The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, October 27, 1905, Image 1
VOL. XLII. NO. 124 NEWBERRY. S. C.. FRIDAY OCTOBER 27, 1905. TWIE A WEEK, $150 YEAR
NEWS OF PROSPERITY.
Death -of Mrs. Lizzie Boulware
Pleasant Trip to the Country
Lutheran Church Social Much
Enjoyed-Tickets Sold to
the Fair.
Prosperity, October 26.-Mr. W. H.
(Uncle Mike) Kempson has been in
town the past week.
Your correspondent had the pleas
tire of a trip to the country last Sun
day and to say we enjoyed it is to put
it mild. Owing to the fact that the
madam was along we had, of course,
to be subject to "Ehe powe,rs that be."
We enjoyed it and regret that Uncle
Jimmie and Aunt Mollie are going to
nrove to town -and we can't go back to
see them again in their pleasant coun
try home.
There will,be a local law and order
league organized here in the near fu
ture.
We regret to chronicle the death of
Mrs. Lizzie Boul-wiare at $er son's,
Mr. I. H. Boulware. Mrs. Boulware
was at one time a resident of our
town and one daughter, Mrs. D. M.
Langford, still resides here. Mrs
Boulware was laid to rest this morn
ing in New Chapel cemetery.
Mr. John Taylor came in this morn
ing and in his arms he. had a mam
moth bee't. It weighs 7 3-4 pounds
and can -be seen at the S. S. Birge
Co's. store. It is a beauty for a beet.
Can anyone beet (beat) it?
The social gathering at*the Luther
an parsonage last Friday night was
quite an enjoyable affair. There were
many persons present who enjoyed
the hospitality of mine host, Pastor
Kreps, and -his good lady.
Coffee, tea and cake were served
and oh, -my! 'hDow- some of those old
fellows ate cake and drank coffee was
-a caution but then an explanation is
to be found in the youg ladies at
the table with them.
Mr. Jas: M. Werts will move into
the Harris house on M&Neary street,
next week.
Mr. G. C. Steele will move into the
Sheely -house vacated by Mr. Jno.
Ruff who has moved to Spartanburg.
Don't forget thiat Mr. E. D. Smith
will be at Newberry on Saturday, 28.
and will talk 1io the farmers in refer
ence to cotton. Mr. Smith is Presi
dent of the South Carolina Cotton
Growers' association. Go, if possible.
Our school will give half holiday
'coday and all tomorrow. T:he teachers
and some of the children will go to
the fair today.
The Sorosis will meet with Miss
May Lee Barre on tomorrow after
noon.
The Southern railway sold 229 tick
e'cs to the fair including this morning's
train. The C. N. & L. 50.
There was enacted here on Sunday
night a tragedy that up to this writing
remains a mystery. Our local "Sher
>ock Holmes" has not been able to
""ravel it. The door of the guard
house in the city 'hall is left unlocked
at night for use of the nightc watch
man. Some time during the night
while the watchman was on 'his round,
a fight or encountrer took place just
inside the door and quite a pool of
'blood on the floor and wall showed
where something was hurt and that
pretty severely for the blood gushed
forth and the stains show that some
artery was touched. The object was
tracked around on Main street and the
bloody trail led through town but was
lost near t.he Methodist church. There
* has been much speculation as to what
it could .have 'been but there has been
no satisfactory solution, so far as we
can learn. Some say one 'thing, some
another, but the mystery remains un
solved. We have not heard of any
one 'being seriously 'hurt about here.
.d it was any person they must have
gone on. The watchman knows noth
ing in reference to it.
Ardbor and dedication day will be ob
served jus't as soon as the new build
ing i ready for occupancy.
Rev. and Mrs. S P. Koon are visit
ing their parents in Lexington county
this week.
Mrs. Harriet Lane, of Newberry, is
expected on a visit this week to Mrs.
Bessie Lane and Mrs. A. H. Hawkins.
Miss Dessie Shackelford is visiting
Mrs. A. H. Hawkins.
Mr. J. Mal Cook is visiting "the
homefolks" this week.
Mr. L. R. Livingston, traveling
agent for the Southern Bell Telephone
company, was on a visit to his brother,
Mr. H. K. Livingston, the past week.
:Miss Gertrude Simpson came down
Friday and enjoyed the social at the
parsonage.
Mr. George Harmon is spending a
few days at home.
Mr. Ben Wheeler, of the U. S. Rail
way mail service, is spending a well
earned vacation with his paren-Es in
town.
:Miss Joe Langford left on Wednes
day for Swansea, where she will teach
school this fall and winter.
There will be communion in Grace
church on Sunday morning, 0-ctober
29.
Children's Day will be observed by
Grace church on the first Sunday in
November. -
The first effort to raise a fund for
building a new church was made by
the 'Sunday school of Grace church.
The offerings for each fourth Sunday
will be devoted to this purpose. The
children -are leading in this effort for a
new church.
Miss Mamie Jordan, of Winnsboro,
will visit Mrs. F. Browne this week.
Miss Jordan is enjoying the Summer
Haltiwanger wedding at this time.
Mr. W. H. :McKain, of Grey Court,
Laurens county, is visiting his father,
the Rev. J. I. McKain, this week.
We are glad to gay that Mrs. T. A.
Dominick is rapidly convalescing.
Miss Gertrude Simpson -came down
Thursday and will spend the week at
home.
Mr. Jessp James, of Newberry col
lege, is visiting Mr. Jno. Pat Wise.
Dr. Littlejohn has gone on a visit Eo
his parents at Pacolet.
Mrs. Lou Duckett, of Jalapa, is now
with. Mrs. J. D. Quattlebaum, who we
are glad to say is jm'proving.
Your correspondent has an "in-.
vite" to Children's Day at St. Johin'~s
(White church) on next Wednesday
and we extrend the invitation to you,
Mr. Editor, to come down an~d visit
this section with us-if we go.
We think our people have pretty
well attended the fair this year-over
300 going from this section. 'They be
lieve in patronizing the State Fair:
'Co'tton has been coming in pretty
since the rise. There .hias been 282
bales sold 'here this week to Wednes
day p. m. 180 'bales were sold yes
terday. This made trade lively and
our -merchants were glad.
The Rev. J. C. Wessinger is expect
ed about the first of November. Rev.
WVessinger will serve the St. Philip's
pastorate, composed of St. Philip's,
Ba'ehman Chapel and Mt. Olivet
churches.
Cotton is 'bringing 10 3-8 to 10.40
with a fine arricle at 10.50. We do
hope to see it II cents in the near fu
ture.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
The Happenings in the Various Sec
tions of South Carolina Briefly
Told.
President Roosevelt in a speech at
Tuskeegee told the negroes tha-. their
best friends are in th.e south, and
among the white people of the south,
and urged them to be law abiding and
to remember that no help could avail
them so much as capacity for self
help.
The dispensary was voted 'out in
Oconee county on Tuesday by a very
large majority.
P. B. Lowe, of Gaffney attempted .to
commit suicide near that place last
his wounds will resulE fatally.
Mrs. Agnes W. Quarles, of Abbe
ville, died at Tumbling Shoals in
Laurens county at the home of her
daughter. She was nienty years of
age. Several children survive her.
J. E. Horton, postmaster at Belton,
who was recommended for removal
on account of inefficiency due to age,
will probably be retained, the work
being attended to by his sons.
Capt. E. A. Bristow died at his
home in Bennettsville. Capt. Bristow
was 82 years old. He was sheriff of
Marlboro before the (Confederate war.
Was a gallant soldier and respected
citizen.
A street car in Greenville collided
with a wagon containing a 50-gallon
keg of contraband whiskey. 'The ne
gro, who was driving the wigon, re
plied in answer to inquiries as to his
name, "I ain't got no name," and fled.
The whiskey ,was turned over to the
state constables. No damage suit
against the street railway company is
anticipated.
R. H. Harriman, superintendent of
the Olympia and Granby milli in Co
lumbia, is coming to Greenville to take
charge of the Monaghan mills, proba
bly about November i.
The question of "dispensary" or "no
dispensary" will be submi.tted to the
qualified voters of Saluda county on
December 19, the supervisor having
just ordered an election for that date.
Members of the investigating com
mittee in Greenville are being kept
busy looking into the manner in which
road overseers had been doing their
wdrk. Several overseers were before
the committee and the evidence
brougibt ou-t was not altogether cred
itable to some.
Prominent people have w'itm to
Governor Heyward that fheill be
asked to conniute to life imprison
ment the death sentnece passed upon
Epps Snowden of Georgetown coun
ty. It is alleged -that the petition for
pardon is signed 6y parties living in
a part of the county remote from -that
in w'ich -The crime occurred.
Man's Forgetfulness.
New York World..
A minister's wife, a doctor's wife,
and a travelinig man's wife met at a
socia'l ga'dh'ering recently, and the con
versation turned on the forgetfulness
of husbands.
"I think," said tihem inister's wife,
"th'at my husband is the most forget
ful man living. He will go to 'church
sometimes and forget his notes and
no one can tell what he is greaching
about."
'Thatr is nothing in comparison to
my husband," said the doctor's wife,
"for .he will often travel miles into the
country to see a patient and forget his
medicine case."
"Neither of your husbands can hold
,a candle to mine," said the traveling
man's wife, "for when he returned
from a trip last week 'he patted me on
thec Ih'ee:k ad said: "I 'believe I
'have sen you before, what is your
name?
Forced A Confession.
Tihe late Mary A .Livermore was a
shrewd woman who believed in "figh-t
ing the devil with fire." She was con
verted to this idea 'by the example of
an old friend, a clergyman. 'With a
solemn air he announced frbm the
pulpit one day that a button had been
found in 'dh'e collection. "Only one in
dividual in the church couldc have been
guilty of the trick," he said, "and I
shall expect a coin."
After service a member 'of the
ahurioh owned up to being the -cu'lprit,
and asked, "How did you 'know I was
the man?"
"I did not know," said the clergy
man.
"But you said only one person could
ihave 'done it."
"Just so," was 'the reply. "Two per
sons could not 'have put the same buc
ton on the plate."
ROOSEVELT AT TUSKEEGEE.
President Addresses The Students of
Booker Wasbington's School
A Great Demoistration.
The president arrived at M'Iont
gomery at 8:30 on Tuesday morning.
The city was beautifully decoraced.
The platform from which the presi
dent spoke to the people of the city
was made from $30,000 worth of cot
ton in original bales. Escorted by a
company of state militia, the president
was driven to 'the Alabama confer
ence. In the Female college which
represented a typical southern scene,
the cotcon had been transplanted in
two long rows and two old southern
negroes with cotton picker's sacks on
their shoulders, were engaged in pick
ing the staple from the plants. The
president was greeted at the college
grounds by the students. and public
school children. The president's ad
dress was short and at its conclusion
[e left for Tuskeegee Norman and In
dustrial school.
The president reached the grounds
of the Institute after a brief stop in
the town of Tuskeegee, where Ie was
received by the mayor and other dis
tinguished citizens of Ala!bama. From
midnight until morning great crowds
of country people, white and black,
were arriving from all sections sur
rounding Tuskeegee. A matley assort
ment of vehicles were allowed to
come into the CInstitute where the
president saw the collection and seem
ed to be amused by the sight.
The president was received by
Booker Washington and other mem
bers of the Institute trustees and fac
ilty. He- entered -a carriage made by
sudents 'of the rchool and driven by
students in the school uniform. The
party proceeded immediately to the
elaborately decorated stand, in front
of -the office building surmounted.by
the president's flag. From this point
he viewed the educational and indus
trial parade, upon the preparation of
which the. students and faculty had
been at work for several weeks. The
parade was headed by the Institute
band.
Then came 1,500 students in two di
visions-young men uniformed in blue
suits, and young women wearing blue
dresses, each bearing a stalk of sugar
cane tapped with a cotton ~boll, all
raised in the school agricultural ex
perimental station. Immediately be
bind the student body came 61 floats.
After the parade. 'the presidential
party was driven a'bout the grounds
and shown the extent and seope of
the work being carried on by the In
stitute. Then to the chapel the party
was taken where the students, led by
the Inst-itute choir of 150 voices, sang
a number of plantation melodies.
Principal Washington then present
ed the president with the tollowing
words: "This is a great day for Tus
keegee Normal and Industrial insti
tu're; too great to ~be described by
words. We 'have gathered to hear one
voice, to see one face.
'In presenting our guest to the stu
dent's, teach.ers and citizens, I must
not omit to express the gratitude felt
by the people of Tuskeegee Institute
and by the people of both races in
this section of Alabama for the hon
or which has been conferred upon
them. -That the chief magistrate of
our beloved republic of 80,ooo,ooo peo
ple has deemed it wise and good to
include Tuskeegee Institute in his trip
through the south and to spend a few
hours seeing the work we are doing
here, brings to the heart of every man
and woman of our race in this coun
try, a degree of encouragement and
inspiration which it is impossible for
any American citizen, not of our race,
to fully appreciate.
"My friends, without further words
of mine, I have the pleasure and hon
or of presenting to you the President
of the United States, Theodore Roose
velt."
The pesirlent hbe-an byn emphasz
ing the importance of industrial edu
cation for the negro, and said Tus
keegee had done a great work. He
told his audience they owed a debt to
the southern white man who was after
all -heir best friend. He spoke in part
as follows:
"It is no: only the duty of the white
man, but it is to his interest to see
that the negro is protected in prop
erty, in life and in his legal rights.
Every time a law is broken every in
dividual in the community has the
moral tone of his life lowered. Law
lessness in the United States is not
confined to any section; lynching is
not confined to any section; and there
is perhaps no body of American citi
zens who 'have deserved so well of
the entire American people as the
public man, the publicists, the clergy
men, the countless thousands of high
minded private citizens who have
done such heroic work in the south
in arousing public opinion against
lawlessness in all its forms, and es
pecially against lynching.
"I very earnestly hope that the ex
ample will count in -the north as well
as in the south, for there are just as
great evils to .be warned against in
one region of our country as in an
ottier, though they are not in all
places the same evils. And when any
body of men in any community stands
bravely for what is right, 'these men
not merely serve a useful purpose in
doing the particular task to which
they set themselves, but give a lift to
the cause of good citizenship through
out the union.
"And right here, let me say that if
in any community a misunderstanding
between the._-races arises, over any
matter, infinitely the- best way out is
to have a prompt, frank and full con
ference and consultation between rep
resentatives of the wise, decent, cool
headed men among the whites and the
wise, decent, cool-headed colored men.
Such a conference will always tend to
bring about' a better understanding,
and will be a great help all around.
"Hitherto I have spoken chiefly of
the obligations existing on the part of
the white men. Now let you remem
ber.on the other hand that no help can
permanently avail you save as you
yourselves develop capacity for self
help. You young colored men and
women educated at Tuskeegee must
by precept and example lead your fel
lows toward sober, industrious,- law
abiding lives.
"You are in honor bound to join
hands in favor of law'and order and
to argue against all crime, especially
against all crime by men of your own
race; for the heaviest wrong done by
the criminal is the wrong to his own
race. You must teach the people of
your race th-at they must scrupurous
ly observe any .contract into which
they in good faith enter, no matter
whether it is hard to keep or not. If
you save money, secure homes, be
come taxpayers and lead clean decent
modest lives, you will win the respect
of your neighbors of both races.
"Remember also that the white man
who can be of most use to the colored
man is that colored man's neighbor.
It is the southern people themselves
womust and can solve the difficul
'ies that exist in the sou't:h; of course
'hat. help the people of the rest of
the Union can give them, must and
will be gladly and cheerfully given.
The 'hope of advancement for the col
ored man in the south lies in his
steady, common sense effort to im
proye his moral and material condi
tion and to work in harmony with the
white man in the upbuilding the com
monwealth. The future of the south
lies in both races l.iving up to the
Isp irit and letter of thie laws of their
several states and working out the
destinies o'f 'bo'. races, not as races,
but as law abidin.g American citizens."
G. K. Willis who has been the agent
of the Southern railway at Williams
ton, has resigned to recuperate his
health..