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GOOO MEETING AT REMBERT. 000*1 Ho\|?s TAI.hi Ms UMMUBM VOTERS OF REMBERT o\ $l.,0,OUO BOND ISSI I Speukern for the < >c?a?>ioit: Mr?*r\ It. II. IVls4i, s. i\ tlakrr. I... L Carroll, J. C. Dunbar. II. W. Ik* II and P. >l. Pitt?? Mevting Presided <?\rr by J. E. DuPrc?Much Inter? cut Taken nml M?n> Comerts. The sixth and next to hut of the series of good roads meetings In the county for the purpose of creating ln'.ere*t an.I enthush? ,m f? ?r the issu ? of $150,000 In road Improvement bonds In this county to build up a system of good roads throughout the entire county was held Tuesday at Kein her t where s crowd of about one hundred and fifty persons gathered to hear what the good roads men had to say. When the meeting adjourned and everybody left fof home late In the afternoon the general sentiment of ills whole body seemod highly In favor of having the good roads and of getting them by issuing the twenty year rood Improvement bonda There were a few dissatisfied ' one*. but these seemed mostly to 1 be dissatisfied because the crowd did not think their way or because their 1 I way of raising the money was not advocated by the speakers. How- ! ever, none of those who objected to the plan advocated by the speakers took the stand therefore their objec- ' tlons could not be clearly learned. It la a safs estimate of one who listened ' to the spesklng and heard a great many of those present express their sentiments that at least ninety-five per cent, of those present will vote for 1 the bond Issue on the first of Au- ; gust when they go to the polls to express their opinion In the matter. The people of Rembert showed their well known hospitality by hav? ing on the grounds plenty to eat and drink and by giving visitors the glad hand shake and the heartiest of welcome. The day was a very' pleasant one for all. whatever the opinion of the good roads Issue and the bonding plan might have been. The speakers for the occasion were all in good trim and several good speeches were made. Dr. S. C. Baker started the ball rolling when he was introduced bv Mr. J. ! E. DuPre, a prominent farmer of Ptagah, who presided on the oc? casion. In his Introduction Mr. Du? Pre stated that they were going to hear about a subject that was agitat? ing the whole country at this time and one that had been of the deep? est Interest to all civilisation and na ? i ?!or? since the first empires were established. Dr. RaknT spoke on "A Message from the Chamber of Commerce." i He ssld in substance that he did not ro to speak on good roads, but to tell the people of Rembert of the work that the recently re? organised Chamber ol Commerce has been doing and intended to do. The Cnamber of Commerct was work? ing In behalf of the country as well aa In behalf of the city and they wanted the people living In the country to know It. Each part of the country was dependent upon the other parts, the merchants were de? pendent upon the farmers and pro? ducers snd the producers were equally dependent upon the mer chsnts. There were seventeen com? mittees appointed In the Chamber of Commerce and several of these committees were trying to get the Clem son Experiment station in this county; one on Drainage, one to form a truckers and producers ex? change . -o that the produce of the farm.ts might be exchanged from one place to another with bast trouble and cost and so that pro? duce could be equalised all over th3 eouniry. a Railroad Committee, which had been successful in secur? ing th?> s. ib..ard Air Line ra 'road to Sumter. thereby adding as much ns 1200,0 o worth of taxable property on the county tax hooka, I Commit? tee on Schools to bring about im pro\.m?nts In schools In the rural districts and t'? form union schools wherever it was practical to do so, snd Ig OOS th it the children were taught agriculture and farm method* at their own homes, Committee on (pood ib'ois *?? of to facilitate In? toreonrw ? letvt?? n town .md rountry and to ic tk- hauling iri . SSy part of farm work and not the hardest, This commutes bad set out to bulls' up g.I ro.oN In the e.omt> if po - slble and Uli good roads -peak r would tell the google how It couhl he done with least cost and in Short? est time. Hood roads were a VOTg Important factor to die loaith of the commun< It) and this ought to lie taken int? consideration when the people vote on the bond hsue. Drainage wai one feature of good roads and wit I proper drain ige came the destruc? tion of the breeding places of th? malaria mosmilto and less malaria the greatest scourage to the i ountrj people. An invitation was then ex< tended to the people from Hemhof and other McUoni of tho country to visit tho Chamber of Commerce hondqunrtori whenever they t re In lOWll and hUd the chance to do so Mid to hold their meetings in the Chamber of Commerce hall when? ever they wanted to hold any busi? ness session in town. The next speaker was Supervisor IV M. Pitts. He began his address by saying that is was the duty of every good citizen of Sumter county to VOte f??r or against the bond issue for $150,000 road Improvement J bonds on the first of August, when the election was to come off. II?' thought that everybody should know what the county was doing With the funds Which had been secured from i the BfWVtOUS bowel i*sue Dl $"?0,000. TlMUl bori.ls had hvvn floated In the BUriy summer and since that time work had been going on at various l'l 1001 in the county, the work be? ing done by Contract. He thought that Mr. BslSQT was well within the limits when he had estimated the sent ?>f building the roads in this county at $500 a mile. In other places the cost of building snnd clay roads had OCOl anywhere from $00i"> to <r>no a mile. Some sections of this county are well adapted to build? ing this kind of road and the cost would, of POUTSe, be less. The prin? cipal feature of road building was the grading and drainage of the roads. It was absolutely necessary to have a road engineer for this part of the work and consequently much would be saved by having one. lie himself had built a road in that sec? tion of the county several years ago and because of improper drainage it had gone to pieces in a short time. In regard to the fact that some farmers thought that the road build? ing would demoralize farm labor ho wanted to say that only about 100 or 150 laborers would be employed in the county at one time and this number of hands could not demora? lize the whole county. Road ma? chines had been built to take the place of laborers and in this way fewer men were required. Every? where he had been with his gang he had met with a sentiment In fa? vor of good roads and most of the people wanted the good roads now. It was up to the people of the coun? ty to say whether they warded the good roads and whether they were willing to pay for them. The pres? ent board was a practical board and did not waste money and for every? thing that went out they had to hnOW what was coming in. Xo money would be wasted in building the roads in this way. He said that be thought It would be a good plan ? ' d?> away with making the hands work the road and make them pay the $2 commutation tax instead which would mean $10,S00 annually to be used In the building and maln I tenance of the roads. He was in favor of the issue and had reached 1 the conclusion that it was the best I thing for the county after some hard ' thinking and figuring. Mr. R. B. Heiser said In effe. t. ( He had given the matter a great deal of thought for the past live i . yann and had traveled over several sections of this state and other It ites and ktn w that this county was I far behind a great many other plaCSU There were 400 miles of road to be built In the county. the other hundred miles of roads bein? niturallv good roads or having al? le, olv been built Into good roads. He thought that a oompleb system of sand < lay toads all OVer the county would help the county more than anything else that could be done for it. It this plan was suc essful there WOUld be $i??,000 S year to be spent In building good ronds and In five years the county would have a system as good as any in the State. The election gave the people of the county a chance to vote ac I Ording to how they saw the subject and as to whcth -r or not they were to have good ronds or to remain I satisfied with the same bud roads .that ih? y have now, The election Is ? to be hold nt ? time when every I firmer would hi able to go to the polls. M laid particular stress up? on tin facl that hi experienced road 1 ?<ngtne< r was to have charge of the v.ork and the roads were to be built 1 under his direction. The bond Issue wai the best j method of gutting the money f^r the ' I road building for the county could, 'j hecaui of Its small bonded Indebt jedioss, i??t the money at * 1*1 per ? ; cat, w lo reas the money in the '.treasury was worth eight i" r cent. ? to the county, He thought it a pay 1 iiikc proposition to get money at i i?t I per out. ami bud out money at ? eight per < ?nt. A survey would b. mad a and the loc it Ion and gradlni I of the roads would be made and ex? ? amined by the counts board before i any of the work would be done, thui . Insuring the shortest routes and tin i easiest grades. He said that tin i present county board was an econ* ? omlcal one and if they bad WastCQ ? any money. It was due to the system . and not to e\tra\ igance, He, there' i fore, advised securing the mono) ? while the present hoard was In office, I IIS It Was impossible to say what some other board might not do. Ev? erybody knew the Importance of good roadi and he would not dwell on that feature, At present $14,000 .1 year Is being epeni on the roads, if the entire system is put In opera? tion the coat Of maintenance will be exactly one-half of thai amount and will consequently mean 17,000 saving f<or the county each year. A direct tax was better than an indi? rect tax in ids opinion and always amounted to less in the end. One dollar for every thousand dollars' worth of property turned in was not much to pay when the property val? ue was increased t? n-fold. The sink? ing fund would require a one mill tax to pay if off and this small amount would m>t go hard with any? one, At the present rate of road building. 10 miles a year, it would take forty years to build roads all over the county, but no one wanted to wait forty years to get good roads. Th?- est of maintaining the roads WOUld be about $10 a mile after the roads were bullt, requiring about 15,000 a year. The saving from hauling alone when the good roads were put In would In three years pay off the 1 ond issue, if it COUld be paid off in that way, The good roads movement meant union schools and hacks to take the children from their doors to the schools?it means a promotion of education and social and business intercourse. The total value of property assess? ed on the tax books was $.",o00,000. The real VUlUC therefore would bo more than $20,000.000. If the sys n of good roads raised the value of the property SB per cent., as it certainly would, the county would tret a value of $5,000,000 or $200,000. Mr. H, W. Iteall was the first speaker after dinner. He told about how the bond issue looked to a farm e.. He said that it did not take much figuring for him to see, after he had been told how the matter was, that he would save just twenty or thirty times as much money as he spent in taxes In his hauling of fertilizer and cotton, and if he did this it was a paying proposition. The people were so accustomed to the old time bad roads that the present plan seemed to some to be too good to be true, but if it were not true then Dr. Ba ker and Mr. Heiser and the whole government department of agricul? ture were liars and a set of cheats. He said that he had seen that he would Ket OUt Of it a great deal more than he had put in it and therefore he was for it. He called attention to the fact that there was a good road from his house to the. city limits, and then he had to take off half of his load so as to be able to go on up town. He said that some seemed to think that it was a better plan to have a throe mill levy for Seven years instead of the bond issue for twenty years, The money could be borrow? ed at four and one-half per cent, and that money that was paid in on the res mill levy was worth eight CSntS, Which was the better to pay In money worth eight cents or to borrow money worth onlv 4 1-2 per cent. .' He preferred the latter plan himself and he had figured it out that he would save, or the county would? $120,000 on interest by fol? lowing the bonding plan. He then wa nt on to tell about the eft* teti the building of good roads woidd have on the making of union school! and th > easier methods of educating the children. Good roads and k.1 schools were the two best things that any county could get. He was a member of the County Farm? ers' Union and was Farm Life Sc hool Organiser for this county, The Ides <?f this movement was to estab? lish union schools which should teach the same principles Of farming which were now taught at Clemson and other agricultural colleges, Mr. S. M. McCall asked why it was that Sunder county was obliged to have a bond issue when other i ounties, Florence.unty In partleu I '?. was able to build good roads without the Issuance of any bonds f :? that purpose. Mr. Deal] stated that he considered it due to the fact that Florence county had a dlspen i iry and Bumter county did not. He K id that although he was a prohibi? tionist he would vote in favor of readmitting the dispensary If it came :?? an Issue again, Mr. J, C, Dunbnr . ;' l>.-!/eii asked If the prosperous condition of the country was not ?lue o the voting out of the dispensary. Hi; Heal] said that he thought it was tin" to the price of cotton for the past several years. Mr. I,. 1. Par rott was then called upon to -peak. He said that he had heard of several Parrott* which could talk, but he had never heard of any thai could make a speech. He then went ilnad and put his andiene,- in a good humor by tolling them several ex? rollen! lokes. He tom bed lightly on the road issue, lie 'nui traveled on [good ' >adi and he knew that thil county was far behind several other < .indies that be bad visited in tin matter of having the roads built. m r. J, C, i ?unbar told of the need of good roads by telling what wai bang done in Marlboro county where the people Were trying to issue $300,000 bonds Cor good roads and how members <>i the United States senate were fighting for good roads and nying t<> get the government to appropriate money for building them. He said that he knew how much would be saved by hauling over good roads and that he was heartily in favor of tiie bond issue. All of the speakers were nell re? ceived anil heartily applauded at tin- close of their several speeches, The audience listened attentively to ill that the speakers had to say ind seemed convinced that it was best for them to vote for the bond issue and get the good roads. The meeting broke up about 4 o'clock. Many of those who attend? ed were from Sumter and Dalsell. MANY MATTERS IN MAYESVtl.LE. Fire Destroys J, F. Anderson's Stables?New A. C. Ii. station? Work on Hotel?Personals. Mayesville, July 24.?A small but dangerous fire on account of Lie high wind this afternoon destroyed the stable building of J. F. Anderson and a small building used by W. II. Swlnton, colored, as a. pressing club. The losses were not heavy as the stable was not in use- and was an (dd building, it is not thought that any amount of property was hurri? ed in the pressing elwb. The fact that the wind was in a favorable di? rection no doubt saved the residence of Mr. Anderson an ! several others near by. The barn of C .apt. J. E. Atkins quite a distance from the tire caught from sparks, bat was extinguished without any consider? able damage, although this fire mus? ed much alarm for a short time. The volunteer firemen did their duty as usual and deserve praise I'br it. Work on the new hotel building has been somewhat retarded during the past week on account of delays in getting lumber. Today, a fire in the yards of the Letts Lumber com pany destroyed a quantity of lumber ready for shipment to the contractor, T. B. Fort, and this will c.iuse anoth? er delay fin the building. However, work is being pushed as well as can be and it is hoped to have the first floor ready for occupancy by Septem? ber 1. The new bank building1 is very nearly completed and will probabl) be occupied within two wet ks. Messrs. Grandy & G randy, the contractors, have about finished their part of the work and the In? teriors of the bank and stores are all that is to l>e done. A wide cement pavement has been put down around the street sides of the building in keeping with the rest of the pav? ing in the business section. All res? idence building in town is about completed for the present. Other 1 buildings will probably lie crecied in the near future. General Superintendent Newell of the Atlantic Coast Line has visited this town according to promises and conferred with the citizens as to The new depot to ho built here soon. From present indications, a modern brick station will he given the town. At any rate, it is a certainty t'iiat a new depot will be built, and it will be strictly modern in every respect oven if it is not of brick. Mr. Newell s rented greatly impressed with the town and vicinity and was suprised at what the committee laid before him here. The new station will be in keeping with the progress of the town and should necessarily follow the rapidly building up. of the town along modern lines. The crops in this s*-ction are re? ported to be very fine except corn in a few cases. Cotton is except? ionally good and a large yield is looked for by the planters. Messrs. 11. .1. Ma yes. Jr.. M. C. Mayes. and Dr. Gardner Will have i tomorrow morning in the former's j touring car for Blowing Rock N. C, ? and other points of Interest. They ( expeel to be away for ab.? it two weeks or more. 1 Mrs. Losa Shannon aid little ? daughter, of Jefferson, arc visiting j Misss Lima Max es. Mrs. E. B, Smith and daughter i ; have returned to their In no- at I Folkston, Ga., after a visit i<? rela ! lives her,, and at Hose 1 till. Mrs. 11. J. Mayes, Sr.. and sons. ' and Mr. M. i*. Mayes have returned from a short Visit to relatives in , Cl?ren,b>n county. Mr. Wm. Goldman, of Gettysburg, Pa., is on a visit to bis brother, Mr. Isaac Goldman, j Miss Lou McPherson, of Florence county, Is visiting at Mr. W. T. i '< loner's. I Misses Neita Corbett and Lou I Ervln Wilson have returned hone? 'from tie sessions of the State Suill I mer school ,,t Winthrop College. Hard to Obtain Radium. London's radium institute is finding It hard to obtain the live snd one-half grams of radium needed in its equip I ment for therapeutic v ork The firm which undertook to sup| \y that amount is unable to live up to its con* tract. The institute is to open In Oc? tober. Algebra to Be Made Into Poetry. it Is reported thai a French teacher has invented a System for teaching al gebra in poetry. About fifty-five years ago there was an educational system in vogue by which a considerable share of the academic curriculum was set to music and sung by the teachers and classes. Even 'lie multiplication table was one of the songs, with the fives column as a chorus, sung to the tune of "Yankee Doodle."?American Educational Review. Dirt and Disease. Dirt is the "perfect culture" of all disease and of all that delights In dls tase. There the microbes of all plagues live and move and have their being undisturbed by the broom or the rrop. unafraid of the smell of soap, and neve*- awakened from their rest by tr>p light from any lnmp of knowTcxfr* that constitutes the sci? ence of modern times. Improved Sewing Cabinet. A sewing rabinet spacious enough to hold everything a seamstress may need in her work, yet which folds up like a screen and can be carried by handles has been invented by a Mfs sourian. Prevents Corrosion of Boilers. By subjecting boilers to weak elec :ric currents from dynamos through apparatus he has invented an Aua Milan scientist claims to prevent their corrosion by the electroHshwmienl action of the wat r. For Radium Srths. At St. Joachimstah', Bohemia; where the Austrian government h s its ra? dium laboratory, a lr.rg*> b-thing* estab? lishment is being erected for baths nx the radio-active water taken from the pitchblende mine there. Fat Pocketbook isn't Bad. Miladi says a cook book is the best guide book on how to rianago a hus Dand.?Memphis Commercial Aur eal. Lucky Prima Donna. It Is, indeed, a lucky prima donna srho can have Ler artistic proficiency measured by the amount of jewelry *he wears. Interpreting Our Laws. Eileen, whose family In the old coun? try hod known her by the more prosaic name of Ellen, loRt no opportunity of promulgating all the freedoms of the new country that came her way. Some? times they took an Inverted form of handing out orders to her mistress. 'Yez'll be careful, mum, thot yez puts no paper In th's garbage bucket. Thim Is orders, mum. frum th' garbage gln tlemin." Wilson, of New Jersey, criticizes severely the lawyer in polities* The lawyer is more than ready with his defense, tearing up the planl* that , has college diplomas stuck all ovir it.?Jacksonville Times-Union. The McCollum Brothers Company of Bumter has been commissioned, with a capital stock of to do general mencantlle business The peti? tioners are T. W. McCollum and H. \\\ McCollum. It Is certain that his enemies are going to give Governor Kitchin a run for his money.?Greensboro Rec? ord. They may defeat Simmons, but he is right in thrj game in the finish?Qreensboroi Reeord. Number "30" Under Ban. A curious reminiscence ot the trea? son of Judas survives In Belgium Amcng the labor folk at Blanken berghe and other ports the number ot 30 is banned. When bringing down the price of their wares in order to tempt purchasers they always pass from 31 sous to 29 sous, and in the ^me way they refuse to give 30 sous for any purchase, preferring to pay an extra eou. if they cannot succeed In abating the priee asked Stenography 2,000 Years Ago. It seems imredible. but it can be proved, already !n the olden times there were BtOOOgraphera who took down the speeches mad^ in the Roman senate or in public. The) were called DOtaiil and we find a place in Sue? tonius where Augustus is angry be? cause the stenographers reported the speech of -'aesar for Mettullus In a J very imperfect manner "Hello" Equ pment. To do 'he Velio work last year there were more than 2SS.0 ?0 miles of pole lines. There were more than five and a half million miles of pole wire and h half million miles of pole wire, about rix million miles of underground wire and nearly twenty-five thousand miles cf submarine wire?total miles of wire. 11,642,212. The increase for the year was nearly a million and a quarter miles. Effect of lmaqin;?tion. A man condemned ro death was promised that If he would spend the night in bed in which ;. cholera patient had died and survived the e.\;>erimer.t, his freedom would b< given him He spent the night in tl e bed and died the next day. Rut no iticnt had ever died In th? bed. and the efTeci on the imagination and nerves of the con? demned man really Cdused his death. Was Too Suspicious. An Albanian youth named Brahimo vitch, who is a stranger to the cus? toms of civilization, arrived in Bel? grade recently and shot a new ac? quaintance immediately after an in? troduction, having mistaken an at? tempt to shake hands for an attempt . to snatch the weapons in his belt. Record Christening Pa A unique party met in . Scotland, recently to ce cnrlatening in addition to ents ot *i>e child, there were pieaeui the fol o^iag relatives: Four grand? parents, one greatgrandfather, four great-great-grandmothers. Their united ages were nearly 800 years. Trainloads cf Candy. If America's annual candy snnniv wej i be box loac ?f t tbi Burners about $125,000,0<>0 every year Died While Making Coffin. Under curious circumstances a man named Ryan died at Dublin a few days ago. While making a coffin he suddenly expired and was found lying u:ider a long board which was intend? ed to be the coffin lid. Improved Conditions in France. Statisticians now count on the sur? vival to maturity of 70 out of every 100 male children born in France. In, ttead of 67 a few years ago. Making the Best cf It. The Troy press Fays: "After alL, It ! Is an alert official who knows enough I to get out without waiting to be put | out." And he cheats his enemies out I of such an exquisite pleasure. Why You Should Bank With THE PEOPLES' BANK (ITH Your idle money placed on certificates of deposit bears ? cut. Interest from date. The Certificate is negotiable, and con Vertible into cash any day. Place your money on Certificate?wh.cn you need it <all?when you want to invest, do so. In Time of Peace, prepare for war. in time of prosperity hank against adversity. Yes, hank. We use the term advisedly. LTse the l ank. Its ad vanti >;vs are ill at your disposal. Wh n In doubt ask tl.LShlef. if in- knows he will tell you. Let "ur bookkeeper* handle your accounts. They'll keep them straight Your checks are your receipts when you pay an acccunt. When times are good, pile up a fund in the bank against your rain day. It will be kept for you more safely than you can keep It. Fire proof vault, tnsur ance igalnst burglary. Its subject to your cheek when you want it. if you are not already banking with us the time to start is now. ? -t THE FARMERS' BANK & TRUST CO.