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PURELY PERSONAL. The Movements of Many People, Newberrians and Those Who Visit Newberry. Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Aull, of Jalapa, -spent yesterday in Newberry. Mrs. Geo. T. Reid is in the city the guest of Mrs. W. A. McSwain. Mrs. T. C. Pool and Mrs. Geo. S. -Mewer .spent Wednesday in Colum *bia: - - -- -. Mr. J. L. Wilson, of Cross Anchor, -s in the city the guest of Dr. Van .smith. .Mrs. .M. L. Gantt, of Abbeville, is Aisiting friends and relatives in New berry. Miss Gussie Kibler, of Atlanta, is visiting her sister, Mrs. William Johnson. Mr. C. C. Langston, editor of th Anderson Intelligencer and secretary 3f the State Press association, is in the city. S. C. DePass. Esq.. a prominent and able young lawyer of the Union bar, was in Newberry on Monday and appeared before Chief Justice Pope in the case of Jeter vs. Jeter. Messrs. J. P. Wilson, L. G. Esk ridge and J. C. Duncan, of this city, Tecei-ved the Knights Templar degree in Columbia on Wednesday night. TEh-e conclave was also attended by Messrs. Geo. S. Mower, F. H. Domi nick, I..H. Hunt, A. J. S. Longford, A. C. Jones, D. L. Boozer, H. W. Dominick, Leland Summer, J. Guy 'Daniels, of this city, and Geo. Y. 'Hinter and J. L. Wise, of Prosperity. VARIOUS AND ALL ABOUT. It seems to be a safe bet that New ,berry will be heard from in the next -state campaign. The Library association will meet at the library rooms on Monday af ternoon at 5 o'clock. The Daughters of the Confederacy wit meet with Mrs. J. A. Burton at 4-30 o'clock this afternoon. ' Newberry county's share . of the dispensary funds just distributed to public schools is $2,424.33. Sheriff Buford carried an insane man from this county to the state hospital for the insane on Wednes 10y. The Newberry-Erskine game at the zollege park this afternoon promises to be close and interesting and ought .so draw a. large crowd. The Ladies' Aid Society of the -Lutheran Church of the Redeemer will meet with Mrs. A. 3. Bowers on Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock. The~ engine of local freight~ No. I, on the C., N. & L., was derailed at - the north end* of -the switch above r-.the passenger depot yesterday at .about 12 o'clock, the fault, it wat -stated, being with the brakeman who -turned the switch. No serious dam age resulted. .THE SCHOOL QUESTION. Senator Blease Advises That Matter JBe Left in Statu Quo Until Next Legislature. 'After seeing the opinion of Attor ~enera1 Gunter, holding that the county board of educatifn is without jurisdiction in the matter of the elec 'tion 'of trustees of the Newberry :.graded schools, provided for in the --amending Act of the last general as -sembly, Senator Cole. L. Blease said: "Lawyers frequently differ in their construction of law. The assistant - attorney genral decides one way and - the attorney general decides the oth - er. Therefore, the only way to set tie the question is in the courts by an injunction against the present board performing any act as trustees iter the first day of June. 1905. Then - ahe 'courts can say which lawyer is * orrect. "I hope, however, that no such step w"ill be taken, because it may injure the schoe! and possibly end in it be-. Sa~g closed for several months, which 'wo6ld be unfortunate, because the ~ducation of the children of this town is -of Wfar more importance than the question who shall order the election for trustees. It is evident that the *'eople do not want the present board. but it is better to allow themi to hold on a technicality of law than sto close the school. We all must -2odk to the interest of the children, for upon them rests the entire future -~ of ou country. Therefore, I advise ifrat the whole matter be left in statu -quo until the next session of the gen -ewut assemibIy." THE SPRING HAT. Yesterday Was Opening Day in Newberry and the Displays Were Very Beautiful. In the spring a woman's fancy lightly-turns to thoughts of spring millinery-and white silks and black silks and laces and embroideries and crepe de chine and lawns and tulle, and all the other varieties of feminine apparel more numerous than leaves in Valambrosia- mut most of all to spring millinery, for spring could be spring without the songs of the birds, wthout the budding trees, without the perfume of flowers and the beautiful colors with which all the southern hills and valleys are touch ed, but spring couldn't be spring without the spring hat. Yesterday was opening day in Newberry, and the ladies visited the stores which had announced their spring openings and found there such displays as could not but delight the feminine heart. Never were the hats and the dress goods more beautiful, never were the displays more tastily arranged, was the opinion expressed by every lady who saw then, and it was evident from the throngs of ladies who pacek the stores-all day that nearly every lady in Newberry saw them. The weather was all that could be desired. even for opening day. The display of the Riser Millinery ompany was pronounced by far the best display of spring millinery even this enterprising firm has yet shown. Hats there were in all sizes and shap es, all of them pretty and all of them stylish. The store was very tastily :raped in the season's leading colors, and palms and ferns and pot plants added very much to the beauty of the display. The store of the Mower company had been arranged with a view to showing off the display of hats and dress goods to the very -best advan tage, and it was a display worthy of ne of the most successful firms in its line of business in South Carolina. The hats and the dress goods were all new and pretty and attractive, and were admired very much by every lady who saw them. When Mrs. J. H. Hair returned from New York and the northern markets this season she had purchased a line >f spring millinery and dr s goods which is easily one aof the pret tiest lines which Hair and Havird [beve ever shown, and that this firm has for several seasons been especial ly pleasing in its selections of spring lines is shown by its remarkable suc cess. The display yesterday was pretty and was attractively arrang Every lady expected Mimnaugh to display a beautiful line of hats and dress goods, and not one of them was disappointed. Everywhere in :he display good taste was in evi -lence and the stylish hats and dress oods were shown to the very best advantage. .t WV. T. Tarrant's also there wvas i beautiful display of millinery and dress goods, the stock being well se lected and tastily arranged and the store being prettily decorated. The display of dress goods at the Newberry Cash Store and at S. J. Wooten's received much attention? Ercm the ladies and was very much~ admired. T: would be a hopeless task to at tempt to describe the new and beau tiful styles which were shown by the v-arious firms yesterday. Suffice it to say' they were all pretty, and the larger the hat the prettier, for the prettiest hats are the largest. Death of Miss Florence Bowman. Miss Florence Bowman died in the t Francis Xavier Infirmary, in Charleston. on Monday night, short yy after an operation. Miss Bowman wvas taken to Charleston on Sunday afternoon. The funeral took place in Charleston on Wednesday, being at tended by Miss Bowman's brother, Mr. C. A. Bowman, of this city, Mrs. Bowman and Miss Laura Bowman. Miss Bowman had many warm Friends, who were very much pained nn he' death. Arrangements are being perfected or the =anization in Newberdy of BOBARD OF EQUALIZATION. Few Complaints Presented at Meet ing-Assessments of Cotton Mills and Oil Mills. Only thirteen complaints were pre sented to the county board of equali zation at its meeting in the office of County Auditor W. W. Cromer on Tuesday. After hearing the com plaints the action of the township boards was sustained in most instanc es. All the complaints were from those wh'ose assessments have been raised more than $-oo. It . is probable that the assessments of only about one hundred taxpayers in the county have been raised more than $ioo. Every member of the board was present at the meeting on Tuesday, as follows: Township N. i, S. B. Jones: No. i, county. H. H. Folk; No. 2. B. F. Cannon: No. 3, J. H. Smith; No. 4. -own. J. K. S. Ray; N. 4, coun ty. James S. McCarley: No. 5, E. P. Matthews: No. 6. Geo. P. Boozer; No. 7, W. R. Reid: No. 8, George W. Swittenberg; No. 9. town, A. M. Les ter; No. 9. county. W. P. Pugh; No. To, D. B. Cook: No. I. George B. Aull. Mr. H. H. Folk wa- chosen chair man and is, therefore. the representa tive of Newberry county on the~ state board of equalization. The :ssessments throughout the county, following the usual custom had been fixed by the town ship board on a sixtey per cent. basis, and the county board fixed the as sessments of the cotton mills and the oil mills throughout .the county on the same basis, as follows: Newberry Cotton Mills, $282,000. Mollohon Cotton Mill, $209,520. Glen-Lowry Mill, $300,000. Southern Cotton Oil Mill, $21,000. Pomaria Oil Mill, $9,492 Little Mountain Oil Mill, $12,000. Farmers' Oil Mill, Newberry, $21, 6oo. Prosperity Oil Mill, $18,ooo. Before adjourning the board un animously adopted the following res olution: "Resolved, That our thanks be ex tended to our auditor. William W. Cromer. for the thorough and effi cient manner in which he has handled the tax returns and other affairs of his office, thereby greatly facilitating and expediting our work." The F. M. I. Association. The semi-annual report of Treas urer L. I. Epting, of the Farmers' Mutual Insurance association of. Newberry county, from November x, 1904, to March 22, 19o5, shows the total amount of insurance to be $283. 578. The disbursements show several fire losses paid during the period. The association is in healthy condi tion, arid is steadily growing. An Approaching Marriage. Invitations have been issued an nouncing the marriage of Miss Myr tie Abney Schumpert to Mr. Charles Ere Bell, of Augusta. on Wednesday evening, April 12. at 8 o'clock, in the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer. Miss Schumpert is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Schumper:, -of this city. Mr. Bell is of Augusta. Both the young people are popular where ever they are known and their ap proaching marriage is an event which is being looked forward to with inter est by hosts of friends . throughout this state and Georgia and other states. Langdon L. Boozer Killed. In another column in The Herald and News today appears an account of the killing of Langdon L. Boozer by W. E. Perry, at the Wylie Cotton mills, Chester. on Monday. Mr. Boozer was a son of Mr. and Mrs. D. Luther Boozer, who live near Kin ards, and who formerly lived neat Prosperity, in the lower part of this county. Young Mr. Boozer had many friends throughout this county who were greatly shocked in the manner of his death, and who deeply sympa thize with his bereaved parents . in their deep affliction. Rummage Sale. The ladies of the Library associa tion, of which Mrs.. L~ E. Norwood is president, will conduct a rummage sale in the store room recently vacated by the Cash store, beginning this morning. The patronage of the pub lic is solicited, and some interesting O'NEALL STREET CHURCH. Corner Stone of New Building Laid With Masonic Ceremonies on Monday Evening. The corner stone of the ii - O'Neall Street Methodist church' building. now being erected on' the site of the building recently destroy ed by fire, was laid with imposing and approprate ceremonies on Mon-' day evening at sunset, the progran including the presence of the Rev. J. WV. Speake. of Charleston, and the Rev. G. E. Edwards, of Pelzer, for mer pastors of the church, and the ,beautiful Masonic ceremony. The laying of the corner ston' was it nessed by a large crowd, numberiig probably between three' hundred and four hunderd people. The exercises were opened with singing by the graded school chi:dren who marched to the church in a body. Prayer was offered by the Rev. J. W. Speake and scripture lesson was read by the Rev. G. E. Edwards. after which the exercises were taken charge of by7he Masons. Tn tFe corner stone were placed a photograph of the old church build ing, a roll of the church officers, the Sunday School, the building commit tee of the new church, etc., roll of the officers of the mili, copies of the Southern Christian Advocaie and'the county papers, and other documents. It has been only-a- short time since occurred the -fire which desti-6yed the old chti'ch building, but- the 'nev building is now being steadily push ed forward and will be completed-in the very near future. On the morning after the fire which destroyed the old building the pastor, the' Rev. J. H. Graves, -began work for a new structure, and in a short time the hands were on the ground and the actual work '(f conostruction. superin tended by the pastor, was begun. The n!w b--ilding w'! be a handsmie and imp''n4ig church edifice and in '.:e'ry way ::-dit tt) the cungrega.oun and an ornament to that part of the cty. Seve:2 I,eeal services werc ar raned' duriT the prezence in th. Rev. Mr. Speake and the R:-:. G. E. Edwards. On' Sunday morning the Rev. G. E. Edwards preached in the West End Baptist h----ch 1 and on Sunday evening spec( i:.I services were held in the Mayer Memorial Lutheran church.- On Monday evening at 8 o'clock the Rev. J. W. Speake delivered a strong ser mon in the West End Baptist church. All the services were largely attend ed. THE COTTON ASSOCIATION Meeting of Executive Committee to be Held on First Monday In April. President R. T. C. Hunter has is sued a call for a meeting of the exe cutive committee of the Southern Cotton association of Newberry coun ty, to be held in the court house on the first Monday in April, at II o'clock a. m. At the last meeting of the committee, it will be recalled, the time for signing the pledges for a twenty-five per cent. reduction in acreage and in the use of fertilizers was extended to the first Monday in April, which day was appointed to hear the final reports of those ap pointed to canvass for pledges. The committee desires to receive full and complete reports on this day, and a full meeting of the executive commit tee is earnestly desired and urged. Card of Thanks. Editor The Herald and News: I desire to publicly express my heart felt thanks to all those who were kind to me and my dear boy, Olin, in his last illness. Every one of your kinzd, generous acts will always be cherish ed in my heart. While I am over whelmed with grief, your kind acts and sympathy .help to lighten the burden of my heart. Most sincerely. A. B. Piester. Wanted in Oconee. Sheriff Buford several days ago re ceifed i wvarrant for the ai-rest of Dave Gambrel, colored, wanted' in Westminster, Oconee county, for re sisting an officer in the discharge of his duty. The negro was arrested near Chappe,lls on Tuesdayj by Depu ty Sheriff Johnson and was taken to Oconee yesterday afternoon by an officr of the law from that county. CLOSE GAME E Newberry CoUege to With the Secederm at -Park This Afterno Newberry college will c ate' the college park .this a with the Erskine Seceders, game is confidently expected one.-6 the fastest and closest entire~ seasbh. Newberry and kinehave long -been close -rival. the diamond, and each is eager the other's scalp this afternoon. ' score last year, after the Luthera and- the Seceders had fought one r, the finest games ever -seen on the lo cal diamond, was I to o in favor o Erskine. The time of the game was one:hour and fifteen minutes. The season' is- yet young, but New berry. has already demonstrated that she has easily one of the strongest college teams she has had in many years, and Erskine's line-up shows that. the Seceders have organized with the intention of winning victory wherever victory is possible. New berry has as yet met no team this season which has been able to make the game even interesting. Erskine has played !nly one game so far, hav ing defeated Cokesbury Conference school team by a score of 41 to 0. This afternoon will come the real test of strength- for boih teams, and it promises to be interesting to" -all loer's of tfieation'al 'sort. The-game-will be called promptly at 4-.o'clock, the admission being 25 and i5 cents. Following is the liae-Ip of the. two teams.: Newberry Erskine Simpson. and Crouch p Barron and Cashion Cabaniss c Brownlee Simpson and H'olloway ib Long Wilsn and Holloway 2b Kirkpatrick Boozer -3b Wideman Owen ss Grier Tav!, r lf Brownlee Olnev cf Pressly S.oudenire i White Camc With -cfford. On Muaday afternuun Newberry will cross 'hats with Wnfford on the lo.i--,0. >V--.,rd al; ha, oneh. of tle strongest cvllege teams in the sti'ee. and a fis- and interesting game with the Methodists is being looked forward to.. SPECIAL NOTICES. WANTED-Lady or gentleman of .fair education to travel for a firm . of $250,ooo capital. Salary $1,072 per year and expenses; paid week Ly... Address M. Percival, Newber ry, S. C. SHAD MUCH CHEAPER-Will have large quantity Saturday. Prices, 35 to 75 cents. James F. Todd, Fish Dealer. FINE JACK-We have purchased the fine Jack from M. M. Buford. He is known as a first class Jack and will be for service at Pomaria. AulI and Miller. WANTED-Chickens and Turkeys at The Newberry Hotel. W. A. Jamieson, Proprietor. TRESPASS NOTICE-All persons are hereby warned not to trespass upon the lands of the undersigned in No. 6 township, Newberry comy ty, containing seventy acres, by hunting, fishing or in any other manner under pealty of the law. Mrs. Mary C. Dobbins. WANTED-A couple girls or young ladies who'desire employment. A' fair English education necessary. Pay -good. --Apply at The Herald and News- office. MONEY TO LOAN-We negotiate toans on improved farm lands at seven per cent. interest on amounts over one .thousand dollars, and eight per cent. interest on amounts less -thaKn $r,ooo. -Long time and easy payments. Hunt, Hunt & Hunter. a; TRESPASS NOTICE-All persons are hereby warned not to trespass upon the lands of the undersigned as well as those lands in his posses sion in No. 4 township, under pen alty.of the law. Tno. M. Suber.