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s I ? - " 4 VOLUME LV., NUMBER 88. NEWBERRY, S. C., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1919. TWICE A WEEK, $2.00 A YEAR PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS PROSPEROUS PROSPERITY Prosperity, Nov. 3.?Tlie remains of H. Lafayette Dominick who was accidently killed Wednesday afternoon near Columbia were brought to Prosperity on the Atlantic Coast Line train Thursday, and taken to his home about 5 miles below Prosperity. The funeral was held Friday morning at Piney Woods Lutneran ki church by his pastor, the Rev. B. L. Strauss. ^ Mr. Dominick is survived by his wife, one son, Cecil, and mother, four brothers and one sister. Dock Valentine who was shot \ Thursday afternoon by Sampson j Gallman, died on Friday at The j Good Samaritan hospital, Columbia, j Gallman was taken immediately to the ! county jail. The remans were i brought to Prosperity where the in- \ quest was held on Saturday morning. JBoth parties were negroes. j A meeting of the citizens was held j on Friday evening at the town hall ?o discuss plans for installing elec- j trie lights. Mr. John C. Goggans, Jr., j of Newberry gave an interesting talk, j explaining fully the cost of same, also ! the advantages that would be gained j by lighting our town. ' The idea is to j connect with The Southern Power | plant or Parr Shoals, the cost being i around S35.000.00. i The Witches, Goblins and Black j Cats of Prosperity were very much j jn evidence on Friday night when they made their nightly prowl from home to home. Although unexpected they were welcome in every home visited. At Mr. and Mrs. D. &. Langford's home hallovfe'en was celebrated in merry style when Miss Mary Lang- j ford entertained tne jypwonn league. All sorts of old fashoned games were played. The fortunes of the young folks Was told by a witch, while lurking a dark back alley outside a ghost j gave shivers to those who dared to I ' Vr - , > I peep out. .,X.oea.and cake was served. i Dr. and Mrs. G. W. Harmon motered to Ninety Six on Sunday. ! Miss Goode Burton spent the latter jpart of the week in Orangeburg. Misses Mayme Swittenberg, Ruby Thorn visited friends in Newberry on Sunday. T T WViooloy r\f T?iHd,P rIVI. u. * ii iiwivi v* ---?o ? Spring spent the week-end with the .home folks. ? The William Lester chapter, U. P. C., meets Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock with Mrs. J. D. Quattlebaum. , Miss Elizabeth' May is home after an extended visit to Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Counts have been visiting Mrs. J. S. Bickley 'of Newberry. Miss Myra Hunter is spending a few days with her mother, Mrs. G. Y. Hunter at Tryon, N. C. T? 1? Cc/?V?ntvinnrf V* o o Y*nfnrno^ 1U1S. A' JJ. UC\.uuui|;viu tiua ivuumvu from a visit to Mrs. J. G. Price of Columbia. Leonard Nance of Cuba is visiting his mother, Mrs. Alma Nance. k Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Wise have gone to St. Louis, where Mr. Wise will Luy a car of mules and horses. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Browne spent Sunday with Mrs. J. C. Taylor of IBatesburj*. Miss Ethel Counts has returned to "Walhalla. Olin Bobb of Greenville is home on a short visit. Dr. D. B. Causrhman of Columbia _ ^ was here oti Tuesday, having been sent by the State Health Board to investigate the cause of trochoma. In the O'Neall school he found 10 chil' -dren with it and 4 suspicious cases. Mrs. Addie Hodges was in Columbie for the fair and from there she goes to Orangeburg; to visi: Mrs. Y*\ P. Blanton. Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Kohn spent .several days last week with their A tr _ 1 n n i son. a. jk. ivcnn 01 v^oiumoia. \ Mrs. H. A. "Wicker is home from several days stay in Columbia. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Wise spent Monday in Winnsboro. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Lorick and Mrs. W. J. Wise spent Wednesday and Thursday in Columbia, the guest of Mrs. O'Merle Lorick. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hebble after :sevei'al wpek? stay with Mrs. G. W. Harman have gone' to Rocky Mont, Ga. Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Singley, Mr. ami Mrs. J. A. Counts motored to the state fair on Wednesday. Master Allen Wise Taylor en route to Batesburg from Walhaila is visiting his ~r:-..:d;~:ither, Mr. A. G. I NEWBERRY COUNTY POST AMERICAN LEGION ORGANIZES ^ ~ ' On Sunday afternoon the New- j berry county post of the American i Legion held its first meeting. After prayer by Rev. Fulenwider, Dr. Geo. B. Cromer made a most fitting speech followed by Senator Alan I ! Johnstone. Both of the speakers' paid high tribute to the American j i soldiers and predicted a great future j for this association of former service , men, the American Legion. Mr. i Fester Martin spoke in behalf of the j third Red Cross membership cam-; paign. After the speeches ? a business j organization session was held, and the following officers elected: Post Commander Hal Kohn, Post Vice Commander, Dr. 'Jno. Setzler, Post Adjutant, David Caldwell, Post j Finance Officer, McFall Wise, Post Historian, Joe Keitt. After the election of officers a number of matters were discussed, among which the most important were: The establishing of an associate post in every town in the county and to secure a home for the Legion j in Newberry. A committee consist-j ing of the post commander and Roy Summer and David Caldwell was j *a takp stens towards se- i auviivxi^vu w ?x? ? curing a suitable place for this and it is hoped to have a meeting place for the members?a sort of club?in a short time. Next meeting will be held at the court house oq Sunday, November the 116th, at 3:30 p. m. * . ?/ ANOTHER KILLING SCRAPE NEGRO SHOOTS -NEGRO | < " ? ]r?nn,n oo William vaienune, uenci nuumi j Doc Paine, was shot at Prosperity on j Thursday afternoon by Sampson j Gallman. Gallman fired three shots, i two entering the abdomen and one I the arm of Valentine. Chief of -Police J. C. Duncan arrested Gallman and turned him over to Sheriff Cannon G. Blease, who had gone immediately to the scene. The sheriff brought Gallman to jail. Valentine was carried to Columbia in a serious condition and died on Friday. Coroner P. M. Lindsav held an inquest, with the following result: That Valentine came to his death at the hands of Sam Gallman. A Calvin Crozier Chapter. The regular meeting of the Calvin Crozier chapter, U. D. C., will be held at the home of Mrs. W. C. Schenck, Tuesday afternoon at four o'clock. Hostesses: Mrs. W. C. Schenck, Mrs. T. B. Jacobs, Mrs. J. T. McCraclqin and Mrs. T. P. Johnson. Miss Trent Keitt, x ^President, j Mrs. T. P. Johnson, Secretary. ! Wise. Mrs. Joe Sitz spent Wednesday I and Thursday in Columbia. I Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Wise attended t , the fair on Wednesday. George Wise and Carroll Mills stopped over for the week-enG with their parents on the return trip from the ; fair to Clemson college. ! A. Hart Kohn of Columbia spent j i Tuesday with S. S. Birge. | Mrs. J. I. Bedenbaugh has return- j i ed from a visit to her sister, Mrs. R. | 1 C. Counts of Eau Claire, j Mr. Frank Rawls of Columbia has \ i been visiting his daughter, Mrs. Olin j Bobb. v j G. D. Brown, Jr., was a business | visitor to Columbia last Thursday, i Miss Tena Wise has returned from j a visit to Lone Star. I Mrs. Julian Price spent a few Antra \T7ooV with hp'r mother. Mrs. I ua^ O 1UOW ?? VVAfc WAV** ~ , Sr.II-G Elack of Eau Claire. Miss Vita Counts ha s returned from a short stay to Mrs. Roy Kohn J of College Place, Columbia. ; Miss Sarah Hayres visited Miss \ Marjorie Luther of Columbia last I week. j Misses Mary DeWalt Hunter and j ??Icss Feelers of Lake . City were ! i home for the week-end. ! W. B. Wise of Orangeburg has j i been visiting his brother, A. G. I ! Wise. 1 I j Miss Annie Bell Taylor has had as j ! her guest, her brother of Dillon. Miss Ruth Cannon of Winthrop ; j college was home for the week-end. j i . Ivliss Gladys Miller has returned to her school at Union after a short! vioil ic the home folks. * , PURELY PERSONAL. ! i l*he Movements of Many People, j Newberrians, and Those Who Visit Newberry. : Mr. J. E. Summer spent Thursday = in Ninety Six, where he is building. ; Dr. W. & Mayes is announced as a j candidate for school trustees from J Ward 2. Rev. J. W. Carson returned last week from his push of the forward movement through North Carolina. Mr. D. Shockley of Columbia is visiting at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Welch Wlbur. Miss Kate Summer leaves on Wed- ; nesday to visit her sister, Mrs. Rob ! Hanna, in charming Cheraw. Dr. and Mrs. L. C. Jumper have re-1 turned to their home in Springfield ; "L ? U/-w?. nornntc \T V Sf n fl I aner visiuu^ nc: , Mrs. T. A. Epting. Mrs*. Royall Miller, who has been spending a fortnight with her daughter, Mrs. J. E. Summer, left Monday morning for her home in Atlanta. Mrs. J. A. Suber, Jr.,1 is back at her former position with Copeland Brothers. Mr. Ben Wicker is a new clerk at this/ store. Miss Gertie Miller of Greenville is spending vacation at home with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. I. A. Miller on Route 3. Misses Caroline Haskell and Jane Byrd Wright of Newberry college ?~?4- at. tVipir former SpCIlt tlic WV/ home in Laurens county. Miss Sadie Bowers, teacher at Easley, spent the week-end with relatives in Newberry, to the pleasure of many friends. Dr. Jno. B. Setzler met with the Anti-Tuberculosis association in Columbia on Saturday as chairman from thisi county. Mr. Zed L. Williams,. a former Newberry boy now of Columbia, carried away nearly $300 from tne State fair for his exhibit of Berkshires. Prof. B.1- J. Derrick, chairman of the executive committee of the Lutheran educational fund campaign, met with the committee in Columbia on Saturday. r t Mr. Edwin Carlisle of Springfield, Ohio, was here from Saturday till Sunday. His stay was so short not near all of his friends had the pleas-, ure of shaking hands. * Miss Grace Wilbur, Winthrop student, came home on last Thursday in response to the message in fcz~z::zr; her of the death of her uncle, Mr. Joe Wilbur. Rev. Edw. Fulenwider returned last. week from Monroe, N. C., and resumed his duties as pastor of the Church of the Redeemer, since his sad mission to the former home of his late parents. Misses Hallie Wright of the Dcndfall school and Miss Ruth-Kamm of Silverstreet, accompanied by J?Ir. Virgil Shealy of Little Mountam, made a Sunday visit to the old Tylers \llle section of Laurens, Miss Wright's old home community. Mr. Leland Summer, who has accepted a position with the Bradley Bonded warehouse of Greenville, spent Sunday with his family. It is vrith great regret that we learn that very soon we arev to lose this fine citizen and his family. Mrs. W. H. Zeigler returned on Saturday from Sumter after recovering from a serious operation at the hospital. Her many friends will be pleased to know that she is improving. Mrs. Keitt and Miss Trent Keit: of Newberry were the guests last v. eek of Mrs. A. V. Martin.?Miss Emmie t Duncan of Whitmire and Miss Nellie Adams of Newberry were week-end guests of Miss Emmie Pitts.?Clinton Chronicle, 30th. Mr. J. A, Burton of Newberry was a business visitor in the city today. ?Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Aull of Chappells are spending the day in the city.?=Mr. A. P. King of Dysons spent the day here yesterday on business.?Greenwood Index-Journal, 28th. ^ Mr. J. Ciaude Dominick, accompanied by Mrs. Dominick, returned on, last Thursday from the Columbia hospital. The many friends 01 Mr. Dominick will be glad to know that, although he is as yet unable to attend to his duties at the postolfice, he is improving since the operation on 1 * - x j ?S iOOl. Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Crisp of Wal-! c':i their way home from f:Jr! stopped over "In Newberry Saturday,: spending the afternoon with her cousin, Mrs. L. G. McCullough, and the night at the home of Mrs. J. D. Wheeler, another relative. Mrs. Crisp was formerly Miss Bessie Crooks of Newberry. She is now teaching at Walhalla. Mr. G. Luke Sease was in the city Saturday, he had been kept at home for nine weeks owing to a bad foot ...L Z L? ~ ~ iirlf V? WHICH IIC Wclb Cell L y lii?^ auv/ui mwi i him. It got in that condition from a , nail he stepped on. He lays the | blame to the fact that he wis rearing j easy going shoes to make him walk j better as he went about the prem- j ises feeding his hogs, etc. Frank M. E;vart is married. Judge j Ev.rart received the information that J Frank and Miss Leila Allen of Gaines- i ville, Florida, were married at j Gainesville, Florida, on Monday at j 2:30 o'clock. On their way to the! groom's home at Wagner, the couple ; ? - , will arrive here next Thursday to1 spend the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. I W. F. Ewart. Frank lived in Florida ' about fourteen years ago, when he j met Miss Allen. Mr. W. P. Smith was awarded premiums at the State fair for Duroc hogs; aged boar, fourth, $2; aged sow, fourth, $2, and old herd owned by exhibitor, third, $4. Messrs. S. M. and J. D. Smith won fourth, $2, on junior yearling boar; second and third, $6 and $4, junior yearling sow; first, $10, on junior sow pig; second, $6, on young herd owned by exhibitor; second, $6, on young herd bred by exhibitor and third, $4, j:on get of sire. Mrs. Minnie Suber of Whitmire lost her little daughter at the State ! fair >on Thursday morning and didn't find her until several hours later in the afternoon. Mrs. Suber was looking at the cattle on exhibition at the time, with -her little girl beside her in the crowd. All at once she found that the girl had disappeared. A search was at once begun and after so many hours of anxiety on the part j of the mother the lost daughter was| found. Mr. Thomas Greneker of South i Carolina was the best man. That was a paragraph in the Atlanta Journal i of Wednesday evening, OOctober 22, from the description of a marriage under the heading, "Miss Thomas Weds at Beautiful Colonial Home of Grandfather," when Miss Lucile Marcia Thomas of Atlanta and Mr. Kenneth Scofield Keyes of Birmingham, Ala., formerly of Detroit, Mich., were married on Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock at tlje home of the bride's grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. George E. King, in Peachtree. J street, the' Rev. Richard Orme Flir , - lO pastor of the Isiorth Avenue rresDyterian church officiating. The journal says it was one of the most beauj tiful marriages of. the fall season, and contained a fine description of it. HONOR ROLL OF LONG LANE SCHOOL FOR OCTOBER Those who acquired an average of j 95 to 100 on four subjects and not less than 90 on behavior are in j Class A. Those wso acquire an aver- j aere of 90 to 95 on four subjects and 1 w j not less than 90 on behavior are m I Class B. ' Class A. Francis Baker, James Brown, Sims William Caldwell, Wylie Caldwell^ William Cromer, Frances Felker, Sarah Folk, Fannie Hentz, Mildred Renwick, Mary Renwick, Forrest Suber.Class B. "Haskell Brown, Alan Caldwell, Mary Felker, Lucy Felker, John William Felker, Herndon Hentz, Henry Hentz, Annie Metts, George ! Renwick, Novice Kikard, Olin Wicker, j ? I Death of Rev. D. P. Boyd. Rev. D. "Pet" Boyd died at Lancaster on Sunday night and was j i buried ^there or- Monday. He had I been located at Lancaster for the | past several years. The son of the i late venerable and venerated Mark Boyd, he was well known as one of a large and useful family of a former j j time in Newberry. j CARD OF THANKS j ! ! I V.e wish to express cur heartfelt! ' i j appreciation r.nd many thanks to; ; those who so kindly aided and com- j j forted us in our sad hours of be- j : reave me nt in the death of our dear j I | I wife and mother. , J. P. Summer and Ch'.kiren. ! VARIOUS AND ALL ABOUT Mr. Arthur Kibler is announced for school trustee fom Ward 1. Cotton sold at 37 1-2 here on Monday; seed $1.32. Do your Thanksgiving shopping early. Mr. H. L. Parr is ^announced' as a candidate foJ mayor. The 'possum hunters are numerous in the Newberry land, and some of them are catching good ones too. No coal shortage feared for State was a good headline in Saturday's State. 1? ^ The interesting indications are that the election for the bond issue on next Tuesday will carry all right. If this weather continues much longer, young and younger women will have to buy more summer wear. There will be no pictures shown at! the opera house on Wednsday or Thursday. See ads for the big shows on those days. About the best thing to the kipd of fall weather falling here is that it keeps down expenses, especially in the matter of coal and wood. Passers-by along Harrington street are interested in the work now progressing on the vacant lot recently bought by Mr. J. Wm. Smith, Jr. J. P. Stockman, a young farmer of Greenwood, took a great many pre miums at the State fair last week on his fine herd of Herefords. A rabbit farm will be tried as a "project" in Abbeville, according to the Press and Banner. This is next to a 'possum farm. Manager Wells scored a point on the Fox News films. He would not be set back, and will get them new; again. They can't get ahead of Henry. j The winter of 1919-20 will be exceptionally severe, according to ^ tanner of hides and pelts of game and fur bearing animals, basing his predirfcinTis on the lenerth of fur. As November has moved in maybe she / will give us some October weather. We can only hope that "Nove" will be a good girl and not make her stay like "the dark November days, the saddest of the yeas." Prices of coal will be kept at reasonable figure with Fuel Administrator Garfield again in charge. Railroad to seize fuel in transit. | These headlines in Friday's State I were interesting. j -Observe Kitty Gordon in a "Sufnpj tuous production of a powerful story" at the opera house Tuesday. She is "surpassingly resplendent in the role of a social butterfly enmeshed in the web of love." For the senior yearling sow and the junior yearling sow at the State fair last week V. E. Kohn of Prosperity got first, and for the aged sow second, for the senior sow pig fourth and for the junior sow pig second. I At the South Carolina Automotive Trades association organized in Columbia last week the following were announced as among the membership: P. B. O'Dell & Son, Whitmire; Caroline .Auto Co., Newberry, and Central Garage, Prosperity.' Here's something under date of Washington, October 30, interesting to the country at large: "Many new arrests in a number of states for violations of the food and fuel control law are expected soon by the department of justice." Mr. Abram Daitch, of the enterprising firm of Daitch Bros., has just * ' * " ^ T-l . ?i., U purchased the n. l-. ronei uutci property, the amount paid being about $6;000. He will move to his j new home January 1st.?Edgefield j Chronicle. | Reports received at the headquarters of the Lutheran Educational fund campaign headquarters, reported the State encouragingly in its Saturday's edition, indicated that the | $300,000 being asked for INewDerry and Surtimerland , colleges will be easily raised. In the list of awards of premiums j at the State fair published in Friday's State were the following for White Plymouth Rocks: Cock, first, j Luther Sease, Newberry; hen, first. ! Luther Sease, Newberry; cockerel, first, Luther Sease, Newberry; pullet, fhird, Luther Sease, Newberry. There were two sales of real estate by executors on salesday. Elijah B. Martin, estate of Lvdia Ward, 145 acres near Silverstreet to Robert Longshore for $0,450.50. John M. Kinard, estate Harriet Y. Lane, lot No. 1 to J. A. Burton for 3800, lot Nro. 2. J. J. Landlord for $755. If you carried war risk insurance while in the army but let it drop upon your discharge and now want to renew it, better see L. H. Kohn, county organizer of the American Legion, or drop him, a line. You can renew it upon payment of just two months premiums. Needing the room ior more cars the Carolina Auto company had an auction sale on Saturday, when the following persons got bargains in the cars mentioned: W. T. Livingston and Arthur Long, each a Chevrolet; Ed. Schumpert and Sam Johnson, each a Ford; J. E. Senn, a Maxwell; Crooks, an Oakland Roadster, and B. T. Adams a Maxwell Touring car. The court house water bill alone for the month of October was $12.36, about $8 of which was due to leakage. This comes at a time when the commissioners of public works haven't any water to throw away. If it were possible it would be a good idea to have as court house janitor a plumber and pay him well for his work. It would pay. ' When King Albert of Belgium and his queen sailed for home from New Port News, Friday on the George Washington there was another NeW1 i ? ? 1 x oerry ooy on uuaiu?xvitnam uuucu, who has just been transferred to that ship in the electrical department. He is returning to France and may go to Italy before coming back to the States. Young Julien is rising in the navy. At the meeting of the 95th annual convention of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of South Carolina at Little Mountain this week, in Holy Trinity church, the Rev. John J. Long, pastor, the following items are in nrncrram* flhristian Education. the Rev. W. H. Dutton of Newberry, with the Rev. Enoch Hite of Pomaria as alternate; Christian Missions, with the Ret. W. H. Roof of St. Luke's, Newberry county, alternate. Master H. H. Rikard sold the fo!lowing-4aracts of. land- on Monday to the parties mentioned: 105.47 acres in the case of Henry T. Long and others against Laura Victoria Bobb and others to M. L. Long for $3,000. , In the case of George T. and Wm. N. Brown against James D. and R. Haskell Brown, tract No. 1 of 60 acres to Geo. T. Brown for $175; tract No. o fn rioA T Rrnurn fnr ?if l/C 11 dV^lCC, IV vitv. j. . Wivit $365, and tract No. 3, fifty acres, to the same for $1,300. In answer to wires from Atlanta to Manager Wells informing him that the management there had another new print on Fox News and asking if it were too late to rearrange with him, Mr. Wells answered: "Will use Fox News No. 6 Friday and No. 7 Monday if you can furnish regularly thereafter." The Atlanta management assured Mr. Wells as follows: "Can give you number seven -Monday (this is release of November i . n 1. , iL first), number eignt rriaay, sevenm, and regularly thereafter." X COMMUNITY FAIR AT JALAP A SCHOOL On Friday, November 7th, a Community fair will fc'* held at Jalapa school house in whi^.i the four adjoining districts will take part. The prospects for a good fair are very evident, judging from the interest being taken in the collection of exhibits in each district. All phases of com rnunity work will be shown; school work, farm and garden products, household goods, fancy work and poultry. * This is.to be an all day affair and j it is hopeful that the people will join j hand in hand in making it a successful annual event. Willie Mae Wise, County Agent. i ELLA WHEELER WILCOX POETESS AND AUTHORESS DIES IN 64TH YEAR . j New Haven, Conn., Oct. 30.? j After an illness of months Mrs. Ella I Wheeler Wilcox, author and poetess, ! died at her home. "The Bunpralow" in Brandford today. She took sick overseas and was brought home after j being able to make the trip. She J was in her 04ih year of age. She is ! survived by a sister and brother. / She was a native of Johnstown. Center, Wisconsin. Mrs. Wilcox's I body will b-i cremated at ho:* raqjest at Sprincrneid, Mass. - i ?