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PURELY PERSONAL. Movements of Many People, New berrians and Those Who Visit Newberry. ASSISTANT PASTOR. Misses Mamie and Maggie Cline spent Tuesday in Columbia. Miss Auld, of Columbia, is visiting the Misses Carwile. Mr. E. A. Phillips attended the un veiling ceremonies Wednesday. Miss Eva Goggans returned last week from visiting relatives at Orangeburg and Bennettsville. Mr. Olie Bowers returned Monday from a most delightful visit to Hen dersonville. Miss Lucile West left Tuesday for Charleston, where she will enter Stokes business college. Miss Ruth Hester, of Winder, Ga., is on a visit to her aunt, Mrs. B. E. Julien, at Helena. Mrs. C. C. Chase, of Atlanta, is on a -visit to her brother, Mr. T. C. Pool, -and 'her sister, Mrs. 0. L. Schumpert. Mrs. G. G. Sale has returned from a visit to her sister, Mrs. S. H. McLean, In Columbia. Mr. J. Lawson Long, former super .intendent of schools in Dallas, Texas, is in Newberry. Miss Stone leaves today for Colum 'bia, after spending some time at Pros perity. Miss Rosa Wright, a former resi dent of Newberry but now living in Laurens, visited 'relatives in the city this week on her way to Chester. Miss Agnes Summer is at Luther ville, Md., in charge of the French de partment in the Maryland College for Women. Mrs. D. C. Lagrone, of Wards, and Mrs. J. A. Mitchell, of Saluda, were on a visit last week to Mrs. Robert T. Caldwell. Miss Marian Higgins who last ses sion taught in Berkeley, leaves today for Bamberg where she will teach school. Mrs. T. W. Hutchinson and daugh ter, Miss Josie, are in Columbia vis iting Mrs. Hutchinson's daughter, Mfrs. E. C. Hutchinson. Mr. De Witt Salter is in Chattan ooga, Tenn., conducting the musical department in a large wholesale and retail store. Mrs. H. H. Sweets and little son, of Louisville, Ky., are visitng Mrs. Sweets' brother, Mr. Foster N. Mar tin Mrs. L. F. Martin and Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Martin have returned from Co Tumbia after visiting at Mr. 0. P. Har :cis'. Mrs. S. G. LaFar and children stop-* ped over in Newberry for a few days on her way home to Charleston. She has been spending the summer in Greenville. Mrs. Emma Watson, on her way from Florida to her home in Atlanta, is visiting her sister, Mrs. W. E. Pel ham, and other relatives in Newber ry for a few days. Mrs. Oscar Johnson and Miss Maud Johnson, after visiting Mrs. J. L. Bowles, Mrs. R. D. Smith and their relatives in Newberry, leave tomorrow ~for their home in Charleston. ~Miss Marie Epton, of Spartanburg, is in the city with a view to getting up .a class for violin instruction. It .ought to be easy for her to form such ;:a dlass. Mr. Ivy Cromer, of Caldwell town ship, has come to town to take the :-POsition of clerk in J. T. Dennis' store fin .place of his brother, Mr. Arthur ACroner who will leave Mr. Dennis to 'clerk for E. Mi. Lane & Co. Mr. Thos. E. Wicker returned Mon ,day from Little Rock, via Hot Springs, .Ark. He had attended the National .Rural Letter Carriers' convention at little Rock, after which he excurted to Hot Springs, Mr. Devore, the other delegate, having come direct home .from. the convention. Miss Susan Dean, the accomplished a.nd -efficient W. TU. telegraph operator rat Laur'ens, was a pleasant and most '.welcomed visitor this week to New be?rry, -where she has so many friends who wish she was still living here. Her presence here is an ever wel come feature in the life of the place. Mr. C. P. Pelham returned Wednes ~day from Selma, Ala., whither he and Mrs. Pelham had gone, leaving New tberry last Friday for Selma the home of Mrs. Pelham's mother, in response* to a telegram announcing the sudden death of Mr. Columbus Gayle, the only trother of Mrs. Pelhiam, and the ill mess of her mother. Mrs. Pelham will remain awhile with her mother to be with her in their heavy affliction in the loss of their only son and brother. Thae family have the heartfelt sym pathy of this Community. VARIOUS AND ALL ABOUT. The cotton mills will not be in op eration today, or Saturday. Every body go to the circus today and enjoy yourself. There has been a rise in the price of cotton at Newberry market. People are admiring the fine auto mobile bought by Col. Purcell. Lena Rivers at the opera house Thursday night. All who have read the story know that it is fine. Crowds of students for Newberry college have been arriving daily for several days. Carrie Maffett, a colored woman who lived on Mr. M. L. Dickert's place, dropped dead Tuesday morning at 7.30 o'clock. The public cannot expect the opera house managers to bring good shows here unless the people patronize the entertainments. Wake up, Rip Van Winkles. The Starkey players will p'esent "The Man and the Brute" Friday night. "Beyond Pardon" Saturday afternoon matinee, and "Tempest and Sunshine" Saturday night. Where the circus will exhibit de pends on the weather. If fair the show is to be held in the bottoms, if foul it will be pulled off in rear of Dr. Gilder's residence. The election commissioners for Newberry county are as follows: State-G. G. Sale, J. C. Gary, M. M. Boozer. Federal-J. B. Derrick, J. B. Hunter, W. H. Sanders. The farmers are getting money for their cotton and cotton seed in Newberry. Continue bringing the pro ducts to this market, where you get good treatment all the year round, not spasmodically. The convicted blind tiger, D. B. Thompson, mentioned in last issue as having been sentenced by Mayor Blease to pay $150, serve a term on the gang or leave town never to re turn, decided to take the latter course. Since the government and Mr. G. B. Boozer have become so active in the cattle tick business our merchants have been receiving larger supplies of tics and their lines of domestics are finer than heretofore has been the case. Chief of Police C. W. Bishop got a phone message Wednesday to go t3 the country and arrest a negro chick en thief. The chief went and arrest ed him, but turned him over to the trial justice as no town case could be' made of it. This is circus day. Take your chil dren to see the animals and the show. Everybody cordially invited to do so. If you have no children of your own take somebody's children. Make the children happy and remember you were once a child yourself, crazy to go. President I. H. Hunt of the cham ber of commerce has appointed Dr. Jas. McIntosh, and Messrs. Nat Gist and W. H. Wallace to represent the Newberry chamber of commerce at the Southern Conservation congress to be held in Atlantta, Ga., on he 7th and 8th of October. The fire horses, Frank and Cole, were out on a trial test Tuesday aft ernoon. The way they pulled the hose wagon through Caldwell street by The Herald and News office was enour to make glad the hearts of all true fremen, from Wells, Wright and Swittenberg down to Carl Epting and the devi] in The He'l and News office. But those horses ran some. They are all right. A new expression for run ing will have to be originated. "Burn ing the wind" doesn't express it for Frank and Cole. Bob Poterfield has opened a restau ant in McKibben street. Bob is look ng well since his recent retirement from business and his rest from the, ares incident to a strenuous life. It s to be hoped that Robert, the former lind tiger king of Newberry, the incent Chicco of the town, will dis appoint many people by running strictly a restaurant. Only that and 2thing more. The former king of lind tigers has had a busy life in the past. Maybe he has hung the tiger skin to the wall. A Card of Thanks. Recently my wife, Mrs. Nancy Min lk, was so afflicted that a very se rious operation was necessary. It was a very severe trial for us-one of the most severe that can come to any family. However, our friends and neighbors were very kind and helpful~ to us, making our burden much ligh-! ter than it would otherwise have been. We are thankful and more than thank ful for their timely assistance and pray and work that God's richest blessing may rest upon them. Very sincerely, C. H. Minick. Subscribe for The Hferald and get the k~ws. FARMERS' UMON WORK. Col. J. B. O'Neall Holloway Reviving Interesting In the Union by Ex tensive Campaign. Col. J. B. O'Neall Holloway, deputy organizer and general field worker for the State Farmers' union of SouttL Carolina, has finished a campaign tour of two weeks through Pickens and Oconee counties, and on Wednesday was in Marion to address a big far mers' rally there in the interests of the union. Col. Holloway's invitation was through the Marion chamber of commerce, and it was stated that be tween 1,500 and 2,000 people were ex pected to attend the rally. Mr. Hol loway was invited to make the princi pal address. On Saturday he will at tend a meeting of the Abbeville coun ty union, and he will devote the whole of next week to Anderson county, be ginning with a meeting at Five Forks on Tuesday and concluding with a meeting at Long Branch on Saturday. Mr. Holloway's appointment as or ganizer came through the executive committee of the State organization, of which Mr. A. J. A. Perritt, of Dar lington, is president, the executive committee being composed of Messrs. A. D. Hudson, of Newberry; Douglas McIntyre, of Marion, and L. C. Pad gett, of Smoak. Col. Holloway has been much encouraged in the work which he has already done for the union. He has revived a -number of unions and has organized many new unions. "At every place which I vis ited," said Col. Holloway, "I found the former members and a great many who were not members interested in the cause and expressing a determina tion to help in the work." Mr. Holloway said that in his trav els he had found the farmers imbued with the idea of organization among the farmers for their own benefit, and with the idea that the only way to meet organization was with organiza tion, but that they had been waiting to be convinced that the organization which they should go into would be the proper kind of organization. The seeming decline in interest, said Mr. Holloway, was not because of any lack of appreciation of the value of the Farmers' union, when its merits were properly presented, but simply on account of the fact that the import ance -of an organization which has specifically in mind the farmers' wel fare has not been kept before those who will be benefited. Mr. Holloway's campaign has been and will continue to be educational in its nature. In his addresses he is urging the importance of intelligent farming methods. For many years he was a teacher, and he is a great be-: liever in compulsory education. He believes that the salvation of this country deepnds uopn an educated yeomanry, and that one of the great est crimes is to allow children to grow up in ignorance. He was very much gratified when he attended a meeting in the Six-Mile Baptist acas demy, in the western part of Pickens county; ar. the foot of the mountains. which - . says would be a credit to any county or any community. Mr. Holloway is a former teacher in the Richland school, in Oconee county, and during his tour in that section, he visited the school and made an address. He stresses the idea that Clemson .should have the agricultural department as one of its main consid erations, if not the main considera tion. Asked as to crop conditions, Mr. Holloway said that the corn crop in the upper part of the State where he had been was the finest he had ever seen, and that there was more of it than he had ever seen in that sec tion. The cotton crop, he said, was "spotted," there being few good fields. From Newberry to Greenville, he said. the crop was very poor, there being a air prospect only in exceptional areas. Col. Holloway has been stressing throughout his campaign the -value of education, and especially the value of ntelligent methods In farming. The kind of campaign which he is waging is bound to bring forth good results. See This Question Mark? Some people call it an interrogation point. That is when they first go to school. It is here called a question mark for short. It stands for the Mower Co. and means have you seen that the Mower Co. is reaching the public in an attractive manner through the columns of The Herald and News, the right advertising me dium? A great many new goods of the finest varieties and grades are offered for sale by this company and the mil linery department is unexcelled. Children's day will be observed at the Silver Street Lutheran church next Sunday. The services will be conducted by the pastor, Rev. S. P. Koon. There will be exercises by the children, services in the morning and again in the afternoon. Dinner will be served on the grounds and every body is invited and will be welcome~d nd s expected to bring dinner. THE COTTON MARKET. What Is Being Paid for Cotton and Cotton Seed in Various Sections of the County. There has been more or less com plaint among some people in Newberry as to the Newberry cotton market and the market for cotton seed. The Her ald and News yesterday called up buy ers at the several markets around Newberry and got quotations of the prices prevailing at those markets. At Chappells the market was quoted by Mr. A. P. Coleman; at Silver Street by Mr. Sheppard; at Pomaria by Aull and Hipp; at Prosperity by J. L. and A. G. Wise, and at Little Mountain by Mr. C. F. Lathan. Chappells. Cotton... ......... .......13%1 Cotton seed. ........... ...48 SilTerstreet. Cotton... ... ... ... ... ... ..13%i Cotton seed...................47 Pomaria. Good middling. ...........13.45 Strict middling. ......... ..13 7-16 Middling... ... ... ... ... ...13 3-8 Cotton seed... . ...........45 Prosperity. Cotton... ..............13 5-16 Cotton seed... ... ... ... ...45 Little Mountain. Cotton. ... . ...... .. ......13% Cotton seed... ... ..... ..... ...42 The Newberry market was quoted yesterday for strict good middling at 13 3-8, good middling at 13 1-4 and cotton seed at 45 cents per bushel. It will be seen that with the exception of Pomaria the Newberry market is quoted as high for cotton as any of the others, but Silverstreet and Chap pells were paying a little more for seed. STARKEY'S PLAYERS. A Good Popular-Price Attraction at the Opera House all This Week. Beginning with "The Little Home stead" as the opening bill on Monday Starkey's Players have been filling a week's engagement at the city opera house, the character of which, taking the prices into consideration, ought to have drawn much larger crowds. The talent wheih is presented is of higher order than in many high-priced at tractions which have been offered in Newberry in recent years. It is expected that "Lena Rivers," which is familiar to the great major ity of the American reading and thea tre-going public, will draw a large crowd on Thursday night. Manager Starkey announces that the attrac tion on Friday night will be "The Man' and the Brute," a scientific story bas ed on the result of the transfusion of blood. He says he wants the posi tive statement made that it will not be safe for people with weak hearts to attend. The stirring scenes and the intense interest which they create, he says, have caused several ladies to faint in audiences witnessing the pre sentation of this play. The Carlton sisters, both in the reg ular cast and in their specialties, are a feature of a show which is good throughout. The prices are 15, 25, 35 and 50 cents. "Beyond Pardon" will be the bill for a matinee Saturday afternoon, fol lowed by "Tempest and Sunshine" on Saturday night. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * AT THE THEATEE. * * * * * ** * ** ** ** ** * The following is from the Asheville Citizen of September 23: Coburn's Greater Minstrels played to a large and enthusiastic audience at the auditorium last night and the entertainment that they offered w.s of that class of minstrelsy that per petually attracts and holds its audi ences. The variety of the program was really remarkable. The spectacular feature was provided at the closing part of the performance, by Man telle's Marionette hippodrome anfd fairyland transformation which was beautiful and artistic. Good old fashioned minstrelsy, however, was the strong features of the show, and in that it scored its real success. The voices were much better than are usually heard in min strels, and the dancing was of tLae sort that brings your feet to a patter whether you will or not. Especially pleasing was the quar tet which was encored time and again. Leslie D. Barry scored a hit in his baritone solo, and Robert C. Hackett's bass solo, "The Armorerss Song," was a treat. But really, special mention is invi dious where all voices were good and all features up to the highest stand and of minstrelsy. Subscribe now for The Herald and get the News. NEWBERRT.LAURE3iS ROAD. Good Work by Supervisor Feagle on Newberry's Part of Highway - Sign Boards to be Put Up. Supervisor Feagle has about com pleted the section of the highway be tween Greenville and Columbia via Newberry and Laurens from Newber ry to the Laurens line. He has been at work on this section of the road for some time, and upon the whole has done a most excellent piece of work. Certainly it is a great improvement over the road before the work was done. There are a few places the road could be greatly improved by mixing some clay with the sand and other places where some sand is needed on the clay. The only section of sand that needs claying is a short section just about three miles from Newberry. The road has been widened and shap ed up and drained on either side and is at present in very fine condition. If the people who live along the road could be induced to use the split log drag, however, after each rain, the clay section would never get bad even in the winter. If the road is not dragged, however, there will neces sarily work some holes in the road bed and the water will stand in these and the travel will tend to make the holes deeper and in this way with much travel in rainy weather the clay section of the road will get bad. If the road was kept dragged, however, the water would not stand and, being well drained on either side, the road would never get bad even in the rainy season. It seems to be up to the peo ple along this road now to keep it in good condition, and it should be a pleasure to them to do so. They should show their appreciation of the work that has been done by keeping the road in good condition. Two grade crossings of the railroad have been avoided at Mr. Geo. C. Glas gow's place by changing the road and keeping it on the same side of the rail road. Mr. Glasgow cooperated with the supervisor, as did the C., N. and I. railroad, and though it required considerable filling, this has been done and really a better road bed will be the resulf. Thi4 game thing should be done on the road between Newberry and Prosperity and at sev eral places between Prosperity and Little Mountain, and the railroad will be glad to cooperate with he super visor and the citizens In relocating the road so as to avoid so many grade crossings. Between Newberry and Prosperity the road could be relocat ed so that It would not be necessary to cross the C., N. & L. railroad at all between Newberry and Prosperity, and there would be only one crossing on the Southern just as you approach Prosperity. This is a very important matter and it is difficult to understand why the people who travel this road; be glad to cooperate with the super and those who live along it would not be anxious to have it relocated, be cause it is certainly danger ous to have to cross the railroa'd so often. Between Prosperity and Little Mountain there are several very dangerous crossings, most of which could easily be avoided. The supervisor is finishing a little work at iKanrds on this road now and will then work the road from Kinards to Bush river. After this is completed the force that is now at Kinards will be moved to Whitmire and the roads out from Whitmire will be put in good condition. The editor of The Herald and News in Mr. Norris' Ford touring car, driv en by Mr. W. C. Waldrop, in company with Mr. Norris and Col. C. J. Purcell, drove over the road last week to take some distances so as to have the cross-roads and forks of the roads posted. We drove from Newberry to Clinton and we noticed that this see tion of the Laurens road has not been posted. The only places that are to be posted are, first, the Glenn Rikard place, 2.3 miles from Newberry, and next the road leading to Beth Eden, three miles from Newberry; then at, Jalapa there is the forks of the roads just seven miles from Newberry; just this side of Gary's, 9.5 miles from New berry, is a road turning to the left as you go toward Kinards. The next road leading out of this road is at Mt. Olive colored church, 11 miles from Newberry. The distance to the Lau rens line at the old Ninety Six road just in front of Mr. Oxner's place is 13.1 miles. These measurements were made from the mile rock in the* public square in front of the old court house. It may be interesting to give s.ome other distances which we noted, and starting from this mile rock, the fol lowing notes of distance were made: Miles. Gleen Rikard place... ... ... ...2.3 Railroad crossing.........-. -2.8 Beth Eden road... ... ... ... ... 3 Gum Spring branch... ... ... .. 4 W. E. Merchant's place... ... ... 6 Railroad crossing.. 6. . . 65 .alapa................... --7 W. C. Sligh's place... ... .... . Geo. . % 3 -'s. . .. ... --- i / S. M. Duncan's place... ... ... 8.4 Captain Thos. Connor's place . 8.9 Road just this side Gary's... .. 9 - Gary's... ... ... ... ... ... .. 9.6 Gary....................10.1 Mt. Olive colored church.. .. ..11 Miller place... ... ... ... ... ..11. Mrs. Gary's... ... .... ... ...12 M. E. parsonage.. ..........12.5 J. A. Dominick's place... ... ...12.8 Laurens line... ... ... ... ... .13.1 Goldville... ....... ... ... .....16.4 Clinton....................22.2 At a meeting of the executive com mittee of the chamber of commerce a few days ago a committee compos, ed of Mr. E. H. Aull was authorized to have the sign boards prepared and placed at the places indicated above. This will be done just as soon as the posts can be obtained. Daughters of Confederacy. The Drayton Rutherford chapter, U. D. C., will meet with Mrs. P. G. Elle sor on Tuesday afternoon, October 4, at 4 o'clock. * CO3ING ATTRACTIONS. * Earhardt and Baxter, the alert and painstaking managers of the city opera house, have booked the follow ing for the season: October 3-Coburn's minstrels. October 6-Faussoux, hypnotist, three nights. October 20-Human Hearts. October 28-Black Beauty. October 29-Lillian Buckington in The Stampede. November 1-Manhattan Opera Co. November 4-Graustark. November 18-St. Elmo. December 23-The Royal Mystic Marvels, two nights. December 30-The Girl of the U. S. A. December 31-My Wife's Family. N January 27-Daisy Cameron. January 31-Buster Brown. February 8-Black Patti. February 9-The Cow in the Moon. February 21-The Fighting Parson. February 27-Lyman Twins. COTTON WARKET. Corrected by Nat Gist. Strict good middling.. .... ....13% Good middling.. .... .... ....13% Strict middling.. .... .... ....13% Middling..... ...... .... ....13 By Robert KcC. Holmes. Strict good middling.. .... ....13% Good middling.. .... .... ....13% Strict middling.. .... .... ....13% Middling.. ...... ......13 Cotton seed 45 cents. SPECIAL 'NOTICES. One Cent a Word- No ad vertisement taken for less than 25 cents. BUY YOUR FLOUR NOW-First car of choice new wheat, best patent Tennessee flour-Desoto-to arrli'e in few days. While It lasts goes for $5.60 per barrel. Moseley Bros., Prosperity, S. C. 9-27-tt ALL EINDS of fish and Norfolk oys ters at Paysinger & Cowards. 9-27-2t. THREE ROOIS for rent. One room fronting Main street, over store of SPaysinger & Coward. 9-27-2t. PIANOS-I have several pianos on hand with no place to, store. Must be sold at once. See or write me quick if you want a bargain. J. L. Bowles, Agent, Chamber Commerce Building, Newberry, S. C. 9-23-3t WANTED-Two or three active, Intel ligent young men. Nice work. Goz,d pay. For particulars arpply at The Herald and News offie. LANGFORD & BUSHARJDT are in the market for cotton seed and will pay' the highest prices. Best shingles in'o town. 9-13-tf. FOR SALE-At Siighs, S. C., 250 acres of land, will sell cheap. Some of the Rev. J. A. Sligh old place. Will cut to suit the buyer. Some cash and the other in easy payments. See Rufus A. Sligh, Slighs, S. C. 8-23-tf CIGAR SALT,SMAN WANT3D Experienee unnecessary. Sell our brands to the retail trade. Big pay. Write for full particulari at once. Globe Cigar Co., Cleveland, Ohio.,/ GET YOUR GLASSES from Dr. G. W. Connor, a graduate of the larg est optical college in the world--the Northern Illinois College of Chies, go. Dr. Connor is located perman ently in Newberry, gives both the objective and subjective tests by electnecity and guarantees his work.