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: f, ' ====== sg= VOLUME LVI., NUMBER 15. NEWBERRY, S. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1920. TWICE A WEEK. S2.00 A YEA* . - " ~~ f f NEWBERRY COUNTY SUPPLY BILL FOR 1920 Providing for the Levy of Taxes for r School and County Purposes by Ntwberry County for 1920. (The county supply bill as here printed was introduced on the 16th and it will be seen that there are several blanks to be filled. These the Hele<?ation will fill of course and there o may be some more changes before it is finally passed, but this gives the taxpayers a fair idea of what his taxes rwill be and what it is proposed to do with the money.) Section 1. That a tax is hereby levied upon all the taxable property in the county of Newberry for county purposes for the fiscal year becirminfr January 1, 1920, for the amount and for the purposes hereinafter stated; that is to say, for ordinary county purposes five mills. In . anticipation of the collection of said tax, the county treasurer and county supervisor are hereby authorized and empowered to borrow from the sinking fund commission for current expenses a sum not exceeding fifty thousand dollars for ordinary county purposes, and they are further au11 * 1 oivmmvpred to borrow . tnorii6^u AIIU viiij/v ? ?. ? ? f ^ the sum of six thousand dollars on the special one mill levy for road purposes; but in the event the said sum of money, or any part thereof, can not be obtained from the sinking fund commission, then in that event the said county supervisor and county treasurer are hereby authorized and empowered to borrow from any other source an amount not exceed=fS56.000.00) iuvj'OIA XT . -m, dollars as heretofore specified, at the rate of interest not exceeding seven !>er cent, per annum, and shall give .4 thgir offici\i^u>te or notes therefor, said amounts so borrowed shall be ased exclusively for current expenses ^or the fiscal year beginning January 1, 1920. The taxes levied for ordinary purtm-ncoc fnr the vear 1920 and the V - special one mill levy for highways, bridges and ferries, under Section 2083, civil code of 1912, shall stand pledged for the payment of said note or notes. ' * The following amounts are hereby imroDriated for the following pur ?? Mr poses, if so much be necessary, for the fiscal year beginning January 1, f > 1920: Item 1. For salaries, county officers $ / Item 2. For county home, paupers and pensioners 4,000.00 Item 3. For roads, bridges and ferries 10.500.00 1 Item 4. For chain pang waintpnarre 10,500.00 Item 5. For repairs 011 public buildings and contingent expenses and supplies for public and county officers 3,200.00 Item 6. For books, sta! tionery and print 1,000.00 '"ft Item 7. For miscellaneous contingent expen- * ses Item 8. For county board-* o f equalization (per diem and mileasre) 400.00 ^ Item 9. For county board * of education 50.00 Item 10. For expenses, court of general sessions and common pleas 2,000.00 Item 11. For dieting and other incidental expanses of sheriff 2,100.00 Item 12. For post mortems and examining and conveying lunatics 400.00 Item 13. For interest on 2.000.00 ivano t Item 14. Special Deputy Sheriffs 3,300.00 Total $ No supplies shall be bought or expenses incurred on behalf of the county without the consent of the county supervisor, unless otherwise provided by law. The salary of the clerk of the county board of commissioners and county attorney for the fiscal year shall be six hundred ($600.00) dollars, : the event that the provisions of Act 413 of the Acts f of 1912 are complied with. The ft county board of commissioners are f hereby authorized to pay to the sheriff the sum of four hundred dollars ($400.00), for automobile expenses, and are required to furnish a telephone for the sheriff's office and al-; i low tho sheriff a per diem of three 1 dollars for each day while traveling I outside the county in the discharge of . | his official duty: Provided, That theiallowance in tlte aggregate for the J year 1920 shall not exceed one hun-. dred ($100.00) dollars. The county j ^ superintendent of education shall be ! ^ allowed from the unappropriated j ^ funds of .dewberry county for the j j fiRPfll vear the sum of two hundred | * dollars ($200.00), if so much be ne-| cessary, for traveling expenses; an ! e itemized statement of such expenses | * shall be filed with the county trr-s-j11 urer. The county board of edr.a-!* tion is authorized and directed to pay ! n from the unappropriated school funds j r of the county the sum of one thous- j ^ and ($1,000.00) dollars on account of ! ^ the salary and expenses of the organ- j e izer of Tomato and Poultry (jiuds in ; the public schools of Newberry coun- j v ty. | ? Upon the consent of the county v legislative delegation, the county sup- j* ervisor may borrow a sufficient sum j ^ of money to defray the expenses of j 0 vaccination, but no money shall be it borrowed or used for such purpose i or purposes unless authorized in writ- v i ing by said countv legislative delega- c ' i j tion. ii The sum of six hundred ($600.00) t] dollars, if so much be necessary, is s hereby appropriated out of the road ( and bridge fund for one-half of the e cost of maintaining and operating a ferries acro$? Broad river at Dawkins, c Strothers and Blairs; that is to say, a I one-third (1-3) thereof for each of I said femes to be paid out of the ^ appropriation for roads, bridges and j c ferries, and the other one-half 'of j the cost of maintaining and operating |. said ferries to be paid by Fairfield j county in accordance with an agree-1 ment between the delegations of! ^ Newberry and Fairfield counties. That the sum of two hundred j ^ (S200.00) dollars is hereby, author-1 j ized to be paid out of the funds for j I' contingent and miscellaneous expen- j ses fcr the benefit of the Ladies' Rest j n T> .? tV>uf tltO Slim Of 1 P iiUUlil 111 I^ICU WtilJ J VliM V < _ four hundred ($400.00) dollars is to j n be paid out of the fund for contin- j C gent and miscellaneous expenses, if j t so much be necessary, for expenses \ n for the year 1920, under the Vital ! n Statistics Act. j g Every three months the county I y board of commissioners shall adver- j y tise for at least three issues of one j t or more of the newspapers published 1 in the town of Newberry for bids, j a based on delivery at the courthouse j unless otherwise specified, for all im- j p plements and supplies of whatever j kind may be needed for the county j and each and every officer thereof,! ' t nil* including supplies, equipment ana an i purchases for the commissioners, je sheriff, clerk of court, treasurer,! * j r auditor, Judge of probate, magistrate,; r for poorhouse, chain gang, roads and ! r bridges, and for every other purpose, ^ which advertisement shall set forth l1 the article and approximately the am mints thereof to be purchased, and ? the contracts of purchase shall be j c awarded to the lowest bidder for the j t: period of three months: Provided, b however, In case of emergency the s county board of commissioners may o make purchases for the county where the cost thereof does not exceed fifty! g ($50.00) dollars, and for such pur-11; pose a majority of the county board a ! shall certify on the claim therefor; e the necessity theieof: And provided, J c further, In case of emergency, an j a advertisement, as hereinbefore pro- J h vide for, may be inserted at any time | s hnt all contracts for the purchase of j s j suplies shall be in accordance with j t the provisions of this section, and no t! bill, account or claim of any kind c whatsoever against the county shall h be paid unless previously contracted p for by such competition or by the n county board of commissioners in a cases of certified emergency. The v sum of two hundred ($200.00) dol-ln lo-rc i'q horohv nnthnrized to be Daid J a out of the contingent fund to the y county supervisor as allowance for o automobile expenses. The county supervisor and commis- t' sioners are hereby authorized to al- t! low the sheriff seventy (70) cents t per diem for dieting prisoners. ii Recapitulation. t! (a) Clerk of court $ 275.00 u Sheriff 2,400.00 e Jailer .. 1,080.00 t; I c (Continued on page four.) jo CAPITAL NEV (By John Columbia, Feb. 18.?The house ha assed the good roads measure am ent it to the senate, and the lowe ody is now engaged in the consider tion of the appropriation bill. I egins to look very much as if th ?gislature will run into March. The good roads measure as it pass f Ua /\ o n/J Tirnnf f rv fViD c^not u tire: avuoc onu ncuw w buw uv<4Mw his morning, would levy a tax of tw lills upon the property of the stat( his tax to be expended upon perms ent roads in the counties where it i aised, the roads to be built under th irection and supervision of the stat ighway commission, with such fee ral aid as may be available. The here is a license tax upon moto ehieles, eighty per cent, of whic oes to the respective countie diere it is raised, for maintenance c he permanent roads which are to b ?uilt. Twenty per cent, of this 1 pnsp tax is to be used for the mair enance of the commission. As the bill passed the house, rould create a new state highwa ommission, to be composed of on nernber from each congresional di: rict, to be appointed by the governo ubject to confirmation by the senat< )ne of these members would be eleci d by the commission as chairman i i salarv of $3,000 per year. Th omraission would of course,, emplo . highway engineer. The bill provides for a license c 16 on all automobiles weighing nc ver 2,000 pounds, and $2 for eac dditional 500 pounds. One to rucks $20; three ton trucks $50^for on trucks $100; five ton trucks $20C ix ton trucks $500; seven to ?nd over SI.000: and mote ycles $3. Lumber trucks wit railers will pay $5 and $2 for eac ,000 pounds of load capacity. ^Heretofore the state highway con lission has consisted of the senic rofessor of the engineering deparl lents of the University or sout Carolina, Clemson, the Citadel an wo others appointed by the govei or. The members of the new corr lission are to be appointed by th overnor, three for a term of fou ears, and four for a term of tw ears, and their successors for erm of four years. The mesaure looks toward buildin system of state highways conneci ng the various county seats, makin ermanent through roads first. Work Overtime Without Pay. The house, by a vote of 51 to 3( efused to pay members of the ger ral assembly for overtime beyon /metniYinrv fr?rt.V daVS. Mr. H. E II ^ V, WJlVU/iu* j - w ?v. Wans, of Newberry, introduced esolution to this effect, and strongl rged it, but the house could not se ; that way. The house also killed the Hamblir [art measure, so far as this session i oncerned, putting drastic restric ions around the sale of extracts. Th ill died of its own weight, its re ' ' * .1 4-:? fV. trictions Deing too uiu&lic, 111 HI pinion of the legislators. There is every indication that th ood roads measure will get throug lie senate, probably with som mendments, and the principal intei st in the remainder of the sessio enters in this measure and in th ppx*opriation measure which th ouse is now tackling. ? There i trenuous opposition in the house t ome of the extraordinary items i he bill. It will take the report o he free conference committee in th losing hours of the session some tim enre to determine just what apprc nations will be made, and what wii ot be. The house may cut them ou1 nd the senate retain them, or vie ersa, and then the conference com littee in adjusting such difference s there may be between the houses rill frame the bill as it will becom perative. There was a determined fight i he house this afternoon to abolis Ua ofafo onnetnhiilarv. for the main UV 0vwvv J enance of which $25,000 is provide n the bill, but the fight failed, an he constabulary is retained. It wa rged that with national prohibitior nforced by the federal authorities hat there was no need for a stat onstabulary, hut the motion to strik ut t hi.* impropriation was killed by : 1 IS AND GOSSIP K. Aull.) s vote of 59 to 30. d Would Abolish Pension Commission. r The senate on Wednesday morning -! nassed and sent to the house the \F t j measure which would abolish the pree ' sent pension commission, and put the j disbursement of the pension funds i-! back on the county officials, where it; e was heretofore. o 1 The senate on Wednesday after-: noon also, without opposition, passed L_ to third reading the measure to ap- j 9-j propriate $600,00 for a larger Citadel e ! in Charleston. This money is to be j e j replaced by the sale of the present [. I site and buildings. $200,000 is to be ~ i nvnilfihle this vear, which will in r i crease the appropriation bill to that h extent. The measure has already; !S passed the house. ?f The house has killed the bill to e make the members of the state tax i- commission elective by the general mccpmhlv. instead of annointive bv the | governor, as at present. it The house has passed Senator y Pearce's measure providing for rigid e sanitary restrictions for hotels and 3. eating places in the state. The meas - 1 .? ; ure having heretoiore passea me sen-; , ate, it will become law upon the ap- j t- proval of the governor. it' ? e | DISTRICTS DIVIDED y| BY DOMINICK BILL; \ ?. I , Measure Introduced in Congress to ^ Fix Court Divisions in South jj Caroline. n ^ " lr Thj State. |. Washington, Feb. 17.?Congressn' man Dominick today introduced a bill j _ dividing the Eastern and Western ! >r; . ^ judicial districts of South Carolina to ! ^ four divisions each, as follows: The j division of Aiken, Columbia, Florence I and Charleston, and Greenville,! I_ Greenwood, Kock Hill and Anderson. [ 'r Court would be held in each division, j These divisions would be made up j n j of the following counties: d j Aiken: Aiken, Allendale, Bamberg, J | Barnwell and Hampton. 1 "J Columbia: Calhoun, Kershaw, Lee, j e i Lexington, Orangeburg, Richland and r i Sumter. ? | Florence: Chesterfield, Darlington, a i Dillon, Florence, Georgetown, Horry, Marlboro, Marion and Williamsburg, g Charleston: Charleston, Beaufort, Berkeley. Clarendon, Colleton, Ecr~ chester. Jasner. fc I ' j Greenville: Greenville, Laurens, I Union and Spartan bursr. I Greenwood: Abbeville, Edpencld, | ^ ' Greenwood, McCormick, Newberry l"! and Saluda. 1 | Anderson: Anderson, Oconee and * Pickens. a Rock Hill: Chester, Fairfield, LanJ caster and York. P. il. McG. { e . PROGRAM FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL " | CONVENTION, NO. I TOWNSHIP s 1 T ~ i To Be Held Fifth Sunday in Feb6 ! ruary, at Cannon Creek Mission. e Prayer and praise service, by Rev. J. A. McKeown. e Welcome Address, J. C. Neal; Reh sponse, 0. B. Cannon. e t fn imnrnve our work with young people, Dr. W. C. B^own. Dr. n E. C. Jones. e Relations of S. S. and world condie tions, Prof. J. C. Kinard. s Adjournment for dinner. 0 Afternoon Session, n Prayer and praise service, Rev. E. | f V. Babb. e How our S. S. stand today, Rev. e J. L. Daniel, B. V. Chapman. >- How to train ourselves for the !1 task, Rev. J. W. Carson, H. H. Blease, Esq. j e How to make the S. S. an evanget listic agency, Rev. Shealy, Rev. s Griffin, Prosperity. The session will begin promptly at e 10:30. Each speaker will be limited to 10 minutes, and discussion of each n subject will be open for all. h Each Sunday School in No. 1 Townv oUir\ ic ooi'n^ fn conrl tV?rp<> delegates. [ on l10 iignvu i/v uv*?v? 0 d C. M. Wilson, d Secretary. s i, Pin money formed a customary New Year's gift for women in Tudor e times when the finest pins were of e gold, silver, inlaid metals, ivory and u I rare woods. i PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS 1 FROM WHITMIRE TOWN Whitmire, Feb. 19.?The mayor, aldermen and chief of police of our 1 little city cannot be too highly com- i mended for the bold stand, which j they are taking against the stores be- ] ing open and selling goods and soft ] - - ? - i_ i i._ drinks on Sunday, we are so giaa 10 ( see them taking bold steps to cut it ; out. If an individual, a town, or a nation openly, defiantly and repeatedly disobeys one of Gods laws, Remem ber the Sabbath day and keep it holy, success and happiness need not be expected. Many of the wrongs of this age will never be corrected until we learn to obey God's laws and teach our children so to do. Lumber is being placed on the lot adjoining the Presbyterian church, to be used in erecting a house for Mr. Gordon, the director of the Y. M. C. A. here. Like many other towns, this one is cut in two by the railroad. Now the other side of town don't mean for us to get ahead of them, so Mr. Bullard and Mr. J. I. Young have each added ... ?/>?+ ?-> ? nqinf +Vl Ol r Virm<?PS_ H IICW I'Uaii Ui jjamv w uik? . thereby improving appearances very ' much and Mr. Wallace Gilliam has j added several new rooms and changed the roof on his house. When he finishes doing over the inside and adds paint he will have one of the prettiest residences here. A little competition is good for most any de-j partment. Let's keep it up and we lnn1rtn<? tnum riTl ' W1U littV C CL uct/V^i w*? w.both sides. Nov these thin^p which I have mentioned are j^'tSftiegi inning of what we are going to have. Mr. Gil man of Chester has opened up a stock of goods ipi the building once occupied by Mr. A. J. Holt. Mrs. Turner left Sunday afternoon for her former home in York. She will pack her furniture and move it here. She and Mr. Turner will have rooms with Mrs. Elizabeth Douglass and do light housekeeping. Misses Emmie Duncan and liertrude Leaman spent the week-end with their parents. Mrs. A. H. Best, who had been over to Charlotte to visit her daughter, Mrs. True, stopped over and spent a night with Mrs. Lyles and Miss Ellen Lake. The many friends ' ^ 4-^ f AA UQY* 1 ot ivirs. r?esL weie mj ^wu tu ctt u^i. i again. j Miss Rachel McCracken spent the week-end with her sister, Mrs. Otis Suber. Mr. W. G. Puckett has returned from a trip to Union. Miss Frances Jeter, after a week's j stay with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.; S. A. Jeter, has returned to her j school in Lancaster. Mr. George Ccfield sper.t Friday in j Union. Miss Mary Metts is visiting her mother, Mrs. Fannie Metts. On account of the abundant rain- , fall of Friday Miss Alma Lupo's "Camp Fire Girls" did not go on the hike planned for Saturday. Mrs. Wallace Gilliam and children spent last week with relatives in Union. | Mr. Zack Wright is quite ill at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Robert Duckett. Mr. M. E. Abrams and Miss Willie . Duckett, after spending several days at the north, baying goods have returned home. < The Lyceum number which came i last week, was very much enjoved bv all. During the early days of last week Mr. J. C. Brooks got a goods box and made a slit in the top, into this the , school children were directed to put their Valentines. Friday we all assembled in the chapel and Mr. Brooks assisted by many little mail carriers handed them out. The merry faces and happy laughter of the children proved beyond a doubt that Father , Valentine was right when he decided that as he couldn't do any great thing to make people happy, he , would just do all the little things he could to make the world brighter. It's the little things of life that count , any way. Isn't it? "Nita." A famoui firm of Sheffield cutlers ( show visitors a knife with 1,900 blades. Ten new blades are added , to it every tenth year. A second curiosity of which the firm is proud consists of three pairs of scissprs so ; minute that all three can be covered < with an ordinary thimble. j1 WAREHOUSE COMMISSIONER J. C. RIVERS ELECTED Columbia, Feb. 19.?The legislate in joint session today elected J. Clifton Rivers Qf Chesterfield, a member of the house, warehouse commisioner to succeed Col. wTGv Smith recently deceased. Mr. Rivers was nrinnsifinn The Ipcris. CtCVVCU nnnuuv V^^wuiw*v*?> .vo._ lature is hammering away at the appropriation bill. NO OVER TIME PAY ' FOR LEGISLATORS The State. The house last night by a vote of 51 to 30 killed the concurrent resolution by Mr. Evans of Newberry to provide extra pay for members of the two houses of the general assembly and clerks and attaches. The resolution provided $10 a day for the members for each extra day beyond the 40 days which will expire next Monday, and per diem for all clerks and employees, prorated on the basis of the salaries they receive. The house on motion of Mr. Dreher of Lexington continued the HamblinHart measure to restrict the sale of compounds and extracts which might be used as beverages. No record vote was taken, but the bill was defeated by an overwhelming majority. Contention was that the restrictions were too drastic. Another measure continued was the Mims bill tolhrow the election . of members of the state tax commission into the general assembly. This was - - defeated by a narrow margin, in? vote being 39 to 34. A concurrent-resolution from the senate was edopt?d fixing the date for the election oSf state warehouse commissioner for Thursday at 12 o'clock. Representative Rivers of Chesterfield is in the race. A. A. Richardson, former chief state game warden, has also been pressing his candidacy. Mr. Bradford of York last night amended the general appropriation bill by striking out all after the enacting words and substituting therefor a new bill in which every item of expenditure is specified. This was done to overcome the defects pointed out yesterday by Attorney Genera! Wolfe. The appropriation bill was made a special order for 12:30 o'clock today. The house will meet at 10:05 o'clock this morning. WOMEN APPOINTED ON DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE Washington, Feb. 15.?Appointment of 11 women to be members of the executive committee of the Democratic national committee was announced today by Homer S. Cummings, chairman of the national committee. The new members are: Mrs. Kellogg Fairbank, Chicago; Mrs. Helen Grenfell. Denver; Mrs. John B. Castlean, Louisville; Mrs. Pattie Ruffner Jacobs, Birmingham; Mrs. Kiles W. Burr, St. Paul; Mrs. Josephus Daniels, Raleigh, N. C.; Mrs. John K. Ottley, Atlanta; Miss Elizabeth Marbury, New York; Mrs. Beverly R. Mumford, Richmond; Mrs. Overton G. Ellis, Tacoma, and Miss Caroline Ruuts-Rees, Green wich, (Jonn. Six additional appointments will be made in the near future, making a total of 17, which will correspond to the 17 men members of the executive committee df the Democratic national committee. WEEK OF PRAYER. Lenten Week of Prayer and Self Denial for Missions to be observed by the Woman's Home and Foreign missionary society of the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer. The society considers itself very fortunate in securing Mr. H. Inadomi, a Japanese student from the Lutheran Theological seminary in Columbia, to make the address at the opening service which will be held at the church on the evening of February, " * A- J ?+ MVM.tViirfv cne twenwy-B^cuim, ?v v o'clock. The general theme for the week will be: "The Master Hath Come? and He Calleth for Thee." A service will be held at the church at four o'clock every afternoon, except Saturday, during the week. The public is cordially invited to all of the services. A Minnesota farmer has developed a method for burning only the roott >f stumps when land is cleared, saving the upper part for firewood.