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I Ci-'V-V. | I jrn# auO |j? j Entered at the Postoffice at Nevrberry, S. ., as and class matter. E. H. AULL, EDITOB. ==i Friday January 4 1918 CHASING SHADOWS. Did you ever try to overtake your! own shade vvtf We are all more or less) i chasing shadows and never can over-' take them. And I reckon it is right that we should be able to chase something whether or not we ever overtake it. ?0? It is not exactly a shadow of which I intended to write when I began, and yet somehow I could not help making that word the title of this diatribe, I reckon that it would be a good thine to call it. We decided that we would print 110 paper last week and give the boys who are with us the entire week to visit their kin and have a good time. So I decided if I could find a linotype operator. I had some matters in Atlanta that I wanted to attend to, so I thought maybe there might be some one over there who liL'O tn tr\ o nrnn/1 J r.wn ?? VUiU liUV WW W U> ^WU '/ 1? A* U11VI I get an easy job. To break the trip 11 went to Walhalla on Tuesday to apendj the day with my brother preacher and his girls, and they were glad to see me, especially the girls. We had a good i dinner. It was waiting for me when I got there. My plan was to come back t? Seneca in the afternoon and wait tkere for a late train. But it happened tkat there was a young soldier who had secured a day furlough to spend Christ mas at his home and he was driving down from Walhalla, and he kindly consented that I could accompanyNhim, so I remained in Walhalla until midnight and we had a nice cool drive in a Ford Yfith a careful driver. The waiting room at Seneca was cold and coalless, but for | tunately the train was about on time, j We reached Atlanta about daylight. / ?o? \ The mule man, C. E. Wise, was in the city to buy his seventh car of mules and I went to the hotel where he was and reuted him, and soon we had a good breakfast. It was wheatless dav, but if they will always give ine the good rye bread that was served they may ^ make all the days wheatless so far as I am concerned. And the corn cakes and srriip. Why that is good enough eating for any one. It is next to those chitterlings that Mrs. M. A. Coleman fixes up and remembers the editor with now and again. And the good sausage and spare ribs. And the good chitterlings and sausage that Mrs. B. B. Leitzsey sends in occasionally. And, by the way, I kave just eaten some chitterling has Ma.de from thp lnt cunf Ktt Coleman and I followed the recipe given me by Matt, and it is all right. ?o? But I am chasing again. I went around to see my friend Pearl Rikard, who holds a position on the Georgian i *d has been operating the same machine for thirteen years, and it is the same model that The Herald and News kas, and Pearl is one of the swifts at the keyboard just like he was at the ease in the days before the machine. And Pearl stands high in Atlanta. He is vice president of the union and the boys all like him and he is popular and he deserves to be. which is the best.,of it 7 J all. Well, Pearl spent several hours with nie chasing an operator, but like your own shadow, we did not overtake him, that is one that we thought would suit. And I appreciate Pearl :s kindly interest. ?o-*On the return trip I stopped over in Athens. This is the neatest and cleanest little city that I have seen since I was in California, and I believe the city I have in mind is either Oakland or Berkeley, one of them is the cleanest large or small city I ever saw. I felt like I would like to live in Athens, and ' if I could buy the Athens Banner I believe I would trade off The Herald and News and go there by the next train. By the way, there is a young doctor j there who is doing well, a fornier New- i berry boy and a graduate of Newberry college, Dr. Harvey Cabanise. I am sure hia many friend3 in and about Newberry will be pleased to hear from him and to knoy that he is doing nicely. -0Of eour?e one eould not, at leagt Ij I i-ouM not, go to Atlanta without going, to see my long time friend Epps Brown,' who is always glad to see the folk l'rom his old home. He was busy, as usual, but always has time to give a little to his Xewberrv friends. The hard work \ as manager of the great telephone system seems to agree with him, as he is looking fine. He has had many high compliments paid him in the business and social life of Atlanta and he deserves them all. And he has won them by his own efforts and the natural ability which he possesses. Recently he was made a directoi in one of the strongest and oldest banks in Atlanta and only more recently he was urged to accept the presidency of the Chamber of Commerce of the city, and it is a body that does things and not a chamber in name only. Well, I am glad that he and all the Newberry boy3 are doing well. ?o? I landed back home Thursday afternoon on a late train just about where I was when I left so far as securing an operator is concerned, and for the present the Jacobs company at Clinton has kindly consented to set our type for us, but that is very inconvenient and ex pensive aud prevents us handling late news on the day we go to press. -oAll the trains were crowded. The people are riding about and spending money and enjoying themselves, but somehow you can feel it that things are out of N joint and there is restlessness everywhere. Well, I hope it will not be long before the normal state is reached again. I had a short talk with Editor Clark Howell of the Atlanta Constitution and he says that he kinder feels it in his bones that this ^r will end some time during this year, though he could not give you a reason for the feeling. I feel just the same way and have said so several times. Well, let us hope that it is ? fnet and that the terrible thing will 9oov. bo at nn end. X. H. A. THE RUHAL POLICE. We understand that petitions are being circulated in this ccl.ii.y i.si.-iig legislative delegation to remove the rural police. This is a step backward. xi is irue ixiui me mw iu uns coumy is being enforced. It is true tlia't the liquor situation is well under control. It is true also that very little crime is committed in this county. The rural police might not make an arrest in a year, if it is not necessary they should act. It speaks well for them and the other county officials that they io not have to. The rural police are under the control of the sheriff, and there is not a minute of the day or night that a phone call to either the sheriff's office or his dwelling will not bring to your door an officer. We suppose that so far as the sheriff is concerned he would have less work not to have them, because he would not have the power to arrest for cortaiu crimes without warrant that these officers have, as there is special power invested in them. u plain words, to do away with these < * rs means that you go back to the ulu .vny you did six years ago. If a man bleaks in your house at night, steals your chickens, or commits any other crime you w;)l have to go before a magistrate, s^ear out a warrant and wait until the constable goes and arrests him. The rural police are primarily for the protection of the people who live in the rural districts, and we do not believe they want to do away vrith them, even if they are not all the cime in the coun ii v. jluc jjuiul as me milii v.iio ma/ ue thinking about some crime is held back by the very fact that he does not know where these officers are and he does not know but that they may be somewhere very near. The town dwellers have the protetion of the police. If the country dwellers do not want these officers taken away they had better see the members of the delegation and let their wishes be known. The cost of the two for the county is only about $!,G00 a yeai and the town pays part of that, while the ! country or rural district does not pay any part of the cost of the policemen for the city. The less a police officer has to do the better -for the community in which he operates. The very fact that you have these officers is a deterrent in the com mission of crime. And these rural police should not have regular beats. They should so arrange their routes that the people may not know where they are :ind thus be expecting them at any time. Tt would be a mistake to remove them, They are worth all they cost to the peace md good order of the county, and the act that they do not have to make many irrcsts is to their credit as well as to 'he erydit of the people of the oouaty. \ r i rmmnmmm* in rx ? i i THE NEW YEAR. I But not a new year homily. Not a I new year resolution, either, is it our pur' pose to write. We simply desire to thank 1 our friends and patrons who have been | true and tried during the periods of i stress though which we have passed dur' ing the year just closed. The difiieulI ties and trinls of the old year have been ! many and hard. We have tried to smile i and to do our duty amid them all as best | we could, and for the friends who havv ! been loval and true we are thankful. j Everything is out of joint and noth ' in# moves as in the days of yore, ant I we suppose it is more difficult the oldei j you are to get adjusted properly to th. new order of things that has come upor the stage of action. We are doing the best we can to ad ! just ourselves and the more worries anc jannoyanees that we have th* more pleas j ant we try to be, aad go on trying to dc |our duty. i It is going to be our effort to make j The Herald and News better as th( ! years iro bv. It ?ives us comfort and I lightens the burden for those who have j been with us during the years to comt | along and renew their subscriptions and | say, as they do, we just can't get alonjj ' without the old paper, that it seems like ! something is missing and wrong when j it fails to come, that it is like some mem : ber of the family has gone and the old j place seems lonely. i But, dear friends, it takes not onlv hard work to make the paper, but it alsc j iukcs more casa 10 maite me vviice.s gc j rounds, and we have not increased om | subscription price, and, therefore, you | should be ready and willing to co-oper late by renewing promptly and thus help ; to make the load light by your substan I tial co-operation as well as by your kind j words. The one gives the editor encour j agenxent to work the harder, and the J other helps him to make the ghost walk o;i oaturday a ' ?noon, and you should know that il .1 ghost should fail tc walk on Saturday afternoon there would be no one left to make a paper 011 Mon day afternoon. We are going to make all our mails now henceforth, and we are going to do so even if we have te ! omit some important local item, or even J an advertisement. Let every one take j due notice. The trials and tribulations through i which The Herald and News, chas passed during the recent few months would fill a book if written, but we tell our troubles to the policeman, or keep them to ourselves, and generally do the latter. {It is an old but true saying that when i you laugh the world is ready to laugh with oyu, but when you weep and moan you weep all alone, or words to that effect, so we are laughing and smiling and ask yoa to smile and laugh with us. We can go this road but once, and we try to scartcr flowers and sunshine as we go, ratK-r than thorns and clouds. \To v ?> ./<)* ?Tul iwm-rxr n"F tliaco ifia T vtivu uuu ? wi j * vuuvi v* lines hawe a happy and prosperous year is our sincere wish. It always gives us pleasure to see other people happy and prosperous, and there is no envy in oui heart. We take courage as wo start upon the new year, and having an optimistic spirit, we look for better things in the future. JUST A WORD. We are sending to each subscribe! whose time is out January 1, or prioi thereto, a nice little letter telling him when his time i? out and kindly asking him to renew and gently saying that ii he does not this will be the last papei until he does, that he will receive. Wc got a little behind with oui compositior and have not corrected our list for some time, but we are going to do so before we print again, and we would be glad . 4. ~ L c \tu uear iruui ^uu wiuu j'uui icmmaucc With The Herald and News at the olc price, we must have the money as wc go, or there will be no go, and then we may not send notices, and you had bet ter look at the date after youx* name or the label. We want all of you to remair with us and enjoy the good things we are going to print during the year, and they are goijig to be many, and if yoi do not remain you will be the loser. The war will be over in the early spring, oi certainly during the present year, anc things will got back to normal and gooc will will assume control of the humar man and everything will move smooth And you will be lost without the oil Herald and News. TEMPORARY. As we stated in the last issue, those who have items for publication wil please get them to us 011 time. For th< present we have a temporary arrange ment to have most of our type set out o: town and sent to us by express, and i : is very difficult to set any copy tha : comes in on the day we print?that i: i on Thursday or Monday. We hope thi: . is only temporary and the time may b< ) short. We have not yet gotten an oper ator and until we do the only thing w< i can do is to do the best we can ant ( keep the paper going. We do not care to have any more o: those QDerators who can not make good s It is only a waste of their time and ou: , money. Some of the copy we are hand ling now is a little old, but it was ii , hand on timo and we are printing it s< that we may keep tke record of eventi % for tin* future historian who may use I :>ur (ik-s. Wo are printing in this issue some matter that we had hopcil we would have l'or Tuesday, but the mail failed us. We mailed the copy at Xewberry in time for the up C. X. and L. train on '[Sunday for Clinton, but it did not reach I Clinton uiitii "> o'clock on Monday and while Mr. Prnnk Hammond, the oper^ . at or for tlir* .Jacobs company, who is ; doing our composition temporarily, was ? kind enough to 'phono us that lie would i set it that night and s^nd it down on . Tuesday morning, we decided to print I with what we had. ' I It would seem that we have had our i , share of troubles along this line and we II are hoping that the end is in sight, and j we are only going to work the harder J and ask for the eo-operation of our I friends and patrons. Without their t-o-1 operation we can accomplish but little. * j We stated in anarticle that was inj tended for the Tuesday paper that we ' nAtt/lmiV ?"\ 1 1 Af?A I o\:uu.iuft oiaiciiicutn IU an ?>uunv 5; time was out up to the first of January, ^ (inclusive, and that after the Tuesday 5 paper unless they renewed, their nnmes - l.)p tpk??) fr^TI l'S1-. A0 *^" + ^ : -tI?-!e l'jiiled to got i;i we ave soridir. > ;11is paper so tlint J! <>f vo*; isj?y hr.< ; an opportunity to remain with r.s. Wo L li :ve been unable to eornvt our lis' f names have remained thnt should com.1 Ihe past counle of months and s'- -i i 1 A I o.T unless pnvment is made. At the price : we are charging we must have the >. money ii yon want the paper. An;I Hls ', only rule is going to be e-ish. Wo do not want to lose any subscribed, but the 1 small price is within the reach of ever;.* ' j one. DISCONTINUATION OF I THE CAROLINA SPECIAL . i I . I j The Southern Railway management | announces that the Carolina Special will be discontinued between Asheville and ^ Oakdale, Tennessee, effective, Sunday, i Dec. 30th, account of conditions brought j about by the war. J The last Pullman sleeping car sounth^; bound will leave Cincinnati, Saturday, l ; Dec. 29th, and the last sleeping car1 k northbound will leave Charleston SaturI day, Dec. 29th. 1 L! This train will continue between Charleston find Asheville on the nrrspnt i [ schedule, consisting of mail, express, . baggage cars, coatehes and dining car. , Thid train will also carry a parlor cur between Charleston and Asheville to | take" the place of the Pullman s!c.:i>i: ;: cars, which will be eliminated thereby, j i ! affording as much comfort as possible j I I J S I Our Chr\ I is to make it eas} bank account. join. The Clubs pay. 1 cent, 2 c $1.00, $5.00 or a s? en I lit U U VV LV-UOi Make the largest p each week. This is < Put your children i cent interest. TU Iiuc nauu B. C. MATTHEWS. Preslden T. K. JOHNSTONE, Cashier 'or the traveling public. , t The Southern railway will continue its' 1 through Pullman and dining car service ( on trains 9 and 10 between Columbia! ^ i and Cincinnati over the Carolina Special C route anil the following schedules: No. 1) northbound leaving Columbia 7:0o a. in., arriving Cincinnati 8*10 p. m. i s No. It) souuthbound leaving Cincinnati I ^ 8:10 p. in., arriving Columbia 11:40 J'4" o. m. !( i > iYLA.E>UiNJ.U U? Jt lUiJCta , FOR ENSUING YEAE ^ < ! Tin' following officers in the different : Masonic orders have been elected and > installed for the ensuing Masonic year: 11 Commandery Officers. j 1 J. H. Harms, E. 0.; McK. Hutchin-j J son, G.: L. G. Eskridge, C. G.; H. T. s Cannon, treasurer; T. P. Johnson, re- ; cordc-- K. 1^. Wright, prelate; C. B. j Martin, warden; T. Roy Summer, 8. W.; i Floyd Bradley, J. W.; W. S. Mann, sen- j f j Make This Bi ~ Your Bu, THAT THE NEV ! BE THE HAI ALL Y is the sincere EXCHANC ^ _ 1_ - to our customers ? their friends whc | make our friends. THE EXCHA Of Newbei 'The Bank of I < HRISTMAS f AIM BANKING v eJUiO CLUB J AND YOl abi WiLL^iM^ PI# iAND ASK ABOl istmas Banki y for those of small n Children are espec; are arranged to fit 1 ents, 5 cents and 10 ny club that is desir 10-CENT CLUB PAYS 5127.50 5-CENT CLUB PAYS 63.75 2-CENT CLUB PAYS 25.50 1-CENT CLUB PAY> 12.75 ayment first and decre; a very popular way. nto the Club. Join yours nal Bank of t H. T. w. w. inch K. If. Kihlcr. standard bearer: J. \ Wilson, sword bearer; H. H. \VelIs, * irst guard; P>. A. Doni'niek, second :uard; d. T. Timnn rman, third guard. Chanter Officers?Sienet fThanter. R. A. M., No. 18. ('. B. Martin, E. II. P.; McHutcliin- 4|| on, kin^; L. F'>. Kskridge, scribe; A. J. >. Lnngford, treasurer: 'II P. Johnso*, H >er.; T. Roy Summer, C. of H.; H. T. ifl \mnon, I'. R.; Floyd Bradley, R. A. 0.; s\ P. Mitchell, M. :i V.; Rev. E. V. *aM?, M. - V.; J. W. Earhardt, M. IV.: -V. S. Mann, Sentinel. }fficers Amity Lodge, M. 87, A. F. M. Van Smith, VV. M.; T. Roy Summer, 1 <. VV.; K. G. Parks, J. W.; Geo. C. Hipp* reasurer: J. W. Earhardt, secretary; T rfi /*?,_ ? ? C; r T1 Timmprmill \ 1. 1. * aiilJUIl, IV. f ?* f. IX; X. P. Mitchell and C. E. Rikard, towards: W. S. Man, tiler. Miss Annie Jacobs, student in a busi- ^ less college of Columbia, came home f?r :'or the prevailing holidays. ink wv siness Home M V YEAR MAY PP1EST OF EARS . j wish of the ^ ?? BANK 1 ind friends and >m we hope to irnr n i in/ JibL MM I j rry, S. C. 1 the People" rr I i iOOK v I J CxS '% 'I $ 't=T O s vou I I J " E IN, W GIRLS, JT IT ng Club I neans to start a I J ially invited to I their ability to, I JQ cents, or 50 cts 1 j ed. I ] ise your payments elf. We add 4 per Newberry , CANNON, Asst. Cashier I jtL CROMER, Asst. Cashier