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KSiS P# 0 VOLUME LT.5 NUMBER ? ?gg?^j ^ . , >EWCEKRV, S. C? Tuesday, .Iannary l.">, l<}!5. TWICE A WEEK, $1.50 A YEAR, ^ PERSONALS PARAGRAPHS SF PROSPEROUS PROSPERITY Prosperity, Jan 14?One by on< our soidirs of the sixtis are passing over the river. On ?>Vednesday after noon the call came to Mr. Francis Bobb who had been ill for a weei with pneumonia. Mr. Bobb had beei merchandising since 1872, and wa: the oldest merchant in our town. H< was an active member of Grac< ^ church, having served as elder am R deacon. " *" * ? ?? 1 WQVfl hl< 1 HQ nonorcU j yai:uca:cio nvte ffik comrades of the Confederate war, be pR>ittg A. A. iNates, J. M. Werts, R. I Stoudemayer, G. P. Griffin.( L. S Bowers, John Taylor. He is survivec by one daughter, Miss Gertrude Bobb one son, Olin Bobb, and one stepson S. J. Kohn, and a host of relatives and friends who mourn his death. The senior member, Mr. B. B Schumpert, of the B. B. Schumper company retired from active business on January 1. Mr. Schumpert was always courteous and pleasant to hi? friends and will be missed as a taer twr Tuiian Prine has succeedec >lu>* J ? Schumpert. !Mf:1 Miss Elizabeth Hawkins returnee iM?nday to her school at Marion. Ipj^^ Cadets Henry Quattlesbjaum;. *Ge< "Wise^ isomer Wheeler, Curtis Pugh J Nicholis Merchant and Carrol Mills rotnrriAri tr% Climson college uu * \s ? _ ?W>e hear that. Clide Ward one of ouj Prosperity boys, a wireless operator is on the high seas chasing the sub marines. ^ v Mrs. C. M. Simps?on and little son o Charlotte are guests of Mrs. Simpson'! ^ parents Prof, and Mr. J. S. Wheeler || Mis Elizabeth Bearden of SaludJ lias returned home, after a pisit U IjW l>r. H. JL. i^utner. The severe storm which struck oui BIB town Friday night blew off part o Hflr thp smoke stack of the Prosperity oi W mill. No other damage has been re ported except most people were awak< all night. A great number of farmers cami to town Saturday and all are app rehensive that the cold wave has des ^ troyed the oat crop. Miss Willie Mae Wise attended Sat Hjk^ urday the linen shower given by Mis; BV Elberta Sease of" Little Mountain ii honor of M^ss Quinette Dantzler o Orangeburg who will be marriet Em January 2S to Mr. Berley Bedenbaugl j|||& ?f Kiblers Bridge. n Hiss Katie Mae Nance spent a fev days during the past week in Columb la. [Mr. S. 8, feerge has gone to Georgu ?n busime#. f: Mrs. A. H. Kohn and Mr. Hart Kohl f Columbia and Mrs. Karl Markt o Atlanta were here for the funeral o Mr. Franci? Bobb. Mrs. Julian Price spent Saturday in Columbia. Cadet Mower Sin^iev and Fran! t ^ 'J Earl Schumpert haye returned to Bal ley institute. The William Lester Chapter U. D C. Will meet with Mrs. E. "W. werii on Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock .Add to Prosrperity letter ^ L "The Helena postoffice is being man ft -aged by Richard Julien until othe jk arrangements are made. LAnne 0. Ruff & Co jHllie Wholesale Cigar Ston I We carry a line of Cigars that will I please your trade k and repeat. Rv Anne 0. Ruff & Compsn [ Bring Us I : We are in ih p kinds or r" I The Pu - ..W -v" " *'' -I31 \>Y 31 ORE STALE ITEMS 1 SOME OF WHICH HOLD GOOD. 2 These entire two cohimns and nror s were prepared for Friday's issue, but - were unable to be handled after be> ino; released by the reporter. i This from Easley Progress so- 4s i quite natural: "On account of trou. I s! with the'linotype machine we are one i j day late this week." i. The seventh snow cf the season 11 in three weeks met the atonished gaz J . I nf thp neonle Wednesday morning. >; It was an "evaporated" snow, very -1 light and soft, disappearing rapidly. .! One man who was up late Tuesdav . night said the sky was clear and stars 1 shining at 1:30 a. m. when he went ,; to bed. Hence his surprise. But it is 9! well not to be surprised at anything > i these days, or nights. Since the fire so badly damaged the . \ barber shop of J. L. Nobles Mr. Nobles t: will be. on hand at J. W Taylor's in j j Caldwell street, between the Purcell >; company and T. M. Rogers on the >' corner of Friend. - i In ^the transmissal of the list of I appointments by Speaker Corthran j yesterday afternoon, the name or 1 Jas H. Evans of Newberry, who was ! reappointed as bill clerk of the house. ) was inadvertently omitiea. :vir. r.vaui, ,! who is the son of H. H. Evans, rep51 resentative from Newberry, is serving J his second year as bill clerk and is r very efficient in the position which he holds.?Columbia cor. News and -: Courier,' under date of January 9. ! Visit "Pat" Wise for more "of the ;: same sort" of mules. He is now hand$: ling his eighth carload. j Abner Kinley had to pay $10.75 in i the recorder's court Thursday on the j charge of "injury to ^property." I A deserter, Limel McMorris. colored, - j was delivered to the authorities ai f! Cam-p Jackson by Deppty Henry D. 1 ! Havird, who went with his prisoner to -1 Columbia Tuesday. _ i & Patrons of the picture shows are ? 'hp?r the music a^ain. It was 3 j knocked, out awhile by the zero wea-' - ther. j Knere is one comforting thought. . >lr. Burleson will be postmaster. - general after the fourth of ^farch? ; 3 Anderson Mail. Hope you're right. I i See Havird and Lane for new mules, j f! They are good dealei j and have enter1 ed the arena. ! The coal shortage is another short- j age that has been snortenea in i\ew-< r berry. Several carloads of coal arrived . Wednesday, two for Summer Bros; j company. We the people have learned L how to appreciate sitting by & good; coal fire with sugar to go in the cups ^ of nice coffee. j r A kind-hearted citizen reading The j j Observer's plea to feed the birds while j the ground is covered with snow, ate one of his biscuits and crumbled up t the other and put it on the window ' i sill where the ibirds could get it.?The i c Observer. We bet the man who did i - that had a very small supply of i:hing3 \ in the house amd in the yard. It. is the j . man or woman, generally, having a j 5 hard time of it who thinks of other* | . suffering creatures. ' All who are interested in the "Door | of Hope" in Columbia are requested i - to send clothing, money, groceries, j r etc., to the rest room, where a box is j ht?ino> TMLPJcpd. rpadv for shipment not I later than January 15. Isa. 58-7. Little Charles (by this time everybody knows who little Charles is) saw the navy recruiting officer ta the 'postoffice Monday and stepping up to g him looked him in the eye and asked: '"Is you German or is you American?" z The officer laughed to the explosion point. Charles is all right and grows | "righter" every day. j J Probate Judge Ewart married a i white couple at his office Wednesday | morning. The parties were Miss Janie _ j Eller Mr. Chris Alexander, hoth j of Clinton. V j Lt. E. E. Stuck, of the American J | Expeditionary Force, has sent the Your Peas J 5 market for all ; field peas. i l\ k .$rft reporter some French money?fiv francs Also a copy of The Ohio Rain bcw Reville, official organ 166tl Infantry. It is ^ bright little semi we kly of only two small pages. Th ' ^ ** -? ** ? /\ ? f~* ^ V* f V? l'nmi a r\ f f Vl cupj \> t; lJcive i? tiie um isbu; UI m 1st volume. One of its editorials con tains the following sentences: "Th dominant fact of today is war. T think war and to talk war throug th{> working hours spells efficiency To go byond that is folly, Th relaxation, tlie reconstruction and th development to be had of though from other realms is inestimable. T a soldier and a man is the goal to b desired. To attain this end let us no neglect the reflections of homo an' loved one3, the visits we can taK into the realms of fiction, of natur and, best of all, of Holy Writ." A paragrapher is not always res ponsible for some of the horrid thinohis paper may say. Occasionally th linotype operator and proof reade assiicie complete charge of the under taking. --Spartanburg .Journal. In this week's issue of the Associat Reformed Prebyterian we no^e tha the Second Presbytery, at its las ? - * ' ? * ? A a/1 til meeting in Auauiai invitation to meet in Newberry nex spring. The thanks of tN< presbyter were extended to thp Rev. ,T. W. Car son for his services in raising $1,18 for the purpose of ,building an A. F P. church in Greenville, when tti amount of only $1,000 was asked foi The congregations were commende for their cooperation with Mr. Carsor The death of Issac Williams of Cha! pells is reported by General Pershin in France, the death having oceure on the 4th instant. Mannager Wells is paying th government about $300' a month a war taxes. The Mollohon Manufacturing com pany-ifcs?placed an order for '3C automatic looms to replace the old type looms, and 4.000 additional spiii dies, the total outlay approximate $110,000. The installation of this ne1 equipment will make 620 automati looms and 40,060 spindles, makin the Mollohon one of the bost equippe cotton mills in the South. The well informed and up-to-dat Newberry correspondent of the Char leston American tells his paper thz there is a gTeat deal of cotton yt to be picked in Newberry county, on large farmer reporting tliat he ha quite a large acreage from which nc a boll had not as yet been gathere< (January 8.) The same condition, h adds, exists in various sections of th countj' due to the scarcity of labc on the farms. Miss Catherine Garlington has r< tvrnecl to her music teaching i Johnston. "Jack" 'Smith has been heard froi in Frarce \ M,jss Ethel Bow rs has returned \ her school teaching in Goldsboro, N. ( Messers W. W. Farrow and T. Parks went to Greenwood Thursda morning to attend the hurial of M Thos. D. Mosley. who was the hrothei in-law of Mr. Parks and the nncle b marriage of Mr. Farrow. Mr. Mosele died W-ednesday morning 'and wf buried Thursday afternoon. His wif who was Mip^ Fannie Parks, die in 1902. The Greenwood Journal says "Mr. Moseley was a splended citize and a man of high ideals and splindi character. He did a public serv!( work in Greenwora for many yeai an made friends of aH clases < people who will be deeply grieved 1 learn of his death." Mrt K T. CronK, m oraing i :c ress of the paper changed to Co. C, J Ens. American Expeditionary Force | says he enjoys Newberry news vei | much and wants it "over there." I I add; "Tn the recent list of men ; service I noted mv name not being c ! it. I was a citizen of Newberry coun' for four years and registered ther The 21.st or Orphant regiment, ! attached to tbp division and eve j Sta'e in the union is represented 1 picked men." Mr. A. C. Wheeler of Little Moun j ain wo^ in Vewherry Wednesday. Dr. and Mrs. E H KiKler and litt | son E TT Jr. left Thursday for Crvst i Rivor. E'n.. to he rone two weeks | Mr. J. C. DMn<^n of Kinards 2 w; j in fiio rit" Wednesday, i ir.mn-f* G. Tan^for j J T. T?. \?o-o arrl Timm A "> <* j> r.^ f p of 4 f> ^?T? >tr5f " O^! r" f*V'% ^ ^vf^o^n Pnvnr POT I "? ?-" r f * -> or >? o tm y , r. i. -, n - Pc'-to:] f'.'on f'-e ^"e^rv.'o* yr ir>rr1 rn Pool, a former memo e of the coast artillery, is another New- i - berrian whose c-opi< s of the Herald j h and News have been ordered to his - new address, Eatery B, 61st artillery, ; e MoultrieviMe. e Miss Eunice Smith has returned - from a visit to Miss Bertha Crooks e at Pomaria. % o Misses Eugenia and Lucy Ep?ps have ti moved to apartments at the residence r. of Mr. and Mrs. John .Nance, the Jno. e K. Auil house at the corner of Bounde ary and Nance streets. t Miss Dolly Smith is visiting Miss o Agnes Adams at Blairs. e Mr. and Mrs J. B. Chandler spent several days in Newberry last week r* with the latter's sister. Mrs. Gregory. e -Celestia . ^nlwia St;in-!.:r! .T. W. Wheeler and family o; Xe-vj berry spent last week with his mother* ~ Mrs . r.V'heeler.?Cool Springs cor s Saluda Standard. e Mr. Jno. A. Caldwell has moved to r t.he Epps house in Newberry. MrJj^K. Baker went to Newberry this lrmrrJng -Cir'^i'.woM I-nrnal. Mr. A. C. Thomason has moved his 1 sawmill from Dyson to Helena to saw^timber from the acres bought by c ' Lansrford and Wicker from the Clin^ estate. y Miss Bertha May Gallman has reg turned from tXewberry, where she , spent the holiday season with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T W Gallman. r Miss Gallman, who is a student at Chicora, is spending the winter with t Mr. and Mrs. S T Gallman in Oak p Street.?The State. g J. L. Welling of the Adluh Milling 3 company of Columbia, after spending ; some time with his family at the home e. of his motherinlaw Mrs. O. Wells s has returned to Columbia. Mrs. W. E.^Johnson and children of l- Laurens are-visiting her fattier, Mr. $ J. "Will I- 1 ' ? ?; STATE c sqpf ! 8 I n A 11V :i of ;j Dec? {Liberty Bonds, Overdrafts Secured ? ? * -n i Cash on hand and 1 > :o -? j i N i ry Capital Stock, ^ ^ Surplus and Profits, > Dividend No, 41, di e8 Bills Payable, !d Deposits, - in id l\ OVER to ============Our resources ha * above statement sh< > our County will be * lion dollar Bank in our people enable u * appreciate very mu H We realize the a* ? - ? v i j which we will emp;< 1 enterprise and indu ter equipped for SI pleasure to serve Y Wishing you a H a.' / ?- S m -<f> - J ^ -) \ er "The Bank i NITRATE of SOD A j | All parties who have given me an order for Nitrate of Soda will please ' j maet me at .the court house next j | Saturday, January 19 at 11 a m. This is important if you desire to make i sure of getting tl:e Xirrate ^ou have i i ; ordered. [ "W. C. Brown, j I _ HENRY-ALBRIGHT. Miss Helen Lenore Henry of Cranesville,, W. Va., and Mr. Floyd Vernon . Albright of Terra Alta, W. Vaj. were j married on Wednesday, December 26tb,; ; at 7:30 o'clock, by Rev. Shtiltz, at; Oakland, Md. Miss Henry is pleasantly remember-' | erl in Newberry where she has a host i j of friends won by her lovely dispo I sition. She also taught in South Car- j , olina five years. j Mr. Albright is a graduate of the i University of Virginia, a planter, of i j sterling character and prominent in ; : community life. I ' i 1I0W DR. HARMS APPEARS IN CHARLESTON, j i Prepared for Former Issue, j In announcing that Dr. Harms was to make an address in that city the , next day the News and Courier ofj 'last Saturdav said: "To those who' ? know Dr. Harms an address of inter- j i : est is assured. To those who have | , never had the pleasure of hearing J him. an opportunity will be missed ' foil in Via rvr^aont rm this onca- i ' 11 LUC," j.aii LU yg 1J * ^UV?*V _ sion. For a number of years he has J been an annual visitor to Charleston j to speak at one of these meting, and is always received with pleasure and i profit by those who hear him. As president of Newberry college he is | recognized by the educational insti- j ~t"utions of the State as one of the i men roF condFt; 'initial VU Newberry, S. mber 31st, RESOURCES ?nts, $968,278.6 47,950.C and Unsecured, n Banks, I \ LIABILITIES m m m m - le January 1, 1918 MILLION"DOT ve passed tho million nws. We fee! sure t gratified to know th< Newberry. The inc3 is to make this annoi ch. ided responsibility pi oy to advance and f< stry in Newberry Co ZR VICE than ever b OU. Call or write \ appy and Prcsperou! ? ? ?A ?T if* C** Tl A * u h / *. rr f. ? " 7 r?? v? ~. ?"*i C * " leaders. During the last few years Dr. Harms has had under him hundred* of young men from South Carolina and! other (Sta |js. The meeting tomorrow promises to be one o? the best held so far this season." The Charleston American of the same date said: "Foi a number of years Dr. Harms has been a popular and efficient president of Newberry college. It is a Lutheran institution and Dr. Harms is reconizea as one of the leaders of this denomination in the State, mis coming to unariesiuu has always occasioned a large gathering of men to hear him. His messages are thoroughly interesting an indicate a?%a:o tioughr r'cng whatever line he speaker'." /AMES D. NANCE CAMP U. C. T. Will meet in the court house the first Monday in Feburary at 12 o'clock ~ T n rr\ rnnMC.jfO'1 t A nflV IlUUtl. ,?lcmi/Cia aicvib^uujwu c?j their dues. By order of the commaander, J. F. j. Caldwell. -1 M. M. Buford, Adjuant. The total number of bales of cotton ginned in Newberry from the 1917 crop up to January 1? 1918, was 32, 484 as against 30,360 for the same time the previous year. The civic league will meet with Miss Fannie McCaughrin at the res idence of Mrs. W. H. Hunt Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock The 14th episode of the fighting Trail which should have been run on Saturday will be shown on Wednesday in connection with the other features. Emily Stevens will be shown in "Outwitted" Wednesday at the opera house, and Clarie McDowell in ine Ship of Doom" Thursday. ????1 iON OF , . >1 Ranlr M>& JL&GLAbii AAli C ' 1917 S 14 / 10 $1,016,228.64 12,586.94 58.338.62 $1,087,154.20 t $ 50,000.00 78,667.81 3,000.00 on nnn Aft i/V/^UWiW - 865,486.39 $1,087,154.20 .LARS """ % i dollar mark, as the "" " ^-pr """ 0 hat the people of it they have a millustry and thrift of mcement, which we aced in cur hands_ jster every worthy unty. We are betefore. It will be a is. s New Year. You Right"