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j|ljt Jcram and fans. * . * Eatered at the Postoffice at New* Srry, S. C., at 2nd class matter. V<-, E. H. AULL, EDITOR. , 1 Friday, October 1, 1920. TO SPARTANBURG. a&v Bad "luck" still pursues me, though there is always a bright lining to the dark clouds that hover over and seem at times to be lowering. I ? had been ordered to Spartanburg by gj State Superintendent of Education J. E. Swearingen on Tuesday to meet 1 with other county superintendents to discuss matters pertaining to the management of the schools, and to have Mr. Swearingen to give instructions as to jwlicies of the state de partment, and mainly, as i ta*e iu, tu invite the hearty cooperation of the departments connected with the school work in the state. I went. I f?V: Panned to go via the Southern to Alston and thence to Spartanburg. When I reached the station at Newfiterry ready to take the 12:30 train the information was given that there had been a wreck of a freight engine at the oil mill, and that the track would not be cleared in time to make the connection at Alston. / Bad "luck" No. 1. r will Aria! there bound \ \ 'X 1UUUU iUi, IV 1 , for Spartanburg also. I suggested that we get Mr. W. P. Bodie to drive us through the country, and that I would put up a little more tRan the railroad fare if Mr? Ariail would put up the 'balance. So the trade was struck and at 2 o'clock we were on the way in Mr. Bodie's Chevrolet. We decided that we would go "by Clinton and Laurens and Enoree. And we <made our schedule to reach ?rk?i?frnnhnrcr 'hv 6 o'clock, the dis o .-w .... iance being about 70 miles. We were running on schedule at Clinton and at Laurens and at Enoree. When j?: we got about six miles beyond Enoree down went a tire. Bad "luck" No. 2. As a new tire w^s on the rear the change was soon made and we lost only 15 minutes. When we had driven . only, a few miles and just as we were reaching Tiger river at Nesbit's bridge down went the same tire, and we had no inner tube to make the repair. Bad "luck" No. 3. Just as U hope was about departing and the 1 ? ?A a nncc ?K shadows OX XA6 Sppruutlllii^ uax rwn^oo |r vtere appearing, a good Samaritan in the person of Mr. J. J. Nesbit drove up in his big car, and said he would take Mr. Bodie back about a mile-to Mr. Garrett's and he thought he could secure a tube. Mr. Garrett had just sold the last one he had, but he took an old one out of a casing and let us have ihat, and after having lost about an hour of valuable time we were again in the road and CnorforAnror ahrmt 7 :30. an IWtUCU , hour and a half behind schedule, but in time for the meeting which was ^scheduled for 8 o'clock. v WM The road this way is very good wm *yith the exception of a few miles just JJ out from Newberry and from Clinton f Laurens. These two sections are * fierce. Laurens is planning to build from Clinton to Laurens. The road from Kinards to Clinton is very fine, "wide and smooth, but just like all surface roads will not last long with the present traffic. It is already showing signs of giving way. It is wide and pretty and has been relocated in many places. From Laurens to Enoree the road is albout like it has been for many years. On the Spartanburg side it is good from Nesbit's bridge to Spartanburg though very much worn just like all surface roads that have no attention after the building. We struck the paved road for three miles out of Spartanburg, and that is really the only kind of road that will stand the X k traffic. But"I imagine it is too costly to think about at this time. The section of country from Enoree to Spartanburg is a fine farming section and there are many nice country homes, and they are in sight of one another, and the crops are good and the fields white with cotton, and very few persons were seen in the fields gathering the staple. Mr. Nesbit, the gentleman who helped us out, has a fine country place and is a large and successful farmer and was very kind and insisted on my spending the night with him. 0 Mr. Swearingen evidently did not call the superintendents to Spartanburg for a pleasure trip or for sight seeing except such sights as they may have seen en route. The conference started promptly at 8 o'clock and lasted without intermission until 11:30 o'clock, and then recessed to meet Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock, and promptly on the hour he was there and went to work and the morninfi: conference closed at 11:30 [ o'clock, and during the entire time Mr. Swearingen was explaining the various laws affecting the schools and giving information which was , valuable to the superintendents. He : had with him from his department in i Columbia Mr. Easterling, Mr. W. A. j Shealy, Mr. H. B. Dominick and Mr. j Peterson and Mr. Gunter, the former _ * _ _ l 1 _ ~ 1 ? i supervisor 01 rural scnoois, was aisu j present and spoke aibout the work of the State Teachers' association, and i said he wanted to see a very large j attendance at the meeting. It will j be held at Spartanburg in November. ! Mr. Gunter is president. The other gentlemen along with Mr. Swearingen spoke of the various departments i with which they are connected but Mr. Swearin| gen did most of the talking, and it I is wonderful what a grasp he has of i the educational work in this state i and how familiar he is with the i schools and the condition of them in | every county. Mr. Swearingen ex plained the several acts of the legislature pertaining to the schools, and especially the compulsory law, the issuing of state licenses for teachcrs I in place of the county certificates, and then the various provision* of the ;law giving state aid to the schools. The equalizing act which guarantees , to every district that votes an ei?ht : mills tax a minimum school term of i seven months and a minimum salr.ry - of $100 to the principal and $90 to . the assistant per month. To come ! in under this law there must be r ot ! only these conditions complied with , but there must be an enrolment of (25 children to the teacher and an , average attendance of 15. Then there are still the term extension act, .the rural graded school act and the high school act, all of which prov .de ,for state aid. To carry them out wili take a state appropriation of j $2,000,000, according to the estimate ; of Mr. Swearingen. It would be money well spent. The members of | the legislature who talked so eloquently about better schools and tetter roads during the campaign will be put to the test when these recommendations come for action. i ?o? . j To carry out the provisions of the equalizing law Mr. Swearingen es} timates will take aibout $700,000. | and there is a deficit to be made good | from. the last school year. The ap; propriation of the last legislature , paid only 47 per cent, of the claims. : To make up this deficit win x^.kc ,about $175,000. Not to make <his , up would be a sort of repudiation of ; one's obligation, and of course the legislature will not do anything like | that. If other counties have coih; plied with the conditions of this law | anything in the same proportion thai; j Newberry has it seems to me that | Mr. Swearingen has his figures rather I too small when he estimates that it j will take only $700,000, but he is ; generally pretty correct and kncws I what he is talking about. It is r. ' good law. If this country is to de velop and prosper there must be development and extension of the ( 3chcols of the rural districts and the : rural communities must be made betj ter places in which to live, and one ; of the best ways is to build schools I that are the equal of any in the ! towns and cities, and of course build I roads over which the people can ! travel. The people mean to have j these things ,and the legislature will . KolL- of tJio irvmrnvpmpnts alcnf? j uuu mw v??v ? w I this line so much needed. [ ?0? I did not have time to see any of my friends in Spartanburg of the ' days that are gone. I wanted to call ' on Mayor Floyd and Sam Reid and j P. J. 0. Smith and Dr. Hallman and Sam iNcholls and Solicitor Blackwood j and Albert Hill and many others, but . the time was taken up with the meeti ing, the thing for which I went to Spartanburg. I did run down for a (few minutes after the adjournment ; on Tuesday night and had a brief , talk with Charley Herron of the j Spartanburg Herald. He is also a member of the state highway commission and much interested in road , building and is doing a good work in ; this important development of the state. And after the adjournment | of the Wednesday morning session I made a short call on Maj. J. C. Hemphill, who is now editing the Spartanburg Journal. The major is the same genial and pleasant gentleman that he has always been, and is . in fine spirit and has a joke on some one all the time. I was pleased to see him looking well and in such fine ^ " 1 * ? ^ ?-J UA IP AMO condition lor gyuu wum. uc ia v?*. of the best newspaper writers in /South Carolina, or for that matter in |the South or the North, and is well ' posted on matters commercial and political. j -0I We left Spartanburg a little earlier than we would on account of the lowering of the clouds and the general appearance and indication that it was going to rain, and we did run into the rain .before we reached home. We came on the return by . Union, Whitmire to Newberry. I wanted to see the roads along this' t J ? way. The road from Spartanburg to Union is being built so as to connect the two towns under the state sys- : te.m, but at present there is not much done. For three miles out is another ( of those paved roads and of coui'se it is fine. When you strike the Union line above Jonesville there is a top soil road most of the way, but : it has had no attention and is rough. At Union we made a short stop and I called in to see Mr. L. M. Rice of 1 ti? ,*?. 4C_ ( Hie t. moil jufmiy ximca. nv jo , suing a very creditable daily for a ! town the size of Union and so close to the larger daily papers. He demotes his entire time to the newspaper and does not bother with job work and prints only a daily edition, ' ! no weekly or semi-weekly, this is a good idea, because semi-weekly papers made up from the daily edition ; do not amount to much. I also made a brief call on Dr. Glymph, ,a New i berry -boy who has a fine drug store. ! (I did not have time to call at Dr. Huiet's, who is also a Newberry boy running a drug store in this town. j -o? i You may have heard about that - ? i ?iUl | !road that union is Duuamg iiuju j j Union to Whitmire. Well, I am here j j to tell you that Union is on the job j 'and for 12 miles this way the road is j ; built. It is fine. Thirty feet wide,! j relocated and top dressed and where j there are flats they are filled just like ; you would grade a railroad and j where there, are hills they are graded i { down or gone around. And there are | large forces at work bringing the j ! road right on to the Enorce. When j finished it will be a road, and the dis i tance from Whitmire to Union will i be cut in half, and the expense of ' !'driving will be so small that you will i not notice it. There is need to have j ' 1 J ~ Uwi/lrvn AirDT* ! sometmng done* iu mc unugc ; ! the Tiger, but no doubt that will I have attention. Of course where the road is in progress of 'building it was , bad to travel over, especially on j Wednesday just after a rain, but the : forces were working and it will not j be so long before the road will reach ( i NOW IS THE 1 ABRUZZI RYE NORTH CAROLINA WINTER BARLEY TEXAS RED RUST AND FULGHUM 0 / We have big-stoct money. 'I We also have good I in Groceries and bu: we do we are in p money. Don't fail to see us We want your busi | I Bryson Gr i i ! Rabbit and , i I comes in O< ;i DKSS mmaMm OB^HIB^H i i i j Tuesday & Frida; I Cut 1 j { i Prosperity Prosperil the Newberry line and then all the Whitmire people will have to do is to pet in their cars and let 'em roli right on to Union town. Provided, of course, that they are able to get down from Whitmire to the river bridge. Just now if there is anything in South Carolina that is called by any - 1 1I..1 stretch of the imagination a roau mat, is -worse or even as bad as that on either side of the Enoree at Whitmire I do not want to see it, much the less endeavor to drive over it. Of course one would not expect to find the road where they are working and relocating and building to be good, but that stretch just across the river in Union for a mile or more I do not see how it is used at all. And on this side the river all the way up to the town of Whitmire is almost beyond the possibility of going over. If Union should build to the river there will have' to be something doing on this side before the road will be worth nrViHo +n thp travel from this way. But then Mr. Child will have this worked I am sure. And now that he is a member of the county highway commission and not only a member but chairman I certainly shall expect him to see to it that some sort of road that may be traveled with safety at least is built between Newberry and Whitmire. This should be your first work, Mr. Chairman Child. Of course we can expect nothing be fore another year now, but l cto nope that the new year will not be far spent before something is done on this road between these two towns, and both the upper and the lower road should be put in condition for travel. We came back by the Brick house and this road has been worked and has the appearance of having some attention given it by the people along the way especially from ' T *4- tlTOC? Uromers to i\ewoerry muugu It Cfcf. bad on Wednesday evening after the rain. But we made it home safe, and sound I hope. We arrived just a little after 7 o'clock taknig just two hours to make the trip from Whiti ii riME TO SOW vl UYE w, t }jr PROOF - sf ATS cs and can save you stocks of everything ring in quantities as osition to save you I > iness. V ocery Co. f. Squirrel law ctober first. LLS I October i & 2 i i . -Tire Hdw. Co. ty, S. C. ?O-? %> . -? . ? * ' - W*?-*3-< . . ; I mire to Newborn'. I am glad went through the country ur.d eve the bad "luck" has its compensatio and there was something good in a tiie mishaps that we experienced. E. H. A. I We are reprinting the statemer I as to the financial condition of th | schools because there was a sligl j error in the -balance to the credit c | District 40 and the certificate of th j treasurer and auditor were omitted. | We see by the papers that Dr. . j William P'olk is an applicant for a] ! pointment as state game warden. W I do not know any one in the state wh knows more about game and wh takes a greater interest in the garr of the state than Dr. Folk. He hi been a hunter and a fisherman all h life and realizes the protection of tl game and the observance of the gan seasons and we would be glad to sc | Paul I " ! I Come wh< money on i taaMHHMUMHaMMBHaMBHHASMfei I Coats Suits an< i Boys' Clothing; prices will pay you i | ANO 36-inch L. L. S 40c Heavy Hon 35c Cheviots, t 40c and 50c Ov i \ Overalls, the p; 1 . Southern Silk ( K ? 35c Bleaching, 4-11 you want. Apron Check C Blue Bell Chev . Men's $3.50 Sh , Boys' Overalls Misses' and Boj ! mjmmmmm?mmmmsam?mmmmmmmmmmmmmm ! I i | We can save yc ! trial. ! 44-inch'Serge, s i: the yard I i ! ! Red, green and ! ! Black Kid Bouc I j I Don't wait until j them quick. Come Paul Main Street. .lejl . lu i .. I ! him appointed. We feel sure that he n ' would give of his time and his energy n ; to a proper discharge of the duties 11; of the position. J MIDDLE GEORGIA OIL AND GAS COMPANY it j in f This is the company represented it j by Capt. M. M. Buford and a state)f ment from the promoters is to the ie i effect that oil and gas have been | found and the assurance is that I there will be producing wells by j.; Christmas. ?-! Captain Buford says that the sale 'e | of lots has been taken off the mar10 j ket or will be very soon and that he lo :has allotted to him only 100 lots and ie | that he has already sold about half is | of them and when the remainder are is! sold there will be no more. If you ie | desire to increase your holding or to ie i buy any see him or in his absence ie j see William Johnson & Son. E. Andei are you can good clean m 1 Dresses received this w? , Men's Clothing, Young to look them over. THER CUT IN DOMES heeting, the yard aespung, the yard he yard i tting, the yard air..... : V Dheviots no starch Jinghams iots lirts rs' Hose, 50c pair, this sale SHOES. >u some on your winer sh( sponged and shrunk, a $3. n TTTT inn oil Tirrv r\l -PI nav y iyjliu.u.jlc;o, an vv \j\jx u loir Slippers [ the goods are gone as th fn flip hi or and cet vc W ? ?*' -??5 ? o-- ^ E. And A public meeting of the Young People's Mission .band of the church of the Redeemer will be held Sunday niprht at 7:30. Dr. Gotxvald will make an address. ! CITATION OF LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION. ! The State of South Carolina?Coun+i? r\-f VoTrhorrv Rv W P ' Ewart, Probate Judge. Whereas, Mahala M. Stone has made suit to me to grant her Letters of Administration of the estate . and effects of John D. Stone, de| ceased, These are, therefore, to cite and ! admonish all and singular the kinj dred and creditors of the said John D. Stone, deceased, that they ibe and appear before me in the Court of Probate, to be held at Newberry, South Carolina, on Monday, the 18th day of October next, after publication hereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said administration should not be granted. Given under my hand this 29th day of September, Anno Domini 1920. rson's BLAST save some lerchandise. ?W. ? . ;ek. ;, Men's Clothing at 'if' '<* t, . . ',4 V TICS. J . > * " rr. 19c ? ? 25c | 25c I t 35c ( ....$1.98 | f ^ M ...30C . :' ' ' " 1 ...19c ,y ^ ' ' r'; */f . ; 19c ; ..25c $2.98 / ....$1,35 ! 39c i, \ ??W t I ? )e bill. Give us a t 00 value, this sale, St .98 ' i ______ 'annel. ' .....$1.98 ese prices will move >ur share. ^ erson Newberry, S.C. t < I