The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-07-02
NO COMMITTEE PRESENT
NO MEETING HELD

In the absence of the county chair
man the acting chairman, MIR. /. II.
Hunt, requested me to attend meet
ing of the county chairmen Of the
Democratic party from the third con-
greSional district and the eighth
Judicial circuit at Greenwoo on
Wednesday to represent the county
chairman in an effort to arrange a
campaign for the candidates for con-
gress and for solicitor.
I always enjoy a trip to Green
wood, so I.agreed to go. Mr.. John l.
H. .Aull said he would ike to visit his
uncle and he agreed to drive me-
through in his car going Tuesday
afternoon and spending the night at
the home of my father Mr.. j. L.
Aull, and driving OF to Greenwood
the next morning, and this arrange
ment was entirely agreeable to me,
as it gave me an opportunity to
spend the night at home, see the
crops and the roads and get back
" Meaenesday before the night train.
ana also an opportunity to stop and
Sge M barbecue dinner with Mr. and.
Mrs. L. G. Pitts. SO we laft Nh. @
Tsaa Tssly something after S o:cIack IN
hs1ey ha1eseay afternoon in Johns stnda al
and de. she says there is none like #,
anu reached home about dark W ~ -.
gooo supper and spent . pleassat
hisnt. toGnd the folk al 49, - H.
well. -. AotA a. nome all
- me me next morning we drove over
~; ~ afeenWood and after waiting soma
sline aIser the appointed hour for tbe
meeting, and none of the other com mn
mitteemen a coming, Mr.. Nicholson NE nf
tne Greenwood committee dec;dad
That we would adjourn the maet;n,
and no schedule was arranged. I
colo him that down in our county we
olo not care much about any cam
palgn meetings, that the people were,
not taking great deal of interest ",
meetings, though felt sure that thew
would exercise the right of citizens
and cast their votes at The elect:on
voting for the best men for the
places as they saw it. think about
the best plan is to let the candidates
Tor congress and solicitor meet with
tne candidates for the United States
senate and for state offices, If thew
desired, and that as there are not
many candidates for these positions
there would be plenty time for them
TO be heard, and if they wanted to
attend further meetings to arrange to
De present at the county campaign
meetings and arrange the campaign
meeting and arrange the campaign
yet, as it will mot be necessary to
start this campaign before August.
At any rate nothing was done at this
meeting because there was really mo
meeting.
We left Greenwood a little before
IL o'clock and by half past one we
were at Mr.. Pitts and had good
barbecue dinner beneath the shade Of
that fine oak in his yard, and en-
joyed meeting with the good people
of this community. Mr.. Pitts has
purchased the Nance place and has
built nice modern home with all
the conveniences and is fixed up in
good shape and has a fine crop. 1t
is an ideal place to serve barbecue.
John Aull says if he had such a
spreading oak tree in his yard he
knows that he would make no crop,
because he would spend all his time
in the shade Of the tree.
There is chain gang up this side
in charge of Mr.. Campbell and he is
building the small bridges and scrap.
ing the road, and with a few execp-
tons the road'is in fairly good con-
dition as roads go in this county, but
there are some rough places which
hope Mr.. Campbell will fix up while
he is on the road. Greenwood coun-
ty as you know has voted 100000
in bonds and is building some top soil
roads, and the road from Greenwood
to Ninety-Six is in fine condition., and
so far as the drains across the road
these are fixed as they should be and
will give no further trouble, except
may be to clean them out semi-occas-
ionaly so that the water may pass
under. But just as ! have said be-
fore, even these roads will not last
unless something is done for mainte.
nance, because already on parts OF
this fine road there is evidence Of the
appearance of holes, and when these
holes once begin to appear it takes
a very short time to make them into
big holes and the road is rougher
than it was at first. And besides, the
money will not go far in the> build
ing of the roads of the county. But
this good road is to be extended down
to the Saluda river where the road
crosses over into Newberry, and un-
less Newberry does something to
build road from here to Chappells
the travel from this side will be at
tracted to Greenwood and the trade
which naturally belongs to Newberry
will go TO Greenwood. ;
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