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f |sr f|eraG) an0 jms. Entered at tlie Postoffice at New* t> fceny, S. C.. as 2nd class matter. 10 E. H. ACLL, EDITOB. Jb ' CI "8161 'SI AJBnuBf 'ABpsenj, IS] ~~ | o: The legislature took a recess from ,, ! Friday to Tuesday. Just as wen a| recess along and study the tax question. ? |S That is some statement of the, ii Peoples National hank of Prosperity. c< Nearly a half million dollar bank, si Look at the deposits and the cash and n' the profits and see what you think S' about it. Ii is going some. a] -9m ti The senate has appoined a comm- cc ittee to investigate che charges th3 j n( jroverner made in a message to the 1 legislature last year against Mr. A. j th A. Richardson and that committee is 1 j,* to report before a vote is taken on ^ the veto message. \ : w The cold wave and the storm of; ; A: last week shut down tthe power plant; n( in Newberry. from last Friday after-; \ i ai moon "until Saturday night. As a! I di result the linotype, and the presses J , I si of the printing office also were shut m down two days interfered somewhat , ? dl with the amount of type we could get for this issue. The house of representatives passed a resoluton unanimously requesting the tax commission to rescind ! i its resolution directing auditors to assess all property at 50 per cent value, i'here is no law for such an assessment any way. The statute says actual value. Of course every one knows that no property is assessed at actual value. There is also a hill introduced in the senate to abolish the ! commissions. The fact that all of the South Caro lina congressmen voted against the suffrage amendment to the federal constitution does not necessarilu mean that they are opposed to woman suffrgae. It means that they agree that it is a matter that should be left to the States, and in that position they right. Th^ftame position isUhe logical one as to prohibition. Those are matters that rightly belong to the States unless it is the purpose to wipe out all State sovereignty ?nd all Stat? lines and let the federal government run the whole -business. But Congressman Dominick was the only South Carolina congressman to vote against the amendment as to lipuor^ Congressman Johnson and his private secretary have both entered the army as privates. And the congressman has given up his $7,500 salary for $33 per month. His wire is quoiea as saying: "Of course it is lonesome . tout I think my husband is right in joining the army. He feels that as he voted to send other men to the front, "he ought tQ be willing to go himself. He would not apply for a commision ' because he has had no military .' . training. If he feels that he ought to ?ive his all to his country I certainly ought to back him up and I do." That's the right spirit but it so ften happens that the fellow who is loudest in his protestations of patriotism wants the other fellow to : _ * 4o the real fighting and he tries to , keep his own either out or in some i soft place that he thinks is bomb j proof. j tm I The Gaffney Ledger says that the gravest problem now confronting the country is the labor problem. And the Ledger is about correct. For some reason it seems almost impossible to' get any labor at thi time to do any of work. It is not because of the enlistment in the army or because of the emigration of any great part of it. But we believe it is because the labor that we have been accustomed to have in this neck of wood has made money the past year and so long as the money holds out there will be nothing doing along the line of labor. If something is not done to see that fields are planted and cultivated and the harvest gathered there will be a scaracitv of bread and the armies in the fields can not do much fighting 3ople at home will go hungary. There has been scarcity of wood j ad of coal and yet in this section of j le country there is plenty of timber j Lit of which fire wood could be made j nt it is impossible to get any one to j jt it at any price. These conditions iould not exist but they do. The ^ nly way to solve the problem is for ' irery one to go to work and remain j t work. Prnf Ror>tnr nf tha TTniversitv of ! A i,vv"" w" v"~ ~ " I outh Carolina has introduced a bill I J i the legislature requiring that all j DUnty superintendents of education I lall be college graduates. There is j o objection to them being college raduates 5ut that by no means is a evidence of fitness for the poson. Some of the biggest fools in the mntry are college graduates. It is j 3t essential to the proper discharge j ! the duties and administration of j lis office that the incumbrerie should j ive been a school teacher though ! icf r>r?t Vi n j IC4W UUtO liUb 11 U1 C-. TVe have seen some school teachers ho had very little common sense. 1 3 superintendent of education you: jed a man who posses common sense j id who has judgment and who can *al with the public. Of coure he louId be educated 'but that does not ean that he should be a college gra-! late. Some of them are very far from So. t>994 lteport of the Condition of the Peo the State of South Carolina, at the C RESOU Loans and discounts (notes held in b Overdrafts, unsecured U. S. bonds deposited to secure circula Liberty Loan Bonds, unpledged, 3 1-2 Stock of Federal Reserve bank (50 pe Value of banking house Furniture and fixtures Other real estate owned Lawful reserve with Federal Resen Cc.ih in vault and net amount due frc Checks on other banks in the same c bar.k (other than Item 17) Total of Items 14-15-16-17-18 .. Checks on banks located outside of ( bank and ether cash i ems Redemption fund with U. S. treasurer S. treasurer Total LIABIt Capital stock paid in Surplus fund Undivided profits - Less current expenses, interest ai Circulating notes outstanding Demand deposits: Individual deposits subject to che< Cashier's checks outstanding Dividends unpaid Total demand deposits Time deposits: Other time deposits Total of time deposits \ Total State of South Carolina, County of I I, R. T. Pugh, cashier of the ai that the above statement is true to i Subscribed and sworn to before m this 12th day of Jan., 1918. E. W. Werts, Notary Public. Make. This Bank 1 Your New Y Resolution? c kJliuum count with this We offer ahso ous Treatment 4?io Compour THE EXCE Of Newb "TKp Rank r ! ( educated. It is net necessary that he j should ever have been a teacher. Prof. "Rector also wants the State board of education to pass on the j fitness of superintendents and prin- J: cipals of schools ibutt one requirement j is that teachers must be college gra- j, duates. Some of the best teachers we!: have seen in the public cshools were j ; not college graduates but they were ; educated. ??? nm_ _ 1 i i 11 _ j iv i I jl no nouse nas Kinea ine acimm-j , istration "bill to give the governor the j po Nr to remove sheriffs. And it is j wel1. There is too much tendency in j this democratic age and country to! centralize power. There may be j ] cases as cited by Senator Bonham j < where it would be well for some one j1 to have the power of removal but the)' 11 are rare an^ the people may be.trus-' ted to do the right and the tendency j J if so rau^h power were placed in the j hands of one*man, would be to use it;. * | i for personal or political reasons and!] the result wrouid be the abuse of it j ; ??? p we aeeineci to print a tour page paper this issue in order to make the 1 : 1 mail? on Monday night. About the time we were closing down on cony ! the power went off. Then a belt to the machine broke. And then, well,: it wont do to print what took place, but we quit until Tuesday moring I li j pie's National Bank, at Prosperity, fn lose of bnsiiiess, Dec SI 1917. RCES. 'ank $473,750.14 ........ $88.46 tion (par value) b.zou.uu : per cent and 4 per cent 15,000.00 r cent of subscription) ... 1.000.0U 1 1,639.61 1,789.48! . 7,500.00 re Bank 25,919.71 National Bank 224,317.99 5ity or town as reporting 2,280.40 $226,598.39 Jity or town of reporting ...... 3,773.35. and due from U 312.R0 $463,621.64 JTIES $ 25,000.00 . . \0,0<K>.00 $192.37 id taxes paid 192.37 6,250.00 j ;:k 161,670.40 I . .. 940 96! ; ...... 1,008.00: $163,619.36 258,559.91 $258,559.91 $483,621.61 dewberry, (ss) Dove named bank, do solemnly swear tbe best of mj' knowledge and belief. R. T. Pugh, Cashier, e Correct?Attest: D. B. Cook, T. A. Dozninlck, W. W. Wheeler, Directors. . | i ="' i .1 rour Business Home I ear's I I i for a Savings AcI s Strong State Bank. lute Safety, Courte t, and? id Interest 4?j0 4NfiF. BANK L A A ^ ^" " ?r v erry, S. C. >f the People" DEATH of MRS. MAGGIE TARRANT Mrs. Margaret Leaveii Tarrant died Sunday morning at 9 o'clock at the home of her daughter, Mrs. MaryBrantley Siniely. Mrs. Tarrant was the daughter cf the late Col. jolin R. Leaveii a useful citizen of this town who died Feburary 6, 1800. She was sixty-nine years old last December, She leaves four daughters and one son. The daughters are: Mrs. Mary Brantley Smily of Houston, with whom slie lived; Mrs. Bessie Pifer of the State of Washington; Mrs. ? * * - ^ 1 -'ll/x C? . ban ill e Avmser 01 uoruesviut:, o. ir.d Mrs. Olive Colston of Xew Orleans. Robert Hayne Tarrant of New Orleans. She is also survived by four sisters and three brothers as follows: R. Y. Leavell of Newiberry; Dr. 'Wllliaan HTayr.e Leavell minister to Guatemala. Central America; now in this country; ]ohn R. Leavell of Greenwood; Mrs. Kate C. Spearman of Columbia; Mrs Emma E. Watson (of Rome, Ga.; Mrs. W. E. Pelham of Newberry ana Mrs. Beta L. Wright of Newberry. Mrs Tarrant wa3 long a citizen 3f this city and taught for many years the gradei school. She was a mem_ her of the first FaptlS't church and i se?nl in ^)th church and Sunday school work She loved the LiOru s work. She lovel her many friends i"1. :his -community with whom she love 1 :o lahor in her Sovior's service. WOMAN GUARDS A CROSSING Takes Man's Job as Watchman, for Railway Company and Likes the Work. South Bend.?Women are filling men's positions in Europe and some are alrea .y doing it in the United States. Among the women nere wnc are doing men's work is Mrs. Helen Stackman, watchman at the Vernon street crossing of the New York Central railroad. Mrs. Stackman is enthusiastic over her new job and says, while she believes woman's place is in the home, she feels perfectly at home in her little watch house. She has two small children who spend most of the day in school and the rest of the time with their mother at the crossing. Many persons who live in the neighborhood of the crossing believe that Mrs. Stackman earns her monthly salary every day in heart ease for the mother, whose children must .cross the railroad to and from school. The little watch house provides the children with a sort of half-way place between home and school, and already this year they have taken advantage or tne oj> portunity to stop and warm themselves. "There really is not much work to it even if it is supposed to be a man's job," said Mrs. Stackman; "everyone is so nice 'n obeying signals that it is really no trouble whatever.* The real object of my being here is to look out for the schoolchildren and see that thej get across the tracks all right. I spend much of my time knitting." Camps for-Homeless. v Washington.?Among the largest of ~ I A. war relief work being carried on' ai Cone The Nation Newt From Report i Showing Condition a Loans and Invest Liberty Loan Boi * t n n 1 U. o. Donas Cash and Dae fr< I I I i Capital Stock Surplus and Und Circulation Dividends Unpai< Opnnsits i I _???????? " i ! TheNatio i B. C. MATTHEWS, T. K President State, i 4 I j tho present time are camps for Lome-; i less thousands of persons in and J ; around Saloniki, which were starred by j i Dr. Edward W. Ryan, head of the | Ariioi lcr.ii Red Cross in that region. | { Tnere are <u,uuu sunerers camping uut, : in the tents which have been set up. j ! If? . ,-!>.< i*A?^ vu.- | (SALE OK REAL ESTATE BY ! EXE( I'TOKS of ED VV. R HIPP Deed. j We. t>'e untie?signed Executors of Edw. R. Hipp, deceased, will sell ; at public outcry at the court house in the Town of Newberry, in tthe County* j j of Newberry, in the State of S. ., j within the legal hours of sale on | i Feburary 4th, 1918, the same being ; sa!'*3c!ayf vto the highest bidder for | cash the following real estate cituate in said Town of Newberry, viz: Two j lots situate in that part of said Town j of Newberry, known as Gravel Town, j each confronting 75-2?12 feet on | Piair stropf and earh eontanino- 586T> i I sqr. feet more or less',?these lots | J being numbers 2 and 3. . I also lots numbers 1, 2, and 3, ; i fronting on Eleanor Street. \ T /-. ?. numlioi't. 1 ' fi finr? 7 fronting ! i-v/to o u, w ( on a six front alley: and Lot numbers j S fronting on Holloway Street. Each lot to be sold separately. All of the above lots are shown on j plats made by F. W. Higgins Sur- j veyor, recorded in the Clerk of Courts office at Xewfcerry, S. in Plat Book , E at pages 341 and 343. Also lot and store house there on' 904. Main Street, now occupied by J. B. Jones. } i Mary E. Hipp, Extrix. John C. Hipp, Executor. j . : I * 1 ----- - For Blank Boot BOOK ! Ledgers, Journ; Cash Books, ] Record Books, . and Memoranc j Start the New Year W j . ? Mayes' ft The House of a 1844 lensed State. OF al Bank o( >erry, South Cai o the Comptroller of t the Close of Business RESOURCES j__ menis ids, Installments j >m Banks and U. S. 1 IIA RIUTIES ivided Profits d ..." nal Rank oi . JOHNSTONE H. T. CANIS Cashier Asst. C DEATH OF MISS MARY 1)0 MI NICK. Miss Mary Dominirk (!io:l at hei" home near Prosperity De\ 30. an I was buried at ce'~etary at Prosperity ^tjj, at the close of the day Monday, and close of the year 1917. Her pastor, Rev. Stokes conducting the funeral J"l| services, while tve "Beautiful Snow"* ^ eraVematic of her pure, quiet anrt 1 unassuming life fast covered the new ma^e grave. 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Write today for Hastings' 1918 Catalogue. It's free and will both interest and help you to succeed in 1918. ?H. G. HASTINGS CO., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Ga.?Advt. * ? Books 1 is Come to the STORE als, Day Books, j Receipt Books, J n l I , iirne books, jm Sums. V ith a New Blank Book i ook Store A Fh011 sand Thinsrs ? merit AT 1 Newberry rolina : the Currency 4 A ? mm December 31, 191'/ $545,036.05 J - 47,343.00 J 100,000.00 Veas. 189,492.51 * S881.871.56 ? / I $100,000.00 J 14,214.28 7 98,800.00 ( 4,058.67 ( 664,798.61 $881,871.56 cNewberrv ------ ^ ION W. W. CROMER A ashier Asst. Cashier ^