Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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PURELY PERSONAL. The Movements of Many People, Newberrians and Those Who Visit Newberry. Mr James. C. Duncan is in Colum bia on a visit. Major Robert H. Welch spent Fri day in Newberry. Mr. Joseph E. Norwood spent Sun day in Columbia. Mr. Henry L. Parr went to Fairfield on business yesterday. Miss Sara Scott. oi Whitmire. is visiting Miss Nena Cromer. Mr. F. L. Feagle. of Greenville. spent Sunday in Newberry. Prof. S. J. Derrick spent Saturday in Columbia on business. Mr. Otwey. Salter was in Athens. Ga., recently on business. Editor Clarence L. Browne. of the Barnwell Sentinel. was in Newberry last week. Mr. John Scott is in Chicago at tending the rt-publican national con vention. Mr. Walter Tiedeman. of Charles ton, spent Friday in Newberry with friends. Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Connelly. of Ninety Six. are visiting at Mr. S. G. Carter's. The Rev. N. N. Burton filled the Rev. Mr. Bussey's pulpit. in Pelzer, on'Sunday. Mrs. J. W. Davis is visiting her daughter, Mrs. J. Roland Lyles. in Columbia. Mr. Robert P. Fair returned to At lanta on Sunday after spending sev eral days in Newberry. Miss Maud Fant went to Columbia yesterday to spend several days with Mrs. R. H. Welch. Miss Fronde Kennedy. who has been visiting Miss Lucy Speers. re turned yesterday to her home at Clin ton. Mrs. Charles Manigault. of Colum bia. spent several days in the city last week, the guest of the Misses Dom in;ck. The Rev. 0. T. Porcher. of Green wood, was in Newberry on Tuesday. Mr. J. A. Senn left on Saturday for a visit to Darlington. Miss Lillie Belle Hallman is at home from Salisbury. N.C.. where she holds the position of teacher of music at the Neave Fchool. Mr. John W. Robertson -has re turned home from Atlanta. where he has held a position with the Southern Bell Telephone company. General John Gary Watts. of Co lumbia. spent Friday morning in, Newberry and went to Kinards Fri -day afternoon on a visit to relatives. Col. Walter H. Hunt is in Spartan ~burg this week. where as special judge -he is holding a term of court of gen eral sessions for Spartanburg coun ty. Mr. Lee A. Singley. who has been absent in Charleston and Orangeburg for the past year. has returned to the county and will be home for sev eral months. Mss Lester Bloom, of Charlotte. N. C. is visiting Mrs. J. J. Langford. Mr. Johnstone Coppock has return-. ed to Atlanta after spending several days in the city. He holds a p ti tion in Atlanta with the Southern Bell Telephone company. Col. D. A. Dickert. who went to Crosry Hill recently on account of the death of his father, has been de tained there on account of sickness. Mr. Elmer Summer has returned form Atlanta. where he has been at tending the Georgia Tech. Mr. J. Gu'y Daniels has returned irom Charlotte. N. C.. where he has been spendi.ng several days. Miss Irving Wicker. who has been visiting Mrs. John M. Kinard. re turned yesterday to, her home at Rock Hill. Col. 0. L. Schumpert. Mr. WV. B. Franklin. Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Evans, Miss Bessie Gilder. Miss Ellie Huiett Miss Genevieve Evans. and Miss VTin-, nie Mae Wilson returned home on Saturday from the Confederate re union in Nashville. Mr. Young J. Boozer, son of Mr. D. L. Boozer. Sr.. of Kinards. who recently graduated at a business col lege in Spartanburg with highest honors of his class, has accepted a lucrative position in Spartanburg with the Lyons Manufacturing corn pany, of that city. VRIOUS XND~ALL ABOUT. In a close and interesting game of ball on the Clinton dliamond on Sat ..da .afternn Molinhon lost to. Whitmire by i score .of 8 to 7. The Rev. S. H. Zimmerman has moved into the new Methodist par s(inage. THE SUMMER SCHOOL. A Good Attendance At The Open ing Sesson This Morn ing. The summer school for the teachers! of Newberry co'unty opened in tne Boundary street graded school build ing yesterday morning. There were about thirtv-fve teachers in atten dance upon the opening session, and this number will in all probability be increased to nearly fifty durin the four weeks of the term. The day was spent in organizing and getting ready for the work of the term. County Sup;.rintendent of Educa tion Eug.ene S. \\erts was present and made a brief and appropriate ad dre,- 1 the teachers. lie spoke of the value of summer scho&l work and of his hope that this would be the most prosperous session in the history of summer schools InI this county and of practical benefit to those in atten dance and of pleasure both to instruc tors and pupils. Superintendent Werts referred to Section tS of the regula tions of the State Board of Education, in regard to the renewal of teachers' certificates. which provides that if a teachers' institute or summer school is held in the county. a first grade cer tificate shall not be renewed unless the holder attends the institute or summer school. or shows to the State Board of Education some satisfactory reason for not doing so. He express ed himself as greatly pleased with the bright outlook for a prosperous ses sion. Prof. S. J. Derrick, who as princi pal has the school in charge, stated the following schedule for the work of each day: 8 a. m.-Opening bell. 8.30-9.r3-History. taught by Miss Kate Lou Neel. 9.1.-o-Grammar. taught by Miss Kate Lou Neel. to-it-Grammar. taught by Miss Lizzie Dominick. T11-1T1.15-Recess. 1i.i5-12-Hughe's '\istakes in Teaching. taught by Prof. S. J. Der rick. 12-12-45--Arithmetic. taught by Prof. S. J. Derrick. 12.45-Adjournment. Rebekah Officers. McCaughrin Rebekah lodge No. 9. at the regular meeting Saturday night electe4 the following officers for the ensui:, 'erm: Noble Grand"-Miss Carrie Street. Vice Grand-Miss Mamie Miller. Secretary-Mrs. Rena Kinard. Treasurer-Miss Lucy Jones. Past Grand-Miss Hattie Vaughn. The appointive oflcers will be chosen at the next meeting of the lodge. Moved to Anderson. The following is from the Ander son Daily Mail Saturday: Mr. H. E. Todd. who recently bought out the sewing machine busi ness of Mr. C. A. Reed. has moved his family to the city from Newberry. He will occupy the residence of Mr. John. C. Osborne on Fant street and Mr. Osborne will probably move to his farm in the country and build a new home there. Mr. Todd is very much pleased with Anderson and expects to make this his home permanently. He has been handling furniture. sewving ma chines and musical instruments for years and is thoroughly acquainted with his business. He will handle besides sewing ma chines a full line of furniture and house furnishings. He has already bought over twvo car-loads of furni ture and will continue to push the seing machine business. At present he will occupy the left hand room in the Reed building, but September 1st will move into the room now occu pied by The Anderson Hardware company. Picnic at Hartford. There will be a school picnic at Hartford on next Saturday, the 25th, The public is cordially invited to at tend. Severe Hail Storm. A severe hail storm and heavy rains visited the Maybinton section of the equnty last week. The crops ...r.. amaed to some extent. NEGRO SHOOTING AFFRAY. One Negro Kills Another Near Silver Street-Due to Women's Fuss. H1-ward Stephens. colored. was slht and mortally wounded on Sat urday afternoon. in the public road in front of the old John Peterson place. near Silver Street. by John Reeder. also colored. Stephens died on Sunday morning. Reeder is now in jail. The dead negro lived on Mr. Mad. Pitts' place and Reeder on Mr. W. W. Spearman's. The affair took place about sun down Saturday afternoon. and was the result. it appears. of some trou ble between the women relatives of the two men. Coroner i.indsav held an inquest Sun(ay miorning. Front the tes.ti niyiiv br.ought nut it seemlls that St .plhen ' daughter and Reedr'*s slt,er arl imother and Steph ens were an, t party who were returning fr,m a meeting of a Woman's Aid co cievy at Trinity (colored) church when the women became involved in a difneulty. Later Reeder appeared on the scene and accused Stephens of cursing his (Reeder's) mother. Stephens denied it. when Reeder shot at him tive times with a pistol. three of the balls taking effect. The testimony of the witnesses examined by the coroner is that Stephens did 'ot ire at Reeder until after Reeder had shot five times and began to run, when Stephens shot at him with a shot gun which he was carrying. Reeder savs that Stephens shot first. Valley Davenport. Stephens' datghter. testified that she was among the party returning on Sat urdav afternoon from the Woman's Aid society meeting and that Dinah Davenport. a sister of John Reeder, kept on 'after her. saying that she was going to beat her. That they finally come to blows. That Sing Reeder slipped Dinah a knife. and that when she 0Valley) came to the bridge she called her sister to bring her a gun. That her father told her to give the gun to Jim Smith. which she did. Thait then they went into George Wilson's house, and that Jim Smith gave the gun to John Longshore. and that John Longshore gave it to Dinah. That her father. Stephens, took the gun away from Dinah, who then cursed Stephens. Stephens told Dinah that he was old enough to be her father. 'About this time Clara Reeder began to holler and went home and called her son. John Reed er. John Reeder came up with his bands in his pockets. looking at the ground. He stood in the road about an hour waiting while the party were in George Wilson's house. Then Reeder asked Stephens why he had cursed his (Reeder's) mother. Steph ens said he had never cursed Reed ers mother. that what he had said was to Reeder's sister. Valley Daven port. continuing, said she told Reeder that her father had not cursed Reed er's mother. Stephens said "John" and by that time John Reeder had shot him four times and shot by him nce, in all five shots. Stephens sat down on the side of the road and shot in the air, said the witness. George Wilson. colored, said he eard the conversation between the two men and then got out of sight. Then he heard the pistol shots and saw Reeder running. and then he saw Stephens straighten and shoot at Reeder. They had been at his house getting a drink of water. All the other witnesses corrobor ated the testimony of these two. The verdict of the .jury was that Stephens came to his death from pis tol shot wounds inflicted at the hands of John Reeder. Reeder gave notice of his desire to sutrrender and was brought to town n Sunday morning by Mr. W. W. Spearman. on whose place he lived, They were met on the road by Sher iff Buford. who promptly left New berry Sunday morning when he was notifed of the affair. World's Fair Rates. The Southern Railway announces the following low rates from New berry to the World's Fair, St. Louis, June-November. 1904. Beginning April a5th tickets are on sale as fol lows: Season Excursion tickets,..-$37.15 Sixty-Day Excursion tickets, .. 31.00 Fifteen-Day Excursion tickets, 25.30 For full innformation as to schedul es sleeper reservation, etc., apply to S. H. McLean. Agent. LUTHER HILL INJURED. Fell From a Street Car in Washing ton-Was Conductor On The Car. .! r. \\. A. Hill. of this city. yes terday received a telegram from Washington announcing that his son. Mr. M. Luther Hill. had been seriously injured by falling off a street railway car. Young Mr. Hill went to Wash ington some months ago as one of Congressman Wyatt Aiken's assistant secretaries. and later received an ap pointment as street railway conduc tor in that city. In this capacity he was running between Washington and Chevy Chise. Md.. eight miles distant from Washington. when he fell off his car this morning. Mr. V. A. Hill left for Washington on the earlv afternoon train yesterday. The first message received by Mr. \\. A. Iill vesterdav was from Mrs. F. T. Fling. of Chevy Chase. Md.. w!th whm ywhr n Mr. Hill was oarding. The me-sage read: -Martin fell from electric car. Ser inu's hurt. At Gartleld hospital. Doctors think you shotld coent im mediately.. "Mrs. E. J. Fling. Chevy Chase. Md.! Then a message was received from Congressman Wyatt Aiken. at Abbe ville. which read: "Just received following: 'Hill fell from car. Condition serious.' Have wired parties in Vashington." Mr. Hill before he went to Wash ngton held the position of clerk in pustoffice here. Hill Will Recover. (Special Herald and News.) Washington. D. C.. June 20. 7. p. m. -Hill's condition serious but will probably recover. Garfield Hospital. Death of Mr. Earle Sondley. Mr. Earle Sondley. a native of New herry cointy. died in the hospital in Columbia on Sunday. of typhoid. iever. a.ed thirty-five years. Mr. Sondley moved from this clunty to Spartanburg during last year. His re mains were buried at Mt. Bethel Presbyterian church yesterday after noon. the funeral services being con ducted at 3.30 o'clock. Mr. Sondley is survived by three brothers and one sister. Messrs. W. H. Sondlely. Clif ford Sondley. Alan Sondley. and Miss Carrie Sondley. Children's Day at Aveleigh. Children's day was observed with interesting exercises at Aveleigh I Presbyterian church Sunday night. The exercises consisted of songs, reci I t'ations. responsive readings. etc.. and an address by the superintendent of the school. Dr. W. E. Pelham. A vocal solo was beautifully r?nder ed by Mrs. A. P. Johnstone, of Ander son. The following special recitations were by the members of the school: "Little Lights"-Preston William son. "His Lamps"-Miss Louise Jones. "What Have We Done Today" Miss Caroline Belcher. "Waiting"-Miss Mabel William son. "If 'We Were Chinese Children" Misses Vera Belcher and Emma Rod ger. and James Smith and Aubrey Nolar' Thc. were responsive readings and hymns during the exercises. "The Story of the Laplsey." the missionary boat destroyed on the Congo last year, was told by the su perintendent, Dr. WV. E. Pelham, who in an interesting address spoke of the missionary cause and of the work of the Presbyterian church along this line, paying tribute to those consecrat ed men who have devoted their lives to the carrying of the gospel into be nighted lands. The offering was for the building of the new "Laplsey." A violin solo was beautifully ren dered by Miss Nanie McCaughrin. and the audience was dismissed with the benediction. The Southern Schedules. Schedule of Southern Rai!wny ii-s passing Newberry, S. C. E Sunday. westbound. 8:40 a. m. No. 11, daily, westbound, 1:23 p. m. No. 12, daily eastbound, 12:50 p. m. No. 72 (mixed) daily except Sunday. eastbound. ' 8:45 p. m. No. 16, daily, eastbound, 11.40 p. m. Passenger going off on No. 16 are requested to purchase their tickets not later than 8.45 p. m.. as the ticket office will not be open for this train. S. H. McLean, Agent. Tragic Death in Texas. A recent issue of the Dickens Item. of Stanford. Texas. contains an ac count of the tragic death of Tommy Hunter. whose father. Mr. Hyde Hun ter. of Texas. is a brother of Mrs. W. H. Eddy. of Ja!apa. this county, and a son of the late J. Y. Hunter. of this county. the young man whose tragic death is recorded having been a grandson of J. Y. Hnnter. The accident occurred on a ranch after nightfall. Hunter being shot by Bruce Wilson. who was answering a pistol signal by firing his pistol. Wil Ion did not elevate his pistol suffi ciently. and the ball took effect in Hunter, who was standing not far ditat. T!,- young man died a few day; later a, the result of his injuries. The paper referred to states that Ianter wa in the employ of the "Spur" ranch and was loved by all tile hor- an tei ranch and by all who knew im. Pledges and Assessments. According to the rule adopted by the county democratic executive com mittee. assessments of candidates must be paid and pledges filed on or before Monday. July 2. at 12 o'clock. The treasurer of the executive com mittee. Mr. John W. Earhardt, will receive pledges and assessments at any time which may suit the conven ience of the candidates. Executive Committee Meeting. The county democratic executive committee is hereby called to meet in the court house at Newberry. S. C.. on Saturday. June 25th, at iI oclock. for the purpose 6f consider ing the matter of changing the dates for some of the t-iwnship campaign neeting,. which conflict with other meetings. and to transact such other business as may properly come up be fore the meeting. Menbers will come prepared to name the managers for the primary electi, S. S. Cunningham. County Chairman. Newberry. S. C., June 20. 1g04. SPECIAL NOTICES. WANTED-A horse or mule to do light work for itz feed. Newberry , Hotel. BEAUTIFUL SOUVENIRS FROM the Gulf of Mexico. I gathered them at the Gulf. Magnificent Spec imens 25 cents each. Stamps or Silver. Address: A. Forrest Counts. Tampa. Fla. STRAY MULE wvas taken up by me on June 6. on 'the Werber place five miles from town. Owner -may secure by paying damages. G. J. Cannon. MONEY TO LEND-Long time; 8 per cent.! easy terms. John stone & Cromer. COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON. Charleston, S. C., Entrance e:xamina tions will be held in the County court on Friday. July 8. at 9~ a. m. One scholarship giving free tuition is assigned to each county in South Carolina. Board and furnished room in Dormitory. $xo a month. All candidates for admission are permitted to compete for Boyce scholarships, which pay $ioo a year. For further information and catalogue. address Harrison Ran dolph. president. MONEY TO LOAN--We negotiate loans on improved farm lands at seven per cent. interest on amounts over one thousand dollars, and eight per cent. interest on amounts less than S1,0oo. Long time and easy payments. Hunt, Hunt & Hunter. Best Mineral As phalt Roofing. C. H. CANNON, Near C., N. & L. Depot. LOTS FOR SALE-On Saturday. July 2d. at Pomaria, we will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash half dozen or more lots suit able for store buildings. H. C. Holloway Edw. R. Hipp.