The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-08-12

THE HERALD AN
IL. Il had Il vacant lor WoT.I gle
city council permission to clean il OF
ana pile up the lumber on it nicely
for my use and l would also give the
city authority to put up for me a
nice building and turn the keys over
to me- Somebody ought to tear down
this old building near the depot. 1t
really does not look so nice, now does
it?
It is too hot to write much and to
listen to long speeches or to read long
articles I have lot Of things I want
to say and I am going to ask you to-
read them if the editor will give me
the space. If I just had that Idler's
park could go down there +i:cse hot
evenings and think and then I could
take my pencil along and make note
of my thoughts.
I thank the editor for the sugges-
ton that I remind Mr.. Zach Wright
of Newberry's need Of a park and !
now Immediately take my pencil il
hand to write Mr.. Wright and hope
he will Immediately be right for my
park. Mr.. Wright get right busy right
now and help me supply this need.
Seems to me I heard some one say,
or I dreamed it, that Mr.. Burton, the
cotton mill advocator, had secured,
or would secure, options on the land
on either side of SCOTS creek from
Nance street to Calhoun street. #
he has not done so will he please at
tend to it at once and let me know
how much money it will take and I
will proceed to raise it. That will be
easy. Another mill adds to the nee
essity for a playground over in the
city.
It would-now I really believe this
it would help the looks Of some OF
these expensive business lots in the
city if they we're moved. do not
know that the hay would be very
valuable but the point is the rubbish
would have to be removed before the
moving could be done. See? Now, l
do not like to suggest that there is
any trash or unsightly boxes and
bric-a-brac- brick on any of them, but
they are just too valuable to grow up
in weeds when they could be turned
into such beautiful lawns by the use
of the mower. Just look again at the
Central Methodist lawn and then look
at some others with the beautiful red
clay all exposed.
Talking about doing things now re-
minds me of a resolution read, by
Buster Brown in the funny paper
some time ago on Mr.. Meant-to. Have
you ever heard of him? There are lots
of 'em around here. Mr.. Meant-to and |
Mr.. idn't-Mean-to. They either
meant to do things they didn't do or
didn't mean to do something they did
Go. It is an awful situation but there
are always lots Of people just in that
situation. One reason is they don't
do it now.
Oh! that city council would do lit
tie permanent work instead of throw
ing the peoples money at the birds by
putting sand out of the bitches intod
the road to be washed back in the
bitches just as soon as the first rain
comes.
That reminds me that the other
day some one called my attention to
the beautiful work of the town scrape,
It takes all the rocks and brick bats
and tin cans out Of the bitches and
lines them up in the middle of the
road beautifully. They look like they
had been laid there with the greatest
possible care. That may be the mod
ern method of building automobile
roads. I don't know what advantage
to, the horse or buggy or automobile
it is to have these rocks and tin cans
and other trash piled so beautifully
in the middle of the road, but it must
be some advantage or it would not be
done, because it takes time and labor
to do this. The Idler.
sHurrah! Hurrah."