Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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LUCKY STRIKE Cigarette To seaL n the delicious Burley tobacco flavor. It's Toasted JAY M. ABBOTT Funeral Director and Embalmer Phone No. 5 LIBERTY, S. C. THE SAME EVERYWHERE. The editor of Paisa Akhbar, a na tive newspaper of Lahore, India, says, "I have used Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy many times among my children and serv ants, for colic and diarrhoea and al ways found it effective." TO BE OR NOT TO BE Eyeglasses or spectacles ? That is the question.. Let ta decide for you by examining your eyes and prescribing eyeglasses or spectacles, whichever is preferable. We will recommend Shelltex Shur-On Mountings because they look as though made for you alone when we make the selection and do the fitting. Kodak Films Developed by Experts ODOM-SCHADE OPTICAL CO. A. A. ODOM, A. H. SCADE, President Sec'y. & Treas. Consulting Optometrists. iMasonic Temple, Greenville, S.. C. A. C. SPAIN 'DENTIST EASLEY, S. C. Office over Commercial Bank. Phone 175. BILIOUSNESS AND CONSTIPA TION. "For years I was troubled with biliousness and constipation, which made life miserable for me. My ap petite failed me. I lost my usual force and vitality. Pepsin prepara tions and cathartics only made mat ters worse. .I do not know where I should have been today had I not tried -Chamberlain's Tablets. The tablets relieve the ill feeling at once, strengthen the digestive functions, helping the system to do its work -naturally," writes Mrs. Rosa Potts, Birmingham, Ala. * * * * + . C C * * * MARTIN & BLYTHE * * Lawyers. * Masonic Temple, Greenville, S. C. * * Benj. F. Martin. * * E. M. Blythe. * *: * * * * *. * * * * J. R. Martin J. H. Earle -Greenville, S. C. Pickens, S. C. MARTIN & EARLE Attorneys-a t-Law. Practice In All Courts Pickens Ollice in Court HIouse. vGeenville Office opposite Postoffice. 'Phone 404. THE. SCHOOLS OF PICKENS AND THE SEE(VICES OF R. T. HAL. LUM, COUNTY SUPT. By Prof. W. S. Morrison, Clemson College.. The following article was written by Prof. N;arrison for "South Caro lina Education," a magazine publish. ed by the extension department of 'the University of South Carolina, and is taken from the May 15 issue of that magazine. You ask me for a short article on the schools of Iickens and the serv Ices of the outgoing County Super Intendent of Education, Richard T. Hallum. To comply gives me pecul iar pleasure for two reasons: I was one time a Pickens county teacher and twenty years later Hallum was for four years a student of mine al Clemson. He is one of my seven teen hundred jewels, that being the number of Clemson graduates I have taught at Clemson College. About the middle of September 1875, on of the trustees rode up t: my school house at McBee's Acade my, Spartanburg county, where I hat been teaching since a few days after graduating at Wofford late in June and authorized me to close schoo Friday, as "the money was out.' My contract was I would teach the school for $35 a month, the schoo to "continue as long as the mone% lasted." I closed as notified, an( hearing Easley had no school, I wen there following Sunday night, arriv ing about midnight. Next morninE I went around the 'town with m3 "list" and got fifteen or twenty "sub I scribed pupils" for a' school whici opened Tuesday, in the old Mt. Oli vet Methodist church, a frame build ing, unceiled, without window sash es. I taught there until about th 20th of December, pupils increasing to some thirty odd. The Air Lino Railroad had been in operation two or three years. Easley was a nev town with two or three hundred in habitants and several bar rooms. It public schools today have mor< teachers than its only school in l: day there had pupils; and there ar, more than ten times as many pupil as there were people in the towi when your scribe was board, princi pal and faculty of "The Easley Hig School"-as we advertised in Th, Pickens Sentinel, the only newspape in the county. During that remarkably beautifu fall I visited several sections of th county, attending quarterly meet ings, camp meetings and baptizing. Steadily the conviction grew on th boy schoolmaster that the Almight had done his part for the county i soil and climate, and that the land' great need was sch6olhouses an churches, teachers and preachers. The 1875 report of the state su perintendent of education show Pickens had that year 50 school houses "previously erected," 36 log 1 4 frame, none brick or stone Eighteen were in "good" conldition 13 "fair,'' 19 "bad." Two fram< houses wVere Put up (luring tile year Picke'ns then hlad forty white teachl ers, six colored, grand total forty six, thirteen third-grade, thirteem secondl-gradle, twenty first-grade The "average monthly wages paid' teachers was $27, male and femah( getting the same. $2,503.64 was the total anmount of .money paid t< teachers dur'ing the year. The state superint endent's report 1875, gives many items of greal interest albout school conditions'not .only in Pickens but in all South Carolina. That year the Radical Leg islature proposed the two-milil school tax amendment 'to the Constitution, which was supplortedl by both p)arties in the memorable election of 1876, and ap~provedl after a hlard struggle, .and mainly through the influence of Governor Hampton, by the first De mocratic General Assembly. R. T. Hallum entered Clemson Col ,lege in 1894--the year after the Col ,lege opened. He was an earnest, .hard-working student, impressing his fellow-students and the faculty as a man who came to, and remained at, Clemson "for business." While a cadet he borrowed my copy of Mill's Statistics of South Carolina, copied the entire article on Pendleton Dis trict ,and had it republished in the Pickens Sentinel in installments. In 1902, four years after graduating, 'Mr. Hallum was elected county . su perintendent of education. For six successive terms he was re-elected without opposition. He was beaten by a very few votes in 1916 by F. V. Clayton, who after serving a-year re signed and joined the navy. Mr. Halluml was elected to serve out the unexpiredl term wvhich endls July of the current year. Mr. Clayton was re-e'lectedl last November., Mr. Hal hum not off'ering for re-election. When Superintend nt' Hallum retires from oflce in July he will have serv ed s!eenteenl and~ a haltf years. When he~ entered tile ornee the school reve nuei of the counity was inl round numberes, $14.,000. Tlhs year it is schools. Now there are thirty-thre graded schools with two - or mor teachers, four high schools, and sev eral graded schools doing high schoo work. In 1902 log schoolhouses wer still in use in the county. Mr. Ha lum earnestly urged the building o better schoolhouse, and practicall every district now has a good schoo house. All districts, save two, hav levied special taxes, in most case eight mills, several more thar eigh and one district twenty-one mil: for schools. Teachers' salaries hav more than doubled within, the peri under review. In all this time M Hallum has had no assistance, e: cept from the state superintendent office, which has done great woi for the schools of our mountai county, whose sturdy people are th peers of any, and whose mountai tops, like Tom Hood's fir trees, al close against the sky, and near heaven than any other portions c the Palmetto State. "Dick Hallum," as Pickens couni calls him, has always been active interested in the state organizatic of the county superintendents c educatior:, and will b missed at the annual meetings at Winthrop Sun mier School. Mr. Hallum nas always taken gret interest in the fight against illite acy, and has always given cordi, support to the "lay-by" schools. In the closing weeks of a long an successful service he is urging tI - erection, or securing, of near ti school house homes for teachers, ar the "teacherage proposition" has r . more earnest and enthusiastic suj porter than Richard T. Hallum. Within the last forty years r - greater change has come over ti . minds of the people of South Car( lina than that of their attitude t wards our common schools, free pul lic schools, schools "good enough f< the richest and cheap enough for ti poorest," and in the struggles whi< brought about this wholesome chang Richard T. Hallum, educational lea( er for the "State of Pickens," ha rdone a man's part for his county ar the commonwealth. SOUTH CAROLINA HAS ROA PLANS. Members of Highway Commissic Also Attend Meeting. $50,000,. 000 Bond Issue Next? Columbia, July 12.-Several pr posed plans for the construction ( permanent highways in South Car e lina were considered and adviso Y committees and the nine vice pre: 1 dents of the South Carolina go( s, roads association held here toda i The association, it was announced, seeking to agree upon some compe sative plan to present to the peop of South Carolina. No decision wa .. reached at the mneeting here toda ,but- a committee will be appoint( .within the next few dlays to dIraft. pla for submission to th associ tion to submit to the lpeol a ft state?. The meeting today was preside Iover by L. D. Jennings, of Sumite threidenta of the alssociation, an thee ws agood attendance. Men hers of the state highway commissio wvere invited to appear before th association and give their views an the entire commission, headed by F Goodwin Rhett, of Charleston, wa present. Mr. Rhett and Chas. C Hearon, of Spartanburg, presente the views of the commission. Presi dent Jennings stated that the assa ciation was making a thorough inves tigation of all methods possible fo the building and financing of road before committing itself to a definiti plan and that it was thought wise t< hear from the highway commission The commission was thanked for ap pearing before the association anc presenting its views. Sentiment at the meeting toda3 seemed in favor of a bond issue President Jennings in a sp~ec~h be. fore the committees expressed the belief, that this issue should not be for less .than $50o,000,000. He de clared that if the state is to enter upon the construction of permanent highways it ought to spend enough to give each county its share. "If North Carolina, Georgia and Florida can build permanent highways' why cannot South Carolina?" asked Mr. Jennings, and he answered his own question by declaring that it could. Confidence was expressed by him that the people of the state would authorize the buildinig of permanent highwvays when they were shown that these highways could be built with out them, the stakte herely having to lend its credit. A. Masoni G;ibbs, of Columbia,. was elected a minebe of the exec*u tive committee of thIe association to till ai vaancy which (existedl in the' comminittee. The 'cmm Ittee defe'rr '1tion in the selectio (lof a secrietary1. It is the desir~e of the co'mmiittee . ceure the best mae available fC 1e p)osit,ion. Tempf -''a ry o)ffices f the a ssw 8 'cc wii# be o penedl i.t : 03 Libn).. Mk ui~kthis e'itv. wi2th HarceU > C. Booker, asaistant secretary, in a charge until a permanent secretary - is secured. I An active campaign for membjprs will be launched at once. e f MISS BEULAH PHILLIPS IN. JURED. Little Miss Beulah Phillips, four e teen 'year old girl of Central suf fered a broken leg one day last week when she fell from a swing in which s she with several other children were playing. Both bones of the leg were broken just above the ankle. She was rushed to the Anderson county hospital and is improving. k n ONE DOLLAR SAVED REPRE. SENTS TEN DOLLARS EARNED. The average man does not save to r exceed ten per cent of his earnings. He must spend nine dollars in living expenses for every dollar saved. That being the case he can not be too careful about unnecessary expenses. n Very often a few cents properly in f vested, like buying seeds for his gar ir den, will save several dollars outlay later on. It is the same in buying Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy. It costs but a few cents. and a bottle of it in the house often saves a doctor's bill of several dollar.:. d e A SPLENDID MEDICINE FOR THE 'e STOMACH AND LIVER. d 0 "Chamberlain's Tablets for the - stomach and liver are splendid. I never tire of telling my friends and o neighbors of their qualities," writes e Mrs. William Vollmer, Eastwood, N. >- Y. When bilious, constipated or >- troubled with indigestion, give them - a trial. They will do you good. or h i LS d The next time you buy calomel D ask for n iaitotabs D ry >d is 2- The purified and refined e calomnel tablets that are snausealess, safe and sure. y a Medicinal virtues retain a ed and improved. Sold .only in sealed packages. I- Price 35c. A This REFRIGI We have a few1 friger ators ranging f pacity to 100 pounds at greatly reduced p $24.00 Refrigerator $27.00 Refrigerator $30.00 Refrigerator $38.00 Refrigerator Also a few hea sold for $5.75 to go Get yours befor BARE Easley, S. C. HE 5555imA mm Riomie BANK OF( F. B. MORGAN, Pres. Centra Last w eek we had a cust< for his cancelled checks. He sa a bill he thought he had paid. had the Dentist's receipt where l Why not open a checkin; bills by check. letter be safe t BANK OF CENTI Just Aroun< your voicejust as satisfact< Don't travel-Telepho, SOUTH IERIN BELL TI AND TELEGRAPH1~I *Ihos4t w aioa LA&1i MaON TH, on a bot. WITH THE b)oys up horn SPENT a night. ALONE IN theo oldI. HAUNTED HOUSE, AND WH EN I hoard. MOANS AND groans. I SAID "The Wind." AND TRIED to sleep. I HEARD rappings. AND SAID "Rats.' AND ROLLED over. THEN I heard step&. AND IN the light. OF A dlying moon. A WHITE spook rose, I WASN'T scared--much. BUT DIDN'T feel like. STARTING ANYTHING. BUT THEN I caught. IJUST A' faint whiff. C!CARI I RATORS lice enanele lined re' rom 50 Pounds ice ca; that we will close out rices. now only - . 17.00 now only - - $19.50 now only - . .$22.00 now only . .$29.00 vy Screen Doors that now for only $4.25. a they all go. t BROS. trdware Phone 68 2ENTRAL. B. E. Allen, Cashier 1, S. C. >mer come into the bank and ask id a dentist was dunning him for We gave him his checks and he ie had received the money. account with us and pay your han sorry. CAL, Central, S. C. I the Corner Distant cities, towns and villages are "just around the corner" when you use -the Long Distance Bell Telephone. Why waste your time, energy and money in tray-. eling when you can send >rily and at a trifling costi CLEPHIONE ( C O MPA NY , 8 'P A familiar. THE Hu. A ND SA ID "IEd. YOU FAT guys.. MAKE BUM ghosta. BUT BEFORE you fade, LEAVE WITH me n. OF YOUR cigarettes. T HEY SAT ISFY." TI HlAT Spicy, delicidds aromd 5of fine tobaccos, both Turkish and Domestic, makes you almost hungry for the "satisfy-smoke." And there isn't a ghost of a chance you'll ever find. its etaI anywhere-for the Chesterfield blend i8 an~ erolusive blend. It can't be copied. H-ave you seen the new AIR-TIGHlT tine of 50? acarrrT & MyrRs TonAcco Co.