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' * ~ "*3ir? 1 VOLUME LVI.. NUMBER 22. NEWBERRY, S. C., TUESDAY, MARCH; 16, 1920. TWICE A WEEK. $2.00 A YEAS I *? I PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS ?.< ft PROSPEROUS PROSPERITY j J Prosperity, March 15.?The Pros- ! ft -oerity high school defeated the j ft Oapin high school at basketball on : Thursday afternoon. The score was W 35 >to 8. The g:ame was played on ' the Prosperity court." Much enthu- i n-9C shnwn bv the large crowd.: -> 1 d11x v? present. Mk.-Morley of Newberry . college acted as referee. !< i Miss Blanch Kawl of Columbia is:, K visiting Z\Irs. Olin Bobb. j Mr. M. C. Morris after a short V visit to friends has returned to his home in Columbia. . | Aiv "Mrs. Fred Bedenbaugh of ; W Columbia are visiting Mrs. \. 'L.J, ' Bedenbaugh. The. following Clemson cadets are j" . hom& On a ten days' furlough Geo. WisJsS^ari'oll Mills, Curtis Pughj'f Boyce Mills, Frank. Earl Schumpert, Heyward Singley, Lindsey ' Btiozer,; : Jr.,'and; Horace Hunter. Miss Mira Hunter spent Saturday' ^ in Columbia. fc Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Johnson of; W Newberry visited Mrs. J. A. Simp-j Y son on Sundav. < .... * - ?t. ! ^ Mir. Henry QurHTiesaum n<is iC-, turned from a business trip to Atlan- I r ta. I v ^ Miss Goode Burton spent the i week-end with Miss Susan Quattle" " " baum of Neeces. j The Ladies' Aid society of Grace ! church will meet Wednesday after- j noon at 4 o'clock with Mrs. A. X.' Cros son. Mr. and Mr?. Sheppard Merchant, j Misses Man' Kohn and Evetta Unger j of Saluda were guests Sunday <5f l Mrs. J. B. Stockman. if:n0r Vine rpfnrned to! 1YL1SS VjlctUvs .uiuti mw - her school duties at Union after a j week's stay with her parents. Miss Rosa Mae Mitchell of Ninety-; ( Six is home on a visit. Mrs. F. E. Su-humpert spent Satur-1 day in Columbia. Rev. L. S. Shealy of Pelion was j the weekjend ixuest of Mrs. J. A. j Baker. I Miss Ethel Saner has returned ; from several days' stay in Columbia, j Mrs. B. B. Schumpert has gone to ! Saluda to visit her daughter, Mrs. J. A. Hunt. Mrs. Sam Spence and Mrs. Nellie 1 Hunt of Columbia have been visiting ' Mrs. J. D. Hunt. j -s* Mr. A. G. Wise had the pleasure j "V of having his brothers and sister with : him on Sunday for dinners, which were Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Lathan, Mr. ; > and Mrs. J. H. Wise, Mr. W. B. Wise _ of Little Mountain, and Mrs. J. L. < fWise of Prosperity. < Clyde Wheeler has returned from a visit to Mrs. C. M. Simpson of Columbia. 11 TT , T" - 1 ~-f I Mr. and Mrs. nari ivuim ui ( bia spent the week-end here with relatives. !. Mr. Wm. Seel was the guest Sun- j ( day of Mrs. A. G. Wise. j j Dr. L. D. Simpson of Kershaw is j. visiting his parents. Dr. and Mrs. J. j A. Simpson. 1 Mr. S. S. Birge is visiting his sis ter, Mrs. A. H. Kohn of Columbia. Miss Jean Adams of Pelzer is visit ing Mrs. J. C. Schumpert. METHODIST MOVE FORWARD \ IN PROSPERITY COMMUNITY i |i Prosperity, March 15.?The sec- j; ond quarterly conference of the! i r Prosperity and Zion charge was held j ] at Wightman chapel on Wednesday j afternoon at 4 o'clock. Dr. Jas. W. j1 ~ Kilgo, presiding elder, presided over I the conference. Among other items . , considered by the conference were !, the plans for the revival that is be-'. ing waged by the church. The re-1 \ ports at the conference were good. 1 and the outlook encouraging. j , Dr. Kilgo addressed a public meet- j ( ing of the Epworth league at Wight- i man Chapel Wednesday evening. His ;; subjcct was "Personal Evangelism." J\ In a plain and forceful way he point- i; ed out that it is the duty of every> ] Christian to seek to lead others to : ^ Christ. |; Revival services will begin at j" Wightman Chapel on March 22. Lev. j1 L. W. Shealy will lead the singing, i The pastor will do the preaching. j j Preparatory to the meeting: the 1 Methodists will this week make a re- j 1 ligious survey of the town and im-,: w J'-*~ -Jri on onr?anvr?r ; i ITlCUicH-C CWiiimuim. j m uii . w. . to ascertain the church affiliation of i i &'A every person. This is a part of the . i 'jA program as outlined for the entire . 1 ~V) Methodist church. i; SUPERVISOR AULL MAKES STATEMENT ABOUT CENSUS j Says Work of Taking Census About Completed?Many Drawbacks on v Account of Sickness. odpervisor E. H. Aull of the third district makes the following: statement in regard to the progress oi ' taking: the census in this district. He j expects to be able to close up his ' ! ??* fi nf A 111*51. 'I hw 1 UillL'C US lilK. iuck v a. statement was made up covering; the; work up to last Saturday. As to the figures and any other matters in re- j gard to the census all the informa-! tion :\vill be given out by the direc-) teg: from Washington. The. foil owing ' is'the statement by Mr...AuIl;: . .. . . * j . "?.fre takinf of the 14ih. decennial crnsus in the Third district has-.been , about completed. Tliere has been a j great.deal of sickness., among.. the.j enumerators and in - th^ix-...fai)iilies, which of necessity has delayed >he. work in several of the .districts. .. As an illustration of this, in one.district at least four enumerators, had been, designated and all had agreed to do j ' ^ - -a the work in tne district, uui ?cn,-j either taken sick themselves or had j serious illness in their families and j on this account were unable to begin < ! work. The fifth enumerator was ap-: pointed about ten days ago and is j now at work and will be through j within the next ten days. In another j district the enumerator had the mis- i fortune to tose his wife by death and on account of her illness and death' I has been considerably delayed. Though delay was occasioned in i otViov rHstripfs from the same causes but with these two exceptions j all the work in the field is now about j completed. "There are in this district 169 j enumeration districts. I have in my office completed schedules for all the districts except the two mentioned ar.d three in which the work has been completed, but the papers have J not yet been actually received at the ! office. We have checked up and forwarded to Washington complete papers in 115 districts and have 25 move ready for shipment, leaving 29 Ua nol'nrl UISlIll'lS) \CI< LV." UC *-Ji CV.KVU! "My purpose has been not to hurry or rush the schedules to the department but rather to be sure that they were in proper form and correct and that the work had been efficiently and thoroughly done in the field. If the census has not been thoroughly and properly done, I feel sure that it is not the fault of any of the enumerators, because I have impressed upon them the importance of having the work thoroughly done and to be sure that all the people were counted. "I have felt that it was the better plan to make an effort to be thorough and correct, rather than to hurry, because the census is taken only once in ten years and every municipality ic QnYlrtllS tf> hflVP %1IU I14J.UA UlkJWiiVV Aw vw W the -figures correct, because these figures will represent the. official standing in population of the civil divisions for the next ten years. "I am not permitted to give out any figures as to population, but I feel satisfied in having done every thing that I could to impress upon the enumerators the importance of thoroughness in counting the people and I feel satisfied also that the enumerators have realized the importance of this. "I desire to say in this connection that the relations between the supervisor and the enumerators have been exceedingly pleasant and the spirit of cooperation has been manifest, and while the work has been trying at times, it has been very pleasant to the supervisor, owing to the hearty cooperation and fine spirit of the ^numerators. "I congratulate myself also on the fact that I have been able to secure two such competent and efficient men as Mr. John J. Murran and Mr. Herbert L. Bouhvare in checking up the papers before sending them to Washington. They have done their work well and it has been a pleasure to ivork with them. "So far as I am advised, all the paper* sent in have been acceptable to the department and the enumerators have received their checks promptly, fn fact I have had no complaint whatever up to this time from the department on any of the work done in this "vffinn /\y Kir + U ra orinmflvifnrc Tf Q been a pleasant surprise to this office and I am also sure to the enumera * tors, that the department has been so prompt in sending cheeks for the work that has been done. Many of the enumerators did not expect their pay for several weeks, but so far as 1 am advised, checks have been received by the - enumerators within two weeks or less after the papers had been sent to- Washington. <;1 am hoping to close up the office and to have all the work completed and acceptable to the department by the lirst of April. If it j should be possible that anv of the ! ; towns in this district should not show | the growth that they are claiming or j that they expect, I feel that it is not i the fault of the enumerator -or the; supervisor. When the enumerators j announced that they had completed their work in the several larger towns . of. the district,- and without giving any intimation as to the figures, l vfeatiito-. -towns and conferred ;:>vi?h the enumerators- and,also the mayors^and Chamber of Commerce and requested the newspapers to state- that the enumerators had com- ; pleted the .work and if any one or i more persons had been omitted that we would be glad to be apprised of the fact and that their names would be added as it was our desire and purpose to give each community the entire population to which it was entitled, and the papers were held for some time in order that additions,.! if any, might be made. I hope that 1 when the official figures are announc- \ cd by the department that they may be satisfactory to all of the com-; Tvmnifrifie rnnrfimod. * ^ I 4,\Ve had the misfortune to lose by j death one of our enumerators, Mr. 1 Samuel W. Derrick t>f Newberry, a fine fellow and a most excellent citi-; zen, who died only a few days ago,; but several weeks after he had com-; , pleted the work of taking the census.j "I am glad of the opportunity ; which this position has given me to | form *so many friendships amongst I the fine men and women who have . j worked with me in the taking of this j census, and I feel that I have the ! I friendship and the good will of each j and every one of them, and I desire\ again to. express my appreciation of j their work and their hearty coopera- j tion." j Candler-Neal. Atlanta Journal,, 7th. Mr. and Mrs. George Luther Neal. of Newberry, S. C., announce the marriage of their daughter, Ida Belle,i to Mr. Thomas Cloud Candler of Atlanta. The marriage was solemnized in Atlanta at high noon Saturday, March 6, the Rev. S. W. Reid, pastor of the Associate Reformed Pres byterian church officiating. Only the j members of the two families attended the ceremony. The bride was becomingly dressed in a going-away suit of brown duvetyn. Her corsage was of bride's roses and fragrant organge blossoms sent from Florida. Immediately after the ceremony the bride ana groom left for a short tour east. They will make their home for the present in Charlotte, N. C. TVip hriHp is a mpmher of a nromi inent South Carolina family and has the charm so characteristic of typical Southern womanhood. For the past two years she has been engaged in educational work in Atlanta, before which time she was prominent in the social and educational life of her native State. During her stay in Atlanta she has made ro;n xnrwrtf 4-a laom I UldLliy lllCliUO VV11U Hlil X ^?1. W C tV X^Ci A. 11 that she will make her home elsewhere. Mr. Candler comes from a wellknown and influential Georgia family. He is the son of the late Governor and Mrs. Allen D. Candler of Atlanta, and is a prominent figure in the social and business life of Atlanta. Al Opera House Wednesday. Dustin Farnum has a wonderfully effective part in "The Corsican Brothers." He plays the dual role of the twin brothers more effectively than any of his predecessors on the stage. His acting of the characters will go down in motion picture history as one of the finest achievements of the silent drama. Suporting him in the leading female role is delightful and popular Winifred Kingston. Among many actors to whistle in < the dressing room is looked upon as ] a portent of ill luck. < TEXAS/TOWN BURNING J AS FIREMEN LOOK ON ! ; ??? Little I^eft of Grand View Except j Smouldering Ruins?Water in . Standpipe Gives Out. $' Fort Worth, March 14.?Grand; View. a? farming community of 2,000 ' ~ -? ' i inhabitants, 36 miles southeast of this ; city, lace tonight, was in smouldering ! ruins, with more than 1.000 of its | residents homeless, seven of its ; ebht blocks of business buildings de- j stroyed and about 200 residences j wiped out by fire which, starting this afternoon, fanned by a 35 nyles an hour wind, was not brought under j rontrol until nearly midnight and J then was s^ill burning fiercely, ac-j nwKtr1-r? rpppi'vprf T>??TP- 'i Latest estimates place the proper-: ty loss ^between $1,500,000 and $2,-j C00,000f. Immediate relief for the ; homeless was ur<red.. Fire Apparatus was sent to Grand j View from Waxhatachie, Itasca, Cle- j burne and Alverado, but on its ar- j rival was of no use as the water in ! the standpipe cave out an hour after J the fire started. Indications \\ere that the few re-1 mainirfe buildings in the residential , sectior} would be destroyed. P'ire de- j partmints from Cleburne, Itasca and j Alverado responded to a call for aid, but thp water in the town stand .pir,e soon gave out and no dynamite ohfninpd. i Aftfer that the firemen were unable to do anything except watch the town burn. Automobiles, trucks, wagons and other vehicles were pressed into service to carry the homeless to Alvarado and Itasca. Merchandise valued at hundreds of thousands of dollars was piled in the streets, but was greatly damaged by water and smoke. In shape of a V the fire v* / swept through the city, destroying, more than 200 homes in the residential section. When the flames reached Main street, hopes were held that the business section could be saved, as the wind was blowing due north, but the wind veered and the fire was swept into the business section, engulfing every building in its eight blocks. Merchants had virtually j}G i time to save their stocks. While fighting the fire on the roof of a one story business building on Main street, the assistant fire chief, Sam Welton of Itasca; a Cleburne fireman and a fireman of Grand View were hurled into a blazing apartment, when the roof collapsed. They were rescued, all critically injured. Mayor Williams of Grand View called a mass meeting of all male citizens in the city park and organized-a committee of safety. This committee patrolled the fire stricken section and salvaged goods from stores and residences wherever possible. .The wind is blowing with such velocity that burning brands were carried for miles. A farm house three miles from Grand View caught on fire from such a brand and was destroyed. V - C. i. J ..4. nvfvrtrwa i ue me siaueu at cnc cauchh, Southern end of the town and fanned by the heavy wind, by 9 o'clock it had wiped out the school house, every church, approximately 200 residences and 70 business buildings. Grand View, which is in Johnson county near the Hill county line, 36 miles southeast of Fort Worth, has a population of about 2,000. RICHEST INDIAN TO LOSE WHITE BRIDE Pretty Young Woman Who Recently Captured Aged Red Man Declared Adventuress. T^opeka, Kans., March 13.?Jackson Barnett, richest Indian in the world and seventy year old husband of young and pretty Mrs. Anna Laura Lowe Barnett, is to be separated from his white bride. The aged Indian, only recently wedded to Mrs. Barnett, is to be turned over to a male guardian, Carl J. O'Hornett of Henrietta, Okla. The Kansas supreme court issued' a writ of habeas corpus ordering Mrs. Barnett to turn her husband over to O'Hornett. Sheriff Backus of Montgomery county today had both Barnett and his young wife in custody here. According to charges made. Mrs. Barnett has kept her aged groom confined in a room in a Coffeyville hotel. This, it was charged, threatened his health because of his age, and also because heretofore he has I lived in the open. Barnett owns more than $1,000,000 worth of Liberty bonds and has I an income of $160,000 a year. The steps to separate the Indian from his white bride were said to be sanctioned by Cato Sells, Indian ' commissioner, at Washington, and James C. Davis of Muskogee, attor iU A T V* A 1 r? y-1 O f 1 AM 1 I!t\Y JLUI UiC Uicca lliuiau iiuviuu. ! In the petiaion for the writ, Mrs. 1 Barnett was described as "an adven- < turcss, inspired by artful and design- i ing motives, and that her purpose ] has been and is now to deceive Jack- son Barnett and to defraU'd him of j his estate." NEWBERRY'S NINE r. - STARTS PRACTICE j i . Lutherans Prepare for- Attractive Schedule?About 40 Trying for Position on Team. - \ I The State. * Newberry, March. 10.?Regular baseball practice for Newberry college .began Tuesday afternoon. A squad of about 40 men is out battling to don the scarlet and gray. | Newberry has 11 letter men back, j but some of them will have to work , hard for a position. j Many of the new men are showing 1 up well. Cromer, Newbrery's star {catcher, is back on the job and is rapidly getting into form. Robinson, who was w, :h the Columbia high last year is working hard for the i nnsi'tinn T ntfipr F.arlv and I | SdlilC ^>U>uvay ? ^ J Derrick, who have done slab work i for Newberry are back on the job | and are showing .up well, while A. 3healy and Crooks, also show the I ability to make pitchers. The infield I has Lane, Repp, and Paysinger of I last year's team. The outfield has | Haltiwanger and Bishop of last year's | team. Everything points towards-a ! winning team for the Indians. [ The Newberry schedule fpildws: j j March 2G, Piedmont at Newberry. ' | March 27, Piedmont at Newberry, j March 29, Springfield at Newberry. April 9, Clemson at Clemson. 1 April 10, Baily Military Institute j at Greenwood. | April 12, Erskine at Newberry. April 14, Wofford at Newberry. I April 15, Clemson at Newberry. April 20, Presbyterian at Newberry. April 23, Furman at Newberry. April 27, Elon at Newberry. April 29, open. Anril SO nnPTl. , ? - -' -I May 3, open. May 4, open. May 6, Citadel at Newberry. May 7, Furman at Greenville. May 8, Erskine at Due West. May 10, Presbyterian at Clinton. May 11, Wofford at Spartanburg. May 14, Piedmont at Demorest, Ga. May 15, Piedmont at Demorest, Ga. Games pending: April 17, Wake 1 Forest at Newberry; May 1, Citadel 1 at Charleston. 3 , im, 1 WILL NOT TELEGRAPH U IWCI IIF1M7A RRPORTS 11 I Epidemic Declines Over State?As- 1 sistant State Health Officer 1 Makes Statement. _ 1 Dr. C. V. Akin, assistant state i health officer in charge of influenza control, said yesterday that on ac- J count of the decline in the influenza i epidemic over the state, no more i daily telegraphic reports would be i necessary. "rtf />/MiT<ca fhoro ic fl-n limiSUal i V/A V.VUIOW witv4 v outbreak of influenza or a marked re- i currence of the disease, the department desires daily telegraphic reports so that it may keep closely in touch with developments. We are < instructing officers in Abbeville, ^ Aiken, Newberry and Spartanburg i ] to discontinue sending their daily re- j ports by telegraph. We make this ] request by reason of the decline of j the disease and also to conserve the j influenza fund. The payment ,of tel- j sgraph tolls makes a considerable j drain on this fund." g i Office in( Court House. ^ I have moved my office to the lady ( * r* /? i.1. . I witness room, secona noor 01 me ^ court house; and shall be glad to f have the girls and ladies come up j when they are in Newberry. I shall be in the office every Saturday. ' s Willie Mae Wise, c Home Demonstration Agent. ( r JO YOU FAVOR PROGRESS? THEN SIGN PETITION; Vlore Signatures Needed to Ordei? Election?Newberry Must Build Street. ro the Real Estate Owners of Newberry: We want to get to work with needed improvements in the city, in the way of paving of streets, and some extensions of the water, light and sewerage systems. We must have money to do these things. The only ivay to get the money is by bond issues. The qualified electors vote the bonds. Before elections for bonds may be .held, however, a mojority of the freeholders?owners of lands?must sign petitions asking council to order the elections. There are <?ver 800 owners of land in Newberry. We want at least 425 of these to sign the petitions. At i this time about 175 have signed. We need 250 additional signatures. , I am sure that tlie land owners favor making progress. Of those who have been approached with the petitions only four or five have declined to sign. I am confident that a great majority of freeholders will gladly sign if they just think to do so. To give them the opportunity, I have appointed committees to present the petitions to them. The members of these committees are as follows: Ward 1?H. D.. Whitaker, JL B. Wells, T. B. Wicker. ^ Ward 2?R. C. Sligh, M. Sgfeairman, G. B. Summer, J. A. Burtijfe I. ~ H. Hunt. y Ward 3?W. B. Wallace,'John M. s Kinard, Jas. W. Johnson, ,R. L. Tarrant, C. T. Summer. Ward 4??L A. Senn, Frank K. Hunter, John Hi Wicker, S. 0. Nes- ; ley. t _ >-'' v * > '.Ward 5?W^pS. Hardeman, G. W. For the Colored Freeholders? Ulysses Gallman, T. A. Williams, V ' Rev. A. W. Brown, Simon Allen. Do not wait for a member of the committee to find you. He may miss T . - 1 - 1- "?J ITnil* yOU. IjOOK mill up ciiiu ai?ii name. , The women who own land in Newberry wi41 please remember that their signatures are needed and desired. ; v The sooner the petitions are sign-; ed, the sooner the elections can be held. Let's all get together to start, something in Newberry. The committees will please file their petitions with City Clerk Chap-; man or with me by Friday, March 19th. Respectfully, ? ^ il| Eugene 5. tsiease. Mayor. , i BRYAN SAYS HE WILL RUN 4TH TIME TO SAVE NATION i ' Lincoln, Neb., Marjrii 13.?In his first definite declaration regarding presidential aspirations, William Jennings Bryan, in a signed statement nade public here tonight, declared :hat "if the situation became such ;hat my nomination was actually demanded, as in time of war a soldier's ife is demanded on the battlefield, I vould feel it my duty to consider it." Bryan asserts in his 'Statement, lowever, that he hopes no such sitlation will arise. His reward for activity in thirty -ears of public life has been the satisfaction of seeing nearly every reform which he has advocated written nto the laws of the land, he declared. "I desire quiet and rest and look forward to a few years of uninterrupted happiness at home," he said. Buying at Minimum. Roanoke, Va., March 13.?The lo:al lodge of the Brotherhood of Rail vay and Steamship Qlerks, Freight handlers, Express and Station Emjloyees, with a membership of about 1,300 men and women, at a mass neeting today adopted a resolution Dledging themselves to confine their ndividual. buying, "to a minimum md to refrain from purchasing any roods or materials not absolutely lecessary to the well being of the purchaser." This action was taken, )fficials of the organization declared, o "counteract the unwarranted proits of producers, middlemen and Trailers." The women's bowling champiojirliip of the United States will be ueided at a tournament to be held in Chicago next April.