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^fralU aii0 jam i v_ ... ... Eatered at the Postof&ce at Newberry, S. C., at 2nd class matter. E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Tuesday, February 3, 192Q. ^ ?$><$> <4> vy < > \}> <$> < "> <?> Watch the label on your paper and renew before the ^ time is out. We can not send ?? notices. All subscriptions ex<$> t>ire on the first and fifteenth of the month. We are forced <?> <$> to adhere strictly to the cash in advance system. When ^ your time is out the paper <$> wiH be discontinued if you have not renewed. We would *> be pleased to have you remain <? ^ with us. If vou desire to remain in <s> <?> the family, renew promptly <S> & and you will not miss an issue. <?> * <S> <$> A REMINDER. Just as a reminder to our subscribers we desire to repeat that we do not send notices when subscriptions ex1 pire and that we correct our list just after the first and fifteenth of each month, and that this is just after the first and all whose subscriptions expire on the first of February will be taken off after this issue unless you renew -or notify us that you will do so the first opportunity 3?ou have of coming to town or of sending the money. In these times we have to have the money with which to keep - ' 1 the wheels turning and since we nave adopted the cash in advance rule we try to adhere to it strictly and take off names regardless, but if the subscriber finds it inconvenient to pay just on the minute and will notify us to continue for a time it is always our pleasure to accommodate. There is a line opportunity now for the new real estate firm of Keitt and Caldwell to do a great service for the community and at the same time get their new "business at once on its feet and going some. They are both young men and full of the vigor and enthusiasm of youth and with the years stretching out "before them. The Herald and News mentioned a few issues back the great need in this town for a real building and loan association, one that would help and , encourage the young men of the community and the older ones as well to own their own homes. Such a busi ness is in line witft tne reai estate business and the two would harmonize and dovetail into each other most graciously, and such an institution would be a great community builder, and these young men would have very little trouble in raising the stock necessary to put such an. enterprise on its feet, and we hope they will take hold of the matter as the first effort in their new firm and The Herald and News will do all it can to aid and assist them. What do you say? One can scarcely wonder that the price of news print paper is advancing in price and becoming scarce when here comes the Greenwood IndexJournal with a 24 page edition on Sunday and it is said that the senators talked 7,300,000 words into the j Congressional Record on the one subject of the peace treaty, and just to think are going to talk some more million words into it, and then extra : copies will have to be furnished to j 1 j.1 oil ponntrv. . senu tntricr ?uiuc an ? ... ^ Lots of people will read the Index-; Journal of Sunday because it is a ^ good newspaper and always has some-t thing interesting in it and something worth while, but so few people will t read all these speeches about the j peace treaty that it does seem to be ; a reckless waste of good newspaper.! The folks up at Washington we no j.:? tr, vonli,7o tVmt the 11CC cit e in 11?ii?.v * ^^ ? t only way to reduce the high cost of living is to increase production, and the high prices for wages and the : short hours being demanded are all j luring away from the farms to the ; cities the very people who have been : producing the things that go into the living program. When these fellows out on the farm begin to demand shorter hours and more pay then you are going to see things soar. The remedy for it all is not to be found in legislation either. In fact much ~ tVmt ha? had Oi me ic^iciukivn v ? has had the tendency to increase rather than diminish the cost of living. It wiil all work out right before so long. Some people may suffer in the process Vu. i" w'1! con:? r I girt, nn 1 the i: 'I j\\ who -"0?* along and does the thin; r he has o do in the right t v and is honest and upi ,v"; conic- along unhurt and un by iV* ?ircfc ba !] > ? ]?;. \e:r :I r> hi" ; - ?. rcuiml : . . Th' b f \ ^ ' i I *" * *> '; t r- * ; M t..C \.Ox?lvJ Ui.vi v. 'w right and justice are immutable. I There is always more or less un} rest following a war and this is the } greatest war of ail history out of j which we have just emerged, and it : will take some time for everything j to get adjusted, but things wili get ; right and people will bccome normal J again and the restlessness will dis; appear, ^he old world is all right | and the great heart of the world will I again settle at the right place. ; SOME OBSERVATIONS AND ABOUT OTHER THINGS ! Under this head I wrote a story for the last issue a portion of which ! did not get in the paper, and inas! much as it is in type I am just goj ing to continue it in this paper. I ! hope it will not be out of place even j if some of the statements are a little I out of date. I might add that I i notice from the papers that the J Abbeville delegation in the legislature I | is proposing a bill to permit the people of Abbeville to vote on the bond j issue of $600,000 bonds for the up-! ! building of roads in that county. I ! was in Abbeville just the other day ; j since the story below was written and | it was a pleasure to see how the good ; {town was going at the matter of , j building streets and what a great im-t i provement it is for the town. I have j I not seen anything from Columbia j ' which makes a noise like building < ! roads for Newberry though ourj 1 members may be doing something. 11 j they fail the people will have an opportunity the coming summer to j j select a delegation that wUl at least. let the people themselves say what! j they want and if they are satisfied,! with the present roads then it is up j? , to them. ! | 0 j, j I have been up and down the third ; j district some three or four times dur-:: ing the past four months in connec-; < ' * ? ?1. - ? *1*^ nn /I i Lion Wlin my worn m uac icusuo, anu I have really enjoyed meeting: the j good people and renewing old ac- j quaintance. I have been in all of the j counties and &t the county seats at, least twice and in some of them more j times. I have found the people clever and nice and the county officers upon ; T lioro tn hpln me fret ill >>111/111 X iiCi ? V VV?A4W* %v *.v.r ? formation and the newspapers have . i been of great assistance in the per- 1; formance of the duties imposed upon ; 1 me in this work. In fact without j' the cooperation of the newspapers I < do not see how the work could have been done at all. Speaking about the census the de- i partment at Washington does not i peri lit any one connected with the i work out in the field to give out s any information regarding it, and I i p,,nriA" ^ ic wall hnt". it. would not! i ouyyvoc iw fi v v.. ? _ _ | be giving out any information that i I the enumerators may have obtained 1 ; for the government for me to say i that the work is getting along very < | nicely and will be completed in prac- ] ; tically all of the enumeration dis- 1 tricts by the end of this week. There <* are a few districts in which it will ] take possibly a couple of weeks to 1 finish up because of sickness on the < part of the enumerators and the re- < i cent bad weather, but fortunately the 1 i weather has been fairly good since 1 ' the first of January and the greater i part of the work in the field could be completed. It will take the office at cnmp whilp to check ud the < ?" ? J ?- * work and get trie papers off to W ash- s ingrton.( ?o? J You know this third district is a i fine one and I believe the best in ? the state, and it is close up to the largest in population, and certainly > second if not first in the state in point 1 of manufactures. And you know that < if I was going to move from New- f berry and wanted to get a good coun- ^ try where the land is fertile and the < scenery is beautiful and the climate t heathful I believe that I would go s either to Pickens or Oconee. There ? are some fine farms in these two J counties and some handsome country j ? residences and you can grow cotton I v I and corn in abundance all over the j ^ counties and there is less danger of j t the boll weevil. And as for corn J ? 1 ? ? coil* C ill! I 1 ine imcst vuu cvci oti?> jiivM.o ..... , over these hills and in the valleys. t ?o? T Then there is the baby county of 1 McCormick in which county I had jc never been to any great extent until '1 I got in this work. It is a fine coun-1s ty and has some fine farms and is re- j * plete with historic interest. The city 1 of McCormick is to vote on a bond |1 issue very soon to build a court house, js The court house has not yet been i1 ? built but the people are wide awake j1 and are building roads and the far- iA mers are prospering and there are?* magnificent farms in this county. By .? the courtesy of Col. William P. ; Greene of Abbeville I had the oppor- 1 cf d^'virg from Abbeville ' across country to ?.I'Cormicl: on of my i: ;i"' ! the ro:"{ - : ? .1.1 i trvoi"".1" ?re n'.i-.. sv Abbeviiie ar.ri v.\tr A v>ch set- ; :. - it win iv : ; ?<s i v.*c ' :.v . di-. .1 x the place on this trip and also had i stop at the Pettigrri place. The olc house that was built of. logs awaj back before the Revolution was thei standing and many pieces of the oh colonial furniture and oil paintings o: the Pettigru family were still in th< hou^e and the long lane of oaks lead ing up to the house, trees planted bj Mr. Pettigru himself, makes a pie tuesque driveway of nearly or quit< a mile up to the old home. And ii front of the house is a sun dial th< second one in the state so far as ' know, the other being in the city o: Barnwell. Shortly after I made thi: Vimico on/? rill fVio nlr U jp IIIC U1U I1VUOI/ UI1U ua> ?<v v? furniture and paintings were destroy ed by fire. It is a great pity. Th< property is still in the family. A Miss Alston was living there at th< time of my visit. She is a grand oi great grand neice of James Pettign the famous lawyer. These places ar< in the county of McCormick that por tion that formerly was part of ol< Abbeville. And McCormick has on< of the best county newspapers in th< state under the control and manage ment of Editor McCracken. Clerl TrkTVkoi-f orid Anr?itnr Pprtna were of great help to me in dividing the county into enumeration districts This will be the first census for th< new county. Anderson and Greenwood o: course are among the leading countie: in the state in commercial and indus trial progress and they are goinj: ahead in the matter of road building The talkine period is over. Actua work is in progress. In Anderson i bond issue of a million and a halj has been authorized and the bond! sold and the forces are now building roads. Supervisor King told me th< other day that they expected to builc about 200 to 250 miles of this roac including the mam arteries of th< county and that he was building anc arranging to have all the cross road* leading to the main highways put ir fine condition and that he was asking and securing the cooperation of th( people who lived and owned propertj along these roads and they were dividing the cost with the county anc in this way within five years Anderson will have a net work of as fine roads as you will find in any county, and that is what will make any county a desirable place in which to live, There are fine farms all over this big ?ounty. ?o? Greenwood has also provided a jond issue for roads and the work is iow in progress. The Dixie highway s one of the first roads this county s building. That road if I understand it will connect the up country vith Augusta and goes via Edgefield and on to Greenville and Anderson md Atlanta. And during this month work will be in progress on the road trom Greenwood to Ninety-Six and >n down toward Chappells and if tfewberry would just cooperate and Duild from here to the Saluda river ind connect with this road by Chap Dells it would greatly shorten the dis:ance from Newberry to Greenwood ind then it would give our friends at Dhappells an opportunity to come tc dewberry on just as good road as :hey will have to Greenwood. We ieed to wake up along this line. Old Abbeville is one of the finest md most delightful counties in the :*nt? Vipv nf thpm nil in this listrict, and the home of lawyers and urists and statesmen. The old town s putting down miles of paved streets md will ere long build some roads, rhe roads now are very good in dry veather and when there is not much ain. I have about reached the contusion that the only way we can lave any roads in this country worth vhile and that will last any length >f time and will stand the wear of he big ears and trucks is to limit the ipeed of the cars and the trucks to t reasonable mileage per hour for ust as sure as the cars and trucks ire driven as some people drive now ve will not be able to have any roads vorth while that will last for any ime it matters little of what material ve build. Newberry needs to wake ip in the matter of road building and here is no better time to start than 'ight now. There is no better couny in which to live than this good >ld county. I was born on her soil ind when the final sleep comes I de:ire to rest in the same soil, but ;here are some things we need to do md the great one just now in a naterial way is to build roads and streets. And if this legislature does iot give the people an opportunity o do something then this coming year ,ve will see if we can not find a delegation that will be willing to do something and at least let the people say what they want to do and not undertake so much wet nursing for as. In r.H *.!) ;-( '..hroucrh '.lie coun:ies of th-s disf' kt I rarely heard the question of politics a*:*! ("ivdM^ts? v. ^ntioned. Of course"it was not my : n " -ss to tal-c politi'-s or to si: lire : :: l I <r . L* u :C ; 1 and t.'.'i s ,'l ???-? i Mult 7 j Some extra old mules c ; Kentucky r 1! " i 1 A. r r > > j ' 'l ? ^ j see and hear just a little bit. After 5 , rli'nrf t-Viot Wws nnrT j VtlU'V UA W4V*W . *..w *,w*. ? *...v " I Courier the other day reviewing the > political situation as seen at the legis | lature, I did recall that I heard one * man say something about \ the con1 gressional race in the third district, ^ and evidently he had been a warm 3 supporter of Mr. Aiken in the days > flint are cone mainlv on account of J the personal relations and friendships * existing between his family and the * Aiken family. I notice this article of i Cormack's says that there will surely * be opposition to Mr. Dominick in the * third district, that it was almost cer- j 1 tain that Captain Henry Tillman ? would make the race. From what I ? 111 :^i i_u.: ? ! ' couici near wim n<> uimh^ wji m) paii Captain Tillman is so busy just now j ' practicing* law and making money at j ' it that he is not even thinking1 about | fooling with politics, though I have ! not seen Captain Tillman himself in ' several months. And this article is the only suggestion that I have seen or heard of any one opposing Mr. j : Dominick. It will be a pretty big j job for any one to beat Dominick the j coming summer. He has always been j 1 strong in Anderson and tms time ne ' will get support he never had before and there is no one who can take it away and he will not lose any support i ' he has heretofore had. And in the . other counties he is just as strong : and even stronger than he has ever 1 been. It will be a great big man's 1 job to do anything toward his defeat I fV>?c crimmpr Rilf. as I sav it WaS not my business to talk politics and I never did, but being able to see and hear slightly I could not help it. ' j E. H. A. i The Herald and News stated when 1 the law was enacted creating the ; state tax commission that when the 1 commission got down to the place i where they would be adding to tne assessment of real estate then there ' | would come the howl because it is a j : fact that all real estate is assessed | : at much below its actual value and j even on the basis of a 42 per cent, j ? valuation it will cause a great in-! I crease in the assessment. . It is coming now. As a matter of i fact the productive value of the real j estate should be considered when it' comes to the assessment for taxation, j and maybe that is being done, but there was a strong fight cva'nst the i commission and it is said that it was largely against the personnel of the ! commission. That is a compliment to ,! the chairman because it is evidence j that he is raising the assessment of i i some of the classes of property that : have heretofore been escaping a part j of the tax they should pay. Bolph Jones is the chairman of the I commission and he probably knows ; more about the tax laws and th? tax system of this ?tate than any other one man. He won again in the legislature but when he gets all the property on the tax books and gets it I somewhat equalized then they will I get his scalp, but when they do they I will turn down one of the best in-1 formed men on the subject in the; state. There is great inequality in the tax assessment and will continue to be so long as taxes are levied and human nature remains as it is, but we can approximate more nearly an equal assessment than we have now, and as we understand it that is what Dolph Jones and his tax commission are endeavoring to do. I Venustiano O.rranza, of Mexico. j bccran his present term as n resident | * * i Jar.unrv IS, 1915, but had previous-} y held the prri for three monJis ia ! 1014. ?? ? . i An irr-fratic. : < aai l.e'.ig fcialt or: the Murray river ia Australia will j ];e nfnety-'fcar feet h:; h and \v:iI , ' i l.-:n0.r0')-:.-:-o of. i \ a c I 1 W O 1 ? ? i good six to s >n hand, will mules last of w a wk Prosperity, S. C. Highest Pr for Countrj Until we finish our t be about ten days, we bushel for good sound nuts, first grade, $3.0 eggs, 60 cents per d cents per pound; turl pound; butter, fresh, 4 We have a good sup and a fairly good suf Also a complete line oi turn plows, middle bus' i?v-p I\J? liCtl VV Cll Our line of Shoes, I and Groceries are com will pay you to see us 1 Our stove and furn you money. Call and see us. W. P. Den Little Mount 0 Mules Mul Will land Wednesd with my third car of -I or A J ^ ^,-1, | 160V puunu mare muit Be sure to see them Remember the motto "LIVE AND I W.B.; Little Mountain ? . _____ T. E. Keitt jcl r l\Cill UC V, Real Estate and All K We wish to announce our < and insurance fields. It is prompt and courteous attenti with us. We solicit your pati Office: Room 401 Ex< I SALE OF ?r.0S?ER!7Y LOTS Ian Instead of o Vrir.rr my place forj*ni rr.io i:ary 2. I have decided to j o:i it vc i: to buildin;r lots, opening up a sirec; i:i the center. Pints; on j f tbcs" ivs -/nay be seer by ca/t-j rci in* c:i me. Will be odd at the Court j <h< !! m x*cv*'%er: y 5";.Icv,.:av in j ;h< i Ai.trch. Will be f.rst oiifered in I.vis J ! , ^ 1 <4 I ' even year ; have car j 4 eek. 1 5E i 1 m ices Paid , S n 1 r rroauce hird ear, which will will pay $4.25 per [ peas sacked; pea0 per bushel; for ozen; chickens 25 > ceys 30 cents per j r n fpnt.s npr nniind. i v ?* ? i ply of wire fencing >ply nails on hand. '< , f one and two horse ters and other kinds Dry Goods, Notions tplete at prices that )efore buying. I v * iture line will save icklCo. ain, S. C. .. __ J es muies \ ay, February 4th, ovtrQ rnV>?> 1100 +n ViV VJL Ci lliVV JL JL V V vv ;s. before you buy. o: .ET LIVE" [171 Of? W1 DSL and Pomaria. ^ ? i j. u. ^aiuwcn !aldwell linds of Insurance intry into the real estate I. our purpose to accord on to all business placed ronage. f :hange Bank Bldg. il then :is .1 whole. The place conns eight (S) acres in the center . the town of Prosperity. Terms: One thi:\l c:*sh. balance i? ar.<i two years at seven (7) per :?l. iniere.:. secured by m^rtiacre of i nre'rsc:?, rvreh-.m- to pry fo~ > fci'S. s. L. 1 '*: : "