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^ VOLUME LVI., NUMBER 23. NEWBERRY, S. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1920. TWICE A WEEK, $2.00 A YEAJi I COUNTY BUDGET ! r FOR PRESENT YEAR W SYNOPSIS OF THE NEWBERRY & COUNTY SUPPLY BILL. J Total of Eight Mills for County Purposes Besides Certain Special Levies for Bridges. Not counting the 12 1-2 mills for state purposes nor the* 2 mills for ^ good roads nor the 3 mills school tax H the total taxes for the countJ' will H require a levy totaling very close to ' 10 mills and if the cood roads bonds r should be voted it will be more. And this does not include special school levies in the various school districts. If we are to have good roads and good schools, two very important adjuncts to our civilization, it takes j money and the only way for the j county and state to raise money is by I L levying a tax. And the peopje willj pay the tax for roads and schools j mf glaldly if they can be convinced that; r they will get the roads and the schools when they put up the money. We have before us tonight a copy of the county supply bill for Newv }>erry county. It was our purpose to print it in full but it is rather more than our space will permit. It levies a 6 1-2 mills for ordinary county purposes and a 1 mill tax for roads making: really 7 1-2 mills for I ordinary county, and authorizes the county supervisor to borrow a sum not exceeding $56,000 at a rate of interest not exceeding 7 per cent, and to pledge the tax for its payment. It makes appropriations as follows: Salaries county officers, 1920 ...:. $17,005.00 County home, paupers and pensioners 4,000.00 -Roads, bridges and ferries '. 10,500.00 Chain gang maintenance.... 10,500.00 ivcpiiiis ^uuia uuiiuni^o and contingent 3,200.00 Books, stationery and printing- : 1,000.00. Miscellaneous contingent expenses 12,256.45 County board equalization 400.00 County board education.... 50.00 Court expenses / 2,000.00 Sheriff, dieting and incidental 2,100.00 I Post mortems and conveying lunatics 400.00 Interest on loans 2,000.00 o - 1 J 1... -1 -T-T- O OZ? A A A opecuu deputy suvruxs o.oov.uu Total $68,771.45 The clerk and attorney of the board receives a salary of S70C.00; the sheriff is allowed $3.00 per day for traveling not to exceed $100.00; the county superintendent of education is given $300.00 a year for traveling expenses. The county board of education is authorized to use $1,000.00 of unappropriated school funds to pay the tomato club organizer. Upon authority given by the delegation the supervisor may borrow a sufficient sum to defray expenses of vaccination. Six hundred dollars is appropriated to defray one-half the expense of operating ferries at Dawkins, Strothers, Shelton and Blairs, the other half to be naid bv Fairfield. Two hundred dollars is given to j ' the rest room; $400.00 for vital sta-| tistics. Salaries were fixed as follows for' the year 1920: Clerk of court, $275.00; sheriff, j * '?2.400.00; jailer, $1,080.00; treasur- j er, $650.00; auditor, $650.00 (the : f state pays two-thirds of the salary of t the treasurer and auditor); super- \ intendent of education, $1,500.00; j judge of probate, $1,800.00; physi- j <*ian, $300.00; coroner, $350.00; jani-: tor of court house, $700.00; super-i visor 51,400.00; county commis-j sioners eacn, *zt>u.uo; clerK to county commissioners, S700.00; chaplain' to poor house, $200.00; magistrate and constable at Newberry each, '$800.00; magistrate and constable at "Whitmire each, $375.00; magistrate! and constable at Prosperity each, j "$300.00; magistrate at Little Moun-; tain, $200.00: constable, $250.00 magistrate at Pomaria, $100.00; con-' stable, ?75.00: magistrate at Chap-: pells, $100.00; constable, $75.00;? magistrate and constable in No. 11 { each, $75.00; magistrates and con-: stables for townships 2, 3. 5. ft, and 10 each. $<50.00. There seems to be no provision for a magistrate in Lex- j ington township No. 12. It is estimated.that the commuta- ! tion tax will amount to ?12,000.00 and road labor at $18,000.00 (on paper unless the commissioners required the work provided by law to be done.) The commutation tax was fixed by separate act at $6, payable from October 15 to March 15. rr' ?"""1 r>/\li/,oyvion o vck fn Ko J">J! 1H 1 wy 1 Uidl ]JUJH.CII1V1I U1 L VV vv {.VV | $1,680.00 each. The slieriff may appoint a jailor at $90.00 per month and a uniform. Three thousand dollars is set aside ! to match a like amount from the fed- j eral government for roads. $138.70 is appropriated to pay for a refrigerator for the jail; $298.70 is appropriated to buy guns and ammunition and cases for the sheriff's office; the head bailiff and the court crier shall each receive $5.00 per day j and other bailiffs $3.00 per day. $600.00 is appropriated for a venerial disease clinic; $500.00 compensation to T. M. Mills, farm dem onstrator for 11)20. 5>4uu..uu is given for clerical help for the treasurer and the same amount to the auditor, and the auditor is allowed $100.00 for traveling expense; the coroner is allowed ?50.00; $420.00 is allowed to operate a ferry at Holly's Ferry; i SI62.80 is appropriated to pay interest to T. P. Richardson; $41.50 is appropriated to pay Louis Henderson for a cable and $14.75 to pay bill of W. G. Mayes. $5,000.00 is appropriated to establish a health unit ?nnntr nn r>nnHltifiTI thflt ill i>c?ycnty tuuutj Vi> $5,000.00 be contributed to this purpose by the first of ?fuly; S900.00 is app Uprated to pay expenses connected with the transfer of part of Lexington territory to Newberry. If the two bridges are built as contemplated the one over Broad river and the other over Saluda river a tax sufficient to pay the interest on the bonds and to provide a sinking fund is to be levied. Vaughnville school district is authorized to borrow $500.00 and Fairview $300.00. The supervisor is directed to give specal attention to the public roads in Maybinton and the Appalachian from Newberry to Whitmire. . One-half mill is levied to make up deficit for 191?. The nwe territory coming to Newberry from Lexington is to be known as township No. 12. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS LITTLE MOUNTAIN Little Mountain, March 17.?Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wise, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Lathan, W. B. and Carlton Wise j spent Sunday with relatives in Pros- j perity. Miss Mattie Boland spent the week-end in Clinton. Miss Nell Brady of Columbia and TVfioo Hrd Prart lid LA/UdlilO) iUlOJ Vitt unu A *% Davis, spent Sunday here. Mr. Ryan Matthews of Mountville visited relatives here this week. Mr. Julian Boland spent Sunday at home. A. M. Stoudemire and Carl Wheeler spent Sunday in Clinton. Miss Narvis Rae Setzler visited in Pomaria last week-end. Miss Anna Boland returned home Monday after spending several days in Columbia. % I "Miss Mnp RpIIp Fnhner snent ! Tuesday in Columbia. Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Boozer and j children of Silverstreet visited Rev. : and Mrs. J. J. Lonjr Sunday. Misses Leo and Altha and Alonzo Shealy spent Tuesday in Columbia. Hermon Boland of Columbia visited here Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Wheeler spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Shealy of Pomaria. W. B. Shealy spent Friday in Columbia. J. H. Wise was a business visitor PrtlnrnKia \Tnr?Hav. Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Long of Newberry spent several days last week i with their son. Rev. J. J. Long. Rev. J. J. Long was a visitor to Newberry Monday. Mrs. J. K. Swygert and daughters of Irmo were shopping in town last week. Prof, and Mrs. S. J. Derrick, Mrs. Haltiwanger and Miss Bertha Efird of Newberry college visited in town last Thursday. Yellow, signifying "the sere, and yellow leaf," is the mourning color of the widows' caps in Britanny. CHANGES MADE IN THE COUNTY GOVERNMENT LAW Twelve Commissioners Take Place of Supervisor and two Commissioners. The recent legislature made some ' very important changes in the county OP vnnrov/lo MnTrKoriT gUV^rilillCilt law cio ic^cuuo Aiv ?? w** j county. Instead of a supervisor and two commissioners, after the present year, the county will elect 12 commissioners, one from each township, and this board will elect a chairman from their own number and a secre-1 tary, who may not be one of their ' number, and they will also elect a j manager who may be a civil engineer j who will have charge of the roads and | hridces of the county. There are two separate acts in re- j gard to this matter. First the j>eo-! pie will vote on the issue of bonds ; to the amount of $400,000 for per- j manent road building, and at the j same time they will vote on one com- j missioner from each township who : Avill have charge of this fund, if the ! bonds carry, from the date of their i election, and at the end of the term j cunanrienf onH flip twft POTTI- ! UI UIC L ICVt MitV4 i/??v v.. w - ? ^ missioners will take over the county j government. I In the event the bond issue should ! fail of passage then there is another j 1 act which provides for the election of 4 12 commissioners, one from each ! county who will take over the coun- j ;ty government on the first of January, 1921. They will also elect a j chairman from their own number and j a clerk and a manager who may be a j civil engineer and who will be sub- j ject to removal by the commissioners. To give the words of the act he shall | be charged with "administering the I affairs of the county under tne direction of the board and shall be subject to removal. for any cause which may seem sufficient by the said board." The chairman of the board is to receive $5 per day for six days and each of the other commissioners shall receive a like per diem, provided the chairman may receive the same per diem for 14 days when performing the duties of the office between meetings of the board. The board is to meet every other month and the per diem allowance is for each meeting making a total of 36 days for the year. They are to hold office for four i years. The manager or civil engineer may receive a salary of $3,000 a year, but not more, the amount to be fixed by the commissioners. The election ori the bonds will be i held on the 24th day of August, the 1 day for the primary election ami only ; qualified electors will be allowed to 1 vote on this question and on the elec- 1 tion of the commissioners. Each 1 commissioner will be elected by the 1 qualified electors of his township. 1 And if the bond issue should fail then the commissioners will be elected ; in the general election, unless a spe- 1 cial primary should be ordered. < ' -? ??ii i 1. xi Ims law win ktiock uie punuciu : bee out of many bonnets, as we un- derstand that there were more pros- i pective candidates for supervisor < than any other office in the county, 1 Supervisor Sample having: announced < that he would not be a candidate for 1 reelection. ] The Herald and News will endeavor 1 to get a correct copy of the several 1 acts relating to the county government and to the several bond issues i and print them as soon as possible. i The main features of the law as 1 here given were secured from Hon. < George S. Mower, and as he did not ] lioirti flio hofnrp Vmn t.Vipv arp ! ( given from memory of the provisions |. of the law. } The election for the bonds will be ( ordered by the commissioners of state 1 elections as other general elections r and will be held at the same time of $ the primary, because it was thought } that at this time it would be possible c to get out the largest vote, and - the s commissioners will be elected at the r same time without a primary, unless t one should be ordered before the reg- 1 ular primary. c Leitu?y>Suber.' Miss Edna Leitzsey and Mr. W. J. * Suber, both of Pomaria, were mar- v ried on last Sunday by the groom's s brother. Rev. Thos. F. Suber of Sil- 3 verstreet. c The Punjab is so called from two c Persian words signifying "five" and c "waters," alluding to the five rivers c which flow through it. r fWO HONEA PATH MEN f FACE SERIOUS CHARGE John and Kenneth Gosset, Cousins, Lodged in Penitentiary for Safe Keeping After Arrest. The State. John Gossett and Kenneth Gosset, young white men arrested yesterday in Greenville and Honea Path, respectively, on the charge of criminally assaulting two young white women in Abbeville last Sunday, were brought to Columbia late last night and lodged in the state penitentiary for safekeeping. The young men admit having been in Abbeville last Sunday and taking the two young girls out riding. The boys are first cousins. Kenneth Gossett is the younger of the two, being about 21 years of age, but is married. John Gossett bears a good reputation in j his communitv. The Gossett boys were placed in the same cells occupied the previous two days by James B. Wallace and Lee Bourne, young' men from Greenwood, who were arrested in connec- j nection with this case last. Sunday night, but released, yesterday after | the young women had declared posi- j tively that Wallace and Bourne were not their assailants. I Kenneth Gossett, whose assault is said to have been successful, claims that he did not get out of the automobile. John says he walked back up the road a short distance to Long Cane bridge with the other girl, where the car was first stopped. When the latter two came back the girl who remained behind in the car with Kenneth,, the other girl says,; came running down the road crying, "He has ruined me." Kenneth de-j nied last night that he had made further advances than laying his hands, on the young woman. The two boys, both of whom give j the appearance of being in their teens were brought to Columbia by! C. J. Bruce, deputy marshal of the western district, and S. L. Cann, n# A KV\arillo />nnntv UtjpUlV S11C( HI VI nuubTiu\/ \.vu?vj, who made the arrests. These two officers have been tireless in their per-; sistent and successful work. It was J not until late Tuesday night that j they got a definite description of the j two assailants. By 6 o'clock yester- j day morning Kenneth Gossett had j been placed under arrest at his home j in Honea Path and John Gossett had j been arrested at a hotel in Green- j ville, where he had registered under i the name of John Brown. Both were; taken immediately to Anderson. The young women, who were on their way home from Columbia on the morning train, left the train at Hodges and were driven directly to Anderson j * - 1 1 * ?? ? ? *1 ! cnrougn ine counn-y mm mcic lUVil- | Lifted the young men. James B. Wallace and Lee Bourne, | young men from Greenwood, who had j been arrested late Sunday night under -this charge and brought to the state penitentiary for safekeeping, were released yesterday about 11 o'clock, after the young women had stated positively that the two men then in Columbia were not their as- j sailants. The release was ordered j by Governor Cooper as soon as he j had been authorized to do so by j Homer S. Blackwell of Laurens, so- j * * * [JCitor 01 ine rjignui ciituu. . The arrest of the Gossett boys! vas effected under difficulties. John j s said to have been spirited away j from Honea Path by a friend. As I 5oon as this friend returned to i flonea Path, Deputies Bruce and j ^ann caught the man who had taken | John Gossett away and compelled j lim to tell where he had left him. Mr. j Tann was taken to Greenville and di-1 I ected to the hotel where the young | nan had been left and the name j riven under which the young man , lad registered. Mr. Cann then pro- j eeded. with his prisoner to Ander-! 1 ? ' 1^.-1 tr { on,. where Mr.'.Bruce naa laxen i\c?-.? i?th Gossett. The two officers, *who j >rought the prisoners to Columbia ] ast nipht praised the mayor and the ihief of police of Honea Path, who ooperated with them in their efforts j The young women were on their | ray to church Sunday afternoon i ?rher. they were accosted by the Gos- < ett boys and invited to ride. In- j tead of stopping at the church, they j [rove on into the country. ? Asked last night if the prirls re- ] luested that they be let out at the hurch, Kenneth Gossett said they lid make some statement about be- < ncr on their way to church, but after ? something had been said about go- < ing to church any time, the car was 1 then driven on into the country. The officers were practically exhausted when they placed the men behind the bars here last night. They had not beefi to bed for 48 hours, continually on the go and under the highest tension. TJ-io prrnr in sirrp^'Hnrr thp UTnnrr? men at first was wholly incident to the excitement of a brother -and mother of one of the girls, who mistook the name Gossett for Wallace. Being informed that the assailant of one of the girls was named Wallace, and a young man from Greenwood being in Abbeville that day by the name of Wallace with another young man set up a string of circumstantial evidence which wholly misled the officers. | One of the Gossett boys said last night that the car they were driving i Qnn^oit offni?nAr\n ivoe nno cfnlpn in uuuuaj UJLbVlllVUIl "UC V4IV k/WAv?? **? Columbia last Saturday morning and identified in Honea Path Monday morning by a description carried in The State last Sunday. The car be-; longed to L. S. Eargle of Blythewood and has since been returned. A Columbia boy was implicated in the stealing of the car. . * Abbeville, March 17.?Kenneth i and John Gossett were arrested early this morning in Honea Path and charged with assaulting two young girls in Abbeville Sunday afternoon. The arrests were made by Deputy Sheriff Cann and 'Deputy Marshal Bruce. The two men were taken to the Anderson jail where they admitted being in Abbeville Sunday and taking the girls for a ride. Sheriff Burts went to Anderson this morning with the two young women where the men were promptly identified. At the instance of Solicitor Blackwell Governor Cooper has ordered released from custody Jim Wallace and Lee Bourne, the two men arrested Sunday. I i tt n.i.1. i ( l \r nonea ram, iuaicii i<.?uvnu Gossett and Kenneth Gossett, arVested this morning charged with criminal assault, live in Honea Path, and have made their home here for some time. They are first cousins. John Gossett, who was taken into custody at Greenville, is 22 years of age and unmarried. Kenneth Gossett, arrested here at 4:30 o'clock this morning, is a married man and is about 19 or 20 years of age. The former is a mechanic and the latter a brick mason. After the arrest, Kenneth Gossett was taken to Anderson, and it is un-,1 derstood that John Gossett was J brought here from Greenville. The i' young women were brought to An derson from Abbeville and, according to advices received from them, j the men were identified by the girls. ; i Anderson, March 17.?John Gos-j] sett, arrested in Greenville this mom-J1 ing, and Kenneth Gossett, arrested} in Honea Path at an early hour, were j' brought here today, where the young j' women from Abbeville identified j' them as their assailants. The Gos-11 | setts were held here for several hours i by officers and then were taken away '; bv officers to parts unknown here, j * The Gossetts are from Honea Path, j < John Gossett is about 22 vears of : * a?e, and Kenneth Gossett is about j1 two years younger. ! 1 11 Greenville, March 17.?Governor i Cooper, here to deliver an address< toni.eht, said that he would meet i i Solicitor Blackwell in Laurens to- i morrow and would call a special term ! j of court if so requested by the so- \ licitor. 11 - j, Drayton Rutherford Chapter. j c The members of the Drayton Ruth-; c erford chapter, U. D. C., who have j s not paid their dues and the quota for j t the French orphan are requested to \ send these amounts .at their earliest possible convenience to the treasurer, \ Mrs. J. P. Shealy. Among recent instance* of govern- t ment help to Japanese commerce is i :he foundings at Singapore and Har- i Din of commercial, museums as head- c garters for Japanese trade. The j a nuseum located at Singapore will aid j t n the development of trade in the e South seas; that at Harbin will serve h Manchuria, Mongolia and Siberia. p a It is just fifty years since the medi- t 'al profession irt Sweden was opened <i :o women. j s STUDENTS REBUKED BY CLEMSON BOARD CADETS MAY RETURN ON CERTAIN TERMS. Upper Classmen Must Withdraw Approval of Last. Paragraph of Ultimatum. Clemson College, March 15.?The report of Clemson college trustees, completed only after 48 hours of most searching investigation into the student "walk out" which resulted in 450 freshmen and sophomores leav ing thy reservation for their homes last Wednesday and senior and junior classmen threatening to walk out in sympathy unless their demands for reinstatement, without punishment, of all underclassmen and certain reforms in methods of cadet government were met, shows these net results: Vigorous support of the president, the commandant and the discipline committee of the faculty. Refusal to even consider the ultimatum from senior and junior class men. Laying down of certain conditions upon which junior and senior class* men who1 signed the ultimatum and sophomore and freshmen classmen who walked out may reenter the college. Acknowledgment that conditions of the mess had not been what the authorities would have them, but that economic and other conditions the world over are such that the situation could, not; be better under existing limitations,, authorizing the president to make certain improve ?' ~ "T - - . , ments in the mess and providing him with additional funds to cover cost of same, without raising the monthly rate of board of cadets. . Open trial for cadets, not upon . demands from any cadet elnment, but solely to inspire more of a spirit of confidence in the work of the discipline committee of the faculty; permission to be granted accused cadets to have faculty counsel of their own choosing at the trial; no student representative upon the discipline committee. Appointment of a committee of the trustees to study the cadet government regulations and suggest such changes as might be deemed advisable, this report to be submitted at the regular April meeting of the trustees. Consideration of the case of Cadet Crossland, not upon the demand of the junior and senior classmen, but upon the petition of Cadet Crossland himself as provided by regulations. Reentrance Rules. Conditions upon which junior and senior classmen may reenter the college provide that each individual who ? * ^ r* oil flinm ah4 Mglit:u me uniiuoiuiii otian auv< file with the president for the trustees by 11:30 p. m., March 21, a written withdrawal of their approval of the last paragraph of the document. Those failing to comply shall be considered in a state of iftiubordination and shall be dropped from the rolls of the college without the privilege of reinstatement at any time in the future. Members of these classes who do not return in accordance with * ' < 4. ine terms 01 tneir present ica?c, without sufficient excuse in the opinon of the president shall be adjudged deserters and dropped from the *olls as such. Freshmen and sophonores-who fail to return by 11:30 ). m., March 21, shall be adjudged to lave violated paragraph 325, cadet emulations, and their names dropped Tom the college rolls. When these onditions have been met those calets returning will be required to subicribe anew to the pledge given upon heir formal entrance and to make ip all work missed. The report of the trustees is 5,000 Fords in length. The report in full follows: "Findings of the board of 4 truaees after a thorough investigation, n which representatives of the senor and junior classes, such parent! >f freshman and sophomore classes :S presented themselves, members of he discipline committee and all othrs .who desired the opportunity were teard. the representatives of the up*, ter classes being heard both in open nd in executive session of the board, bus allowing them the frufJest ^reetorn from constraint in the expresion of complaints and of opinions