent to him. since that J * time we have been favo;*ed with all nice box brought us by Boliver Byers.j c ot the Bethesda section, which werej . S greatly enjoyed,?Rock Hill Record. i FINE PACHES. ; Col. Aull of the Herald an<l News j. (Newberry) is thanking some of his| country friends for a basket of tine; peaches brought him. The editor ofj ; Th<i Rnrorri has not heen so well! 1 favored; in fact, he has tried to buy 1 some real nice ones for canning pur- j poses and has not been able to do t this?Rock Hill Record. We are surprised that you did notj1 know before that it pays to advertise. 3 . i We have a number of business men in this community who have not yet learned that lesson, however, but we f still have hoDe that thev mav' see the I ] error of their way and get the beams out of their eyes. We are expecting anothr~ lot of 3r?e peaches and some 1 good watermelons now very soon. 1 mm t CaDt. Isadore Schayer. M. D.. who i recently resigned from the Second < South Carolina in order to apply for a place in the reserve corps, has been notified of his appointment to a cap- * taincy in the national army. Cap1:. ' Schayer was not expecting better than < a lieutenancy, but his previous rec- ] ord and hie ability evidently have secured for him a position which really will be but an opening for promotion upon merit.?-Columbia Record. ] It seems to us that this is the same t man whom the governor declined to ] promote, when he was, in line of I promotion,- and placed a civilian phy- \ sician over him. Seems to us that . we read something about it in the newspapers. Somehow we feel that . the man who has earned his .promo- . tion and is competent should be pro- . moted. That'sthe way we feel about j it in all lines of the service. 1 1 Somehow the excessively hot weather for the oast few days has rather , "got us." We can't do the best work ] of which we feel capable. Even an | electric fan can not help the sitiia- ? . ' -v - 4 1 ' . - , < tion very much. i MR. BLEASE'S POMAHIi SPEECH. ' This is a time aboye aH others iot :'? uur j^CUJJlC tu Vt ?UU IU nuia<| 5 i . CC ' . tw for tfce. gpod. .Pt% the, country, It is no' time to be. calling .one another ugly Bamwu'i1.- ' -z-su.< % 1 Mr. Blease in-fcis Polnaria speech used "isooae adjecftves, that' we would . not have used,, in speaking of some men in,high office.. We would not use them about any Oiie. We do not be- r # Iteve in that kind of argument or oratory. , But, Mr. Blease did not say anything that "was treasonable. We should think in this democratic country of ours, where the president and the governor and all o fthem all the way down are but servants of the people, that the right to criticise still existed; in fact, President Wilson himself has said that he wanted the people to criticise his acts. < We should think that a man had a right still to have had an opinion as to the policy of this country engaging in the war, and because the government has placed us in the war should not have forced him to change that opinion, and that even in the face of that opinion one could be loyal to hfs country and his flag. In fact we heard Dr. f_ \er who so stirred the State Cc _ o Defense, in Columbia the othe. 4- al, that up until the Zimmerman *ote he was pro-German in his sympathy. That should nol; make him any less loyal to his country now. Mr. Bleas? said that while he was apposed to the war, and would have voted against it, he was with hisj country now, and that we should do all we cculd to bring the war to a speedy I close, and that if we could get honorable be was in favor of peace now. There is nothing wrong in that that we can see. That is substantially what Mr. Wilscn said in hig great peace speech, and it was a great speech. Peace with honor and without victory and without annexation and without indemnity. Why not save the great slaughter of our young manhood if it can be done with honor,] We didn't start out to crush anybody md to gain any territory. At any rate the sentiment of the' >eople at Pomaria was with Mr.! ! 31ease almost unanimously. In his | land primary there was one against; lis proposition. We were there. W3 I saw and we heard. i The State Council of Defense must realize that the people of the State ire not very greatly enthusiastic ibout this war, or why should it start jut to make a campaign to create a cvar sentiment among our people. The people are going to do their duty, and ;hey are going to stano by their country right or wrong, but to say that Lhere was or is any great enthusiasm ibout this war among the people of :his section would be to say what 13 aot true. It is a serious business and / :he great majority of thoce who have been drafted to do the fighting are go ing to make effort to get out of it. They are not clamoring to go to Prance and to the trenches. Those cvho are beyond the age and who are aot going to , the front and who are ;xempt may be great war lords and ;alk about what we should do, but it s the other fellow who is going to juffer the hardship as -a rule. But, is we said, they are going to do their lufv nrp sroinGr to do it with * '~mm- w. 0 ^ >ut murmuring, but that does not ihange their opinion that if it had been eft to them they would have remainid out of it if they could. Mr. Blease said another thing at Ponaria which we believe, and it was ;hat Mr. Wilson's reelection was due largely to the belief on the part of . I * * :he peoplei that Wilson wouia Keep is out of war. Maybe he could not kt any rate he did not. Mr. Coker will find that there was i very strong sentiment in this State against war. They are not saying anything, because we are in it, and it can do no good to talk about what :hey did favor. They are going to do :heir duty faithfully and well and they ire just as true to their country as some who are talking a great deal more. As we said at the beginning ihia is a time for us to get-together and not to talk about and abuse one mother. And abuse will not change my opinions ujap were sureaay iorai*v , *>* .,!"' *v +2XM sa * ; f ? ' W ' /-. . Keeprn d Would it hi these times if money into tih Kv tliA rpnw; which is stan< the business ii You Can D< !' ney With Us on deposit wil where it will b IN THIS WAY en THE SYSTE ITS PROTECTIC The Nation B. C. MATTHEWS, T. I President Send for Bookie Make This Bank Your . , Business Home. I I it I > Spending Money is Serious j 1 / Business. i Protect vourself bv Davinff all bills ? - ? J M v ?-? by check, thus (getting an automatic receipt for every bill paid as well ah providing yourself with an accurate record of (your Income and Expense. i i 1 I * . ... i I Open A Checking Account liS?i?i "The Bank of the People" I FOR SALE! II IJ The "Fair Place" 132 1-2 acres five miles from Newberry and two miles from Prosperity. Also 55 acre tract "Young's i Grove" two miles from Prosperity. | Frank R. 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