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Good Roads Department Proposed Bond Issue $750,000 Election to be Held March 30, 1915. Road Commissioners Provided in Act: B. M. Aull.Aul un J. M. J i roy i < .Town trillo H. F. ('ely.Piedmont Paul R. Earle.Anderson. It. F. I> W. Frank McGee. J. S. FOWWT.Anderson KOKS .Mitchell.Helton. c. E. Harper.lionea Patli J. Muck King. Supervisor.Helton .Iva FROM SKPTI'H Editor Intelligencer: In this bond question now under discussion, we cannot believe that you intend to be unfair to us and wo assure jam that we want to be fair to you. nowever, we cannot un derstand why you lintist on keeping that pretty picture of good roads be fore your readers In an effort, it seems to UH to muke believe that wp and those who ar?, in this fight wi!li us, are opposing good roads. Here we are. right in the community in which we were born and reared, and where we wfll very likely spend the remainder of our days. Now. how is it possible for good roads to be of more help to you and why should j you be more favorable toward them than we. since some day you may say that Anderson is not "My Town,'* and cast your lot away vit li some other people. Now, we would not be true to ourself, our children und future generations if we were not -In favor of good roads?. So, Mr. Editor, we aro agreed on this point and we are only disagreeing as how to raise the money with which tn build good roads. Now in your reply, under thc head line, "Tho Pity of It," you aBked us to give a plan which would answer the purpose better thovt the pro posed bond Issue. * Well slr. we did this "jry thing In our fir?? article, but In your mov ing picture show of good roads you Ignored lt Just as you did every oth er point that we made. Hut we will give it again, and then If you fail to see the point wc must be content with the fact that none are so blind as those who will not see. Now tim Interest on the proposed bonds with the ?Inking fund and the pay of that self-appointed com mission would bc right around $48,000 per year, now Iel enough mill.'' be added tn our taxable pro perty to raise this amount, let this run for ten years, and we ?ill have expended near one-hall' million dol lars extra of our present road levy, and at the end of the ton years with this great sum of money used, the right way will give us the best road system In the South, and unlike Greenville county with a bonded mortgage Killi hanging over them, ours will be paid for ls that clear to yott Mr. Editor? Well, if not, then we are hot responsible for your like or "understandlness" Neither are w?- responsible for you running your head in this hornet's nest, arni now that you ha/e it in it don't begin running backwards and dodging, jus* stand up and figlq it out. And now. Mr. Editor, without siiulrming or twisting, bucking or Jumping, side stepping or running, phase' come out and tell ns why you favor plac ing a mortgage on Anderson county with which tct build good roads on a credit, when they can be built and pain for in rush as they are built. Please (ell us why you think lt a good proposition for the taxpayers of this county to give to private in dividuals right at three dollars, ir order to get one dollar for good roads. Tell us please, why you think the bankers nf this county should be granted the special privilege of handling seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars of our money, less thc amount paid out each year for good roads, at five per cent and our sinking fund at four per cent, when if I'nele Rube gets any of his own tax money he will be favored lo pay whatever .Mr. Hanker chooses to charge him. Is there no law lu this country against "skin games?" For 'the sake ot peace and unity und another opportunity, please tell us. Mr. Editor, if we should vole this bond I reue under the bill us pro vided, how would we gci redress in case that that highway commission should build roads in a way. in a place and In a manner, nor con s?mate as a majority of our people migbi see it. since the bill provides that they shall hold office to- five years and "does nm provide a way in which we could remove them it mat tcrs not how they handle our mon ey . Speak right out in the "meetIn' '' now and tell us again. Mr., Editor, please tell us why you are willing to allow our people to raise seven hun dred and fifty thousand dollars for good roads hy a bond Issue am! urt vy Illing for them to elect the com mission that's to handle ami manage it. Look ?mt! we are going to throw again. Now be a nice Holly and talk some-Don't you think lt very un wise for a people to vote a measure on their Reads that they can't vote off. and should they vole H1?3 bond ed Indebtedness against themselves and afterwards repent ami want their sins forgiven. Wouldn't they be as helnlesj us a grasshopper with his head and both leg? pull? ?I oft. and bis wings "cropped." In getting rid of the burden, other than to al low it to run Ita course of forty years, while we would be taxed all of thia time to support il. 1'pder our plan of a special tax for roads, should lt become a burden or should we find that we did not nerd it, then we could have lt taken off. There's a difference. Now. we don't want io be too Inquisitive, but will you tell us. Mr. Editor, that in ease the bond Issue carries, would you be Just as willing for the building of the good roads to begin nt one end as at the other? In building a good road from Anderson to Honen Hath, how would it do to start at lionea Hath and work this* way, and building a good road from Andf son tc. Pendleton, how about starting at Hendleton? Ijet's start to work ut the other end of all roads that's io be made good and j work toward Anderson, fo rsince The Second Dollar Bargain Day - afc The Lessers Big Stores The first Dollar Bargain Day was a wonderful success and naturally calls for another. Our buyers are at present in the northern markets and have picked up especially big bargains for this bargain day and we are confident it will pay the most critical, economical buyer to follow the crowd and share with out selected bargains and help to crown one other success through our ut most efforts in securing these bargains. 25c Silk ladies' Hose, all colors, 5 pairs . . . . . ...... . . .$1.00 25c Imitation Chamois Gloves, 5 pairs . . . .$1.00 75c Niagara Maid Silk Gloves, 2 pair. . . . . . ; . . . $1.00 25c Babcock ?orylopsis Powder, 8 boxes .... .. . .$1.00 2 5c Beauty Pin, guaranteed top, 5 sets. .$1.00 25c Collar and Cuff Pins, 5 sets . . .. .$1.00 25c Crystal Bar Pins, 5 for. .$1.00 $1.75 Ladies' Walking Hat, special, all colors. .$1.00 $2.50 Ladies' Shepherd Plaid Skirts. . . ..$1.00 $2,50 Ladies' Silk Petticoats, all colors. .. .$1.00 $2.00 Ladies' White Linen Skirts . . .. . $1.00 75c Ladies' House Dresses, 2 for . . . .. . s . . : . . .$1.00 50c Children's Wash Dresses, all sizes, 3 for. \ $1.00 10c Curtain Goods, large variety, 15 yards for.., .$1.00 25c Colored Linen, 7 yards for....".$1.00 $1.50 Marseilles Quilts. . . . . . .$1.00 50c Mikado Silk, beautiful colors, 3 yards. ..... .$1.00 75c English Tipperary Serge, 54-inch, 2 yards.. .$1.00 50c Table Linen, 3 yards ... .... . . .. . . . $1.00 15c White Crepe and stripes, 8 vards. . h . . : . . . . .$1.00 $1.50 Oxfords or Ties ... . .........$1.00 $l.0C Shirt and 50c Tie, together..$1.00 $2.00 Men's Sample Hats, new shape . .. .$1.00 5oc Every Day Shirts, 3 for.". . $1.00 . .. .We invite you again to come and inspect and examine and compare our Dollar Bargains. We return the money if not pleased at home. Our Coat Suits and Hats to match have kept our sales ladies busy and with pleasure we must say that we are over satisfied with our sales. Even if you don't buy, come and look around, lt will please us to let you witness how others buy. THE LESSER CO Anderson, S. C. ?.'.' ?' " . Standard Rc nedy For Maj ty Hornea Indigestion and c mstipatlon are two conditions dos ly related and the cause ci much hysical suffer inK. Tho tendency to indulge one's appetite is general HO that most people suffer at ? me time or another from rep Ilion of tho overtaxed organs o digestion and eliminaton. A stn de, pleasantly effective remedy tb t will quickly relieve the congest! 1 of poisonous waste and restore' regularity, is the combination ot imple laxative herbs with pepsin, sold in drug stores under the : ame of Dr. Caldwell's . Syrup F psln. This is a mild, pleasant laxative-tonic and digcstant. ahsdl tidy free from opiates or narcotic lrugs and has been the standard household re medy in counties ; homes for many years. A fr e trial bottle can be obtained bf writing to Dr. V/. B. Caldwell, 41 2 Washington St.. Monticello, III* they will be of so a ich help to the "issued tax" payers,* w? think they should have j"frst ct ?slderatlon and should the money gl e out before reaching Anderson, f ie "issued tax" payers would still ha e the better of tho bargain, which >f. course, they are entitled to. Jud log from the sympathy that's mani ested for thom. Without regard ar, to what th? com missioners might deg re want au ex pression from you, M . Kdltor, as to the above idea. Now don't take ut for an inter rogation point. Mr. ?d?tor, but can you tell us how it s< happened ,that this bond election v.* set within the 30 day limit, therebj disfranchising many from voting s! ice they could not regi8ted on the Irst Monday In tills month? Quite a coincident you know. Let our lei active delega tion have this one Bi ?Uter Smoak, Gentlemen, will you please tell us, \vhlle having so mue , sympathy for your Uncle Rube uftt sr . his heavy burden cf "taxatiot ", ' why you would have him lose ? day In going after the voting b, xi s, then anoth er day as manager f tho election, and still another day In taking the boxes back to town, ll without any pay? Was this doh through ex citement, if so, guess he commission is glad that it got in before the ex citement started. We may bc' vbarkini up the wrong tree," still we bellov that we are on the right trail iii believing that you perhaps thougt ;? that Uncle Rube being busy pl/.* ng, would not lose three days from ils work with out pay, and - there t dug no Uncle Rubes to manage th election, tho other Uncle F.mbes cc lld not vote - hence the reBult. But Uncle Rube wS.1; be V?xsre with the goods and Jtelp"! JU the most high-handed piece niwalillisiiji t.i ntterapted to bo pulled off In this county, for since he worked last year for nothing he will not kick on working three days now without any pay. no not tn such a crisis as this. , . We want to assure you. Mr. Editor, "that we fully agree with you in what you had to say a few dava ago against some people using false statements in trying to get the other fellow to vote with them on this bond question. Believing that what's fair for the goose is also fair for the gander, will you please tell us. Mr. Editor, what you think of a leading banker of Anderson standing up and telling an old farmer that the bong is sue is alright and tbat lt ia all ri viii for him to vote for it and should it be voted on, then all he would have to do to escane the extra raise bi taxes would be to refuse to have th good roads built on* reaching the edge ?' his plantation. Mr. Editor, this is an actuar fact and If you want the proof lt would tickle us td the end of our toes at. having the pleas ure of furnishing lt. Of course, that banker may have sense enough to run a bank, but If that was his hon est opinion as to what that old farm er could do in this case, then he hasn't enough common s^use to pour peas out of a bootleg without thc directions on the heel. Don't that hanker ku-jw full well that the old farmer can no more stop work on the ' public roads run ning through hts lands than a Jay bird can stop the great European war? Mr. Editor, we are living in an en lightened age. and at last the com mon people are catching on to thia rotten legislation, both State and national, and w care well aware of the '"act. that thr, purchaser of thes*> Anderson county bonds would, un der that regina! bank act, get a clean, clear cut rake off of one hundred and eighty seven thousand five hun dred dollars. Oh! no wonder the big Hrh bond purchaser ls Inquiring af ter those GreeuMMle county bonds and assuring the people of. that county that it will be no trouble fo ti oat them. No wonder rich men are thsopgh certain, channels treing to get us to votfr bonds over our heads, when their hellish purpose ls to make thi rich richer and the poor, poorer. . ; Ihborors of Anderson .county, It* matters not what your work may? bo. so to the1 nolls on the 8<Uh dar of March, and by your vote show tc the world that without compulsion and without the knowledge and .m sent of your child. you will no place a debt on its head that will nerhapa be s burden tn it through the greater part of lu Hts. for If hy *our vote yu? nnt thli debt on lt, thea vou are unfaithful end recreant to your duty to that child ai regards to its future welfare and you are to .?e pitied for yonr unfaithfulness or tor your Infernal ignorance. Talk tn ns about ?he bonds only raising the farmers Unes so ?ltUo, well if it on Iv raises ours fitter cents, we don't proDOsed to give some scoun drel ten cent? of that In order to get a nickel fer good roads. NO. Uncle rtube. Ii1? pot that they have n. id holts- issn, but that they har-, \u? rake off mon . That's tho hammer "that killed J itu?? Henry." lt's very -strange that .aince that regina! hank act went into- e'ffect that this bond issue pain for good road H should itave struck th? wbote coun try at the same time. We see that they ' have the same pain in Texas and in Grayson county, where we lived for four years and where they inn'.? tho finest roads we ever saw, they are trying to get the people there to vote a nine hundred thous and dollar bond Issue for good roads, and so you see. Uncle Hube, there are hogs there that's trying to get iu the trough with all of their feetjj lust us there, are here, and every where else %z? tue only way to keep them out is to k?ocif them senseless with the ballot box. Apd now. Mr. Editor, till you meet our points of objection to the bond issue, and show us that we are wrong, we will never believe that you are right, and in the mean time, we will fight you till that place that we ali hope td* escape after death, freezes o ?r. Some of our friends have asked us to reply to the ladles who have taken the opposite side of this ques tion, hut will just say that we were born with enough sense not to argue with a woman and in order to save her the trouble of taking Gie last word, we just give it to - her at 'he beginning. Of ' 'rae, in drawing, pretty pictures of good roads, we know that this bond question offers an inviting field for those inclined, to show that they have swallowed at least one copy Of Webster's Un abridged Dictionary, regardless ol whether they can digest lt or not. I'ncie 'Rube is/not looking af thia pretty picture of good roads, hut the cast of building them under a bond issue is the thing, that's got his ex tention. W. Lt, CASEY. P. S. In order ' to 'eliminate all doubt as to bow wo ?land on good roads, wo hate just found that our daddy and hi3 daddy's daddy, great grand daddy's gfand' daddy," were all in . favor of good roads, so that we have Jtfht naturally inherited a love for good roads. W. L. C. A STATE HIGHWAY 8YSTEH i --~ . Up'to January 1, 1814, Gie State ol Maryland bad lBBUed $9,170.000 .>vorth of bonds for highway improvement, and the total amount of such bondi IsBuea by the State, counties and districts, end not including those is sued by Baltimore city for higbyaj improvement v was , 19,920,500, ' oi something more than . one-tenth ol the total of ?93,005,207 Issued by th? South Other highway bondB to the amount of several million dollars million dollars were- issued by Mary land In 1914. The proceeds ot the bonds have been used in bringing tc competlon " a well-conceived, com prehensive plan of State trunk high ways ulUr.stsly giving ready access to Baltimore, the metropolis, and tc Annapolis, the capital, from the lausloHiTWrtrnrir aretn Only .ft few short links, some of them already under contract, are to be built 'tc Vound out the system, and it. ia thought that that end will be reach ed this year. The system ba salready been an Inspiration to local road im provement, and its completion ls ex pected to give an even greater im petus. The total length of puhlic roads in the State is 17,025 miles, ol which less than 400O have been im proved. But in the ten years between 1904 and 1914 the improued length Increased from 1570 Jallos to 3276, o? at the rate of nearly 100 per cent. In th,, same period the improved length of the 855,557 miles ot public loa'i.i in the South Increased 29,853 milea to .62,790 miles, or st the rate of Ul per cent. These figures, while marking mos: ?ratifying progress, indicate the vas: amount of work still to be done bo fore the South shall have an ado quate highway system. The work under the State auspices in Mary land has been in many respects u model one, based upon a plan wbicl other States In the South may wei! follow with sueli adaptations as ians bc called for by circumstances dif fering in different States. The Sout'f has an advantage over other pant ot the country In possessing prac tlcally every kind of natural ma terial for road building, or resource* from which road materials are made and practically every kind of emili material has already been used ir cdnstructing roads In' the South. State geological surveys and othei agencies are instant in giving with publicity to local road-building ma terials, and there is a steadily in creasing inclination to make use oi engineering knowledge and exper ience In determining the best uso oi such material. At the same tim? th? problem of economic maintenance lt also receiving greater attention, Demonstration of tho advantages ol improved highways to encouraging taxpayers to undertake, directly ot Indirectly, greater financial respon sibilities for highway Improvement. [AH along the Une lu Ute South Vu prospect. for n 8pee?lz_?"ulpraent ol that section with good road? bo comes brighter every day.-Manu facturera Record. Editor Tho .Intelligencer: At this timo while the people ar? discussing the "pro and con" 'of th? bond Issue. ? desire to set forth ta) views concerning this measure, and will say that I am nnlnfluonced bj politics, as I may or tnay not cvei again ask the people for office. In the cutset. I think thts ques tion should have -i?eo agitated long ago and thoroughly gone Int? by call ing a mass meeting of the citizens oi the county after duo notice-io hay? TO D AY ? ; j i " is== ; _ ===== BARGAIN DAY AT P Geisherg Btos. The Dollar is playing the lead ing role at this good store today profit by our timely reductions. 6 cairs Silk Hose $1 00 for .... * * . $1.25 Boudoir Slippers, pink, .blue, red and tan jfel f)(Y Thursday ..*I ,VV One lot Patent Strap Slippers for Children, sizes-5 to 4t1 fif? 2, Thursday ... . .?1-"V 20 pairs Utz and Dunn Slippers, worth from $2.00 to $5.00. all kinds, Thursday <g 100 each . . ... .. . . . ($2.00 a pair) $2.50 Baby Doll Pumps 4JT fifi today, each .:. . . 91 MU ($2.00 a pair) Geisberg Eros. Shoe Co. Under Masonic Temple "SHOES THAT SATISFY"-" met in the court house at a given date to iliopima tha a.lvl ,n< lilt? ... ....l.t.... -~ ~ BU ^tJWVJ u? tlie delegation to pass a bill authoriz ing thc election on thia question. Now, in all fairness to everybody connected with the movement,- I- think the dele gation did the wise'thing in not put ting these bonds over on the people (as waa done by the Greenville Coun ty delegation) without first referring the matter to the people, as far as I have acquainted myself * with this "good roads" question, and that is a matter of near two years experience as supervisor, I am convinced that we can never improve our roads or do anything tending toward permanency until we get more money and my plan would detail no additional expense on the expending .or the "permanent fund," it would be to levy an extra levy to say 3 1-3 mills on the taxable values of Anderson County which said f I levy would raise approximately $45, 000 annually, to say nothing of the 93,400 that is provided for the ser vices for the highway commission. This $45,000 would bo the same amount aa we would bc required to raise annually to meet the interest on the said $750,000 bond issue and the 1 per cent to be placed in the re-, demption fund, and if this was kept up for a period ot ten or twenty years would put the roads of -Anderson County In good shape and there would be nv> outstanding bonds, which to speak plainly, is nothing less than [ j a mortgage on the property of the county And it might be that, after a few years the people- seeing the good reBults occuring to them from im proved roads might demand bo.ids. If so it would come as a demand from M the people and not as a demand to the people. The object lesson would bc a dally reminder to the people of the hoed of batter roads and I believe would eventually lead to bonds or moro liberal appropriations tor good road purposes. We could easily dis tribute this money for a number of years in putting tn permanent water ways or as near permanent as can be obtained, aa nothing ls permanent tor all time, not even iron or rock, for one rusts out and the other wears out. but this would be the beat pos sible investment as this water way Mftestton ls one source of continual \ j drain on the county's fund and when stopped for any length of time would give more money to be expended on improving the road beds, and If at any time the people desired to cut ont |_ ; j thia direct method of application they wonld only have to elect men who '1 would cut off this levy for permanent > improvements. But once you^ boni? . i your county for $750,000 and start this $45,000 annual tax there will ho no way of stopping it until forty years ar?'ended-and you-cannot then bond your county over again lor what 1ms already been expended and unless every section receives its part from the first issuo it possibly may never receive it. Now, we are told that this interest debt amounting to 545.000 annually is ten thousand dollars less than is now expended on roadt? an unruly. Granting that it ls, and that the $750, 000 will build two hundred miles of what lr. teruifrd permanent roads, and 1 think that is as much as they cal culated on building with the bond is sue, pray tell me what is to become of tho other tjhr.ee or more thousand ralles of road in Anderson County? Od they intend tb abandon all other roads? It seems that one would be lei* to infer that, since they advance the Btateme it that the cost;of carry ing the bonis and creatingXhe sink ing fund weald be lena -than the amount we {now expend on roads by (CONTI mED OX I'ACJE I-1 VF. ) SICK CHILDREN LOV? CASC ARETS FOkTHE BOWELS ? ?_ '. Give "Candy Cathartic" for a bad cold, ?our stomach, Wipation. Get a 10-peit box now. Most of th? ills of childhood aro caused by a Kur, disordered stomach, sluggish liver und constipated bowels. They catch etd easily, become crass, listless, Irritate, feverish, resttesp, tongue coated don't eat or Bleep well and need a tmtle cleansing of tho " bowc?s-^but dn't try to force a naus eating dose otoll into fire little one's already sick itonmch-it is cruel, needless and lid-fashioned. Any chill wil gladly take Cascarets Candy Cal name which net gently* nover grir ? or produce the slightest uneaslnestj-tliough cleanse the Ht? " one's aystsre. greaten* 'the stomach and put thl iv. r and bowel?: in a pure, healthy col??fior,. F^ull d4?jnne ?or - Children., and grown-up?! each package. Motherslm rest easy after giving tlds- gentflihnr'nugh laxative which costs onls] cents a. box at any drug Hore. 1; ? , ?.'^.'Wlli