The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, August 03, 1917, Page FOUR, Image 4
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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
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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
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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
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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
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.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
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.. .. "?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,
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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
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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
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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"
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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.
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JT PAYS TO ADVERTISE. U
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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 .
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greatly enjoyed,?Rock Hill Record.
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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
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We have a number of business men in
this community who have not yet
learned that lesson, however, but we
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still have hoDe that thev mav' see the
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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
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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
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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- ?
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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<|
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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
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Iteve in that kind of argument or oratory.
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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.
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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
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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.!
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31ease almost unanimously. In his |
land primary there was one against;
lis proposition. We were there. W3
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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
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: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
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>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
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: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
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