The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, July 29, 1911, Image 2
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.