The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, December 23, 1913, Page FOUR, Image 4
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S. C., as 2*k1 class matter.
E. H. AULL, EDITOR
Tuesday, December 23. 1913.
We have a communication from
Dawkins in regard to the ferry, signed
"Citizen of Daw-kins,'' which we will be
very glad to print if the writer will
only send his name, not for publication
but as a guarantee of good faith. There
is ifcthing objectionable in the article
only we want the name of the writer.
There will be no issue of The Herald
and News printed on Friday. According
to our custom we take off one
issue at Christmas.
We "wish all our readers a Happy
Christmas and a Prosperous New
Year.
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We will come to see you again next
Tuesday.
The boys will be off the greater part
of the balance of this week.
SALARIES TOO LOW.
Within the past month two of the
most efficient and competent county
superintendents of education in the
State, Mr. W. R. Bradley, of Abbeville,
j *? _ ^t "Dit+c nf T.nnrpns.
ana ivir. ucuiqc j. w- ,
have resigned their positions in order
to engage in other business. The rea\
son asigned is that the salary is inadequate.
This only emphasizes the fact that
we do not pay our county superintendents
of education a sufficient salary
to command the best talent unless
these officers devote a part of their
time to other business. The duties
of the office demand the entire attention
and time of even the most competent
officers, but the State could not
expect to secure this without paying
i
a sufficient salary for the work.
There are only a few of the counties
in the State in which a living salary
is paid. Of course if the superintendent
of education only looks upon the
office as a disbursing office and simply
approves claims and pays an occasional
visit to a school, he can devote
the greater part of his time to
other work, and in that way make a
sufficient amount upon which to live,
but the people should demand the
entire service and time of their superintendent
of education, and in order
to do so, should pay him a smfficient
salary to warrant a competent man
in giving his time to the work.
CONTEST CLOSES.
The contest, which was in The Herald
and News office for the. past two
months, closed last Friday. The an
nouncement of the winners and the
prizes is made in another column by
the contest manager, Mrs. W. Quince
Bullock, who had charge of the contest,
endeared herself to all of the
contestants and managed the contest
with skill and ability.
The Herald and News appreciates
very fully the excellent work which
nro<- Hono hv f-ho vrmnc in SPi
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curing subscriptions, aftd wishes that
it could give a grand prize to., every
\
one of them. The merchants were
very nice in this contest, in offering
a special prize each week, so that
practically all of the contestants secured
at some time or other a prize,
even if it were a small one.
We are convinced, however, that
from a financial standpoint, it does
not pay the country newspaper to
run contests. In order to make them
successful and worth the while of
the contestants, prizes that cost considerable
money have to be gtfen. and
when the cost of these is deducted
and the commission is paid to the contest
manager, there is very little left
lor the editor. We have conducted
two or three contests, and after each
one we have resolved not to conduct
any more. Of course the paper gets
thoroughly advertised, and the mailing
list is very materially increased, but
as a rule, contests for country newspapers
are failures financially. We
are very much pleased, however, that
so far as we know, the pnntpst whiVh
has just closed, created 110 bad feeling
among the contestants, and everyone
feels that she had a fair deal and
that it was constant and persistent
work which resulted in winning the
prize.
Again we desire to express our ap
preciation of the work which was done
by all of the young ladies who were j
\in this contest. ,
HVEKTA S POSITION
IS BECOMING WORSE
The Provisional President of Mexico
is Livinir From Hand to Mouth, i
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Mexico, Dec. 20.?National impover- j
i ishment and an increasing organiza- j
tion among scores of rebel bands nave '
reduced the provisional government
to what appears to be a desperate sitI
uation, but conservative residents of
| the federal capital profess to see, in
the recent military operations and in
j the efforts of Provisional Presi.
dent Huerta to secure money, even
though in driblets, evidence that the
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I ^UvaiiinciH 111 aj nut ian iui .uuuj
: months, unless some unexpected turn
| for the worse occurs.
This was pay day for government
employes, and in almost all departments
there was little delay in meet- .
; ing the payrolls. That the govern1
ment may be unable to ftoat another
loan generally is conceded^ by Mexi!
cans, but none has lost sight of the
I fact that the country .is rich, and
I that Gen. Huerta aa a last resort,
| would not hesitate to take money
j where he can find it.
Already a drastic measure has been
discussed by the cabinet?tnat of the
confiscation of the property of all in:
dividuals who are known to have ari
i
! rayed themselves against the Huerta
, government. The measure has not yet
1 received the full approval of the ministers,
but if adopted it will prove a
| rich resource. Collections that fall
! little short of being forced loans have
I been made in cities outside the capital
and Provisional President Huerta's
new order for the re-establishment of
militia at the expense of the business
men generally in the various States is
in line with his policy to draw directly
from the country tnc revenue neces
I
j sary from carrying on the war.
j The failure of Gen. Pancho Villa
| to march south from Chihuahua because
of the undesirability of leaving
the forces of Gen. Salvador Mercado
'and Gen. Pascual Orozco in his rear;
the failure of the rebels to take Tampico;
the reoccupation of Torreon by
government soldiers, and the presence j
at Monterey of 5,000 federal troops
are construed by military men as indications
that the swinging advance
of the rebel army has been slowed up
and that from now on, as their cam-1
paign is carried farther into the heart
of the republic, their progress must be
much- slower.
CHILDREN HEL*BED
CROSS SEAL SALE.
Children are among the most eager
; buyers of Red Cross Seals, and many j
| a little boy or girl sets a real example
I of generous giving to the "grown-up."
| For illustration, a teacher in a Massachusetts
school tells of one small,
shabby girl who brought in a penny
for a seal, and the next day purchased
another. She then looked up into the
teacher's-face with great satisfaction
and asked, naively: "There! How .
many people do you tmink that will!
cure?"
(An urchin in another school, after
j hearing the teacher explain about the
Christmas seals and :how all the money
raised by the sale of them will go
toward fighting off the white plague,
caiiie to his teacher's desk the next
morning and bought a stamp. Then he J
lingered, and the teacher inquired f
what he wanted to ask her. '
"Will that really go to give n\el cine
for sick people and help cure 'on.. '
I inquired.
"It will help," was the answer.
"Gee, but isn't that fine!" he ex-)
claimed, iiis face shining.
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,Amen, Brother.
Wilkinsville Correspondence York
News.
We can't help but say amen toj
Bishop Kilgo's sentiments on football
as given in a recent issue of the
"News.'' We have read, re-read and
read again what he says, and cach
time we are more and more convinced
i that this able and distinguished di-1
vine is right in his conclusions, taken 1
as a whole. While we admit that a j
as reasonable amount of legitimate ex- j
j
j ercise is conducive to the health of j
1 body and development of muscles in
the young men, it is being carried
too far in many cases, and tends to
j dull, rather than brighten their
mental faculties, to say nothing of
the state of morals growing out of its
extended practice.
We would rather have our boys to
be familiar with higher mathemat- 1
ics and able to solve the most intri- j
+rio-nnnmpfrv and i
i caie pruuiems uj
logarithms, read Horace and Cicero
and be able to write off hand a prize
essay on domestic science, or political
science than be able to climb the
Washington monument, kick a foot- j
ball over the Rocky Mountains or
survive the rapids of Niagara.
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"Were he so tall as to reach the pole,
Or grasp the ocean in his palm, i
He should be measured by his soul,
For t'is the mind that makes the .
man." j
THE NEWS OF PROSPERITY.
College Boys and Girls Home for
Christmas?Exercise at Lutheran
Church?Personal.
Prosperity, December 22.?Prosperity
extends hearty good wishes to
her young people^wno have been away
on/-i ot?o r-nrmncr hrv.np for the Christ
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mas holidays.
The following have reached home:
From Chicora college?Misses Annie
Fellers and Lena Wist. Ffcm Columbia
college?Misses Mary Langford,
Jessie Lorick, Rosa Mae Mitchell and
Mary Lizzie Wise. From Winthrop?
Misses Grace B. Reagin, Annie Lee
Langford, Eunice Long, Eunice Sheaiy,
Hattie Wise, and iC'orrie Long.?From
Summerland college?Misses Alda
Rae Waeeler, Marie Kohn, Annette
Long, Eoline Monts and Agnes Monts.
From the Citadel?Mr. Vernon Wheeler.
From Clemson college?Messrs.
Jim and Elmer Long, and Leslie Singley*
From Newberry college?Messrs.
R. K. Wise, Joe Long, Holland Bedenbaugfr-^nd
Henry Brooks. From Wofford
college?Mr. Johnie Langford.
From the University of Virginia?Mr.
Taylor. From Southern Dental col
lege?Mr. Godfrey Harmon, Jr. Froir.
Due West iFemale college?Miss Clara
Brown.
Miss Isoline Wyche who is teaching
in Cottey college, Nevado, Mo., reached
home Sunday for the yule-tide season.
Miss Mary Wheeler, teacher in Colmbia
college, Lake City, Fla., is home
for the holidays.
Miss Ethel Counts, of Darlington, is
here for two wreeks' stay to her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. E. 0. Counts.
Miss Maud Livingston, of Camden,
is visiting her sister, ?.lrs. F. E.
Schumpert.
Miss Mavtha Creighton leaves Tuesday
for Rock Hill to spend the glad
season wit.i her parents.
Mr. W. E. Moseley has returned
from a visit to Columbia.
Miss Nannie Simpson and Miss
Lizzie Duncan ^nd Claude'Duncan. of
Grey Court, will spend two weeks
wi-.h Mrs. J. K. Crosson.
Prof, and Mrs. J. E. Hunter, of
Clemso'n college, are guests of Mr.
and Mrs. L. S. Bowers.
Mr. J. B. Ballentine will leave Wed-'
nesday for Ciiapin for the Christmas'
holidays.
JVlesrs. C. G. Wyche, of Washington,
and C. C. Wyche, of Spartanburg, will
spend tne Christmas season' with
their parents, Dr. and Mrs. C. T.
Wyche.
Mrs. T. L. Brown, of Salisbury, N.
C., is spending awhile with Mrs. E.
0. Counts.
Messrs. C. K. Wheeler, J. B. Ball^niine
and L. M. Wise spent Sunday
in Ninety Six.
and daughter, Ellen are spending the
Prof, and Mrs. Lawrence Sease
yule-tide with Mr. J. L. Hunter.
Mr. F. E. Schumpert visited the
furniture factories for which he tratt:?u
YT n loot wopV
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Mrs. Lizzie DeWalc leaves Tuesday
for Salpda to visit her sister.
.Mr. E. 0. Counts, Jr., of Charlotte,
will reach home Wednesday for a few
days . (
Mr. G. C. Counts has been very successful
in raising turkeys, having ^2
eggs from which 21 hatched. He raised
20 and sold the lot for $35.00.
The Monticello school will give an
entertainment on Tuesday evening,
December 23, for the benefit of the
I:b"ary. Admission 10 cts. Miss ElizTr
iwbini! is simterintendent of
..is . icol and invited all to attend.
E. S. Werts, of Memphis,
To:.:1.., . visiting his mother.
Mrs. Geo. W. Harmon leaves today
for several weks stay to Atlanta, Carrolton,
Ga., and Birmingham.
Miss Louise Fulmer, of Columbia is
visiting Mrs. S. J. Kohn. i
Mrs. Mary Rawl, f Newberry, is
spending awhile with Mrs. J. A. Simp
son.
Miss Bessie Bowers bas returned
from a short visit to Columbia.
The Sunday school of Grace church
will have their; Christmas exercises
on Thursday evening. The following
program will be rendered:
Song.
Scripture reading.
Prayer.
Welcome?Grace Sease.
Song?[Away in a Manger.
n ' ~ X ~ ~ A V1 TW-> 0'!rl C
l_yj] riSLIIIctS -ICJUSnc -ninRecitation
Ruth Hunter.
Song?Lo in a Manger.
Pantomine^Xearer My God to Tly?e.
Song.
Rcitation?Celeste Singley.
Offering.
Distribution of gifts.
Doxology. \
Benediction.
Th Tennesonian Literary Society.
The Tennesonian literary society, of
Silverstr^et Graded school, met Friday,
December 19, 1913, and held its
second election, this being time for
election.
The following officers were elected..
President?Miss Gladys Stilwell.
Vice president?Miss L<oomis Jtserry.
Recording secretary?Mr. Raymond
: Blair.
I Corresponding secretary?Mr. Maffett
Fant.
| First and second reporting critic?
I Mr. Osborne Long and Mr. John Yer non
Havird.
Prosecuting Critic?Miss Elmina
Long.
Caaplain?Miss Rosa Belle Hamm.
Executive committee?Miss lx>o:nis
T > AMvrr A Tic-r. VlniinQ T i >n or \T r
; JilCO UiUUllU wuv.
Raymcnd Blair.
The newly elected officers will be
installed* at the first meeting afte.'
Christmas by the cnaplain.
The society is making good progress
as the children all seem to very much
intProctoH in thp T1PW WOrk.
| We want to make our school and society
a success.
j This being the first form of society
in our school, the children do rei
markably well.
The height of our ambition -s to
; become useful men and women and
peaceable citizen.
I We always welcome visitors.
The next meeting will be held the
first iFiiday in January, 1914.
THOSE WHO PLAY THE FOOL.
Hon. Geo. B. Cromer's Address at
Y. M. C. A. Meeting.
I
News and Courier, 15th.
At the Y. M. C. A. Men's meeting yesterday
afternoon the Hon. George B.
Cromer, of Newberry, spoke to a large
' and attentive audience. His subject
was "Playing the Fool." Thev speaker
declared that not only individuals
piayed tne fool, but nations as well.
He divided his subject into several di
visions:
i First, The man or community trying
to deceive God is playing the fool, lie
said. He mentioned Saul and Samson
as men who reaped the consequences
of such.
I Second. The man or community trying
to get rid of a message by killing
I the messenger is playing the fool.
Third. The 'man or community
trusting in material power and prosperity
is playing the fool.
j Before closing he undertook to show
from the Gospel of St. Matthew how
as Jesus said, the man who builded his
I house upon the sand is like unto a
foolish 'man, .and the man who builded
his house upon the rock was wise.
Next Sunday Mr. H. 0. Williams, of
i New York, will be the speaker.
As to The Laurens Advertiser.
This reporter has a warm place in
iiis heart for the two excellent Laui
We wish
customers ;
happy New
1 larger port
I promise tha
their patron
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treated witr
vailed befor
There ar<
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RAICIIIA
Absolute
Absolutely has.
Many mixtures
substitutes for I
(baking powder
composition or c
so wholesome e
nor will make
Royal is the only Bi
from Royal Grape
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i
; rens papers, the Herald and the Ad- i
j vertiser, as they are papers "with
| which he had something to do'' while
living in Laurens among her good people,
whom he likes and with whom
he got along so well. The Advertiser
this reek is a spienaia numDer. n
contains many fine points. Among the
good things it says remember the
cle:ks and delivery boys and delivery
horses during the rushing season, and
we are glad that the Advertiser doesn't
spell Christmas Xmas. Which is
j enough to make it yell out "Glory be/'
I as it does in another place. One of the
, best things it says is' this. "No one
I thing does more harm to a city than'
j for its own people to run off and
| spend their money with others when
j the home folks can supply their needs.
Trade at home." To this we echo:
j "Glory be.'' It gets off another good
one, which is reproduced eisewnere
in The Herald and News.
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Two large orchards, side by side, j
brought much profit to Farmer Turmut,
and much trouble. ' For the1
orchards were considered fair game
by the youth of the village, and thei
two orchards are harder to watch
than one.
One day looking from one orchard
to the other, Turmut saw a small
YCHRIS
each and ever
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a merry Christ
Year. We wis]
ion of prosperi
t those who fa\
iage after Chrisl
i the same court
e Christmas.
* mnvp ?fin
^ IVYU niVA w
> see us and ma
hristmas presen
er Goods for Same Mc
s' Book
House of 1,000 Ti
11111 mmmm 1 iiihiiiiii
?\M
(7 Pare S i
; no efsfssSiiuio g
are offered as
?oyal. No other
is the same in
:ffectiveness, or
tnd economical.
such fin^ food.
r
aking Powder made
Cream of Tartar
L
| boy slip down a tree, and uttering
a word of warning to another imp
| still up among the apples, ran off.
Turmut reached that tree in record
time.
"Got yer this time!" he roared to
the boy almost hidden among the
leaves/ "Come down!" 1 /
"Getting no answer, and not being
in a hurry he sat down and waited.
Time passed, and still he waited un:
til a corvant hrrmP"ht T*?im a notfi that
! had just been dropped through the letter
box. He did not wait after he
had read it, as follows: to
! "Some, people as apples, some as
[sence. You bin watchin a pare of 1
1 trousis stuffed with straw, and we J
I bin gettin' your apples from the other
; orchard. Grate victory for sense\"
I She was very stout and must have
Weighed nearly three hundred pounds.
She was learning roller skating,
when she had the misfortune to fall.
Several attendants rushed to her side, i
j but were unable to raise her at once. j
I
une saiu suulu.
"We'll get you up ail right, Madam.
Do not be alarmed."
"Oh, I'm not alarmed at all, but A
your floor is so terribly lumpy." 1
I . And then from underneath came a j
Ismail voice wiich said: "I am not a
lump, I am an attendant"
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mas and a , 1
b for each a '
9 i
ty, and we 1
ror us with if
tmas will be I
esy that pre- I i
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pping days. I
ike your se- I ,
ts and nov- 11
)ney.
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