Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Entered at the Postoffice at New gery, S. C., as 2nd class matter. E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Tuesday, August 8, 1911. Georgia gets a new congressman under the new apportionment bill and South Carolina holds her own. Supervisor Feagle says he will get on the Newberry-Prosperity-Little Mountain road this week. We hope so. We have not heard any noise like doing something to secure th- interur ban or the extension of the Seaboard from Whitmire or to co-operate in getting the Blue Ridge extended. Are the people of Newberry satisfied with conditions. It is a happy feeling to be satisfied with yourself and your conditions. It reminds us of a toast a friend of ours was wont to get off in the long ado. "Here's to our noble selves, there are--few like us." They seem to be having a hot old campaign started in Virginia. Mr. Glass, who is a senatorial candidate, talls Mr. Lee, who seems to be an editor, a "hired barlequin,' "an un nitigated falsifier who has sold out his paper for political patronage," Mr. Lee retorts by saying that Mr. Glass Is "a pernicious liar" and "no gentle man." This is all very edifying to the voters who boast that Virginia is the mother of presidents .and states meNn. We desire to call attention to the card of "9itizen" in this issue of The Herald and News, in regard to the koroner's salary. With the work he -as to do, and with the prompt and efzcient manner in'which he does It, we do not see how Coroner Felker anget any net salary at all -out of the position. This is an important of te anid the pay ought to be corn tiensurate with Its responsibIlIties "' d the amoun.t' of work It calls for. 4t present ft Is commensurate with 'either. - ~he merchane,of Newboerry ought to get busy and see to it that the two sad leading to the two steel bridges ~ re put ink good condition before the rening of&the fall' business. .The Sa 2 uda trade is worth goin gafter. Re ~member -ta Saluda is to have a rail - oad and also remember that the Sa 1uda Standard remarked 'some time ago that when the railroad .reached ~aluda, that the town was going to ~ keep the Saluda trade and that New "erry wod then be to Saluda what Hamburg is to Augusta. You know ~ :Ham-hu.rg was once 'the town beforet Augusta was built. THE LAURENSTILLE HERALD. -The old order changeth. The Laur - ensville Herald, following the death -of the lamented Col. Thomas B. Crews, hias passed out of the hands of his family. We had learned to look upon the Herald as a. part of Col. Crews and up,on Col. Crews as a part of the Herald-anid we knew Col. Crews as a gentleman of the old school, a man who loved his newspaper work and who loved tbe people whom his news' paper served, and we knew him as a man whose love for his State was evi.. denced by his unflinching courage in his devotion to the people. of South *Carolina in days of war and in days of peace, and in days of an almost veri *able Gethsemane through the like unto which few, and 'none but those of heroic mould, have been called to pass and have come out stronger. We are glad that the Herald has * gone into good hands. Mr. W. L. Tay - lor has' been connected with the Laur ens Adve' .iser, which is an excellent newspaper, and he has done some ex cellent work in the Adv'ertiser office, and as correspondent for daily news -papers. He is a thorough newspaper man, and takes great deal of pride in newspaper work. Mr. B. Y. Cul S bertson has been engaged in educa K tionpi work, and has good talents for newspaper work. We understand that these gentlemen will be in control of the paper for the stock company ~i~4 which has purchased it. Under the n,-w management we ex pect to see the old Herald continue to succeed abundantly in good works. In this connection we desire to print -the valedictory of the heirs of the lamented Col. Crews: "Owing to circumstances over which we had no control, the Ilaur ansville Herald has passed out of our 4-%nids as the heirs of the late ColD T. 'B. Crews, into the possession and control of a joint-stock company com posed of some of our leading and most progressive citizens. "For forty years the writer has been connected with the publication of the paper, a part of which time two broth ers were his associates, and the friends we have made-the patrons of the Herald-we now turn over to our successors, in the hope that they will continue to give the paper that loyal support which they have accorded it for so many years. The gentlemen composing the publishing company of the Herald are all gentlemen of pro gressive ideas, loyal to their county and State, and no means will 'be spar ed to make the Herald one of the best family papers in the State. "In truth, 'tis a sad parting, on our part, to have to give up the old Her ald, but such is life. The paper has weathered many a financial storm that the,.public knew not of, but each recurring week would emerge from. the breakers with a cheerful face, ready for new undertakings and. re sponsibilities, nor grumbled at condi tions. Others' welfare glory and am 'bition, rather than our own, is the price of our sacrifice, and now we bow to the inevitable, having fought the good fight for our honest convic tions, and with good will to all and ,best wishes for our successors, and a sad farewell to those of the Old Guard who remained ever faithfpl to us, we say adieu, although "We feel like one who treads alone Some banquet hall deserted, Whose garlands dead, Whose hopes are fled, And all but he dparted.x "Sincerely, "W. T. Crews, - "Mrs. J. F' Bolt, - "J. T. Crews, * ~ "E. Hi. Crews. *District Nanager Matual BenefiA, Mr.. E. D. Pearce, as district man ager of the Mutual Benefit Life Ixisur ance company, has come to Newbprry anid soperied an office over Sumer Brothers' clothing store. The Mutual Benefit 1s an ol1 and re liable company and has a great .deal of Insurance in force in South Caro lina. Mr. Pearce is a young in of pleasing address and -will do business in this emnunity. ..- Anent the Coroner. Editor The Herald and News: What is th~e matter with our county? We onlya pay our coroner $25 per month, and require him to pay all expenses in the conduct of his business. - Now, taking the number of homi cides and deaths from.other unexplain able causes, it tlooks very much as if we-are trying to put it to that officer -"in the neck." Why not give him a suffieient amount to 1iisure him agaihst actual loss? I have "had the opportunity of look ing over his -books, and feel that the amount of duty required of him is not met with a sufficient amount -of compensation. ..He does not #.ick, abut somebody ought to. * By statute the coroner is compelled to go only 15 miles, and yet a killing that' took place at Vaughnvile, at which the magistrate of No. 7 offR ciated as coroner, will have to be paid out of coroner's salary to the amount of $3.00. Now the coroner could not possibly reach the point in time, as it was necessary to inter 'the body at once. This the coroner knew, and expressed his -willingness to pay for -it. ~There is no kick from the coroner, but there should be from a justice loving people. Citizen. * * * * * * * * SCINTILLATIONS. * * By Squibs. * * * * The cotton mills say that their present troubles come from the wo men not wearing enough clothes. This is, the report outside of Newberr-y. Adam blamed his ,troubles on woman and ever since then man has blamed woman for all troubl'e. Of course Eve didn't wear enough at first, and Adam is not to be blamed for getting after her,, but because the woe 'we (cut off a few yards a great cry is raised. Coroner W. E. Felker and Deputy Sheriff Pope L. Buford are two coun ty officials who can respond quickly in little tinie. "Mose" can't ri:n fast or talk fast over the 'phone, but he'll get there. The question is, Did Will Buford get rain Sunday afternoon? Newber ry city got hers. Signs point to an early autumn. The happy cotton season approaches ,and the backbone of summer is being broken. It is said that the rain falls on the just and unjust a like, but it just won't fall on Will Buford, which is unjust to lin. The Rev. Mr. Hallman's re marks havie nothing at all to do with the case. Death of a Young Lady. Miss Maggie Hawkins died at her home near Ebenezer church on Sun day night at 10 o'clock with typhoid pneumonia. She was 17 years old and was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Hawkins. The burial was held at St. Luke's Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock, service by the Rev. J. M. Fri dy. The family and other relatives have the sympathy of the community In their deep sorrow. The Touch of Pathos. It is the exception rather than the rule that sensational criminal cases, like that of the murder near Rich mond, Va., of the girl wife of Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., does not bring to the .public from one to a dozen un usually touching 'human interest stories. Even the McCue case, from ,-the same locality, wherein the mayor of Charlottesville murdered his wife and was hanged for it, had its feature of the same kind. Indeed, it would be hard to find a murder cse which has been given any particular amount of publicity that has not brought to the surface one of these appealing stories. The Washington Herald, in a spe cial from Richmond, under date of Saturday, prints a .particularly ap pealing human Interest story, in- con nection with the Beattfe murder case: The story is this: When young Beat tie, son of a rich )old Virginia family, raced up in his automobile to the home of his wife's #ncle, with the young .wfe beside him, . shot dead, and his arm around.her,/stained with 'her blood, he said 'that a highwayman had held him up, and in firing at him had shpt the girl. S Answers the Description. "A tall man," he gasped,. "tall-six feet, palie-with a stubby beard. He killed her-he got away-look for him." At Grst the story -was believed. Search was made for ,the tall man. Buit no tracks were found, no traces coirid be got. When Beattlefe own gun was discovered, he was arrested, and Ibis.story prononeed a fiction. So much for explanation. Now the stranger's offer. A man two days ago sought a per son who is extremely interested in the welfare of the accused slayer. He hesita:ted for a time aboyut. declaring his mission. Then he asked timidly for a description of the highwayman who young Beattie had declared shot his wife. It was given to him. The stranger shook off 'his timidity. With strange vehemence he exclaimed: "Look at .me. Look at ,me closeily. I am tall. I am pale. I have a stub by' beard. I am exactly like the man he described." The friend of Beattie thought his visitor might be mentally unbalanced, There are persons who, from constant reading of tragic stjeries, gain strange ideas of personal association with them. Youn Beattie's friend thought this man was such and sought to quiet him. But the man laughed quite sanely, and said: "No, I'd not that; I have a inotive in declaring myself like thiis highway man, who could not be found. I ask you quite calmly if the Beattie famlily would give $5,000 to see Henry clear ed of this charge and set free?" Wiling to Give $5,000. StilJ in doubt, the man interested in the young prisoner said that surely the fa.miWf would give $5,000. Beattie's fatbeir is rich. He would give $50,000 -would give his whole fortune, which might total $300,000, to save his boy. "Th.?., liten." demanded the stran ger. "I want~$5.000--not for myself, but for my family. For that sum I' will sten forward at any hour you name and confess myself the slayer qf Loitse Owen Beattie. I will do it within an hour after the money is plheed in .my hands. "Why, here's why. I am a con sumptive. Look. (Hespointed to his protruding cheek bones, to the telltale flush on his face, and, opening his coat, to his- shrunken chest). I have less than a year to live. I don't care about that. I'm better 'off dead. But I have a wife and children. I have all I can do now to sujpport "tm When I die they will be Dennlfss. And they are dearer to me than 1fe or name or reputation or anything else. "Give me $.5,000. so that they may be made comfortable for at least a time, and your Henry Clay Beattie may go free, with his name cleared and his father's fortune to inherit. I've thought of suicide many times. A quick death is better than a slow one. I'd far rather choose the executioner; than the slow, agonizing finish that is inevitable for me. Not at Home Fateful Night. "And the thing is possible-it's easy," he went on eagerly. "As I must have it, there is not a living soul in the world who can say that I was not the highwayman; that I was not present at the very time and at the very spot Mrs. Beattie was killed. I was away from my home that night No one save myself knows where I was or what I did." For half an hour the stranger plead ed eloquently for his weird proposal, picturing his love for his family, his own indifference to death, and the great chance of freeing the strong, healthy young man to whom years of life and prosperity might be granted. But he was told gently that such a sacrifice as his, noble as it might be, could not be accepted. He depafted, begging the friend of the young pris O[ier to reconsider, to send him word, so that he mi*ht go forward to death with gladness for the sake of his wifg and babies. Enforeing the Law. - Christian Appeal. He is not a wise man who .takes newspapers for his dole counsellor and shapes Ws conduct accordingly. During the last pri-mary'election the newspapers cbarged th4t Gov. Blease was the candidate of the liquor ele ment, that a corruption fund was being used to s'ecure his. election and that if elected he would flood the State with liquor. Gov. Blease was elected and those men who acted upon the statements made by the newspapers and arranged to peddle liq'uor find that they are up against a governor who Is enforcing the law 'and therefore pressing them I hard. They have been misled and are hard hit. The soft drink vendors who have sought to slip through real beer and other intoxicating drinks have Awak ed to the facts that the preen gover nor bas a mighty keen eye- and sees through every device for evading the' law. 'The wail which has gone up from this lawless. element is sometimes pa thetic', sometimes defiant anid thr'eat enig, bikt the governor is unmoved by If Gov. Blease Ie a liquor man, as the papers hav'e charged, the prohibi tionets have mucbh to be thankful for -they hate made a f9rtunate ex cange.. Can't Workt . 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A Lincoln, Neb., girl writes, "I han been ailing for some time with chronic constipation and stomach trouble. I began taking Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets and in three days I was able to be up and got better right along. I am the proudest girl in Lin coln to find such a good medicine." For sale by all dealers. Look! The Herald and News one year for $1.50. JUST ONE WA There is just one way to do business and that is the best way. Call and let us talk this best way over with you. You will always find our latch string out during banking hours. Our bank has pr9spered -because it has always done business in the best way. We bank on you and you bank with us and thus we can help each other up the hill of prosperity. 4 OI Paid on Savings Accounts. The Commercial Ban The Bank That Always Treats You Right "Tell me one thing, dear, I want to know. 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