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NUMBER 8.
CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1819
VOLUME XXXI.
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BONDS FOR GOOD ROADS
TO BE VOTED UPON SOON
v (^,,11.. itl''1' '">?? Chamber of
A- uiot with tbc_Couuiy Board
,/ Jwnwiwlonewi <?? 1#* Monday for
1 purpose of petitioning them to order
a ?l?U>u at Homo early date on the
* ^>u yf iasuiug bonds to raise m<^y
to match the Federal appropriation for
1 riwul work iu' tW* county. After
di^iw#lo<f tl^e question the boerd de
idad to order m election in DeKalb
tuWiw?Wp within the'uest few week*.
It is now squarely up t? the voters
of thin township a* to Wbetfaer or not
they want (rood roads. The Chamber
of ttwnneree has dou* Ha part, the
0<**Bfe?ioner* bave dope to ***
tbla money and tt the people will avail
thwu6w3vea of the opportunity to go to
the poll? on dection day and Vote tor
Q^od Roads we will have than within
I very short time.
The enact date of the election has not
been announced yet, but we understand
tint ft wtll be the finat Tuesday In
June. The amount of the bonds will
be $60,000 and further announcement
wiU be made later on as to the handling
o t this fund, and more details of the
pttiposition given out ao that there will
:be no mSeunderatamdtof among the
totem. <>nly qualified electors, those
voters holding regtotwrttan certificates
will be ul lowed to vote, in this election.
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SELLING BEEF CATTLE
Seven Cars of Steers Shipped to Northern
Markets By Kershaw Farmers.
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Mr. It. Lee So<w<fll, oue of the larg
er fannicr.H 0pt the Buffalo section of
the wuuty, whipped two oar loads of
Hereford and short horn steers to Tor
?y City last week. The animal av^
eragvd 11157 pounds each, and sold for
16 cents per pound, making a totfti of
18.004.28 received for the forty four
hpad, Dr. Walter SoTrell Wfcnt with
*be cattle ami looked eflter the sale.
The steers were bought in Tennessee
Itst year and were fattened on -Aft,
Sow oil's plaoe, Beside? realizing a. hau<l
seme profit on the auinVffls Mr. l^oweli
estimates that 'he has realized n round
$,500 in manure/ from the keeping of
the cattle oii his farm.
Mr. F. M. Woo?ten, of the Consoler
d*ted Farms Co., also soW' sixty-three
bead of the same breed of steers to
Jlelatero & Sons, of Richmond, Va., last
reek. These animals werS Sold ?t his
farm and shipped to . Richmond, the
Richmond firm lending a man , here to
look after the sale andi shipping; Mr.
Wooten's nteers average ? 1226 pounds
?eh and the1, price paid was 15^35 per
pound, the entire lot bringing $11,225.97.
Like Mr. Sow ell he' will derive about
$4,000 worth of fine fertilizer from these
steers. k
We learn that sev.e?al other Kershaw
county farmers 'will - fatten steers lor
nurkot this faH, among them being Mr.
W. H. Kirkbride, of Falryiew Farms,
*ho will hare fifty head^.Dr S. F.
Brasiugtou will also purchase fifty head;
B. D. ? Boyktf \fifty . ?<&d ;MMr. Woo ten
purdhia# another , hundred head;
while Mr. Sowell will ^save two hundred
fo?d this winter* v * >
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Gets Trip To Florida. ?
Mr. I,. Shaw, represent nt i vc of the
Ntw York Life Insurance Company has
tan notified <thait he been awarded ft
trip wit!) all expenses paid to the
lwtic Reach, near Jacksonville# to ft
meetinjc of agents at that place on May
9 an<l io, Mr, Shnw was OJie ,0 ? twelve
*Kents in South- Carolina who produced
$7,000 worth of business in a period
from January 20 to March 31.
City Politics Early.
Although the primary for the nomi
nation of a mayor and aldennen for
C?mden is nearly a year off? city politios
started early. Mr. L. A. Kirkland
?nominees that he will be in the race
for mayor. Mr. Kirkland is the Junior
member of the law firm of Kirkland
an?1 Kirkland. Dr. S. F. Brasinfton
*'ho will have completed three terms
?* mayor sayg that he will not again
??cr for the office.
Ml Garages To Open Sttnday. .
Aoo?rding to an order from City fcoun
^ ?t its meeting >a*t Tuesday evening
garage* bare be?n at^fied that they
^ >11 remain open on Sunday in order
10 oils and gasoline and do emer
**>*7 repair work if <they so desire,
the gaslena Sundays into
oounefj bad as order laaned that
^dy one garage ootid remain open on
^day. Thie arrangement proved rery
'?^renient for trave&ttg people as well
M the citizens who orwned cars and it
?x>w be possible to obtain oils and
r5 ?* any of the garages on Sunday
J th'y derfre to naiin opfn.
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STRIKING EXAMPLE OF WHAT ROAD IMPROVEMENT
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HAS DONE FOR THE YUMA VALLEY IN ARIZONA
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Highway Improvement No Longer Considered a Luxury But Affect, the Rural Life of a Community and Mak??
For Prosperity??Caus?s Increase in Value of Farm Lands^-Trucks Do The Hauling Where Formerly
iJjM^ami Had to Be Used ? Article Below Contributed to "Good Roads," a Weekly Mag
azine Devoted to ffoads and Street Paving.
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The good roads movement has swept the country
from coast to coast and from border .to border, and
the idea formerly held by the farmer and the public
that highway improvement was a luxury is a thing of
the past. Farmers, recognizing the fact that they get
more money from the soil because of good roads, are
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generally the champions and prime movers in a "good
roads movement."
At one time the citizens of the Yuma Valley ? known
as the "American Nile. Valley" ? did not realize the
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theaters, and a large cotton gin, while the farms, with
irrigation and good roads, have developed to a remark
able extent. The former desert is now a fertile agri
cultural section, producing large crops of long staple
cotton, which sell at 80 cents per pound, and alfalfa
which sells for $25 a ton. Everybody is prosperous,
and the county is meeting war requirements by a vast
increase in agricultural products. *?This year the val
ley will export about 11,000 bales of cotton and an
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FfvevDrtn Truck and Tnailet^Carrying 12 Tons of Cotton From
Somerton to the Railroad Station at Yuma OVer the
^Improved Road.
A \ uw ,?n Mm u St., Homcrtou, Arisen a ? A Village Built
Hp Since the Construction of the Improved Road
To Yuana in 1015. "
V'lKWS SHOWING THE RESULTS OF ROAD IMPROVEMKNT IN THE YUMA VALLEY.
economic savings obtainable through such an enter
prise. Today 90 per cent of the' farmers and ranchers
in that section would welcome an dpportunity to sign
petitions for more roads. An ambitious town or city
qr county eventually realizes the commercial advan
tage^ of a good highway system, and Yuma County,
believing in its own future, advocated a road through
tlte center of the famous Yuma Valley. In the fall
of 1915, a half-million dollar bond issue, previously
voted by the people, was sold at a good price and the
work of surveying and grading was commenced. Later
a 2-in?h Warrenite surface was put down on a 4-inch
other season may see a crop nearly three times as
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This increased yield is very largely due to the im
proved road, for when the farmer realizes that he can
move his crops to the market at any season, in a very
short ;time, he is willing to double his efforts.. He
realizes that his farm has increased very greatly in
value and that it now will bring him a handsome profit,
even though it would previously furnish him only a.
mere living.
The improved road now carries a heavy traffic, ap
lllftpximately 90 per cent, of the freight hauled: into and
Before Improvement
After Improvement
, . 1 1 ' ?nVT) HETWKEX YUMA AND HOM EHTON. ARIZONA, BEFORE AND AFTER TIIE CONSTRUCTION OF A WARRBNITB
ui!ja w PAVKMENT IN 1015,
crushed stone foundation on a 17^mile highway through
the valley, connecting the City of Yuma and the town
of Somerton. The work was done by the O. & C. Con
struction Co. of Yuma.
The county now furnishes an excellent sample of
the immediate benefits of road betterment. Previous
to 1915, the farms were practically undeveloped; a
year ago Somerton contained only Qbout a half dozep
houses/ Today Somerton is a thriving business center,
with two banks, a hotel, a club house, moving picture
out of the district passing oyer it. In addition, it car
ries a considerable pleasure traffic. The road nearly
parallels the railroad at-a distance of about a mile and
carries practically all ofthe short-haul traffic, tile rail
, road being taxed to its capacity in caring for long-haul
, freight. Motor trucks and trailers run on regular |
schedules, hauling freight between Yuma and Somer
- ton at $1.50 per ton, a rate at which the railroad could
not compete, even if it were able to handle the busi
ness in addition to its long-haul freight.
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GRAZING land AND IRRIGATION CANAL IN THE YUMA VALLEY? LAND DEVELOPED BY GOOD ROj
PEACE TREATY HANDED
j TO GERMANS WEDNESDAY
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N??w York, N. Y., May 7.? The treaty
off peace, submitted to the QmMIB dele
gates at Venia^les today by tho rep
reseutativw* of the associated powers,
ivdm-os Gormany to miHtary impotence,
deprives her of her colonies, restores ?
Abac* and Lorraine to Fmuce, and pro
Vide* (W reparation to the nation* in
jured by the war.
Thi? waa itfade known in an official
auwonary of tbe treaty, ouixlod from the
American peace commission to the com
mittee on public Information in New
York. Ait the game time official an
nouncement was made that President
W1hM)u had pledged himself to propose
to the Sen arte an agreement that the" :
United iu ix>u juuutiou with Great
Britain, would go to the assistance of
France In catoe . ' o*f unprovoked attack
by Germany. The announcement o t this
proposed agreement was made in a state*
meat supplementing the official summary
ot the peace treaty, Which reads:
"I<n addition to the securities afforded
in the treaty of pence, the President of
tbe Ifaited States has pledged himself
to propose to the Senate of the tJnited
States, and the prkne minister ol Great
Britain has pledged hhnaelf to propose
to the Parliament of Great Britain, an
engagement, subject to the approval of
the council of the league of nations, to
come immediately to ()he assistance of
France in case of unprovoked attack
by Germany."
Main Points In Treaty.
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? The ma hi points in the peace treaty -
follow :
Alsace and Lorraine ppo to France.
AM the bridges over tfhe Ithine ou thrir
borders are to bo in French oon-trol.
The jK>rt^o? XXanSig is permanently
iiiternaMvtf^ijjefl and most of upper.
Silesia Reeded to Poland, Whose Inde
pendence Germany (ra<*>gpises. Poldiid
al?o receives the province of Possen and
that portflon of the province of Wcet
Prussia west of the .Vistula.
The Saar coal ban dn i? temporarily In- '
terivationalized. The coal mi nop go to
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Germany recognizes the total Independ
ence of German-Auatrp and Czechoslo
vakia.
Germany's* colonics are taken from
her by the clause Id which she renounces v|
all her territorial and political rights out
side Europe. The league of nations will
work out tho mandatory system for gov
erning these cololrfes.
Belgium is conditionally given the
Mahnedy and Eupen dint pints of Prus
sia bordering on Belgium, with the op- .
port unity to be given the inhabitants
to protest. The league of nations has
the final decision.
Jjuxemiburg is 'set free from the Ger
nmn customs union.
All concessions and territory in China .
must be renounced Shantung is ceded
to Japan. Germany reaognizes the
French in Morocco and the British pro
tectorate over Egypt.
German trooip* and authorities must
evaoualte Schleswlffdlolstein ' north of
the Kiel canal within iten days after ;
peace. A commission ' wfll' be appointed
to .supervise a vote of self-determination
in the f^rrftory, and the districts wish- ^.1
ing to join Denmark will be ceded by
Gennany.
Heligoland must be demolished and by
German labor; the Kiel canal muj? be
opened to all nation#.
The Gerrnqg cables in dispute are sur
rendered. Germany may not have an
army of more than 100,000 men and can
ned reaart to roueciipthm. ? - ^ ?'
She must raze all her forts for fifty
kilometers east of the Rhine, and is al
most entirely prohibited from produc
ing war mttuterMr. Violation of the
fifty kilometer rone restriction will be
ooneider?! as act of wsr. f
Only six capital ships, ^of not more
than 10,000 tons tefCh, are allowed Ger
many for her navy; She is permitted
six light cruisers, -twelve destroyers and
twelve torpedo boiafts in addition to sis
battleships, Jnft no submarihes.
,, All civilian daotfagea are to be reim
bursed by Germany, the initial payment
to be 20,000,000,000 marks, with . sub
sequent payineaNM- to be secured by bonds.
She must replace shipping ton for
ton, handing over 9 -greaft part of her
mercantile tonniage and turning out new
construction for the. purposes. She moat
also devote her economic resource* to
Mfcuilding the devastated rerfons.
"Parts of Germany will be occupied
on a diminishing scale until reparation
Gtpanany* must agree to the trial ot.
former sbmperor William by an Inter*
nMionial count tor a - supreme offense
against international morality and to
the Mai of others of her subjects for
vloMon* of tie laws and oprtom* of
(Cfottttnued on Lmst F??e)*