Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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' ' .J „ ■. I ■■ : Wt Uf UAU HUAUb, t Businesslike Methods Not Used In Highway Construction. 1. Why will you patronize the mail order houses when you can get better goods at cheaper prices from Wal- terboro merchants? 2. Why don't Walterboro merchants advertise more and let the people know what they have to sell and what bargains they offer? s Why will you send off your job work when you can get it at home just as cheap or cheaper?. Why will you spend money for foreign papers which contain no Colleton County or local news, when you can patronize a paper here at home that will give you more than the worth of your money and keep you pos ted on home affairs? These are four vital questions we would like to have you answer. Remember The Press and Standard is here to serv< you and will do your work promptly and furnish you tb news of the county regularly, if you will only allow us to do so. Press and k. J- • e« *?•' a » . . « Y *1 § THE RISHT SYSTEM LACKING. :: Road Bosses Should Be Removed From Politics and Made to Pass an Ex- <r ammation Showing Thsir- Efficiency. Change Needed tn Road Laws. A back uumber—the bad country road is a back number. It Is ns much out of plftbe and date as the grain cra dle or flail thrasher. They had bad roads away back In grandfather’s time —ever since people began to travel, to haul stuff In modern narrow tired wagons. They bad good roads away back In Caesar's time In the old world. What progress have we made In road building? Very little. Over three- fourths of all the miles of country roads In the midwest are still unim proved. says the Agricultural South west In most states 90 per cent would be more nearly correct. Of course every bit of road gets Its annual tear ing up by the road officials, who draw a salary for calling it road •’Improve ment” Why is It thus? There’s a reason why country roads are laid. Can't lay it to the weather or the road material either. As one farmer saya, ”1 have seen in twenty-three years hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayers’ money expended on the roads In town and country; but, after all, our roads are still as had as ever.* 1 ' As had as ever! What a comment to make upon the np|H'arunce of country homes had it been said that the farms had not boon improved In twenty-three years! But. no; the farms have improved, the towns have grown, and business places are better than they were twenty- three years ago, but the country mnda are “as bad as ever” after spending fortunes upon them. The reason Is this—road building is not done in the same businesslike manner as other things are managed. We have seen the creamery come into existence. We have aeen the skilled buttermaker turning out carloads of butter finer than that made by the farmers before the creameries took the job off their hands. Science and business methods have made the change in buttermaking. But the roads are *‘as bad as ever” because It la a farmer’s job, to be done when it suits his convenience. It is done by men who have never studied the sci ence of road building. It is done in a bit and miss method devoid of business principles. This is why hundreds of thousands of the taxpayers’ money have failed to make the roads any better. And again we say it is not liecuuse of bad weather or poor road building material. The buttermaker takes bad cream and makes pretty good butter from it t*ecause be knows how. Of course be could do better with good cream. Likewiae the skilled road builder can make good roads out of Just plain country dirt because he‘ knows how. Of coarse he could do better with crushed rock and all of that It ia not a scarcity of money or of material, hut a lack of the right sys tem. that is responsible for bad roads. Dollar for dollar—what we want to see is a dollar’s worth of good^ roods for a dollar spent in road tax: And why not have It? lan’t it about time to quit pouring money into a mud- bole? Moat roads could bare been nicely paved with the dollars they have coet since first laid out Where has thht money gone? Don’t cry “graft” Of course there has been too much politics—ah, politic*; there’s the rub—but there has been no political graft to apeak of in connection with country roads. The trouble la the eye- tern is and has bsen wrong. Road building Is for th* public good. Just as mail carrying la. Tbs mall carriers are under civil servlet, out of politics entirety. They are paid for knowing their business. They most give a dol lar’s worth of asrvica for a dollar in pay. Why not hand!# the road prob lem that way? Kamov* the road boas from potltic* and make him paaa an examination showing his edkisney. Keep him Just as long as ha daaa his week wpU. The* you will sss pood dirt reads wherever there la nothing hotter. Knswgh mohsp will eooa bo oavod hi road tax to A fhnaar waaM ha faollab to go ahaad wNh a larpe Job of tthag with- I < » 2 Millinery Headquarters. Ladies: My Store is full to overflowing with beauti ! ful.spring and summer hats* I h^ye sold an immense line this spring and will please anti sell to the most care ful buyer. Call and inspect and you will select, buy and be pleased. Respectfully, ITOps. J. S. Jones. a ; HI H « H I H II11 H m m I I » M I 11 n tl »♦ t t OF ALL KINDS DONE A 0 , tEbe press anb . Stanbarb, We.have just received a new stock of letter and note paper, bill heads and statements, enve lopes of all kinds arl colors. ) t | SATISFACTION GUARANTEED J Prices reasonable which* we will gladly quote you. Blank legal forms of all kinds always carried in stock. Call and see us when in town. DO YOU KNOW PROF. HOLDEN ? TIm Mas Wbee# Cera Lcctaree eatf Cera Tralae Msv« ASScS MereTtoa Tweaty Millies Bsahete t* the Cera Crep el lewe. Prof. Holden baa prepared for us a book which gives the cream of hie lectures on core growing. It telle all about aeed ieleclion, seed teetin*. get ting a aland, corn judging, corn peats, etc., etc. It ia a practical farmer’s bandbYok. It la not theory but practice, just m It baa bean worked out on the farm. The name of Utia work la THE ABC OF CORN CULTURE “MOST VALUABLE BOOK OF TH* CENTURY.” A I Root the veteran agriculturist ead bee man, myt: -Thia book Is the mnet valuabie work pabliebed In the last century if the farmer will take £ke riffht bold of it with euthaBaem and put its teaching! into practice.” *** The book ia 61-4 by 81-4 leches. Coetain. 100 page, amt beer 86 lUue- t ration* Wellpriatednehity bound. We went to pit this book .In the hTnd.of every'lire termer and farmera* boy in the country, and wjll hands th# price low accordingly. . • « «. _ L . nn 1 III DD I PC 890(10910 oe ? t *' 3010 aad%* A BARGAiII ■ III Ut, will aend you the book by mail, postpaid. relit you are nof MUlafled drop£« a card and -wa will retwra yew. forth, ratoro of cm book. Ooold-.lljtMic bo 1 THE S1MU0XS PUHUSHING COMPANY .. Pub. ofH.ld.n’. Corn Book SprlocB.fd, Ohio ft A Grand Fnmily Medicine. “It gives me pleasure to vpeBk family good word for Uectrtc Btttera,’’ writes Mr Freak Conlaa of Ho 4M Houston St., Haw plication* k ‘ York. “It’s a grand ft it cannot ha too highly recommended.” a»eetrie Bitters regu- lata the digestive fnneth ae, parity the blood, and impart renewed vigor and vitality to the wank and debilitated of vitality to the both »axe*. Sold John M KMn't drag SMN. ■On. Oocagionallj a liar JAlhf th# troth for tbo purpose of throw- inf peopli off tbo track. The odoriof Spirits of Garoacoo oil ia oot as ffi The woman who ia ambitiona to become a society leader‘be«lai by leading her her hotbnnd. around by the note. ... Upon opening his mail n A w Dimmock. the lending i Valdosta. Ga, found the ietar. “Dear 84 „ _ Me for which and im hr mail anal Itydnla's Stomach TebCta far a fit ». 1 bought a Ml hem . af aha* 'f ft Ift, .ill alec a sal Dwpapria Ry dale’s AlfcA w . m _ i ^ _ O AM ■ B * —- needed te drain the It la good baaiaeaa erne# fir him to Mm a competent ear- veyor ar ditcher. Jnet ene tOr pot la wrong w«N rate the whole plan of dralonga Bet that some farmer %1B pay nunoy every year la rand tax and let men whs know nothing nlmut road building ngnnnder the money It la time this feetiehneos was stopped. It will ha ato|«ped when the farmera who pay the money and who use the made get together and demand s change of system, demand 'h’ri it be eliminated from politics. de„«ud that the road laws be changed from anti quated forms to suit the needs of s progrgwlve ene of lutslness scu«e hntMt. John It te half ill atelte aniar a Tbn life of a woman whont htubaud hat do bad habita moat bo rstbor moootoiioofi. i ii i—maftesa—— 1 ■ ■— Wood’s Lftrer aritetef te te the je- UafaT Malaria CUUa and V6var aad aU aUmaata raanMag ftnm doranaod aan- dition of the liver, Kidneys aad Mad der. Wood's Liver Msdiatne m a taolo to the Hear aad It la the Idsel remedy • tonic Good Rond Rsquiaitea. -D tVArd King.* the i»rislnal rpnd drag ntsn. aaya there are thres* rerul sltca fpr a good road—it muxt b«* oval hard and smooth, because all throe of these eoaditloa’i arc necessary to ae- I cure drainage. Without draluage th«’ . heat cnad oooa goes to pieces. for fatigue aad wee beam It's effaoti on the entire ayetem felt With the first dose The fl oe tint, cents}** nearly i I t timet ^ the quantity of the 5oc rise. In liquid form, tfeoaaat Sold by walterboro Drug Co. to l. Mi b*. mJSmT anjaftsa.*-" a b. If you mo o write Mr Miteho.l, e ante of Mo via Mai KfM (Kb bmu jolly oompanioBn drawn tkn fino aX a Igightef hyma. Mm? ■endodh^gjategrataOTiSSMolil^ p«vSp% IVMK Ww Thnra’a probably doing in tlw gbont-Uyin Ubo whoa tbn ahadog of uighlbagin tofalL only ho vary earaful il now, hat mo ■ he careful no* ta when the riornach KodoL This la tea 1 ration that is offered tofhfr] day for dyspepsia or tautigi stomach troobie. Kodol foods It t% pleasant to taka, ’te hem by Walter era Drug Cte * 4 m .Ar fSTTf?