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M V U lip E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Entered at the Postoffice at New brry, S. C., as 2nd class matter. Friday, December 2, 1910. BUILDING UP NEWBERRY. Next week beginning on Tuesday has been set apart as membership week for the chamber of commerce. 'The membership committee will de Tote a great part of their time during the week to caffing upon the busi mess men In the community who have not identified themselves with the thamber of commerce, and will en deavor to show them the importanbel of cooperating by active membership. A large organized body whose sole aim is too look out for the general welfare of the community can accom plish a great deal. It is a patriotic duty which every live and progressive sitizen owes to his community to do something to advance the general welfare. le can do that something in no better way than by identifying kimself with an organized body such as the chamber of commerce. The efforts of the committee will be to increase the membership during this next week to at least 300, which should be a very easy task. Tha mem bership is not confined to citizens of the town, but special rates have been given to the farmers of the county, and it is the purpose of the Newberry chamber of commerce to take in the whole county because it is realized that what benefits the county is oblig ed to benefit the town, and without the prosperous and progressive rural com munity it is impossible to have pro gressive business community in the town. It is the purpose of the Newberry chamber of commerce to impress upon all of the citizens of Newberry coun ty that the efforts of this body will be to advance in every way that which makes a better citizenship, and a more prosperous community of the .entire county. With this field, as we have said, it should be easy for the mem bership committee to reach the 300 mark. In addition to the business part of the body, .the rooms are always com fortable and contain the leading pa pers and periodicals, and it would be worth the cost to the citizenship *of the rura! community to feel at liberty to drop in these rooms when they come to Newberry, and meet their friends and look over the papers and neriodicals, and refresh themselves. -Newberry county and town need to develop to a greater extent the spirit' of cooperation and mutual helpful ness, and in no way can this be bet ter done than in an organization such as the chamber of commerce. It is very much desired that the membership be increased prior to the annual banquet which Is to be held on the 20th of this month. Getting around the same taUle in a socili way brings the people to know 8acb. t,her better than almost any other one thing. When the committee calls upon you during this week be prepared to en rol your name in this organization, and then determine that you will use your best efforts to advance the best interests of the county of Newberry. Let your slogan be "Newberry-the City That Does Things," and let us extend this slogan to include the en tire county of Newberry. We have a good county and a compact county and the greatest need at this time is co operation and the spirit of helpful ness. THE ROAD INSPECTORS. The road inspectors, whose reports are published in this issue, were ap pointed under the provisions of the bill introduced by Senator Alan John stone. Quod erat demonstrandumi. We hope the Latin is not faulty. Judging from the reports of the va rious road inspectors, it would seem that Newberry county had a most ex cellent system of roads, antd that they were all in good condition. The one recommandation that terra cotta be used instead of sap .lumber at crossings, is a good suggestion. We~ .,.r~ +la irnow that at least some of the inspectors feel that our SYSte is all wrong, and that the roads should be worked by contract. That has been the decision of The Herald and News for many years, and we are glad that other people are seeing it that way also. The grand jury recommends that our county government be changed so that the roads may be worked by contract instead of warning out the hands. The Herald and News is pleas ed to have the grand jury endorse the plan that it has been advocating for so many years. Ail indications now begin to point to a reform in road building which will mean better roads for this county in the near future. It would probably be a good idea if the law could be so changed so as to have the registration for the city election separate and distinct from the county and State registration. In other words, permit the registration officer for the town to register those voters by wards who are qualified to vote in the town election without re quiring them to produce their county and State registration certificates as well as their county and State tax re ceipts. It might be well to have them produce their town tax receipts or to have evidence that their taxes have been paid. A great many citizens will not go to the trouble to look up their tax receipts, and their county and State registration certificates in order to secure a town registration. BETTER THAN JAYBIRD HUNT. Mr. P. C. Gaillard's Young Son Catches O'Possum Without Dogs. James Gaillard is a 'possum hunter right. He needs no dog to tree the game. Whether or not James is gift ed with the possum dog's keen sniffiffic of scentration the reporter does not know, but it has on several occasions been demonstrated that when he want ed possum he went to the woods and returned with possum. A fine, fat one for the Thanksgiving dinner was treed and caught by James. Where it takes en and boys and dogs and lanterns and axes to capture sometimes one little cat-looking prowler of the mid night, James can get himself together and stroll out of an afternoon and come back with a rich specimen of the sweet woodland meat, just as easy. How he trails, trees, climbs and catches is his secret, not the repor ter's. Maybe he can drink In the gen tle Zephyrs and tell where the game is. At any rate, something tells James to go out and get possum and he goas and gets possum. If the scent route is not what he takes, then he must have a heye like a beagle or an in stinct unknown to common hunters. You don't catch James paying $1.20 for shells, $1 for gloves and walking over creation for a jaybird-not James; he 'does what has just been recorded ofI him. The youthful possum hunter of' High Point may have some hunters wanting him to go along with them and point the way to where lay the costly game that makes the sweet po .tato look good, and eta ditto. The News of Excelsior. Excelsior, Nov. 28.-Our school ob served Thanksgiving day. Our people all took in the carnival and enjoyed it at Prosperity last week. The Rev. Ira S. Cladwell preached a good able sermon for us Sabbath afternoon. Mr. Ira Nates, of Columbia, has been spending a few days with his father's family here. Miss Rosalee Wheeler, a student of Newberry college, spent Saturday and Sunday with the home folks here. Miss Eunice Muse, principal of the Locust Grove school, spent Sunday with Miss Jessie Lorick. Mr. John Sease has made quite an improvement on his dwelling house recently. Mr. John F. Wheeler on Sunday was elected delegate from Excelsior Sun-I day school to the Sunday school con vention which will meet at Zion Meth-' odist church Friday, December 2. The weather continues fine and our farmers will soon be done picking cotton and sowing grain. Messrs. D. B. Cook, E. M. Cook and A. N. Crosson went over to Leesville Sunday to attend the burial service of Mrs. Rosa Crosson. Mrs. Crosson formerly lived in this section before moving to Leesville, and she had many friends here who were sorry to learn of her death. Thanksgiving day was pleasantly spent at Mr. J. A. C. Kibler's home by! the presence of his children. Mrs. Ed. Halfacre and children, Mrs. Berry Livingston and children and Mr. Kib ler's brother, Mr. H.. S. B. Kibler, of Newberry. Nic ra thi morning. Large Tcolumte of Bushiess Dsposed of in Session Lasting Three Days. The general sessions court conclud ed its work on Wednesday night, after having disposed of a considerable amount of business, greatly facilitated by a number of pleas of guilty. Judge John S. Wilson was in Newberry un t1. yesterday at noon, and the court was open yesterday morning for such matters as might come before it. In the last case tried in the sessions court a verdict was rendered late Wednesday evening and the jurors were discharged. The following cases were disposed of by the sessions court: Fought for Her Husband. Bertha Pitts, a negro woman, plead ed guilty to assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature on the charge of cutting another negro. Ber tha said she cut the other woman be cause the latter was estranging the affections of Bertha's husband. Bertha was sentenced to pay a fine of $40 or to serve four months. She was repre sented by Eugene S. Blease, Esq. Didn't HaTe Sorrel Cow. L. J.- Fielding, colored, was convict ed of obtaining money by false pre tence. The jury recommended Field ing to mercy. He was sentenced to pay a fine of $100 and to serve three months, the imprisonment being sus pended on payment of the $100 fine. Fielding was alleged to have obtained $50 in money and goods from Mr. J. H. Johnson on the representation that he had a sorrel cow and a sewing ma chine, and a hog and some other ar ticles. It developed that he didn't have the cow, and the machine was claimed by other parties, and Mr. Johnson said he had been unable to collect a cent on the mortgage which the negro gave over the goods. The defendant was represented by Messrs. Hunt, Hunt & Hunter, the defense be ing conducted by J. B. Hunter, Esq. Tried in His Absence. Will Churcher, charged with violat ing the dispensary law by seling a pint of liquor to another negro, and who had been arrested and had gone out in search of a party of gamblers, and who ran up on the whiskey trans action as it was in progress. A sealed sentence was left for Churcher. Churcher was not represented by counsel. Pleaded Guilty. Reeder Dorroh, colored, pleaded guilty to steaaing $21.50 from Jones & Werts. Dorroh was workitig for Jones & Werts and was sent to the. bank to deposit the money. 'gorrah failed to show up at the bank, and of course the money went with Dorroh. Dorroh is 15 years old, and was sen tenced to serve two years in the State reformatory for colored _youths in Lexington county. Dorroh hnad no lawyer. His Brother-in-taw's Clothes. Will Henderson, colored, pleaded guilty to breaking into the house of Felix Davis on the first of August, of this year, and stealing goods there from to the value of eight dollars. He was sentenced to serve 18 months, Henderson and Davis were brothers in-law. Henderson said Davis had been wearing his clothes, and he thought he was entitled to wear some of Davis' clothes. Henderson was not represented by counsel. Six Months or $200. Tafly Lindsay, colored, pleaded gulty of assault and battery with in tent to kill, and was sentenced to serve six months or to pay a fine of $200. He was represented by Eugene S. Blease, Esq. Little Mountain Cutting Scrape. Jim Shores and Martin Dawitins, two young white men, pleaded gil1tY to assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature on an Indictment charging assault and battery with in tent to kill in the cutting of Luke I. Summers, the Columbia street railway conductor, at the Little Mountain re union in August. After thoroughly investigating the case and all the cir cumstances, and taking into consid eraton the condition in life of the young men, the solicitor consented to accept this plea, and they were sen tenced each to pay a fine of $200, $60 in cash and the remainder to be sus pended during good behavior, or to serve one year. Shores is from Con ord, N. C., and Dawkins from Fayette ille, N. C. H. C. Means, FEsq., of Con ord, came to Newberry In their be half. and E. S. Blease, Esq., and Messrs. Hunt, Hunt & Hunter also ap peared for them. Will Burch, of the Mollohon- mill, was arrested along with Dlawkins and Shores, but he was released at the preliminary hearing before Magistrate Kibler, of Prosperity. The grand jury, however, indicted him along with the other two, but it is not known where he is. A bench warrant will be issued for his arre.st. Shores and Dawkinis paid their fines with money sent them from their families at home. who are in poor fin acial circumstances. .Tudge Wilson in sentencing them urged them to turn -, a a nw e af and make men of them. For Medicinal Pnrposes, He Said. Mose Farrow, colored, pleaded guil ty to violation of the dispensary lav Mose told the judge he had a half pin and scild it to another negro becaus< the latter said he needed it for a sic] wife. Mose was sentenced to pay - fine of $250, $100 cash and the balanc, being suspended during good behav ior, or to serve six months. Mose wai repreesnted by Eugene S. Blease, Esq Pleaded Guilty With Infant in Arms Mary Jones, colored, appeared in th, dock with a 5-months-old infant i her arms and pleaded guilty to viola tion of the dispensary law. She tol the judge she had the whiskey whei she was sick, and sold a half-pint of I for 25 cents. Judge Wilson advisei her when she had whiskey for sick ness to use it for sickness, or for mak ing cake. She was sentenced to pa: a fine of $100, $25 cash and the ba.1 ance to be suspended durIng good be havior, or to be confined in jail fo three months. Three Tried Together. F. H. D. Anderson, Mack Pitts ani Dock Anderson, all negroes, were trie for assault and battery with intent t kill, and carrying concealed weapon the alleged assault being committe with a pistol upon Gus Golding, col ored, at a hot supper on Mr. Care Johnson's place in March of this yea The State failed to make out its cas against Dock Anderson on the assaul and battery count, and consented to verdict of not guilty as to him on th3 count, and the case went to the jur on the entire indictment as to th other two negroes, and on the conceal ed weapon count as to Dock Ander son. The bullet struck Golding, bu he seems to have been tough enoug, to cause it to glance, and he was nc seriously injured. Dominick and Pitts were acquitte by the jury of the assault and batter charge, and all three negroes wer convicted of carrying concealed w'a pons. This verdict as to Dock Andez son was set aside by the judge on th ground that the State had not prove that Anderson had a weapon conceal ed. On motion of the solicitor the cas against Dock Anderson for carryin conceaed weapons was then sent t a magistrate for trial. Pitts an Dominick were sentenced each to pa a fine of $50 or to serve 30 days. Win. Hendrix Gets 18 Months. William Hendrix, colored, pleade gui&Ity to assault with intent to kil and was sentenced to serve 18 month: Hendrix stated that Bennie Lindsa had had a fuss with his sister an drawn a pistol on her, and after' dar when Bennie was coming down th road Hendrix stepped out on the sid of the road and fired his shotgun Bennie. Fortunately for Bennie, tU load went over his head. Hendrix we not represented by counsel. Alice Williams, a negro woman, we acquitted of arson on Wednesda evening, after about five hours' delil eration by the jury. Alice appeared:i court without a lawyer, and beir charged with a capital offence, it w~ necessary to appoint counsel to di fend her. Judge Wilson appointed G. SaAe, Esq., who conducted her ca: ably. Alice and 'her husband, Allb Williams, lived on Mr. B. P. Hawkin place, and a few days prior to Octob 20 they separated because, Allen say he would not come to Newberry to g 50 cents the woman had sent by som body to buy some little househdld a ticles. On October 20 the house which Allen lived was destroyed I fire, and Alice was charged with I crime. Tump Ellison Gets 10 Years. , Tump Ellison, colored, who kiTh another negro, Will Moore, in ti Kinards section, pleaded guilty1 manslaaghter on a charge of murde and was sentenced to serve ten year He was represented by Eungene Blease, Esq. The Emigration Agent. Jake Lever, the negro arrestedi North Carolina, charged with conduc ing the business of an emigrati agent in this State without a licens peaded guilty and was entenced1 pay a fine 'of $1,000 or to serve si months. Jake told Judge Wilson I was not trying to hire hands, but I came to the county from the Seaboai work in North Carolina to see his pet pie here, and the negroes wanted1 go back with him. Death of Infant. The two-weeks-old infant of M and Mrs. J. L. Mayer, of the count; died Wednesday night and was burie at Rosemont cemetery Thursday afte: noon at 4 o'clock, service by the Re James D. Kinard. NO TAX EXTENSION. Taxpayers are hereby notified, b the authority of the City Council, tha there will be no extension of the tim for paying city taxes. The time e~ pires November 30, after which dat the penalty will attach. J. R. SCURRY, C. & T. T. C. N. SUCCESSFUL ENTERPRISING PROGRESSIVE The Newberry Insurance and Realty Company "Dealers in Newberry Dirt" REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT There is a wonderful variety of requirements when - it comes to buying a home. Our list will assist you in making your choice, and our pleasure will be in getting you suited. . If you want to BUY LAND, See Us. FOR SALE No. 24. At No. 746 Pope street, one five room house with two acres of land. D No. 25. On Pope street, one nice lot and two-stbry house. No. 33. 219 acres of land with eight room dwelling house and five tenant houses, located one mile from Silverstreet. No. 42. 900 acres of land, containing 200,000 feet of fine % I timber, four miles from Whitmire. If you want to SELL LAND, See Us. t - INSURANCE DEPARTMENT Those contemplating taking out a policy in either Life, t Accident, Fire or Property Insurance will get the de t sired information, by applying, from those named below. Painstaking care is taken of all business intrusted to them d and the holder of a policy secured through them may rest Y assured of the fact that his insurance has been placed in e the hands of a highly honorable concern. District Manager Volunteer State Life Insurance Co. of Chattanooga, Tennessee o Local Agents Rochester German Insurance Co. New Hampshire Insurance Co. 1, J. B. ADDY, Agent, Little Mountain, S. C. Y J. B. SCURRY, Agent, Chappelis, S, C. AGENTS WANTED. a -- . at was lhe weather re ~Wiat is the market price Hasrmy'team left townl ~d sJthere.any freight for *Do you want to buy When'isthe meetiiq * * The telephone asestesequ - a tionls for thousands of Farmers every day, It will do this and more for you. .The cost of a telephone on your Farm is ~small; the saving is great. Our free booklet tells you all about i. Write for it today. Address e Farmers Line Department SSOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE( S& TELEGRAPH COMPANY . 163 South Pryor St., Atlanta, Ga. WEESKLY BALLOT 10 VOTES FOR M) Address..__.--.~.----- -- Subject to Rules of The Herald and News Contest. e Must be wreived at the office by December 9th.