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PAA ~PAR-M,t 1 tto mt4 NEWBERRY. S - - T. 0.55 NE11WBERRY. S. 0. FREDAY. -TULY 6. 190. TIEAWEK.150AYA d Bj wiii .in "A Health Onal Adi Surro Rich Farm - The City Hi 10RA. OVJPXZUNT. wa of t 9(en Who Govern yei t,47p$ M. :. Kib- Se )oSr of wordens. W erity is governed by an inten- nei d four wardens, who are elect- prt SIally in the spring. ho1 present municipal officers are aw ndant-Dr. E. N. Kibler. of rdens-J. P. Bowers, A. H. 'I A. P. Dominick, J. D. Quattle- the The City Hall. ten e city hall, which is the scat of B. unicipal government, is a mod- Wi Irick structure, recently erected I st of $2,500. It is on ornament hal Mayor E. N. Kibler, * osperity, and should be a source 'de to its citizens. meeting~s of council are held1( ing Sfrst Tuesday niight in each finid . .a a m munhtficipal court is held, each a d 9ay morning. . Pr e idea of a city ball for the towni ~aturecd during the mayoralty of ~. Y. Hunter, in the year 1902. eeof ground, centrally located, Alderman .t ).Quattlebaum. Powth right Futurc y Material am( 'ancement-A unded By Lands Ll. i purchased and the contract let foi building. The wardens for tha ir were Messrs A. H. Hawkins, B. E iumpert, S. S. Birge, and J. L ise. This was a forward move nt that caused the town to take 01 v life, and from that time to th, sent there has not been an empt: ise and many have been turne< iy from locating there on accoun io house to be had. 'he council which served the yeai city hall was finished was com. ed of the following citizens: In. dant, G. Y. Hunter; Wardens, B Schumpert. A. H. Hawkins, J. L ;e and H. P. Wicker. rior to the erection of the city I the city government had no abid Alderman A. P. Dominick. lace, meetin1g w~hereverI it couldl acco mnmfodation1s. In one inistance ectinig was held oni the street with ry goods box as seats. Now sperity can p)oiint with pridec to Alderman A. H. Kohn. Ier city hall, and feel that she is abreast of the times. and when en .i0ying one of the lyceumn nunbers, Prosperity's citizens eanl thank the progressive mn who dlared to at tempt g-reat thils. aid Iccomplislied them, anld ill filr tie 'ood of the citizens. 1Fr1om1 this nI'ememit _-rew other ii provements. New and improved brick stores were built. The movement, it might be said, culilinated in the hand some graded school building that stands out as a beacollight to all the town, calling all to a higher aim and purpose inl life. ' Intendant E. N. Kibler. This is )r. E. N. Kibler's first year as intendant. Dr. Kihler was born in Prosperity in 1871 and has lived there all his life. He graduated in dentistry from the Dental College of Atlanta, and has practiced in Pros perity since. Dr. Kibler's election to the respon sible position which lie now holds f.9 the best evidence of the esteem in which lie is held by his fellow-towns men. lie has, since lie reached an age at which lie -could take part in busi ness affairs, lent his-efforts to the ad. vancement of his town and county and has done much for the upbuilding of Prosperity. Of ability in his pro. fession and of pleasing personality he has been successful in the prac tice of dentistry. As intendant. Dr. Kibler is conser vative and at the same time is readyN and eager to engage in any movement which promises substantial advance ment for Prosperity. A. H. Kohn. Mr. A. H. Kohin received his school. - ing in the common schools of the I county and the Prosperity High school ) under Associate Justice I. B. Jones, r Taught school for two years iti Lex. ington and -Newlerry counties . in 1875 and 1876. Was married to Miss Mary E. Birge of Prosperity Febru ary 25, 1880. Entered the mercantile business for himself September, 1880. Was in business in Prosperity and Greenville. Sold out his mercantile interests and accepted position with Farmers and Machanics Mercantile and Manufacturing Co., as manager in 1889. Resigned his position in Jan nary, 1903, to accept position as see retary and treasurer Carolina Insur ance and Casualty Co. Was super visor of registration for Newberry county for t o terms, 1886-1888. Was elected mayt . * Prosperity one term and declined -c-ulection. Was elected treasurer South Carolina Synod Oc tober, 1895. Has been active in church work for past 25 years. He is ex ofieio a member of the executive com mittee of Synod and was on special committee on raising founds to build the Olympia mill church. He organized the S. S. Birge Co., a mercmitile stock company, in Janu aIry, 1905, succeeding the firm of S. S. .sm mmmmun.m 4am mm mmm m m esmomamm m mm.w Clerk El. B. Kibler. Birge. This compan'y is, doing a fine b)usiness. Mr. Kohn is president and general manager. He has been acetive in all educa tional work of his town, being a memn ber' of the board of trustees of tihe Prosperity Gradled school, lie is sec retary of the Cooina Insjurance andl Casualty company of Columbia. This company has a large business in Co Ilumbia,' Charleston, Sumter, Newber ry and iJnioii. He was elected warden this sprng. Jas. D. Quattlebaum. JAR. 1). Quattlebaum was borlin inl Oraigebur- county Septeiber 26, 1870. 1le speit most of his young life on a farm inl the foothills of Georgia. near 'ainesville. and gradu ated fron Kioxville Business eolleie, Knoxville. Tenn.. Jie, 1891. le be .."anl his business career as book-keeper for Cole amul Ilrabliam, of Blamberg, August 1, 1901. le was associated with his unce. General F. M. 11am berg, (f' Baiberg, in tihe live stock -anid vehicle business for flve years, when le Chose this line for his life work, and went in business for him self at Fhrhardt, S. C. IIe was mar ried to Nara, youngest daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Asa F. Langford, of Pros perity. S. C., Decemnber .29, 1896. Mr. Quattlebaillum moved to Prosperity. to live, January 1, 1903,. and- has built up .a handsome business on the plat form, "a square deal'' to everybody. He was elected a warden of the town1 of Prosperity last April. A. P. Dominick. A. P. Dominiek was born March 2, 1836, at the Dominick homestead, five miles south east of Prosperity. He mi,rried Miss Lucinda Sheely, Novem ber 3, 1858. When South Carolina f called oi her sons to go to the front 1) lie enlisted in Company G., 13th reg- ii iment C. S. A., Lester's old comipany, i0 first Gregg's, later McGowan's bri- al gade. He saw service in all the Vir- .1 ginia campaigns and was captured at li Frederisksburg, Va., in December, tj 1862. He was imprisoned for nearly w thre6e mouths in the old capitol at ti Washington in room No. 14. le spent 'a shork while, two weeks, at tl Fott Deloware, and was exchanged pi at Tlehmond, Va., in March, 1863. He was in the sharp shooter service. Was tc wotiiAed at second battle Qf Manissas ti at Spottsylvania Court House, and pi at Gettysburg. Mr. Dominick was or- P1 derly sergeant the latter part of the T] war for more than a year. He moved in to Prosperity in the autumn of 1874, .qt and was engaged in the mercantile ti business for a time. Selling out his bc interest lie has been farming sinee. I Mr. Dominick has been a warden of efl the town three times and has been an Ai oflicer in the Associated Reformed th lhesbyterianl church forl the past thirty Ia five years. He is at this time serving th for the third time his town as a war denl. J. P. Bowers. .J. Patrick Bowers was born two nmiles south of the town of Prosperity, November 21, 1849. le las lived all his life in Newber ry counity and was a successful farm vr as long as lie followed planting as a vocation. He decided to go into the mercantile busiiess and moved to Prosperity, in 1890 'and organized ihe lirmi of J. P. Bowers aid company, from which was formed the firm of IBtwers and Dominiek, in 1896. Mr. Bowers has served his church and11 town w.ell and fa it I fully, having beenu a steward of Wightman Chap cl since 1890. He has been three times a wurden of the town, serv'ing in thle ithree terms eight yea rs. Mir. Bowers was married three tms the last marriage April 5, 1906. Mr. Bow~ers has been a member of the graded school board for years aiid wa one of thle members applointced bye legislative enactment to erect the preisent school b)uilding .il Andrew Kinard, One of the Older nitiz.n. I - 'xV, Prosperity Grade DUCATIONAL ADVANCEMENT. andsome and Modern School Build ing Recently Erected at a Cost of Five Thousand Dodlars. About thirty years an) thle unriest Or better ischool advantages that 11lit forth plilie gynirded schools Iall pro-gessive ommuniIiit ies lI to establishlient of' tihe hi,-h school Prosperity. 'I'lius, it is Said, was lIyed 1'for ia lonl.er period the pub graded selho)l at Prosp(rity and e erection of tile school building ieh is now a source of pride to all e citizens of that community. Beginning with Prof. Welch in 1879, e school has had fourteen princi us. The handsome school building of day erected at a cost of $5,000, was v natural result of the march of 1ogress which has characterized rosperity duriiin- the, past decade. ic people of the cominmunity deter ied that larger aud more modern artors wore necessary for im educa mal ceitre, and they votld the mds for the nlecessary mmeoliey to ild it. It was throuh the 11 tirinig orts of Represeitative Elbert I. ill and Sentator (eorge S. Mower it Ile hill was passel by he legis 1ure providin' for tle holiniig of election. The bill empowered a committee Mrs. C. T. Wycho, teacher in Grad School. mted theireit to hoh)l thle election si, t ogether i.wiith thle I(township ardV(, tol (ereel a sittable school ildini . Tlhie cilelion was bel, thle "A M(iss Margaret Leckie, teacher in aded School L School. bloids voted, and very soon a dosir able lot was purchased, and the Pros perity graded school moved from the old high school building near the Co. lumbia, Newberry and Laurens depot to its new homie, "the Hill,'' in No vember, 1905. Witi this, her second publie build ing, Prosperity is equipped to do the eduicational work necessir.y in a com 111111ity f' hier ma1terial advallenlelit, an11 tIlh etivational work tecessary to aid her Inumiiipall m114 eivie improve ment, and upliftinlg. TIRA POSTOFFICE. Mr. L. 16 Bowers Hs Been Post *Master Since 1875. Post Master L. S. Bowers is serv ing under a commission issued to him in 1877. He was first appointed post master in May, 1875, and was later reappointed inl December, 1877. His assistait is Mr. H. Fred Schumpert. The stamp sales of the ofilce last year amountud to $17,000. 'I'lie ollice has been elficiently man aedl. to the satisfaction of the Unit ed Stats governIllment and Of the peo ple of PIrosperity. Postmaster L. S. Bowers. THE SECRET ORDERS. Three Flourishing Lodges in Pros perity, Masons, Knights of Pythias and Woodmen of the World. Prosperity has three flourishing se 3ret ordor lodges, tho Masons, Knights 'if Pythias anid Woodmlfen of the W'~orld. Thle memibership of each is lairge and steaily gr'owing. At frequtent intervals each of the three lodges provides social eniter hainmnent for the members and their friends and( thie occasions are always thoroughy 1encijoyable1 anud enjoyed. SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS. The JcGly Dozen and thle i4terary Sorosis, of Prosperity. P rosperity has twV.o social organiza.. ions wich have given many pleasant mitertainimenits of a social and literary -hr 'r he primary object of ahis social intercourse and( literary L(dvancement. They are the Literary soros andthem lyoen.