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NEWBERRY, S. 0. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9. TWICE A WEEK, ?U? A YEAS. VOLUME Lin, NUMBER SI. ___ ' South Caroline . Meet In Nei i LUTHERAN SYNOD 1 & CONVENES TODAY! V JrlKST T13IE COLLEGE HAS BEEN HOST. Sessions Will be Held in Holland Hall?Night Sessions at the * Lutheran Church. I'h... Smith rarnlina svnod of tile Lu- I theran chuch begins its ninety-first annua! convention at Newberry college today (Tuesday) at 1:45 in the afternoon. The college has been looking forward to this event with keen interest for many ngpnths, it being the first time a synodical session was ever held in tJe college buildings. The college is the property of the synod and its meeting on th.e campus this year will afford the ministers and delegates a unique opportunity to study the affair?. nf the institution. t Most of the members of synod will arrive on the 1:06 train Tuesday, while others will come on earlier and later trains. The day sessions will be held in the f college chapel, beginning at 8:45 in the morning and 1:45 in the afternoon. The night sessions will be held in the Lutheran church, beginning at 7:30 o'clock. T-> - - T-> nioce V C nt?V. w. D. OUCOIUUSC KJ L Uiuoo, ., will bring the greetings of the North JCarolina synod, and the Rev. B. D. Wessinger of Chapin, S. C., will repre^ sent the Tennessee synod. Some minister from the Georgia synod will also be present. The visitors will be entertained in the homes of Newberry, except that each day they will take dinner with the college students In the collegel boarding hall. Til3 schedule of night services will be as follows: iTuesday night, sermon by Rev. P. E. Monroe, president b' of the synod and also president of .Summerland college; Wednesday night address on "Education" by Rev. * George J. Gongaware, D. D., CharlesP ton; Thursday nigh.., address by Rev. P. D. Risinger, Lexington. All the citizens, whether of Lutheran or other denominations, are cordially | invited to attend all the sessions, those j I In the day at the college chapel and k those at night in the Lutheran church. ^ The South Carolina synod has eighty congregations, fifty-eight ministers and a membership of about 12,000. It owns and operates two colleges, Newberry and Summerland college, and is part owner of another college at Kumamoto, Japan, with 500 students; also a theo# logical seminary in Columbia. It provides educational facilities for over 1,000 students every year. It also is part owner of the large publication house in Columbia. It conducts missions in this state at Spartanburg, i Greenville. Greenwood, Columbia, New Brookland, Newberry (Mayer Memorial and Summer Memorial), Sumter, Fair fax, Swansea, Florence, Charleston f and Sunmmerville. It's total contributions through the regular synodical -1 n-ora nvDr 5199 000 UUdllUfiO' lasi j cai "tit ui vi yj.??,vwi I besides the gifts of a special character to education and church buildings of perhaps an equal amount. dewberry became the educational center of the Lutheran church of South Carolina quite a number of years before the denomination had many memTlia firct T.lltllflraTl Ud & 1U U1C LU " ii. xu& "i ^uiuviuu congregation had been organizd only about three years before the synod deIcided to locate Newberry college in the "village of Newberry." Luther chapel (the former name of the Church of the Redeemer) could not have had more than thirty or forty members in rl856 when the college was located in +ho tnwn The conexesation had been r organized in 1S53 with twenty-one f members, and had only fifty-four members twenty years afterwards. Fire f years ago, Pastor Fulenwider received at one service twice as many members in the Church of the Redeemer as the congregation had in Luther chapel tvve:.:y years af:er its organization. The nembers of the synod who had the deciding vote to locate the college in WJ Newberry certainly possessed' farsighted vision that they could see soj far into the future and realize that! around the college there would grow' I r Lutherans wherry College up such a large and influential constituency wilich ihe college enjoys at this day. and which has proved its loyalty more than one time in its history when the institution needed friends. Then, in looking over the records, one is struck with the fact -.hat only three regular Sessions of the synod ha.\ebeen neld in Newberry. It would seem that the synod should have met more frequently in Newberry, when its importance as the educational center of the synod is considered. Two of these regular convention? were thirty years apart?1S60 and 1S90. nm, ~ -1 U ~ J KAnrnn tn orrwr I lit* S.WJUU Ilctu jUSl L/C5UU liy j-jivn | numerically in 1860. Thirty-eight ministers were enrolled, besides three licentiates. Political conditions were so disturbed by the sound of the tocsin of war that the synod did not hold it* next convention at the regular time, but meeting in January. 1862, a regular convention was also held in November. 1862. The synod had more than 4,000 white r-rimmiiniMnts in I860 hesides nearlv a 'hcusand'negroes. The war decimated the membership largely of the men, even the preachers and candidates for he ministry volunteering in the Confederate service. The third time when ihe synod held a regular contention in Newberry was in November, 1911. Two extra conventions have been held in .Newberry. j;otn 01 tnese conventions were assembled to consider the interests and welfare of Newberry college. The extra session of 1S67 met in September. It was called* to consider ciie financial condition of the college. The wreck of war had lef" the college ncumbere<J with debt incurred in the I erection of the building. Also, the building had been damaged by the federal troops which had occupied it as a garrison three months during the summer of 1865. Dr. Smeltzer, the president, reported at this convention that * - X 1_ _ (%C\ AAA 2. - It WOUld taKe iu reyair iuc uam- i age which had been caused by the Fifty-1 sixth New YorK regiment, under Brig. Gen. Van Wyck. The claims of the contractors were satisfactorily adjusted, and efforts were made to repair the damage to the buildings. The latter effort was not successful, and the building gradually fell into decay. It was a beautiful building, and was well constructed. Better material had never been put into any building of its class | anywhere. A proof of this statement is the fact that Smeltzer hall was rebuilt on the foundations of the first building. The synod did not meet at Newberry when it was decided to xemove the college to Walhalla. The synod thought ai the extra session in 1867 that the damage to the building could be re paired readily, and since the contractors to whom the synod was indebted had so considerately reduced their claims to a most reasonable basis of settlement, the prospects were propitious for the college to take on ne\y life. It was sad news to Newberry when, at St. Paul's church, near PoO ?.; O o* tViQ caccinn in 1 SfiS it WAS max ia> ai *wVv-1 -- ?? decided to remove the college to Walhalla. But the name was never changed. This retention of the name, Xewberry college, was adopced at the suggestion of Dr. Smeltzer, the president of the institution, who had stood - - ' " ? 1 ~ 1 ~ f V> Q so loyally vy me cunegc. .cxilc^ Federal soldiers evacuated the college the latter part of September, 1865, he and Capt. A. P. Pifer were the only professors to take up the work. Prof. D. Arrington and Prof. D. B. Busby were members of the faculty subse quently before the removal to Walhalla. It is quite a remarkable coincidence that not quite ten years afterward the synod met in extra session in Newberry to consider the relocation of the college. The extra convention of 1877 was held in April?-just a month after the fire of March 11, 1877, which inflicted a loss of $175,000 in the main business section of the town. While the town lay in ashes, a meeting of the citizens was held in the court house one week before the meeting of tne synod, and the subscription of the town for the location of the college was increased at least one-third of the amount which J. LAWSON WISE DIES SUDDENLY \ shock to his many FKIEM>S. >[r. Wise Had Been in His I'snal Health?Started to (lmrcli? Marrlige of Miss Wyche. Special to The Herald and News. Prosperity. Xov. S.?The entire town was thrown into great excitement Sun day niglic about o clock on nearing of the sudden death of Mr. J. Law-,on Wise. r. Wise was apparently in his usual good health. He was on his way to church with his family, and '.vhen passing tlu' hotel, the home of his brother. A. G. Wise, he told his wife to walk on and he would catch i her. Mrs. Wise went to cnurch with 'lie children thinking that her husband was all right at the hotel with j his brother. On returning from the church exercist-s they inquired at the betel fcr Mr. Wise. They were shocked to find him dead. Pie went to church in the morning is was his usual custom, and his last public act was to attend a special I neeting of the church council called ?.t (he clost' of the service to transact ?cme special business for the church. He went to the Sunday school in be afteri.oon, as usual, and took an active part in the discussion of the 'esson. He was on his way to church in the evening when the cold hand of i^ath. 'so suddenly seized him. is v.irvived by his widow and the following children: Miss Willie Mae, -aduate of Winthrop college, now al. the head of the girls' tomato clubs of Xewberry county; L. M. Wise, the oldest son. graduate of Newberry college, cotton bnyer with his father at this place: Miss Tena, graduate of Chicora collide, teaching in Union county; Miss "Mr nu'irtvi<o o t TXT'i r> tVl rr>r? ?V . at, OlUUtlit U O iiinn U}/ VVIlege, and three -younger children at home, Patrick, Xellise and Cutis. Thf burial service was conducted & the grave in the Prosperity cemetery Monday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock, by his pastor. Rev. E. W. Leslie. He was buried with Masonic honors. Mr. Wise, .it the time of his death, was in his fifty-eighth year. He was a son of W'aj P. D. Wise, who died many years ago. His 'iving brothers are A. G. Wise of this town, J. H. and W. B. Wise C 7 ? i .' 1 . A .. M 4 A A M A n ? I A ?i ^ oi Liir.Je lvj uuiuaui aiiu iwu sisieia, Mrs. J. B. Lathan of Little Mountain had been raised before the fire occurred. The writer remembers distinctly the ringing speech of the la*:e Rev. H. W. Kuhns. pastor of the Lutheran church, at that meeting. One prominent business man at once doubled his subscription of $500, and other leading business men and citizens fol 'owed in quick succession. Newberry's offer of $15,870 was accepted by tbe synod, and the college opened its nex1 session in Newberry in November 1877, in the buildings now occupied by Leroy & M. M. Salter as a studio and R. L. Lea veil's undertaking establishment. * The corner stone of Smeltzer hall 1 ~ J T..1 ? -I a 1 0-*7 V..* Ti'nr. Wits Tcuu uu juiy ixoi i, uui il naa i)ot until February of the next year that any part of the building could be occupied. A remarkable coincidence is connected with the first Lutheran church built in Newberry and Smeltzer hall. hen they were each torn down and their corner stones opened for examination nothing whatever was found in either of them. Ai number of persons whn wprp nrpspnt nr thp la vino' of <*afih corner stone were excited with keen expectancy by the fact that when the corner stones were opened they would ao-ain thp in t^rpstin f? prvllPO v?v, *??W* vwv.?0 ^ ? tion of coin and other articles which they had seen deposited in the receptacles. The old corner stone at the college was hewn out of solid granite. The receptacle was not very large. But strange to say, when it was opened, not a single article was found in it. There was nothing to show that anything had ever been placed in it. No decayed material of any kind was 'visible. The corner stone of the church was a receptacle formed of brick in the northeast corner of the foundation. There was nothing to show that the /-vVin-roh V>?arJ avfiv haH a t*r\rnor stnnp The only explanation is that the articles were extracted from the recepta- ' cles by some one who wanted the coins, and everything else in them was likewise taken out of them. and Mrs. Sarah Holmes of Georgia, j Mr. AYire was a life long member of the Lutheran church. always took ?c'ive interest in the affairs of his hurch and he will be missed in the rutur.1 'iftUDerations or me cnurcu. Surely a good man has departed from us. The heartfelt sympathies of :V.is entire town and surrounding onntry go out to the bereaved family. i ? Dr. and Mrs. C. T. Wyche announce the approaching marriage of their daughter Isoline to .James Furman Goggans of Columbia, on Tuesday, November sixteenth, at 7:30 p. m., at their home. Miss Wyche is the eldest daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Wyche and is a voting woman of unusual charm of mind and person. Mr. Goggans is a rising young Business man <jl k^uluiftbia. Prominent among the social events of this season is Miss JNYyche's wedding. iss Wyche will be honored on Tuesday afternoon, when Miss Effie Hawkins will give her a linen shower. Again on Friday, Mrs. Quattlebaum will entertain the Porosis m nonor oi Miss Wyche, at which time the members will shower her. The following announcement from The State of November 6 will be read with interest by the many friends of Mr. 'Mitchell, who is one of Prosperity's bc-st known boys: i Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Suber announce the approaching marriage of their daughter. iMarv Francis, to Patrick Bowers Mitchell of Prosperity, the marriage to take place early in December. The Sorosis was entertained on Friday afternoon by Mrs. L. A. Black. Trie discussion of the afternoon was "Henry VIII." A delightful two^course luncheon was served by little Virginia t and Ralph Black. Mr. S. B. Bowers of Dawson, Ga., spent the week-end with his parents,' Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Bowers. Mrs. Jim Price and Little Doris hav^ been visiting Mesdames Moseley and Scrumpert. Mrs. E. W. Werts and children have 1 returned from a visit to Miss Kate Barre at the Columbia hospital, and report thai Miss Barre^ is doing nicely. Mr. W. A. Moseley was a business , visitor to Aiken last week. Mr. J. C. (Taylor of Batesburg spent; Sunday at home. I Miss Annie Moselay, after spending a short time at home, has returned to Batesburg. j Miss Elizabeth DeWalt leaves this; week for an extended visit to Saluda and Augusta. Mrs. 'M. C. Morris was called home ( last week on account of the deatn of i her aunt. Mrs. Rebecca Dent. Miss Eleanor Capers of Washington is visiting her aunt, Mrs. J. L. Wise. She will return home by way of Clem- j son college in the interest of her work, having a prominent position in the government dairy department at Washington. Mr. W. A. Hartman of Atlanta has been visiting relatives. Mrs. Addie Hodges has returned: from a -usit to Dr. Sims of Columbia. ? ? ?^ , Mr. and Mrs. J. Jfc?. tfeaenDaugn 01 j Pomaria spent the week-end at the home of Mr. J. M. Werts. Mr. and iMrs. J. A. Dominick of Ki* nards spent Sunday with Mrs. C. T. Wyche. The Young People's society will have a 'rummage sale" on the public square Saturday .November 13. Any donations to this sale will be very much appreciated. Mr. Thompson !C. Lester died Saturday at the home of Mr. Minick, in the St. Luke section. Mr. Lester had not been well for some time and his death was not unexpected. The funeral was held at St. Luke's church, being conrJnn'-cir? hv Rpv "R w Cronk. He is survived by his a?f^^^.her. Aunt Hannah Lester, two /daughters, two brothers and one sister. The floral ofterings were beautiful. Hon. Josh Ashley's Condition Serious. Honea Path Chronicle. The many friends of Hon. Josh Ashley will be pained to learn that his con an ion nas ueeu quite scuuus iui the past week. He is growing gradually weaker and his family is alarmed over his condition. ' Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live; and so the Lord, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.? Amos, v:14. Tiifc APPALACHIAN HIGHWAY. :.\e made a trip on Saturday to Whit mire. In the party were Mr. Hartwell !Ai. Ayer, who is doing some special work on the anniversary edition of The Herald and News, and Supervisor Sample. We went by way oi tne late home of Capt. H. H. Folk and struck tile Appalachian highway at the Kennedy place. We made the drive to Whitmire in about one hour and ten minutes in III. and that is good driving for us and means that the load must be pretty good, for ordinarily our limic is an average of 15 miles the hour, and the distance to Whitmire by this route is about 20 miles. This is a fine piece of work whica .Mr. Sample has done with the co-operation of the people along the route. The road is not what we would like to see 1 ^ l-_i. -V T _ C, 1 ~ ..,^,*1,3 V.? ,-,-w ana not wuai -vn. oajuuyic nuum uaic made if the funds had been available but for the money and time expended we think there has ben good results. We returned by way of the Caldwell road and covered the entire stretch of j the- Appalachian highway in Newberry county. The changes made at Dun-1 can's creek, just before getting to j Whitmire, is worth to the road almost j hp entire amount expended on it. The i road bed has been changed and a fill j made which should make this is good i road the entire year. At Cannon'sj creek, just this side of the residence j of Mr. C. S. Suber, a new bridge has j been completed which greatly helps a ! very bad place. And the entire road j is much better than we really expected i to see. From trie Laiawen piace iu \ Newberry the road has not had time! to settle and is a little hea?y, but when ! some rains come and the road bed gets settled it is going to be a fine i road. Of course it should be widened j and there are some crossings which j should have had attention before the' road was left, but on the whole it is u fine piece of work for the money expended and Mr. Sample should receive ' 1 "* ~ C ? rvAArvl-v ftlnntt til a tile wen aone 01 iue pcuynr aiuug way. We ai*e told that the Union people are building a thirty-foot road and making it a very fine road. We are pleased to know it and we hope they will extend it all the way through Union county, but they have not gone more than two miles so far. Uhat is the kind of road to build if yju have the money. What we need on the Newberry end is to make provision for the proper maintenance of this road now that it is built. Some sections of it need now the application of the -drag. And there are some high points that should have bpen taken down. If the people along the way take an interest in the maintenance of the road the supervisor no doubt will return to the road and take down the high places and fill in the low places and we will then have an all the year round good road to Whitmire. The town of Whitmire is a good business place and it has some of the best stores that you will find in a long journey. They would do credit to a town much larger than Whitmire, and then in the Glen-Lowry Manufacturing company Whitmire has one of the most modern and best equipped cotton mills in the state. The special edition of The Herald and News will carry a full and complete write up of this live and progressive town. There is one thing about the town of "Vhirroii-a. tViot id vpr.v <V>TT) mendable. and that is that the people are loyal to the town and anything that is for the advancement of the community has the unanimous endorsement and co-operation of all the people. Thev believe in their town and stand solidly - . ? j together for its betterment ana advancement in all that makes for a better community. Every business house in the town vill have a place in the picture in our fiftieth anniversary edition. The Appalachian highway will be ah rierbt if it can be dragged during the coming winter and then there are a few crossings that need to have some piping put in and the road widened in some places. Makes Trip to Georgia. S. J. Derrick of the Newberry col1 M 11? ? ~ ~ ~ ~ J ^ViK/vnnrVt PAllimKlO lege icUMiny paaseu LUIuugu ^uiumu?. yesterday on his way to Springfield. Ga., where he will deliver an address today. Prof. Derrick's' subject will be "Missions." The occasion is a pastoral reunion of the Lutheran ministers of that section.?The State. i> > <$ <$> COTTON MARKET <8> ?? 1 /A A A A A A A /A A A A A y* A A A A <? .Vewberry. <? <$> Cotton 11c <& <$> Cotton seedf per bu 52^c <S> <$> <s> Prosperity. <? <$> Cotton 11c ^ Cotton seed, per bu 52%c <?> <S> <? <S> Pomaria. <?> ^ Cotton 1114c <S> ?> Cotton seed, per bu 52^c ? 5> <S> <S> Little Mountain. $ <?> Cotton 11c ^ > Cotton ceed, per bu 54c 3> -'$> ^ < > Silverstreet ^ ^ Cotton He ^ I Cotton seed, per bu 52%c ^ | ?? ' ^ | * Cbappells. <3> ! ^ Qptton ./. H%c ^ I Cotton seed, per bu 55^c ^ :<S> ^ | <S> Kinards. ^ <S> Cotton 11c ^ <$> Cotton seed, per?jDU. ... 52*?c A ^ "VVhitmire. ^ <S> Cotton 10%c Cotton seed, per bu 52^c V <$><$><&<$><$<?><$<$><$<?><$><$$><&<&$><& GLWER'S REPORT Would Indicate a Short Crop?Net rGeater Than Short Crop of 1909. Prices Should Rise. The genners' report for the cotton ginned up to the first of November came out on Monday. It is a bullish report and should cause the price of cotton to go up. The total number of bales ginned is 7,383,000. The total for the short crop of 1909 for the same i - - ... . ___ I time was 7.3ou,uuu ana cne totai crop ! for that year 10,600,000 bales, includI ing linters. There is a greater per! centage of the crop ginned this year than in 1909 and the acreage has beea reduced. This report would indicata a total crop of less than 11,000000 bales. In that event there is no reason why the price ihould not go to 15 cents. >>* $ | ^ "A Shooting Star.* Monday afternoon Ed Means, steering the red "Bear Cat" of Summers* <*ara2:e. went ou;" Caldwell street and down through Graveltown like as if he tiad been shot out of a gun. They say ? ?hnotine star would have looked like an ox-cart, compared with Ed's going. Sheriff Blease and Deputy Dorron Happened to be in the vicinity and observing tlie flash and the roar of the flying object immediately started in pursuit. It was not until Ed slowed down to make a turn that they overtook him. He was brought back and lodged in jail, / t GALLON A-MOSTH LAW IS UPHELD Judge Bowman Finds Act Constitutional?One Circuit Has Sustained Law and One Rejected It. The State. 'Judge I. W. Bowman, who h.as held the terms of criminal and civil court of Richland county, yesterday decided j that the gallon-a-month liquor law was ; constitutional. The judge sustained a TT demurrer entered by J?TeaencK n. yj' Daminick, assistant attorney general. /rhe case will be appealed to the supreme court by attorneys for the plaintiff, Thomas F. Brennen of Columbia. Judge Bowman will hand down a forin tho near future. Ilia JL \JA UV.1 AAA VUV - (The cicc.Ision of Judge Bowman is the opposite of that given by Judge Frank 3. Gary several weeks ago. The suit was brought by Mr. Brennen against the Southern Express company in order to force them to deliver more than a gallon of intoxicating I liquors within a month. Bnssia May Sow e t Squarely In It. Since the throwing of bombs is be! coming quite an important part of fighting, we are confidently looking for the Russians to make some substantial gains ?Greenville News. "Without impugning anybody's good faith this country would like to have its unders tanding of the freedom of the seas set down in writing by both London and Berlin. ?????????_