The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, May 13, 1919, Page FOUR, Image 4
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wry, 8. as dud dags matter.
E. H. A ILL, EDITOR, j
Tuesday, May 13, 1919.
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We hope that the officers of the
Press association may be successful
in getting Col. Henry Watterson to a^-;
tend the meeting in Greenville audi
make an address. We heard him atj
the first meeting of the association i
that we attended in Charleston a few j
years a<ro and would be glad to hea**!
him again. If he should come it
would create a great deal of interest'
in the annual meeting.
;
While the Germans are studying the
peace terms and objecting and demur- ;
ring by sections Gen. Foch plans to
return to the front. It was to be expected
that the German delegates l
would offer objection to the terms,
but it may b6 confidently expected
that the peace treaty will he signed
by them and they will return to the
occupation of rebuilding their country.
A BIT OF LOCAL HISTORY
f. I don't know that I should write
uwnat I am going to write. Maybe I|
should not. I have been thinking j
about it for several weeks now. While j
it is a bit personal yet not offensive- j
ly personal. On the contrary it is .
meant to be appreciative and at the.
same time to bring to the attention;
some things I iiave been wanting to
say for a good while. And these!
things are not intended to be in the I
slightest degree personal. They are ,
rather meant to be of general appli- :
cation and in a direction that I feel i
should be called to the attention of:
public officials and the public in gen- j
eral. Therefore, what I am going to!
say is intended to be^in the mosti
fcindly spirit, and I trust will be help'i
IU*. ; .
For the past several weeks a number
of kin<t friends have come to me
and expressed the wish that I would
stand the examination for postmasterr
at Newberry. I do not mean that!
there has been any uprising of the'
masses demanding my services in'
that position. I appreciate the kindly,
, interest of these friends. Some of'
r\o+i>nne rtf f Vl O ftfflPO
' Ill-Ill ai C UUl fail uuo ui. vuv VI.UVV
and those who are patrons have been
of both rsucei. , It is very kind of
^ these friends to suggest even that 11
make the effort to get the position. I!
am not indifferent to their interest in j
me and i believe, that it is sincere, j
I flatter myself in the belief that I;
could stand' a fairly creditable exami-1
>. j
nation and that if I did I would stand
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a lair snowing at me appointment, it j
may sound strange to some persons,)
tout at this time I could not accept the1
office if it were offered me without an
.
examination and even without apply- j
ing for it. That being true I will not.
stand any examination. I flatter%my-j
self also in the opinion that if I should
accept the appointment, that I would;
serve the public with entire satisfaction.
?a?
Thic lpflik mo to remark that if
T were postmaster at Newberry or
a Dywhere else my first effort would
be to impress those who were to
x labor with me in the office that the
i
first duty of every one should be ser-j
vice. I would tell them that serv ce
was efficiency and that the most efficient
public servant was the one who
would render the best service to the'
public. That it was all right andj
proper to follow the rules laid down
by the department, but if some techni-1
cal rule should interfere with the pro-!
I>er service of the public I would con- j
sign that rule where a noted public!
man was accused of consigning the
I'UliSUlUllUll li. 1L OUUU1U omuu mui
way. My idea of an efficient public!
servant is to render the best service,
possible to the public. ?I mean this: |
If some one who had a lock box for;
i
instance should come to the office and
say that he had left his key at home
and would like to have his letter, and
if he should not have a box and it was
30 seconds after 6 o'clock, even if the
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rule roroaae me opening me uu* ur,
handing him his mail, I would give it!
to him in spite of the rule. If a per-1
son should come and ask me to send
off a letter thirty seconds after the,
time for closing the mail for any*
train, and the mail had not left the of-1
fice. I would send his letter, and I:
would do it every time he came and
make him feel that it was not only |
my duty to do so fcv.t my pleasure as
well. A civil service or no civil ser
nee. if every one in the office did not
make it his first duty to serve the;
public efficiently nnd politely rnd'
courteously my effort would be to
get some one who would. Now thi*
\z not meant to apply to any one in
^ particular. It is just an expression of
my idea or serving the public. I would
not care to have any one connected
with the office who felt that he
should use his position to punish his
enemies and reward his friends in
the discharge of his duties, or that
he was called upon to be nice to the
one and grouchy with the other. Service
with no resDector of persons
should be the motto.
But there are several reasons why
I could not accept the position. In
the first place a number of friends
have put some money in The Herald
and News, not so much as an investment
possibly, but rather as a personal
matter, and yet I am sure it is
going to pay them if the business is
run as it should be and as I believe
it will be. And I feel that if I should
Jrlr-.Ui-iorl OVOT1 + r\ 1*111 11 TiflW it
ICvl 1HV, V * V&I VV viv..v ..
would be bad faith to these friends
though they could get some one more
competent to take my place. And
besides, I like the newspaper game,
and I have been at it so long I don't
want to quit. In fact I would rather
have the job at much less salary.
And besides I know some enemy, and
I guess I have them, would very soon
be accusing me of "pernicious activity
in politics"" and I don't want to give
them that pleasure. I am obliged to
express myself on matters of public
interest and on men and- measures,
and I want to be free to do so as I
please, and I hope I may always be
pleased to do the right.
?o?
I trust some good man may receive
t' 3 appointment. One who will have
is his motto service and then live up
to it. I don't even know who are in
tending to stand tne examination.
Have made no effort to find out. It
is a very important and a very responsible
position. But as for me I
don't want any job that will cause
me to sever my connection with The
Herald and News.
?o?
These reflections which are made
in the kindliest of spirit and with' the
best of goc! will for every one, lead
me to "be a little reminiscent. I worked
in the postoffice at Newberry a
few years ago for several months. 1
have had some experience in the work.
It was during the time Captain R. W.
Boone was postmaster at Newberry,
and the postoince tnen was m "ine
one story building that stood in front
of the Newberry hotel about where
the Arcade picture show is now oper.
ating. And Captain Boone, though a
republican, was a most efficient postmaster
and an accommodating man.
Possibly there are a few people in
Newberry now who will remember
Captain Boone. He was as neat as a
>
pin and always tried to serve the public.
And Dr. W. G. Houseal also
was a clerk in the postoffice with
Captain Boone for several months.
John Mazyck was there for a number
5 11? J
or years ana generally bervcu luc
general delivery. He always sat down
but he knew every one who would
call for the mail and never had to
ask the name, and eould tell generally
without looking whether there was
any mail there for the persons coming
to the window, whether white or
black. Of course the town was much
smaller then than it is now and not
so many persons asking for mail, and
the business not near so large. Captain
Boone went from Newberry to
Georgite. where he beacme a bank
president and died several years ago.
There have been many changes in
Newberry since those days, and not
many persons in business here today
who were doing business then. There
were no cotton mills here and where
the Newberry mill now stands was
the residence of Captain John S.
Carwile and Captain Mazyck lived in
the house on the corner across the
street southeast from the mill building.
There have been many changes in
the postoffice since that time. Both
in the postmasters and the location
of the office. I think it was Mrs. E.
S. Herbert who succeeded Captain
Boone when Cleveland became presi
dent about 1886. Then when Benjamin
Harrison was elected Mr. Robt
Moorman was appointed and during
his term he moved the office from
the little room in front of the Newberry
hotel to the room in law rang<=
now occupied by Eikard and Long as
a grocery store. When his term expired
and Cleveland was again elected
Mr. Jas. R. Davidson was appointed
Mr. Davidson had been assistant
during the last two years of the administration
of Mr. Moorman. Aftei
the expiration of his term and when
McKinley was president Col. Wm. Y
r uii vv <xz> aj'pvvmitu uuu cuv/cvvuv/? * ?? ,
Davidson and when Mr. Fair retired
Col. C. J. Purcell was appointed. IK
received the appointment through tin
influence of Hon. John L. McLaurin
who was then a senator from this
'State. It was during Mr. Jas. f?
Davidson's administration that he go!
Mr. T. C. Pool and Col. 0. L..
Schumpert to put up the building at
the corner of Caldwell and Friend
streets for the postoffice, the building
now used as a fruit store, and the
office was moved there and remained
j there until the Scott building was
] erectod and the postoffice was in that
build'ng in the rooms now used by
T. M. Rogers and Taylor's barber
; show until the new government build
j ing was erected. Upon the retire!
merit of Col. Purcell Captain W. A.
Hill wa3 appointed and upon his retirement
an examination was ordered
i for the appointment of his successor
j and the examination will be held \at
' Clinton on May 22 or 21. Mr. Davidi
son also served about two years as
' the assistant during the terms of Col.
Purcell. As I have already remarked
it is a very important position and
' I hone some one will be named who
I
i will have as his motto service.
! .And away further back when .Mr.
! Solomon Kinard was postmaster tue
I
i offke was in a liitb <>1U looking
i building that stood m front of the
i Wwhem- in ilalrtwoll street. Mr.
1 1 ?nard was the postmaster for severa
years but that was before I came
to Newberry to live
j -0Maybe
as I caul I should not have
: written this but somehow I just ielt
! Uke doing it and believing that it
i will be read with interest by some
j people, I just d:;d it. I like some!
times to get reminiscent and i feel
that it is well sometimes to give.the
younger people a bit of the past his!
tory of their town and something of
! the men who have lived an'l labored
before they came on the stage.
E. H. A.
j
| Mimnaugh has S9me special values
! in his bio- silk dress sale that is now
on at his store. Some great bargains
in separate skirts may be found here
as well. In fact anything the women
1 want is on sale at a bargain at this
! store.
Haltiw^nger and Carpenter have on
a wonderful sale in voile dresess and
all they ask is for you to come and
look them over and they know you
will go away a satisfied purchaser. /
ADA WARD TO
I CPTIISJC UCDC
LLVIUIie. II l-l IL.
Will Discuss Close Relationship
With Our Allies.
J
Noted English Woman Arrives in
America Just in Time to Begin
, Redpath Chautauqua Tour.
"Getting Together" will be the title
- of the lecture on the opening night
of the coining Redpath Chautauqua by
, Miss Ada Ward, dynamic, eloquent
English woman, just recently arrived
In America, who states the case^6f the
common interest of America and her
allies. Incidentally Miss Ward will
f tell some of her experiences entertaining
the "Tommies" at the front.
Miss Ward first became known tu
Amwiran nnriipnces durincr the war.
She had a wonderful story of life at
the front, and she told It so dramatic I
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! ADA WARD.
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1 ally that she completely captivated her
hearers.
'j After the signing of the armistice
Miss Ward went to France and Germany,
and only came back to the Unit
ed States at the beginning of the Chan11
tauqua season in April. She comes
j here with a vivid story of conditions in
present-day Europe and with a plea
1 for a strengthening of the ties which
I ( bind America and our allies together.
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II Warmth Increases Oil Flow.
. | An electrical method of carrying
; warmth to the bottoia of oil wells has
. been found in many cases greatly to in,
crease the How of oil. The heating
process, gays Popular Mechanics Maga1
zine, decreases the viscidity of the oil,
usually occasioned by the admission
of air to the well and the cooling of the
[ rock bed. Minute crevices and capil.
Iary channels which afford easy p:iss?
age to warm, thin oil become quite impassable
if the oil gums. The electric
heat'ng method not only thins the oil
but oft/ni srenerates gas whose pressure
helps the oil to the surf a eel The system
fo'irul military use abandoned
oil fields of Roumiania and
;' Galicia. f
ASK ONLY FOR FAIR CKANCE VY
I ,A.
Crippf'd SoJdic.rs Are Esjer tc Prova ! '*
Thwy Have Lest None cf Their
i Good American Grit.
| i
; A West Virginia private soldier who
lost a leg: in the war and now goes on nn
crutchas was visiting the national '1111
capital, and while inspecting the j sti
I Washington monument requested a po- j Ot
j liceman to act as a witness for a: ah
j short time. The cripple then proceed- I pr
I ed to climb to the top, 500 feet above of
j the ground and reached by SOO steps. Ici
Tf Ic /'looi' that thle Mthlptp wns not in \V:
JLI, lO v. I V IIA tllMV ?.*??'
j Washington to claim a pension on the so
| prounrl of physical disability. In fact, a
he asks no more than a fair chance to luj
' show that he is fit to hold a job. and p;j
ft ready to prove it. In the main military
hospital in Washington the pa- \v<
tients are publishing a paper called ev
j the "Come F>ack," whose main pur- h:i
I pose is to promote the industrial wel- pr
j fare of crippled soldiers and sailors, on
It gathers information on useful work :*un
for men who recover from amputa1-st<
tions or serious wounds, and wants J w
to ascertain how much they will he
j : ?le to do. not how little, and to en- rj.
coi,"ajre ambitious efforts as far as if.;
poj-v^Me. Such endeavors, for one ;vi
thin?, add to the happiness of those :
! whn nffpn nre merelv classed as un- ; *0
i fortunates. A crippled condition does j Jn
' not necessarily mean a crippled life, j
The jirivilf.ce of being independent , w
I that appealed to Burns as glorious Is 1 st
dear to every healthful nature and :
earnest participant in the duties of p,
, life.?St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
A1
MAY AGAIN BECOME NATION; ^
i jor
I Possibility That Arab Tribes Will Be ?*
Reunited as One Result of ' to
the Great War. ! tfl
! ' i v11
i One of the most interesting figures ^
at the opening of the peace conference ll]
was Prince Emir Faisal, son of the i
lr* 1-1 rr i V? a TTnriin'S tlin l'ltfrpr knfUVn '
J\ 11J \ji uir livwjii/i, i iiv. .. ?
as "the grand old man of the East." He fe
is very handsome and his picturesque'; 111
headdress was well suited to his style. ni
As the prince strode up and down the
room before the opening of the session .
. he was a perfect type of Arab beauty in
and dignity. The representation of his tl'
fine race in the peace conference an-! tli
their present effort to establish their ancient
kingdom recall the generu of
opinion which, I believe, is held amoiig &
orientalists that the Arabs are d'*s- ve
; tinedxultimately to play a big part In m
; the world. I have seen them in the w
districts around the Suez canal and
the Tied sea and have wondered wheth- cc
er they would not again jbecome a N
: great people, muiviauaiiy, seemeu ;
! to me that they were finer than any j
; tfther orientals. As a wandering race j
j they have lacked the co-operation and '
cohesion which enable a nation to
, make -headway. It would be one of ha
| the historic romances if out of the;
j w^orld war the Arabs emerged as an g_(
' organized people prepared to assume
heavy responsibilities in the near j
East ?New York Times. i
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ft rain f?r Alrnhof.
j ^ 1150
.! Obviously nation-wide prohibition
will cut sharply into the use of the ce-'
reals in the manufacture of alcoholic an
, liquors for beverage purposes. At the Fi
j same time it is regarded as assured
; that more alcohol will be manufac- j 11
tured than ever before for use in the j ^
. liberal a<;ts and in manufactures gen-; ?
J erally, this to be denatured and thus
absolutely unfit for drinking purposes. '
Plans are under way, however, for
greatly increased output of alcohol as
above noted, some of this undoubtedly
i to be made from grain, while large
| quantities it now appears will be pro!
duced from cheap molasses brought
j from the West Indies. Official cneraj
ists have been able to secure from this
I not only alcohol but also the use of
j residue for the production of glycerin,
j something of increasingly large con
| sumption. Glycerin is very largely!
j used in making nitroglycerin, transpar- j ?
j ent soaps, lubricants, printers' inks, i *
; etc. |
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Death Brings Joy.
! The reports from manyv parts of the j
i United States that some women of j
an adventurous nature married sol1
diers in the high hopes that the hus- j
i bands would be killed and that they
i would collect the insurance money are
' based on fact, it is believed.
j A young woman, well dressed, went ;
! to the post office at Vancouver, Wash., |
1 .xi? ?/vaaU?a/1 n 1 A+fnr Qhp i
rCCOIlliy Jliiu revcircu a icut*. I
opened, road, and laughed loudly. A ,
man driving a machine in which she '
, rode downtown asked her what wae
j the good news. She astonished him
by replying that her husband had been
i killed and she would get the $10,000
Insurance.
Origin of Famous Dyes.
The famous blue and purple dyes ci
the east, frequently mentioned in history,
were in all probability extracted
from the Roccella lichen, which has
been extensively used in France in recent
years when gorgeous colors were
desired for silks. These dyes are se- j
?3 fha nlonf hrtdv '
| cureu u,y jjuncuwug vv^, j
j termed the thallus, and extracting the i
coloring matter by applying alkali.;
Litmus, one of the lichen dyes, is wide- i
ly applied in Hie science of chemistry, j'
?Te>:iilo World Journal.
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j Production or uuiCKsuver in isio. i
i The domestic output of onirksilvf-r
j in .1018, according to statistics com-!
' piled by F. L. Ilansome, of the United
1 States geological survey, department j
* of the interior, was 33,432 flasks oi:
1 75 pcunus each, valued at about SS,-:
j 94*2,301. Compared with tiie oatput o\ I
j littT ilits shows * decrease ia^uantiijr,,
Ol'LD NOT HEED WAHNIMS!
cr'd Refused to Profit by Exhibition
of German Cunning Given FortyEight
Years Ago.
Alsjioe fnd Lorraine. those f:in;ili:?r
mes. found almost rvery day ii> al- I
i>st every paper; those two ohlong I
rips of country between France and
;rniany?how little some of ns know i
out them, after all. The ex-crown j
ince. In order to prove file ignorance j
onr fighting men, reported an Amerm
prisoner as saying that Alsace :
is a large lake. Perhaps he dld^this |
Idier of ours?and perhaps there was !
twinkle in his eye and a laugh in his |
art when he said it; for our hoys ;
eked a lot of humor In their kits. j
When we come down in it. however, j
? American*?yes. ;ind our'^njriisn.
on our Fren<*h. brothers?tni^Iit \v??H
ve known more of these two "lost
ovinces." We h::?I a chance. Rut in
:r crowded lives many hooks are left
iread: and so it is that these Alsatian
furies, translated from tiie French of
o authors who wrote under their j
mhined names ? of Eivkmann-Chat- j
n were little known except to col- j
fe students. Even then, the prophecy j
"sicli these hooks cnntnin went tin- i
?eded?a warning so plain, so certain, j
i convincing, tnar as we read 11 now i
the light of what Germany has done J
ese last four years, we wonder it
as not trumpeted to ijs in every
reefc
In their book, "The Plebiscite, **
rckmann-Cha train gave us not only
e tragic story of what happenetNin
Isace jind Lorraine in 1870 and 18<l.
it warnings of the German designs
i the rest of the world. Before most
1 us dreamed of this awful war, they
Id the story of 4<S years ago. and in
e telling pointed a certain finger to
ie future. Only a year after the
ranco-Prussian war ended, after picring
freshly remembered German
uralities, they said:
"Those who shall come after will
e"worse things .tlwn this; since men
a TT/~>1 vac: fnvoc h?nvt? r?\vl<5 fi 11 this
nst come round again.
"Those Germans are the most per- j
ct spies in the world; they ccme
to the world to spy, as birds do to
lieve; it is pnrt of their nature. Let
ie Americans and all the people who ;
e kind enough to receive them think j
' this. Their imprudence may some
ty cost them dearly. I am not in;nting;
I am not saying a word too
uch. We are an example. Let the ,
orld profit by it."
That was our warning almost half a j
knrury ago.?Ariadne Gilbert, in St. j
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niiuiao.
NOTICE.
No jury cases will be heard at ttye
ay term of court, hence jurors who
ve been summoned need not come.
Jno. C. Goggans,
3 2t , * C. C. C. P.
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All rolls developed 10c; packs 20c
>; prints 21-2c, 4c, 5c; enlarging
c up. Specialists?we do nothing
t kodak finishing. All work guartteed
to please. Eastman Kodaks,
lms, Suppliea I
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From factory to your house.
$200. The Sculz Piano has
The Prescott & Cote cannot
Will discount any mail order
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Newber
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Gardeni
WW
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So has our coi
Landreth's
We carry Landre
well as in packet ai
of getting reliable i
We have secured
of beans this year
! you need.
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Distressing j
Headaches
T
Medical investigation proves that
75 per cent, of headaches are directly
due to eye strain. ^
Eye strain can be relieved by cor- U
rectly focused and fitted glasses.
If you hare the headaches
We have the glasses ^
E. C. PIERCE
. Optometrist ^jj
CAROLINA OPTICAL CO. V
30o Exchange Bank Building ^
NEWBERRY, S. C. *
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TO LOT OWNERS
ROSE3IONT CEMETERY.
!
Having bought an additional strip
oi land adjoining Rosemont cemetery,
rv />?T 1 /? M A A J A. MA? <* ? o ^
me iiiuuc,y i& uccucu uu pay tur same. /
It is desired to raise the funds by the J|
collection of amounts due on unpaid *40
for lots, of which there are a good
many. The deeds of conveyance have
been placed in the hands of Mr. R
H. Greneker for collection.
R. Y. Leavell,
Sec. and Treas. Trustees Rosemoni
Cemetery.
666 cures Bilious ^ever. SJ? tf
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SCHEDULE. *
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| The following is the new schedule- '
| effective Sunday, April 13, 1919: f
I * Southern
jxo. 15 to Greeville due at Newberry
at 8:48 a m.
!No. IS to Columbia due at Newberry
I at 12:30 p m.
jXo. 17 to Greenville d'ie at Newberry
! at 4:05 p m. /
Xo. 16 to Columbia due'at Newberry
! at 9:30 p m.
* '
C., X. & L.
Xb. 55 to Columbia due at Newberry
at 9:53 a m.
Xo. 12 to Laurens (mixed) due at
! Newberry a< 9:44 a m.^ *?
iXo. 52 to Laurens due at Newberry
| at 1:00 p m.
jXo. 53 to Columbia due at Newberry
at 3:38 n m.
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'No. 13 Columbia (mixed) due at
| Newberry at 5:30 p m.
No. 54 to Laurens due at Newberry
at 6:15 p m. ,
Yours truly,
T. S. Lefler,
Ticket Agent. /'
Opr. & B-O-I.
666 cures Malaria Fever. 8-5 tf
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Saves you from $100 to '
no superior in ton or finish.
be beaten for the price.
' house in the United States ' *
Factory Agent,
Ty, 5. <J. |
ng Time
Come ,^f
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mplete stock ot i
Garden Seed
ith's seeds in bulk as
ad you can be sure
teed either way.
t
I a very large stock
and can furnish all
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