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VOL. XLIl. NO. 122 NEWBERRY. S. 0.. FRIDAY OCTOBER 2o 1905.0WC EK 10YA THE NEWS OF PROSPERITY Personal and Otherwise-The Sick Improving-Two Small Fires The Farmers Urged to Or ganize-Likewise Retail Merchants. Prosperity, October ig.-One of our merchants took a notion to go pos sun hunting one night not long ago. After tramping for 4 or 5 hours and vainly trying to imagine he was a boy again he said, "boys, lets go home." Result: shoes ruined, pants torn, gen erally tired ou-t and one small pos sum. Mr. Raymond Fellers spent Sunday at .home with his parents. 'Miss Lucy Wheeler will teach the Tabernacle s-ch'odl -near Jalapa this term. Mr. J. D. Quattlebaum has gone to St. Louis, the metropolis of the west, for a car of mules. He is expected to return iby 'Monday. The firs-t congregational social will be held on "tomorrow (Friday) even ing at the Lutheran parsonage. These pleasant gatherings are quite a fea ture in some pastorates. All-the n'rem bers of Grace church are invited. Rev. I. S., Caldwell, of Georgia, preached in the A. R. P. church on Sunday afternoon. His sermon was very highly appre'ciated. We note that in a number of towns manual training is being given promi nence. .The li-ttle town of Hopkins -has equipped a separate building for this work. Why can't Prosperity do likewise? . Mr. John D. Boozer, who has been assistant in the work in the C. N. & L. depot at this place, has been appoint ed agent at Kinards. . Children's day in Grace Sunday school will be given on the first Sun 'day. in November. The sermon that day will be to the children and the col lection will be for missions. The Mt. Pilgrin school opened last Monday. Mr. W. E. Pugh, princi pal. The first nuniber of the lyceum course will be given on Monday night, October 23. A full house should greet this quartette as they are rec ornmended very highly and should be well, patronized. We ,do 'hope that the.cotton growers will not fail to meet and organize on Saturday and elect delegates to the meeting on October 28th. President Smith- has promised for sure to .be at Newberry on that day. Le't all at tend who can and help on the good cause. The old High school association lot has been divided' into four lots and will be sold at public auction salesday in~ November. The Luthera'n synod of South Caro lina will be 'held in St. Pauls church beginning Wednesday. November 8th. The Women's Missionary convention of synod will meet in 'Newberry on Siday, November 5th. -Mrs. Joe H{'inter, of St. Lukes, is reported to be much improved. As time rolls on we are frequently confronted. with the fact that all is change and change brings separation. How often is it that we are called upon 'to stand by the open- grave of a friend of boyhood days, which do not seem so long ago and 'realize that one 'by one 'they are passing over and we stop and wonder how long, yes, how short, is the time when we too 'will pass to the great beyond. We re call that 'but a few short years ago we were at sch.ool in the old log school house at Little Mountain and one of our playmates was Jas. WV. Derrick and 'today wve are called upon 'to mourn 'his death. - He was laid to rest in the cemetery at Ebenezer church on Wednesday, October 18th. He leaves a wife and three children to mourn their loss. Miss Mary Kinard 'has returr.ed af ter a pleasant visit .to 'her brother in Atlanta. She was accompar.i'ed 'by he l;ie niece, Miss W. C. Waters, who will spend some time with her g'randfat-her, Uncle Andrew Kinard. Miss Della Bowers was on a short visit to her parents Saturday and Sunday. - Mrs. E. K. Gibson, of Columbia, is visiting Mrs. F. E. Schumpert and W. A. Moseley. H. K. Kreps will enter Newberry Messrs. P. C. Barre, F. R. Fellers college next week. and P. D. Simpson spent Sunday at iome. Several of our townspeople went to Columbia last week to witness "The Clansman." Miss Nannie Simpson spen*c several lays at home with her little nephew who was qui'te sick for three or four iays. We are glad to report that Master J. B. Schumpert who was so sick for three or four days is thought to be out )f danger at this writing. We are pleased to note that Mrs. r. A. Dominick is rapidly recovering. Mrs. D. W. T. Kibler has returned Erom her visit to Newberry. Mrs. J. A. Simps6h ihas been on .a isit to*her sister, Mrs' Wm. Johnson, -f Newberry. We are in a quandary. There are two or three gr-aphophones in the ;tfores and one of our young men is o. entertained with them that just as ;s,on as the music starts, up and he bears whoa B-i-I-1 drops everything ind rushes to the side door to get his hare of the free entertainment. Ask Cap how it is. Mr.J. D. Quattlebaum returned irom the west -this a. m. Mrs. J. *R. Langford, of Swansea, s visiting her sister, Mrs. J. D. Quat tlebaum. Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Boyd have re turned from Their trip to Presbytery it Ora, S. C. Miss May Lee Barre will entertain the Sorosis on next Friday evening, ctober 27. Program will be given iext week. Mr. J. J. Singley had the misfor :une -to lose a tenant house by fire on A.onday. John Williams, the tenant, ost everything he had. Mr. D. B. Cook lost a house by fire Tuesday njight also. \ge have notr eard the causes of the fires. Mrs. S. M. Mathis is improving rom her accide,nt of two or three weeks ago. -The business of our tonsorial art st has grown so that he informed me :hat he would have assistant on Sat irdays. This is another evidence of Prosperity's growth. Wie would like to see a retail mer hants' association organized by our rnerchants for mutual pro:ection and ielp. They could act as a whole on ill questions that affect the town and onmunity. They could be of much aenefit to all. The Wholesalers, the Farmers and all others have theirs, why not'the retailers? What say you Messrs. Merchants? The yellow fever situation has been very much improved. There were no deaths in either New Orleans or Pen sacola on Wednesday, and very few new cases reported, and it is believed 'hat in a few days the fever stricken district will be entirely free from 'the disease. The scion of a wealthy English family and heir to a large estate was found through a newspaper adver isement living in seclusion as order ly in the New York pesthouse. The Enterprise National bank of Allegheny, Penn., has been suspended. T. Lee Clark, cashier for a great many years, put a 'bullet through his head and ended his life. The president says $70,00.00 of the state's money has been loaned to pioliticians. A tornado struck the village of Sorento, Ill., on 'Tuesday night kill ing eight persons, and injuring thirty five others. Forty houses were blown to atoms or .carried from their founda UNION AND BUFFALO MILLS c a Reorganization 'Committee Issues an c Address to the Creditors. r c Columbia, October 16.-The Union and Buffalo Cotton mills situation is beginning to take some shape. The a reorganization committee has been v appointed and has begun its most dif ficult and troublesome task. Today the following introductory circular issued: "Reorganization Committee, Union Cotton MIlls, Buffalo Cotton Mills, n Robert F. Herrick, chairman; Fran cis K. Carey, R. Goodwyn Rhett. S New York, October 16, 1905. To the Creditors of the Union and Buffalo Mills.-Gen*lemen: At the request of New York, Richmond, B-;- P ton, Baltimore, Providence and Char leston creditors of the Union and Buf- L falo Cotton Mills, whose claims are estimated to represent about three- c fourths 'of the entire inde1btedness of the mills, and wiTh the approval of the new presidents and executive commit; tees of the two corporations, the un- 1 dersigned have consented to act as a reorganization- committee for the pur pose of protecting the interests of the creditors and for the purpose of en deavoring to brigg about, with or without the- aid of the courts, a fair and wise readjustment of the.business affairs of the two corporations, which will enable Them to protect their la bor organizations, continue their man ufacturing operations and preserve and increase their admitted great earning power. a This method has been adopted to se- t cure mutual confidence and coopera tion among the creditors in order to c save the valuable assets of -che two h cororations from the -waste Whicl, t would result from the prolonged and acrimonious litigation now threatened, d if the creditors insist upon separate t efforts to assert their rights. - The reorganization committee now selected realize fully the difficulty of , the task which they -have undertaken, . and require and ask for the hearty and unanimous support and confi- a a dence of the creditors and Their at torneys, as. conditions precedent tot the successful handling of the situa tion. The members of the cormmittee, who were only appointed on Satur day last have not yet proceeded far enough with their study of the busi ness and legal oonditions to be in a position to advise the creditors .inC regard to the best course to be pur sued; but if after a careful review of the matter they become satisfied that it is not feasible to protect the in terests of the creditors *without a lI quidation in the courts, they will promptly advise the creditors of their conclusion, and in announcing it will endeavor to present a plan, based upon liquidation, which will, as far h as possible, promote united action and lssen in every possible way the ex pense, delays an-d dangers of legal a proceedings and give the greatest measure of protection possible to all creditors, large and small, who are C willing to cooperate with the commit- r tee. The reorganization oommittee in vite, therefore, the unanimous sup- .h port of creditors of both companies. In many important particulars the i creditors of the two corporati.ons C must tbe treated from different busf- d ness and legal standpoints, and their a interests will be kept entirely separate r by the reorganization committee. The c two corporations have, however, been c so closely allied and their affairs have, through mismanagement, become so entangled ;that it has been decided to ' 3 follow the same policy which was suc- . cessfully adop-ted in 'the reorganiza- i tion of the Olympia, Granby and Richiand 'Cotton mills, and to select -> the same reorganization committee j for each mill.t The reorganization committee willt be gad to hear at anc from all the .' reditors of the two corpora*ions, in ( nswer to this circular, assuring the ommittee of their support and fur ishing details of their respective laims. All replies should be addressed: Reorganization Committee, Union nd Buffalo 'Cotton Mills, 8o Broad iay, New -York." Respectfully signed. Robert F. Herrick, Chairman. Francis K. Carey, R. Goodwyn Rhett. Reorganization Committee. Addresses of t1he reorganization com iittee are: Robert F. Herrick, chairman, 84 b tate street, Boston, Mass. Francis K. Carey, 6og Calvert Build 1g, Baltimore,Maryland. r R. Goodwyn Rhe*t, president Peo les National Bank, Charleston, S. C Office of committee, 8o Broadway, Tew York. c The creditors are being communi ated with at once. A. K. e GENERAL NEWS NOTES. P tems of More or Less Interest Con- a densed Throughout the World. c The body of Sir Henry Irving will u e buried on Westminster Abbey. u One of the tech.fical schools estab- t shed by Andrew Carnegie at Pitts. t urg wasopened. t b The Imperial ukase announcing the isgrace of Grand Duke Cyril by Em- e eror Nicholas was issued. V a Gov. Joseph W. Folk, of Missouri, ! ddressed a Philadelphia audi.ence in he interest of clean-government. Baron Komura, Japan's chief peace f ommissioner, was accorded unusual e onors by the emperor upon his re- c rn to Tokio. Congress will be asked by the war epartment, it is declared, to re-es- c ablish the army canteen for the good i f the service. i: The general council of the Evan- t elical Lutheran church of North t merica adopted a canon on the mar- b iage of divorced persons and trans cted other business. President Roosevelt has decided ti hat his daughter, Miss Alice, must ay duty on her gifts from foreign ountries, the duties amounting to ully $6o,oo0. t The Western Lif-e Indemnity Corn any scored a Chicago court sustain ng the demurrer to the injunction c btained by policyholders to preventc be merger with the Security Life An uity Company. The lumber-laden schooner Van b lame and' King foundered off Hatter s and six of the crew of eight either ied, were washed overboard in a torm Cr, being driven insane by suf-- J erings, jumped into t'he sea. On account of the death of Gov-e rnor Glenn's brother, who was also is private secretary, Lieutenant Gov rnor Winston acted in Governor ~lenn's stead yesterday in receiving C v nd introducing President Roosevelt t Raleigh, N. C. President Roosevelt has issued ane rder t-hat heads of departments can emove persons in the classified ser ice for causes personally known to a uch department heads without a1 s earing. This is a sweeping 'order. J. WV. Trigg, one of the most prom aent citizens of Anniston, 1s dead, and d hief of Police Dill badly. but not h angerously, wounded as a result of n umnisual shooting affray there last e ight. L. E. Phippin, ovrerseer of the ity streets, did the shooting. All three p f the principals were good friends.t President Roosevelt started on his outhern 'tour from Washington on Vednesday morning. His first stop vas at Richmond where he delivered j .n address. He spent several hours in taleigh, N. C., where 'he also spoke. ~ Coday he will be in Atlanta and from itlanta, he goes to Jacksonville, Fla.,. omorrow. IHe will travel about two housand miles and arrive in Wash- ~ non on -hs return on October 31. . IOUTH CAROLINA BONDS STOLEN "ORMER BOND CLERK ZIM MERMAN ARRESTED. "he Theft Began Under Former 'Treasurer Bates, Largest Under Dr. Timmerman and Some Under Present Treasurer Jennings. There was a great deal of aston hment in the city late Tuesday af !rnoon says the Columbia State of Vednesday when it was learn that th'e tate treasury had lost $16,500 by er >r or by criminality. When it was arned that a warrant had 'been is ued Pby a magistrate and had been. )dgded with the sheriff for execution, barging that Mr. Daniel Zimmerman guilty of a breach of trust with -audulent intent,there was great r surprise, and much regret was ex ressed because a name as yet untarn hed had b>een-connected with such n offense, justly or wrongfully. Mr. Zimmerman had been the bond lerk in the office of the state treas rer, and held that position from 1891 ntil -igo. It was during that period ia-f the fraudulent occurrences were )und after a great deal of investiga on. The specific charge is that when onds were brought in to be exchang d for stocks, one or more bonds rould be abstracted from the package nd instead of being cancelled would e sold and an old bond or bonds of rior date would be dug up from the aults and substituted in the bundles or cancellation so -that in a cgrsory xamination it would appear that all ,f the bonds in that package were roperly cancelled. -In this way a lbond and a certifcate f stock would both be in the hands of inocent parties and the state paying iterest on both and obligated to pay e principal at the expiration of the ime specified-and of a reality the ond had been redeemed by the state, he stock having been in exchange ierefor. If a trick it was, it required nerve acarry it through for the occur ences covered a period of several ears. Mr. Zimmerman's friends, and ey are multiple, persist in declaring eir belief in his innocence, and ex ect at the proper .time to see him indicated before the l'aw in 'the ourts. Mr. Zimmerman has been >oked upon as a man in ratiher strait ned circumstances, and it is believed y many to be impossible for him to ave oovered up such a shortage. There are two things which have ade some of !Mr. Zimmerman's -iends wonder. First is the fact that e repeatedly declined to appear at ie office of the state treasurer and lear -his name of the odium which as sure to be attached to an unex laned publication of the facts. The ther is .that yesterday before the rarrant could be issued, Mr. Zim ierman, who probably was apprised f what was about to transpire, walk d out the back door of the office of r. S. L. !Miller, where he was em loyed in a clerical capacity and dis ppeared. He has not been seen m'ce. Even~ if Mr. Zimmerman is the vic m of circumstances, it is quite evi ent that the transaction's could not ave been conducted without the as istance of an outside party. Had an mployee of the state treasury pre ented a bond for sale, the prospective urchaser would have declined, f6r be incident would have been suspic >us and the purchaser would want othing but "gilt edged" investments. Evidently there was a broker. To nd that man is now the object of the fate officials interested. The inno ent holders of the bonds will be ask d through whom they secured the egotiable instruments. No innfO ent holder will lose anything, fo'r th~e onds will be again redeemed for