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, d'fA) VOLUME XLIX, NUNBEB 16. ~NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLBA, FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 2,11.TIEAWE,P ER DALLAS CALDWELL WAS FOUND IN KNOXVILLE LOCATED THERE YESTERDAY IN A SANATORIUM. Young Prosperity Farmer Who Dis appeared From Sister's Home in Charlotte-In Ill Health. Considerable anxiety was felt for the safety of Mr. Dallas Caldwell, a young man of the Prosperity. section of this county, who suddenly disap peared on Monday from Charlotte, N. C., where -he was visiting his sister, leaving $50 for his sister, and a note to her saying that he had reach ed the conclusion he could not get, well, and had given up the fight. Those fears were relieved here yester day, when a message was received saying that the young man had been located in Knoxville, Tenn., where he. Is in a sanatorium. Mr. Caldwell is a brother of the Rev. -Ira S. Caldwell, and of Mr. W. H. Cald well, of Prosperity. With the latter brother he has been engaged in farm -ing near Prosperity.- Being afflicted with lung trouble, he several weeks ago went to Florida in search of health. Several days ago he left Florida and went to Charlotte to vis it bis sister, Mrs. A. P. Trice. Then the message was received in Newberry announcing his disappear ance on Monday dnd the leaving of the note and the money. It was feared that the note could onry mean that the I .young man had become so despondent that he had decided to put an end to his life. The .message -from Charlotte yesterday stated that it was learned ,he had bought a ticket to Knoxville, .and as a result of inquiries, originF :ating from this. clue, his whereabouts -were learned, Mr. - Caldwell having gone to the sanatorium -on account of his physical condition. He is twenty .two years of age. . A dispatch from Knoxville in the Greenville News yesterday morning gave an account of a young man who I 'had been located there in feeble -health, who was thought to be from Newberry on account of the trade mark in -his hat. It is presumned that this dispatch referred to Mr. Caldwell. The certainty as to his being in the Psanatorium, however, is based upon Smessages received by the family. r.W. H. Caldwell left yesterday oir Knoxville to -be with his brother. - EWS OF FRO$PERITYL Corn Prizes Offered, by Commercial League.-Personal Mention and , Other Matters. ~Prosperity, Feb. 23.-Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Wise are spending this week in Columbia. Mr. T. A. Berley left Wednesday for Winnsboro for a few days. Miss Mattie Miller, of Mount Pil * grim, is the guest of her)sister,. Mrs. J. B. Hartman. Mrs. D. E. Ridgell, after spending several months with her parents, has -returned to her -home in Jacksonville, Fla. Mrs. E. E. Young and Master George Wise have returned from a short stay with relatives in Little Mountain. Mrs. C. T. Wyche and Miss .Isoline' ych spent Mon*da7 In Columbia. 'r.F. E. Schumpert and children Sare spending a month with Mrs. -Schumnpert's parents in Saluda. Miss Toy Lathan has returned to Columbia, after a visit to Mrs. J. F. B3rowne. .; Mr. L. Nicar, of Charleston, spent the week-end with his sister, Miss Bessie Nicar. .Mrs. .Jno. CaloQweA and Mr. Dallas Catdwell are visiting relatives in Charlotte, N. C. Mrs. Mary Brown and little son have returned from a short stay in Hon. Geo. S. Mower was in town Tuesday. Miss Minnie Boyd Brown, of Due West Female college, spent the week end a't home. State Constable T. P. Adams has been in tow1r for the past few days. Mrs. G. Y. Hunter was one of the shop)pers in Columbia on Wednesday. An automobile party wvill go from here next Tuesday to Coilumbia to see Lillian Russell in "In searen of a Sin Mrs. WV. T. Wyke, of North Carolina, .Lt be c-a1led here on atccount of the death of her father, Mr. Jno. Seybt. Mr. M. L. Buford, of Newberry, was in town Wednesday. Mrs. J. H. Crosson will entertain the U. D. C. next Wednesday after noon at four o'clock. ' The following invitations have been received in Prosperity: Mrs. Rebecca Eleanor Bedenbaugh will give in marriage here daughter Ida Beatrice to Mr. George Alva Hope on Tuesday afternoon February the twenty-eighth nineteen hundred and eleven at four o'clock St. Pauls Lutheran Church Pomaria, South Carolina. Your presence Is requested. At a meetiJg of the Commercial League Tuesday afternoon it was de cided to offer three prizes to 4>e corn growers of Nos. 9 and 10 townships as follows: First, ten dollars; sAc ond, six dollars and, third, four doi lars. They will offer several prizes later for the best wheat crops. NEWS OF WHITNIRE. Cotton Destroyed by Fire.-Presbyter ian Sunday School Organization Perfected.-rersonal. Whitmire, Feb. 23.-Miss Corrie Mc Carley left Saturday -for Atlanta, to buy the spring millinery for the C. H. Cooper company. Mr. E. L. Street has resigned his position as pollceman and Mr. Wm. Stuart has been appointed his succes sor. The sounding of the Glenn-Lowry company's mill whistle Saturday even ing about 8 o'clock, told us of troublr at the' mill. Almost every man in town responded promptly, A box car of compressed cotton, which had come in that afternoon and been left stand ing on the spur track, just in front *of the warehouse, was found to be on fire. The men rolled the car up the track above the mill, emptied the cot ton on the groidid, and extinguished it. The damage done was only 'the loss of the cotton. Walden and Co., magicians, gave an enLertainment in the school auditor ium Thursday evening. Mr. H. T. Renwick was 'here Sat urday to meet .his brother, Mr. Erwin Renwick, of Union, who was coming to the home of his father, Dr. M. A. Renwick, to be present at & family reunion. Messrs. H. L. Parr and F. W. Hig gins, of Newberry, and Mr. L. Briggs, of Clinton, were here one day last week. Mr. James Hlenders6i and daughter, Miss Winnie, Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Abrams and son, 'I. J., and IVr. El more Suber spent Sabbath at the hose pitable home of Mr. M. E. Abrams. Miss Cornelia Shannori is visiting Miss Sarah Fant. Misses Willie Mae Shannon and Iola Cromer were here last week to attend the Walden show. They were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Jno. Finney at the hotel.. Mr. Metts Fant has returned to Co lumbia to res'ume his studies in Draughon's Business college. Master Jce Howie, who spent some time with his grandparents, Mr. and Mr. JT. F. (Y9eld, has gone to his home at Innman. Floyd Abrams, the small son of Mr. Pinkney Abrams, deceased, is mak ing his home with his aunt, Mrs. McD. Metts. Messrs. Thomas J1. Dillard and JIohn and Lawrance Keck and Misses Sallie Belle and Bessie Dillard and Miss Pearl Steadman visited Mr. and Mrs. Jno. 'Finniey last week. Mr. "Eph" Wilson and sister, Miss Kathleen Wilson, of Lowrysville, after a pleasant visit at Mr. Wash Dean's and Mrs. Sallie Payn S, have return: ed o their home. Dr Hilton has returned from abui e trip to Lockhart's. Mr. Has'a1 Miller has rewrnedJ rom Cross Hill and is again at his ncst of duty. Mr. Hennyv M ii:r nxeutl to his home at Crss Hill yesterdahy. Miss Ma:.ti? Pea:rl McCra&ken, of Newberry. and Miss Inez Dobbins v'is ted Miss Sara Scott last week. Miss Ollie Howard. of Lancaster, is isiting Miss Toy Evans. Mrs. Mary Lins B;ye is spending om. time with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. James Evans. Mr. Jno. Ruff was in town last-'week .sh1ain h.mrs with his many friends. COMMISSIONERS PUBLIC WORKS SUBMIT REPORT C FREE LIGHTS FOR CITY AFTER THIS YEAR. $7,000 Profit Last Year Used in Ex. of tending Plant.-That Friend le Street Light.-Other Matters. w er Mr. M. L. Spearman, chairman of id the board of commissioners of pub- be lic works,'was present at the meeting si of city council on Tuesday night, and e) submitted the annual report for his la commission with the. request that it di be published in the county papers. si The report is publis.ed elsewhere in tb this issue. cc Mr. Spearman called the attention le of city council to the fact that the ix town had failed to turn over for three c years now the amount required by the le act tand made part of the funds to be P held by the commissioners as a sink- tc ing fund to meet the bonds when they 01 beccme due. Alderman Earhardt moved that ithe P report be received as information, and that the finance committee be in- u ztrut*d to make arrangements. Lo I it pay the amount due tme sinking fund, which motion prevailed. st Lights For Opera House. th Mayor Langford said he would like 01 to ask the commissioners if they in would not furn.ish free lights for the ei opera house, inasmuch as the opera P1 house is now being run 'by the city. a He also asked if the commissioners m would not furnish. an are light in di FWriend street at the union station 0I without extra cost to the city. cc Alderman Loiinzwk made request of the commissioners for extension i of the water line in the eastern part . of the city. i Mr. Spearman stated that he could not state for the commissioners whether they would put the opera house on -the free list, or whether they would put a light in Friend street as requested. That Friend Street Light. He stated, however, that if city council ordered the light put up in Friend street at the union station, that it would have immediate atten tionl. In regard to the extension of the e water line in the eastern section, Mr. Sparman assured Alderman Lomnin ack tha.t this would be done at once. Net Profit of $7,000. t -of According to the report oubmitted, th commissioners .made a net profit last year of something over $7,000, bu: this amount had been used in ex tending .water lines, and in the erec-b tion of a cistern. He also said thata he thought that after this year, the conmission would .be able to"-firnish the city with light without cost, as. he thought the net income for this year would be something like $10,000.m Of course, if this were done the com cc mission would not have the money to. make improvements and extension.s that it would have otherwise. Mr. l Spearman stated that the commission er:3 were now furnish-ing water free,I and, .that the city was paying $75.00~~ per year per arc light, the. total amount paid being about $600 pe r . month. vn Hydrants Needed. s Alderman Goree said that there were 04 a out a dozen residents in High Point 1l w 30 needed a water hydrant, and e1 wo paid -their proportion of the tax. The nearest hydrant to this residence u Isection was at least 300 yards dis- * tat. p< Miss Ollie Manson, after a short t Istay with her step)-sister, Mrs. Thad.t C;1mian, has returned to her home i' .m.w Orleans. a A number of the parents and chil- jt den 01' the Presbyterian Sunday p s'hool met at the home of Re-:. .nO- tj IR. Roseboro last Friday evening to b Ln the: be?tter orgaization of and t new methods to be' used in conducting b the Sunday school. Messrs. Henry o MIHer and F. H1. Burns and Mesdames thr S. A.J.lter an Brnitey Herren were l Ithe arrangements. n Mr. J1. M. Major spent the week end foC here. His little daughter. Sarah Hy-:b jes, was quite ill last week. tii LANS NEW BASEBALL LEAGUE amber of Commerce of Abbeville Trying to Put Game in That City On More Secure Footing. An Abbeville dispatch says: An im- go )rtant undertaking of the chamber commerce is to organize a baseball ref ague composed of Abbeville, Green- blg ood, Chester, Newberry and Laur- Su is and Elberton and Athens, Ga. The th( ea is to organize on professional Wi tseball rules and regulations, have a th, nall min'.mum salary limit not to wi :ceed $500 a month, adopt a regu- tiv r schedule, hire umpires and con- th( ict the league the same as profes- ou nal leagues are managed, but with ga e small salary limit the league th( >ud not secure membership in the cit ague of professional baseball. El rton and Athens have already indi- of Lted their willingness to join such a ague, and the secretary is in corres )ndence with the South Carolina te wns mentioned, hoping to get some Of !e interested in the matter. All of these towns have tried inde mndent ball, which proved failures most cases, largely on account of er t fact that, with no regular sched- Of e, they could not play every day. is believed with an organization te proposed each team would be selt statining as the friendly rivalry *1 at would exist would naturally draw les it much larger crowds than under ed dependent ball. The idea is to have Ta ther a four or six club league and b ay ball for two months. As soon the other towns are heard from a c eeting will be called to go into the hi tails, and it is hoped that such an ganization can be perfected. The Of mmittee of the chamber of com erce that thas the matter in hand th4 W.- N. Graydon, W. H. McFall and, te secretary, E. C. Horton. Those w terested will please write the secre .ry at once. tol PREACHER GETS WRATHY. ag r. H. L. Jones, of Charleston, on Vetoing of Commission Form BilL sp Charleston, Feb. 31.-During the >urse of an address before the Chris an Temperance workers at the pring Street Methodist church last H] ght, the Rev. Howard Lee Jojies, astor of the Citadel square Baptist inrch, characterized the action of te goveror of South Carolina in ve- 0C e~j.the commkioni'for of govern- 7o M bil iM 'Mufwar nd and "dir. at ;" condemned the present sin city government as "rotten to the tot re' and "self-condemned;" declared pr at Governor Cole. L. Blease, to mt honi be referred to as "the man," be td been "elected by the very ballot- no x stuffing in tb' dify 6f (I1arleston," Al id stated that it was the duty of eva .ca: y citizen in Charlestoin to fin~d out no vho are the friends of the governor t this city that have been behind this co. ovement." gin The address as listened to by but in mparatively few people. The aud nce consisted in most, part of the ty, uti dy members of the Christian Tern ~race Workers' so,ciety. Dr. Jones th~ ade an earnest and eloquent address fa~ the cause of temperance. He stated ch at there were three methods being usued1 by th.e adher7ents of this cau&e their -fight against the demon rum',t z, the method by pledge, the con-fe ruction method and the legal meth-of L It was while elaborating on this n at named method that the speaker a itered -into the real-m of politics. he "The fight against liquor has nat- by rally been taken into politics,'' stat- edi i Dr. Jones. "Now I know that some' eit ill say that politics is dirty. Well, if rei >litics is dirty, and it is, it is thevt mmission of every man in the coun y t.o -enter into this field and make Ch clean." o High licenise, local option and Statete id nation-wide prohibition all had e eir adherents in the ranks of tern- th; rance workers, who believed that zei eir particular method furnished the hu 'st opportunity to fight the liquor tei afic. But, stated the speaker, it sei ~hooved them all to "get together" lio 1 the egal side of the2 question for vei .e purpose of warring against law- " T ~sness. Dr. .Jones declared that ou awlessness is reigning -in this city be: >," and that some means "must be ze: ud to enforce laws of the statute ou ;oks. If the plain written instruc---ur >ns on the books are not earnwriy ad loicycel aforced. they d:) noC ;ity Council I Power Dr. Jones then in sarcastic language erred to an arrest of a little boot Lek which he had witnessed last nday. "Two malestic minions of law laid hold of the little fellow, o could not commit a crime, and -ew -him into the police patrol, ile not quite a block away a blind er was running in open defiance of laws and Sunday ordinances of r city." He later referred to "the m-bling hells which were damning students who are coming to this y to learn." 'It is of no use to roast the mayor the city or to denounce the chief of lice," declared the speaker. "What vant to attack is the system, i sys a that is, rotten to the core. Get rid it and the lawlessness in the- city 11 be cured." [n referring to the action of the gov ior in vetoing the commission form government bill, Dr. Jones stated: 'have just heard of this act, commit I by a .hand which -believes that it s dealt the death blow to te chance ich would give thw people of Char ton , right to say what they want It all is dirty and unwarranted. e man who was elected by the very llot-box stuffing in the city of Char ton, has already taken away the ostables and-now, at the direction of friends, vetoes, over a petition ned by 'over fifteen hundred -people the' city, representing $10,000,000 rth of property, a bill which gives people of Charleston 4 chance to F what system of government they .nted." Dr. Jones ended bis address by urg the mombers of the society to "get ether" in real earnest in their fight ainst the demon rum. Sale at Bee Hive. rhe Bee Hive will conduct a big cial sale from 5 to 11.30 o'clock ight. See ad. A CARD FEOM DB. JONES. s Own Version of His Addres,s at Spring Street Church. - ro the Editor of The News and urier: I do not mean to gerg %% iir report of my 4ddt%8 ieMrT4 the Spring Stgg h41%4i% grF MoQuay 4nig which appeared ini Lay's issiie of foiir eaer *as mpted by a desire to niisi-dpresent , but I do wish to say that if it had en inspired by such a desire -it could . have succeeded more admirably. ter having read the report over very efully, I am prepared to say that t in a single instandce where quota ir tarks are uzed in my language rectly quoted, and such a twist is 6n to the alleged report of speech general as to render it a travesty. id not make use of the words "dir "rotten,"~ "demon rum," etc, attrib d to me ri the report.. In describ the condition of ,lawlessness in city of Charleston, I said that the Ilt lay back of the mayor and the .ef of police, and that the conditions 1 out an indictment against the tem of government which so ties r ands that they do not even pro s to fulfill the plainest term of their cial duty. I referred to the gover r of the State and said that it was rery generally expressed belief that was elected to his evalted position the illegal votes of this city. I stat that his acts tended to make the more lawless, and referred to the noval of the constables and to his of the comimission government bill, ich would have given the citizens of arleston the right to decide whether not they desired to change the sys n of their city government. I call attention to the fact that a petition i~t this right might be given the citi is had been signed by some fifteen ndred voters, including business in ests, which. represented by a con -vative estimate, more than ten niil ns of dollars. In characterizing this o I used the following language: e governor is evidently carrying his announced p)olicy of 'remem -ing his friends.' Our duty as citi is of Charleston should be to find who these friends are, and also to ed andI .x^Nt"d to 'oe present. Howard Lee .Jones. ee=Opens Co. Franchise. [ABANDONS MAXIMUM RATE REQUIREMENT AMENDS FRANCHISE IN THRE OTHER PARTICULAES. Letter From Mr. Taylor.-Countl and Power Company Are Now Near. er Together. At the meeting on Tuesday night city council receded from its position: taken at the former meeting, requir ing that the franchise for the Sou&_ ern Power company should have a maximum rate proviso, but amended the franchise in three particulare first, by requiring that the company shall not charge higher rates than it charges in any other city or town in the State; second, that the company shall build Within the city limits al stations or sub-stations for the die tribution of power in Newberry; ad third, that the company shall not sell power for resale and distribution--in quantities of less than one hundred horse-power. -Aldermen lqarhardt and Rodelsperger stood by the mao-mum rate proviso. From a letter from Mr. Z. V. Tay lr, representative of the company, published in full herewith, it would seem that the coMpany is willing to abide by these conditions, but isUn-' willing for its standard form of fran cbise to be changed by inserting them in the franchise. At the meetingof cityl cocf on February 7 Mr. Taylor, in an addrees to coe0il, stating that tik company would not come into Newberry with a maximum rate proviso/ agreedi tat it would let the condition as -to .t,h erection of sub-stations tn ..the. city- 7 limits be made an. indiucement for the,. granting of the franehise, and would agree for the resale clause to jo in. the rchise. ' He seems to have rhanged his position on these matters. The franchie of the compw inJ IGreenville, it his beeni Mtated, 400 ~proviso as to not charging rqore #8is in other cities similarly giqgged. 'ha upon by counlCI1 K* As a result of the meeting oed - day night, of council beving. receded from ,ita position es -to the ma1imluiti rate proviso, council add the comrIist are much 'nearer together than they were, and the h1ope is generally ex pressed that they may meet oni con mon ground. Mr. Taylor's address to council at the former meeting was reported sten ographically -and verbatim by a repre- - sentative of The Herald and News who was present, and was published in full in 'Tlhe 'Herald and News of February 10. The proceedings of council in detal j follow. Proceedings in DetaiL The meeting was called order by Mayor Langford at 7.30 p. mn., and the full council was present as follows: Mayer 3. J. Langford, Aldermen Jno. W. Earhardt, R. B. Lominack, C. T. Summer, E. L. Rodelsperger and (X S. Goree. The minutes of the ~rev ious meeting were read by the clerk and approved as read. May,or Langford asked if council de sired/to take up, at the meeting, the matter of granting a franchise to the Southern Power company.. Alderman . Earhardt wanted to know if the South ern Power company had made any re quest that council' re-open the mat ter of granting a franchise to the com pany. Mayor pangford then had the clerk to read ).he following letter which he had received from Mr. Tay lor: Charlotte, N. C., Feb. 20, 1911. Hon. 'J. J1. Langford, Mayor,,New berry, S. C.--Dear Sir.-Since my re turn to Charlotte our company has re ceived communications from citizens -- of Newberry, stating that in all prob ability the council would at its next meeting grant the franchise asked for by the Southern Power company. I hav:e intr'nded writing you on this subject, inr have waited to do so un (CcntGnaed an page sir:).