Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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PURELY PERSONAL. Movements of Many People, New berrians and Those Who Visit Newberry. Mr. John Berry, of Saluda county, Was in the city this week. Mrs. T. J. Mayes returned last week from a visit to Charlotte, N. C. Misses Luda Derrick and Blanche Parrott, of Saluda, spent Wednesday with Miss Maggie Thomasson. Mr. Claude Floyd, of Birmingham, Ala., is visiting relatives and friends in Newberry city -and county. Mrs. A. McB. Speaks, of Bamberg, visited her cousin, Mrs. J. D. S. Liv ingston, in the city this week. Mrs. Speaks left on Tuesday morning for Baltimore. Mrs. George W. Newman and Misses Jessie and Hattie Newman, of Columbia, returned to their home in Columbia on Wednesday, after a visit to the Misses Hornsby.#. .Miss Lula Werts has finishe- taech uag her school in Laurens County aa .is spending a short while wsLh her -sister, Mrs. Clarence E. Sur-meA* 1-Ass Carrie .tu -ord has' fi-dehpu -At.cr iig her s. -1 .iPca' id is s ng her t ! vor bu- e. Ex-Solicitor 0. L. Schumpert, of Newberry, was in the city yesterday, looking as young and vigorous as ever, and he ii the youngest lookiDg veteran 'of the War Between the Sec tions in South Carolina.-The State, 12th. Mr. C. L. Blease, as chairman of the /committee on siate of the order, and delegate, with Dr. Van Smith, I. H. Tunt, J. M. Davis, M. M. Satterwhife and Ben Chandler are in Spartanburg tending the- annual 'convention of the Grand Lodge Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Al C. Jones, of Newberry, a well kuown and popular traveling sales n'an and some years ago active i politics, was in the city yesterday.,.)Ir. Jones formerly lived in Columbia and 4-, Las a keen interest in the growth of the city. Mr. Jones is devoting him self entirely to his business affai&*S Dow and is not actiVe in-politics.- -The Mr. W .A.> Fulmer, the efficient and intelligenit pressman in the office of the Evening Record, Columbia, is at Pomaria spending a week's vacation -with relatives. He was in the city a short while the first of the week and his friends were glad to see him. "Gus" was formerly with The Herald and News office and this paper knows him. He is a careful, th'orough, faite -ful, reliable and comnpetent workman, and deserves a. rest from his arduous ~and steady labors. Mr. W. R. Gauntt, of Maxville, Fla., .' s on a visit to his old home in New berry. In February last Mr. Gauntt 4 settled on land of the Maiville Farm and Development company in Duvai county, Florida, and is highly pleased. He is succeeding in 'his new home. In the prospectus of the company are pictures of .the new home of Mr. ~' Gauntt, the first to buy one- of the fai-ms, and Mr. Gauntt in his field showing crop of onions six to ten inches high the fifteenth day after planting. TABIOUS AND ALL ABOUT. That 'was a very heavy rain onl -Sunday. Service, in IlIE Prst Baptist church Sunday evening at 8.15, preaching by ..Rev. M. L. Banks. The State Confederate reunion will bhe held in. Spartanburg August 17 and A "See the Comet" party has been t formed in Spartan'burg. This is the latest from that busy city. Rev. Mr. Patterson, of Due 1West, will preach at the A.-R. P. churcli Sabbath morning at 11 o'clook. Purcell & Scott sold to the New berry Cotton Mill, through Mr. Nat Gist, their purchasing agent, eight hundred and four bales of cotton this .week. NWatch the streets where proper drainage has been provided and those -where it has not, and observe the dif terence .since the heavy rain of Sun day.. Amity Lodge No. 87, A. F. M., will * hold an extra communication tonight, Friday, at 8 o'clock, to which all the members are urgently requested tc be present The Jalapa school, taught the pasi - ear by Miss Ethel Duncan, will close ~with a picnic Saturday, May 21. The picnic will be held in the pasture o: W. C. Sligh, near Jalapa. There is a family of four in New' . berry representing four generationls -Mrs. Polly Sligh, her daughter, Mrs. Mary McGraw, granddaughter, Miss Bessie McGraw and great grandson, Master Ashby McGraw. ly There will be no preaching in the First Baptist church Sunday morning. The pastor is attending the Southern Baptist convention which meets in Baltimore. He will attend the world's Sunday schooi association which yl meets in Washington May 19-24. fr At a negro frolic near Newberry on t Tuesday night John Gilliam was shot r by another negro, Joe or Tom Jack- f son. The wound is not a serious one h and it is understood that no arrests h have been made. Dr. W. E. Pelham, a Jr., attended the wounded man. e The first agricultural conference in a the State was held at Clemson Tues- ti day. Mr. A. D. Hudson, president of b the South Carolina Corn Breeders' as sociation, and Senator Alan John- ti stone, member of' the college board f9 of trustees, were among those pres- U ent. e Possibly two of the..oldest veterns h at Memorial day on Tuesday were Mr. Jacob Shealy, from near Little3 Mountain, and Mr. Joel T. Crisp, of near Kinards. Mr. Shealy was ninety- a one years old at his last birthday and t( Mr. Crisp is ninety-three. Both of these young veterans seemed to en- a joy the day and both took the automo bile ride. Two of the oldest of the mothers of veterans, "Aunt Polly Sligh, and "Aunt Peggy" Epting, at present in the*same neighborhood, spent memor ial day at the residence of Mrs. Mary U. McGraw. "Aunt Polly" is ninety five years old and "Aunt Peggy" is ninety-two. It was a- pleasant and r interesting sight to see these two old t ladies, bent with the weight of years, s renewing their acquaintance and i4 comparing notes of the "long ago." b 9 There is a little stretch of cement t sidewalk in Boundary street along the s lot of the First Baptist church that b is submerged with water and red clay a during every rain. The water goes on, but the red clay remains to the delectation of pedestrians. A nice ce ment surface drain on the inside of a the walk and a little work on the s lawn and the planting of it in grass would prevent this, and add. to the beauty of the place: SUUMER BASEBA LL. a West End to Furnish the Sport on: West End DIsmond-FIrst Game I . Saturday, '21. Through the efforts of Manager W. A. Price, backed up by a number of baseball enthusiasts of the, city, the local fans will this summer. be given the opportunity of seeing some good games on the West End diamond. A c frst-class team has been gotten to gether, and a fine showing is made in the practice. The first game of the season wil be against the Laurens team in Laur- 0 ens on the 14th inst. The Laurensu team is a fast bunch of players, hav ing recently defeated the Clinton col--~ lege team. The line-up of the West End team is as follows: McCall, C; Eidson and Waldrop, p; Smith, ib; Jones, 2b; Boozer, 3b;, Johnson, sa; Havird, lf; Wicker, cf; tl Bouknight, rf. g On Saturday, the 21st inst., the tl Laurens aggregation willt come to Newberry for one game, which will b be the first scheduled game of e the, season on the West End diamond. It is hoped that the local rooters\will come out en masse and give the booys a boost.______ __K To Move to Maxville Farms. t From a neat little booklet of the y Maxville Farm and Development Co.,b of which Mr. W. K. Sligh is president, 3 the following is taken out of a. list of } officers and other interesting state ments: "Presidenit, W. K. Sligh, formerly of Newberry, S. C., where he had a successful real estate business. He has been a student of Florida and C knows Florida conditions thoroughly, ( having spent weeks at a time travel ig over the State with a camping T outfit in search of just such a proper- t ty as now owned by the company of 7] which he is president. Mr. Sligh has disposed of his Newberry interest and I will more his family to Florida and s devote his entire time to the develop- e ment of the Maxville Farms.~ I Death of an Old Lady. Mrs. Chloean Inabinet, wife of Mr. I Joel Inabinet, died at her home just .I across the river in Saluda county, oun Tuesday night, and was buried at I "ehany~ elaurch cemetery yesterda" 1 o i,. s ?rvice by R1ev. Mr. Way. 1 She was se;'enty-nine years old. Be- I sie a husbLand she leaves one son, Mr. J. C. Inabinet, of the Mollohout < SKULL FRACTURED. oung Negro Boy Receives Fatal Blow From Rock Thrown From Blast Pit at Flush Tank. At the noon hour yesterday La Lyette Halter, a colored , boy nine ,ars old, received a fatal injury by ing struck in the head with a rock -om blasting at the flush tank about vo miles from town on the Deadfall )ad. The men had quiet their work >r dinner, having gone into the tool ouse to eat. Lafayette had handed is father, George Halter, his dinner ad remained standing near his fath r when a rock, weighing at least one ad a half pounds, came crashing irough the window sash striking the oy just above the left temple and; taking a fearful wound, fracturing ie skull. Lafayette fell into his Lther's arms and *as taken immed 1tely to his home near by. A report r went to the house and when he ;ft, then nearly 4 o'clock, Drs. Pel am, Mower and Ellesor 'were pre ring for an gperation. It was a Ltal case as it stood, and the chances E the operation were against the boy, s he had lost all he had to lose up ) that time. The rock was hurled ith great velocity at a distance of bout fifty yards. THAT VOLUNTARY FUND. he List is Still Open-It Will be Closed Soon-Send Your Sub. scription Without Delay. The list for the voluntary fund to abmburse the volunteer firemen for ie purchase of that hose wagon is Jill open and The Herald and News: disappointed that'the contributiohs ave not been more prompt and more eneral. It is truly a voluntary mat-, r and the list will be closed very Don now, and if you desire to contri& ute to this fun'd, thus expressing in tangible way your appreciation of. ie -service to this community of the lunteer firemen, 'phone the amount ou desire to contribute to The Her Id and News at .once. You need not nd the money, with your subscrip on, but after the list Is closed some ne wil call on you for it. The contributions are printed once lore. There is still room for twenty t $5.00 each, of fifty at $2.00 each, or nehundred at $1.00 each. WILL WIDEN STREET. .Iderman Cannon Reaches Agree' ment With Copeland Brother!s by Which Street is Widened Alderman Cannon, after ' seferal onferences, has suicceeded in* i-each ig an agree'ment with- Copeland ros. by which College street from ain street to Friend will be widened vo feet on Main street and three' feet a Friend street. The price agreed pon for the la'nd is $800. ' Alderman Cannon deserves credit: >r making this arrangement with opeland Bros. before the building' 'as erected as it would have been o late after .to have done anything., f coarse thie widening of this street: ill be worth direbtly more to Cope nd Bros., who ol'n the property, ian any others. Yet, It will be a' reat 'help to the city, especially as ds is to be the main street to the ew postoffice when the Federal uiiding/is erected. Prominent Newberry MUan Here. Isaac Hunt, , president of the New erry chamber of commerce. wts. mong the visitors in the city yester ay. It is _by special invit ..on, n - mded1 some time ago that Secretar.v no. Wood, orZ the Spartanburg chan er of comme-c6, speakA in Nan!ariy [onday night, the 16th.-Spar+anburg~ [erad, 12th. Church of the Redeemper. (Rev. Edw. Fulenwider, pastor.) The following will be the program f divine services at the Lutheran htrch of the Redeemer next Sunday: 11 a. m.-The regular morning ser ice with a sermon by the pastor on be subject, "The ,Growing Church." 'his sermon will be practical, and rill deal with some phases of church ife that all members of the church ould carefully and prayerfuly con ider. As usual there will be good .usic led by a large choir. 5 p. m. Sunday school meets. The' chool is growing, and every effort is eing made to make it intere6tig~ 5U elpful to all who attend. If you wll attend Sunday school and see the ;ood work that, Is being done, and tear God's word explained you w:ill iot only be benefitted but you will telp and encourage others. This is .part of life's sweetest joy. Helping thers. The public is cordially invit to all services. ..............-.-.. .. THE NEWBERRY MEETING. Kuch Interest in Meeting of Chamber of Commerce to be Held in New. berry Next Monday. President Hunt, of the chamber of co.mmerce, has received replies to his letters from a number of the secre taries, who have been invited to meet with the Newberry chamber of com merce on next Monday evening, ac cepting the invitation. As stated the principal address will be made by Hon. John Wood, of Spar tanburg. This meeting has created considerable interest and it is hoped that every member of the Newberry chamber of commerce will attend this meeting on Monday evening, and our business men generally. The supervisor of Lexington coun ty has been invited to attend and it is probable that other citizens of Lex ngton will be present. They are com ing with a view of creating an inter est in the highway between Newber ry and Columbia. The purpose of this meeting, as stated before,' is not primarily in the interest of this pro posed highway,, but rather ,to talk about the work of a commercial body similar to our chamber of commerce and .to arouse an interest on the part of our people and to get them togeth er more closely and also to. get in closer touch with other commercial bodies in our neighboring cities. 'The following from the Columbia Record of reecnt date 'indicates that there is considerable interest in Co lumbia in this meeting and it is hoped that a number, of our automo bile owners will take a trip through the country to Columbia on Tuesday following the meeting in Newberry, so as to attend the Columbia meeting: ! The Columbia chamber df com merce will make a strong, vigorpus and cordial effort through Secretary Moorman to have the meeting of the commercial secretaries at Newberry next Monday adjourn to Columbia for a short stay in order to bring the delegates over the road between heie and Newberry with a view to inspir ing the LexiAgton supervis*Or with the importance of putting the bad stretch of the road lying in Lexington county )in proper cojdition. .With the. exception of this small portion of thg road, the run between here and Newberry is over a splendid. road, and as the route to Newberry forms an important link in the routes to other up-country points it is par ticularly desirable to have all objec ion removed in the road between Co lumbia and Newberry. It is purposed to have the secre taries hold a meeting at Chapin on their way to Columbia to disc' uss the stretch of the roiad. At Columbia the secretar ies wvill be entertained at lun cheon~arIi sent on their way rejoicing. At the Newberry .meeting the com mercial bodies of Greenville, Spar fanburg, Abbeville, Anderson, Green wood, Laurens, Clinton, Woodruff, Un ion, Prosperity and Columbia will be represented. The principal feature of the gathering will be an address by Secretary John Wood of the Spartan burg chaipber of commerce. . Special Communication... There will be a special comimuni cation~ of Amity Lodge, No. 87, A. F. M. on Friday night, May 13th, for the purpose' of conferring the E. A. de gree. Visiting, brethren cordially in vited. HarrYiW. Dominick, W.. Jno. W. Earhardt, Secy. Lexington Veteran in Newberry., Among the veterans in Newberry on Memorial day was Mr. David Luth er Koon, a member of Captain Eichel berger's company, Thirteenth regi ment. Mr. Koon said he had a most delightful day in Newberry and while he lives in Lexington, his company was largely Newberry people. He said that he was in the famous charge at Gettysburg. Out of. the twenty eight men in the company only, three leached the famous rock wall and of these three he is the only :survivor. The other two were Geo. H. Epting and Jas. L. Slice. Workman-Boyd. Yesterday morning at the residence of the bride in Newberry by Rev. D. P. Boyd, Mrs. Minnie Workman was united in marriage to Mr. W. D. Boyd, of Laurens county. They left on the noon train for ,their future home in Laurens. Corn Growers' Meeting Postponed. j'meeting of the Corn Growers' association called for Saturday has been postponed on account of the in ability of Mr. Watson and Mr. Wil r:s to come to Newberry on Satur day The Herald and News was re quested to make this statement by the secretary, Mr. S. M. Duncan. The meeti.ng will be held at a fu ture date, notice of which will be giv en in the county papers. was Miss Mamie Buzhardt. The su ject for the college students "Stonewall Jackson, the Soldier .ristian Gentleman." In the latter contest there were three contestants. and the medal was awarded to Mr. Alan Johnstone, Jr. The presentation of these medals vas made by Dr. George B. Cromer, who strongly urg ed that more interest be taken in these annual contests by the high school and college students. After the doxology the audience was dismissed wit1i the benediction by the Rev. M. L. Banks, and the graves of the Cufederate soldiers who sleep in Newberry were str6wn with wreaths and flowers. Mr. AuH Appointed. Commissioner Watson while here yesterday announced that he had :ap pointed W. B. Aull, Jr., of Pendle-, ton, assistant analyzer at Clemson. He will be under the comminunnar'e orders and will take up his workat Clemson about June 1. Mr. Aull is now at the University of Virginia. He is a graduate of Cldmson in the class of '07.-Spartanburg Herald. Mr. Aull is a son of Mr. William B. Aull, formerly of Newberry, who mov ed some years ago to Pendleton. :The many friends of the family in New berry will be pleased to know of the good foitune of the young man. Lightning Ptruck Tenant House.; Yesterday about- the noon hour lightning struck a tenant house on Mr . Z. W. Taylor's place in No. . ' township, near Deadfall and knocked off the corner of one room, miklig kindling wood of the ceiling an the weatherboarding and split the bloc on which. the house rested. No was hurt. There was a woman one of the front rooms of the bse but no one was Ir the room that Was struck by the lightning. Pieces o plank..were farown in the field. SPECIAL NOTICES. One C(mt a Word- Naade vertisement taken for less -han 25 cents. WANTED-From two hundred to:-R hundred cedar posts. Addres "Post," Box 42,.Newberry, S. C. ' 5-10-4t - FOR RENT-One fle-room corner Harris ana \Cllne P. F. Baxter Be Son. GET YOUR Timgsten lamps, phone and electrieal sap* Miss Annie 0. Ruff. - 4-8-tf. Newberry Ele I WILL pay 31-2 to 41-2 e beef .cattle delivered at INew J. C. Sample. 4-12-tf. 31EALS, AT Central, House ~ 4-12-tL . CIGAR SALESMAN WANTED NExperienee unnecessary. Sell brands tu t-h,e -retail trade. pay. Write forfull partica Glob. Cigar Co. -Cleveland, Ohi..R T. B. WALTON has Mmlls EArT Wonder, Crimson Cushion,.Po rosa, MiWls Prize and Maule eese tomnato plahts;i or at Newherry Hardware MBALS AT Central Ho 4-12-tf. CUT OUT the Typhoi grmsfr yo VL 5rnking watc get 'itfr Ithetoek, pure and parkling. .By havireg you a we]l frflled, yoti cut of all surface 'water. I *m i.rPpirea for the business. See med or phonie 275. IL A. McDowel 12-14-09-ti. MEALS AT Central House 25 4-12-tf. GET YOUR GLASSES from Dr. GE. W ". ':onnor, a grariuate of the larg ost opticali college it. the world-the Northern Illir.ois College of Qhiea gr Dr. Connor is located perman f5?.y ir, Nerv 2riveS both .the otYeetivoP an.i snhisec've tests& by - :5. rit and guatrantees hjs work. MEALS A.T Central House 25 cents. 4-12-tf. Subscribe NOW to The Herald and News. MEMORIAL DAY. Many Veterans Here-Dinner Tender ed Them-Exercises In Opera House. , Memorial day was appropriately ob served in Newberry on Tuesday. There were several hundred veterans h'ere, representing every section of the county. Many of them were taken to ride in automobiles during the morning, and at 1 o'clock they were tendered a dinner in the old court house by the local chapters Daughters of the Confederacy. The dinner was bounteous and well prepared and was charmingly served by the Daughters., At 3.30 o'clock exercises were held in the opera house, with an audience in attendance which filled the house. The stage was appropriately and tastily decorated. Col. 0. L. Schumpert, adjutant of the James D. Nance camp, U. C. V., presided. The exercises began with the singing of "Dixie" by the children,! dressed in the red and white of the Confederacy, which was followed with prayer by Dr. J. H. Harms. A hymn was sung by the* select choir, accompanied by Miss Hattie McIver Leavell at the piano, and an appro priate scripture lesson was read by Rev. Edw. Fulenwider. "The dld Kentucky Home" was sweetly render ed by the choir. Dr. James McIntosh, the orator of the day, was introduced in appro priate words by Major James F. J. .Caldwell as a man who, although reared in another county, has been a citizen of this county for forty-five years, and during that period a very prominent life amongst us.- "He has become known by reputation to every one in this assembly,' said Maj6r Caldwell, "and personally known to a very large majority of us. His intel ligen6e, his experience as a Confed erate soldier, and his acquaintance with the matters which he will dis cuss before- you, furnish assurance that his address will prove most in teresting and most vn.luable to all of us." Dr. McIntosh discussed in a clear and lucid manner 'the tcauses whicA led up .to ,the War Between the States, and paid a glowing tribute to the loyalty and the heroism of the Confederate soldier. He recalled the burning of Columbia by Sherman, and said that Newberry would have suf fered a like fate had it not been for the' timely appearance of General Cheatharn's troops, on' their way to North -Carolina to join General John son. He gave an instructive history of the collapse of the Confederacy. Dr. McIntosh's address 'showed deep study of the conditions which brought about the war. He irks fre quently interrupted by applause.. A full synopisis of Dr. McIntosh's address-is published elsewhere in this issue of The Herald and News. Crosses. of honor were besto.wed up 'on Veteran G. Luke Sease, and, upon Messrs. R. H. Wright and. F. N. Mar tin, descendants, respectively, of Vet erans R. H. Wright and J. N. Martin, deceaed. Mrs. J. A.<Burton, president of the D ayton Ruthei/ford chapter, U. D. C., was unable to be present on account of her health, and'.in her behalf Col. ~Schumpert p'resent'ed to the West Enid school a copy of "Recollections and Letters of 'Robert f. Lee," in ,recogni tion of the fact that the West End eool was tne' first school in 'New berry and the first mill school in the State, to contribute to the Arlington monument fund. The volume was re 'ceived for the school by-Miss Laura Blease, the principal. Col. Schum pert said that in presenting the vol ume he could do no better than to read the inscription wh~ich Mrs.- Bur ton had written?: "Pres'ented to .the West End school in recognition'of th,e fact that this school was the first,ipi Newberry, and the first mill school in South Carolina, to contribute to -the Arlington monument fund. May the spirit of Robert Edward Lee grow with your years, dear -children, and thus fit you for life's- duties. Your sincere friend, Mrs. James A. Burtola." In the fire which devastated a con siderable section of Newberry three years ago the banner of the James D. N ance camp was burned, and Col. Schumpert announced that contribu tions were being received at Mr. Win. Johnson's store. He said it was de 'ired to ha(be a new banner before the State reunion in Spartanburg-a new banner worthy the banner camp La S.th Carolina. T wo medals are annually offered by the Drayton Rutherford chapter, U. D.C.-one to that student of the high school writing the best essay upon an assigned subject, and one to that student of Newberry college -iti"n the best essay upon an as signed subject. The subject for the high school students this year was "Fighting in South Carolina During the War Between the States." There were four contestants, and th winner 'V