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NEWS FROM WHITMIRE. Holidays. Marked by Reunions of Friends and Relatives-Many So * cial Affairs. Whitmire, Dec. 28.-Compliments of -the season to all. "May your Christmas fireside be Glad with happy faces; May the dear ones all be there In their usual places." Mr. William Coleman is here for the holidays. Mrs. Mary Coleman, of Asheville, will spend the winter here with her children, Mr. Thad Coleman and Mrs. Wm. Coleman. Miss Myrtle Suber, of the Columbia e\ male college, is spending the Christ mas 'days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jio i. SAber. Mr. T. Cofield Jeter, who, for more than a year, has had a good position in the Palmetto National bank, in Co lurbia, came up Saturday. His par ents, Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Jeter, gave him an elegant birthday dinner con sisting of all the good things that be long - to Christmas. The following guests were present: Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Cofield, Mr. and Mrs. Jno. Calder, of Winston-Salem, N. C.; Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Maybin, of Atlanta, Ga.; Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Cofteld and son Joseph, of Carlisle, and Master Joe Howie, of GreenvIlle. Mr. Cofteld Jeter return ed to his post of duty Tuesday. Mrs. F. A. Golden, of Atlanta, spent several days of last week with her sister, Mrs. H. G. Meyers. A painful accident occurred at Mr J. I M. Major's last Friday morning. Jim Griffin, who was digging a well there, fell into the well a distance of 50 feet, and broke ,his leg. Dr. H. K. Boyd was called and set the injured limb. Mr. Oscar F. Dukes, a printer of many years of experience, has charge of the mechanical department of the Whitmire News. A pretty home wedding occurred at the residence of Mrs. Hannah Lee, when her daughter, Miss Eolene Lee, was married to Mr. Jack Mobley, of Union county. -Rev. . A. Jeffcoat peformed the ceremony. The following invitations are out: The Whitmire German club request the pleasure of your company at their annual Christmas dance at Coleman hall Friday evening, December. 29, 1911. Dancing at 9 o'clock. Miss Frances Jeter, who has just finished a pleasant and successful half session of her Sophomore year in Erskine college, is spending Christ mas with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Jeter. Her many friends here are glad to have her at home again. She will 'return to Due West Saturday, December 30, and resume her studies in Erskine college. .Mrs. Will Atchison and child, of Sa vannah, Ga., are spending some weeks with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Jno. Duckett. Capt and Mrs. Smythe, of Buckhead, Fairfield county, and Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Nance, of Anderson, are the guests of Mrs. Eliza Nance and family. Mrs. S. D. Spray and daughbers, Flossy and Mary, are spending this week with her father, Mr. Wolf, in 'Monroe, N. C. Miss Frances Rice is spending the week with the loved ones at home, at Coronaca. Mrs. W. A. Andrews and Mrs. R. M. Duckett are visiting their par.ents, Mr. and Mrs. Z. H. Wright, at Denmark. Miss Kate McClanahan has gone to Westminister to spend Christmas withI p her parents. Mr. Henry Tidmarsh, who is a medi -cal student in the University 'of Mary land, is visiting relatives and friends here, and having a merry Christmas. The hearts of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Cofield are made glad by the return of their children and grand children, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Calder, of Winston Salem, N. C.; Mr. and Mrs. W. D. May bin, of Atlanta, Ga.; Mr. and Mrs. George Cofield and son Joseph, of arlisle, and Master Joseph Howie,j f Greenville. They had a' delightful mily reunion. All of the above nam persons and Mr. and Mrs. S. A.' eter and children, Cofield, Frances nd John, were present. Miss L. R. Cofi.eld left Saturday for Spartanburg. She will take a month's vacation 'before she returns to finish the session as governess for Dr. R. R. Jeter. Miss Kate Hargrove is spending Christmas week with her mother and family in the county. Mr. and Mrs. Rudolf Shackleford and e ildren, and Miss Pauline Cald er, are with relatives and friends in t.Newberry this week. Miss Lula Donnan is with the loved ones at home in Laurens county until school opens again. 'Miss Sarah Shannon spent Monday~ of the Christmas clerks with thm C H. Cooper company. Miss Carrie Watson, of Greenwood is spending the week with relatives here. Mrs. Bettie Halfacre and children, Sarah and William, are on a short visil to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Franli Maybin. Nita. Death of Mrs. Lucy Abrams Martin Mrs. Lucy Abrams Martin, widovw of J. G. Martin, of Houston, Texas died December 7, 1911. She leaves dii children, three boys and three girls "Let me die the death of the right eous." Prosperity Circuit. There will be preaching at Ne-% Hope M. E. church next Sunday morn ing at 11 o'clock, and Poifaria at 3.3( p. m. This is a special fifth Sunda3 service. All are cordially urged t< attend. S. C. Morris, Pastor. Shaw-Hipp. The many friends of Mr. Holley H Hipp will be glad to know of his mar riage to Miss Belle Shaw, of Saluda Mr. Hipp is the son of Mr. J. H. Hipp who removed from Little Mountain t( the Zoar section of Saluda county i few years ago, and is well known ii this county. Wife Killed, Husband In Jail. Greenville, December 27.-In one o: the mill villages of GreenVille tonigh the coroner is holding an inquest inti the death of a woman who was foun in her bed at daybreak with her hea( split open with an axe and her two year-old baby immersed in a pool o: blood by her side. The woman's hus band is locked in a cell at the counta jail, and finger nails bearing bloo( stains, uncleansed by water used ii erasing other alleged traces of th( foul crime, are regarded by the au, thorities as pointing to him as thi guilty man. Pulaski Lodge, No. 20, L 0. 0. F. Pulaski lodge, No. 20, 1. 0. 0. F. will -meet in Klettner's .hall Frida evening, December 29, at 8 o'clock All members are urged to be present as the election of officers will be helt at this meeting. J. Y. Jones, W. G. Peterson, Noble Grand. Secretary. Sing Ho! Ohio. Jesse Conway, the correspondent o the Cleveland Leader, tells this one The noble battleship Ohio steame< into Quito harbor one day and an chored alongside a British ship. Pres ently the tramp's dingy was lowere4 and sailor men rowed out to the bat tieship. They arrived under the name plate and painfully spelled out th< warrior's handle. All looked puzzled Finally one Britisher tried it aloud. "A 'ho' and a 'haitch' and a '10,'"' h said softly. "Wot a 'ell of a name fo: a ship! "-Louisville Times. His Saving, Perhaps. The late Bill Barlow, editor of thi Laramie Boomerang, believed no les: in accurate than in humorous journal ism. "You can't achieve your effect, Barlow once said in an addr'ess ii Douglas, Wyo., "unless you're accu rate. Uncertainty and inaccuracy wil spoil the finest effect, whether it b< comic or whether it be pathetic. "I remember a funeral in Tin Can The~ Widow Wagg had lost her thir< in a poker dive. George Jones, D. T deliver-ed the funeral address, and ai eloquent and moving address it was but George, in his inaccurate way hadn't made sure whether it was he: third or her fourth that the widov Wagg was burying. "Hence spoiled a grand oratioi with these concluding words: 'And now we commend to the di vine mercy this widowed handmait who bath been bereaved again, an< again, and again' "George hesitated, frowned, ani added: "'-and perhaps again.' "-Humal Life. *AT THE THEATRlE. - Coming Attractions. January 12-Dr. Cook. February 8-Madame Sherry. February 16-Paid in Full. Februa.ry 22-The Lyman Twins. March 29-A Woman of the Hour. April 6-Christy Bros. Minstrels. April 24-The Traveling Salesman. -oqqxv:aa povr an.r. STild S ?313IH WAR ON TH[ BOLL W[tVIL; CAMPAIGN fOR GOOD ROI Interesting Methods for Helping Farmers Fight Cotton Foe for Arousing Interest in Road Improvemen' The advent of the boll weevil the territory of the Southern I way System caused it to take work to combat its ravages. To end a cotton culture department organized, with a chief and a f( of field agents, each one of whom had practical experience in grov cotton under boll weevil . conditi< to cover the districts of Alabama Mississippi where the weevil has ready appeared or threatens. More cently the work of this departU was extended to Southern Geo: along the lines of the Southern I way and the Georgia, Southern Florida. The agents of this der ment work in harmony with thOs' the United States farm demons tion bureau and with the state thorities, doing special work with individual farmer in instructing in the best ways to raise cotton der weevil conditions and in shoy him how he can diversify his cl to the best purpose. The management of the Soutt Railway System has. long held I the improvement of the country I meant prosperity and advancen alike to the railroad and the resic of its territor,, and especial benefl the farmer. Ten years ago, in 1 it started out its first Good RC train, which spent six months bi ing demonstration roads, holding I conventions and agitating for be highways. There is just ending tour of another good roads train, out six months, operated by the So ern Railway System in Co-opera with the United States Office of I lic Roads. In the years between, stant attention has been paid to ., along this line. E[CIVE ORGANIZATION fOR DEVELOPMENT W( How the Land and Industrial Dep a.ent of the Southern Railway is Conducted. As an agency for the solicita >f men and capital for factories for other industries and for immi tion into the Southeast and for eral promotion and development w agricultural and industrial, within territory of the various lines of Southern Railway System the int trial department is organized. EThe Land and Industrial 'Der ment, with jurisdiction extending< Ithe lines of the Southern Rails -the Mobile and Ohio. Railroad,. Georgia, Soutlisrn and Florida I way, and the Virginia and Souths 1ern Railway, has direct charge of -ters pertaining to general deve ment. At the head of it is the L Sand Industrial Agent, with headq ters at Washington and with a Istantial corps of assistants and la *offices located there. Along the I Sof the roads are district offices St. Louis, Mobile, Macon, Bristol, lumbus,. Miss.; Asheville and Col ila. The agents in charge of tl offices give their assistance to all forts to promote, in any direc1 the growth of the territory ad.ia to the railroad lines, find locat -for industries or help in their org zation, aid homeseekers or coloni in securing the lands they wish, v 1with the farmers and others in -ing the problems of markets or c: which come up, gather informa abut the opportunities or facts w: will advertise their districts anm every possible way extend their opraticn and that of the railroal 1the people of their territory in di opment efforts. The work of t) agents, as that of the Washingtor fice, has to do with both the ed tional and other efforts with the pe ofg the territory and in the bi ing in of new people and new From the Washington and St. L offices industrial and immigra Iagents travel throughout the N in advertising the Southern's terri -and in solictiing farm settlers imanufacturers to locate along lines. An office is also mainta for this work at Harrisburg, Pa., for several years a European agt 'has been established with headg ters in London. The agents of company include specialists in tiim Iminerals and clays, in industrial cations and in other lines. For the Queen and Crescent R a similar line of work is carried by the Agricultural and Indus Agent, located at Chattanooga, T In the early days of the Souti 'IRailway System it was believed i er that, while the needs of the ritory in the way of iig~miation of the development of the farm sources were not to be neglected, cial effort should be made to cal] tention to the immense natural sources and advantages for indust of various kinds. The reports f the communities along the lines resented in the Land and Indus Department show that in the de< from 1900 to 1910, $400,000,000 3 invested in industries. A good portion of this sum represents work of the Industrial DepartmerJ At Dresden there is in the co' of construction what is said - to the largest radiator in . he W< Toi wriiator is iL:Er-sed for the iDS the -M. .nto Ail UP this was rce has 'ing = 'O-OPERAlON Of PEOPLE al e- D[SIRED BY SOUIH[RN gia Al- Will Freely Give Assistance in WorN and for Advancement of its Terri art- tory-Information Gladly ) of Received. tra au- The Southern Railway System in the vites the co-operation of all the peo 1lm ple along its line in work for thi un- advancement of its territory. It wil ing freely give every assistance possible OPS and will be glad to have individuali . and business organizations call uPOR ern it for aid in solving the developmel :hat problems which come up, and contrib oad ute information which will help -buil Lent up the communities of the Southeast ent Communications relating to loca t to tions or development work along th4 901, Southern Railway, Mobile and Ohic ads Railroad, Georgia, Southern and Flor dld- ida Railway and Virginia and South oad western Railway should be addresse< tter to M. V. Richards, Land and Industria the Agent, Washington, D. C. lso For locations or for information 01 ath- matters regarding the country aloni tion the Queen and Crescent Route, ad 'ub- dress T. 0. Plunkett, Agricultural an< on- Industrial Agent, Chattanooga, Tenn ork RESOURCES Of SOUIHASI GIVEN WIDE PUBLICE Exhibits at Fairs, Advertisements ir Newspapers, and Circulation of, art- Attractive Literature All Boost the Southern Territory. don The Southern Railway has long de and voted much attention to fair and ex an position exhibits, showing the re ra- I.sources and products of the South sen- 'eastern States. This year's exhibi the, work Is almost entirely within its owi the territory. At state and other larg4 tefairs and exposition its is makini Iu comprehensive exhibits, largely agri a-cultural, which are mostly of an edu vr cational character, and which shov ver what the people of the Southeast an< ra' of special communities may do. I thei large exhibit will be made in Noveml ber at New York City. est In the line of publicity for callini nat- attention to the opportunities of thi lop- Southeast, liberal amounts are appro an priated. The Southern Field, givini ua-information a bout all the System's sub- territory, is widely and regularly cir trge culated. Booklets descriptive of thi Lnes different states, publications relatinl at to the various lines of farming, pam Co- phlets giving general or 'special il uem- formation or lists of lands or businesi eeopportunities -are published for th4 e-benefit of homeseekers and manufac o,turers. ent In adiertising opportunities in the Lons Southeast agriCultural,, trade and gen olv - :ops I s tion I 11ich - [in - - - I to C 1ng 1 + ' Bringing watermelons to Southern ral publicaitioii inte -North ar ohused and special advertising is don and ini Europe. ned SOUT HERN RY.'S EXHIBITS ency interesting Display of Southern Fan uar- Products at Land and Irrigation the Congress. ber, New York.-At the American Lani .10- J.nd Irrigation exposition, .which re cently opened at Madison Square Gai >ute den, there are displays of farm ani -n orchard products from every portio: :rial Iof the United States and from Car an aa, but none excels the exhibit fror tnthe Southern states made by thi rop SothrnRailway system, which ha t- expended several thousand dollars il ad collecting material for exhibit purpo ) re- ~ ~ ere-. prom es the - oIrse~y!lilgsvnt u Southern Railway Good Roads "Train. es from a11 parts o the terriy er ed by its lines. The Southern railway's booth is i ty feet long and the arrangements o tAe exhibit is most tasteful and al tractice.. There are exhibits of col ton, tobacco, the grains, grasses an forage, crops, sugar cane, and al kinds of garden truck and an unusual ly fine fruit display. The walls ar covered by a large map of the Soutb sheaves of grain and grasses, a scor of large colored photographs of typi cal Southern farm, field and orchar views. There are a half dozen ts bles of the Southern apples, whicl will convince all who. see them tt: the Southern apple-growing distric. are surpassed by. none. Special -litei ature has been prepared for circuli tion at the exposition telling of th Southeastern states and especially c -their farmlands and products. Each day an illustrated lecture o the Southeast is delivered by M. A Hays of the Land and.Industrial Di partment of the. Southern Railwai For this lecture 150 new colored slide have been mad6. The lecture cover the industries, the * agricultural r4 sources and developments, the scenj attractions, the resort centers of th Southeastprn stateg gives charactei *outnern maulway Cc istcs of Sbnthern ifeiand tells-a5Di the wide variety' of opportunitli found in this section. CONDITIONS ENCOURAGINI Management of Souther~ Railway 1 Making It Helpful Factor In Southern Development. SWashington.-A most encourai view of conditions in the Southeal is presented in the annual report the Southern Railway company, whic states that one of the most impor ant factors in the strength of the conl pany's position is the industrial an agricultural development of the te: ritory traversed by its lines. Th~ marked agricultural progress due t the general adoption of approve methods by the farmers of the Souti east, particularly the increase of d versified farming, and ;the diversifica -tion of industries are noted Raiway Zepot, Clayton, N. C. The managenidnt of the comipan: ,with a broad conception of its rel: tions to the public, is making the ral way not merely a carrier of the pe ple and products of the South, bi Salso a helpful factor in Southern d velopment. The report sets out ti Sefforts being put forward to increal the prosperity of the people alread in the Southeast, and, to attract i3 Svestors and desirable settlers to tU territory served by the lines of tU Southern railway. A review is give SIof the work being done by the cottc 1culture department, which is teac] ing farmers, in lccalities where it 1possible the boll weevil may sprea Sto successfully combat the inse< should it ever appear in their field: 1and thus maintain their productic instead of having to learn how.) deal with it after It appears The work of this department will be ex tended to cover all territory along the company's lines to which there Is even -a remote danger that the weevil may spread. The Importance to. the South of maintaining its mon Sopoly of cotton production Is pointed out in connection with the vigorous efforts being made to raise cotton 'in other parts of the world. The re port shows that the company Is also. Sencouraging live stock raising and - Sdairying in its territory. Recognition SIs given the newspapers of the South Seast for their valuable assistance and also to commercial organIzatins, to 'banks and individuals who have .aid' ed the company In all Its eforts to . advance the agricultural prosperity of the Southeast. SThe more Important additions and betterments completed and.undertak en during the year. are shown, among them the double track lines through ULynchburg, Va., and Into Chattanooga, !Tenn., 38 miles of double track be tween Atlanta and Gainesville,. Ga., Smodern lap-sidinsS on the -line. be tween Atlanta and Macon, Ga., -Knox e ille and Chattanoogas Tenn., ,and Morristown, Tenn., and Asheville N. - to Culture Departmen. Sc., new freight station and ofAce ~building at Atlanta, additional freight. .station~ and yard facil.des at Macon, and additional wharf facilities at Mo. bile. Ala (TO BE CONTINUED) FOB SAL. 316 acres improvea1 rarm. six miles trom the railroad. Price. $1,500. t160 acres, one mile of Arkadelphia, ~Improved farm, all cleared, $3,000. 86 acres improved farm, two miles of Arkadelphia, $1,500. 560 acres cut over hardwoodlanld, -unimproved, four miles of Arkadel .phia, $4,000. This is all fine agricul 0tural land, on 'easy terms. ArkaaS Land Company, IAEKAN~SA$ AND CMAY -IArkadelphia, Ark. T. N. Wilson. 1128 Imd o niet EXECUTOR'S N~OTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT. Notice is hereby given that on Mon day, January 15, 1912, at 11 o'clock a. in., we will make a settlement of the estate of the late Mrs. M. A. E. Werts, in office of Probate Judge at Newberry, S. C. All and singuiar the creditors are hereby notified to present their claims duly attested to Clarence F. Werts, executor, and all parties in debted are required t.. make payent to the undersigned on or before said date. . a wt Susan M. Werta, Executrix. Clarence F. Werts, Executor. wOf Mrs. M.r. E. Werts, Deceased. itNOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR FIN AL SETTLEMENT. t.The undersigned will apply to the Judge of Probate for Newberry county on Monday, January 15, 1912, at noon, for letters dismisory as administrator of othe personal estate of Owen McRae nHolmes, decedsed. I Robert McCaughrin Holmes, 12-12-4t-taw. ' Administrator. Now is the time o cribe toTh fHerald and News, $1.50 a year. i Special-The Herald and News, $1.50 a t yes. . 1 betret opetdad netk en duigteya re hw,aL " the the oubletrkne thrao