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||te Jrraii and jcm Entered at the Postoffice at New berry, S. C., as 2nd class matter. r? tt a *t? * rtMTAn n. AULL, C.U1IUK. Friday, March 12, 1920. " ' 'it :i < : Watch the label on your < paper and renew before the < time is out. We can not send < # notices. All subscriptions ex- < pire on the first and fifteenth < of the month. We are forced < * to adhere strictly to the cash < ?s> in advance system. When * *> your time is out the paper 4 will be discontinued if you ? <?> have not renewed. We would 3> be pleased to have you remain ? > with us. ' *> If you desire to remain in < > the family, renew promptly -> and you will not miss an issue. <? <8> -5 ^ > > <$> < > , -^xTrii.. "RECONSTRUCTION." We understand that so.no o *e 'has eallccl scaie sort of meeting in Coluinh:?. to consider some plans of "'reconstruction'' for the people, and that some 300 or 400 "prominent" citizens have been invited to attend and discuss the problems and to devise ways and means of reconstructing the ronntrv. It may be all right to be holding meetings and appointing committees and putting on drives and organizing and supervising, but it seems to us ; that this sort of thing has done aboul all the good it can accomplish, if il ever has accomplished any good al all. There is already entirely toe much supervision and too many supervisors and too many commissions anc these can accomplish nothing. There are at present just twe pressing needs and just two things that will go further toward "recon structing" than anything else that wc can think of, and they are, first, foi more people to go to work, and ther to be less extravagant. Nobod\ wants to work now and nobody wil ^vork. If you come to town you will find people walking up and down the streets doing nothing or ridina around in automobiles. If you go to . the country you find the roads streaming with cars crowded "with people riding about. If you travel on the cars you find them crowded with peo pie going somewhere. Nobody working. The cry is for more wages and less hours. There is unrest everywhere. No question about that, but the solution for it is not in holding conventions and discussing the problem. We fail to see the blessings that we have, and are paying too much attention to things that are disturbing and unpleasant. Mr. Willys of the Overland Automobile company is quoted as saying in discussing these matters: "The chief menace of bolshevism and other 'isms' is their perverted economics." He goes on to say: "If they could be dropped from the public eye, and in their place could be taught the sound doctrine that dollars won't buy bread unless somebody bakes it, these menacing 'isms1 would wither and die through sheei lack of sustenance." And he mighl have added that you can't bake breac unless some one plants the wheat anc the corn and tills the soil and harvests the grain when it is ripe, and some one else runs the mill thai grinds the grain into flour and meal The foundation of the whole thin? and back of the bread is the man whc plants and reaps and tills the soil, and that means that if the world is to -be fed and clothed there must be more work and real work, and when -n- 1 i. i:?? fU. ine people cuine tu recuse mat, mc problem is solved, and unless more people go to work somebody is goiftg hungry and not well clothed. That is the secret of the whole matter. GRADE CROSSINGS GONE. In this age we do not make an effort even to have the paper typographically correct, because if we worried about that it would be the same as to worrv because the legs ol the dumk are short and the legs of the crane are long, and we can neither make the one long nor the other short. So if a few small errors creep in, or rush in, we let it go anc take it for granted that the readei knows better and knows that we know how, and there you are. Why even the good old News anc Courier that at one time was as neai tvDosraphically and grammatical^ correct as any newspaper publish2c in this section of the world, or an> other section for that matter, now comes to us so crowded with errors ihat we conclude th^ proof rodder is on strike. It ;ust fan'i be helped it seems in this l re of hu~ry and rv.vh and got ro go ?: mewhere vr.d got tocome fc""*k .? ):r:t ru'i^g and doir3i a ting the whole situation in every \ t,. ! jlme. j | We were just wondering1 how the i linotype mind was operating when r it made "suit" when we tried to . writ "out," but when we remember * i what an awful hand we write we do i not wonder. Truth is we suspect if _ j the ability to write is the standard of ; literacy then we would have to be I > i _ x :nr* * *-e . _ ; ciassea among ine most aau-:uvc ui; j the species. j _ i At any rate in the little article we ^ ! \\Tote about the railroad crossings $>;and other things we intended and so ^: wrote the head that it should read g> i "Crossings Out," and the linotype made it in print to read "Crossings l Suit," just why we do not know, and j>' yet the crossings now suit us fine, ? because they are no more, unless you : ; just want to cross the railroad in going from here to Prosperity and on ' ;> I to Little Mountain, so really it is fm<;<5m?rs suit, because ?> VV WMJ ;> if you want to cross the railroad all ' :> right, go along that way and cross it > Feveri or eight times before you reach > Prosperity, and if you don't want to > cross the railroad why then take the > new road and you don't have to cross.' , so the crossings do suit, all right. But the main thing that mr.kes us glad is that the road, the puMic roat1. has been located so that it l: o" ? :? ! * i-- - I ~ I 5 4U 4 suie 01 me raiiruau i:.i : ..... Xewbc- ry to Vrosperiiy and !'> not have to cross the C. X. & L at nil, but you do cro?s th? Sou hevn just r.s you approach the town ar?l just as you leave the town on the other side. Something we have been pleading for lo these many years. We are not writing this to correct an error in the head of the former ; article, but to have an excuse to say again that we are so much pleased to , ' have our dream of the removal of; _ these deadly railroad crossings for [ which we have been pleading so long, ' to be a reality. There are somejpeo" pie, as there always has been and always will be, who say mat ceruuu | officials have not done anything, and , no doubt there are some who are saying this verv thing about Super[ visor Sample, -?ut if he had done nothing else during his four years of service than to remove the various railroad crossings that he has the people should be glad, and that is a ' * 1 *1* -A. 1 1 monument to him wfticn win stanu ^ for the years to come and there is no tellrng the good he ^has accomI plished and the lives he has been instrumental in saving by this one act ' alone. Every grade crossing should ' be removed, and we had some mighty 1 dangerous ones, and most of them are now no more, thanks to Supervisor Sample and his administration. j j ? t? * vrvc I , AtiUU 1 DA11IVJ. Talking about banks * and bank ' statements we desire to direct your attention to two statements of banks < printed in this issue, the Peoples ; National Bank of Prosperity and the? Bank of Pomaria. ; Both have ^ small capital stock, the Peoples National with $25,000 and the Bank of < Pnwnrin with S15.000. Neither one 1 owes a dollar and both have plenty ' of money in their vaults and with other banks. The Peoples National 1 : has total loans of nearly $400,000 j and deposits of nearly a half million.!, T)ie total of the statement is over j $^00,000, a gain since the last report 'on December 31 of over a hundred 1 thousand dollars. This bank is grow-, irif* and President Wheeler'is one of j ?-o ? ? the best bankers in this section of the ' country. The Peoples National is sure walking about and the exercise : is good. i I. The Bank of Pomaria shows a total i I of $250,000 and a gain since the last j report December 31 of $50,000, total! ' loans of over a hundred thousand dol; lars and deposits of $227,000. And does not owe a dollar. Dr. Z. T. r Pinner is the president but John C. ? Aull is the active man in the bank ? and in fact is doing all the work of ! cashier and teller and bookkeeper and f loan man, and he is on the job. II The fact is all the banks oi the ! j ' county are prospering but these two : statements so impressed us as we read ' " the proof for publication that we ; could not help commending them. ! The Farmers Bank of Chappells, the ! statement of which appeared in the | Tuesday paper, is also making good, as this statement shewed. ! The three banks of the city all ; i showed a good statement and each is > running around the million and a half ; mark, the Commercial and the Na: tional going a little over and the i Commercial showing no money bor> rowed. The National has a capital of 5 $100,000 and the Commercial only [ $50,000. The Commercial has loaned * a little over a million and has a de^ posit of a million and a half. The National has deposits of a little 1 over a million and a quarter and nearly a mllion loaned. r The Exchaige bark has a caoitcl of ! $100,000 md.deposhs of a million r and a quarfer with irans of very r near the .-am?. ; Ail the -barks nr : . ?j)er:r?'r and ; i'vve are fcia' -f it. la f * we are al'ays , 'ad to - ^ a-:; >: at y stitution in the l rj\" rel' f.nd we rake >> ^ ing the fact But .'.os , c i the People '" a. I. \ STATEMENT OF TE Located at Prosperity, S. C., at the cii THE BANK OF Resources. Loans $400,026.40 Overdrafts - 2,894.32 Liberty bonds 50,000.00 Furniture and fixtures.... 2,000.00 Bank building "2,000.00 Due from banks.... 41,209.90 j Currency 4,072.00 Silver 1,402.18 War Savings Stamps 846.00 $504,450.80 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF NEWBERRY. Before me came J. F. Browne, Cas inii duly sworn, says that the above ar. dition oi said bank, as shown l?y the Sworn to and subscribed before nie -X ..L- ?issscnrs. -*: + . 'M 1. .... tiVv? L-iV.i'.i Cl i'orara n;;vc muue st?.wO-iiV ill'.' '.hat \*i iv.aijo you r.i. up a:ui take .lot'ce. You re.nenibcr that Prosperity is nut so la^gc a commercial centre as Newberry and neither is Pomaria, but all the people round about these two small towns are prospering and all of them have j bank accounts that are worth while. How about that traffic ordinance? Is it meant to be enforced or is it to be another dead letter law on the books? We do not think it should be so strictly enforced until the people are given notice that they must not forget its provisions, but after that is done then if the rules ai^ to be worth anything they must be followaA A 1 v- Hvivpr nf n /*ar asked us the other day if she was parking: on j the right side of the street, and she j was, but her car was headed the wrong direction. A car stood for quite awhile the other day on the north side of Friend street and we saw several others in the prohibited area and many headed in the wrong direction according to r\f fVio low Rllt. \VP W1VUO VX V11V - .. w . believe the disposition of the drivers j is to observe the law, but if flagrant violations are permitted then those who are trying to observe the rules will get careless also and no one will pay any attention to the law, as has too often been the case with regulations like these in this ordinance. Let every one cooperate to obey the traffic rules and it will be well. The decision of the Cunard line to preserve the names of the Lusitania and other vessels sunk in the war serves to recall the superstition of old-time sailors that it was exceedingly unlucky to name a ship after one n?1 J ? iliat nuu guiic uunu. Canada is equal in size to the United States and Mexico, but has a population less than in the three cities of New York, Chicago and Philadelphia. A new fire pail designed for garages is made to contain two chemicals in separate compartments which, j thrown together on an oil fire, unite j and form a flame-smothering foam. "Do you believe in evolution?" "Can't help believing," replied Sen-; ator Sorghum, "after seeing how J many varieties of politicians a bull j moo^e can develop."?Washington j Star. | I haven't noticed, said Cactus Joe, that most socialists haven't got very far up in the prosperity list. No, replied Three-fingered Sam. Every game has a few losers in it who are constantly delaying the proceedings by hollering for a new deck. ?Washington Star. ? I Lobsters are very sensitive to cold and light, being accustomed to the comparatively steady temperature j and the obscure lights of the ocean I bottom. Exposure to strong sunlight is soon fatal to them. In Switzerland are made clocks that do not require hands and faces. The timepiece merely stands in the hall an< one presses a button, which by means of the phonographic internal arrangements calls out the tim?. NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT We will make a final settlement t>f the. estate of Jacob Shealy in the Probate Court for Newberry County, S. C., on Saturday the 20th day of Inarch, 1020, at TO o'clock in the f "onoor. and viil immediately thereafter ask for our discharge as E\c'-utcr$ of said estate. JNO. A. SHEALY, L. P. SHEALY, L. \V. SHEALY, or,?j ... v. ; ?<.? 1.1-0. 1 j : CONDITION OF j : ose of Business February 28, 1920. ; PROSPERITY | ' Liabilities. Capital stock $ 25,000.00 Surplus i 15,000.00 Undivided profits : 8,793.92 j : J m nn ' iyi>iuuiiud unpaiu .. iv.uu ] Deposits * 455,538.82 Other liabilities 108.06 $504,450.80 | I hier of above named bank, who, be(i foregoing: statement is a true conbooks of ?aid bank. J. F. BROWNE. this 0th day of March. 1U20. J. A. COUNTS, N. for C. I r-r"T ' -1 . : - ?^?r- -r-rHi ^ B ' ' FfNAI S^TT* PWPNT 1 i ' 1 * ?' ~ .? 4 A . < i, i Take notice that on the l'-i; h day j cf March I will render a filial account * of my acts and doings as Executor of :| the estate of Thomas Floyd deceased, j in the office of the Judge of Probate ' of dewberry County, at 11 o'clock, a. m. and on the same day will apply for a final discharge from my I trusts . as such Executor. Any person indebteded to said es-1 tate is notified and required to make j payment on that date, and all persons j ? having claims against said estate will j present them on or before said date, j m duly proven or be forever barred. j ? A. B. BLAKELY, j Executor of the Estate of Thomas I T""U J 1 1 rioya, aeceasea. February 21, 1920. Subscribe to The Herald and Newsthe ideal tonic a;^o-phosphate The woriTs greatest tonic for lassitude and s1' run down enemic conditions. It ^.ust puts pep into the whole system. "It's the best tonic I ever used," says a Boston physician. 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