Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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PART ONE it A 9|]| |M*1t I jl flit ft llLntH PART .ONE Pages l(o 8 J|pfJv gP| lillU Pages 1 to 8 r YOLOIE L, KUXBEB 20. NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, MARCH S, 1912. TWICE A WEEK, $1.50 A YEAR. TO PUNT FLOWERS AND SHADE TREES MR. WILLIAM COLEMAN ENCOURAGES BEAUTIFYING GROUNDS. Will Also Have Vegetable Gardens in Mill District?Marriage?Per BVuatiM * Whitmire, March 7.?Mr. L. J. King: and Miss Laura Lackey were married at the home of the bride's parents in the mill village Sabbath evening by Rev. John Wren. Little Miss Bertha Blair, of Blairs, spent the week-end with her aunt, Mrs. J. D. Tidmarsh. Mrs. Margaret Branham, after' visit\ ing the family of Mr. A. J. Holt, has Teturned to her nome m Aug us us.. - Mrs. W. H. Watson is visiting friends fc^and relatives in Greenwood. Mrs. Minnie Abrams is spending some time at the home of Mr. George Abrams. W"" "EHhoi Parks, after a pleasant ITJLIOO * ? 7 ? visit to Mr. W. R. Gregg and family, "has returned to her home in Union. ^ Mrs. S. B. Sims and granddaughter, Sarah McCarley, have gone to Union to attend the golden wedding of Mr. and Airs. j. u. nunicr. Misses Pearl Bates and Aileen Deav er, of Carlisle, spent the week-end "with Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Pitts. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Cofield are spending the week with their son, Mr. * George Cofield, at Carlisle. Mr. Tom Young is visiting his sister Mrs. Xunnamaker at Leaphearts. Mr. Jas. L. Carbery, a botanist, sent out untfer the auspices of the United States department of agriculture and plant growing industry, gave a free illustrated lecture at the auditorium _ -on February 28, on the approved ka -method of the cultivation of flowers J^and vegetables. The illustrations were by means of stereopticon views taken from gardens actually growing. Mr. Carbery came upon the invitation of Mr. Win. Coleman. He urged the people in the mill village to form corn and tomato clubs, to plant flower and vegetable gardens. To utilize every . spot of ground and to beautify the tillage. | Little Miss Pellerree Gary entertain** ed her little friends at a birthday party at the home of Mr. S. L. Gary last ' Monday evening. ? >fr. S. L. Gary and the hands Of the T VirtT'/i KoAn KncV (iien-i-OWI J UUiiipaii* ua.? c >~> planting shade trees on -each side of Coleman avenue. If trees were planted on all the streets and every one "had a pretty flower garden, how TF.Tch it would add to the beauty of our little town. Mr. A. J. Holt, one of our thriving fc merchants, has a nice grist mill near his store. It is a real pleasure to .have, meal from home raised corn. Nita. Tirst Gun Fired by Judge Jones. Hampton, March 5.?Ira B. Jones candidate for governor, speaking at the exercises incident to the completion of the Hampton high school to day, delivered his first public political utterance since entering the race. SevPreral hundred voters were present and k the speaker was given an ovation. B^Cole. L. Blease, governor of South Carolina, was invited to attend the meeting. He did not attend, saying in a letter that he had some business in Columbia to require his attention. ?wspapers and Blease. Farm and Factory. It is enough to make many newspaper men of the State cuss a blue streak tc read some of the news that * is printed in certain newspapers in South Carolina. Some of the reporters are only looking for "copy" that tends to lower the estimation of Blease in ; !?} minds of the people. They are not .ooking for, and do not write, the -other kind. They should write the news as it is, and then if a majority ~ ?~ ~ ? w-4- OnAtVlDT OE IDP VULCI ?> v> auLl unviuvi term, they should have him. In a lot ^ of things?a whole lot?we don't agree PL with the governor, but there are other times when he should be commended. His opponents will injure, if they keep it up, the cause for which they are working. 0 \ FORMER PROSPERITY CORRESPONDENT WRITES Mr. A. II. Kohn Tells of Days Gone J THE NEWS OF PROSPERITY. : The Mention of Many Visitors, to and From Prosperity?Superintendent Aull Made Talk. Prosperity, March 7.?Dr. P. D. Simpson has returned from a trip to j! I ! Washington and Baltimore. Mrs. Lizzie Boinest, of Pomaria, has b:en visiting her daughter, Mrs. E. 0. Counts. Mrs. C. G. Barrier and Miss Maud Fulmer, of Little Mountain, are guests j of Mrs. A. J. Kohn. Mr. *'rea scnumpen, .jr., iias itnumed from a visit to Mr. Everett Evans, of Newberry. Mrs. J. A. Hodges, who has been visiting in Orangeburg for the past month, has returned home. Mr. S. S. Birge is spending a few days in Little Mountain. Miss Helen Nichols spent Saturday and Sunday at her home at Utopia. Mr. M. L. Wheeler was a business visitor in town Monday. Mesrames F. L. and J. C. Schumpert were shoppers in Newberry Tuesday. Miss Toy Lathan, of Chapin, is the Mr T T? "Rrnwne. gucoi, v/x iui. v. ? ? Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Long, of Saluda, spent Saturday here with friends. Messrs. Kenneth Krepps and LaMotte, of Columbia, spent the weekend with Mr. Robert Counts. Messrs. Fred and Tom Harmon are visiting their parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. D. Harmon. Mr. L. A. Black arrived home today from the Northern markets, where he has been to purchase hi? spring, stock of goods. Mr. A. H. Kohn, of Columbia, made a business trip to our town Monday. Miss Vesta Bobb is spending a while with her sister, Mrs. \V. L. Mathis. Mrs. A. A. Singley is visiting her brother, Dr. E. H. Kibler, in Newberry. Mr. E. S. Kohn has gone to Columbia to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs, A H. Kohn. Mr. L. M. Calhoun, of Barnwell, is spending a few days with his wife, who is-a guest at the Wise hotel. Mrs. H. H. Rikard, of Newberry, spent Sunday with her mother, Mrs. Nannie Wheeler. Mr. F. L. Schumpert, who has been visiting relatives here, left Tuesday for his home 'n Dallas, Texas. Mr. E. H. Aull, superintendent of education, made a most interesting talk to the Prosperity high school on Tuesday. Mr. Virgil Kohn representing the Blue Royal Tailoring company, of Baltimore, has returned, having completed his work for the spring. ? t^I l f V* a /%V?or*minor -V11SS r-iieil ?v e; lb ?v<as Uic uuauiuiig hostess of the William Lester chapter, U. D. C., Wednesday afternoon. Mesdames 0. W. and C. M. Harmon were guests of Mrs. C. R. Wise, in Newberry, Tuesday. "LILY WHITES" SET DATE FOR THE CONVENTION Columbia, S- C., March 4.?The exe cutiva committee of the so-called "lily white" wing of the Republican party . in South Carolina, met here today and called a Stat? convention to be held here May 4. This means that two delegations will go from South Carolina to the Chicago convention, one of "lily white" and one of "black and tan," each claiming to be regular. The committee at its meeting here today refused to commit itself to President Taft or Colonel Roosevelt. The "black and tan" convention on March 1 elected delegates instructed tor Taft. In explaining the committee's attitude, John G. Capers, national committeeman, declared that Colonel Roosevelt's candidacy had so changed the situation that he and his associates did not think it wise to commit themselves definitely at this time. nurd /,? Purslniic ffiances. i/vut u vi x Miuvaic? v-??? The governor Tuesday appointed i Mr. James A. Summersett, of Colum- [ I bia, a member of the board of pardons to succeed Mr. W. A. Clark, of Columbia, whose term has expired. Mr. E. Frank Warren, of Hampton, j has been appointed on the board to j succeed Mr. C. W. Savage, of Walter- j boro, whose term has expired. The. i | other member of the board is Mr. R. j Mays Cleveland, of Greenville county. < I N by, and Wishes Tliat Ho Could Live Them Over Again. (By A. H. Kohn.) When you asked me to write you an article for your silver jubilee number t ?m-tio tViintinsr how nrpssed I P 1 UiUJOtU, Ilmv wiw..,..0 ? ? .. t I would be for time, and in writing this it is don?e with great pleasure. To "drop a few lines" to The Herald and News carries one back to the good old days when T. T. W. was telling the readers what the seven wonders of the world .were- and how far afield he got in his struggle. It is a pleasant page in memory, and we delight to think back and live over again those pleas-! ant times. Well do we recall the correspondents' dinner given by the proprietor and his good wife, and how all' enjoyed the day. Really I would be glad to meet these same scribblers in a reunion dinner. What say you Col- I onel? But we must hasten on, and ' as we turn our faces to the future we! carry with us the remembrance of I th-9 twenty-five years of Col. Aull as a newspaper man, and we extend our jubilee greetings, and wish him many years yet in which to wield his pen for the g;ood of Newberry, town and county. And as the years come and go may he be the better prepared to j serve his county and people, and with life's battles fought and the victory . won, may he drop anchor in the haven of rest, and have the well done of his fellow man, ********** * * ****** * * THE IDLER. t5 , T ***********4:*****^ The editor has not asked me to write anything for his quarto-centen nial edition, but l am going 10 navej my say anyway. My memory goes way j back beyond twenty-five years. I can j re-member when Sherman's army made I its memorable march to the sea, and I can distinctly recall standing on the hill at my country home and witnessing the rising columns of smoke from the burning dwellings between home and Columbia, marking the course of ' T hOoT*in cr fbP tne marcn. i rejucmw* vm.v booming of cannon at that time also. I I remember when they used to dig up the dirt in the meat house and put it In a sack and drip it like -they used to the ashes, in order to get some salt, for the salt was out, and it is a terrible announcement to hear that the salt is out. I can remember, too, when they made coffee from parched rye and parched w-heat and corn. Those were awful times. That's been nearly fifty years. I can remember when all this land out here where John Xeel nlqntiiiff in cotton was in pine r o woods. I can remember when Prosperity was Frog Level and when John Eirge was a big man in tl at oity. And Lang Kibler bought cotton there. I can remember a great manyx more things, too, but I don't know that they would be of great interest. ?o? I think if this rain continues much longer there will be no use for the Rock Hill plan, because it will be impossible for the farmers of this sec tion to make a b:g crop of cotton. But it is all for the best, and there is no use to complain. I would like to know what the condition of the public roads is. I know the condition of the streets of Xewb-erry without asking. I suppose city council will have all the contracts signed up for the paving by the time the weather conditions; are such that work can be commenced. ?o? I see the Observer says tha: the county is not flush with money, but it might make a decent walk up to the court house, and I think so, too. What are the convicts doing this weather? Why not buy the cement and gravel and have them do the work? It is needed. There are many things needed. ?o? Wonder why Newberry didn't try to get the Lutheran female college? Didn't want it, I reckon. Wonder what has become of that hospital Newberry was going to have. Waiting like my park, I reckon. Wonder why New-' berry keeps waiting. Resting, I reck- J on. It is time to wake up out of that restful state and do something. You know, I always like the follew who does things. That is true of a community. Lets do something. That's what we are h^re for. To do things. Xo use to wait for something to turn up. Better get out and turn up something. Don't be a. MicairbM'. ?o? To those of our fellow citizens who only run for office when urged to do ? nnmiriatoH ViV thpir friends. au U11U aic uumiinn,^u vuu.. , I commend the following honest confession. It is from Frank Stanton's column in the Atlanta Constitution: An Open Confession. Here speaks a candid office-seeker, in a letter to the voters: "I've been a-livin' round here forty year come July, an' I never even run for office in my dreams?till now, as I've always Den aoie to wont iur uy livin' up to the present time; but I can't git aroun' as lively as I used to 'count o' the rheumatism havin' holt o' me, likewise a sort of rattlin' of the brain, an' a good, easy office would enable me to pass the balance o' my days in peace an' tolerable plenty. That's why I'm a-wantin' one, an' wherefore I make bold to say so. r ain't nertickler. I'll take anything x ? in sight?with a livin' in it. Will my friends an' fellow-citizens please nominate me for somethin' or other?" I have heard now and then of own who were dying for office, but when they did run it was always at the urgent urging of numerous friends, and that they were making great sacrifices to serve the dear people. I de~ ' ' J.V_ sire to commend to tnese tut: iuuu??lng, also from Frank Stanton's cpl-> umn:y . \ 4T.1 ? A Private Ananias* "No," said the Billviile matron to the campaign committee, "there's no in th*> rnnnd world o' settin' my old man to run ag'in. Last year ne swore on the book that he wouldn't run ag'in if the office was lined with gold, an' he's got to stand to his word. I admit that he's a Aflanias at home, but a private one. 1 C&fi't stand the idee of makin' a public Ananias of him at his time o' life. If he funs I won't be ten steps behind him to make him meet himself comin' back!" I wish the editor and The Herald and News many joyous returns of its silver anniversary and this one maybe the recipient of many silver dollars on subscriptions. The Idler. ' Baby Mine." The success .of twn continents, "Baby Mine," Margaret Mayo's play of ?. thousand laughs, is announced for at tv>-5 r>itv thpatre Friday. in uu uv, wwn ut " ' \ March 8. "Baby Mine" has to its cred- | it one solid year's run at Daly's theatre, New York. It has also achieved phenomenal success at Sir Charles Wyndham's Criterion theatre, London, where it is now nearing its 250th performance and will shortly be presented in Paris, Berlin and Vienna. "Baby Mine" holds the distinction of being absolutely clean from start to finish, the comedy situations being none the less laugh provoking because of the absence of suggestiveness. Wm. A. j Brady, Ltd., makes the production. The Chinese Famine. New York Globe. Six hundred thousand families are on the verge of starvation in Central China. Many have already starved to death. The floods of last summer destroyed the crops over a large area. The present political trouble in the empire seriously hampers domestic efforts at relief. Unless outside aid is * " "" i Violnl old oDiaineu tiiuutcuius ui uvjj/ivwu ? people, children and women will literally die for lack of food. The victims of the famine are chiefly hard working, honest farmers' families. In fact, according to the Red Cross officials, one of the greatest famines of modern times is impending in China. The bare facts of the situation should" constitute the only plea necessary to stir the hearts and open the purses of every one with a dollar to spare above his own needs. A luxury or two shaved off the annual family budget now will save a dozen lives in China. X ev?n ;"! New York millionaire is .ivio to h:s valet. FOR LUTHERAN COLLEGE. Lulierans in State Will Meet *o Select Site. Columbia, March 4.?The committee of the Lutheran church will meet h-re tomorrow at noon when the site for the Lutheran Female college for South Carolina will be selected. Offers for tha school will 'be made by Columbia, Leesville and Batesburg, Lexington, Sumter and Florence. The whirlwind campaign for the Columbia chamber of commerce was completed tonight with over $40,000 raised, which will be offered together with a site. The Lu1 uri 11 liavo on on rl n W Llltrictll V;trilC5C "in iiu ? V, W.XX .. ment of about $200,000. SHOULD THEY WEAK "RATSf "She Don't Hare to Wear No Rats in Her Hair." Home Comfort. I am only too glad to express my opinion on the subject of false hair and > m"U _ r??l% rv?if 7r?of. ictus. iue wuiiicii wuu v"4tresses on their cocoanuts, are about on a par with, that is my humble way of thinking, the South Sea Islander and the Zulu, who put rings through their noses, and make their hair stand up straight, like a bunch of miniature telegraph poles. We can understand savaged doing these things, because they don't know any better, but civilized women do know better, and they - ought to have more sense '1 1 - *- ? T 1% awcta Vvefm tnan to put a uuncii ui uqiso u^u1 ?uu dead Chinamen's pigtails on their heads which God Almighty never intend^ for any such barbaric defilement. A woman's head is supposed to be the seat of her intelligence, ht/ brain; and nature has, in the majority of ca?es, made that head beautiful, and covered it with hair, which is, as a rule, woman's crowning glory. Why any sane woman should want to stuff a lot of pig's hair, frog's wool, horses' whiskers and dead Chinamen's pigtails on the top of her head, Heaven above? knows, for I don't. To contemplate a woman with her head as big as a bushel basket at night, and then see her crawling down to breakfast next morning with a cranium as big as a Boston bean, is certainly enough to give me the palpitation of the liver pad. A lady informs me that she has to wear puffs because big hats are in style. That is all rot for I know two [ or three young ladies with sense and ' Character, who have never worn rats or puffs, and who would not, under any circumstances put any mattresses on their heads. These girls have small hats, hats that are infinitely more becoming than those enormous contraptions that are anchored with empty steen yard long pins, daggers, harpoons, skewers, swords or whatever you lige to call them to heads'upholst-ered w,ith mountainous masses of hog's wool and horses feathers. I was informed the other day that one, had better be dead than out of style, j 11tirVi/N XTIA | 1 repneu 10 me iauj tviu ? . i that she had better he dead than ia style. She sat down in a chair at the 1 foot of my bed, abstracted a harpoon from her bewhiskered Chinese graveyard, and placed her hat, which was J as big as a circus tent, with a sigh j of satisfaction, on my loun.ee. As she j talked the sun streamed in through the window onto that mountain of puffs j and rats, on which the wind had blown all the dust of the streets, for by the wav it was a windy day. In the sunlight I could see Billy Microbe and | 1 ' +V>rn<r'<3 | Jimmy uerm piayiug uxg uu ?.uC ~ wool and horse's feathers that surmounted what God Almighty intended to be an intelligent head. Either in taking off her hat or in buffeting the fierce gales out of doors, her Pike's j Peak of puffs and rats had flopped. , over about three yards to the star- , board, and I expected every moment .to seethe whole fuzzy, wuzzy, microby of horse hair and pig's wool,"nop; with a crash on to floor of my chicken ! coon. Thank heaven the horrible mass j --- - ?? ' j ? i held on. until finally ine iauv uep<i HCU | to my intense joy, and took her mic- j robv heathenish head furniture with ' ? x* ~ rMit tho rats and ; ner. *nu^ut uut v, *^_? nuffs. Your head never looks prettier j j than when p^orr-?d solely with your j ^n-n >io5r 'Pof cpi^o he natural. j Pe voiirsftivpc. r?o you know that 1 there is a terrible plague raging in China? Every one who gets that plague dies dead in a few hours. Not #ne living soul who has ever got it has escaped. It is reported that the queues are being cut from the heads of the plague victims, fumigated, sterilized and shipped to Europe. Some of the false 'liair on your head may have been taken from a plague victim. ' ' * 1' * ?- ?i -?T 5 ? crr\ *1 uniy tne oiner ciay <* gin in iui^mgau contracted a horrible scalp disease from wearing false hair. This disease turned out to be that dreadful scourge?leprosy. She will have to linger in agony for years and then die alone. Another thing scientists say, that, if woman continue to smother their scalps with all sort os abominations cut ifom ctead humans or dead animals, the whole sex will soon go bald. This means that the false hair junk on a woman's head, heats the scalp and interferes with the circulation, &nd will eventually make womankind bald. It is all rubbish to think you will be considered "eccentric if you don't follow the fashions. A woman should dress her hair with the hair God gave her, and in the way that meet becomes her. Rats and puffs .never become anybody. Such things are an evidence of weakness of character, ' and are keeping the sex from progressing. A man does not give a continental dhether he is in the fashion or not, as long as he feels comfortable. Can not you women ha7e as. much sense as a man in this regard? In the matter of clothes you can t^ilow the styles without going to extremes. There is a fat TtrVl/-\ no <3<5Pa woman in a uuuuie sn.ii u ?T UV my window every day. She is a sight, and if she could only come to a realizing sense of just how ridiculous she Appears she woul4 either put oIt some clothing that did not make her. , look like an apopletic sausage, or a bologny with the dropsy, or lock her* self in the house until the fashions change. Because some idiots go to extremes in hair dressing and costuming, you don't need to make yourselves, hideous and ridiculous copying them. Adopt no style unless it is becoming to you, and then show your character rr/yf r> o flip oY ana your sense uv uwi tremes in all styles are invariable preposterous, absurd, oarby?ic and ridiculous. ? f Onfrlit to Have One- " Laurens Advertiser. , The hospital in Laurens has proved a great success. Not until it was !>ut in operation, was it realized what a boon it was to be to the county. It is our understanding that the institution is self-sustaining and doing great good. Many of our citizens, both of the city and of the outlying districts, who heretofore were unable to enjoy the conveniences of hospital treatment, now are treated at the Laurens County Hospital and many others, who were able to go to larger cities, are treated at home at less expense. We believe that if a committee were appointed from among the prominent citizens of Newberry to visit Laurens Gaffney ana ureeuwuwu hospitals they would return home with the determination to have the hospital at any cost. A hospital is not going to boost the population of Newberry nor will It prove a great business producer, but it is an institution that every city the size of Laurens and Newberry should have. In this connection, it might be well to state that the hospital here has beert generously supported by all the people, especially the physicians, and it is doing a splendid work. /X.nank A# til A Uo/loPmPr I IE 111 HI VI Uic uvuwiuvAt (Rev. Edw. Fiilenwider, Pastor.) Nothing preventing, the following program of divine services will be observed at the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer next Sunday: 11 a. m.?The Regular morning service. The pastor will preach the third in the series of special sermons. Subject of sermon: "A Man's Vote." There , will be good music. 4 p. m.?The Sunday school will meet. Easter music will be practiced, md all are requested to be present a r>nrriiai invitation to all services s extended the public. Just because it has been a lean year for the lumber men, they are barking. ?News and Courier.