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The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-12-16

There is no question about the fact
that the next step in the real progress
of our public school system is solution
of the high school problem. The high
school pupils are taking up too large
a proportion of the time Of the teach
ers IN the two and three teacher
schools, and some way must be found
under which the high school pupils
can receive all the attention they re-
ouire without reglecting the lower
crades.-Yorkville Enquirer.
Ycu tolk like one who has expert
ence in school work. Certainly you
have the facts and figures on this pro-
position down just about correct. The
solution, in our judgment, is not III
paying more to the nigh schools IN the
towns and cities, but the establish
ment of more high schools in the
rural districts. Many of the children
in the rural districts who are now III
the high school grades can not go
awav from home to the high school
in the city, but if there was h!gh
school in reach in the rural district
they could attend it. As it Is now,
practically all Of the rural graded
schools, and even the one teacher
schools. are making an effort to teach
pupils in the high school grades, and
we advise them to do the best they
can with such pupils, and at the same
time in order to do that even, they
will of necessity have to take some
of the time away from the pupils IN
the lower grades. And if you take
the pupils in the high school grades
out of the rural schools many Of them
VIII not have the enrolment to secure
state aid under present laws.
The rural school, and how best to
handle it, is the big problem IN an cd
ucational way before the people OF
the state today. Some system must
be worked out by which we can get
more education for our dollars. We
now paw too much for what we get IN
manv instances, and the fault IS not
the teacher, nor the administration,
but the system. But We are making
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-12-16
TAX RETURNS FOR 1922.

!, or an authorized agent, will be
at the following places for the pur'
pose of taking tax returns of bott
real and personal property for the
fiscal year, 1922:
Whitmire, Tuesday, Jan. 3rd.
Glen-Lowrey, Wednesday, Jan. 4th
Kinards, Thursday, Jan. 5th.
Longshores. Friday, Jan. 9Th.
Chappe:is, Monday, Jan. 9Th.
p. n. Boozer's, Tuesday, Jan. 10Th
Silverstyeet, Wednesday, Jan. 18th
81. Lukes, Thursday, Jan. 18th.
O'Ncall, Friday, Jan. 18th.
Prosnol..ty, Monday and Tue day
Jan. 10th and 18th.
Little Mountain, Wednesday, Jan
18Th.
J. Walter Richardson's store, Thurs
day, Jan. lStn.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-12-16
Neville Pope Blackshear, wife Of Dr..
Everagd Blackshear Of Georgia, an
officer in the United States army.
CORRECTION DATE BATTLE
MUSGROVE'S MILL
SaIuda, S. c., Dec. 10, 1921.

SaIuda, S. c., Dec. 10, 1921.
Col. +. H. Aull,
New0crry. S. C.
Dear Sir:
l notice through slip of the pen
l put the battle of Musgrove's Mill
in 1889, but the battle really occurred
in 1880. Ii is pleasing to note that
Col. Shelby who was the real COM
mander in that fight had a very dis
tingushed career throughout the Rev
olutionary war; was the first govern
or of the state of Kentucky; and was
offered the position Of secretary of
war by President Monroe, which,
however, was declined on account of
i'll health. We people in South Car
DINA owe an everlasting debt to this
truly great and wonderful man.
Yours truly,
C. J. Ramage.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-12-16

here and is always d welcome guest.
Mrs. Alice Floyd and Miss Luetta
Pearsall spent snort time in Ncwber-
ry Saturday.
Mr.. Long Of near st. Lukes has
moved his outfit to Mark Nichols
store and every Wednesday and Sat
urday will be ready to give nice
hair cut and shave. He comes We'll
recommended and those VINO have pat
ronized him are we'll pleased.
Those who had porkers took ad-
vantage Of the few cold days and sew
eral have been slaughtered. Matt
Berry killed very fine one.
Mrs. B. NJ. Havird visited her IN
valid mother, Mrs. Long, the past
week
Walter Shealy of Greenville visited
his mother, Mrs. f. Martin, recently.
Mrs. Alewine, who has been i'll for
some time is still quite sick.
Willie Werts of Newoerry visited
home folks the past week.
Services at the three churches were
ED Sunday, Dec. 1lth.
Carlisle Longshore, who for some
time was quite i'll, is able to be at his
place Of business.
Wilfred Martin expects to engage
in farming on the place belonging to
Mr.. Jet Tallant.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-12-16
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
COUNTY OF NEWBERRY.
IN THE PRORATE COURT.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLlNA,
COUNTY OF NEWBERRY.
IN THE PROBATE COURT.
Cleora B. Coats. Individually, and as
administrators, J. Gett!s Coats, ad-
ministrator of the estate OF w. r.
Coats, deceased, and the Farmers
Bank of Chappells, South Carolina
plaintiffs,
against
George W. Goats, Katie NJ. Coats,
Malcolm 7. Coats. Gettis L. Coats,
Julia NJ. Coats, The Bank of Cross
Hill. S. c., the Commercial Bank
of Newberry, S. c., W. c. Rasor
and J. H. Rasor, defendants.
Pursuant to the order of the pro-
bate court for Newberry county, all
and singular, the creditors of w. +.
Coats, deceased, and of his estate, are
required to render in and establish
their claims and demands in the above
entitled action, before the probate
court for Newberry county, on or be-
fore the 18th day of January, 1922;
and all of said creditors are enjoined
and restrained from prosecuting their
demands elsewhere than in this ac-
ton.
Dated at Newberry, South Carolina,
this December 13, 1921.
w. EWART,
Probate Judge, Newberry County.
12-16-4t 1taw
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-12-16

All persons viii please take notice
that tax returns must be made either
20 one of the above named persons or
the county auditor.
All persons having old return
blanks Will please not use them in
making returns and they will also
please destroy them.
j. B. HALFACRE,
County Auditor.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-12-16
ANNUAL MEETING

The regular annual meeting of the
stockholders Of the Peoples Natlona!
Bank of Prosperity, S. c., will be held
in the Office of the president in the
banking house OF the bank at Prosper
ity on Tuesday, January 3, 1922, at
cne o'clock, D. II. All stockholders are
requested to attend either in person
/. W. BEDENBAUGH, Cashier.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-12-16
HOME DEMONSTRATION
y @ o o o 6, o 9 . g. g o o o O @


The community market was open
to the public again on Saturday
The sum of S95.4O was realized from
farm produce sold. A number of jars
of canned fruits and vegetables, fresh
beef, head cheese, liver pudding, rao-
bit. vegetables, fowls, cake, and ether
products too numerous to mention
were readily disposed of. The fancy
work supplied many with pretty and
useful gifts.
Farmers are asked to bring produce
early so that confusion may be avold-
ed. Let's make our market pay!
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-12-16

This much is said in order to get to
what I am going to say about the
visit of the committee to the office OF
the county superintendent of ecaca-
ton. When the committee came to
me and said they had been to my Of
fee 1 supposed that they wanted to
examine the books and see if the
work was being done properly, so l
had the books there at the time they
said they would come, but when Mr..
Jas. johnson and Mr.. J. B. Scurry
and Mr.. J. J. HentZ, the committee,
came they said they wanted to know
if there was need in the office for
arv equipment, and asked me # l had
not heard the charge of the judge.
There is some need of equipment. l
could use to very great advantage an
up to date filing cabinet, ana should
have one, but l told the committee
that this was by no means the biggest
need of my department as l saw It,
and that l could get along with the
furniture l had by using my own
tvpewriter. But I would like to sub
nit to them what I had already suo-
mitted to the legislative delegation,
and was going to submit again If |
was given the opportunity. Somehow
7 had never thought of submitting
the matter to the grand jury.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-12-16
AMONG THE SCHOOLS

> o @ 8 8 9 o o o o o o o o o o o
1 did not have the pleasure OF
hearing the charge Of Judge Mclver
to the grand jury at the opening OF
court, but l understand that he told
the grand jury that it was their duty
to visit the county Offices and make
inquiry if the officers had the neces-
sary equipment and furniture for the
proper and efficient discharge Of their
duties, and if not to make report.
That these visits to the county officials
should not be mainly to see if woHk
was done as it should be, or to flnd
fault simply, or to criticize for failure
to perform the duties, but to see If
there were in the various Offices the
necessary furniture and other things
that would help in the easy and etflc-
lent discharge of the duties of these
officials. Ard Judge Mclver IS emil
rertly correct in this position.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-12-16

l en- pleased to see so many OF the
Improvement associations actively at
work ard would ee glad to have
them write news tens for the papers
If their activities. Publicity in this
N after is valuable just as it is in any
other line of human endeavo:. Let
the other folk know what you are
doing ana it Will act as sn Inspiration
to them to 60 ard do better than you
have dcnc.
E. H. A.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-12-16

There is another matter, which as
= matter of record, should be legis-
lated on, and that is all bond money
should be made to be discussed
through TIE Office Of the superintend-
eat cf education. Latterly when
BONDS are issued by school districts
the proceeds from the sale are run
;lroueh the office, but after that the
county superintendent of education
has nothing more to do with them, and
never knows, so far as his office IS
concerned, when the coupons or the
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-12-16

7 submitted to the committee my
hobby of having a survey OF the
school districts of the county made,
ecd from the survey correct map OF
the county by school districts so thss
we night know just where the district
lines are, and along with it a survey
cf the roads, and the rivers and creeks
80 That when we came to talk ABOUT
consolidating districts or building
school house we could go at the JOB
intelligently, and with this correct
survey we could point out where 1t
would be to>the advantage of the chill
dren of the county to change district
lines. and so that it could be done IN
telligently, ard, in fact and in short,
no plans could be made fer the bultd-
ing of a worth while system of county
schools until such survey was made.
The districts are so Unequal IN area
and IN taxable values, and the district
lines are unknown to such an extent,
that no one knows where he is ct
when you come to talk about building
a real school. So favorably was the
committee impressed and so important
did the matter appear to them that
] was invited ard given the privilege
Of submitting the matter to the fall
grand jury, ard in behalf of the chill
dren of the county desire to express
my appreciation of this courtesy, and
trust it may lead to something being
done. What We need il the rural dis
tricts particularly is nct so much dol
lars for education, but rather more
edu.ation for our dollars.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-12-16

E. H. A.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-12-16

The weather is so bright and oeau-
tif,,l that at intervals we forget the
bord times
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1921-04-28
Old Quindaro Settlement.

The old town Of Quindaro on the
Missouri river above Kansas City was
founded in 1856 by free state boom
ers who came from New England to
help make Kansas free. Kansas City
and Leavenworth were either neutral
OF were dominated by sympathizers Of
the South. ,
The New England emigrants wanted
q port Of entry" Of their own. The
town was built up rapidly with a large
hotel, great warehouses, a steamboat
landing, and other evidences Of a "fu-
ture great metropolis" During the
Civil war, however, the men all went
to fight. When they returned the
Union Pacific was building west
through the Kaw valley, and a little
later the Hannibal bridge was con-
structed, forever making Kansas City
the port Of entry"
Quindaro was abandoned. It's ho-
tel and warehouses went to decay.
and now all that remains are the ruins
and the memory Of a struggle of a
few brave men who believed they were
right, but who were mistaken in their
judgment as to the geographical loca-
ton Of the future great metropolis"
Kansas City Star.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1921-04-28
HOW LEGENDS "TAKE HOLD
One That Concerns George Washing
ton Was Long Believed by Resi-
dents Of New York.

That there Is nothing too impossi-
BILE to forbid 1t being the basis Of q
legend that will find credulous believ-
ers for generations is again proved
by a story current in the Ramapo val
ley, near New York. Like SO many
other tales known along the east
coast, 1t concerns George Washington,
and it was believed by thousands Of
the residents of the valley up to q
generation ago.
It appears that Washington, when
the Continental army was encamped
at what Is now the Ramapo station
on the main line of the Erie railroad,
was uncertain as to the inten-
tons Of Lord Howe, in command Of
the British fleet and army at New
York. He used to climb frequently
to the high peak Of the Tome, a mile
north of the valley, from which he
could see a part Of New York bay,
and there spy on the fleet. In the up
per part Of the peak is q tiny stream,
hidden in the crevices of the rocks,
and the dropping Of the water sounds
like a watch ticking.
Legend has it that Washington
dropped his watch in q f1ssure Of the
Torne on one Of his observations, and
that the timepiece has gone on ticking
ever since!
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1921-04-28
ONE OF NATURES WONDERS
Nest constructed BY Mother wasp %
= Real Marvel In It. Also
lutte Perfection.

o. H"F F&E 2 Ir1EH8nH3I
The solitary wasp called Rumenes
aInedei attains great excellence alike
in the chase and In the craft Of build
Ing; It Is q 'Nimrod and q Vitruvius
by turns" With minute pebbles and
salviated mortar 1t builds a finely
finished .cupola about three-Quarterst
OF an inch in height, the outside Of
which Is covered with glistening
grains Of quartz or sometimes with
tiny snail shells; the orifce at the
top II 'like the mouth Of IN am
phora, gracefully curved, worthy Of a
pOtter's wheel" aN
After the mother wasp has placed
an egg In her w~ell-fashioned nest she
adds i've to ten small caterpillars,
ard 1t is remarkable that the egg on;
the well-stocked nest develops into a
female wasp, while that in the meag-
erly provisioned nest becomes the
much smaller male.
1t appears that the stung cater
pillars that form the living larder In
side the >wasp's cell are but imper-
fectly paralyzed, and toss about when
touched. Now, the least pressure.
would crush the delicate egg. So II
is hung by a thread from the roof Of
the cupola, and after the Eumenes
grub matches it makes the cast shell
Of the egg into a flexible staircase
so that it a reach the caterpillars
and bite them, yet retreat II they are
too vigorously recalcitrant. This IL
perfection. I.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1921-04-28
Pound Of Air Quite i Bin Thing.

Textbooks tell us that a pound Of
pure carbon 1.-THE preponderating ele-
ment In coal) requires the oxygen
contained in 11.8. pounds Of air to
complete the combustion. Few OF us
have any idea what 11.8 pounds Of air
means. The Popular Science Monthly
brings It home to us as follows:
Imagine a column Of air one inch
square extending forty miles into the
sky and you will have a good idea of
the amount Of air required to burn a
single pound Of coal. A pound Of coal
would occupy a column mi inch
square and only three feet high?
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1921-04-28
Flat Feet Treatment Successful.

S~--
War experiences have changed our
views about fiat feet. 1t was at 0ne
time assumed that individuals SO af-
ficted were destined to lead sedentary
lives, and that they were disqualified
from p%artaking In vocations requiring
the constant s Of the feet, such as
military service. This erroneous idea
is still universal in Europe and to q
large extent in America. It is in
weak, feet that the bones Of the arch
drop to the ground, the muscles and
ligaments being so weak and iabby
that they cannot hold up the arch
bones. After a series of treatments
In the most chronic cases, the pro-
lapsed bones will gradually rise until
they reach their normal height.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1921-04-28
orecian shrines.

It was at Kalavrita that the begin
nings Of the Greek war for independ-
ence were made, and the tattered BAN
ner which the Archbishop Germanus
took with him from his cell when he
sailed forth to begin the contest 10
still kept as the sacred war banner
OF Hellenism and was brought out IN
much state at the beginning Of the
war with Turkey.
Another wel1-known shrine In
Graece1 AMI ona which is most fire.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1921-04-28

quently visited ~ tourists, Ii that
ut Meteora, where the giant needles
Of rock are capped with extensive
buildings to which the venturesome
may ascend either by rickety ladders
set in the interior crevices or by
means Of q net drawn up BY a creak-
iLg and primitive windlass.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1921-04-28
BREAK BR00DY TURKEY HENS
confine Them In Stat ottomed Coop
for Two or Three Days-WlH
Mate Soon AfterWard.

Turkey hens can easily be broken
Of their broodiness by combining them
for two or three days to q coop with
a slat bottom. They will mate soon
after being let out of the coop and be-
cir laying in about q week.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1921-04-28

Young. men, women, over IL, for
Postal Mail service. s120 month. Elk
aminations March-April. Experience
unnecessary. For free particulars Of
instruction, write Raymond Terry
(former Civil Service examiner) S45
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-07-08

pro-leaguers represented by his pres
ent leading Cabinet members, Mr.,
Hughes and Mr.. Hoover; that the pro-
posal of an Association of nations" to
take the place and perform the func-
tipns Of the going league, entailing, Of
course, the abandonment Of that or
ganization by its 40-odd members all
over the world, was piece of cam
paign expediency.
Therefore, it is not surprise to
many of lis that at the end of more
than three months of the Harding adj
ministration we are no nearer to an
Interpretation of the oracular cam
paign utterances of the successful can
didate than we were on the night of
election, that not single sign has
come from the White House or the
State Department as to Any Intended.
program, and that Hamilton Ii It, one
of the Republicans who coSli OF be
'buncoed by the Lodge-Harvey pro-
gram, has led the procession to the
White House with a demand to deliver
or explain. -
If this were all that Mr.. Holt had
to say he would only be repeating
what thousands of newspapers and in
terested citizens have already said.
But he introduces a new and powerful
factor into the situation. He sug-
gests that with the passing newness
of administration and the realization
of disappointment by the public, there
may be in store for the tagging bonds
men of office such a rebuke at the
polls in the next biennial and follow
ing Guadrennial election as may justly
follow the failure to make good as.
surances upon which the choice of a
nation turned.
The promise of an undertaking as
useless and redundant as it was GIL
gantic--to overthrow the League of
(more than 40) Nations and substi-
tute in its place an Association" es-
sentially different from the reserved
Wilson League only in name-appar-
emily did not awe Mr.. Harding, the
candidate, and, since he has become
President, has not visibly moved him.
What is to be his attitude now, with
the war-ridden world waiting in ex-
pectancy' and the legions of retalia-
ton and an undeceived electorate al
ready gathering on the horizon?--
Post-Dispatch.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-07-08
we didn't knew.

Today, the fashion appears to be
careless of everybody else's feelings
but our own and indignant of others
who do not treat us as we refuse to
treat them. Exhibitions of selfishness
are common and "get there" regard
less of the other fellow, by force if
necessary, is the rule, especially
among the young. One sex is as bad
as the other, with exceptions, of
course.
In certain parts there is wild bee,
with wild Latin name which we
won't try to repeat, but which is ia
miliar as the "bramble bee" After
the farmer has sheared off the heads
of brambles along comes the velvety
"bramble" bee. She picks likely
stalk, digs out the pith down to the
first knot, which stops her progress.
Then she fills this tube clear 10 the
top with cells, one at time, p acing
little honey in each cell and deposit
ing an egg with the honey.
The egg in the cell at the bottom is
laid first and you'd expect it to hatch
first. But the only way out to the free
air is through all the other cells. If
the baby bee busted through she'd Of
course kill all the unmatched bees. So
the amateur naturalist figures that
nature reverses herself in this case,
Matching the last bee laid first. and
the first bee laid last.
Wrong! The first egg laid hatche;
first. The baby bee down there at the
bottom of the tube at once attacks the
wax wall above her and bores hole
through it to the cell overhead. In.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-07-08
ARE THE SIGNS OBSERVABLE?

Are Missouri voters who cast their
ballots for Harding and Republican
Congressman beginning to see the err
ror of their ways? Read this letter
from farmer near Hattie, Mo-, which
appeared in a st. Louis Republican
newspaper and answer for yourself;
During last years campaign we
Republicans talked long on the I'M
reasonable high cost of living and the
waste of money in buying too much
supplies during the war and selling
them too cheap after the war was ov
er. And we demanded rigid invest
igation all along the line, and we laid
all the blame on Woodrow, and it
worked like clock work. The Repub-
lican party was swept into power by
an avalanche of votes unheard of in
American politics. Surely the people
believed everything that we told them.
"But now that we are in full sway,
and the laboring man expects the re-
lief that was promised during the
campaign from the high cost of living
and the clutches of the profteer. we
have given them tariff on what they
have to buy or live on. to raise the
price of living, instead of lowering it,
and then they are going to get cut
in wages; and so far the profteer has
not been molested. He goes on SELL
ing the people suit of clothes con-
tanning rs cents or 81 worth Of wool
for $50 to $50, and 81 per pound for
leather, when the green hides are
worth 2 cents.
"And down in this timber country
lumber that was worth $66 per 1906
feet, a year, ago, is worth about S2C
now, with no buyers-but go to your
local lumber dealer and get his price.