Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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0 M 11 mHmmrnm * MmmmmmmM WtHBSKKKSM ! NEWBERRY THE NEWBERRY HOTEL. Recently Remodeled.?Mr. Ernst Brockman Comes to Newberry? One of the Best Hostleries In Up Country. Mr. Ernest Brockman, Jr., has bought an interest in the Newberry hotel and it will, in the future bo run by him in connection with Mr. W. A. Jamieson, who retains an interest and will be connected with the business. Mr. Brockman is a Columbian and has had considerable hotel experience, having been for several years a clerk at Wright's Hotel in Columbia and recently connected with the management of the St. Johns Hotel in Charleston. Mr. Bi'ockman is a young man of pleasing address and is very popular with the traveling public and comes to Newberry with the determination of not opl ymaintaining the fine reputation .which the Newberry hotel sustains, but, if possible, of improving the service and the accommodations in every way. AFTER THE TIGERS. Chief of Police Backed by ^Council Determined to Close up Blind Tigers ?Citizens Asked to Help. Whitmire, Sept. 25.?The chief of police, Morse, reports lot of fun on Wednesday morning. He found out where there were four gallons of whiskey stored, supposed to be for sale, and when lie made an attempt to seize it the party refused to give it up. He sent back to Mayor Holt for a search warrant but before it came the party who had the whiskey in charge decided lie had rather break than to give it up so I guess that suits the citizens of Whitmire alright. Tt just, saves Sheriff Buford of this trouble. Our town officers say they will stop the whiskey busines if possible by themselves, if not they will have a constable to assist them, for it is H against the laws of the State of I South Carolina, the county of Newberry, and the town of Whitmire, and also the will of a true and living Cod, for whiskey to be sold by blind ti gers. OH I say to the citizens of the conimun? ity if you don't help to enforce this law you will never stop people from I selling whiskey. Wo, the tax-payers H of this town and county, are the ones \v 1 io pay the officers of this county T and it is our duty to help them cn We are all aware of the fact that a blind tiger man will watch the offi cer and dodge him and sell some Bgood citizen a pint or a quart of booze Hand this good citizen will not .say anything about it. Now men, you good farmers, who rawould like to get your cotton picked for forty cents per hundred, look in to this whiskey question and help to ^ stop it and you will find people will V be looking for work who have not worked a lick in a long time, for they cannot live if they don't make money V some way; and when the officer takes ML a jug of whiskey from some sorry Htrascal don't come and vouch for him to get it back. Hi Now, while the policeman of our ittle town, by the authority of MayHr ITolt, has decided to stop the blind ger business, I feel it our duty to H;sist him in any way we .can and I Hilieve it will be for the betterment id the upbuilding of our town. He Hay lose some friends by doing this Hit what will that amount to. T hope will look at, it in this manner. I ad rather have one good citizen for friend than half dozen blind tiger The chief of policc has been suot^HHessful in all business so far and we ^MKope he will exert every effort to be yflBBuccossful in this case. We arc satH^fit'd that the mayor and the whole ouncil will back him in anything ho <$ HOTEL ? O The building has boon remodeled throughout, and now contains fortylive bed rooms. The rooms are furnished with modern iron beds and the best mattresses and springs. The parlor is also new and the dining' room has boon moved to the first floor and is very beautifully and handsomely fitted up. The office has been entirely remodeled and is now one of the prettiest offices in connection with J any hotel in t'lie state. The cook room j is new and there are five large sampie rooms. In connection with the i bed rooms there are ton private bath rooms. The hotel in every particular is modern and up-to-date .nd has no superior in upper South Carolina. The contractor has just about completed t'lie work of remodeling and the general appearance is attractive, fresh and up to date. We are glad to welcome Mr. Brockman to Newberry, and we feel assured that in the joint management of himself and Mr. Jamieson that | Newberry will continue to have the1 very host hotel accommodations. attempts to do in the discharge of j his duty and we hope the citizens | will do the same. Brown Eyes, i MAJOR JOHN A FANT DEAD. Prominent Citizen of Union Passes Away Suddenly. Union, September 24.?Major John A. Fant died at his home in this city about 6 o'clock this morning, quite! unexpectedly. Major Fant has been I in bad health for some time and re-1 cently returned from Johns Hopkins. Hospital, at Baltimore, but was on > the street yesterday, seemingly much' improved, and the announcement ofj his death carried with it the shock of, complete surprise to the entire com-! munity. The- immediate cause of; death was heart failure. John A. Fant was born near San-1 tuck, this county, on the 22d of April,! .1858, the son of David J. Fant. For ai number of years he was bookkeeper' and salesman fo,r various business1 concerns. Subsequently he became a ' member of the firm of Fant, Mclvis-1 sick & Co., which was later incorporated as Fant Brothers Company. He ; was president of this corporation at! the time of his death, president of! the Monarch Cotton Mills, of the Un-j ion Building and Loan Association! and of the People's Supply Company,; vice-president of Nicholson Banking! and Trust Company, director in the; Merchants' and Planters' National; Bank, chairman of the board of; school trustees of Union, trustee of1 Furman University and of Greenville' Female College and a deacon of the! First Baptist Ohurch of this city. lie was also largely and directly; interested in most of the smaller! business organizations. By his own! energy and ability he accumulated a j large property, and of it he gave with a free hand to all worthy objects. His chartiies were on a large scale,' and especially to the work of the! Baptist Church, of which he was a faithful member, were his bounties generous and free. lie gave liberally and cheerfully whenever called upon, and it was largely through his gifts that the new and handsome Baptist Church of this city was made possi- | ble. Tn everything that made for the moral or material upbuilding of tho community he took an active and intelligent interest. His loss will bo; keenly felt. His ability and worth' i are shown by tlie many important' positions he held. Mr. Fant was married about twen- , ty-sovon years ago to Miss Ora! Wilkes, of Chester county. He is\ survived by his wife and four eliil-! dren, namely: Mrs. W. N. Walker,! of Anderson; Misses Ora and Lily' Fant and J. Ray Fant. Mr. Fant had taken the Shriner i degree in Masonry and was a Knight' of Pythias. j Farmer s Union Bure u of 1 Information - ?Conducted by the- ? Carolina; Fanners' Eduea- t Moualjtnd Co-Operation Union. * r.?rCommunioationa intended for this 1 department should be addressed to J. C ' 4 Stribllng, Pendleton, S. C. Our Cotton Letter. rheodore Price lias now a woman ^ between him and the fire, straining 1 up cotton crop estimates to deceive cotton farmers. 4 Tt will take an army of Price's * cotton women t? get faithful Farm- i i er's Union men's cotton for less than1 .15 cen ts. | * lOliivalry must be at a low ebb!.1 among the knights of Wall street!1 when they are forced to put up a woman to stand the fire of indignation : 1 at their vile attempts to get tho ' south's cotton for less than cost. ! When knights of Annanias on; ! Wall street liave exhausted their sup- ! ply of jrall a:id fagged out in faith 1 amomr the people, it i sabout time for 1 them to trot out some cot'ton women; What next? j 1") ets for lint and $20 per ton for! seed are Farmers Union prices. ' Our Farmers' Union members, who 1 can possibly do so, should now strain every point to buy or retire every ' bale of cotton from off the market!' that is in their power. The only way to keep cotton above the 15 ets limit is not to sell any un-! ti! this limit is reached. It we mistake not there nre a lot of merchants, farmers and common I speculators who are now buying |' cotton to hold for the 15 cents mini- I mum price. We are glad to note this: silent cooperation for our set prices.! Why not. now go at it and buy up! you nevt year's cotton crop and ! hold it for the fifteen dollars per bale? | I hat is as safe a calculation as your j profits are on your next year's crop!! \\ ho is on the safe side, the cotton i farmer who has ten bales to sell at! his own price or the one who has for- ! ty bales that he is compelled to sell 1 at t'he other man's price. At many places over the south j' where farmers are the principal de- \ positors in the banks these banks are using this money to aid the farmers' movement in protecting their cotton pi ices, rhis is tne wind of coopera- 1 tion that counts for much in the interest of the whole south. About the happiest family man in i the land today is the southern cotton j fai mer wiio has some rosy cheeked j' children about his house, a few cal-j ves. pigs, poultry and colts about his' lots, with plenty of home raised food j ful" -r|11 and a few bales of cotton hold-1 ing for 15 ets which lie is sure to get. ! Hot dry weather has thrown off a I quantity of young bolls as well as!' squares lately and these cannot be j replaced hv the most favorable weat'h- ' er. You must get your minimum! price or get left. National Farmer's Union Notes. A little rambling maong the delegates at the National Farmers Union would have convinced you that there is something el^e in this Farmers Union business besides lint cotton and cotton seed. In addition to the army of cotton men there, the ho?r and corn men from Illinois, the mule and tobacco men from Tennese and Kentucky, the fruit men from California;' ami wheat men from Oklahoma, Kan- I Sjas and Washington wdre there' talking over the prices received by the consumers. The enormous profits between these, the producers of farm crops and the consumers :'f the "Same is the stnlT that the great cities, and ! towns, and railroads, and mansions, and millionaires and other bite rich things are made of, at the expense of Hie vast army of poorly paid farmers at one end and the profit paying consumers at the other end. A few extreme cases of unfair dealing along this line were related to the wrier as follows: A truck grower from t'he southern coast traced along with a car of his tomatoes to Chicago, where he saw basket of them sell to a restaurant man for about the same price he got for a whole era to. The southern t ruck grower paid ten cents to this restau-' 'ant man for five thin slices of the I same tomatoes the truck grower sold i nt about one thousand times less money. Another fruit grower in Arkansas, receiving a return for a car of fruit shipped to a northern market, stating that the fruit arrived in bad con' rlilion which brought very little above freight and commission charges; found his own car of fruit at the junction ?]' a railroad near his own home. A cotton grower shipped a far of his col I on to a commission house to sell on arrival and received a quick return of the sale at low figures on a sing market, but accidentally found .it that his cotton had not yet left is home station. Our farmers' orinidations are right in behind all icse men of graft and rake off, and ;e determined to put a stop to this ling or take hold of these affairs icaiiselves. Farming. Do you believe that the farmer is it ti 11^ his share of the profits on s products? Look al tlie difference in the way le average farmer lives and the xury the man enjoys that looks af;r the farmer. No! Labor is not too high or arcel It is your method of farming tat is to low and the lack of brains i your work?-that makes things bad. If man sweat comes too high, use ore horse sweat and improved imlements in the man's place. There is more than four times the mount of moisture and fertilizer rcuning power in land plowed twelve iches deep Mian i? iaiuj piowed only nee inches deep. 1'all plowing forwards spring work nd pul\ ci'izL's the soil while spring lowing often makes clods and is ften too wet to plow. Pile three ores of land on top of each other by lowing deep in the fall, this will ive two thirds of the man labor and ultivation of the crop. TEACHER WANTED. The patrons and trustees of the raughnsville school will meet at the raughnsville school house the first laturday in October (the 15th) at o clock p. ni. to elect a teacher for lie coming term, the teacher elected aving resigned. Salary $40 per lonth. School to run 7 or 8 months. .11 applications to be sent to the unersigned trustees. C?. A. Brooks. E. C. Salter. Henry Workman. NOTICE. All persons are herby warned not :> tresspass in any way, upon the inds of the undersigned. Stock must e kept off also. Anyone doing so will e punished to the full extent of the iw. G. P. Abrams. TATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OP NEWBERRY. By P. M. Schumpert, Esquire, Proate Jurlge. " WHERBAS, John Carlisle Longliore made suit to me, to grant him alters of Administration with the ill annexed of Hie Estate of and ffccts of Sarah A. Longshore. THESE ARE THEREFORE to cite nd admonish all and singular the indred and Creditors of the said arah A. Longshore deceased, that [icy he and appear before me. in the 'onrt of Probate, to he held a! Newerry on Monday, Mtli day of Ocr>ber next after publication thereof, t 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show ause, if any they have, why the said administration should not he granted. CiTVEN under my Hand, this 24th ay of September, Anno Domini, 1007. P. M. Schumpert, , J. P. N. C. Grocei BARLE" bagging an: Luzianne Earthenv We make the The Plat I (condensed) STATEMENT ?of? THE COMMERCIAL BANK OF NEWBERRY, S. C., under call of State Bank Examiner at close of business September 17, 1907. resources. Loans and discounts - $406,831 lfr Overdrafts 5,653 08 Furntiure and fixtures - - - - 3,116 93 Cash and sight exchange - 42,172 36 $457,773 53 liabilities. Capital Stock $ 50,000 00 I Undivided profits (less expenses paid) - 49,484 84 I Dividends (unpaid) 1,030 00 I Cashier's cnecKS - - - - - - 103 88 ! Due Banks 858 38 i Bills payable 20,000 00 ; Individual deposits 336,296 43 $457,773 53 JNO. M. KINARD, Pres. O. P. MAYER. Vlce-Pres. J. Y. McFALL. Cashier 4 Per Cent. Interest Paid in our Savings Department. Rain Coots and Cloaks! A well fitting coat gives a sense of comfort and satisfaction greater than that from any other garI ment. The styles for this season are in good variety most of them loose fitting and long. Colors jranging from light tan or mode to dark blues and black. We have found an exception to the almost I universally high prices, and we are showing great values and fine styles at even lower |prices than a year ago. Come and buy now as we have a splendid i line to choose from. jC. I 0. S. MOVER 00. IGE STOCK ry Department. V. RYE, FLOUR. D TIES, New and Second Hand. ^ Coffee, Green Coffee, vare, Churns and Jars. } prices that get the business. iaer Bros., > :e to Buy Your Groceries. *