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I? -- . I. I. I - ? -?? \OLGVE LIV, NU&BEJ 74 \ SEWIJEKKf, S. C. TIES1>AY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1917. TWICE 1 tfESK, ILiJI A YSAJt, Rheip to raise library W FOR SOLDIERS IS CAM] ? Columbia, S. C., Sept. 20, 1917. ' To the Editor of The Herald am News: An effort is now on foot to rals* a million dollars to furnish a milllo; books for a million men in me mm tary service of the United States ^ The sum looks large; but In ou k population of a hundred million it I I a dollar to every hundred persons, o v one cent to every person?three hun dred and fifty dollar:-, for Newberry' 0 population of thirty-five thousand, o P one cent for every one of tne inirty five thousand. And any contribute "will be acceptable?a dime, or ; nickel, or even a penny. Reading matter will be greati, > needed by our men during the month t they must spend in training camp and in their service beyond the ocean R<5ood books will give occupation t ^ their minds during the many hour of idleness, will afford them relie ~ 1 hnnifl arid the! irom UrUOUiUg auuui. 'ft separation from the employments ani |MjPleasure3 of their former lives, am Wwill serve to improve their minds an<3 ^ ?n many cases, their morals. As ai r old soldier, I can testify that in th War of Secession one of tne mos wearisome features of camp life, t th6se of us vwho could read, was th nf anmpthinar to^TeaM. Man T? ?***?* y* ww? w then could nocjread, but now there I hardily a man in the service ho can not^nead and write. There is no truer saying than tha an idle brain is the devil's wor&shoi A mind otherwise unemployed is a; ways in danger of being viciously en ployed. And the better mind is like ly, when idle, to fall into pining fc k lost pleasures, Into discontent wit the present and dread of the futur< ... and to lapse, mora cfr;lebs, into ner l vousness or despondency. Statistic > show that In every dqrfratrry the lar? eat proportion of-suicide* is amon soldiers not engaged in-actual fighi ing. J Surely Newberry can raise a re\ - * * ? 4 hundred aoiiars ior dooks it? euau* our brave defenders to beguile thel v/eary hours of idlness^to Imj^o\ their minds, and to be cheerful an better fitted for their ditie3. I* look especially to oar energetii * patriotic, philanthropic womei i p take a hand in this effort. L I hope to furnish details for actio $ in the course of the ne;ft three o b four days. I enclose a copy of th ^kl?ibrajry !War Council announoemen & ^hich I hope you will publish in you I next issue. | , J. F. J Caldwell. Soldiers' Libraries h The lonely hours, unoccupied b | military activities, are intolerabl long to the soldier, sailor or airmai Homesickness, dread, fair, tempt? tion, enter and unfit men for duty. Camp libraries, supplying th right book at tne ngnt ume, nav proven of inestimable value in marr taining morale, furnishing sane re creation, and permitting study fo promotion. The Library War Council, ^appoint ed by the War Department, tb t jAtoerican Library Association, I raising one million dollars durin; "Camp Library Week," Septembe 2*3r-j?y, W uuiiu, eviuiy, auu libraries and buy books for every I S. Training Camp and Cantonment s home and overseas. Friends of soldiers, lovers o [ "books, help us do this eminently nec i essary service for our fighting men L Help us to make them happier t camp and better men when they r? turn! Give what you can toward " M Million Dollars, ior a Minion coom for a Million Men," at yoar Publl Library. Library War Council. JAXAPA GRADED SCHOOL OPENS NEXT MOKDA The Jalapa graded school vrill ope next Monday. All- the pupils ai -urged to be present at the openlnj The teachers expect to hare gentli ment present to talk to the childre and the parents and friends who ai I also invited to be present at the opei ing of the school and give teachers an children their good wishes for a eu< cessful term. The teachers are Mis: es Lottye L-ee Halfacre of the coul^ and Azile Ma ben of Rlchburf. \ | THE HERALD \>D NEWS L* KEPOKTEP. SPENDS WEEK IX LAURENS COITSTV 3 Across the country from the old Parks station, about three miles to e the hospitable home of Mr. W. F. u Wright, was where the reporter found - himself last Saturday afternoon one 5. week ago, and where he spent a r week, filled vrith rest, recreation anJ ? - "It - 9 s enjoyment. The time was so run ui r real life and pleasure'that lie could - not find it convenient to visit the city s of Laurens, much to his regret ber cause of the friends there he wanted - to see?where, having lived once he a will love forever. i ] The editor heralded it mat his re porter went to the country to eat y fried chicken, but the editor didn'i s know about possum and other things, s The reporter kn^w what h was uoi. ing. He didn't have the hard work of o Prof. Derrick, Clerk Goggans and Mr. s McSwain to do. but he wanted to set f away from the newspaper grind for r at least a week, as fhe rest ^as need* oi+hnnorh he didn't like to leave w CU, ? 1' the editor with so much to do. If this reporter were a star girl rea porter he woulcf say it was a sweet e rest and a lovely time (which indeed 1 it was) and if he but told the half 0 as it actually was he would lay hime self liable 'to "being accused of having y the swell head. So he will not men3 tion the sending of messages in the ~ shape of watermelons and words, etc., by beautiful creatures of th'i ' neighborhood, and other delightful ' little incidents of not dissimilar nalN Rut he will run the risk oi VUtv. l~ mentioning the serenade by Mr. Tom Childress and his esteresting singing >r orchestra onfe night. Mr. CWldress h plays on the Organ 'and sings well, 5? accompanied by a daughter and two sons in the fine and beautiful sing8 ing. They know |that this reporter >* loves music and they are willing to 8 ride through the country to play and sing for him, for which he returns his unbounded thanks. It is excusable in a tired newspae i A- Vinnr ho fitt per fellow iu mwnuu uun :r joyed these nice attentions and hoV inspiring it was to sit on the porch of nights listening to tho mu* ? 3ic of the possum dogs in the sur' rounding woods, to the accompaniment of the halloaing of the hunters, c and looking down the stretches lighbr r ed only by- the rays of the planets and q stars without the fear of being blindl ed at every turn by The large glare J of the automobile fights. It was al? 1 very pleasant and hard to leave ana the weafher (like the water the boys talk about) "was fine." Day^ifter day and night after night > for one v fleeting week it was resfcml to take y it all in and to know and feel that i. that was all to be done, just to enjoy i it and not have to run a rumor down or chase a personal or write a card ie of tfranks or some other notice of a e_. meeting, or to ask Judge Ewart ror t. a hint of the next marriage, or Sheriff Blease, Chief Rodelspefrger, Recorder r Earhart, Magistrate Douglas, Coroner Lindsay, Jno. H. Baxter and R. "Y. I. Leavell if they had any news, ale though it i3 not agreeable news one* s gets from the undertaker^ but when y there is only one hand on the Jot> ir he lias to gather it in from all direcQ tions. j. Oh! the relief of getting away from tt all, if but for one short week of little bpef boars and minutes in f which every second counted. Hence the reporter believes he has some . friends who will share his gladnes3 n in his being able to swap the busy j. rush -of writing for the easy walk of looting and listening without ^ working on a little vacation. No one 5., but the party himself knows what a c pleasure it is to get out of going the - - - -? j : au* t u ^ ) rounas ana dragging li>o net, m hunt for news. ( But?the "man behind the pencil" is back. again, and a-s he got back T only last Saturday afternoon late, a* and the next day being Sunday, and 'e the next following befng Monday, press day. the only time for getting 5- out the paper, the readers of The n Herald and News must certainly ex *e cuse him for shortness. He is full, l- as he hadn't strock the town five id minutes before he w?.s told a huns dred. more or less thlnsrs, but thero - was not time to gret !t all up, aed pick !?. up the scattered threads of unflnishI ed, accumulated and new business I / TO BE LENIENT WITH EXEMPTIONS Columbia. Spet. 21.?Where drained men failed to respond to the call of their local board through ignorance or some other cause that wouid relieve them from imputation 01 Daa faith, the adjutant general is instruct. ed by Provost Marshal Genera) j Crowder to postpone forwarding them j to mobilization camps until such j claims for exemption as they may , have can be passed upon. ! General Crowder today wired Governor Manning as follows in this regard: i "Washington, Sept. 21. nf Qnnfh P.9rvtlina ifnlum Ui;>Ci inn bia, S. C. 4 It has developed that many men reported to the- adjutants general of the states on form 164-A, as provided in section 3, form 25, have failed to respond to the call of their local boards due to causes that relieve them from any imputation of bad fait^ or desire to evade their obligations. In some cases such persons are plainly : physically disqualified, in some cases they.ace ignorant aliens who are unable to speak or read the Englisn language, and some times they are < oersons living in remote districts who i have obviously irrefragible claims > for exemption and whose failure to i present themselves is not at all cur, rable. j "Whenever such circumstances ! come to the attention of the adjutant I general he should postpone the fori warding of such persons to mobilllzaf ' **- A-J i aam wArtnAot fhn ! u.n camys uum n*t uxu wuv j proper local board to extend ther time I and hear such claims of exemption. V If the claim is sustained tfc? ortf-- Into ^miltary service may be * as having been made throug t. or and expunged from the recor _ lerwise the person will of cours? > sent to* a mobilization camp. Care mr.st Do taken to restrict this leniency to meritorious cases in order that i! may not result in a lax response to the calls of local boards." CALTIX CROZIEB CHAPTER There will be a regular meeting of the Calvin Crozier Chapter Tuesday afternoon, 'Sept. 25, at 4:30 with Mrs. Juncan Johnson. Mrs. Paul Anderson andMrs. L. G. Eskridge hostesses, at the home Mrs'. Anderson. On account of important business, the meeting will be held a week before tne regular time. Ruby Goggans, Sec. He had to take a little trne to f.e:i of his trip, a great 'leal of wliicft could be written without ihc half of it ever being told, ?ut ail that wouia be directly "and personally interesting to the reporter mostly, except thai it may be interesting to the New-berry relatives of Mr. Bill Peterson to tell them that he inquired- of them, ana , the Newberry county friends of Mr. Wess Donnan, who has a daughter, Miss Lula Donn^a, teaching at Whitmire, will regret to know that he is down with' rheumatism, from whicn lie is suffering very much, altftougn when the reporter saw him he was somewhat better, under the tender and excellent care of his daughter, Miss Janie Donnan, a fine "trained nurse from Columbia, whose chief duties keep her at the hospital, tut Who is spending her vacation at the home of her father. Mr. Donnan is very popular in his community, where he is a magistrate, a good and successful farmer and one of the most prominent and heading citzens of the county, and he has a house full of fine girls?like unto his friend ana co-laborer in the good of the community and surrounding seotio?*. Mr j Will Wright, neither of which men rs 1 ' ? i* *-? r* 7 n A ! -n o J 3. SiaCKeT ill any i cbjjcv-i, juuiuuiue I Mr. Bill Peterson, and they do hate J a backer like Satan b?+es a praying ; man, woman or child, and they are I right. This will be closed with the | statement thart, not going back on | Newberry, but, nevertheless and also I notwithstanding, taking in the circles | within which these Laurens county i men live there could not he found in j all creation a similar radius "whlcft ! contains, embraces and liolds mors ; pretty ^irls. to the single home, girl? 1?r\Ai?cvAy> r% r\ A >? Q r*t I utfctli U JLU1 1U Jjcim'u C?iivi ?.< ^v.^1 , sweet in disposition and unselfish in nature, the most all-round lovely girls in the world. ft $1S,000,00?,0C0 TO BE RAISED FOR WAR ' Washington, Sept. 22.?The Amerl-' can people must raise $18,000,000,00'J to support the war this year. Secre-' tary >IcAdoo told West Virginia bankers at White Sulphur Springs, W. \7o ' Less that $4,000,000,000 of this probably will be raised by taxe3. The rest is up to the American people, lie said. They must show their faith , : and patriotism by purchasing the bonds to be offered. ! Secretary Mc.A<doo "then urgeff the : necessity for every class ^to* get behind these bonds, declaring that no one class finance the war. i The funds so raised, he exDlained ' are first, to maintain our own armies in the field, and, second, to extend Joans and credits to the nations making common cause with us. thot ovprv man. woman ancr tuut \/ ? ^ , child may help, war savings certificates are to be issued. Certificates will be in $5 denominations, purch-j asable for $4.10 and after five years redeemable for $3. j New bonds which will ne IssueJ will differ from the Liberty bonds of the first issue in that they bear i, per* cent instead of 3 1-2 per cent. I They will be exempt from all savo inheritance; supertax and war profit and estate tax. Deatli of Miss Epting l Miss Ida May Epting, daughter of j the late >G. M. B. Epting, ciied.at the; Laurens hospital Saturday ?Xter j noon at 6 o'clock, after an illness j , of only three days at Mountvllie. j She was taken with an ordinary case; of grip last Wednesday week, but apparently recovered and was practically weli up to last Thursday night. . but at 3 o'clock Friday morning she i , was stricken with an acute pain, aus 1 was taken to the hospital in Laurens j i about 4:30 o'clock Saturday after-j % I noos and died at 6 o'clock as above i > i i stated. The body was brought to j j Xewberry and carried to the home of : her mother from the C., N. and L. ; train Sunday afternoon. The funeral service was held at the grave by the Rev. F. E. Dibble, the procession leaving the house at 4:15 o'clock for Rosemont cemetery, the following acting as pallbearers: floy Summer, .Munson BuforcL Pope Scurry, Dr. J. E.^SStokes, Oscar Summer and Mar- ' ion Summer. j AYfoile death is sad at all times.. It I was peculiarly sad in this instance Miss Epting had gone .to Mountville only last week to begin teaching k teaching school at that place, when 1 she was stricken down in the prime, of her young womanhood and useful- j ness. Besides her mother she leaves j two. brothers, Robert and Bennle, anaj two sisters. Misses Belle and Jessie. One of the brothers. Mr. Robert Epting, and his wife were in Columbia at the time 'ttie fatal attack came. They received a phone message at 8 o'clock Friday night and left immediately, coming by Newberry in Mr. Epting's car, stopping here only long enougn for his mother and sis'ier, Miss Jessie and traveling through the night during the electrical storm, reaching , Mountville at 4:30 o'clock Saturday momin, rushing on to Laurens wttn ' the stricken one. i 1 Calling other doctors, including Dr. i W. G. Houseal of Newberry, ^everything possible was done to s^e the i: life o? the patient, -bat it -wasSof no I avail. * Death gained the race and left ! his shadow of grief over the mother j i't and the brothers and sisters of the ' departed one. i \ Deatk of Mrs. J. M. Sllph. | Mrs. Josephine Maffett Sligh, widow ; of the late Ooorge Sl!gh and daughter ? ~T r> fllrtrl the late ca.pt. James jaaucit, , suddenly on Sunday morning at 3 o'clock at the home ot her son, Mr. ( R. C. Sligh, with whom she lived. , She was 79 rears old and death came ! without warning, a* she fell and exI pired immediately. The funeral serj vice was held fcy the Rev. E>dw. Pal j enwider at the ho^se Monday after ' coon at 4:30 o'clock, the following j acting as pallbearers: Milton Cald ? *? ? , well, Henry .boozer, maruuB man, Arthur Kibler, W. A. McSwatn and W. A. Hill. M*s. S'ieh Ion? enjoyed the reputation of bein?: a trr-jr good woman, and she "ha^ sro^e to ?|pr vv.aru after a "well-spent life. i PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS !j PROSPEROUS PROSPERITY] Prosperity, Sept. 24.?Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Kohn of -Columbia are visiting their many friends in and around j. Prosperity. Mrs. Addie Hodges has returned home . after spending the summer in j ^ Spartanburg. | Mrs. J. M. i'vV-erts has been visiting i ? her daughter, Mrs. J. B. Bedenbaugn; of Pomaria. Misses Minnie and Annie Amick or: ^ n with I ^ Newberry spent uie ween. -CIIU VY X tAl Miss Anna Julia Harmon. Miss Mary Lizzie Duncan and Mr. Claude Duncan of Columbia visited' * Mrs. J. H. Crosson last week. Dr. and Mrs. G. W. Harmon have j returned from Ninety Six. j v Miss Marie Cowan ' Columbia f spent Saturday and Sunday with Miss i c Willie Mae Wise. j i "vt-cs TTTtenhAth p.rowne is home ^ after spending the summer at Connel- j * ly 'Springs, N. C. 1 i r Mrs. Mixon and Miss Erma Mixon! ! g of Charleston were guests last week j of G. Y. Hunter. | Mrs. A. G. Voigt has returned to | r Columbia after several peeks' stay j f with her daughter, Mrs. C. J. Sheaiy. j t Mrs. H. P. Wicker has returned > i from the Columbia hospital. j ( Misses Lucile and Jimmie Wise oi < Paluda visited Miss Willie Mae Wise Sunday. j ] Mrs. Bell Boyd is spending the f ; week at Sligli's with her brother, W. j ] EL. Caldwell. i >Ir. Chestnut of Moreland, Ga., is 1 visiting Mr. Dallas Caldwell. 1 Miss Sudie Dennis spent th# week- ' end in dewberry. Wednesday afternoon Miss Alma Gfbson iavited about twenty of her friends to join with her in the cele n ration of her twelfth birthday. The game of the afternoon was guessing advertisements in which Miss Helea Bedenbaugh won first -prize. Ice cream and cake w>ere served. Death of Mrs Wrcnn . Our entire town has been greatly grieved by the death of "Grandma" Wrenn, who before her marriage was 1 Miss Frances A. Street, daugnter or 1 William Street. She was corn :n ' r 1 o i A ADDeviiie, C>. uciuuei a, ?011. ' When a girl she professed faith in Christ and united with the Mcftintalu * Creek Baptist chujidi of Greenwood * and was bapj^zed by Rev. John Trap? On November 30th, 1876, she wa? 1 N0.-6 95)4 JKeport of the Condition of the JJeop the State of South Carolina,'at tiie Cl< RESOUr lx>ans and discounts (note3 held in ba; Overdrafts, unsecured ?... U. S. bonds deposited to secure circular b'tccko, other than Federa I Reserve banj Stock of federal Reserve bank (50 per Value of banking house Fhirnifiirp and fixtures Other real estate owned Lawful- reserve with Fedwal Reserve Items with Federal Reserve Bank in P] avn.ila"Me n^ rcscrvp) < Cash in vault and net amount due for**! Total of Items 14-15-16-17 Checks on bands located outside of bank and ether eash i ema ...... Redei^ption fund with U. S. treasurer ai S. treasurer. Total LIABIL*1 Cr.~'f?! ?toc'? paid In / ..> Surplus fund Undivided profits Less current expenses, Interest and Circulating notes outstanding Demand derosits: * Individual deposits subject to cheik Cashier's cheeks outstanding .... .. Dividencfca unpaid Total demand deposits Time deposits: Othrr time deposits Total of time deposits Total State of South Carolina. County of I. R. T. Pugh, casnier of the at>0v ffaat the above statement is true to tj-. Suhserfbo.d and sworn to before me Ufa ?ay of Sept., 1917. E. W. Werts, Notary Public. WASHINGTON AWAITS. NEXT MOVE FROM * >OPE BENEDICT "V T ' Wiichir><rtnn 22.?Officials- * ~ -X- -- lere are awaiting a further . peace nove fvbm Rome, following advices eceiv^w unofficially t6night. )(?pe, it is<f understood, will goon re O ie\v proposals of general friendly T ;otiation. r His *IvoIiness will advance as hia ground #*for renewing peace proposes the fact that all Jhe replies to hlg nrAt\nc01 Q(TTPPrl the ona a igmai vyv<ji** v0* _ ssential pointff that peace is earnest-_>> y and sincerel/ desired by each beligerent. With the desire for an end of th? car univergjil the pope "will ask for riendlv discussions to settle points >f difference. His position will be, t was said tonight, that the condiion of peace is so much more Imporant to the world than their own na.ional desires to the* belllgereifc rations that the ^nations must mafre * ;acrifices to attain a new era. of goc>4 piTI ft. 1 * narried to James A.VWrenn of Edge- , ield, by the Rev. Jesse Bo*ie. $0 J hem were born three Children: Mr&, i. J. Holt, Whitmire; G. F. Wreniu Clinton; B. P. Wrenn, of the national Hiard, Greenville. ^ ~ w She died at her daughter's in fahitnire Sentember 15th, 1917, aged 72 pears, 11 months and 16 days. SM bad been in failing health for som? time; had undergone an operation a tew weeks ago, from whieh she mirer recovered. She was a faithful Christian and a loyal Baptist. \ Her husband died in 1891. Sht !s survived by her three children, oa? full sister, Mrs. M. D. Barton, Edgefield, and six half-sisters, one half brothers, as follows: Mrs. R. "If. j ? . *.T? T T. Uoaiv biease ox ocuuua, ?;a. -. u. . af Greenwood, Mrs. H. F. Burton, At lanta, Ga.; Miss Carrie Street of NewSherry; Mr. E. L. Street of Ninety Six, H. F. Burton.. Atlanta, Ga.; Miss Carrie Street of Newberry, Mr. E. Ik. Scre'et of Ninety Six, Mrs. Chritsie Youngbtood of Newberry. Her remains were carried to Moan-. .ain Creek Baptist church, and tk? funeral services were cc^iductd 6y . ' ;he writer, and her body' was lai4 :o rest beside her husband. Thus ended the life of a nofele. ?ood woman. JJutfgh. she rests from ler labors, he?> works do follow b?r. " D. W. Marvin. RTiitmir*, S. C? ? [ * i i v*. " le^s .National Bank, at Prosperity, fa >5* of bngiats^ Sept. li, 1317. 4 CES. Qk) $2od,127.78 ....?> 348.28 on (par value) 6.250.00 >. k. stock 3, cent of subscription; ... 1,000.06 1,639.61 \' 1,789.48 ^ ... 11,668.92 ' Bank I - it T1 A.! /?.?i rocesa or coiiecuon t,uut 5,00#.00 National Banks 31,720.3 1 $39,720.31 - ~ j er town of reporting 189.57 id d*? frola U 312.59 |*27,M*.SI IBB ' / ' , $ 25.000.00 8,8r9.60 I4988.W taxe? paid 973.62 4 913.Cfl ? M AO ; 81,426.*$ - ' ' m. Ts { : 1100 I 82 3^2,161.24 ; 202.151.24 *327,312.8* rberry. (*s, * e rmmed bank, do solemnly swea? best of my knowledze and belief. P T PncrTi Tashter Correct?Attest: '? J. A. C. Kibler. T A. Dcmlnlck, ' * fc. L. Luther, 1 Director*. -4 '>