Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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PURELY PERSONAL. 1'he Movements of ?raiij People, >^8\vbcrrfaus, and TIsosp Who Visit >*ew berry. Mr. R. C. Williams, Jr., of Columbia, is in Newberry on business. Mr. K. Baker went to Newberry ? his morning.?Greenwood Journal. Assistant Attorney General Fred. H. Dominick was in the city the latter part of the week. Miss Janie Bowers, of Springfield, Oa., is visiting her brother, Dr. A. J. Bowers. Mrs. Myrtle Bell and little son, of Atlanta, are visiting her aunt, Mrs. O. Wells. R. Y. Leavell, of Newberry, visited his sister, Mrs. G. A. Wright, last week. ?Johnston cor. The State. Mrs. D. B. Chandler left last week for Darlington to join her husband there. I Mr. and Mrs. P. D. Johnson of New- j ?Viaro tViic W P-PV j oerrv, visueu mauvco .. ?Clinton Chronicle. Mrs. L. M. Blair of Blairs. visited "her father near here this week, Mr. .7. A. .Tones.?Clinton Chronicle. Miss Blanche Gall man teacher at Pirhopville, has returned home, her school having closed for th? season. * Mr. .James Leavell, of Newberry, is visiting his mother.?Cross Hill cor. Lau'rensville Herald. Mrs. Frederic Tclbert, who has been j visiting her brother, Mr. W. B. Todd, | and Mr. Jeff J. Lane's family, left Monday on her return trip North. Miss Ruth Halfarfcre, of Newberry, is the attractive guest of her sister, Mrs. Frank Hipp.?Spartanburg Journal. Miss Bess Herbert, of Newberry, and Miss Allie Mary Power, of Abbeville, spent a while at the college last week. ?Greenwood cor. The State. i Dr. A. G. Voigt, dean of tHe theological seminary, Columbia, conducted chapel exercises at Newberry college ^on, Thursday morning. j\ir. nasKeii w ngm uuunrv^vjL/iii0, i for the :>ewb?rry Hardware company, Mr. J. L. Welling having resigned. Mr. WelJing is visiting in Darlington. k "Mr. T. J. Dillard visited his daugh-1 ler, Mrs. J. M. Finney in Whitmire, j last week.?Hurrican cor. Clinton | Chronicle. i Mr. B. B. Leitzsev and family re-r turned to Charleston on Sunday. Mr. J L?itzsev came up last week to spend : The week-end here with the family at < their hom- in th? county. Mr. Lambert W. Jones has donated; to the college library ten volumes of j Ducald Stewart's collected works and j nine volumes of Bancroft's history of j The United States. i | ' Mrs. E. H. Cousins, of Newberry, j after spending a few days with her Victor \Tr? a r Shocktey. returned! "home Monday. She was accompanied, "back by Mrs. Shocklev and the little j one.?Lexington Dispatch. i Miss Annie L. Green, one of the ef-' ficient teachers in--the graded school,! spent the week-end with relatives ii> "Spartanburg. She was accompanied by Master Paul Butler.?Buffalo cor.! T'nion Times. ! Messrs. T. W. and P. B. Hutchinson ! brother of Mr. J. D. Hutchinson, attended the funeral of the latter in Columbia on Monday afternoon. Th-ev were accompanied from Xewberrv hyi the deceased's nephews, Messrs. C. E., j Oeo. K. and R. L. Hutchinson. Agents E. D. Pearce and R. M. Tid- j marsh were present in Columbia on j Friday night at what the State says j was "the most representative body of life insurance men ever gathered in South Carolina," at a banquet given at the Colonia hot-el to the members of the South Carolina Life Underwriters' association. VARIOUS AND ALL ABOUT. This is passov?r week with the Jewish citizens. " i The oats arte fine and up to date the crop is very promising and encouraging. m . j w Two shootings on Saturday night? <one near Lindsay's bridge and the oth*^r on the Whitmire road. The Mollohon monufacturing company is paying off every Saturday now and the operatives are happy over it. The man that wrote about the early fVio wnrm rHrin't know anything about the hookworm. Vacation time and the closing of voounty schools for the season next in order. The three toys in that graduating class of 23 girls of the city schools will feel kind of lonesome at tho closing exercises on May 30. j There was a Brown-Parrot wedding! i in Sumter last week. A Brown-Byrd j I wedding would sound natural in Lauri ens county. i There are only two cases of small| pox in the city as reported. They are ! colored. Health Officer Adams has I ith-e houses quarantined. The Charleston News and Courier : carried announcement of the death in | Atlanta on the loth instant ot Mr. vvm. I C. Meggett, in the 80th year of his age. Sheriff Bkase left Saturday night for Tampa, Fla., to return with four negroes who are wanted here for housebreaking. # We saw a photograph of Dr. W. G. Houseal and the mayor of Jacksonville, Fla., in an airship sailing over the city of Jacksonville. It loked natural enough to be u true picture. I morvioffDc fhot Vowhprrians ! -L >> kj luax i xagvu ? , are interested in will occur on the; same day, April 30, the Folk-Long wed- j ding at .Talapa and the Baxter-Miller? ! wedding at Tallapoosa The good old barbecue time will be- i gin early next ^ason. See barbecue j notice. It is what early yet to begin talking about it, but the early bird catcltes the worm. r*~^ ^ mopnlmntf. oro Virip'llf OUIUC U1 LUC Uiti vuaui-o >- -n I ening up their store fronts with fresh I paint and good awning. It is just the! thing for Summer and other seasons ! and other people. I The civic association will hold the j regular monthly meeting at the home ! of the president, Mrs. F. R. Hunter, j Wednesday afternoon, April 23, at 5 j o'clock. Another piano and organ house has opened in Newberry. A Mr. Moore has taken a store in the Crotwell i ' -'J* ?J ?* ? lino nf rrmeir?pl i DUliamg ctuu put in a ui ? instruments. Two hours of sunshine and solitude will help you office men and women these fine April days.?Spartanburg Journal. Help anyone. It is medicine and tonic, and should be taker. The prescription is free. Be sure that your sins will find you out when you apply for a desirable' office wanted very much by others. ?Spartanburg Journal. That is why some men won't run for office. Some don't care. The Observer and The Herald and News have said what they thought Jno. B. Mayes' "platform" looked like. \ The Newberry correspondent of the j Columbia Records says it is a large; porch. The Lutheran Visitor now published in Columbia is very beautifully print- ! ed and is an "earnest and spiritual pa-! ?Thnrrtwpll Messenger. The H'Tald and News subscribes to that sentiment. A silk worm man is to locate in Spartanburg. After we g^t through j with the hookworm it would be well; to turn our attention to and cultivate ! the silkworm. Anybody would rather have a silkworm than a hookworm. Mr. T. Cobb is giving a fine example of a man who talks too much.?Sumter Herald. He is like that parrot which was mentioned in The Herald and News some time ago, just exact; It. President Wilson has made no ap- 1 nnintmonts fnr South Carolina. There are several vasancies in post! offices.?Orangeburg Times and Be-j mocrat. Tn Newberry, for instance, and at several other places. Up in Pick-ens the correspondents | in the Sentinel sign themselves such j as "Papa's Cook," "Houseekeeper," and j - ?? ! the like. 'J.'hat neats ciuk jcj^co, i "Black eyes," and such like. But they, all show that they are children. The famous Greenville horse show,! an annual affair that has attracted' visiters from all over the South sev-1 en years, is announced for three days.! May 20 to 22, inclusive.?Floating; paragraph. Get ready, Mr. Nat Gist. I "I had the mail boxes painted red in honor oi the Red Men on their recent visit to Anderson," said Postmaster Cochran.?Anderson Mail. He saw the bis: chi fs from Newberry, i with their war paint on. The Columbia State is organizing a "Tired-of-Ty-Cobb Club" and applications for membership are said to be pouring in.?Greenville Piedmont. That's one good club that ought to I have a large membership. ! Tt sounds nice to have the Spartan- j burg Herald saying "Wofford more than met her match" and "the Newi bery lads impressed local fans as be-! * 1 . ~/v?r.rrntinn C11TP ! ing a nara mixing aggicgaiiuu, to make trouble for opposing pitch-1 ! ers.' j Before the game, the Spartanburg j ; Herald of last Friday, in speaking of ! the "fast Lutheran bunch of Newj berry," as it cails them, said that j "Eidson is looked upon as being one j ' of th-s best pitchers in the S. C. I. A. i r ; Probate Judge C. C. Schumpert is absent from bis offic-p on account ol sickness. He hopes to be back at work in a few days. In the meantime anyone wishing to transact business | through the probate judge will phone Mr. F. M. Schumpert. It invariably follows that if a man live solely for himself h-e becomes miserable. Not that way does happiness and contentment lie.?Orangeburg Times and Democrat. This is a truthful little paragraph for people in Newberry as in every place. If you dislike a public man or private citizen say nothing about him. ? - - 'm ni* r? nn f?/\ ( Silence IS guia-rii iu outu a. taac.? Spartanburg Journal. If every one would follow this excellent advice this world would be more beautiful than it is. The Columbia Record's Xewberry correspondent says the Venetian scenes are especially beautiful at the Newberry opera house. Manager Wells has had Miss Jessie Art. of Detroit, to put in and paint new scenery, and she is an artist. Now is a good time to begin clean' * mg up me premises.? vvuiiisuuruf News and Herald. Any time, all the j time, is a good time. oYu don't have i to wait for a clean-up week or a set j day. Any day, every day is a good day | for this duty. j Old William Tremble To? is said to have been a mighty good fisherman.? Laurensville Herald. That has noth-! ing to do with Peter Rogers eating fish and catching eels, has it? We'll excuse you on the ground that spring has come and you feel the fishing sensation tickling you. It doesn't do to take people's word 1 XUX" evei > UHIlg, Ulll tllC l C.uui ici biinmo | it safe to take somebody's word for it i that the new scen-ery at the opera; house put in by Manager Henry B. i Wells, is fine, beautiful and up-to- j date. "They say" it is and we. who have not seen it, believe it to be true. It makes the -electric current run j through a fiellow to read of fish fries at Pocalla Springs and at other places in the below country with such fish as j speckled trout, ball-faced bream, yel- j low perch, etc. It will not be longi until vmi hpflr nf snmfi narties i going down. Second place in the Southern Intercollegiate Oratorical contest in Columbia on May 7 was won by Mr. C. P. Barre, of Newberry, representing the! University of South Carolina, which! was determined at a preliminary in j Columbia on Friday night. Mr. j Barre's subject was, "Our Nation's Need." A circumstantial story is going the r>f tVio nroce ohmit a Ipnnprd : having been killed in Horry county a w-eek or so back. Droll, isn't it, how; some people don't know a sightless tiger when they see one??Georgetown' Times. Several people here say there are a few of those sightless tigers in; Newberry. Governor Cole L. Blease made an address last night to a gathering of former slaves at Newberry, his old home. The old negroes gathered for j a banquet and were delighted when: the governor said he would make them a short address. He returned to Co-i lumbia this morning.?Columbia cor., News and Courier, 19th. The Shelley-Wheeler company has ' i hoon to the Wheeler-!>&ng ?? ? ? ----- - , ford company and capital stock in-! creased from $10,000 to $12,000. This is a strong company and the members of the firm are popular and successful bus^ress men, who, knowing how to succeed, know how to make their place of business a pleasant house to visit. To the school boy or girl between the ages of 10 and 15 years who writes ! the best composition on the repair and j maintenance of earth roads, a gold j medal is to be awarded. Don't write more than 800 words and send in your ^nmnncitinn not later than Mav 5, to Logan Waller Page, director, office of public roads, United States department of agriculture, Washington, D. C. The Calendar society gave an enjoyable entertainment in the parlors of the Methodist church Thursday evening. The program consisted of music and reading and each number was well received. A large number were pies-; ent and quite a nice sum realized for the society by their unique method of invitation.?Newberry cor. Columbia Record. Stick a hole in the bottom of all tin ; cans thrown away and there will be fewer mosquitoes to worry you.? i Winnsboro News and Herald. Good j - - - . . ... | advice alrignt, dui us hkc uives icuk ing in the lowest regions. People' know it's so, but they will pay no attention to it. Some haven't sense i enough, others just don't care. Still! they will be annoyed by mosquitoes. At the 4th district convention jf the i Vnicrhtt; nf Pvthias. to be h-eld in New-! ~~ ~ ' berry on Tuesday, today, beginning at 4 o'clock, the address of welcome will : x be delivered by Cel. \Y. H. Hunt. Tl: principal address will be by Gran Chancellor F. S. Evans, and the m-e ing will also be addressed by W. 1 i-t.rrick, district deputy of 11th di: trict and J. H. Craig, district depul 9th district. Of course you will pretend admiri tion for a fine painting. But an hour ride on any train leading out from tt city will give you moving landscap< far above the skill af any artist ev< iborn.?Spartanburg Journal. Thos beautiful pictures arte around ar about us every day if we only had tl eye to see them and the heart to ei joy them. Mr. J. T. Cromer, in his automobil went to Columbia on Sunday wit Messrs. R. H. McGraw, Edgar Crom* and W. A. Wherry. They made a re< ord trip, getting to Columbia in tw hours and 29 minutes. Messrs. W. I * -*-? J- 3 T7? 1. T LiOTOinaCK, r orresi * ami r iaim uum nack and John Xance also went \ Columbia on Sunday in Mr. Lominack car. Columbia State wants to organize club composed of those who ar? tire of Ty Cobb. A larg? membership ca be secured for that club right now, the State will open the list for chart' "i, ~ ~ "Dz-v^ir Ui 11 TTioro 1H RPP inemuci ?.?icui_n. Aim tired of Ty long time. He is a spoi ed Cobb and the sound grains ha\ dropped off. Pity, too, because i one time, it was a solid Cobb with fu grains. Now it is a nubbin, badl shrunk. Amzi Stukes is the name of a negr who escaped from the Darlington ja several weeks aeo and was recapture last wek. Amzi and Tump an Dump, and all others, had just as we make up their minds to quit trying t escape, for if the Darlington officer are anything like Sheriff Biease, Depv ty Berl^y and Rural Policeman Tin ner and Dorroh, convicts will have t s-?rve their time or there will be som< thing doing. In its write up of the ma?ting i Rock Hill last week of the M-edic< association, the Rock Hill Herald sai that a short but appropriate speec was made by Dr. D. M. Crosson, c Leesville. The Record published a lis of delegates present, saying that if an name were misspelled it was the fau of the "chirography on the register giving as a reason that it is "geinerall admitted that doctors as a rule ar n^t always careful in writing." Th name of the delegate from Xewberr Dr. 0. B. Mayer, up as C. B. Mover. The circulating petition for earl closing was successful and the bus ners men will close their places c six o'clock, Saturdays excepted, froi Mai 1 to the first of September. Ever] body is glad, more or less. If ther is any body not glad he is in a mos hopeless and helpless minority. Several towns of the Piedmont set tion are talking parks. What is th city of Launens going to do about it? Laurensville H-erald. It is devoutl to be hoped that if they do anvthin at all a' out it. hey will do more tha Newberry did in the case of "Th Idli?r's" park. That new platform in rear of th Jno. B. Mayes book and variety stor looks like a grand stand. It is roomy platform and will attract' al tention. Jno. B. Mayes is always al tracting attention. Knowing how pays to advertise and where he fail in attention attraction there is no us in anyone else attempting it. P. SThis was written for Tuesday's pape * J TK^ rsf-hAr nnnp Dut got squtreztu uui. * u-t says it looks like a State campaignei platform. It would make a though mammoth flower stand. Jai of geraniums, etc., would look might nice around there. SILVERSTREET SCHOOL. Closinar Exercises of the School Ei joyed.?Play to he Repeated.?Also Given at /oar. The closing exercises of the Silvei street school were held last Frida night. They were very bright and t'u of fun, as well as unusually inter-es ing. A large crowd was in attendanc and enjoyod them very much. The play ".Miss Toysy Turvy which was presented at Silverstre< last Saturday night was a decide success. Although the weather wg very inclement a large crowd att-nc ed. The play was very interesting an humorous from start to finish, it W2 so well gotten up that it will be pr< sented at Silverstreet again in the nes future for the benefit of tnose wno en not care to venture forth into tb stormy night. It will also be presente at Zoar school house, Saluda count; 011 Friday night, April 25, at 8 o'cloci Admission 25 aud 1 o cents. "Mutual Weekly," Arcade Tuesda, shows wind storms in Georgia son: time ago.?Adv. te E. AM)EKSO> SITE KIN TEN DENT id t- .Native of Georgia But Now Teaching1 3. At North Augusta, South Cars olina. :y The trustees at their meeting on | . last Thursday night elected Ernest . Anderson, of North Augusta, superins e tendent of the city schools, to sucsg oeed Superintendent H. L. Dean. Mr. Dean was not an applicant for the po<rt sition. >e t(J The. following is the statement given out by the trustees as to Mr. Anderson. He is not known to our people, but it is stated Chairman J. M. Davis, at the request of the trustees went e> over to North Augusta to see Mr. Anderson, and on Mr. Davis' report and Jr i recommendation he was elected: I Prof. Ernest Anderson, of North Au'? gusta, S. C., who was elected superintendent of the city schools by the l" board of trustees on the 1t7h is a grad10 nate of the University of Georgia, had s | several years exp-erience teaching before going to North Augusta three a years ago. He comes to us very high;d ly recommended by leading educators _ r\f tVia Ctota innliidinc "Prnf W TT I tuo UVUlt lUVAUU'il^ Jt A ... if j Hand, State hif* school inspector. >r | ^Tr. And^r?07i l.s said to b? a man of ,n i pleasant, affable manners, full of life. 1-; energy, vim and hustle. Thoroughly e amiliar with the line of improvements it y.'hirh the board desire to add to the II school in the near future. The trusv tees accepted the $200 offered by Mr. Aull, county superintendent of educa, tiou for domestic science, and will add O this feature to the high school work il i I 1 ^ ITnoi^ Will All htl PQc I j Ulf (JUHHUf, Jfcai. iuuoiv, *A~ ^ be added now that we have the splen- j did piano which the people of the city j has so kindly presented to the high 0 school. The addition of commercial s and manual training is also contem1 plated. The Best Paper. The Sherwin-Williams Co., of Newark, N. J., wrote Messrs. Wm. Johnn son & Son a letter greatly appreciatil ing their kindness in sending a copy d of The Herald and News containg the h brighten-up ad. They say they "certainlv read with a srreat deal of inter st est the editorial regarding the brighty en-up spirit that has apparently belt j come prevalent in Newberry, due we presume almost entirely to your own y good efforts." They also "note with e interest the civic association have in-| e augurated a clean-up week." y ; What is particularly iateresting to j , 'the firm of Wm. Johnson and Son is I i that Sherwin-Williams Co., say "we i ;v ; are frank in telling you that your pa-} 1_ j per has been the best, and apparently I lt | you are working this campaign to bet- i 11 j ter advantage than the average, and ! '"| the writer knows of no agent that he e | would rather see come out ahead in this little friendly competition than your good selves." A GUN DUEL. V I ? Rural Policeman Dorroh and Segro j, Engage in Shooting Scrape on e Saturday Night. Rural Deputy Wm. Dorroh had a e close and narrow escape on Saturday e night. He had an exciting adventure a in a hot battle with a desperate negro, who saemed bent on killing him, but t- ? Mr. Don oh came out first best, allt: though he had no margin to spare. He : !s was caught in a tight place, but by > ,e his coolness and determination sue- j ~ ceeded in overpowering the desperado, j r' after, however, having been forced toj ;r the necessity of heating him severely' *s hoafl Snmfi man might have [ Uf C* cu\y UVU\*| rw w-- - w e' flinched and lost in the face of such s danger, but that sort of man is not y in the office of the sheriff of Newberry county. On Saturday night Deputy Dorroh accompanied by City Policeman Sam Johnson, went to a house near Lind-" say's bridge to arrest two negroes, SI-j 1 * las Robertson and Harry Young.: charged with violation of the dispenj sary law. They arrested the two who ' n,a',Q honHrMifF.o/1 and ixi charge of Of-1 I >> V/ I V/ UUJ.AUVWU.W-u ???. ~ i ficer Johnson when in the next instant j ; Mr. Dorroh and Ernest Suber got into i i the difficulty. Suber was in another i 1 ; room of the house. The negro opened j j tne room door and opened fire on Mr. i m: Dorroh and kept it up, the officer re-' ' 'turning the fir-3, which was a fiercc at' i i fight with pistols between the two men . both continuing the shooting inside; LS j and outside the house. In all the ne-1 i- I i gro shot six times, Mr. Dorroh five, j hitting Sub?r once, in the left leg half1 ltlj way between the thigh and knee. The! - - i IS officer was not wounded but one Dan 5~ I edged his coat sleeve at the shoulder, Lr | and the firing was at such close range, d j right at him, that Mr. Dorroh was jarr- i Le | ed by the shooting. After firing sev-j j eral times, the negro ran out and just! y? as the officer overtook him he turned; and tried to hit Mr. Dorroh in the her ? with his pistol. The pistol flew out of( ll,;" onH the officer knocked him! liauu Uivu v? y> down. He ?ot up and just before#- Mr. i le Dorroh grabbed him the second time' Suber j * vM up a rock anj tlirevv iij SPECIAL NOTICES.* 1H One Cent a Word. No ad* vertisement taken for less than 25 cents. BUY a genuine diamond ring for $15 j at Williamson's. Ffe-tt ? PURE CLEVELAND big boll cotton I seed for sale at 75 cents per bushel. { I made two bales to the acre. John i A. Shealy, Newberry, S. C., Route 2. 3-25-6t. ???? SEWBERRY BUSINESS SCHOOL? Will open for spring term about the middle of May. Those desiring i to enroll will please notify me as r early as possible. Mrs. Helen 0. Ray, Newberry, S. C. 4-l-4t-ltaw. JB FOR SALE?I have two Essex boar pigs entitled to register $5 each; 9 half bred Essex pigs, for $2.50 each. H. M. Wicker, Pomaria, S. C., R. F. D. No. 1 2t ' WANTED?All the beef cattle and hogs you have to sell. Will pay fancy price for best cattle. See u? before you sell. We want quality. , The Sanitary Market, at E. M. Lane & Co. Phones 110 and 212. 4-15-4t FOR SALE?One seven year old mare j mule, fine worker. E. A. Griffiin. 0 4-18-tf. _ FOR SALE?Holstein and Jersey cow * TP nrmo <?*} A An XV "RQY Willi in aw tan., ifuu.vu. ??. ? ter Kinard, Prosperity, No. 6. It - / , at him, grazing Mr. Dorroh's face. Mr. m Dorroh had to beat him severely to ' conquer him. -1 Deputy Sheriff T. A. Berley had a hand in bringing them in. Suber was not implicated in the whiskey business. The three negroes are in Jail. I Magistrate at Pomaria. ||S The last legislature created a new magistrate for Pomaria. Gov. B lease on Saturday appointed as magistrate for Pomaria, Mr. Adam L. Aull. flHB Attention. The owners of automobiles who so kindly consented to give the delegates to the K. of P. convention an automobile ride this (Tuesday) afternoon will be sure to be in front of the Newberry hotel promptly at 5.30. R. H. SWittenberg, Chairman Committee. Aid For Flood Sufferers. Previously acknowledged $24.50 Mrs. 1.00 A Shooting Affray. Bob Sanders shot John Xance, both colored, with a shotgun at close range at a house this side of Mr. Kay Shannon's, shots penetrating his face, A breast and arms. Mr. Jim Duncan brought' Sanders in on Monday morning and turned him over to Deputy Policeman Win. Dorroh. having previously notified Mr. Dorroh that iie was-holding the pris- Jj oner for him. Sanders is in jail -The Comity Fair." "Tb? County Fair" by the Calvin Crozier chaoter lias been postponed to next Monday and Tuesday nights. /B There is no reason in the world why this very interesting entertainment HI should not be greeted by a full house > I <^ach night, at it richly deserves to |H be, and no doubt will be. * It is for a I noble purpose and by going you win not only perform a patriotic service but will enjoy a delightful evening on both occasion*. ?S The ring contest grows hot at the Arcade.?Adv. Jgfj Bisr Banquet to Ex-Slaves. The Cold Water Club, of Newberry, gave a banquet on Thursday night in honor of the old ex-slaves of the city , ' of Xo wherry. The banquet was held H| in St. Luke's Episcopal mission, of Jam; s S. Daniel is the lay jH reader and Sunday school superintenwell as teacher of the day school at the same place. Daniel is also president of the club, M. B. Davis, secretary. The master of ceremonies was G. J. H Galman. The banquet was largely attended and the participants haa a most enjoyable time. Everything passed off well in the hands of the committee: Richard Sheil, Howard Cannon, Selinas Gray and General Mar Konnuflf fOUT Or fiVC i lie UUll^uv-t hours. Some of the <sx-slaveg on the program to speak didn't get a chance to talk on account oi the fullness of the program and tfc : lateness of the closing hour. ? B| Welcome address by .Tas. S. Daniel, . SB with responses by Robert Jones, Richard Pearson and others. % _ |f$|| One of the best features or the banquet was the address by the governor of South Carolina. The ex-slaves and ethers present enjoyed his words of counsel and advice and the governor was well rcoeifed. H