The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, February 03, 1911, Image 1
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TOLUME ~ ~ N XLX 'UBE"
Residence anc
Little Moj
Air. J. B. La than Suffere
t Tuesday Afternoon -A
Origin of Fir
The hands-ome residence and the
large two-story store building of Mr.
J. B. LaLhav, at Little Mountain, were
totally destroyed by' fire on Tuesday
afternoon. Te loss is probably be
tween eight and ten thousand dol-lars,
only twen-ty-seven hundred dulla:rs of
which 'was covered by insurance.
The fire was discovered up-stairs in
the dwelling. Mr. C. F. Lathan and
Mr. Matthews, who were coming from
,diner, saw smoke pouring out of th!e
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RESIDENCE OF J. B. LATHAN BUR
hou;se and rushe i1to 7A e house and
up-stairs, and upon opening one of
'the doces the name~s bunt through,
painfu,lly scorchiing Mr. Matthews'
face. It is thought thre fire started in
a clmset. Thes origin is un,known..
There tad been -no fire up-sitairs for a
onsidelrablie wh'ile, aind .very little
lown-stairs, and when Mr. Lathani
hIad his~ home re-covered reemtntly he'
- h obulig . hien was.locat
esi m u du ing ..ogsie...a
fr .:.ir ..the.. .me.. . . o .c u e o
th ro.atr h deHn hdprc
1a4 unddvn.T:ebigr
frefigtin apaatsatLtte'n
ran,itws mp.i.e4.sae h
sTOE HOad OFi Jagh B. would haveC
ofd the woodenseys in'te Ma n steet
The wieatreet betw-ns Mir. Lta'
the fact tatr the latterstor had re-c
Store at
intain Burned
d Heavy Loss by Fire on
To Insurance on Store.
e Unknown.
the fire-fighters, and the flames were
confined within the limits of Mr. Lath
an's prop;eirty.
The oil mill and .the residence of
Mr. J. H. Wise, across the railroad,
were several times threatened, as the
wind blew in that diriEction. Fortu
nately the wind was not high.
Mr. Lathan's household furnitu're
up-ti's -was buxned, but by hard
work that down,stairs was saved.
Most of -the stock of goods was also
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;D ON TUESDAY AFTERNOON.
moved out of the store in tilme to save
it from the fmes, but the goods weile,
of courte, coniderably damaged.
The loss on the residence, which
was a large and *handsonme two-story
frame structure, an.i the houEehlold
goods destroyred :and d.am,aged, is es
timat.ed at about $6000, with $2,000 in
surance on the res-idenice and $700 in
surance on the household goods. The
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ls onte trebidigan.h
damage o stoc 'villbring.he..o.
well up to.. ..the esmaeofbtwe
eigh andna t.u..i...ars
D. A.DikertChater
TeD. N TEDicker caTeRNhidrn.
oss otheh Confee willlmeeg atd the
Sadayet a.teoon, FeUbruary t4, l.ts
3.0 o'cok.~ Eer tmem? fbe wacha
no b.roghtvc ino apprliceton rhil
please br.in orm o his muCeeting.
Also please bnlg' e ds fore,11.
M~ I 'm Mrs.a J. Yl.7g dt Mc all,
~hi~m Director.
MARRIAGE LICENSES I
FOR SOUTH CAROLINA
HOUSE HAS PASSED SENATE BILL
AFTER FIGHT.
Several Minor Amendments to be ]
Agreed Upon Before Bill Goes to
Governor Blease.
Columfbia, Feb. 2.-The house has
passed the senate bild requiring mar- i
Tige licenises, with a flew ' anend
ments, and the bill be gone to con- I
ference, and will become a law. t
Debate on -Bill.
The manrfiage license bill was tbe
first m'Vdasure to have serious colnsid
eration today. Mr. N'iholuOn, of
Greenwood, made an able argument m
favor of tibe bill. He insisted that if
th!e pending bill could in any Way lead
to divorce he would not favor it. Much
mIght be said of the m'airiage tie in
this State, but he for one did not think I
th*igs were so loveay. The courts, he I
.held, are getting clcse to divorces by
annulling mariages. He cited the re- c
cent decision by which Judge S-ease I
annulled a marriage at Spartanbuirg. I
After an extended debate the senate <
bill was substituted for the Nicholson I
house bill and was p;s;sed. A test vote I
showed 66 for the bill and 51 opposed.
Smith Amendment Adopted.
The 'house agreed to an. a-mendmeit
by Mr. Kurtz Smith, providing that
nlothing dn the act should prevent
proof of = -nia.ge according to means <
now recognized. Another amendment .
was 'tihit both partbies to a marriage!
should sign the return of the offici]at
ing minister or officer upon the icenise
form. By anothieir amenidment th'e fe3 I
wPas soulght to be reduced from $1 to 11
'25 cents, ibut this was rejected. The 1
I house passed also the Brice amernd- I
mnnt, making the law 'effective July 1,
1911.
Provisions of the Bill.
The bill makes it unlawful fo'r any
person to contract matrinony without'
liense, and any officer or person per
forming a amarriage ceremony without
production of a license is, subject to a
fine of not more than $100 nor less i
than $25 or imp^isonmnt of not more I
rtiblan 30 d,ays nor l'ess than ten diays.
No license is to be issued 'w'hen the
woman s 'under 14 'or the man under
8. I;n some of the counties the license<
is to be issued by the proha.te judg'e
ad .in some by the clerk of couir, 25
cents to go to mtie officer, and the re-1
maniing 75 cents to th's county.]
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Gov. Blease bias revoked Gov. An-1
sel's order for an plection on the pro- I
pose'd county of Heyward, on t'he
ground t'hat he i.s statisfied; the terri
tory does. not contain 400 square miles,
and 'that the line would pass through
the 'liiits 'of an iincorporaited town.
T mnaitter will be appealled to the
By the explosion of a cargo of dyna- i
mie in tr.arsit to the told of a lighter
in the ha:rbor 'at Commiwaipaw, N. J., I
it is estima'ted tlha't 30 were killed, and
'that property loss will reach $750,000.
A dispaztch 'estimates that the erup
tin of Toal volcanib. in 'the Philip
pines, aind accompafnying disturbances,
'has caused the death of 700 peole and
rendered thousands destitute. The
ear thquake shocks ccontinue.
ThONDIENT TO GEN. GARlY.
G~ov. Blease Sends~ Special Messaige to
Genieral Assembly, Making a
Governor Bleae 'has .sant to the
genera.! assembly MIes'a.ge No. 9 rec- 1
omending a monument to Gen. Mart.1
W. Gary. The *massage concludes:
"Since you can not reward him in <
pron, it seem's to me that it, would <
be but right 'to erct a su,itable monu
mI W.'To,r s:atuel on your capitol g>round's,
so 'tha.t those who read our history, I
and p'articula.rly 'the history of hi's c
serviCcs. when they see the si.atue,- will
know that t.e pciople of South Carolna
appreciate the service of Gen. Martini
Witherspoon Gary of Edgeti'eld." 1
IIn :he senate the message was re
ferred to the finance coimmittee. i
In the 'house Messrs. Davis. .James, J
Harrison, Wyche and Gilbert w&re ap-1
RISHAP AND VIOLENCE
TAKE A FEARFUL TOLL
EWBERRY'S RECORD FOR DE
CEMBER AND JANUARY.
ight Fatal Accidents and Others Al.
most Fatal.-Four Homicides and
Other Violence.
Accident and vol:ende took a heavy
ol of human life irn Newberry county
luring the past two months of Decem
er, 1910, and January, 1911. During
his period of 62 days there were
ight deaths in the county from acci
ental causes, and four from violence,
nd there were in addition several
errible accidents. the victims of which
iiss6d death by a hair's breadth, and
everal sbootings which were not fa
at.
Deaths by Accident.
The aendental deaths during the
irst monith of this year included the
6ilowing:
James Gary, a negro boy four years
ild, burned to death on January 18 on
C. Johnson's place, having been left
y his mother in the house witih two
ther children; the death of Mr. N. P.
Lbrains on January 20 as the result of
taxing a plow point which he was
harpening driven into his skull two
iys before; the grinding -to death of
[olhn Pope, a negro, in the railroad
ards at Newberry by a C.,. N. & L.
ngine on January 26, and the death
f Ned Wright, an aged negro, on
anuary 30, from coeicussion of the
rain resulting from a fall from a dray
vhica he was d-riving a week before.
)n January 5 the ittle daughter of gr.
ix Connor, of Jalapa, was hoTribly
)urned, and it was at ' time feared
he injuries would prove fatal, but
'he is recovering.
Followiing were ithe deaths from ac
:idents in the county during Decem
>er:
That of Daisy James, the three-year
>ld daughter of Mr. and Mrs.- James
ominick, of Caldwell township, on
)ecember 3, from burns received the
lay before while setting fire to straw
n an old field; the death of Mr. Ches
ey D. Hunter, on December 19, from
njuies sustained by being caught in
.belt at his gin; the death. of young
Tharles Lake, son of Dr. W. E. Lake,
n December 29, from a wound which
~e s.ccidentally' inflicted upon himself
bith. a parlor rifle while out hunting
he day before, and tihe death of John
{ill, colored, from injuries which he
estained on December 14 by falling
rom a scaffold upon which he was
~tanding attempting to -put a belt on
Lpulley, while working for the South
in Cotton Oil company.
In addition to these, there were sev
tral terrible accidents which did not
esult fatally, among them being the
calping of Mrs. Dessie Hazel by the
nachinerny at the Mollohon mill, at
vhich she was, at work on December
1, Mrs. Hazel being on the road to a
emarkable recovery; and the injury
,o Albert Butler, a negro boy, who had
is arm crushed at the Southern Cot
on Oil company's plant on December
, necessitating amnputation-Butler,
owever, not being an employe of the
Just on the, last day of the month
reeding, on November 30, occurred
no' Yrric dert of lit: Mairy Housnal
u~enwider, the~ two-yea-Old dauzhter
. he Revy. Edlw. Fulenwidern, from
'hophorus poisoning' caused by eat
Deaths br Violence.
The deaths by violence during the
nonth of January were those of Grov
r Miller, colored, on January 1, as
e result of a pistol wound received
Luring the Chris.tmas holidays on ex
herff W. WV. Riser's place, while Mil
e- and Tom Sanders, colored, were
nan with a pistol. it is claimed.
nuders, however, being held by the
orone's jury; and John Payne, col
ed, who di-d on January 23 from a
oun on the 'head inflicted aibout a
k 'before in a difficulty, by JIohn
ummer. colored, in the Chappells
omunity.
On .anary 14 Will Mitchell. color
d was seriously shot by George Domn
nick, white, at Helena. but Mitchell.
spractically recovered.
The tw o deaths from violence duir
ng D.ecember we're those of Lence
har, colored, killed by Loney Wil
jams, colored, at Whitmire. on DTh
Opportunity i
In This Gr
Time is Fleeting and the E
Some Voung Lady W+
Piano-35,000 B
Ellen Werts I
& Hipp
There is a'tide in. the affaias of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads into
fortune;
Omnted, all the voyage of their life
Is found in -shallow, 'and in misieries,
And we must take the current when
it serves,
Or loose our ventures."-Shakespeare.
There are mone of us whom fortune
shal pass by, we are to have this
very importanit visiter sooner or leter.
She always comes to mian at least once
in his life, but when she does not find
him realdy -to receive her, she walks in
at t,he door, and flies out of the win
dow.
Young ladies, ithis is Miss Opportu
nity beckoning 'at you, and you can't
afford to offend this fi-ckled Miss, for
she may fly out of the window, leav
ing you the battle to fight alone. Take
heed ere it is too late. Make the most
of now and riemember your opportu
nities are fleeting. Wake v.w make
yourself the fighter in this race. Stir
thdings up to such a pitch, and you
will be obliged to secure many votes
'by your determination to be of the
winning quality. Every one 'admires
a hustler, and a person with the get
up, and get-there spirit is the one to
,get all the subscriptions. Subscrip
tions maie -votes-votes get the piano.
Konteistants it is igoing to take
down right konteset work to win, and
you have 'a very short time to show
your opponent the power you have to
secure votes. Don't stop to argue why
you shouldn't win. Each one has an
equal chance. Takie advantage of your
chances, get your forces together and
headed in the right direction and you
will be the onle to reach the goal.
Bonus of 35,000.
The bons of 25,000 for every fifteen
dollars sent in Thurs'day was such a
big success, we hlave decided on one
for February 8 at noon. Every $20
sent to the mnagner on that day se
cures an extra 35,000 votes. This is
a splendd offer and gives .you a splen
did op'portuntity to add n.y extra
thrty-five thousands to your etiand
ins. Gi'rls, you 'wi&l need every vote
you can 'get from now until the clos'e
of our big kontest. Get some friend to
go with you 'to the neighboring towns
and -vllages, visit 'etach citizen, tell
him what you 'are workieg for, and
you are bound to succeed. When one
ored, tkilled by Robert Golden, color
ed, on Mr. T. J. Davenport's place, on
December 25.
The shootings in the county in De
cember which did not result fatal-ly
included 'the difficulty 'between J. M
Johnson. of Colmbia, and his broth
er-in-law, J. F. J. Su'ber, Jr., at Stroth
ers, on December 25, in which John
son was shot with a pistol by Suber;
the shooting of Bud Teague, colored,
on I. H. Compton'~s place. on Decem
ber 29, by Olin Fellers, white, the pis
tol ball striking Teague in .the foot,
and the shootin'g of Coley Davis, col
ored. by his little brother, Wister Dav
is, on Mr. I. H. Co'mpton's place on De
cember 30, Coley's arm being nearly
torn off, and am.putation being neces
sary.
In addition to these, on December
10 occurred a difficulty between a New
berry man and the negro ferrymnna at
Blairs, the ferryman being cut with a
knife and subsequently dying, this af
fair, 'however, occurring -just beyond
the river on the Fairfield side. The
man who did the cutting is Mr. Nevit
Brown, of the Broad river section.
FINE FARMIING~ IN PEE DEE.
Mr. MceFall Says Marlboro Farmer
"hio Last Tear Made 1,200 Bales
Will Make 1,500.
Mr. W. A. McFall, who is buying cot
ton at BennettSviile, calls 'attention to
the follow'ing from the Pee Dee Ad
vocate showing the fine crops raised
in Marlboro county:
"Mr. .J. A. WV. Moore, one of the
Beckoning
eatest Kontest
nd is Drawing Near, When
I Have the Handsome
nus Offer-Miss
Vins Summer
Prize.
pdams a camplaig in ta systpmate way,
then starts in with fte determiwniba
to win, you might as well put such a
worker down as the winner, Su0cms
sba3 be yours, if you wild so. Now
keep hustling to the end.
Summer & Hipp's Prize Won by Kiss
Ellen Werts.
The Reed rocker wbdch was so gen
erousay offered by the above firm, has
addied greatly to the n am in
our popular konbest EA& konbestsmt
has worked hard for this splendid prize
realizing &e advantage of securbng
goods from sueh a thoroughly rel'ble
firm, at the same time the winmer wes
obliged to put herself neer he piao
to win -the rooker, amd it bas MeWlt
a great deal of work to do this and
we congrWtu1Iate Miss Elien on her
splendid success.
Mrs. Domimick, Miss Kon and Miss
Smith deserve much prtise for fte
many votes they bftve piled up in2 Ithe
:baliot ibox this week. We hope this
good work will keep up umtil Febru
a,ry 20, at noon.
Koneestants iave everything else 7
aside for the next two weeks, the beba
tiful Cote piano is cert:iny worth the
time you spend getting subscriptiows.
-Summier & Hipp are naking us a
netw offer, to the one seouring the modt
new one year subscepIoan beween
today, Februnry 2, and Februiry 13,
gets a lovey a.-d beautifully designed
ax ,inster rug, for you. Take hold,
of this opportunity with the winning
spirit
Standing of Rontestants.
Kinards, S. C.
Mrs. J. A. Domdiniok.. ......70550
Prosperity, S. C.
Miss Ellen Wer ts'.........685,330
Pomaria, S. C.
Miss A.nniie.Koon ... ... .r...616,880
Chappells, S. C.
Miss Juiia Smith.:........400890
Neitherry, P..)E. P. No. 2.
Miss Joe Caldwell. .... .-114,70 r
Whitmire,'S C.
Miss Kate Hargrove.. .... ...6,3
N{ewberry, Se C.
Miss Annie Laurie Lominack.. 52,05*
Miss Lossil May Boozer.. .. ..9,0
Mrs. Geo. Alexanider.... ... ..3
Miss Eula Darby.. .. .. ...0
Miss Annie Bouknlght.. .. ..100
Miss Eunice Abrams.. ....* 7,08
Miss Amelia Klett2ner.. .. ....1,00
'this year plant a much larger acreage
in cotton than he did last year as he
has purchased additional real estate.
He is ,planting for fifteen hundred
bales, and with favorable condt'ns~
his yield may .be far in excess of this
estimate. Mr. Moore produced the fin
est crop last year of -any planter in y.
Marlboro, and when he places his
stakes he 'generally drives straight to
them."
AIr. McFall says last year Hr. Moore
raised L200O bales of cotton, "and with
his additional purchase of land, he will
easily make 1,500, provided the weath
er is all right" "In fact," says Mr.
McFall, "it does not take such good
weather for them to make a good crop
over 'heTe, as they make one generally,
with or without it."
Amity Lodge, No. S' A. F. 31.
A regular communication of Amity
Lodge, No. 87, A .F. M., will be held
next Monday evening 'at 7.30 o'clock
in Fraternity Hall. Visiting brethren
cordially welcomed.
The E. A degree will be conkrE~eg.
.Geo. S. Mower, W. M.
J. W. Earhardt, Secretary.
Getting That Boy Up.
Cle'veand Leader.
"How do you get that boy of yours
up so early in the morning?"
"I take his books away from himt
and make him go to bed just at the
point w'here Carter is slinking
teadily into aunt of the Black
lHnd."