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' ^5. ' i \ . " ? ? f ,v jj-tx1...': - . \ r?c \ [. ' VOLUME LV -NUMBER 68. NEWBERRY, S. C., TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1916. TWICE A WEEK, $1.50 A YEAR \ ' : ~ * , r 'V ? r \ PROSPERITY TOWN HAS BUILDING BOOM ON NOW . New Stores and New Stables?The Schools Will Open September 18 ^ With Fine Attendance. ?? v Prosperity, Aug. 25.?The teach xug curpa ux uic x luopctitj 111^11 auu graded school has been completed knd the opening day has been fixed for'Monday, September 8. The following are the teachers with their assignments: Superintendent, Miss Mayme Swit; tenberg.r High y school department; Miss / ^Wittenberg, mathematics; Miss Ruby , Thorn of Kingstree, English and his -* tory; Miss Emily Werts of rfewberry, Latin and science. Graded department: Miss Rosine Singley, sixth and seventh grades; Miss Goode Burton of Newberry, fourth and fifth grades; Msis Clara Browne,' second and third grades. Primary department: Mrs. M. C. Morris. Miss Swittenberg stated that after having gone thoroughly over the records of the various members of the corps, she considered it a splendid body of able young women and is greatly encouraged at the prospect for good and satisfactory > work. * The ODenine dav exercises will be attended by the patrons and a number of short addresses will be made. The music department of the > school will be under the supervision of Mis. J. F. Browne and Mrs. J. D. v Quattlebaum. It is needless to speak * of the ability, of our ever ready musicians, for they are known not only in Prosperity but for miles aromid. There is a building boom in , Prosperity. A. G. Wise is building concrete stables on the site where his old stables now stand., W. E. Mose3ey of- Jacksonville is tearing down the old Wheeler and Moseley .wooden store tend will build two handsome brick buildings. H. L. Shealy and Bro.'are contemplating replacing the building they now occupy with a brick structure. G. W. Kinard has bought the lot where the Dominick beef market stood and will put up J a brick store. A survey was made last week under the direction of the State high. way department, to determine the advisability of opening up a road on the north side of the Southern rail road track connecting the road now -x under construction between Prosperity and Little Mountain with the proposed improved road to Newberry. Mrs. Alice Ellis left today to open her school at Bath. * The -.younger society set enjoyed a lovely pcrch party on Wednesday afternoon when Miss Ethel Shealy . f entertained i? honor of her guest , Miss Caroling Weeks of Newberry. , * The decorations were of yellow? yellow marigolds being used in profusion. this with the foliage of ereen twined around the pillars made a pretty setting for the party where ~ the tables were placed for rook. Miss 2?yra Hunter wan the prize, a box o? < stationery which she gracefully presented to the honor guest. The hostess assisted by Mrs. M: C. Morris served ice cream a"hd old fashioned pound cake. v vAg$in Friday afternoon the young er society set were entertained when Miss Sarah Amick complimented her cousin, Miss Nellie Ray Seybt of r Pomaria with a party. The veranda was prettily decorated in pink where .>? rook was played. Miss Myra Hunter AV ov:utcu uigucoi, w iiiiiiug a wvja VI stationery. Two other contest games were played?the prizes being won by Misses Louise Bedenbaugh and Helen Mathis. The color scheme of pink was carried out in the refreshments, pink ice cream and ribbon cake being served by Misses Buth and Alma Seybt. Bev. A. W. Ballentie and family % ;have returned to Senoia, Ga., after a two weeks* stay with relatives in .and around Prosperity. "M** UVli TTollorc Visa cnnf> to Do lumbia to be with her grandson, Roy * t Bedenbaugh, at the Columbia hospital. Miss Susie Langford spent Wednesday in Columbia. Mrs. Carrie Leaphart is visiting relatives in Columbia. 1 Mr. , and Mrs. J. P. Wise and children of Ridgeland are the guests of * ,the former's father, Mr. A. G. Wise. Messrs. C. M. Harmon and Carl f . . V. 'Kinard of Ninety-Six have been the guests of Dr. G. W. Harmon, j Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Werts visited Mrs. J. B. Bedenbaugh of Pomaria during the past week. Miss Willie Mae Wise left Wed, nesday for Cedar Mountain, N. C. | Miss Erleen Wheeler who is in training at the Columbia hospital, spefat her vacation with her parents, jMr.'and Mrs. John F. Wheeler. |? Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Wise, L. M. | Wise, Frank Shealy and Lewis Bed[enbaugh motored to Columbia Monj day. ! Mrs. Seay left Wednesday for her home in Richmond. J Mrs. Mae Lee Chase and Miss Kate j Barre have returned from Greeni wood. 1 -? i -* r A m TTT T ; _: i. ? j I Dr. ana Mrs. u. i. wycne vumeu their daughter, Mrs. (James Goggans of Columbia Tuesday and Wednesday. j Miss Moss Fellers is in Columbia, ! having gone to have her tonsils reI moved. j Miss Grace. Sease is visiting in Chapin. v Miss Pet Dominick after having spent her vacation here has return!ed to Columbia. Misses Lola Bedenbaugh and Ada Hunt were shoppers to Columbia on Tuesday. Miss Bell Hunt of St. Lukes spent j last week with Mrs. A. H. Hawkins. I Mrs. Virgil Kohn ahd little daugh ter have gone to Blacksburg on a visit jg/ - _ j Miss Gertrude Bobb and Master Karl Bobb spent Saturday in Newberryv Mr. 'and Mrs. Jim Hunt and Mrs. i Nfellie Hunt have returned from Columbia. | Dr. J. I. Bedenbaugh has returned from Lynchburg, Va. j Miss Doris Kqhn and Mr. Virgil jKohn have returned from the Co lumbia hospital where they went to | be with their father, Mr. S. J. Kohn, who was Operated on Wednesday. I Mrs. J. A. Simpson spent Friday in Newberry. | Mr. and Mrs. W. P. B. Harmon ! en route home from Asheville are I . .visiting their son, Dr. G. W. Harmon. Miss Mayme Swittenberg of New! berry was in town on Thursday. | Mrs. J. C. S^numpert and milliner, r<l? J. WVtoloir A-f Poltimnrp I itliSS uidujro i>uaibjr) VJL vuivAuiwy arrived Friday. Mesdames G. W. and L. W. Harmon spent Friday,in Columbia. Mrs. J. F. Browne has returned from a visit to Mrs. A. H. Kohn of Columbia. Dr. Godfrey Harmon has gone to Columbia for treatment. Mrs. Tj. Y. Hunter ijas returned tfrom the Columbia hospital. I Mrs. Odelite Wallace of Newberry and James J. Washington spent last Thursday with Mrs. J. A. Simpson, j Miss Margurite Wise of the Coj lumbik hospital arrived Wednesday for a three weeks' vacation to her mother. Mrs. J. L. Wise. j Miss Ruth Hunter has returned .from a short visit to her aunt, Mrs. Frank Hunter of Newberry. Mrs. Nancy Wheeler spent the week end in Newberry with Mrs. H. H. Rikard. j Mr. Corday Counts of Columbia is visiting his grandmother, Mrs. T. L. , Wheeler. ] Br. and Mrs. G. W. Harmon motored to Greenwood for the week end. ! Mrs. P. L. Langford and Pickens have gone to Blacksburg to visit rel auves. r j Messrs. James Luther, G. D. Brown, Joe and Rev. George Bearden have gone to Glenn Springs, j Miss Amie Fellers has returned from Columbian i Miss Edna Fitts of Brunson is the guest of Miss Rosine Singley. | Mass Rebecca Harmon spent Saturday in Columbia. ! Mr. Ellis Wheeler has been a recent visitor to Greenwood. I Mrs. Corrie McWaters and Miss i M q nr DoWnlt. Hnnter has returned I A'AMA J A/V f? v..? from Washington, New York and Niagara Falls. j A call meeting of the. Literary I Sorosis was held Friday afternoon at the home of Mrs. M. C. Morris. The following officers were elected: | President, Mrs.^T. A. Dominick; vice president, Mrsi J. D. Quattlebaum; secretary, Miss Blanche Kibler; and treasurer, Mrs. G. W. Harmon. | Prosperity was well represented at the ball erame played at Saluda school house between Saluda and (Continued on Page F've.) CAPITAL NEW! (By Jon ? ^ ' ? A OC T%*TA /I/\M rr*?a O . | VjUlUIIlDlit, AUg. CtO* X w\j v,uugiV-U)sional vacancies will be filled tomorrow, when the Sixth and Seventh districts w31 choose successors, re-! spectively, to the late Congressman Ragsdale and to Congressman Lever, the latter of whom resigned to accept a position tendered him' upon the federal farm loan board by the president of the United States. It will \ <-110 nAnnfincr rvf tVio vr?tp? H P tUUVx l/llO VVUUVtU^ VX WMV ^ VWW ?v v.? termine who has the best chance. j Nobody in, either district has any j walk-over. There is some excellent j congressional timber to choose from,, and as a result of the elections, both , , districts will in aU probability be j well represented in the lower nation- j al house. * j f . ' r The election of Grace as mayor of ; Charleston came as somewhat of a f surprise to a great many people?but' not to those who have watched the trend of events in the city by the : sea. Mr. Grace is a man with the : courage of his convictions, and the. campaign waged against him in Char- \ leston was not the kind of campaign which copld win. When he offered to get out of the running on condi-. tion that Mayor Hyde also withdraw, and leave the race to some man or some several men Ihot recognized as partisans of the two old factions, and twhen Mr. Hyde declined to be eliminated, under that proposition, Mr. Grace had the race won then. There j was never the shadow of a doubt about it. People are getting tired i of bitter politics in South Carolina, j But they are going to continue to \ register their protests against men ?: and newspapers who, when they think i they are in power, don't give the other fellow a square deal. I ! And, by far and large, the speech | of Mr. Grace when the result was declared, was a better public utterance than any that was delivered j' during the campaign. "But from the !' civic standpoint, in the upbuilding of.j this city," he said, "I will know neith- j er friend nor foe. Only in the dis- j tribution of, v'.iat legitimately be-:' longs to politics will I know my j friends. After that all men shall be j, equal before the law ii^ (Charleston, I at least." TV.r TT__ ? V,r. I naayur 11 yuc oayo nc tviuuig ut- t fore the supreme court for a final' adjudication, and he has a strong statement in the News and Courier of Sunday, upon which he says he i will base his contest. The Charleston American, Mr. Grace's paper, does not carry the Hyde statement. ' Mr. Hyde contends that he won .:te |: election, and that he was counted c :t in star-chambA proceedings. ae ;; Grace faction say that the count was held by the committee alone, without the admitttance of the public, calling only the witnesses in interest, in order to save the same kind of trouble which happened four years ago, when young Mr. Sidney Cohen, a reporter for the Evenng Post, was killed in a shooting scrape at the executive committee meeting. It is usually the case in this kind of affair that the innocent man gets killed, and nobody ever was convicted of the murder of Cohen. It happens that Mr. Grace's law partner, Mr. Logan, is chairman of the executive committee at this time, and the vote in every instance was 13 to 12?a strictly partisan vote. But nobody was kill J W-* /\ tinll -Piti ol _ eu, auu LIIC ouyiciiic muiv ??iu ii?uily review the whole matter, on the law of the case, and. Mr. Grace seems to be pretty well satisfied that the law has been carried out. The Herald and News has had a good deal to say about the attitude of Former Governor Blease, in connection with the congressional race in this district. When Governor Blease first made his announcement, I stated in this correspondence that his attitude would be watched with interest, and that it had given rise to a "good deal of speculation. I had no idea then that Mr. Blease had any notion of running as an independen tcandidate. I was convinced then, and I am convinced now, that what he was after was to impress upon the white people of this county, particularly, the urgent importance of registering in order to be able to vojfe in the general election. It was a \ * > k. 3 3 AND GOSSIP j sL ? * .< Auii.) considerable sacrifice on his part to use the means which he did to accomplish his purpose?but,; as mat- . ter of fact, negroes have been freely registering in Richland county, and . the announcement of the former gov-^' ernor certainly had the effect.. of bringing the white voters of the ' county before the registration board. Anyway, all's well that ends well. / i The Lexington Dispatch-News is ^ considerably worried over the effort ^ of some good Lexingtonians to annex themselves to Newberry. Their interest is natural, under the circum- * stances, but Mr. Walker, who hails * from the good old county of Abbe- ' ville, and Mr. Sligh, who comes from Newberry, h>vve failed in this instance ^ to recognize a good thing when they j see it. Lexington is a good county ?one of the best in the State?but people can hardly be blamed for j wanting to be able to get to their I. county seat without having to go ,] through the county seat of another | county to do so. And, by the way, Messrs. Walker and Sligh have started out along the 1 line of getting out a mighty good paper over in Lexington. They are both good newspaper men, and they succeeded a mighty good newspaper men when th^y secured Mr. Sam. J. Leaphart's interest in the paper. And they are retaining a good associate ' * o/K+nr fnn in Mr d 'M. Hflrman. ^ When Lexington builds that good * road from Lexington over to Bates- ' burg, anid clears up the difficulties * between here and Augusta, she will * have a better cliance -against Newberry?though everybody knows that a road couldn't be much worse than the Newberry part "of the road between Columbia and Newberry. But I was talking to a party o? tourists here this morning," who had come from New York, and who were wonrloT-i-nor fhov pnnM Anenista "" ""6 *- ?*"-j ?? e>? ? o without serious . trouble. Ppssibly when Governor Cooper gets his good roads measure enacted at the next session of the general assembly, the rpads between Columbia and Augusta, and between Columbia and'Newberry, will be taken care of. So far as the amount of travel is concerned, there are no more' important roads in the State. i j The equal suffrage movement is looking up in South Carolina. A meeting was ljeld in Edgefield dur- ( ing the past week, with Former Governor John C. Sheppard presiding. Governor Sheppard is senator from Edgefield, having succeeded his son-in-law, the late lamented Senator B. E. Nicholson, and the fact that he presided over the meeting would seem to indicate his inclinations. It looks now as if the women will have a voice in the 1920 elections. , } ! t The action of Comptroller General Osborne, in reducing the State tax. levy from nine and one-half to nine mills is in line with the flexible levy c which has in the past ' two years been adopted by the legislature. Mr. Osborne has about sized up the situation, also, when he contends that all property ought to be assessed on a one hundred per cent, basis, and the levy reduced proprotionately. That is the only way South Carolina can ever have an equitable assessment of property for the purposes of taxation. It has been urged by some former eovernors. and by some members of past assemblies, that the best way to get at an equitable assessment of property for taxation would be to have a State' board to figure upon the amount of the appropriation bill,! and the relative values in the different counties, and assess each county so much, and let the various counties assess their property with this in view. If everything were figured on a basis of one hundred per cent., however, there would be no necessity for this. And it would amount to * 1 1,4 ' 171? ? 1 /\-M trie same tnmg. w nac ia wic ui^ iwi | every fellow to estimate what he owns and then work a sum in long or short division? Evening Service for August. Aug. 31, Baptist church. Z . . ' i " rHE SOUTH CAROLINA COTTON ASSOCIATION, ! Committees Appointed to Organize Newberry County?Strong Appeal for Hearty Cooperation and Prompt Action. ?^ j___ i .Beginning next w eanesaay nioniLig there will be a three day's drive for the organization of the South r arolina Cotton association in every Canty of the State. And it will be Extended to every county in the coton belt. A great deal has been ac:Dmplished already by the Cotton asociation which is due to self-sacriucing work of our leading men. [lever before in the history of the forld has the minimum price of cotbn demanded by any farmer's organization been reached until this ^ear. This means, that never before :?.s the farmer been successful in :xing the price of cotton, his own croperty. The -prce of all other poperty is named by the owner, : -it with cotton the ownerNieretofore r s har) to acceDt the Drice offered o him. When we demand a mininum price for cotton the demand implies that we have power behind he demand to enforce it. Otherwise he demand is useless. Without oranizaton farmers are very weak. iVith a strong organization loyally upported there should be no doubt , hat such an imperishable crop as ctton can be fully protected. There ever was such a favorable time to rganize as the present. The Engish spinners have always been thor>ughly organized and their sole mrpose has been to beat < down the jrice of cotton and keep the cotton producers in a state of semi-slavery <0 they would continue to raise low jriced cotton for their use. 1 The jrice of our cotton this year at 35c ras short lived but it had to be paid >r manufacture would stop. Soon is a limited supply was obtained spinners withdrew from the market md the price could not be maintained. There was no market. The vorld has never been so short of :otton. Th^ difference between the ?rice of raw cotton and cotton cloth :as never been so great. Upon that >asis cotton should be. worth 60c )er pound. But the law of supply ind demand and just values is set tside when organized manufacturers contend against unorganized farmers: the latter will always be defeatid. Much as has been accomplished )y the Cotton association based upon, ! nass meetings should stimulate us j :o a thorough organization when our! >fficers cafi speak and act with au;nority. Some pessimists stop to :onsider the dues of 25c per bale, /hen without organization they will )e compelled to pay $25 to S50 per jale to spinners without doing anyhing to help themselves. It is to )e hoped that we have very few of ;hat kind, for the future prosperity j >f the South can never be obtained j ;hrough them. The central commit- j ;ee has appointed the following j ownship committees. Reposng con- j idence in them we ask that they do he most patriotic work of their lives: >y devoting their time and energies! n organizng their townships accord-, ng to instructions on next Wr.dnes- ( lay, Thursday and Friday. Township Committees. No. 1. John C. Neel. | H. H. Abrams. Welch Wilbur. ] No. 2. Thomas W. Keitt. C. S. Suber. 0. H. Lane. No. 3. T. Watt Henderson. ^A.. H. Maybin. Ernest L. Glymph. No. 4. John M. Suber. William Scott. C. M. Folk. No. 5. R. M. Wert3. Wilbur Epps. J. W. Epting. No. 6. r> n XV. V. ntwi. , R. E. Livinggston. A. D. Johnson. No. 7. H. T. Fellers. J. W. Sanders. A. Pope Coleman. IVT_ O o. H. L. Boulware. 0. W. Long. ' | / J 'V'. * I j ' T ' 1 * * ' * r GOVERNOR RECEIVES LEXINGTON PETITION 1 92 Lexington Citizens Would Add . Parr Shoals Corner of Lexington to Newberry. ^ Columbia Record. v Governor Cooper is in receipt of the petition from citizens of a part of Lexington county requesting the annexation of the northern corner of Lexington to Newberry county, the territory in question including Parr Shoals. The proposal for the * annexation of a part of Lexington to Newberry was announced in the , Pwecord some days ago, but the peti- \ v tion has just now reached Governor Cooper. The governor will consider the request for the election on the question of the annexation immedi ately upon his return to the city aur- / ing the coming week. The petition cf the Lexinggton citizens is signed by 92 names, as follows : * John W. Griffin, C. T. Huffman, j W. D. Huffstettler, John Dreher, T. C. Epting,-Jr., J. A. Huffman, C. W. Chapman, W. H. Eptingg, J. F. Chapman, G. W. Fulmer, D. C. Counts, G. M. Ellison, H. H. Counts, J. O. ^ /' i ttt n m uounts, J. a. uaapman, w. r. ^napman, L. F. Summer, J. F. Mayer, G. E. Mayer, A. L. Mayer, G. A. Swy gert, H. B. Lindler, W. M. Wilson, ., J. C. Swygert, J. 0. Chaoman, J. Stoudemire, R. J. Stoudemire, G. M. Stoudemire, 0. T. Stoudemayer, L. C. Stoudemire, j. C. Eargle, J. A. Eargle, J. M. Sheely, P. H. Sheely, ' W. O. Summer, C. S. Fulmer, A. D. Ber|ey, C. T. Huffman, J. P. Stoude majer, C. B. Stoudemayer, N. E. Sheely, J. E. Sheely, H. M. Chapman, H. C. Clark, J. C. Stoudemayer, H. B. Clark, J. A. Stoudemire, L. M. Shealy, G. Z. Stoudemire, Colie . M. Shealy, G. H. Shealy, Holmes A. Shealy, W. 0. Oliver, Geo. A. Cumaander, L. T. Cumalander, Johnnie A. < Cumalander, J. A. Cumalander, J. \ Kelly Lindler, F. S. Counts, J. F. Lindler, T. B. Lindler, John J. Chapman, Jas. A. Chapman, G. Irving Epting, W. W. Chapman, W. M. Chapman, John C. Epting, C. S. Matthews, E. M. Matthews, J. L. Matthews, W. F. Derrick, W. F. White, Lee Shealy, I. V. Matthews, Ward L.' Fulmer, Boyce Alewine, J. D. Shealy, W. M. Starr, I. W. Frick, B. L. Shealy, T. A. Epting, L. C. Shealy, J. Earl Lindler, A. M. Shealy, Lonnie L. Shealy, Harry E. Lindler, John G. Cumalander and R. V. Eargle. ' 1 C annnn-fainrliman. Miss Sallie Cannon and Ira D. Caughman were married at the home of Miss Cannon's sister, Mrs. J. D. Davis, at Edgewood last night at *8:30 . * o'clock by the Kev. H. A. McCullough pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran church. The young couple have many friends in Columbia and Prosperity who wish them success in life. They will make Prosperity their home.?The State, 24th. PROSPERITY HIGH SCHOOL WILL OPEN SEPTEMBER 3th . ) The Prosperity graded and high schools will open Monday morning, Sept. 8th. All new pupils and all conditioned pupils will please meet Miss Swittenberg at the schooi house on Friday, Sept. 5th, at 9 o'clock for classification. r All pupils are urged to be presenton opening day. Money in Melons. Mr. Jas. Willmgnam, on JLass iviai* street, has sold $185 worth of melons from 3-4 of an acre of land. If he had planted cotton instead of melons he would have made less than a half bale. Suppose other farmers have succeeded equally well with this fruit. A. P. Werts. Dr. George Y. Hunter. Boyd Bedenbaugh. * N. R. Lester. No. 10. J. B. Derrick. J. A. C. Kibler. ' D. W. Buzhardt. No. 11 Holland Ruff. a. iyl. ouDer. John C. Aull. Joseph L. Keitt, Temporary Chairman. Subscribe to The Herald and News, ^l:;50'a;year. 'h* ' :"<** .>n<i >' v/s'/ * r,Vi. Wtf - J | I