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rE- N SOT RAR - 52 VOLUME L; NUBEII -6. 1'EWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDA1Y, FEBRUARY 23, 1912.TWCAWEK$15AYAR GENERAL ASSEMBLY IS STILL GRINDING AWAY BOTH HOUSES NET THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT. Report on Appropriation Bill Was Ex pected Thursday Night-May Go to Governor Friday. Special to The Herald and News. Columbia, Feb. 22.-Notwithstanding the fact that today is Washington's birthday, and a legal holiday, both houses of the general assembly were in session this morning, and will be in session again tonight. The free conference committee, which has had the appropriation bill since before the recess on Saturday night, has not yet reported the bill, but it is thought probably the bill will be reported tonight. governor Blease is in Charleston to day, but will be back in his office to morrow morning. Should the appro priation bill be reported by the free conference committee tonight, it may go to the governor tomorrow, when he- will either sign the bill as :passed or use the veto power. A number of matters were taken 'up by the two houses today, and a good many bills received final reading, or were advanced on the calendar. It is understood that the committeer of the house on medical affairs, to whom was referred the veto of the governor on the bill providing for medical inspection of school children, has agreed upon its report. This re port has not yet been sent to the house, but the Daily Record will car ry a story this afternoon saying that it is understood that the committee is evenly divided upon sustaining the veto-three in favor of sustaining the "veto, and three against the veto and -for the passage of the bill over the v'eto of the governor. (Elsewhere in The Herald and News today appears a report of'the proceed ings of the general assembly on Wed nnsday night, including the receipt from the goernor of a mes: age giving his reasons for approving the ware bcuse act). LEXINGTON IAkING BID FOR LUTHERAN C0i LEGE ' as Instituted Campaign to RBise Funds as Inducement to Secure Institution. NLexingten, Feb. 19.-A "whirlwind campaign" has beaen launched for se curing the new Lutheran college fc-r girls, the establishment of which, at some point in bouith Carolina is now a certainty. No stronger committee --'has ever been placed in charge of any 'und-srtaking than that named to place the matter before the people of the town and the county and later to go before the committee in charge of the location of the school when it meets in Columbia March 5, next. This com mnittee is composed of the following gentlemen: Rev. T. S. Brown, pastor .of St. Stephen's Lutheran church; W. P. Roof, well known merchant, bank er and cotton mill president; H. N. Kamin-er, D. F. Efird, Julian P. Meetze and B. Heber Barre. Lexington is the logical place for this college to be located. Lexingtoni is nearer the centre of Lutheranism than any other point in South Caro lina. It is said that between 40 and 50 Lutheran churches are witliin a radius of 12 miles of the court house, which,; within itself, should go a long way in Lexington's favor when the matter comes up for final action. It is learned that a large tract of land, will be offered the college to gether with several thousand dollars in cash. Epworth League. Central Epworth 'eague will meet in the Sunday school room Friday ev.ening at 7.30 o'clock. Mr. V. M. Fleming, of Greenville, will deliver -a lecture on Stonewall Jackson. A cordial invitation is extended to every * one. - Newberryv Sunbe:ams. 9Those Newberry Sunbeams are such shiners! Their apportionmet WN ITE Iy FROM WHjITMIRE. Sad Death of a Little Girl-Delightful Valentine Party-Personal Men tion-Other Matters. Whitmire, Feb. 22.-Mary Magda lene, the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Swaner, died at their home in the mill village on February 14, and was laid to rest in Duncan's Creek graveyard the following day. Mr. S. A. Jeter has returned from a short trip to Union. Sheriff M. M. Buford was here Sat urday. Rev. and Mrs. J. N. Isom, of Clifton, visited his daughter, Mrs. J. W. Hipp, last week. Mrs. J. S. McCarley gave a delightful valentine party in honor of her daughter, Miss Bertha. The house was beautifully decorated in tinsel and hearts. Delightful refreshments were served. Mr. Raymond Abrams and Miss Sarah Shannon attended the valentine party of Miss Bertha McCarley, and spent the next day visi :' : relatives here. Mrs. Coleman Lyles, of Chester, af ter a pleasant visit to Mrs. J. B. Pitts, has gone to Carlisle. Mrs. George E. Cofield and son, Joseph, of Carlisle, spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Cofield. Mr. James Henderson is attending court in Union this week. Mrs. Rudolf Shackleford and the children left last week for Simpson ville, where Mr. Shackl-eford has a nice job. Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Watson are away on a short trip to Columbia. Mr. P. B. Odell has returned from Atlanta with another lot of mules. SEARCH FOR MRS. W. H. GREEVER. Husband and Friends From Colunmia Aiding Washington Police. Washington, Feb. 20.-The Rev. W. H. Greever, of Columbia, S. C.. editor of the L-utheran Visitor, is in Wash ington aiding the police in the; search for his missing wife, who disappeared last week from the home of Miss Louise Ryan, a trained nurse of Wash ington, with whom she had been living for sevefal months while undergoing medical treatment for melancholi. Mr. Greever was accompanied to Washington by his brother, E. .L. Greever; by Theodore Brueger, of Philadelphia, a brother of Mrs. Greev er, and by Arthur Kohni, of Columbia, a friend of the family. Up to a late hour tonight the increased efforts to locate Mrs. Greever had been unsuc cessful and there is growing appre hension. Her three young children are with relatives in Tazewell, Va. LEVER'S OLEMARGARINE BILL. Committee Will Introduce Measure Prepared by South Carolinian. Washington, Feb. 20.--The report of the eleomargarine sub-committee, of which Mr. Lever, of South Carolina, is chairman, has been made to the committee on agriculture in the form of a bill recently introduced by Rep resentative Lever, and to which he has given considErable study. For a month or more the sub-coin mittee has held constant sessions-at the commencement of which Mr. Lev er's suggestion of open door meetings was adopted. Both 'the butter people and the eleomargarine manufacturers have had occasion to offer suggestions, and the Lever bill, as reported, has been augmented by some of these sug gestins which -the sub-committee has seen fit to accept. Mr. Lever in submitting the report of his sub-committee just what 'the bill intended to do and occupied more than an hour and a half in going into details. He is quite hopeful of a un animou.s favorable report from the committee on the 28th instant, the date set by the committee for final consid eration of the question. Card of Thanks. Editor Herald and News: Please al low me throvgh the co1uorns or your. papr to~ n:. ~>. y thanks to all thoe ec kindTh ke- thie sad ti MATTERS OF INTEREST the IN PROSPERITY TON ma Sul WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY FIT- Yo, TINGLY OBSERVED THURSDAY. I tim Miss Erin Kohn Talks to Her Former Pupils.-Othier Items of News- the Personal Mention. sen we] Prosperity, Feb. 22.-The patriotic exercises held in honor of Washington . at the school house Thursday were quite up to their usual high standard. Sul Many parents and friends listened Nat with pleasure to the songs and stories rendered by the children. Though the Gr( theme of the afternoon was not new, day the way in which it was handled made it more than usually interesting. The re teachers deserve a great deal of credit for their painstaking effort. Prof. Der- fro rick, of Newberry college, added great ly to the occasion by his thoughtful talk on "The Life of Washington." m This address was planned expecially of for smll children, and it did not fall her upon deaf ears as was evidenced by the undivided attention which they gave. On today the ,children will en joy a holiday. Mr Miss Erin Kohn, who has recently returned from Teachers' college, Co- ed lumbia university, where shi s been taking a special courpe im and Shi music, was cordially welco -at the Jar Prosperity high school onnday, where she very interestingly spoke to car her former pupils and touched on the following subject: First she contrast- of ed the children of New York city with Southern children, then told of 2. her visit to Ellis Island. Told all about how immigrants are treated at ver Uncle Sam's free hotel, how future American citizens look upon their ar- ed, rival; how long it takes them to take on properous American air. How they we are sent to their destinations or taken but in tc v by their friends, who have pre- per ceded them to this land of the free, is so full of promise to those of Europe con who are denied the privilege of a re public. On Sunday last the sad news reach ed the city that Mrs. Caroline Cook Hih had answered the summons to a high er court. For a number of years Mrs. Cook had been partially blind, but .J this affliction only serVed to lend ad- afti ditional amiability to her disposition cori and to endear her to her neighbors. Da Her patience and ch.eerfulness made Gul her an object lesson for miles around. the She made her home with her son, Mr. ers Ben Cook. The funeral services were latt held Monday afternoon at Colony lar church, and many sorrowing friends eac from far and near came to pay a last six1 tribute of respect to her memory. dell Miss Mary Lou Moore, of Lexington, ~ is visiting Mrs. G. S. Rikard. " Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Wis-e spent Mon- suc day in Columbia. gra Miss Hattie Groseclose has return ed from a short visit to Mrs. J. E. Hunter at Clemson college. lar Mr. C. M. Harmon is spending a ll few days with his parents at Ninety'fo Six. . a Loi Mr. Walter Wise spent the week- Lot end in Charlotte, N. C., with friends. Gill Prof. Herbert Langford, of Wofford Vir colege,sspent Saturday and Sunday with the home folks. vot Mrs. I. S. Caldwell and son, Erskine, eve left Tu.esday for Tampa, Fla. - mo .Mrs. Joe Hartman has as her guestSt Mrs. Bushnell Miller, of the Mt. Pil- tioI grim section.Mi Mr. Fred Schumpert, Jr., of Dallas, nor Texas, is visiting his aunt, Mrs. W. A.le Moseley. Mr. W. B. Wise, of Little Mountain, was a business visitor in town Mon day. Pre Mr. L. A. Black left Thursday for New York and Baltimore to buy his spring stock of goods. Miss Lahlage Wheeler and Master Taf Corday and little Miss Lee Ray ins Counts spent the week-end in New berry with relatives. tice Mr. WV. H. Bell has returned to cou Staunton, Va., after spending the win- I ter with his sister, Mrs. 1. S. Caldwell. wit Misses Mary Langford and M 9, Willias spent the W'eek-end at home, mit rturning on Monday to the Columbiawi college. Miss Georgia Sa.ber, of Peak, has S Ir. E. S. Hartman, of Atlanta, is guest of his father, Mr. J. W. Hart ir. Hal Kohn, of Columbia, spent iday with his aunt, Mrs. E. E. ing. )r. P. D. Simpson has gone to Bal .ore for a w-eek's stay. MI tev. McCowan, of Due West, filled the A. R. P. pulpit Sunday ,in the ab- Pr ce of their pastor, Rev. I. S. Cald- sei 11. Hi irs. J. C. Singley, of Route No. 3, is gir iting her sister in Chapin. fr. Ira B. Nates, of Columbia, spent chi iday with his father, Mr. A. A. 'th :es. )r. R. B. Epting has returned to enwood, after spending a few 's with his sister, Mrs. G. M. Able. Lif r. Boggs, of Clemson college, was en istered at the Wise hotel Sunday. clc fr. J. W. Hartman has returned Se m a short stay in Columbia. Ire. M. C. Morris is visiting her ther in Lykesland. irs. 0. B. Shearouse and children, Little Mountain, are the guests of brother, Mr. L. A. Black. fr. A. B. Wise made a business tripe Columbia Wednesday. rs. J. L. Wise has as her guest ;. Charlie Purcell, of Newberry. Un fr. S. Lee Boomer. has been appoint- U rural carrier for Route No. 5, to the vacancy made by Mr. T. L. da die Maly, who went out of the service tuary I. fr. B. T. Young, regular substitute Le rier, is supplying Route No. 4. prosperity will hav!e one solid week 'un as the Weider Amusement com Ly is coming February 26 to March of 'he inhabitants of Prosperity were y much alarmed at the high winds, ecially when the fire whistle sound calling out the citizens to a fire Wednesday night. Howev'er, they re gratified to find it was not a fire, only the smoke stack of the Pros ity Oil mill had blown down. This a very large stack and enails a an tsiderable loss to the oil mlil. ______ _____tia TO VOTE FOR CLARKi. isl de i;souri Delegation to Support Fa orite Son. tic ed oplin, Mo., Feb. 20.-After an all- gu arnoon fight on the floor of the jtic evention, caused by the effort of rel vid A. Ball. a candcidate for the qu bernatorial roman.':tion to oppose cie program agreed on by party lead ,the Democratic State convention of today elected eight delegates at Te e to the Eal imore convention, im Ii with half a vote. Each of the du been congressional districts chose Tb egates to Baltimore.io all's fight to stop what he termed Co g rule" and "Cannonism" was un- tai cessful and the prearranged pro- hu *m went through. . cis The Delegation. leg 'he makeup of the delegation at otl e follows: Unitecd States Senators . J. Stone and James A. Reed; de nmer Governors A. M. Dockery, of jm latin; Lon V. Stephens, of St. is, and David R. Fra'ncis, of St. is; Win. T. Kemper, Kansas City; bert S. Barbee, Joplin, and Judge Fr gil Rule, of St. Louis. 'he delegation was instructed to e for Champ Clark for president o.n ry ballot taken before the Balti- int re convention. Edward F. Goltra, ma Louis, was reelected by acclama- an 1 as national committeeman from me ~souri. In a speech acceptin.g the wc nination Mr. Goltra pledged his al lance to Mr. Clark's candidacy. ab' NAMESMAN. trE N ESNEW JERSEY MN ar sident Taft Nominates Chancellor oti Pitney for Associate Justice. bil Vashington, Feb. 19.-President th t today sent to the senate the nom tion of Chancellor Mahlon Pitney u ew Jersey to be an associate jus of the United States supreme q n executive session the senate bout discussion referred Chancel Pitney's nomination to the comn-a tze on judiciary, which pro6ably Mr I make a report next Monday. ubscrbe to The Herald and NewA 215 pare "r"ts th news while . lew,. WEEK OF PRAYER. nman's Home and Foreign Mission ary Society of Lutheran Church to Hold Week of Prayer. DI Che Woman's Home and Foreign ssionary society of the Church of Redeemer will hold their week of Th yer and self-denial for missions vices at the home of Mrs. E. R. pp at 4 o'clock each afternoon, be ining with Monday, February 26. rhe entire lady membership of the wa irch is earnestly invtced to attend m se services. wr Program. on, Monday. va Copic-"The Fast Accepted by God. ha: ted burdens, loosened bands, brok- tio: yokes, the hungry fed, the naked of. thed." Isaiah 58:1-12. Leader, Mrs. eni ,zler. dw Tuesday. as Copic-"With Christ in the School ar Prayer"-Leader, Mrs. Jno. Sum. est wil r. Wednesday. sul Copic-"Giving Our Best. Mary's cer morial, the Broken Alabaster Box" : .eader, Mrs. Blackwelder. or Thursday. tle opic-"A Finished Redemption: an aft finished Task." (Special meeting Ii sC ich the young people and children ho asked to join). Leader, young la- sta s. the Friday. wa Copic-"Tests of Discipleship" ader, Mrs. Mayes. Sunday. in Public meeting at the church at 7.30 Ha lock. Address by Mrs. E. C. Cronk, sp: Columbia. ed bo: VITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM. fia be; ited States Supreme Court Can't Cr Bar Them-Question Purely cai Political. be; vashington, Feb. 19.-Only congress, fri d not the supreme court of the to ited States, may object to the ini- tin tie and referendum method of leg- ah, ation' in the State, so the court itself wa ided today. tio hat tribunal held that the ques n of whether a State still maintain- col the republican form of government pe: aranteed by the~ federa,1 constitu- the after it adopted the initiatiye and jus erendum method was a political ma ~stion for congress and not a judi- ., .1 one for the courts. an' rhe decision was based on the claim pr~ the Pacific States Telephone and egraph company that a tax upon it, arn posed by the initiativ'e and refer'en- me n in Oregon, was unconstitutional. og initiative and referendum provis- of s in Missouri, California, Arkansas, of orado, South Dakota, UJtah, Mon- lizi La, Oklahoma, Maine and Arizona the rig in the balance. An adverse de- pe] o i would have affected proposed des slatinn of that character in many Ler States. Thief Justice White announced the ~ision of the court. None of the Wi tices dissented. DUTY ON SILK STOCKINGS. -a e Sugar May Mean Duty on Lux- poi uries to Supply Revenue. the ter V,ashigton, Feb. 20.-The ways and nig ans committee intends to try to wij ke the wearers of silk stockings .me I other expensive imported clothing tel ke up for the duties the government on uld lose by free sugar. I ugar on the free list would keep frc ut $60,000,000 a year out of the inlg asury. On Saturday the committee I l consider taking the duty off sug- an< and putting It on stockings and sn<( er fancy things. eai Thairman Underwood says a sugar 9 Iwill be reported in a few weeks, C ugh its terms have not been agreed n. How to raise the revenue which roc .1 be lost has put the committee in a W1 mndary. Death of Mrs. Folger.ye wlrs. A. R. N. Folger continues ill her home here. Her daughters, ~ s. Higgins, of Easley, and Mrs. ve!1, of Newberry, are at her bed- aft e.-Seneca cor. Keowee Courier, t. '~r 2' ecn~a tno, INDS DRIVE FLAMES ON PATH OF RAVAGE 5ASTROUS FIRE SWEEPE HOUS TON, TEXAS. ousand Homeless-Suffer Sting of Cold, Homes Having Been De stroyed. iouston, Texas, Feb. 21.-In the ke of the most most destructive fire the history of Houston, smouldering. ckage tonight covers an area about y and a half miles in length and -ying in width from 200 yards to ,f a mile, in the northeastern see : of: the city. More than a dozen the city's most important industrial erprises are in ruins; 200 or more ellings and store buildings are in Les and approximately 1,000 persons homeless. The most conservative imates is that the monetary loss 1 reach at least $7,000,000. The in ance carried will not exceed 40 per t. No casualties attended the fire. uffalo bayou, a marrow coffee col d stream, was the scene of the bat royal against the flames.. Here, er the fire had swept on, with' ~rcely a semblance of control, four. irs, the firemen made a desperate nd, and although the fire leaped bayou at places, the conflagration s checked. The Beginning. ['he fire started early this morning a two-story frame structure near rdy and Ohelouses streets,- and ead to a feed store. Then it jump simultaneously to three more frame irding houses and the roar of the nes on a 35-mile northwest wind an to be ominous. The Star and scent hotel, a brick structure, next ight. Prom that moment the fire seemed rond control. Driving ahead with ghtful rapidity, it swayed from side side and tongues of sparks some ies seemed to reach out three-blocks sad; all the time eating steadily to rd the more thickly populated sec n of the city across Buffalo bayou. .t times bolts of flame would be ne detached, lighting on houses haps two blocks distant and firing m. A score of times women had ,t time to seize their babies and dash dly to the streets. EVith hundreds it was a -race for life, i these made no effort to save >perty. ts the flames adynnced a perfect ny of night-clothes clad men, wo n and children formed and dashed and on, being driven from the place refuge to another by the progress the flames. Cool heads, finally rea ng the danger, assumned charge of situation, ansl in a short time com ldeflaes. to go to the rear of the BLIZZARD IN SOUTHWEST. d, 70 to 80 Miles, Works Great DamageSnow Sleet and Rain. )allas, Texas, Feb. 20.-Ushered by wind storm, varying at different nts from 90 to 70 miles an hour, most severe blizzard of the win is general over the Southwest to hlt. Railroad traffic is demoralized, -e communication is hampered and agre reports from outlying districts t of damage to property and cattle. the range. n North Texas the t,emperature fell m 70 degrees this morning to freez tonight. n the Panhandle section of Texas i Oklahoma, rain and sleet and w fell during the afternoon and ly tonight The snowfall was re 'ted to have reached a depth of four hes, with thie storm at its height. Lt Hobart, Okla., buildings were un ifed by the storm and glass stare idows demolished. Death Near Whitmire. frs. Mary Kahn, aged about 65 .rs, died at her home at the Robert place, five miles this side of Whit -e, c.n Tucsday afternoon, and was -ingj :s. !;eenwood on 'Weresday arnoon. She was a widow anci ther of 11 children. Iow is the time~ to mLuscribe te - Hrald and News.