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w . ' ; . ' >- , | . % . - * * VOLUME LV., NUMBER 54- NEWBERRY, S. C., TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1919. TWICE A WEEK, $1.50 A YEAR _ _ KEISTER HAIR DIES !w IN COLUMBIA HOSPITAL * Wounds Received Were Fatal.?He 0 Passes Away at 10:30 O'clock Monday Morning. k Mr. Keister Hair who was shot by ? ^ * mistake by Mr. G. W. * Kinard and ' B rushed to a Columbia hospital on fi Sunday night did not revive from tl x> ^ on Mnrirlnv E ^ me wuuiiua emu u?,u ?? _ morning at 10:30 o'clock. #jt< It could not be learned on Monday t: when the body would be brought to h Prosperity or when^fche inquest would 3 be held-and when the burial would 1; take place. I In the meantime Mr. G. W. Kinard c r h is in the custody of the sheriff to o await the finding of the coroner's f jury. Of course if the jury say the 1 shooting was accidental then the t ??+- Ur,;i My Tfinnrd. t coroner can grant u?n w ? ^ There is- no doubt that Mr. Kinard i thought he was shooting at the burg-. t lar but until the coroner's jury pass- i es on it the sheriff will keep Mr. Kin- I ard in custody. j? The negro Counts who was really t in the store was arrested and brought i by Sheriff Blease 'to Newberry and!? i was placed on trial Monday morning s L in the sessions court which was in 1 ' session and pleaded guilty to house j 1 1_* 1o?/>qtiv onri was SPTlt.- ' 1 DreaKuig <tuu laiwuj <*><v> ( " enced by Judge Gary to 13 months,'! the longest sentence he could impose >1 > * under the law. J KEISTER HAIR MISTAKENLY SHOT BY G. W. KINARD. 1 * ^Thought He Was Shooting a Burglar i Who Had Entered His Store. < The Burglar Caught. Prosperity, July 7.:?Keister nair was shot through mistake Sunday < N night at li o'clock by G. W. Kinard. Mr. Kinard was notified that some one was in his store and as he was nearing the store Hair came running from beind the store. Kinard said halt and thinking it w." the thief shot once, the load ?entered Hair's stomach. ? - * ? " tr: I Hair Heard tne noise m ivumiu? store and he and several others had gone to see what was the cause. A negro, Archie Counts, was found in the store. Sheriff Blease hurried to \ the scene and Counts |taras taken to, ' the jail in Newberry. Mr. Hair was rushed to the Columbia hospital for an operation. rOnly last Friday Hair had return- ( ed from, service over seas where he * *had served honorably with the 8-lst division. J : YOUNG GIRL PASSES I AFTER LINGERING ILLNESS , Prosperity, July 7.?Miss Addie Eugenia, the 15-year-old daughter of! i'lr. and Mrs. J. A. Long, died early j Ilonday morning at her home in the j Mt. Pilgrim community. Miss Long ?r * had been an invalid for two years.: The funeral will be Tuesday morning, ' at Mt. Pilgrim by her pastor, the ' "Rev. J. B. Harman. Besides the father and mother she is survived by three sisters, Misses , Bessie, Eunice and Carrie Long, and two brothers, Joe and Olin Long. INTEREST OF ORGANIZING WOODMEN CIRCLE. Pomaria, July 5,?Mrs. Harriet T. Donelan, State manager of the "Woodmen Circle, will be at Pomaria , , on July 10, at 4:30 p. m., and will L make an address in the interest of organizing a Woodmen Circle at this place. The public is invited to come rout to the park and hear her. We have a large camp of W. 0. W. here , and hope in the near future to have ^ an equally large and interesting Circle. Koon-She&ly. On Saturday evening at 7 o'clock at the residence of Mr. J. B. Koon at Pomaria the father of the bride, Mr. Virgil Shealy of Little Mountain i.nd Miss Anna Koon were united in znarriage, only the members of the - ?i- rpu?. I' immediate lamny Demg prcocm,. mc ceremony -was performed by the Rev. S. P.'Koon. Five young ladies stood the examination on Friday for entrance to Winthrop college. They were: Misses Carrie Folk and Ruth Richardson of Pomaria; Misses Ruth Cannon, Annie Hunter and Hattie Belle Lester of Prosperity. V tOMMOTH DIRIGIBLE f"" MAKES OCEAN VOYAGE. ne Hundred and Eight Hours Consumed by First Lighter Than Air Ship in Crossing Atlantic. Mineola, N. Y., July 6.?Great iritain's super-dirigible, R-34, the Sp rst lighter than air machine to cross | le Atlantic ocean, anchored here at|^e ? - " " * " " - ? Ivi' toosevelt Flying Jf leici at y :*o a. m. ( oday (1:54 p. m. Greenwich mean jar ime) after an aerial voyage of 108 ours and 12 minutes, which covered 'St ,130 knots, or approximately 3,600 or and miles. ac Passing through dense banks of Pe louds, with the sun and sea visible hi nly at rare intervals, the R-34 was orced. to cruise 2,050 knots to reach cc ?rinity Bay, N. F., from East Forune, Scotland and 1,080 knots from ^ here to Mineola. ,0^ When the super-Zeppelin arrived 1 1 1 1-* in A4->?A1 4" A S6 tere sne naa ieii. euuugu pcuui :eep her moving. 90 minutes longer. ai ler crew, almost sleepless for four md a half days, were weary almost ei o the point of exhaustion, but happy C( it .the successful completion of their ^ jpckh making trip. The return voy- ^ igy will be started Tuesday at 8 a. ir I n.' Haggard, unshaven, their eyes v Dlood-shot from the long vigil and ^ ines of care bitten deep into their e faces, Maj. G. H. Scott, commanded, ^ and his officers showed plainly the ^ effects of the anxious hours through which they lived yesterday while they ^ svere cruising over the far reaches of ^ Canada and the Bay of Fundy, be- ^ set by fog, heavy winds and teriffic J electric storms. Devils in Air. "It seemed as though the atmos- ? phere Was haunted by 5,000 devils," said Lieut. Guy Harris, the meteorol- c ogist officer. , - 'o f . C THE COLORED CITIZENS r WELCOME COLORED SOLDIERS t j' The ^ourth Observed in Newberry By the Colored People in a Wei- ^ *- i 1 c.u:... t come lO coiorcu kfviurem ? I The fourth was a great day in 8 Newberry for the colored citizens. * They extended a welcome home to f the soldiers who had been in the 1 service either over there or over a here. They began coming in early * in the morning and by noon the * streets were lined with them both in uniform and civilian clothes. It was 8 an orderly crowd and well behaved f and was so all the day long, not only 1 in town but at the Helena grove * where the meeting was really held. * The procession formed in Caldwell * street at the Hoge school house and 1 w.i>.s>v>ari orMind and down Main 1 xiiaivii^u uivviiiu %? .?. ? street through the gates with the motto, "Victory" over the top. The ( colored band from Columbia march- ' ed in front and then the marshals ' and followed by the soldiers in uni- j form and they marched well and in 'good order. They were followed by ( automobiles with women dressed as 1 Red Cross nurses, and then the civil- J 4 ians followed, and soon the town was desterted and the crowd assembled * - . 1 at Helena where a barbecue dinner was served the soldiers and a picnic | dinner the balance of those who were (present. A speech was made by Rev. jDr. White of Columbia, and the best of good order prevailed throughout the entire day, and when the festivl ites were over the large crowd went on home in an orderly and proper manner. We mention this because it has so often been the case that this iday is taken to mean it must be 1 1 1- - 1 fy.n roway ana Doibterous <mu na? nc;quently resulted in many casualties !and deaths. But is was truly a sane i fourth in Newberry. We commend the colored people for the manner in which they carried out their welcome s to their returning soldiers. Saturday the Last Day. The banks request the statement that Saturday, July 12, is the last -Cm* tVio navmpnt of the second iuoji ivi uuv ? ? (instalment oh the Liberty bonds, which were purchased on the instalment plan. It is absolutely necessary I that you make payment by that time 'so that the banks may have time ot get the money to Richmond. If you are a purchaser of this issue of bonds | be good enough to bear this in mind ! (and save yourself and the banks ! .through whom payment will be made, from any trouble. CAPITAL NEWS (By Jon K. ecial to The Herald and News. jra Columbia, July 6.?The doing to [af ath of Sheriff Rector of Green- Icc lie is one of the saddest tragedies jR nong the many homicides which jB tve recently weighted down the 'in ate with sorrow. A young man of j el tly 37 years, starting life without !ai [vantages, by the sheer force of his t? jrsonalitv and his fearlessness ar>d pi s straightforwardness, he had made ci rnself the biggest factor in his tc >unty, and was serving his second ;hi rm as sheriff, in which position he Jf< id won a reputation second to thr.t Jn: : no peace officer in the State. !p< He came from the Dark Corner j iction of Glassy Mountain. Born ;S id reared in the ^mountains, he in-jG =rited a fine spirit of true independ- ilc ire. which refused subservience ex-1 c< jpt to duty. In his boyhood days jtl a roamed the everlasting hills, and in is soul was like unto them in large- ;a ess; and, like their peaks basking |si 1 the smile of God's sunshine, his jt< ision was high. A man of slight it! uild, but of big heart and undaunt- q d courage, he was a stranger to t) 1 1 *"L ^ " O 2ar; ana nis sterling qucinuco mauv ? im deeply loved. a A man of such force, however, if e enters public life, usually makes itter enemies, and Hendrix Kector ^ fas no exception. When he was 21 >c ears of age, he was elected magis- ^ rate up in his home section, and he c hen came to the city of Greenville ^ nd was a member of the police ^ - i-i .1 orce. Seven years ago ne Decame a ^ andidate for sheriff, and was nomi- ij iated in the democratic primary, \2 ver the opposition of the then politial powers of the county. Feeling | an so high that an independent lg icket was put in the field against him ^ n the general election, but this tick- ^ i he defeated also. Three years ago te was re-elected, and would have \ ippn olerted aerain next summer, had it le lived. The light of his life was j nuffed out by another officer of the ( aw, and the county which he loved ( uid served will give him a final rest- \ ng place today, and the mountains T tmong which nestled his childhood f lome will stand round about as sen- ( inels faithful and true. And this I evening, when a low-descending sun ihall paint them in purple and gold, ind a little later, when in the gather- ^ ng twilight they shall wrap their sa>le mantles about them, there will j' >e many a moist eye, which will pay !_ :ar deeper tribute than all the wilder-1 less of flowers which will mark his l( larrow bed today. 1^ TT-?J?J? iiroo a man As !' ncuuiiA uctbui ?i?*o u ? , 1 )ne who knew him and whose friend : le was, I know that he will rest in peace. ' The number of homicides in South j1 Carolina is alarming, and it is becom- 1 : airoMT Haw tViat IIIJC x/iuitr cviucm. - more stringent laws against pistol-1 toting must be enacted and must be j enforced. Probably the next legislature may give some attention to this subject. Certainly the protection of life ought to be an aim as high as the protection of property. And yet ? 1 l"- ?iAro lanionf than vvjj nave icw iawo mux^ awaawav , those against the pistol-toters and ; the motor speed fiends, who are daily j taking their toll of human life, and : few laws more lax in their enforce- j ment. In the eyes of a great many i people in this country, it appears j that traffxce in liquor, or anything' that runs counter to the wave of ; prohibitory "reform" that is sweep- i ing over the country, is a greater j crime than murder. Something is j wrong with the perspective. Maybe, I however, when national prohibition j gets in full swing, as some fellow i has pointed out, everybody will love , everybdoy else; the slums will develop into flower gardens in which cute bungalows will nestle; human nature will be changed; the preachers and the anti-salooners will have to hunt other jobs, and the millen-1 ium will have arrived'. In the meantime, however, it might I be just as well to try to build a dam somewhere that will hold this crime wave that seems to oe outuisuuicmg even that other wave, at present. * I Maybe we need a king. The Columbia State the other day, in lamenting tha- in Great Britain "the AND GOSSIP 1 AuII.) ! S itifipofiftn r\f tViP t.Wfcat.V IS 3. Simpler fair than it is in this democratic t mntry now dominated by a partizan c epublican cabal," said that in Great ^ ritain, 'the king, putting his trust j i his ministers and in the delegates > losen Tor the great task of drafting s id perfecting a treaty, proclaims ^ le return of peace bv readinr: a T roclamation at several points in the ^ t ~~ ,1 ?? >? on/1 tlion vi'Pnt on . ,iy VI XJUUUWU, ctiiu uuv.i j ) say that "it is not conceivable, ] owever, that Independence Day will x ide very far into the past before we ? 1 - ~ 4-rt l-oon o Kvpncif r?"f Oil T* lUKt' <t I i CIl UI l tu u^/i. vv*^? ? j eers of Europe and Asia." ] Maybe, after all, as the Columbia ( tate would appear to contend, ( eorge Washington and all those fel- } >ws were wrong, and maybe this ] ountry ought to have stayed under le dominion of the British king; and ] >"'^0 ivo didn't. we ouffht to lcl^y UC, CHIV, V/ M v V**V%*. _ 0 bolish congress and legislative as- , gmblies, and the right of the people 3 assemble and petition, and all liat, ar.d get us a real king. The , uestion of abolishing the rights of 1 he people, though, is becoming an . bstract question, anyway. They . re mighty near all gone, now. The high cost of livir.gr around tere, and everywhere else in the ountry, is one of the things for vhich the people are praying that ongress will give a little of its atention, and the following item from he Atlanta Constitution's Washingon correspondent, is a welcome >iece of news, if true?that is, true ibout the investigation. Everybody mows that the balance of.it is true: "Congress is preparing to open a itrenuous legislative crusade against )rofite4ring; and it will be waged vithout partisanship. "Republicans and Democrats alike ?eel that the penitentiaries rather ;han the palaces should be the abidng places for these honored and listinguished philanthropic and ;hurch-cloaked criminals. The trou)le about it, however, is there are lot enough penitentiaries in America ;o hold 10 per cent, of these citizen ;rooks. "TV.;? rtric, pnnt-pmnlated Drobe lllio 10 VUV fc :hat the people of America ought to welcome with such hearty co-operation that it can be result-producing, md that quick. "Food commodities are higher in Washington today than a year ago, iespite the fac*- that the government has millions of dollars worth of stored foods being gradually placed upon the market at salvaged prices, while a year ago it was the world's greatest consumer. "The same is true of clothing, shoes, hats, indeed everything that enters into the essentials of life., "The same extortion is true as to rents, leases and purchases in realty. These prices are not fixed by a normal supply and demand, but by peculiar conditions which are taken advantage of to impose burdens upon the poor to further enrich the rich. "The profit of old must have visu alized the vYashington 01 tne iwentieth centur> and this decade and day, when he wrote that immortal sentence, 'To him that hatth it shall be given and to him that hath not it shall even be taken, that little which he hath/ and so on. "It is true in this town, even now in the days of peace. And it is a 1 1 ~ ^ * ~ f A condition tnat is * nut pauuai w Washington. It exists everywhere; and will exist so long as the avarice of man is unchecked by the protecting arm of the law. "The matter is entirely within the province of congress for inquiry and lemedy and surely a remedy can be found. "If not the good Lord only knows jwbat is eventually going to become I of the waee-earner who produces for his employer, but who is himself a consumer beyond hi3 ability to acquire even the necessities of food and raiment for himself and his dependents." B. T. Anderson of the Globe Dry Good company is going to have a new and modern front put in his store in ' 11 1 (Main street. The material is an nere jand work will begin 3oon. DEMONSTRATION SCHOOL I ON RUBBER WHEELS. 'reat at Young'* Grove.?Experts J Lecture on Practical Subjects. Entertain and Instruct. Ipecial to The Herald and News. Prosperity, July 7.?On Thursday ji he citizens of Prosperity and envir- ji ?ns were given a veritable treat in t he meetings that were held by the i nternational Harvester Co. in < foung's Grove. There were three ] essions concluding with an enter- ] aining movie when the shades of 1 -fpii Thp noon intermission i vas enlivened with a barbecue din- j ler under the auspices of Messrs. tickles and Garrett. It was up to its lsual standard. j The demonstrators in this school >n wheels were all experts in ineir ; lines. They gave lectures and dem- \ Dnstrations in preparing seed beds, ! iiscing and cultivating and in the ise of the I. H. C. implements and , machinery. ! Mr. H. F. Moblev and Mrs. Adda - " * 1 +. ~ i p. nowie were trie icctuicio. I In regard to Mrs. Howie's lecture we quote the following from the Southern Ruralist: \ "Mrs. Adda F. Howie, the lecturer j on dairying is an authority on all j that pertains to the dairy cow with 25 years of practicl experience. She is the only woman member of the | State board of agriculture of Wis ?tirno <)?TO flip (\ pcrrep of j CUIliSlUf VYftc av* aiv?vv? v. -0 honor by the University of Wiscon- j sin for agricultural achievement and ' the only woman who was ever invited to membership in the American Jersey Cattle club. "Beginning with a single cow on a worn-out Wisconsin farm of 120 acres at the end of *25 years she had a herd of 150 registered Jersey cattle of the finest strains and a reputation for breeding that brought her the top prices for her cattle?prices that gave her a competency for life, - ~ 1.1. _ and enabled her to visit Europe, me homes of the Jersey, the Guernsey, the Ayrshire, the Alderney, the Holstein and the Brown Swiss, and make a study of their history and achievements. "Her lectures are not technical descriptions of methods and profits, but are poems of love and affection for the deer-eyed beauties that furnish mankind with the one perfect food, for it is love of her work and her 'working partner,' as she calls them, which made her success. She says that no one can be a successful dairyman without loving care of his cattle. The lecture is illustrated with portraits of the prize winners of different breeds. Her descriptions of the regeneration of the soil of Wisconsin?worn out with a one crop system of wheat?by dairying is peculiarly applicable to the wornout cotton fields of the South. These lectures can not fail to awaken some degree of interest in dairying in every ^ community wnere. tney axe ucn?.ered." ! "Mr. H. S. Mobley, manager of the Southeastern section, is a practical farmer who has for years devoted his energy to the betterment of farm life by the betterment of farm conditions. As president of the Farmers Union of Arkansas, and as president of the agricultural board of education of Arkansas, which board erected and directed four agricultural colleges, he devoted practical, instead of theoretical, education giving 1 * ?1aJ/*a no tlTAnl/1 the student sucn Knowicugc ?o be useful in the everyday work of ,his life. It was this enthusiasm and practical knowledge of the needs of the farmer which connected him with the work in which he is now engaged." ! Mr. Mobley is very popular with all those who have the pleasure of meeting him personally. He is an untiring worker, a most congenial associate and speaker with the rare ability of holding the interest of his 'entire audience during his talks and is a regular father to the boys who t--i_ o enpppus nf this school neip IU llianv u ?uvv?. . on rubber tires. ! To bring good luck to this outfit, Mr. Abbott, the general manager oi Columbia, has lent them his interest, ing ten year old son, called Billy. He vies with "Mother" Howie in receiving the attentions and courtesies oi these boys. I On Thursday evening Mrs. Geo W. Harmon' entertained a fe\* in honor oi JlIlCMUA yivn ~ ? | (Continued on page three.) *EED MORE MONEY FOR THE NEWBERRY SCHOOLS Annual Report of Trustees Shows Good Record.?More Room is Needed and More Teachers The citizens meeting to hear the eport of the trustees of the Newberry scity schools was held Thursday af ;ernoon in the court house. There vere not more than two dozen of the citizens present. y Somehow the peo3le will not attend these meetings, [t is not because of indfference to ;he school and the needs of the school, because every time there has been a request for money for iranrovement of the schools or for en largemer.t the people have responded nobly, and they will do so again if the request is made. But they will not attend the citizens meeting. There is nothing more important than the schools of the community, and there are no people who will reSDond more heartily to the needs of the schools than these Newberry people. The meeting was held. Mr. Arthur Kibler nominated Mr. John C. Goggans for chairman and E. H. Aull for secretary of the meetng and they were elected. The report of the trustees was read by Superintendent 0. B. Cannon and is as follows: Annual Report of Trustees. Tn Citizens of the Newberry School District: Our schools began the session 1918-1919 on the ninth day of September under most favorable circumstances. Teachers and pupils entered upon their duties in a manner which indicated that this would be a very successful school year. Everything went well for the first three weejcs, at the end of which our town was stricken with the epidemic of influenza, causing the board of health to close the schools for a period of six weeks. When we were permitted to open up again, we undertook to make up some of the lost time by teaching thirty minutes longer each day, and the teachers, with, perhaps a few exceptions, were getting good results. Having lost so much time, we thought it best to cut the usual " A y* A O TTQ unnsxinss rcccss tu iuui After running three weeks from the close of the Christmas recess, a second outbreak of influenza occurred and we were closed forlihree weeks. Then it was realized that we must take other steps towards making up some of the work lost during the nine weeks our schools were closed, or we would perhaps be unable to advance any of the classes. An estimate was made of the financial condition of the schools, and it was found that we would have a balance of about $1300.00 at the end of the nine I months contracted for with ' our , teachers, so we decided to use Saturdays for a school day and in addition to lengthen the session two weeks. By this plan we would be able jto complete a session of one hundred sixty days, while our teachers would ibe paid for nine and one-half months* ,We realized that six days of school (work per week was strenuous work ;for teachers and pupils, but we felt jthat all would appreciate the abnormal conditions through which we * " -- 1J 1 were passing, ana tnat we coum uavo the hearty co-operation of parents, Iteachers and pupils as we strove to do in a session of eight months the work usually requiring nine months to do. I We commend in highest terms the fidelity and loyalty of those of our teachers who so cheerfully and faithfully did this extra work requested of them, and praise them for the inspiration they were able to impart to their pupils. Some of them had home duties to attend to and Saturdays teaching proved a great inconvenience to them, but they\ did their .work, nevertheless, and they did it | well. (| From the report hereto attached you will see that the average attendance of white pupils for the session ijust closed was 730.4 or 76.7 per cent of the enrollment, while that of last session was 76.6 per cent of the pnrnllment for last year. For the [ colored pupils the average attend ance for the present session was j 333.3 or 65 per cent of the enrollment for this year as against per '* cent for last year. This is very enf couraging, esecially so for a year 1 with so many interruptions, and proves that our patrons are becoming 9