The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, March 19, 1920, Image 1
^ 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
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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.
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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.
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"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. <
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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,
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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
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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
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[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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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 :
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a?e, and Kenneth Gossett is about j1
two years younger. ! 1
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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
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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
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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