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THE NEWS OF PROSPERITY. Pastor Vsessinger Accepts Call Exec-utive Ccm:nittee Meeting , Personal and Otherwise. Pri 51rVt. >. C.. .7eptember 21. Ca-lina -1 y n me: Tuesday in Pros peri:y. There were several ministers presen Rev-. '. Ht. Greeveer. of Co lumbia: W\. L. Seabrook. of New berrv: Z. W. Bedenbaugh of the county and Dr. Cronr of Newberry. The principal thing done was to ar range for the dedication of the new church in the mill district of Colum bia. October the fifreenth was se lected as the day and the following is :he order of service: Sermon a: ii o'clock by the pastor. Rev. C. P. Boozer. Sermon in the afternoon by Rev. W. L. Seabrook. chairman of execu Live committee. Sermon in the evening by Rev. W. - .:arman of the building conmmittee. The *int council of the St. Philips' charge met in our town on Tuesday and extended an unanimous call to the 'kev. J. C. Wessinger. of Concord, N. C. It is hoped that he will accept the work that will be laid down by Rev. P. H. E. Derrick. Miss Trannie Caughman. of Saluda, returned from a pleasant visit at the home of Railroad Commissioner Banks ICaughman. of Columbia. Mr. James C. Schumpert has gone on a visit to Atlanta. Mr. R. P. Luther after a visit to his parents in Prosperity has gone to visit his brother in Columbia and will probably go to Charlotte to visit Mrs. George S. Bearden, his sister. Mr. H. J. Raw], of Lexington, paid his many friends a visit last Sunday. Miss E'hel Counts and Isoline Wyche returned to Winthrop on Tuesday to resume their work. Miss Eugenia Summer was given an at home by Miss Georgia Schum pert on Friday evening. Mr. D. E. Ridgell, of Batesburg, is visiting his aunt, Mrs. A. M. Les ter. Among the boys that wiE return to Newberry college and go their first term are John Pat Wise, George Har mon. Carlisle Bedenbaugh, and Char Lie Barre and there are probably oth cr ye: not reported. Mrs. P. C. Singlev is visiting in Newberrv this week. Rev. P. H. E. Derrick preached in Grace church Sunday night :o a very appreciative audience. We are truly sorry that we are going to lose Rev. Derrick. He will leave us on Tues day for his new field of usefulness in Bland county. Virginia. Rev. Der rick has served very acceptably for 'the past three years the St. Philips' pastorate and we trust that his suc cessor will soon be on the field va cated by him. We will miss his in ter-sting family from our midst and from the Sunday school but then they will be in another alkhough far away trom us. Dr. Jno. R. Langford. of Swansea. was in town on Monday. Mrs. J. D. Quattlebaum has gone back to Asheville as the weather here wvas so hot and it is so refreshinig up there. She was accompanied by her sister. Miss Jo. Langiord. Mr. P. L. Langford. of Gadsden, S C.. spent Sunday with his family. The young ladies whoi have had ir hand ::: matter of raisingx a suffi cient number of subscribers have, we learn, succeeded in securing them and n'e wvill have the course again this year m.uch to the pleasure Lof all who enjoy these lyceum c. urses. MT. andl Mrs. A. G. Wise speiJ M\ontda\ wi:h Mr. 1. B. Lathan at home ash : s:. Ln Sunday. Mr. Charc McNenheimer. of Char. .Ottt'. N. C7.. LL*rppin wi co!!ege friends Ln hix war ti Newherry- coI jege. We regret to learn that Mrs. J. B. Fellers is and has been quite sick. At this writing we learn that she is thought to be a little better. Mrs. WV. P. Blanton after a visit to her father and relatives in this community has re^turned to her home at Graniteville. Mrs. C. WX. Ringer, of Pomnaria. is visiting Mrs. J. C. Counta Mr. McLaurin having completed the work on the circulating !ibrary k- :o at ni~.t.-'La, blfik in the llbrarv tha: they wish. In a letter t, the c)nimittee of Grace church the new pastor. Rev. -Al. 0. J. Kreps. wrote that he would be here to take charge nl the 29th this minth and will preach the first Sunday of October and he re qu.ests that every member he pres ent that day. MQiss Carrie Mars after a pleasant visit to Mrs. J. H. Hunter has gone to visit friends in Newberry. Miss Mamie Conn!s left on Mon day for Decatur, Ga.. where she will enter the Agnes Scott school for young ladies. Miss Mamie Jordan, of Winnsb)r. is expected on a visit to Mr. J. F. Browne this week. Mr. M. C. Morris has gone to At lanta. Ga.. and from there he will go to Rome. Georgia. Mr. B. L. Dominick having been sick for a couple of days and being very much weakened was seriously hurt a day or two ago. In -crying to walk up the steps unassisted he fell and struck his head against the pillar of the house and inflicted quite an ugly se:alp wl-und. Mr. Jacob Enlow had the misfor tune to lose two of his children in one day this week. One was abou:t twenty months old and the other one month old. We have not been able to learn what was the cause of itheir death and it seems to have been quite sudden. We exrend our sympa thy in this double bereavement that has befallen Mr. and Mrs. Enlow. We would again call the attention of the sons and daughters of Co. G., 13th S. C. V's. to the picnic and cue tha;E will be given in the church grove at Prosperity on the 30th of this month. Come out sons and daughters and form your association and there by keep up the organization of your fa:hers old company and perpetuate their memory and ever keep alive the principles for which they fought and gave up their lives. We phoned you on Monday of the death of Mrs. W. P. Sheppard and we want to add our sympathy to the be reaved husband and father in this their hour of loss and sorrow. Messrs. S. S. Birge and S. J. Kohn went to Columbia on Monday. -otron is coming in in moderate quantities only and the fact that it Iis ten cents is the only reason that it is coming in at all I am told. Some say :that so long as thle farmers can get this price they can afford to raise it and others say that if it is kept off the market that it will bring more. Others say that as long as the planters are owing all or part that they can not aford to hold and if they can get ten cents the best thing :to do is to sell at that price. Mrs. J. C. McKain and children, of Columbia. are visiting the Rev. J. K. McKain, pastor of the Methodist church. One of the needs of our town is the building of more nouses for rent. I learned of at least six persons that svm honses o- ints on which to build Traide is very fair and our mer. chants are fully nrepared :o take 'are of all the* business that may come to our town. N.O DISPENSARY IN MARION An Overwhelming Vote Against Dis pensary in the "Upper End" of the County. Diln, September Tg.-From- the returns received from the election helin hisca:ntytoday :pon the Caviti videml that tedeesr ha .tby anl 'verwh'elming ma.iori ty. F o!.wing is the return receiv ed thus far: No Disp. Disp. Dillon .. .. .... ....12 Latta .. .... ........go90 Little Rock .... .......68 c Fork .. .... .........71 c Campbell's Bridge .... ...22 7 Hamer .... .... .... ..7.8 c Bermuda.. .... .......34 Sellers .... .... .......24 These precincts are all in what is known as the upper end of Marion countv. Marion. Sept. Ig.-The election tie tl,teu r,--ni MlariOll C-0::1 ,ty re t d in an 1verwhelming XV t *ry f* r thle proibi:; nists. It was genera!y hught that the dispeisarv woulI he voted out of the county, but the mst sanguine prohibitionIts did nt dream tha: their victory would he 5 decided. Everywhere the elec ti,,n passed off quietly, and it is prob abIe that when all the polls are heard from the result will be about 4 or 5 to I against the dispensary. So far fourteen polls have been heard from, giving a total of 992 votes agains't the dispensary and 171 votes for the dis pensary. The votes by precincts is as fol lows: Against. For. Aial.. ..............74 18 Bermuda ..........-..34 2 Campbell's Bridge 22 7. Cedar Grove ..........16 12 Dillon.. ............122 15 Friendship.. ........To II Hamer ..-............78 O Hopewell .. ...........7 O Judson ..............29 12 Latta.. ..............90 Little Rock ..........68 . Marion ..-............187 62 Mullins ............ 144 12 Nichols ............23 2 Sellers ..............24 6 DRUNKENNESS INPUBLICLIFE Publicity Has Done Much to Remove a Former Evil. Presbyterian Standard. The Standard adverted recently to the fact that the newspaper profes sionl had long obeyed the unwritten law that' drunkenness and other kin dred animal vices in public men were not to be published to the world, but that the men themselves should rather be shielded by the charity of silence. But public opinion has been changing so rapidly on this subject tha. we may as well consider the unwritten law repealed. . A .few dayc ago, Mayor Woodward of Atlanta; *n a public discussion before th emayors of Ameri can cities, disgraced himself and the city of which he was the official rep resentative, by a disgustirg -li-play of m: xication. The newspapers promptly tock up the mat:er and were merciless in their criticisms, the nort-hern press fi:rst thea -he southern, including the Atlanta press. It seerns that Mayor Woodward is a notorious drunkard and has been near impeachment be fore now. It seems hardly possible after this that he can expect to be elected to public office again. The o?her day Senator Overman, Iin a 'public address made the remark 'that no one could be elected to con gress from North Carolina or to the bench who was a drinking man. .That is accepted as simple truth. T'he peo ple are requiring of their public ser vants that they should have sober brains for the 'transaction of the pub lic business. And the newspapers. also public servants, are feeling now~ that it is their duty to the people whom th ey serve to forewarn them against electing drunkards to office. When we compare the old times with the new in this regard there has been an immense' change for the' better. Wec should lose all our reverence for some of the most notable public men of the past if we should measure them by our present standards as re gards drfinkenness and its allied forms of vice. We might no-t have to go so very far back when drunkenness even in the ministrv- was a venial offense. One of the grievances which the cot unies hiad agains: thle mother country on the score 4f relinno was the inc -hat t'o many of the "younger sonls" of the ''ld British families were given live- were thnse of rolliicking, rotster ingz squires, rather : ian those of the gospel minrs:ry. But that age has p)assedl away. The tutors and col lege professors of a former time were inclined to dr.mkenness and now a spree would be a cause for summary dismissal from any school or college in the land. The business and pro fessional world has learned the same lesson. The employer has no longer patience with a drunken employee. In sonme circums-tances, like the work of the engineer on the train, drunken ness is near akin to crime. It would see~m that the man who corrupts his brain with strong drink is about to ver t 'r i vs an ' I' c l peti:io for his And wi:: the uirebuked repeal of the od unwritten law :hat public men should 'e shielded from public knowledge of their private lives, the threat hangs over the drunkard's ca reer and the inducement. nar the necessity, for keeping onc's brain in good repair. Publicity once invoked. may d) what it has done in other cases and cure the evil, cer:ainlv those who have anything to lose by the exposure, and practically prevent men from ever forming the habit.,. even presenting powerful inducements to those under the dominion of the drink-"habit to break off their chains. If so, pub licity with all it has accomplished in the way of the reformation of indi viduals and of states, will never have done a more beneficent work. "Listen to De Band." Whenever the announcement is made, the posters appear, and the in spiring strains of "de band" is heard coming down the street accompanied by the appearance of :he gayly dress ed "Minstrel" men. friends of the va rious attractions in this lIne begin to gather from their homes and place of business to greet acquaintances among the company and *get busy" at the advance sale. Probably :here is no more capable musician or courteous manager among this par 'ticular line of attractions who visit Newberry each season than J. A. Co burn of the Great Barlow Minstrels, better known to his intima:e friends as 'Cobe." The polite consideration and pleasant greeting to a'! he meets, the well known fact -that he will only tolerate, a clean, snappy and first class performance, together with his efforts to please in the daily con certs is a satisfaction and pleasure to all who contemplate a-tending the performance, and is undoubtedly a strong assett in the popularity of that company. They will be at Newberry on September 28th. Red hair has an awful persistent way of mixing a family up in rows. But the fast young man ic seldom satisfied with the place at which he arrives. There is o,: Ch always coun t on nishec by a an Our Furliturb Is the Our Styles J Our Pric Now is you'- time new stock. We have meevt : cue to the double granite fr' liams, on upper Main openin; the~ most comn ever opened in Newber the celebrated H amilto SheIIcy Granite Front. . .. A Call to Cotton Growers. The township Cotton associatiOnS h: '.reby called to meec at their respective places of meeting on Sat urday, September 23. 1905, at 3 p. m.. :1- elect delegates to a county asso ciation to be held at Newberrv 1n October 2. 1905, and to collect .3 cents per bale of this year's crop :rom each member for expenses of the general association. R. T. C. Hunter. President. Valuable Lot For Sale In Pomaria.. On Saturday, September 30, 1905, at 10 o'clock a. in., we will sell to 1he highest bidder for cash that lot of land in the town of Pomaria, known as Aull and Miller stable lot, containing one half acre, less the lot cut off for store of Hentz Bros. 30' X 75 feet. Possession given at once. Adam L. Aull. J. F. Miller. LUNCH BOXES! Don't go hungry when you can carry a lunch with you. I have on hand a large supply of LUNCH BOXES AND BASKETS, In fact we have every thing needed 'in the school room. Our Blue Ribbon Tablet is the best in town. Try it. n Put u S can i;' the hor,;s rur 88 Ar8 ~ owe8t, boy j"pect our big, niire~s st. of furniture ont store of R. C. Wi! street, where we are plete line of Furniture ry. We are agents for n Pianos and Organs. Summer .Upper Main Street+