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VOL XLVI io. NEWBERII .EI.11 AY. AUGUST 20. 1909 TWICE A FIFTEEN PROMiBITION SIX FOR DISPENSARY RESULT OF TUESDAYS LIQUOR ELECTIONS. Light Vote Was Polled Throughout the State.-No Excitement in Any of the Counties. Fifteen of the twenty-one wet coun ties of the state voted for prohibi tion in the elections held in those counties on Tuesday. six of the coun ties voting to retain the dispensaries. A light vote was polled throughout the State. and there was no excite ment in any of the counties. The line-up was as follo.ws: For Dispensary-Aiken, Beaufort, Charleston. Florence, Georgetown and Richland. For Prohibiton-Abbeville, Ba.m berg, Barnwell. Berkeley,Dalhoun , Col leton, Dorchester, Fairfield. Hampton, Kersha.w, Lee, Lexington, Orangeburg, Sumter, and Williamsburg. The votes in the various counties were as follows: Abbeville, complete. Dispensary 516. No Dispensary 749. Total vote in primary for governor 1908, 1,626. Aiken, with all accounted for ex cept 15 votes. Dispensary 1.308, No Dispensary 1,148. Total vote in pri mary for governor 1908, 3,791. Bamberg. omplete, Dispensary 162, No Dispens.&.y 663. Total vote in pri mary for governor 1908, 1,192. Barnwell. 15 out of 17, Dispensary 537. No Dispensary 806. Total vote in primary for governor, 1908, 2,187. Beaufort. complete, Dispensary 277. ~No Dispensary 239. Total vote in primary for governor, 1908, 813. Berkeley. complete. Dispensary 210. Njo Dispensary 553. Total vote in primary for governor 1908, 1.204. Callhoun, complete. Dispensary 272, No Dispensary 286. Total vote in primary for governor 1908, 797. Charleston. Dispensary 1,868, No Dispensary 341. Total vote in pri marv for governor 1908, 5,148. Colleton. 23 out of 26. Dispensary 179. No Dispensary 729. Total vote in primary for governo r 1908, 2,762. Dorchester. 13 out of 14. Dispen sary 495. No Dispensary 664. Total vote in primary for governor 1908. 1, 406. Fairfield. 12 out of 15. Dispensary 126. No Dispensary 706. Total vote ~Tn primary for governor 1908, 1,542. Florence. complete. Dispensary 883. No Dispensary 839.. Total vote in primary for governor 1908, 2,431. Georgetown. complete. Dispensary 450. No Dispensary 361. Total vote in primary for governor 1908, 1,467. Hampton. 15 out of 20, Dispensary 178. No Dispensary 594. Total vote in primary for governor 1908, 1,754. Kershaw. one small box missing, iDispensary 340. No Dispensary 674. Total vote in primary for governor 1908. 1,405. Lee, c.omplete. Dispensary 304. No Dispensary 586. Total vote in pri marv' for zovernor 1908. 1.556. Lexington. 3 boxes missing. Dis pensary' 702. -o Dispensary 1.164. Total vote in primary for governor 1908, 3.811. (Ora.ngebu rg, complete. D)ispensary 60. No Dispensary 1.520. Total vote in piimary for governor 1908. 3.422. Rich.land. complete. D)ispensa ry 856. No Dispensary 746. Total vote ini pri mary for governor 1908. 4.266. Samter. one small box missing. Dis ensary 382. No Dispensary 558. To 1a vote in primary for governor 1908. 1.980. Wiliamsb)urg, 4 out of 21. Dispen ary 199. No Dispensary 308. Total vote in primary for governor 1908, 3,239, T-hd dispensary at Abbeville having been voted out, there wiil be no whis key legally sold in South Carolina above Columbia. Abbeville having been the only upper county which had retained the dispensary up until the time of the election. Abbeville 1 ot poll nearly her full strength, .ibiton won by the decisive vof over 200 - ote in all of the counties was than in the primary last year. nseveral of the counties it was dingly light. the counties which retain the ensary, Aiken's vote fell shior: W1inni,. )y a inijority of nearly two hundred. Beaufort's vote was shurL some three Oilel- the dispensary winning by a very narrow inargin. Charleston lacked some three thous and of polling the vote which she poll ed in the primary last summer, but the dispensary won out by a majority of over five to one. In Florence the dispensary won by a very narrow inar gin, and Florence was in doubt until the complete returns were obtained, and also Georgetown, Which, however, when the final count was made, gave the dispensary a majority of nearly one hundred. In Richland the vote was only a.bout 1,600. as against about 4,200 in the primary last summer. The dispensary won out in Richland by a majority of 110. In the counties which voted out the dispensary, th~e vote was also very light. In Sumter, for instance, there were only about 900 votes as against about 2,000 in the primary last sum mer. In most of the counties which voted out the dispensaries the major ity was large. but in others it was not. In Calhoun, for instance-the baby county-prohibiton won by only 14 votes, Calhoun lacked little more than a hundred votes of polling the strength which she showed in last summer's primary. In some of the counties, including Richland, there is talk of contests. The dispensaries will remain closed until the result of the election is of ficially declared. After that- time the counties which have voted to retain the dispensaries will open them again. The counties which have voted out the dispensaries will open up to dis pose of their stock. In the counties which have voted out tihe dispensary the sale of the stock will commence immediately af ter the result of the election is offi cially declared. The sales will con tinue at retail or wholesale until No vember 15, immediately after which time the remaining goods and proper ty of the several dispensaxies shall be disposed of by bids. The act to pro vide for the closinx down of the dis pensaries voting out the same has pro visions as to 'how the bidding shall be conducted. T-he dispensaries will probably be opened within the next two weeks. The Code (Secti n 216) provides that the commissoners of election shall meet in some convenient place at the county seat o'i the Tuesday next fol lowing the ehetion, before 1 o'clock in the afterncon of that day, and shall proceed to organize as the county board of canvassers. The board is then to canvass the votes of tihe coun ty. "Thbey shall make," says the Code. "such statements of the votes of the county, as the nature of their meeting shall require. within ten days, from their first meeting as a board of county canvassers, and shall transmit to the board of State canvassers any protest and all papers relating to the election.'' The Code (Sect.ion 223) provides as follows for the meeting of the State board of canvassers: ''The seeretary of State shall ap point a mneeting of the State board of canvassers, to be held at his office or somne convenient place within ten days after such general election. for the pur pose of canvassing for all offices voted for at such election." How many of the counties will have protests to file with the board of can vassers is not known yet. It is very probable that the election will be con tested in Richland county. TRAGEDY IN AIKEN. Aiken, Aug. 18.-N. H. Hamlet, a young mani. ani operative in the Lang ey mill, was placed in the Aiken jail this morning. Hamlet shot and in stantly killed John Rhoden, another young man, with whose brother Ham let had a disturbance last night. The shooting occurred about 6 o'clock this morning in the public park at Langley. Hamlet was immediately ta ken in charge and brought to Aiken, Deputy Busbee meeting Hr. John 'lekley. in whose el:arge Hamlet was, at (Graniteville. en route to Ai Jn.James ~andl Osear Rhoden. three brothers. moved to Langley s:me years ago and kept bachelor's (piarters t.h:ere. They ar.e well known yo:ung men. having splendid reputa NEWS OF PROSPERITY. Mr. George A. Cook Elected Cotton Weigher-Personal Mention Other Matters. Prosperity. Aug. 19.-William E. Moseley. one of our most popular young men.has left for Texas to accept a position. He lea:es a large number of friends who wish him well in his new work. Mr. John Pat Wise returned on Tuesday from the University of Vir ginia. where he has been pursuing the summer law course. Oh-as. P. Barre is again in our midst. We are glad to see him agrail. Mrs. S. P. Stribling and son, f Oconee, are visiting her hister. Mrs. Geo. F. Hunter Messrs. Goggans, Fellers, Mn -gai and Wallace were in our town Moa day. On Monday evening the young set of our town enjoyed a water melon party at Miss Julia Sehumpert 's. Misses Alda Wheeler, Sudie Den nis and Julia Johnstone, who have been visiting Miss Mary Wheeler, left on Monday. Olin Bobb, of Columbia, is spend ing his vacation at home. Harvey Witherspoon, of Due West, is visiting his mother, in McNary St. Mrs. J. Malcomb Cook has been du a. visit to her sister at Due West. Miss Willie Birge is visiting rela tives near Greenville. Prof. J. E. Hunter, of the ~ St. Lukes communty, is spending a few days in Prosperity. Miss Della Bowers gave a very en joyable "At Home" Monday even ing for her charming guests, Misses Annie and Margaret Wienges. Miss Rebecca Mahon is spending a few days at Mr. A. H. Kohn's and Wise Hotel. N . Dr. Littlejohn is visiting friends in Prosperity. Harold Craig left Tuesday for Greenwood, where he will work. Jacob Harmon has gone to Kin ards for a few weeks for his health. Mrs. D. E. Ridgell, of Florida, is visiting her parents. Mr. J. Lawson Wise made a short visit to Asheville on Sunday. He re ports that Mrs. Wise is doing nicely. The second primary election for cotton weigher resulted in favor of Mr. Geo. Cook. Robert Wise and Hal Kohn made a short trip to Columbia Tuesday. Miss Gertrude Derrick and Master Pat are visiting at the Wise Hotel. Miss Erin Kohn, who ha sspent a month at Williamston. is expected tome Saturday. 'Mr. and Mrs. G. Y. Mayer have been visiting W. N. Shealey and oth er relatives near Little Mountain The oil mill has recently installed a railroad track scale. The Prosperity Stock company is also installing a pair of wagon scales. These progress ive concerns are fixing for a good business in the coming year. Quite a large crowd gathered on Main street on Saturday, and it was found that the center of attraction was two bears and a monkey. This is the first time in a good while that any of t he dan eing& bears has been seen in our town. Mrs. Grace Reams, of Spartanburg. visited her mother, Mrs. M. B. Beden bangh, last week. Dr. and Mrs G. Y. Hunter left Tuesday for Washington and other points Miss Mary Lizzie Wise has return ed from a visit to Newberry. Master Lewis Bedenbaugh visited relatives in Saluda last week. Mr. T. Long, of Newberry. was in our town Saturday. Miss Eula Jovner returned to her home in Georgia Sunday night. lea'r ing a host of friends. A Basket Picnic. A basket picnic, with hash. will be given at the home of Mr. Alex D. Hudson on Friday. August 27. under the auspices of Smyrna Farmers' Un ion. A number of speakers will ad dress the meeting. The public is cor dially invited. Barbecue a.t Bethel School House. Messrs. Johhn A. (iriaham and H. M. Wicker will give a barbecue at Pethel school house, Pomarina. on Sat urday. September 4. A first class din er will be served, and a pleasant day PLANS FOR Y. M. C. A. Outlined by Mr. McSwain.-Efforts Should Meet Encouragement of All. To the Citizens of Newberry County: At a meeting of the men of Newber ry, held in the Presbyterian church, on Sunday evening, July 25th, the matter of organizing a Young Men's Ihristian Association for Newberry county was discussed. This lead to another meeting of men in the-cham ber of commerce on the following Tuesday evening. At this meeting was Mr. Hunting ton, secretary Interstate Committee of Y. M. C. A. He talked very forcibly of the great work that is being accom plished in the communities where they have equipped associations in the way of providing homes for young men where they may have every influence that will encourage proper living and high ideals. He said that the move ment had the endorseemnt of churches and pastors and business men every where. He gave it as his opinion that there was a possibility of securing a well equipped association for New berry and that the committee did not encourage the 4organization of associa tions where they could not own their own building. A tentative organization was then proposed with a view to furthering the plan which resulted in the elec tion of a chairman and secretary and appointment of an executive commit tee somposed of Mr. A. C. Jones, Hon. Geo. S. Mower and Dr. 0. B Mayer. This committee has framed the fol lowing proposal which if accomplished will result in a permanent organiza tion: To canvass t.he county with a view to ascertaining the names of those who are interested and will join in the movement and to look out for a building and equipment. It has been suggested that the old Court House with certain alterations and improvements would be an excel lent place for the home of the asso -ciation. The changes suggested are that the present basement be fitted up with baths, that the clerk's old office be used as a reception room and gen eral office, the probate's office to be used as library, sheriff's office for a .dirs' parlor. with, suitable toilet arrangements and school superin tendent 's office to be used as reading room. The old court room to be parti tioned for gymnasium and auditorium together with three private class rooms. A third story may be added to be used as sleeping apartments by men. To make such alteration and im provements and to properly equip t.he building will require between $10,000 and $20.000. Now if this amount is raised and the building be secured for this purpose Newberry county will have an institution that will add as much to the welfare of the men and bovs of the county as anything that has been or may be done in that di rection. If~ *is plan can be carried to com pletion we will have a building that ~will be an ornament to the county, i:e members and their friends- may have the privilege of the resting rooms, the baths, gymnasium, reading *of the best literature and a place where we may' carry our mothers, wives. sisters and daughters, where they may have a private resting place when weary from travel or shopping, where everything is under trained supervision, where everything done is wit.h a view to inspiring higher ideals and correct living. We hope that every man in the county. both in the country and in the towns, will give their support in the effort to provide a place for men and boys where they may be entertained and in such a way as will develop the best that may be in them. This organization will be for New berry county and not for any partic ular section and every man and boy of the county may become members under limited restrictions. We ask your' co-operation. Call on any' member of the committee for in formation. Yours truly, I W. A. McSwain, Chairman. A woman can remember birthdays hat she conun't con.nt to save har ROMANCE 01 01 THE OLD SOLDIER'S By Col. D. While the boys were sitting around the stove in the corner grocery, talk ing of the dangers and hardships of the soldiers during the War Between the States, the old veteran on .the nail keg slowly knocked the ashes from his pipe and said: "Boys, you waste a lot of unde served sympathy upon the old sol diers. Now, they had their inning, too, they had their bright sides as well as the shadows. Did I ever tell you, boys, about our trip down the James? Or, rather, about "The seven girls that danced at the Model Farm." No? Well, I'll tell you." The old follower of Lee had gotten his pipe refilled by this time, packing the weed down in the bowl with the little finger of his left hand, and he struck a match, and began: Well, there were really eight, but Connie being a widow, she didn't count. Down the James, a mile or two below Richmond, in a little dell, sur- ] rounded by high cliffs, the promontory I of old Chimborazzo, jutting out over tlhe stream, is the little city of Rock etts. Who built it, or what it was ever built for, in that God-forsaken hole, no one ever seemed to know. At first glance it seemed a perfect human cesspool, where the offseour- 1 ing of Richmond and the coast cities 1 could collect and live. You could get anything in Rock etts, from a jack-knife, to having your throat cat, mostly the latter. There were no police regulations and robberies, sandbagging and throat cutting were of frequent occurrence. It was filled, at the time I'm telling1 you about, with sailors, river thieves,. smugglers, and blockade runners, chased up stream by the advance of Grant's gun boats. All the denizens of the underworld seemed to *seek a home there, and just such a go-lucky free and easy city was the haven of the soldier. There were dance halls, gambling hells, and gin shops, going night and day. You could get a clean, straight game .there, too, if you, set with a cocked- revolver at your right. Standing in the big bluff overlooking the little city, at night, you would think for a moment it was the red light and demimonde district of a great city, but it was not. There were some as fine girls there as ever lived. even daughters of the F. F. V., driven there by stress of circumstan ees. Oh! Rocketts was a dandy in those days for the soldier, always a frolic, afight, or just any old thing in the way of sport. But between the girls of Rocketts and those of Richmond there was a continued feud. If you went with a girl of Rocketts, the Richmond girl was sure to down you, and vice versa. Why the deadly enmity between eignuto rig mtownus 1 never understood. Roketts called Richmond "uppish,'' and Richmond retorted by calling Rocketts. "common. In the army, like in the far West, we never enquired very closely into one 's family or antecedents, so long as the party was all right at the time. And our girls of Rocketts were just splendid. After Cold Harbor, and the bloody battle from the Wilderness to the James. Kershaw's South Carolina Brigade lay for awhile just below Rocketts, and the alluring tales the privates would tell of girls. dance alls and grog were too much for the ~ young officers to stand. The privates would "run the blockade"' as slip ping through the sentinels was called, 1 nd just here the times of their lives, while the offiseers--. You know it wsn 't g od form. in fact, against rmy regulations, for otlicers to min le socially with the enlisted men, ut they did it just the same, and oe asionally an othicer would change his coat and go up and then another uil the wholegng of us begn run-. ROCKETTS TORY OF THE JAMES X. Dickert. ning the "block" to take a swing with our girls. They found out by degrees that we were officers, and they had an ambition, it seems to have a select party, and dance with their sweethearts in their true colors, in their own officer's uniforms. Womeu. the world over are as foolish about brass buttons, swords and shoulder straps, as I ever was about a drum. I never hear one to this day, with out wanting to fight something. Ker shaw had this gang of boys, like other troop in the field-and you could not aall them anything but a gang,for they, ?preed togethe*, frolicked together, and fought together, and each would ive his life for the other. After awhile it got rumored in ,amp that our girls in Rocketts were ixing up for us a "show down" at a, deserted dwelling down the river a iece, -and Capt. "Dell" was to man 1ge our end of the line, and the girls wvould take care -of the other. Dell ad a kinsman, who commanded a Jrigade of cavalry in our front, from Whom he was wont to get passes to Yo to Richmond, when it was impos 5ible -to get them elsewhere. Capt. Dell got the passes all right, but 6rhether his kinsman or his A. A. Gen ral ever saw them is another ques :ion, for sometimes I think Dell wrote them himself. But they passed the ouard marked "correct." The day was set, and the word went out to be ready and to be sure to go out two and two, so as not to excite suspicion. Each officer was to tell his next in command such yarn as would suit each case best. Now, un derstand, the girls were to look out for refreshments, dance hall, music and such, at the other end-we to pay for all, of course,-and it must be said to their credit, they did it well. Just as we were getting away, Duck legs came up and said he wanted to go, but for what, we aidn':.t know. This was some t.ime before night, mind you, because we had to 'go to Rich mond first to hire each a new uni for t for the occasion. We could .rent a uniform for $50.00 per night, $2.00 extra for a het. Some of the boys didn't want Dueldegs to gat. but go he would. Sometimes he came in handy. Now, let me tell you something about this Ducklegs. He was a tall, gangling, skinny surgeon of the -th, who, when he sat down tailor-fashion, to play cards, made it necessary to take the tent pegs up to give his legs room to erook. He never drank, never smiled, never saw the funny end of a joke, his face bearing gener ally the hard expression of a black smith shop. He would gamble with us boys, and lose his money like a prince, and I had the first time to ever see him crush a card, tear up a deck, or eurse the run of hard luck. Never. Well, Duck went, and it was a bless ing to the boys that he did. He al ways had plenty of money, and would lend it, spend it, or even lose it, with equal indifference. He was a good doctor, though. We all went to Richmond and got our rented uniforms and hats. I re member mine well, a broad-brimmed black felt, one side tucked up with a silver star, a great ostrich plume, as arge as your arm, trail.ing out be eind. It was no use for Duck to get i, new uniform, for being a surgeon, 2e kept his nice. But he must have i. new one, and no one objected. 'Hot Spur," our big fighting lieu :enant. spoke of us getting "boiled shirts" to put on, but, gracioirs! :he bovs kicked over the traces at hat. "What in the world do you want vith a white shirt ?" some one asked, 'with your coat buttoned to your thin.'' "It would give me confidence to :now it was there," said "Hot Of course, they had worn their dira