The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-02-03
SOME OBSERVATIONS
AND ABOUT OTHER THINGS

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AND ABOUT OTHER THINGS
Under this head I wrote story
for the last issue a portion of which
did not get in the paper, and mas
much as it is in type am just go
ing to continue it in this paper.
hope it will not be out of place even
if some of the statements are a little
out of date. I might add that
notice from the papers that the
Abbeville delegation in the legislature
is proposing bill to permit the peo-
pie of Abbeville to vote on the bond
issue of 100000 bonds for the up
building of roads in that county. l
was in Abbeville just the other day
since the story below was written and
it was pleasure to see how the good
town was going at the matter OF
building streets and what great i'm
provement it is for the town. have
not seen anything from Columbia
which makes a noise like building
roads for Newberry though our
members may be doing something. If
they fail the people will have an
opportunity the coming summer to
select a delegation that will at least
let the people themselves say what
they want and if they are satisfied
with the present roads then it is up
to them.
/ have been up and down the third
district some three or four times dur
ing the past four months in connec-
ton with my work in the census, and
/ have really enjoyed meeting the
good people and renewing old ac-
quaintance. l have been in all of the
counties and at the county seats at
least twice and in some of them more
times. 1 have found the people clever
and nice and the county officers upon
whom have called to help me get IN
formation and the newspapers have
been of great assistance in the per-
formance of the duties imposed upon
me in this work. In fact without
the cooperation of the newspapers l
do not see how the work could have
been done at all.
Speaking about the census the de-
partment at Washington does not
peri nit any one connected with the
work out in the field to give out
any information regarding it, and
suppose it is well, but it would not
be giving out any information that
the enumerators may have obtained
for the government for me to say
that the work is getting along very
nicely and will be completed in prac-
tieally all of the enumeration dis
tricts by the end of this week. There
are a few districts in which it will
take possibly a couple of weeks to
finish up because of sickness on the
part of the enumerators and the re-
cent bad weather, but fortunately the
weather has been fairly good since
the first of January and the greater
part of the work in the field could be
completed. 1t will take the office at
Newberry some while to check up the
work and get the papers off to Wash
ington.
You know this third district is a
fine one and believe the best IN
the state. and it is close up to the
largest in population, and certainly
second if not first in the state in point
of manufactures. And you know that
if l was going to move from New
berry and wanted to get good coun-
try where the land is fertile and the
scenery is beautiful and the climate
heathful | believe that l would go
either to Pickens or Oconee. There
are some fine farms in these two
counties and some handsome country
residences and you can grow cotton
and corn in abundance all over the
counties and there is less danger OF
the boil weevil. And as for corn
the finest you ever saw grows all
over these hills and in the valleys.
Then there is the baby county of
Mccormick in which county had
never been to any great extent until
l got in this work. 1t is a fine coun-
tv and has some fine farms and is re-
pIete with historic interest. The city
of Mccormick is to vote on bond
issue very soon to build court house.
The court house has not yet been
built but the people are wide awake