Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE COTTON CROP. Conditions This Year As Compare< To Previsious Years. The cotton buyers and weigher: of the county are busy and the nev cotton is beginning to pour in irr,r all sections. Cotton matured a L. tle earlier last year than it has doni this season for the reason that i was much dryer at this time last year The new cotton bought up to thi time in the town of Newberry, how ever, amounts to about four hundre< -bales, and the wagons are coming ii faster and faster. It is estimated that the crop ii the county this year will be betweei five and seven per cent better thai last year's yield. The cotton in th< sandy land has been injured in man] instances by rust but the farmers sa] that most of the rusted cotton ha fully matured, so the loss from tha cause will not be heavy. There ha also teen some deterioration in th rank cotton. The total number of bales bough in Newberry county, Whitmire ex cepted, for the year ending Septem ber ist, 1904, is 32,008. For th< year ending September 1903, th< number was 33,070. The figures given below will shov the exact number bought at the dif ferent towns in the county, respect vely: Totals For 1903. Newberry . . . . . . . . . . . 19,02( Prosperity.. .------.. 6,70< Pomaria . . . . . . . . . . 3,914 *Chappells.....------... .. 2JO Little Mountain . . . . . . I31 Total ..'..- ----33,07( Totals For i9o4. Newberry ..-..-.--.-.-.19,94' Prosperity 6,oi... - .. 6 Pomaria. . . . . . . . . . . . 2,6 Chappells . . . . . . . . . . 1,871 Litt Mountain . . . . . . . 1,50( Total .-.. ----.-..--32,008 The following report by secretari 'Hester gives a complete annual state -ent of crop conditions throughou the country: New Orleans, September 6.-Sec retary Hester's annual report was is sued in full today. He puts the cot ton crop of 1903-04 at 10,011,374 bales a decrease of 716,185 under that 0 1902-03. He says that compared witi !kst year, in round figures, Texas, in -cluding Indian Territory, has in. 'creased 45,0oo bales. The groul cnown as other Gulf states, consist. ng of Louisianna, Arkansas, Missis sippi, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Utal and Kansas, has lost 430,000 and th< group of Atlantic states, Alabama Georgia, Florida, North Carolina South Carolina, Kentucky and Vir ginia, has fallen off 332,000. Mr. Hester's report on the cottor crop of the different states i't givei as follows: Alabama i,ooo,ooo against 1,o5,ot last year. Arkansas 705,000 against I .000,O00 Florida 5,ooo against 55,o00 Georgia I1,325,00o against I,470,O00 Louisiana 824,ooo against 824,0o0. Mississippi 1,387,ooo against 1,404, -00. North Carolina 563.00 against 575, South Carolina 825,000 against 950, ooo. Tennessee; etc-, 451;ooo against 509, ~ooo Texas and Indian Territory 2,876, ooo against 2,831.0oo Total crop 10,011,374 against 10, 727.559 He makes the actual production o Tndian Territory 266.555 bales agains .369,251 last year, of Oklahoma '77, '057 against 186,ooo last year and o Missouri 34,367 against 35,906 las year, tike two last being included un der the head of Tennessee, etc. He put the average commercia value of the crop at $61.38 agains ~$44-52 last year and the total valui of the crop at $6:7.5o1,548 agaia~s $80,770,282 last year. Death of Miss Schumpert. Miss Texana J. Schumpert, of thi: couenty, died suddenly on Friday last of heart trouble. She was a daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Schum pu, and was fifty-five years of age Se died at the home of Mr. T. S Blair, in the Deadfall section, whos< family she was visiting. The funera was helsl on Saturday, at Cross Road: PURELY PERSONAL. The Movements of Many People, Newberrians and Those Who Visit Newberry. Miss Nellie Coats is visiting friends at Cross Hill. Mrs. Katie Coates went to Cross Hill yesterday. t Mr. J. P. Wilson spent Sunday in Benson. N. C. Mrs. Daniel Holland, of Edgefield, is in the city. Mrs. John A. Eddy is visiting friends in Columbia. I Mr. Forrest Goggans is spending i a few days in Anderson. Miss Lucile Lever, of Columbia, is visiting friends in Newberry. Miss Grace Clarke is visiting friends in Spartanbug. Miss Fannie Leavell is visiting friends in Greenwood. Miss Dora Williams, of Enoree, is visiting Miss Sara Spearman. Miss Ola Barron, of Rock Hill, is visiting Miss Nina Carlisle. Misses Eva and Eula Teagu. have joined their family in Columbia. Miss Dorothy Huiet left yesterday for Columbia. to enter the Ursurline Convent. Miss Annie Bynum has gone to Florence to take charge of her school at that place. Mrs. T. E. Broadus has returned from an extended visit among rela tives in Trenton. - Rev. J. D. Huggins, who has been in Newberry for some time, went to Columbia on Saturday. - ) Mrs. Ed. Jenkins has returned from Orangeburg where she has been spending some time among friends and relatives. Miss Ethel Paysinger has return ed from an extended visit among friends in Greenville. Miss Blanche Davidson has gone to St. Matthews where she will take charge of the graded school. Mrs. Alice Robertson, of Hous ton, Texas, is spending some time with the family of Mr. S. B. Jones. .Miss Annie Laurie Tarrant has re turned from an extended visit among friends in North Carolina. Miss Dorothy Huiet left yesterday morning for Columbia where she will attend school. Miss Carrie Pool went to Hollins Institute, Va., yesterday, to don Long were married on Sunday, at M'r., Malcolm Hunter has accepted a position as clerk with the W. G. Mayes Drug company. 1Miss Fannie Nicholson, who has been visiting Miss Bessie Coppock, has returned to Edgefield. Mrs. W. E. Pelham has returned from a ,visit to Laurens and Green ville. Miss Mary Law McClintock, who who has been spending a short time with her father, Dr. E. P. McClin tock, returned to Columbia today. Mrs. Weeks, and daughter, Miss Gordan Weeks, have returned from a visit of several weeks in Virginia. -Misses Leila and Katie Dickert have returned to Union after spend -ing some time with the family of Col. D. A. Dickert, in this city. Mrs. T. J. Bolton returned to her home at Greenwood last week, af ter a pleasant visit with the family of Rev. N. N. Burton. fMrs. WV. B. Werts. and little son, returned last Friday from an extend -ed visit to Greenville. and wvestern North Carolina. Miss Genevieve Evans left last week tfor Belmont college, in Nashville, Tenn., where she will take a special course. Mr. E. B. Hallman has gone to Kingstree and is acting in the capaci ty of principal of the graded schools Sthere. Miss Oehliese Williamson and Mr. -James Williamson, have returned -from an extended visit among friends in North Carolina. Miss Mary E. Kernan, who has been nursing the little daughter of !IMr. H. H. Franklin, has gone to Go J ubi tenn chil eng much better. Mr. Julius Epting and Miss Sally Long were married on yesterday, at Prosperity, Rev. J. A. Sligh officiat ing. Mr. Herman Wright has returned from the maneouvres at Manassas, were he was rated as sergeant major in the 2nd South Carolina regiment. Mr. M. M. Long has gbne to Greenville, where he will attend the next session of the circuit court in the capacity as stenographer. Prof. 0. B. Cannon has returned from the University of Chicago where he took a special course in mathematics. He will' teach that branch this session in Newberry col lege. VARIOUS AND ALL ABOUT. Mr. C. L. Leitzsey has purchased a new ginning outfit, and is ginning cotton at Mr. J. D. Smith's old stand. Wagons are coming in from the different parts of the county, loaded with new cotton, more and more fre quently. Mrs. Alice Robertson delighted the congregation at the Lutheran church, on Sunday night, with a beautifully rendered vocal solo. The whist club was delightfully en tertained last week by Mrs. A. T. Brown. Refreshments were served and the occasion was most enjoyable. The docket at the mayor's court has been very light for several days. Very few cases have come up, and most of them were only for minor offenses. An effort is being made to collect the street duty which has not been already paid up, and Policeman S. G. Carter has been detailed for the ar duous work. The new college building is to be entirely lighted by electricity, and the auditorium is to contain new in door arc lights instead of the ordi nary incandescent. The euchre club was pleasantly en tertained by Miss Thyra Schumpert, at the home of her parents, on Thurs day afternoon. A dainty salad course was served. It was reported on the streets last week, that Mr. Landrum Walker, a Mollohon mill operative, was held up near the C., N. & L. tank, and robbed of watch, money, and other valuables. A team of mules belonging to Mr. V. C. Wilson, in this county, ran away on Friday, and painfully bruised and injured Mr. J. WV. Wilson, who was in the wagon at the time of the runaway. An interesting letter comes from Mr. Jos. A. Derrick, who has recent ly moved to Abbeville, to work in the mills there. He says that many Newberrians are in the mills and that all are prospering and doing well. Geo. Johnstone Retained. At the court at Conway this week Col. George Johnstone has been em ployed to assist in the defense of S. F. Bourne. The case has excited a good deal of comment. Bourne was town marshal and shot and kill ed Walter E. Porter, a liveryman. He will claim that he was acting under the discharge of his duty as an offi cer when he killed Porter. With the September number the Woman's Home Companion begin an unusually interesting year. In a timely interview, Mrs. Uchida, wife of our Japanese consul-general, talks about Japanese people and Japanese customs. "A Visit to the Home of Ex-President Cleveland" is a chatty article on that famous statesman, ii Istrated with exclusive pictures. Other features are "The 'Wonders of Magazine-Making." "Making Per fumes in Sunny Fr.ance," an illustra ted interview with Mrs. Margaret E. Sangster. who has joined the editorial staff of the Woman's Home Compan ion, and "September Days in Old New England." There are short stories by Katharine H. Brown, Louis Jos eph Vance, Kathryn Jarboe and Grace S. Richmond. Mr. X. and Sam Loyd have the most remarkable puzzle page that appears in any magazine. The home departments are packed with fresh and helpful advice about garden ing, cooking, sewing, etc. Published by The Crowell Publishing company. Springfield, Ohio; one dollar a year: HELENA TICKET OFFICE. Notice That It Will Be Abolished Protest Rainsed. The following notice was served last week on Mr. B. E. Julien, the ticket agent for the Southern rail road. at Helena: "This it to notify the public that application has been made to the chairman of the ra.ilroad commission of the state of Scuth Carolina to close the commissioned ticket office at Helena, in the state of South Caro lina, within ten days from the date of this notice, making the close take effect on September 15, 1904. "Helena, South Carolina, will con tinue to be a flag stop as to the pas senger trains for the present and un til a change of schedule when such trains shall be flagged there as the management may deem expedient." (Signed) H. A. Williams, Supt. A petition for the continuance of, the said office was immediately cir culated in Helena and signed by a large number of persons. Ths peti tion was sent to Railroad Commis sioner Garris and elicited a reply to the effect that the Southern had no power to diseontinie said office with out first appearing before the rail road commission for a hearing at which both sides should be represent ed. This hearing will take place in the -near future. The citizens are hopeful that the -fiket ofiice will be continued, and are confident that even if the the ticket office is taken away the town will have to remain a regular ar.d unqualified flag station. The artic!e below, relative, is cop ied from the Charleston News and Courier "The railroad comnisSion has re ceived notice from the Southern that on account of .the lack of sales-the tick.t oiice at Iele.na, in -Newberry county. would be closed in thirty days. A protest has been received frorn the residents of that place, and a hearing will be held zs soon as a date con be fixed" It's easy finding reasons why other people should be patient. George Eliot. SPECIAL NOTICES. For Sale:-One Fay-Sholes type wrter. For further information apply at the Southern Bell Tele-. jhone Co. R S. Spearmnan, 9-9-t If you are feeding more horses than you want, take one or mor down to Quattlebaum & Schumpert, and trade it for a Buggy or a Wagon. See their ad. elsewhere in these columns. 9-9-2t 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 $r,ooo. Long time and easy payments. Hunt, Hunt & Hunter. If you need a Buggy or Wagon, see Quattlebaum & Schumpert, they will make the price and terms to suit you. They have just gotten in a full line for their fall trade, and can please anybody. ''.9-9-2t When you want the best Buggy on earth for the least money, you should insist on having the "Gem." Sold only by Quattlebaumn & Schumpert. 9-9-2t. FOR SALE. The undersigned, partners under firm name of Sligh arid Dunlap, in order to dissolve said partnership, will on 24th day of September, 1904, at 11 o'clock in the morning, at R. G. Williams' place, near Old Town, sell the following described personal property: One 18-horse Tozier engine, one saw mill and fixtures, two log carts, one yoke of oxen? Terms: Cash tI Io-23-f. Sligh & Dunlap. ensetirg. A meeting of the citizens of New berry is hereby called in the Opera House at Newberry on Thursday, September 29th, 1904, at io a. in.. to hear the eport of the Trustees of the Newberry Graded Schools. Alan Johstone. Chairman. F. N Martin. HIGHWAY ROBBERY. Thomas Brown, A Notorious Colored Man Now in Jail. Thomas Brown, colored. alias Tobe Brown. a character long familiar in police circles, is in the Newberry jail to answer the serious charge of high way robbery. It is alleged that on the night be fore the primary election this negro halted, knocked down, beat, and rob bed a travelling salesman, who has requested his name to be withheld, who was walking to the Mollohon mill. It is stated that he was accost ed by Brown at the intersection of the Mollohon mill road with the Prosperity road. The negro asked for a dime, and when the unfortunate man placed his hand in his pocket for the requested small change he was jumped upon knocked to the ground, and robbed of all his personal possessions, including a watch, mon ey, scarf pin, and other valuables. Peculiar circumstances prevented the facts from becoming'known at once, but it is now understood that the case against the negro is clear. It will in all probability be brought up at the next term of the circuit court. Have Resigned. Under the ruling of the Democratic Executive committee that all pres-. idential electors who hold the offic.e of director of a national bank or even notary public should resign these positions or should get off the ticket, Geo. Johnstone an elector at large, and B. W. Crouch, an elector from the fourth district, have resign ed, they both being directors in a national bank. Runaway Accident. Runaway accidents have been fre quent for the past week. The most serious one reported is that in which Mr. E. Lee Hayes sustained a frac ture of the'collar bone, and other painful, but not dangerous injuries. He had driven to town, from his home about four miles from the cor porate limits, with a pair of fine mules, and on the return journey the animals became unmanageable and ran away. Mr. Hayes was thrown out and injured in the manner stated above. Overcoat Lost. A gentleman of the county lost an overcbat somewhere in Newberry on the night of the primary election. The garment was in good condition, having bnly -been worn on.. winter. It was dark brown and there was a small hole in one side. Finder will please leave same at Herald & News office. The Department Store. Great changes have taken place in the Mimnaugh establishment this fall. Mr. J. A. Mimnaugh has just return ed from a personal visit to the great northern markets where he selected a tremendous lot of new goods for the fall trade in Newberry, and the store has been put in readiness to receive this great quantity of merchandise. The upstairs apartments have been ceiled and other improvements have been made. A large stock is now dis played on the upper as well as on the ground floor. In fact the establish ment is a regular city department store. Farmers' Oil Mill. The Farmers' Oil mill was opened on Saturday. Some cotton was ginned and the work of setting things to rights was completed. The work began in earnest yesterday. A curious phenomenon has been no ticedi in the tropics that can never be seen at higher latitudes. A mining shat at Somberete, Mex.. is almost exactly on the tropic of Cancer, and at noon on June 21 the sun shines to the bottom, lighting up the well for a vertical dept of 11o feet or more. Tact is acting as if you meant it all the time when you find out you have unconsciously said something complimentary about someone you are talking to. La Montt-Yes, we all know that Sampson could upset a house, but what was his regular occupation? L.a Moyne-I don't know; probably a plumber or paperhanger, though. Chicago News.