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V 'R 'L ip a ' E9 4 NEW1EDRitiB W 30R 1ounty 0ommission6rs--They Will EntIq;r,Ipo Their Duties In. Janury. ... We give herewith cuts of our new board of county commissioners. The Herald and lgews hopes they will get busy on the roads as soon as they assume charge. Mr. J. Monroe Wicker. Mr. J. Monroe Wicker, who has been elected as county supervisor for a second term, was born in the Long Lane section of Newberry county, his father being the late David Wick er. He afterwards married and fnov ed to the Mt. Pleasant section of No. 3 Township, where he resided until his removal to Newberry some five or six years age. He is now serving his first tein as. county supervisor and will enter next year for a second term. Prior to this he was a member of the 'county board -of commission era from his township when it was composed of one member from each towiship. He also served as school trustee in his neighborhood for twen ' ty years. Mr. T. J. Wilson was born in New berry county, No. 11 Township near the residence of Mr. G. L. Sease on the 15th of November, 1856, and has lived within six miles of his. birth Mr. T. 3. Wilson place all his life. He has always been a public sp)irited man. For the p)ast twenty years he has been a correspondent to the county papera. With The Herald and News fourteen years. Inl is writings ho has always beeni free to give expression on all political issues pertaining to the interest of his people. Ho has always been lhon est in his convict%ons and has re' eeived many compliments as a news paper correspondent. Hie is well known all over the~ county .and the flattering vote lhe redeiV'ed was upon his own mei-its, receiving the highest vote of ry of his ;cornpetitors. Mr. W. H. Wendt,' who' was elect ed one of the county 'comrniasione'rs, is a native of Germany and was boi:n in 1849, near the Saltie Sea and edu cated in the Province .of Pommarasnia and came to America ii -1869. He arrived in Newy York, brit soon left for South Carolina and camie direct.. ly to Newberry county. He has since engaged in farmidng and in die con.. duet of a blacksmith: shop. "lie is a mechanic by ' trade, having 'learned this strade in Germany. H le has been .quite successful and is one of our .substantial citizens. MA-. -Wendt visited the Fatheiland ip 1885 to take another look at the country and to see his relatives. He returned to South Carolina in 188 and is still living at his home in Caldwell Township. He has always taken an interest in all county and state matters, but has held no public office before this one. ie is secretary and treasurer of the Mt. Bethel Far mers' Union. ne . . .. 2v, Mr. W. H. Wendt. Messrs Wendt and Wilson are both new members and will enter upon their first term in January. It is hoped that the supervisor and his board of commissioners will get to. gether and give .us some good roads in Newberry county. -The finan6es of the county under Mr. Wicker and his old board, Messrs. Cannon and Wells and the county at torney and clerk, Mr. F. H. -Domin ick, have been well managed, and the books are in excellent condition. Some permanent road work has been done, but it has been scattered so much that it -is not worth as much to the county as if it had been put upon one road and tl,L -olicy con. tinued until every road in the county was put in this condition. AN INVALUABLE WORK. "Life and Sayings of Sam Jones," Edited by His Widow. The people of the United States, who knew the late Sam Jones as an unexcelled evangelist\ and pulpit ora tor, will be glad to learn that his life and sayings are to be made imperish able in the form of a volume that will be published by J. L. Nichols & Co., of Atlanta early in December. A few days after the funeral ot tle great evangelist Mr. A. N. Jenk iis, president of Nichols '& Co., in company with Mr. J. L. Turner, of the Turner-Franklin Printing Comn panly, wvent to Cartersville and at conl tract was entered into to push51 the work to completion at the earliest p)ractical moment. The wvork is under the superv'ision of Mrs. Jones, who is assisted by the Rev. Walt Holeomb, the Evangelist's co-worker for a numr ber of years and closest friend, to= gether with a corps of trained writ ers and compilers. ''The Life gnd Sayings of San: Jones'' cantams over 400 * pages, ,avith fifty. full page illustrations. Half morocco; $3.60; cloth, $2.50; edition de luxe, $5.00. Expressage pre paid. Agents are coining money. A .handsome outfit may be had for 50 cents. Circulars free. Address. J. L.,Nichols & Co., 915 Austell Biuld ing, Atlanta, Ga. Mary Einerson, the girl who lookb like Maude Adams, is just about the brightest bit of .femninity that one would meet in a month of travels. She captieates her audience from the mo ment she makes her initial appear. ance and, holds them -nut only until the fall of.-the curtain but into their homes, and is one of the most prom ising theatrical propositions of the season. Miss Emerson. will appear at the op,era house Saturday, 17th, matinee and night, in ''Her Majesty and the Maid,'' You should not miss this. ;KY 00TtQI SUO .t kW President M. L. Johnson, of th Georgia division, Southetn Cottbi Assotiation, has isbued an importan and interesting statement, urging An showing the hecessity,of fixing anw maintaining a uniform price for cot tonl. ' President Johnson's statement fol lows: ''To tie People of Georgia: Ther is no donbt in my mind that the peo ple of the whole souith, farmers, nme cliaits and- butsiness mIen alike, ar making the mistake of their time h not organiziing for the purpose oj maintaining the price of their cot ton. They have already submittet to a loss og about $9 a bale, an still the receipts continue large. Ar the holders of cotton in such distresi that they are compelled to*sell at t sacrifice? If the Jeople have gono deeper in debt as the price of cot tol kept advanleing. thenl tihe ligi prices have not been the blessing thei should have been. 'Cot ton is not worth a cent lesi thanl whein it was selfilng about 1: eents. Tle decline cam1e because wq permit ourselves to become the pre: of speculators backed by sufficion capital to bear the market. You can not do this, if you are lent report: which are used to this end, we are in formed that there has been an im proveient of 2 per cent within th, past two weeks, when every sensibli man in Georgia knows that the plan has been dead since our first frost o October 10-12. "There is only one way to moe and cope with this gambling an manipulation of the market. Firs you must be free from debt, and thei act as a unit in marketing the cror When it goes below its value, sto] putting it on the market. You can not do this, if you are forced to sel to pay debts. This is a lesson whiel the south has got to learn. It is busi ness. If better prices but induce t greater debt, they will prove only curse. "Last year and the year befor Georgia had two splendid crops. Thli year, while there has been no disas ter, the crop is geatly off. Countie which have been making 16,000 bale are naking only 10,060, and others il proportion. How call the south ex peet to mect the same indebtednes with such a reduction of the crop, ni less better prices are secured? On: ruin and bankruptcy call come fron such a policy. ''Georgia has had a wet year, an< an early killing frost. Never hns i good crop been made under such con ditions. The crop ill Georgia is al most gathered now, even as far norti as my couinty-Barlow-where ti fields arpc picked and being sowl i oats and wheat, m1uchi0 of which, tr-uist., is being dolne. If not. slcce's fill graill, it will imake Slncidlid ha much of whichl will h)e neede~d ii IGeorgia niext, year. ''I have viewVed most seriously thi erop) situationl for another year fron the Georgia farmers' stand(poit, c'Oh sidering the short crop of cotton. ''First. We are up against a shot corn erop, whlih meanls next year tha thloulsands of dollars of cottonm monme: will have to be paid out for corn. ''SecoI)d. Forage crops are shlort Fodder, hlay and1( like crops went ni iargely wviti the rain. In my count: alrgady $2.30 per' hundl(red1 is offere, for fodder. Thousands of doilar must likewise go for tis. ''Third. The meat crop (,hroulghou the sections I have visited is fa short. Whlere is your smoke house In the west? See the thousands o dollars slipping through your finger for western meat, going from you short cotton erop. cto rpi i doubtedly short. It is already re ported from Cochran, Ga., and man: other points that tenants and crop pers will not pay out, even with 10 cent cotton. What are you going t< do about'it? ''Only by getting good prices fo your cotton now wvil- you be -able ti handle next year'ssittuaton. fIowv els< can it be done? This erop hias cost #4 raise it, 10 cents, in my juidgment. sold at 10 cents, w'more is the capit. to come from wvithl which to make th< ,zext? What a price to pay for a erop~ and only to sell it at cost ! "The two ends which the Southe Cotton Association aims, and whi are of all importance to the people the south are: t "First. Warehousing. We shou t see to it that warehouses are bu k everywhere to take care of the cc ton until the market 'is ready for at its worth.- These should be bacl ed by sufficient capital to finan and take care of all distress cotton that. which the owner has to sell b cauise of debt. - Second. A'bureau of information system of reporting built up direct on reports from (lie farmer and I cO-workers aliong the btisiness m< of the south, and sent back direct] 1 to the farmer, that lie may at v times be posted, and thus forewarn( and forearmed as to the governmei and bearish speculative reports. ''These are the ends we are aimir at for the good of the state and of tl south, and in these we seek to enli i te sympatiy and interest of evei patriotic eitizen. Respectfully, ''M. L. Johnson, Death of Mrs. Nancy Longshore. Mrs. Nancy Longshore, widow the late Andrew J. Longsiiore, dii at the home of her daughter, Mi - Join R. Spearman,' on riday mior Silig at 6 o'clock in time 84th year her age. - Some thiree or four months ago si 3 suffered a fracture of the hip, frc which she never recovered. Her hi t band, Mr. Longshore, died in 180 t She leaves surviving her three ch dren, Mrs. John R. Spearman, Mi t M. H. Gary, and Mr. Eugene : I Longshore, besides a number of grai t children. Before her marriage she was a Mi Neal, of Edgefield, now Saluda. H remains were buried at Mt. Zion. Saturday at 11 o'clock, the funei servieds being conducted by the R( G. A. Wright. Death of Mrs. Reeder. Mrs. Reeder, wife of the late So Reeder, died at the home of bi daughter in Spartanburg on Sund an. was buried yesterday at Mt.. Zic Her home was in No. 6, but she h 5 gone on a visit to her daughter, who ; she was takem ill and died. - Mary Emerson went into tile Sou aa comparative stranger, except those whio rememebered her as leadii lady in a receIt tour of Loulis Jam< will leave that section one of, if n1 the warmest favorite of any femr star that has ever. toured below t Mason and I)ixon line. Her charmii - personality, deligitfiul deicanlor ai lovable character hias won her a l I of friends. At the opera house Saturday, ma nee anld nigit, November 17. Petit Jury for Civil Court. Th'le foilowinig jurors have be drawn for the c'onnrt which convenCI at Newherry on 2(ith of November: W~m. B. Werts. Sims WV. Browna. C. H-. Shannon. C. S.S Suber, rIFrank M. Schumper.t. JW.McKit trick. I W.1R. Eimor'e. F". A. Schumpert. A. H. Brown. C. D. Knight. 11. P. Baker. J. M. Workman, Sr. J. D. Oxner. J1. WV. Richardson, R. T. Caidwell. I. .J. Gibson. Geo. A. Boozer. S. W. Williamson. BI. 0. Lovelace. .L.Wise. J. A. Brown. T. B. Chandler. A. T. Mayer. W. S. Mann. Robert Norris. 5. Mw, Divmeani. J. WV. Aeott. D I. Q. Wilson. Joseph L. Keitt. WV. L. Golding. T. A. Ellisor'. J1. T. Sterling. .T. H. Eddy, Sr. John M. Gilliam. . THEIR SILVER WEDDING. rn oh Rev. J. Q. Werts and Miss Martha N )f Houseal Married in Newberry 26 Years Ago. Id it The following from the Salisburq ,t- N. C., Post will be read with interes it by many people in Newberry wher t- the parties concerned have many re ,e latives and friends. Mrs. Wertz I - the daughter of the late W. W. Hon e- seal an(d the sister of Mr. Wil. r H1oulseal and Dr. W. Q. Ilouseal ani >r married in this city. Rev. Mr. Wert ly is an alumnus of Newberry colleg is and spent Q1o yearll of his college lif n in Newberry gradiating in 1878. H1 y.V too, has many relatives in Newberri 11 The Helrad and News wishes th d happy young couple may have man: it more joyous anniversaries and go oi beyond the bolden doing good an ig making the world better for thei le having lived in it. st China Grove, N. C., Nov. 1.-A 'y Newberry, S. C., November 1, 1881 Miss Martha Virginia Houseal N came the wife of Rev. Joseph Quine: Wertz. Today at the parsonage a this place they celebrated their Sil ver Wedding. At 10 a. in. the people from th ' congregations of the charge bega gathering and soon the house an yard were filled with friends wh Cam to participate wiith their pa$ tor and his wife and family in thi -happy occasion. 2. At the noon hour Mr. -Winecoff o d. Center Grove congregation, made a s. address in behalf of the people of th El charge, extending their congratult a tions, love and best wishes. Pasto Wertz responded expressing to Ii ss people his heart's pleasure in the sei er vice and association of an apprecii Eni tive people among whom he has labol -al ed for nearly eleven years. v. A large table was prepared in ti yard and literally weighted down wit good things to tempt and to satisf the appetite. m The Center Grove congregatio er presented a purse of a silver dolle 1Y. for each year of their married lil n- and the Lutheran Chapel congregi Id tion a handsome set of silverware. B re sides these congregational gifts man friends present bestowed individu gifts. th After a full day of social fe.t.iviti< to the good people departed bespeakiin 1g and praying God's richest blessinf !s, to abide uipon their beloved past< ot and all his people and interests. 10 From 7 to 1.1.1p. in. a reception wf lo held in the parsonage for specially il 1g vited guests. lt The house was beautifully ai st tastefully decorated for the occasioi The parlor was given a green ai white effect with its decorations ( frens. ivy, chrysantheimuns and ge aniums. Over the door in silver le tering with white background was tl mh design: ''M. V. HI. 1881-1906 J.( es W.'' The living room w~as decorated ii autumn leaves. In the hall was erec ed a lovely arcb of evergreen, an' flowers. The dining hall was trin med in pink and white witir a larg silver bell suspended over thme table. At the door the guests were recei' ed by Misses Lillian Wertz and Maj gie Honlshouser and tihe p)astor's twi sons. Joseph Quiney J., and Augusti Hlouseal. At the table Misses Viol Wertz, Pecarl H-olshouser and Vivia Cline presided. The guests present were Rev, an .Mrs. C. 13. Miller, Rev, and Mrs. D. Offman, Dr. and Mrs. G. A. Ramsau1 Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Bostian, Mr. an Mrs. A. M. Hanna, Dr. and Mrs. B. Gaither, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Boes Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Thomn, Mrs. Far nie Corriher, Mrs. G. A. Bostian, ( China Grove, Mrs. A. W. Winecof of Salisbury, Rev. E. L~. Ritchie, C Spencer. There was a varied and beautifi display of valuable and useful pre ents. Besides articles of silver, silve coin, silver certificates and one dra: for five silver dollars were seeni tihe collection of gifts. A large bur dIe of letters from friensis bearing e: pressions of congratulation, love anm commendation is also treasured among the nmost precious of remen brances of the occasion. Among the names of friends from a distance the following appeared . with the display of prosehts: Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Houseal, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Houseal, Dr. ind Mrs. W. G. Hoiu. seal, Dr. and Mrs. Geo. B. Cromer, , Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Johnson, Mrs. R. t P. Holland, Rev. and Mrs. J. A. B. e Scherer, Mrs. M. F. Wright, Misses Gertrude Simpson, Emma Kibler, of s Newberry, S. C., D. J. Hentz, Poma - ria, S. C., Walter Barr and Mrs. W. . F. Rawl. of Lexington, S. C., Mrs. . Mary E. Edwards and Mrs. Hassie Nichols, of Leesville, S. C., Rev. and C Mrs. C. B. King, 1). D., of Charlotte, a N. C., Rev. F W. E. Peschau, D. D., , Miamisburg, 0., Rev. A. G. Voigt, 1) D1., Mt. Pleasant, S. C., Rev. J. H. 0 Wilson, 1). D., and daughters, Mr. and y Mrs. C. G. Heilig, Mt. Pleasant, N. a C., J. M. Weeks, Elloree, S. C., and I Martin F. Ansel, Greenville, S. C. r The evening was most pleasantly spent in social intercourse. The sup. t per was a veritable feast of good Sthiings most deligltfully served in six courses. It was a happy occasion for Y the bride and groon of 25 years, t which transported them back in spirit to the begiining of the united journey and made them feel youthful again. e Their many friends wish them n many happy returns of the aunt L versary and pray that their Lord o and Master whom they serve may pro - serve their lives for another quarter a century and bestow his good blessings 11ponl them. f Beth Eden Items. e Mr. R. H. Burton spent Wednesday r night with Mr. L. H. Chandler. r Miss Ella Cromer visited her friend, Miss Mary Cromer recently. Miss Maggie Stone and brother, and Miss Dosia Epps have been spending a while at Mr. Ham Kib ler's. Miss Lucy Suber and Miss Pearle Goodlette, two of our charming young y ladies, are away teaching. Miss Sub er has charge of the Long Lane school n and Miss Goodlette of the Mollohon r No. 2. These young ladies are missed e in the neighljorhood, but they are en lgaged inl a noble work. May they sow in the minds and hearts of the y little ones seed that will bear good fruit for future generations. Mrs. Annie Jeter is teaching the school at Beth Eden. We aire pleased to notice the per sistent stand, which t.he editor has taken for good roads and compul l sory edeation. Your efforts inl this directioni are appreciated by the pub lie. Remember that ''perseverance is the mother of success.'' O1e of the 1 evils of today is the over crowded d cities andl(] towns and thinly settled rural distiriets. The country is an ideal place to live. Here we are close to nature and inatire's Clod, may breatihe puire air and ent food, which eI has not beetn to the Chicago p-ackilg 'honse. We are, to a great extent, free from the dispensary or blind tiger hi and the nmany evils that flow from the11m, and1( we arc not troubled about the railroad rante bill. The rural free delivery is a source of pleasur'e and ~ profit to us. Tf we had good roads and schools and by strictly enforcing Sthe vagrancy laws~ tile idle were driv en h)ack to the farms, perhaps the Swhlite p)eople would come back to the *a counttry. It is a sad fact thlat manuy a white childrenm are growing up in idle ness and ignorance. These should be forced into thme school1s by a compul. d sory education law. It is also true [. that a number of children in the a, rural dlistricts, who should be at d school must work the fields, because r- labor conditions are bad and some t, especially in thme mill villages must -support idle parents. Our mother fstate should care for these. Mrs. T. L. B. Epps visited her par-. ents, Mr. and Mrs. Ham Kibler, this week. l Mrs. T. N. Kennedy and children haIrve returned to their home at Fayet r tesville, Tenn. Mrs. Kennedy. has t~ been with her mother, Mrs, E2mma 'Carlisle, since the death of her fath e~ r. She and the children will he sad-. Sly missed. dA large congregation at Beth Eden 1listened to a stirring Lutheran ser-*. mon from Rev. A. J. Bowers Sunday afternoon. Mia.