The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-04-13
NEWBERRY AND WKITMIRE.

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t.. Newberry is the larger of course,
but Whitmire is growing more rapidly
and making big gains on the capital
of the county, | would like to see
all the business men of Newberry
take trip over to Whitmire town
and see for themselves what an i'm
portant commercial center it is and
how important part of Newberry
it is. If they would l am convinced
that they would be more active in
their interest to bring the two towns
closer together. This is also very
important farming section of the
county, this No. 4 township.
There is but one way to establish
closer relations between the two
towns and to bring them in closer
touch with one another, and that is
to build two roads between the two.
Why they tell me at Whitmire that
the one way to talk to Newberry is
by long distance, and that to do that
you have to- 60 through Clinton.
Think of it. And yet it is by far the
wealthiest township in the county,
except Newberry, and pays more tax
for county purposes than any other
except the one, and will pay more than
even the new township with the Parr
Shoals property which comes in with
the new territory from Lexington.
And what is the county doing or
what is the town of Newberry doing
TO establish closer relations with this
important center? Nothing that I
can think of. Collecting the taxes
and not even spending half the town
ship pays on the roads in that town
ship.
To me it seems almost criminal
neglect of a fine opportunity to get
business and to create good feeling
such as should exist between
the two centers of commercial cativ-
ity in the county. This town of Whit
mire is real live town and has one
of the best mills in the South, and
l doubt if there is another mill any
where that is doing as much for the
help as this mill. have several
times written about the fine Y. NJ.
c. A. building and the many things
that are being done in this connec-
ton for the uplift and benefit of
the help in the mill, and now the
town or the mill or somebody up
there, I rather think it is the COM
bined effort of the people generally,
is building the finest sort of base
ball park with grandstand and all the
things necessary for such place, at
cost of something ike $4,000,
and the town is putting in modern
and up to date system of water works
and sewerage and> there are new
buildings going up on all sides and
the town is really growing.
Why do you know, men of New
berry, that it would pay you in dol
lars and cents to 60 down in your
leans and raise by private subscrip-
ton a round hundred thousand dol
lars and get what you can from the
federal government and build these
two roads that | am talking about to
connect your town with this pro-
gressive little city. | say both roads,
because both are important and 1t IS
no time now to have a row over the
upper and the lower route. am
satisfied that the progressive busl-
ness men of Whitmire will cooperate
with any movement here at Newberry
to build these roads, because these
people up there are really alive and
wide awake, and yet these roads
would be worth more in dollars and
cents to the business men of New
berry than to the business men OF
Whitmire. Do you know that Union
county is building road from the
river right over to Union town and
spending a hundred thousand dollars
on It. and that means that the rela-
tons between the two towns Will
grow in pleasantness and sooner or
later the good people of Whitmire
will become so accustomed to going
to Union that they will conclude that
Union thinks more of them and is
willing to cooperate with them in
all progressive movements and they
will say to themselves, well, here is
Nowherrv that simply neglectS US and