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PURELY PERSONAL. The M1ovements of Many People, Newberrians and Those Who Visit Newberry. Mr. E. H. Leslie is in the city on a few days' visit. . Mr. S. J. Wooten went to Columbia yesterday on business. Mrs. Mary Lindsay is visiting rel atives and friends at Kinards. Mr. O. MeR. Holmes and family are spending two weeks at Virginia Be-Ach. Virginia. Mrs. Isabel T. St. Amand is spend ing a few days at Saluda Old Town. visiting her son. Messrs. Robert Norris and Simpson Zimmerman are on a pleasure trip to Norfolk. Virginia. Mrs. W. A. Jamieson re.t.rned -to the city Wednesday. after a visit to friends in Laurens. Messrs. J. G. Daniels and E. E. Williamson left the city Wednesday for a ten days' trip to New York. Miss Mattie Abney returned to her home in Greenwood Wednesday, af ter a short visit to Miss Dorothy Hueitt. Mr. and Mrs. Luther C. Barr, of Columbia, who have been visiting relatives in the city, returned to their home Tuesday. Mr. Olie Bowers returned to the city Wednesday, after a short trip to the mountains, where he has been pending vacation. Mr. Olin Fulmer. of Columbia, is spending a few days in the city with relatives and friends, having stopped over on his way to the mountains. --Mr. Joseph Mann and Miss Dora Mann left the city .Vednesday for Baltimore and other northern points. where Mr. Mann will purchase his .tock of winter goods. Mr. R. C. Bruce, agent of the Equi table Life Assurance society, has re turned from a business trip to Char leston. VARIOUS AND ALL ABOUT. Commencing today the Newberry Library will open at 4:30 p. m. and .close at 7 p. m. The meeting of the board of direc tors of the Newberry County Ware house company will be held August 28th at 11 o'clock. There will be no preac-hing at St. Pauls church until the 1st Sunday in September. as :he congregation has granted their pastor a vacation. West End News. The report as approved in the West End news on the 8th is without a founda~tion. Rev. N. N. Burton has not resigned as pastor of WVest End B-apti *urch. The correspondent of \V st End news understond from the reports circulated so the report as it appeared was of.ficial. Mrs. WV. M. Thomas was called away on account of the serious illness of her mother in North Carolina. Mr. John L. Moody and family have moved to Augusta. Georgia. Tihe floor of the tower in the new church gave way under the weight of 223 sacks of cement which was placed there to keep dry. Mr. Wi. M. Thomas wvas acciden:al lv h'art in Asheville last week. He tried :o hoardl a t:^ollev car w>i!e in WVe.: End lost two games last week. having playedl fourteen and lost three. The game e Saturday was a go-Md one consi!deruga the dis advan ages under which they p)layed. Two of the players were disabled andl were forced to retire from the game which weakened the team con 'Dhe third ouarterly conference of O'Neali Stree-t and Mollo'hon churches will be held in the graded school building Saturday night at S o'clock. Rev. J. C. Carlisle will preside. West End. I have just opened our new Fall Gloves. A large assortment, includ ing large Gauntlet Gloves for mill -men, railroad men, and working men. Prices right. Come and See them. A. C. TONTD Death Of D. Langdon Moore. D. Langdon Moore. a former res ide'.t of New%berry county died at his home in Newman, Ga., August iwh. 1905. in the 72nd year of his age. He moved from South Carolina to Georgia thirty-nine years ago. and there are very few of his old friends and acquaintances left to read this notice of his death. He was a successful farmer, always taking great pride in attending to every detail of his large farm, until failing 'health compelled him to give up his chosen occupation about a eyar ago. He suffered greatly from a complication of diseases, and when death came he welcomed it gladly. He was :.vize married; his first wife was Miss Amanda Counts. daughter of Squire Wesley Counts of .this coun'ty. The second time he married Mrs. Melissa Harris.daughter of James Cureton, also of this county. Of 'is immediate family there are his widow. five children, and two of his sisters who survive him. Two of his daughters. Mrs. Simpson Domi inick and Mrs. Luther D. Boozer live in South Carolina. His two sisters Miss Frances Moore and Mrs. W. P. Pugh, have always lived in Newberry county. S. P. Prosperity, Aug. 15. 1905. First Bale Of Cotton. The first bale of cotton received in Newberry this year was ginned at the Farmer's Oil mill Tuesday, com ing from the farm of Mr John C. Hipp. The bale weighed nearly 400 pounds and was sold to Mr. Nat Gist for ten cents. Shortly after Mr. Hipp's bale was sold Mr. Jeff. Lane sold t'he second bale the price being 9 cents. Children's Day At 'Zion. Children's day will be observed at Zion churdh. Saturday. August 19. An address will be delivered by Rev. J. H. Graves and the exercises will be conducted by the children of the Sun day school. The music will be most enjoyable, as Charlie Tillman's No. 4 Revival hymn book will be used. The public is cordially invited to attend and bring their baskets with them. Service will begin at 11 o'clock promptly. News From Chappel1s. Chappells, Aug. 15.-Mrs. A. P. Coleman, Mrs. Geo. T. Reid. Mrs. W. 0. Holloway and Mrs. WV. R. Reid have returned to Chappells from a two weeks visit to the mountains. Miss Carrie Shelor a charming young lady from Anderson is t'he guest of Mrs. WV. R. Reid. Messrs. A. M. and G. McG. Smith traveling for the Harkny Pottery Co., are at home for a short vacation. Mr. Nick Coleman. of Higgins Ferry. has been spending some time in Chappells. Miss Vick .Reid on her way from Hendersonville. N. C.. stopped over in Anderson for a fewv days. Miss Dempie Scurry is visiting relatives and frier.ds in Spartanburg. The R. A. L. club had its annual meeing several days ago. The fol lowing officers were elected: G. A. Coleman. president: J. B. Boazman. v'ice. president: John B. Scrry, secretary. The crops throug~h this immediate section while fairly good will not come p to last year. Mr. John B. Scurry visited Lola M 'ndav on "business." Mr. A. P. Coleman entertained the WVhist club Thursday night. e Chappeils base ball :eam went o Abbeville last Friday to p)lay the Abbeville boyvs. At the beginning of the fourth inning the score was 8 to i in favor of Chappells. When a very unfortunate affair occurred. In some a Mr. Roy Jones and Mr. Hale Serrod became involved in a dliffi clty. Jones hit Sherrol on the head with a ball. which came near proving serious. For thours Hale was uin conscious and wvas unable to leave his room for several days. While the game was nit nished any one could easily see that the Abbevilie oys were out classed. So far the Chappells ball team has not lost a game this season. good line of Men's Working Shirts Overalls and Pa.nts at A. C. NES'. PROSPERITY NEWS. Doings of The People-Sunday School CVonvention-~Personal Mention. Prosperity. S. C.. Aug. 17.-The Sunday school convention of Newber ry County conference met in Grace church Prosperity on Wednesday and Thursday Aug. 9th and ioth. The discussion of the topics were full and quite an interest was taken in the work of the convention. There were i6 reports from the schools, three not reporting. The reports were not as full as t4hey should have been and while they show the work done in part it does not show the real work that has been done during the last year. The committee on tabulation re ported that the number of schools in the conference to be nineteen. Number of new schools or ganized Number of scholars reported 1.413 Number of teachers and officers 150 Contributior for school pur poses $275.46 Number of confirmations re ported from 9 schools 6o The following topics were discuss ed: The Object of the Sunday school. A training school in each Sunday school for training teachers and a Central Normal school for the con ference. Aggressive Sunday school work. The proper equipment and arrange ment for teaching the graded system Should others besides the confirma tion class be admitted for confirma tion? Dr. Geo. B. Cromer. Prof. Joe Hunter, of Clemson. Mrs. A. J. Bowers. Mrs. J. A. Summer and many other earnest workers were present and participated in the discussions. The convention will meet next year with Bethlehem church during the mont'h of July instead of August as the most of our pastor are on a vaca tion that month. An executive committee consisting of the officers and Rev. O. B. Shear ouse, J. J. Long and Dr. Geo. B. Cro mer was appointed to have charge of the work of getting up a program and other details of the convention. Officers elected for the ensuing year, R. T. C. Hunter, president; Capt. H. H. Folk, vice president; A. H. Kohn, secretary; Prof. J. S. Wheeler, treas urer. While t'he convention was not largely attended as was desired yet all felt that the work done was good and much life was enthused into the workers that were present. WVe ex pect much good from this meeting and feel sure .that all the Sunday schools in the conference will have pastors, superintendents and delegates present at tVhe next convention. At a meeting of Co. G. 13th S. C. Vs. a committee consisting of the following Messrs. J. F. Banks. L. S. Bowers. A. H. Miller, G. S. Moore and Geo. B. Aull was appointed to or ganize the sons and daughters of Go. G into an association so as to perpet ate the old company when all those who wvore the gray have passed away. This should be a pleasure and the boys and girls of these gallant sol diers s'hould join. Any member of the committee will be glad to take your name and hand ,it to the proper officer and thus have you enrolled. As the mountain excursion from Charleston turned the curve just be low the station they~ found on the track .iust ahead Section Master Mc lever car. The hands at once joined the bird gang and le.ft Mr. McDonald to battle with the on rushing train. The had the car across the track and in another seco1yl would have been safe but alas t'he engine was there and two machines could not occupy the track at the same time and the usual result came to pass. Fortunately no one was hurt. The train was delayed about 30 minutes to fix up the damage done to the engne. Our little town has had several things to liven up the dull monoto n of these August days. One day ast week one of t'he conductors on the southern left his train too long on a crossing and when our wide awake marshal went for him he signed his train ahead and just as his train was passing swung aboard and left he marshal to grapple with vacancy. But. thee.i andA old saying "that he laughs best who laughs last" and in this case the marshal got the last laugh. When 'his train arrived' here the return trip the marshal was on hand and he was duly marched off to the lockup. After helping to in crease the cash account of the town he was permitted to go on 'his way a wiser and perhaps a sadder man. The other warm member was the speaking at Young's Grove yesterday. As the Herald and News had a re porter on the ground we will leave it for him to tell of the stirring times that were. Mrs. J. L. Sease, wife of Mr. J. L. Sease was laid to rest in the family burying ground at the residence of the family in Lexington county near Vheeland academy on last Thurs day. We have not been able to get dhe particulars of her death or her age. We hope to do *this in our next letter. Mr. A. J. 'ibson and daughter, Miss Nina are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Hunter. Judge Cunningham has been on a visit to Mr.Hunter the past week. Mrs. Lilly Julain and Mrs. N. Nance, of Lake City, Fla., who were called to S. C. on account of the death of their mother, Mrs. J. L. Sease, are visiting relatives in and around Prosperity. Mrs. J. P. Kennedy, of Due West, is visiting her mother. Mrs. D. H. Witherspoon. Mrs. C. M. Boyd is visiting at The old home at Due West. Mr. J, McFall Ridgell after a pleas ant visit to our town returned home last week. He was visiting his aunt, Mrs. A. M. Lester. M.iss Lena Lester went home with him and spent the past week iu Bacesburg. Miss Estelle Stewart will give an at 'home on Friday night in honor of Misses Wharton and McKie. M-. I. M. Domin-ick and wife, of Ephworth, Greenwood county, have been on a visit to our town spending some time with his brother, Mr. T. A. Dominick. We would again call attention to Childrens' Day at Zion church on Saturday the tgth of August and to say that there will be a basket or picnic dinner and all are invited to attend and that there will be good music.. Mrs. Eliza Houseal, of Newberry, has been on a visit to her sister, Mrs. J. Simpson. The Woodmen of the World will have an enjoyable occasion on Thurs day night. They will -give a social at their hall and will have cream and cake and other good things to eat so the -ommittee says. Tt is fo.r the benefit of the members and it is to be! hoped that all the members will attend. Dr. and Mrs. J. B. Simpson are visting the doctor's brother, T. R. Smpson, of Anderson county. They are accompanied by J. B. Duncan. Mrs. McCullough is still at t.he bedside of her sick son in Newberry. Mr. J. E. Counts has returned to hs wvork in Memphis after a very pleasant rest at t'he old home in S. C. Misses Leona and Mattie Epting have returned to Newberry after a pleasant visit to Miss Mamie Countcs. We regret to announce the death of Mrs. Mary A. Monts wife of Levi Monts. Mrs. Monts had been sick fr some time but her death was un expected and was due to heart fail ure. She was about 70 years old. WVe have also learned of the sud den death of Mr. T. WV. Summer on Tuesday. Mr. Summer wvas found dead in his bed. Judge Hair held an incauest we are told but wve tave not been able to hear what the verdict of the coroner's jury was. Mr. Su,mer buried hiis wvife about three weeks ago. WVe have just learned that the verdict was that death was fronm natural causes. A number of our citizens have taken advantage of the low rates and have gone north. Mr. and Mrs. W:. A. Moseley and Miss Jessie Moseley. Mrs. S. WV. Calmes. Misses Lula and Lena Mose ley and Miss Della Bowers have gone north. WVe wish them bon voyage. Mrs. K. Baker is visiting her father and sisters. Mrs. Kate Barre, of Columbia, has been visiting the Misses Barre the past week. Miss Marie Reag.in is visiting in Columbia. Mrs. E. E. Young and Robert and Mry TLizzie Wise and Hal and Nellie have retw'uned from their stay at the springs. Farmers report that the rains of the past week has injured the cotton to quite an extent causing it to throw off very badly. On account of lack of space the remainder of this letter will be in Tuesday's issue. Service At St. Matthew. There will be two services at St. Matthew's next Sunday (third Sun day in August.) Communion will be administered in the forenoon. The public is cordially invited to attend. A Correction. In our last issue there appeared in the local columns of this paper that Rev. J. A. Sligh would probably speak on the anti-dispensary side of the question at Young's Grove. This was a mistake. Mr. Sligh was to speak, but as most of our readers know, he is not against t'he dispen sary. We regret the error. Sheriff Buford Gets Wrong Negro. Because his name happens to be the same as that of a negro who is badly wanted in South Carolina for the murder of his wife last spring, Lumus Kinard had a very bad quar ter of an hour yesterday afternoon with Sheriff M. M. Buford,'ef New berry, S. C. The sheriff received word that the man 'he wanted was in Asheville and upon his arrival here secured a warrant from Sheriff Reed and arrested the man. only to find that his information 'was incorrect and that he had a Lumus Kinard, but not the Lumus Kinard for whom he was so diligently searching. He re leased the negro as soon as the mis take was discovered.-Asheville Cit izen, 12th. I have added to our stock for fall a magnificent line of Clothing for Men, Boy's and Children.. All new and up to date. Come and See them. A. C. JONES. TEACHERS' EXAMINATIONS. The regular fall examination for teacher's Certificates will be held in the court. house at Newberry on Fri day, September 15, 1905. Prospective applicants will take notice-'that there will be no other examination after this one until the third Friday in May, 196. The examination will begin promptly at 9 o'clock. J. S. Wheeler, Co. Supt. Education. SPECIAL NOTIOES. FOR SALE-,20o bushels choice western red rust proof seed oats. Just arrived. 'We offer, while t'iey last, at 55 cents spotc cash. Buy A quick before the advance. WANTED-A position as Stenogra pher by a young lady by the first of September. Address "Stenographer" Care of Herald and News. WANTED-You to know I will be at Propenity Drug Store, Prosperity, S. C., Friday and Saturday. Mark W. Gantt, Opt. D. WANTED-Girls to do ligtit sewing on power machines. No experience necessary. Wages paid while learn-* ing. Clean, lightc work. Good board ing place. Whitmire Mfg. Co., Whit mire, S. C. 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 $1,ooo. Long time and easy payments. Hunt, Hunt & Hunter. WANTED to sell six houses and lots, and 13 vacant lots near Farmer's Oil Mill. 25 horse-power engin and boiler-Eran make. 2 wakons and an 8-year-old horse. Apply to P. R. Hallman,4 Newberry, S C. WANTED to purchase 5,00o acres good farm land for cash. Newber ry Land and Security Co. Banister's Fine Shoes for Gentle men, for fall and winter.. Just receiv ed at A. C. TONES.