ukcHE LIT, JiCMBEEM SEWBEEBY, 8. C, FRIDAY. DECEMBER 7, 1917. TWICE A ffIEK, IUI i. HAS.
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THE GRAND JURY MAKES
ITS FINAL PRESENTMENT
{Newberry County, S. C.
Dec. 5, 1917.
i To His Honor, Judge J. T. Mauldin,
Presiding:
(Fe the grand jurors of .Newberry
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COUIlty. at u:e iau ic.m
wish to make the following presentation
of such matters as have conn;
before us for our consideration.
We desire to express to the judge
presiding our thanks for his charge
to jus and assistance given to us.
We have acted on all bills ?iven
to us by the solicitor, and have returned
the same to him.
We have examined, with the help
of the bank examiner, Mr. Bradley,
" fho audi
the boons 01 Lue LrWBUlCl, w ? ^ w
tor, the county supervisor, the countv
superintendent of the schools and the
sheriff. We find their books well kept
and correct, as far as we are able io
know.
We find the master's books badly
kept and it gave us a great deal of
^rouble and much work. We recommend
that where an officer is so careless
as to his books he should be punished.
Juet here let us say we do
not believe the master has been dishonest,
but he has been criminally
careless with books.
We have examined tne prouaie umce,
and find that he is issuing whiskey
permits 'to anyone who applies
to him, without swearing them, wnen
he knows they are not at the head
of the family, to those that he knows
are regular drinkers and to those wno
* do not use It for medicinal purposes.
This, as we understand the law, fs
unlawful.
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We have examined the 'hooks of the
magistrates of th$ county, and find
them well ?ept Magistrate from No.
4 township. R. M. Aughtrey. and a few
QMjM. marked paid, we find no refor
same.
*^We find the county home well kept,
* ai far as the keeper can keen suc?i
a home under the conditions that "he
feas to work the inmates are well
fed and cared for. We recommend
that Newberry county, if this be possible,
go in with three or more counties,
and build a h6me for these unfortunates,
where it will be possible
to give them the comforts and care
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the best plan to care for them and at
v the same time will cost less money,
as one keener could give his time "and
wo to this institution.
The schools of the county we "Una
in good fcan Is and we believe in excellent
condition.
Roads of the county we find in good
condition, bridges are being repaired.
The bridge over Cannon's creex on
the road leading from St. Philips to
Bachman chapel is in need of repairs.
Bridge near Mr. T. W. Keitt's,
on the Old Columbia road, over Caldwell
/?rp?>V has fallen in and is dan
gerous. The road from Mr. Sam Crotirell's
to Mr. B. F. Mills' has not been
worked in four years, and needs work
We ask the supervisor to look after
tfcese roads and bridge#.
we nave a mauer exisung iu uie
?rvnraunity near Mr. John C. Neel's
that needs a remedy. There is a
family living in the same house, eating
at the same table, sleeping in the
same bed, white chil-dren and black
children, having the same mother.
This has been a sore to this community
for a lon^ time. We ask, it j
there is a remedy, that this remedy!
be applied.
We recommend that the sheriff, who
is the controlling power, keep the
mral police out in the county on their j
tohs and not so much in his office. '
We have complaints from the com- j
munity near Mr. H. H Cousin's
tratcher pen. This -butcher pen wa3
mentioned In our June presentment, j
It fs still a nuisance and ought to be
removed, or put in a sanitary con- j
dition.
We want to thank the officers for i
their kindness to us and help they,
gave us in examining their books. We
k??ve? wm tr> do our dutv. and. while
we may have offended some, -we have
only done onr duty (We ask that our
clerk be paid t^e usual fee.
Pespectfnlly.
J. H. Wiokc !
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TT1?! HFRA7,T> AND NTSWS. ONF
YF\R FOR Sl.fO.
. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS
PROSPEROUS PROSPERITY
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I Prosperity, Dec. 3.?Mr. Hart Kolin
i of Columbia en route to his plantation
' "Klondike" visited Wise Hotel Sunday.
' Artileryman Vance Matthews of
'Fort Moultrie is in town shaking nana
' with his friends.
| Sergt. Ralph Ward after a visit
to his parents has returned to Fort
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i Oglethorpe.
Mr. Carl Fellers of Fitzgerald, Ga.t
j is visiting at the home of his father.
| Mr. S. L. Fellers.
j Thirty cent cotton caused about on*
! hundred thousand dollars to -change
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! hands in our prosperous town last
week.
1 Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Quattlebauni
sr>ent Snti'lav in Columbia where
Mrs. Quattlebaum -went to see her
sister. Miss Annie Laurie I ester
who has been critically ill in the Columbia
Hospital.
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Prof. Johnnie Langford of Union
is home on the sick list.
Prof, and M^s. .7. M. liefer* bau.<?h
have moved into '.lio DeVah Hovse
on DeWalt Ave.
Hardware Bill w?*'n i.is parents Mr.
and Mrs. Julian Prie^ biv-3 moved
"VTain QtrpAt tn thft Maffett house
11 Vill 4UU1U x/w* V vv _
in JVJcNary Street.
Miss Cairo Wyche Ell^ii Wheeler,
Josephine May, Ma:v PeWalt ?n<l
Ruth Hunter of \Vintfcorp College
were home for th4 week-end.
Misses Doris Kohn ami Katie M3e
Nance of Columbia Collide were home
for Thanksgiving.
Mrs. A. H. Kotm coiumoia is u?*
guest of her brother Mt. S. S.
Dr. G. W. Harmon spent Thanksgiving
Day with his parents at
Ninety-Six.
Mr. and Mrs. A G. Wise are home
from St. Louis with a second car
of mules.
1 Mr. and Mrs. J iC. Taylor have returned
to Batesburg,
Mrs. Eric Barnes of Saluda has
been visiting her parents Mr. and
Mrs. S. J. Kohn.
Mrs. 0. B. Simpson and little son
0. B. Jr., has gone to Salisbury, Md.
to visit relatives.
Miss Marie Schumpert and Mrs.
Watson of Columbia were guests.
Thanksgiving Day of Mrs. F. E.
Scnumpen.
Miss Jean Adams has returned to
her school at Chappells .after a two
weeks illness.
Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Rawl will s-penl
. Tuesday in Columbia.
I Misses Hiers and Bundricks of
Columbia College visited Miss Dori*
Kohn.
! Rev. E. P. Taylor has returned from
the Methodist Conference.
I Judge B. B. Hair has v^wr.tly completed
a coment block front store
near the Southern depot (where he
fa dispensing: both dry o-oods, notions
groceries, and "the Law."
i Mr. Willie M. Shealy has opened a
. grocery store next to the Prosperity
Hardware Co.
Miss Sudie Dennis spent Thanksgiving
day in Columbia.
' Miss Gnrlee has returned from a
visit to her mother in "Winnsboro.
i Miss Dickson has been to Florence
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to visit her parents.
j Mr. Bvrd Gibson has accepted the
position as olerk in the Post Office.
I Mr. S. S. Biree is home from a
business trip to Broxton, Ga.
Prosperous Prosperity is getting
shipments of apples, stoves, caDbage.'
flour, salt, and mules. In car
load lots. We hope the next will be
a car of sugar.
Mrs. l\Vilson of Columbia is visiting
Mrs. F. E. Schumpert.
Tuesday afternoon an Equal Suffrage
League was formed at the residence
of Mrs. "P. E. Schumpert.
On account of the scarcity of coal
evening service at urace jL/uui?ra.u
Church will be discontinued for the
j present.
I Prof. Campbell Lake of Cheraw
was home for Thanksgiving.
An entertaining and instructive proI
pram will be rendered at the Town
j Hall. Friday 8 o'clock night Dec. 7
by the Sight Singing department of
the Prosperity High School, as folowsr
Part 1. A Japanese reception which
i a company from different nations at!
toifl "PMo-hth and ninth srradea.
TT A -catchy arid comical
ne^-o ministrel. tenth grade,
j Admission 2*> cents. 10 cents.
j ^ <e> <e> <s> <$><$><?><$> $><$><?><?> <&
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* NOTICE TO SCRSCRIBERS '$>
TO S?COM) LIBERTY LOAN <$>
All subscribers to Second Li- <?>
'** berty Bonds are urgently re- v
quested to pay the forty per v
cent, installment to the Bank
, handling their subscriptions on <* >
or before the 13th of December
<f> 1017, as the payment must be
, 4'- in The Federal Reserve Bank *?
<* Richmond, Va., on the loth De- ,iv
<?> cember and will not be acceptj
? ed at later date. ^
' *' Liberty Yoan Executive Com- ?
' > mittee. ^
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^ $> #> 3> $
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I PROGRAM
Of Kf Quarterly Mcctine: of Iteetb*
River W. 3F IT. to ^e held Dec. ;%
1917?at 10:30 A. >f. With West
! End. W. M. 8. %
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I Devotional?Rev. H. W. Stone.
Welcome and response.
Roll call of W. M. S.?with short
verba report.
from each.
W M. S. 'Period?Superintendent of
Association in charge.
! Plans for W. M. IT. 1917-191S.
! Echoes from Convention in Lauren^,
i "The Standard of Excellence Introduced.
"A demonstration."
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[ Mission Study Period. Mission
I Study chairman in charge.
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. R. A. (Period?R. A. Associate cmyerf
intendent in charge,
j Cofrection?Music.
i Miscellaneous.
! Adjourment.
A*ternoon Session 1:85 P. X.
Devotional?West End Sunbeams.
Sunbeam Period?Sunbeam Association
Superintendent in charge.
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| Y. (W? A. and It. A. 'reriou? i. ??.
i A.x and G. A. Association SuperintendI
ent in charge.
Mission Study class?G. A's of 1st
cliurch, Mrs. J. H. West in charge.
Closing devotional.
Adjonrment f
j (CHURCH OF THE REDEEMER.
i (lleY. Edward Fnlen wider, pastor.)
1 The following will be the program
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of divine services at the Lutheran
| Church of the Redeemer next Sunday.
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j 10:15 a. m. Sunday School. The
j -|25.00 subscribed to the Y. M. C. A.
war work will be raised at .this serj
vice All are urged to come prepared
to .give liberally.
11.15 A. M. The mornjug service,
i Special sermon by the pastor on the
subject.?"A New Day and A Great
J,Program.*' Some things of interest
j to every member will be presented in
.the sermon. All members ar urged
to make a special effort to be present^
f 7:3-D P. M. The evening service,
| and sermon.
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i uome anu wuiauij; " ? .. .
gladly welcome you.
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REV. H. W. STONE RESIGNS
GOES TO GREENWOOD
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Rev. H. W. Stone, tendered his resignation
of West End Baptist Church.
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' Oil last ouiiuaj w ~
the 1st of January. He has accepted
a call at West Side, Greenwood.
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j The Aid Society of the Church of
the Redeemer will meet with Mrs.
, Homer Schumpert Monday afternoon
, at 11 o'clock.
, One warm day this week a citizen
^remarked that if the weather turned
cold it would be the death of many
| things?hogs.
COTTON MARKET
Newberry
, Cotton 28
Seed 1.15 1 2
j Prosperity
! Cotton 28 1 2
Seed ' 1.12 1 2
| Little Mountain
Cotton 28
Seed 1.12 1 2
Chappellg
'Cotton 28 3 4
Seed .1.17
Pomarla
Cotton 28 1 2
Seed 1.09 1 2
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Seed 1.12 1 2
SHyer KtTP^t
Cotton 28
; Seed 1.12 1 2
PERIL IN HAIR DYES
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Munitions Workers Use Explosive;
to Get Auburn Tint.
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British Official Issues Warning Against
i Practice Which Is Fatal
to Health.
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! London.?An official of the explosives
department o^the ministry of
munitions has uttered a warning
against the practice, disclosed in a
West London police court case, among
; munition workers of using T. X. T.
; powder to impart to their hair a
| chestnut or auburn color. The par1
ticular powder mentioned was tetryl,
I q nf T" "V. T\
i "Officially. I am unaware of the
practice," said the officii, "but if- it
does exist it is a mc:;t dangerous
one. The familiar pigmentation of
the sl:in, due to Immiling this exploi
sive is not, in itself, a serious matter,
for it wears off after a time, but
the skin itself i?: a great absorber of
poison, and toxic jaundice and deinatitis
may result* Those continually
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J "(loping lilt? SC'ctlJJ iUlU 1UI.IL?> V'i. txic
hair with T. N. T. would lay themselves
open to? this obstinate complaint,
but, apart from this, the ef}
feet of the stuff on the hair cells and
tissue is in no way persistent. A yellowish
hue may be /imparted, but
viewed purely as an ornament it is in!
effective.
"Picric acid, on the other hand,
which gives a deeper shade, is quite
j harmless, and can be handled with im
j punity; but di-nitrate-benzene and
: tetrachlorethane (used for airplane
wings and eliminating beetles from
Westminster hall) is much worse."
"I cannot conceive any woman,
however vain, placing herself in the
position of acquiring disease by inoculating
the scalp with T. N. T.," declared
a well known private rfhalytical
chemist. "She can, if she wishes,
: chew it without disaster, but tc rub it
is fntfl] from a health Doint of view."
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11 THIS "ENEMY ALIEN" 1
11 WANTS TO SERVE U. S. 3
|'t Camp Dodge. Ia. ? Fred g
r* A /I n TY1 e O nf thp 350th In- 3
XIU(11UC| U J/l.iuiv ?
fantry. is looking: forward with 3
regret to the dq,y when he will be ?
^ discharged from the service of ?
. "-x the United States. He is a Ger- ?
j man by birth, and just two days *
g before he was called to the col- *!
i i[ ors in the draft received his first *;
i-5 naturalization papers. x
^ However, he has been adjudg- *;
J ed an alien under the terms of x
j the law by officials of the war
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j* department. auu uus uccu ui- *
dered discharged. He spent two ji
'S years In the German army. X
When th* men in camp were x
soliciting for Liberty bonds, ,<X
Fritz listened and then shouted: ?
;jj "Boys, I won't be with you *
here long. I want to dig in with *
the rest. Lieutenant, put me *
down for a $100 bond. Here's *
^jthe money." *
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SWISS Tn GET LESS BREAD
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/ Plea to Economize Accompanies Gov?
ernment Notice of Reduced
Ration.
. 1 Berne, Switzerland.?Notice of the
; reduction in the bread ration foi
| Switzerland from 250 to 225 grammes
daily, beginning December 1, has been
hv fin urgent Dlea from
' the government to the people to econo-1
, raize on two pounds a month from the
; | card allowance. This saving would
| amount to 270 carloads of flour ^ach'
' month, or enough to stretch the avail!
able supply oi flour in Switzerland
; i'rom February to March.
! The Swiss are urged, above all, not
I to follow the example set in the first
: month of the card regime when on the
! last day all the left-over tickets were
| -utilized to hoard flour.
The present allowance of 250 grama
: of bread is based on all the supplies
on hand and on the probable Swisa
. harvest. A still further reduction be
I low 225 grams is probable unless the
j Swiss answer the government's appeal
to save bread until flour supplies ar?
I rive from America.
Sees Smoke 56 Miles.
Portland, Xjr e.?On the lookout sta
- tion at the top of Mount Hood, over
, 11,000 feet high, Elijah Coalman re-'
i mains during the fire season.. With
I his glasses he covers an enormous
of forest. Some forest service
men f>6 railes away burned the boughs
on which they had slept and Coalman
At once reported the smoke.
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Card of Th^nk*
We wish to extend our thanks to
our friends ^nd relatives for their
kindness and sympathy during the
illness and death of our beloved husband
and father.
Mrs. C. J. Eoozer and children.
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Have Your Old
made new, and
by cleaning and
Huffman Steam
4- Suits Cleaned and
Sanitary C
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i LAND FOR REM?Thirty acres cul- , .
tivating land within one mile of
Utopia school. Four room dwelling,
stables, cotton house, and so
: on. Good neighborhood, on public
! road. Also good pasture.
~~D. E. Schumpert, Newberry.
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Suits?
keep your new suits new
I pressing them on the
Pressing Machine
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Over Observer Office
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save cost of feed.
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at my cow barn
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