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jje Herald and Bern &i,i 523 i ?ctered at the Postoffice at New. owry, S. C., a* 2nd class matter. j E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Friday, July 30, 1920. Mr. J. S. J. Suber did not understand our remarks in regard to that Broad river bridge. We did not mean j to say that the bridge should be built at a place that is impracticable but what we meant to say is that if it' should be built at a place beyond the limits of the county of Newberry and out of reach of the people of New- j ? - i ? x I ^-T ^ Derry wno stana m ^reai neeu oi a bridge it would not be of any good to them even if it cost nothing and : that even though to build at Strother! or near there at greater cost than at; some place beyond the limits of the; people to be served it should be; built there even if it cost more. In j other words that it should not be! built at the place where it could be , built the cheapest simply because it; was the cheapest place at which the! hp Vniilt. unless it serv-! UilU6^ , ( ed the people whom it is intended to { serve. As to the matter of bridge build- j ing for the information of Mr. Suber we will say that we are a practical bridge builder and have built bridges in this county and know how to do the job. And besides we can build school houses if it is necessary, and we know how the work should * be done. We can not only do the promoting of the school house, as we j have done, but if necessary we can j Viiiilsjinrr r\-f fKo VimiSP. Mf. ' UU kUC UUUUlUg VA vuv Sul>er n^ay rot know it but we served j our tine at the carpenter's trade and j can build any sort of house. , We are going down that side on j Saturday and we hope to find time j to go over and see the location that j is being talked about for this bridge, and at the same time we may take | that dinner and supper and break- \ fast at Mr. Suber's which Mr. Swy-! gert talks about in his article. Bet-! ter be careful, Mr. Suber, how you j 1 * +V.?TV1 extenci mvitatiuns ui sume v?x mtm may be accepted. We would like to say to Editor Mo Kissick of the Piedmont and to Edi-1 tor Greene of the Abbeville Press a^d Banner that we read somewhere once upon a time that ther'? were just four things with which you could appeal to a boy. His sense of honor, his conscience, his pride and lastly his hide. That may not be the proper way to produce an Edison but it is a : mighty good rule to produce a good American citizen. WILLOWBROOK PARK. We were at Willowbrook park for a little while a few evenings ago and it is a great pleasure to go there on warn evenings and see the beauty of the place and the happy children as they enjoy the many appliances there for their amusement and for their good as well. The place gets prettier and more lovely every year. The band plays, the brook runs anJ babbles as it goes on its way to the ocean, the children romp and have a good time, the beaus and the belles hie themselves to the nooks and cor ners and love holds sway, the old men and maidens sit around on the benches and enjoy seeing the young folk frolic, and the girls grow prettier every day. In fact it is one of the beauty spots of the town. And then we woftder why the people of the town do not get busy and build a park on this side along the same brook. We have talked about it " ?- ii. 4-V.n-f if and written auuut 11 sl? mum nov ? makes our heart sick that the people seem so indifferent to a matter that would cost so little and be of so much pleasure and rcil benefit to the children of the town and that could be built with so little outlay of money. We wish some one would yet start Aj? <iimin Thp nlace is hi IK IlIUttlllLUl w^wau( . ... J still available and could be secured now before it is built up and we couH-have the advantage of the babbling brook and the weeping willows and all that nature has done for Willowbrook. YOUR BOY. Some day your boy will da something out of the usual run Ijffthings, And it may be that you'll^Aeel the yoangster needs a session with the strap reserved for unruly outbreaks. But before you apply the strap think ot Tom ?,aison. , When that great inventor was six years old he was missing from home.! Later his folks found him sitting on goose eggs trying to hatch them. Be-, fore he was 10 he had burned a barn ?"just to s it burn"?chopped off a finger, was nearly drowned, and had administered a liberal dose of seidlitz powders to another boy, con-' fident that the gas generated would cause the,lad to fly. Tom Edison was what they cabled * - 1 " !->?" titoo nllKlv'l \7 ?i Ciil UOy. vy llLX iiC ' whipped in the village square as a' warring to other boys. And now iook at him! } Don't be too sure your boy needs c a whipping just because he has done v> something you wouldnt have done. ;f You may deprive posterity of a a Tom Edison by curbing too severely e the boy's desire to experiment, to try e ( ul. things, to explore, to discover. ;e Thus says the Greenville Pied- i< mont. , 11 Jf "doing something out of the n usual run of things" is an indication t of future greatness then there are t i 11 ^ ...:n T some ooys in mis city wnu wm, ^ j. years from now, make Tom Edison t look like a ten-cent piece with a hole i o in it. jt ! c Thus says the Abbeville Press andjt Banner on what the Piedmont has to , i' say about the proper training of the 3 boy. Of course the editor of ths Piedmont having no boy of his own;r knows a great deal more ?about the i c proper training of a boy than does 1t Editor Greene who has son Bill to c look after. j* On the principle for the training i of the boy as laid down here there r are no doubt a great many very,t great m<Jn in embryo around this! town and there are too pretty close -p to the domicil of the editor of this t paper who on the principle here -'.d enunciated have the germs of great- j c ness bubbling over and no doubt will j J turn the world upside down within: ^ the next 20 years, but we are just ^ ol<5 fashioned enough to believe that n it is good for the future of the boy t. to have a session occasionally with 16 the strap, and we also believe in the Book which says something about j sparing the rod atad ruining the child.) But we like to see a boy be a boy. V while he has the'opportunity." The * time for serious things and ereal work will come soon enough, and it s is not well for the child or the future d , man for the boy to become a grown b man ioo soon. Let Bill and Luther a and the rest live while they may. j? ? ?11 ABOUT ROADS AND CROPS a AND THE PEOPLE ALONG s v From the early spring until the S late autumn I like to travel through a the rural districts and look at the o roads and watch the crops. Next to n the growing and unfolding of the n child into manhood and womanhood n there is no study so interesting as to p watch the growing crops and to r think on what they mean to our life and our civilization. As to the roads only that we had some in some sec- f firms of the county, but everywhere h and on all sides in the first place tne s roads are too narrow, just lanes, all i of them. And in the next place they t are in need of regrading and. relo- r eating in many places and working t in practically all places. The split c 'log drag would help a great deal but '< in this day of heavy trucks and many 1 automobiles and much trp.vel it will c take more than the old drag to keep ( the roads in passable condition. A i machine similar to the road working 1 j outfit in the town is needed on the f I roads of the county constantly. And i l a sufficient number of them and it ] j would not take more than six or < . fn* fiid prmntv. DroDerly run 1 j Cigia .iv* ?"v ^ J and intelligently handled by men who 1 | know how would very soon put our '< roads in good condition so that they < ; would be travelable all the year 1 j round, and it would not cost any 3 great sum of money in comparison < .'with the good results ebtained. It 1 takes money to build roads. i -oBut had it ever occurred to you 1 that money put in good roads is ] like money put into the proper' edu- ] cation and training of your child. It i is an investment and the best invest- J ' ment that you can make and one < Jthat will pay bigger dividends than i : any other, and the dividends will be J | worth a great deal more than the J ; simple money value of the dividend. 1 Good roads will help to improve the \ schools and give , us .better schools,] and they will help the churches anH < they will help to keep the pocketbook i from getting too lean. In fact and A | truth they are the best and safest; 1 | investment, as stated, next to the in-: 1 j vestment in the proper education and ! I ! training of the children of this ' '< country. There is nothing of more j vital and absorbing interest to the! i people of this day and generation j '< than the education of the children, j '< ?o? |] I am going slightly afield from the: ? story I started out to write. I want-! i i ed to take you with me on a little! ' ! ride out into the country which I en- = s i joyed the other day and let you meet J I the people I met and hear the good I | things they had to say and get some I ; of the cheerful spirit which seemed' t .to be prevalent among all of them. * 1 t *1 - _ T _ J V It Had oeen a gooa wmie since i.nau / 'been up around Vaughnville and in!1 i No. 7 so I decided that on-?Tuesday j moaning would be a good time for ; me to get off, as the boys decided t they would not call for "copy" that \ day. So early I hooked up new lll|s and with two of the boys and their'r mother I drove over to near Bush! I River church and unloaded them with ; a iher mother to spend the day, and 11 r : drove on to Harmon's and beyond; i Dominick schopl to the Chappell' s ' neighborhood and with J. D. Wheeler i s we picked up our friend M. Q. I c Chappell to show us the road. The 11 first stop was among the Brehmers1 a and the others ol "tms community; a and then we saw the Livingstons and! s the McKittricks and the Longshores: t and the Boozers and the Coats andjd after a short stop at Press Boozer's :g store we went on to Vaughnville i ii where we made a short stop at the' S store of C. W. Moore, and then on! n to Chappells. Mr. Press Boozer and j is Mr. C. TV. Moore both have Jarre 1 c foundry stores* and I imacrine do a' s< big business. You know I have al-i ? ii li A ! ways had an idea tiiat i wouia hk l<#j have a prood conntry store and a rrood k farm and a mill and be sort of the- - cr.tre of the community, as it were, rhere t\eneighbors wouki all come requently to talk about the crops nd politics and Ihav to run the govI'nnujt and the school and the hurcn and other things. And my >:pcr:ence has been ta.ii. you can i..;ays find something helpful anil zarn a great many thiago by juss lectin?: with the people in these comlunity centres. And it is good for he people of the entire community o meet jast as I have here indicated, t helps all of -them, and broadens hem to have converse with one anther. And there is no better place han the first class country store. It teats coming to town. I enjoyed this rip and felt much better after havng taken it because the people were .11 cheerful, and seemed happy and here was no note of complaint about inything. In some places there is ieed of rain to help make the fine orn that is seen on every hand maure, but the rains will come inVlue ourse, and there never has been in he history of this county a finer irospect for a fine crop of corn, and he cotton is looking w*ell though many things may happen to the cotAn prnn w" . * 0 Some of the farmers think they ave seen the boll weevil and it may ?e around, but there is not much langer for any great injury to this rop. But the weevil is coming and -re should make^ preparation for him. f the seasons continue and the con-, ,ition? are favorable there will be a ?ig crop of both cotton and corn lade in this county this year. And here seems to be abundance of land, owed to peas and there is generally! good stand and the crop is looking; romising. . .. j As I crossed the tittle River ati'tjie j Vtfrkman bridge I was reminded hat at this same placefew years go I built a bridge. My father had he contract, as he generally had uch a contract on hand in those! ays, and he sent me down there to i uild the bridge. It was summer time! nd the weather was hot and the mos-j uitoes plentiful. Mr. John McKit-| rick said he remembered the time.. boarded with Mr. J. M. Workman' nd the house in which he lived still tands and I recognized the room in /hich I slept while on that job. Ipurge Mangum sawed the lumber nd we built a good bridge out of ak lumber. The bridge stood for iany years. Ti^e Workman house is ? ?Kir nocrrops. There is IOW Ut'L'UpiCU UJ .?{,. iow a pretty good bridge at this ilace with a steel span across the iver. ?o? But the roads. They are in fearul condition. Narrow and full of ioles and none of the drains or small treams with a bridge that looks like t would hold up a wagon or heavy ruck. Most of them are broken in low. We will have to adopt the sysem of building concrete bridges sver the drains and small streams ;+ Tirrvnio hp rhp.aner in the end t I1U it r* vuavi w ?...?r >ecause in addition to th? stability >f the structure these wooden bride>s built out of the lumber- we get tow will not last even if they do not )reak, through. The people up this >ide deserve to h&ve something done :or the roads. I realize that the supervisor can not work and keep in condition all the roads of this county ivith the present chain gang and the funds at his control. It takes money and the whole system should be Tim#>a have changed and . naii^^u* ? _ ^ ;raffic has changed and we can not follow the old system of depending Dn the small chain gang force to !ceep the roads of the entire county in good condition, and use the ?hain gang at the same time to build :he bridges. We need the proper legislation and then we need the proper management of the funds and naybe we could have some roads. In ?oing from Mr. Boozer's and Mr. Coats' down to Vanghnville we were idvised not to travel the old NinetySix road or even undertake to travel it so we drove several miles out of ;he way ever into Laurens county to ret to Vaughnville. 'The road in Laurens seemed to be better. At my rate it was wider and you did lot have that feeling that you might ?all into a ditch all the time, or have h* fpnr that vou would meet an au :omobile or buggy^ and coul<j not Tet by. The crops over in Laurens ire looking good too. We spent an hour at Ohappells ).nd fhen drove back to Vaughnville ind around by Mr. Johnson's and Louie Senn's and back to Bush Riv r church and on home. I enjoyed neetir.g with,all the good people ?lon.? the way and it did me good to ;ee how happy and contented they ire and to - know that they have )lenty and in manjr places are imjroving their homes and putting up he comforts and conveniences that nooHpH in manv country li C ov UtUVM ... ^ w iomes. The country is the place to. aise boys, and grirls too^I iriight add. With all the farmers owning auomobiles and many of them trucks vith which to do their hauling it is Grange to me that they do not denand more road improvement arid >etter highways over which to drive ind to haul. When we had only nules and horses and buggies the mportance and the economic;view of i good road did not appeal to us so J ?1 -- ?" +-Vi nil rrVi i+ wae thpn irUIl^iV &3 li\J <rr, kuv/u?,n ?w if even as'great importance because he proper consideration for the mulej .nd horse made it so. But now whenj , good road means so much in the j aving of time and dollars I should; hink the people along the way would j lo more than simply be in favor of ood roads. They are coming and b won't be as long as it has been, lome one will devise a way and the leans to bring them about and this ; a fast and a rapid age and things ome to pass before you know it j ometimes. ?o? j C. W. Moore of Vauehnville you j now is one of them W^ialla .crrad-1 p.^es of Newberry college and he j 1 ' . r J was one of the boys. I wish he would j come down to Newberry to see us; oitener. lie should conic down to the; college reunion ;vt Utile Mountain <-n the Gi.h of August. lie could; make one of the most hueiesi;::^ | speeches of^ar.y one that could be! chosen, 'i hat is I am told in the college days he was a good orator and ; a line debater. 10. II. A. 1 As we drove along home about i sundown and came through the Trail-! wood school community we could not j help the feeling that we would like ' to have a country home in just such i a neighborhood. This is the home of the Reagins and the Longs and the Reeders and the Eptings and the Seases and the Matthews and the Gees and the Hellers and the Barres and they all have nice homes ' with modern conveniences and good ' farms and fine crops and fine cattle | and live in sight of one another and it is a town in the country. There is J an air of comfort and happiness ! about the places that makes a coun- j 1 try raised lad long for the country) ( again. Not a bit of envy in the long- j i ing. On the contrary it does us good ! to see any such fine country commu| nity and to see the farmers of the I j community happy and prosperous. ! There is one thing they need and it 'should have their attention and that is a better and more modern school , house. Of course the house d.->es not ; make the school but it adds " very ! much to the community to have a modern and up to date school house j in the community.. This is a line : section of the county, rip*ht m here. . - ?i i?...:u ine new scnuui nuuse wm cvmc. j* Drayton Rutherford Chapter. i An important meeting of the Drayton Rutherford chapter, U. D. C., is called for Friday afternoon at Mrs. Frank Hunter s, at 5 o'clock. Those members who have not paid their dues and French orphan allotment are requested to bring or send same to this meeting. Mr*. R. D. Wright, ! President, i Mrs. Arthur Kibler, i Recording Secretary. j COTTON WEIGHERS ASSOCIATION. I There will be the annual meeting ; of the Cotton Weighers association Saturday, July 31, 2:30 p. m., at Pomaria. The following Tuesday, August 3, will be the election for weigher. All candidates must pay assessments by Saturday, July 31. D. L. WEDAMAN, Sec. and Treas. j J. W. ALE WINE, President. 7-31-lt TO THE PUBLIC, i We have received numerous requests from all sections of the county to request former Governor Blease to speak jit our barbecue to 1 ' 1 1 ? T\ _ A O i AAA ! do neia at romana August o, a?zv. This being campaign day for the i ' i ?i T!_ . T. ine lesi Violins differ subtly in New Edison Realism by We have an "Ave Mar played by Albert Spj Guarnerius. This : fam< brilliant, singing tone "Av? M played by Carl Flesch Tu Albert Spalding htmadf took part in a test o? the I . eon's Realism, at New York played in direct comparison Rx-Ckeatiox of his perforr the New Edison. Mr. Henry one of the jury of the thre guisbed musicians who list? Agency GILD ! I c Hraallrfjai Ul ClMM? j 12 pound c a last! $3 * Every hou: county sboul one can. Surplus Arm] Next Door Natioi J nni. * ^AM?VIA1? OPAtTAVW A*? flfA+_ county* J.iic luiuici guvciiivi owtbed that he was not making speeches this year, but since his home people have expressed the desire to hear him he would speak at 2 p. m. at our barbecue upon state and national issues. The candidates for county positions will also speak during the day. EDDIE GRAHAM. MARVIN GRAHAM, ?Adv. NOTICE OF SPECIAL SCHOOL ELECTION IN BUSH RIVER SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 43 State of South Carolina, County of Newberry. Whereas, one-third of the resident freeholders and a like proportion of the resident electors of the age of 21 in the Bush River School District, No. 43, the County of Newberry, OLcllC U1 OUUUi V^aiunua, nave iuvu u petition with the County Boafd of Education of Newberry County, South Carolina, petitioning and requesting that an election be held in the said School District on the question of levying a special tax of six (6) mills on the taxable property within the said school district. Now, therefore, we the undersigned, composing the County Board of Education, for Newberry County, State of South Carolina, do hereby order the Board of Trustees of the . ^ Hi! p jyyu I II | jr From actual win! Pi :^V - j anop, if\ fou can make tl experiment iti t oftheTwC J- ' T?w,i r LUI1C J ICSt WIV that fact. mellow tone. ia" Re-C*katiox Come in and con: aiding with his tions?tone for 1 3us violin has a makes clear the We have a singing Guarn< Re-C*eatiom Stradivarius, yc with his gfenuine realism for you. .VBw nvsi filJUTT "Tkt Phonograph with a Soul" recent]/ behind * screen, said: "The 'Jew Edi- Ckeatiok matched Mr. Spald City. He performance tone for tone.'* with the The New Edison is the only pi oance by graph which has given this Hadley, elusive proof of its perfect rea ? distin- It has triumphed in 4,000 such ed from parison-tests, Nev/berry County at ER & WEEKS CO. V To 1 Si OuLUlI :ans while it -; i 5 for , | .60 sehold in the \ d try at least : ' : .1 j Goods Store nal Bank Building I . I A i Bush River School District, No. 43,. to hold an election on the said-question of levying a special tax (4 six* ^ (6) mills to be collected on - the property located within the said" School District, which said election I shall be held at -the new site * for j | school house (near Bush River I church), in the said School^XKstrict, i No. 43, on Saturday, the 13th day of | August, 1920; at which said election , the polls shall be opened at 7 a. m. and -closed at 4 p. m. The members of the Board of Trus- * I tees of the said School District shall act as Managers c" ? said election. Only such electors s reside in the said School District and return real or personal property for taxation, and^ who exhibit th^ir tax and registration certificates as required in general elections, shall be allowed to "y | vote. Electors favoring the levy of - such tax shall cast a ballot contain-t I ing the v^ord "Yes" written or printI ed thereon, and each elector opposed j to such levy shall cast a ballot conj taining the word "No" written on ' nrinf pd thereon. c Given under our hands- and seals this thfe 2&th day of July, 1920., C. M. WILSON, V 0. B. CANNON, ,) J. P. HARMAN, County Board of Education, % New J berry County. N { . photograph tak&n in ths Edison fth itwMM, New York City / ' , -t ! ' M lis smprismg I : our store Violins * I fhis ' violin has a rich* . 1 ipare these two Re-Ckea- % tone. If the New Edison ' distinction between the irius and the mellow \n know it has perfect 4 mi s in^'i HALlT^'V. Since IM4, the total pdceincrease in the New Edison uono- has been less than 15%. Mr. con- Edison has, personally, abj. aorbed more than one half ? Jism. of the increased costs of man- ^ .4...^ u a. ? cum- yidciuic. nc may u%jl uc able to do this much longer. Buy now?if you want toy day's prices. Our Budget Plan wijl help you. It di?- ^ ' tributes the payment orer the months to come. \ / * _ N/' * *