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1*1"* CUD Jem,'; Iitered at the Postoffice at N?tt? Wrry, S. C?, as 9?d class matter. \ E. H. AULL, EDITOB. j| Tuesday,, .xo vemoer iy, iyia. lj ACTING CHAUFFEUR. i1 J Not exactly in the capacity of a cjhanffeu^r either, but lor the lack of a better title to what I am going to, write I have adopted the words at the!{ head of this article, and I had no j other business except to hook up 111 i ^ and take a friend. Somehow I seem |1 to prefer to do a !!avor and help a i1 friend, to doing my own work. I really:' i. enjoy doing a favor to one who ap- 1 preciates it, or makes me believe that 1 he does, especially when there is 110 j monetary compensation for it. Ami In' this case I am sure the apprecia |1 tion was genuine. I have heard of 11 people who loved the dollar so well i that they could never understand ] how any one could take pleasure in < any task in which there was not hope . of monetary reward. And they aref< the ones^who generally have the dol- i lar, but I feel sorry for them for as < a rule the only pleasure they get out ( of the dollar is the satisfaction of 1 knowing they have it, and they do not ] know how to spend it, nor ac uiey t enjoy the delights of spending Wei!, ? I will never be rich or be accused, of \ hoarding, "but I am going to get all ] the pleasure out of life that I am eu- i titled to, or it won't be my fault, and l the greatest pleasure I find in life, t and I have had a rather varied expe- j rience, is in^giving pleasure to others, j This is a little off the subject, but? ] A gentleman remarked to us the t other day that he did not know what 1 the newspapers would write about i +Ko+ t>io Tfoy TQ nver { "VTT bUUb VM.V ITbbA v w. y ?>~>V4 ??i answered it himself, before I could 2 tell him that the trouble we always 1 found was not what to write about, J or what to put in the paper, but what. 1 to leave out. His answer was wo could take a trip and then write about it. Maybe so, but as I have frequently 1 remarked there is no compulsion on ] any one to read about these trips, and f there is always plenty of other good j ? -~ ?? -? olc? r rvilQXIIg ill LliC papci) ^cioviiuu, 2 and "various and all about," and a 1 vtLole lot of other things that are ? worth a whole lot more than we < charge for the paper, so if the "trips" < become monotonous why just skip ] them over, because we really love to j take a Kttle trip now and again, and j then we love to tell/the story, not in 1 any ego style, but somehow we sec ] so many tnmgs tnat piease, ana we always love to write pleasant things, and try hard not to write anything that is unpleasant or that will sting or hurt. Sometimes we can't help just a little* hit of that kind, but we always try to he parliamentary. ^But? For several years now I have been promising my good friend, that veteran rural carrier, Mr. W. G. Peterson, Judge Peterson, as we call'him. to take a round with him some day and let him know just how 111 can carry the mail. So on last Tuesday evening I told him we would make that trip on Wednesday, providing it was not too cold and I could get 111 started. It was the coldest morning of the present winter, in fact the first really winter morning, but I managed to "crank up" and after that we had 11- a "LI- A A tA.OA *rra I no irou Die. At xv.ov piuiupu.t n>3 j made the start. We got back about ] three o'clock in the afternoon, and ? could have made the trip some sooner, t but I took it^ leisurely and we made a t stop or two and I wanted to see the s country and the farms and the crops, s And then I have never acquired the speed lust. Judge Peterson had been on the f sick leave for a week or ten days on S account of some trouble with his e eyes. He has been riding this route a now for about seventeen years, in t fact is one of the oldest in point of t service of the rural carriers in these d parts. The first route in this county \ was from Slighs, and it was among v the first to be established. Mr. Peter- i, son is riding the first route establish- e ed from this postoffice. It was a real r pleasure to observe how proud the t patrons of this route were to see their o nowior <vn the ride, and 1 the expressions of pleasure and the % tokens from the patrons of the route c was evidence that they love their rider t; and they -should because if there is C one carrier in the -service who tries t to serve his patrons, and who is care- " ful of their interests it is Mr. W. G. d Peterson. He tries to serve nis pa-11 trons in the true sense of the term I service, and is withal accommodating o and obliging, and why should not tbo h people appreciate it. And I believe b they -do. His route is out the Belfast a road to the Lewie place and thence n to the Waldrop place and out to v rrinity church and thence to Long-1 < chore's store and the Floyd place back |' ;o Bush River church or M. M. Satter- ! ( white's and thence back to Longshores! 1 md down the Belfast road to Newberry. He says the route is only 28 niles, but counting the roads I would . >ay the route is nearly twice that . long. He serves the Semis, the Boozers, the Longshores, Spearmans, . Schultz, Floyds, Bishops,y Shealys, Crouch, Adams, Martins, Wilsons, ( Teagues, Clarys, Johnsons, Hendrix, , Pitts, McKittricks, Davenport, .'Setter- . white, Clelands, Henderson, Chappell, Neel, Abrams, Waldrops, andj others, names familiar in all the his-! ( tory of Xewberry and famous in!. i peace and war. It is a* fine section of j the county and the crops were good j this year, and at nearly every farm house there is evidence of money in i the shape of several bales of cotton 1 oiled in the yard, but? -0- M I could not help but wonder why (; :hese good people refused to vote those j bonds for the building of good roads': under the act of the legislature I had passed some years ag-o at the request J Df 'Mr. L. W. Floyd who lives in \~ewberrf, hut who is one of the largest taxpayers of the township and svho was anxious to help the people < )f his old home have some of the lomforts of living, even if it did cost lim something. The road is bad and [ do not see how Mr. Peterson man-j tges to get over it when the rainy i j season comes and the roads get cut; i :p by the travel. <No wonder at takes ] ' lim all day in his buggy to make the j, round. Some of the road is just bare-jJ y wide enough for one vehicle and j :he land is cultivated on either sid*!; right up to the road. If the people* j: lad voted the bonds and built the j roads at the time the election was 1 ann hail maintained them,' ;hey would now have good roads over i ivhich to drve their cars, hut as it j s the roads are no better, if as good is they were in the early days of the epublie. The burden in tax would lave been very light and the investnent would have proven profitable. But they would not. There are three schools along this J; oute. The one at Trinity which was nade a two |pacher school or rural graded school and voted a 4 mill tax tor maintenance during my term as superintendent of education along vith some half dozen others. The ;chool at Bush River and the Smyrna school. This latter is also a rural graded school and has two teachers, j [t was so established under the sti- j jerintenaency or Mr. ueo. lk xsrowu , ind has a modern building and has j >een moved out on the BelJast road, [t is taught this year, I was told, by Hr. and Mrs. G. G. Sale, and is ortunate in having such experienced md excellent teachers. I know that Mr. Sale is a competent and most ex:ellent instructor. I would say that [ once was a pupil of his and know vhat I am talking about, if I was not tfraid that he would not like to be ionsidered puite so old. And withal ;here is no finer gentleman, high-toned ind honorable, in this country; As ny cousin, Geo. Haltiwanger would >av. he has the right sort of pedigree. ^.nd that counts, especially in a school eacher, because the teacher shou'l 3e more than simply a hearer of lessons and an instructor in the books. 3e needs to teach the far more important things which have to do with ;he duties of the good citizen and the ligh-toned and honorable gentleman id cultured and refined woman so ong the proud boast of our fair iSouthand. and the proper courtesies and imenities that are due to one another a n make life worth the while, some- | hing that I am almost persuaded sometimes is conspicuous by its absence in the teaching in our schools. One of the purposes of my taking he trip just at this time was to stop or a lttle while to see Mr. M. M. >atterwhite who it will be rememberid was injured a few days ago from , fall from his wagon. I had heard hat the accident was <juite serious. >ut to our pleasant surprise when we Irove up to his home we found him valking down the road from the field rhere they were digging potatoes. He 5 erettiner on fine, but suffers consid ;rably and will be some time in fully ecovering. He has one of the pretiest country places hereabout. An ild and well built house erected in 818 and a beautiful hickory tree .Tove in front, makes it an ideal :ountry place. It is on the ma.'n horoughfare of the olden time from Chester to Augusta and was known in he days of the stage coach as the White House" from the fact that the 1;-" ~ i-rroei T\01? + 0/1 whlto O Tl f? Itl .WClIiUg nrao uuu hose days was considered a mansion, t is well built as all the old houses f that day were. Mr. Satterwhite as added a couple rooms to it. Why .e ever left it even for a temporary bode in Xewberry, I told him I could ot understand. There is no place in rihch to live like the rural districts ' 3f this fair Southland. Mr.'i9atte white has the sword which his fathe 2ol. John Satterwhite, carried durir the war of the sixties. Another tiling I have never be< ible to understand is why the peop who live in the rural districts of th fair land do not give more attenti( to the matter of their homes, and 1 this I mean in arranging the . litt conveniences and comforts whiv cost so mue ana mea.ii &<j muuu the good women who keep tha homes. They have plenty of ever thing that is necessary, but so mai conveniences, especially in this d< could be added, which would light< the burden of the women and ma! country life so much, more comfoi able, and would cost so little. T! daily mail service is a gTeat thin?, ? greatest, ever undertaken by the go ernment. The telephone is a gre convenience. Why not add water worl and lights and put the kitchen ai dining room closer together and < many other little things that wou save so many steps for the tin BEAT GERMANS AT OWNCAME I'lATTIffA M A' U aimcc vnuiuou tyL>tiov Headache Tablet In Which Ti Heart Depressing Tendency Counteracted by Heart Tonic Elements. Aspitone, the nam In August, 1914, when the war coi menced, many of the newer remedies pi scribed by our American physicians ai druggists were "made in Germany." 1 day we are making all of them for 01 selves and for half of the globe. During the first four years of the w American genius, prompted by necessit has concentrated its attention upon t chemical industries. American discover! aave followed in such rapid succession th only the scientific journals have been at to chronicle them all. The latest and o: of the most serviceable in the field medicine is the perfected headache tab] called Aspitone, in which the heart c pressing tendency is deftly counteract by heart toning elements. Physicians and druggists maintain th it should and will take the place of i powders and tablets for headaches, ne ralgia, colds, la grippe and general pail They explain that Aspitone gives simr relief from the pain, which if c-hron should of course receive diagnosis by physician. NOTE: The product referred to abo is sold only in unbroken packages, prl 35c, and may now be obtained at P. E. WAY, DRl CrGIST. GILDER & WEEKS CO. " t By c sell at pi 1918, at Warehoi charges, The sam sale post Goo - tity or Vc m. Ten rnuiMRi wuumisi November ] r" housewife. Put a little paint on the | home. Plant a flower garden and make the home attractive. With all I these things there is no place in I which to live equal to the rural dis in | trict of this Southland. Of course there le i should be the good road. A little cois I jy ' 19 ? "The Phoi y Marie Tiffany singing in direct cc yy I parison with a re-creation of 1 I i voice on the New Edison. is | ig e. 21 e id 'oir ar 7, he es at >le ne of et l IC~ ed at ill u1S. lle =! Gilder & W ammmmmmmmmmmmammmmm?mmmm?mmmmm?mmmmmmKmmammmmmM ^^SBSt^^SSSSSSSBSSK^SSBS^^B^SSK^ ib"^ ! in i le of I liwrrinn of the F iblic auction on ? the Columbia, Ne ise, Newberry, S. im/?loinriDrl sinri Yt IftAAW&C&AAAJWV* IMAM * 1 e items advertise* poned. ds sold without g due. Sale will o 11s cash. : : mjam?mmmmmmmmammmmmmmammmmmmm A, NEWBERI J. W. DENN Lotti, iyi?. - - operation would bring this. But? ; ?o? This trip is already too long. That i is the write-up is too long. I thank Judge Peterson for the pleasure which j he gave me in permitting me to ^o this round with him, and hope some j nograph Wv 1 After hea and Edis< her voice side 1 musician called "The Phonograp] MARIE the Famo made this same tes 1.1 I recently, ouu mui test and not one c ulsh her actual voi Creation of it. _ Wouldn't it be mber have Marie Tiff an; ists sing and play f chose?right in yoi they do on the o; A W m m stager in only twc one by having the home in person or The NE\ which will bring to ist can bring, exc presence. > rviay we soon i to explain to you Edison Re-Creation of mental refreshr AGENCY AT : Weeks C Jnclair rd rre t i . m & reignt uaim as iaturday, Novell wberry & Laure V/.J 1U1 HClglli c sfused articles c A for sale Octot uarantee of qua 1 A ommence at iu iY&LAUR] A J. Agent - - - - - Ne day in the near future that it may he convenient for him to repeat it. Ill is all rght except the cranking up. But we are learning that ?ame also I love to go to the country on trips and some day even yet I hope to get back there to live. E. H. A. ?=n \ th a Soul" ring a noted noted rn's Re Creation of 3y side, a famous | ! The New Edison ^ ti with a Soul." TIFFANY, 1 ?15 Soprano it at the opera, house sic lovers heard the >f them could distingce from Edison's Rea delight for you to J y and other great art- m or you any time you ^ it own home?just as peratic and concert > ways it is possible, * nvfict sanneav* af vmn? by possessing V EDISON y ou all that the art- J :epting her physical V 1 lave an opportunity K how you can make is a constant source nent for you, ompany ^ ??-======= f n/}/f I ri^u t ight / L a. f I jciu, i win iber 30th, ?ns Freight | md other F >f freight. >er 5, but I ility, quari- 1 o'clock a. jj fl IB ENSR.R. | wberry, S. C. J