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j|!)e |jkalD unB jcm Catered at the Postoffica at New*^rry, S. C.? as 2nd class matter. E. H. AULL, EDITOR.. Fridnv. .Taniinrv (5. 1022 The suggestion is made that the legislature first fix the tax levy and then bring appropriations within the levy. That is a tine suggestion and the only way by which there will be any reduction. Then if the appropriation bill gets beyond the income from this levy another source of income will have to be prvided or some cut made in the appropriation bill. Just as sure as the appropriation bill is made up and then the levy is fixe.l there will be mighty little prospect of cutting down tiie levy. .-\nu uieic is no sense in holding the appropriation and supply bills to the end of the session. They should be the first measures acted upon by the legislature at the very 'beginning of the session. We have known the appropriation bill to be fixed up and changed in the very closing hours of the session when the great majority of the members had left for their homes. Mr. S. C. Dobbs, a millionaire banker and cotton exporter from Atlanta, was in Anderson the other d:.y and is quoted by the Anderson Tribune as follows: "*** A 1 ~ \J7' "We can not nopt? iu tu.uyc.v the middle West in the gor\vth cf corn; we can not expect to grow wheat for market in competition with the Dakotas, 'but we can beat them by growing cotton. We can grew cotton despite the boll weevil, the pir'; boll worm or any other entomological pest? and it will forever be the money crop of the Southland." The Herald and News has said this so many times that we are gted t~> have this endorsement of cur views from a big financier who came fro::1, the country and has made money ar 1 has studied the cotton 'business from all viewpoints. We can not in this favored land cf ours surrender to an insect, even i:i the face of the damage it did to th ? orrrt the nast vear. We must not ex v* vr * % pect to grow cotton to buy all tho food we need, but as for the money crop, it i? the only or.o we may depend on in this section, and nature has so fixed it. The same old story and the same old gospel that The Herald, and News has prcachod for th _? past thirty years and more, that th> only way to succeed in farming 111 thii country was to grow what you need for the farm on the farm and make cctton your surplus crop. COMING AROUND We are glad to see things moving around the right way. Many years ago The Herald and News took up the fight to have the old court house made into a sort of community house, and to use the two front rooms as rc:. and reception rooms for the men and the women, and the three back rooms turned into one room and made a public library. It would be ideal. We note with pleasure that the highway commission has agreed to let one of the rooms be used 'by the library association. It is coming around and sooner or later our entire platform for the use of this building will be adapted. When the question was submitted to the voters of the county on having the building torn down and taken"e:!' of the square The Herald a:u! News nit* iufa, >ciu \> c ?. small majority. Wo lock the po:l ticn then that it wis too gcou a house to be torn down, and could be used for too many good purposes, and that Newberry hi>;i in tnis building an ideal place tor a real con: r. unity house. Our plan then was to use the entire budding and the upstuhs for a public meeting place. Since the legion is using this for practically the same purpose, that is all right, because it carries out in a marked degree the very notion we had. Now the lower floor could be made iiif.-. o ! iiiol /'/lmmnriitv mvl ill IV ail 'lUVUi V Viititi w f << V v?>.-v v? rest places and library. And the basement could be fitted up with toilets ar.d bath rooms and shower baths where the tired traveler could rest and refresh himself, and if we had such a place a great many more of the tourists would take advantage of breaking the journey by a re.s: at this place, and then whut a fine place would >be for cur own pecple. It will all comc around, but it will take time. Ycu have to keep telling the pe.role even of the great advantages which they have right ai their own door ard within their own grasp, and finally they will see it themselves. The old couilhouse for an ideal community house and a public library. We have Ion? been a strong and persistent advocate of road building and of permanent road building, but the word permanent is only a re la I live term, because there is nothing i permanent in this world. We, as a [ member of the legislature several i years ago, introduced a bill to pro! vide for the bonding of the counties I for road building. Gov. Cooper w.is ' then also a member of the legisla! ture and our recollection is that he I was opposed t<> the bond issue. At ! any rate we got a verv small vote for I j tht* bill and the proposition died. It j was the first prposition for bonds that ' had ever been presented. We mention this only to emphasize the fact that we have been and are st:il an advocate of roads, and we believe that money put in roads is a good invest1 ment if you make arrangement to have them maintained after they are ' built. 1 But we are not in favor of the cei ment or the paved road, or whatever you call this road they are building out of Columbia tovvard Xtw?berry. In the first plate it is too expensive, fV?r> cncnnrl nl-jpp 'tVlP rnn d i % tOO ill ttiv. ^vvv?m* v..v - ~ narrcw, and with the reckless driving that is going on now there are going to be innumerable accidents. It would be a good idea to have signs ail along to advise hew far it is to the next hospital. In the next place the road will not last and the repairs of such a road will be too expensive, and in the next place we prefer the top soil road for driving, if it is properly maintained, and the interest on the difference in cost will give at ieast $100 per mile per month for maintenance, and almost any one would be willing to undertake the upkeep of the top soil road for half that amount. ]f we may be permitted we would like to suggest to the civic association and the chamber of commerce and the American legion that a fitting monument to the Newberry soldiers in the world war might properly take the shape of a pavilion to be erected in Rosemcnt, and one out of granite could be put up for $1500 or $2,000, and the names of the soldiers cculd be engraved on the interior Avails, i 1.1 uHU l?n*!S WUU1U kjK? IlUt Uiii^y a ji/v~c4L4hful memorial but it would se.ve a gocd purpose and be much better, it sums to us. than a morument on eitheir the court house lawn or the public square. Rosemonl certainly needs something that will start the people to making seme improvements and may be this would create a little civic piide in our people. The Greenwood Index-Journal has a very sensible short article on the 'ir.poitance cf cutting down expenses and economizing by the legislature, and among other things it says: "It i: easy to jump on sonic minor official and cut his small snlary and allow some other big: item of expense to run along unnoticed and unchecked. | "Economize but exercise 'business sense and judgment in doing so. Reduce the tax levy but do not fail to put some of the burden on the :acl*> of those not now bearing any pa:t of it." ] HOME FOR CHRISTMAS I did not get to carry out my pi:;n to spend Christmas eve at the c!d heme. It was Saturday and I felt that there would be many teachers and others who would cbsirc? tr> see me at the office, so I abandoned the idea of leaving Newberry on that afternoon. On Sunday morning the weather was threatening: and tcnie lain, but by noon the sun came out and I bundled up the three American hoys and their mother 4,r.d in our little car we made the trip, arriving in the eaily aftenoon. The distance is only twenty-seven miles and most cf the ' c'is fine. In fact all of it except tr three m.iec- from the river to Chappells. The folk were ail glad to .see us and jerking- for u=. Ar.d the best part of it all of them were well and he:.Ky ard :.ble to enioy the e.its. We had a quiet time :.nd talked the old times and the Christmas times of the long ago. And the people we used to know and that were neighbors when the Deoole all lived down at the eld / ?\)takir.? about icads, the Chap pel Is road is ore of the best in the county, and when the lit:!:* portion from Cr opells to the Saluda rive1.* is finished, as we all hope it will be soon, it will be only a shovt drive from Xev. bcrrv to Greenwood. The road on thp Greenwood side cf the river is fine, but the approach to the river bridge needs some atierticn. and it would net take more than thirty minutes to mak? the repairs that are reeded. Somehow I feel thu: ?ome one should iret after the railroad to look rftrr the wood work on the bridge that i'pars the river. The railing1 and the ether wcc.i part of this bridge has the appearance of being rotten, and a fail fr^m this bridge into the river ; would 'be a good and large fn!!. The approach on the Newberry side does rot have the best appearance, but as this is soon to be included in the highway that \\< all hupc will finished * I within the next ninety days, I guess i will las: that long. The contractor is now building tht concrete bridge over Bush river al Lindsay's, and if they get as good jol i i n 1 ?.;r il3 tile DHUge over Di'avcuiaiii it ?>n be worth while waiting a few weeks tc get it. 1 tj vvel a good bit and I an sure thai the bridge over Beaverdan on this road is not only one of the best that I have seen, but it is om of the prettiest, li is a beauty. Am i! is the kind of bridge that should bt built over all the streams where wc are pretending to build permanent roads. On Monday I had an appointment to meet the trustees of the Vaughnville school to take up the matter ol building. I asked my father if hi would like to tak" the trip with mc and he said he would. We drove ovci and had dinner with Mr. and Mrs. J 0. Johnson, and a good country dini ? ....i . w. ner it was, ana wc eiiju.vfu u. ?> <. met at Mr. Salter's sh;;p and deeidet on the location. I ar.ked tfce trustee: and patrons who were present not It decicb cn the building' until I ha< time to look into the matter a littk further. I would like to build a mod' ' el school out here, and the site is i 'beautiful one. and we could with tin cooperation of all the people put uj a real community house, and that what should he done, but without thr united support of all the people il will be useless to undertake it. ] have a plan that I would like tc build at seme good place in the eoun ty, and I hope we may be r.'jle tc do it right here in this fine section I am going back cn Tuesday and mit my plans and if the trustees ane people agree with me and are willing to cooperate we will build it, and ii we do it will be the ideal building ir the county, and can be made the model school. E. K. A. EDITOR WALLACE ILL rru? ? F 77J;f ^\\J T-T i lie many iiicnus ui j-uitui m . n Wallace of the Observer will be pained to learn that he is critically ill al the home of his brother in College street. He was in his office during the first cf the week apparently in his usual health and in fact locking better than usual. We all sincerely hope that he may soon 'be restored to hi; health and duties at his desk. i i When we come to talk cbout high taxes we should lok at the ^ood road', we nc.v have in the county and the more the schools are costing: and w: do net believe any ?oed citizen wouh have his taxes reduced if by the reduction we were to so back to the old loads that '.ve have naci in tr.2 county. It takes money to build reads and to run schools and the nly way the public has to raise it is toy taxation. bItter dead Life is a burden when the body is racked with pain. Everything mnmco tViA virtim hpmmR<J despondent and downhearted. Ta bring back the sunshine take GOLD MEDAL The national remedy of Holland for ov?p 200 years; it is an enemy of all pains resulting from kidney, liver and uric acid troubles. All druggists, three sizes. Look for the name Gold Medal on every bo* and accent no imitation i - . . ? 1 o abort a colcl j and prevent complications t?ike \ The purified and refined calomel tablets that are nausealess, safe and sure. Vest pocket size, 10c; large family package, 35c. Beware of imitai tions. i t[ POISON HOOCH TAKES BIG TOLL IN NEW YORK ' Innumerable Fights Feature Holiday 1 Celebration in Metropolis? > Death of 25 1 > New York, Jan. 2.?The holiday i death toll of bootleg liquor "was placed i,at more than a score today with the ) death of two men and a woman over ; New Year's day. I The deaths followed a celebration 1 , """ " ... ' that was impressive witn innumerable 1 fights in which kr.ives, pis-tols and : black-jacks were used. I J ist of the d id is expected to STC-.v as there are many patients in " hospitals suffering from liquor pois[ oninjr. _ j A well dressed, unidentified woman died in a subway station last r.iir'/it. Beside her body was an empty bottle hioelled '';rin." Physicians said acute aicoholinm caused her death. Edward K:iar.d::on was found dead . in his room i:i Brooklyn. Near his bed . was a hct'.ie partly tilled with a col } ored liquid winch is being analyzed. ( A m.tn who revived long enough . to tell police he was Otto Metzer, . was found unconscious by police. He L died in a hesnita!. Nine ivcn and five women were ) treated within three hours, at Belle< vue hospital for liquor poisoning. The total estimated death toll of - the holiday season, .beginning Christf mas eve, was estimated unofficially > today as 2.". *! Although there was no evidence in ' the har ds of prohibition forces that liquor was being fold in any of a hundied or mere jt-laces in the Broadwav I . district, there was no evidence either [ th::t r.n\ body's throat was severely patched. Many generous diners were, 1 in fact, too ..renerous with themselves ami l iotous crowds filled the subways a:u' taxis as the *un peeked over the river to welcome a new d:iy and a r.c.v year.- It was, in the opinion of cld-timers who have known Broadi.vay ever since long before the name of a prohoiti: n commissioner was lifted among .the Washington Who's Who, the wetrest year-end ever celebrated in New York. > Hoi Time in Memphis > Memphis:, Tenn., Jan. 2.?Two murders, half a dc:cen automobile accidents*, one rem! ting fatally, and an 1 epidemic of fires, ushered in the Now ' Year in Memphis. Jchn O'Connor, aged grocer, was > j shot dawn in front of his store by bandits. They were frightened away I -before they cculd rob the body. Hafctie Jones, negress, killed "Fun( ny Shir.e" Tr.ylcr, r.egrro, after he, in a holiday spirit, had fired five shts at her. . 1 j i t. Miss Mary Jacobs was killed when an automobile, said to have been speeding at 70 miles' an hour on a courtly pike, leaped from a 'bridge ever a gully, -i The car turned over several times in a 15-foot plunge. Three other occupants of the car were scrioux!y injured. John Curry, assistant fire chief, u:i., nerhans fatally injured when his automobile turned over while answering an alarm. Wm. Pcnn Masquerades Philadelphia, Jan. 2.<*-Kin<r Momus Ik 1.1 5way today in Philadelphia. At the head cf cr.e of the largest and most gorgeous mummers pagieants in the history of the city's unique New Year's spectacle, he marched between lines of cheering humanity banked on i i ! For Corns M. Vf ZL W V A V Little or i iJsj; ~ Use | 5'flns rwn Pain Instantly and Be* r moves Item Completely. : Whether your "pet "is on top or bet. ween I the toes, no matter how big or how small ! or how "tender" three drop^ of "Gets-It'' , : will lift you rijbt out of your misery. 'ihe Unly Way to *-ure a ?^orn ?.>-? , Remove It, wiih "Gcts-It" You will laugh to see how quickly your ; corn lots go its grip, how it curls right j up and dies so you can lift it off with your J fingers. It's folly and nonsense to pare ' and trim a corn trying to ease its pain j when "Gets-It" will easily rid you of it entirely. "Gets-It*'is sold at all drug stores and costs but a trifle. Your money back on re- i uuest. MM.by K LusvreneedOo.,Chicago ' I ? I I t I I COND I I i i I I ? ? ? Newb | From Report Showing condition ? j j Loans and Investmei * " -! I T-N 1 n TTT _ Liberty tioncts <si vvai U. S. Bonds i Cash and due from B i ! * I i i Capital Stock Surplus and Undivid Circulation I t Deposits Dividends Unpaid.... Bills Payable (secur< I Bills Payable and R< i i I i I i I i i B. C. Matthews, Pres T. K. Jot I J State, Cou Member i i both sides of Broad street from Porter street to Girard avenue. ,For several hours during the parade Broad street "was transformed into a fairway of fantasy, mimicry and music. I More than eleven thousand persons, iet?rescnting scores of New Year's j clubs, tcck part in the pageant and ! incidentally competed for $12,000 in j___ !. Bank No. 57. ) Statement of the Condition of : COMMERCIAL BANK | 1 Locatcd at Newberry, S. C., at the ' I close of business .December 31, i j 1921. ! I Resources. j Loans and d!:cour.t.s $ 79S,43i.ou : Overdrafts ,. 732.00 Bonds and stocks owned | by the bank 140,950.00 1 Other real estate j owned 27,250.00 i j Due from banks and I bankers 187,270.27 ' j Currency 35,448.00 1 Silver and other minor com o? j 4 i. i / Checks and cash items.. 5,591.94 Total $1,199,421.64 Liablities. | Capital stock paid in....$ 50,000.00 [Surplus fund 50,000.00' | Undivided profits, less ! current expenses and i taxes paid 62,337.56 ( ; Due to banks and bank!' ers 1,683.51; * * o nnr A A I Dividends unpaid 0,00 i.vv; Individual j| | deposits I su bj ect I to check ....282,242.21' Sa v i n g s ' J deposits ....688,637.10 ] Time cer| tifica t e s I of deposit 5,700.00 Cas hier's ; ( [ checks 5,154.26 981,733.57 j Bills payable, including certificates for money borrowed 50,000.00 Total $1,199,421.64 . State of South Carolina, County of Newberry, ss. j 1 Before me came J. Y. Mc-raii casn-js ier of the above named bank, who,. ( being duly sworn, says that the above and foregoing statement is a true i cond'tion of said bank, as shown by the books of said bank. J. Y. McFall. ! 2 Sworn to and subscribed before | me this 4th day of January, 1922. Floyd Bradley, Notary Public. ( Correst Attest: F. Z. Wilson, .Tnhri M. TCinard. Geo. W. Summer, i Directors. 184Ar ENSED STATI OF ia! Ronir nl Sill 1SU11I1 VI erry, South Ce io the Comptroller of at the close of busines RESOURCES. its r Saving Stamps Jinks and U.S. Treasurj * . LIABILITIES. ed Profits 2d by Liberty Bonds) ... ^discounts sident, mstone, Cashier. W. W. Cromer, Assnty and City Federal Res en prizes offered by the city and'othc thousands offered by business house There were fancy dressed clubs, th costumes of some of whose captai: were reported to have cost man times as much 'as amount of prize they might win; cc.nic' clubs, whos antics furnished the spectators wit much amusement; string i;>anus c great variety, and scores of floats d< pic ting events of historic as well a present day interest. Bank No. 256 Statement of the Condition of the FARMERS BANK Located at Chappells, S. C., at th close of business Dec. 31, 1921. RESOURCES L:vns and discounts 62,337.1 Overdrafts' 124.0 Bonds and stocks owned by the bank 2,400.0 Furniture and fixture.! .... 1,500.0 Banking house .> 2.000.0 Due from banks and bankers 12,713.4 Currency 2,707.0' GoM 217.: Silver and other minor coin 8^3.0 Checks and cash items 721.3 Total $85,-568.5: LIABILITIES stnrk naid in 15.000.01 Surplus fund 4,000.0 Jndivided profits, less current expenses and tuxes paid 3.543.41 Dividends unpaid 222.51 ndividual deposits subject to check 20,998.5' rime certificates of posit 31.463.6i Cashier's checks 1,340.4! Total $85,568.5.' STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Newberry. Before me came E. L. Cook, cash er of the above named bank, who )eing duly sworn, says that the abov< ind foregoing statement is a true con lition of said bank, as shown by th< )ooks of said bank. E. L. Cook, Cashier. Sworn to and subscribed before ne this 4th day of January, 1922. W. P. Allen, Magistrate Newberry County. Correct attest: W. A. Webb, ttt r\ tr?n VV . V. XlUIiV?ajr, Jno. B. Scurry, "Pireefors. lMENT Newberry irolina the Currency s December 31st, 1921 $1,461,704.31 i 188,333.13 100,000.00 r 108,908.89 $1,858,946.33 j $ 100,000.00 I 51,948.10 I 100,000.00. 1,045,258.19 4,032.00 ' 177,000.00 ; 380,703.04 I Si 8SS946.33 . ; t. Cashier. \ Depository j /e System 1 ir [ Thousands of persons went without ? s. sleep last night in order to obtain V le points of vantage along the line of. is march. Most of the mummers' or- M y ganizatior.s held dances beginning at ;s midnight and the motion picture >e houses provided entertainment for J h others. Clowns, jockeys, Cleopatras, 1 >f chimpanzees and assorted freaks, in ?- their costumes ready for the parade, is cavorted through the cafes and I jstreets of the downtown section ' throughout the night. Statement of the Condition of FARMERS AND MER- I CHANTS BANK I 1 2 Located at iLttle Mountain, S. C., at I g the close of business Dec. 31, 1921. ffl Resources. 0 Loans and discounts $130,573.6o 0 Overdrafts 129.08 ^ q Bonds and stocks owned 1 I by the'bank 4,250.00 I ; Furniture and fixtures.... 1,972.97 | 6 Banking house 1,700.14 0 Due trom banks and I 0 bar kers 2,580.15 Currency 4,252.00 I Gold 15.00 1 1 I Sliver and other minor j 5 coin 912.62 J Tctal $146,385.59 3 j Liabilities. 1 Capital Stock Paid In ....$ 20,000.00 9 Surplus Fund 10,000.00 0 Undivided profits, Jess j I current expenses and i taxes paid 4,140.11 | I Dividends Unpaid 33.60 3 Individual de3 j posits sub- j i j e c t t o j i! check $48,484.98 I Time certifi- * ! cates of de3 1 posit 29,280.34 A l!C a s h e ir's J checks 496.56 78,211.88 I Bills payable, including J ICtJll/lllCilLUB 1U1 iiiv/iivjr _ borrowed 34,000.00 J "| Total $146,385.59 I ' I State of South Carolina, 1 1! County of Newberry, ss. I - i Before me came W. A. Counts, fl ;; cashier of the above named bank, j who, being duly sworn, says that the above and foregoing statement is a S true condition of said bank, as J ^ shown by the bocks of said bank. W. A. Counts. | i Sworn to and subscribed before me this 4th day of January, 1922. j J. B. Lathan, Magistrate. Correct Attest: J. M. Sease, J. B. Derrick, J. K. Derrick, Directors.