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LOCAL MAKET. COTTON M[ARKET i. Corrected Twice a Wee. Corrected br Nat Gist. Good middling .. ..15% Butter.. ......-25 Strict middling. .15% H Middling...... .1W% Flour.. .....0 to 20 By Robt. MIcC. Holmes. Cor........ .5 Good Middling .15 1-4 Strict Middling. .15 1-8 Sugar.........5% to6% Middling... ..15 , Cotton seed 30 cents. OLUZZE XLTM NUMBER 71. NEWBERRY, SOUTH CABOLIN.A, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1910. BLEASE'S LEAD 3,369 OVER FEATHERSTO XR. HAMPTON IN SECOND B. WITH CANSLER. Official Count By State Exec Committee At Meeting On Fri day Night. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The discovery of an error c * 3,000 votes In Mr. Scarborough' * Greenville vote places M.[7 .1 * Hampton in the wrond race. * * * * ********* The State Democratic committee in Columbia late Friday afternooi canvas the returns of the first De cratic primary. The principal i, at stake, to be ssettled at this mee was whether G. McDuffie Hamptoi 0. C. Scarborough should make race for railroad commissiQner aga James Cansler. The official c< showed Col. Scarborough leading opponent by over 2,000 votes. relative stAnding of the other ca dates, and the results as previo announced remain unchanged. The Second Primary. Second races are declared for go e nor, adjutant general, railroad C missioner and for congress in the ond and sixth districts. The surprise in the report of committee was in the race for i road commissioner, when it was le ed that Col. Scarborough had so ' a lead over Mr. Hampton. Indicat from the unofficial returns Thur were that Mr. Hampton lead by a si margin. Col. Scarborough's vote 24,990, against Hampton's 22,630. In the race for gqyernor a total of 105,364 was polled, Cole. L. Bl receiving 33,414, against 30,045 fo C. Featherstone, a lead of 3,369. The Official Count. The official vote as declared lows: For governor: Cole. L. Blease, 414, John T. Duncan 1,436, C. C. Fe erstone 30,045, Hyatt 5,436, Thc '. McLeod 25,263, John G. Riche Jr., 9,770. For lieutenant governor: E. Wa Duvall 44,970, Chas. A. Smith 59,07: For secretary of State: R. M. Cown 92,731. For comptroller general: A. Jones 93,353. ,- .~-.u"*M*' For State trasurer: R. H~. Jenn For adjutant and inspector gene W. W. Moore 49,726, Charles Ne ham 21,483, 3. M. Richardson 32,62 For State superintendent of ed * tion: J. E. Swearingen 92,533. * For attorney general: B. B. E' *27,632, J. Fraser Lyon 73,863. For railroad commissioner: J Cansler 41,320, G. McDuffie Ham: 22,630, G. H. Mahon 18,350, 0. C. S borough 24,990. Congress, first district: Georgi Legare 7,111, J. H. Lesesne 2,464. Second district: Byrnes 4,897, Ge 2,355, Patterson 5,391. Third district: Aiken 12,803. Fourth district: Johnson 10,570. Fifth district: T. B. Butler 6,13: E. Finley 8,735, Henry 1,769. * Sixth district: Brown 2,621, El1 7,822, Hodges 3,781, Sellers 2,133. Seventh district: Lever 12,760, 1,246. - The Committee's Report. T-As a result of the above figure tabulated by the Democratic comn tee the result was declared in this inal, report: "None of the candidates for gC nror, or for adjutant and inspector -eral, or for railroad commissi( having received a majority of the ' cast in the first primary election gust 30, 1910, a second primar Shereby ordered to take pla<ce in cordance with the constitution Tuesday, September 13, 1910. The didates will be as follows in the 'election, having received the big number of votes: "For governor: Cole. L. Blease, Featherstone. "For adjutant and inspector gene W. W. Moore, J. M. Richardson. "For railroad commissioner: Js Cansler, 0. C. Scarborough. "Charles A. Smith for lieutenant ernor and J. Fr:43er Lyon, for a ney general, having received a m; ity of the vo:es cast in sauid elee the Democratic party for the respe( tives offices for which they are cand NE dates. "R. M. McCown, candidate for secr( tary of State; A. W. Jones, candidal LCE for comptroller general; R. H. Jer nings, candidate for State treasure and J. E. Swearingen, candidate fc tiTe State superintendent of education, hai ing no opposition, are hereby declai ed the nominees of the Democrati party fo rthe respective offices fC which they are candidates. "Geo. S. Legare, candidate for coi gress in the first district; D. E. Fir ley, candidate for congress in the fift district, and A. F. Lever, candidate fc congress in the seventh district, hai ing received a majority of the votf cast are hereby declared the nomineE met of the Democratic party in their r( I to spective districts. mo- "Wyatt Aiken, candidate for congreE ,sue in the third district, and Joseph ting Johnson, candidate for congress i t or the fourth district, having no oppos the tion, are hereby declared the nomineE ins of the Democratic party in their ro >unt spective districts. his The For Congress. ndi- "'No candidate in the 2d and 6th coi isly gressional districts having received majority of the votes cast in said eleo tion, a second primary is hereby ordei ver- ed to take place in those district om- and the following will be the cand sec- dates to run over, they having receivE the highest number of votes cast: the "For second congressional districl l - James F. Byrnes, J. 0. Patterson. "For 6th congressional district: J. I ong Ellerbe, P. A. Hodges." ions Chairman Jones and Secretary Be day had everything in such thorough ol nal der that the committee, of which Rol nall is crt Lide was chairman had little trot ble in verifying the result. vote The only surprise in the result wE ,,ate the large lead that Scarborough toc r C. over Hampton for second place in t1 railroad commissioner's race. In ti race for adjutant general there wei fol- 103,865 votes cast, thus running coi siderably above the expected vot 33,- Cansler and Scarborough. ath- Mr. Cansler will have as his con panion runner, Mr. Scarborough, as, Clarendon. There has been no que 'r',tion in other contests, sifce the mori ing after the first primary. iker Protests Received. Mc- Chairman Jones read a telegra M-from J. S. Griffin, of Colleton, thatsi expected to file a protest against ti [nomination of Mr. Ackerman as Stai senator. Mr. Griffin telegraphed th: ongs he could not serve the papers and g< rato the meeting. It was received a rlinformation. A protest came from the voters 6. Ward 4, in Columbia, that they coul Lca' not vote because the poll list was los They wanted to vote and there was r tans club roll. Mr. Sinkler, moved that the votei mes whose names were on the last clu pton roll be enrolled for the next primar car- This was adopted. SOn motion of Mr. Drake the idE was extended so that club rolls ms .i be perfected where original rolls haa rrsbeen lost. The Calhoun county committee we sustained in its having dismissed contest filed by Mr. McLaughlin. ,D. The York county committee was a erso sustained in a magistrate's coi ertest. The meeting of the committee we Ray entirely harmonious. HAMIPTO~ N 1 .tCE. s as mit- Error on Part of Gra.nvi!e C'onw for- Commitee Gave Wrong Re. turns. gen- Columbia, Sept. 3.-G. McDufl en, Hampton of this city will be in ti otes second race for the office of railros Au- commissioner with Jas. Cansler, as y is result of a mistake of approximate: ac- 3,000 votes made in the official ra on turns from Greenville county. can- The State Democratic executil said committee met last night, and aft< hest canvassing the returns declared 0. Scarborough and James Cansler to 1 3. C. in the second race for the office. TI returns as submitted by the secretai ral: of the Greenville county executi, committee gave 0. C. Scarborough i .mes 386 votes for the county when I should have received only 386. TI gov. mistake was not discovered until t tor- day when it was found that the vo jor.. for railroad commissioner in Gree: :o.vifle cour.:r was~ gie as neary SA. fices, including congress, was approxi mately 5,000 votes. Immediately following the discovery of the mistake Wilie Jones, the chair e man of the State Democratic execu tive committee issued a call for an , other meeting of the committee to r meet in Columbia, in the office of the secretary of state at the State house on next Monday night c at 8.30 o'clock when the votes r will be recanvassed and G. Mc Duffie Hampton declared in the sec ond race. The mistake was no fault of the State executive committee and h the announcement was caused by a clerical error on the part of the Greenville county executive commit tee secretary. The mistake has cost the Democratic party of the State ap proximately $500. The tickets for the second primary had been printed and were in the express office here ad s dressed to the chairmen of the various county committees. The tickets were recalled by State Chairman Jones and new tickets with the name of Hampton s for railroad commissioner reprinted. WILL BUILD COTTON ILL. One With 10,000 Spindles is to be a Erected in Prosperity-Its Estab lishment Now Assured. Prosperity, Sept. 3.-Prosperity has been in need of a cotton mill and it d has been talked quietly for some time, but now it is an assured fact. Pros perity is an ideal location for a cot ton mill, having a thickly settled white population and one of the best farm ing sections in the State. A 10,000 spindle mill will be built and Dr. J. S. Wheeler is to be president. He has the confidence of the entire community and is a young man of sound business judgment. He will have associated s with him in this enterprise many of e the leading business men of this sec e tion, among them being: Dr. Geo. Y. e Hunter, president of the Bank, of Pros e perity, and W. W. Wheeler, president of the People's National bank. The two banks are united on the proposi tion and will push it to a finish. ROOSEVELT'S TOWN HAS 21,802 FOLKS Washington, September 2.-Oyster .1 Bay, the home of ex-President Roose e velt, has a population of 21,802, as e against 16,334 in 1900, an increase of e 5,468. These figures include Sea Cliff t village, which adjoins Oyster Bay. t Nassau county, in which Oyster Bay s is located, has a population of 83,930 as against 55,448 in 1900. d The Lodge at Newberry, S. C. t.It was our good pleasure to be with o0 this lodge at a called meeting for the purpose of conferring the E. A. degree - upon three candidates. b This lodge surely has a bright fu Sture, for the very reason that it is com prised of the very best material our a race can furnish. There are so many Syoung men of such high moral charac e .ter that compose the membership, that it can not but grow and thrive. These syoung men are young men who are ap a plying themselves to the study of the great principles of Masonry. H. W. - Dominick, the master, is an exception Sally bright young man, with a very attractive way of saying anything. T. t P. Johnson, the J. W., is second to no man in his -nanner, style and every thing that goes to make up a first class man, and H. H. Rikard, th-e S. W., is a county officer of high standing. SThen Dr. Smith, the district deputy, is not only an extra strong man intel lectually, but a man of kindness and the deputy grand master, G. S. Mower, eis a man strong in all that is necessary tto make him an all round man. You dought to be in this body and see how a they confer this degree and hear Dr. Ly Smith give the lecture. SMany thanks, brethren, for your kindness to us.-Masonic Journal, e Jacksonville, Fla. Amity Lodge, No. 87, A. F. M. e An extra communication of Amity y Lodge, No. 87, A. F. M., will be held -e next Thursday evening at 8.30 o'clock - in Fraternity Hall. Visiting brethren e cordially welcomed. e The M. M. degree will be conferred. .H. W. Dominick, W. M. Le J- W. Earhardt, Secretary. 'r vou e.at impess a cmzy man by THE SEWS OF PROSPERITY. den, cori Prospects for School Good-Sunday ty) Schools Organize-Marriage-Per- eac] sonal Mention. weii riet Prosperity, September 5.-Mr. G. M. plai Able is visiting in Leesville. Aug Miss Mary Lizzie Wise spent the whi week-end in Newberry with Miss Liz- Thil gie McCrackin. beri Messrs. Wm. Cappellman, of Ctar- ave: eston, Hal Kohn, of Columbia, and E. peel 3. Kohn, of Little Mountala, were H guests at the Wise hotel Saturday and of ! Sunday. of I Mrs L. T. Brown, of Salisbury, N. C., ma and Mrs. Lizzie Boinest, of Pomar!a, to I are guests of Mrs. E. 0. Couuts. cou Miss Allie Kelly, of Bishopvlle, stop- ber. ed over re-cal days last we,ek wi'h M Uiss Nannia Simpson en route to Spar- tow tanburg. ing Mrs. A. S. Osborne has returned to for Spartanburg -.fter a visit +o her sister gett Urs. S..L. I clers. cali Dr. G. Y Hunter has r-,urned from everal days' stay at Clemn College. Mrs. 0. F. Lathan and 'ittle Martha. X Little Mountain, spent S-inday with T f:s. J. irar l Browne. , giv Mr Thos. Thompspn, of Cotmabia, to chu visiting at the home of his father. Mr. ber 1'. J Thoni2son. Miss Eva Merchant returnet baze Saturday from Greenwood accompa- N t:ied -6 h1 sister, Mrs. A. Z. Counts nd ilfdflu dj.i Mr. H. B. Black, of Leville, is disl pending a few days with hia sister A Mrs H. P. V icker. and Miss Hattie Groseclose sp-1t Friday ma i 'iof il 0lumabia. oe Mrs. D. E. Ridgell, after spending he several months with her parents, Mr. A and Mrs. W. A..Moseley, has returned the to her home in Jacksonville, Fla. and Mr. D. P. Boyd, of Kinards, was in ity town .Friday. A Mrs. R. C. Counts and children have nai returned from Mountville, accompa- mai nied.by Mrs. Wm. Werts. ser - An auto party composed of Messrs. bee J. F. Browne, J. H. Crosson, S. D. rail Duncan and Miss Nannie Simpson Th( spent Sunday in Leesville. ten, Miss Edna Beacham has returned her to Laurensburg, N. C., after a visit nan to Miss Ruby Russell. in Rev. S. P. Koon and Mr. A. G. Wise Nai left Monday for Richmond, where they der are delegates to the United Synod of fine the South.to The children's missionary society of Grace Lutheran church will meet at the church the s~econd Sunday at 11 o'clock. Prosperity high school will open Sep- abo tember 19 with the same corps of at I teachers, with the exception of Miss Kohn and Mr. Black. Miss Bobb and old. Mr. JT. M. Bedenbaugh are filling their wa* chairs. A full attendance is expected hea and it is hoped this will be the mosttm sucessful session in its history. day M\iss Rosa Lee Suber, of Peak, has dea come to spend the winter with Mrs. T Elvira Kibler to attend Prosperity'sj chu high school. o'cl .Mr. 0. B. Shearouse, of Little Moun- by tain, spent Monday with Mr. L. A. by Black. ed The meeting of Sunday schools of gan No. 9 township which was held Friday B in Grace church was carried out in to full as had been arranged, after which the the following officers were elected: ma: W. C. Dominick, president. nit: Rev. I. S. Caldwell, vice-president. h J. S. Wheeler, secretary. al< The executive committee: R. C. hav~ Counts, T. A. Dominick and P. W. .bor Counts.] Hugh, the little two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Boland, of Mel-Ja drin, Ga., died Friday and was brought att to Prosperity Saturday for interment.no Mr. R. E. Shealy, who is a telegraph operator at Wilmington. N. C., is for spending a few days at home. en Mr. E. N. Mathis was married in ago Greenwood Sunday to Miss Lawson, ber and brought his bride to Prosperityan for a few days' stay with his parents par en route to their Luture home in Abbe- pla ville, Ga., where he holds a position in with the Southern railroad. Gre "Bill" Smith Had Fine Trip. W. J. Smith ("Bill"), has just re- bee turned from a visit to his old home in yea Noxuber county, Miss., after 30 years in i absence. He spent a month on his na- ily tive soil renewing the acquaintances D. of his boyhood. He reports crop con- E ditions to be A. No. 1-in fact about chil 1 1-2-and says that he left the whole her of the people with beaming counten1- n nncs as a co:gecueonce. of ,e in the shape of several ear L, two of which (big Indian val weigh one pound and five oun4 i; one ear (15 1-2 inches in leng ,hing one pound, and another y (Hickory King), which 1 ited April 15th, and gathered 20th, and ground into meal, fh ch "Billie" ate bread on same i 5 corn was raised by J. A. Eic] ,er, of Mashulaville, Miss. age of 75 bushels per acre is ed from this corn. e also brings evidence that the port has not passed in the 1 he "Levee," in the shape of nificient deer antlers, preset dim by Mr. Jno. Kohn, of Wins aty, and Mr. T. P. Smith, of No r. J. says that he is proud that a of Newberry has not moved 4 his absence as he will be too b some while to be hustling arol ing acquainted with a strange ty. Ice Cream Festival at Trinity. he ladies of Trinity church an ice cream festival on rch grounds on Thursday, Sept 8, from 4 until 11 o'clock. Some Council Cases. ot to mention the minor cases ror's court, the following have b >osed of since last issue: colored couple for using abu, blasphemous language. The i pleaded guilty and paid the 5. The man was found guilty, paid a fine of $10. colored citizen pleaded guilt3 charge of creating a disturbs fighting his wife. He gave se< for the payment of his fine of colored individual whose Chris1 ie is Bonypart was up with a 1 for fighting each other. H ring a sentence of the usual 30 d 9,use of financial embarrassmen ing the $15 which he was fb woman was fined $15. Her . e, however, is suspended pene leaving town in five days. ie is Bertha Robertson and sh the same boat with Isabel Lcy Davis, who for keeping di ly house were sentenced to pa of $25 each, if they didn't lE n in five days. Sudden Death of Mir. Reeder. [r. W. A. Reeder died suddenl: ut 1 o'clock last Friday aftern is home in the Bush river sec1 he county. He was about 50 y4 It is supposed that heart fail due to his having become a' ted while at work on his farm s< ago. He had been at work:] morning as usual and drop d just after the dinner hour. he burial was at Bush Ri rch Saturday afternoon at ock, the service being condu< he Rev. James R. McKittrick, the Knights of Pythias, the dect .aving been a member of that ization. He was a member h River church and also belon he Woodmen of the World, in relations of which he was a Wo0 1 well as citizen of the com: [r. Reeder leaves a wife and se ~hldren to mourn his death. TI e the deep sympathy of their nei s and friends in their sad afflict Eeath of a Lady at the Hospital [rs. Lena Vanderford, wife of ies Vanderford, of Newberry, he Columbia hospital Friday af n, of pulmonary abscess, noth been able to survive the operat whici treatment she had beeni to th hospital about three we .Tne body was brought to N ry on the Southern train Satur was taken to Baxter's undertali lors to await burial, which t 3e on Sunday morning at 11 o'c1< Rosemont cemetery, the Rev. J ene conducting the service. Er. Vanderford and his family b n living in Newberry about tU rs, Mrs. Vanderford having b 1 health during that time, the f; lately occupying rooms at Mr Smith Livingston'rs residence. esides her husband she leaves d, Miss Lilly Vanderford, to mc departure. The bereaved hush a;.t- hare the dep sympa . o SHELRY BUUKU r'ie -;AFTER SEABOARD va vas ENTICING FARM HANDS TO NORTH on CAROLINA* 'om lay. He Declares That Road Has no Ima iel- migration License-Brought Back An Three Negroes From N. C. ex The State. day "I am going to swear out a warraat and against the Seaboard Air Line rail two road for failing to have an immigra ted tion license, giving them the right to ton move negro laborers out of South Car . olina into another State, which they are now doing without having paid the $500 for the necessary permission," the declared Sheriff M. M. Buford of New tur- berry county, who passed through Co usy lumbia last night with three negroes Lind whom he had arrested at Rockingham, N. C., on warrants charging them with having violated labor contracts with Newberry farmers. Sheriff Buford said that he was ill balked in his effort to bring back a the fourth negro, charged with the same am- offense, by the Seaboard, which would not allow him to do so without requi sition papers. He will at once make application to the governor for the papers, which an attorney for the road i demanded. According to Sheriff Bu een ford, the negro was willing to come back and face the charge of breaking fhe his contract. wo- Taking the Laborers. fine "All over my county," continued aud Sheriff Buford, "there have been com plaints that the Seaboard railway was r to enticing the negroes away from the nce farms and -taking them to North Caro mr- lina, where they are p'ut to work on $2ro the construction gangs. The road sent dan a negro agent around who has a beau o- tiful yarn made up that he tells the i country negroes about how easy the' Ays work on the railroad is and what a t in good time they will have. I am goiag to do my best to put a stop to it. The en- farmers lose their hands and the rails ngroad is to blame." leir The name of the negro agent wto e got the four negroes to leave New and berry county is Jake Lever, according .. to Sheriff Buford. y a Requisition Papers Demanded. e Chief of Police Wright of Rocking. ham, after being communicated wi by Sheriff Buford, arrested the four ne Sgroes and held them until he arrived. I le did not think that extradiglon pa r at pers would be detmanded and coday oon oue ntly neglected to provide hims dlf don with them. He got three of the ne ars groes, but an -attorney for the Sea ure board declared tha-; the fourth could er- not go without the papers and he was me accordingly left in Rockinghiam. Pri- Sheriff Baford says .that he will re ped turn fcr the i;gra and will swear ont 2 warrant agai.ist the Seabrar2 f, r ver cakig laborers fr';m this Stats witti 2 out an immigration license, which ted costs $500. There is also a penalty of and $500 attached for each violation of the as- license requirement. or of Tribute of Respect. ged Whereas, it has pleased our Heav all enly Father that four of our brave 'thy comrades in arms, S. P. Kinard, An mu- drew Kinard, M. L. Long, and Jas. Wood, should answer to the last roll ~-call on earth since oui' last meeting 'ytogether a year ago; therefore we, the he surviving members of Company G, of g-the 13th regiment of South Carolina ion. Volunteers, in meeting now assembled * in the town hall of Prosperity, S. C., Mr- on this, the 26th day of August, 1910, lied do hereby resolve: ter- 1. That we do bow in humble submis av- sion to Him who doeth all things well. ion, 2. That we do hereby express our :ak- high appreciation of the gallantry and eks bravery these comrades of our always ew- showed as soldiers on the field of bat day tle where men's souls are tried. :ing 3. That in having crossed over the ook river of death, their bereaved families, >ck; and all their old comrades in arms, R. -sustain a great loss. 4. That we extend to their bereaved ave families ou.r sincere sympathy, direct L!3e ing them to the great Leader and Comn een mander above, who heals all wounds. am- 5. That these resolutions be inscrib .. ed in our minutes, and that a copy of them be sent to the familes of our- de one parted comrades. urn J. M. Werts, and A. A. Nates, .thy Geo. B. Aull, '1e Committee.