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VOLUME IT, NUMBEB 92. . / NEWBERRY, S. C, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2fi, 1918 TWICE A WEEK, ?U# A YEAB THIRTY-FITE CESTS URGED AS MINIMUM. Holders of Staple Advised to Organize and to Refuse to Allow Pirates to Pass. w Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 23.?A joint pro 2Iamation signed by the governors of eiglit cotton States urging farmers, merchants, bankers and business men i to organize and hold cotton for not less than 35 cents a poud. middling \ liasis, was issued here tonight through ! J. J. Brown, president of the "'Cotton j( rnl--j 9 a lw?y stales uiuucii Au?isu*jf ji<n Board. The proclamation, an indorse- ; ment of the recommendations made by . the board here November 7, termed such a price "equal to the cost of pro- ' auction plus a fair profit/' i1 "The recent heavy break in cotton prices," the proclamation said, "is ! wholly unjustified by existisg condi-1 tinns and the great disthrbance inci dent to the break in the niarket has 1 temporarily paralyzed the a?rricultm^l 1 and business interests of the South 1 and entailed heavy loss to the cotton j5 producer by reason of the price being 1 below the cost of production." j' Selling of cotton for 35 cents was advocated only "to meet pressing ob- j' ligations," and borrowing on cotton j1 ( rather than selling it was urged. j1 - - Vi _ j ' i [ Federal reserve DanKs were caiieu , j upon to '*be just as liberal as con- 5 distent with good business in redis- 1 -counting notes secured by cotton." i The necessity for the South produc- j] mg more food for men and animals was stressed in another part of the j proclamation, which urged smaller cotton acreage next year and more planting of feed and food stuffs. | < The proclamation, signed by the j Tovoo n?nPoi9 i &V?CIUWi? vt ^ ?, Carolina, Arkansas. North Carolina. Mississippi, Alabama and Florid?, urged that county and school districts t in #?ach State be organized. J The advisory board added a state- < inent saying the bears is the market < "are trying to frieghten" the Southern * cotton holders, declaring that "federal < fixing of cotton prices is dead," and 1 concluding: "Hold your nerve?act as your sons did at the front in France? 1 tell the pirates they shall not pass." < AJatrtiews-iiesue. ? 1 Married by the Rev. E. V. Babb, at 5 the parsonage of the First Baptist 1 (church of Newberry, Friday evening 5 at 6' o'clock. Miss Delia Ida Matthews and Mr. Gordon Stewart Leslie, both i of Newberry. 1 ; A reception was given the bride and 1 ^ ^room at the home of the groom's ( parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Leslie, immediately after the ceremony. 1 -Mr. Leslie is engaged in government ' h work Charleston and he and his i 0 l)ride have returned to Charleston. ? W fhe good wishes of many friends go 1 with the happy young couple as they ? .start together the journey of life. \ "r ^ i vniPlr.Pttrfyl^ r 'T-*'"' i By simple asd impressive ceremony, < Miss Enoise Amick and Charlie Mc- < Hugh Eargle, both of Lexington coun- < ty, were married at the parsonage of ] Mayer Memorial church, on 'Monday \ 26 inst, Rev. W. H. Dutton officiating, i Its consummation was not without a 1 bit of romantic strategy. The newly , married couple will make their home , injSV'est End, and are extended hearti. ^ est best wishes by a wide circle of ( K friends. B WOMAXLESS WEDDING. W Changed to Opera Hoase Tnesday B Evening 8 O'clock?Benefit F. D. B C. War Relief Fond. I Funniest amateur piay e>er wui-cu , ?fifty prominent business men dress- ; ed up to look like honest-to-goodness < ladies will take all the parts in this farce. Prices, general admission, 0 adults, 50c plus war tax?children 25c plus war tax?Reserved tickets 75c plus war tax. General admission tickets can be exchanged for reserve "* " >* All/la- P. Woalrc ctftrp rirc&ets at UUUCi a f? wau UA U- wvw. *" I Mr. John S. Dominick of Prosperity 4, and one of our Ion* time friend* in renewing: his subscription write?* "I don't want to miss a single copy." That's the right and the true spirit and makes che heart of the editor glad. SECRETARY McADOO QUITS HIGHLY IMPORTANT l'OST Step Made Necessary Soley on Account of Need for Replenishing Personal Fortune Which Has Suffered From Heavy Demands Made by Cost of Living in Washington. _____ J Washington. Nov. 22.?William Gibbs McAdoo. secretary of the treasury director general of railroads and often discussed as one of the presidential possibilities of 1920, has resigned his; office to return to private business, j President Wilson has accepted hl3 ! resignation. =Mr. McAdoo will give up the treasury portfolio as soon as a j : successor has been selected. He wish-; ed to lay down his work as direc'o** general of railroads by January 1, but will remain if the president has oOf then chosen a successor. T'nnn thn noir coppotarv r?f thA t' ^ pvi4 mv XiV ? wvv/* vvv.* j V w .. wury, whoever he may be, will devolve i the task of financing the natio n i : through the transition period of war to peace, which probably -will include-; at least two more Liberty loans and , possibly also a further revision of t^.e j system of war taxatios. Letter? between President Wilson! and Mr McAdoo. made public today | svith thp announcement of the resigna-! t*on, give Mr% McAdoo's reasons for j [pavmrr the cabinet solely as a necessity for replenishing his personal fortrnp and express the president's deen regret at *osing his son-in-law from lis official family. MUCH MONEY SAVED BY WAR DEPARTMENT. I Cancellation of Contractts Prevents , Expenditure of More Than One Billion Dollars. Washington, Nov. 21.?Savings j :hrough war departmental readjust- i rient orders, including cancellation of 3ontracts, are estimated at $1,336,000.-1 )00 by Secretary Baker in a letter read :o the senate today by Senator Martin Virginia, chairman of the approbations committee. "On contracts which have been le^. t>ut on which ro work has as yet been lone." Mr Baker wrote, "cancellations iggregate a saving- of $700,000,000. "An order was made on the 11th o? I November cuttii)!* out all overtime an 3 j ^jnday work. The amount saved bv his order aggregates about $2,900,000 i day. "In the bureau of aircraft produc;ion orders have been telegraphed stopi>ir-g $11 promotion on a large number nf items which ag^re^ate the | 5ctimated savin i of $2>r>.000.000. "In addition to the foregoing. plans iave been made to be^in the demobilization of the forces und?r arms n this country ?nd to beerin returning it once to the United States such persons of the armed forces abroad as ire not needed fo~ the purpose of oc%yr?v*ns: enemv territory. "I have no doubt that, withiin a few 5avs the fieure^ above set forth will Oh.ow substantial .increases and the ?aving affected will mount day bv iav. T*v general. it ;s my earnest de"*re to restore th? soldiers to the?v iomes and their rivil occunatious and -- on,! pnmnlpto. o cut nowii us mtcuj i* anu \/v.?? lv a?: nossfbie the extraordinary expenditures which the war department sva<= obliged to undertake for the pros scution of the war. "I have not set up here the details sf the contracts cancelled because the list is long and the individual items * ? ? are not of special signiucautc. Hepler-Hamm. ? % Mr. George J. Hamra, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Hamm, of Silverstreet, i< tc> be married in the Emanuel Lutheran church in Philadelphia on Thanksgiving day to Miss Elizabeth Hepler of that city. The ceremony will performed by the pastor, the Re\\ Dr J Austin Kelley. Mr. Hamm has been in Philadelphia for several years and has been engaged in electrical engineering and has been very successful. He will bring his bride south and is expected to arrive at Silverstreet 011 tv?ic nnri a receDtion oaiux uav ui. lAiiu ??ww ?.i> v M _ will be given the bridal party by the parents of the groom. The Herald and News wishes the young couple mighty well. MADAME SAZIMOYA LETTERS FROM" THE BOYS ARE BEGISMSG TO C03IEj i Much of tue anxiety wnicn naa oeen. j felt at the slowness with which re-j port from the casualty list of the last j fighting over there is being relieved j as mail is now beginning to come j though most of it is dated in October j Since writing the introduction to the letters from tlie Bullock boys we have had a letter from our boy and several others have received letters ofj later date. The latest date that we have seen is from Duane Livingston to his mother dated October 25. He j mentions in that the death of Be j Foik who was killed in battle. He also states that his company in which are several Xewlerry boys, among them .Iech Chappell, "was in line for 13 davs and then came out for a two 1 days' rest, and then back for a week, j bi!t we are out now for 4 or 5 weeks. We oniv have r>3 men in the company now, "is killed and the rest wounded." ( That Deing the case the rest of the \'f>iv.'iprrv hnv? in this romnnnv arr? nrooably not killed because it is al~ * mosi certain if any had been killed be would have mentioned it and the 1 time he says they are out for a rest ^vill take them beyond the signing of the armistice. Of Ben Folk's death ' he says, "I know Bennie d;ed a sweet death. He did not know what hit him. A piece of shrapnel hit him in the head and it was all over." Duana adds: "He was buried w*th the other ' Americans and with high honor." There comes also more sad news. < It is but natural and we sympathiz3 with those who have lost loved ones , but it could not be helped. . Mr. Tucker Livingston of the >Jollystreet section received a telegram last week that his son Jahn R. Livingston had been killed in battle. He was ?n |' o- ly ?on and sometime ago we printerl sevpral \?ry cheerful letters from him. Mr. L. V. Livingston has two I ! sons over there and has not heard iu 1 some time from them. Mr. S. B. Tompkins of West has received a telegram telling him of the death of his grandson Charles S. Havnes. killed in battle. . Haynes was j the son of Mrs. Charley Dudley who j in Vttw'Jerry about a year ag(? j ^ Mrs. Mize. a widow at'Oakland has a message that her son, Clyde Mize, d?ed from wounds received in" battle , October 25. Mr. T. J. Digbv at Oakland mill ha* information that his son Victor E Digbv has been missing since October 18 Mavbe killerl in battle or taken prisoner, ard rft doubt there are! others but the information is now: coming ai:d the suspense will soon fce |1 over. I; It was renorted on :3aturdav that!' ! 1 Cromer had a cablegram telli:ig ; ' Vrn that his son Beale had been killed.! Th;>t report was ivcorreot. Dr. Cro- j ' 1 x ^ ~~ ?i-. A/. ' Miev ricis noi nt'ani mih-c eau.v ui ui-t tohQr The renort confused the death j ot' Haskell Cromer, son rf Mr. Bae?i*r.c* Cromer who was killed in battle ! I ] earlv in October. Mr<*. Huston T.onsj has a letter from 1 her husband that he was doing wel! ;m a hosni'al in England and hoped to be home soon. He was wounded We had received no letter from our ' c?in^?n A nornct 00 nnfil Mnnflo V I V.. ? OIIIVC ? <.? Mil VII -UWI'Ut' I u*hpn one come dated October loth. | There has been a lot of heavy fight-1 ii'g since that time and we do not know his fate. We hope for the best. : He is with the 2Sth division. The letter is short and we print it for the information of his friends: . Oct. 15, 1918. Dear Papa: I have been so busy the last three weeks standing examinations, and getting ready to leave school that 1 have just neglected writing you. School closed on the first of the month and I happened to be among *he luckv onps. As I told you it was to run for three months but instead il came to a very abrupt end. which no one could explain why. I have been assigned to the twenty-eighth division. Co. H. 112th Tnf.. and I believe T am troing to like it fine, although T ^ure did want to get back to the old outfit. Things over here are about the ^ame. Everybody is talking peace. It looks pretty good rieht now and we are all hoping for peace by Christmas. < J have been having come mighty ex_ citing times sirce you heard from m? PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS PROSPEROUS PROSPERITY, j j Prosperity, Nov. 21.?A telegram J was received Saturday from the War j *"> 4.. i. . x "XT'* _u : i. l ueparuueni. ai wa.suingc.on aniiounr"n-j: the death of J. R. Livingstone *c France on Oct. 9. This was sad news to the relatives aid friends of the i young man here. He was in his 27fh year and had been in France since early spring with the Hundred and Eighteenth Infantry. Thirtieth Divis;cn. Corp. Livingstone was the junior member of the firm of AT R Sinelov iiid Co. A Thanksgiving Program will be rendered by the school children at Grace church Thursday morning at 11 o'clock The speaker will be Rev. McKown of the A. R. P. church. The enrire community is urged to attend fhis Thanksgiving service to return thanks for the great victory. Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Wise left Saturday for St. Louis where Mr. Wise will bry two more cars of mules. M~. J. D. Quattlebaum has returned from Atlanta. Miss Bess Powers has gone to Columbia. s Mrs. G. C. Leonard is visiting her brother. Dr. P. D. Simpson of Cownpns Mr. and Mrs.. W. J. Wise spent the week-end in Columbia. Mrs. C T. Wyche has returned from r Greenville after a visit to her son Mr G. C. Wyche. Mr. M. C. Morris is again spending the week-end in Charleston with hi.? son iMarion. Dr. G. Y. Hunter was called to Camp Wadsworth la^t week on account of his nenhew Ryan- Fellers bein<j: critically ill w'th Dneumonia. fThe last report was that liis condition was^ fav_ orafele. De^t Bedenbau??h. IT. S. X., Charleston. is home on a short furlough Miss Katie Mae Xance of Silverst^pe* w^s home for-the week-end Mrs .Tnhn iDnmini^V has ?nnp tflfl Greer's to visit her son. Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Wicker and Mrs. Joe Sitz spent Friday in Columbia. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Stockman have returned from a visit to Saluda. Mrs. Wilbur Epting 'has gone to her school at Kinards. Mrs. C. J. Shealy is visiting her narents, Dr. and Mrs. Voigt of Columbia. Mr. flart Kohn of Columbia was a business visitor to our town Fridav Death of 0. W. Bowers. Mr. Geo. W. Bowers, who was taken to Columbia last Thursday by Dr. I. VI. Ki'oler for hospital treatment, died Mondav morning. We have tfeard r.o further particulars cf,his death, etc. rHAXKSGIVI\G StIPPER AT ST. PHILLIPS SCHOOL j Come and enjoy a Thanksgiving j ' m. -n! i i i-, ~ ^ I supper ai 01. -runups scuuux uuusc ( Friday night. Nov;. 29th. Generous p^tes will be served, (price 25 cts.) ! Also one cf I'ncle Sara's giinger cake walks. / THANKSGIVING SERVICE AT MAYER MEMORIAL. On thanksgiving day. Thursday morning at 10 o'clock, there will be a. special Thanksgiving service at Mayer Memorial church. The child- < ren of the West End graded school will participate in the singing, and Dr. George B. Cromer will make the - " il 1 T1 ^ ^nuress ui me aay. iuc ui i West End, especially the mothers are | invited to attend. last, On reporting to the outfit I was rvnf -?r? r>horw r>f twn r?nmn?nies. Just imagine how I felt taking command of two companies not knowing a single man in either one. As far as I can tell I came out all O K. I think T am settled for a while at least and I am going to try to write vou at least once a week now. J haven't received a letter from you now in almost a month because I have been on the move, and I am sure hungry for one. Love to all, Your devoted son, Humbert. 0. K. H. M Aull I 2rd Lt. Inf. U. 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