The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, October 01, 1920, Page FOUR, Image 4
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Eatered at the Postoffice at New*
Srry, S. C., at 2nd class matter.
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E. H. AULL, EDITOR.
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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
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, 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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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'
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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.
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i You may have heard about that
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!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
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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 (
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NOW IS THE 1
ABRUZZI RYE
NORTH CAROLINA
WINTER BARLEY
TEXAS RED RUST
AND FULGHUM 0
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We have big-stoct
money.
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We also have good
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in Groceries and bu:
we do we are in p
money.
Don't fail to see us
We want your busi
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Rabbit and ,
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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
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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
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stocks of everything
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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
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prices will pay you
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36-inch L. L. S
40c Heavy Hon
35c Cheviots, t
40c and 50c Ov
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Overalls, the p;
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Southern Silk (
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35c Bleaching,
4-11 you want.
Apron Check C
Blue Bell Chev
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Misses' and Boj
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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
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tting, the yard
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no starch
Jinghams
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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
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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.
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