The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, June 11, 1920, Page FIVE, Image 5
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VARIOUS AND ALL ABOUT.
.Mr. E. A. Hentz is announced for
magistrate in Por&aria.
If some people Will just eat at .he
opera house let thorn eat popcorn or
cnew jrum.
The fire early Thursday afternoon
was at Jim Daniels' house G. J.
Jones' store. Small blaze on rooi.
in the i -order's court Tuesday
Fields Brooks, colored, paid $10 for
assault and battery?beating his
wife.
Former Mayor Z. F. Wright was
very happy in his remarks at the
commencement exercises Tuesday
morning.
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The Ladies* Aid society ot me
Church of the Redeemer will meet
with Mrs. J. C. Hipp on Monday afternoon
at 6 o'clock.
Since the last report there have
been only two cases of parking in
the wrong direction and one case of
parking on the wrong side.
Clerk of Court Goggans a.a.i.ed
a couple at the court house on Monday,
both from Whitmire, Miss Kate
Austin and iVIr. L. J. Tuclcer.
Policemen wear winter clothes in
the summer time and summer clothes
m winter. They ought at least to
have have spring and fall suits.
It is rumored that a mad dog is
running around and that he bit a
little colored child in the country.
About a wee*k ago ont was killed
after he had bitten several dogs.
Ann Forrest :has alwaw been devoted
to swimming a .u horseback
riding, ever since she was a tiny
vounsrster. See her in "Dangerous
Days" at the opera house Monday.
Mrs. George A. Wright and Miss
Elizabeth Wright have moved to the
home of Mrs. Wright's sister, Mrs.
W-. E. Pelham m College street, from
tke residence of Mr. T. M. Rogers
and family at the corner of Johnstone
and Nance street. This is the
beginning of several moves to take
place.
The Laurens Advertiser in its last
issue says; ""Sheriff Heid said yesterday
that violators of the State larw
on speeding will be sharply dealt
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with alter tnis nonce, xne ayccu
limit on county highways, he said, is
25 miles per hour and not 40 as some
seem to think, and the law will be enforced."
"The Shafk," to be played at the
opera house Friday, is a sea story oi
"luck, lure and love/' featuring
George Walsh. The story carries
you with rapid action from one bi?
scene to another. The interior of a
low Mexican dance hall, life aboard
a fcr^mp steamer, the marvelous rescue
of a man and a girl at sea keep
the- spectators in suspense.
Following the adjournment of the
business meeting the alumni formed
by classes for a parade to the university
gymnasium, Maj. J. F. J.
Caldwell of the class of 1857 heading
the procession.?From Ths
State's account of the university
oAlnlirol-inn in f! r?l n m Tii a Tnes.
diUllilll LVlVk/lUCiVii A A*
day. It is Doctor Caldwell, Newberry
college having: given the major thr
honorary and honorable title of
. L.L. D/
A few farewell word1? to the new
alumni of 1920 by Dr. Riggs and by
Cel. Alan Johnstone of Newberry,
chairman of the board of trustees.
. . . From account of graduating
exercises at Clemson college on
Wednesday. Mrs. Cook of Prosperity,
who has been on a pleasant visit
to her .-daughter, Mrs. Sallie Patton
Kennedy, returned some davs ago to
her home.?Associate Reformed
Presbyterian.
Roads ought tefbe put in good condition,
if for nothing else than to accommodate
the heavy trucks which
need firm, smooth, hard roads and
much stronger bridges than Newberry
now has. The city road scraper
has put the streets in better condition
and is proving a good thing. If
the county could get about five or six
of these scrapers for the public roads
we would soon have easier traveling
along the highways. The.roads in
places are in an awful condition and
something should be done to relieve
the situation.
Maj. J. F. J. Caldwell of Newberry,
who is, as far as the university
alumni records show, the oldest living
graduate of the institution, arrived
Sunday and will take a leading
part in the day's celebrations. Major
Caldwell is an A. B. graduate of the
university (or South Carolina colit
was then knowrtl in the
class of 1857. Following his graduation
he traveled in Europe with
the idea of continuing his studies
abroad. The outbreak of the Confederate
war forced the abandonment
of his plan, and Major Caldwell retired
a few years ago after conducting
a successful law business in Newberry
for many years.?The State.
Hazelton-Davenport.
Mrs. Anna B. Hazelton and Mr.
Banning Davenport, both of Oakland,
were married last Saturday by
Rev. A. E. Smith.
WORLD'S F'IRST LONG RAILROAD
Between Hamburg and Charleston in
1833?Cars Rigged With Sails?
Experiences of a Charleston
Lady.
A. W. Dellquest in August Chronicle.
One October morning in 1833 a
qu^er looking contrivance rolled into
the town of Hamburg, South Carolina,
opposite Augusta. It consisted of an
upright iron boiler and smoke-stack
fastened upon a four-wheeled platform,
and chained behind it were a
couple of wagon coaches filled with
passengers. A crowd of amazed spectators
looked on with mingled feelings
<;: credulity and humour.
There are many points abuut this
event of special significance to a student
of history. Here was the beginning
of a new epoch in the industrial
progress of the nation. The
pioneer trip over the fir^t Ion? railrv>ad
in the world had b?cn success^
fullj made.
I As early as the year 1S22, a
patent raiiv :iy was brought to Charleston,
but from the lack of a suitable
motive power, it was never used. The
ea,y,ei r.e.-s oi the south for a solution
of the transportation problem is well
explained by Mr. Edward C. Durand.
U. S. Director of Census:
"The existing equipment of dirt
roads and the narrow, rapid, shallow,
and obstructed rivers made bath the
marketing of crops and the securing
of supplies heavily expensive and distressingly
burdensome in the competition
with the more fortunate
southwest. Accordingly the people of
tlie. southeast were on the alert for
some invention which would solve the
transportation problem and bring
them economic salvation."
i In 1827, shortly after George
Stephenson in England had successfully
applied steam power to railroads,
Alexander Black of Charleston
and his-associates petitioned the South
Carolina legislature for a charter to
organize a railroad company. The
charter was not obtained until th-3 following
year, and the South Carolina
railroad company was formally organ
155ed at the Charie.Tton city hall u*. L.j
, 12th of May, 1828.
The work was promptly started
; and one year, ten months and twenty;
one days later the road was opened
tfor public travel as far As to Branchi
ville, a distance of sixty-two miles.
In October, 1833, the trains ran to
Hamburg, -en the Savannah river
. about 135 miles from Charleston. The
total cost of the enterprise amounted
: to $951,148.39.
The first locomotive constructed in
.' the United States for regular service
. on ra ra3coad was "built in New York
' for the South Carolina Rail-Road
?on/i arrived in Charleston in
' VyUiiipoiljr nuu ...... _
| October, 1830. It was christened
' "Best Friend," weighed four tons,
. and moved on four wheels with
, spokes. Most of my readers will re;
call the incident related in their
; school histories about the tragic fate
of the "Best Friend"?how the negro
; fireman became annoyed by the noise
l of the escaping steam, and sat upon
' the safety-valve, which action caused
the "Best Friend" to explode, and the
; unlucky fireman was hurled heaveni
ward. Following this accident the
i ni+mnc n? ihp road "became alarmed
I puvi vtik; V*
r.L 'Lhe prospects of another explosion;
' and to allay their skepticism the
, directors caused a flat-car loaded
r with bales of cotton to be interposed
between the engine and the passenger,
coaches. With the introduction
; of this "barrier-car" the popularity
; of railroad travel soon revived.
The second locomotive received.for
' this road was the "West Point,"
1 which reached Charleston in Jvne,
" 1831, and was the last locomotive
constructed on the principlts of
.'George Stephenson's "Rocket."
The railroad between Charleston
' and Hamburg enjoyed the distinction
of being the first continuous one
hundred miles of railroad in the
. world; the first road in the world to
, be constructed from the very beginj,
ning for the use of locomotive power;
| and the first also to transport the
.! mail. William H. Brown in his "His.
itory of the First Locomotive in
'j America" pays a well-deserved trjb:;Ute
to the founders of this road.
I The following paragraphs selected
1 ~ JnowsnnnPTS.
j at raiiuum num ntv ?v i>wr?r.?,
;! may here be of interest:
' | "On the 2nd instant 141 passengers
! went up by the steam-car- William
; Aiken, yielding $607.38."
"Two new locomotives were received
from Liverpool for the South
:,clrolina Rail-Road."
I "A free boy of colour was killed on
.(the railroad near Hamburg on the
10th inst."
! "Sunday trips are discontinued on
. the South Carolina Rail-Road."
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One editor to illustrate the' "success
of the railroad experiment in
South Carolina" cites the following
! data:
i
"In the month of January i?34,
the receipts of the South Carolina
Railroad company amounted to $4,(229;
the pastf January (1863) the re.ceipis
totalled $13,290. The number
orable wind at the rate of nine or ten
; miles an hour."
i -\r !- oriii. 1 o<yr\ 4.v.?
*~T1 iUitl fll ? UIJ1, louu, unc ui ujiv,
' cars was actually rigged with sails in
| the presence cf a large
j near Charleston. With fifteen men
i on board the car was shoved cfF, r." 1
| maintained a speed of fifteen miles
! an hour until suddenly the mast and
rigged collapsed and fell overboard
together with several of the crew.
After this unfortunate mishap was
passed, the car was soon under way
again, and the "Charleston Courier"
tic tJinf- the experiment "af
forded high sport."
In a letter written two years after
the completion of the railroad a
prominent Charleston lady describes
her first ride to Augusta:
"We rose at drum-beat to depart in
the rail-road car for Augusta. Those
who travel with the desire of seeing
, social life, will of course be disappointed
here. Our plantation resi-j
dences nre rarely stationed on the
public load, bat if time could be1
spared to cross that field nrj rone-j
trate beyond those woods, many a
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! w f have just v
r which was partial
will now find at c
iii
meal, ciso buggie
lower on these go
j
We appreciate yc
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nns ?r
THE
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chaste building, blushing garden and ii
family, would be no longer like a i]
j stranger. But the car darts on like a b
| rocket; and we leave Woodstock. We s
j hurry our breakfast; and we have just p
| time to gather a pretty snowdrop t
from the garden wall, and away. We a
I pass a few cottoii fields rr:cl I'ice c
, plantations. Aiken. ?.t .ac k.cli.ied h
i .ane, is a r-s.r.^utic "not. Several g
j Char!* chi'dA'cr. in ihc car were j
quite wild at the prospect of a real
hill. We r.ot only had no accident 1
but no tendency to one, in our 135 J
mile flight between sunrise and sun-1
' set; and it was like magic to be seat- j v
I ed with a dear circle of friends at Au- \
! gusta, sipping a quiet cup of tea at' c
j twilight. There was but one thjrig to t
j make us sad on the way, and that was i s
! the numerous temptations to intern-i \
jperance,"the sickening display of gin ! i
land brandy decanters in the heart of t
ja wilderness. Must it be so?" g
| The earliest roads of rails are i
J tracked back to the latter part of the i ^
I eighteenth century, when they were i
* ?' w>iriino ic_ . X
I UStU IU IlcXUl t'Udl ill bite uiiiiuig uio- |
j tricts of England. The first in . ^
i America appears to have been con-{T
structed in the Lehigh coal districts of ,1
Pennsylvania not later than 1825. Of ;c
t
course horsepower was used to draw !
the cars.
In ] 826 another horse-car rail- j
road was opened at Quincy, Massa-1
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cnusetts ana nauiea grarme iroxu ; i
the quarries to the seashore. This : \
road was probably used to carry the j
granite for the construction of the ;
Bunker Hill monument. In 1829 an :
English locomotive was run over the
Carbondale and Honesdale route in '
Pennsylvania by Mr. Horatio Allen.
When the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
began construction on the \
fourth of July 1828, stone cross-tics
were employed, and wooden rails topped
with heav? straps of iron. .
Thirteen miles was opened for traffic
nn^ 1 Q"i miloe in 1835 TTlP 1
ill AUUVj UIJU A '/w itiiAVV U1 A WW* t j
Baltimore and Ohio railroad continued i
to be worked by horse-power until !
1832. although experimental trips had I
previously been made wi,th loccmo-;
tives on that road. ;
The advance of mechanical science 1
may be likened to magic. Today the j
United States is embraced by a net- \
work of shining steel; and huge lo- j
comofeives rush across the continent at I
a speed of sixty miles an hour. The j
value of American railroad properties j
may be reckoned in billions. Touched
by the wind of modern progress, j
towns, cities, and industries have |
sprung up wherever the railroads have j
pushed the way. j
The "Rocket" and the "Best1
; Friend" have been replaced by the
Twentieth Century Limited; but let us
not forget that debt of gratitude we
j owe to those far-seeing men of the
imrues, piUIICCia III Uic woivu W*
civilization, by whose faith and perseverance
trains were first placed upon
the rails.
In spite of that opposition with
which society always meets a new
idea, those men toiled on; and with
i their fortune, brain, and labor laid
i 1
j he foundation for a hope fulfilled and !
a vision realized.
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HAWKS MUCH MALIGNED
Only a Few Species That Prey on j
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Chickens. I
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;Hal G. Evarts in Collier's Weekly. j
j The popular idea of every hawk
: that flies is that it is a chicken hawk
j or hen hawk of some soil:, its sole
: purpose in life that of pillaging the
. poultry yard. The majority of our
; hawks are deserving birds and should j
j be rigidly protected, their fare conI
sisting almost entirely of field mice,
! ats, gophers, moles and other pests of
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;the farmer, yet hawks are rapiaiy
disappearing, and every hunter feels
the thrill of a deed well done when
ihe destroys a hawk.
j The rodents must celebrate in their j
j burrows at every report that sounds j
j the death knell of a big red-shoulderj
ed or red-tailed hawk, for the thous'
and or so underground dwellers that j
I would have died to feed him during j
: that year are now free to live on and j
| reproduce their pestiferous swarms
j of young. These big hawks seldom
! molest poultry, and the farmer is i
| capable of handling the few individ-1
uals that do turn chicken thieves. s
If hunters would - confine tlreir- j
shooting to medium sized gray, dart- f
within the last few d
lly destroyed by fire
)ur p]ac2 a large stc
s and wagons; and y
lods than can be boi
)ur business.
: PURCEL
ip: hawks there would still be many!;
inoccnt victims, but they might also i <
ag an equal number of sharp- ,
kinned goshawks and others that j
rey on birds and poultry and so even j
he score. But the sentiment against
ny sort of hawk is so deep that itj
annot be easily changed. The j
lawks will go to the everlasting re- i
jet of the agriculturist when it is j
ust too late.
Opportunity Knocking on the Door.
Jrockton Enterprise.
Twelve representative Americans,
^ere asked by Collier's Weekly to tell j
vhat, in their opinion, 1920 holds |
>ut to America. They agree it will.
>e a good year, and that cooperation
ind production (which means hard
vork) will bring twelve months' fullruited
and prosperous. Summed up,
he conclusion is that the demand for j
foods everywhere is enormous, with!
business than anv man can
visualize and plenty of work ahead |
for every hand and brain. America !
vill prosper if Americans do the
vork that waits . to be done. The
vorld never had a place for the lazy
nan. and it has not now. Labor and
apital must both produce to the
Side D
: At
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We have had five
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Will pciy JUU LU ULdt
but it will pay you 1
high this fall.
The fertilizer use
fertilizer used. Yo
cleaned and the crc
We are making 1
heavily charged wit
right proportions to
n.irmprci will tpll
side dressed will "t
of seed cotton whic
the seed, the lint is
money.
Side dressed cott<
as cotton which has
because it is short <
nearly exhausted b?
there is the greatest
most plant food. V
needs more mule fo
Side dressing suf
and prevents the crc
dinner when you a:
you wuldn't think o1
are working him.
your mule needs thr
A little more ferti
Our special side c
self will give it a i
you have a few days
er is heavily charge
which continues the
until the crop is ma'
Our special side
quantity will increa
bill out of the increj
You can tell the 1
cotton that is not si
the road. To do tha
of seed cotton and tl
110 pounds of line
extra to the acre. 1
of the picking.
Side dressing will
in the crop, besides 1
First put on the f
sure receipt, for a s
ding, read the third
the last Book in the <
Apply your side d
enough to do some g
Anderson
Aim
ays, been able io rep
and water some tim
jck of corn, oats,
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'UM WXil ai3J J1HU Ul
ight today at wholes
,L COMP^
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maximum. No industry and no
country car continually booi.t wages :
a.:d prosper without an increase of
p. oduction.
It should be as well a great year in
tl e promotion of human welfare, do
n.estic, agricultural and scientmc arts
ar.d attainments. . There should be
no fear for the fundamental sanity
of the American people nor for the >
rock-ribbed strength of American
government. Dangers loom ahead,
but this people is ready to meet them j
with everything to face and nothing j
to fear. Here comes Opportunity j
with, her fighting clothes on and who !
will be afraid to meet her more than I
Vol-# Tt'O XT f
Announcement of the engagement
of the Duchess de Valentinois, adopted
daughter of Prince Louis of
Monaco, only son of the ruler of that
tiny principality, serves to recall the
fact that the throne of Monaco is the |
only old world throne ever shared by I
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an American-born woman. me wo- :
man who gained- this distinction was I
the second wife of Prince Albert, the
present ruler, and originally was j
Miss Alice Heine, daughter of an im- J
mensely wealthy Hebrew banker of j
ress Your (
id Do It N(
i short crops of cotton and this r
ce all the cotton you can this ye*
unusually well this year as cottoi
;d in side dressing your cotton p;
1 1 _Al_ ^
u appiy n aiter you get vuui
)p gets all of it?there's nothing
the best side dressing fertilizer
h soda and then it has meal, fish
continue the growth which the i
rou that 1300 pounds of seed cot
urn out" as heavy a bale of cot1
h has not been side dressed. Tf
; longer, makes a better sample
)n does not "shed" or at least ha
; not been side dressed. The res
of plant food. The first applica
7 the time cotton begins to fruit
strain on the cotton plant and th
fhen you work your mule hard i
od.
>plies the plant food just when
)p shedding. Suppose you didn'1
re working him hard. He wou
I not feeding your mule three tin
Your cotton needs side dressinj
ee feeds a day.
lizer applied as side dressing wil
Iresser is far better than soda by
apid growth which is always \
fo hot sun the crop is badly cut.
d with soda and then it has mea
i growth which the soda startec
fcured and the bolls ripen and ar
dresser .applied at the right tim
se your crop enough to pay yo
ase.
difference between cotton that i
cle dressed just by looking at it
,t, there must be a difference of a
lis from cotton that has been side
and this at 40c and it may bri]
'his will pay for all your fertilize
prevent enough shedding to mal
the extra fruit it will put on.
ruit on the plant and then for 2
ure remedy, for a sure preventa
chapter of Malachai and this, "1
Old Testament.
ressing now just as soon as you i
ood.
Phosphate &
?ersor?, South Carolir
i i C t
3
ilenish our stock
, N
e ago, and you
hay, flour and
iNY
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\'ew Orleans. She was first marawlr.
.0 the Duke of Richelieu, a
1-1 a;~a ;? 1 CiiA and s?M> .
iiODiemau. nc uicu m *wvw mu. .
/ears afterward she married Ifcfc
iMnce of Monacor from whom ifaiKlater
secured a divorce.
To Claribef.
Stanford Chaparral.
They say that you amuse yoursdfi?
with me.
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They tell me nothing new. I aat* xa
know,
The jumping-jack with which yoe'fc*
pleased to be
Diverted for a while. You jerifcifflfe?K
so _
And I ju^ip with your humor. "Ye#
the fun
Is mine as well as yours. A afliif.
race, \
These jumping-jacks; you'll find t&en&
is not one r
* *
But wears a smile continual: an am
face.
You pull the cord, and, grinning
obey,
Mocking with antics every move ywE)
, made.
Alone I could not cut the praa&s IB
may . *
With you as my example and myaSLi.
A. jumping-jack's a quiet woodn?
thing
XTrtil r. bv st? tjny
stfinff!
ft
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Cotton f'
y h
Mf) f1
nay be another. It } ^
ir. It always does, . |?
i mav be unusually ft."
5* .
ays better than any f
crop thinned and
a?a4* i4* \ > [,
eise tu gci xi/. put
in sacks. It is f
and tankage in the f
soda starts. ton
which has been 11
;on as 1500 pounds \
lere is more lint on
and sells for more
,s not near so much
ison cotton sheds is ; \
,tion of fertilizer is |
, and that is when i
ien is when it needs 1
t is on a strain and
it is sorely needed fp
; feed your mule at ; I i
Id "shed" too, |E3
les a day whe??j&u< \ .
ST just as badly as?
' li
1 rktvavonf cVinHHintr ?
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itself. Soda by. iU- L
eatery and there if: *S
Our special dres3=1,
fish and tankage ; f
I and carries it on /*,
e ready to open. 1 j
te and in sufficient |jj
ur entire fertilizer ! IS
s side dressed and'' . js
as you ride along- ;
,t least 300 pounds |>
! dressed will yield h
ig 50c means ?44 ||
?r an da good part jg
it; a uig unicicntc i
sure thing, for a li
,tive against shed- fl
est you forget," is y
ean and put down ' |
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Oil Co. j
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