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? ? <$&<?><$> <$ $<&$><$>$> $<$> &<$' ? * & THIRTY YEARS. ? <* r ? <S> Looking forward thirty years seems a. long time. In retrospect it seems .v>nf voct^rdjiv Tt is almost h eenera tion. In these days of rapid transi tion many things can take place and many changes be made in less time ELBERT HERMANN AULL FOR TH1 TOR OF THE H than thirty years. Our Saviour waa only thirty-three years old when he ended his journey here and the active Taork of his life on earth was accom plished in the three last years of his pilgrimage. Life is not measured by the vears a man lives, but by the deeds he does. But I started to write a little reminiscence of which I am reminded by the passage of thirty years. It may not interest many of our readers, and then it may. Those >rho are not interested may "skip it" Con THE NATIO From Report to the Com RESOURCES Tlic/Vkiintc U. S. Bonds Banking House Cash Due from Banks and U. Treasurer B. C. MATTHEWS, T. : President STATE, and pass on to something else. Some- : how there are times when I like to think and write about the past and | the things that took place then. It; I may be an evidence that ! am not as; I young as I once was, and 1 reckon ! that is true, but I seldom think about' that, and, therefore, I am able to re-1 main young even though there are a; good many of the years of my life be hind me. I have seen many changes ! in the business, social and political! KTY YEARS CONSECUTIVELY EDI EKALD AND NEWS. life of the community, and have re corded them from week to week for many years, and I am glad that I have kept the record. ?0? On the 7th of nlarch, 1887, Mr. wiiiia p jjousgft] and mvself bought The Herald and Xews from Mr. A. C. j ! Jones. Last Wednesday marked Just: ' thirty years from that date. I am not, much on remembering dates, but there are a few that have been pretty , strongly impressed on my mind, and ? /*" 1 OA A idensed Stateme iNAL BAM UF Newberry, South Carolina iptroller of the Currency. S lose of Business March 5th, If in I ! $665,802.89 100,000.00 ic.ooo.oo 1 Capital Stocl vSurplus & ui Circulation . Dividends U: Deposits.... Rediscount w 1 53-455-67 Bills Payable i $829,258.56 | K. JOHNSTONE, H. T. CANN Cashier Asst. f ? *ttn nxTv r\r Di CUUIXII AWU Ull UE*r< this is one of them. My name has ap- ] peared at the head of the editorial j column as editor from that date until the present, and marks a longer con secutive connection with the paper than any other person in all of its : history. I had been editor and report er on the paper for some four or Sve < years before that date, and had done a good deal of v\ork, though only as a hired man. At that time I had a little law office in the room at the| head of the stairs over the store of H. Summer and company, and while lj' had a few clients my practice wa3i not lucrative and my income was I small. I had received a day or two before this March 7 an offer from Mr. C. IT. Prince, who was then the pub lisher of the Florence Times, to come o^er to Florence and write the edi torials for his paper, and that I could at the same time keep up my law as he only wanted me to write a col umn or two a week for the paper and draw my salary. I had made up myj mind to go, and the morning I went to my office to write him I would be over, I found a note from Mr. Hou3 eal stating that if I would go in with him we could buy The Herald and j News. I was glad of the opportunity,! but I didn't have enough money to buy my ticket to Florence, and j I did not see how I could! buy a newspaper, but I thought I! would investigate. I saw Mr. Houseal, and he said we could buy the paper! by paying cash $250.00 and the balance! on easy payments. He thought he could raise his half if I could mine. I decided I would make the effort, so I went over to see Mr. Robert L. Mc-j Caughrin who was then the president; of the National bank, the only bank! in the county at the^time, and I laid; my desires before him. He very kind-' ly said I could get the money?pro-,' ! vided I could give him good endorse ; ment. That was the rub. I told him i to give me a note filled out for en 1 ough to net me $125.00 and I would j see what I could do. Mr. Geo. S. ! Mower had been very kind to me in j many ways, so to him I went first.. ; and he was very nice about it a;:*, j said he would sign the note for me. I thought best to get a few more so that if I did not pay the note no one would lose a great deal by it. Four other men were also kind enough to sign the note with me?M. A. Carlisle who was practicing law at the time, W. W. Riser who was the sheriff, A. j C. Wheeler who was the county treas onH TnrHun P fi-rAPn whf) Was then conducting a saloon in what is now the telegraph office, were the other four who signed that -$125 note which enabled me to make my part of the payment. And I have been hav ing notes from that day to this, and I want now once again to thank those1 gentlemen for their kindness, and if they could know how much I appre-1 ciated their confidence they would never regret having signed the note. -o-. ! Thia of rnurse does not interest the public and may be there will be those; who will say they are sorry I did! not go on to Florence, but the peo-! pie of this community have been very; gocd to me, and I have tried through all these years to do wiiat I could to I nt of NEWBERRY ihowing Condition at the m. LIABILITIES: k $100,000.00 idivided Profits 15,186.93 100,000.00 npaid 98.67 424,761.06 ith Fed. Reserve Bk..i 19,211.90 : 70,000.00 $820,258..56 ON, W. W. CROMER Cashier Asst. Cashier OSITORY promote the best interests of this y town and county. And I bear no ma- b lice or ill-will to any one, though I o know and feel the ingratitude of g many whom I have helped. If I had d been a better collector and had not S done so much work on a credit, and b naci Deen paia an me suoscnpuons i; to the paper, I would not owe a dol- g lar today, and would be able to quit t work if I should so desire, but as a g rule the people who owe you are the r ones who cuss you the most. But I j am not complaining and never have, j ^ I am glad that I am able to work and \ that I love to work, but never again 1 do I intend to lose any more money | * on subscriptions. j v -?- IJ There have been many chances dur- ^ ing these thirty years. Very few of ' the men who were in business here in 1S87 are in business here today, j The Observer was running then with ^ Mr. W. H. Wallace as editor, but. he has dropped out for a year or two at the time during the years. Awhile as a professor in the Methodist col-1 loo-o anri thpn Riinerint#?nrif>nf of r the city schools in Newberry and then as editor of the Greenville News, but I have been hammering away at the' same old job all the time, and I be-1 Have I like it better now than I did i at the be^rp-r though I had hoped by this ti?.. to be relieved of tno details of the office, and my dream was that some one of my boys wor'c take up that part of it, but they are all gone to Columbia and all in the newspaper work, on The State and the Charleston (American. Well, I reckon it is best as it is. ?0? In looking over the old files of 1887 I find that the' first issue we got out is missing, and, therfore, I cannot see what we said. The paper then was 1 four pages, eight columns fo the pagy e and published once a week. Silas John- f stone as master carried several sale**, W. W. Houseal as auditor had an ad vertisement of delinquent land sales, John S. Fair was town clerk and car- * ried an ad. Eduard Scholtz was in j he jewelry business and had an ad. 1 J. B. Fellers carried an ad as pro- * bate judge. J. W. "Chapman had a 1 book store. Minter and Jamieson had ( a clothing store aa. M. Foot. Jr., and 1 company carried an ad. Scott sred t Bro. were advertising tin ware. R. D. Smith advertised as the Xewberrv clothier. JVIrs. S. A. Riser and Co. r.a vertised millinery. W. E. Pelharn was advertising drugs. Wright and J. W. Coppock advertised clothing. 0. Klettner advertised the freshest' cherry malt. There were several for eign ads and from Columbia were C. F. Jackson, M. L. Kinard, DesPortes and Edmunds, Swaffield, merchant tail or. The biggest advertisement In t.he first issue that I have, March 17, 188", is Aull and Houseal who take two columns to advertise The Her ald and News and their job depart ment. In this same issue i nna mas Arthur Kibler was school commission er and was conducting an education?' column. The leading editorial in that issue was shop and contained lines stating that the paper had been enlarged to its original size of eight columns to the page and that the edi tor would endeavor to fill its columns with the latest and freshest general and local news. There was an adver tisement of the latest new book, by E. P. Roe. "He Fell In Love With His Wife," and several other books from the book store of Caston and Hunt. Notice of Mr. Caston's withdrawal from the firm to devote his time to the study of law is made. ?O? ' 1 I do not find wnere l naa anyining to say about the split log drag, but there is a whole lot about that rail road which Mitchell was to build from Augusta via Edgefield to Newberry and on to Blacksburg and which has not ^anotJ The S and y car?i nr??< et been built. Thai road should be t uilt even yet. In fact, there is need ! c f a railroad across the State to Au-1 usta. I heard a man just the other' { ay talking about wanting to go to t laluda. The only way to get there ? y rail is around by Columbia, a dis- t anc-e of about one hundred miles to i OO milr.fi %-? a o ri/1 if to 1/aj ri <-o mnuo 11 uin uuuic, auu ic iaato wo days to make the trip. You can ' j ;et there quicker by walking than by ail. ?0? In this issue of March 17, 1SS7, Is 1 he marriage notice of Mr. H. H.i '" ranklin to Miss Sudie Crump the * :eremony being performed t)y the Rev. * S. P. McClintock. My attention was , \ :alled to this by noting the fact that ? rlr. Franklin had been shot very seri- 1 lusly by a negro in Orangeburg. The j1 >nly other marriage noted in this i3- [ ue is that of Mr. John D. Brown to 1 Jiss Emma E. Harmon, the officiating ( uinister, the Rev. J. Hawkins. The paper then was printed on ' rhursday. The missing issue, the ' irst one we get out. wis March lu. - rVe took charge on Monday, March 7, j i 887. The office then stood on the J 1 :orner of Friend and Caldwell streets) ! \n o r\nrHrm r?f wh:it ia nnn- tllP Mpth- I 1 >dist church property, just across the, J itreet from our present office. V/e re-! 1 nained there until the residence of I < vlr. Thos. F. Greneker was .burned * vhich also destroyed our office. We hen moved to ihe brick store now o<t 'iipied by Singleton's drug store and rom there to the present location. ^ ^Irs. E. S. Herbert was thp postmas er then and the postoffice was locat- - id in a building that stood where C. -T. Williams store is in front of the dewberry hotel in Caldwell street. { ?Ve paid our postage at the end of j ;ach quarter. 'Now we must pay be-: ore the paper leaves the postoffice. 1 ?o- !J Sigma was then writing the news I rom Excelsior, and there were re )orts of lynchings at several places ] n the State and the grand juries J 'ailed to bring in true bills just as! J hey do now. And we also notice a j ' ?ard from Rev. Dr. Hawkins, the edi- j ' or at that time of the Lutheran Visi-. ! :or, denying the report that lie had: nade application to join the Metho- j 1 list church. And I see a report of a i larmers meeting down in the St. < Lukes community where I am report id as making a speech and advising' ! S Landr GARDE! Full line of Gilder and Newberr )le Because of Its Light We Sensible "Six" weighs 2150 poi et it is a big, powerful, easy-ri strongly built for hardest ser TViic mmTiination of light weight with strength means tire and fuel economy?a sensible feature that appeals to all motorists. (35) I CAROLINA AUTO CO, INC. t TUnnnnttratifm. he farmer to raise his own feed stuffs tii the farm. ?0? It is well sometimes io look at the >ast and to think about the things hat are gone, and I could write jreat deal more, but this is already oo long a story and I must close It. E. H. A. ?EDERAL LAW DOES M)T AFFECT Ql'ART-A-HOXTK Columbia, March 11.?The effect of l he opinion rendered by Attorney Gen- Jj ;ral Peeples yesterday afternoon, con-^i ;truing the quart-a-month law >,. rpppnt general assembly, connection with the act of congr* ipproved on March 3. 1917, prohit ng the transportation of liquors nter-state commerce, except for irairrental and medicinal purpose nto any State where the manafactuH )r sale of alcoholic liquors for bev erage purposes is prohibited, is as] 'ollows: That the act of congress will not< 'Tect the quart-a-month law of this State, which goes into enect on Apmj 15, for the reason that the quart pei nonth which may be shipped to an] ndividual in this State can only le-j 'ally be secured for medicnal purj poses, and the gallon of wine p?i nonth may only be secured for re] igious or sacramental purposes, botf Df which are still allowed under, ti ict of congress. T Jno. K. Aull. NEGROES (iO >ORTH FKOM THIS STAT Negro Minister (omplles Statistics About Negro Exodus to the \orth. Clinton Gazette. Rev. D. M. Spearman, a negro_ ister of Siiverstreet, says iistics from reliable sources state the following numbers of aave moved from the South to S'orth since 1914: From Georgia, 46,870, South Caro lina, 27,500, North Carolina, Florida, 10,806, Mississippi, Louisiana, 15,280, Arkansas, fennessee. 20,620, Kentucky, Virginia, 45,650, Texas, 10,650?Total, 292.236. These negroes have gone to the fol lowing States: To Ohio, 45,000, In diana, 32,000, Illinois, 54,000, Michi gan, 18,000, Pennsylvania, 78,000, New York, 59,000, New Jersey, 15,000, Xe* England States, 25,000. eth's < SEED new Seed Weeks Co. y, S. C. i