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jilt JjerolD unD Jems. latira^ at tka Postoffic* at Nrw?w*y? s. C.? at 2nd class mattar. * H AIJLL. EDITOR. Friday, June 16, 1922. We publish an editorial from the Greenwood Index-Journal on Senator Laney, and it is very true in what it says of Laney, but he is not the only candidate for governor who has announced a platform, and the plat-C ? o 11 oKnnt fVid tVif* 1UI Ilid die au a wuu vuv Index^Journal says Lane's is: economy. But Blease announced his platform some while ago and 60 did Swearingen and Coleman, though we have not seen any platform from McLeod and Duncan. Geo. Laney is a fine fellow and has stood for reform and economy, and yet he has during nineteen years in the legislature seen the appropriation bill climb from less than a million dollars to more than six millions. And when a man can not keep th:s climbing as a member of the legislature it is going to be difficult for any of them to do the thing as governor. We were in the legislature with Laney and served on some committees with him and we know he is a fine fellow and a deserving fellow, and one who has made his own way in the world, and to know him is to be fond of him, if you are fond of an honest and a manly man. There is called a citizens meeting in the court house for Saturday morn!?<? ? + Irt fo Tioqt tVio nnnnal XXI ? a V XV V/ ViWU \t'* uvv?a. %?*w report of the trustees of the city schools. There should be a full attendance of the citizens at this meeting. It is an important meeting and deals with a very important subject. Mayor Cromer has raised the quota asked for Newberry for the Salvation army. We knew that it could be raised very easily. Any good cause meets a hearty response from the good people of Newberry. The state press association will meet next week at Myrtle Beach and we are going to make an effort to get off and attend. It has been a good while since we had the pleasure of a trip in the Pee Dee section of the 6tate and this trip give an opportunity for a trip across country as the plan is, as we understand to go ^ by way of auto from Marion. Sorry we can not attend the Con federate reunion in Kicfimond. we had our heart set o" going to this reunion, but the meeting of the press association is the same time and we can not be at both places. Two such big events should not conflict as to dates of meeting. The books of enrollment for the voters m tne approacmng primary election are now open. The names of. the, enrolment committee of each club and the place where the 'books of each club may be found are published in another column of this paper. Remember that all voters have to enrol this year the same as if they had never signed the club roll and that in order to vote your name must be on the club roll. Another thing we hope to see in Newberry county is that every voter will sign his or her name without making a mark. We are judged -as to our illiteracy on this test to a very large extent. And when the books close we hope there will not be a name on them with a mark. And remember also that the books close the last Tuesday > July and after that date if your name is not on the club roll you will not be allowed to vote. <$> <i> $> AMONG THE SCHOOLS <S> <&> <S> I went to Columbia on Tuesday to have a talk with the folk in the state department of education about several matters. Mr. B. B. Leitzscy went along to attend to some business he had down that side and for company. I was pleased to have him. The road is now open all the way and the cement part is finished from Ballentine to Columbia and the force has just started work on laying cement from Ballentine to Hilton, and this should not take so long for there is now a fine road along here, and I can not help the feeling that it is a sin to tear up this fine dirt road and spend so much money and labor in putting down a cement road, when there are so many places that have no roads at all. But it is going to 'be done and I am going to be satisfied that it is to be done. Mr. Swearingen had just finished sending out the checks for the equal izing money and he said that all he : had been doing lately was to scale. ; He asked for $420,000 for this fund ' i and the legislature gave him $370,000 !1 j and of course there had to be scalinsr, < and he told me that he had been able i to pay only 77 per cent of the < amount approved in each of the < equalizing districts in the state. This ! means that all of them will be short < to run seven months, unless money isM : made up from some other source. He will also have to scale the appropriation for guaranteeing pay in the ele- ] mentary department of high schools. 1 - , x, , That affects two scnoois m rsiewDerry, 11 Little Mountain and Pomaria. It is a !1 bad state of affairs. I take the posi-.A tion that the legislature should do'< one of two things, either repeal the i law guaranteeing these terms or fur- 1 nish the money to carry out the i guarantee, and unless something is * done by the county or the state it is ( going to injure some of the best t schools in this county. As soon as i the county treasurer can give me the ( ammint, nf the local income for these i districts I am going1 to ask the trus- ] tees to meet me and let us discuss and t make some arrangement to run the 1 school for another year, and also to t take care of the expense for the year( 1 just closed. I do not see how I can t pay any more claims until I ind out just where we are at. I do not see any way out except for the county to provide a county board fund and per- > mit the county board to take care of ^ these weak schools, and really from ? a selfish standpoint if the county * could only get what it pays to the * state for these various state aid funds i we would be in fine shape, but that > would be a selfish view to take of the c matter. And another thing to which c I have frequently referred is that the 5 districts in this county which are below the minimum in area will have to join with some others or there will not be state aid, because I do not believe the legislature is going on appropriating money to so many small districts when there could foe consolidation to the great interest of the children and the community, and schools could be maintained at so much less cost. In other words we are not getting enough education for our money, a great numoer 01 tne ens- 1 tricts in this county are below the 1 minimum fixed by the constitution, j * i1 i This matter could have been much t more intelligently handled if the leg- 3 islature had permitted or authorized 1 the survey of the county which I sug- ( gested, and that is the only way I see 1 by which it can be done at all satis- ( j factorily or intelligently. I The following are the amounts for * the districts in this county qualifying ^ under the equalizing law. It will be insufficient in each district even if all the ?ax is paid to prevent the district from overdrawing if it pays the teachers and if the term had been shortened the results would have been the same. ': XT I P m. J ncwoerry vuuniy Name of Dist. No. of Dist. Amt. * St Lukes 13 $1,055.00 s O'Neal I 16 601.00 Monticello 17 180.00 1 Fairview 18 232.00 St. Phillips 22 1,131.00' Rutherford 23 63.00 Red Knoll 27 19.00 Wheeland 31 538.00 Jolly Street 33 1,061.00 ( Reederville 42 205.00 6 Trinity 45 485.00 c Silverstreet 58 316.00 ^ i * $5,886.00 c j Mr. Swearingen approved the plan ^ of a one teacher building I am going * to build at Central. I do not care to 1 encourage the building of'one teach- * er school house but there are some * places in which it seems > the best 1 thing to do and Central comes under 1 that list. We will not undertake to 5 teach any high school grades at this 5 school and will insist that all the children ready for high school go either to Litle Mountain or Pomaria. The trustees I hope will soon get busy and put up this building. i i2 There is to be an educational rallly ^ at Trinitv Met.hndist. rrmrrh on Run day afternoon at 3:30 o'lock June 25. The pastor, the Rev. G. F. Clarkson, 1 has kindly consented to let those in- \ terested in the development of the education of the children devote . this hour to a discussion of the sub- j ject and it also has the approval of Dr. W. D. Senn the superintendent of ^ the Sunday school. There are some 3 important and vital questions I would like to have the people of this ccm, munity know and think about, and ^ the only way to reach them is to talk ' to them on the Sunday preaching day, ,i and the growth of the church depends 1 I very largely upon the growth of the ^ school. President Derrick of New- j i berry college has agreed .i <;o out. with me and make an address and I 1 will try to talk to the peoole about 1 ^local conditions and I :iope every one < interested in the school whether he orf she is a Methodist or not will be pre-j sent at this time. I may have some i one else also to make a short ad-1 iress. This is a very important meeting and I thank the pastor and the ; jfficert? of the church in ' ehalf of the '; children for this opportunity of pre-j senting to the people the vital inter ssts of the school in the community, ji }f the school in the community. j t Thursday afteroon at six o'clock^ [ am going out to Long Lane to talk ' to the people about improving condi- 3 ;ions in this community and to see if j i kve can not agree on a plan by which ve can have a better school and more 1 education for the money we are pay-.' ng. The meeting i6 to be held at the, < lome of Mr. Felker on the highway md I trust all the people will attend ^ ind let us talk together and see what s :an be done and that the main idea in ' l~ ~ /%-T oil + iirill VkO wVlJlt 1 /I1C minus ui an ui infill ?* iix wv s best for all the children of this < community and then let us all go to-, i jether as one man to do that thing.'? ! would be pleased to see many of l ;he good women present. They are I 11 eally more intrested sometimes tnan^J he men and it is their duty now to | < ;ake an activq part in all these mat- 1 ;ers. j < E. H. A. j * I ^ On Wednesday by appointment I < vent with Highway Chairman Geo. ' Boulware and Engineer J. C. 1 Smith to the New Hope-Zion district ,o drire over the road from Bethle-p lem church out to the Broad river < "oad, and scout out the road so that ' ve may go ahead and locate the < :onsolidated 6chool house for this 1 listrict. Along the way we stopped 1 tnd picked up Mr. Holland, Ruff the 1 :ommissioner for No. 11 township. 1 iVe were a little off schedule in start- ?' ng from Newberry and by the time J ve reached Mr. G. S. Long's who was i ;o go with us it was getting around 1 [1:30. Mr. Long said it was about * he dinner hour for the farmer who 1 ose around 4 o'clock and insisted 1 ;hat we eat with him. I am one of < ,hcse farmers who rise around I I and 5 o'clock this season of the i rear, and the suggestion met a rather i Acrvrtnenrn ri A!A in m\7 oar f^T\ A T 5 goyuuox iivi't lit J V^UA J MUU igreed that it would be a good thing ^ ,o do. We had a most excellent din-' ler just such as you get in the couh-. ;ry round about Newberry, beans and ' >ish potatoes, ham and sausage and, 3each pie and all the good things you' ;an think of, and of course we felt riuch better for /the drive across i ? country. ' 11 :i The Pomaria highway is fine down 1 ;o where it has been finished, but i :rom there on it is !bad, but as the, i jvork is to beg-in on this end very i ;oon it would be useless to put any 1 vork on it now. Mr. Boulware said j ;hat Contractor Newell said he 1 vould have a builder on the road in < ;he next few days. From Bethlehem 1 .1 1. A ^ 1.1 T> J rnuren on over 10 tne croaa nver *oad is a fine section of country and i good road is badly needed through 1 lere. The road will go in by Zion < school and Mr. M. Hayne Folk's and ] >y the Lutheran parsonage and New i Sope Methodist church and across 1 Seller's creek out into the Broad riv- 1 >r road. A good bridge has been i vnilf 5>r?rnsc TTollo-r'c ^roolr V?n + wVion 1 ;he road is straightened and relocat- 1 ;d I believe that a couple miles in 1 listance will be saved. It is some 1 tight miles from one road to the >ther. My ^interest in going down ' i vith Mr. Boulware and Mr. Smith ? md Mr.,Ruff was to get the road lo- < rated so that the good patrons of 1 'Jew Hope-Zion school district might < ocate the new school house that is 1 :o be built in here. I have decided n my own mind where the new school louse should be, and I have selected 1 \ 7 ;he land, but I can not tell because^ ;he selection is up to the trustees t1 ind the folk down there, but I am : ! . ~ J ii-4. i-i- - mi - - i-i- _ jdwsneu tuai, uiey wiu select tne same place. 1 ! 1 When this road is built and the i lew school house is erected it, or ;hey, and 'both, will mean a great ] jeal for this entire community and ill the people will wonder why these ;hings were not done long ago. I want every one in this whole com- i bined district to get together and let i js build a real school out here, not )nly a good house but a good school, j Engineer J. C. Smith promises me :o make the permanent survey with-! in the next ten days. I hope he will, nave the cooperation of all the peo-| pie. And let me say this, when he makes the survey there may be some j ivho may think that he is wrong but when the road is buillt according to :he survey you will wonder why you iid not see it before, because you . will find out that it is better to take'; the advice of some one who knows low to build roads. Returning we came down the Broad river road over the upper fill and up \ the Hugheys ferry road. Part of that J < :>ld Broad river road is a fine road . h and I do not suppose it has had any' work worth while in many years, but I have been told that away back yonder Mr. W. A. Hentz who lived onj the road undertook the job of working it and he put on some good top soil and it is there to this day, and so far as he worked it the road is good today. It needs to be widened and some of the kinks taken out and in some piaces a nxue grauui? help. The Hughey's ferry road is an' important road for this entire section, and it 6hould be surveyed andj relocated in some places. There are j some fine homes down this way and this road is their direct route to Newberry and to Pomaria, and they strike the highway at Bethlehem church. They need a better road to reach the highway. On the top of Lemon hill iust this side the hand-| some country place of Mr. Geo.! Bundrick is a lone grave enclosed by i wood fence now partly falling down. Lemon hill I am told gets the name from a man of that name who ance lived there or very near. This j lone grave has a head stone and en- [ ?rav?d on it is the name of Hulda ( Elinson the wife of J. R. Hinsori. She lied in 1844 at the age of 20 years,1 the engraving say^ 1 wonder if any :>ne can tell me who J. R. Hinson was md wkat became of him, and who j was Hulda Hinson :before she be-' lame the wife of J. R. Hin6on. There j were some,Hinsons who lived near ECinards a good many years ago, if [ am not mistaken, but so far as my, information goes the name Hinson joes not belong to the Broad river section. The building of a couple ;ross roads in this section will work' wonders in developing schools and lelping churches and in building lomes, and these tilings go a long way in the general development of my country. And the only way to t save the civilization of this country ( s to develop and build up rural communities. And the big factors in' ;his development ar*i the building of "oads and schools and churches. People are not goir:g to remain in j :ominunities where there are not. jood schools and churches and no j lew folk are going in. I am count-j ng on Engineer Smith having this, survey made within the next two ;veeks. ' ' n. A. | K BIT OF INTERESTING PERSONAL REMINISCENCE . I take the liberty of printing the following letter from Mr. James Henry Rice, Jr., as in,my opinion, apart from its personal reference, it- con;ains a bit of interesting personal reminiscence and brings out strik-' ?*? ? ~ ^ /?ac 4-Viof o ro ng-lV in t: grcai cuangco wimv ?... ng place all the time, and which, :hose of us who happen to live at the ;ame place, do not notice as one who 1)2s moved away and stops long enough in the mad rush of this age to j ;ake thought of the past. The recollections fo Mr. Rice bring; to my mind the fact that wh^n you :ome to think of the past, even so recent a past as the time when Mr. J I". L. Aull moved to the place where le now lives, there is not a family iving there now that lived there forty years ago. Just a half mile up the road at that time lived Dr. 1 Lovick P. Hill and after him Mr. W.' H. Boulware. And a little further on lived Mr. Frank Cooper and Mr. Milt' Watson and Mr. Press Brooks. And, in the other direction toward Ninety-. Six lived Mr. William Haltiwanger.. j md William and Nick Burkhalter and; the Foys, and after the Burkhalters :ame Dr. H. N. Sloan. And down toward the Newberry line lived the] Dysons, Mh Jeff Burnett and the i Proctors and the Colemans, and at { present not even a descendant of any, of these good old families is left, except a granddaughter of Mr. Jeff Dyson, Mrs. Henry Williamson. Near, Mr. William Haltiwanger's stood the, Baptist church known as Sister, Springs, at which the Rev. Jonas Coleman ministered and preached in the good and forceful old style of; preaching. Not a vestige 01 tne cnurcn is left, and the beautiful oak grove^ which surrounded the church has fall- j en 'before the axe of progress, I reck-' on you would call it progress in this day, i)ut I would rather term it al-. most the desecration of the sacred ( place. The spring with its cooling waters which flow from under the! everlasting hills i6 all that is left to( remind you of the other days. The! old school house that was built large- j ly by Mr. J. L. Aull and Mr. William j Haltiwanger and Mr. Adam Hipp.) who, by the way, lived not far away. { has been moved. Mr. Hipp and his: family have all passed away or moved, out. This school was taught firrf and for two years by Mr. Geo. D. Hal- j tiwanger and one of the best teachers who ever went in a school room. Not one of forty or more boys and girls who went to school to Mr. Haltiwanger at that time, so far as I can recall, now lives in the neighborhood. John C. Hipp who lives in Newberry was one of the pupils at this school at the time Mr. Haltiwanger taught it. On the other road about three miles away lived the Kings and Mr. J. Hampden Brooks. They too are all T iMiIinv/i A.T r* T.midnn j?une, cAtcpi. x ucncit iui. .. Brooks, a son of Capt. Brooks as I knew him, a title won in the war of sixties, by the way, lives at tfcie old Brooks homestead and is succeeding as a farmer. Somehow, as Mr. Rice says, the people seemed to be more neighborly then than they are now, and were not in such a hurry and life seemed worth while. It may be, Mr. Rice, that we were younger then, and the viewpoint was different, but I am not so sure of that, except that I know we were really younger. It has been forty and more years since those days and many changes have taken place, not only in that community but in everything that pertains to life. About that time the late Miles B. McSweeney, at one time poverror of South Carolina, published a newspaper at Ninety Six called the Ninety Six Guardian, and Gen. M. L. Bonham, row a prominent lawyer at Anderson, opened a law office at Ninety Six. and I think' was a partner of Col. James H. Rice, the father of Mr. James Henry Rice, Jr., a-id Mr. Bonham was also editor of the Guardian. He organized a fine military company at Ninety Six. And, by the wav, the first article I ever wrote for a newspaper was for the Ninety Six Guardian. I was the country correspondent from my neighborhood. When the new county of Hampton was formed Mr. McSweeney moved his paper to Hampton and grew up with the new county and the paper is still published by his son Eugene B. McSweeney as the Hampton County Guardian. A few years later, when I had finished college, I located at Ninety Six to engage in the business of selling farm machinery, but after a residence of about three months gave it up and went to Abbeville to teach school at $35 per month. We bought a lot and built a hous6 on it. The lot was diagonally across the railroad from from the depot and the house stood there until a few years ago, but I noticed recently that it had been torn n hriflc hniisp nut un in stead. But I intended only to write a brief introduction to the personal letter of Mr. Rice, and here I have written a story aboutj as long as the letter. It is all very interesting to me, and if'not to some of the readers the story and Mr. Rice's letter will make a good "filler." E. H. A. Mr. Rice's Letter J Wiggins, s. u. May 13, 1922. My Dear Elbert: The invitation to the sixty-sixth anniversary of your parents' wedding has reached me. My greeting to them both, and nAnnrMtnlotiftn r?n tViirs lrmc and hon vuiigiai-uiBuw.. w.. 0 --? orable record.' Few among the children of men live to celebrate such an event; and still fewer are surrounded with so many of life's blessings. I am forcibly reminded of Lord Robert Lytton's verse: I "All ye who roam abroad, what seek ye there? Change? But in search of change what need to roam? Change comes to all and comes unsought; Then why not stay at home?" He points out further that the soft succession of the years and seasons hides their harsh effect. All which is beautifully exemplified in the lives of your father an^ mother. If it has been a long road, it has been a pleasant one, shut off from much that the wayfarer must face and undergo. What a flood of memories rushes back when I think of the old days when I first knew them. It. must have been nearly forty years since I saw either of your parents, and yet they are distinctly in my mind at this hour. They are almost the only survivors of the old community. I can not now recall a single one that I used to know outside of them. ; Ninety-Six, Dyson, Cow Grove, Half-Way Swamp, Sister Springs all signify far different things than what they did forty years ago. When one tries to recall people, he meets up with vacant places. Nearly all of the people sleep their long sleep in the churchyards. The old up-country, with its splendid manhood, its neighborliness, its hospitality has passed away. These things doubtless exist among certain people; but they are no longer practiced by entire communities as they were then. Such was the feeding at a free barbecue of over ten thousand [?? ~ "??? I College Boys These college boys way through school I tions to the S. PICTORIAL : The boys who will a ! n u u n , \y. xx. jLXLiiiLCi., vjrcwi" J. Pound, Georgia I ; J. Henderson, Georg H. Oertling, Georgia H. F. Roye-Educ I Pictorial Revii Can be bought at our see them. We heartil; boys and wish them su I Philij ! CHAIN S Saves and Ser I f As members of the Natic ciation, we can give the moto: low cost! Before taking on these ti several cut down, torn apart abused. They were fourn through. They are strictly fii Association will handle nothii How are tfcese prices for < casings? .Size F i 30x3 $ 30x3 1-2 $ 32x4 $1 33x4 ' $1 Adjustment made on a ba rics and 10,000 miles for cord j VULCANIZING All work gu ^ i / ; Genuinet*or<3 pai Service station for Good HILL B 1506 Main St. i _. .1 people at the Star Fort by the citi- nj zens of Ninety-Six, a town of 600 J people! This was in June, 1878, e\ forty-four years ago, and you may j it have been there that day. oj ! The first time I recall seeing your10^ father and mother was in 1874 (I P' think"). There was a tournament at; Capt. J. N. Lipscomb's plantation ov-iei er the river, and my father dr^ve j sa . down there from Ninety Six, taking oi 'me with him. We stopped at your: father's house for a drink of water th land had some chat with him. This:in ; i wa5 forty-eight years ago and recol-;ej , lection would not do to rely on too w 'strongly; but I have a fixed impres-|aj .sion of that event and am sure it can' y( j not be wrong. gi The tournament I recall distinctly, ! for John Scurry ^>ok the first prize ^ j and "Buffalo Bill" showed up strong # in his variegated costume. One of Capt. Jim Lipscomib's daughters was' al crowned queen. i eJ ! Both Dr. T. S. Blake and Capt. J. | Hampden Brooks have told me that people were constantly moving out C of the community in their time; and the process has gone steadily on. I Fnr pxamDle. we moved to Locust M Grove from Riverlands in 1871 into! a house built my Major William Ed- j , ings, of Edisto island, 1810, and: which was sold later to Mr. James l W. Richardson, who lived there be-! y( i fore we did. Afterward it passed o: j to a.daughter of the late Dr. John A. I m , Calhoun, in whose children it vests b today. j This is a sarriple of what changes jv j took place. 1 a: ! It is all the more remarkable,: ie therefore, that your parents should S remain so long on the same place, rr when the entire community around d them has suffered absolute change, j cl You may be assured that it would w be a great pleasure to attend this an-; P | niversary reunion, also that nothing tl would prevent my doing i30, but in- si ( exorable business demands, which re- o: quire my presence here. . IS I would like to meet your father | s< and your mother again. A reminder B j comes now and then from that youth, ti , Arthur Timmerman, who flits in and st out down here. The last time I didjH * i in Newberry are earning their >y taking subscripREVIEW ill on you are: gia University. Iniversity. in Tpch. i Tech. :ational Division. bw Patterns counter. Come and Y recommend these ccess. 5 Daitch ; r YSTEM ires Motorists1 >nal Chain Dealers Assorists a tire of quality at a ires, the Association had , wheel tested, used and r j- j. j i quality tnrougn ana st in every resepct as the lg. but tires of quality. extra-ply and guaranteed ibric Cord f.75 9.95 $10.85 <$.50 $21.75 6.40 ' $22.50 ; 511s of 6,000 miles for fabs . ' , ' ?; i ' ... x , : # r A SPECIALTY f aranteed j "ts and service year and Hood tires iROS. Phone 405 . I 'I art get a sight of him. In this unsatisfactory world, where rerything has become topsy-turvy, does a man's heart good to reflect i such a spectacle as the celebration the sixty-sixth anniversary of iiapK wedded life. Many a millionaire would part ieerfully with his millions for the ttisfaction afforded by such a recfd. In behalf of the up-country, which ley have honored with their lives; behalf of a state which needs their cample; in behalf of the human race hich is half-crazy with wild notions id wilder living; and in behalf of >u and the rest of their children and andchildren: , I salute' Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Luther ull, and pray for God's blessing on te,:r lives unto the end. Thanking you for the invitation rid regretting that I can not be presit in person as I am in spirit, I am, Faithfully yours, James Henry Rice, Jr. olonel E. H. Aull, Newberry, S. C. , (ISS AILEEN SANDERS MEMBER OF THEATER ORCHESTRA The following is a clipping from a ittle Bluff, Ark., paper and the oung lady referred to is a daughter f Mrs. W. B. Sanders, who was forlerly Miss Aileen Broaddus of Newerry: ( * Miss Aileen Sanders, daughter of [r. and Mrs. W. B. Sanders, Tenth nd Laurel, talented saxophone soloit, is playing in the Oliver theater, outh Bend, Ind., as a member of a lusical trio, composed of Miss Saners and two other girls. At the conlusion of this engagement, which ill be ?oon, Miss Sanders will go to aris, 111., -for a short visit. From . lere she will ,go to Chicago where le is under cant" .ct to play in the rchestra of ?, large playhouse. Miss anders studied music in Chicago for )me time before taking up the South end engagement. Her mother is a ilented saxophone player and inducted Miss Sanders in the art from lildhood. ?