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* y y 4 _ - " ? ? ???????? ????? i mm ?????????????p VOLUME LUI, NUMBER 5#. NEWBERRY, S. C* TUESDAY, AUGUST 24. 1915. TWICE A WEEK, $1.50 A YE IE, BOOSTER ROAD TRIP FRIDAY AND SATURDAY I POSTPONED TWO DAYS OX AC-! rftrvT ins- ithv.r 1 lft\s. Bailies to be Held in Several Places in >e>vberry County?Mass Meeting at Spartanburg. The State, Aug. 23. *The Appalachian highway, from Columbia to the mountains, via Newberry, Whitmire, Union, Glenn Springs and Spartanburg will soon be a reality at the rate things have been going ainna +>10 mootintr of thp PPntral Pf>m JiUVf lug li4VVV**l?5 V4. v**v ? ? , mittee held in Union August 11, and the week-end of t):e present week is to witness perhaps the greatest demon-1 stration in the interest of public high W ay CUilSLX'UCLiOU auu maiuicuauv.c mut, has ever been seen in the State. At a recent meting at Union the central committee in accepting an invitation extended by d-e Chamoer of Commerce of Spartanburg determined to hold a booster tour and a series of f booster rallies and meetings all along the route and set aside August 24 ant 25 as the dates for the tour, inviting all owners of machines in all the towns and in the country districts along the route to participate and bring the woK men of their families along. Owing to ti_ e recent wet weatner in tne jrieaBiont, and in order to make the tour a week-end affair the central committee, of which Commissioner Watson is chairman, on Saturday announced that the trip would be taken on Friday an,I iC.arnr<ii?Tr nf this Wppk. AllSUSt 27 I and 2S. Invite Columbians. - An invitation has been sent down from the Spartanburg O-amber oI (T'nmmorpo invitine- the Chamber of Commerce of Columbia, its jubilee booster committee, its business booster committee and the ladies to participate in the tour, and it is hoped that many such parties will be made up in response to this invitation to take the trig. All w?o wish to participate should meet Commissioner Watson and his pilot party at the State house corner at quarter to 7 o'clock Friday morning, as the start or the <pilot car from Columbia for Prosperity and Newberry will be made at 7 o'clock sharp. At Newberry the party will be joined by many cars, carrying the la^ -dies also, collected for t:e trip under the direction of B. C. Matthews and Z. F. Wright of the central committee. Leaving Newberry promptly at 9:30 a. m., the first stop will be made at ^ -Gibson's or Brown's mill, where a brief rally will be held. Then the schedule, with rallies at each point, will be as follows: 10:30 a. m., Whitmire; 3 p. m., Union, with time for dinner; 4 p. m., Buffalo; 5 p. m., West Springs; 6 p. m., Glenn Springs. ^At Glenn Springs. The night will be spent at Glenn Springs, where a general meeting will be held, and the ladies of the party may enjoy an evening at the popular summer resort. Slipper will be served Tyy the Community club of Glenn Springs. On Saturday morning tf:e schedule will be as follows: 8:-30 a. m., Pauline; 9a. m., Morgan's; 9:30 a. m., Cedar Springs; 10 a. m., Brick House; 10:30 a. m., Mabry's store; 11 a. m., Spartanburg. ^ A stop until noon will be made at Spartanburg, where, as the guests of the Chamber of Commerce, the occupants of all the cars, which by this time will probably number several hundred, will be entertained witfn. a Dutch luncheon served on the grounds of Converse college. In connection with the luncheon a rousing good 4 roads and Appalachian highway rally will K? IhalH niii wo ,u Then at noon the party being joined by scores of Spartanburg ladies and gentlemen in motors will make the start over the newly completed moun} tain division of the highway for Hendersonville. which should he reached in three hours. Those who wish may return to Spartanburg in time for supper. The purpose, however, Is to fcave a large delegation of North Caro ^ lina enthusiasts meet the party at tne North Carolina line and at HenderBsonville a joint Appalachian jollificaV ticn mass meeting will be held. Many ^">0 go from Columbia, Newberry, ^Bj^kitmire, I'nion, Glenn Springs and other points will of course spend the evening and 0. e week-end at Hendersons ille. LaCoste Evans, the "only" good roads booster, will be in tiie party and Commissioner Graham and Dr. Jos, Hyde Pratt will meet tiie party at the North Carolina line. Yesterday Arch B. Calvert, chairman of thp Snartanbur^ committee, for warded to Commissioner Watson an invitation from the citizens of RuC':erfordton, N. C., to have the entire party i on Saturday or Sunday come on from j Hendersonville to Biltmore and thence j to Rutherfordton through Hickory Xu: j gap and by cnimney kock, returning to Spartanburg. The scenery along this rounte is said to be simply grand and full of surprises. T> e road is the | State road that the State of North Car- i oiina has constructed and is noted for i its average width and low grades. It j is not unlikely this extension will be j added to the trip. ) Mr. Calvert, writing from Spartan- j burg on Saturday, said: "TV. e weather! in this section is beautiful t* is morn- j ing, and if conditions stay as tney are, the highway will be in splendid shapr; for Friday and Saturday of next week." Subscribe Fund. Commissioner Watson last night said that, in addition to the $4,200 raised on August 11 and the subscriptions in j teams and labor, Cze had been advised that other funds had been readily subscribed in Spartanburg and at all other points and already very considerable work had been done. Mr. .Watson also announced that he had just received from the United States office of public roads at Washington tfe announcement of the granting of his request for the detail of a federal engineer to advise the supervisors concerned as to reloca- j ticns and other matters of construc- i tion and maintenance on the portion of the road through Xewoerry and Union counties and expressed his gratification that Engineer W. L. Spoon iv ad been assigned to the work. 1 ^ ~ C5 -V a Ttfin W A r> Vv 1 A +/\ /I iiumuetrr opuvu wm uc auic iu ucvwt three days to the work in the next t^n days. Secretary Paul V. Moore of the Spartanburg Chamber of Commerce writes: "We are making decided progress. Our local committee has collected suffi cient runas to put unaer tne spin log drag system seven miles toward Glenn Springs and to provide for its maintenance for 12 months. The county chain gang is smoothing this road up today, and it will be in first class shape j for your tour. From Spartanburg to i Tryon, N. C., the entire route is bein-? worked today and will be up to its j accustomed good condition. lM!r. Cal- j vert and myself went to the Union | ^uumj line ultras ux 1115 ivi muc jjuslo, | which were put up yesterday." Mr. Watson says that while the Chamber of Commerce of Columbia i has not yet taken offici?. notice of Spartanburg's invitation and Columbia has not been asked to help in the con s ruction of this great highway to the! playgrounds of the Caroilnas, which i begins at Columbia, as chairman of the central committee he wished to especially invite all Columbians with cars j desiring to make this delightful weekend tour and show real Columbia in x, , , l teresi in soineimng in ? men v,oiuiuuia is greatly concerned. He will be glad to have all suci3 parties meet him in front of the State house on Friday morning at 6:45 o'clock and will take pleasure in piloting them through. Ai very large number of motor cars be in line before Glenn Springs is reached. County Sunday School Association. The County Sunday School convention will hold its regular annual meeting at Cannon's Creek Mission church, near Mr. John C. Neel's resi I aence, aDout inree mnes easi 01 dewberry, September 1-2, proximo. Eadh Sunday school is entitled to three delegates besides the pastor and the superintendent of the school, wt'~o are ex officio members of the convention. Let me urge that all reports be made out in full and forwarded to tne under?tigned, that if e committee on statistics may not be delayed in getting up its report, a matter that is so valuable in Sunday school work. There promises to be an interesting nnnrantmn U'a u-ant OVPPV Srhnnl tfj V/Vii f ^JUWXV/14, TTM4AV V/ * ^ ? answer in full at the opening roll call. J. B. O'Neall Holloway. County Secretary. THE NEWS OF PROSPERITY. Old Soldiers' Reunion Young's Grove Thursday?Topsy .Turvey? Personal Mention. Special to The Herald and News. Prosperity, Aug. 23.?Mr. Lindsay Fellers of Winnisboro is spending his vacation wfthf;.is parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Fellers. Mr. Hal Kohn has reiurned to Columbia, after a few days' stay at the ti VV IOC I1UIC1. Lieut. J. Allen Lester has been visiting in Columbia. Misses Virginia and Doris Kinard of Little (Mountain are guests of their aunt, Mrs. J. Sidney Wheeler. Mrs. F. W. Sciiumpert and little son left Saturday for Barnwell for two weeks' stay before going to their future home, Savannah. Mrs. P. C. Sinley and little Phoebe spent last week in Goldville. Dr. and Mrs. A. L. Black of Bowman are guests of Mrs. A. Black. Judge and Mrs. T. S. Seafce of Spartanburg are spending a wtiile with the former's sister, Mrs. C. T. Wyche. | Supt. and Mrs. E. J. Brown and ' ~ ~ j. m fcnnaren or Manning speni sunud) with Mrs. T. L. Shealy. Mr. Carl Feilers has returned to 'Fitzgerald, Ga., after a ten days' stay with his father, !\rr. S. L. Fellews. Mr. Will Crtfmer and Miss Clara Cromer of Pomaria are the guests of Mrs. "V F! OYTier Misses Myrtle and Bronell Lominick of the St. Philiip section are spending a while with t< eir sister, Mrs. Lois Dominick. > Mr. Holland Pavsinger of Newberry spent Sunday with Mrs. J. P. 'WTheeler. Mr. John Johnson of Atlanta spent ifcnndav with Mrs. Elvira Kibler. Miss Agnes Wheeler of Ninety Six is visiting ker schoolmate, iMiss Marie lKohn. Miss Rebecca Harmon is spending the week with f:er grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. B. Harmon, at Epworth. Dr. G. Y. Hunter and daughter, Miss | Mary DeWalt are spending a few Weeks in the mountains of North Cari ,. oiina. Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Wheeler of Columbia are ivisiting relatives in and around Prosperity. Dr. and Mrs. G. W. Harmon leave Thursday for a visit to Birmingham Mr. L. A. Black has gone to the Northern markets. Mr on/1 Mro T f. !h Q VP rp. ivii anu iui u. v. w. o'ww v* v - ^ turned to Spartanburg, alter spending a while with the former's father, !Mr. J. B. T. Scott. Mrs. S. J. Kohn is in Columbia, the guest of Mrs. A. H. Kohn. Miss Bessie Lee Gibson has as her guest Miss Pearl Boozer of near Newru ueri y. Mrs. Olin Bobb has returned from Columbia, accompanied by her brother, Mr. Jasper Rawl. Miss Bessie Taylor f:as gone to Batesburg to visit her brother, Dr. E. "O T-o vl r\r A x *AJ 1VX Mesdames Morrow of Florida and Bristow of Columbia have returned to their respective homes, after a visit to their sister, Mrs. J. S. "Wheeler. Misses Edna and iMoss Fellers spent Monday in Columbia. Mrs. Corrie McWaters jeaves this week for a short visit to Atlanta. At the annual reunion of the old ! soldiers at Young's Grove August 26. 4 " - - - J - .L.'. _ the Ladies Ala sociery 01 u e .vietuudist chursch will sell ice crtam. All patronage will be appreciated. Miss Litzsey of Columbia visited Mrs. 0. B. Simpson last week. Miss Pansy Wallace leaves this week for Carrollton, Ga., after spending six weeks with her sister, Mrs. G. W. Harmon. Mrs. J. F. Browne and little daughter, Elizabeth, will reach home Tuesday, after a fortnight stay in tfce mountains of North Carolina. ? ? - - ? ? * itffY. _ * Messrs. O. S. Miner ana a. u iwneeier spent last Thursday in Columbia. Mr. Kellus Mitchell of Batesburg spent the week-end with Mr. Pat Mitchell. Mr. R. K. Wise will spend a few days this week in Columbia, with his aunt, Mrs. A. H. Kofcn. Misses Josephine and Elizabeth May baye gone to Sabot, V%. The following is a synopsis of a play, "Miss Topsy Turvey," which will be given in the town hall Friday evening, August 27, for the benefit of the Prosperity School Improvement asso ciation and for tJ'.:e O'Xeall School Improvement association. Admission 15 and 25 cents. The play which is to be presented is entitled "Miss Topsy Turvy," or "The Courtships of the Deacon." The scene of the play is laid in an old Southern country home. There are eight characters composing the play. The play occurs at the home of :Mrs. Clarendon, who will be represented by Miss Hattie Wise. Her daughter, Topcy Turvy, who will be acted by Miss j Eunice Shealy, is a very* mischievous I girl, who is playing tricks and pranks j upon anyone and everyone she meets; 1 /lnrvconiion+lii TVTrc fla rPnHrvn Hppnis it" \_> Wli. 0\.4uum-ij iUi. viiuvii vtv^.?.w -V wise to employ a governess for her * il'.-.igh-spirited daughter. This governj ess is Miss Spriggs, who will be acted by Miss Annie Wise. The poor old maid becomes tired and lonesome at her post of duty as governess for Topsy, so she falls in love With Deacon Jones, w> o will be represented by Mr. Norman Wessinger. After the old Deacon "screws his courage to the highest pita ," enough to ask Miss Spriggs to be his loving wife, she consents. But this union proves to be a I very unhappy one and most especially j for the old deacon, for in him will be I Vflrn-oeontad oil fVio truitc fl T! fharjlf! j A ^OVUtVU i*ll b* M*vtj -?? teristics of a pure, thoroughbred henpecked husband. May Golden, who will be represented by Lottie Mills, and Frank Golden, her brother, who will be acted by Arthur Shealy, are visiting at the ihorae of their aunt, Mrs. Clarendon; Frank Golden being a college boy spending l is vacation with his aunt and talso his cousin, Topsy Turvy, who he is very anxious to assist in all her mischievous tricks she is continually playing upon everyone. May Golden is in acquaintance with a wealthy English lord. She does not love him, but only hopes to win his wealth, rank and title. Tlhis rnorii'oii -will hp rpnresented bv lillgllkJU XU1 U " *** WW A , Air. Willie Mills, who comes over to America to win t)':e. fair hand of Miss May Golden, but he hears her say that she does not love him, and all she wants to win is his wealth, rank and " * it- J - - i J ^ nrrt ?nf/>i f a Title, SO <^e ueciues mat us wauta w win the love of a loving woman, and that one finally proves to be Topsy Turvy, the mischievous girl. ' Old Xed, the servant, will be acted by Mr. Jo^n Cason. Poor old Xed has to be the servant for tihe entire community and Dvorvftno imnnses nnnn tf. at old dar key, who is always threatening to give up his job. Death of Mrs. Lucy E. Dickert. Mrs. Lucy E. Dickert, aged 63, died Monday at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. E. T. Forrest, 435 Gordon street. Mrs. Dickert lived in Live Oak, Fla. She is survived by her husband, C. P. Dickert; five daughters, Mrs. J. W. Poe, Vidalia, Ga.; Mrs. Maude Starr, Live Oak, Fla.; Mrs. C. D. Holmes, Tifton, Ga.; I.Mrs. ;E. T. Forrest and Miss Florence Dickert of Atlanta, Ga.; three sons, M. J. Dickert, Live Oak, Fla.; A. G. Dickert, Little Rock; C. R. Dickert, Tifton, and one sister, Mrs. W. A. Hill, Newberry, S. C.?Atlanta Constitution, Aug. 17. Mrs. Dickert was the wife our former fellow citizen, Charles P. Dickert, wi':o once served the county as trial pistice of Xo 11 township for more than ten years. He is a brother our our townsman, uoi. u. (a. uicKeri-; ue has been a citizen of Florida for 20 years, where he holds the position of magistrate or county judge of Live Oak and Suwanea counties. Mrs. Dickert was the daughter of .T. Hardy Suber of tf e Broad River section. Her mother was Miss Eugenia Gunter, a sister of Dr. Gunter, who practicec meaicme in uus ukwj years ago. Mrs. Dickert lived to rear a large family to the age of maturity and hers was the first death in the family in. a married life of nearly a half century. weaifi or Mrs. drawer. LVfirs. Carrie Gruber, wife of Mr. M. L. Gruber, died at her home here on (Monday morning as 8:10 o'clock and will be buried at St. Paul's on Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock, service by the Rev. W. J. Roof. Mrs. Gruber was about 44 years oldfi and besides her husband she leaves six cttuavea. Among her other surviving relatives are three sisters living in Newberry, Mrs. Minnie Koon. Mrs. Delia Koon and Mrs. Pickers Sultan. Ex-Gov. Cole L Makes i BLEASE AND COOPER HAVE NOT TRADED WILL RESPOND TO DEMANDS OF FRIENDS iAND RUN FOR GOV. I I Makes This Statement in Letter to Beard in Answer to Charge That He and Cooper Hare Traded. Gov. Blease makes the positive statempnt that hp will hp a pandidatp for governor in the campaign of 1916. He says the demands for ftim to do so come from all parts of the State and that they are so strong he can not afford to deny this demand from his friends who have stood by him so many times. Personally he I-as no desire to make the race or to be gov i Li- u.'i.: 1.1 i. ernor, Decause ms amumon w mai line has been satisfied by having served two terms. But if it is the opinion of his friends that it is his 1 duty to lead the people in tne fight ' which is to be made next year, he can not give a <0eaf ear to such a call and he will respond. His statement is brought forth by an article which Mr. iW. P. Beard pub lished in tf'e Scimitar a few issues back, and the letter is to Mr. Beard in reply to the charge in that article that there had been a deal between Blease and Cooper. Gov. Blease leaves little doubt as to his position in regard to a supposed deal with Mr. Cooper and as to his attitude in tl'.'e campaign next year. \ If Mr. Blease should enter the campaign next year it will not be a dull campaign, but there will be something doing at every meeting. There seems now to be no doubt that he will enter, because his friends from all parts of tVia Qtoto oro Homnnriincr that f" P malce the campaign. The following is the letter from Gov. Blease to Mr. W. P. Beard: Columbia, S. C., Aug. 20,1915. Mr. W. P. Beard, Abbeville, S. C. Dear Sir: In your issue of August the loth, under the caption, "Have Blease and Cooper Traded?" you state: "There is an understanding between Governor Blease and R. A. Cooper to the effect that if Cooper will run against Manning next year Blease will not, but if Cooper don't run, Blease will." I desire to answer your question In ] order tJ':at you and your friends may have no misunderstanding in reference to the matter. In the race for governor last year Mr. Cooper on the stand throughout the State would preach law and order and peace and hprmnnv On thp railroad trains and around the i':otels he would denounce Blease and Bleaseism in more bitter language than any other candidate for governor on or off the stand. Some of Mr. Cooper's friends went among my friends and told them that Cooper was a Bleasite tha;t Blease had helped him to be elected solicitor and was sup porting him for governor, and many I of my friends were led to vote for Mr.! Cooper from tl'.at statement, as can be easily verified, if it is necessary. I do not charge Mr. Cooper, personally, with his friends' action, but I do charge his friends with carrying the message and thereby gaining him many votes from my friends, which fee would not have otherwise gotten. However, I think it due my friends to state, since you have raised the issue, that Mr. Cooper has never been a political friend of mine and possibly never will be; and I presume it entirely unnecessary for me to add, that n? nrmriitinns or circumstances will I ever vote for any man who fig)u.ts me, nor will I make any trade with him. I will remain a private citizen the balance of my life and die and be forgotten by all of my friends and my family before I would trade with any man politically, or with any faction politically, and thereby prove traitor to those who have stood by me in my political fights and for whom I j am still figfrting. Some people have,. been elected to office by one set of j men and after they got ia office be- j trayed their friends by selling out to; the other side, and today, while they still hold office, are looked upon as I Blease Announcement ( the most/-contemptible traitor to hi* people and his principles that ever disgraced Soutl'n Carolina. Hfs oldtime friends view him with contempt and his new-made friends (?) laugh at the mention of his name, which, however, I assure you will never be my fate. My enemies may rejoice at my being a private citizen, but neither they nor my friends will ever be permitted to say tfcat Blease wrent back on them or failed them whenever they called upon him. And, therefore, I will never make any trade with any man in this world who has not been true to the people's cause through thick and thing, through defeat as well as in victory. As between Mr. Cooper and the present governor, it is not necessary to say which one I would vote for, but I certainly would not advise a Bleasite to vote for either. * As to the latter part of your article, permit me to state, SO THERE CAN BE NO MISUNDERSTANDING, that I have received letters from all parts of the State. Some asking me to run and others demanding that I do run for governor next year, and people from every part of the S-tate have been to me and requested me to run. I have said to many of them that tlbey let me rest and let's all agree upon another man. Their reply, to tJhe man. has been: "You are the only man who can get our party back together and to you and you alcne are we looking." It is for these reasons that I have taken t):e position that I have with reference to the campaign next summer. In order that there can be no further misunderstanding about the matter, I now, to you, for you to make such use of as you see fit, an- . ? nounce that I will be a candidate forgovernor in 1916, unless my friends tf- rnn?hotit the State ohansre their present attitude, which I have not the slightest idea they will do. As I said when I left the governor's office and have since repeated, personally I am not a candidate for governor, but my friends have made the demand and I do not propose to forsake tfaem in defeat any more than I would ueiray mem in viuturj. At the first campaign meeting I shall raise the people's colors and fight as I have never fought before for the cause of the people, wl':ich is a righteous cause and which the great God of this Universe may allow to be temporarily defeated, but will at last pre? !i n oil Villi, lor <s.i e tut; pniiv,ipica \jl liberty loving men and the cause of an all-wise and a just God. So I presume it is now in order to say "on with the dance, let joy be unconfined." Very respectfully, Cole. L. Blease. COLLEGE DAYS ARE SEAJR. College opening is near at hand. < Soon the students will return and the work of the fifty-ninth session of Newberry college will begin. The opening takes place on Thursday, September 16. September p e 14th and 15th will be given over to examinations for entrance and promotion. These are days also when the faculty gives opportunity to the boys to work off their "conditions," so tnat tney may start the year with clean record and a clean conscience. Prof. A. Reiser, who is to teach Latin and Greek at the college, is expected to arrive about September 5. He is at present traveling in tine West. He recently completed his course for the master's degree at the University of Montana, where he made a great rep utation as a stuaeni. Coach >W. fi. Shaw, the new physical director, writes President Harms that he will be in Newberry about ten days before college opens, to begin the earlypractice of foot ball. A number of the candidates will report to faim on the campus to begin the work of fcullding up an Indian team that will sustain the reputation of the college. The buildings and grounds are being put in condition for the year. A large number of new students hare enrolled and the college looks forward to the largest attendance in inany years.