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k ? 1 = f' VOLUME LVL, NUMBER 7. NEWBERRY, S. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1920. TWICE A WEEK. $2.00 A YEA* R COUNTY BOLL WEEVIL CONFERENCE WELL ATTENDED I About two hundred representative |^*farmers and business men met in conference with the specialist from Clemson college and the U. S. Department of agriculture in the County Boll Weevil conference at the court house Thursday morning. The meeting was called to order by County Agent T. M. Mills and the objects of the meeting were stated "by Henry S. Johnson, district agent in charge of the specialist party. Mr. Johnson said that the object of L the conference was to give the farmers and business men a chance to work out for themselves a safe farming program for 1920. and to accord those present the benefit of the experience of the visiting specialist. The management of soils in Neww-if?prrv pountv was discussed by Mr. Winters, who said that the farmers must use more legumes and lime and pay more careful attention to efficient underdrainage and thorough break, ing of soils. Mr. Anderson, entomologist spoke ^;.of the damage to be expected in ^ 1920, in this county. He brought ^ out the fact that the weevil was here ^from ''now on" and that while the ^Biamage for 1920 would probably be ^Bight, no man could safely predict JB^rom this time on as to weevil damo cr& ^ Mr. Stokes discussed varieties of corn and cotton. He said that the Wannamaker strain of the Cleveland cotton was best suited for weevil conditions. Unless the land was infested with wilt, in which case Covington, Wv^Toole, or Dixie-Triumph was best. The handling of livestock was discussed by Mr. W. J. Shealy, and the subject of agricultural credits was discussed by Dr. George Y. Hunter, k The necessity for economy and the practice of diversified farming: was V emphasized by Dr. Hunter. P' A committee consisting of Messrs. ^""*15. C. Matthews, H. M. Wicker, f Cearcre D. Brown, Jr., John M. Suber, T. M. Mills, conferred with the specialists and made the following report which was adopted by a rising ^ vote: Recommended Bo.'i Weevil and Sound HP Farming Measures tor the Average Farmer in Newberry County For 1920. Per Plow: Eight to ten acres cotton. Eight acres corn, beans, and peas. Four to eight acres small grain and peas. Fence at least four acres to plow. C? One acre sweet potatoes, enough for home use and mere when caring houses are available. Peanuts, enough for home con^ sumption, until home market is established. y* Alfalfa, one acre. Garden, orchard, poultry and bees sufficient to supply each farm with the products. Livestock. Enough ho?S for home use, and Mfeevery family a cow. W > Elimination of all scrub sires in livestock production. Organization of a bull association. Every farmer to join The National "Better Sires, Better Stock" crusade as quickly as he can qualify. Without the fprowing on the farm ^ ^>f sufficient feeds and pasture crops. Hpo livestock production is profitable. Feed steers where possible to run them on velvet bean fields. . The organization of an association of farmers ar.d other business men to 7 look after the standardization, preparation and marketing- of the additional money crops recommended above for this county (when this has not already been done.) The expansion of the State and ?'National cotton warehouse system so ^ as to take care of the warehouse nooHc this pnnntv. UWV4V Every farmer should read a good farm paper. This is the first time that such a f county conference has been held and will no doubt be the beginning of a great cooperative effort in Newberry cour.ty agriculture. There is ^reat need for the standardization of breeds of livestock and of different crops grown in the county. In fact 11 Jiaiiucii uioav-ivii itiuov MI vwuvI any cooperative marketing of farm I products. I Mr. Mills, cur efficient county L^agent, is to be congratulated on W arranging such a meeting for the *?nnntv. . PERSONAL PUARAGRAPHS FROM WHITMIRE TOWN Whitmire, Jan. 22.?Mr. Evans an under graduate of the Presbyterian Seminary in Columbia, preached to a large and attentive congregation here Sunday morning. Mr. William Sherard spent a few days of last week with his wife and daughter in Asheville, N. C. Miss Emmie Duncan spent tne week-end with her parents in Clinton. Mrs. John Lee was called to Union to see her brother, who is quite ill in a hospital there. Mrs. Fuller Reese of Abbeville is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Duckett. | Miss Mary Setzler spent the week: end with her sister, Mrs. Hentz at I Pomaria. Dr. William Brackett is visiting his family at Asheville, X. C. Mr. Rion Gilliam and sister, Miss Sallie Gilliam spent Sunday with friends in Newberry. Mr. D. D. Eison has resigned his place in the school here and accepted | a position in a bank in Rock Hill.j ; Mr. and Mrs. Fox have returned from a short visit to friends in Bam' berg. Miss Gertrude Leamans spent the! week-end with her parents at Cross Hill. Miss Lila Teal, a student in Lanlioe Vioon Viprp visitinc her U CI LUllCj^C liiw vvvx ^ aunt, Mrs. J. W. Hipp. She return-1 ed to Lander today. Mr. M. E. Abrams was out of town i this week on a trip to High Point, j N. C., his brother Mr. T. J. Abrams j accompanied him. j Rev, J. C. Roper spent a night last j week with Mr. E. E. Child. He was! here in the interest of the Centenary movement. Mrs. Ida Klugh after spending! some time here with her daughter, I Mrs. E. E. Child is visiting relatives in Greenwood. Messrs. Lawrence and Julian Welsh and their families of Carlisle, visited j their sister, Mrs. J. B. Pitts recently, j Miss Joe Kay is spending some time with friends near Jalapa. I "Nita." | i Belated Marriage Notices. We like to get marriage notices \ while new. They cannot be written ' until the minister has "pronounced 1 the benediction" and the "doxology! has been sounded." Newspaper men j have access to the license books in i the probate iudsre's office, but do not, use names beforehand because of the old adage of "many a slip betwixt the cun and the lip," although the "slip'' is not of frequent occurrence j ; in Newberry. So far as The Herald j | and News man is concerned he waits j im-tH nvpnchpr or someone else i sends in word of the successful affair. ' J For these out-of-town marriages we ] often have to wait for the officiating j minister to return the license to the i probate judge, as it is his duty to | do, and to do so promptly. Some of j them are very prompt in either in- j forming us of the event or in return-! ! I ing the license properly signed. One j returned the license eleven days after he had married a couple and the marriage took place the same date the j lu.prsp was issued. Please return the j license promptly or else let the re- J porter know of the marriage. We ! hate to be so late in mentioning! things. j j Cottcii 39 cents; seed $l.o5. ] Now that the days are once more j ! growing longer and the weather is j | springlike (this is written 011 Wed-j j nesday and is subject to change by j Thursday), housewives are turning | their thoughts gardenward. More than ever since the terrible world war began people will need good gardens. Wise are those who see to this important and necessary branch of industry. The John Barleycorn funeral airplane, a Curtiss biplane, passed over Newberry at 2:20 o'clock, a little lat ? A' x ~ iw n f 1 er man vne uine xepuucu m a. gram to Rev. J. L. Daniel from Columbia. It was near enough to be seen distinctly and for its motor to be heard. Many people here who had never seen one of these planes flying were interested spectators. One Case Flu. After the paragraph in regard to the flu was in type one case has been reported. Mr. Jerome Harmon has the flu and Health Officer Matthews has quarantined the home. [personal paragraphs from little mountain Little Mountain, Jan. 22.?On Sunday evening Miss Lora Bowers of Little Mountain and Jacob Earl Livingstone of Pomaria, motored to the St. j Paul's parsonage, where tney were ! married by the Rev. S. P, Koon. Among the Little Mountaineers who went to Newberry on Monday I evening to see "The Million Dollar i Doll in Paris" included. Misses i Luetta Wheeler, Zula Stockman, Min| nie Lee Shealy, Vanie Lake, Narvis ' Rae Setzler, Pauline Boozer and j Lizzie Neel. Messrs. Virgil 0. I Shealy. Carlin Shealy, Vance and I Leon Matthews, George Derrick, I ? i /"> rp E>^,. J liUl'Ke iU. VVISt*, t-. 1. cliiu ivu,* liuu1 man, W. B. Wise, Horace J. and ! Elonzo Shealy. j Misses Vanie Lake and Pauline I Boozer spent the week-end in Pros: perity. Miss Nell Brady of Columbia Tisit ed her mother, Sunday and Monday. | Misses Nell, Elizabeth and Henry j Fliedner of the Thornwall orphanage I of Clinton spent Saturday with their mother, Mrs. H. M. Fliedner. I T T-, T-i - -.1- ID 1\X WJco n:nvn J. 13. L/eiTK*ii ciliu i_>. .?jl II 10^ ? V i Vbusiness visitors to Greenville on Thursday. C. T. Huffman, Vance Matthews and W. B. Wise spent Sunday in Columbia. Mrs. Jane Derrick, Maybelle Fulmer, Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Derrick and son, Carroll motored to Columbia Sunday afternoon. Miss Altha Shealy is visiting her brother in Chapin this week. Horace, Elonzo, Leo and Altha Shealy spent Friday in Columbia. Mr. B. H. Miller was a business visitor to Chapin Tuesday. Mrc P "R. Farele is visiting: rela | - ? ? ? jtives near Peak. ? | J. B. Lathan spent Monday in Newberry. Double-Header. Patrons of basketball will be given ; a chance to see plenty of basketball ! Friday night. The Indians play | Citadel and the "Squaws," Co-eds, t play the high school girls. Both ' games will be full of the real spirit | and much interest will be shown from both sexes. ! Manager Jos. J. Ropp has quite a 1 fv.it ?~ (1 s'venuous schedule which ; follows: Jan. 10?44th Art. C. A. C. at NewI berry. Jan. 17?U. S. C., at Columbia. i Jan. 23?Citadel at Newberry. Jan. 30 or 31. Open. Feb. 5?Sumter Y. M. C. A. at Sumter. I Feb. 6?Chas. College at Charleston Fob. 7?Citadel at Charleston. i Feb. 9?P. C. of S. C. at Clinton. 1 Feb. 13?Clemson at Newberry. Feb. 17?Chas. College at Newberry. I Feb. IS?Wofrord at Spartanburg. I Feb. 19?Clemson at Clemson. Feb. 20?D. M. I. at Greenwood. Feb. 23?P. C. of S. C. at Newberry. Feb. 2G?Wofford at Newberry. Mar. 1?U. S. C. at Newberry. Mar. 5?Georgia Tech. at Newberry j *B. M. I. , *Furman. ! *Columbia Y. M. C. A. *Tentative games. Jos. J. Ropp, Manager Basketball, Newberry Col1 n iv^w. A SAFE INVESTMENT THAT IS PROFIT SHARING Captain M. M. Buford at the store of William Johnson is selling stock in a new enterprise which has developed the fact that there is strong evidence of oil fields right across the Savannah river in Georgia and if it should prove I true there is no telling what the stock may pay you in a very short (time. You are sold a lot on the oil field and the lot is yours in fee simple whether the oil develops or not : and if it does you share in the profits of the company in the proportion of ! your holdings. me proposition J seems to be a fair and just one and the evidence is very strong also that there are fine prospects of striking oil in paying quantities. But Captain ' ?? ' Ml t I 1 i 1 ll j tJuiora win De piaa 10 explain mt* I whole plan to anyone interested. m Schumpert-Adams. Miss Sumter Isolene Schumpert and Mr. Olin J. Adams, both of | Newberry county, were married on the 10th instant by Rev. R. F. Cocrburn at the O'Neall Street Methodist parsonage. SOME COLD WEATHER (c OVER IN CANADA A fellow townsman has just re- / eeived the following rather interesting letter from his son, who is on a business trip up in Canada, where it is sure enough cold all right. g a New Windsor Hotel f Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., Canada., t Friday Night, Jan. 1G, 1920. I j Am out in the ice and snow in J | reality now, arrived here Wednesday ! and the temperature was W degrees j j | below zero. Warmest since was 14 b ; degrees below?snow about two feet t< deep?three and four drifts. d | This is real cold weather let me " tell you. No need to freeze ice v cream, just mix it together and set i1 j the freezer outside for about ten j h j minutes. g I am wearing- a woolen cap with E fur ear flans which covers mv neck i * as well as ears?woolen gloves and | 3 socks and underclothes, also heavy i n I cloth overshoes, called "Arties," j n : with fleece lining:, that reach half u way to my knees. So you see I am e i prepared for this bitter cold weath- I er and do not suffer as much as you v , would think, although I haven't been c j warm since I've been here. I think d i I will stay - here about two or three a | weeks but can't tell, so do not write t J me here. ? | Peculiar hotels here, no heat in s jthe rooms and precious little any- c i where. I can't get the idea at all. y |No radiators or fireplaces in the d rooms. It beats me, and they charge it you $3.50 per day for the privilege of sleeping practically out doors. a Getting up with all the water in fl your pitcher frozen solid is rough a alright. I I have to keep moving around to s keep fairly warm. The only time I c fret warm is at the steel slant when a I go up to the blast furnace, then I j e almost freeze as soon as I move c away from it. I But I think I can get what I came s I after, so that is what really counts, n J Xo wagons or autos?all sleighs, t j sleigh bells jingling all the time, t' i These sleighs have four runners and S operate just same as a wagon. In i C fact, most of them are wagons with C j sleigh runners instead of wheels. s; I Taxis and delivery wagons are oil T he-e. T Everybody skates here?ice hock- t< ev everv nierht?hisrh schooh, col-' a i leges, ciiy teams and lots o_ orcfes- j j siorals. { j People walk across the end of the y Ilake here into t lie United States I J j (State of Michigan). Think I'll do j c< j it just for the novelty of the thing, j c; Look ^t a map and see" just where {h I am now. j c A large steel plant here?the j largest in Canada. We have just j sold them about one and a quarter h million dollars worth of electrical' ^ equipments. |n j Canadian money is at a discount j u j of 7 1-4 pci* cent. Coins and bills e are of same name and value (face) as ours, so there is no trouble from j ^ i that source. . i ^ 1 i * cl j A shave costs 2"> cents here, so you see that the price of living is no ^ lower than in the United States. Eighteen degrees below this morn- a i in? and about 10 degrees below at i noon, so you see that it is still sold. 0 j Big snow storm predicted for tomor- a ! vrnv unrl Sntif'sv ^ j How these people stand this cold j ^ weather is bevond me. ! ? " ! f II i Another travelins: man tellimr; a i " l * ; about the cold up there?said some- j ^ j times you would be walking along, j * j muffled up with wolf-skin cap down j j to eye-brows, over ears, around neck j ! and up to mouth,?and some stranger i ! would touch you on the arm and say, \ "Brother your nose is frozen." Z d Homicide Near Kinards. ! V Emma Simmons, colored, was killed n at the home of one of her relatives E in the lower part of the county, near r Kinards, Saturday night by her hus- f< band, Lee Simmons, the difficulty fol- F lowing the separation of the two ri about two weeks ago. The killing was done with an axe, the negro man f< evidently striking his wife a terrific P - - ? * * -! v IV _ _i ti blow on tne neaa wnn me snarp u edpre driving a deep wedge in her ti skull. He made his escape imme- t* diately after the crime and although ? search has been made for him for the T past three days he has so far eluded S arrest.?Laurens Advertiser. ^ Subscribe to The Herald and New* j ic IIRL OF MYSTERY PUZZLES POLICE Arrested in Atlanta Wearing Aviator's Garb?Identity in Doubt. Atlanta, Jan. 21.?A young woman arbed as an aviator was being held t police station here tonight, while rankly puzzled police sought to deermine whether she is Jeanne Anna )eKayt missing protege of Jane tddams of Hull House, Chicago. The girl fits press descriptions of liss ueivay except mat ner nair is iobbed and the word "Helen" is tatooed on her arm. Under quizzing toay, police said she first declared she knew" Miss DeKay, then said she /as Miss DeKay, and tonight denied t. Newspaper men who talked with ier told the same story. She first ave her name as Jeanne DeLonge, ieigian wiaow. The young woman was arrested Iondav because she was wearing lien's clothing on the streets, but she nerely happened to come out in her niform. She showed such a knowldge of airplanes that Police Chief leavers freed her. Yesterday she ras arrested again and a blanket harge of "disorderly conduct" was ocketed against her as the result of ?? ? i-'U* l^kViir a# n A rwim _ pptjill Illji ill 111C 1UUUJI vx ct uv t< own hotel in men's attire. Today hey started to investigate whether he was Miss DeKay and communiated with Chicago authorities. The oung woman will be held pending efinite determination of. her identity, i was said. The girl who is held here ffrst s,aid, ccording to the police, that she wa? ying in the interest of recruiting nd was on her way to Pensacola. CoL i. M. Bailey of the army recruiting ervice declared tonight she was not onnected with the army m any way, nd later she said she had been giving xhibition flights and was not offiially connected with recruiting. Police said that while still denying he was Miss DeKay, the young wolan said she came to America about; wo years ago and had spent most of j he time with relatives in Montana. I he met Jeanne Anne DeKay in ,'hicago and went from there to olumbus, Ohio, they quoted her as aying. From there she started to 'ensacola, and was arrested here., 'he "disorderly conduct' charges are o be heard in police court tomorrow fternoon. Charlotte. N. C., Jan. 21.?A our.g woman giving her name as j eanne DeLonge and wearing the! ostume of an aviator made her esape last week from the city prison ere, whore she was being held on a harge of beating a board bill at a >cal hotel. A young woman who accompanied I er here was sent to a detention ' ome. She said her companion was j ot Jeane DeLonge, but Helen Wiley ! f Morganton, W. Va. The prisoner J ?r?npd bv breaking through a win-} o\v and descending a fire escape, ater she was reported as wanted by le police in Gaffney, S. C., on a harge of failure to pay a board bill, i rhile here she told the police spectaclar stories of experiences as an viatrix in France during the war. Chicago, Jan. 21.?The description f the woman being held by the police t Atlanta, Ga., does not correspond rith that of Jeanne Anna DeKay, it as .said tonight at Hull House. j Miss Jane Addams had departed j rom the city, but an official at Hull 1 [ouse said that a description of ihe i itlanta woman, contained in a tcic-; ram received today, did nor. tally j -ith Miss DeKav's. W. M. S. of Mt. Zion. Mrs. G. W. Suber entertained the Roman's Missionary society of Mt. ion church at her home last Thursay afternoon. Devotional exercises 'ere conducted by Mrs. J. R. Spearlan. The topic was, "Channels of llessings." Bible references were ead by all the members. This was * flowed Wltn prayer uy ;uxs. oy. Six members responded to the :>11 call. The following officers were elected jr the year, Mrs. J. R. Spearman, resident; Miss Reka Schultz, treasrer; Mrs. Claude Foy, assistant . easurer; Mrs. G. W. Suber, secre- iry. The next meeting will be held i hursday afternoon before the 3rd unday in February, at 2 o'clock with < [rs. J. F. Stephens. After all business was transacted 1 e cream and cake was served. ] AUTO TRIP FROM CHAPPELLS TO TAMPA, FLORIDA On Friday the 16th, we left Chappells, S. C., for Tampa, Fla. We had it tough Friday, as you remember it * was raining. We went from Chappells to Newberry and from Newberry to Augusta, Ga., via Aiken and spent Friday night in Augusta, which was about one hundred and twentyfive miles we drove Friday. Saturday morning we left for Waycross with the intention of spending Saturday night in Waycross. We made it fine until we got to the Altahama river. There we found we had to cross the river by ferry and the road was bad. There we met a Mr. Bryan from Sumter, S. C., on his way to ]VIiami. We spent several hours there as the road was bad getting into the river. As we were delayed we had to spend the night in Baxley, Ga. Sunday morning we left for Lake /^1-Lmm T71 Tk A M TVf AW/loir tl.'A 1 Q'ff vliy, r iuiiua. men ^uvuviaj ivav for Webster, Fla. We got to Webster just before dark and found a fine Florida supper with our sister. It may surprise you, but we had all kinds of vegetables for supper. Now these vegetables were grown on our brother-inlaw's truck farm. We saw all kinds of truck growing down there, such as beans, cucumbers, squash and cabbage. Some of these fields of cabbage have at least twenty acres in them. You can see all kinds of oranges and too they are cheap, five for five cents, and in South Carolina they are five cents apiece. We had an enjoyable trip, the car ran ftyej the only trouble we had was one puncture. The top soil roads are fine in Floirida, but if you get off the top soil roads, you can't make much time as the sand ruts are so deep and winding about. The people here in Webster are voting bonds to build hard roads and I can't see why the people of Newberry county and state of South Carolina don't vote bonds to build hard roads. This route that we traveled is the most direct route to Tampa and all points South of Tarnpa. I just know somebody will say I am joking when I say I am in my shirt sleeves this morning and have not pot any fire. Well you doivt need any fire, as the weather is warm enough without any. Yesterday it \t-oc cn wa Tintil wripn T ctonned on the street I would hur.t shade to stand in. My brother Carey S. Dominick will spend the re->t of the winter in Florida. I will be back to my garage in Chappslls by Saturday the 24th. Hayne W. Dominick. An Old Mand And a Beautiful Girl. Wednesday's mail brought to this office a letter from Greenville signed "S." It contained the pleasant information that the next day, ThursHoi wmilrl hp ".Tmhre" W. G. Peter son's 76th birthday and that he "had an engagement to enjoy a birthday dinner with a beautiful young lady." Our informant was not satisfied with this but he "perpetrated" the following on his old friend: "It seems to us that the judge, being young enough to have the guest of a beautiful young lady at his birthday dinner, ought to be able to dodge 1 ^T J/v automoones. :\ow wnai uu think of that? We knew that Judge Peterson was in Greenville to have his eyes treated; we didn't know he went there to dine with beautiful girls. Of course we don't blame him, or either wonder at it. No man gets too old to enjoy eating with a beautiful girl. The judge is just 76 years young. Go it, judge, while you are young. We hope he enjoyed the meal as well as the charming presence of the inspiring guest Thursday. Death of an Elderly Maiden Woman. Miss Elvira McCullough died at the home of her nephew, Mr. J. Henry McCullough, in West End on Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock, and was buried at Trinity on Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock, service by Rev. . Mr. Anderson. Miss McCullough was 74 years old. She is survived by one brother in Texas. We know that Street Superintendent Joe Werts has a good deal of work to do and is kept busy,, and that he cannot be everywhere at the same time, but we invite him to walk along Harrington street from College to Calhoun, just after the next rain. He will see that the ladies have a hard time with their shoes in the sticky mud.