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-a- ' ' .. VOL. XLII. NO. 45 NEWBERRY, S. C., TUESDAY MARCH 7, 1905. TWICE A WEEK, s1:'o A YEAR PROSPERITY PRIIRY TO JE HELD TODDl INTENDANT AND WARDENS TO BE CHOSEN. Two Tickets in Field-Cotton Grow ers Meetings-Several Deaths In Prosperity Section. Prosperity, March 6.-The primary for the officers of the town will be held on Tuesday, March 7. There are two tickets in the field and the race will be an interesting one. One of the tickets composed of the present in cumbents, except Mr. R. C. Counts, is as follows: For Intendent, Dr. Jacob S. Wheel er; Wardens, A. H. Hawkins, S. S. Birge, D. W. Boland, W. T. Gibson. The other ticket is as follows: For Intendent, Dr. E. N. Kibler; Wardens, Jno. B. Felers S. L. Fey lers, G. M. Ables, J. P. Bowers. Thus a choice is offered to all and all that is necessary is to have a reg istration certificate. Trade was very good the past week, and our merchants are correspond ingly happy. Mrs. J. A. Simpson has been on a visit to Newberry. R. A. Cooper, Esq., of Laurens, can didate for solicitor, was in town last week making acquaintances and shak ing hands with old ones. The grim'reaper hasbeen castingin his scythe again. Mrs. Sallie Shealy departed this life last Thursday and was laid to rest at Mt. Tabor ceme tery. The funeral services were con ducted by the Rev. J. A. Sligh, in the absence of her pastor. She was in her 88th year and leaves 4 sons and two daughters. The St. Lukes section has also been visited by the same reaper and Mr. Jacob B. Fellers, one of the substan tial citizens of that community, haE fallen. Mr. Fellers had been sick foi some time. He was a member of St Lukes church, and an officer foi many years. Also we learn of the death of Mrs. Willie Leaphart. daughter of Mr. D. S. Conwill, on last Saturday. She was laid to rest on Sunday. She and Mr. Fellers sleep in St. Lukes ceme tery. We are glad to report that Mr. A P. Dominick who has been sick again is improving. Again the silver notes of the wed ding bells are ringing. Mr. Lama: Dominick. of Chappells. was married to Miss Estelle Cook, daughter of Mr J. Callie Cook, by Rev. S. P. Koon on Thursday. March 2. May their pathway through life be strewn with the flowers of prosperity and many joys be theirs! Vera. t,he little daughter of Mr. L C. Merchant, had a narrow escap< from being burned to death Saturday evening. She was standing in front of the fire when her dress caught When the nurse saw her she was ablaze. By throwing 'her down she succeeded in putting out the fire. She was only burned no the knee. The nurse kept her hair from singeing. 11 was a narrow escape and all feel thankful. The reports from the district meet ings of :e cotton growers so far as we 'have heard show that the meet. ings have been well attended. We have heard from three, Prosperity Mt. Pilgrim and O'Neall. Prosperi ty organized by electing Dr. Wyche chairman, WA. P. B. Harmon vice president and WV. T. Gibson secretar2 and treasurer. A canvassing commit. tee of four was appointed to canvas: the district and enroll all farmers Committee: J. M. Wicker. J. H Dominick, N. H. Young and ,B. B Hair. This district has about 5C members. At Mt. Pilgrim Win. Chapman wa: elected chairman and L. S. Long sec I. retary. By resolution they decided to cut their acreage 25 per cent. for all who plant over io acres. Much good will be done. About thirty members were present. At O'Neall -Mr. J. L. Hunter was elected chairman. Mr. W. P. Pugh. secretary and Mr. Jas. Wise vice president. This organization, by res olution decided to cut the acreage as requested by the Cotton Growers as sociation of the south. Wnile the meeting was not large, those pres ent showed they meant business, and the gentleman who gave me the in formation said that all in the com munity were heartily in favor of the movement and would stand by it. Thus far all have fallen in line and all that is necessary is to "stand pat" for the next 6o days. We clipped the following on holding cotton and want to see all pulling together for the common good: We're pulling together in all kinds of weather, And we've got King Cotton, "to burn;" So look out, Mr. Bear, we're right there, And we'll be there in the turn. We've all joined ranks; got control of banks, Goin' to hold cotton 'till fall, Just plant a little; it ain't no riddle, Ten cents we'll hear 'em call. We've set our head we'll die stone dead, Before you'll git it 'till then. We've got you this time. just make tip your min' To take your medicine like men. Our old clocks are tickin' and no body's kickin'; We're rockin' in the old arm chair. We'll keep on rockin' and you can keep knockin' But .in the turn we'll all be there. -Magness, from Grassy Pond. The Literary Sorosis will give its play, "Mr. Bob," in the city hall on next Friday night. PROHIBITION IN CHARLOTTE. Great Number of Prescriptions of Whiskey Given by Physi cians. Charlotte, ,March 5.--Charlotte phy sicians wrote 1,694 prescriptions dur ing the month of February. Recorder Shannonhouse figured them up this afternoon and finds that about twice as many wvere written during February as in January. The highest number filled by any one drug store was 535 and the lowest Of the seven drug stores dealing in whiskey the following are the num bers for each: 535. 414, 308, 129, 124, 113 and 71. HANGED FOR HIS BROTHER. Strange Confession of a Miser in Philadelphia. Washington, Pa., March 3.-"My God! That's my brother! He never killed that woman. I am the murder er. I should have been hanged in stead of Eugene," cried Adolph J. Bloch today in a frenzy of remorse, interrupting a companion at the steel Imill in Canonsburg, who was reading to him an account of the hanging of Eugene Bloch, at Allentown on Tues day. He is in the Washington coun ty jail tonight, awaiting a hearing on the charge of the murder to which he has confessed and for which his brother has been executed. His brot-her was hanged for the alleged murder of Mrs. Kate Falzinger. Adolph Bloch declared to the author ities today, after the item had been read to him that he himself killed Mrs. Falzinger and that the brot-her who had been hanged was guiltless. Bloch is a mill worker, readls news papers but little, and says he knew nothing of the trial, conviction and GREATEST INAUGURAL IN NATION'S HISTORY 200,000 VISITORS IN CITY OF WASHINGTON. City a Garden Blossoming With Flags-Brilliant and Impos ing Parade. 1 1 The most brilliant and imposing in- 1 auguration which the citizens of 1 Washington have ever prepared pass- 1 ed into t-he history of the Republic 1 on Saturday, March 4. '1 n--odore Roosevelt did not ride to the Capitol, hitch his horse to a shade tree, enter 1 the building and take the oath of of- i fice booted and spurred. The tradi tional Jeffersonian simplicity was re- I placed by a pageant which has not 1 been surpassed in the annals of the i nation. It was the first national inaugura tion since the civil war. The south 1 sent up its warriors and its state of ;icials. Men who fought each other t for years under different flags; men 1 who fought together in the war with Spain under the one flag of the- Un ion marched together in review be fore their common president, a sol dier of the republic. With these, to illustrate our new nationality, came marching representatives from the Phillippines and Porto Rico, lands where the sunset, fading from the flag in the far Pacific. is the sun rise on its folds along the Atlantic horizon. Fully 200,000 visitors saw the presi dent. The whole city was a garden blossoming -itli flags. For a week ever advancing waves of color have been sweeping through all its streets. Not only was the line of march artis tically decorated to a degree never before attained, but no street in the city was without its national colors. Acting under a suggestion from the 1 inaugural committee, the board of ed ucation had requested 50,ooo school children to see that each one of their homes displayed the flag. It was a request responded to by an army of children. This apotheosis of the col ors was one of the most striking ele ments of a gigantic scheme for ex pressing the national respect for a president. The Streets Transformed. The committee on street decora tions, street illumination and parks and reviewing stands worked togeth er with artistic taste and transformed two miles and a half of the city's not ed avenue into a fitting highway for the nation in i:s countless represen tative bodies to march as an escort to its president. Every square yard( that was not black with people, bank-1 ed h,igh from the pavement, crowd ing at the windows and fringing all roofs, was brilliant with the national colors. The scene by day was magnificent, by night, under the committee's scheme of illumination, t'he tremen dous crowds wandered in fairy land. Heretofore the decorations of :he avenue have been chiefly flags, streamers and burting. To these to day were added palms of large growth and in endless abundance, by carloads from the south and ship loads from Porto Rico. The president's reviewing stand, in front of t'he White H-ouse, was the centre of The Court of History. which extended two long blocks, from 15th street. Along each side of the avenue were noted historical fig ures. in great numbers, from the St. Louis exposition. This triumphal pathway, along whic-h the kings of the earth might have deemed it an honor to be con ducted, was cleared and closed to cars and vehicles at an early hour. The police management was perfect tccustomed to under the able man LgenCt of Major Sylvester. its chief )f metropolitan police. It was a roy tl highway. upon which the president tarly entered and proceeded to the :apitol to sign such bills as congress night pass in its closing hours. Gen. Chaffee had provided a well )rdered and perfect cavalry escort, vhich could have rapidly passed over he line and made possible the )rompt reopening of the streets to he car lines and the public, in order hat the reside of the suburbs and he greater portion of the city might -each the centres of interest with the east delay. But the grand army, as s its 'habit, insisted on acting with his escort, and the president, shar ng the universal appreciation of its >ast deeds, yielded, and his rate of >rogress to the capitol was reduced o the pathetic pace of men who were ast approaching the Scripture limit f life. But the delay had its compen ations. Many thousands had oppor unity to see and greet the president Ls his 'cortege slowly passed along he %vo miles from the White House o Capitol Hill. The five minutes remaining at the lose of t<he senate's session were giv n to inaugurating The New Vice President. He appeared at the main entrance, scorted by the joint committee of ar -angements, and, as the senate and ts guests rose, he was escorted to a eat at the right of the presiding of icer. where he delivered brief inaug ral remarks and repeated the oath )f office after the presiding officer, enator Frye. Then immediately began the open ng and formal organization of the iew session in the senate chamber. n this little box, whose galleries seat tbout 8oo-seats eagerly, but vainly, oiught for by at least a 'hundred :housand people-the senate, after a full roll call, and duller reading of he president's proclamation assemb ing the body, began its work. Pack -d like sardines in the restricted ;pace olf the little chamber were the >fficial visitors, the president and :abinet in plain clothes, the ambassa lors and ministers, gorgeous in gilt )raid and decorations; the supreme :ourt, in deep black, the army and avy in silver and gold and swords; tnd last of all the members of a dead louse of representatives, banked Lbout the walls or crowded into cloak -oms Each of these grand divisions >f official life, or official death, was nnounced and saluted by the senate -ising. All this prolonged form, with ts solemn ~rrogress and weighty dig ity, was preliminary to the ceremon es otitside. and the march at once be ~an to the immense platform, where he president was to deliver his in ugural and take the oath of office. The Opening Scene. Here the great pageant for the ben ~fit of the public began to unfold it elf, and the people were on 'hand to ee. For the day a long winter had iven wvay, and the never more wel ome sun blessed the occasion. The windows of the capitol were rowded: there was a deep -fringe of pectators along the roofs of senate md house. and the porticoes of the lome. The trees of the park were oaded with boys and men: the broad tcres of the park itself were crowded vith thousands upon thousands. Back f this the windows, roofs and porch s of the library of congress accom noated a multitude, end every resi lence fronting on the park added to :he imposing scene. A!l these were :he plain people. Surrounding the >laza in front of the president's plat orm were the forming lines of the nain parade, while from the adjacent treets eevrywhere projeacted heads f columns, military and civic, wait ng to fall into their places in line. With t'he Appearance of the President rom the senate chamber the shout ing began. swelling into a roar like Niagara. rising to cyclonic. effects, ai:d continuing while the senate and members of the house, the cabinet, the stpireme court, the heads of the army and navy, ambassadors and ministers, representatives of every subordinate branch of the govern ment, and a great company of guests filed out of the senate doors and filled the immense platform. At length all was ready for the crowning ceremony. T'he sea of hu manity was stilled. The president ad vanc a to take the oath of office. Wh his hand upon the Bible held by the chief justice, he reverently repeat ed the oath, kissed the Book at the end, and Theodore Roosevelt, a sol dier of the Republic, became presi dent by the votes of the people, fol lowing the unbroken li.- of soldier prcsidents which his party has install ed since the close of tne civil war. H!e . -n delivered hi- inaugural, which surprised his hearers by its brevity. As the cerrmny closed he was again greeted by the roaring cheers of the'immense throng. Ac companied by his escort and follow ed by, the troops and civilian parad ers, he started for the White.House. The Inaugural Parade. It was the most perfect column that ever marched in an inaugural parade, though its numbers were less. Gen. Chaffee had insisted that a bri gade of the National Guard from each state should be the maximum repre sentation. This obviated the impos- , ing but wearisome and finally monot onous sight when Pennsylvania's 12, ooo finely equipped state - troops marched in the McKinley inaugural. Everywhere, as the column passed, the skill of Gen. Chaffee's supervision, aided by his chief of staff, Gen. John A. Johnston, was apparent to every practiced eye. Nothing was left to chance. The regulars, the National Guard, and the civic grand division had their orders of formation for each unit of the columns and. con formed to them. The whole column, military and civic, under Gen. Chaffee and his staff, marched with a steadiness and celerity hitherto unattained, and like every section of this unrivalled inaug uration, its praises are on every ton gue. On the Reviewing Stand. "'It was a great success. Great! Anhd did you note that "bunch" of cowboys? Oh. they are the boys who can rideC. It all was superb. [t really touched me to the -heart." This was the comment made by President Roosevelt to a representa tive of the Associated Press as he was leaving the reviewing stand for the White House at the conclusion of the magnificent inaugural parade arranged in his honor. During the greater part of the re view the president kept up 'a running fire of comment with Senator Bacon on various features of the parade, losing not an opportunity to direct at tention to the features, which were carrying into effect his own views and opinions. Presently came swinging along, in perfect form, the native Porto Rican military contingent. Turning to Sen ator Bacon,' of Georgia, the president remarked: "T-hey look pretty well for an oppressed people. eh, senator?" And then, aside: "I really shuddered slihtly today as I swore to obey the constitution," and then he laughed. "Two more battle ships." again said the president as the "Jackies" from t'he war vessels in the harbor marched by. He applauded them enthusiasti ally, and, turning to his party, said: "Those are the men who will help to avert the danger of an international war. And, by the way, one of the new battle s>hips is to be named South Carolina, in honor of Legare, of Charlestn, who workred for the ap