The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-08-13
ENTHUSIASTIC, MEETING
HELD AT UNION
GOVERNMENT ENGINEER is RE
QUESTED AT ONCE.
About $4,000 in Money Secured-Ready
For WOrk-Another Meeting
At Spartanburg-
to Mountains.

lachIan highway met at Union on wed
nesday. Col. Watson came through on
Wednesday morning and took from
Newberry Mr.. B. C. Matthew'S, Mr.. H.
L. Parr and Mr.. e. H. Aull. The party
left Newberry about 10 o'clock and
reached Union little after II. T2e
run to Whitmire was made in little
over an hour, including two short
stops. From Whitmire to Union the
time was a fraction less than an hour.
Inasmqch as Col. Watson did not
return on the other trip via Wnitmire
and was therefore unable to measure
the road by the Brick House, the trip
on Wednesday was made by that route
to Whitmire. The distance from the
public square in Newberry to the
banking iouse of William Coleman &
Co., via the Brick House road, is 21.9
miles. The distance via the Caldwell
road as measured by Col. Watson is
1876 miles, a difference in the two
roads of 2J3 miles. The road from
Cromer's to Whitmire is in fine con-
dition at this time. 1t has recently
been dragged and there was no troub- E
to make time by this route
There was good attendance at t. e
committee meeting and much enthu-
siasm was manifested. In fact it looks
like the people along the route are
really in earnest and mean to build
the road.
There were representatives from all
the points along the way from New
berry to Spartanburg. Besides those
mentioned from Newberry there were
present C. S. Suber, JOIN M. Suber and
q. H. Suber from along the road, and
from Whitmire there were present 7.
w. Coleman, ]. D. Tidmarsh and P B.
Odell.
Upon casting up the accounts and
hearing from the committees it was
found that about $4,000 had been raised
for the improvement of the road and
t. ere were other lists to come in, and
besides those who were present had
not completed the canvass. This
money, with the cooperation of the
supervisors of Union and Newberry,
it Vas thought, was sufficient with
which to begin work The farmers
who are going to cooperate with their
teams and labor want to get to work
at once. They have now finished the
working of their crops and they want
to do the work before the harvest sea-
son begins. Besides, they want the
benefit of the good road in the mar
keting of their crops.
A resolution was adopted asking Col.
Watson to request the detail of an en-
gineer at once, so that work might be
commenced on the building of tie
road. Col. Watson stated that he
would wire Washington that afternoon
for the detail Of the engineer, and '.e
was satisfied that he would be here
in the next few days.
1t was also decided to have sub
scription blanks prepared so tnat
along with subscriptions of money and
labor rights of way for forty-foot
road might also be obtained.
A finance committee was appointed
for eac- county. In Newberry county,
Mr.. q. F. Wright was appointed for
Newberry and Mr.. John NJ. Suber for
the stretch of road between Newberry
and Whitmire and Mr. T. w. Coleman
for Whitmire. Sor Union county, Mr..
A. G. Kennedy was appointed and for
Spartanburg Mr.. Blackburn was
named.
1t was also decided to ask the ne
groes VINO live along the road and
who use the roads to give labor or
money to help in the construction of
the road.
It was decided to ho!d another meet
ing of the committee at Spartanburg
on Wednesday, August 25. In this
connection it was decided to make this