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|j|jt Jcram anil Jans. Entered at the PostofRce at NewHmr, S. C., at 2nd das* matter. E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Friday, September 10, 1920. ' v Even the split log drag would be . helpful to some of the roads in tfte county if the application were made ' / just now while the roads are wet, i and it is really wonderful how much good could be accomplished for the roads with so little work and energy. Will some one try it out on the Prosperity road? The cotton crop in this county has been very materially damaged by / the recent wet weather and in most fields it looks like it has some disease. There has been very little bol wevil so far and very little damage will be done by the weevil this year, but it would be well for farmers tc \ take note that he is here and wil1 probably be in evidence for the next crop. There will be" another primary i< election next Tuesday and it is 2 very important one. There are nc | county offices to be filled but there j& " . is the United States senator, a lieu; tenant governor, a railroad commis % ' 1 sioner and a solicitor to be chosen V These are all important position* ? and the people should take a suf ; ficient interest to go to the polls anc 5'register a vote for the man of thei & . choice, and .they should be carefu 1,0 select the best man offering to: the place to be filled. Two of thesf places are for terms of six years am v < two for four years and only one fc^ two years, and it is a very importar ph matter *that the people should vot? in this election. There is no reason that we ca ? iee why two live and progressiv communities like Prosperity an; Ntfwberry, and two that are so close & ly and pleasantly united, should pe H - mit such a public road as we no1. ^ ^ have between the towns to remain i ?;> its present condition. Many persor ?|? in both the communities travel th road every day, and besides it is tY H' connecting link between the two, ar> ^ more than that is part of ths chai of" county to.county roads, and ^ould not cost .a very large amourto put this road in at least- passafc and civilized condition, and yet r [.one seems to be interested. C ^ The chamber of commerce is som |fv' what of the clearing house for th Community, that is part at least of i ? purpose, and we do not know an> v ' thing just now that would do mo: if%^: .good to the county and that wou^ cost so little as the placing of th' /Y road in civilized condition, ?.r.d ma; . be this organization co iid take th . matter iap with the county official ^ and the business mejl vof the tw ? communities, and by ail of them c: operating something worth whil l|p? could be done. Sow about it, M Maxwell? It would pay the tv: towns to raise the money and hav ",v * ' , |f the road placed in such condition th it could be taken over by the stat highway commission, and then w would have no more trouble abou Kv maintenance. >V- B. B. LEITZSEY MANAGER STANDARD WAREHOUSE Mr, James D. Wheeler, who hs been the efficient manaerer of th. Standard warehouse in Newberry fo. ' the past 17 years, has resigned. K ? . was recently nominated for cier of court for Newberry county an g&V , will take charge of that office on th first of January, though it was h'; intention to retire from the warehouse management even had he not bees elected clerk of court. Mr. B. B. Leitzsey has been app'Vr pointed the successor of Mr. Wheele. and will take charge next week. Mr. Wheeler will remain with the wareViniioo oc ??aeiefs?-nt ATr T pifr7>PY 11W UiJV UWWIMVUU W V V *!** WW |, -until Christmas so as to get him fair-" , miliar with the duties and to render such service as he may be able. Mr. Leitzsey has had considerable experience in the handling of cotton, having worked several seasons * in Newberry either with the late Kober' jjj Holmes' or with Summer Brothers company, and will be able to take up the work at the warehouse easily and will make a worthy successor tr , . Mr. Wheeler. He is energetic, polite and courteous and obliging and will meet the requirements of the position with satisfaction to the public and 1 to the company. Death of Mr. Rainey Kitt. After a last lingering illness of four weeks following bad health during the past several years, Mr. Rainey Hitt died on Monday night at 9:10 o'clock, at his home, 2010 Brown street, this city, and was buried in s " Rpsemont cemetery Tuesday afteri. noon at f> o'clock, service by his pastor, the Rev. E. V. Babb, interment conducted by brother Masons, the deceased being laid to rest with Masonic orders. Mr. Hitt was 75 years old. On the 7th of last April he and his companion of manv lone vears of happy married life celebrated their golden wedding. He was a good old Confederate veteran, member of James D. Nance camp, having fought through the last two or three year? of the war in James' battalion. In his active life he was a farmer, a native of Laurens county, coming ic Xewberry, his adopted place, 30 ode" years ago. Ever since the war Sir. Hitt suffered from a wound receiver on one of the battlefields of Virginia. After his active life in Newbein he had settled down in a quiet wa\ - ? x^ J Uip 1 ix*nl ' Vi r. ilJU meu L U SWIli cam mo iivtxmv^v oy his own exertions, by so doirnaking many friends among the ok ;nd young people of the community Vlr. Hitt was a man of remarkable vitality and strong constitution .tfore than once during the last year. )f his life he was reported to b< lying, but each time he rallied a.n vas able to be up and out again. II.' *reat will power and extraordinr.r; enacity showed strongly even in Ih our weeks preceding his death, whe? 'or 18 days he clung to life ?r.< 'ought death without nourishment rradually (Jying all that time. Tw veeks before he died he was able t urn himself over in bed, and ri hough suffering physical pain h '.ever murmured or complained. Mr. Hitt, besides his widow, urvived by four children, as follow? frs. M. R. Poasr of Columbia, Mr. Y Hitt of Columbia, Mr. Eugene H;* f Kinards ahd Mr. J. J. Hitt c Tewberry. He outlived the family r is parents, being the last of the civ' 'ren of that generation to go. OLONY CHURCH COUNCIL " PT pttvim v A rTrDMAP IYIC.C. 1 OU1YLTAI ?r i Liunuv / We are glad to know that ! "oung Peoples society of Newbev }unty will meet with us at Color utheran church next Sunday aftc Don. We heartily welcome the 11 of the council of the church is r ' jested to be present to discuss atter of. much importance to t" lurch. The council will meet at t inclusion of the service. Member of Council. Barbecue at Wheeland. There is to be a barbecue at Wh. > nd school house near Little Mou .in today, Friday, and Senator . Smith is expected to be presc id deliver an address. F.efreshmei ill be served. CUnton vs. West End. Clinton will play West End Sat. ly, September 11, at the West E xrk game to be called at 4 o'cloc dmission 35c*and 50c. Ladies frr atter.es for West End, Livingst id Werts. * You can expect a good game at t rest End oark Saturday for lo t ho twirls the pill, Johnnie Wer' )i* sure. This is the promising game of t1 ason. Newberry has lost one acn one with the Clinton club. Le le who shall carry home the victor\ ou can not afford to .miss as bar ill season is about closed and, tc lis * is an extra game with ext layers and we want extra crowc Help win the battle in douocf ates by giving a dollar for D( :ocracy. ? Registration Board. The board of registration will 1 1 Prosperity on Monday, the 13:! istant, at which time the book^ f< little Mountain and Pomaria w Iso be on hand. The board will I i Whitmire on Thursday, the 16th. Card of Thanks. We desire to extend our most sir ere thanks to our friends and neigh ors for their kind sympathy anc 'eeds of loving kindness during th? ilress and death of our father ar.c lusband. Mrs. Rainey Hitt and Children. 1 ?C. Contribute* a dollar for Cox or he second primary day. Long-Foshee. Miss Emmie Lou Long and Mr, John Foshee, both of Chappelis, wert narried by the Rev. T. C. Croker ;actor at the Smyrna manse, on Sunlay, September 5. The best wishc: )f Smyrna go with them. Glenn-Lowry Wins. Whitmire, Sept. 7.?Glenn-Lowrj .'.gain defeated Caroleen by a score of 15 to 1. features oi tne garm were the hitting of Glerm-Lown, players. Batteries: Caroleen, Inman and Hatcher; Glenn-Lowry William and Milone. Don't forget to give a dollar foi democracy. M?? MWBPWW?MPC?ae?a?aaacwaw ? ? ?as ^ 1 I Five Minute Chats on Our Presidents : By JAMES MORGAN Q ? G ) (Copyright. 3 920, by Jam:s M?rsan.) ! I THE GREAT IMPEACHMENT j O :Q 1867?March 2, congress passed < the reconstruction act over President Johnson's j veto. | Also the tenure of office act. j j 1868?Feb. 22, the House im- j peached Johnson. March 5 to May 26, the impeachment trial before the senate, and Johnson acquitted. ! 1869?March 4, Johnson retired from the presidency. j 1872?Defeated for congressman-at-large. 1875?March 12, senaxor xrom Tennessee. July 31, died in Carter county, Tenn., aged sixtysix. O i =6 ANDREW JOHNSON'S presidency began with a great tragedy and came near ending in another. With a two-thirds majority in congress, his opponents overrode his vetoes, seized control of reconstruction, stripped the president of authority to dismiss a postmaster or to get rid of an enemy even in his own cabinet, and bound him hand and foot. Although the president faithfully executed the reconstruction laws that had been passed over his vetoes, he asserted the right, which never before had been denied a president, to choose his own cabinet advisers. When he I tried to dismiss Secretary Stanton, Stanton turned the war department inJ to a fort, and for weeks held it, nigfit and day, sleeping and eating at his post , Emotion having supplanted reason, the house hastened to declare that "in the name of the house of representatives and of the people of the United States we do impeach Andrew Johnson, president of the United States, of high crimes and misdemeanors." Although there were twelve counts In 'he remarkable indictment, no crimes j Mrs. Eliza McArdie Johnson. were specified and the misdemeanors that were alleged, consisted almost wholly of the president's attempts to remove Stanton without the consent of the senate. This most important trial in American history began on March o, 1868, ?*ith the senate chamber crowded and Chief Justice Chase of the Supreme 3ourt .in the chair. There was a general expectation chat the senate would convict, no matter how flimsy the case, and crowds "?f eager partisans flocked to Washington to enjoy the spectacle of a White House eviction?to see "Andy walk the plank." Senator Ben Wade of Ohio was confident to the last that ho would he called on, as president of the senate, to take Johnson's place. His inaugural is said to have been written and his cabinet selected, with General Butler of Massachusetts for secretary of state. As the roll of the senate was called, amid a hushed suspense, the Republican senators all voted for conviction, until the chief justice asked, "Mr. Senator Fessenden, how say you? Is the respondent, Andrew Johnson, president of the United States, guilty or I not guilty of a high misdemeanor as | charged in this article?" ^ "Not guilty," answered the distinguished senator from Maine, who had been in Lincoln's cabinet. The party alignment was broken and it was again broken in another moment by Senator Grimes of Iowa, who had been stricken with paralysis under the strain of the trial, but who managed to struggle to J .his feet when his name was called. . Trumbull of Illinois, an old friend of Lincoln, was another man of ability . and distinction among the seven Republican senators who broke away and joined the Democrats. Yet there were thirty-five votes for conviction against only nineteen for acquittal, just one less then the two-thirds necessary to : convict. : By a single vote the unique inde pendence of the American presidency, . which, makes it the most eminent and powerful political oflice in the world, ' was saved. Had congress triumphed^ the firit lDng step would have been taken toward congressional government on the pattern of the parliamentary governments of Europe. _ . BBbi ' V . -Q [ Five Minute Chats 1 1 on Cur Presidents By JAMES MORGAN Q -= ?0 (Copyright, 192". by Jumps i!or;ran.) ULYSSES S. GRANT Q: o ! || 1822?April 27, Hiram Ulysses j Grant born at Point Pleas ant, O. 1835?Enrolled at West Point j Military academy as Ulysses Simpson Grant, j 1846-8?In the Mexican war. j 1848?Aug. 22, married Julia Dent. 1854?Resigned from the army. 1861?Colonel of Twenty-first Illinois volunteer regiment of : infantry. 1851?August, brigadier general. 1862?April, fought battle of Shi- | loh. V 1863?July 4, took Vicksburg. 186-1?March, lieutenant general in command of the armies. .May? opened his campaign in the Wilderness in Virginia. 186S-?April 9, received Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House. 1869?March 4, inaugurated eighteenth president, aged 45. 1872?Grant re-elected. The Credit Mobilier scandal exDosed. ! ? " * , 1876?February, "whisky ring" exposed. March, Belknap, secretary of war, impeached. 1877?March 4, Grant retired from the presidency. C =Q A FAILURE at thirty-nine, at forty-one Grant was the most successful soldier of his gener- ' ation. War was his element, but I lie did not suspect it. On the contrary, he hated warfare, was ' j bored by army life and never read books on the military art. In the Mexican war he had,been contented to be j side-tracked from the fighting line in j the quartermaster department. That i experience inclihed him to be a con- ( j ~ I: Grant as Second Lieutenant. I tractor for supplying broad to the army at the outbreak of the Civil war, when the politicians refused to make him an officer. ; : The first time Grant came in sight of the enemy in the Civil war he rranKly tells us that his heart jumped into his throat. "I had not the moral courage," he said, "to halt arid con- , ; sider what to do; I kept right on." ; That is the whole story of how Grant got' to Appomattox; he kept right on. Starting without a friend at his back, and with only a long, unbroken trail of disappointments behind him, he never asked for promotion, an assignment or a favor, yet this unambitious man rose to be general; in chief. ' j. No conqueror ever was higher souled j than Grant at Appomattox. Sad and depressed, as ne reus us, at the downfall of a valiant foe, he met i l ; Lee as if that foeman in war were a ! neighbor in trouble. j j When he became president it was I Grant's misfortune to know no one ex- \ j eept his associates in the war. The I self-respecting among them kept away | from him. But the self-seekers and ' the camp followers crowded about a; i man who never forgot and never dis- > j trusted a friend, not even when he j came hearing a Greek gift, and Sena- j tor Charles Sumner spoke scornfully j of the administration as a "gift en-; terprise." The many scandals of the adminis- j tration were mostly traceable to the , betrayal of Grant's childlike confi- j i dence in unworthy friends. "Black ] Friday" in Wall street cast its. j shadow on his family circle itself.!! The "whisky ring" involved the i j president's private secretary. A mem- j j her of the cabinet was impeached for;j 4noncn.if<Ano liv oj*/>onfinc r*iju<niu iiaiioaLiiuiio, KUL v; uwv|/i<un his resignation Grant let him dodge j the conviction. ! j A iihc-ral section of distinguished; Republicans revolted against Grant's!! election to a second term, but they J were mostly leaders without followers. The popular revolt did not come ; until the panic of 1873 had plunged ! the country into six years of hard : times, ar<l a tidal wave in the elec-, tion of 1S74 swept the Democrats j Into control of the house. . | / Haltiwan; ? Re^nmim v ***? 9 a ci a. a % a wise selection. We and of shapes ready 1 ideas. Prices $5.00, $6.50, $8.50 The Gw ? mm ^ Haltiwan; i ?><$? <&<$ ?>$><$><?><$>?><&<$<?><$>$> -5> <$> ? Things We Don't Understand? <? .?> " Or??????????????? Hnp/nf f-lip things we do not Un ierstand is why so many men would rather lounge around than stay at home of evenings; why more of them don't do as one man we know of does. This good citizen spends his evenings at home with his family, mostly girls, around the organ singing. Communities wouid be far better and happier if men generally were actuated by the same spirit exhibited by this neighbor, and neighborhoods would be freer of the gossiping so universally indulged- in; ;vhich is another of those dam-aging things we don't understand, or at least misunderstand?viz, why peo pie, outwardly and- familiarly ex tremely fi'iendly. and pleasant tc getfier chculd criticise each other bo hind their backs and tell of the.': J, faults instead of their good traits.. One can always find what hs looks for in human nature. West End- and Batescurg. Now who is the lobster who said out little Johnnie could not play ball? Well, Batesburg surely did get :at;sfaction Saturday and surely you j have too. J ^ i West End played a happy snappy ji ~ 1 ^ -l- - TIT ? i. T<-,J U?11 1 I r^ame Saturday at me \tcsi jjuu uan park when Werts pitched a no hit Same against Batesburg and only allowed Uyo men to get to first base, and he walked them> And after he was kind enough to walk him to first he tried to steal second and was caught in a trap like a rat. Yes. and our Johnnie is only a young baby boy about 18 or 19. But, gee, he can play ball. Now comes our Babe Ruth, Jr. E. Livingston took one of those crazy notions and slugged one over center field fence making a home run. ? ???cwm v*mc. i i e i Joif I . .? Mr. Chas, the Traymore Friday, Sept. Don't fail to guarantee a f I r / ger & Carp , i yness? tt ^ nowever e.\pe not effective uni< ?BP It i strue econc k securing' a hat t\ wj ing?one that w ?j| your best, and o1 P| if soon become tire ^ We are proud help the particuk > i i. i. nave a wiae assortment to be fashioned into hats , $9.00, $10.00, $12.50, J wring Store of N< ger & Carp Batteries: West End, Werts and Livingston; Batesburg, Rabins and Boatwright. Hits: West End, 5; Batesburg 0. Score, Batesburg, 0; West End 7. Twenty-Height men faced Werts cfwioL- .Allt 1 ^ VV IIU UV A vuv A v* Death of Mr. Allen Bishop. Mr. J. Allen Bishop died at his residence, 757 Pope street, at 3 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, at the age of 67, after an extended illness df several years. Mr. Bishop was a member of Tabernacle M. E. 2hurch in the upper part of > the :ounty,' having served his church faithfully as steward until his health ?ailed several years ago, at which ime he moved to Newberry where ie hr.s since resided. Besides his 'aithful w;-fe he leaves the following ? y?e ihildren to mourn men iuoo. j , TTr?. ?ivi /i/wift1t7 n v\;v xitJ siiiucicij dpjyi ^ lead given by Newbe He should have a secefficient service. La the state 87 per cent. \ Next Tuesday go a: Vote For I n-j!*i?jjurT^?mi.Liiji?L Him win mgaaggg JMK KBCMBMtt?Ml D. Eberhardt, Tailoring Co. w 10 and Saturday see this snapp I i- Wn riiftprpnrp }jow It* 1W U111V1VI1VV uv K Mewberry, S. C. i \ t I I enter, Inc. i nsive the hat, it is 5ss it is becoming. / my to make certain lat is really beeom- i ill make you look \ : which you will not id. of our ability to ir women in making of made up models that meet your own $15.00 to $32.50. ewberry tenter, Inc. " 1 \ L. W. Bedenbaugh of JProspemy, Mrs. J. F. Riser of Kinards, Mrs. Lilla Duckett, Mr. H. F. Bishop and Mrs. W. W. Farrow of this city; also one sister, Mrs. Nathan Chaney of West End. ^ { -The funeral services were con- A ducted at the house by the Rev. G. F,. J Clarkson and the Rev. J. W. Carson / on Thursday afternoon , at 3:S0 / o'clock, interment in Rosemont cemetery, the following acting as pall- - J bearers: Messrs E. J. Green, Howard McCullcugh, G. W. Jacobs, E. T. Mayer, C. J. Purcell, G. G. Sale. Foy-Riceu. . * Miss Elise Foy of Mollohon mill village and Mr. Victor S. Rice of Clinton were married by the Rev. J. ?. Corder of the Baptist church on Monday, the 6th instant. * -/ Blackwell >r *' ? ? -'v. I :eiates the splendid :rry in first primary. ond term because of st year he won for of eases tried. . . nd Blackwell I ire Man representing ill be with us t, Sept. 11th. 1* X17_ 1 y line, we little or large. lods Store I v K: y '' Sk - . - Hi j