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1=?^... VOLUME LVI., NUMBER 3. x - NEWBERRY, S. C? FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1920. TWICE A WEEK. $2.00 A YEAI (GREAT THINGS BEING DONE IN WHITMIRE TOWN New $16,000 Laundry to be Erected. Street Improvement Going Merrily Along:?Sewerage to be Installed. IWhitmire, Jan. 5.?The Young Brother's have opened up a large furniture store in the old drug store location. Call on them for what you want to make your home more beautiful and comfortable. The C. H.. Cooper company has changed the name of this mercantile establishment to the Abrams and Scott company. Mr. R. L. Cooper who has been in the life insurance business for The B^firginia Life Insurance company has ^ ver. that up and goes back to his w^pui trade that of a barber, which has ^gotten to be a remunerative calling. ^ Ke is succeeded in the life insurance ^^jusiness by Mr. Luther Watkins. Mr. W. B. Gordon is expected to c$|^^^0pBB?*fT>ruary 1st, to take charge of the Y. M. C. A., at the <ilenn Lowry cotton mill. For some k years Mr. Gordon has been associated k with the Y. M. C. A. of the Pacific Mills, Columbia, S. C. W Miss Alma Lupo, who has charge I of the welfare work at the Glenn I Lowry mill has organized a group of Camp Fire Girls and is getting up a community library to be placed in the reading room at the Y. M. C. A. ' building. A contract has been let for the k building and equipping of a large and I perfectly equipped laundry here. | About $16,000 worth of fixtures has * ?wVi<ar> this laundry is utrexi uiucitu. it ... ^complete, there will be machines jready to relieve the housewife of all ? drudgtT^of linens for beds and tables all flat work. Some of oar enthusiastic citizens ' are busy making plans for the modem to and up-to-date sewerage system, P with which the town is soon to be equipped. A force of men representing the firm of E. S. Draper, landscape gardeners, have been here surveying our streets and making plans for improv ing and beautifying cur town. k Applications for permission to organize American Legion in Whitmire has been made to proper authorities. Let every ex-soldier in and around Whit mire join this chapter. Apply to "* TT" ? "VTt Sn'nPV. JYir. ?J. W . uai_j vi i'xi. vv.u Moss Frances Lupo after spending 'the Christmas holidays with her sis^Lter, Miss Alma Lupo, has returned to ^ Columbia, where she wiil resume her K-gtqdles. in the Colombia high school. V Miss Rutfy Herren of Columbia visited her parents Mr. and Mrs. B. p H. Herren recently. i Miss Frances C. Jeter, after spendI ing the holidays here with her parL ents, left Saturday to resume her !work as teacher of I.atin in tne Lancaster high school. [ Mrs. John jKiggins and baby and SVlrs. Marion Higgins of Newberry are the guests this week of Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Hardy. $Miss Jessie Ray, after a sfay of two weeks with her mother and sisLer, has returned to Greenwood. Miss ay has a nice position in the busiless college there teaching stenography and typewriting. Mr. George Cofield has rented Mr. tXTJll n,.?/.or'c Imneo am) will mo VP H v> ill l^UilVUi. UVWWV vw?x? .. ^am^v to our town tomorrow. ^ Mrs. C. E. Jeter visited Miss tEllen Lake recently. Rev. 1). W. Garvin, who has been pastor of the Baptist church here for several years has accepted a tall to the church at Ealdwin Mills near Chester. He ai,d his family left for I their new heme last week. ^ Mrs. C. H. Cooper, who for a long Slumber of years has been the popular milliner for the C. H. Ccoper company has given up her work at the store and will devote her whole time ^n brightening the corner for her better half. ??lrs. Cooper will be sadly missed by her many friends, who patronize this company. May she be as successful as a home maker as she has been a milliner. 1 Mr. James Abrams, Jr., has returned from a visit to his wife and son, rvho are spending awhile with her imother, Mrs. Pruitt at Johnson, S. L Mr. and Mrs. Pitts and son, Jamr? Rrelsh, spent a few days of last weetv n Atlanta. i Mr. Will Duncan and family have hoved from their home place in the pastry to Clinton. May they be haply in their new home. [ The Whit-mire high school, after a k t ! SLICE OF LEXINGTON COMES TO NEWBERRY Just after the election the jrood news was received in this city that the county of Newberry had trained, so the people here were prepared to read in The State Wednesday morning: of our success in the annexation propo ' ?1- r ~ /.Aiinf i? o find SlLjOn WHICH tnir- v. v.'uni v iiwv territory from Lexington, taking in the town of Peak, the Parr Shoals property and a good deal of taxable property from that grand old county. We welcome the new citizens to the grand'old county of Newberry, assuring them that all are glad to have them with us. from Sheriff Blease, down to Coroner Lindsay. We take pleasure in reproducing,; headlines ar.d all, a fuller account of the good action and great movement from the Lexington Dispatch-Xews of the 7th, instant: 7 l ) * I LEXINGTON LOSES TO NEWBERRY j i I Special Election Takes Gccd Part of Fork Section Away?Held Tuesday. By a vote of 66 to 16, the voters of the upper section of the Dutch Fork, embracing the town of Peak and taking in the famous Parr Shoals prop- i erty, on yesterday decided to leave Lexington and annex to the county of Newberry. This is a fine section inhabited bv as good people as there are in the country anywhere, and, while the people of this county regret to see them leave the old mother county, they will carry with them into their new locality the best wishes of Lexington. . There has been unrest among the people of that section for several years, due, it is claimed, to the fact j that bad roads prevailed, which made it hard, at times, for them to get to | tVip r-onntv seat of Lexington. It isi claimed, also, that Newberry hasi promised to give good roads through the entire section, and it is hoped that the people who voted to leave Lexington will get everything promised them?and more. MRS. GEO. A. BROWNING, JR. Widow of Late Legislator Died at Her ! Home in Gcldville Thursday. - V . Laurens Advertiser, 7th. / Mrs. Lillian Burns Browning, wife of the late Geo. A. Browning, Jr., cf Goldville, died at her home there Thursday evening after an illness of several weeks. Death was due to ; pneumonia. The funeral was held at Goldv lie the following day and the ^ lernn-iiS placed in the Blalock vauii in the cemetciy there. i Mrs. Browning was the daughter c;f "\r.-o p. r Rums, of Rsrksdale Sta i. O. i. t v. v* ? - ~ - ? I tion. Her husband, cr.e time representative from this county in the state i legislature, died during the influenza I epidemic in the fall of 1D1S. They ! have three small children to survive ! them. She is also survived by her mother, two brothers, Messrs. Eugene ; and Don Burns, of Barksdale Station, j two sisters, Mrs. C. R. Reeder of J Clinton, and Mrs. Alvin Coleman of j Fountain Inn. besides a brother-in ; law, James Browning, and a sisterj in-law, Miss Mattie Ban Browning, i both of Goldville. Her father-ini law, Mr. Geo. A. Browning, Sr., died j at his home in Goldville just about ; two weeks ago. ; Mrs. Browning was a young woman j of pleasing disposition, who mad2 I friends wherever she was known, j With three small children left as ori phans the circumstances of her death : was peculiarly sad and much symi pa thy has gone out to them in their I ioss. I _______________________________________________ j vacation of two weeks for Christ! mas, opened this morning. i The students of the Citadel, Wofford, Winthrop, Lander, Chicora' and Columbia colleges have all returned to their studies. Mrs. Miller and son, Frank of Cross Hill spent last week here with | her sons, Messrs. Jno. L. Miller, Henry M. Miller and Hassell Miller. An election was held here today for a mayor and six aldermen to serve the town of Whitmire for a term of two years. Mr. W. G. Puckett was reelected mayor by a handsome majority, and Messrs. T. P. Scott, T. W. Hipp, C. H. Cooper, J. A.I Darby. T. P. Cabaniss and J. 1.1 Darby were elected aldermen. "Xita." ! AN ENVIABLE RECORD Newberry County Baptists Lead South Carolina, Which Leads The Entire South in the Campaign. ] ! The Figures to Date. The Reedy River association has set the pace for South Carolina Baptists in the 75-i\IiH:on campaign, it nas been announced from headquarters that this association leads all the associations of the str.te in per capita contributions. As South Carolina leads the South, the distinction of ihe Rest River is quite an enviable one. Following are the figures for the association: Asked. Given. Bethel $ 1,125 $ 847 Rush R!\er 22,000 31,000 vCross Roads 2.150 2.315 TV nnron _ 1 :"> 2 5.1 S 5 ; a Vi v v .. 7 _ . _ j East Side 1,000 2.450 : Fairview 2,600 2,(510 ; Hurricane 4,000 6,255 |Mt. Zion 1.500 2,895 [Newberry 50.000 56,763 ! Oakland 1,500 2.200 Prosperity 500 625 I Saluda 3,000 7,505 Whitmire 0,000 6,037 West End 0,334 6,796 | Totals:. $104,Sol $133,783 | The association thus contributes n total amount of $133,783. exceed irg its apportionment by about $30,000.00. Saluda church leads in its proportionate over-subscription exceeding its apportionment by ISO per cent. East side is a close second while Mt. Zion nearly doubles its quota, and Enoree is well to the front. Newberry First is accredited with having: the largest per capita apportionment in the state, and it exceeded it by several thousand, Bush River also had ** >"*? " 1 o vrrn rtVPV-SUl> U vciy ic. ijvviu ..4... scribed it by $9,000.00. All in all, the churches have done exceedingly well. I cannot pi've the subscriptions of the women, but feel sure that they have far exceeded their apportionment. At ore cf ivy own churches. Saluda, they more th&n trebled their quota. The influence of the w>me7> has been strongly felt in the cam- j paign. Their organ zer, Mrs. Hunt, j was indefatigable in her exertions. I T? - ?L J Vnito ? I'ubUJrg iiiili icij. men ?:c*?v ?i?i supported the campaign, and I feel1 sure that Organizer Burriss will join me in expressing the heartiest appreciation of their cooperation and the generous response made in every I quarter. v" ?T ' 1 ~ ^ viVnnnt o ^vnv/1 A"f I '.\CT \v:il t k Iv'.'C H.HIVUl fi ? v v. _ ? j sincere thanks to cur county papers 1 for the uncelfch ar.d invaluable aid I they have rendered. C. R. Pettiirrevr, , Publicity Director. I BERGFR rORCED TO LEAVE TOWN Jersey City, N. J., Jan. 0.?Victor | J.. Berger, representative-elect from ! the Fifth Wisconsin district was es! corted cut of Jer?ev City tonight by ; Chief of Police Richard T. Battersi by. His departure followed promptly I his arrival in the scheduled role cf I iprinc-ipal'orator at a widely advertised ! mass meeting- under the auspices of I the Socialist Educational Club. ' The police refused to permit the ! meeting: to be held, announcing that | those who desired to pay dues, or transact business with the officers cf the club do so, but that speeches | would be barred. I ?? CHILD BURNED TO DEATH Gown of Little Juanita Bennett Catches on Fire. Cheraw, Jan. 7.?Sunday morning as little Juanita Bennett, age thirteen, was standing by the fire, her night gown caught and burned her badly from the knees up. She lingered until after noon, part of the time conj scious and suffering great pain, when : she died. Her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Bennett, had their * * * ' * i 'i nancis ournea in trying 10 put me mc j out. Mrs. Bennett has been an in1 valid for years, and Juanita had eni tire charge of her and the baby. She was a beautiful child and had an unusual character. She was devoted to going to school, but when her mother needed her she gave up without complaining and took care of the home. She was buried this afternoon in the family burying trround in .Vbulbo: ; <. RAILWAY WORKERS TO STRIKE BLOW i i ; Cooperative Buying, Production and j [ Distribution Will Be Tried as Solution of Problem. I ? ~ 7 _ i Washington. Jan. <. (by the Asso-j ciated Press).?Failing to obtain sat-; isfactory relief from the high cost of j living either through further wage j advances by the railroad administra-! tion or from the anti-profiteering! campaign of the department of jus- { tice officials of the four big railway j brotherhoods and the railroad shop, crafts affiliated with the American | Federation of Labor have decided to j seek a solution for themselves through i cooperative buying, production and ! distribution. The step was con rued j in some quarters as indicating that \ d^man:;5* for further wage increases i would not be pressed pending out come oi tiie expcnmenr. The formation of the All Ameri-j car. Farmer-Labor corporative com- i mission an outgrowth of the confer-! erxe was announced today at its of-! fices heie. Another conference will! be hold in Chicago February 12-15. j Warren S. Stone, grand chief of j the? Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and one cf the organizers of j the Chicago meeting, is general treas-, nvai' r\ f tJio f r\m micc:nn and the officials of the railway em- ^ ployees organizations are officers of the commission. B. M. Jewell, actj ing president of the Railway Shop, men, saw no hope for reliet in prosej eution of profiteers and declared the j only way to deal with an economic ! situation is with economic factors. I i An alliance of the farmers, the or| ganized producers, on the one hand, j with the laborers, or organized con: sumers on the other, is the purpose of I the cooperative commission said Jew| ell, who is a member of the commis[ sion. It aims to "conduct a vigorous campaign for direct dealing between farm producers and city consumers and. as soon as feasible, between city producers and farm consumers." 44 Vt ^ A*ff r% r* r\ir\f\V i JLJiciuiiuxatiUii ui tAtcuaivc j ativo schemes amor.^ the railroad j brotherhoods' membership irnmediatei ly after the Chicago conference in i February was predicted by H. W. | Wills, legislative representative of the locomotive engineers. Flans for the organization of a corporation ba< h. authorized by the Brotherhood j of Locomotive Engineers before the j war, may scon be pushed to coaiple| tion, x.Ir. Wills said and steps taken to establish cooperative stores and distribution facilities to supply memj hers of the brotherhood with neces- j !mv!m of life at a reasonable price, i Mr. Wills expressed the belief that j other organizations would follow the j example of the United Brotherhood j i of Maintenance of Way Employees j j and railway shop laborers, who he said, recently purchased knitting and] J underwear plants, a glove factory and j ! a tubing concern and entered into i contracts with overall makers and manufacturers "of other necessities. I MORE THAN 1,000 ARE DEAD IN EARTHQUAKE I i J Mexico City, Jan. 6.?Coutzlan i j was destroyed by Saturday's earth-, | quake with 2,000 casualties, includ-1 j ir.? more than 1,000. dead, accord-1 I vpnnrfs o-ivon militftrv 1 headquarters from advices received from officers in the Vera Cruz cen-1 rer of disturbance. The entire garrison at Teocclo was killed cr injured. The dead numbered thirty and the injured sixty. Virtually all the roads in the surrounding district were flooded or destroyed, according to the reports. Three hundred dead are reported at Barranca Grande, near Couztlon. The water level at Port Barranca del Agua rose twenty-five meters. j WOMAN DISAPPEARS MARRIAGE IS HALTED j I ! | Miami, Fla., Jan. 7.?The day bej fore she would have marched down ! the aisle of the First Presbyterian ; Church, of this city, writh Leland ; Thornton Dysart, of Dallas, Texas, I i former lieutenant of marines, Miss Louise Eyles, daughter of H. H. Eyles. a prominent lawyer of this city, disappeared and her whereabouts remains a mystery. The hour of the marriage had been fixed at high noon tomorrow. The family tonight announced "the weddinsr has been indefinitely post I pont<l." I PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS FROM LITTLE MOUNTAIN J j Little Mountain, Jan. 7.?The members of the Youncr People's soei-i ety of Holy Trinity were entertained; at the parsonage on Friday evening.! The home was tastefully decorated with Christmas bells, holly and j; ferns. Several musical numbers; were rendered. "Progressive conver-. sation" was the amusement for the ; Thp winners beimr Miss Luetta Wheeler and Mr. Harold | Wise. Hot chocolate and sandwiches; were served. The evening was most' pleasantly spent by all. The following' resolutions have | been made and adopted by the Young:' People's societv: * l Inasmuch as it has pleased all j wise Providence to supply us with; more time in which to evangelize the ; world and since we feci it very keen-! Iv our sacred and solemn duty as i ) 'members of the Young People's so-, ciety to set ourselves to the great j task of doing something really worth j while towards this great end which j will, also, ultimatelv result in the , i j growth and development of said so- j ! -i : "noi- Ho it lippphv i | cieiy uui iuji una ,y>-oi vv, ... , I resolved: I 1st. That we as individual mem! ers do all in our power to make the I society what it should be. | 2nd. That we attend as regularly as possible. Sd. That we take an active part I and interest in the work of the society at all times. 4th. That we cooperate with the president in making this the banner year of the society. 5th. That we will be punctual at | all times in our attendance. ! 6tb. That the various committees I appointed and officers of the society J -i-i? i*-?/InfiDc fn I | discnarge tneir re?i>cvn?c uu the best of their knowledge . and | ability zealously. 7th. That a copy of these resolu- j tions be furnished every member of j the society and each be requested! to read the resolution at least twice j per month. j Lit vie Mountain is the latest town j in South Carolina to organize a post j of the American Legion. The application for a charter was received ct state headquarters yesterday and was duly approved. The j charter will be issued from national' headquarters within the next few i da vs. j The following young ladies have ^ returned to Winth-'op college after j spending the holidays at h^rrr-:j Misses Evelyn Wise, Lucy and Ada ; Brady, Ollie Metts and Janet Frick. ! j Miss Kathleen Counts has retu "^er1! to her post of duty in Summeihiid i college. I nlr-li S?;ise has returned to the I Medical college of Charleston after j spending two weeks at home, i Wi?/? Virsril Long, Blair j Stoudemire, Robert Lee Riser, Car- j roll and Willie Hack Derrick, Lee i and Ralph Shealy, Marvin and Her-! bert Chapman have returned to New- j berry college after spending the holi- j days at home. Mrs. Emma Brac'y is visiting in Columbia. Clarence Your?: Barrier of Augusta, Ga., spent the week-end with relatives here. j Key. and Mrs. J. J. Long were busi- j j ness visitors to Newberry on Tues- j j day. j I Dr. J. M. Sea>e spent Monday in ! ~ ' j I Columbia. , j Miss Ora Dickcrt of the Columbia j I hospital visited Miss Mat tie Boland th:s week. I Miss I.eo Shealy is visiting rcla- ! tives in Ballentire. i Mr. V. B. Sease left Sunday for! his home in Newark, N. J. Mrs. j Sease will remain here for another! week. Miss Cora Summer and Mr. Brooks | Connelly both of Prosperity were the j guests of Miss Zula Stockman last j Friday and Saturday. I J. B. Derrick and B. M. Wise spent, Tuesday in Pomaria. W. B. and B. M Wrise spent Sunday in Columbia Dewey Stockman and Alvin Lancaster visited in town Sunday. *r - t-'? t On?n on/1 littlp snn MI'S. tlUilll i-i. X aitu WW.. have returned to their home in Gas- , tonia, N. C. Elmer L. Shealy has returned to New York after spending the holidays at home. Burke Taft of Camp Jackson visited Horace Shealy this week. , i Dr. and Mrs. Hu^girs of Pomaria visited at the home of Dr. J. M. ] BERGDOLL FOUND HIDING AT HOME Long Hunt Brought to Close.? Brother Still Away. Philadelphia, Jan. 7. ? Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, wealthy son of a former brewer, and charged with being a draft dodger and deserter * irom ine army, was captureu cuuay while hiding in the palatial residence of his mother on the outskirts of this city. Tonight he is a prisoner on Governors Island, in New York harbor, awaiting trial by courtmartial. The capture of Bergdoll, whose brother, Erwin, widely known automobile racer, is still missing, also charged with dodging the draft, was as sensational as has been his career in the last five years. More than a dozen federal and city officers participated in the raid on the Bergdoll * v homo. Resistence was offered by the , \ mother, Mrs. Emma Bergdoll, who threatened to shoot the officers and was disarmed only after a struggle. She was held in $10,000 bail on charges of assault and battery with intent to kill and conspiracy to prevent the execution of search and arrest warrants. Bail was furnished by her. son-in-law. Grover Bergdoll disapeared in August, 1917, and search for him as an alleged draft dodger was made all -over the United States and Mexico. Several times federal agents searched the three residences maintained by the BergdoIPs in this vicinity. Mrs. Bergdoll threatened death to any officer who entered her home when they appeared at the mansion today, federal agents said. Strategy was used and the front and rear en trances were forced at the same time. It was at the rear that the mother struggled with the police and was disarmed. A search of the house revealed Grover hiding in a window box seat on the second floor of the home. After a preliminary hearing at the federal building Bergfdoll was taken to New York under heavy guard. fore leaving he said he had roamed all ever the United States and had returned home only a few days ago. 31,000 FOR BUILDING FUND \ W. S. Langford Interested in the Greater Citadel. Nevs & Courier, 8th . As a contribution to the alumni buildir.e: fund of the Greater Citadel it was announced by the Association of Graduates yesterday that W. S. I.ar.gford, ''oil producer" cf Wichita Fall, Texas, formerly of Newberry, h;is sent a check for $1,000. Mr. Landlord's succcss. has been pronounced. His agencies for motor cava have f.11 been profitable and in the past few years "he has struck it rich in oil. , . The Oil Weekly recently published Mr. Langford's picture and said that he and his associates have "stepped into the 'more than 100.000 barrels a quarter' class during the past quartei*. He is interested in extensive holdings in the Wichita Falls district and is ore of the big forces in Wichita Falls' civic life." Mr. I ansrford made p visit to the Citadel in the spring and displayed an enthusiastic interest in the Greater Citadel movement, volunteering to do what he could to insure the success of the enterprise. In forwarding his check for $1,000, Mr. Lar.gford sa:d that he hoped to attend the Statewide Citadel demon- ^ in flip T-Tnfpl .Toffprson. Columbia, Wednesday, January 21. Sense Monday. B. M. Wise spent Wednesday in Columbia. Horace J. Shealy visited in Florence last week. Rev. J. J. Long rendered an educational sermon Sunday at High Hill, Peak. Dr. Bell of the Lutheran Seminary preached a very interesting sermon here Sunday in the absence of Rev. J. J. Long. The many friends of W. J. Hentz and family regretted to see them leave for their old home near Pomaria. They were with us two years and will be missed by all. Rev. J. J. Long spent Wednesday in Columbia. A. C. Wheeler was seen in Prosperity Tuesday.