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t 001 D 5 VOL XLIV O . NEWBERRY A WEEK.C.1.50 A YEA THE NEWS OF PROSPMTY. Fine Opening of Graded School Program Newberry Con ference. Prosperity, Sept 5.-Miss Isoline Wyche ha. -eturned from a visit to her aunts, Mesdames Julian and Nance, of Lake City, Fla. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Cannon, of Co lambia, have returned home after a pleasant visit to Mr. Cannon's sis ter, Mrs. M. H. Boozer. Miss Lucy Wheeler is taking a course in stenography in a business college in Columbia. Miss Lulie Hunt, of Newberry came down Friday on a visit to Mrs. A. H. Kohn. Mr. J. E. Counts left on Sunday for his home in Memphis. Miss Della Bowers is now regularly installed and will answer the oft ask ed question, "any mail for me." Miss Joe Langford, of Spartanburg spent Saturday and Sunday with hei brothers. Mr. and Mrs. Joe B. Hartman have gone on a visit to Mr. Hartman's brothers, "Evans a.d Will," in At -lanta. R. P. Luther, of Atlanta, is spend ink some time with his parents. Mr. E. B. Luther, of Asheville, will spend some time at the old home with his parents. Dr. Wright, of Georgetown, is the guest of Prof. E. 0. Counts. Miss 0. P. Barre and Jno. Pat Wise are spending a few days with Hon. K. Baker, of Greenwood. Frank Ward Schumpert, of Sav annah, spent last week under the par ental roof tree. Geo. Harmon, Esq., and his little riece Rebecea, are spending the week with Grandma and Grandpa Harmon, lear Greenwood Our public graded school opened on Monday with an attendance of 85 This is the first year in !be history when it was begun with four teaeh ers. This is progress in the right di rection. The eorrespondent of The Herald and News had the pleasure of spending Sunday and part of Monday in Greenwood. in .tnc interest of th-, Lutlheran church that is re he built there in the near future. The lot is nicely and eentrally-loes"ed and the conngregation is enthusiastic. Dr. Hall man is much encouraged. Your cor respondent (njoyed the trip, in fact o>ne cogid not do otherwise with such charming host as the Hon. K. Bak er and his good wife. We hope to go again by and by.. Program of Newberry conference to be held at Colony Lutheran church, Friday, September 27-29, at 10 a. m. Z)rganzation. 1st. topic for discussion: " The re lative inoortance of faith and good wori, . Rev. A. J. Bowers, D. D., and delegate from St. Lukes. 2. The proper observance of the Lord's day. Rev. 0. B. Shearouse and delegate from Bethlehem. 3. The Spartanburg mission. (a). The duty of our pastors to it Rev. S. P. Koon and 'delegate froix St. Paul's. (b). The duty , f congregations t< it. Rev. M. 0. J. Kreps and delegati from Holy Trinity. (e). The duty of our . Sunday schools to it. Rev. S. T. Hallman ani delegate from Grace. 4. Synodical enactments. Duty an~ loyalty to same., (a). Of the pastor. Rev. Z. W. Bed enbaugh and delegate from Church oi the Redeemer. (b). Of congregations. Rev. W. K Sligh and delegate from Beth Eden. (c). Of individual members. Rev J. J. Long and delegate from Colony The sermons during the conferenci will be delivered by the followins pastors: Friday at 11 o'clock a. m. Rev. J C. Wessinger. Saturday 11 a. in., Rev. 0. B. Shea rouse. -Sunday 11 a. in., M. 0. J. Kreps. A full attendance of clerical an< lay delegates is requested. Capt. Jno. B. Fellers had the mis fortune to get tripped up by a wir on Snday, throwing- him violenti: to the ground and dislocating his hip joint. Mrs. Lillie Aiken Edge, of Houston. i Texas, has been on a visit to friends 1 and former pupils in our town. Mrs. Edge left for Atlanta Tuesday morn- I mug. 'Miss Lula Rikard, of Newberry, < has returned home. Miss Mary Brown, of Caldwell, is visiting Miss Kate Thompson. Miss Blanche Gallman is, visiting her aunt Mrs. L. S. Bowers. Mr. R. A. Young who has assisted Rev. I. S. Caldwell this summer will return t6 the seminary at Due West on Monday. Mr. Young has made a host of friends during his stay in Prosperity. Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Wise have re turned from Glenn Sprigs. Mr. darlisle, of Newberry, was a visitor to our town Wednesday. Dr. J. S. Wheeler has returned from a trip to Greenville. Miss Jessie Moseley entertained the U. D. C. on Wednesday after noon. We wonder what has become of the Jolly Dozen. Have they gone into summer quarters? Come, my young friends, don't wait so long to start up your fun. for the fall. Miss Bessie Bowers will entertain the Sorosis Friday afternoon. Mr. Thurston Gallman, of Canaon Creek, was on our streets Wednesday shaking hands with his many friends. Another party will leave here next Tuesday for the Jamestown exposi tion. Stanley and Ralph Baker, of Greenwood, after a week's visit to their aunts in Prosperity returned home Sunday. ,Messrs. C. P. Barre and Jno. Pat Wise returned Tuesday from Green ville. Miss Leckie is with us again in her endeavor to "teach the young idea how to shoot." Mr. Herbert Enlow brought to town on Mtnday a stalk of corn that measured 16 feet. It had one good ear on it. Mr. Enlow iays that it grew in a new ground and was not worked. He planted it and could not get I around to it. The question is if it grew 16 feet high without work how high would it have grown if it had beeni cultivated.1 Mr. R. T. Pugh has moved into his new home recently built by him. Miss Lula Craig, of Rock Hill, is visiting Miss Isoline Wyche. Miss Wyehe entertained on Tuesday even ing in honor of her guest. Miss Rosa Belle Harmon will to day leave for the. Ccllege for Women, Charlotte, N. C. Misses Annie May and Beatrice Bedenbaugh left Tuesday for the Jamestown exposition and Washing-] ton. They will be joined in Washing ton by their brother, Wmn. Beden baugh. Early closing for Prosperity for 1907 has closed. It is all day now. Miss Gertrude Bobb has gone to Marion, N. C., where she will teach the ensuing year. Miss Marie Bobb is spending a few days at home on her way from the 'Northern markets. -All of our merchants have return ed from their trips to the northern markets and are busy opening up their stocks for inspection. Mr. A. L. Wheeler is with Messrs. Bowers and Dominick as salesman. Miss Lutherland will be with Moseley Bros. again this season as milliner. Mrs. D. M. B. Livingston we are glad to report is slowly improving. Mr. J. Luther Bowers has sent the, correspondent of The Herald and News two specimens of toy gourds! from a vine in his yard that has on it 365 matured ones. They are parti colored, the stem and top being yel-I low the lower half a dark green. Whod can beat this gourd vine. One gourd~ for each day of the year. Another veteran of the Confeder acy has answered the last roll call here. Reville. has beaten for him its last tattoo. and W. M. Dennis, Esq.. has gone to join the silent maj ority of the silent bivouac of the dead. He was laid to rest in the hapman cemetery on last Snday byv lev. S. P. Koon. Mr. Dennis was Lbout 65 years old. Mr. Dennis lea es many relatives and friends to nourn his departure. The quarterly conferenc of the :rosperity circuit will be held in ightman Chapel Friday and Satur lay of this week. Rev. W. T. Dun an will preside. A State Institution. nderson Mail. The Daily Mail has suggested that he Clemson bequest be bought by he state in order that Clemson col e2e can be made a state institution. ['he following taken from the edi orIal columns of today's Charleston qews and Courier is one more argu nent in favor of the move we sug est: "The suggestion that the accept mnee of the chairmanship of the ilemson college board of trustees by dr. Alan Johnstone affects the con ;titutionality of his membership in he South Carolina General assembly, :o which he was elected by the people >f Newberry, deserves little consider ition. Mr. Johnstone has said -in a )ublished card .that he is not a Clem ;on trustee "by gift of the people," )ut occupies the position "under the 31emson will," and that his office as rustee is not "one of prolfit or trust ider the ",State" of South Car )>ina. The statement is absolutely rue. His view is unassailable. The ix trustees elected by the legislature articipate in the election - of the hairman of the whole board but the even trustees who hold under the rill are a majority and it is perfeet y clear that in choosing a chairman :hy can control when they so desire. While no reason is known upon rhieh. o fonnd a suspicion that the slight. At difference as to the administra ion of the college affairs exists be ween the state and the trustees of he will, it is n(t surprising that the hairman who succeeds Col. Simpson s. as was the latter. a will trustee. e may add that a more satisfac ry selection than Mr. Johnstone -ould not have been made from the hole board as at presnet contituted. "The di.eussion. however, brinqs yontedl to the attention of the .er >1 of S'outh Carolina the fact that lemson celle'ge is not a state insti -don. The chatirman cf its zovern; .: b)oard is not an officer of the ate of South Carolina. The contro! ? the institution is in the hands of even gentlemen who hold office as epresentatives of a private deced nt 's estate. South Carolina contri butes largely to support a colle which is essentially no more a state .nstitution that is Wofford or Ers kine. "Already the people of a newer ~eneration, when told that the late ?overnor John Peter Richardson urg d upon the legislature the rejection f the "Clemson bequest,'' worth at :he time about $100,000, and..that the ta.te establish and maintain its own gricultural and mechanical college, narvel that the advice was not tak The selection of Col. Alan John ;tone of Newberry for the ohairmar. >f the board of trustes of Clemson ~ollege meets with the Daily Mail's pproval. In our opinion Col. John ;tone is one of~ the aliest a strong ?st members of the board, even hough he be one of the "will'' nembers. We have always admired Col. Johnstone and are, therefore, pleased that the members of the board recognized his ability and chose him is their chairman. What we have written from time to time about Clemson college has not been aimed it any one member of the board. What wve desire is that the state own and control absolutely the college. In ther words make Clemson college a state institution. There are a thousand acres of sub marine~ coal mines being worked around Cape Breton. The character f the soil overlaying these diggings nabes them to be worked without interference from the water from NEGRO LABOR ORGA= ER. Not Wanted In Newberry and Given to Understand It-He Left by First Train. Newberry, Sept. 5.-Yesterday a stranger, who registered at one of the local hotels as "Frank P.- Gordon, Birmingham, Ala.," accompanied by a well dressed negro attracted the at tent6 of the police and upon being shadowed it was learned that the two men were here for the purpose of or ganizing negro bricklayers and plas terers into the International Brick layers'. and Plasterers' union. Mayor Brown, upon learning of the white man's business, went to see him in the capacity of a citizen, and not officially, to inform him that the citizens of Newberry would not per mit a white man to organize negroes in the community. In the interview Gordon intimated that Mr. Brown was a' "liar," whereupon the latter proceeded to flog the stranger. Tjhe strange negro was led to the edge of town and invited to take his departure. Gordon was arrested and held in bail in the sum of $25. A$ first Gordon represented himself as a ''mattress drummer," but after wards admitted that he had told an untruth. He said that he did this in the towns he visited ,for the purpose of d'jception, as he did not wish his real business to become known. When the Cohimb'ia tr-:i reached here tonight Gordon boarded it, fol lowed by 10 or 15 citizens who desir er to "interview" him, but he escap ed them by locking himself up in the tcilet. Policeman John Adams, who work ed the ease up, as well as Mayor Brown,' have the sympathy of the community for their part in the af fair. It is said that Gordon is en route to Greenwood for the same purpose that he visited Newberry. The aff&ir created considerable comment here today. MR. GORDON'S STATEMENT. Claims That He Received 0-'A,:e)us Treatment in .: ;ry. Mr. Gordon came to Columbia last night on the train from Newberry and wvas seen at Wright's hotel. He stated that he had received most out rageous treatment at the hands of the people of the town. He was the representative of the Initernatiohal Briklayers' and Masons' union and had headquarters in Birmingham. He had organized a number of unions in South Carolina and in the organiza tion of the negroes the work was done by P. W. Peace,- a negro from Durham, N. C. He said that on his arrival in Newberry he made a can ass of the town and found only two white bricklayers and a number of negroes ,engaged in the trade. The two.whife men were members of the Greenville union. The negroes were visited by Peace and urged to join. In the meafltime Gordon was wait ed upon at the Frederick hotel by the chief of police, Mr. Bishop, who ask eI him his business. The organization as explained to him and Mr. Bishop departed, afterwards returning with Mr. Brown. The latter stated that no organizations of this kind were de sired in Newberry, the people being well enough off without negre unu ions. Mr. Gordon says that he at tempted to argue with the mayor and the latter lost- his temper and struck at him several times. He managed to ward off the blows and the mayor then grabbed the cane out of the hands of the chief of police and struck at him several times, fin ally being stopped by Chief Bishop. The mayor was then placed under ar rest and Gordon was summoned as a witness. Those who saw the affair advised him to leave the town and he prepared to do so. Papers were serv ed on him at the depot and a cash bond of $23 was required by Acting Maor Green, who, according to Gor don, said that he ''should have had his damn neck broken.'' Gordon then drove to Silver Street and boarded the nigh tran. At Newberry about 50 men attempted to find him and would have undoubtedly done him violence had it not been for the con ductor. A gentlemen from Newberry last night stated that the town is just now being rebuilt and any talk of un ions and raising the price of building material and work always causes trouble. Mr. Gordon said that he would take the matter up with his union and they would probably bring suit against the town.--The State. The above account taken from The State yesterday is in the main cor rect according to Chief of Police Bishop. Chief Bishop, however, says that he was at the train Wednesday night and he did not observe more than the ordinary crowd there and that he himself was not looking foi Gordon. In regard to the interview between Chief Bishop, Mayor Brown and Gor don, Mr. Bishop says that Gordon stated ie went around with his negro man and with him attended meetings of the negroes and lectrued to them advising them to organize and join the union. He said that Gordon stated that the union he represented and he himself, put the negro on a3 equality with the white man in the union, if he were as good a mechanie Mayor Brown stated that he was in favor of the organization of thE white men for the purpose of getting all for their work that it was worth, and that he -sympathized with the white laborer but that he did not want to see the negro organized against the white man. The only treatment that Gordon received at the hands of the citizens of Newberry was the interview whie he had with Mayor Brown, and the mayor has no apologies to make foi his part in the interview. We have heard of no trouble in Newberry between the laborer and those who are employing labor,.G'or don, himself, must have been ashemed of the work in which he was engaged, and must have felt that it was a work which was detrimental to any com munity or he would not have come here representing himself as a mat I tress drummer. Mayor Brown appeared before aet ing Mayor Green on yesterday morn ing and pleaded guilty to the as sault upon Gordon and was fined fivE cents or one day. Of course, he paii the fine which the ac ting mayor shouli remit.. A MESSAGE FROM MAES. His Proff That the Planet Was In habited and Civilized. Ebenever was driving his master'a plow straight and true, but none thE less with a thoughtful air, as thongi his t'houghts were elsewhere. And s< they were; they were soaring far a loft above the. plow and the brow: earth turned up as to reach Mars. The previous evening. Ebenezei had attended a lecture at the villag4 school room on "The Heavens," and what the tecturer 'had said about Mars being inhabited profoundly im pressed Ebenezer. As he mechani ally guided his plow something struck him suddenly on the head, ani he dropped senseless to the ground A balloonist passing overhead and ac eidentally dropped an empty whisky bottle upon Ebenezer's fortunatel3 thick skull. When he recovered con siousness the balloon had passei out of sight, but the cut on his heai and the blood stained bottle at his feet remained. Ebenezer gasped in amazement ani awe as lie gazed all around, the widE brown fields and the blue sky above Then he picked up the bottle ani smelled at it and at onee desertei his team in great excitement and sei off posthaste for the vicarage. "Mun tell vicar Mars be 'nabited right enough,'' he muttered. "civil ized. too; they drinks whiskey." London Express. Only a woman is capable of trans latin a yawn into a smile. NO BOLL WEEVIL IN S. C. Government Expert Talks of the Pest -Advises South Carolina Plan ters .not to Worry. News and Courier. Washington, September I-F. H. Ohittenden, assistant entomologist of the department of agriculture, to day gave it as his firm belief that there is not a boll weevil east of the Mississippi, with the exception of the state of Louisiana. So far as the pest being found in Laurens county is concerned, Mr. Chittenden does not think there is a remotest possibility of such a thing. 'I heard of a pest in South Car olina and elsewhere in the South," Mr. Chit'tenden said, "but I am sat isf6ed it is not the Texas boll weevil. So far the pest has not been dis covered anywhere east of the Misis sippi, with the exeeption of Louis iana. When asked if it were pva4ble that the weevil could have been car ried to South Carolina in cotton seed secured by seed crushers there from Texas and other states in the South west he said: "There is only one cha4e- in a million for such a thing to happen. It could only occur through somei person knowingly ind wilfully earrying. the weevil from its pre4 ent location in the southwest to the other states in the south. There is not the least necessity for people in South Carolina to become worried over what they think is the genuine boll weevil, for I am satisfied it will not be found to be such upon a careful examination. PRiNTERS' GEM HUMOR. Leaves Mythical Fortune to Rls #vus Who NIfegfdeNE Jesse Bifrright ans old' printe w 'died in Des Moines recently, hfd av sense of humor that did not les hini "even when on his deathbed, al. ough his last manifestation of that trait was of a grim kind. For years he had not been. in com murlation witb his relatives, al though he had several sisters and a brother residing in California and another in Ohio. When Burright was taken ill of typhoid fever a.bout six weeks .ago he niotified his.-relatives brothiers, sisters, nieces and .nephews -of the fact, and not one of them re spoaded to his appeal for aid. F"rie nds in Des Moines took charge of the case and helped to. bear his -ex penses. .They also paid the.. expen--,.x ses of the funeral. Shortly before Burright died he sen' ont~a second circular to his un mponding relatives. It was simply a printed copy of a will purported to have been drawn by attorneys and carrying the news that'he had. died. Burright in this will disposed of about $25,000 in cash. He left his brothers and sisters each -$5,000, and to his other relatives he distributed cash and real estate as if he were a millionaire. Then there was a hurrying of dis. tant relatives to the bedside of the ,dying man. He was too ill to ses them when they arrived, and he died without disclosing the location of his wealth. Qaurrels soon arose among the gathered relatives, and an attempt was made by some of them to break the will. The brothers and sisters in sisted that they were entitled to the entire estate and then threatened leg. al proceedings- of the property. Two of the brothers engaged attorneys and were preparing for an attack upon the will on the ground that the de ceased brother was insane and that the entire estate should go to them. The lawyers began an investigation by starting in to find where their fee was to come from. Any they made a discovery. Burright had absolutely no proper ty. Tantalum, the new metal, which is being extensively made use of at the present time, was discovered about two years ago by a Swedish chemist, and was so named because of the tantalizing difficulties he experienced