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- Jlc jeralD anil geis. / Catered at the Poitoffice at New wy, S. C.? u 2nd class matter. ^ i, E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Friday, January 28, 1921. i' 1 During the sleet and snow storm in | Newberry for the past several days! aro. liavo nnwpr nnH litrVif rlno i the vigilance and energy of Superin- i' tendent Homer W. Schumpert and j his assistants. The trees were bending '. down with the ice and as many of / j the wire are along under and arnonu the trees the wonder is that some wire A" was not broken, and may be it was, but had immediate attention and the ' _ * public did not know. The current i ' has been on constantly except for a \ -V few-moments at a time. But then Mr. j Schumpert and his help are on the 1 f job. / ' ?? it ? VERY GOOD PLATFORM 5 ? ^ . . _ ! ' In Clarendon county there are six 3 ^ candidates for the legislature to fill j * nnpvnirpH fp?rm of Mr. SDrott . 3s " who died a short time ago. Among the j: A six is Miss Corine Barfield. The pap- j ers publish her platform and it is a - good <>ne- ' . She says she is m favor of rigid ? economy irf all departments without ; "cr'" crippling any of them, but she says, ^ "I stand for liberal appropriations ( the rural public schools." i. She favors an extension of the i time for paying taxes without any i ' &i On this proposition sne is wrong. It is true that money seems ^ to be scarce, but taxes must be paid , }Vi or the whole machinery of the gov- , ernment will be crippled; and the . ^ credit of the state will be in jeopardy, . v and, and you know that as soon as ; .the taxes are paid the money will go i, to pay tootes for money borrowed to | ( run another year, and if we fail to;] meet our notes how are we to get | ^ credit to keep going? Under the sys- . \ .tem of the state and also the system in vogue in Newberry the govern- j ment is running one year behind and i - ry _ i. ' therefore has to bororw money, joei-1 ter let the matter of paying taxes', alone. It is a misfortune that any leg-! r, . islation should have been suggested I] about extending the time for Spaying , " 1 taxes. The thing has to be paid and , the sooner the taxpayer can get it off his mind the better condition ..he ~ is in to look after something else. Sh* . ; : says she is going to study the proWem t of taxation, and it is a big subject , J 1 VTY?nr<?* n>* b\r I an (I lids) UCCii OlUUiVU AUV4.V V. - ? ,, all legislators ever since government ; g|; was founded, and is still a problem, j J She believes in the education of the masses and on this subject she r / , is sound. u<In or^r for us to attair j. to the highest degree1 of citizenship. J r ; > -we must have an educated people. , , and, therefore, I shall support any and all measures for the education V*of the masses." she says in one of her^ planks. p' ^ She favors such road building as we j " are financially able to build. That i: ! nnt; a had wav to out It. Sometime- J, . y; we all undertake to do things thai | j we are not financially able to do, and'jas a result do not succeed as wo , 1 ~ might if we did net 'undertake too ', | * much. | v-, Of course she wants to do what > she camfor the farmers as we are an j. v agricultural state and farming the1 j t, main industry. ^ . ; j And she wants liberal appropria- j < ' tions for the few remaining confed- lj erate veterans and favors law en-1 j ^ ^priement^ i Now that is a pretty good platform t for any one to stand on as well as to j i get in on. The election is today, Tue:?-; j day, and we are betting on Miss Bar- j i ' fiefld not only winning the ticket but I \ winning out on the first ballot overj ( all competitors. , I ] ' ! i ? The above was written for the last i issue. According to press dispatches j The Herald and News is a poor pro- j ] ?1?J i i pnei. 1*1155 JDctlilCIU was I1VV ; L . *> Mr. W. L. Brissey of the Brisseyi-1 Lumber company of Anderson in c speaking to a reporter for the Daily i Mail of Anderson said that his taxes j z for the year 1920 were just about one j t fyalf of the capital stock of the com-j \ pany and if it keeps up it will scon j a take in the entire caoital. Well, i I + * i , what's the difference anyway, the ! ? whole tendency of government in i \ trtwarrl n hip- neutralized r government and soon we will all be f working for the government, be-: 2 cause the people working for the gov-; r ernment will oilt-number those left! 1 who are to pay tax and so it will just; 1 all be government and we will be fed j r at the trough and when we get old, s we will just lie around, under the , t +V?a fraA fVia Rriccov i I aiiauc ui liict Li. bnv -"iuuv>T v Lumber company hi-a doubled its cap-11 ^ ital stock and half of th? increase is t in stock dividend so it may be that a this tax is an equitable one based on j t business, j I ( * % \ NEWBERRY TO EDCTTiELD When one thinks of going to Edgefield from Newberry about the first thing that comes to his mind, that is those who have seme recollection of the effort to build a railroad be;v.*e?.i the two cities, is the need of just such a road as has been 1 about r.nd graded and for which taxes were paid for so many years, and yet the grading was done so'mar.y years ago that the young folk of-tin's day, when they see the evidence of the cut or the embankment, wonder why it is there. Tall pines have grown all over many of the graded places, and that railroad seems but a memory, and to many it is not even that. And yet there is great need for a railroad across the state, from north to south. All the roads very nearly parallel each other. And this recalls to mind the time that we built that narrow guage road from Augusta to Newberry and on to Union and Blacksburg. It was to be an extension of the Augusta and CJonrTovsvillo nnrrnw crmi<rp railrnnd which was at that time operating between Augusta and Sandersville. A man by the name of Mitchell was the president. Mr. Jas. Y. Culbreath and Mr. Robert McCaughrin, and in fact all of Newberry were very much interested in the project. Prosperity wanted the road to come that way and the Moseley brothers and the Wheelers and Mr. L. S. Bowers and r !V/fv> Tlonvv RnA'/ov nnrl nil tVio Vfc-.f kUl ilVill J X/ V W*-Vi. b*?4U v% v**v * vv? were interested. President Mitchell came over to Newberry and. we had a big meeting in the court house. I will never forget that meeting. The building was crowded with interested citizens. Mr. Mitchell was a good talker, and he made a speech, and several others spoke, of course Mr. Culbreath and Col. Geo. Johnstone and Judge Pope and Col. 0. L. Schumpert and others and you know line **1xirox*C! OT? A rl L^t*V IIUO Ul )TU J C UMU ^VVV* speakers, and the meeting was very enthusiastic and we were going to have a railroad from Newberry to Augusta right now. Just before the meeting adjourned Mr. Thos/' S. Moorman who was then practicing liaw at Newberry arose and offered to have a stipulation put in the bonds requiring that the road be put in operation to Newberry before our bonds were delivered. He was almost hissed out of the court house, the very idea of doubtipg the good faith 1 * T * J ana xne aomiy ux uiese men wuu wcic building the ioad, and President Mitchell, or even suggesting that the thing would not be done, was preposterous and the suggestion to put such an amendment or proviso was in itself casting a doubt over the enterprise, or that is the way it was construed, and the meeting would not hear of it, because it would possibly ripljiv flip hiiildino*. and the bonds > C' ? were to be delivered as soon as* the road was graded through any township, and sq it was done. Mr. Moorman pleaded for his proviso in tl>e bonds but the meeting would have none of it, and so he stood alone. And subsequent events have proved that he was right, if his motion had prevailed we would either have th? rond'to Newberry or we would i:uv3 been saved thousands of doilars. And ae have no road yet. That was a good men" ntrn T ("An't VPniP.mhfir :Iates. 1 It is not so far to Edgefield, only abo.ut forty miles direct way, but to *et there by train you have to go iround by Columbia, the time vve/ >vere building that railroad Edgefield oir.ed Newberry at Saluda river. And n this day if we had good dirt roads, t would not be such an undertaking o make the trip. It is only forty-five niles by Saluda and Johnston, and f you go down by Wards it is only ibout fifty miles. With good. Stude jaker cars that would not be much )f a trip, if we had any sort of roads. But with our roads its is a Ions: way, ind if you get stuck it is still further. I had a Jittle ma;:er of business at, Sdgefield, wihch possibly could have >een attended to just asftvell by correspondence, but somehow I just felt ike I would like to take a trip across :ountrv to Edgefield and I Was talkftg one day to Mr. Ernest Summer tnd he said he would be glad to take he trip himself some day when the * * _i ?i ~ .i veatner was gooci. i neeueu a uaj uu myway, so we decided to go over to Edgefield on Tuesday. Mr. J. Hack Rummer and Mr. Chas. A Bowman reht along, and so far as I recall, leither one had ever been to Edgeield. I know it was the first trip for tfr. J. H. Smmer. Mr. Ernest Sumner drove his big Studeba?ker and we eft Newberry about 8 o'clock on fuesday. We decided that the bestj oad was t>y ueaataii ana me upper j .teel bridge and through the fine secion of Saluda county where the }olemans live, arid that possibly is he nearest road. The road is not so ad with the exception of a few holes, is some one told us at Saluda about he road from that town to Wards. aiTco to that, if voir change the [descriptive adjective from "few" to "many." But really there are some pretty pood stretches on this road where the croinjr is fine. Just after i w*p nnsspd thp olp<r?nt. cnuntrv home ! of Mr. M. A. Coleman we found one | of the "few exceptions;" the car slid I into it and there we were. Had to j be lifted out. Mr. C. H. Sheppard, j who lives just beyond this "exccpj tion," kindly took two of his mules 1 " ? ' i i i i 1. * _ irom trie piow ana nooKeu up ms j wagon and came down, but he had r.o ; rope, neither trace chain, strong J enough to move the car. Finally a 'road working force with pick and j shovel came along, and the negroes ; just by main force of muscle lifted I the rear of that Studebaker right out j of that hole, and then we were all j right. I hope that road force, which J said they came over to fix a hole a little lurtner on lixeu me one we were 'in before they left. As a matter of fad it would not take a very great deal of work to make thi? a pretty good road all the way to Saluda. And j there should be a good road between the two, that is to say between Newberry and Saluda. Wonder which one is to be part of the state system of roads. That state system idea of roads is a good one, if we just c'ould get jthem built and then maintained. We j have a state tax of two mills for the j maintenance, but to get the roads in j condition to be accepted hy the stats ! highway commission is the difficult ' task. It has seemed to me that there is j too much overhead charging in all j the government undertakings, and too ! much supervision with no good re j suits. \ But we got out of this hole and had j no more trouble and rolled into ! Edgefield about 11 o'clock or a little | after. There was some consolation I about getting stuck in that hole, Mr. j Sheppard said he had not so long | before pulled another car out. The I road around by Wards from Newber ry to Edgefield makes the distance j just 49 miles. I ' | I had a brief conference with the (gentleman I went to see and then we | knocked around town for a couple j of hours, taking in the sights and I meeting old friends. I called on my ! friend, A. S. Tompkins, wh<* has been I quite sick for some time, but who is {now much better and on the road to i health. He is a very interesting and j entertaining talker and I was sorry j that I could not remain longer with jjiim. He said he had just mailed me a "copy Of~"tfie book containing a life of j his brother, the late D. A. Tompkins. I am very glad t? get this book. I iknew Mr. Tompkins quite well and ! will read the sketch with interest, J Mr. Tompkins says that Newberry is ' very dear to him, as his paternal and i maternal folk were from this, coun, ty. On the one side the Coates and | the other, Caldwell. I recall ver;v | well the time when my father would : w.rt fi-nin fVin in | DCiiU IXI^ 11V/1U VI' V IXVitiV AAA j near Dyson to the court house, our home then being in Edgefield county, |and that many times I would spend .the night with Dr. Clint Tompkins i at Meeting Street. Dr. Tompkins al ways kept an open house and the stranger was always welcome. Tlr1 I railroadjthat we were, going to build ! was graded right* along by Meeting Street, as I recall. I I-was sorry that I missed Editor j Minis of the Advertiser, but he had , gone to" dinner and we had to get | away to reach home by night. Mr. ^?d. Crews, a son of my old friend, j the late Col. T. B. Crews of Laurens, lis working for Mr. Mims in the Adfvertiser office. I took time also to J run around ! to the Chronicle office | and speak to Wigfall Cheatham. He isays that the times are a little squally i but he seems to be doing very well, ' T * ' r-.-j. 4-1,^ ana l nope ne is. uciuss mt j street from his office is the law office | of Mr. T. B. Greneker, and he hap] pened to be in, and I had a few words j with him. He is a nephew of Mr. P.. I H. Greneker of The Herald and News ; and every one over there says he is ja mighty fine boy, and lie has the apjpearance of getting along well as a j lawyer. ' Somehow I had never met jhim. Of course I had to diop in to ' speak to McGowan Simkins and had ja y pleasant few moments wun | him. I don't see why Edgefield did j nor p.T'd him to the legislature, bu? j then you know politics is a queer j thing and you never can tell what the popular vote will do. There are many more people in Edgefield I should have been pleased to see but our time was limited. I always enjoy going to Edgefield, It is a quaint old town and has^produced many men of distinction who have served meir nay and generation well. Not a great many changes have been made in the appearance of the town in ail tlie i years that I have known the place, j though there a're many changes in the men and women during these years. And by the way, it has a fine new hotel since I was there, and we enjoyed tho good dinner that was served to us. They call it the Dixie, a very appropriate name for a hotel 9 \ in Edgefield. And there is building ortii already built a highway from Augus-lc ' ta to Greenwood by Edgefield to be^si : known as the Dixie highway. A good;f; hotel is a great thing for any town, j a ;The streets are somewhat torn upjtl now as the city is putting in water j< i works, ami that ahvays tears up the i o streets at any time of the vear. !v. . _ 1t< i .Speaking about the men of I\dge-!h field in the davs when I went there asi?r : ! a boy, 1 recall among the young j b lawyers at that time was John R.' t< j Abney, now practicing law in New'h York who was at the ..time I speak of. j solicitor of the circuit, and a mighty I j gocd one he was. He was a candidate; for attornev ?reneral and was defeated T and soon after he moved to New ' ^ York. Then there was Ben W. Bettis, i | a good lawyer and a hard worker ' who died young. And Ernest Gary,! ' , afterwards a circuit ju d.ure and now!' ctead. Sheppard Bios, who are still {^ practicing at Edgefield, Arthur S. i Tompkins who has now retired from I the,practice. And this was at a time ^ ! when Gen. Mart Gary and Gen. M. [ ^ J C. Butler were active. I can recall ^ | my father talking about Gary and * ; Butler and he said when lawyers got . to quarrelling that Butler and Gary ** !were always a little careful about!" ! J l i what they would say to each other, j because they knew that the other j would fight and neither cared especially to do the job^o therefore they would leave off fight provoking rej marks, though sometimes get very mear to the point. Well, time makes | many changes in the personnel of j | any community as well as in other j things. And then Edgefield never j seems the same without the genial j and versatile Col. James T. Bacon I v ho was for many years one of the | editors of the town. Edgefield is a {nice old town in which to live. Mr. J. i II. Summer, who was with us, said j jit seemed to him that Johnston would! ! be a better place for the court house, | but I think Edgefield a? ideal place \ for a county seat and for a lawyer. J * ' I ! While in Edgefield it was/ veryj ! pleasant to me to'hear the many goou : ! things the people had to say about j ['Miss Hortense Woodson who has but| | recently come from this good old j .{town to Newberry to operate the' I j linotype machine in The Herald and j j News office. And while she has been j iwith us only a week I am pleased to! r I endorse what these people over in! i; Edgefield had to say about her. So} ' ' T 1 '-"~J ^n?allirrarr oT"!'r\ ' ' ! IHT 1 11 'c. V t! 1UU11U ilCl lll^u:^vuu Hiiu | J willing and competent and able to do J | ' all slia claimed that she could and I *? Jabovi all pleasant and agreeable. J And that is "a great asset. I have j reached that stage in life where I do! <! not care to be around or about dis- j agreeable persons, and especially do j I dislike to work with them or for j i them or to have ^them work for nje1.1 'jThe older 1 grow the more I wonderj 1 j why so many people are so disagree-; liable when it pa:?s, to rAit it on higher j ' i ground, to bo agreeable and pleas-j .. ant. _ ! >: I did not get to see my friend, j j Captain N. Geo. Evans, and then I j roL>ped -lion. Brooks MaSon who is j also living1 in Edgefield. They tell me; : that Geo. Evans is making money! : practicing law in Edgefield and that! | Brocks has plenty and does not have ; | to work any way. I lised to know > I ? | |Brooks when he was jijst an ordinary: 1 country boy like myself when he j lived at the old Home down near Good , ! Hope Baptist church, but* when he! jgc't to be a lawyer he soon became a: ! capitalist and now is taking/life easy, I jl have no doubt. Iu a brief stay of | j only a few hours it is impossible to | get to see all the friends you would j like even in a city the size of Edge* j* J.I ! j field. I am going fcac-K some 01 tneacj I days before so fearfully long,' and | 1 when Mr. Summed has business that) j side, so that we may have a good j | driver and a good car in which to J j make the trip, j ' | j In passing through Saluda we made j r. efnn nnrl I dronned in to the j I C4 U i IV. J. uvv^/ v... v* ? j ^ Standard office just long enough to j i sa.y good morning to Mr. Armfield, I the young man who is now editing and publishing the paper. i " | We left for home at 2 o'clock and! made a stop of forty minutes at Johnston. I did not feel like passing I through Johnston without at leatf. j going around and speaking to my! ;good old friends, Mr! and Mrs. Sim j j Werts. They moved many years ago j i from this county to Johnston. For! ' several years they lived at the Aull { J hills near Jolly Street, and in fact! I Mr. Werts was born and reared right! | down that side. He is a brother of I 'the late Dr. D. H. W^rts and also of j I Mr. Paul Werls who now lives near! j the old home. They were of coursej j glad to see me, but, just to think. I j 1 1 ' x- x-ll xL. T Mi. i nau 10 ten uiem wau x woo. , Werts says that he is 87 years old ' though his good wife says he is only j 8'3. IVTr. Werts is looking remarkably j ! well and so is Mrs. Wert% though she j I is not as stout as I knew her, but she j | savs she has not been well, but is now I I f ? nproving. She is still bright and af heerful. It has been many years. B ince I have seen them. The large 'sa :imily of children have all grown up fc ml gone, and now it is just the two i or re same as when they first began the j tli jurney together. I was glad of the : es pportunity to have seen them, and; it as sorry l could not remain longer j vc j toll them about the people over! fit ere, ami to talk of the days that are j sc one. They begged me to remain, and V; ut for the fact that 1 had to be home 11!; d keep up the daily grind I would ; N ave been tempted to stay. I hope! Ii niHv <jp<> hlipm 'yp i n hnfort* so loner. Ill: I d< We came back by Batesburg and a! ,eesville and the road is. much better j hat way, though the distance is:'l< bout 12 miles more. Mr. J. H. Sum-i111 ier was so taken with the fine farms;"1 long the road and the handsome ir ountry homes that I believe if we a' ad had time to stop and let him in- a j U estimate he would have purchased i1 v. t-lio nrifl mnvcrl fivnr. but WG ! U Hit . . _ , id not. He is too good a citizen for j P dewberry to think about giving up. j a t is a fine section of country and the! arms are fine'and the country homes' ust magnificent, and it all has theiS w Sena it i % Finished Fain Rough Dry ? Damp Wash We are strivi fi'tfr , 1 worn you ne Sani r V '* v i*J> JL & ???WI uPCTgMi AnnlTip.r sliinmenl ' 3500 yards good < Another shipment price yd! ' t.lt* 8000 yards New I S705If fnr dZr y vma a va aw j - j 35c Cheviot, sale ] 35c Outing, sale p $3.00 yard Silk, s< $2.50 Men's Over $3.00 Men's Over ? Boys' Overalls, sal n r? . in coys suits ana te $3.00 Men's Shirts $8.00 Men's Shirts Big shipment Mu ment ? m t5. i. Main Street I >pcarar.ce of comfortable living, j ut Xewbeily county could du the; .me thing if the farmers would put' >rth the energy and spend a little! 1 fixing up. I can remember when lis section was considered the poor-! it section of South Carolina when j came to t'armin?. .Now it looks a' writable garden. And in many of the' ?i:is t'ne plows were going .-and the j >il being prepared for the next crop, i re saw more plowing on this trip, ism J have seen in all my rounds in j cv/berry. The Watson home at j idge Spring is a very mansion and ; ;e barns and outbuildings bear evi- j :nc*e of thrift. It is a real pleasure| ;td a delight to the eye and the heart | ems satisfied to look upon such fine i )untry places. And sad to think howl Vi o Knf t V"l O i LclIJ V IUKJLSZ MM Ki CVUiU 11U * VJ \J w* W Ul\/ I eople just will not take the interest] 1 the building of them. Rather ride bout in an automobile than to take little time and money to make the ome comfortable and nice looking, nd a little paint at very little excuse will add tenfold to the appearnce of any place. I Mr. J. E. Summer drove his big tudebaker and it did run beautifully I^the A.U.M.CO. lily Wash - - /ash - - - - ng daily to improve Ip by giving us you ?? f nary i^aun ' '. *' > i'*' , > ' " / -v; I v ' " a ^ AT?t? ' ? ' V' -5" : pepperal sheeting, quality bleaching, s: Dress and Apron ? / ... .c )ress Ginghams, fa? , sale price*yd. price yd. ? j mrp vrl > - f JL AW JT sle price yd. alls, sale price v . \ f ails, sale price e price kKfre oI- vo4ii^flr1 nj'ir uiio at ituuuw pi iv 5, sale price s, sale price islin Underwear, ; r ?mmjmmmmma?? m, > ? ' ANDERSON, Ow all the way. Never missed a stroke from the time we left until we returned. Of course the car could not help the hole into which it got. It was a pleasant outing and I hope will result profitably, and I thank Mr. Ernest Summer for taking me over, and I was really glad thac Mr. J. H. summer anu jar. a. Duwinau went, along. E. H. A. We wait to believe in the death of Lenine until more news arrives. Remember how many times we heard cf the deaths of Vflla, little 'Willie and other marauders.?ine fctaie. THE MOLLOHON MFG. CO. Newberry, S. C:, Jan. 28, 1921. The annual meeting of the -stockholders of The Mollohon Manufacturing company will. be held in- the company's office at ..'Newberry, S. C., on Thursday, the 17th aay of Feb- I ruary, 1921, at 10 o'clock in the ! forenoon, for the, el<Jctipn of direcj tors for the ensuing year, and for the transaction of other business, i Please attend in person or by proxy. GEO. W. SUMMER, President and Treasurer, j C. D. WEEKS, Secretary. I l-2S-3t. . ' J 1 ? t ^ ??> ? * $ ??. V ??- ?>Wt<lA. ? ?* t> fo the *% %* ^unJrii / >. 4 ' N >t \ 10c pound - 8c pound . - 5c pound > rmr J VU& W* a N r work? J i . A. > _? _l -? * \ * V t 4 )ds Co. 1 ?. -A ? J sale price yd. 50c ale price yd. 18c Ginghams, sale - 10c ) ? lit colors, sold last i 19c i v-r \ 20c i 15c: . ;$1.75- ... *$1.50; % - : $1.755 ' 1 50c to $1.50 t :es. ' x - I $1.50 $3,00 price per gar50c up > )ds l^o. ner Newberrv. S. G. I A