The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-04-11

| be served and every one will have a
good time and l am sure will enjoy
the day. 1 am inviting State Super
intendent Swearingen to meet with
us that day and also Dean Baker of
the University, and he has promised
me to be there. Any and all arrange
ments of the program apart from
these speakers is absolutely in the
hands of Mr.. Wilson and the people
of Whitmire.
In my last article about the schools
and Tabernacle and the roads there
were several errors, some of them
mine and some made in the correc-
tions of the proof, but trust the
reader got some sort of idea of what
was trying to say. 1 failed to put
in those distances which said l had
measured. did not have the figures
before me when 1 was writing, and
the article got by before thought OF
it again. And it does not make
great deal of difference now. What
I was trying to show is that the pro-
par way way for this road to go to get
TO Tabernacle is to take the left hand
or straight road at Jalapa and not go
nearly to Gary at the negro church,
Mt. Olive, to turn off. DR.. Pope,
who knows all the roads and all the
near cuts up this way, having prac-
ticed medicine all through this Sec
ton, and who still practices for these
people, has measured the road also,
and without giving the figures exact
ly he says the distance from Jalapa
to the home of Mr.. w. W. Riser is the
same as from Mr.. Riser's out to the
highway at the negro church, Mt. VI
i've, and then you are no nearer to
Newberry than you were when you
left Mr.. Riser's. In other words 1t
is lust around ten miles from Newber-
ry to Mr.. Riser's, and then you are
mile from Mr.. Miller's and two miles
from the Tabernacle school and three
miles from the Laurens Line. What
these people want is to get nearer to
Newberry, and the only way is to
build a good road out there. And
then there are quite number OF
white families living on this road
from Jalapa up. And when you get a
road out there you bring whole lot
of those Laurens people down to New
berry as their nearest market, and
they want to come to trade with us.
Speaking about Liberty Hill church
and the trip out this side about which
wrote in my last, I have just receiv-
ed a note from my friend, Prof. j.
B. O'Neall Holloway, and | take the
liberty of quoting paragraph:
81 certainly enjoy the accounts OF
your meanderings over the county and
certainly think you do right to bring
in those historical settings that add so
much to the interest of the trips.
.sBut my understanding always was
that Liberty Hill Lutheran church was
lust this side-the Newberry county
side-of the line between the two
counties-but not very far from the
county line. Ben Cromer who went
to Liberty Hill church often, think,
might enlighten US on the subject
so could Wallace Riser, ex-sheriff-
and mighty good one, too"
Liberty Hill church site may be on
the Newberry side. The party with
me pointed out a road which turns
to the left just as you approach the
site of the church which he said was
the line. # that be true then the
county line must make very decid-
ed angle at this place TO bring the
church and the graveyard on the
Newberry side. If the line Is straight
at this place it would place Happy
Hollow on the New5erry side. l
would be glad to have Dr. Cromer
write me story about Liberty Hill.
Sheriff Buford has said that he will
get some information about the sub
iect l asked him, and will give it to
me before long. l mean Jacks town
ship in Laurens county. He says 1t
got the name from family or fam
lies by that name that iive0 in ,nere
for many years.