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jp n | VOLUME LVI., NUMBER 14. NEWBfcRRY, S. C., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1920. TWICE A WEEK. 12.00 A YEA! ? - - .1 - - m ^PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS r .... PROSPEROUS PROSPERITY ^ Prosperity, Feb. 16.?Through the r enterprise of a number of progressive citizens, backed by their courage and confidence in the opoprtunity? real genuine opportunity?written on every foot of Prosperity soil, an 435 nnn h<vnd issue for ^uCVWiVU AV& ywywv electric lights was carried by an overwhelming majority last Tuesday. A committee composed of Messrs. J. C. Schumpert, J. D. Quattlebaum and R. T. Pugh, has been appointed to investigate and plan the most desirable and feasable method for this expendi? tur$ and there is every evidence that [ we are not going to be left behind [ other progressive and wideawake ^ towns in securing: lights and power, i Such improvements always increase the value of property and add to the comfort, health and prosperity of a place. Although considered a luxury several years ago, today electric lights and power are an absolute necessity for any town aspiring to be more than a village and now that we ? are to get power let us awake and go after those splendid and extensive business opportunities so bountifully suplied by our town, which are insis iently and appealingly awaiting to be f developed and whose invitation is like * a pass-word to peaceful scenes of plenty. Mrs. Ward of Clinton was the week-end guest of her sister, Mrs. A. L. Bedenbaugh. Miss Rosalie Wheeler of the Whitmire school faculty is home during the flu vacation. Mrs. V. E. Kohn was operated on at the Columbia hospital Thursday. Mower Singley of Bailey Institute, 1 greenwood is home on a short visit. Miss Margurite Wise has returned to Columbia after having spent the ' week-end with her mother, Mrs. J. L. Wise. Miss Elizabeth Hawkins of Marion is home while her school is closed on account of the flu. Mrs. M. C. Morris of Columbia spent several days last week with Mrs. J. L. May. Mrs. Grace Davidson left Thursday for Los Angeles, California, after several days stay with her mother, Mrs. M. B. Bedenbaugh. Mr. E. M. Cook was carried Friday to the Columbia hospital for treatment. k Mesdames J. F. Browne, G. W. Harmon and L. W. Harmon were shoppers to Columbia on Friday. Mrs. Carrie McWaters left Sunday for Columbia, where she will be corsetiere for Smiths. Mrs. A. L. Bedenbaugh and Miss Lola Bedenbaugh were called to Columbia Wednesday on account of the illness of the former's son, Fred Bedenbaugh. Roy Fellers of Columbia was home for the week-end. Mrs. J. E. Hunter of Clemson college and S. B. Bowers of Fitzgerald are visiting their father, L. S. Bowers. Dr. and Mrs. G. Y. Hunter spent Monday in Columbia. Miss Mayme Swittenberg is spending the week in Newberry. F. N. Calmes of Newberry spent Sunday with Mrs. J. L. Wise. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Smith have rooms with Mr. and Mr^. J. B. T. Scott. Mrs. Rebecca Hunter has returned from a visit to her son, Prof. J. E. , Hunter of Clemson college. Mrs. Birge Wise is home after a month's stay in Williamston. Mrs. J. B. Bedenbaugh of Pomaria ? spent Saturday with her mother, Mrs. J. M. Werts. Mrs. Frank Merchant and daughter Lois of Newberry have been visiting Mrs. J. II. Crosson. Roof-Livingston. Sweet and simple was <{he marriage which took place at the home of Mr. E. J. Roof near Columbia, S. C., when his eldest daughter, Miss Ada Catherine Roof, became the bride of Mr. Lenoir V. Livingston on Thursday afternoon, February 12, at half past four o'clock. Promptly at the appointed time the couple entered and took their places before the officiating minister, Rev. Edwin Roof brother of the bride. The impressive ceremony of the Lutheran church was nspd TVip hridp \vr?s nnn<:iia!lv Invplv - ^ ~ ^ * ? , ^ v m her gown of midnight blue chaimeuse and srorgette. After the showering of congratulations the r?p "*->'"0 the din in0, room where a bountiful supper was sei'Vci!. u !y t o and a few intimate friends were present at the wedding. Friday the happy ocuple left via automobile for their home near Newherrv where the groom is a prosper ous farmer. | Mrs. Livingston as Miss Roof was | widely known and universally loved. She was active in church and social work, and will be missed by her many friends who regret exceedingly that her marriage takes her away from them. The many handsome presents attested the popularity of the couple. C( THE FLU. | ? When your back is broke and your ^ eyes are blurred, A1 And your shin bones knock and your. ~ tongue is furred, And you're doggone sure you're going j to die, But you're skeered you won't and afraid you will, c' Just drag to bed and have your chill, c: And pray the Lord to see you thru, For you've got the Flu, boy, you've 11 ft' got the Flu. ! y When your toes curl up and your belt 0 goes flat, ; " And you're twice as mean as a b Thomas cat, j 01 And life is a long and dismal curse, And your food all taste like hard-; boiled hearse, j ^ When your lattice aches and your 81 head's a-buzz, And nothing is as it ever was, j tl For you've got the Flu, boy, you've j $ got the Flu. h: What is it like, this Spanish Flu? Ask me brother, for I've been thru, b ? *? ?* m it is Dy .misery out vx .L/eapati, ? It pulls your teeth and curls your $ hair, It thins your blood and brays your b bones, tl And fills your craw with moans and 1 groans, 0! And sometimes, maybe, you get well,! a: Some call it Flu, I call it hell. j e: ?Dodge City Journal. th BARGAIN SALE. v< Once a lady met a lady ai Going out to buy; sc Said the lady to the lady. 3. "PowoJn cold T cnuf" I VI uai^axn ouiv A ? "Should we hurry? I should worry? 0, I have shopped before!" ^ In a flurry each did scurry ^ Swiftly to the store. e] si Tho they sadly said that badly q Could they spare the coin, $ Very gladly they the madly q. Shoving crowd did join. q H ? ? j p ^ With a irantic sort 01 annc ty Each did strength expand, By a mantic power gigantic jT Looking for the end. 0j Of a yard or so with arder? m They began to pull, t* Pulling harder and still harder Till their hands were full. T o1 When the lady saw the lady That same piece would buy, In a shady way the lady Blacked that lady's eye. k Cartoons Magazine. G mam Si One morning Mr. Jenkins, the pro- C nrietnr of the village nrovision stores. A ! received a letter which caused him to Si j indulge in a few imprecations at its A j cool effrontery. It ran as follows: ^ I "Dear Sir: Will you let my little boy, Billy, 'ave six laoves and a pund T. of cheaze on trust, as my 'usband is C out of work, and will yer rap the ^ cheaze in a bit of the situations va- ^ cant advertisement of a newspaper, C and tie the bread in a lump of your buter muslin, cos if the werst comes S1 to the werst and the old man don't find a job Vll have to borrer your pair of steps and a pail and go winder cleaning."?Tit-Bits. S1 j Boiled drinking water as a method i of guarding against disease was ^ practiced in olden times. HerDdotus tells how Cyrus had his drinking Si j water boiled and carried in silver C' ' J j.1. _ ir< i j Si j vessels, ana riiny uie r,uitrr itriatco j j that Nero had water boiled and after- j S" | wards cooled for drinking: by placing ; it in glass flasks surrounded by ^ snow. S1 Si j The heating properties of coal de- Si pond mainly upon the carbon content, the oxygen being usually of no Si value, because it is combined with hydrogen as water. In e;is coals j Ir 'ifiv.'i'\v-\ !m* e\- ess of h; 'iro ror ?? a CAPITAL NEWS (By John ? Columbia4, Feb. 15.?With the genral appropriation bill scheduled to Dme up in the house or representa-1 ves not before Tuesday afternoon j t 2:30 o'clock, all prospect of rinal j djournment of the legislature the ' :>ming week is gone. The measure j an not get to the senate before tne ! ttter part of the week, and will have ) go to the finance committee there,' nd it hardly seems possible for the jgislature to get through before the 7th or 28th, at the earliest. The appropriation bill as reported i > the house by the ways and means ommittee is the biggest in the I)emoratic history of the state. It carries ems aggregating $5,830,327.10, an i lerease of something like a million j nd three-quarters dollars over last 1 ear, and an increase of $364,000 j ver the amount recommended by j rovernor Cooper in the report of the i uderet commission. The governor's i ffice is given nearly $200,000, a con- J derable portion of this beincr for j law-enforcement." As synopsized ! y the Columbia State, the bill is in ibstance as follows: A striking feature of the bill is lat it carries appropriations of 364,195.51 in excess of the amount ^commended by Governor Cooper in is budget commission report, the . jtal amount recommended in that I eing $5,466,631.65. The total [Iiuuni appx upiidLCU task yva.i was 4,102,351.02. j There are several large items in the , ill. That for the State Hospital for I le Insane is the largest with $1,027,- j 27.07. All appropriation of $464,- I 29.37 is recommended for Winthrop,! nd $198,583.33 for the Citadel, | xclusive of the $600,000 voted in j e house yesterday. The office of the ' ;ate superintendent of education is oted $913,190, which is the largest : mount ever voted for the public 11 :hools. An appropriation of $607,50 is provided for Confederate ' sterans. Increases given by the committee |' per the recommendations of the j: adget commission include: One hun-:! red thousand dollars for the gov-1( mor's office, $18,000 for the Univer- j ty of South Carolina, $5,000 for the j: itadel, $20,000 for Clemson college, i: 56,000 for Winthrop college, $14,00 for the Medical College of South arolina, $32,000 for the John de la 1 owe Industrial school, $200,000 for 1 is State Hospital for the Insane, j i 26,000 for the state board of health. ] lcrease under the rscommendation i f the budget commission of $55,000 ' >r the adjutant general's office were j \ :ade by the committee, $25,000 for 1 V npflrrn KflVS fltlH h j AVA v j 45,000 for the state electrician. 1 here were small differences in , :her items. Appropriations Recommended. 1 The appropriations were: egislative department $ 71,042.00 11 overnor's office 199,450.00 ' aprofnrr nf state 10.175.00 M omptroller general .... 197,377.04 ttorney general 13,501.50 5 tate treasurer 259,362.31 ; djutant general 18,752.50 1 niversity of South 1 Carolina 233,929.57 ' he Citadel 198,583.33 1 lemson college 130,920.00 'inthrop college 464,029.37 j edical college 61,482.50 < onfederate Home col- 11 lege 2,000.00 j 1 tate Colored college.... 99,880.00 1 )hn de la Howe Indus- i trial school 66,816.00 ] :*hool for the Deaf and l the Blind 99,551.00 < bate superintendent : education 913,190.00 tate historical commis- i sion 5,250.00 j bate library 3,805.00 1 Dnfederate Museum .... 100.00 i tate relic room 750.00 { TJT Aowifol "P/-VY* T r* 1 Icti.tr iui Hi- . j sane 1,027,127.07 ] tate penitentiary 121,965.00 tate board of charities 17,370.00 i tate board of pardons.. 400.00 \ tate training School ) for Feeble-minded 45,307.00 outh Carolina Indus- s trial School for-Boys 101,808.So 1 ldustrial school for ( ojrj; j i c . v. . r. .. M ; AND GOSSIP Auii.) boys 48,061.67 Catawba Indians 7,500.00 Committee on support of deaf and blind children 500.00 Board of health 199,211.14 Tax commission 20,800.00 Tax board of review 1,500.00 Insurance commissioner 15,634.00 State bank examiner.... 16,100.00 Railroad commission .... 18,930.80 Chief game warden 10,200.00 State board of medical examiners 2,845.00 State board of law ex- | aminers 450.00 State board of fisheries 9,800.00 i 1 :i;? oLciie DUciTU U1 CUIlClliation 1,200.00 Joint committee on printing 35,000.00 I Commissioner of agriculture 69,440.80 State warehouse commissioner 18,141.00 State electrician 30,830.00 State highway engineer 86,500.00 Sinking fund commission 17,409.50 State pension commission 607,350.00 Confederate infirmary.. 22,159.25 Confederate veteran's reunion 1,500.00 Judicial department .... 156,325.66 Miscellaneous 14,231.62 S5.830.327.16 VJ&AUU T - , , Would Raise Levy. The bill would raise the levy from j nine and one-half to twelve mills. It does not include, as introduced,! the proposed salary raises, already | passed by the senate and yet to be considered by the house, which j would raise the salary of the governor I to $6,000, and make increases in the ^ salaries of all other state officials to j between $5,000 and $3,500. Of course I this measure has not yet passed the | house. Nor does it include?'f it should ?et through?the amount to be available $200,000 this year, of the appropriation for the Citadel of $600,000, which has already passed the house, and which is yet to be considered by the senate. Should this measure go through the senate it ivould increase the bill $200,000. i With reference to the appropriations for education recommended in the bill, State Superintendent Swcaringen has issued the following illuminating statement: Educational Items. "The total for the public schools is $913,190. The amount requeued by the state superintendent in his estimates submitted to the budget com mission was $1,021,530. The i.ez reduction is $108,340. "These figures will barely protect the contracts between trustees and teachers under existing laws. Much ;o my regret, nothing vhatever has oeen done to provide better salaries for teachers. "In round number the public school enrollment for the scholastic year 1918-19 was 400,000. This figare will likely be largely increased for the current year. The report of ,he ways and means committee supDlies about $2.30 psr child. "The increase over public school ippropriations of former years is significant and gratifying, even ;hough inadequate. In contrast with :hese figures, the recommendations For the six state colleges aggregate j n round numbers $1,300,000. A J iberal policy toward the colleges is j lecessary. Tax supported institutions i higher learning are indispensable, i and should be liberally maintained. "This report, however, would pro-1 ride SI,300,000 for 4,000 college students, approximately $325 per lead. The total public school reveiue for the scholastic year 1918-19 lggregated $5,090,712.82. The total reported expenditure for all the pubic schools pas $4,370,065.28. "The per capita expenditure per .vhite pupil was $20.43 and per negro Dupil, $2.31. The average for both aces was SI 1.23. "Our educational system must be itrenprtheneu at ils ba3e before pub- j ic schools can serve and train all the i hililren of all the people. $1,800,000 J the 4.000 college students "n th; i\ institutions of hVher learning is a I MUST HAVE COTTON j ^ English Spinners and Their Attitude To Staple. The New York Times last Monday mntoinpri the followincr editorial arti |cle about cotton and the English spinners: It is best to discuss in a low key the statement of the Liverpool correspondent of the London Times that 3,000 bales of American cotton have been sent back to this country to turn them into dollars. It is even suggested that a like policy may be adopted for other American goods, which have been bought but not paid for, and are daily more difficult to pay for as dollars rise in price, me British proposal is to diminish their stock of our consumable goods in order to reduce the liabilities against them. Toian extent, that is cooperation with the effort of the federal reserve to bring demand below supply here by such financial methods as shall bring to market goods kept out of consumption by speculation. Roth nlans mav be commended under reserve as to the possibility of too much of a good thing. The cotton reimports stand on a different basis. There is no novelty about returning our cotton to us when our speculators have made it more profitable to sell it back to us even over the costs of such a procedure, than to sell the goods from the fibre. The "comer," if il may be called such, is now a British corner arrived at in a natural manner, above criticism. ' While Germany was attempting to starve Englahd that stalwart country was providing itself with everything in more than usual abundance. There never were such food stocks in England in recent years as in war years, and the British stocks of cotton now are such that they could well afford to pay freights back to us and charge the costs against the profit in dollars under present conditions of exchange? provided they could undo the sale by repurchase at their wish. There are no signs in British practice that the British think they have more cotton than they can use. Total imports of | cotton into England last week were 208,000 bales, against 165,000 bales I the preceding week and 91,000 bales last year. For the week ending Saturday our exports of cotton were 173,643 bales, against 85,612 bales last year and 164,643 bales for the last week of January. Liverpool stocks of cotton now are over a million bales?more than double those of last year. The reimport of 3,000 bales would not make much impression on such figures, and they would not be convincing if they were 300,000 bales. The reason is that England never made such profits from our cotton as now. In the middle of January British trade reports were that the mirtofc woro harp * "nractirallv fcv/vwo iiiajnvvu r- ? all the world appears to be knocking at Lancashire's door for cotton goods." Any price is paid on assurance of deliveries, "passing wartime levels by pence per pound and shill- j ings per "piece." The margin between our cotton price and the British goods price is 35s, per pound, "so that buyers pay only passing attenfine investment. $5,000,000 for the 400,000 public school pupils is a re-1 grettable makeshift. It is not unwise | to invest $325 a year in each college ] student. It is most unwise to invest only $11.23 annually in each public school pupil. "Tliroa imnnrtunf hills RPPkir.fiT to I raise teachers' salaries are under con- \ sideration. They seek to provide a salary of SI00 for each high school teacher and a salary of $90 for every other teacher holding a first grade license. Such laws will require additional appropriations, but the relief | ?1 -I- * ~ in lmnerativplV nped- I Ultjy SfCR. IV }^l?t ?^ ed." I No Highway Legislation Yet. The legislature has done nothing definite as yet in regard to any proposed highway legislation except the introduction in each house of a bill prepared by a special joint committee appointed by the two houses to try j to harmonize the various divergent views. If any highway legislation is j to be enacted some speeding up will i be necessary unless the session is to be considerably-prolonged. The two houses meet again Monday j ""u'ht. having adjourned over from j Friday. i i f tion to them and sellers none at all." The boom in mill shares is to match. What do British spinners or weavers care for the cost of cotton which their customers pay? How can England take a chance of her competitors buying cotton she decline^ and taking such trade from her? What assurance is there in the present crop outlook, after five successive insufficient crops, that England can get back the cotton she returns to a ITT 1J T? 1 ] i:i._ 4? V.M US.' now wuuiu Diigiauu iiftc uv uujr back in the form of goods the fibre which she speaks of returning to us? How can England venture to substitute for profits of hundreds per cent* the losses and dangers of unemployment by hundreds of thousands? There is no harm in the making of such a suggestion, nor in acting on it, if that is British .judgment. But, on reconsideration, it may be thought more likely that England will prefer the profits of production to the profits of either finance or speculation. That would be too much like "looking for a substitute for work," according to Irving T. Bush's observation of events in England. It applies well enough to the British operatives who have substituted the 48hour week for the 55-hour week, and raised the cost of living for themselves and every buyer of American cotton or British goods. On the capital side there is no lack of British energy, for the employer! know that they do not pay the cost of cotton, and that there is no more a substitute for American cotton in 1920 than there is a substitute for work. The cotton reimport story i? not impressive, and therefore is ft mistake. It Wai Awful Old. A man entered a store one cold bit* r ter day and bought a woolen muffler. When he opened the muffller he found inside it the photograph of a beautiful girl, tpgether with a note sayings "If you are single please write to me." A name and address followed and the man smiled. He was single and he put the photograph on his sitting room mantel. There, every evening, looking up from his book, he beheld it. It was very beautiful and he had soon fallen in love with her. So he wrote to the egirl. Another i week passed, a week of anxious suspense passed. Then the homesick man received this crushing letter: "Sir: ine iviary smiui 10 wnom you wrote was my grandmother. She died nine years ago at a ripe age. Yours truly," Our heart-broken man, on looking into this strange matter found that he foolishly bought the muffler from a merchant who did not advertise. Bent Light. From Cartoons Magazine, j Professor Einstein, of London, hai ! put light on the blink. At certain points in space the power of gravitation has bent light like the constitution has bent right. Newton and Euclid are in the discard?light no longer drips in a ' straight stream from a bunghole in I a star, and the shortest route be| tween two given suns is a crooked j line. This introduces the jazz-molecule may now be camouflaged for "a little straight ether" among the fourth | dimension souses. "Give us a bent-light cocktail" in the interstellar dance academy. n The business of tea blending is peculiarly British. For more than 100 years Mincing Lane has blended tea for the whole world and brought the work into the region of an exact science. In ancient Rome the perfumers lived in a special quarter set apart for their use and whole streets were filled with their shops, which were the lounging places for wealthy young nobles. "You cannot judge by appearances in this life." "You surely cannot," replied Uncle Bill Bottletop. "F'rinstance, moonshine liquor mostly looks like pure crystal spring water."?Washington Star. Sunday School Teacher?And now can any bright little boy or girl tell me why Adam and Eve were driven from the Garden of Eden? Johnny Doughboy, Jr.?Please, sir, they eac their emergency rations.-? The Home Sector. I