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E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Entered at the Postoffice at New terry, S. C., as 2nd class matter. Friday, January 22, 1909. Newberry will continue to hold the chief justiceship of the supreme court, Associate Justice Jones, who was yes terday elected to succeed Chief Jus tice Pope, being a Newberry man. Pre-ident Wright has called a meet ing of t'h. chamber :of commeree in the interest of good roads. Hiss call appears in another column. There is no more importarA question whieh copld engage the attention of the chamber of commerce. and everv member who can do so ought to at tend the meetinz:. -COMPULSORY EDUCATION. Senator Tillman says that he was misquoted in his remarks as to com pulsory education and the education of the negro, saying now that he is "not opposed to negro education, provided it is of the right kind.'" The senator, however, goes on to say: "We have disfranchised every nep ro we could under the 15th amend ment, and the only instrumentality available now to require an educa tional qualification. There is now an agitation in South Carolina for com pulsory education. That would mean a heavy burden to provide more schools, whieh the white tax payers would have to bear if there was no discrim ination against the negro on account of race or color. Henee we would present the spectacle of educating the negro at a very heavy expense to hur ry forward the contest for supre macy between the two races as soon as we should have given them the nee essary qualifications to vote.'" The trouble with Senator Tillman's argument is that it entirely overlooks . the fact that the negroes are today se curing all the education they can ob tain, while many white children awre being kept from school. In Newber ry county, for instance, there are twice as -many negro children at school as whites. South Carolina needs a compulsory education law, * and it is coming, and the sooner the better. NEWS OF PROSPERITY. .Lee's Birthday Observed-Sad Fun eral of Mr. John Hawkins Street Improvement. Prosperity, Jan. 21.-Miss May Lee Dominiek, of Bishopville, is visiting 'the Misses Harmon. - -Mr. Jas. D. Quattlebaum has gone to St. Louis to purchase stock. Mr. James Horne, of Ninety Six, visted in the city this week. Mr. L. I. Feagle, superisor-elect, was in town Wednesday. Mr-. John Richardson, who has been ~residing in the suburbs for several years, has moved to the St. Paul's section. .At the St. Luke's parsonage on -Sunday, Mr. A. C. Hunter and Miss Leonora Boozer were united in holy wedlock, by the Rev. S. P. Koon. The Lee Memorial exercises on Tuesday evening were highly edify ing. Rev. Mr. Harms gave a most thoughtful address in his usual hap py manner. Miss May Lee Barre has gone for an extended visit to her sister in Greenwood. Mrs. C. G. Barrie~r has returned from a vist to Little Mountain. Mrs. M. C. Morris is with her mother in Lykesland, Dr. Perry Simpson has returned to his old home to accept the position of pharmacist at the New Drug Store. Mr. Jno. Hunter and Mrs. L. A. Sease and children, after spending the holidays with relatives at St. Luke's and Prosperity, returned to Clemson college Sunday. Mrs. L. C. Merchant visited Mr. Andrew Miller's family a-t Mt. Pil grim last week. Mrs. Godf[rey Harmon is spending a while in Columbia with Hon. God Irev LiaT:ion. Mr-s. :Gnev Shealy has returned from a -a in Pomaria. TrCe wvill be a public missionary meeting~ at (Orar- cho-.h on Sunday eeig. There '; ll be aspe'cial sr vice by the children in addition to the usual exercises. The teaethers' mneting held here Saturday morning wasi a success. The trustees all over the county had been urged to attend. There was a very flattering number of them present and moewh intere.st was maaifested by a.ll par1ties. "'hc disenu.rs by P:of. e,iyie as Ilto w-'?e the talks by ProI. T' ri. k an.i Mr. Holloway. Miss - osi:e Fulmer, who was the guest I Mr.,. Bare has returnedi 'home. Auitow ('romer was on our streets Wednesday. Alderman J. R. Green, of Newber ry, was in town Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Moseley have gone to Savannah to spend several months. Mr. and Mrs. John Jo-hnson have returned to NeWiian. (Ta.. their for nier loie. For inore than a year they have been with Mrs. Elvira. Kib ICr. 'We arC SOrrY to lose them. Mr. D. Effingham Ridgll was in the city this week. Mr. and Mrs. Elmore, who have been visiting Mr. E. B. Kibler's fam ily, have returned to thei-r home near Whitmire. Mrs. J. . Wheel-,r 'has returned to Colunbia. Dr. 0. B. Mayer was in town re cently. We are happy to say that our street is beinw rolled now. It will be fin Ished shortly and w.ll add much to 1he trin uppearance of Main .. While the maeadam is an addition to the public place, the street fair that now adorns(?) it is anything but an attraction. In fact, it is a menaee to the community in general. There is nothing elevating about this earni val. The gambling machines on all sides are strictly against State and municipal laws, and the other conces sions are not far removed in their evil effects upon our youths. Miss Julia Mat-thews ran down from Ninety Six Monday night to see Miss Bobb, who is still very ill. Mr. John Hawkins, whose sad death occurred in Columbia on Sunday, was a man of sensitive tenperment, high intellectual gifts, and kindly disposi tion. As a writer he commanded at tention and received large returns for his literary productions. But preemin ently he was a botauist-a. South Carolina. and particularly a Newberry county Agassiz. It was our god for tune once to leaf through a volume of several thousand pages containing ink sketehes-natural size--wit1 the bo'a nical and every-day names'and ae curae descriptions, ->f every flower, herb, plant and weed native to this county's soil. This is in manuseript, and neatly bound by hand. Mr. Haw kins loved children an flov:ers. and the fact that his grave was complete ly hidden by his favorite flower, the violet, was very comforting to those who knew him best.' His body was brought from Columbia on the even ing train Monday, ed taken to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hunter, with whom he has lived for the last five years.- By request of these life long friends his body reposed there until Tuesday morning. The inter ment was in the St. Luke's cemetery, where he had expressed a desire to be buried-and a very natural wish it was as the greater and happier por tion of !his life had been spent in that community. To his comrade, Mr. Thompson Hunter, he left his invalu able botany. Mr. Hawkins is surviv ed by one brother, Mr. Charley Haw gins, and four siste:, Mrs. IEanuner, of Spa.rtanburg; Mrs. Graham, of Lexington: Mrs. Holman, of Orange burg, and another sister of Norfolk, Va. Mrs. Kanunrer and M'-s. Graham, and his niece, Mrs. Karl F. Oswalt, came over to attend the funeral. A "SUNSHINE" CHRISTMAS. Miss Shelor Receives a Typewriter to Help in Her Work. This very pretty surprise Christ mas letter accompanied the check for a "Sunshine Typewriter" to help on the good work in South Carolina: "Miss Shelor, our loved leader Coming of that grand old common wealth, made illustrious in Washing ton, Jefferson, and Lee; fair daugh ter of a proud State that cherishes in not less 'love and pride nam'es of her Calhoun, Rutledge, and Hampton, you have kept well your heritage. "Proudly patrioitic, ever striving toward uplift and improvemen-t in your native S,tate, you have~ lived zealously for the common good, win ning golden sheaves of unbounded love as you have worked, against many disco.uragements to plant the sunshine spirit large over hearts and honies of fair Carolina. "Much vou have accomplished. much remains to be done. The future b)eckons with fair' hand of p)romnise. For and in the name of a royal band of true Sunshiners. I now hand von this little check. May it be as a star in the nig'ht ! May it gratify. in some part a long cherished wish, and send rays of brigthtest sunshine far and broad out into the byways and hedges of our beloved S,tate. "G0. Carter Riser.'" "Christmas, 1908.'" The following Sunshiners in New berry, Laurens, Spartanburg, Green ville, Abbeville, and Anderson coun ties donated to the fund: Governor M. F'. Ansel. Fred Me Kittriek. l)r E. W. Pinson. W. T. Aust in. Hon. Wyvat t Aiken. D)r. Ge~o. B. %iromer, Hlon. Alan Johnstone. Mrs. P.* H. Meli. Robt. W. Davis. Mrs. M. L. Prinee, Col. W. H. Hunt. Hon. J. J. McSwain, Mrs. W. E. Owens, Mrs T. XV Ceman, Mrs. M. L. Crisp, Hon. ieorge Johnstone, R. Z. Wight, L. A. James, Dr. W. P. Tur ner, Hon. Joe Johnsiton, Mrs. J. W. Smith, Rev. and Mrs. D. P. Boyd, Cannon G. Blease, Sheriff M. M. Bu ford, R. Y. Leavell, Mrs. Jas. C. Dun enn, 0. Carter Rliser. D)r. J. H1. Mil ler. Mrs. J. T. W. Flint. Mrs. W. P. Reid. mrs. J. ii. Teaune. and Mr . .1. H1. White. The State mrganlizer, . Sli e S1el. has not words to express her thanks, and appreciation of the splendid gift and kind interest and sympathy of these good friends She is inspired to yet greater efforts by the finE words of encouragme!t and gifts al Chiristinas time, and begs the coopera tion of the whole people in her work A wonderful work has begun i South Carolina. The organizeri fondest hopes are for compulsor. edneation and a home schol for (Ie fe -t ive chihdlrc') in tle n1t distant In 1uI. She pledgc heri best Iefforq. a1n1 in tiis work sh needs your sym pathy, your prayers, and your ioneyx Lend her a hand. Laurens and Greenville paper please copy. THE SEABOARD AIR LINE. Rumored That Harriman Came Sout] With View of betting Control Of Line. A Washington dispatch to the Cc lumbia State under date of Monda; says: It is being breathed about here tc day that the trip of Mr. E. H. Harri man, America's Napoleon of tram portation, to the South at this tim has to do with his efforts to get poc session of the Seaboard Air Line. Mr. Harriman was in Washingto: yesterday, spending several minute to hours here, closeted in his rooT at the hotel. Then as mysteriousl he departed and report comes fror Augusta. this afternoon that he is es pected there. Mr. Harriman is a mys terious man at tim-es. The last time he was in Washing ton he told me he came to show hi 10-year-old boy, Rolaid, the city, an that Roland was especially interestei in the animal heads on the walls o the president's private apartment a the White House. That was jus prior ,o Roland's father's dramati initiation into the Anania; club, an< this time Roland did not take a lool at the fascinating animal heads. Mi Harriman now owns in hes own nam a little over $154,000.000 worth o stock in the big railroads of thi country, nearly 10 t.imes as much a any other man and this does not in elude holdings in numerous subsidiar; railroads. He does not come t Washington for nothing, and he doe noe go South for his health. He con~ trols the Illinois Central railroad i, the Middle West. The Illinois Central's chief com petitor is the Louisville & Nashvilk which is ma.gged by the same grou1 as t.he Atlantic Coast Line. It wonh be an advantage for the Illinois Cen tral to hav'e in the Southeast the Sea board Air Line. which is the chie competitor of the Atlantic Coas Line. The Seaboard is now in th hands of receivers, but the recen statement of its earnings give the im pression that it is not in such poo condition as has been reported. It! stock has recently had a slight rise ii consequence. Church Notice. There will be communion service! at Beth Eden Evangeletical Luth'reral careh on next Sunday at 11 o 'clock Rev. Gilbert P. Voigt is expected t< preach sermon. The public invited. BEFORE :having your clothes clean ed or pressed it will pay you ti see Satterwhite & Baxter, City Pressing Club, Over Herald & News office. Phone 117 '. 8t ADMINISTRATION NOTICE. All persons holding claims again~ the estate of U. P. Stuck, decseased will present the same, duly attested na~ all persons indebted to said estatt will make immediate payment. to En geneC S. Blease, attorney for the unz dersgned. Willie E. Stuelk, Qualified Administratrix. Jan. '.1, 1909. SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY As the executors of the last will and testament of the late S. J. Kin' ard. deceased, we will sell at the home place on the 11th day of February, 1909. the personal property of whiel4 the said S. J. Kinard died, seized, and possessed, consisting of household and kitchen furniture, one horse. one mule cli,t onie shoat, one cow. cor*n. fodder, and tfarmingt implements. l~ e to benin a; eleven e'loctk. Terms cash. J1. C. C. Kinard. An aie E. Kinard, Executors. c r, C+ KD C H(DC reeCDs 0 ~OC) NI,, I'Ma Opera ThursdaU, Jh B.C. WF First PRESEN Tm BIG MUSIC Time i in the Sunny South The Wit of the Town I oi The Belles of the Town The Airs of Book. by Rogert the Town and Music by Ra HEADED BY THE INIMIT) Frank Desho B. C. Whitney's h ORIGINAL CON 1000 Laughs, 10 Chorus Surprises, I ular Sensations: THE SEE-S THE GIANT FAILIN Reserved Seats $1.50. 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