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?J ? 1 - ?- ? VOLUME LY., NUMBER 44, i NEWBERRY, S. C?, FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1918. TWICE A ?EEX, $1.50 A YhAB <?>*5^S><5i<s^J^*!"*<^r*<$>*J*<^*,*<^**<^**<^**^^**<^**^ THREE SCHOOL DISTRICTS ? - ?/.AVOAT TTV 1 rpf ft TU at lUiiisuiiivAAiiw, -A Modern Bunding to be Erecteu and a Special Tax >'ot Less Than Fnor Mills Xor More Than Eight. Long Step Forward. The people can generally do whal they make rp their minds to do. And I really love to see people do things - * n. - especially when I know mat me uv.ing of them is for the betterment anJ the uplift of all the people. When ever you do anything that is helpfu' t'or the educational interest of th< children of the rural districts yo'J have done something that is good for the community and for the State, and something that is worth while the doing. There are several very old schoc' district? in this county. They ma\ not have been dignrfied with the ap. pellation of school district all the years of the?r existence, but the.. . re nevertheless school commnnitic: ' * "where t'^e children" fov cc:io" ition' 1 iv-' been tv^ght. T 'sncke p. sh r! ago o? Hartford as one of t'ns/*"arrk'ts. r school having heei: conducted at that place for a centurj perhaps. In No. 2. townsh'p there i" Mt. Bethel, which it is said is t':ie heginning or the mother of the Souii Carolna University, this school^bein: the cne from which the founder of tii* university went. Dr. W. C. Browr has promised me for several years t' write the history of this from wha "he knows of it by having it handed down to him from his forbears, but hhas not yet done so. T hope now tha: he will he able to furnish what h' "knows about the history of the Mt Pethel school so that it may be printed in the paper, and thus preserved for the future historian. Then in the . same community is Garmany schoo which certainly dates back to abrm 1840, for the deed Is of record whicl was made by Mr. Garmanv for th? seven acres or more of land whic!: was given for a school and which is still in the possession of the trustees of the district, and where the schoo is now beelng taught. It is worth getting all these fact; together now in reliable and correct shape, separating the facts from t*h< legends, so that tbe history of thf communities may he truthfully an; J nroperly written. I am writing nov. only from memory and without nn3 data before me. This community has been a prosperous and a prominent section o the county for more than a century It has been noted during all theso years for the interest it has taken ir education, and many men of Stat* tind national renown have come frotr this community. It is the home of the r Browns and the Caldwells and the Csrmnnt; nnd the Ruffs and for gen erations they and their forbears havs taken a lively interest in anything that was for the advancement of th: community, and to sustain the reputation of the community it is tout th* duty of those good people who no^ live there to keep the fires of educa * - - i ~r tion burning lor me ueiit-iu ui me;i children. The Brown family canu in that section about 1750, and at tha< b time their nearest neighbors were v ; Ninety Six and Goshen Hill. J. Epps Brown of Atlanta is the manager anc k vice-president of the great Southerr M Bel! and this is his native section IVIaj. J. F. .T. Caldwell came from tha: IB section of the county, and Prof. 0 Hffi: Cannon still recalls the slat ^^Bpenches at the old Garmanv school IKany others couia De menuunea. am tie people have a right to feel a pridt p their community and the commun. ly spirit should run high, as it does I There has been a school in thf Jarmany district and one in the Mf fcethel district. Some years ago the chool building in the Garmanv disrict was blown away by a cyclone nd since then the school has been J * - J nf fViA cifo crivon r^onaucitju uuwu a.u mc yiu by the Mr. Garmany mentioned above Then there is the McCrary district not far away which is of recent ori 4in. 3 ">3 f!iUCe ~ o-^T"?y 0r | building in Garniany there has been ' r"" . imorp nr less unrest among the par,- | rons as to what was really best to I be done. Some wanted to rebuild or. the old site, and some wanted to build at another place, and very wisely the matter was just left to worl; itself J cut. In the meantime the St. Phillips : people, not so far away, went to work L and erected a modern school building ->?/! rnto.i tav tr> establish a rural y j C4X1 VA ? v/vv .1 v? WW J graded school, and the school has i t j prospered and now ha* three teach i ers and nearly a hundred children, j ' And it is really a very fine rural j > school. Of course it has been fortun- i i ate especially for the last couple yens i j or more in having exceptionally com- j i j petent teachers. McCrarv decided to i j join St. Phillips, or at least a portion j j of McCrary did, and as a result, as [jl understand it, MoCrary had thj | | present session only about four children. ; ! - Then the other part of the Me- ; C;*arv district adjoining Garmanv do- ; <*ided to go into Gv-rir.an". and the re- j Tuis'te nvyr.'bor of free'oii-r - have V- J ' I reafiy signed the petition to go. And j money was being raised easily by ' j . i $\l SX'Vlmy-t On to C\ Is.:' "*.10 * building. ] Then *t":e people of V\ * - tr,r*. ' school began to realise that if. would j probably be a good thing to- join lu i citi w'.ih Garmany and the portion of Me- ! >ol i C?*arv and esta-Mi'sh a rem sr:*,ooi. a?:a , * ' o ' j thai was the occasion of a mec-Mug j \ : '! I had the pleasure of attending at; for - Lebanon church 011 Monday evening, i I About two years 02' more ag"> I mo i attended a meeting at this s^ine go place to talk about this same thing, ahc : It was more largely ^Usnued. but it J io was lacking the entfwMk^rn of the j ian last meeting. mn ' j I appreciate the compliment paid n:a ' I me by the good people of this com- * vl" ' munity and the superintendent of ed--'a' L ucation in asking me to go to it, for cxc ' T " 1 -* + +Vi?T>or f r\ ho 1 ta? I 1 CUUSiUer it U ?, icai cm?i0 w ~.. 41 teemed worthy even to t.akn part in ! ^ie 1 { any gathering that has for its object j 5 1 the improvement of the educational j xvo 51 facilities for the children of any part, ! | of our country, 'but particularly the j rural section. It is a great honor, I tv j ^ ' and a great privilege to have even a * t small part in any meeting that will | CCC ? I result in the building of a good school ^ 1 4 j anywhere. And I believe the^e good sc* ' J people have made up their minds to 1S '! have a gocd school, and that is ali ln,i " that is necessary, to make up their ccr minds to do it and the thing is done. cre On the way out we stopped at B. S0! f B. Leitzsej's (I went with Mr. Wilson) i an( . and picked him up. While waiting i ^ ? for him to make ready Mrs. Leitzsey ' I . ? i offered us some good cherry pie, the ; ? same kind that my mother and grand- 1 va i mother used to make in the days of ( > mv childhood when we had plenty ?7 ? of fine cherries, and I always wanted anf - J the last piece so as to be permitted j CUl ; I to eat it from the plate in which it v ; was baked, and the sight of it carrie-I j ; me hack to, those good old days. T < ^ - declined, however, to eat. because * > wlioii I dzii c?:pectei talk, a? It - thought I might be. T can't eat cr if; 01 . I do I can't talk, but I told h?r t: .would stoo on the return and eat my j tha > piece, and she could just leave it ou 1 t the table if we came 'back .too late j r for her. And, as I expected, when ' wa ; we came back Mrs. L>e!tzsey had re- ! on( qoI I tired, but the pie was there, and the ; ' i table was prepared, and there were j l tViinp-c; m that table such i ^ aicv uian ? If AC Th . things that rome out of a garden and i me > some of that fine old country ham, i i oh' . and T got my pie as well, though Mr. | I Wilson had gotten ahead of me 'he- j ^as cause he had already had his, and, _ tPT then I think he ate a whole one be- LC sides. Well, I do not blame him. be- ^oc *W6 cause it was good. wil But to the meeting. It was well f ? attended by the patrons of Mt. Beth e'. and several from Oarmany and . MoCrary. Mr. Wilson stated the obt ject of the meeting, and then I talked 1 t about the advantages of a <rood rura4 lov school, and so did Prof. Cannon, and i'lst : then Miss Ola Brown fold in a \jery j Mi" interesting manner of the work that j .? ! had been done at St. Phillips bv the j , | ? ,4.., to r .v, ?. c nth? ! Ti Every person in the 1 as a patriotic duty, to young men who are of 1917, and who will be June 5, 1918, to presei of the places designalec Employers of labor ar< JL mr to ascertain how man} will be required to regis do so. One can regis! o'clock A, M. to 9 o'cloc 1918, at either one of 1 Newberry, at the New mire, at the. Old Bank and Ccsnuanv; Chappel! m' / A, M, f .r* ^ - ?? <" > ft ? "K-t 1? c? lCSyj$"^T f :hia M ~ - w Lithe ftiouiiiain, cl? vY P->,#s* 'N^! v?<O-2 . -* ~.w "J _. Tr -?. ? J. U.* ^ \ p-^-r n n I if 11 n n j r u ? ixoas n':rr.;v;0*:?;y tf-.-.-'d-ul to con-' (J Idats, and a'so to vote a tax of no* ? than s- mills and rot more tTmis; r'it-s. the two constitutional Minit; A ; % t a rural grad?d school. , Lnd hr'?t of all it was also unani:sly decided that every.one would away from the meeting talking rnt tho fine school they were going ? l? ,.u ! build soniawhere.cn tne appauiuu- j highwav. and what a great coin- 11 ?> . nity centre they were going to s< ke it. and no one was going to say j 0 .'tiling about the particular place C:l which they were going to locate, j a ept that it would be soniawhere on j s' Appalachian highway and within j consolidated district. And that's ; e: ! spirit that will build a school 1 ^ rth while the building. Of course,! e re will be some remote sections j ^ the district that will make the \ v 1 iooI a little inconvenient, but thatw 1 odj;:?t itself in time, if there is P1 jperaton among all the poc^l?, j ich is very essent:al to n r'"P ?j 1 tool. The thing to talk about now P + f +Vir?\- nrp f?oin<? to ^ lay mi!; i.iv,.- ? a Id for their children, and the great ;r nmunity center they are going to j V: ate. And when the school gets t> j ^ r>p <rno.! tho children will come ' 1 the people will -yonder why they . vnot see the vision long a?o. \ r am g'ad that I had the prrvi!^:* J 11 ,ta'*in<r part in this meeting. I? j ^ s a fine meeting. The morale, as y say, ana the spirit were all that ' > could expect. Just -keep up 1 i*:o shoo! will c.on:e ocick. T : i't conceive that it could be other- j F. H. A. | :r | M\ J.?Sinre writing Lie a.;,)ove 1 j ' '.ij:::: Ii:forr-.od thri fie county ' rd has -ry"!" acted upon the pe that norticn ^ McCrary that asked to join witll I ^ rmany and has admitted it, so all : it is necessary now is for Mt.! ir thei to come in. and at the meet- ! ^ ; on (Monday evening the petition j ^ s signed and the l>oard will act at .I " " **? ~ ? i It e which will legally eriect tu? tuu- j idation. That is good. Dr. -Brown : ' f"7 s to appoint a committee of three , m eich district who with the trus- j 0 s of the three districts will locate, f * e only thing omitted is that the ; a etins: should have made Dr. Brown i ' nnmrniftao TTf* ^ iirillclll UI lliXl iV/Vxumi?/i.vv? ? . ; fc > the vision and is broadminded and | *ral and- has no direct personal in - , ?>i est in the matter further than & | ^ S( )d citizen who is interested in the j lfare of his community. But it j I all come out right. E. H. A. A - nnnn iin/lTkTT) I VTIC J tl LUKEU ItfilwISl n.iii i TO REPORT JUNE 1.! A I tl "*he local board has called the fol- j 0 ring re<ristrants to report on June j t< to ?fO to Fort. Wayne. Detroit, \ tl ^hieran: j tl rtarcellus Robinson I tl Vrthnr Wesley Williams, Cdd Caldwell. ; k \ % County is requested, j inform and urge all age since June 5, i of age on or before it themselves at one 1 I below and register. 5 urgently requested ; r of their employees * " ; ter, and see that they j :er any time from 7 ;k P. M. on June 5, the following places: Court House; Whit- j Bui]diner of Coleman is, at the office cf A. at the Town Hall; ! r ->0-0.. v /T* j 0 .*? : , %,/vrM^lf^dll 7 ^ i?/ >u* 3 4 A C/ 4 *1 Fi!??'A\S >IOVK FOHWUID A<i.ii?*ST alli:::) r >": :( ? 'I *<>n From I'rrli-J i'j; : . Tv.Thousand j r?soneif? Ijifi'iidiiiff Two ( I In their violent attach on the 3">-1 rile battle front running from Soisi i )ns eastward to the region northeast f Rheims. tho German e^mie"; ar? ontinning to force back the French nd British forres on nearly every sctor. The fortified town of Soi^sons, the , itreine left flank of the allied bat- ; e line has been occupied by the enmy, although the French are still' olding tenaciously to its western enirons, through which emerge the raili ay lines leading to Paris and Com- j eigne. According to the official uerman . 3n.?mi-^*':ar;o ' iv/eniy-Svs -thousand j risoners. among them a French and , British general, have been taken ml numerous nddi-tior.al town? and { anta^e points all along thf> froi>t j ave been captured. Seemingly Rherns. ';ke Soissons.. !~o f- doomed to fall to the h~nds ; C the eno~n". th* Prerch war ofreporttV* A' i t ? ^ cov ing \ 10 famous tcv.v; have ' ^en j 'thdrawn fro' '^cliiiid the J Isne ^nal northwe. - the TuaIt" r->rward. r-> the !C'tA" directly southeast of i ^.0 riang noy. are fight-; :j r:!*-'ively ^2 miles from where: iev started their dr' e iMondnv from j auxaillon. w'iile near r and ; t the vicinity of Sr.vignv, wedges J n-r^ h=>o'i driven into a depth of ap- i" roxim&telv In miles. The Germans continually are throw j ig fresh divisions into the battle t>ut le British and French troops are eeping up their tactics of giving round only when it :s impossible mger to hold positions under the emendous pressure. Heavy casual- j es are being suffered 'bv the army j f the German crown prince, while i le losses of men to the allied forces | p*? described as relatively light. Although unofficial reports have ' lenitioied the rushing up of rein>rcements from the south, there has 5 yet been no official statement that eneral Foch is sending an nis reirves. Interest In America. Of almost as great interest as the isne battle is the situation around j le little town of Cantigny, where the I mericans made a notable gain in leir first "solo" attack against the ermans Tuesday. Numerous coun>rattacks have been launched against le Americans holding Oantignv and j tie out.vling positions. b#t all of j lem have met with the same result j -failure ar'l Ms? ot* many men li-zd -.>r wounded. Evidently the , \ TION ^t-'t *y$ * FINK CLOSING OF THE irvfwinnnnTnnr irTinr kJ/'ii/kitr ; fKUSSrEiltrixi nmn n\Mfu Fourteen Tonnp People Conclude the t Course?The School Spirit is Fine j and the People Interested. j Ir. was our pleasure to attend the ; m< class day exercises of the Prosperity se high school oil Wednesday evening, j This is a fine school and is doing n W sreat deal for the uplift of that com- el; munit and the interest in the school gi is fine and the school spirit runs j W hiah. j Ri There were fourteen young people Mi finishing the course and they evident-j Mi ed fine training by the excellent teach 1 Cc f>rs of the school. Principal Wheeler Lr has been with th school for several I year? and Prof. J. M. Bedenbaugh i sii liis assistant is a teacher of wide exf>r?d the other teachers all * ? A nlfnTofllOT tlm VOTl ! f.'WfJv?! ft t?"i cl nil (iiLUnbtuvi . i"?t f losincr has been a very snccessfat one. Th o evening wp.? warm and the aur-.y'yt--.i y . i't fj ;] f>'] h"t bOttO:* o-i1 v:ni>'?vr?r =>e^ in fny an- ? a> O v oorv^snrr?l?nt fnrnish.cs for iiii< pi "rr-onnt of t!:o exorcise* ' a v.- rnnhl rot malcine: these or rmr''' on the excellent work thi? r- r-h f)o I ?c (1 oin<v. Mi Tn I online: no f Ti o history or anor'\?v oo.umunity the other evening wo -v rn "'-os? nv account of tlrs school at and when the good people decider! ,\i (o o h'Sfh school the slogan se in Prosperity was '"High School and Prohibition." At that time there were- m c-pro: nl barrooms' in the town. *Tn. looking over that fine audience 011 b( Wednesday evening we could not help , of but fool thaf it was good 'that those : v fin? hovs would not. even know what a re barroom looked like, and while we havp neve/ been a prohibitionist we ' gj believe it is ws'.l for them that The bf.,r good people wqn both fights at the r, time ye-^n^fitjon. . r ^ ( S( A \ Prosner:tv. Mav 30.?On .Monday > hi TH>bf the bovs declamation contest 31 was bold. The program was: j w Song?America. I pr Prayer. : Ja^es Wright Pedenbaugh?Tl^e ^ Diggnitv of Labor. Singley?<A Battery in Hot i Si I Action. Mnsic. j T>??4...? /^^nncllv Vnf frllilfV. ' P^ r~triinr> v uutu.T ? Cyril -Mills?Duties of Literary Men j to America. Music. Ernest Brooks?The "Black Hors? , cc and Rider. . 1 C( Olin Long?Sense?Common and n< Preferred. j' bi Music. j Ti T^is medal siven by Mr. T. H. Hunt: R< of Xew'berrv was won by OJin Lon?,j w with honorable mention to 'Ernest j Bi Brooks. | b On Tuesday* eve^ine: the reading j SI contest for the W. W. Wheeler medal T! , was held, the followiing being the sc program: Christmas Eve in a Mining Camp? Ri Mabel McWaters. ' ce ^he Swan Song?Myrtle Hunter. I CI Music. rr . j Th? 1/ttle Scottish Martyrs?Ruby w Mae Merchant. I St A Murderer's Confession? Bertia tr ' be I te ; nMnaroH in flisrUlte ' Americans ai .. ^ to the last degree their occupancy of j th<> high srround thev have won. I ~ i /C Tnstinted ipraise has been showered ^ upon the Americans 'cv military offi- j ^ cers for the dash and darinT they showed when they left their trenches i and started out in quest of their ob- j iertives. Still another defeat has been ! inflicted on the enemy bv tVip inrru ! T cans?this time far to the east, in the j fo Toul sector. Here the Germans let j ^ loose large quantities of gas near j vi Rremenil and delivered an attack | ch v-Mcli the A mer cans shot to pieces j"*10 \v;th machine gims. t" In Flanders and Picardy the Ger- : ^ mans are heavilv bombarding French ! and British nositions on various sec- j tor? and raiding operations are being carried out by both sides. No big 1 V-c:Ie lias bear, besun. i DAY a *1*^*1* -$ ! *$ v > v $ *5*^-1^ Saner. Music. The Death Dish?Mae Long. * The Night Run of the Overland? ? *Catherin Counts. Music. Miss JBertie Saner captured this Klal with Miss Mae Long coming cond. The closing exercises were hell ednesdav night bv the graduating iss. This class is composed of ten rls and four boys: Misses Nellie ise. Mae Long, Bertie Saner. Mattia ith Singley, Azalee Mills. Lottia ills. Lvdia Dominick. Ruby Mae erchant. Annie ward, .\ancy jane sok: Messrs. "Willie Leaphart, Olin >ng. Elbert Shealv, James White. The program was opened by tin lginLr of the Star Spangled Banner. Salatory?Elbert Shealv. Class History?Xellie Wise. Essay?.Annie Ward .< Class Poem?LycUa I>ominick. Class Will?Azalee Mills. ( lass Pronho'-y- -Vancv -Tan? ('; ok. Yci 1 <a/HMnrv?T.nttm AIi11> Class Song. .yarding of Diplomas. The William Lester chapter v red ]>rir:o for* the lirst examination ;food i the Civil War. which was pre* :.v q .j ghoaly to Bornicg ^ erchant. The E. K. Aull essay medal W3^ m hv Xancy -ane Ceo-a with honor?le mention to Annie Ward. Col. ;11 in his usual happy manner printed this medal. Supt. Wheeler awarded the other edals as follows: Foi:rt!i ?.nr! Pfth grr.rV ru-!'0 Cjt sst average, given by R. C. Count3 ! Columbia, was won by Day Werts, irginia P?la?k and Pfajifis Wheeler ?ceiving honorable mention. The sixth and seventh grade medal ven by Dr. Wheeler was captured Rebecca Harmon: Elizabeth rovme and Grace Wheeler coining jcejid. ^ Dr\ Hunter gives a medal in the gh schoof department for the best rerage. which fell to Ruth Stoc'-cman, ith Joe Langford and Mira Hunter >ming next. Th^ mathematical medal: by r. Simpson was won by Alice Domi'jk. honorable mention .to ^ernice ;one and Pat Connelly. T.iis terminates the most success1 commencement season of the roperity hio-h school. * Death of Mr. TVill Keefier Mr. William vj. tteeaer. itnex a im;rins: illness at the State hospital in )lnmbia. died there Monday after>on at 5 o'clock and his body was ought to Newberry on the 2:.'5.3 train aesdav, whence it was faken to semont cemetery, where the service as conducted by the Rev. E. V. abb, the following acting as pall;arers: 'Messrs. W. A. Hill. R. C. igh, W. W. Cramer, M. L. Spearman, had McCrackin and Duncan John n. Besides his father, Mr. John W. eeder, and his stepmother, the de;ased is survived hv two brothers, [aiule Reeder of the Southern railed and Raymop.<t ReH<>r, somehere in the service of the United ates, and by two sisters. Miss Gerude Reeder. who teaches in New;rrv. and Miss Renna Reeder, who aches below Columbia. Mr. Reeder ts about 3S years old. The body was accompanied from jlumbia by the father, the sister?, e brother Claude and Mr. Carl holtz, the unc:e 01 r,ue uetciovu. "I always look forward to iii6 ar * ral of your paper. It is quite a ant to <ret news from voar heme wn." So writes T.t. W. E. TMckley R C. Ambulance Co. No. 2. 1st dision, A n F, in directing the address iang?d from the 18th infantry Wo po that he and the other boys pre who la^e The .Herald and New:; ill get it regularly. 1)1? SALE?One cf the gray 'tire" horses a-j;I one of the town's "nuies. For prices, etc., see H. D. Whiatker, Alderman. Ward t. it