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Jpjt ^ent!H ttaH joa .ta$ered at th<? Postottice at Nov; <'*''' -,5*/ aS 2nd Liiiss xxidCuC-. ?L H. AbLL, EDITOR. FVidar Dprpmbpr ? 191#: SOM.E 1J.AN K FIHUKtS 1 notice from the Spartanburg Her ald that my friend, Sam T. Reid, presi dent of the Converse Savings bank "which Las a capital of only $5,000 au<J has a surplus o*' $o,540 and who is also cashier of the Bank of Commerce of Spartanburg, if we are not mis taken, has been making some figures and comparisons on the bank? 'lie ilAlinf^r ^ A A f f Vi A nit t? r\i v. vvsu.u.ijr vuuoiuc ui iuc wcjr ui >' ,1 - tanburg. And the figures are inter esting aad show a healthy condition of these banks. His statement sug gested an inquiry and caused me to look over the statements o? -tfcj banks of Newberry. Those outside the city I mean. There are fifteen of these banks in Spartanburg. Mr. Reid gives the iate of the organization of the bank, ?he capital, the deposits, the cash and reserve, the bills payable and ^e total resources as of the 17th November, the date of the call by the government, i nave Deen making some comparisons with the Newberry kanks, and if he is proud of the rec ord of the Spartanburg institutions, and he should be, then we should be proud also < ? the statements whicn our country banks make. The total capital of the fifteen Spar- j lanburg banks is $256,729.50. Total urplus and prc^.ts $107,504.02. Tota!\ deposits $1,226,123.90; and this is Bite item Hi ill lit; ciupuaDi^ca. iuiat oa&h a-<i reserve $508,564.54 I Tiave coiiectea sume figures from #ix of the seven banks of Newberry outside the city. Then Bank of Winit mire has not yet published a state ment, or if it has it has escaped me. These six banks have a capital of only $95,150.00. Their total surplus and profits is $S3,973.37. Iheir total de posits $837,014.25. lA-lmost a million. The total cash on hand $393,5~5.SS. This includes the reserve. It is di vided as follows and we direct the attention to one bank with a large surplus that has no capital stock, the William Coleman and company, bankers: ! i Capital Stock. | Peoples National Bank Prosperity $ 25,000.00 Ba^k of Prosperity, Pros w.ity 25,000.00 Fanners and Merchants Bank, Little Mountain.. 20.000.00 William Coleman and Co., . bankers, Whitmire ... Nont Bank of Pomaria, Pomaria. 15,000.00 | Farmers Bank, Chappells. 10,150.00 Total $ 95,150.00 Surplus and Profits. Peoples National Bank, Prosperity $ 10,314.26 Bank of Prosperity, Pros perity 11,150.68 Farmers and Merchants Bank Little Mountain... 7,680.95 William Coleman and Co., Bankers, Whitmire 51,205.53 Bank of Pomaria, Pomaria. 777.94 Farmers Bank, Giappells.. 2,844.53 Total $83,973.37 Deposits. Peoples National Bank Prosperity .. i $284,456.61 Bank of Prosperity, Pros perity 225,138.95 Farmers and Merchants Bank, Little Mountain .. 52,763.411 William Coleman and Co., Bankers, >'W!hitmire 131,719.42 j Bank of Pomaria, Pomaria., 84,901.38 j Fermers Bank, Chappells.. 5S,034.48 j Total $837,014.25'' Peoples Nati Prosperity . Cash and Beserye. National Bank, ..$157,693.17 Bank of Prosperity, Pros perity Farmers and Merchants 98,782.84 .Bank, L<uue Mountain .. xj.uu.iui William Coleman and Co., 'Banl^rs, Whitmire 26,851.52 j Bank of Popparia, "Pomaria. 67,017.95! Farmers Bank Chappells.. 23,520.24' Total $393,575.88 I am not publishing these figures for the purpose mainly of making comparisons, and yet sometimes it is good for us to compare ourselves with others in the same line of business ! for tfie purpose OI iuvuv a-gcmem. j- | would like to know what my friend i Reid thinks of these figures for the j six country banks of the little coun ty of Newberry. I think the figures? i make a good showing, and the sam# could ,be said of the banks of the city.! Sometimes it is not best for the bank for the peop^ to have too much ' money?l mean f<- the bank to make money for its stockholders?because' much of this money is in the savings ! department and the bank is paying, interest on it and the demand for j loans from the bank is not so great, j J T 4-Virt-f t Vl PC O 111 TllC< ! ?LIi U X UCllOC UliAL luutib Wi wvuv , Ln the county show a decrease in the loan account. None of them except William Coleman and Co., Bankers., owes any money except to depositor*. It shows one thing that the people of th? country have more money than usual and that they are keping bank accounts. And if the farmers are prosperous the country is prospering. And we should all be thankful. It was a very quiet thanksgiving day in Newberry. More like a Sun day than anything else. stores nearly all closed and most of them fori the? entteeedayv i * +1>e quiet of their "pbis is well. Practical Baking powders i phosphate may be bo th^n Roval Bakine* Po from cream of tartar, Alum powders are they differ greatly in le If a cheap baking j fine cake and the cak there is a waste of cc more than a whole a ing powder. Royal Baking Po finest food, and its use an actual saving. ROYAL BAKING New 1 The editor had some most delicious tt venison for Thanksgiving dinner, ct thanks to the kindness and thoughtful-; a ness of our good friend, Dr. J. Wil- M liam Folk, who returned a few days ai ago from a very enjoyable and sue- j st cessful hunt in Georgetown for a week ! w with old friends. j s< !u It was too bad that Newberry should j have lost in both the foot ball and ' a.< the basket ball on thanksgiving be-! s tween tiie teams irom vjunxon auu ^ the Newberry teams. We did not see either game, and to tell the truth, we j p have never even seen a basket ball game and only one foot ball game. n< We suppose that is an admission we should not make. We are interested in the Newberry teams in whatever arena ihey may enter an-d would have' 0] been glad to have recorded their sue- j cess on last Thursday. They say that j both games were good and the Clinton 1 a boys and girls had a hard fought 0j battle for the laurels they won. Well, jr that is good. I x ?BD- ic ! TV If Mr. and JMrs. M. A. Coleman could ; v just know how much this editor en- j oj joyed the "chitterlings" that we had j Q, /Uonar tVio rvt1l??r Hav thPv W All Id ill ! . I'Jl tu CH some little degree be able to realize. t how much we appreciate tbe package j that Mr. Coleman brought us. That! is a dish fit for a king, or for that I matter for anybody who really knows j aj what good eating is. And these were prepared just for the king's taste. If Mat does not bring us some of that "smoked" sausage that he promised we will have an injunction issued against his entering the limits of the city. oi ai j al ;e Witn cnmerimg nasn ctuu of that good pudding and sausage rc and backbone that Mr. I. M. Smith w brought to town the other day, not to ^ speak of turkey hash, we have been! m living pretty good for the past few days. And with butter from Mr. A. M. Johnston and molasses from Jim Henderson, the molasses and butter j ec are as good a~ can be made, and then ! si we have molasses from Mr. Hunter of j ec the Si. Lukes section which is fine and honey from Uncle Luke Sease to and our turkeys came from Mr. D w L. Wedaman and Mr. Pierce Harman ; is and our milk from Wilbur's dairy, and j pj then we have lard and bacon and ham , fa at Uncle Luke Sease's, and in fact we | is are living off xNewDerry raise.i stem ie except our coffee and we get that from Charley Purcell. And then we j cc did buy a dozen eggs from Mat Cole- i cc man the other day and he charged uh I it forty cents for them and didn't want! to let us have them for that. Well,' fo this is a great country. 'And we for- sa got that our bread is made from New- jy berry wheat ground at the roller mill of the Farmers Oil Mill and these w: things are all just as good if not bet-* w ter than you can import. Why not gc of h/vm# an/1 have something UUJ ab iivutv good to eat all the time. pi CC iWfoat about th* creamery? Have a sufficient number of cows been se- p? cured? Don't let it drag. We must * have a creamery. If this State im- ** ports six million pounds of butter a j eE year there is room for one or two more creameries certainly. This will be a tine time to drag the roads. In fact it should have been done before I'-is paper will reach its w readers. .'' 'he k ;n -just as soon at :'\e I i - 'rv rough is the d* ri^h' t:*- : "'in are | made awl bef^rif h;r*i H rough ana tloddy. :>\;e IiOi;e ? has not |)een reflected. Good roads may b;> easiTy obtained by the little work and the little cooperation of all the people. In fact we can get almost anything by a little work and a whole lot of th<* right sort of cooperation. We agree with Mr. Brown in the opinion that there is no reason wh7 the mill schools should be segregated. t^iov ahoiild be a. part of the schools S< in ai ni T1 M al of the district in which the mill is in located. We could not help but won- hf der why there is necessity for a mil J m supervisor of schools. The fact that al the State recognizes the need of a re ^ecial supervisor seems to us to em- *n ^hastee the fact of the segregation of Hfie milf'schools." > notWatftSfr V* j *;"?on be the same for all the schools m "not let the superintendent ot Economy nade from alum or ught for a trifle less wder, which is made derived from grapes. not only cheap, but evening* power. powder is used for a e turns out a failure istlv materials worth m of the cheap bak wder produces the j therefore, results in POWDER CO. * fork le schools in which the mills are lo tted look after the mill schols just > the other schools of the district, r. Brown is faking a good officer, id there is nothing personal in thi3 .atement, but we can not but wonder hy a special supervisor of mil: jhools if it is better not to segregate ie schools, and we think it is. The resignation of Mr. A. H. Kohn 3 treasurer of the Lutheran synod or ,*>! r>amiina and the election of LTUI.^ V/Ur* ? t. W. A. Counts reminds us that this osition has been held hy Newberry eople for many years. From our rst recollection of the Lutheran sy od Maj. Pat E. Wise of Prosperitv as the efficient and competent treas rer. He never failed to attend a leeting. At his death or resignation n account of failing health, Mr. A i Kohn was elected. a:]d he has liela : le office for 22 years and has made ' very efficient and accommodating ERcer and lias always taken a lively i iterest in the work of the church, ow he is succeeded by Mr. W. A*. ounts, anotner Aewoen-y wan if1] n'so a gcod officer. Mr. .ohn also has a-imost a complete ser. f the ininul3s ol the l'v::cu frc.j rganization. We have on? volume :>und covering the period from 1848 > 1852. Gov. Marring sends a large dele- j ition from Newberry to the congress! : Norfolk. They are all good men; id we hope some of them may be | Die to attend the congress. The grand jury makes one good rec- > nmendation and that is each auto obile be made to pay a license of j :nn fthp imnrovemenf of the! >ads. That would help if put in tne! orking of a drag on the roads and j ie contract to be let to some one or j ore persons to do the' dragging. THE CONTEST (CLOSED. The Herald and News contest clos l on last Saturday. The official re lit as declared by the judges is print l in this issue. We have not yet had opportunity take an inventory and see just how * ~ tho /rmte?r 0 came out. ou jl&l &o . concerned it was fairly and im irtially run and there was no un ,ir methods at all. fWe hope there no dissatisfaction among the con stants. Just as soon as we can make the irrections and get our mailing list >rrected we will know more about from our standpoint. We will not be able to do this be- J re next week and there will neces sity be errors until we can get the st straightened out. " ' *ViI? TnAnth 5) 1 ] After tne ioui uj. Ull-^ UiVUVM. ?... ho have not paid beyond that date ill be taken from our list . We are >ing to be strictly cash in advance. LI our subscriptions are made to ex re on the 1st and 15th. We shall rrect the list twice a month and all ho fail to pay will not redeife the iper. If we make mistakes, as we ill likely do, >ve will be pleased to irrect them. The price for the pres it will remain $1.50 a year, but it to be paid before the paper goes. 3n't forget that. Phurcli of the Redeemer. Rev. Edward Fulenwider, Pastor. Nothing preventing, the following ill be the program of divide services . t.he Lutheran Church of the Re ;emer next Sunday: 10:15 a. m.?Sunday school. 11:15 a. m.?The hour of worship. ?rmon by the pastor. P. M.?A service entitled "Christ America." This is an interesting id impressive pageant. Quite a jmber will take part in the service, he offering will be for the Woman's! issionary society. The public is cordially Invited to 1 the services. Newberry Tisftora. Congressman-elect Fred H. Dom * ick, and H. H Evan9. Esq., of >rrv. were here attending: th* sate" onday. Mr. Evans, who resided he?-o id wag one time mayor of tho cit* newpd many old acoirMnfflncpq air1 M rn^nv am*i?ifn<r nf Mq p-? ?Hpn^P as Miief e*e*"tive" of tfe* *ir of fh'flf-" ffVr? TJ'non'tf fTiV/Vrt*** ' q otr^ntq. VihjjM *T1 t^fl Hunt^ r?ds.?Laurens Advertiser. iEWBERRY COUNTY CREAMERY ! TO HE DISCUSSES) i I A meeting of those interested in the | sta'uiislmieiit of the Newlerry coun - j y creamery is called by Dr. G. V. j iunter and I->r. W. C. Brown to be j leld at Newberry on Thursday, Dec- | mber 14. All who are interested ana j t'iio can furnish cows for the route i iv asked to be present. iOTiCE OF lANNl'AI, MEETING OF ( OI NTY IMAill) OF lUtf.MlV SIONERS. The annual meeting of the County ! >oaid oi CommissioncTs for Newberry j bounty will be held on Thursday, tne ourtli day of January, 1017. All per ons holding demands of any kind gainst the county, not previously resented to the Board, will file the ame with the undersigned on or be ore the first day of January, 1917, o that said demands may be exam ned and ordered paid at said meei ng. H. C. Holloway, Clerlf, Etc. J. C. Sample, County Supervisor. -15-22-29. (St <* iia And contii Promptly al auction Hors< sure to attend real bargains. c m mm \ Pathe's wo! In 15 episodes of rnysti BEGINNING Produced by Astra i . * r\ * eaturKig Urace Uarmond v Kellard in the Wor! OF fining every t 12 o'clock we es, Mules and the first sale a ery, adventurs and thrill SATURDAY Released by Pathe witH Leon Bary and Id's Greatest Serial THEATRE MARES Saturday will sell at Mares. Be l 1 iiu uuy some ? 1 herever You (io /where ?bout the house t extra heat is needed, you're e of comfort if you have a rfection Heater. It means paredness against sudden mges in the weather, com : insurance when the fires out. easy to carry as a work-basket in. Handsome. cheap?inexpensive to buy and :s iar less to use than any coal ;re's a Perfection driving away ry chill from each of 2,000,000 les today. Ask your dealer. Use Aladdin Security Oil ?for best results rANDARD OIL COMPANY (New Jersey) BALTIMORE hinffton,D.C. Charlotte, N. C. oik, Va. Charleston, W. Ve. Ucbmosd, Va. Charleston, 8. C