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PURELY PERSONAL Movements of Many People, New berrians and Those Who Visit Newberry. Mr. Joba L. Hunter has returned form Prosperity to Clemson. Mr. and Mrs. P. E. Scott have gone to Chicago on a visit. Master Gilbert Sale is visiting in Saluda. mISs Carrie Pell West has returned from the up country. Miss Mattie Adams is visiting the _Misses Rivers in Charleston. Mrs. Ella Donald, of Greenwood, is visiting mr. J. W. White's family. Mrs. A. T. Brown returned last week frcui Glenn Springs. Miss Oline James. of Bishopville, is .'isiting her cousin. Miss Nina Gibson. 1r. and Mrs. J. B. Hunter returned yesterday from Hot Springs, N. C. M1r. Nathan E. Aull, of Greenwood county, was in the city yesterday. Miss Edith Henderson is spending a few days in Spartanburg. Little Miss Delmar Bailes has re turned from Anderson. Little Miss Marie Marshall is visit ing her aunt. Mrs. E. L. Bailes. Mrs. B. B. Reid and little son, B. B. .Jr.. have returned from a visit to -Caldwell, N. C.. Mr. R. E. Blakeley, of Laurens, was in the city Saturday on his way home from Columbia. Mr. and Mrs. I. H. Hunt leave -Thursday for Waynesville to be gone about ten days. Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Mayes have re turned with Dr. 0. B. Mayer and fam ily from Atlantic City, N. J. Mr. C. C. Davis and daughters, Miss ,es Margaret and Sara, left last night for Hendersonville. Miss Kittie Mayes has returned from Westminster, after a pleasant visit to Mrs. W. L. Seabrook. Mrs. W. H. Hunt leaves today for a visit to her sister. Mrs. James McIn tosh, in Columbia. Miss Nina Gibson leaves tomorrow 'on a visit to her sister, Mrs. Reid, in .Fredericksburg, Va. Dr. J. W. Kinard, of Leesville, is on a visit to his brother, Rev. James D. Kinard, in Newberry. Misses Sarah and Carolyn Caldwell :and Sarah Halfacre returned yester <lay from Due West, where they spent ;a pleasant visit. Mr. Elliot H. Julian, of the South ern Bell Telephone Co., in Columbia, spent Sunday with relatives at Hele TProf. J. B. O'Neall Holloway will go 'to Eulala, Saluda county, on Wednes day to make an address to a farmers' .rally. IMr. and Mrs. James H. Shelley and the baby, of Wilmington, are visiting the former's parents, Capt. and Mrs. W. H. Shelley. Mrs. George A. Langford and daugh ters, Miss Marietta Langford and Mrs. White Fant left yesterday for Hender sonville. Mrs. L. G. Eskridge and Mrs. Her man Wright will leave today for Nor folk, from which point they will sail ..or New York. -Tisses Lizzie and Eloise Earhardt 7bhave -netairned from a visit to relatives ~at Clinton, accompanied by their cous in, Miss Nannie Love Copeland, on a visit of a few days. Mrs. J. W. White and her sister, *Miss Annie Smith, accompanied by Mrs. White's little daughter, Eliza beth, leave today for Baltimore on a visit to relatives. * Mr. R. M. Calgwell, of the firm of Caldwell and Haltiwanger, lef't Sun' day for New York to lay in a supply of new goods for the coming season's trade. Mr. W. H. Anderson, of the Ander ,.son .10Oc. company, will leave this -week for the Northern markets, where he -will make extensive purchases for t:he -fai and holiday trade. SIr. J. D. Wheeler went to Colum 'oia,.Saturday to see Mrs. Wheeler who lhie says :has .improved so that he is WicDuragel :a obelieve that he will be able t~o bring her home in about a week's tie. Miss Ruby Mae Lynch, a student of Belmont college, Nashville, Tenn., is visiting Miss Juanita Evans, her col lege friend. Later she will join her parents at their summer home in Asheville. Rev. Edw. Fulenwider and family leave tomorrow for Charlotte The congregation of the Lutheran Church -of the Redeemer granted Mr. Fulen wier month's vacation which will be sent in North Carolina. chief of the Southern Bell Telephone company, and Mr. F. R. Nobson, the district commercial manager of the company, headquarters at Columbia, were in Newberry Friday, attending conference with Mr. J. P. Bolt mana ger of the system here, and Mr. J. H. Williams, the local plant foreman. Capt. M. M. Buford, who always at tends the Confederate reunions, will not be able. owing to the illness of Mrs. Buford, to be present at the Snartanburg reunion, much to his re gret. Capt. Buford takes great in torest in these annual gatherings of veterans and it affords him much pleasure to be with them. Miss Sena Riser, the accomplished an(I thorough milliner for the house -f Caldwell and Haltiwanger, left Sat ~rriay for New York to select the lat est styles in hats, millinery, etc., for the incoming opening season. The la dies may rest assured and feel per fectly satisfied that Miss Riser will get "just the loveliest" that is to be had. Rev. Dr. J. W. Wolling. now of Al lendale. was in Newberry on Satur day, shaking hands with his many friends heie. He has been granted a vacation by his congregation in Allen dale of a month and will spend part of it at Grand Falls. Va.. where he will lecturo and preach. From there he will visit a friend on the Hudson just above New York, remaining there un til September. Mr. William Reagin and family will this morning leave for their home in Palo Pinto, Texas, after an extended visit to Mr. Reagin's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Reagin, and his old home. Mr. Reagin has demonstrated that' a boy can go to a far country and by not spending his substance in riotous living reducing him to a prodigal son, can become a prosperous banker and cattle ranchman. Mr. Robert J. Miller, of Charleston, is visiting his sister, Mrs. Kate E. Boozer, in the city. Mr. Miller is look ing well, his friends are glad to see, and also that he is the "same Bob" as of yore. He still wears that same Bill Taft smile of cheerfulness and hopefulness, "the smile that won't come off." The sea breezes and salt atmosphere of the fair old city by the Atlantic unite in keeping him in good condition, judging by his looks. VARIOUS AND ALL ABOUT. The W. C. T. U. will meet with Mrs. Mary Wright Wednesday afternoon at 5 o'clock. There will be a picnic at Saluda school in No. 9 township on Saturday, August 20. The public is invited. The Beth Eden Farmers' union will~ hold a meeting at Beth Eden on Fri day, August 19, at three o'clock in the afternoon. Hon. Harry.H. Blease, of Staunton, Va., delivered an address to the Cen tral Methodist church Sunday school on Sunday afternoon. The following young men stood Fri day for the one vacancy in the Cita del: Robt. D. Porter, city; James R. Boozer, Newberry, R. F. D. No. 1; Pettus H. Senn, Silver Street, R. F. D. No. 2; Vernon H. Wheeler, Pros perity. By request, the choir of the Aveleigh Presbyterian church will repeat the sacred concert on Tuesday night. Ow ing to the inclement weather a good many did not have the opportunity to attend. The same program will be observed. Messrs. B. T. Paysinger and G. W. Cowart are now joint owners and pro prietors of the grocery store and butcher shop formerly run by Mr. L. M. Player who will between now and the first of September return to his former home in Williamsburg. There will be a picnic at LIttle Mountain Friday and one at St. Lukes Saturday. to both of which the pub lic is invited and requested to bring baskets. Mr. A. D. Hudson and other speakers will be present on both oc casions to address the assemblages. At the mayor's cou.rt Monday six negroes were fined $10 each for play ing cards for money, and five negroes were fined $5 each for throwing dice for money. All paid. The reason why policemen can catch negro crap shooters and gamblers is because ne gro crap shooters and gamblers do their work on the ground and on the ground floor with unlocked doors and no windows to scale by ladders. Mr. R. Herman Wright missed his Scotch collie dog, Zemm, last Friday night. As the dog had not returned home Saturday Mr. Wright searched for it Saturday afternoon and Sun day, tracing it to Silver Street and finding it dead in a field on Mr. Mayer Havird's place, a negro having shot the collie as a stray dog. Mr. Wright valued Zemm very highly and would not have taken anything for the dog. OFF FOB BEUMON. Large Delegation From Newberry Goes to Spartanburg Today In Special Newberry Coach. The State Confederate reunion will be held in Spartanburg Wednesday and Thursday of this week. Col. 0. L. Schumpert. adjutant of the .Jas. D. Nance camp, has arranged for a spe cial coach for the veterans and their friends who will attend from Newber ry. so that there will bf- no change o* cars between Newberry ind Spartan burg. The veterans will go via Alston over the Southern, leaving Newberry today at 11.57 a. m., arriving in Spar tanburg this afternoon. The sponsor for the camp is Miss Dr-h Powers c Prosperity. The following is :, list of those who have given Col. 0. L. Schumpert their names. expressing thcr-! intention to attend the reunion: J. E. Williams. AV. W. .llhnson. Is aac Griffin, E. W. Reese. -Moorman Ruff, Enoch Cromer. Robert Rivers, R. T. C. Hunter, Geo. D. Lathrop, E. P Matthews. Jno. L. Epps, .T. J. Schum pert. James Shealy. Dr. Jas. 'McIntosh, John Cromer,* William Reighley. Dav id Livingston. E. P. Bradley. H. H. Evans. 0. L. Schumpert, Jack Hender son, W. P. Williams, J. G. Rikard, I. Z. Abrams, D. A. Ruff. M. H. Buz hardt, Jas. B. Reagin, J. W. Cruoch, Hosea Barger, E. M. Evans, Mrs. E. M. Evans, Misses Mary C. Burton, Lois Goggans, Della Bow ers, Bessie Kibler, Messrs. N. H. Young, L. L. Bowers, R. I. Stoude myer, F. Bobb, Theo. Kibler, P. H. Shealy, G. L. Sease, Alex Singleton, W. W. Riser, A. A. Nates, A. B. May er, J. C. Counts, G. A. Eqrgle. D. J. Haltiwanger, W. H. Gaillard. DEPUTY ORGANIZERS FOR FARMERS' UNION. .. B. O'Neall Holloway Appointed for Upper Part of State-Others Named Later. A meeting of the executive commit tee of the State Farmers' union was held in the office of the secretary Thursday morning. The State presi dent, A. J. A. Perritt, arid all the members of the committee, A. D. Hud son, Douglas McIntyre and L. C. Pad gett, were present After hearing the financial state ment of the secretary-treasurer for the month of July, auditing anid ap proving the regular claims and ac counts, instructing the secretary in reference to arrangements for print er necessary supplies, the work of the organizatic a department was discuss ed at considerable length. It was de cided to place J. B. O'Neall Holloway, of Newberry, in the field to do some work this summe'r in the counties .A Oconee, Pickens, Anderson and Ab beville. Mr. Holloway is an active worker for the union and is a good speaker. If successful in building up and strengthening the union in the four counties ma4ntioned, as the com mittee have- every reason to believe he will be, it is qiuite probable that he will be sent to other counties on the same mission. J. P. O'Quinn was selected, On the recommendation of the county presi dent, to do some organizing work in Bamberg county. He will act as dep uty organizer under the supervision of the State president. Other deputy organizers will be appointed by the State president as soon as he can secure suitable men for this work in the various counties of the State.-The State. Serious Fire Narrowly Averted. Dr. Meldau came near having wvhat might have been a serious conflagra tion Saturday night, caused by a spark flying from a match head that he had struck to light a lamp in his hall about 9.30 o'clock, the spark lighting in the fringe of a pair of por tieres in the hall, setting them on fire. The fire was discovered by Mrs. Mel dau just in time for the flames were already beginning to take a hold on the stairway, blistering the paint. The doctor snatched .the portieres down and trampled out the flames, but not before they were so badly damag ed as to practically destroy them. Dr. Meldau suffered a badly burned and, caused by tearing down the cur tains. The matting on the floor was slightly scorched. No other damage was done. Mfeeting of Chamber of Commerce. A business meeting of the chamber of commerce will be held Tuesday, August 16, 1910, at 8.30 p. in., for the purpose of deciding on the recoin mem. Son of the board of governors that the admission fee be abolished, and the transaction of such other business as may be properly brought before the meeting. S. S. Cunningham, Secretary. Join the crowd on two-day excur sion to' Colrn4iia. \Vedniesday, AINf 24. Good time for eveyhe'y. Th'W ~ PROF. C. F. WERTS CHOSEN. Will Be High School Principal Teachers Chosen-Mr. Douglas' Letter to the Board. At a meeting of the board of trus tees of the city schools held on 'Mon day night Prof. Clarence F. Werts was chosen principal of the high school to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of RieAard S. Douglas, of Wooster. Ohio, and Misses Ona Spilln,!u. of Ch-arotzt. and Rosal-n Summer. of Newborry. were elected teachers to fill vacancies in the corps of teachers. Prof. Werts is a nativ of Newberry county, and a gradiuate. of Newberry clleg.'. with the azre) of P. S.. in he e:s of190 -. Following gradua tion he woit to Ehr.hardt. to take charge of the schools there, and was lat.r in charge of the schools a. Wag nr, and at Epworl". For the past seve-al years hc. has been superin tendent of tie school at Iva, in An derson county. Prof. Werts is a broth er of Mrs. J. M. Kibler, of this city. He is devoted to his profession, and the schools which he has taught since his graduation ten years ago have been very successful. Miss Rosalyn Summer is a daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Juo. A. Summer, of Newberry. She graduated at Eliza beth college, Charlotte, in the class of 19108. She has taught at Little Moun tain for the past two years, and was re-elected for another term, but will accept the position here Rev. E. J. Gregg was elected prin cipal of the Hoge school (colored), to succeed Rev. B. Levister, who resign ed to accept a position in the colored college at Orangeburg. Mr. Douglas' Letter. Following is the letter of Richard S. Douglas to the board, tendering his resignation: Wooster, Ohio, August 8, 1910. Board of School Directors, Newberry, S. C. Gentlemen: When I was informed that as a board you had elected me to become 'principal of your high school for the coming year I felt grateful to you, and was much pleased at the thought of becoming a teacher in a Southern school. I did not apply for a position in your school because I anticipated any trouble about -gettng a position as teacher in my own State, but when I heard that you wanted a teacher I sought the position eagerly because I had a desire to come into contact with Southern people, and Southern ideas. I had heard much that was praise-worthy about South ern honor and chivalry, and this was corroborated by my acquaintance with students in the University of Wooster from the South, a;nd, particularly, by my acquaintance with a gracious lady of North Carolina, who is matron of the homes here for foreign mission ary chidren. She is a frequent visi tor in our home and we think that she has no superior either in the North or South. I had, therefore, pleasant anticipa tions of having a pleasant and profi table time among you, and had deter mined to give, professionally and so cially, the best that is in me, and to get as much as possible of the best that is in your section of the "Sunny South," but as "the best* laid plans of mice and men gang aft aglee," my intentions are frustrated -and my dreams have vanished. The reasons given by those opposed to my becoming principal of your high school I shall not discuss at length. I do not think that they represent the feelings of the best men and women of the South. And I am sures' that some of them are out of harmony with the Christian spirit, and I know that some of said reasons misrepresent my social tastes, and are not complimen tary to my conception of the fitness of things; My alma mater needs no defense against the small gibes hurled at her. Her standing among the best colleges in the country, and her catholic spirit are too well known to suffer' any loss by the pen of a man who is opposed to a graduate of a Northern school becoming a teacher in a Southern school, because he was graduated from a college whose doors are open to a colored man. The University of Woos ter, like all the "first-class colleges ol the Eas.e keeps its doors open for men of all colors, races, and creeds, and we should be proud of the fact that men of all shades of color and of all races are coming to them. And it is a good thing for the world, and. also, for the Southland of. our own country as much as for any part of the world that there are few men sc narrow and prejudiced that they would boycott men as teachers ir their school because they had beer educated in colleges whose doors are open to men with black skins. Owing to the opposition that has developed against me, and the narrot prejudiced spirit manifested by th lea_d.rs sf the opposition, as seer by sverl iwspa.~r lipingssen have decided to decline the position. As one of the parties interested that Is the best oil I can put upon the troubled waters. And I hope that you may secure a man that will be cor dially received. I am sure that this is the better thing for me to do, be cause under the circumstances I could not do my very best, and the pupils would not be likely to do their best, therefore. loss and disappointment would be the result to all concerned. You will be pleased to hear that as soon .is it became kzown that I was not going South the school board of this city elected me by a unanimous vote to teach English and history in our high school, and coach the debat ing team. It is an old saying that, "A prophet is not wih.out inor. save in his own country." but in my case this saying has been reversed. And about the same time an edu eator from Siam offered to me a posi tion for a Term of three years as . teacher in an English college in that land at a gcd salary and my expenses paid both ways. I mention this to show that. as I have already intimat ed. I was not driven from fear of not getting work to seek a position in the South. Please accept my resignation. and my thanks for your kindness in elect ing me to become principal of your high school. And, also, please accept my best wishes for the progress of the pupils before whom I expected to stand as teacher. And believe that I remain very sin verely yours, Richard S. Douglas. , THE UTOPIA MEETING. County Candidates Wl1 Address Utopians on Thursday, August 25, Instead of August 23. At the urgent request of the people of the Utopia community, and on ac count of a protracted meeting in the community at the same time, tEe date for the county campaign meeting at Utopia has been changed by the coun ty chairman from Tuesday, August 23, to Thursday, August 25. Chinquepin School Picnic. When Chinquepin school, taught by Miss Olive Feagle, closed the past session it was not convenient at that time to have a picnic and the picnic was postponed to Friday of last week. A large crowd was in attendance an Friday and there was a bountiful din ner. Col. J. B. O'Neall Holloway de livered an address in which he stress ed the value of education, saying that it had a much higher value than the mere ability which it gave for the making of money. Under Miss Feagle, Chiniquepin school had a most successful session. She is not only a good teacher, but her influence and her work in the community generally has been of great good. Death of Mrs. Alma Bridges. Mrs. Alma Bridges, wife of Mr. Wil lam Bridges died last Friday noon at her home on Mr. H. D. Whittaker's place just beyond Mr. John' C. Hlpp's place in Newberry, after an illness of five weeks of typhoid fever. Besides her husband she leaves three children, two boys and one girl, to mourn their loss. She was buried at Rosemont ceme tery Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock, service by the Rev. M. L. Banks, of Central Methodist church. Mrs. B ridges was in the 26th year of her age and was a member of Shi loh church, Saluda county. The friends of the family sympa thize with the sorrowing husband and children in their sad affliction. Earth Cared in Stanton. Hon. Harry H. Blease, of Staunton, Va., who is visiting the family of his brother, Mayor Cole L. Blease, in Newberry, has received .the Staunton newspapers telling of the disaster in Staunton caused by the ground in cer tain sections of the city caving in. Great property damage has already resulted, and a whole block is affected, including the handsome graded school building, fire headquarters and other large buildings. The cave-in was to such an extent that it is stated in the newspapers that a whole two-story house was completely swallowed. No lives have been lost. The theory ad vanced by the Staunton paper is that there is a subterranean stream3 which has gradually worn a cavern in the earth underneath. Mr. L. Lawson Paysinger is taking Mr. Ben T. Paysinger's place at the hardware store of Win. Johnson. In this way: B. T. has been in the habit of clerking there when a man was needed temporarily or in emergency. Some one was needed to fill the place of T. P. Johnson while on that Can ada excursion; and as Ben T. is now in business for himself and can't help these other fellows out, somebody else had to be~ called in and this ac counts for "Laws" bein~ a n'ew clerk MAYOR BLEASI AT HOME. Very X-ch Encouraged In His Race for Governor-Goes to Spartan. burg This Week. Th-re are no State campaign meet ings this week, the campaign having been arr.nged so as to give the can did:!T es an opportunity to attend the Confederate reunion at Spartanburg, and Mayor Blease came home on Sun day and spent yesterday in Newberry. He will go to Spartanburg today. Mayor Blease exprossed himself as very much pleased with the outlook in his campign for governor. From the personal assurances of support which he had received throughout the State. the rnany letters which had been written him, and the cordial re ception given him at the campaign meetings, he said. he felt assured that he would lead .in the first rate fo' ,j%-ernor, and would win out in the second primary. Mayor Blease held his court yester day morning, and sentenced severa negroes for various offences. Negro and Money Gone. Messrs. Jones & Werts sent R er Dorroh. colored, to the bank terday morning with 821 to dep for them. and now there are no trac of the negro or the money. The poli force are on the look-out for both. SPECIAL NOTICES. One Cent a Word- No ad vertisement taken for less than 25 cents. TRY THE CHARLOTTE Stream Laun dry. Phone 84-2. Annie Ruff. DR. MELDAU makes a specialty -of . obscure diseases of both sexes; also' morphine and other drug habits. He is at his office all day. 8-16-3t,' UiYONE purchasing 25 cents worth of dry goods can purchase 18 pounds of sugar for $1.00. G. W. Kinard, Prosperity, S. C. 8-16-1t. NOTICE-I will give a first-class bar becue at my residence campaign day, August 27, 1910. I will sell meat and hash at 11.30. J. M. Counts. 8-2-1taw-td. FOR SALE-The 10-room house and lot I own on corner of Glenn and Main streets. House recently re novated inside and out. Lot has two colored tenements and good size stable, together with variety of. fruit, and shade trees, with splendid truck garden, and berry patches. Proper ty will .be sold entire, or sub-divided *and sold separately. For patrticu lars inquire at the premises. E. B. Wilbur. 8-9-8t. LET Annie 0. Ruff have your laundry work done. Phone 84-2. WE' WILL GIVE a first-class barbe cue at Slighs on the C., N. & L. rail road on Thursday, August 25 3. D. H. Kibler, Robt. Moore, E. H. Werts. 8-9-5t. I WILL FURNISH a first-class barbe-. c'.ie at the campaign meeting at, Jalapa on Tuesday August 16. The meeting will be. held at the usual place in the grove in I;he rear of my' residence. W. C. Sligh. 8-9-3t. FURNISHED rooms to rent with or without board. Apply at 1000 Col lege street. 7-12-10t FRESH BREAD AND . ROLLS.-We will continue to get steam raised bread and rolls every morning, fresh from the oven. If you want good bread we have It. Jones' Restaurant. 1taw-tf WANTED-Two to six reliable ren- : ters to work my lands for next three years. Henry D. Boozer, Newberry, S. C., R. F. D. No. 1. 8-9-3t-1taw. TELEGRAPHY-We are unable 't supply the demand for competent operatoms. Three months completes you under our expert managemnent. Positions guaranteed or no tuiticn charged. Write for catalogue. Clki' lotte Telegraphy School, Charlotte, N. 0. 8-9-4t-1taw. CIGAE SALESMAN WANTED. Experience unnecessary. Sell our brands to the retail trade. Big pay. Write for full particulars at once.. Globe Cigar Co., Cleveland, Ohio. 2-15-10Ot.- I GET YOUR GLASSES from Dr. 0. W. Connor, a graduate of the~ larg est optical college.ir. the world-the Northern Illinois College of Chies go. Dr Connor is located penman ent!v ip Newberry. gives both the" i4ee and sibjective tests 'by