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if tic ^rrolfl m Stmt.; i Entered at the Postoffice at Ne^v- \ fcerry, S. C., as 2nd class matter. . . I E. H. AULL," EDITOR! i t Friday, April 2, 1920. Every citizen interested in the wel-; fare of this town and county should ! attend the meeting called for Friday night to consider the organization of. a chamber of commerce. And that j should include every one of us. In ! this age when a town reaches the! proportions of Newberry some sort of ; commercial organization to look after j the interests of the community is al-; most a necessity and that means that ic tr\ omnlAx* o mor? ' jv ic uvv. v c ou i v\/ c* iiiuu nan; ; ed for the work to give his time to i the chamber of commerce, and that j line is now just as much a profession ; us the law or medicine or any other.! And to get such a man will take' money, but the money invested will j be well invested. Attend the meeting' and manifest your interest in your j community. The Anderson Daily jVIaiYi, of Sat- j urday contained a very sane and sensible editorial on the census fig-; ures for Anderson city. It is true as I the Mail states that a great many' negroes have gone away and it is! also true that the growth of Ander- j son has been on the suburbs and in! North Anderson which is just outside} the incorporation. And then the Mail speaks a truth when it says "that mere human beings do not make a city or a community. Better v one citizen of the right sort than a score of the undesirable kind. Al though Anderson may have but 10,535 people, they are 10,535 as good r as any in the world and better than a whole lot of. others." And then the growth is the substantial kind! which means much for the communi-j ty. Anderson is a good town. There is none better. And it is the capital; of a good county. We believe thej count in Anderson was correctly i made. The enumerators were good! A 1 X * .A? _ ..'l.' ' intelligent ana patriotic citizens 01 j the town who are interested in its j welfare and we are satisfied they did j their work conscientiously and; thoroughly. j' We do not know the provisions of j the act passed by the recent legisla-! ture ordering an election on the issue { of $400,000 in bonds for the purpose \ of building roads but we agree with; the Abbeville Press and Banner andj have said the same thing many times; that it would be foolish to spend i money building any sort of roads un\ less provision was made to keep the roads in repair. We have had illustration of the folly of that right here in our own county in a small way of course but the provision for the proper maintenance of the roads is! really of more importance than the building of them. Every one knows our position on the matter of building good roads. We tk.ve advocated the issuing of bonds for many years as the only really sensible plan for getting something worth while but at the same time provision should be made for the upkeep. The $5,000 a mile road that was : recently built from Prosperity to Lit- : tie Mountain is really a fine road but;: unless some prowsiofr.is made right ; now for the upkeep it will not be a : good road very long. Some of youi 3 remember the mile of government road as we called it that was built some years ago near Mr. John C. : Neel's. It was a fine road for a long : time but for lack of the right sprt of 1 attention you can not tell now where it begins or ends. And so we want ' to say with the Press and Banner un less our bond act itself makes some < provision lor maintenance, uu pci- . son should vote for the bond issue ; who is not prepared to support the 1 1 next delegation in the general assem- ; bly in providing for* a good working j fund to keep the roads in proper j shape." i Otherwise money ^pent in building: 1 roads will be wasted even though we < get a good road to start with. There ] is no more important necessity now ( before the people of this county es- 1 neciallv the farmers than the ques-j < tion of building better roads and we J ; hope to see the people practically ] unanimous in so voting and then un- j ( animous iit providing proper main-, i tenance. | j ?_. i? THE URBAN Ulb 1 K1U lb. j 1 Why does not some one tabulate ( the population of American cities ac- ; cording* to their area in square miles J or acres? Why does not the census ; bureau undertake this task? Com- j j parison of the population of the in-: j corporated territory of Charleston, |: for example, about four square miles,1! with that of Birmingham, a city of i perhaps twelve times Charleston's j extent, is of small value. Columbia has in its incorporat?d J < area 37,324 inhabitants, about (5,250 \ to the square mile. If Charlotte jhave ">0,000 in twelve square miles incorporated. the density of population to the square mile in that city is 4,-; lt>7. j There is no uniformity among! American cities in rules of incorpora-! lion. Consequently, inferences from i census enumerations are in mostj cases misleading and, in some, mean-) ingless. It seems that the census bu-! reau might, in addition to the publi-j nf +>ip nnmher of oeoDle with-1 in incorporated acreas, ascertain and publish the figures of population residing within a radius from the center or each city. Comparison of numbers of dwell- j ers witnm four miles of the centers! of Macon, Charlotte, Columbia and1 Charleston would afford a rational J basis upon which to measure their respective urban districts. A longer radius might be used for larger cities a shorter one fur the smaller.? The tate. i he uoint of The State is well taken. Especially in so far as the comparison of the per centaze of xr.owth of the various cities is concerned. an'l ;>lso the population of ; the cities. Take Anderson city for instance. ; - _ r 1 We understand that the growth in Anderson, and there has been growth, has been largely just outside the corporate limits, and yet in fact is a part of the city. North Anderson is in fact a part of Anderson city and unless.you happen to know where the dividing line is you could not tell where the city limits begin or end. And that there has been steady and substantial growth like this there is no doubt. C/m* fimcnc nnvnncpc flir* f r?v\*n <;Vl in A V7i \ V iU'UO 11 W4 A jv VUV W VI i V % < >.* * j in this state is the unit, and the population is tabulated by townships, and the cities separatively of course, where the township includes more than the city and then the city is taken and tabulated by wards. In the case of Anderson the township is coextensive with the city ami the only subdivision in that case is by wards. It is also a fact, as Mayor Fant points out, in the case not only of Anderson but of other cities, that a great many negroes have left the cities in this section for one reason and another, and it is also true that a great many have left the state. And even with these facts Anderson city shows about a normal growth. So far as Columbia is concerned we do not see any good cause for any one to make a protest, because a growth of 42 per cent, in ten years is much more than a normal growth and any city that shows that as a substantial and permanent growth should be very proud of the record, if a larger number of people in any community is a record of which to be proud. If the cities desire to show the real population including the suburbs then they should extend the limits or do as the State suggests, take a radius of so many miles and state the city limits and then the comparison would be fair, but to take a city of ons mile radius or^two miles and compare it with a city of four miles s not a fair comparison of growth. But the census department must have some fixed rule as to the unit of the civil division and the natural way is to take the township and the county and then the state. It is but natural that these towns and cities that have been making extraordinary claims as to ? population should enter protests when the actual figures are given, because otherwise it would be an admission that they were just claiming without any substantial foundation for the claim. It .is not so bad for the country if some of the towns should not show big increases but rather a good omen. What we should regret to see is a decrease in the rural districts because now is the time we should desire to see the movement back to the farm so as to have greater production. A _ J i. 1 lu i.1 as we understand ic me census figures that are now being published by the department have not yet been officially certified to congress and if any of the people of any of the towns or cities have not been counted or have been omitted in the count and the tabulation; and the facts are made known they may yet be added to the official figures. There is still opportunity to make corrections if they are legitimate and it is shown that errors have been made. FARMERS MOVING ALONG WITH THEIR FARM WORK Last week was a fine week for the farmers and on all sides and in many fields the plowman was going: from early morn until late at even ing. Arid the work was moving along rapidly toward preparation for the making of the next crop. ?o? I drove out with Mr. W. T. Brown! his ear to the burial of my old friend Captain William H. Sondley ; an Friday morning. The burial was in the cemetery where once stood j Mt. Bethel Presbyterian church near; the Wadlington place now the fine; country place of Prof. Thomas W. j Keftt. And not far from Enoree Baptist church. There is no church: there now, the building being taken J away so*"e dozen or more years ago,1 ? t 1 i r 'i. t j* j i. L am toi(_ 1 iranKiy aamit i aiu not! know there ever was such a church1 in Newberry county and I had flat-' terecl myself that I had been to every -church in the county, or at least knew of the location of the i church. I looked up the history of j the churches as given in the Annals | of Newberry and I do not find such a church mentioned there among the Presbyterians. It must have been organized many years ago because in> the cemetery are some very old graves dating back beyond the mid- i ile of the last .century. On one of j the tombs was the name Boozer and Dn another Bushardt and a Paysinger. Mr. Sondley's father, Col. John R. j Sondley, and his mother and brother! are buried here. There is very little attention given to the care of the graveyard and no evidence now of the place where the church building stood. They buried Captain. Sondley with the beautful and solemn Masonic ceremony conducted by the Rev. K. V. Babb and there were many and elaborate floral tributes which ' completely covered the mound beneath which lay the remans of our friend. ?o? We drove via the Gibson or Caldwell road and returned by the county home road. This is a fine section of the county and there are some beautiful farms out -this side. The Brown brothers, W. l. ana a. Brown, now bwn the* Gibson place and Mr. J. A. Brown is out on 1 lie farm. He has the fields on either side of the road as you approach the Buncombe road in fine condition for the planting and the making of a crop. The terraces are so constructed that you just plow and plant right right on over them and they prevent land from washng and do not leave the unsightly ditches in the field. He was working them up with a farm tractor the day we passed, and it is a real pleasure to look on such a farm and it is the only way to farm. Put your land in good condition before you plant and then the working is easy. The Brown brothers have just about completed a jnauniiicent new modern house at the turn of.the! road where the Gibson home stood. T 1 L - ' * .. it. ^ c. ; .. . . I JiUltrU l ) tiic nntr UJ*; VU'.mu ? home known as the -Mrs. Caniv.* Caldwell piacc ju.-t beyond the Gibson pla^e unoccupied. This is too nice a f country place not to be occupied. It is own by Mrs. Re id. Prof. Thomas W. Keitt has a magnificent country place ami with the i fresh white paint and green blinds land water and .sewerage and lights I and a tine farm on which to-grow all I you want what else could one desire ! in this world to . make life worth ; while. And Prof. Keiti grows what i he needs for the farm on the farm ! and sells some of the finest breakfast I /<nvi V. I 1 1 ? A ?-v , I . 1 M Af feirip \ i; u tan uut\ . *~v mi \> f nu ni/t know whether he sells any or not, but 11 do know that he knows how to cure i Meal country ham. because I have | had a taste-of it and it can't be beat, j All alone: this road are nice farms 'and prosperous farmers. Mr. 0. II. I Lane recently sold his farm to Mr. ! Lominick and has moved to town. It j is a tine place and just adjoining and i running all around is the farm of j Mr. Thos. W. Folk and on up the road j is L.' I. Feagle another good farm I and then there is John T. Norris who has a nice country place and is mak ing money. And then the county j farm in charge of M. J. Smith. It j is a line section of Newberry couni ty, but then all sections of this ! county are fine sections. ?o? ! It appeared, to me that the small i grain was looking well, though it would have looked better if there had been more of it. Our farmers do. not plant enough wheat and oats as a rule. True, sometimes wheat does not yield .very large, but then you fcan tell in time to put the land to | other erops and the wheat' is good j fertilizer and even a small yield is ; better than buying your flour. Somej how the people do not raise as much j wheat as they did a good many years !ago. I can recall when the two Aull j flour mills, the one at the Aull Hills, i owned by my father, and the one near Newberry, owned by my uircle, Captain John P. Aull, each would grind from 15,000 to 20,000 bushels j of wheat a season. The- mills would [start to run as soon as the grain was ! harvested and continue regularlj night and day for about two months, and then shut down the flour mills until the next harvest. There were : no roller mills then in this section But the flour was good and pure. The roller mills may be grinding considerable wheat now. I do not knov i but somehow there does not seem tc ! hp as much wheat raised. i ? ? - r o ! The roads are in need of work. II ! the people now would just take ofl | a day since the rain and while it if i too wet to farm and drag these roads J out this way and all over the countj : we would have fairly good roads the j remainder of this season. Just a lit i tie dragging now would save a whole ' lot of time when time in the fanr , is much more valuable and could be ! used to better advantage because , then you could get over the roads without too much worry and hau] j bigger loads and with a great dea] more ease and the use of less gaso! line. ?o? I Q'jfnwlav 1 Vinnkprl mv npw 111 and j with Humbert Aull we "drove down to j the Aull Hills and on to Pomaria. j The roads in this section are fairly I good if the holes were given a little J attention, and most of it could be 1 done with the split log drag. The I farmers out this side are turning the I soil too and making ready for the planting. This is a good section and ' the farmers have improved conditions ' down this side very much in recent ! years. The building of new school i houses and the having of ggod schools i will bring out any communty. Wal| ter Richardson has a fine country I sto>e down there on the road and | ships lots of chickens &nd eggs to the ' city markets and many people travel | for miles to trade with him because j he can and does sell cheaper. It was I rather quiet around the sm&ll towns last week even on Saturday because j the farmers were busy in the fields. The heavy rains Saturday night and Sunday night will again delay the farm work for a few days but it is all right .and good or the rains would not have come. ?o? That new road is fine but something must be done for its maintenance "or even it will not be grood for very long. E. H. A. ?o? The above story was written for the last issue. Since then the rains have come and the farmers are again delayed with their preparation of the land for planting and it looks that it is going to be several days before any more work can be done on the farm in the way of turning the land. But it is all right. Let every man do his duty and all will be well. ?o? Referring again "to the Mt. Bethel graveyard I have learned that the Mrs. Paysinger who is buried there was the wife of the late Mr. Fred Paysinger. When he married her she was the widow of Mr. Williamson Bushardt who was a*brother of Mrs. Rtbecca Paysinger and of the late Antine Bushardt and she was also the : grandmother of the Brown brothers, Sims Williamson and Will T. and the ethers. E. H. A. WHY? i We noticed the other.dayman ar: tide or an interview with Senator i Christensen, whom we believe is a ; member of a commission appointed j by the last legislature, to find some I other property to be placed on the 1 tax books so that taxes may not be i increased. And he asked the question why pay the other fellow's taxes. The answer being that you are paying the other fellow's taxes ; because his property is escaping taxation by not being on the books, or j if on at too low a rate of assess nient. We have no doubt that there is ; property that is escaping" taxation ! and that-there is property that is assessed too low. We grant that, and ' it should be placed on the tax books ami bea>* its part of the burden, or have the privilege of contributing to the expenses of the government. But I ! ? ? - oeritai i n m Mm ii WMmammmMmmmmmammammam? j Easter morning all | ruddy faced, with i | are forgotten in th i ! I I 1 What matter if a i ** comes--the long g j safe in store?a fi j benefit of every In i , I ! .... W hoever forms ai ours is subscribing happiness of finan | right association. ;i rrmrfpcv rpcnnnci isfaction in a banl t ) % :| The Nation ' Newbc I ? ;| b. c matthf.ws, i; President. ;i. {! State, Count . i' | Member l\ ; 1 * I putting it on the books is not going ! to lower your taxes one whit, if we j are to judge by the past. A few ) year^ ago a commission or commitj tee was appointed to fin<J -other j sources of income and they were ! found, and they amount to a considerable sum, but did that reduce your tax. The taxable values have increased a good bit in the last few years, but has the levy been deOr* the pnntrarv we have C1 w ? ^ the biggest levy in the history of the state. And the same will be true when this commission finds that other fellow and his property and the other sources of income. The' j levy will keep climbing just as the | assessments. Better find ^ way to i cut down appropriations and then j you can cut down the tax bill. ? m They are talking about running Thos. S. Sease for congress from'the ^ fourth district to succeed Sam pjj Niche 1* who declines to serve any co longer. We agree most heartily with be the News and Courier that if they should send Judge Sease to congress j j it would deprive the bench of the ha I state of one of the best and ablest s ?? - i-i? I of the circuit juuges, out men (j Sease could function just as well in j congress as on the bench and we in; rather think possibly better, because co cr it would be in-a forum much more to his tastes and training. Yes, come jn along judge, and make the race for B< j congress. ' We will cast what votes J L. ;w6 can for you down this way andj^)0 i deaden all the timber along1 the line, j | if it should need any attention, but j aT1 j we rather suspect that everything j of j would be all rii>*ht along this way. ^ soj !two prisoners take short j VACATION FROM JAIL ; St ! ! Two prisoners in the county jail i : took a brief respite from the prison M, ! on Monday night or Tuesday mornj ing. They seemed anxious to have ithe opportunity to spend a longer term in prison, as the first thing they tu did on making their get away was to ni: break in two stores in Newberry. The j prisoners were trusties, having' only j or short sentences, and Jailer Sanders j who has been sick with the flu and j 55 was not well on Monday afternoon decided to go to his home at Oak- 1,! mWit ;inn in leaving" the jail did not secure the outer doors,! 1 and during the night the. young pris-j oners made their exit only to get. cr back after a short respite. They J were apprehended by Policemen i cr< Cousins and Livingston while in the j store of A. P. Boozer. ! or ' Sheriff Blease gives out the folj lowing statement as to the escape of 3,1 j the two men: I "I have two negro boys serving of j sentence in the county jail for lar-; ceny. 1 have tried to better their 3.( [condition both morally and physical-! ge of Hap mankind steps fc sparkling eyes, i e radiant beauty < $ ft < 1 n occasional sho olden hoard of sui *ee heritage of 1 ring thing. 1 affiliation with i to another kind > cial independence " " " bility and every th / * :ing connection a\ lal Bank o jrry, South C T. K. JOHNSTONE, Cashier. :y and Cit; i-* i in reaerai reserve / f ' FOR Five hundred bus Cleveland Big Be * planting seed, firs Wannamaker's A fruiter, matures vate gin. Price $2. J. A. 1 \ I have allowed them privilegt having them to do such work < ey were able to perform in con iance with the sentence of t? urt. My jailer, Mr. Sanders, to en-up-only a few days from vere attack of influenza. He is sti very weak man. "On Monday afternoon Mr. Sande: d an attack which caused him 1 immediately to his home. He ui rtunaftely left one of the outsic >ors unlocked. "Monday night these two boys b g trusties in a way and not beir nfiried to the cells as other prisoi - ?-?htoII/o^ nnf nf tV 5 H \\ <1X I 111 % 11 im VYaiawu uuv v x v* il, ?nd after getting out brol the storeroom of Mr. A. ] jozer and the baker shop of Mr. Burn and --were caught by tl 'lice. "The police turned the prisone er to me and they are now in js id will be prosecuted under the lav the state for their misbehaviour "Mr. Sanders as well as myself rry of this unfortunate occurrence )UTH CAROLINA TOWNS INCREAS a^ion, Bennettsville and Hartsvil ^ f a rirnw VUUilUUV %W w ?W . Washington, March 30.?Census r rns for 1'920 were announced ti pht as follows: * Marion, S. C., 3.892; increase 4: 0.2 per cent. Bennettsville, S. C., 3,197, increas il, or 20.8 per cent. Hartsville. S. C., 3,624, increas 259, or 53.3 per cent. Meadville, Pa., 14,568, increas 788, or 14.0 per cent. Grand Forks, N. D., 13,950, ii ease 1,472, or 11.8 per cent. Colorado Springs, Colo., 29,572, ii ease 494, or 1.7 per cent. Cicero. 111., 44,995, increase 30,43! 209.1 per cent. Whiting, Jnd., 10,140, increa^ >53, or 53.9 per cent. Hannibal, Mo., IS,950, an increas 009, or 3.3 ner cent over 1910. Belleville, 111., 24,741, increas *19, or 17.1 per cent. Jefferson, Ind., 10,098, decreas T jpiness irth light hearted, Jfl Cares and worries ' of spring weather. ; wer of raindrops mmer sunshine is '.fl lappiness tor the in Institution like Jfl of happiness?the I m a 4* t !--- the prestige or 1 ling that spells sat- m vait you here. X m' t- ' W . * >7 f Newberry j arolina Jfl W.W.CROMER W Assistant Cashier. : y , Depository >j ^ J \ m ? System [ f ; I SALE' ? # ^ shels of Wannamaker>11 Cotton Seed. Real it year's growing from ' 1 Leotfan Farm, heavy * ! early, ginned on pri- " v 25 per bushel _ % Surton $ 2S (314, or 3.0 per cent. ** is | x Frederick, Md., 11,066, increase n- < 655, or 6.3 per cent. ie i Ciinton, md., 10,962, increase is | 4,733. or 76.0 per cent. a i Batavia, N. Y., 13",541, increase 111! 1,928, or 16.6 per cent. I Cortland, N. Y., 13,294, increase rs 1,790, or 15.6 per cent. e :o j Lockport, N.-.Y., 21,308, increase i- ; 3,338, or 18.6 per cent. c le: Geneva, N. Y., 14,648, increase-^^ | 2,202, or 17.7 per cent. MH igj CASH AND COOPERATION ft-1 Clemson College, March 31.?A ie . fine example of what can be accom te plished by farmers who have reached 1 P- the greatly to be desired stage of j J-! operating on a cash basis and who be- J ie (lieve in team work is found in a re- * !. cent report from County Agent T.. rs; M. Mills of Newberry county, who til reports that recently he met with 7 rs farmers and a representative of a ( farm machinery company for the puris pose of aiding them iri buying farm machinery cooperatively. The result 1 of the meeting were five grain biryde^ * , and on riding cultivator bought cow ' operatively and for cash at a saving^-^ E J to the farmers of about $125. This is^H 1 a good day's work for the coun^^H le! agent as well as for the 7 farmers^^H "The farmers of Newberry couiT^H ty," says Mr. Mills, "are on a cash. M e- basis and are learning every day* H o- i more and more the value of cooper-^H ^ ! at ion." Improving C /man Dyes. * j The Nation's Business. 5e ! Dyes, chemicals, and drugs have W been attracting capital into their pro- W >e j duction and distribution. The au- 1 ^ j thorized capital of companies organi ized in the United States for these* i-: purposes during the three years*' j 1917-1919, is placed at $331,000,000. i The technical journals report decided ;e American successes in making dyes. | By using American intermediates and ;e the cleverness of American chemists* ! American companies declare they ' < have surpassed the purity of. shades;e ' in German original dyes. * . 4