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f ? > > 9 1 ?? ? 1 ' . *"*' ' ' -? "" VOLUME LV., NUMBER 76. 1 NEWBERRY, S. C., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1914. TWICE A WEEK, $1.50 A YEAR / - PROSPERITY NEWS FOR % HERALD AND NEWS READERS n Teacher Elected for School?Recetion to High School?People Go- Vi ing and Coming. S' i1 Prosperity, Sept. 22.?The high school pupils of the Prosperity school a were entertained on Friday evening , d by Miss Kuth Stockman with a i tJ \/ "Tacky party." Quite a bit of mer-1 c 4 riment was caused by voting for the j t tackiest couple. The fortunate win- j ners of the red stripe stick candy j f were Miss Lillie Mclntyre and Mr.! p Elton Sease. ' j t Mrs. Thornwell Haynes left Friday | v for Fitzgerald, Ga., to visit her broth-. s . er S. Bushnell Bowers. Dr. .G. Y. Hunter has gone to Try- ^ on, N. C., to spend a few days with 0 Mrs. Hunter. !c * rh ^ KD. Granville Wyche of Greenville ! * is visiting his. parents, Dr. and Mrs. : v O. T. Yyche. * j Miss Vita Counts spent the week- j ^ end at Silverstreet. j a Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Mayfield have s returned to Denmark after a visit to : * S. S. Birge. if Miss Eleanor Jordan and Master 3 Charles Jordan of Newberry are 11 spending a few days with tfceir father, Mr. C. C. Jordan ai the Wise ho-; v tel. ^ u ** * ^ Vv * n_j i j* Mrs. o. Li. jjuncan ieit oauuruay a v 'for Blacksburg after a visit to Mrs.. t Virgil Rohn. | 1 Mrs. Henry Parr, Mrs. Jim Wheel- v er, of Newberry have been visiting c ^ Mrs. J. P. Wheeler. * n . Mrs. J. A. Hunt and children of n Saluda are spending the week with Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Schumpert, *c Misses Mayme Swittenberg Vnd s Ruby Thorn and Ellie Wheeler mo- sj - tored to Kingstree for the week-end. a Dr. G. W. Harmon and -family p spent Sunday in Ninety-Six. j p /Miss Tena Wise spent Friday at a the Columbia hospital with her moth- ^ er, Mrs. J. L. Wise. s * Mrs. Joe Sitz has returned from * <3 several days stay to Columbia. Mrs. Sam Spence of Columbia is! r visiting Mrs. Jim Hunt. - ' Mr. John Earl of Florida is visit- ^ ing Mr. J* B. Stockman. . Mrs. John Dominick is visiting in ! ^ Ninety-Six. | ^ Miss Caroline Voigt of Eau Claire j * ? i _j * if n I ^ iias &een visiting ner sister, ivirs. v,. . J. Shealy. It Miss Bess Bowers is spending a { ! j lew days in Columbia. Master Allen Wise Taylor of Batesf iuTg is with his grandfather, Mr. A. v G. Wise. . , v ' ? Rev. Z. W. Bedenbaugh is home af- " i?r a short visit to Columbia. Miss Annie Fellers is teaching in * .Batesburg. r Mrs. L. W. Bedenbaugh has been s added to the faculty of the Pros- * perity school. Mrs. Bedenbaugh will ^ "teach the second grade: - Mrs. M. C. * JHorris will teach science in the high " , , I scnooi. Mrs.' Ellie Kinard of Marion is ! c spending a while with Mrs. M. B. J v Bedenbaugb. ' o Miss Mattie Ruth Singley of Co- e lumfcia i^hcmc for a few day. e Rev. D. J. Qriffin and Miss Mary e ^ Langford of Wightman Chapel, Miss ; c Cora Summer and Mr. Olin Counts ! P of Zion church attended the Epworth ! t: League convention in Greenwood on j t "Wednesday. | ^ Miss, Elizabeth McWaters of Co- j o iumbia was home for the week-end. j "* Alvin Sine-lev of U. S. N.. is home : > on a short furlough. o Mr. and Mrs. Sims of Spartanburg have been visiting the former's sis- f ter, Mrs. Addie Hodges. Miss Annie Waters and Mr. Cyril' a 4 Mills of Saluda county were married I Sunday afternoon at the Lutheran ii parsonage by Rev. C. J. Shealy. ^ Marion Morris has gone to Colum- tl W * bia to take a business course. My. and Mrs. W. W. Duncan of j f: Montgomery, Ala., spent Sunday with v " ? ? ' * - /^l T /-I T\ I the lormer s iapner, ^mei j. uun- s< can. Miss Chesney of Clifton is the v guest of Mrs. V. E. Kohn. J Misses Myra Hunter and Nannie Lee Young were shoppers to Colum- L bia on Saturday. C F. N. Palmes of Camden motored ^over for the week-end. t; 1 Rev. Chas. J. Shealy, Mr. J. S. Wheeler and Mr. J. JJ. yuattieDaum spent Wednesday in Columbia in the lc interest of the three hundred thou- 0 sand dollar educational campaign of the South Carolina Lutheran synod, rr Rev. A. M. Huffman of Hickory, L VARIOUS AND ALL ABOUT. That houn' dog of Mr. Oxner's has ot come home yet. Newberry college will open this reek and the enrolment already is uch to tax the capacity of the dorm;ory and the boarding places. The city schools are overflowing nd there is great need for that aditional equipment and buildings that he citizens recommended. They will ome in the near future. Newberry own will stand by her schools. j Mr. C. H. Cannon has purchased j rom Max Oxner the garage and sup- ! lies therein i^i ifJast Mam street ior , he price of $10,000* Mr. Cannon | nil run a garage. It is the old , tand of Baker & Oxner. Clarence Floyd was convicted beore Magistrate Douglas on Monday n the charge of carrying a pistol oncealed and was sentenced to pay 50 or serve thirty days on . the forks. . ! Mr. John Wall of the Fretwell lule company of Anderson will be t Wise's stables in west Friend treet Tuesday and Wednesday of his week and pay the highest prices or mare mules between the ages of, ; and 8 years. "Pat" Wise says this lay be your last opportunity to sell hat mule that you are not using. ! I The Carolina Auto . company mloaded a car of Chalmers on Moni ay, all of them already sold. Cap- j ain Bill Smith says that he has sold 9 Chalmers during the past two j reeks. And that he will have four | ar? of Maxwells in his garage in the ext few days, 24 cars. They will ot stay long. Mr. G. S. Enlow of the St. Phillips | ommunity had a pumpkin vine to j pring up in his potato patch as a ! crt of volunteer and he let it alone i nd let it grow and it produced 34 j umpkins and the 34 weighed 555 j ounds. That was some "gourd vine" i nd what you reckon it would have one had it-'been a pet and given ome work and attention? But it id well enough. The Newberry clinic is operating * * * * i - i> t\? ni _ i__ ignt along in cnarge oi ut. x>ia*.e nd Mrs. Blake andjDr. G. E. Neal is{ Iso still here. The Herald and News itended to print the office hours in [lis issue and t ohave a little somehing to say about the clinic but we re again filled with advertisements the last moment and will defer he article and the office l^ours to he next issue. Dr. G. E. tf^eal State Epidemologist j rho is not ynly assisting with the j dewberry clrtiic Dut is also assisting n the treatment of any contagious i iseases that may appear, states that: here are five or six cases of diptheia within the town and a radius of j ix miles. He has seen two cases with j )r. P. G. Ellesor, one with Dr. W. A. | >unn and an engagement "Monday af- j ernoon to see a suspected case with | >r. J. M. Kibler. ! A meeting of the John M. Kinard amp sons of Confederate veterans .ras held on Thursday in the office f J. B. Hunter. J. B. Hunter was lected commandant and L. A. Boozn^infonf ' HriO ol OfTQ f*C* W!l?! Aloft. l aujutaiit* \/iiv uviv^wvv t?v*w www d to the reunion in Atlanta and the ommandant was empowered to appoint the other; the camp being enitled to two delegates in addition to he commandant and the adjutant fho are delegates by virtue of their ffice. L C., has been visiting at the home f Rev. Chas. J. Shealy. Miss Ethel Saner has returned rom Columbia. i/i. aim Ji'Xi o r\. u. uncaij :ci u \ji 1 i londay for Gainesville, Fla., where )r. Shealy will teach in the univers;y of Florida. Pickens Langford has returned to lie Citadel. Mrs. Wiibur Epting has returned rom the Columbia hospital and is isiting her mother, Mrs. .W. T. Gibon. Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Duncan of Saannah are visiting at the home of . H. Crosson. Misses Willie Mae and Tena Wise, | .. M. and Cutts Wise, motored to Columbia Sunday. Mrs. Jake Singley and little daugh?rs of Excelsior spent the week-end rith Mrs. L. A. Black. MJct. A Wnnflrin/ilr r\f r-'V??sr,_ ! iUICO ^TXlilllV ff VVUVW4fc VA j )tte is spending a while with Mrs. >. W. Amick. Mr. and P?Irs. R. N. Taylor of Bachian Chapel spent Saturday with Mrs. cis Dominick. PURELY PERSONAL. / The Movements of Many, People, Newberrians, and Those Who ! Visit Newberry. r n \ Miss Gerjrude Reeder spent the week-end in Greenwood. Mrs. Pope Wicker and Miss Julia Wicker of Newberry were among: the out of town visitors in the city yesterday.?Columbia Record, Sept. 19. Miss Vannie Lake of Prosperity was shopping in the city yesterday.? Columbia Record, Sept. 19. j Miss Lucile Counts of Prosperity was shopping in Columbia Wednes-, I day.?Columbia Record, Sept. 19. Mr. I. M. Smith of Kinards was 1 % in town on Friday.?Clinton Chron- j _ 1 - 1 Oil. j lcie, 101 n. , Miss Gladys Werts of Greenville, S. C., is visiting her sister, Mrs. W. F. Wightman, in Harper Street. ' ! A card from Dr. W. E. Pelham says that he is having a great time at Salt Lake City. President S. J. Derrick attended a meeting of the State board of education in Columbia on Friday. I Mr. and Mrs. I. B. Mann spent the week-end at Dyson on a visit to Mrs. Mann's relatives. Mr. J. B. Black, Jr., of Prosperity ' has returned to the Georgia Military Institute at Atlanta. Mr. J. C. Camenter now of Aiken ] telephone exchange has been spending a few days in Newberry. Mrs. C. A. Renneker of Orangeburg is spending a week with her father,, Mr. Jas A. Burton. Mrs. Harry O'Donnell is spending a while in the city with her father, Mr. R.'Y. Leavell. Mr. C. G. Blease, Mayor Z. F. Wricht and Dr. Geo. B. Cromer at tended the welcome to Lieutenant Coleman at Chappells on Saturday. Miss Lucy McCaughrin of_ Newberry, who has been spending the summer in Asheville is the guest of j her sister, Mrs. J. C. Harper.?Greenwood Index-Journal, 19 th. I Miss Minnie C. Gist of Newberry, is the guest of Miss Emma Brandon. I Miss. Gist has a very wide circle of friends in- this city;- which formerly was her home.?Union Progress, 17. Mrs. E. E. Moore and her daughter, Miss Nettie Moore, have returned from ,a two weeks' visit to friends and relatives in Newberry.?Columbia Record, 19. Miss Kathleen Counts of Little / Mountain passed through the city yesterday or her way to Leesville, where she will be an instructor in music at Summerland college.?Columbia Record, Sept. 19. Gladys and Carl Epting, after being operated on at the Baptist hospital for tonsilitis, will return to their I home in Prosperity tomorrow, with their mother, Mrs. T. A. Epting.? Columbia Record, 19. \ Mrs. P. G. Ellesor returned from Greenville and Greenwood on Sunday evening. Dr. Ellesor joined her at Greenwood on Sunday and spent the day. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Leitzsey of Silverstreet returned on Sunday from a trip to Greenville. Mrs. Leitzsey had been in Greenville for several days with her sister, Mrs. C. L. Wilson, who was in the hospital.* Mr. William R. Zobel and his son William A. Zobel, of Charleston, visited the former's mother at Helena the past week. Mrs. Louisa Zobel returned to Charleston with her son ! and grandson on Sunday. Miss Blanche Davidson left on Monday for Kennonsville, N. . C., where she wilr teach science and act j as lady principal in a fitting school j for girls under the direction of the ! Presbyterian church. Mr. J. J. H. Brown and his son J. G. Brown returned on Saturday evening from a visit to Oklahoma where fkoir lmri tr? visit a sister of Mr. I J. J. H. Brown whom he had not seen since she was about 12 years of j age. i ANNOUNCEMENT I The following establishments will be closed Thursday and'Friday Sept. 25 and 26th on account of the Jewi ish Holidays. L. Morris, T. Vigrodsky & Son, Daitch Bros, Jos. Mann. Tfcp New York Herald savs prices will not fall for some time. Very j likely, and then not far and perhaps to rebound like a rubber ball. Put a little saltpeter in the water ! you use for your bouquets and th? flowers will last for a for:r; j V;. NEWBERRY TO ORGANIZE 11 COTTON CORPORATION < Charter Applied for?Capital $150,000 With Privilege $300,000.? To Buy "Distress Cotton." The Herald and News asked on Friday what Newberry was going to do about forming a cotton holding corporation. At the time the paper came off the press certain gentlemen who are interested in the welfare of r the farmers and at the same time interested in .the best interests of the people of this section were busy formulating plans for the organization of a corporation along the lines necessary to secure the holding of cotton so that the minimum price fixed or'suggested by the cotton association recently held at New Orleans1 might be made effective. There is no use to fix or suggest a minimum price unless some provision is made to care for and help the fellow who is not able to hold his cotton. . . , A meeting was held Thursday afternoon at which it was decided 'to \ apply for a charter and form a corporation to buy cotton that had to be sold and hold it off the market until the minimum . suggested had been reached by the spinners and the exporters. And to pay one-fourth ,cent a pound above the market in order to induce the seller to let the , corporation have the cotton in the event he was forced to sell. Application has already been sent , to the secretary of State asking for a commission to open books of sub- " scription to the capital stock. *The. . corporators are: Jos. L. Keitt, W. ; C. -Brown, H. 0. Long, W. H. Long, ( C. E. Summer, John M. Kinard, H. L. Parr, and B. C. Matthews. The shares will be placed at ten dollars each and it is expected that the farmers themselves, the producers, will take largely of the stock. If the plan , is carried out throughout the cotton belt there is no doubt that the mini- j mum price suggested will be reached. As soon as this is reached the corporation will remain ojut of the mar ket^_. is jjot the purpose to become | a cotton purchasing corporation except in so far as it may be necessary to protect the producer and secure the minimum price suggested by the cotton association. Ample warehouse arrangements will be made. If the present and established warehouses can not take care of the cotton bought by the corporation warehouses will be built. If every county in the cotton belt will form a similar association or corporation and there is cooperation , the situation is well in the hands of the producers. No doubt the mills will be glad to have a stabilized price for cotton and then they will j know what they are doing. And it j will be to the advantage of the mills to have such a corporation as the one here suggested because then the mills can buy the cotton they need and will know that they can get it and what price they will have to pay. And then the farmer and producer will know how to make his plans because he will know what he can get { for his produce. Notice of the opening of the books of subscription to the capital stofck of the new corporation will probably be given in the papers this week and ' ' 111-- ?:i tne StOOK sncuia ce liuicmy &uuauiiucu and the corporation can get in the market at once. i It will be the plan to have a buy-" er on each market in the county and 1 so long as cotton is below the mini- 1 mum to pay one fourth of a.cent the ! pound more fqr it than any other 1 buyer. Every one who is forced to i sell cotton should be willing to sell ' it for this much above the market I price. ' Cooperation and sticking to the i plan is the key to the success of it. The more money the farmer gets for < his cotton the more he will have fro \ 1 spend. The minimum price for Sep- j t tomhor i*q rents. Cotton at this 11 writing is selling around 28 1-2 i cents. The corporation would rather $ the farmer would not sell and thus < make the increase it is expected to ' get for himself, but if he will sell c and must sell so long as the market * is below the minimum he should be t willing to get even one fourth of a ^ cent the pound more man uit- mui- f ket price. c ??? c Mr. Chas. P. Barre of Greenwood c was in the city on Monday. c VfR. B. C. MATTEHWS TELLS 3F NEW ORLEANS CONVENTION Fells Interestingly of the> Work of the Cotton Convention?Cotton Growers Unanimous and Determined. The Herald and News asked Mr. B. C. Matthews * who attended the New Orleans Cotton Convention something of the work done and his impressions of the results. He is very much interested in the cotton situation and is doing everything that he can to help the cotton growers to sret a fair price for their cotton, and was largely instrumental in the steps that are being taken to organize the iocal association to take care of the distress cotton. He was very strongly impressed wifti the determination of the delegrates present at the convention to win the fight, and says that particularly in Texas, as stated by the delegates^ will a strong effort be made to hold cotton for the minimum price suggested by the convention. He mentions Texas especially on account of the fact that this State grows so much more cotton than any of the cotton growing states. In response to our request for a statement of his impressions of the work done Mr. Matthews said: As a delegate along with county chairman, Joesph L. Keitt, who attended. the American Cotton Association recently held in New Orleans on the 8th and 9th of this month, we found every cotton growing state in the South fully represented. We ? ~ Vwtr Qnnofnr T-T nirp were auuicoocu -uj >. Smith of Georgia, Senator Ed Smith, of South Carolina, and Congressman. Heflin, of Alabama, besides others not necessary to mention. We were told by these gentlemen that every port in the world was wide open; that there were plenty of ships to export cotton, and it was up to the producers themselves to fix a mraijwjm price for their cotton; furthermore,' Germany has already received one hundred and fifty thousand bales of cotton during the last six weeks, and they were using linters to make what some people call silk. This s*hows the - " * * - /? j_T wonderful resourceiumess 01 inese people. It also shows the further anxiety of these people for the great commodity which we have in the South. { I do not think I have ever seen a more determined body of men than we found at this convention.. They all stated unhesitatingly that the cotton crop in their respective states was particularly poor and they were very anxious to cooperate with every other state to secure a minimum price. It was finally agreed that each county should form its own organization as a part of the State organization. All of this was agreed i -f+or- Via it-i nor riersonal in UJ^Vli C4J. I/Vi. uu 1**^ r tei*views with the various and sundry representatives from the cotton growing states and not from any speech making. All of the delegates were very anxious indeed to find out what the attitude of Texas would be, and we were told by the Texas delegates that we might rely upon them absolutely ? ?j L.IJ to cooperate witn us ana nuiu men cotton for the minimum price, and we are today informed that good work is going on rapidly in Texas. We realize there would be a certain amount of what is termed "distress cotton" trown upon the market and to be able to, take care of this distress cotton it was agreed that each county would organize with sufficient capital to tSke care of this ri^c+vocc Numbers of coun ties in South Carolina have already organized and others are being or- j *anized, not only in South Carolina out ir. every county in the cotton growing states. Following up this plan, Newberry county had a meeting on Thursday, ;he 18th, at which time it was agreed ;o immediately apply to the Secre;ary of State for a charter to organze a corporation withr a capital of * " *i . i* >150,000 with the privilege 01 in- j creasing it to $300,000, par value >10 per share, and as soon as the J commission is received we will ifnnediately open books for subscripion, and we feel satisfied that every :armer in Newberry county will gladly take stock. As scon as this iz lone it will be the intention of the jrganization to place a buyer in 'very market in the county to pur-j base this distress cotton at one-! I f THE NEWBERRY COTTON HOLDING CORPORATION To the People of Newberry County: At the meeting of the American Cotton Association held in New Or leans on Sept. 8 and 9, a resolution was unanimously adopted requesting each county in the cotton belt to organize a corporation to buy cotton that is thrown upon the market regardless of price, and which is under the minimum price fixed by the association. "Other counties in the State are now engaged in organizing these corporations?to hasten matters in Newberry county some members of the association have applied to the Secretary of State for a commission to open books of subscription to the capital stock of the "Newberry Cotx? tt.i j_ r\ i: jy rpu^ ion noiaing ^urpurauuii. jluc pivposed capital stock is $150,000 divided into share of the par value of ten dpllars each?so as to be within the reach of every farmer of v the county?upon information received books of subscription can be opened on next Saturday, Sept. 27th. Therefore the corporators hereby call a mass meeting of the people of Newberry county who feel an interest in this important matter to be held in the court house at 11 o'clock a. m., Sept. 27th, at which time the "books of subsription will be open?and if there is .sufficient response on that day the charter can be obtained the following week, and the corporation commence operation. All citizens of Newberry county are asked to subscribe. For the coroporation is organized to protect our common inter-, y ests. The Board of Corporators, Per Jos. L. Keitt, m ni 4 r? a lem. tnm. a. a. Program College Opening, Holland Hall, Thursday, Sept. 25th, 9 a. m. Devotional exercises?Rev. L. P. Bolaiyl. Welcome Addresses. The Mayor?Z. F. Wright., The Baptist Church?Rev. E. V. Babb. ' ~ The Methodist Church?Rev: C. E. Peele. , The A. R. P. Church?Rev. J. W. Carson., | The Presbyterian ChurchT-^Jfcev. E. D. Kerr. The Lutheran Church?Rev. Edw. Fulenwider. The College qub?Dr. w! H. Hunt Board of Trustees?Dr. George S. Mower. "The Drive"?Dr. George B. Cromer. Announcements?S. J. Derrick. { The public is invited to attend. The chain gang under the supervision of M.r. Teague is working out the road from Newberry to Prosperity. It needed the work. quarter of a cent above the market, unless the minimum price, 36 cents for September, is bid. For October I the minimum price will be 36 1-2 cents with an increase of one-haif j cent per pound tor each month there? ? * i A/\ x- i I aner unm 11 reacnes <tu cents, iu ueing the intention of these various and sundry corporations to hold their cotton until they receive a minimum price as recommended by the New * Orleans convention. I The statement was made on tfc: floor of the convention at New Orleans that the manufacturers themselves much preferred to have j the price stabilized, and we feel we will have their cooperation in this I ntliorwisp. it. is nn to them i to suggest a better plan to obtain it. | Please understand it was the object j o fthis convention to suggest such ! a minimum price for cotton that the producer would have a reasonable profit and we cannot see how any ope can object to the producer receiv;ng some profit upon the comA AU UA Vine iWAtim lUVUltji VVH1V.1I lie iiao givnii Someone may ask the question, "Can the cotton be financed?" My reply to that is, cotton has already been financed before it was picked, and I can not help but feel that the party who furnished the money to the producer would much rather have his note secured by a warehouse receipt than the producer's not secured <, j_ % oy a crop mortgage. Speaking for everyone, the farmer, the manfacturer. and the banker, a hearty cooperation and all pull together and we can't help bui: succeed.