The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-05-18
And the farms have prosperous
! look and the lands are fertile and the


homes and surroundings make one
! feel good just to look upon them,
and to say that if he ever felt like he
could leave good old Newberry right
10 this section he would go. There is
no better section Of South Carolina.
At Westminster we stopped to m
quire the way and Mr.. 0. W. Pitts
kindly consented to go along and
point out the road. On the way
back l had to stop long enough in
Westminster to shake hands with
Editor Gossett of the Tugaloo 'Trl-
bune. He is getting along fine but
said he would be so busy with his pa
per and his farming that he could
not get off to the Press association
as the meeting came about the time
he had to arrange for the harvest OF
his wheat and oat crops.
! Speaking about these lands and the
fine farms Mr.. w. o. Pitts who was in
the car with US pointed out one fine
farm which had been settled some one
hundred years ago and said that the
grandson of the first settler lived
there now and that his grandfather
bought a thousand acres of the land
for one muzzle loading rifle. The land
today l suppose would sell for some
thing like $500 the acre if you could
buy it at all. And yet in that day
possibly the old rifle was worth more
in the making of living than all the
land of that section because he could
take the old rifle and go out in the
woods anywhere around about and
find sufficient game upon which to
live, and he could not work all the
land.
While in his office / met Miss Ethel
Counts of Prosperity who is the
county demonstration agent for
Oconee county. Go wherever you
please in this country and you will
find some one from Newbery and
you always find them doing things
and making good just as Miss Counts
is doing in Oconee. The people gen.
orally speak in the highest terms OF
her work over there.
One thing that struck me in trav-
cling through the country for the
past several days is that the crops up
this side seem to be in better condl-
ton and further advanced than down
this way. There are good stands OF
cotton and the lands have been well
prepared, but I was sorry not to see
more corn planted, but maybe they
will plant that later. The stands OF
cotton are fine in that section OF
Oconee and in Anderson through
which 1 drove on this trip.
The drive covered about SO miles
and we got back to Walhalla about
l2, o'clock and in order to get home
Saturday by noon I got my brother
to drive me to Anderson, distance
Of SO miles, in the afternoon. TO
make this trip we drove through
Seneca and Clemson College. The
roads in Anderson are not as good. as
in Oconee, though they are now at
work building some roads, and when
they get through they will have hne
roads in Anderson. The worst part
of the road from Walhalla to Ander-
son, is on the Walhalla side OF the
college, and by the way believe tha1
IS in Oconee county. 1t is shame to
have such a road through this tlne
State property. Clemson is beautl-
full place but the road~for mile or
more or the Oconee side is as pao aS
the worst road in Newberry county.
And it should seem to me that in this
fine property there should be the
model road of the State. suppose
the college authorities can not help
it, but / just thought if they would
get in behind the county authorities
and impress upon them the import
ance of model road in and around
this farmer college that may be
they could get something done for it.
Anderson is going after the road
building in the right way. In all the
counties in which I have travelled all
the small bridges and the large ones
too are in dilapidated condition,
either already broken down or nearly
so. that they are dangerous to cross.