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VOLUME XLIX, NUMBER 89. NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1911. ____ ___________________________________________i CLENSO"N DEFEATS CAROLINA. Annual Foot-ball Contest Was One sided, Score Being Twenty-seven to Nothing. Special to The Herald and News. Columbia, Nov. 2.-In a one-sided contest here today, Clemson college defeated the South Carolina university in the annual foot-ball game by a score of 27 to 0. Several of the play ers were bruised, but there were no. serious hurts. There is a large crowd in Columbia today, and the fair is being liberally patronized. There has been little dis order. Newberry is well represented among the fair-week visitors. NEWS OF PROSPERITY. Sale of Large Tract of Land-Personal Mention and Other Mat ters. Prosperity, Nov. 2.-Mrs. J. M. -Wheeler is spending this week in Co lumbia with he- 'on, Mr. 3. L. Wheel er. Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Wise have re turned from Savanaah, Ga. Mr. J. W. Morris has rnoved in the Roof house .in Centre street. The U. D. C. will meet November 8, with Mrs. G. Y. Hunter. Mr. Robert Counts has accepted the postion as clerk in the postoffice. Mr. S. J. Kohn, Misses Marie Kohn, Gertrude Bobb and Mrs. F. J. Browne are guests this week of Mrs. A. H. Kohn in Columbia. L.Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Cannon, of Co }imbia, spent the week-end with Mrs. M. A: Boozer. Miss Gertrude Smith, of Danville, Va., is visiting her cousin, Miss Par nell Davis. Mrs. M. C. Morris, Master Marion Morris, Misses Caro Wyche and Jose -phine May are spending several days in Lykesland. Prof. .L E. Hunter, of Clemson col lege, is the guest of his father, Mr. R. T. C. Hunter. Dr. and Mrs. W. F. Bedenbaugh, of Winston-Salem, are here for the win ter. Mr. W. P. B. Harmon has return ed to Ninety Six, after a visit to his son, Dr. G. W. Harmon. Quite a number of people from town and the surrounding country are attending the fair. Messrs. S. J. Kohin, A. H. Kohn and S. S. Birge have sold the large tract of ~and known as the Schumpert tract which they purchased last fall to Mr. E. D. Schumpert, of Newberry. Church of the Redeemer. (Rev. Edw. Fulenwider, Pastor). Nothing-prer;entinlg, the following program of di-:ine serVices will be ob served at thec Lutheran Church of the Reeemer next Sunday: 11 a.'m.-The regitar morning ser-I Vice. The nastor ":ill preach -on the subject: "The Open Book." Text, Rev. 10:2: "Ar.d he had in his handi a little book open." Following the co:ference of coll9ge students here, cme 'practical thoughts on the bible rd the refornation w:ill be given in is sermon. 4 n. m. -"'Rally Day" w;rvice by thej S','day school. President harms WIll make the odoress .4t thivtic qpnd we may eY"eat --omthin god The The children of the primary depart met will sing. A nice little souvenir1 o the ocsion will be giv'en to all who attend. The parents are espe cialy urged to come and bring the children with them. The public is cordially invited to all the services. Caludwell-Folk. The following invitation has been issued, which will be of interest to many Newberry people: Mr. M. B. Caldwell requests the honor of your presence at the marriage of his niece Miss Ione Caldwell to Mr. Euigene C. Folk .n November the fifteenth Nineteen Hundred and eleven ' at twelve o'clock. at home ITEIS FRO" WHIVURE. Circulating Library Established With Twenty Nembers-New Buildings Going Up-Pe'rsonaL Whitmire, Nor. 2.-Mrs. Jno. R Rosebro has gotten up a circulating library. About twenty of those whc love' good books and who are inter ested in the newest works, especially of fiction, have joined the association The books are expected any day, and this good work will begin. Mr. J. B. Pitts, our new depot agent, has had the foundation of his residence laid and the carpenters will push the structure to completion. Mr. Pitts' residence is on the Buncombe: road adjoining the lot of Mr. J. C. Abrams. Miss"Sarah Izard, a teacher in Clif ford seminary, Union, S. C., spent the week-end with Rev. and Mrs. Jno. R. Rosebro. Miss Willie Rice, of Sjartan-burg, spent the week-end with her sister, Miss Frances Ride, at Rev. Jno. R. Rosebro's. Mrs. J. E. Cofield has returned from a short trip to Greenville. Mr. and Mrs. Russell Tidmarsh came through the country in their automobile last Friday. Th.iy visited his sister, Mrs. J. M. Major, and oth er relatives. Friday was a very rainy day here, and Mr. and Mrs. Tidmarsh returned home on the train. Mrs. Sal lie Tidmarsh returned home with them. Mrs. C. A. Calhoun and daughter, Ida, spent last week with her sister, Mrs. W. A. Andrews. Mr. A. J. Holt has moved into his new store. His brother-in-law, Mr. George Wren, has moved here, and is clerking for him. Mr. George Wren and family live in Mr. Jno. Morse's house. Mr. S. T. Taylor and Misses Sal lie Belle and Bessie Dillard and Miss Lillian Scott, of Clinton, spent the week-end at the Tinney hotel. Mrs. P. B. Odell has return-ed from a short visit to Clinton. Mr. M. E. Abrams and children spent the. Sabbath with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Abrams. Nita. TAFT HAS VISION OF DOWNFALL. The Presiden(f Makes a Pessimistic Ad dress Before Hamilton Club of Chicago. Chicago, Oct. 30.-President Taft surpriserd a large aud'.ence at the dit: ner of the Hamilton club today by what mo~st of his hea:mrs construed as an 'moission of the possibility of Re pui:Mcan defeat in the coming nation al election. He wa seaking to what hadQ prom~ised to be an unusually en thu>astic audience of Renublicans. Thos,~e present hastened to ascribe he president's utterances to weari ness a>'r his long tour of speech naiing und especially after the throe ays' ha-d "campaign" in Chicago. It was his last p)ublic utterance in Chi aago before leaving for Pittsburg to ight. Tat9. dmissin of Pcssible Defeat. "Now .: are" et---sO nce people think 0h. c:% 2 dublican p)arty *lCt'i U! o i.he n1 io .' thie presi :en: 3:i1 "I am hoal7' that' the good op he couintrr who know a good hing v1otlwhy see it hav e only chas n e'i ut in an off ye 'r in order that wa nmy lc better harv 'after, buti with w int: .ion of shifta g from shoul :ers the ".- fitted t.o hear the bur r-of '' present p! oblems and car y thenm to a successful solution, to he v: -ich : unt;ied1 and which ta~ ne-- theories of action that we o not ' elieve in and1 that we don't Vm " m)l believe in. "Hiowever, If so he it, that they de dr to ;:ake a chango, we shai loy '21y sHpport the new governm'e:t iom -any conditions with the hope it vill inure t. O h !nefit of thle coni ry. but with the consolation that, if tter one trial the people think they might to go back to the old party that ~as served them so wel1l in the pro ~rssive days of the nation, they will o so--w. can bear that, my friends; hat ien l. -NINE DEATHS AROUSE SUSPICION. Chicago Widow .ay be Charged With Numerous Nurders, Including Two Husbands. Chicago, Nov. 1.-Chicago police to day pusued their investigations into the death of nearly half a score of rela ti.ves and acquaintances of Mrs. Louise Vermilyia, to make certain whether the similar demises constituted only a remarkable series of coincidences, as Mrs. Vermilyia asserts. Nine deaths are included in the list with which Mrs. Vermilyia's name has been connected, including two hus bands, two stepchildren, three chil dren and two roomers at boarding houses she- kept. Developments today, following the establishment of police surveilance at the woman's home, came from several cities wher she had lived. Pending the report of the toxicologists who are ex amining the viecera -or the last of those whose deaths have occurred beneath Mrs. Vermilyia's room, the police have made no arrests. No.positive evidences of crime have been uncovered. Facts Revealed. The following facts became 'known today: That while Mrs. Vermilyia has said one of the death's rostor, Richard T. Smith, a conductor, was. only a board I er at her home, a former roomer as serts the two claimed previously to have been married, and that they liv ed together as- mF, and wife. That while .the -oman told the po lice that she had assisted an under taker at Crystal Lake, a former home, in embalming bodies, the undertaker there denies that she ever had any such experience. She gave this as a reason why she could discuss the deaths with conposure. That R. N. Bruington, a' photo grapher of Peoria, and. brother-in-law of Conductor Smith, had made love to the widow following Smith's death, so as to investigate suspicions he then had about the reason ror his relative's death; that the widow had told him part of her matrimonial history, which he described to give to the coroner. Death of Conductor Smith. That Smith died during convulsio.ns, and after drinking some su,bstance, whether medicine or not being unset: tied, but that the doctors gave the cause of death from symptoms given by the widow as acute gastritis. That two conductors who had work ed with Smith on the railroad told the coroner that Smith had told them he was living with Mrs. Vermnilyia, though not married to her, and that he has been threatened with death by anoth er suitor of the widow, an un :dertaker. That Bissonette was really engaged rc le ma:'ri:i to ..Ul: -ydila Rivard, of C h: day cf the pe;:ic?man's wil, in ~ which Miss Ri:ard was n::med as his fiancea. Mrs. Vermilyia wais a witness to the wil1l, and! the polie will enden' or to ascertain whether the widow had shown jealousy of the policeman's in tended wife. Sister's Sudden Illness. In a talk wit the police of Peoria, ri@ f neintal apres ic;t in wn!yf.h she was fond of taHling of d:ath. Hie sa:1.: "She told mec it seemedi funny to her that nearly er:: y one K'w knew weI nnd ;I( c:'rei *)r 't I and it keid me p i. I was afraid of dieath.", a eoinciid:m c. velopc to-day I Ver ilyi herself when a siste". li': ig in the house adjoining MIrs. Mary Breholze, suddenly became ill. Mrs. Vermilyia told inquirers today she had never studied m dieine nor sought to become a ni irse as ancd been reported, but that she had snoer little knowledge of medicines that she had acciuired to enable her to aid neigh bors and relatives. She insisted she S was innocent,. .. .Te .IJL T~ } imonU. hir Wleek Visitors-W~eather 0 Outlook Brighter. ri Columbia, Oct. 31.-Senator Benja- e mini Ryan Tillmnan, of Trenton. arrived Xw in Columbia tonight a.cd wi 1 s & . a 'i few days in the capital city during it NO USE TO TRY CASE. 3overnor Blease Takes Hand in Ches- 1 ter Criminal Cases-Solicitor Henry Explains. Chester, Nov. 1.-A letter from Gov :rnor Cole L. Blease saying that to I t prosecute the Working Man's club 1 >ases in the circuit would be )nly a useless expense, was received by Solicitor Henry in court this after aoon, as, partial answer to Attorney I W. H. Newbold's criticism of him for i lailure to proceed. The governor went I >n to say that he had been reliably in- t ormed that when the Working Man's 1 >lub settled its cases with the city by payment of $600, there was promise I >f no further prosecution, and added :hat he favored prosecution, but not persecution. Solicitor Henry said fur- t .her that Mayor Wise has informed im that there was no such agreement i ith: regard to further prosecution. i Mr. Henry's remarks were drawn' i orth by a card from Mr. Newbold crit- i .cising the solicitor for failure to hand )ut a bill in the Darby rape case and -e Working Man's club cases. The 1 irst the solicitor explained by saying hat -the case is not yet sufficiently trong for he State to attempt a trial, I ind the main witness is unable to at ;end court. The omer case he* said r Yas not filed with the clerk of court t intil yesterday, and there has been on ,y one witness bound over. f At the conciusion of Mr. Henry's re- t narks Judge Watts addressed the 1 rand jury briefly, telling them that in f . Killough Henry the State has one S >f the ablest and most impartial men I :hat ever filled the office of solicitor, nd that Mr. Henry has a perfect right ;o exercise hisi judgment in handing E )ut bills or not handing them out, just Ls he please. ORROW AND SICKNESS DRIVE MAN DEATH Fake C. Cromer, Farmer of Anderson County, Ends His Own Life With Shot Gun. , Anderson, Oct. 30.-Profound sor -ow over the deaths of his wife and I tbrother, which occurred recently, a :oupled with an attack of pellagra, J !aused Jake C. Cromer, a substantial f .nderson county farmer, to become r nentally unbalanced and in this con- f ition he committed suicidre this aft- s rnoon. Mr. Cromer, who was 60 years of ge, locked himself up in his room at1 ts home in Fork township and shot imself with a shot gun, the entire oad p)assing through his left arm and ntering the heart. Death resulted in C tantly. Mr. Cromer was a large land w;ner and we!! known in this section. a le leaves eight children, two brothers S nd two sisters.1 leteorologrical !Recordi, October, 1911. ~ Tenmerature. Mean maximunm 76.1. Mean iijmm 77.7. .: Mean 66.9. Maximum 94, dlate 7th.1 Minimum 42, date 20th. -IPrecip,itation. Total 6.3~> j inc e: .Cra s: E ours'i .90 inches, are *2nd. Number oft dys. wi Lh .01 Or moi 0 recipiation 10, clear 8, fair i! V oudv 1 2. Thu:nder~ storms~ 1, 27. . .ight frost on )4th an d 25;th. Rainfalli >r ! moniiths :10. 15 iriches. W. G. Peterson. I Co-operative Observer. lme Youth's Companion Calendar for et 1912. f The publishers of the Youth's Coin- M anion will, as always at this season, v' resent to every subscriber whose I bscription ($1.75) is paid for 1912, 0 beautiful Calendar for the new year. vi he cover picture reproduces a water- Pt lor painting of a bit of N&w England cl :dst, giving a glimpse of breeze-swept ean, of smiling sky, of warm, sunny 9: >ks, which will come like a breath of sit air to those wvho have once liv- *lh i near the sea and to those whose ti 'hole life has been passed inland. The itare being in eight colors, the t mes of the original are faithful!y re- b HUNTER RILLS TWO HUNTERS. listook Party for Deer in Gray of Dawn-Jersey Law Crowded the Woods. Mays Landing, N. J., Nov. 1.-Mis aken for deer in the gloom of the arly dawn, Constant Steelman and rohn Yost, business mZn of Pleasant rille, were killed, and William Jarvis )f the same place was injured, when a iunter fired at them at Weymouth, six niles from here. The man alleged to lave made the fatal mistake is said ,o be Charles Noreross, a stranger in he neighborhood. Steelman, who was in the oil busi less, Yost, a furniture dealer, and Farvis, left Pleasantville at midnigh1 vith two friends to hunt deer. Under he New Jersey law the deer seasor )pened today and each hunter is al owed to kill but one a year. Hunt ng is permitted only on Wednesdays n November, consequently the woods vere filled- with sportsmen. The party spent' the night in the voods near Weymouth and about day )reak the hunters. were walking down L road to take their stands. Without varning a 'shot was fired from the eavy underbrush on the roadside and teelnan, Yost and Jarvis fell.. A mo nent later the man who' fired the uckshot stepped rnto the road and vas horrified when he discovered his atal mistake. The other two men in he hunting party -who escaped the hot secured a vehicle from a neargy arm house and the wounded were tarted for Pleasantville. Before -eaching there Steelman hnd Yost had [ied. Both had been shot in the back ,nd Parvis had received some of the hot in the leg. Mr. 'Claude Morris. Claude Morris, son of Mr. and Mrs. . E. Morris, was born in Newberry ,ounty, S. C., December 13, 1891, and [led October 24, 1911. He joined St. .uke's Lutheran church, .near Pros ,erity, at the age of 14,. of which he ived a consistent member until his Leath. - Claude was a 'bright and cheerful oung man, carrying sunshine and ~ladness wherever he went. He was ust in the bloom of youth, but typhoid ever fastened its hold upon him and efused to .release it. He suf ered about six weeks, and in spite of killed physicians and nursing he rew worse, and On the .24th of Oc aber at about 10 o'clock p. mn., hard 7 before his, loved ones realized the nd was so near, h.is soul took its ight. He spoke to his father just before e died about going home. When his ther asked him if 'he was talking bout their old home in the country he aid, "No, you don't understand me. am talking about that other home, nd I want you to come and go with In the midst of life we are in death. eath is always sad, but especially so 1this case; for there was in the same nse four of his sisters almos-t at the uit of death. We know not when m dcath angel shall come into our a:nes, but one thing we do know, he ~:es, and som- time when we least p. et himn. We know not why God w ii :o cut this promising young 5 o short. neither do we que~s on, for we know He doeth all things l. Gond moves in a mysterious way, ia wonde:-s to p- rform. Jesus said II-no no's you know not. but you kn~ Vow hereafter, and He =ai:d "H ng 3 ::o-k together for good to them at love the Lord. The deceased had only reeCntly nmov to the town of Newherry with hisI ther. and it was not the privilege of e writer to be associaterd with him 'ry long. He was a faithful member of 'a Baraca Sunday school class at Neall Street church, and when we sited hinm during his illness he talk I about the Sunday school and his Father, mother and several brothers d sisters, with many other loved ies and friends mourn the loss of is dear one, but we mourn not as Ose who hav'e no hiope. After services conducted by his pas r he was laid away In the family rying ground to await the reserec FALR OFFICEES IE-ELEUTAV Several Newberrians Chosen Life Menibers-Heeting Was Entirely Harmonious. Columbia, Nov. 1.-All of the officers were reelected tonight at the annual meeting of the State Agricultural and Mechanical society, the rules having been suspended and the officers re elected on motion of Mr. T. L. Bulow, of Ridgeway. The meeting\ was enti, ly harmonious ana did not last two hours. In addition to the re-election of officers the society adopted a sub stitute rule for the method of enter ing exhibits, instructed the secretary to revise the .roll ,_! members and elected several neNl life members. New Life Members. The following new life members of the society were eleted: W. B. West, Clemson college; J. L. Butler, Lock hart; S. A. Blak, .Columbia; M. A. Coleman, Silver Street; M. F. Cole man, Silverstreet; B. R. Smith, John ston; Charles D. Green, Spartanburg; Eugene S. Blease, Newberry; P. H. Stoll, Kingstree; W. A. Boyd, Colum .bia; R. G. Childs, Columbial J. M. Mobley, Columbia; J. A. Shanklin,. Jr, Columbia; W. L. Anderson, Ninety Six; B. F. Alston, Jr., Union. The Offieers. The following is a tist of the officers, who were re-elected tonight to serve for the ensuing year:. President, J. A. Banks, St. Mat thews; vice presidents, A. T. Smythe, 1st congressional district, Charleston; R. B. Watson, 2d -congressional die trict, Riige Spring; T. J. Kinard, 3d congressional district, Ninety -Six; John D. W. Watts, 4th congressional. district, Laurens; T. L. Bulow, 5th congressional district, Ridgeway; D. A. Spivey, 6th congressional district, Conway; E. C. McGregor, 7th congres sional district, Columbia; J. M. Cantey, secretary; A. T. Heise, assistant sec retary, and D. G. Ellison, treasurer; general superintehdent, J. D. W. Watts. Charities and Coe tions. The third annual m4ting of the South Carolina conference of charities and correction is announced for No vember 23 and 24 at Columbia. The' gathering is made up of social work ers of almost every shade of 'religious belief. There will be wide discussion of problems bearing on charity, phil anthropy, benevolence and penology. Some of the prominent people of the State are active leaders in the move !ment, which indicates its noteworthi ness. All interested persons are invit ed to attend the conference. A Wise Parent's Resolve About Her . * School 1. I resolve to see only the good points in my dhild's teacher' and to speak about them to her and others. 2. I resolve to think always that the teacher is trying to do her best. 3. I resolve not to 'criticise the teacher in the presence of my chil dren or others. 4. I resolve' to ma.ze home condi tions as favorable az possible for the physica'l, mentLal, mural well-being of my children. 5. I resolve to visit the school as often as possible, that the teacher may be assured of my interest in her and in the well-being of the pupils. 6. I resolve that if I feel positive that the teacher is using unwise methods with my children, I will have a frien'dly talk with her about the matter before referring it to higher 7. I reslve2 to find- out what my boy's associations are; whether ~or not they are helpful, whether he is being 'led into bae nabits, whether e is smoking cigarettes or using to bacco in any form. 8. I resolve to mnake gentle enforce ment of obedience to wise rules a vital principle in. order that the home and chool may work in harmony.-Pro gressive Farmer. Death of Infant.' On the 17th of October Mr. and Mrs. . P. Franklin, of West End, lost their nfant son, Curtis, 10 months old. Bu ied at Rosemont. cemetery, service by he Rev. L. B. White. .Now i sthe time to sub)scribe to The Heral and News, $l.50 a year.