The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-04-07

to Tabernacle and on to Liberty Hill
and that he was going to do it with
the chain gang, and that he would
get on it Just as soon as he could
Well, l am going to keep his memory
refreshed from time to time until the
the work is done. 1t will take some
little relocating and some good en-
gineering to lay it out so that the
cost will not be too great, but 1t mat
ters not about that, these people are
part of Newberry county and they
are entitled to a road so that they
NAV come to market and visit one
another. The only trouble about the
building of this road is finding place
to get over Indian creek without max
ing too long a bridge or fill, but that
must not stand in the way. Many
times in cases of severe sickness 1t IS
impossible to get doctor. Mr.. Boul-
ware, this is certainly one section that
should have some relief. / do not
believe that 1 know any place in New
berry county where the crossing CT a
stream is quite so bad as this cross
ing of Indian creek to get up to Tao
ernacle, and there is no Other route
that you can get that is any better.
Certainly there must be road out to
Tabernacle and on to Liberty Hill,
and then these good people can come
to see US oftener and we can all get
| the better acquainted.
Since writing the above / made a
short visit over home and | was talk
ing to my father about old Liberty
Hill, having heard him in the long
ago tell about his visits up there to
the home of Mr.. William Riser to be
with his son, L. P. w. Riser, who was
about the same age as my father and
both being young men at the time
and not only related but good friends
and companions. William Riser was
the son of John Riser who was bro
ther to my grandmother. William Ri
ser married Elizabeth Berley who
was a sister to DR.. Joel A. Berley, the
father of W. W. Berley of Pomaria.
This is not exactly about schools but
in these rounds I can not help writ
ing word or two now and again
about the older people who lived in
the communities that l visit. The
truth is, l think that every teacher
should be required to teach the chill
dren something of their own commun-
ity and it's people and its histry. And
of their own county and the affairs
of the county. Why, do you know
that l have frequently visited schools
and would ask the children if they
could rame the governor of the state,
and not many of them could tell me.
And none of them could tell you the
names of the senator and the repre-
sentatives from Newberry county.
And the children are not 20 blame.
In fact in one community there were
-oyne grown men present who could
not tell me off hand the names of the
members of the legislature from New
berry county, except that they knew
Eugene Blease was one of them. And
I said to myself, what is fame, any
vav? But l am off the subject again.
I have referred to this to say that
Wallace w. Riser was the first man IN
the history of Newberry county to 1e
elected to the office of sheriff for
three successive terms In the old days
is not bad one. There were
before the war the law was so written
that sheriff could not succeed
himself. The sher;ffs then sold all
the lands and handled large sums
of money. The principle underlying
the law was that it was well to
have a squaring of accounts ire
oucntly and the best way to DO
that was to change the officials
who handled this money. The ldea
two brothers in the days just preced-
ing the war who were alternately
elected sheriff, Major John P. Klnard
and Gen. Henry H. Kinard. There IS
lust lots of history all over Newberry
county that has never been written
that would be interesting and posi-
bly, make us prouder of our county II
we knew it and had it in such shape
that we could preserve it. And 1t
,oo,,oe 4o mo that the children should