The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, November 26, 1909, Image 1
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L RLV.~NEl BERI Y S. C. FRIDAY NOVEMBTR 261909T
Enthusiam Incre
Herald a)
Fourteen Contestants, Wh
f ork-Others Will Be
test In Which Everyt
In The Herald and News contest
the result at 4 o'cloek Wednesday
afternoon was as follows:
Annie Laurie Lominack.. ....3,595
Oscar Summer.. ..........2,722
Barney Burr Leitzsey Jr... ...2,250
Jas. Harry Summer.. .. .. ..1,206
Clyde Ward.. ............1,105
Geo. A. Wright, Jr... .... ..604
J. E. Norwood, Jr... 5......
Sue Ella Peterson....... ....204
Hey ward' B Ewart. ..... . 117
Jim Tom Miller.. ..........102
Clara No.vice Brown.:'.... 100
Mahon Smith.. .......... 100
Spencer Wolling.. .. ...100
Pearl Davis............ . ..100
Interest in The Herald an)d News
eontest has grown steadily and rap
idly since the contest was announced.
The friends of the contestants have
been at work, and fine' gains have
geen made daily. At four o 'clock- on
Wednesday afternoon there were
fourteen contestants, and at that
hour Annie Laurie Lominack was
leading, with 3,595 votes. Oscar
Summer was second, with 2,722 votes
and "Barney Burr Leitzsey, Jr., was
third, witi 2,250 votes.
. It was announced in the last is
vue of The Herald and News that the
votes would be counted op Wednes
day.afternoon of eadh week at 6
o'clock, and the results published in
FTiday's issue. The votes were
counted two hours earlier on Wed
nesday afternoon for the reason that
The Herald anid News went to press
on Wednesday night instead of
Thursday night, in order to give the
staff an opportunity, to observe
Thanksgiving day.
Hereafter, as previously annoua
eed, the count will be made at six
o'clock each Wednesday afternoon,
and the result published in Friday's
issue of eaeh week.
Some of the contestants want the
Browniekar and some of them -ant
the $150.00 in gold. The winner of
the first prize has the choice of ei
ther. The Browniekar sells for
$175.QO5,but if the winner of the first
prize would rather have $130.00 in
gold, he or she has the option, and
may take either.
The second prize is a idiamond ring,
wh'ieh is on exhibition in the window
of Daniels and Williamson's jewel
ry store.
The third prize is a gold watch
which is also on exhibition ',the
window of Daniels and Will.anson 's
jewelry store.
The fourth prize is a gold headed
umbrella, which is on exhibition in
the window of Mayes' Book Storer
The fiftih prize is a $10.00 overcoat
DAVD A. DE ARIONII'
DIES HERO'S DEATH
DEMOCRATIC LEADER PERISH
E,IN FIRE.
Goes tio Dreadful End with Boy in
His Arms.-Veteranl of the
Lower House...
-Kansas City, Nov. 23.-In a vain
effort to save the life ofi his little
randson, .Congressman David A. De
Armond of the Sixth Missouri dis
trict perished in a fire that destroyed
his home in Butler, Mo., early to-day.
His act of heroism became known
late this afternoon when . his body
was found, his arms locked around
the blackened and burned body of the
.little son. He -had caught up the 6
v ear-old lad, David .A. (Waddie) De
Armond, Jr., and rushed with him
-through the flames that filled is
room. He fell with his unconscious
b urdeni and hoth sank through tihe
floor to death.
What makes the tragedy unusually
r pathetic is the fact that the boy was
his grandfather's idol. *The two were
inseparable and often slept together.
Last night the boy went to his grand
fater house as usual and after a
ases IL
7d News Contest.
Dse Friends Are Actively At
In The Running-A Con=
ody Wins Something.
or cloak, to be selected by bhe win- j
ner.
Go and see the- prizes. They are
beauties. You can 't see the Brownie- It
kar, because it hasn't been brought a
to Newberry yet, but it will be here
if the winner of the first prize se- I
leets it instead of the $150.00 in I
gold. The $150.00 in gold, if the.
winner should select that, will be on 1
deposit in The Newberry Savings 1
~Bank, to-the !edit :of,bbe winner, to
be -rtfiled to lby the contest iman- 'S
The contest manager, Mr. James L. t
Aull, has had his hands full during I
fhe past few days keeping -tab on e
the votes and giving instructions to a
the contestants and their friends. He a
may be found at The Herald and
News office at any time, and will *
give Any information in reference to *
the contest which may be desired. *
The interest grows every day. The *
votes increase every iday. It is the *
greatest contest ever inaugurated in
Newberry. The winners will not only 1
receive handsome prizes, but they T
will be signally honored in winning. I
Nobody loses, because a commis- v
sion of ten per cent. will be paid to v
all contestants who fail to win on the t
subscriptions which they turn in. t
The rules and a full statement of o
the details in connection with the t
contest will be found on page six of t
this issue of The Herald and News. t
Nobody over 18 years of age is z
eligible. It is a contest for the
young people, and of the young peo
ple-and the young people of New- v
berry county.. Nobody is eligible e
who does not live in Newberry coun- o
ty. t
In each issue, of The Herald and e
News until the contest closes will be e
published a nomination ballot, which n
is goad for 100 votes. This nomina- t]
tion ballot can only be used in nom- t
inating a candidate who is not al- 1(
ready a contestant.
In each issue of The Herald and v~
News also .will be published a blank t
ballot good for one vote, which may b
be voted by any,body for any contest
ant.
Read the rules.f
Nominate the young person of your e
choice if. he. or she. is not already t
nominated.I
Work for your contestant. --f
The contest is open to any white f
boy or girl, of good repute, under 18 jf
years of age, in the city or county 3
of Newberry.a
It costs nobody anything to vote. TJ
It costs your friends nothing to vote ib
for you.f
This is a contest where every k
worker wins. .g
happy evening the tiwo retired;
Boy's Voice Heard.
IThe next the family heard of them
ws early to-day when, from behind j~
te smoke and flames that enveloped
the house, the' boy screamed.
LOh,-grandpa, get me .out of herea
'quik. I'm buraing to death."
'TYes, son; don't be afraid. Grand-b
pa'il take -you out;" was the .reply. li
Then both went down.to their death. a
The others of the fattily sleepings
tin the .house at the time of the firet
Mrs. De. Armond, her daugher, Mrs.
Clark, and a maid, Nettie Boles, es- a
caped.
Messages of condolence from all Vj
parts of the comitry reached the De
Armonds this afternoon.
Son Would Rescue rather.o
James De Armond, editor of the
Bates County Democrat, son of the.
congressman and father of the boy
who was burned to death, tried to
ru.lh into the burnling house to sasve t
them, but was prevented by others,
who knew *his sacrifice would be in a
vain.s
The De Armond iome was a large t:
two-story frame structure set well li
bak from the street. On two sides a
of the house equal with the second n
'floor four rooms, or outdoor sleeping
apartments, had been constructed
and at the time the fire broke out the n
growing town--in fact, it has grown
beygnd 'th'6 .conAnes .of a town, and
has becnie -a growinck city. As Mi.
Baxter said in his speech at the cam
paign meeting on last Friday night,
Newberry is larger now than it used
to be when Capt. Jackson could get
up in the morning and walk all over
town before breakfast. Newberry is
growing, and every 'hour and every
day there are larger and heavier
demands.
We want permanent public im
provements-as many of them as we
can get and as fast as we can get
them-for the public. good. I know
that everything can't be idlne in a
day. God, who could have spoken
the world-into being in the fragment
of a second, took six days, we are
told by the Scriptures. We can't get
everything right now, but the more
business mehods we employ the great
er will be the result. In my mind I.
,was not.long ago..comparing men of
my acquaintange. I venture the as
sertion that a-fy one can pick out two
men of his acquainance 'f equal abil
ity and honesty ind sobriety, and
who h,ave worked equally hard, but
one of whom has succeeded greatly,
while the'other has failed in the same
or similar line of business. Business
methods are required by the age in
wihih we live, and it takes. business.
methods to achieve suoe6ss.
I am not trying to give anybody
.any advice. -I was just expressing my
thoughts, as the editor told. me I
could.
But if I feel as if I want to give
editor will print it, and: he says he
wilL
And I wouli'n't be surprised if I
should have some advice to give, too,
because I know it will be appreciated
-and it ought to be appreciated.
The editor tod me the other day
Lat some one hatd been praising my
modesty. Modesty is a great virtue,
which I would commend to every one.
The Idler.
KILL. BY A LEAD PBNCIL.
Two-Year-Old Child Fell From a
Ohair and Ran Pencil in Her
Throat.
Greer, Nov. 23.-A sad and fatal
aeident occurred here last -night
wEen Elizabeth, the 2-year-old daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Thompsoni,
fell from a chair, running a pencil
into her throat. The little child,
suffering severely, lingered until
about 1 o'clock to-mday when she pass
ed away. Elizi.beth was a beautiful
child, dearly loved by all .who knev
her. The bereaved parents have the
deepest sympathy of this entire com
munity.. - .- . .
GIRL CAUSBS FATAL AFFRAt.
Rfusal 'of Youag Womain to Dance
With Young Man Results in
Two ipg.
Mobile, A.la., Nov. 22.-When' the
daghter of. Simon Nelson refused to
dane with Wesley' McKenzie at; al
social affair being, gi.ven in her ownI
home at Bar'newall, a town in a i-e
mote section of Baldwin .County, Sit
urday night, a bloody duel followed.
Two men are dead, four are injured,
and. fotir are undef- arrest on the
earge of murder.
'The dead ar&:
Bert Pierce, beaten to death" and
head crushed.
Mack M,cKenzie, shot through the
heart.
John Farley, two brothers of theI
dead Pierce boy, and one of the Mc
Kenzie brothers were wounded.
According to the story' told by offi
ers investigating the case, Wesley
McKenzie .approached Miss Nelson
and asked her to dance with him.
She is said to have -'refused on the
ground that he was drinking, and'he
then began cursing in her presence.
A general fight followed with the
above result.
There is nothing like th' clutch of
conventiality for squeezing the
breath out of individuality.-Decem
ecupants of the house occupied these
The financial loss is placed b"t $20.
00, and i-nclidued one of the.best fi
raries in the State.
Besides James A. DeArmond, the
on of the dead congressman, are Ed
ard H. De Armond, instructoir at
Vest Point, and.Lieut. George W. De
Lrmond. now serving with the army
:i the Philippines. Mrs. Clark is a
aughter.
The Congressional Directory gives
he following brief sketch of Con
ressma'n DeArmond:
"David Albaugh De Armond,
)emocrat, of Butler, was born in
'lair county. Pa., March 18, 1844;
ras brought up on a farm; educated
a the common schools and at Wil
amsport Dickinson Seminary; was
tate senator, circuit judge and, Mis
ouri 'upreme court commissioner;
as elected to the Fifty-seeond, Fif
y-third, Fifty-fourth. fty-fifth,
'ifty-sixth. Fifty-seventh, Fifty
ighth. and Fifty-ninth congresses
nd reeected to the Sixtieth con
ress.
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THE IDLE3. *
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Well, t-he election is over, and no*
t's all. get together-those of us
rho won and those of us who lost
mean those of us who were on the
rinning side and those of us who
rere on the losing side-and work
)gether to make the new adminis
ration a success, and for the good
f Newsberry. What is good for the
Ivn is good for everybody in the
wn-that is, everybody who ought
> be in the town-every good citi
mns.
This is a great government of ours,
here the citizen is king, anid: where
very citizen has a voice in the affairs
f government. The only trouble is
iat in the stress and theat of an
ection hard feelings are sometimes
ngendered. This should not be. but
len are only human, and subject to
le pitiful frailties of human na
ire. If we were all perfect the mil
mium would have come, and there
rould be no further need for the
orld, because the period of proba
on would be over, .and .we would all
e ready fiar a better world.
I don't mean to say that any .thard
elings were engendered in the
teetion just passed. There was cer
inly no reason for any. Mayor
angford had served the town faith
ally for two years, and offered him
elf for re-election. Mr. Blease of
red himself for the position. They
rere both running .on their merits,
nd it was' a. matter for the people.
'he vote was close. Both gentlemen
ad many friends, and attong
riends. I have known Mayor ILang
ord a long time, and, from what I
now .of him, I feel sure that he will*
ive the incoming mayor his hearty
>operation in advancing the -inter
;ts of Newberry.
The good ~of Newberry-the pub
c good-thiat is a great' thing. The
ublic good-the good of'all the peo
leou and' .me and your neighbor
nd iny neighbor. Did'a you : ever
ink"'yhat a' great World' this would
e if we'-were' all wvorking for the'pub
e good? The overpowering bane
nd sin of the twentieth .eentury is
lfishness, and-"so- it :has :been since
e fall'-of man. AS matter of fact,
lfiiihness is .the origin-'oif all sin,
n' includes all *sin. ' 'When- we get~
d of all selfishness then we will be
1st men made perfect. What we
'ant to do is to fight, it as much as
e can. The impossible is expected
fno man.
There is too much strife every
here today. That was a great
seeh Prof. Rembert made .in Cen
al Methodist churdh last Sunday a
'eek ago. He struck. tihe key-note of
r trouble. To get together and to
;ay together and work together
iat should be the motto-for he pub
good-for the good of you and of
te and of your neighbor and my'
eighbor.
The new administration will have
iany rempnsibilite Newhberv is a
Bishop Henry_
The Greatest I
(By Col. D. i
Newberry county, S. C., has been the
birthplace of some of our country's
most illustrious citizens. This county
has given to the State three chief
justices of the supreme court, his
torians of national fame, novelists,
poets,and statesmen of no mean order.
Mese, of . course, are all of the White
race. But it was given to this eoun
ty, also to furnish to the, world one
of the greatest of living Afrieans,
Bishop Henry MeNeal Turner, of the
African Methodist Episcopal Chureh.
He is not only the most distinguished.
of his race, but is highly edaeated, a
great linguist and possibly to-day one
of America's greatest travelers
through Canada, the West Indies, th'e
Dark Continent, and the States.
Although%, the writer and the sub
ject of this sketch, are of dierent
races, and fought on opposite sidez,
during the' War of the Sections, or,
as the writer likes to cali it, the
"Great Rebellion,". still we are
countrymen, born under the same
sunny skies, breathed the same balmy.
otm,osphere-first saw the light of
day in this same God's country. So
it is with pride and pleasure that the
writer accords to him the honors he
has won and the merit that is his
due.
The writer of this sketch fought
for the Sou':h, and for the institu
tions of his fathers and lost. Bishop
Turner fought for the liberation from
saery of his countrymen, and for
a ~government that now, grudgingly
allows his race to live,'- anad won.
Still I bear him no malice, and glad
ly accord him justice. In the race
fr preferment and eminence, he wes
handiapped .. .from ..- his infaney,
through ..his - rgee and .color, but by
industry, ambition .and high ideals,
he4as- risen to the- highest rungs of
be #Ldder attainable 'in .this country,
by. his race. Many,of the ~raits .of
gi character might.well be emulated
by.the young men -of either . of the
raees
It takes a master mind anj it will
of heroic mould tp-.rise from such
depths ..of obscu4;ty -to .stations 'so
towering and, ~hoi.orable. . -.
The grandfather.-of Bishop Tur
ner, on the m.atekI-al side, came over
to this country in a slave ship, by
way of the deadly ''Middle Pass
age,' in 1770. .By force of cireum
. ances, he found a. permane'nt home
in what is now ' Newberry- county.
Tradition has it that he was a son of
a king or. prince in his country, and
that his father sent. over in the .next
slave ship seven slaves of his own for
the liberation of his son. However
true this may be, it is only in keep
ing with the Darwin 'theory, that
where talent or genius has lain dor
mant in a family for generations, and
then suddenly rises above .. the sur
face with erreme brilliancy, it is
traceable to some ancestors in the
Tutonic wilds, or in the reed hut of
':he jungle.
The grandfather had ten chikdren,
the mother of Hienry being the
youngest. This family and their de
scendants were known before the war
as "free niggers.'' A remnant of the
original family are yet living in this:
comty -near their ncstral home.
4cNe a Tumer.
.iving African
A. DickerL)
Henry McNeal Turner was born
nine miles weat of the county seat,
near New Chapel Methodist euh&,
on the first day of February, 1834.
His father was a son of a white wo
man, the offspring of an illicit inter
course with one of her slaves, a mu
latto, and her foreman on a large
plantation, with many slaves. This
is all the white blood in Bishop Tur
ner's veins, he being what 'Might be
called an octoroon or oheeighth
white. His father and --mother sep
arated when- Henry was onlf three
years of- age, and his mother--married
a-3nan named-Iabez Noble, -:likewise
free- Henry work:ed' bith' ,eotton
fields until his fourteentdi: year;. when
he found employment in anbffice as
servant and messenger boy, in Abbe
ville county, this State. Some young
men of the legal profession; observ
ing his reat ambition to acquire a
radiment of learning, asisted him
in his studies and taught him reading,
writing,- grammar and geography u'
fact all that learning known as the
"three R's.' The young men wh
gave -him this assiscance in his efforts
to learn were J;ohn. W. Wilson, Lu
cian Wilcox,'John' Jacob -Basom ani
Edward Noble, a sdi of Governor
Noble. .General Samuel MeGowah,
late chief justice, also rendered him
great service. By -the friendly bene..
frts of such men, it is easily .seen how
the young, ambitious negro boy was
esteemed by some of -the best white
men of the State. This one instance
among the 'thousands, should show
that the South held no hatred to the.
blacks.
Young Turner was not satissfied
with a common Engliah education,
but sought the higher learning, and
finding no opportunity in this State
to gratify his -ambition, .he.. went to
Baltimore. There, -through, the in
fluence of white friends, he got em
ployment as a laborer in thefMedica;l
college. But he was not content to
labor with his hands alone, but em
ployed his mind as well. While there
he studied anatomy, physiology and
hygiene. Afterwards he secured a
foothold at Trinity college, and there
learned Latin,- Greek, Hebrew, Ger
man and Divinity. He was taught
ldention and oratory by..- .Bishop
Cummings, of the Protestant. Episco
i 1848 he -associated himself with
the Methodist 'chiireb, arid."-was li
censed to 'preach in 1853. He now be
gan on that, great career as a minis.
er of the Gospel, in which:his great
learning 'and native oratory - stood
hi -so well in -hanid. HeUtAiaveled
and preaehed throughout -the whole
South, to large congregations, both
white and blaet -
He .gransferred his- membership to
he A. M. E. chiurchi in 1858, and
joined' the Missouri conference, be
coming an itirie'ant minister, preach
in~g throughout the States-i of the
N'orh, Canada and the West Indies.
He was transferred .to 'the BalW
more conference, by Bishop Payne,
D. D., and remained in that .city for
four: years. Ele was gived~ the' degree
of D. D. by the University of Penn
sylvania in 1?'2, and the degree of
LL. D., by Wilberforce university in
1873. By t'he Liberia..college,..Africa,
he was given D. C. L in 1894.
In 1856 he. married a quadroon of
Columbia, S. C., daughter ..of Joseph
A. Peechir, a colored carpenter, who
by thrift and industry purchased the
freedom of. himself, his wife and in
fant, afterwards the wife of Bishop
Iurner. By this union he~ .has two
ehildren living, John P. Turner, M.
D., of Washingtc-n, D. C., and David.
H1. Tunrer of. Philadelphia..- He was
narried again in 1890 to Mrs. De
Witt, and then in 1.900 to the widow
f the late Bishop A. W. Wayman.
At' the outbreak of the war, he
was occupying the pulpit at Israel
hurh, Washington, D. C., a tony
olored congregation. He remained
here during the years of '62 and
'63. After the undecisive battle. of
A.ntietam, which gave President Lin
on an opportunity to issue his
Emaniptinn Procnma'ion. i. was