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jjbr ferclB Bern,!' Entered at tlie Postoffic? at New- , *+rrj. $. C., as Snd class matter* ] ] ' I: E. H. AULL, EDITOB. j, j Friday, August 9, 1918. |' 11 AN UNJUST REPORT. j, I We are surprised at the tenor of the report sent to The 'State and The News and Courier by Mr. Irby Koon. It and the headlines in both papers do the people of Newberry an injustice. We have attended many campaign meetings in Newberry for the past thirty years, and back in the days when there were lively times, and a word or an overt act might have resulted in bloodshed, but there was nothing in the meeting on Wed- ; nesday to justify such headlines a5 "Row narrowly averted in Newberry'' ' -nao-r Wnndshed and all that sort C*"U U^Ul V.WN, v. It was one of the most decorous and orderly political meetings we have ever attended, especially when tin < tension was the least strong. 1 When Mr. Chappell asked and Mr. Pollock answered the question as t> i the loyalty of Blease and those who would vote for him, Mr. Chappell added that, "You are a coward to make statements elsewhere, and then ' i not do it in Newberry," and started i over the railing, but when Chairman 1 a - - - ' *- -A. 4 Blease requested nim .to laice ms seat * ^ iChappell sat down. And when the 6tSer "Pollock incident took place iMr. Chappell was going out of the court room and met Mr. Pollock, who spoke, calling Chappell by name and extending his hand, and it was then 4 that Chappell cursed him and refused to take his hand. (Mr. Eugene Blease j ; requested Mr. Chappell to not have > ^ snv trouble and he again went 011. .Mr. i Chappell says that he did not have any knife in his hand or on his person. ? x* -n- ^^ in. reporting .vir. eerier, s speeuu is another error. Thp reuort says in ect.'on with the renort. though It not sav that Benet said it, "John j Anil, another member of the staff over his own signature, said he went John L. McLaurin to Washington , for fund? 'wr1'*h which *o opt *"? j ^+?te Renphlican." John Aull didn'f j tha* ovpr h?s *i*?-uatnre. and neither did Benet so charge, as we nn- ' WP werp nrpftv V <*'oce. because if he had he would have hppri railed ri*?ht thpr? "o.. ferred to the letter of Aull in that correspondence which was published, j ..Inst like he d*d to the extracts from j' the speeches of Blease, and said now , that is what these neople say them- j selves and you must be the judges sls to whether they are the right kin-i i to c^?t your support, "but never once charging disloyalty, but letting the words as printed in the Charleston ; ! American speak for themselves. , There was no disturbance at the, * meeting and it was the most orderly that we have seen anywhere where there might have been occasion to expert a difficulty. We can not unders^r?d wbv Mr. Koon should desire to give a different impression. i w . i The Easley Progress says that "about three-fifths of the voters of 'Pickens county have been aligned with, the Blease faction.?These peo- I nlo >iOTTft nr.Vl o f ie o" ? 1^*55 "a v c " *** auu wii ti/O \X 51 UUV^U , ?that is, they are soured on the , "world and no amount of persuasion wil do them any good." That is an aw. ful charge to make against one's own people. That they "are soured on the world" and have a "grouch." That is terrible. If we thought that about our ! good people in Newberry we would j not say it, because we would not want j i any one to Deiieve that so large a per i centage of our people had "soured" 1 < ammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmxmmmummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm We Want your? Peaches, ' Okra and We will buy them or car quantity. Let us help you is our main object. We ai business. We guarantee i our goods. Come to see 11 Stand. m. * ^>9 iNewoerry t Phone 266 W N. B. Produce will not be after 12 oVIock ?trww? w ??iriwinmiMw i in?i ? i f >n anything. But maybe in reality } he "souring" is on the pari of the \ )ther party, the one who is charging j he "souring.'' .Be of good cheer. ] brother, the whole tiring will work out rifrht. The world will still go round 1 and round. One of the Georgia phil osophers said in Frank Stanton's ; column in the Constitution the other day something like this: "The world won't stop for you to i saddle your troubles on it. Its con- < tract is to keep you and your troubles rolling on to the brighter side?if you're able to recognize it when you get to it." Now you just get yourself in that happy state of mind to recognize that brighter side when you get to it, and all will be well with you, and the three-fifths of the good citizens of Pickens county will be all right too. and you will find that it is not tney who have the "grouch." (Maybe the editor of the Columbia Record will now change its opinion of Mr. 'Crottrell since we notice that he writes a special to the Charleston American in which he says that it is current in WqcWngton political cycles that a brief is under preparation to be laid before President Wilson set+ins: for*h why :Mr. Please should not be elected, and that it is thought thp nflrp'tiicrPfip-n will pi ukase to the effect that the people of South Carolina should not elect him to the senate. 'Mr, Cottrell seems to be a real newspaper man who writes the news as he finds it and not as he would like to find it. We have the very highest regard for President Wilson, and firmly believe that he is the man of the hour m this world crisis, but if the administration at Washington is to dictate to the people of any State for whom they shall vote, why an election at all? And with all due regard for the feelings of Mr. Dial and >Jr. Rice wo wonder if President Wil?on were com, insr down to South O^rolir? +o sel^t a conotn-r if Via wrm'M select pfthor tho one or the other. Better let the people decide it. That is the foundation on which o^r government is builded pnd for which our forbears fought in the good old dav<: gone by. ALMOST A CENTENARIAN. I \ iUncle Jacob Shealy from the Little ; Mountain section was in Newberry on Monday and came around to see us. We appreciate his fchoughtfulness in paying the visit. We are always glad to see him. -He came over in an automobile and was as happy and cheerful and full of fun and jokes as ever,; and looking well and as young as he did twenty-five years ago. (He says he can still ride that mule just as in other days. If he should live about two months longer he will be 98 yen^s old. We were asking about him, while in the Little Mountain community the other day, and some one told us that he had alreadv passed the 100 mark, hut he says he has not quite reached it, but expects and hopes that, he will. Since the death V?1P r% V? ril r?YV? nfn f-rrrA trOQ "PC Ui mo nci^iua^ auvut urvu j ^ , ago he has been making his homo with his three sons, spending a week at a time at each home. It is a remarkable record of longevity which he has made, and we believe that is due largely to his frugal life and the happy disposition which .has characterized him all along the journey. May he reach the 100 mark is our wish for him. and may his 'health re mam ?ooa. 'Jtie says uiai now ne cau eat anything that any one else car. and it does not hurt him. ? j THE RAIXS. There were heavy rains in practi- j cally all the State last week . In this ; section the rains were heavy and at 1 one time there was every indication Df tihe big August freshet of a few j : * j i jj [ i t Tomatoes ! ! Beans. i t i them for you in any save your stuff. That re well equipped for the >ur work. We stand by ls at Dollar Downys Old i armery Co. | I 11 r , ?. It 1 JCi UCi I, J^ailOgCE received at the cannery on Saturdays. '<j?fs age. 'Bash river on Frid'iy ::f. ernooTi and Saturday morning wa? reported to be the highest it r?d been known for years. At the O'Xeail mil! place on the Belfast road the water rr?n over the road at either approach to the .bridge and that bridge is very high above the water in normal times. Several cf the smaller streams prevented people from driving in their cars to the city on Saturday "because of the swollen condition. Saluda river reached its highest point in this section some time Saturday afternoon or night. It was all out of the hanks all the way as fa? up as the Greenwood line and a1 Chappells the water was out to th? ? j a.? .1,.. A t ? 1 ianruau aacA uai me ptjupit: uuuiu cross there in buggies and wagons or account of the long and high bridge built ?:t this place some years ago. A: the railroad bridge, which is also the wagon bridge over 'Saluda, crossing from the Newberry side to the Green, wood side the approach on the Newberry side was washed away and the lumber which was there for repairs was also floating down stream. I' would have been a good thins- if entire approach on the iNewbsrrv side had 'been washed away, beoa^0e v. needs to be a new one. and if thi onlv wsv to **et a new abutment buil' is for the old one to be taken awa? it would have been well if the wateT had done the work. It has been dan gerous and in bad repair for quite ? while, and had gotten down for < span, and you could cross only bj making a track hy lavin? loose olank; over the part that had fallen in. Su pprvisor Sample says he has let the contract fo^ it.-? to M> T. Floyd, hiit ir^tead of it shoulr h.o fn~ o no-iv <?'r>TirQarh. There is < rrft^<^1 r>f +-2ve) rvor thjc r?ad 4tvepn ^an-va^g anr7 ^"netv S'v an( flprTtvnn'l % r?o r, orr.ron<? T)^afi as this should rot he permitted to to Yr> d~rv> tvo rr.:"ns anci th^ higl wat< r h?""? rfone a e:ood deal of dom ^ rr^j 4./-} rj V. Ip-cr^r* '3 fO^X} ^VT" the darnac^ is not nen^ the val^e t"h? raips have '"pptv to youpg cr^n on th' uplands, and there was a of r, r-inn'e^ in fhi? section and it is cor tainily lo^kin? v/ell no^\ And it i.: arro-'in^r a7?^ th~- pro?T>e"t f">r a fin* crop was never better. A ILL FA-MILT REUNION. The annual reunion of the Aull family?that is the descendants of Wil liam Calvin Aull?was held at Young': Grove near Prosperity on Tuesday They decided some years ago to hav1 an auunal reunion every year on th< first Tuesday in August, and Young': Grove was selected -because of it; central location to the members o the family. Most of them live in o near \rrusyentv ana I'omana ail( across the Saluda in Saluda county And there was once upon a time 5 nice grove at this place, tout it ha: about disappeared and now it is * grove mostly in name. And Tuesda: was a hot day, a real August day, an( we believe the hottest so far of thi: season. There were three sons and thre< daughters of Calvin Aull who grev to manhood and womanhood and rear ^j ? :i:~~ - < - - <ru lttuniics 01 tueir own. Joim M Aull who moved to Edgefield man] vears ai?o? now Sal v da, and his fam r'y descendants are mostly residin? :'n that section. iHe die-] several year, ago. Geo. B. Aull and Adam L. Aui who are now living "In the neighbor hood of Pomaria. Of the daughter; Lizzie married ,Mr. Dominick anr lived near Prosperity. She died sev eral years ago. (Mary married jamc M. Werts and lives at Prosperity Fannie married :Mr. David M. iCromej and lives in Newberry. All the children living were pres ent at the reunion on Tuesday ant many of their children and grandchilc ren and we suppose greatgrandchild ren, we understand in all there wer< about 120 who gathered on Tuesday and spent a couple happy hours to gether. It is a beautiful custom. W( do like to see farJTv loyalty, so oftei lacking In many 'amilies. IFamilie: orv nffnYl ornf J J 1 ' wi/ uilcu fevt D^aucrea, ctiiu sumeumtii foon 'become jmore like stranger? than members of the same household There is nothing more beautiful ii this world to our way of thinking thai the loyalty of members of the sam< family. * * * avwum, mis reunion tn< county candidates had a fairly srooc audience as the campaign was held a the same place in the afternoon an< msnv of the family, even those fron !?aluda, went out to hear the speakers p. P. Tompkins is spending awhile in Newberry again, having ar. -ived from West Green, Ga., after ai ^tended s+av at. the 'home of his sonin-law, ?Mr. V A. Jones. Travis. snn of Ool. ,T. M Davis, is doing well at Annapolis contains Eo alcohol, arsenic no* cttier ;poisonous drugs. ' 8-5 t1 I L ' victims of hum brutality j How Allied Soldiers Suffered When , They First Experienced the Hor,: rors of Kaiser's Poison Gas. i ; Suddenly a great cry rang out: i "The gas!" It was true. Over there from the . enemy's lines, came great greenish ( . balls, rollinc: close to the earth, rolling | , deliberately yet swiftly. rolling j straight toward us, Emmanuel Bour- j cier writes in Scribner's. Gas! That j - horrible thing, still almost unknown, which had been used for the first time ! only recently on the Yser. It. was . coming with deadly surety amidst a / tornado of artillery. Orders were shouted back and forth: 5 "The gas! Put on the masks!" I Eacfr man spread over his face the i protecting cloth. The shelters were > ciosea. me teiepnone, wxiosc wucm ran the length of the communication k trenches, gave the warning: "Look r out! The gas!" We did not yet know what manner of horror it was. None of us had ex perienced an attack of the sort. We ; ran to and fro like ants whose hill : has been molested. Some fired their ? guns at random, others awaited orders. The frightful, vivid thing came > on. expanded to a cloud, crept upon 5 us, glided into the trenches. The air u'hs nnir-klv ohsonre. We were swim > rning in an atmosphere stained a venomous color, uncanny, indescribr able. The sky appeared greenish,- the earth disappeared. The men staggered about and rolled on the ground, stifled. ' There were some knots of soldiers * who had been asleep in their beds t when overtaken by the gas. They r writhed in convulsions, with vitals , burning, with froth on the lips, calling for their mothers or cursing the Germans. We gathered them up as J best we could; we took them to the doctors, who, thus confronted by an l unknown condition, found themselves t powerless. They tried the application of oxygen and ether in an effort to save the lives of the victims, only to see them die, already decomposed, a ?n thpir hnnrls. The masks had not yet been perfectt ed and were a poor protection. Some ran about like madmen, shrieking in terror, the throat choked with saliva, and fell in lfeaps, in contortions of * agODy. Some filled the mouth with 1 handfuls ofs grass and struggled ( against asphj-xiation. ; Saved Ship From Destruction. Capturing a runaway bomb on the deck of a ship during a terrific gale, a United States navy man heroically held on to several hundred pounds of high explosive until it was got to safety This man of iron nerve is John Mackenzie of the naval reserve, who is serving as a chief boats^fain's mate on the U. S. S. Remlits, a converted 5 yacht now on patrol service in European waters. For this extraordinary - heroism Mackenzie has been awarded * a medal of honor and given a gratuity 3 of $100. In the midst of a storm a 3 depth charge, such as have proved so f disastrous to German submarines, broke loose and went rolling about the decks. Realizing the danger, Macken' zie shouted out, "I'll get her!" and . flung himself upon the charging cylini dar. Three times he was thrown from 5 the bomb. The fourth time he got it , and, heaving the charge upright, sat on it and held it down. Here he remained nntil lines were placed around * the bomb. Had the charge exploded 3 it would have blown the ship to pieces. I Mackenzie is a native of Massachua setts and his mother, Mrs. Mackenzie, resides at South Hadlev Palls, Mass. After serving four years in the regu lar navy he returned to service in the fleet naval reserve. 7 , - j Burglary Among Nonessentials. ? i Among the nonessential industries 5 which are almost in a state of collapse i is the ancient and sinister one of bur! glary. According to data furnished by " | a burglary insurance company there '. has been a decided and favorable * Vhange in the attitude of chronic - j recalcitrants since the executive proc$!, lamation of a few weeks ago, direct! ing all ablebodied men between eight een and fifty years old to turn their hands to industrial pursuits. The draft, high wages and federal and - state surveillance promises to reduce J crime almost to the vanishing point. > Many sociologists and criminologists of the modern school will point to this y I as proof of their theories that poverty " i is the principal cause of crime. It will 7 ( no doubt be a potential argument in | favor of a revision of criminal laws a! after the war. 1 3 Had Her Hands Full. - An amateur mission worker fluttered . Into one of the Wert side offices of the j Associated Charities. ' | "Oh," she exclaimed, "I have the I J J J. D^oUtt it It? * SUUUtfSI L'ttStr J.UJ. JUU, ucauj, 11 i quite pathetic. A woman, who has ? been deserted by her husband, has five little children to support. She is too frail to work, and I'm sure there " isn't enough in the house for their next * meal." t "But what Is to prevent you from i taking charge of this case yourself?" i asked the official. "Oh," said the visitor, drawing hercolf Tin hnntrhttlv "T fwnlfln't think of It, you know. Why, I'm doing the l Lord's work!"?Chicago American. , He Is Realiy Peaceful. "They call me a hard tfuv." whanged the would-be tough individual. "They do, do they?" hissed the sher iff of Lone Wolf county, shaking him by the coat collar. "Y-yes-. they just call me a hard guy back home," was the reply, "but really ? I got a soft disposition.* ^ <. T> \ Jt'% ^ u IT*' hs ? i ) I < j i M^nfalc Tib Come and Newber I I ? ? I ! Will I I Whitmire Mod | ! ChappeHs Toe: | To buy war mul (years old weigl _ pounds and over I 1 high and over a highest market Want them at 01 C R. (P Newhei I MHKBKHBHHHHHflMIHBHHMnnMRSnfiHHHi I ! W | j . ITTTTfTiirnmr? I THIS DRAWII PHOTOGRAP means. It's from an actual photograpb c itan Opera singing in direct com New Edison. 1 ^ ? *- 1- ~ 4- > / ? AmnrlrfaKlo oKn ".BUI VVJUa.1. 3 itmoi iwauiv Utsvs fact which we want to drive hom tinguish the artist from the instr lion. This is what we call the t< of the Edison Company's claims The NEW "The Pkonograp It proves that the instrument do i Hundreds of these tone tests ha 2,ooofooo people have attended t] it was the artist he heard and v, lights lowered to hide the sing* pletely baffled. Come into our store and ree* velous New Edison. AGEJ> I GILDEK & j J I 1 t ' -? y >te line or . > \ r i , and Grates ? i see them. \M <m XI Lumber Co. ' ry, S. C. i im i i m i ii??i? mmnsmsammmtm ? ^ mn ? ? iwiiTnyrr . Vloles OC m | | day, Aug. 12 |J sday, Aug. 13 1 1 irum tu ?*u king from 1,000 and to be 61 in. nd will pay the d price for them. M nee. See me quick. gfl at) Wise | ? * rry, S. C. K&V"VHi:'I m ^Wii'if%l ' I M. . i I JuJTV v. 'Jm isr-M ?^ftti?i . ?? SG IS FROM A j M H?That's why it so much >f Frieda Hetspel of the Metropo?- a parison with her own voice on thfl ut this?" you ask, The ac^fl e is that no human ear cofl ument; so perfect is the fl 3ne test. And it proves 1 about EDIS<Hh1 h with a Soul" is Re-Create, not mer^| been iem. And not one couM hei^h^instrumentj jr's lips the audiencfl iive a demonstiation fij ICY AT