Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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;fbr ||fra$ and Bern Entered at the Postoffice at NewWrry, S. C-, as 2nd class matter. E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Friday, May 7, 1920. Don't forget the election tcd;iy on the several bond propose ions for the improvement of the city of Newberry. Every good citizen of the town should go to the polls and cast his ballot for the progress of the town, that is every one who has registered for this election. The extension department of the University of South Carolina has * > i i _? r _ 1. _ caa printed a map snowing me wmte illiteracy of South Carolina. Newberry county is one among eight counties in the State which shows an illiteracy among the white people over ten years of age of less than five per cent. The other seven are: Edgefield, Sumter, Calhoun, Orangeburg, Bamberg, Beaufort, Charleston. There are sixteen which show an illiteracy of between 5 and 10 per cent, among the white people over ten years of age. There are nineteen with an illiteracy above ten per cent. That is a pretty good showing for: Newberry but there should be less; than one per cent. There is really1 no excuse in this day for any one to j be illiterate, that is unable to read! and, to-write has or her own name. With. cemptfteory school attendance ai:d the school advantages that are being given t ow every one should b? abie to read and write and-this should include the tdults who have permitted thenm.'ves to grow to manhor.d and womanhood without the advantages of the school. Schools are being given to these as well as the children. j We fyope that when the club rolls are signed this year that there will not be any one who makes his jnark instead of signing his own name with his own hand. OUR EXCHANGES. There once w$s.a time in the journalism of ^iis State when the good custom of exchanging with your con. temporaries .prevailed, and we ahVays enjoyed and were benefited by reading what the other editors had to say, and felt that we could make a better paper for our own readers, but the new order of things seems to have changed that good old custom, and now there are papers which refuse to exchange with some other papers. The excuse is of course the high cost of print paper and the high cost of everything else. This may be a good place to start the reduction of ex-! pense, but we have never believed j that it was. The Columbia State, the Greenville j News and the Greenville Piedmont, j the Spartanburg Herald and the i 1 Spartanburg Journal have cut us off' their list, but the good old News and j : Courier and the Charleston American I and the Greenwood Index-Journal and the Daily Mail of Anderson remain j with us and we get along fairly well. Then there are a great many of the j j' -A J.?:__ _ ?! papers tnai print twice a >vcei\. anu < once a week that do not exchange as j they once did. It may be that they j do not care to have The Herald and News, or it may be a step toward conserving news print paper, but whatever it is it is a mistake. It is help- j ful to any editor in his work and fits j him the better to serve his own people ! if he can read and know what the j other people in the same state are talking about. The trouble with too rnnnv of the editors of the bier dailies is that they do not get out among the people often enough, and thus they . , fail to feel the grea? public pulse and to know what the people are thinking about, and to get the trend of sentiment. Not that they should do this in order to follow the crowd, but by knowing these things they are in much better shape for leadership.. We remember on one occasion Mr. A. B. Williams who was then editing the Greenville News said to us that -a he always read the country correspondence in the weekly press, and in this way he could find out the trend of thought of t}ie fellow away back in the country, and could find out his troubles and his wants and was then I in better position to help him and could the better edit his paper. And there was no better or more able editor on the press of this State than A..B. Williams. We are led to make these observations by receiving a copy of the News and Press of Darlington with a request to exchange. It is a copy of the Special Dollar Day Edition of this noTioT Tf i<3 u vptv finp edition and ?SCt?/WJ.? AW we have read it with interest. And we note that our old friend of the good days that are gone, J. Ed. Norment, is the editor of the paper. A long time ago he was connected with the News and Courier, but we had not heard from him in many moon3 and we had concluded that he had gotten rich over in that fine Pee Dee section and had retired from such v/ork as one finds on the AC4V/VA. A V VMT ? newspaper. But we are greatly pleased to see his name on this paper as its editor, and we shall be very glad to have the News and Press on ? i our exchange list, and in fact all the i J state papers. Such an arrangement 3 i would be helpful to all the editors | ' and thus be helpful to all the people : of the State. But we are doing : pretty well now, thank you, and if i it suits the other fellow not to exi i 1 ! change we will not compiam. i, j Lack of proper sewerage may j | i bring serious illness to your home and ; j to your loved ones. Remember this i if you are inclined to vote against'. the sewerage bonds today. 'GEORGE VANDERBILT'S DREAM j ! Vanishes With the Sale of the Model \ ( I Town of Biltmore. i: i Kansas City Star. ! | The model town of Biltmore, N. i i C., built by the late George W. Van; derbilt in connection with his magnificent country estate near Asheville, has been sold to the Southern Rail- . i way and two individual purchasers, i j i On the site chosen by 3lr. vanaer-i j bilt for an adventure in Utopia, the j ' railway company will build a two ( ( j million dollar passenger station. So j ' i crumble the dreams of men. j How vast a scheme Vanderbilt j ; conceived for developing his North 1 . Carolina estate, no one will ever i j know. From 1892 until his death in ] 1914, he made it his life's work to ] | block together 120,000 acres of moun- j I tain land, grub out the forests, plant ] i t.reos. nine water, build roads and<< I level off a mountain peak for his . ! palatial honr^, Biltmore house. The } 1 project cost him more than ten mil- ( ^lion dollars., j f '* ' '1 v A Two yearfc after.-., his:-:death his < widow transferred to the government fifty thousand acres of the estate for < a national forest reserve. Now -the. . ) model town of Biltmore is sold,, and i the millionaire's plan of rural em- < pire begins to disintegrate. Did 1 ! Vanderbilt dream a fool's paradise on 1 those North Carolina hills? He is < dead; the dream is dust and ashes. i j On a rainy day thirty years ago, ] i Vanderbilt's private car wbs on a ! side track at Asheville waiting to \ ' wiilliAVlQiVA KOPIT f A i 1 LittVC II1C JfllUIIg iiuiuuuaitb k>uvn w v New York. After a short stay he had become disgusted with the weather, the skyline, the hotel, with everything. He was to leave on the morrow. During the night the skies cleared and^the next morning young Vanderbilt, rising early, watched a ; North Carolina sunrise. j Standing on the piazza of the Batj tery Park hotel he looked away to | the north and saw the peak of the Roan^mountain in Tennessee, sixty j] miles away. Southward was the grim |. outline of Caesar's Head, a mountain' in South Carolina, fifty miles away.. 1 j To the southwest, dim in that blue! I haze which gives to this mountain its t ] | name, was the Georgia line, ninety I i miles away. To the east, standing! ( | bare and bleak, and reflecting the j 1 sun's rays from its snow crowned ! summit, was Mount Mitchell," the highest peak of the Rocky Mountains. 1 Remodeled a Mountain. George Vanderbitl looked again and watched the sun come up over the ! peaks of the Blue Ridge mountains j I until it seemed to set the whole dome j of t'le sky on fire, coloring every ^ cloud to a bright copper hue and kindling t j heavens with long shafts = of golden ,ight. His bewildered eyes = took in this brilliant scene, and when he ^iad had his fill of it, he canceled the order for his private car and began to look around for a home site. He first came upon the estate of a wealthy Southerner and offered to ^ buy it. The Southerner refused all offers. Then Vanderbilt searched J the country-side until he found the site he wanted and began to negotiate j * for the laifd. Some he got for five hundred dollars an acre; other tracts cost him much more, for, when it was learned that a Vanderbilt was buying prices went sky high. In the center of his holdings was a t < high mountain. The peak of this! * earthly pile was not intended to hold i the kind of building George wanted.! So he ?et about correcting the error J of Nature. He slice&roff the top j , ; and added the earth and rock of the J i removed portions to that which was J left, making a broad plateau. On this i ( 1 plateau he built Biltmore house. ] J And what a "house" it was! To; : say that it cost more than two mil- , ;lion dollars and contained ninety jJ i rooms, gives only, a sketchy outline : , 1 of it. It was?and is?the finest. J . country mansion in all America, a 1 j 'paradise in the mountains, a "Chateau ; | of . the Skylarks." It stands upon an i ; esnlanade 700x300 feet, bound b re-', , taining walls of solid masonry and i . crowned by a coping of finely dressed 1 stone. The outside walls of the j j i palace are 375x192 feet. In archi-! "tecture it suggests some of the fam-1' ous chateaux of the Loire; yet it is j no lavish copy. It has an individ-i Bring Us I ( Prescri] When you hand in a pres - A 1 f 1 1 1 _1_. sure tnar oniy a licensed ar that prescription will be pi doctor ordered for you an pure, fresh drugs will be usi i Free delivery is part of c of our customers. ??c?j?4?ii <&> &-2L PHON1 1 uality * a personality all its own. It is considered by many to be the drowning work of Richard M. Hunt, 3ne of America's foremost architects. MTHI Golf mania. Smith: You seldom see such beautiful golf as that man plays. His drives were corking, his approaches superb, and he never missed a putt. ATX'' n'nvo ttah Kootori j wiivo . iiuri iuuv.ii n vi t v uu uvauvu by? Smith: Why, I won!?Cartoons Magazine. NOTICE TO CREDITORS. The creditors of the estate of Isaac Grigsby, deceased, are hereby notified to render to the undersigned, or his Attorneys, Dominick & Workman Awhf>rrT7 S P, ' on ac(>AiiTit nf their demands duly attested, and all persons indebted to said estate are notified to make payment likewise. GEO. B. GRIGSBY, Administrator. Chappells, S. C. NOTICE OF SPECIAL SCHOOL ELECTION IN WHITMIRE DISTRICT NO. 52. State of South Carolina, County of Newberry. Whereas, one-third of the resident & 1 1 1 **1 - i * ? creenoiaers ana a iiKe. proportion 01 :he resident electors of the age of twenty-one in the Whitmire School District No. 52, the County of Newberry, State of South Carolina, have filed a petition with the County Board of Education of Newberry County, South Carolina, petitioning md requesting that an election be leld in the said school district on the question of levying a special tax of ive toj muis on tne taxaDie property within the said school district.1. Now, therefore, we the undersigii;d, composing the County Board rif Education for Newberry County, State of South Carolina, do hereby jrder the Board of Trustees of the Whitmire School District No. 51Pto lold an election on the said question >f levying a special tax of five (5) nills to be collected on the property located within the said school dis / Don't, Abuse S*jn* Y OUR SJEdi EYES Don'tyead in a poor light. Don't read facing the light. Don't read when your eyes are tired. Don't read without glasses, if reading strains your eyes. 3UR GLASSES WILL ENABLE YOU TO READ IN SOLID s rnMFAPT Dr. H. M. Bigby # .* Optometrist ^ 305-306 Exchange Bank BIdg. Successor to Dr. E. C. Pierce REWARD! offered for the app/eiension and conviction if Jane Morgan* alias J. 11^ lillU Safe-cracker and burglar extraordinary Description Height 5 feet, 6 inches Hair Wondrous Complexion As a Peach Eyes . Like Jewels \ge....! (That's Telling) Figure Superb Last seen in Chicago. Officials state that she will be in Newberry Tuesday^ May 11th. Address all communications to THE OPERA HOUSE, Newberry, S. C. in, iiiiwiw?rgrm'-f"'""" ?*" ? >ur Doctors' ptions. scription to us you can be uggist will fill it, and into it just exactly what your t ii-- ? a noming eist;?anu vmy ed. >ur service available to all armacy : us. trict, which said election shall be | held- at the Whitmire School House, j in the said school district No. 52, on ; Saturday, the 22nd day of May, ; '1020, at which said election the polls j 1 shall be opened at 7 a. m. and closed at 4 p. m. j The members of the Board of Trustees of the said school district! shall act as managers of said election. Only such electors as reside in : the said school district and return real or personal property for taxa-! tion. anci who exhibit their tax and registration certificates as required j in general elections, shall be allowed' r to vote. Electors favoring the levy of such tax shall cast a ballot con-. taining the word "Yes"' written or printed thereon, and each elector op- i posed to such levy shall cast a bal-; lot containing the word "No" written or printed thereon. j i non rkii*,* VinnAs and spills Vfl veil U11UV/1 V?1 this the 5th days of May, 1920. j C. M. WILSON, O. B. CANNON, J. B. HARMAN, ! i County Board of Education, Newberj rv County, South Carolina. | NOTICE OF SPECIAL SCHOOL i ELECTION IN ST. LUKES DIS- , TRICT NO. 1^. i, State of South Carolina, \ % County of Newberry. Whereas, one-third of the resident * ? * i i ? i - i:i.? iree-noiaers ana a hkc piupumuu ut ! t the resident electors of the age of; twenty-one in the St. Lukes School.s District No. 13, the County of J*Tew- j * berry, State of South Carolina, have j5 filed a petition with the County j < Board of Education of Newberry j2 County, South Carolina, petitioning |1 and requesting that an election be j * held in the said school district on the j1 question of levying a special tax of j5 four (4> mills on the taxable prop- * erty within the said school district. * Now, therefore, we the undersign- * ed, composing theCountyBpard of 1 Education for' Newbeifcy County, < State of South Carblina, do hereby . order the be :d of trustees of the t St. Lukes *scn00l district No. 13 to hold an election on the said question I of levying a special tax of four (4) mills to be collected on the property < located within the said school dis; trict, which said election shall be held j at the St. Lukes School House, in 1 the said school district No.* 13, on Saturday, the 22nd day of May, 11920, at which said election the polls 1 ; I . I PaulE. SP ; / I 36-inch Sheeting, spec 40c Cheviots, special. 40c Bleaching, specis 1 lot Percales.... i 36-inch Indian Head. Apron Check Dress Ginghams * . * i Overalls, 1 pair limits I 1 "1 ^^ vi 4-4- /\m n ?v per cent. Uli un an New Voils just arrive i V i Silk Hosiery, all colo Men's Undervests,: 75 j Big cut in Men's Dres I A few Men's Suits...... ??i????????? i Men's Dress Shirts.... _________?,? i ; 10 per cent, off on all i i ??????????? 10 per cent, off on all ?????TP ! ! IW r?3?PW?? New Hats just arrive* Special prices on all ] 10 per cent, off on all I 10-4 Pepperal Sheetir i 1 lot Curtain Good, s] || _________ r i t' ^ Rio- int, Madras for si ~ ! i jl 1? cilll I? " II??? . ??? Happy and ^ * i Contented HAPPY, because he has saved enough money from his earnings so that his savings are now earning for I CONTENTED, because I safely deposited in the The Commi " The Bank That Aiwa shall be opened at 7 a. m. and closed ; it 4 p. m. The members of the Board of rrustees of the said school district shall act as managers of said election. Dnly such electors as reside in the said school district and return real )r personal property for taxation, md who exhibit their tax and regis:ration certificates as required in general elections, shall he allowed to rote. Electors favoring the levy of ;uch tax shall cast a ballot containing ,he word "Yes" written or printed r<-nA conti D! of+A* nnnneod tft .iXCiCUIi^ aiiu vAVli UVVbv& vyjk#vuv\* WW * such levy shall cast a ballot containng th^e.word. "No" written or printid thereon. Given under our hands and seals ;his the 5th days of May, 1920. .. . C. M. WILSON, ; 0. B. CANNON, J. B. HARMAN, bounty Board of Education, Newberry. County, South Carolina. rhe State of South Carolina, County of Newberry. By W. F. Ewart, Probate Judge. Whereas, T. P. McCartha has made j \ Anderst ECIA] l % J / ' 3 Georgettes and Crepe d id. Come in and look th< .<B1.25.S1 "J T ? I ' II c value, special s Pants, all marked in pi ? ; % . : f > ' . . i V $1 f I Boys' Straw Hats. . Low Cut Shoes, Men ai d for Ladies and Childr< Ladies' Ready-to-Wear. I Boys' Clothing. ig, the yard pecial lirts, special price / ? ? -g* w wpw ' [ him he knows his money is . 3 ercial Bank , ' I lys Treats You Right" J V - \ ? :* suit to me to grant him Letters of Administration of the Estate and effects of R. Cumm'ings McCartha. . These are, therefore, to cite ana admonish all and singular the Kindred and Creditors of the said R. Cummings McCartha deceased,, that they be and appear before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at Newberry on Tuesday the 25th May, next, after publication hereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they h?t?.why the said ? Administration shoora not be granted. ' Given under ihy hand this 5th dSay* v of May, Anno Domini 1920. - - P. J. tf. c. ... . ESTATE NOTICE. All persons holding claims against the estate of Mrs. Louisa F. A. Zofcel, deceased, are hereby notified to render a statement of them, duly | verified, to me, or to Greorge B. Cromer, attorney for the estate, on y/ or before June 1, 3920. O. KLETTNER, * , Qualified Executor. C ft 4* _L_ J U-I-OV ^ . v . >4fl- : * ' >n&Co. t '' ! o LS / >. r...... ..25c w...25c 25c 35c J t.ftwww r : 25<^ 35c # $2.00:. . e Chine Waists. ?> em over. Prices right . ; .50, $1.75 and $1.98 fjrt; ' j ? ? " V . ain figures. ...$15.00 and $25.00 .i .25, $1.98 and $2.50 \ id Ladies. ben. 1 / Aj M 90c I 20c > 79c mmmmmmmmmmmmmm?^m-^^em^^mrn >rson JI >c 1 .* 'i *