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VOL XLIV NO 92. NEWBERRY, S. C., TUESDAY' OC'OBER 15. 1907. TWICE A WEEK. $1.50 A DECISIVE STEPS TO END STRIKE PRESIDENT SMALL SAYS ALL EFFORTS HAVE FAILED. Treasury Depleted and no More Funds Available-Strike With out President's Sanction. New York, Oct. 12.-Following a visit to this city of Labor Commis sioner Neill, President Small of the Telegraphers' union this afternoon took decisive steps to close the tele graphers' strike. He sent# the fol lowing telegram to all of the lead ing cities of the country: "New York, Oct. 12, 1907. "Prominent New Yorkers appeal ed to me to call the strike off. All efforts at negotiation are exhausted and the companies' officials say they will fight to a finish. The treasury is deplated and no more funds are available. Requests (or relief from all sides are heavy and urgent. The general assembly can not meet them. The strike having been ordered with out the president's saction, I recom mend that locals vote on the proposi tion. STRTKE FUND EXHAUSTED; BUT MEN REMAIN FIEM. New York, Oct. 13.-President S. J. Small - appears confident today that the strike was at an end and hopeful that his men would be reiD stated. "The strike will be called off to morieow and the men will be back to work." he said. "Will you give a word of advice to the men as to whether they should vote to call it off and seek reinstate ment?" he was asked. -"I will cover that point at the meeting today with the men in New York." he replied. "The object in sending out my statement to the men yesterday was to put the question right up to them. Our resdurces are exhausted and if they want to continue the fight they will have to furnish the funds." "Percy Thomas says you have $15, 000 in the treasury," was suggested. "In whose treasury?" asked Mr. Small. "We have $15,00, but not for strike uses. That is a mutual bene fit' fund for insurance. If we have money why couldn't we pay off here yesterday? But there is always talk of this kind at the end of every kind of strike. I have been through about five runiors of this kind since the str-ike began in San Francisco and it does not bother me any more. If Mr. Thomas wants to fight the call ing off the strike lot him do so. I am going to that meeting today with brass knuckles. Generally labor leaders advise each other to disre gard the sufferings of their men when a strike is on, but I will not do that to the very last ditch. We might hold out a couple of weeks longer on nothing but encouraging talk, but the result would only be that the men of the weaker characters would be slowly returning to work while the stronger men would hold out and suf fer the most just because they were the most staunch. There would not be any tmnion left." "What if the locals decline to call it off?" he was asked. "Well, there will be nothing to do but keep up the fight as long as they can, but it will be up to them to provide funds. The strike was irre gular from the beginning." "Then the strike is hopeless and it might as well be abandoned?" "That is it," replied Mr. Small. New Yorkers Hold Out. Notwithstanding President Small's opinion that the strike is hopeless, the telegrapher's union, at the meet ing today, voted unanimously to con tinue the strike against the Western Union and Postal Telegraph com panies. The vote was taken upon the sug gestion of President Small, who, in messages to subordinate officers yes terday recommended ~that locals in visability of the men returning to work. The meeting was characterized by bitter exchanges between President Small and other speakers. The lat ter charged the national lEader with inconsistency in first claiming that the strike would be successfully fin anced and yesterday admitting that the general assembly was without funds. and with having conducted the fight in 4 half-hearted, dilatory way. Small tried to explain his posi tion, but was. frequently interrupt ed by hisses. When he suddenly left the hall in the midst of the speechmaking cries of "resign" followed him. Tonight Small issued a statement in which he said %he was willing to continue the strike if the men insisted. Small Suspended. Chicago, Oct. 13.--The following message was sent to President -Small by the executive dommittee tonight: "Under article 15, section 7, of the constitution of the Commercial Telegraphers' union of America, you are hereby suspended from the office of president, to take effect immed iately. (Signed) "S. J. Konenkamp, Acting Chair man.'' A comfortable thing about being rich is you only get fined when you I ought to be put in jail. Death of Mrs. Adam AuL. Mrs. Adam L. Aull, of Pomaria section, who has been q2uite sick for many months died on Saturday. She was Miss Lillie Kibler beforel her marriage and she and Mr. Aull were married in 1872 when both were quite young, in fact while they were still under twenty. Their married life has been a re markably happy one and to them were born twelve children all of whom are Riving. For thirty five years they joirneyed down life's path together without a vacant chair in the family circle and now the wife and mother is the first to go. She was a good woman and much beloved by all who knew, and bore her suf ferings with Christian fortitude. Her burial was at St. Paul's on Sunday and the esteem in which she was held was manifest in the large number who came to pay' their last sad respect to her memory and the large collection of lovely floweirs which covered the casket which held her mortal remains. To the husband we extend our sympathy for we know he shall miss her, and also to the children for she was a fond and affectionate moth er. The funeral services were conduct ed by the Rev. J. A. Sligh, for many years her pastor. A woman never feels entirely re spectable unless something she wears is done in hand-sti'tching. At Pulaski Lodge. There is much life manifest in Pulaski Lodge, I. 0. 0. F. New mem bers are ipplying for admission at every meeting and there is work all the time. Mr. J. 'W1. M.aha.n, a traveling salesman from Texas, was in the city last Friday night and being a good Odd Fellow attended the meeting and talked to the members. He will be in Newberry on Friday night of this week and has promised to at tend and make an address on Practi al Odd Fellowship. Noble Grand W. G. Peterson, very much desires that there shall be a full attendance at the meeting on Friday evening and as there is work to do the meet ing will open promptly at 7.30 o'clock. Those who have met Mr. Mahan say the boys may expect a fine talk on Friday evening and they will not be disappointed. Either a girl is heartbroken be ause she' can't marry a man or be eause she does. A man is apt to get his back up when his we calls hm down. COMMITTEES APPOINTED. Entertainment at Central Methodist Church in December-Commit tee to Meet Thursday. The following committees have been appointed to serve at the enter-] tainment to be given by the ladies of Central Methodist Church in Decem ber. All are .requested to meet in the Sunday School of Central Church Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Mrs. R. D. Wright, Chairman. Fanev Work Booth-Mrs. Gaillard, Miss Lois Fant, Mrs. John Chap man, Miss Euenia Epps. Miss Bes sie McGraw. Mrs. Alice Porter, Mrs. Merchant. Miss Alice Hornsby. Mrs. F. M. Schumpert. Apron Booth-Mrs. Burr Martin, Mrs. S, J. Wooten, Mrs. Geo. John stone, Mrs, T. G. Williams, Mrs. Golden, Mrs. James Nard, Mrs. Jack Henderson, Mrs. E. M. Evane,~ Miss Dessie Shackleford, Mrs. Virginia Perry. Candy Booth-Mrs. Geo. Eppa, An nie Taylor, Maggie Thomason, Car rie Bell West, Sue Porter, Minnie Havird, IMoride Lominick, Kate Adams, Genie Wicker, Verna Lane, Irene Greer, Wee3a Summer. Doll Booth--Mrs. Will White, Ola West, Rebecca Wicker, Lucile West, Earnestine Wicker, Tilla West, An nie Laurie Franklin, Sara White, Katie Franklin, Georgia Porter, Louise Taylor, Margaret Davis, Lu cile Grier, Mary Frances Cannon, Aline Best, Janie Thomason, Lizzie Tarrant, Annie Jones, Laura Connor, Alice West, Mrs. James Sample, Mrs. Lawrence Wicker. Larkin Booth-Miss Sara Robin son, Mrs. C. H. 0annon, Mrs. John Wicker, Miss Maud Fant, Miss Nash. Miss Flourney, Miss Edith Henderson. Soliciting Committee-Mrs. W. W. Hornsby. Miss Edith Henderson, Mrs. Gaillard, Miss Lucy Epps. . Dish and Table Committee-Mrs. R. C. Williams, Mrs. Kate B;oozer,. Mrs. Alma Taylor, Mrs. C. M. West, Mrs. Campbell Havird, Mrs. S. G. Welch. Mrs. H. H. Franklin, Mrs. G. B. Summer, Mrs. Dominick. Hall tGommittee--(Place, stove, lights and booths) Mrs. J. W, White, Mrs. C. L. Blease, Miss Annie Ruff, Mrs. C. H. Cannoui, Mrs. Frank Bax ter, Mrs. Lominick. Waitresses--Table 1. Mrs~ Julius Eison, Vanessa Williams, Ida Ept ing. Table 2. Mrs. Cannon Blease, Miss Bell Epting, Miss Bessie Booz er. Table 3. Miss Lizzie .Salter, Miss Lucy Epps, Miss Mamie Salter. Ta ble 4. Miss Lola Lake, Miss Ida Langford, Miss,Agnes Chapman. Ta ble 5. Mrs. J. P. Neel, Miss Jessie Hornsby, Miss Mattie Adams. Table 6. Mrs. R. L. .Tarrant, Mrs. J, W. Reeder, Miss Julia Wicker. 1 Meat Table-Mrs. J. K. Gilder, Mrs. H. A. C. Robinson, Mrs. Carrie Greneker, Mrs. S. L. Garlington. Salad Table-Mrs. James Dunbar, Mrs. Tom Harrell, Mrs. W. T. Tar rant, Mrs. Tom Wicker, Mrs. Rus sell, Mrs. Sarah Lane. Bread Rable-Mrs. Y. J. Pope, Mrs. Fannie Fant, Mrs. John Adams, Mrs. Wallace, Mrs. Thomason. Cake Table-Mrs. W. W. Hornsby, Mrs. Lilla Eddy, Miss Daisy Can non, Mrs. Qonnor, Mrs. Henry ~Boozer. Ice Cream Table-Mrs. W. F. Wight, Mrs. Walton, Mrs. M. F. Bynum,. Mrs. Boyd Epting, Mrs. T. M. Rodgers, Mrs. Willie Ruff, Mrs. Humbert. Coffee-Mrs. Colin 'Cook, Mrs. C. W. Bishop, Mrs. Lizzie Blease, Mrs. Reese, Mrs. Lou Mayer. Oysters-Mrs. James Epting, Mrs. Ernest Schumpert, Mrs. J. D. S. Livingstone, Mrs. Emma Lake. 10,000!1 Agents wanted at once, previous experience is 'no3t essential, territory is going fast, write soon if you wish to make money faster than you ever did before. Whit today. Address J F. Clark, Conway, Ark. When a woman pauses to reflect it is usualy in front of a mirror. LOCATE IN SOUTH CAROLINA. [ A One Million Dollar Concern Wants I to Come to South Carolina-Pay Roll $25,000 a Week. It is stated in the Greenville Pied mont of a few days ago that Lowe s and Company, of New York. city, a I firm composed of three business men, t who are owners of a large mill, shirt s factory and laundry, contemplate I moving their plant to some point-in South Carolina. It is further stated that the -enterprise represents an 1 outlay of one million dollars and works three thousand operatives, fif teen hundred of whom are skilled workmen, who will be brought from I the north. It is further stated that I all of the operatives earn from eight dellars per week up. The pay will ( amount to about $23,000 a week. T-he secretary of the Greenville board of trade has received inquiry in regard to Greenville as a suitabla location for this enterprise, but that 1 is ude reason why the secretary of the < Chamber of Commerce of Newberry, or soneone connected with that or ganization, might not get in com munication with this firm and show to them the advantages of Newber- I ry, as -a suitable place for the loca tion for their enterprise. That much money invested in any community, and especially the large t pay roll, which it represents, would be worth the while of securing it. Even if we do not secure it the effort f to secure it would be worth all that it cost to the community. It would advise these men, and probably oth ers, that Newberry is on the map of South Carolina, and has at least a few enterprising and progressive citizens, who are looking after the I interests of the community. You could keep -men away from the race track if you ealled it a Sunday School. A famous man is one who is known by more people than he knows. ABOUT REVENUE <0MBINE. Commissioner Capers Taks About s the Raors-President Has not Yet Acted. Washington cor. The State..a Washington, Oct. ll.--Georgia is likely to be added to the revenue di vision of North and South Carolina. The headquarters may be at Greens-r boro. J. G. Capers was asked today by the correspondent of the State if Columbia would not be the more een-t tral location for the headquarters of the combined three states. He repli- I ed that since Georgia is to be a pro-I hibition state and South Carolina al most orie Greensboro would still be the center of the'li~quor business and 1j that there would be nlo reason fori moving the headquarters to Colum- I bia 'if the consolidation should be made. I is not a settled fact that this ] consolidation will be made. It can be done only by order of the presi dent and the matter has not been1 placed before that official. It is an idea of Capt. Capers, who says that prohibition in Georgia will prevent a sufficient amount of returns from the liquor licenses to renumerate the revenue agent. To put Georgia into~ the North and f South Carolina division would make ( one good fat place for one man, in spite of prohibition and the Carey Cothran law. He also wants to de- r tach Oldahoma from Kansas and'r put it into the same division with Ii Arkansas. Kansas is dry and Okla hotna will be when it becomes a; state. It would not do, he thinks, to have two prohibition states togeth-' er as there is not enough money to support the offices. Zach McGhee. i Some people not only give his Sat anic majesty his due, but pay him injC advance. Unless a man has sense in his head it is difficult to keep dollars in his THE NEWS or POMARA. )eath of Mrs. Adam Aii-Bethel Academy Open-Heavy Frost and Ice. Pomaria, October 14.-The Bethel chool opened yesterday with Miss lelen Knight, of Honea Path, as eacher. She is a graduate of Lime tone college, and not Converse col ege as was stated in this borrespond dice last week. On Friday night the ladies gave a anquet to the Pomaria Camp of the ffoodmen of the World. An elabor Lte menu had been prepared, and the iffair is spoken of by all who were >resent as a most delightful one. A iumber of very happy speeches were& nade by different members of the "amp. The community was saddened on ast Saturday evening by the death )f Mrs. Adam Aull, who had been ick for a about a year. Besides her )ereaved husband, she leaves twelve b,ildran and numerous other rela ives and friends to mourn her death. rhe interment took place Sunday af ;ernoon at St. Paul's church, where ier pastor, the Rev. J. A. Sligh, >reached the funeral sermon to a mmense congregation of sympathiz ng friends and relatives. There was a large frost in Pom'aria his morning, and in some places ice klso was seen. Vegetation - has loubtless been injured considerably, specially in the low places. While iot a great deal of the cotton has eeu killed, its maturing has been rery much retarded. The fact that t was not killed outright, however, 6ill doubtless be a good excuse with he bears for further lowering the )rice. S. It's easier 4o lead a man to drink han it is to drive him the other way. News from Excelsior. Excelsior, Oct. 14.-The weather as been cool and b:cing for sev ral days. Our school will reopen soon. Let ill the children be ready and on Land at the opening of school. Miss Louise Singley is attending chool at Prosperity. -Mrs. J. D. Stone has been on the ick list for the past week. Mrs. Berry Livingston and: chil Lren have been spending several days vith relatives at Newberry. There will be communion service Lt Mt. Pilgrim church next Sunday norning by the pastor the Rev. .S. P. oon. There is a good deal of cotton in he fields to pick yet. This is a busy eason of year for the farmer as oat owing and corn gathering tiinie is iere too. Mrs. J. C. Singley and children iave been visiting relatives at Spring lu11. Miss Mamie Oounts has reopiened ier school in the New Hope.ssection. Miss Cleand Hayes of near New >ery spent Saturday nigbt with (isses Alder Ray and Minnie Wheel Our Sabbath school is moving on lieely with about fifty-five pupils. We expect to have an organ soon chich will add much to the singing nd worship in general. Prof. R. C. Counts and family and Kr. J. A. Counts and family, of ~rosperity spent Sunday with their ather 's family donw here, Mr. A. M. Tunts. The farmers association will meet Lt ihe school house next Friday iight, 18th, at 7.30 o'clock. Let each nember be on hand at this meeting f possible. Sigma. A woman is never satisfied unless he has something. to worry about. When a girl won't flirt with a man t is a sign he is her brother. The faster way for a woman to put >n weight is to sit in her husband's Love at first sight is easy but few >eople can stand the test of a long bawn out acquaintance. Ansel and His Work. 6Tews and Curier. "If Governor Ansel desires to suc ,eed himself, he can do so without a loubt, and he would then receive any increase (in salary provided by the legislature,) but if he prefers to heed the request of some of his friends there 'Will be plenty of candidates for governor, even with the salary at $3,000 as at present." The quotation is from Mr. Hoyt's Columbia letter printed in the News and Courier yesterday. An excellent compliment to gover nor Ansel that friends urge him to be a candidate for the United States Senate; but the work of Governor Ansel in his present office is not yet done and will not be done in another year. Governor Ansel's election was a vindication of the local option prin 0iple and that principle is now threatened. "I am in favor of Local County Option, betwen County Pro hibition and county dikpensaies." So reads the platform on which he went into office and holds the office now; and "let each county say for it self whether it desires that liquor shall be sold in that county, or that it shall not be sold, therein," it con tinues. At the moment Prohibition leaders are forming in column to press for state prohibtion, the de struction of the local county option principle, the overriding of the wish es of the people of Bamberg, Aiken, Charleston, I)eaufort, Barnwell and other counties that voted for Ansel and which look to him for leader ship in resisting the new assault that menaces them. In his message -to the General As sembly Governor Ansel is - expected to speak plainly and strongly, advis ing that the existing local -option plan be- given a fair trial, urgg that another period of upheaval be not forced upon the state, that there be no early renewal of the whiskey pandemonium in South Carplina. For the Governor to retire now would be to retire under fire, abandoning his principles' diseredited to the enemy. Local option is one thing, state pro hibition is another and the two are no more reconcilable than are prohi bition and high license. If the Gen eral Assembly should enat a prohi. bition law, it would be repudiation and defeat for the Ansel plan; if it do not enact it, the struggle will go on and .Govern.or Ansel must stand to his guns in the next campaign. rnm such circumstances to whom and up on what could he appeal-for election to any other office than that of gov ernor, having served a single term of two years? There. are times when the acceptance of a seeond term is not so much pleasure as it is a duty. This is one of them. Let us then hear no more of . tha governor as a candidate for the sen ate. However -intended, it is =rnot helpful to his usefulness or his repu tation. No necessity and no excuse offer for a furious, disturbing and upsetting campaign for governor in 1908. We do not believe for a mom ent that Governor Ansel would bring it on. His administration so far has been wise and beneficial. We may 'not approve his every individual act or policy, some, indeed, we cannot commend, but ~the people are satis led that a firm hand is at the helm and that a prudent, honest and dis interested man is in the executive of fee, determined to do his )Auty. A change next year would hurry the state upon ebnfusion and political disorder. Uncommon moral courage is dis played by the governor in declaring that the gubernatorial salary should be increased. The truth of what he says every informed man knows, but many a governor would fear to give it utterance. With a salary of $3, 000, a poor inan with a family is de barred from accepting the office of governor of South Carolina, unless he be willing to choose between nig gardly living or bankruptcy. Hustle for what you can get and. don't worry, about what you can't have. There is more or less charity in the hat of every man-usually less.