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* „ • tandard VOL. XXX. YVALTERBORO, S. C, JANUARY 22, 1908. NO. 23 Paul D. Sargent Tells of the State Highway Building. PROGRESS MADE EACH YEAR. rrw*nty>four Hundred Milas of Road Alrsady Us id Out—Gravsl Gsnsrally Usod For Surfacing—How the Work la Dono. Paul D. Sargent, state highway com missioner of Maine, in a recent mi- dress before the good roads and legls- latire convention of the Automobile club of Springfield, Mass., spoke ns follows abobt road work in Maine: - The construction of state raids in Maine presents a little different prob lem from that in any oilier of the New England states. This is partly on ac count of onr large area which h sparse ly settled and our low valuation Fot Ity. The - raudard which we ask to bare mulptalned Is for a road twenty- one feet wide which shall have at least twelve feet of hardened track, with e-irth sliouldera to make up the remaining wldrh. Our general si»eclflcatlon is for sur facing material to tie eight Inches thick in the center and sis inches thick on the shoulders, to be screened into sizes and deposited In layers and rolled wherever possible. We find that sach work where It Is carefully and well done nvern'-'es in coat from 33 to SC cents i»er lineal foot. News from Lodge- » Editor Props and Standard:— Now that *>nr legislature is as sembled at Columbia, there are but few topic? on which we pen cil pushers can touch that are very notable unless it be some one of those listed for a:onsider- atiou by the law makers. In the’fiist place. I have not time to discus.-, even any, COLUMBIA LETTER J. B. D. Write* of the Doing* Solon* of Out The bridal party left ou the 4 201 at any-one time. The capacity train South and will vuit various is increased in proportion to the Editor of The Press Standard, Special.—The Speaker's gavel fell promptly at noon Tuesday the 14th. and the House of Representatives wa^ ready for work. Interest was rum'ng high in the races for Associate Justice and for the judgeship in the Second Circuit, so high that the member seemed more inclined to do fall or grade; for instance, 12 inch pipe laid on & one per cent grade will carry 1,800 gallons per points of interest. Mr Humph was “chauffeur 5 ’ for the bridal party. Number* of friends accompanied them to the depot, where much j minute, while the same pipe laid on merriment was occasioned by the | a 2 per cent grade will carry 2,500 throwing of rice—Quite a generous gallons per minute. Furthermore, supply was given to both of them. | a culvert laid flat will soon fill np, MraHethington generously divided i while one having a good incline will campaign work than legislation. The ber nower> Wlth her f rl « nd * * ** j keeep itaelf clear, canidates have dwindled down to kepta souvenir of the occasion. Then In the maintenance of an earth o' ^l 1 ” J ^ 0e . and U P canit ' fhc train. They have road, avoid the mistake of changing Robt. Aldrich and Claude E. Sawyer for Judge. The election will be held Wednesday. we have already had a vote on the ■rarted on life’s journey hot "Ja k” the natural osder of things. Nat- .l-«T. «l»«l to tbe douiaod. cli. out! thl , Kj| j, loun<1 „„ , Dr.d.1 p.r, 7 on bottrd," dfpolU ,h. the c ,, y „„ the j ( thu is reversed in constructing a road, Nash-Smith Prohibition biM to try of sadue**, and brightuesi ieign* . the strength of the House. It showed , onc * more. 49 for and 45 against the Bill, though there was not a full house. The The bride U a (‘aughtrr of Mr Alston j the lesult will be less satisfactory the Ktioqr. one of our m mt surcesMul j then if the soil be left at the top of 'Hiesday, and < wftu% 5> hopo^tf C ^tt > a i fit'”,, ft ttt “Z for 8011 "“ k ~» ^ ‘ ur ' y face lo a road than clay. 11 the road uesday, and we are hopeful that a » band^ome and full v te will increase our majority. tfrah , M I have submitted to the Colleton . delegation a sdbstitutefoe the Road i8 ! u * ,ow r , law which is now In'ing considered. I coven <1 them useful present* through life ben* light of rose Imves which as they tututd from tGWP <*' T • 4*+’. > W- • •S-'wi w/: * ■ ■ m * ■FT" '. Wi? r ‘ ■ •> - • * >u* •!.»*>.• r >J %•' ; *v' at But i must digress just here and ibe akor, i, ihe wish oi mucli length. However, it is tell you of our trip to Rock Hill-1 .. ii.- .x came very near saying to see the quite Koneni! eh;,t w. my part «rfi^ rbi rt . me ,„V *, hat in c„|.j the county that we can obtain leton there are lour of the' l>est I r .h,biuon by only holding tbe ' ^ om ‘. n in that county who are seeing M'tre Anon From An Eperiencod Teacher Editor Frew and Standard :Ye«t«rdaj raceived a latter from Mia* Prea of tbe RSI A of Colleton requesting me to aend an t r icle pertain- ing to our work to yonr churmiug little paper. Will yon kindly permit me to do eo? Mi** President a*k*—“What can vou snggest that will make oar meeting* more interesting and helpful; t*t Hi eogireat that we exhaust every effort in getting the teachers to present themselvee. ’ 1 cant conceive why they will not attend theee' meeting*! I sup pose sotm* are sarin/, “she ought to practice what she preaches.” True enough. I was not present at the iaat two iceetinin, but in Deo-ring to aa exceelve rain thu stream* were swollen, beyond cr >*sing depth. As to the last I did n >t mcrilve uotioe of ii It it wan auonnccei in the paper I did not see it; for we get tha pipe - on Saturdajaat n< oi. Mias Prrfc I think it would be advis able ‘o have cards printed aud send oat to ovey teacher urging tbetu. to come. Perhaps »omo ouo has whispered to M is largely clav to rUrt with, it Dnbod v «.nies town on , J , Saturday b it selio')! teachers and wi‘l be well to place study SOU or negroes.” Some imp toM me that too, chan sat'd on top. A covering of ; ,,Qt i lelt »» ,nuc! l ,l , 1 la t0Wn 1 . i on Saturday as I thought Mil clay .... thought^tiirn out of •» to 10 inches ol stttid upon ri.«v ht«. So don’t let that, k ep you back. that tieraists in breaking up ir Can not we make oar meetiogn a* inter- 1 4 efftincr as rh»*v are vi Hie rioum^ai (1 iiuuuiolea Will usually be S&u?* j Section? I tnxM say they are not to, and iu-torv, and if e.ind enough be added, v * have as many euer^tio and wideawhk-s teachers as any o.uer coun- 1 hi»ve taught iu Newherr/, Fair- now a curt** The Maintenance of Earth Roads We nviy r?cogmz.» the value ef this clay will cease to make mud. t V lie . t aud thetr m-jetlngs are attended by all juess i»i me coumry, uur ami me «•»*« w auprovcu uy au uppncauuu oi | factory t«. ‘.tie vast majority, | u..-r say wv want to see the fact remains that for a long time fcltiy- Hence, therjare vital Ruljects At 9:30 o’clock Saturday morning to come the majority of the road?' - Tjie to the public, and cannot be dis-1 The Iran off our coaches loaded with; will be composed of eaHh. j road, thou, election; that the lien law'"is ^ » in disguise, and that | hogs do not get to the cane-bank j ^ ^ 1 1 osed ot sand i ,, SK .i —— ....v... a11 the commutation tax is uumtis- etc., for forty long days, and 1 guty« parts of ,he country, but still the c.m be improved by an application of tlle rural ,e. aC !,y r K lu Ab’wvll'e there . the mehioere of the General Assem- cussed wit.uiut mature thought! j nc | U( jj n ^ Engrossingdepart- aud the use of many columns: or ment and many uf the State officials, rule for a serviceable is as follows: earth make ate 51 teachers and the average attend* am-e to their m^etlugs la more than half the nundier. Thi* is why they mike them interesting. In M ns Weekly’s letter, I think she flatters me when she pages, of & journal. b urthermore, in aocuf nine dilchc* on c.i* u eid'' and keep them that my report from Omega school, mem aiiu manv Ui me ouue omcam months out of the year, the earth open; haul sand aud gravel upon was the best from the county, Surely rolled up to aunthrop College, road, if properly cared for, is ■actions needing this treatment; use ! Wh t ha don(l j, on i r the A MAINE ROAD. * fA thin deposit of gravel, usod in road building, 1* exposed In the ditch on the Uft.] example, our area la within 300 square miles of equaling that of all the other New England states. Our population la about 30 per cent more than that of the city of Boston and our valuation about oue-tenth that of Massachusetts. In the matter of valuations I might •ay that we have only aixty-three cities and4pwns in tbe state which have a valuation of $1,000,000. „ We have 222 towns with a valuation less than $250,- 000 each, and three-fourths of all our towns are leas than $300,000 in valua tion. In many of our towns, especially the smaller ones, highway taxes alone run from 1 to 3 cents, so you see when these towns make appropriations for good roads they are really struggling to improve their condition. We have, however, made a start In the matter of state road building and are making progress every year, lu 1201 a state road law was passed which was general In Its application— that is. It provided that every town In the state might have state aid in com plying with certain conditions. The amount which any town could expend tinder this original law was only $200 per year, and the maximum state aid allowed ou account of such expendi ture was flOfl. Succeeding legislatures raised tbe amoqnt until at present $000 Is the m*Timnm amount a town may expend and be reimbursed by the state tor half Its expenditure. Tbe lint year of the law only twelve towns took advantage of Its provisions. whUo last year, the sixth year of its operation, 322 towns built their state roads and received state aid. This jear 836 towns are building sections of state road. Our law provides that when a town makaa appropriation and declares its Intention to bolld state road tbe county -commissioners shall designate in that town the main traveled thoroughfare, which shall thereafter be known aa tbe state road, and that mid appropriation shall be expended In Improving some section of this road. Under this pro vMon for designating state roads shout 2,400 miles of road have already been laid out Up to the close of last year about $450,000 had been expended by the towns and the state in this reconstrnc- tloo work, and nearly 300 miles of road had been worked upon. The work consists mainly in cutting down •xcesslve grades, raising roads in •Wampe and low places, straightening crooked roads, taking oat sharp curves and underdraining quagmires. la general our surfacing material consists of gravel. bat ** many cases only the natural soil hr used for this purpose, especially If gravel cannot be obtained within two miles of the Idea tion of the work. Probably In forty towns in tbe state the surfacing mate rial la crashed stone. The work np to the present time has been under the direct supervision ef the various boards of county commis- •toaers. As tha law provides for in spection of tha work after It la com- plated and the cotnmlssionerB have not in general insisted oa one standard of thttr* have been quite a good variations la the completed hot piairaaa fts being made eacii sad we are gradauny epp -'mcL something In the line of •4Ulfo:*3i We fee. our delega.ion are ^TrL wereTnedt tZJtZ. '— h '> , • ’* .... many agricultural district*, it is the ouly road at present avail- the colleife, w'here we were seated in a ^ e# ^ en c3, these comunitiea r* * * * »-* a l • AAf^ w •SSV'V-V IAU* fully apprised as to the needs of The girls gave a hearty cheer as the our county and the desire of the people and we hope tnat they may succeed in giving the county tue proper rliof- We beelieve they will. Local news is very limited, my readers, hereabout, but ss we are always pleased to read, eveu a short letter, of our neighbors, we feel it our duty to offer the best we cau collect. As our district is chiefly agri cultural, We could not write from Lodge without mentioning the farming interests. Cotton picking for, 1904, is about over, the “plow whoop” and “new grouna’ smoke are begining to pass Current on the farm. Reduction of acreage and increase or ferti lizing have a strong place now with one cotton and corn planters. H e hope the same ambition will ever continue until ’’the whole lump ehall have been leavened” with intensive fertilizing. - * Mr J. W. Rents is nearing com- p etion of his fine residence on Main Street. The paints are attractively shining forth. He is a member of the Mercantile firm here of J. B. Miley and Co. The order of the Woodmen of ike World seems to be rapidly growing from the attendance and applicants at their meetinge. Our sc boo 1 seems to be doing good work under its old tnetor, Prof J. H. A. Carter, and Miss Bessie Smith Mr W. 0. Thompson has finished, his new residence and moved into it • “Civis” Jan. 20. train stopped, and the two or three hundred passengers marched up to AT THE CHURCHES. The following is the time of serv ices of the several congregations in town. Methodist—Every Sunday at 11 a. . m. and 7:30 p. m. Prayer n^etings 7:30 p. m. Wed nesday. —Rev. J. L. Daniel, pastor. baptist—Every Sunday at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Prayer meeting, 7:30 p.m. Thurs day. Rev. F. O. S. Curtis, pastor. prsbyterian—2nd, 3rd and 4th Sunday at 11 a. In.; 2rd and 4th Sunday at 7:30 p. I m. Prayer meeting, 42>.m| Thursday. Rev. F. “ A. Drennan, pastor. episcopal—1st and 3rd Sunday at 11 a. m. and 7;30 p. m. Prayer meeting 4 p. m. „ Wednesday. Rev. T. P. Baker, rector. the auditorium, each delegation separately. The several delegations were then placed in charge of the girls from their respective counties who took us into every department, room, nook and corner of thi college, and showed us as fully as possible the work that is being done by the great Institution of the State. I would be glad if space would permit me to go into detail as to the equipment and efficiency of the place where South Carolina’s girls are made women, and also of the splendid day of real { ileasure^yygkve us, but 1 must eave this for some future day. Columbia Jan. 20. J. B. D. For 1 * *machine and a split log ilrag 1 iH^iiming of our intentions. To begin judiciously (a full descriptiou ot with so l fortunately we ha«i a good which will oe contained m a later c ““'ortable buildinx .itu»ted in the article); follow tbe -stitch in titne" *" ”» k u,ol " t Io th * l “‘ AIlston-Hethington Editor Press and Standard—The most brilliant society event of the season, the marrisge of Miss May Allston, and Mr John Hethington, wss solemnized at 3 o’clock. Thurs day, the 10th, at Christ Chnrch. Tbe were no cards, but the many friends present gsve evidence of the popularity of the young oonple. Tbe church was beautifully deco rated, one doss not need to be s magician te guess that the fairy fiagers, and the hand »t the IlHm|p n t ^ ap gra fl e s subject Jo wtall- Length ef Ufa ef Fleheei —lien to esM to Nve bat, like pike art reach 1M jrgftra* - was Mrs Rampb, of course she was ably resisted by others. It was perfect iu every detail— not-one thing lacking Mrs E W King played the wedding march, Messrs Legare and Hethington were the ushers. The soft strains of the wedding march, falls upon the air, first the nghers, then the stately bride, clad in s handsome tailor made traveling snit of brown, carry ing an exquisite bouquet of brides roses, attended by Miss Theo Jenkins who also wore s tailor made suit of bine, carrying white carnations, they met the groom and bis best man, Mr Donald Allston, at tbe chancel; standing under a lovely floral bell of white roses, which was suspended from an arch of smilax and pink roses. Stately-palms artistically arranged formed a fitting back ground for Mr Baker in his priestly robes of white; glowing crimsom japonica* nestling among the smilax adorning the chanoel, gave the tone h of color requisite, and made the seene a joy to the beholder. i Here amid the beautiful decorations, May plighted her vows to the nan of her choice, they knelt upon a white silk cushion to reotive the blessing—One pretty conceit *as • shower of rose leaves upon the bridal couple just as they tuned away from Mr Baker. ,/ rule aud give an earth road the same should set themselves seriously “"’fl 1 . J oa . i , | 4. . . ; would give your pnzi acre, factory to work to learn the beai'inrihodfr or gtore, and it will pay as large a of maintaining earth roads and profit io|prcport:on to your indivulu- of getting the maximum service : *1 outlay, from them. Prosperity comes to the country to a great extent through the prosperity of the farmers. This fact strongly sug gests the importanoe of giving the earth road every possible care and attention in its location, construction and maintensnee. An earth roa«l composed of water holding soil should tie ex posed to the sun and air as freely as possible, as comparison be tween the shaded and sunny por tions of such a road will easily indicate. This should be accom plished by clearing a sufficient amount of trees and under growth kwayi from the road. It must be rembered, however, that sandy and gravelly roads require moiature, and in theae cases some sand should be re tained. Futuhermore, trees are beneficial along river banks and Drainage is one of tbe most important poinu to ooncidei in connection with an earth road. The majority of earth roads in all mountainous aud hilly dis tricts have too much drainage. Occasionally a road jrill be found with five ditches, three iu the middle made by the horses’ hoofs and by wheels of the vehicles, and two on the sides. All well- constricted earth foads are sup posed te have do more than two ditches, one on each side of the traveled roadway. Keep tbe water out of the middle of the road by giving it a ciowu or ele vation iu the e mter of 7} inches UVELY TIMES IN COLUMBIA. The committee appointed to wind up th£ affairs of the State dispensary have discovered a hornets nest which they and attorney General Lyon are stirring np. Tt.cy claim there was a conspiracy on the part of certain of the Directors of the State dispensary and whiskey drummers to defraud the State, as a result of their inves tigations the following have been arrested—others to follow: w O Tatum, ex-commissioner released on 10 000 bond M A Goodwin, whiskey drummer, released on $ 25 000 bond. Ex-commission, w O Tatum, and ex-Directors John Beach L w Boykin, John Bell Towill, J b Wylie, Jodie Rowbinson all released on $10 000 bond The outcome of all this is awaited with much interest. FIRE AT STOKES Avar# of J C Strieklaad and Boa $t,000. Net Friday morsisg early bstwstt t sad $ o’olsok Iks store of J C ktrisktoad sad Boa at Stokes was biaoovered to ba oa firs. Tha Are had mads sash pro gress that nothing conld be dons to save anythin*. Tha top was falling in whan it wna discovered. It is aat known haw tha fire started. Tha stock of metchsndiae was esti mated at $$,600.00 and tha atore betid ing at about $5o0 00 making a total loss of $4,000 00. Tnare was insurance aa ataro and stock amounting to $S, 00000. This firm has bean doing business at Stokes for several years. This IJUe is a terrible blow iothem.bat they will p obably rebuild at au early date. three months we have fl ted up the house wUh new patented desks nice window shades, backet, diaper pan, table and chair. On the wall* we have arranged ttttefallv 15 nice nlctures and expect to odd more. In three days after our school opened we collected the necessary amount, of money for tbe library. Tha little oak bushes have been out—the holes around the house filled up and it Is more pleating to the eye. Mr Archie Breland gave the house a thorough clean* a ng with a scouring mop; and remarked whan he bed finished, “that it would have been an excellent place to have some early cabbage seed, owing to the futility ot the toil on tbe floor. We intend to add a case of rolling maps a globe, later to wire in the yard and R int tha honaa. Iu prooartng more rail are the teachers should advise the trustees, that they may get tha beat and up to data articles, not the old time things I was perfectly dumfoanded when they brought men small unpaint- poplar table to serve as my desk and n dining room ahttr. They assured me that this was an of&on choir because they had them to the court house at Water boro. Yet neither tha court nor tha furniture la n My intention now la to organise n local 8.1 alp. A—This would have been accomplished had the wan her bean penpisnbie. Indeed it la a task to procure the co-operation of tha patrons. Whan yon gat them in terested tha problem is solved, but how many do yon find Interested. I am avtnooosiag anr one, bat I have seen mothers tall their children to wash their fneae and go to eobool that's the and; and the taneber Is ret possible for their going or not going. Some etarfli child •ff with an eld “Blue Book spelling to teach and Alkahest Ladies Quartette *The next attraction foar the Lyoenm course is iho Alkahest Ladies quartette Monday evening Feb 3rd- This Quar tette Is campogjsd of Misses Christine Levin, contralto aud director; Margaret Slattery, soprano; Helen Beatly, mezao above the top of the inner elope 1 soprano and;;pianist; and Mr* Bessie of the ditch lor 20-foot road, j re4;i#r * aud where tbe hill, are . little Th ~' J 0 ""* **?'“ •” *» «**•“ eteep rr.ke the crown 10 mol.e., „„„ ^ vbo , “, nd , With a crown of about 1 inch to the foot from the center to the New Teach*** « sides, the ditches which are of teu The special examination for teachers built across the road on steep w “ 1*®M t fa * Conn House hare grades to deflect the water will not be naoded. Instead of carry ing water across the road in open ditches, tile or concrete drains should, if possible, be provided. They skculd have sufficient capacity''and fail to carry the maximum amount of water that is expected to flow through them Friday. There war* twelve white applicants and two negroes. Of this number eight whites nod one negro got oertiflootaa. Those saoesaafal; Second (redo: Mlatee Alloy Hlott, Lootse Thames, Carrie M Morrell, Wiaabee „ Grace, sad Mr T B Btshsr. Third gradi; Mlmss Bstella Ssstsr- tin, Rtonohs Ruhsi Mary I Gtagar, colored be >k and expect the teacher the child Arithmetic Rhetoric 1 Klooalien out of it.” I have heard my father say “If a person had*ever studied through that book, be had an edneadoa’’. Quite *o. I sappoee hat I assure yon I never saw one on til I planted my toot on Colleton soil, stow many of yonr schools art fitted np with ae tceeeery material to work with? Some think because they had nothing hot n boose and log-beneh in the 00’s that no more is neoceeearr now. But that lent true. The world la growing too fast and everything grows with it.Sbow me n man who oaa make a crop of cotton without a hoe, a plow a weeder and tertiliser and I'll show you a teacher who can educate a child with out a book a black board ato. I try to appear as attractive as possible in th* school room; my costume consists of n bine serge shirt nod white shirtwaist and *‘I like for the children to be neat aud clean” (ns Rev Ackerman said in a lecture at Dr*. Creek seme time since) If you cant afford n freea drees once a week yon oan at least see that their tec ■ and hands are clean Last year when 4 I was teaching in Lexington I closed my school with an Exhibition, tu;s Mary T Manse delivered sn address and in it she told what “dean little wait* apron had clean” she said ’-Some where in Broth Carolina teacher asked ked the pupils to bring bert few pennies they replied reality to her call, sad with these she bought a few yards of apron check. Tbe older girls made the apron, put it on n dirty Utile child washed her face and arranged her flair When the child reached home her mother waa delighted and aat to work to eornb np the other' child ran. Whan that was done the home did not look weti; she scrubbed the hones >nd it looked well enough, theo her old man oaase la. and she she ste te work and ■crabbed John ap. Bo the white apron did wooden. 1 haven't made any white aprene bet I have wnohed some facea. . * , „ vTVery 1$.