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<8> <* AMONG THE SCHOOLS ? 9> With Prof. Peterson. Prof. Verd Peterson state supervisor of agricultural instruction, came to Newberry on Thursday for the purpose of visiting some ot tne schools in the county where there is agricultural instruction. He spent Thursday with Prof. J. C. Poole, whc has charge of agricultural instructior at the Newberry high school, and also gives instruction in this branch at Mt. Bethel-Garmany, St. Phillips, Silverstreet. Prof. Poole is getting along nicely with the work in these schools^ and has good classes at all of them. He has one period each ^day at the Newberry school and goes to the others once a week each. On Friday morning I drove Prof. Peterson out to St. Lukes, where Prof. Wessinger is teaching agriculture. We spent about an hour at this school and from there we drove over to Midway where Prof. Counts has a class in agriculture. Prof. Peterson went over the schedules with the teachers at these schools and then we drove over to New HopeZion to keep an appointment I had ^ at this school. St. Lukes just opened on the Monday preceding and the work was not yet thoroughly organized, but the were p-ettincr down to real work. The attendance was not near so good as it will be very soon, owing to/the great amount of cotton to be picked, but the farmers are getting along fine in gathering the crop and the fields are not near so white as . they were a short time ago. "Midway was in the second week arid the attendance was fine. Each room had a large enrolment already and the outlook now is that a fourth teacher will soon be needed at this school. The building has been finished, except the painting, ancf the trustees have received it and the v money will be forthcoming to pay for the job. The paint has been ordered and the painting will be done right away. The ladies are plannirg to purchase a piano and will have "the money very soon if they keep up the pace they have set, and the fine spirit, which prevails throughout the district, and I have no doubt' they will. Then the next tning should be a system of lights for the auditorium and seats for the same. And soa:e new desks for the class rooms and desks for the' teachers. These things will come fast where the school spirit riins as high as it does in Midway. Prof, founts is getting along fine \wth. the agricultural course, accordto Prof. Peterson, and in fact Prof. ' Counts is a fine teacher with &rge experience in the class room. ~ flfe . - ? ,V * '.. ?"* ' C ' ' - ; 4. " a v ;New Hope-Zion. v We reached this .school about schedule time, 12 o'clock noon. Owing to the busy season of the year there were not many of the patrons and not all the trustees present. We talked oyer the situation in this consolidated district and I hope that everything will be arranged satisfactorily to all the patrons until we can get tBe new building under way and conyrfeted. As soon as the farmers ' get a little better alonj? with their work we-will have another meeting and get the plans going for the new building and secure the necessary fciicL <There is no reason why wo should nipt have in this joint district a 0 "fiiie rural graded school. -And we are going to*have it. The spirit of thte people is all right and that is whai-it takes to do the work. Misses % Lommick and Watfon are the. teachers and. they are working well together and v the school will succeed. Hhe trustees are taking an active inte*e?t and that is what counts. My good friend, Mrs. Simpson Long, wa> thoughtful enough to bring along a lunch for me which I greatly enjoyed, bat having the two boys and their mother and Prof. Peterson I engtged dinner from Mrs. Setzler at Pomaria and we all enjoyed it, also. Prof. Peterson desired to go on to +V?of aiToniticr und T HrftVC V/UIUUipia biiau x*?M??V? %? ^ him over to Little Mountain to get the train and reached there just about five minutes after the train ( had passed, being misguided as to the time the train was due there, but \re found a car going right on to Colombia and there was room for another passenger, so Mr. Peterson did not have to wait for the night train. Agriculture is being taught in the 'Little Mountain high school and* at Pomaria and also at Whitmire, but Prof. Peterson will take another trip to visit these schools. We are always glad to have him and hope he wit! come as often as he can. He made a talk to the school at New Hdpe-Zion and I did also and the people seemed interested. i , I omitted in the last issue to mention a visit I mndo last Tuesday evening in company with Miss Campbell and Mr. T. M. Mills to Smyrna. They are going to have a community fair at Smyrna on the 19th of November and this trip was made by Miss Campbell and Mr. Mills to discuss the fair and I just went along. This is a fine two teacher rural graded school and the teachers, Misses Wvlie and Footman, are do ing excelent work and the people of the community are giving them hearty cooperation, the only thing that spells success fur any school. Several of the schools are to have Hallowe'en parties this week and they are fine because they help to keep up the community spirit and keep up at the same time an interest in the school, and then generally the ladies manage to make some money for the school at them, and that is fine also. I am sorry that I could not remain at Pomaria for the mrD?ir>or Knf T UUC HICI C 1C40U l 1UIUJ v? VM V ? am sure it was a success for the good people down this side generally succeed at whatever they undertake. Educational Day at St. Lukes. Or rather school day, for that is what we are planning to have at St. Lukes on Friday, November 12, and we want every man, woman and child in the whole countryside round about to come out that day and let us talk together about schools, and what is the thing to do to better the schools. And to get up an interest in the schools of the community. We would like to have all the people j there from all the districts in reach and as many more as are interested, j We want the fathers and the moth-; ers and the citizens who have no chil-. dren and the preachers and the j teachers and the doctors and all the others to come out that day and let us have a good lime together. Prof. Leuco Gunter, who was at one time state supervisor of rural schools, has promised to be with us, and we hope to have one or two others, possibly Prof. Peterson and Superintendent Swearmgen ana seme more, anu j some of the local people from Prosperity and Newberry. We will not start the meeting until about 11:30 or maybe 12 o'clock so that evei'y one may be willing to come and spend at least half a day together in the interest of the biggest problem before the people of this country today,.the proper and right sortj of education of the youth of the land. Let every? one begin to talk about this big meeting that we are going to have at St. Lukes and let us all ~~ +?% mol/o rf thp hicrfrpit uetciiuiiic OVJ iiwnv --co j thing that has been pulled off in the county in many moons, and if we so determine we can have it just what we make up our minds it shall be. A'gentleman who has-been reading this column told me the other day that he had become very much interested in it, and that he really enjoyed it, and he is not a native of Newberry, and has been in the COUnt-^r nnlv U shnrfc time. Well, he is j V?i*j ? right. The purpose of the column Is] good and the people should be interested because the education of the children of the country is the supreme issue of the century, and the man who hesitates or halts is playing with fire. But he asked me when I went over to Tabernacle that he wanted me to go a mile or two further up toward Laurens and visit the j site of the Liberty Hill Lutheran church and the graveyard there, and that he felt satisfied that I would find something interesting there to hang a tale on, and I thanked him, and when I do go up this side I am going to make it convenient to go there. I am glad he suggested it. j I had heard of the Liberty Hill Lutheran church from my boyhood days, because I had heard my father talk about his trips up that side when a young man on his visit to his relative, the late L. W. P. Riser, and others who lived up there. .1 am glad there are those who are interested in x1- - -1 +Vioco rtl/1 lanrJmnrks x,ne siuncs w um ? that are fast being wiped out, and that I may be able in some feeble way to chronicle at least a bit of the history which they contain and which may be helpful in a way to the historian when he comes to write the history of Newberry county, because these little stories that I may write for The Herald and News will be preserved in the files and be accessible to the historian, and then they should be interesting to the people of the present day, but sometimes it seems that "modern life is a dash through a crowd. A man hardly has time to stop and tie Ms snoestring. It is a race to keep pace with steam and electricity." We don't even have time to have a home, much less to think about the things and the ideas and lives of those who have gone before. In other words, we don't have time for any of the domestic graces, but it is getting to the point where there must be a calling of time nnd wo must check up n bit and take 'stock of just where we are and whitl er we are going. At any rate I ai going to arrange to take this tri and will risk a word or two about when I come back. In fact I ai hoping to make the trip on Friday c this week, but will notify the teach( of Tabernacle, Miss Janie Chalmer in time to let the people know -ths I am coming. E. H. A. The above was written for tl last paper, but somehow the boys g< i off schedule and it did nor get in, : happened to a good deal more ths was written for that paper. We ju: got the schedules mixed a little < will sometimes happen, it matte: not how well you may plan. I hof it is not too late to be read and ei joyed by the subscribers of tl paper. I . I will call off the trip to Tabe nacle for the present, as there ai many matters in the olnce at t\ court* house 'that need attention, ar . if I go away on Friday will of n< < nooai + rr krt nncfnnilO/1 tfx npvf-. Wppk. I Uti. OiVJ1 MV ^vtfv^vuvu wv - ?i will give the teacher and patrons c i this school good notice when I a: i coming, and expect to make it bi i fore the fall rains begin and th roads get too bad to travel. j i | While we w6re at New Hope-Zio on last Friday Prof." Peterson v/eT : out in the cotton field near the schoi , house and pulled off some of the ha ' grown bolls of cotton and foun quite a number of the boll weevil j ! all stages of development. They a* j there in quantities and may be e: pected to be in droves the next yea ' And yet I have not exactly undi: ! stood this pest. They tell us til? he not only travels but he remain and yet we are also told that thei is made this year one of the bigge: frnnc rnttnn in Vf?nr?;_ and thf> W?< vil has now come all the way froi Texas and has also remained i Texas. Then if he is so destructiv how is it that we have such a larg crop of cotton. Maybe if he had nc come there would have been so muc cotton made that it would not hav been worth the while to pick it, an maybe cloth would have been s cheap that every one could have bee well clothed. One thing I know, the in this county this year there h? been made a very large crop of co ton. And there has never been better fall in which to gather it. An there has been made a fine crop c corn. Uziicn. I attended the opening of th school on Monday. It is fortunat this year in having so good a teachc as Sirs. Bessie Pugh. She has ha large experience in the school rooi and is a graduate of the Woman college at Due West and will do fin work for the children of tjiis scho< | during this school year. As I drov i down I asked Mr. John C. Neel to g along with me and he readily coi sented. He has offered me his unite j effort and hearty cooperation in d< [ ing anything that he may be ab] | to help the rural schools, and it good to have the hearty support c such good and influential citizens z Mr. Neel, and I appreciate his su} port as I do that of all good cit [ zens in working for the bettermer I of the schools. Two of the trustee Mr. Holland Wilson and Mrs. Wi i son and Mr. George Enlow, wei ! present, as was Mr. T. J. Wilson an some 15 children. I gave them talk and Mr. Neel spoke some wore of encouragement and Mr. T. J. Wi son also spoke to the children. Th is the home community of the Straus brothers, Martin and Manuel, and was just thinking what a fine thin it would be for them to endow th school and give about ten acres c land and a modern building, and do not know of any better work the could do, or any better purpose t >irV.w.V> +Viov /rmlrl /Innntp Sfiinp of tl" W 1J A V, 11 WiV J ww?iv? V* V..M. v ....... money they have, and I feel sui they will think about it. and whe they do they will agree with me th? it would be a good thing for them 1 do. I am sure that Mrs. Pugh is gi ing to do good work here this yea There are not many children but good school will help to make a goc community and induce people 1 move in. Maybinton. I made my schedule to Maybintc on Tuesday. I left Newberry aboi S:30 o'clock and went down tl county home road and Mr. Mai j Smith was ready to join me, and i | he knew all the places down Jjhis sic rit made the trip a very pleasant on | We arrived at Maybinton about ] ! o'clock. The school house is right ; i the edge of the beautiful oak ar hickory grove at the home of M Berry Richards. This is one of tl VO n />At? in VanrKflrvt/ pi en.:coo piavca m ww*?j v.uv>?> | Mr. Richards had the misfortune ' j lose his dwelling by fire some tin ;ago and has not yet rebuilt. He i tends to build soon. He is rur.nii la ginnery at this place and the gro^ was lined with wagons loaded wi j cotton. Ho hn<? n fine plnnt with tv i-f80 saw gins and turns out about 25 m j bales of cotton a day. He also has ip j a grisl mill in connection with the it gin. . There were a number of the m citizens of the community present, j >f! i ! -L | Maybinton is a historic place, and in the good old days before the war ^ j was really noted as a place for the j stage coaches to stop and change < I horses and to spend the night. The ^, Inn stood near the place where Mr. j Richards now lives, and there were! there in those davs all the good " things for which the countryside Inn ; 5" was noted. There was in fact a lit-! IS ' tie town there and there are signs of, rs ' the old houses still in evidence. Mr.. )C A. H. Maybin and his brother live at j 1 'the old Maybinton and Mr. W. B.i 1 c f ! Whitney clcsc by, and just a little; i farther down the road is the home of i Mr. W. D. Hardy and Mr. W. V. j l~ Lvles. This is the original home of j e the Hendersons who now live overi on 1he Mt. Pleasant side of the Eno' rce, and many of the older members ~ of this family are buried in the old J graveyard which is at Maybinton,! though now it is very much grown j 111 up in trees and bushes. The place is j also noted as being on the direct; IC * 4 route of Emily Geiger in her famous! l-irlo flnrinn. P.btrnliitinn nnri it. is! ; i iut UUXiiiw CI4W *-Vs. ? Wi^vAv... v...? ?- i i raid that she spent the ni^ht her?. n But at present there is need first of all for some roads to be built in this ? section of the County. There is how " a first class bridge over the Eonree at Keitt's. And that reminds me to say that just on this si^e of the Enoe ree is the famous Enorce plantation v~ of the late Col. Ellison S. Keitt now r ... ^ . v <rN *' occupied by his daughter, Mrs. l. r. Miller. There is no reason why Mayv biritoii shduld not be put oil the liiap s' again, but to do so there' must be 9 some roads burlt down this side, and ^ then there could be some white peopie move in ami some of the big plari11 tations cut up into small farm3 and n: owned by white people. That is what e is needed and then we could have a ; large and flourishing school. The as^ sessed value of the taxable property in this school district is something e over .$100,000. Some of the best people of the state live down here 0 and they live well but we need more 11 of them. -r w it, : is ^ I. .Th? school house as stated is in the a edge of the. beautiful grove at the d residence ol.JJr. Berry Richards and ,f it is a neat .one room house and has 1 l> recently been painted and is comfortable and has^a library and is kept in | good condition; but how nice it would js be if there were children in this far _ away rural community, I mean far is : away from the busv life of the town I ;jl ] r j and city, to have a real, two story ^ school building, and then have it as j s the rural community center where _ there could be entertainments of various kind ?o make rural life pleas,e ant and profitable. And that condi>0 tion will come before many years. '. Miss Holliday is the teacher and this is her second year in this school and 5_ she is doing fine work here in the le community. Her school is small in number but these few children are IS . ? entitled to just as good as those in ' communities where there arc more of them, and they arc too far away to be united with any other school. t There arc just five bright little girls who make up the school family and - - * *i i _ * jV they are all the wmte cnncire^ oi >e school age in the district, so I was j told. And the danger is that the parcnts of four of them are going to js move away by the end of the year. I j_' hope they may refconsider and that js; instead some jnore parents will move }s in. All of the trustees, J. Berry j Richards, John McCullom and W. V. Lyles, were present at the school on js Tuesday, which shows the right ^ spirit and that they are interested j in the school. Miss Holliday is plan,y ning an entertainment at the school . for the near future and if I can arie range I am going down there when .e it takes place. This shows that she n is not only interested in the teaching of the school but also interested .Q in the community life. And I am interested and expect to prove my in-' r*: (Continued on Page 3.) a 2 '' nni iTr PAr?lPTV q ruLiicouciiii 1 i ABHORS BAD BREATH ?n it Bad Breath is Usually the Result of ie I Improper Action of the Di"k! gestive Organs. is, le Over eating and lack of care of the e. i body naturally congests the stomach lO and other digestive organs. To over at work them means to abuse them. The id i natural result is an accumulation of i r. i poisons that pollute the system and le i produce foul and illsmelling gasses, y. j commonly known as bad breath, to | .Nothing is more repulsive and disle j gusting. It is the first indication of n-|an unhealthy body. At the first sign, igi fortify yourself against it. /ej Try SarDraS. A scientific prepath' ration of medicinal roots and herbs roj cor.tain'n1;- no alcohol, especially ^ \ \ suited for the invicforation of the organs of digestion and assimilation. A tablcspoonful before each meal will invigorate the glands of the stomach, liver and kidneys, improve the digestion and purify the blood. Mere iaxatives do not go far enough. A proper use of this treatment will give you a clean body, normal digestion and a sweet pure breath. Ask your dealer for SarDraS. Manufactured by Southern Drug Syndicate, Charleston, S. C., Gate City Drug Co., Florence, S. C., distributors for South Carolina. NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT I will make a final settlement of the estates of J. G. and Queenie Tucker in the Probate Court for Newberry County, S. C., on Saturday, the 20th day of November, 1320,.at 1Q o'clock in the forenoon and will immediately thereafter ask for my discharge as Administrator of said estates. \V. F. fczell, Administrator. Nev. berry, S. C., Oct. 1G. 1020. i - ' "v i''... - * SALE OF SCHOOL HOUSE AND LOT. . The' undersigned trustees of the school district No. iy, ivuaway, made up of. the old school districts of Swilton or Slighs and Excelsior, will offer for sale to the highest bidder therefor for cash, on Saturday, October 30, 1020, the lot anti hou?e thereon formerly used for the Swilton school, situated near Slights. The lot contains one acre of iand, more or less. The sale will take place at the former school at 11 a. m. T. ,S. Cook, F. T. Mayer, G. !A. Counts, ' \J. S.- Watts, , , ?T, L. Bowers, Trustees Midway School District No. j 10-19-td. NOTICE. ! ?- i Notice is hereby given to the; stockholders of Oakland'Cotton Mills j that a meeting of stockholders will be held at the office over J. H. Sum-] mer & Co.'s store, corner of Main; and Caldwell streets, in the town of I Newberry, S. C., at 12 o'clock noon,j on the 9th day of November, 1920,; to consider the following resolution; passed by the Board of Directors on^ the 7th day of October, 1920: "Whereas, the authorized capital' stock of Oakland Cotton Mills under! its charter is $400,0*0, divided into! 4,000 shares of the par value of onei hundred dollars per share; and > "Whereas, the stock issued and; paid for under said charter amounts; to $333,000?3.333 shares of the par! value of one hundred dollars per! share; and "Whereas; it is deemed advisable' to amend the charter of said Oakland: Cotton Mills so as -to provide for an I authorized capital of $500,000?5,-j ! Hnw? Rv tY A AV ?? vj ? buying all yo Our stores k< to make seta investments i ness grows. You can buy suit of clothe Money spent dents to beco saved and de * . because it is and farming i Do your part ? The Natio Newfc b. c, matthf.ws, President. State, Cour Membe \ \ I 000 shares of the par value of one|t j hundred dollars per share, j "Now, therefore, be it resolved by' the Board of Directors of Oakland j Cotton .Mills: "1. That the charter of said mill 1 be amended so as to authorize a cap- j i ital stock of $500,000, divided into J | 5,000 shares of the par value of one j I hundred dollars per share. "2. That this resolution be sub-!] i mitted to a meeting of the stoekhold-j < evs of Oakland Cotton Mills, called j j for this purpose, to be held at thejj office over J. II. Summer & Co.'sl] store, corner Main and Caldwell! ^ streets, in the town of Newberry, S.|, ! on the 8th day of November, i 1920. W. H. HUNT, President. J. N. McCAUGHRIN, Secretary. i j 10-12-4.-1 taw-T. j i 1 NOTICE. l1 Notice Is hereby given to thsu stockholders of Mollohon Manufac- '< turing company that a meeting of | \ stockholders will be hold at Presi-! < dent's olFice in the town of Newber- j ry, S. C., at 11 o'clock in the fore-: noon, on the 9th day of November,, : 1920, to consider the following reso- j ! lution passed by the Board of Direc-i ; tors on the 7th day of October, I 1920: Ii "Whereas, the authorized capital' I ctrr-V nf Manufacturing! I Company under its chartcr is $500,-: 000, divided into 5.000 shares of the par value cf one hundred dollars per i share, all of which is paid for and outstanding; and, j "Whereas, it is deemed advisable ' ; to amend the charter of said Mollo-! hen Manufacturing Company so as to provide for an authorized capital of , $750,000?divided into 7.500 shares i , of the par value of one hundred doi-: 1 lars per share; |. ' Now, therefore, be it resolved by j j ! the Board of Directors of Moilohon |, i Manufacturing Company: ' \ ! ';1. That the charter of the said;! ! Moilohon Manufacturing Company; he amended so as to authorize a cap-, ital stock of $750,000?divided into ;j 7.500 shares of the p?r value of one j , hundred dollars per share. "2. That this resolution be sub-', mitted to a meeting of the stock-! ( holders of IVfoIlohon Manufacturing , ( Company, called for this purpose, to j be held at President's office, in the j town of Newberry, S. C., on the 9th 1 i N. GET OUR DRAC De have a high power, fast cutti plete power plant in itself for sa' the work of 6 to 10 men. Lever is running. N Starts and Stops Saw Lever Control st Newb ading with our u need here in t< ;ep good stocks :tions and they i n merchandise a anything in New s to a farm tract in Newberry he ime more prospe posited in this ba used to finance enterprises of th ! Spend right?s nal Bank of >erry, South Cai T. K. JOHNSTONE, Cashier. ity and City r Federal Reserve I ? -T--T?1 r II. - -i 1 - . ? lay of November, 1920, at 11 a. m. GEO. W. SUMMER, President. C. D. WEEKS, Secretary. 10-12-lt-ltaw-T, NOTICE. Pursuant to a resolution of the loard of Directors of the Newberry Cotton Mills a meeting of the stockholders of the Newberry Cotton Mills s hereby called to be held at the ^resident's office at the corner Cald -11 ? /I cf i?AAf c in VIA rv?Il illlll u u v. v; OLicvrto in ^uun > ? Newberry, South Carolina, on the :th day of November, 1020, at 10 /clock in the forenoon to consider :nd act upon the following resolution providing for an increase of the apital sock of the Newberrv .Cotton \!i*!ls, viz.: Be it resolved by the Board of Dimeters of the Newberry Cotton Mills s .hat the capital stock of the Newberry Cotton Mills be increased so that aid capital stock shall consist of ten thousand shares of the par value of ^ :>ne hundred dollars a share. ? Z. F. WRIGHT, President. GEu. S. MOWER, Secretary. Newberry, S. C., Oct. 7, 1920. 10-12-4t-ltaw-T. M. M. BUFORD i? ?fill tAliintr lot* 5n the Middle Georgia Oil & Gas Company at SaxHersviile, Georgia DRILLING OPERATIONS NOW ON 9 BIG MONEY IN OIL Why hesitate when the conditions &re so favorable, when every lot parchased at $35 each carries with It the right of participating in all arofits and leases ,of the company. My headquarters are at Wm. Johnion & Son's store. If more convoAient drop me a card and 1 will call to see you. " * Persons who have purchased lots M+ would do well to increase their hoM* W ings. Liberty bonds taken in pay* ment of lots at market price. We are on the last lap in selling stock. Read D. L. Boozer's letter on the Middle Georgia Oil and Gas i company. ?. i M. M. BUFORD \ i U \ SAW PRICES I ng outfit, forced ieed?a comwing logs to any length. Does control of blade while engine Send for Engine Catalog I Showing Gasoline Engines 2 to 12 H. P., Power Rigs and Drag Saws, all equipped with Boscj High Tension Magneto Columbia Supply Co. 823 Gervais Street, COLUMBIA, S. _C\ -_, - ? - ? ? ?? * : r . ' W ; erry * - } " 8 merchants? own. . | 4 t ..LiA rrom which ncrease their s their busit berry from a :or. Ips our resirous. Money nk also helps, the business \ e county. ;ave right! *>* v? i Newberry rolina ; W. W. CROMER Assistant Cashier* ? : r Depository System J /