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he fjenilD unD Jems, i? _ __ i s KatirMl at the Postoffice at New- j ! II *wry, S. C.t a* 2nd class matter. a E. H. AULL, EDITOR. ti n Friday, June 10, 1921 1 STATEMENT a I have had in the office of The n Herald and News for the past two or! e three weeks Miss Vera Derrick so that there would be some one in the office to take messages or to answer, the telephone, as of necessity I am ? oat most of the day. I wanted to get n some one who could do the collecting, n -*?.-3 v? A+i/?A i y> 4-V? r* nor?or "E (illU p U l <X ilttiC Hi wiiV |/uyvii jl asking for applications for the place, t There have Jbeen quite a number, C therefore I am giving this notice that o the board decided that if Miss Vera's would be willing to help in that work a % 2 to give her the position. She is will- c ing to undertake it, and she will be b given the opportunity. This state' ment is made for a twofold purpose, tl to say that the piace has been nlled, t] and also to ask that the people who' n may have business with the office give t: Miss Derrick what help and encour-; > agement they may be able when she f t'. * .1 J ? comes to mem wion 'ousmess, auu <* will be courteous and polite and I am tl sure will do the best she can, but it fi will be new work to her. She must si i learn just like other people, and the a orly way to learn to do anything is' n to do it, and then she is a deserving |v daughter of a widow who is making tl ; an honest effort to earn "her living,' si and all of us should be willing to help t! i peiple who are trying to help them- t< selves. So please remember that a Miss Vera Derrick is authorized to j ii collect and receipt for any amounts d due The Herald and JNews, ana we si bespeak for her the kind consideration si of the public. it E. H. AULL, Editor. P. S. The matter of collecting is'g1 a very important part of any business, jw and I have always found the business S men of Nev/berry very pleasant to' e< v deal with, but just now I have not the P1 time to devote to this work and must s* have help. Most people are polite i n" and courteous* and if they can't pay ?11 will be nice albout it. , c< E. H.A. i w ? jtC MAKING THE ROAD SAFE |*t The Newberry Herald and News: ^ very sagely remarks, in an editorial [ai commenting on the efforts of the Lex-1 ington county authorities to stop w speeding on the Augusta highway,: & . that a few good sized fines on viola- j is tors will have a more wholesome ef- j w feet than all talk imaginable. From j *1 which conclusion there is no -dissent, And in all probability some fines will h; be imposed, because there are some j " careless, heedless people who have no; o: respect whatever for the rights of,a others and who are going to be caught j si napping. To be sure it will be im-jd possible to keep speed cops on the j b road all the time, but they will b3 i P there often enough to nap some, and!01 who knows when they will be present.! P Persons who by reckless driving en-! danger the lives of others should be punished. Lexington county is ex-' ^ pecting her officers to do their best j ^ to make the road as safe as possible, j and they are going to do it.?Lexing- a ton Dispatch-News. " n< Vi 1 w It will pay to keep the speed ccp j n on the road all the time. We under-jp stand that Sheriff Blease has asked; jfthe Legislative delegation to author- p ize him y femploy a couple motor; ^ cy<^le policemen foe this purpose and If, no doubt the delegation will see the j 01 wisdom of such a move and will grant j the request. The truth is our dele- j cj. gation does anything almost that the ^ sheriff requests, and this is one that jr should be granted, and when these a] speed fiends are caught the fine should 1 cj be sufficient to maKe an impression on the mind of the man or the woman who is caught speeding. We have very little patience with the speeder (>( and with the hog who takes all the' ^ road-, and we can'not understand why!v; the law or the rule when passing, to o ' a drive on the left, is not observed. It is for4he protection of both cars, the one passing and the one to be passed, ,r that some sort of signal be given by tbp car t.hat is desirous of'passing, but! very frequently it happens that the J t cars just dart by without any sort of i ^ signal that they desire to get by. At. d!t, then when you meet a car it is so nice and such fine courtesy for each to give at laest a little part of the road, ^ and to observe the rule to slow down v just a little to be sure that you have ^ your car under control. As there are so many who are driv- ir ing who seem to have no thought for b; any but herriselves, and very little for if themselves, it becomes necessary to s< have these speed cops, and if they will k get on the job properly they can make c< their salaries from the fines, if the si trial judges will put the right sort of t< \ nes to the speeders. The numbers re difficult to read, but the motor 1 op can overtake those who refuse to low down when the signal is given. ; The pity is that this seems to be < ecessary, v ut the wa-v the accidents L re happening every day it does seem J; o/>ncc!irir + r? Viavo ?nnip SOft of C0I1- I 1 rol of the highways that sane people !i lay feel safe in venturing over them, j; Not only the danger to lives andjj amage to car is a part of the result ] f speeding, b>it there is heavy dam- ] ge to road, and the roads cost some j loney and should be cared for prop- : rly. ] WHY DRAW IN THE STREET. , A citizen standing in front of The [erald and News office Thursday., lorning and observing the workmen |, laking ready for the paving r>n, 'riend street asked why the aut. ies were drawing in the street from insfpad I /21UWC11 Ull H/nniu i/iiv. | f making it as wide as possible. The,' treets of the town are very narrow h nd in these so close to the business j enter it does seem that it would be! etter to widen than to make narrow, j' If you will observe the work on ]( his part of Friend street you will see [* hat the street is made near four feet!* arrower from Caldwell on toward J he depot than it is along side the | lethodist church lot. Why not make '' he street as witi^ as possible. We ' -fny tVlO tllTllrP >iX Well aS I ^ IC UUIiUHl^ XV4. V * A Xv rie present, .and with the heavy traf- .! c that will be along this way we hould try to get as much streetway : s is possible to get. "The street is so * arrow now that if a car or any other " ehicle should happen to stop on ei- 5 her side it would block the entire ( treet. True, the narrower the streets 1 ie less the cost, but it would be bet- ' ?r to spend a little mote while we are ( t it, and make the street comfortable * 1 which to travel, and to lessen the ? - - - --Li 1 anger in passing- ouier vcnaici. nv appose it is too late now to enter the * ingestion, but we can't help saying t , < _ | i We would like to say that the sug- i estion of Mr. T. E. Wicker that he * ould like to have the sweet potato! rowers make a try out on home raisi plants as against the plants shiped in,, was a rather delicate and ;riking blow at the chamber of com lerce in .undertaking lo sell and fur-j ish plants to the e:i zens of the junty in competition with a citizen ho has gone to co lsid-jiVtbie expense ) raise the plants. In other words, would seem to a man up a tree that would have been more'graceful in a organization ostensibly established > help better the local conditions, . hile it was endeavoring to encour?e the growing of potatoes, which a laudable purpose, and that it 1 J ? * 4-V,r? coma firvto Via VP SPTVed UUIU at die oaiuv waaaav. - ic same purpose, and would have een encouraging home enterprise, to ave made an arrangement with Mr. dicker to take his plants rather than rder from a foreign house. Even at small advance in cost. And ,bedes it is not the function of the lamber of commerce to go into any,1 usiness, even the 'business of selling, otato plants, in competition with: ur own folk. That is the way it ap-. ears to us. The suggestion has been made that le little neck of land down along ollege street below the residence of aptain M. M. Buford would make! good place in which to park cars,1 nd that such a place is now greatlyI eeded and that this would be a mui-h ( etter use k> which to put.this little eck of land than to try to make aj ark. On crowded days in the city, is very difficult to find a suitable lace in which to park, and many mes those of our friends who come; rem the country have to park fuither at than a pood many people live who rive down to their business every' ay and take up the parkin? room.1 le think the suggestion to turn this j ito a place to parkcars is a fine one, rid we pass the suggestion on to the vir* association. ? I Supervisor Kin? of Anderson says; lat when the link in Newberry is j >mpleted there will be a fine road all j. ie way from Anderson to Columbia' ia Newberry. With the exception of j smal break in Abbeville county. That is a bad brejik in Abbeville | nd then there is a small break down; i Richland county of about three' liles but that will be built very soon.! T,,.-* fno mm-! frr.m Nowberrv! O UOb 11 ?? HIV a. - - _ ? ( ) Chappells.is not finished but it is j eing built and should be open to j avel within sixty days. Then the' >ad will be good all the way to Walalla and we can get in oar cars at le mountains and put the foot on the as and drive right into Charleston. The crops of both corn and cotton i this county are looking about as ad as we have ever seen them, and the Drospect is not better in other |t ?ctions of the cotton belt the out-jt ?ok for a crop this year'is very dis-j duracing", and there will be a very! t lort crop, and still the price of cot- i r >n remtiins away down. |r In the building of these roads J :hat we are at now it seems to us. asj we have had occasion to remark aforetime, the builders and the engineers should have just a little regard for the owners of the property alonjr Jthe ways. It is very nice to s have straight line, but if by doing sol r ive are going to take off the corner of j n a man's front vard, or split his farm s '1 1 in half, a farm that he has worked! i c hard to build up, and then leave his! ^ house the wrong side of the road,; j( it wou.d be but justice and a proper j ii regard for the rights of the other fel- A low to swerve just a little one way or; s the other and make a small curve. " Simply because we have the right to' ^ :lo it we should not wantonly damage; . the property of the people who are J ^ putting up the money, or at least: v their part of it, to get a straight line, j 4 Out on the Gibson road for in -; f stance the line as surveyed goes in ^ the back of Mr. Cromer's house and 5 just splits his little farm in half and ' ^ leaves his house fronting the wrong j f ivay, and then goes through Mr. Wil-j s son Brown's front yard almost, takes' c ^own one of those fine oaks that h stands out in front and removes the' t storehouse, and then cuts off Mr..1 e r - *x an/I IMVPS A ! LiCIlZSey ? uum ,)aiw small.strip of his land on the.otherj side of the road, and then takes1 ;hrough-Mr. Sease's lot and on down a :hrough the center almost of the jj school lot, and strikes Dr. Brown's f yard fence on the corner. But these folk are making n?> complaint because a ,hev realize the value of a good road,' e i and yet if it is possible the engineer t should have concern about private e >wnership. We drove out that side ^ :he other day with Engineer Saunders " ? 0 ?nd Chairman Boulware and we are >f the opinion that Mr. Saunders is \ ?oing to look into these matters and j. ;ee if he can not do something to f protect them. He has promised to a *et a little further off to the edge of t he school and save the playground,! ^ )r at least part of it. 'It looks as if: b t might all be saved, but then we do j ' lot see through the engineering glasses. TJ RICH ASIA MINOR PROVINCE ? p Smyrna, Blessed With a Ferti'e Soil 1 and Temperate Climate, Is Pl?as- , ^ ant Dwelling Place. ! 0 ! o I 'The modern province of Smyrna is r the most favored of all the provinces h of Asia Minor. It contains three of * the most considerable rivers* of the * country, including the Meander, whqse n serpentine course has.given the English language an expressive verb. Fer- * tile soil, and temperate climate have ? added to the region's attractions, while n the possession of a port and city?the city of Smyrna?unequaled by any oth? ^ er in Asia Minor has contributed ail' ' * other immeasurably important asset. Though imperfectly tilled during ?ts j r-nnfrnl hv Tnrkow thp nrovince Of ' Smyrna has nevertheless been noted r for its fine fruits. For a long time it s has1 furnished the best figs and rai- a sins which reach the markets of Eu- j rope. , J h Poets and travelers have sung and ]< told of the beauties of .the city of a Smyrna throughout the ages. The nil- | cleus nestles in the lowlands about its 1 (. harbor, and behind, the city rises tier ^ above tier against the neighboring high- ], lands. Unlike many cities that have e survived for long ages, Smyrna hns c retained the same name from the dawn { of history. This city should be dear j c m tlif? honrt of the modern feminist, for it took its name from an Amazon ^ a ho is reputetf to have played an im- \ portant part in its early life.?Nation- g al Geographic Society Iiulletin. FORTUNE AWAITS LUCKY ONES ^ ! tl" ! t\ Prospecting for Radium in Madagas- g car is Latest Lure Held Out to j\r the Enterprising. hj ] B The.exciting days of prospecting ir? j Cripple Creek or Alaska may he over, ; ai hnt anyone who Is looking for expt'ri- | n< ence and is willing to suffer a few dis- i^. comforts for the chance of gaining a ^ fortune can do so in Madagascar, ac- ' g, cording to Secretary LaCroix of tlie : French Academy of Science, who lias ' er completed ?n exhaustive study of K radium-hearing deposits there. j S M. LaCroix says that millions probably are there awaiting to reward the j patient searchers who are able to start ()j out with the proverbial shoe string as ^ far as finances are concerned, hut it Is ei recommended that intending pros- w pec tors take along o few camera dry C mates, developing outfits and, if pos sible, a gold leaf electroscope, although the latter is not absolutely es- ?' sential. j ' TIip principal radioactive mineral In ^ Madagascar is known as brtaphite ' ?} and is brownish-black in color with ti Irregular radium content. But even if th only one milligram is obtained from each ton of mineral examined, it wili .vmean 200 francs to the prospector, i1 ( while certain deposits arc so rich a* , v. to assay as high as 15,000 francs t ton. j tli I SI "Who's the swell <ruy you was just, in alkin' to?" asked Tony the boot-; ^ >lack. j "Aw, him and nie's worked togeth-j t for years," answered Mickey the' lewsboy. "He's the editor of one ne paper>." SIRU IrlAI LOCKS ITS NEST r Central American Wren Takes Par ticular Care That. Its Eggs Shall Not Be Harmed. i In Contra I America arc many trange l>ir<ls with stranger habits, but rohably none is'more interesting thnri little brown wren which may bfi 0011 along the roadsides or on fences* j "his little bird, about the size of a anarv, builds a nest out of all pro- ! ? ortion to its apparent needs. He se- j pets a small tree with horizontal i ranches growing close together, icross two of the branches he lays : ticks fastened together with tongh ! her until a platform about six feet j Dng hy two feet wide is constructed. : >n the end of this platform nearest J he tree trunk he then builds a huge !ome-shaped nest a foot or so high. I i*ith thick sides of interwoven thorns. l covered passageway is then mad? ' rom the nest to the end of the plat- j ' nn in as crooked a manner as pos- I ible. Ackoss the outer end as well as j t short intervals along the inside of j his tunnel, are placed cunning little j ences of thorns, with just enough j pace for the owners to pass tjirough. j - *' t .-.Istc/v,* ! )n ?Oin? our tins opening 1* ] y the owner by placing thorns across j h* gateway, and thus the safety of j ggs or young is assured. Use for Fire-Killed Timber. Prejudice exists in certain quarters gainst the use of timber cut from j lead trees, and some purchase speei- ; cations insist that only timber cut ' rom live trees will be acceptable. As ! matter of fact when sound dead trees ! re sawed into lumber and the weath- j red or charred outside is cut away, j here is no method known to the Unit- : 1 ^1 * toJiAnsf nrv n arniPs luresi mi'unnwij , y which the lumber can be distin- ' uished from that cut from live trees, J xceptVhat the lumber from dead trees ; lay be partly seasoned when sawed. ill tho information available at the i iboratory indicates that timber enr ! rom insect or fire-killed trees is just I s jrood for any structural purpose r?9 : hat cut from live trees of similar ! uality, providing the wood has tot j een subsequently injured by decay ; t further insect attack. Ben Franklin, Reformer. Like many of us today, Franklin 1 tic no nlinrrh^oer. but firmlv be* I feved in the desirability of other peo- ! 'le's attendance- at public worship, j n the goodness of his heart, however, j e was desirous of making tlie Church j f England's morning service less j nerous to the faithful. So, while ! epresenting the Cfionios in England, 1 e proceeded to abridge the Book of j 'ouimon Prayer! Ho was assisted in he task by an English crony, the on?-e otorious Lord De Spencer. The whole episode reminds us of he day when, as a small boy, he sug- ; ested to his astonished p;irent that inch time and trouble might be saved ! f grace were said .over the whole amily pork-barrel at onep.?Asa Dob i )ickiason In the New York Times. i j Biblical Error. The following gem was ?ent to rtie iondon' Morning Post by a corre- j pondent, who says he bad found It In : private letter written by Charle; j "Hr-kpns! "Tho storv is about. a little ! oy to whom the news had been broen by his mother that he was to have French governess. Dickens tells It hus: 'After leaning his plump little heck against the window glass in a j irear.v little way for some minutes, he j ooked around and inquired in a gen- ! ral way. and not as if it had any spe- ' ial application, whether she didn't nfnk "that the tower of Babel was * ! TPJlt misfnka " " PECIAL ELECTION IN CENTRAL SCHOOL DICTRICT, No. 21. fate of South Carolina, County of Newberry. Whereas, one-third of the resident ee-holders and a like proportion of le resident electors of the ajre of venty-one years in the Central crhool District No. 21. the County of ewb^rry, State of South Carolina,! ive filed a petition with the County. oard of Education of Newberry r"~ty. South Carolina, petitioning! i :id requesting that an election be i ?ld in the said School District onlj ie question of levying a special ad-: tional tax of six (fi) mills on the i j txable property within the said :hool District. Now, therefore, we, the undersign-1] 1. composing the County Board of j ducfetion for Newberry County, tate of South Carolina, do hereby,| rder the Board of Trustees of the | entral School District No.'21, to j .ild an election on tne sain question levying a special additional tax of , x ((?) mills to be collected on prop-! *ty located within said school district / hich said election shall be held at entral schoolhouse, in the said hool District No. 21. on Friday, the 1th day of rfune, 1921, at which said ection the polls shall be opened at a. m., and closed at 4 p. m. The members of the Board of ructooc nf tVir> <nirl School District ii'.ll act as managers of the said elocon. Only such electors as reside in ic said Schol District and return real ; personal property for taxation, and ho exhibit their tax receipts and 'gistration certificates as required in ?neral election, shall be allowed to >te. Electors favorinc the levy of, ich tax shall cast a ballot containing ie word ''Yes" written or printed lereon, and each elector opposed to' ich levy shall cast a ballot containg the word "No" written or printed! lereon. j ^'ro" nilf and sphIs VJ I ? t U UUUWI V/t?? . lis 8th dav of June. 1921. E. H. AULL. (L. S.) 0. B. CAXXOX, (L. S.) | J. B. HARM AN. (L. S.) I unty Board of FMwntion for X?'\v- ( !>errv County. | If* 1 if?ill ii aii LU1UV1J Pul Hoim An 11(1 VVJJ Will sell five dollai secure co] had. I ^ Af?T jewciij \ i piu ictb Still going on and li Cluster Ring, Brooch, | ware, now is the time t I the market ai As stated in previc ing on settlement and large and fine stock in * | Sales Dail) Valuable souvenir* sale a beautiful Dianjc jaic i u ua^t. Cooper Nes I ft Oi Eds klieViorl 1SQ' kJHUilVVi A vrV ? % ition On 30 I while thev " / 's per copy, py while it i ^ i Vsoui ai n Ur See I I i I ?? >oper' r Auction jm ifuwiai M auia Mwrn?gmaBB?? 1 you are contemplating a Lavalliere, Watch or an> o attend this great sale ojf ffords. >us announcements our ere we are using this means to cash regardless of the cc i at 4:00 and 8:3( > given away during each i >nd Lavalliere to be give m * Only A Few IV * i in s Jewelry ? :t Door to Exchange Bank. 4 .1J mm nited J Copies last at Better may be \ , ? / fl' , i. $ \ s i Sale fine Diamond 'thing in Silverthe finest meriditors are insistof <f turning our >st., ) P. M. >ale. At the last iway free. / lore Days ? tore