The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, January 15, 1914, Page 4, Image 4
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ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891.
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Thursday, Jan. 15, 1914
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The great trouble about the dif- }
ferent towns contributing to road j
building, we fear each town would 2
want their money spent on the roads ]
right around that particular town,
. . and you can't blame them for this j
position. ]
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While the Seminole Securities ]
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Company was no doubt a swindle j
through which many people lost .
money, there is little cause for cri?- ,
icism of the pardon of J. Y. Garling ton.
If Hebert and all the others
mixed up in the affair are to go scot
free, there is no justice in punishing
Garlington and Young. .
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The legislature made an admirable
beginning in that there was no dis- c
play of partisan feeling. x.Let us ;
hone this state of affairs will jon
x-- ,ttinue,
and that the members of the
general assembly will work together
for the best interests of the State
and not for personal or political advantage.
We have had enough of
this sort of thing to last for a *ong
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time.
. A few days ago the government
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sent us some income tax blanks to
be filled out. thinking of course that
we were liable to this tax. Of
course we appreciate the compli- ?
ment; any man is always tickled
when some one thinks he has more
money than he really has, but we
were obliged to return the blanks
not filled out. The idea of a country
newspaper man having a net income
of over $3,000 a year! In
fact it is rather more of an outgo
than income with us. "
We have not heard what action
our legislative delegation will take in
? regard to the recommendation or request
of the good roads committee
that the dispensary profits be appropriated
for improving the roads of
the county. However, we learn that ?
the town authorities of Bamberg will 1
not contribute half of the town's pro- s
fits to the roads, at least for the pre- s
sent, as they had already planned f
and contracted for some permanent *
" work which will absorb the profits 1
accruing to the town. This work *
is the large brick culvert in the 1
main ditch which goes through towi;. 1
We do wish that some plan could *
be adopted which would be satis- 1
factorv to all the tax payers in the c
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matter of road improvement. We
need better roads, and so far as we 1
are concerned we are not wedded to
any plan. Whatever suits a majority
of the people suits us. What we
want is better highways at a mini- '<
mum cost, or rather we do not want '
to see any money not judiciously t
STent such for instance as high priced 1
government experts who will make <
road construction too high. We un- 1
derstand that the government in- '
spectors require eight inches of clay 1
on a sand-clay foad, and this is too ]
" much and would make roads in this
county cost too much per mile. For 1
this reason alone we are not in favor 1
of accepting the aid offered by the 1
government. <
We are publishing in another '
column an interesting letter from
Congressman Jas. F. Byrnes in re- j i
gard to the matter of government aid .
in building roads, and his letter i
throws much light on the subject. 1
We regret very much that Mr. <
Byrnes could not be present at the :
last meeting held, for if he had been
no doubt he would have given the
committee much valuable information
along the line of government
aid and caused these gentlemen to
take a different view of the proposition.
In the light of the letter of
Mr. Byrnes, government aid appears
t'ery desirable, the cost per mile of
constructing roads under government
supervision not appearing too high.
He has worked very hard on this
matter, and we wish it were possible
for Bamberg: county to take advantage
of the money offered. We are
ijlad indeed to publish his letter, as
ivc were not at the first meeting held,
and it relieves an arroneous impression
created on us. l^et us all get
.ogether on some scheme by which
ve can secure at least $5,000 of this
government fund. We stand ready to
10 anything we can. and any scheme
which suits a majority of the people
will suit us. We are after better
toads, and if we can get $5,000 of
ETOvernment money without burdensome
restrictions, we ought to get
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STORY OF TWO FARMS.
^)ne Had Roads and the Other Did
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In a certain county in the western
part of Pennsylvania avej^ao farms.
One of these, high set among the
xentle hills, is floored with a soil so
ich and productive that men marvel
it its fruitfulness.
The grain which greens and gilds
its fields is heavy with foodstuff.
Firm and fine of fiber are the vege:ables
it mothers. Apples as beautiful
as blue ribboners from the Hood
River orchards and far better to eat;
peaches that blush for their very
perfection; grapes, plums and pears
ibound year after year as if some
inexhaustible store of nitrates, polish,
phosphorus and sulphur underay
the loam.
The only poor thing on that farm
is the house in which the farmer
ives. It is little more than a makeshift
for a home. And this farmer
md his wife and children never have
lad more than just enough to keep
;hem going. No money in bank, no
idded lands, no luxuries of any sort
?not even a talking machine.
Curious, isn't it!
Four miles down the road that
-un^ past this farm to the nearest
;own is another farm.
Not even a Mulberry Sellers of an
iptimist ever would choose it as a
iroducer. The soil is below average,
rhe man who tills it has to work
vith it pretty much as a loving moth
er works to keep alive a sickly baby,
tfis wife and children help whenever
they can. and together they
nanage to raise fair crops of medium
trade stuff.
Yet this family lives in a good
louse, wun aDout as many cuuuuris
md luxuries as well to do town folk.
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rhe farmer has two bank accounts^
me in the savings, and a n-seated auomobile.
It is a coincidence that he
md the man first mentioned moved
0 their present farms at the same
;in\e twenty-two years ago.
He has prospered for the same
eason that his friend had tailed.
In each case the road that runs
)ast the farm has settled its fate.
Nature's bounty couldn't overcome
1 long haul on a poor road?seven
niles, with rocks and ruts for half
he way. By the same token, Naure's
skimpiness couldn't hinder a
nan with only three miles of good
oad between him and town.
We cite this case because it stands
>ut so clear before us. In some measlre
it is paralleled in every township
in this broad land. Out in the
nost fertile farming section of Missouri
a man who owns three hundred
icrcs of excellent land had to beg
for food last winter. Not because
le couldn't raise plenty to eat. Lut
because for three months the roads
n that part 01 the state were so Dad
hat he couldn't get a thing to or
rom the town ten miles away.
When Governor Majors proclaimed
lis good roads day in August that
nan was the first to raise a company
if workers. He Jiad learned from
)itter experience that good roads are
>rital.?Philadelphia North American.
Millionaire Goes to County Jail.
San Francisco, Jan. 14.?"'Come
Hid get it," was the unaccustomed
summons that greeted early to-day
:he ears of Richard McCreerv, millionaire
polo player, who was given a
sard of membership for five days in
:he Speeders' club at the county jail
by Judge Shortall on conviction of
having raced his automobile on a
public highway.
McCreery obeyed and was served
the regulation prison breakfast of
black coffee and toast. No special
favors are being granted him in the
:ounty jail, though he fared delicately
in the city jail for a single night
he spent there.
The regulations permit that he
send out tor lood. out the county
jail is distant from fashionable restaurants,
and the only dainties McCreery
enjoyed last night were
chicken sandwiches and French
pastry brought to him for dinner by
his friends.
McCreery is sharing a cell with
John Fredericks, convicted of petty
larceny.
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RAISES $20 TO $50.
Pretty Girl Does .Land-office Business
in B<*gu9 Bills.
New York, January S.?Secret service
agents today called on a number
of leading merchants and warned
them to be on the lookout for a pretty
girl with a bogus $50 bill. They
exhibited samples of bills she has already
passed. About $2,000 of these
hillc liovo alroaHv heen distributed.
The counterfeiter has taken $20
bills and by clever pen work raised
them to $50 bills. The work~4s so
well done they are readily accepted
by persons not on the lookout.
Sold Again.
For ten long but blissful years
they hau walked along the path of
hne: but as yet the lovesick youii?
had never mentioned about their
getting mairied, relates Tit-Bits.
Courtship is very charming; but
when the*e does not seem to be cl'ar-rails
at the end of it, girls naturally
b?giu to lose interest in the
game.
Anyhow, Jane thought it time that
ihe mar: iage-day was fixed, so she
threw out a gentle hint to her lover
by way of encouraging him. Encouragement,
she thought, was all
<!;e dear fellow wanted. /
"Xathariel," she whispered, coyly,
"they're saying we're going to re
married soon."
"Are they though?" answered the
stolid SAfjii. "What a jolly sell it'ii
be for them when they find out we
ain't!"
Endorsed for Places.
Washington, January 13.?In response
to a notification from Commisioner
of Internal Revenue Osburn
thac he was ready to receive their
recommendations for four appointments
in South Carolina under the
income tax law. Senators Tillman
and Smith to-day joined in endorsing
the following men: L. M. Overstreet,
of Aiken, to be inspector: \V.
H. Ross, of Walhalla, .and J. F. Mcintosh.
of Lynchburg, to be office
deputies, and S. Frank Parrott, of
Gaffney, to be field deputy.
The senators signified to Commissioner
Osborn that the sooner these
appointments were made the better
they would be pleased.
It is possible that Secretary McAdoo
will not be bound entirely by
the recommendations. In several
States appointments were to-day announced
in the internal revenue department,
which did not have any
senatorial influence behind them. In
the main, however, Mr. McAdoo is
expected to follow the senators' em
dorsements as to these places.
Combating Mail-Order Houses.
* There ha^ recently appeared in
print an article entitled* "Severn
Good Reasons Why You Should Buy
at Home," presumably "by some literary
syndicate which is engaged in a
propaganda directed against the mail
order houses. Here are the reasons:
1. Your home merchant can duplicate
the prices made by any responsible
firm anywhere on goods
of the same quality, in the same
quantities and on the same basis of
delivery and payment.
2. You can examine your purchase
in home stores and be assured of
satisfaction before investing your
money. ,
3. Your home merchants are always
ready and willing to make right
any error or any defective article
purchased.
4. Your home merchants help support
through direct and indirect taxation,
your schools, churches, libraries
and other public institutions.
5. Your home merchants help to .
make a good local market for every
tiling you have to sell, and that market
more than any other racior give*
your land its present value.
6. Your home merchants are your ,
friends, ever ready to extend a help
ing hand in time of need.
7. If this community is good
enough for you to live'in and make
your money in. it is good enoifgh to
spend it in.
8. The best citizens in this community
are those who believe in and
practice home patronage. Be one o
the best.
9. Merchants in the distant citios
give you nothing valuable that the
home merchant cannot give you, and
the former cannot, and will not rio' J
for you many things the latter do
gladly.
10. Every dollar kept in circulation
in this community helps increase
property values.?Keystone Journal.
Pleasant Party.
Miss Franke Folk entertained yesterday
evening for the Apollo Music
club. Rook and other games were
I ?>? onH o cruocsinp- r?nn tpst was
cu aiiu u 5, w- ?
also enjoyed. A salad course, with
!ciearn'and cake was served. The
| club rendered some delightful music
during the evening. The affair was
largely attended and very much enjoyed
by the ,young people.
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Three Loads Here
We have received those
told you about last wee
beauties. Come and set
exactly the kind of anin
terms always reasonable.
We also have another 1<
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will arrive the tirst part
that we carry plenty of s\
and you can always be s
are among the very large
lower part of the State, b
Mule market in the w<
position to take of our la
ing number of custome
dealt with us for years. *
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