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* / J< ( * , wS' VOLUME HU, Sl'MBEK 27 -VEWBERRV, S. C. TI'ESBA Y, APRIL 4, 1^7 ' ^TCETWEE^^OTU^.T ORATORICAL CONTEST AT LITTLE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL On Friday night, March 31st. in the auditorium of the Little Mountain High school an oratorical contest was held. Everybody present enjoyed the speaKing very mucn anu un:iuimu?oi.' pronounced it. the best high school content ever listened to. All of the I orators would have reflected credit * on any college. The object of the contest was to select representatives to the State contests. one of which will be held at r.linton, April 14th, the other at Columbia. April 28th. The following program was carried out: Invocation. Instrumental duet?Ada Brady and Luetta Wheeler. 4<Our National Crisis"?Thorna* >"heely. ( "We Are One"?Roscoe Anil. "The Cause of Gracchi"?Willie Hack Derrick. Solo?Miss Gentry. "Not Guilty'*?Elonzo Sheely. "The New South''?Homer Lindler. "We Are One"?Olin Long. Willie Hack Derrick won first place. Olin Long second place and Roscoe +v.ir?i ninr-p Willie Hack Der *1 Ull IXA * A ^/AV. . V-. r-ck will represent the school at Coli'mbia and Olin Long at 'Clinton. The judges of the contest were Superintendent Ernest 'Anderson of / Newberry, Prof. J. L. Keitt of Ballentine and "Rev. H. S. Petrea of White Ttock. Among tlie out-of-town visitors for ( The contest were: Prof, and Mrs. Derrick of Newberry college; Miss Kathryn Efird, Messrs George Derrick, Ralph Sease, Leland Shee!y and Shirer of Newberry. Miss Elberta Sease, Mrs. Sease, Mrs. Will Shealy and iMt. Ralph Sease spent Saturday in Columbia. Mr. Shirer of Newberry college, has ^ 'been spending several days at the "home of Mr. IW1. B. Sheely. Misses Benetta Buzhardt and Mary Alice Hipp of Newberry spent tho week end with their aunt. Miss Mayme S Wittenberg. ' ? '* Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Derrick and son vnent several days of the past week in Washington. Supt. Charles P. Barre visited our t school on Thursday. Miss Margaret Feagle spent the weekend with her aunt, Mrs. Puree!! in Newberry. In Police Court. In police' court Monday morning Jule Garrett and Heyward Gray charged with being drunk and of cruelty to animals, were given $10 or 30 days and $5 or 15 days respectively. % For gambling Marcus Reeder, John "Byrd. Tom Porter, Henry Ffanklin, Henry Quillan. Marshall Griffin, Forest Lindsay, pleaded guilty and were 1 fined $5 each. ft John Johniken. for assault was f ziven $10.75. or 30 days. Sam Down( ing and Ellen Downing, for assault; L Sam was dismi&ed and Ellen was giv^ en $3 or 10 days. trv.a Taa/ih^inr Maids club extends i thanks to all who so generously contributed to the fund for the community nurse. ^ Thurston 1*. Vaughan. under death sentence for abuses he has confused taf to having committed upon girls who W were in his care wiien he was superintendent of the Odd Fellows' orphan \ home at Greenville, was removed on Tuesday from the State penitentiary * and committed to the State hospital | tor the Insane Tor treatment and for observation. The Germans to the northwest of "Verdun in an infantry attack launeh7/ith huge effectiveness have gained additional ground asainst the French north of Malancourt and have even penetrated the northwest corner of B the Tillage. I Preparations for closing in on Francisco 'Villa in a quick cavalry drive, are being pushed forward rapidly at the ne'd "headquarters of Brigadier Gen oral Pershing. A body of picked cavalrymen ha ye ben concentrated and is J vow in reserve nt the "ront somewhere nf Xamiquipa on the northeastern edge of the Guerrero district. WON'T STAM> FOR REELE1 TIO\ ; SIT E KIN T E N D E N T SCHOOLS j ! City Superintendent Ernest Ander- j son authorizes the statement that he j will not be an applicant for reelection ! as superintendent of the/ city schools J for another term. DEATH CLAIMS ( HAS. A. SMITH ! I I W ell Known South Carolina Hies in! Baltimore?Nerved As governor. i i The State. Timmonsville. Marc h 31. Charles I i i V Smith, former governor of South! Carolina, died at. a hospital in Balti- j ; iiiore tonight ar 9 o'clock. Mr. Smith I ! had been ill for some time and several j , weeks ago was taken to the hospital. J' His condition was known to he se- j incus and Irs wife,' two sons and a! /Iinrrlifnv irnro n-itVi him ivhfn thp Pllf] I i j i cnnie. j I Ti e funeral servic es will be held in j i T::n:nrnsvil!e probabV on Sunday. C. j Ray Smith, his son. loft tonight fori j T'a'imore. j Mr. Smith is survived by his wife who before marriage was Miss Fanny i L. Byrd, three daughters, five sons. i 'wo brothers and one sister. i i The daughters are Mrs. H. T. Lane j of Reidsville, X. C\. Miss Clare Smith i cf Greenville Woman's college and I Miss Fanny Byrd Smith of Timmons-! ville. The following sons survive: Hugh j Smith, a student at the University of | North Carolina: C. Ray Smith. Chas. j L. Smith, Donald Smith and Edwin {-Smith. ??????? J GLYCERINE \\t> BARK PREVENT APPENDICITIS j i ttip simnle mixture of buckthorn i I bark, glycerine, etc., known as Arller| i-ka. astonishes Newberry people. Be| cause Adler-i-ka acts on BOTH lower and upper bowel, ONE SPOONFUL relieves almost ANY CASE constipation, sour stomach or gas. it removes such surprising foul matter that a few doses often relieve or prevent appenaicTtis. A short treatment helps chronic stomach trouble. The INSTANT, easy action of iMler-i-ka is astonishing. Gilder & Weeks, druggists. ^ I A T TCTrv 4 J LIM.JJL C, .1 j $ <8> sf/ ^ <S? <$> <?' ? ^ <?> ? ? & ?> ^ Do the children of pur town deserve a play ground? Are they worth it? Would you like to have a park for your child to play in or do you want him to play in the street or in the jtack yard? r It will take $300 to open the park another year. Dr. F. R. Hunter and ?Mr. M. L. Spearman will receive contributions for this purpose during ttfe week. Call ! un them and let them Know how much you will give.JOE NORWOOD WINS FIRST PLACE IN CONTEST In the contest by the Furman Fitting school at Creenville for reprej sentatives to the inter-school con j tests to be held at ColumDia ana Mmton. Joe Norwood won the first place and will represent his school at the State contest in Columbia cn April 21. He is the eldest son of <Vt. and Mrs. J. E. Norwood of Newberry and a very bright boy. ?Rl L. H. Bringlowe, keeper of the Morj ris Island lighthouse, reported to the i Sixth district headquarters Monday i that he discovered ten whales'varying | in length . rom 15 to 30 feet, cast up on j the beacli at the north end of Folly's \ Island. This is an unusual happening J as it is many a year since whales have como this ar south. No information as to the species of the whales was a vuilable. Address City Schools. Rev. Thos. V. McCaul of Olemson College, who is conducting a series of services at the First Baptist cnurcn, | accompanied by Rev. E. V. Babb, visited among the city schools three i <!n ys last week. He gave coot! ta'hs | at the high school. Boundary Stieel J r.ud Speers Street schools. \EN\S OF PKOSPEK1TY. J. C. Selniinpert Opens -New Store? Kinirs Daughters Organized ? Early Closing of Stores. Prosperity. April 3.?Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Monckton and Mr. Wm. Seel oi Columbia, were guests Sunday oi Mrs. A. G. Wise. <\lr. and Mrs. Erie ftarnes or Saluda are visiting Mr. and Mrs. S. .T.*Kohn. Mr. and Mrs. .T. 0 Taylor have retrrned to Ratesburg after a short stay with Mr. A. G. Wise. Mr. and Mrs. Burr Stockman. Misses Willie Mae Wise and Bessie Taylor were in Saluda Tuesday for field day. Dr. E. P. Taylor and little son of Hatesburg. spent Sunday with Kev. Taylor. The 1". I) C. meets Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock with Miss Gertrude Bobb. Mrs. Ellie Fel'ers has gone bark to ii,o Columbia hospital for treatment, \: r. J. C. Solium port iias bought ouf Moseloy Brothers and will run an upto-dute dry goods store. Mrs. Scliumpert will nave charge of the millinery department. Mr. and Mrs. \V. C. Barnes spent the week-end in Newberry. Mr. \V. J. Wise went to Columbia on business last week . Mrs. Brooks of Fairfiekl is visiting her brother. Mr. W. R. Huff. Mrs. M. 0. .T. Kreps of Columbia was in Prosperity on Thursday and organized "A Circle of King's Daugh ters" with the following officers: President?Mrs. 0. B. Simpson. Vice President?Mrs. Bur Stockman. Secretary?iMiss Bess Bowers. Treasurer?Mrs. .1. L. May. Chairman of Charitv Committee? / Mrs. .T. A. Simpson. Mr. X. L. Black, who has been infor quite a while has sufficiently recovered to make a visit to his son. Mr. L. A. Black, and his friends were glad to see n.m feunaay ai cuurcn. Mrs. .T. P. Wheeler has returned from the Columbia hospital where she has left her little son. Homer, doing nicely. Miss Kate Barre spent several days last week in Columbia. Will Close Stores Early. We, the undersigned merchants, agree to close our stores, commencing April 15. until September 1, at 6 o'clock. Saturdays excepted: The Prosperity Hardware company. T. A. Dominick. Hawkins Bros, company. G. D. Bedenbaugh. B. B. Hair. Prosperity Furniture company A. M. Crosson. B. T. Gibson. T. Kap'any. 5i B. Black. J. C. Sciumpert. B. B. Schumpert and company Francis Bobb. E. A. Counts. Black's Dry Goods company. E W. fWerts. W. L. Mathis. Miller Bros, company. MRS. DOHA LEE WALKER TO VISIT SCHOOLS Mrs. Dora Lee Waliker, assistant State agent in home demonstration work will be in the county Auril 11 and 1J. Will the ladies please note our itineraryan d make their plans to come to the meetings. Even if the time is inconvenient, please plan your work to attend without fail. Willie Mae Wise, County Agent Home Demonstration Work. Itinerary of Mrs. Walker. Monday, April 10. 4 p.m?Prosperity. Tuesday April 11? 8:30 A. M.?Johnstone. 11:00 A. :tt.?Ridge Spring (Old Town). 3:00 P. M.?'St. Lukes. 8:00?O'-Neal. Wednesday April 12? 10:00 A M.?Little Mountain. 3 P. M.?Pomaria. 8:00 P. M.?Hunter-DeWalt. Combined capital stocks and assets of the remaining 11 fire insurance companies now doing business in ?tate are nor as much as that of any one of the 2s companies that have withdrawn from the State. COOPERATION REQTESTED FOR CIVIC IMPROVEMENT The civic association requests a meeting of the officers of the following organizations at the office of tho county superintendent of education at the court house at 4:30 o'clock on Thursday afternoon: The Woman's club the Bachelor Maids, the Parent Teachers' associations of all the schools, the board of health, the doctors and preaches of the town and I the mayor. The purpose of the meeting is to J ! make arrangements for the better ba-! bies contest to be held here some time ' i the near future, i i f ; * <f 4 /? $ , : <?; I > SOCIETY. : i ! I ' The O. L. Scliumpert chapter, Chiljrren of the Confederacy, enjoyed a pro- ' i gram relative to Wade Hampton. | | whose birthday was just a t'aw days ; j previous to tneir meeting, wiui -warl tiia Vance Ellisor. | About twenty members were pros- J | ent and after all business had been j transacted the little hostess served de- j lightful refreshments. The program as carried out was as follows: Recitation. "Wade Hampton''?Ab-j >ie Gailuard. v Reading, "Shiloh"?Ruth Harrel. | Reading, "Childhood of Wade Hanip ton"?Blanche Sale. ! Paper, "Hampton the Soldier''?! Carol Summer. * * * The Comrades club met Monday af- j ternoon with IMiss Mary Wright at her I home in College street. Auction I bridge w as enjoyed for a couple of! hours after which a salad course was j served the club members. Misses Pau-! line Gilder, Eva Goggans, May Reid.j I Lucile Wallace. 'Sarah Houseal, Ruby i Goggans, Mrs. Charles P. Pelham and J the hostess. * * * One of the pleasantest meetings of the season, for the Emory club was held Tuesday morning with Mrs. (Mrs. J. T. Mayes. Besides the members quite a number of guests enjoyed tl^e morning of "fancy work" and chat and the delightful course luncheon which followed. The members and guests included: Mesdames R. D. Smith, James Smith, Wm. L. !Seabrook, J. Y. | McFaJl, H. H. Blease, J. B. Fox, J. B. Mayes, J. L. Keitt, C. A. Bowman. W. H. Hunt, L. W. Jones. 0. McR. Holmes. F. Z. Wilson. James X. McCaughrin, M. P. Fant, J. W. Simmons, P. G. Elisor. Leland Sumer, Hugh Sum| mer, E. B. 'Setzler, IW. G.- Houseal, J. S. Derrick, O. L. Schumpert, C. D. Weeks and Aliisses Fannie Rajnage, Luoy McCaughrin. Fannie .'McCaughrin and May Dow. A Romantic Marriage. Snmo time a?o The Herald and News printed the announcement of the marriage of Mr Pat Livingston and Miss Adelaide Swain, the ceremony being performed by Rev. J. L. Thomas of Lexington. Under the above head the following notice lias been sentj The Herald and News: Miss Evelyn. Swain and Mr. S. D. Shepparrl were married clandestinely i March 5th, at Lexington. S. C., by Kev L. A. Thomas. The contracting parties in tended to keep their marriage a sec- i rot till fall but somehow, it became known to some person here and thp news spread like "wild-fire." So a? x> stop folks from guessing they have decided to give their secret to the public. This was a doubly romantic affair as the two sisters Misses Evelyn and Adelaide S\rain were married at the same time. / Here's hoping that their lives may j be long happy dreams.unruffled -by the slightest ripple o? sorrow or re gret. TEACHERS' EXAMINATION. The regular examination for teachI ers' certificates will he held on Friday, May at the oourt'iouse. beginning at I 9 o'clock. Applicants will furnish stationery. CHAS. V. BAR.RK. County Stipt. 01" Education. l-4!4t. / - OFR FIRST SUNDAY IN JACKSONVILLE Leaving home Tuesday morning, darrli 21. 10 a m., arriving in Cclum' in S C . late, had only few minutes to get to Seaboard station to connect with train consisting of Pullmans airl day coach, all steel and up to no?.coaches, it being through tourist train from New York to Jacksonville. It was a very windy day and the land between Columbia and 'Savannah had been plowed and the dust was simply fierce. Many times you could scarcely see a hundred feet from the train. Xearing 'Savannah I noticed the yellow jessamine in bloom, indicatng the ' r\ T^rAo / .V> rvf cnriner P.af Qoron li vyi ?? LL KJi.1 > CI11 ? nah and Jacksonville there was moss. I woods and swamps. The dust was not so bad the wind was till 'blowing hard and a:> night fame on we passed through marshy places, where the forest was 011 tire, fanned by the high winds, burning in a zig-zag way running up an occasional dead tree setting trunk of tree and limbs on fire, making a-glare that lit up all around, j and from the train in motion it was a beautiful sight. Foliage on the trees much larger than in our section, the forest I notice bordered with an occasional dogwood tree blooming. Arriving in Jacksonville a little late, I bad no trouble in finding my new: liome. Sunday I went to Methodist cliurch wtih a friend. The minister, although a young man, preached two good sermons. morning and evening. When he spoke of David tuning his harp and singing the good old Psalms. The Lord \Tv QVipnhprt- 1 1T Ynr Want alsn refering touchingly to Luther. Knox, Wesley. 'John the Baptist, etc, the soft tones cf the organ, the choir commenced singing one of those good old Methodist tunes, I must dry my eyes, because they were very watery. The city is full of visitors going home, many of them and many distinguished peop'e are here andpassing through, such as Thomas Edison and wife. Mr. Gould, president Cornell university. the editor of Manufacturer's Kecord, etc. Don't know about them until I see it in morning paper. Jack aonville has about one liundred thousand inhabitants and has to handle more Pullmans than any Southern city, it is an interesting slgnt to visit the unon station about 7 oclock, trains coming in from Tampa, Key West, etc., and trains preparing to leave out for the North and Northwest, see the tourists with their baggage, maids, children. etc., all pushing and mixing up getting tickets, and it reminds me of our South Carolina fair, and then the man begins to call out the trains, their destination, and points they reach and it makes me think of the darkies in Charleston. S. selling their produce. etc., you can hardly understand anything they say. I have many good friends in Prosperity and Newberry county who will likely appreciate tliis scribbling letter. I see from The Herald and News many of my friends coming out as candidates for the various office*. I wish I cou'd vote for them by proxy. Closing for this time, I am-, Yoprs truly . Wm. A. MOSELE. SFfftVD OTARTERLY MEETING WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UMO> The second quarterly meeting of the Womans Missionary union of the Reedy River association will be held with the mission socety of the Prosperity church, April 8, at 10:15 a. m. It is hoped that each missionary society and other missionary organizatons will be represented. Especially should the president and leader of boards attend this meeting. The names cf all who expect to attend should be uent to Mrs. 0. L. Miller, Prosperity, S. C. rT>" ? ti'JH hn niiK1ic,hof1 Ifl X lit? pi'Ugl mix rtm uc j;uunuiivu ? the next issue of the paper. Mrs. W. H. Hunt. President. Compliments Teachers. One day l"ic+ 'vcck T^v. ^ lv ird Fulen wrier visited the Newberry High -chool and conducted the morning exercises. He gave the school a very encouraging and helpful talk and complimented the pupils and teachers on their excellent work. / ?r^H DR. HOUSE AL VISITS SCENES 0^ OTHER DAYS Dr. W. G. Houseal had a call thei other day to ?ee a patient near Dyson, in Greenwood county. Mrs. HouseaL concluded she would like a trip like j that and she decided that in order to? | to go with the doctor and so did their j son Gustof. and he decided that in orj der to take the trip he would rffe im the foot of the car, as the doctor is* driving a Ford runabout. They left Xewberrv about 1:30 o'clock ana reached the home of the patient a little after 3 o'clock. After spending about an hour with the patient they started on the return trip* and decided to come back by Greenwood as this trip would give the doc tor an opportunity to pass the old school house where he taught school V in 1 SSI and where he made the first money to begin his study of medicine. It is the school house near by the old home of the editor an-d where we went to school in the days gone by. The house still stands and looks very t much as it did when Dr. Houseal taught the school. And then a little further on is the old home of Wm. . Haltiwanger where the doctor board' ed while teaching the school. Tht ' TT?/> r. ATIITT O fflTT* Q^TA 'UUUOC UUi 110u UlllJ u JL^ ?? UUJO vy. ! Dr. Houseal had not been through this section since he taught the ccliool but he says many of the scenes are still familiar. They drove on to Greenwood an-i* called on the family of Ra". W. I. j Herbert, leaving Greenwood something after 6 o'clock. The return tripwas made via Ninety Six and Island Ford and Chappells and the doctor ! reached Newberry at about S o'clock. NEWS OF EXCELSIOR " t Excelsior. April 3? iVt. J. C. Sing-. ley has purchased a nice Maxwell car. Who next to set a nice car? Owing to the dry weather the farmers are well nigh up with work. Som& corn will be planted this week. Grain holding up tolerably well "but needing rain badly. Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Crumpton have been on a visit to relatives at Whitmire. Mr. E. L. Hawkins killed a nic^ polker a few days ago of his own raising. The most of our people have raised their own meat and lard. Mrs. Sallie Glymph and Miss VeraKinard of Pomaria have been on a few days visit to Mr. J. A. :C. Kibler's family. I March has been a rough month but it is thought we will have good deal ?f fruit yet. There will not be large amount of ' fertilizers used in this section. The Hev. J. M. White of Prosperity will preach in Excelsior school house on second Sunday night in April at 8:30 o'clock. -Public cordially invited to the service. Miss Lora Nates was carried to the Columbia hospital on Thursday for an operation. She was accompanied by her physician, Dr. 0. B. Simpson and her father. <Mt. A. A. Nates. Her many friends hope she will soon be able to return home in her usual health again. i m I <S> COTTON MARKET * <S> Newberry. * ^ <$> Cotton 117-8c ^ <$> Prosperity. ** ?> Cotton 11 Hc ^ '?> ' ^ ^ Pomaria. ^ y Cotton H^4c ?? w <? Little Monntain. <$> Cotton 117-8c & ? m Whitmlre. <?> Cotton U%c i ^ - [ *> Chap pells. ^ * Cotton ll&c Consideration of the army increase bill, the first o" the big national defence measures, began in the senate Wednesday with Republicans joining the Democrats in expresing the, hops , m ' ' , v * . ^ ^ I that it might be disposed of as quickly j as possible. 4 m .