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E. $. AULL, EDITOR. WONDERFUL GROWTH AD DEYELOPIENI OF THE METHODIST CHURCH, SHOWN 0 REPORT OF STASISTICAL SECRETARY. Submitted at this Morning's Session-Ex aminatan tCharacter Completed, and AltLGPastorsLOcated-Spermaa eraryandSuperannuatrd LisL There was nothing of special in terest in the proceedings yesterday The report of the Statistical Secre tay'shows the growth of Method ism in the State and the progres which has been made along al lines. It is a gratifying state ment. The hours of the morning's ses sion of the Methodist Confereno were taken up in hearing report from the different pastors and in thi examination of character. .The character examination wa completed, all being located, anm under Question 3, none being dis continued. The committee of investigatiol in the case of C. D. Mann reporte4 that no trial was necessary. The transfer of K. S. Enoch frot the Memphis Conference to th * South Carolina Conference wa announced. The Supernumerary Committe on Conference Relations reported that they had granted the super numerary relation to N. G. Ballen ger, J.- P. Attaway, W. H. Miller W. H. Wroton, S. A. Weber, M tM. Ferguson, and J. A. Campbell and the superannuated relation t John Attaway, J. M. Carlisle, W A. Clark, A. M. Chreitzberg, D. D Dantzler, O. A. Darby R. L Duf fie, A. W. Jackson, W. W. Jones N. K. Melvin, J. J. Neville, I. J 1Newberry, J. A. Porter, T. P. Phil R ~lips, JL. Sifiey, A. J. Stafford, J C- Stol, T. B.Wmnamaker, J. A Wood,2J. J. Workman. - .7The report;of the Statistical5ec eary was submitted. This repor shwscearly the healthy conditloi ofthe Methodist Church in Sout] Carolina indicated by the followins figures: - Local preachers, 90; members 77,764; making a total memberseil -ofTh7854- uigteya Infants baptizedduigteya 1,794, aults, 1,4r3-, Epworth Leagues, 48; Epwort League memnbers, 1,786. Sunday Schools, 686; Sunda: School scholars, 41;905. -Amount raised during the pas year;by the Church for Presidini * iders, $17,940.48; for pastors $$,534-97 Church organizations in the State 759; Church buildings, 647. Houses of worship valued at $z, 083.879.95, with a.reported indebt edes of $38,526. Pastora1charges, 223. Parsonages, 184. Value of parsonages, $275,8o5 having a reported indebtedness c $18,973-05 Districts in Conference, ro; eac1 having a parsonage; value of thes paronge, $3o,ooo; with a re ported indebtedness of $1,109. Churches reported damaged dir - g the year, 4; amount of damag $83o * Insurance carried by the Methe -dist Church in the State, $315,26( paid out in premiums during th year, $2,816. Losses sustained $744. Condition of Colleges. The Educational Statistics shos the following condition of thb *Methodist institutions in the State Wofford College-Value, $1 35, ooo; endowment, $66,215.23; pro fessors, 8; pupils x88. Wofford Fitting School-Valo *$x5,0o0; endowment $5,ooo; prc fessors, 2; pupils, 83. Cokesbury Conference School -Value, $3,000; endowment $815 Carlisle Fitting School-Value $20,ooo; endowment, $5,ooo; pro fessors, 4; pupils, about 70. Columbia Female College-Val ue, $75.ooo; no endowment; profes sors, 14; pupils, 134 Williamuston Female College * Not valued by Conference. (This institution is not owned by the Conference, but simply under its patronage)professors, 9; pupils, 103 Immediately after Conference ad journed a special session of the Conference Brotherhood was ld. This society is a benevolent organ iz-o opsdoftemmeso an mmnneed of the members of Conference, and has an insurance feature. A good many of the preachers, those j ust admitted to Conference and others, joined this morning. Bachelor Maids Entertainment. er The entertainment at the opera clI house Wednesday evening under the auspices of the Bacholor Maids in will not begin until 8.45, owing to w the prayer meetings at the different m churches of the city. This is done at in order to give the people of the city a chance to attend prayer meet- W ing and go from there to the opera er house. , to ti The CarnLxal Company. The Charleston Post has the fol l lowing to say of the Carnival Com pany, which will be in Newberry at for a week, beginning December t 29th: "The Layton Company comes to Charleston highly recommended. si s The company carries fifteen shows and five free street attractions. P Some of the shows are said to be s the most wonderful known to the I world of sensational specialty." * Conference Personals. k4 Revs. W. I. and E. Grigsby H Herbert returned to Newberry yes terday morning and took up their s places in the Conference, having Ce been called toLeesville,S. C., on ac count of the death of -their father, D Rev. Thos. G. Herbert. The fu- r neral of ltev. Herbert was held on IN Sunday. dE al One of the members when called s on to make his report arose and tr ' made a most satisfactory report and of took his seat. The presiding elder F arose and said, "Bishop, there is sc nothing against the brother, I b wanted to say that first, but he s got ahead of me." Bishop :-"Yes, a great many of these brethren are ahead of my Presiding Elders." Laughter.b *During the morning session one of the delegates in making his report, the to Bishop said that the mem bers of his Church were considera bly split up and several of his members did not speak to each other, owing to the fact that they b had during the past year had four ~ primary elections, with seven can - didates from his congregation, and a State grog shop near them. The] IBishop said: "WVhat is that- ti foor primaries, and they in a grogd shop," at which the Conference tl Shad a hearty laugh. a U Oz.'eof the venerable members e *of Conference when called on to "make his report arose by saying hed was the star preacher of the Con 'ference, and proceeded to read his sa report, when the Bishop said, "Ib hope you will remain so" and passed on to someone else. The . Conference smiled at the expense1 of the brother.I , A delegate called on for his re-a port said that his charge "was coming to the front, that he had been well fed and was well clothed, as you can see." "Bishop-I hope that you are not only clothed, but in your right mind." Laughter. a Delegate: "Bishop, a man with your penetration ought to see that." Bishop :-"You thought I did." it "Bishop: "I have had some notes h placed on my desk from brethren, ji and I don't want a funeral here this morning. Certainly I shall not attend one. (Reads notes call ing attentioni to 13 minutes for brotherhood meeting). Now, brethren, as I continue to call the roll, please in your meditation pray' that the brotherhood shall notj die." Laughter. We are indebtea for our report of yesterday at the Central Meth odist to the Rev. G. Pierce Wat son whose report in the State this morning is appropriated and credit -is now given. We could not get S to all the services yesterday and j our reports are gathered as best we can get them. - "Health Foods" a Delusion. SThe alleged "health foods" with g which the markets are flooded are "a delusion and a snare." If your diges tion is bad eat pure flour made out of good, sound wheat, and do not fill your y stomach with chemically prepared "health foods." "Clifton" flour, the C finest patent flour, made at Bransford Mills, Owensboro, Ky., is the health 0 food you need. Call for "Clifton" when you order your flour. For sale byN Haes &McCarty, E. R. Hipp and L. W. Cosby. APPOINTMENTS TONIGHT. vices Tonight to be Held in the Opera House-Bishop Will Read Appointments. Tonight the Methodist Confer ce for 1902 will be brought to a :se. The closing exercises will be held the opera house tonight, which ill furnish ample room to accom odatt. the large crowd that will tend. At this meeting Bishop Duncan ill read his appointments for the suing year, which is the most in resting and exciting meeting of e Conference. Tomorrow's liection. The general election for Mayor id Aldermen will be tomorrow. very voter who participated in ie primary election two weeks ago iould tomorrow cast his ballot >r the nominees of the Democratic rty of the city. Always Good. When people who use other brands flour are kicking about their flour, sers of "Clifton" are enjoying the Lme contentment as of yore. Nothing it sound wheat is used in making Clifton," hence it is always -good. sk your grocer for it. If he does not rep it E. R. Hipp, L. W. Cosby or layes & McCarty can furnish it. Wanted. We would like to ask through the >lumns of your paper, if there is any .rson who has used Green's August lower for the cure of Indigestion, yspepsia, and Liver Troubles that has >t been cured-and we also mean their sults, such as sour stomach, fermen tion of food, habitual costiveness, arvous dyspepsia, headaches, despon t feelings, sleeplessness-in fact, y trouble connected with the stom :h or liver? This medicine has been >ld for manylyears in all civilized coun ies, and we wish to correspond with )u and send you one of our books free cost. If you never tried August lower, try a 25 cent bottle first. We te never known of its failing. If so, mething more serious is the matter ith you. The 25 cent size has just en introduced this year. Regular .e 75 cents. At all druggists. G. G. GREEN, Woodbury, N. J 'E HAVE on hand a beautiful line of bats bought at reduced rice. Give us a call and see what rgains we have for you. The Riser Millinery Co. Notice! 4LL PERSONS HOLDING CLAIMS . against the county will please resent the same to the county board >r approval on the 20th day of Decem 10, at which time said board will teet. J. M. SCHUMPERT, Supervisor. olCe of iial Sct1en118nt8Rl D18sc181g6. TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT ..I will make a final settlement on ie estate of Dr. John R. Thompson, eceased, in the Probate Court for ewberr County, S. C., on Monday 1e 22nd dyof Deember, A. D. 1902, 11 o'clock in the forenoon, and uim rediately thereafter apply for Letters ismissory as Admimistratrix of said state. All persons having' claims ' at the uid estate are hereby notified to ren er in the same duly attested; and all ose that are indebted to pay the same 2 or before that date to the under gned or her attarney, James Y. Cul reath, Esq. MARY A. THOMPSON, Administratrix. Newberry, S. C., Nov. 17,1902. Have Just returned from the North with beautiful selection.of ewel ry, Clocks and Silverware, id invite you all to inspect them. Prices Reasonable. Your Watch and Clock work solic ed, and work guaranteed. Thanking you for past favors, and ping for a continuance, I am yours r the money. Jeweler and Optician. TANY OLD 3RICE ! DINNER SETS. Our line of Austria ~hina and English ~emi Porcelain will be old this month at rices that will sur rise the most careful uyer. We are going >close out this line of oods, it is all Open Stock, hich enables the pur haser to buy as much r as little as desired. ewberr Hardware Co In every town and village may be had, the M"Ica Axle Grease ... that makes your On a horses glad. SPECIAL NOTICES. G o TO J. P. COOK FOR CHEAPI Groceries. 1FULL STOCK Butterick Patterns. Sold strictly for cash at Woot ens. tf. NEW AND FULL stock of Paper Patterns just received and are sold for cash only, at Wooten's. HAVE YOUR COLLARS AND Cuffs right up to the scratch. No waiting, no disappointment at the Newberry Steam Laundry. WANTED - Manager for New branch of our business here in Newberry. Address at once, with ref erences, Alfred Morris, Wholesaler, Cincinnati, Ohio. 1t. YOUR NEIGHBORS KNOW YOU can learn that the Newberry Steam Laundary will give you satisfac tion in any thing in their line. Why don't you patronize home people? A UCTION SALE-I will sell mower, harrow, blacksmith tools, farm utensils, about one hundred bushels of corn and other articles to the highest bidder at Robert Boulware's place, in No. 8 Township, on Thursday, Deeem ber 4, at 9 a. m. John Herbert. SOME OF THE SEASONS JOYS are a nicely laundryed collar and shirt. You can have them beautifully done at the Newberry Steam Laundry for a mere song. Then, too, you will be helping a worthy home industry. Sensible people will see the point. 1 PECTACLE-A ND EYEGLASSES Do your eyes ache and burn at night? I have the best trial case for fitting Spectacles and Eyeglasses, and can fit the must difficult eyes, with the proper glasses. I bave fitted glasses for the best people in the county and can fit you. I use only thbe best grade Crystaline lenses. Come and give me a trial and be convinced. Strictly one price to all. GUY DANIELS, Jeweler and Optician. lOtice of FlilICttleit allnDsoIiarle. NTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT iI will make a final settlement on the estate of Bennie Marie Caldwell, deceased, in the Probate Court for Newberry County, S. C., on Saturday the 3rd day of January, A. D., 1903, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, and will im mediately thereafter apply for Letters Dismissory as Administrator of the said estate. ROBT. T. CALDWELL, Administrator. Newberry, S. C., Dec. 1, 1902. NOTLILE T HE SUPERViSOR OF FAIRFIELD. County and myself will meet at Ashford's Ferry on Thursday the 18th day of December, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, at which time the ferry will be let. J. M. SCUM PERT, ftd.Suuervisor. FLOUR! FLOUR!! SI WILL SELL FROM CARS AT Pomaria, S. C., under mill prices the flour the trade may need until March 1st, 1903. Give me your orders at once. Ask me for prices. I have bought a large lot of grain cheap, and will give the people around Pomaria the benefit of this deal. I can and will save you from 25c to 50ec are on flonr. Deerg lovers Ail Raes are TE BEST. FULL LINE - OF - .REPAIRS FOR SALE BY J.WE White. The Snm We have bought the goods and have ing to sell them [f prices and quality ia 1%Tow For Y Raisins, London Layers at 10c per lb. Carrants at 12te per lb. Shredded Cocoanuts at 20c per lb. .EEeac1.cuarters fC NUTS, CANDY, ORANGES, APPLES: DLZJB DOL We have the largest assortment in] We have more than any other two s; heaper. We also carry a large anid well select THE SM MITTL E (C A Golden Rule F of Agriculture: Be good to your land and your crop will be good. Plenty of Potash in the fertilizer spells quality , " and quantity in the har vest. Write us and we will send you, c free, by next mail, our money winning C books GERMAN [ALI WORKS, New York. C c I( Hands Wanted! BY THE Excelsior Knitting Mills Of Union, S. C. F Q strong able-bodied men "TYbetween the ages of ,wenty-one a,d forty to make $1.00 er day each, and good wages paid ;o other members of the family for )ther classes of work. We also want Toppers, Knitters, Loopers; Menders and Finishers. ll the work is nice and easy, and we pay better wages than any other aesiery mill in the South. Apply to J. H. Gault, Treas. and Manager. Union, S. C. POKBT BOOKSI1 I have jit received over Two Hun dred D.>lars worth of Pocket Books -more than the combined stock of any six merchants in Newberry. These goods were bought direct from thA manufacturer, thereby doing away with the middle man profit. So you cee I am prepared to give you the ery best quality for your money. A Pocket Book that I sell for one ollar and fifty cents would cost you $1.75 to $2 00 with the jobber's profit dded. Now I am not working the obber for I think that he is entitled o his profit. But if I can buy these oods in large enough quantities and et them direct from the manufactur er and save you that cost, I think hat it is legitimate. I have a Pocket Book in the very latest and newest tyle that will please you. My rices range from five cents to ten ollard, so don't buy until you see y stock. Come and look, you are lways welcome at M AYES' BOOK STORE When you are in Newberry don't ail to call at the New Furniture tore of SHIELLY Z DEAN, back of Mimnaugh's, on Friend street;' o buy your Furniture. Their goods re all new and just from the fac ories, up to date in finish, style and orkmanship. We carry a full line of uits, Beds, Bureaus, Safes, Chairs, Rockers, Tables, n fact eve rything in the house fur ishing line. We are also prepared o do first class repair work on Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Musical nstruments, Sewing Macbines and urniture of all kinds. Give us a trial and be convinced that we are the cheapest in town. Your" for low prices, Newberry, S. C. ith Co. r ghri,tman, bought them right, and we are go ill do it. oir Cake... Seeded Raisins at 12je per lb. Citron at 12e per lb. Granulated Sugar at 201bs. for $1. r Santa Claus. , FIGS, BAN ANAS, COCOANUTS. [ewberry, and Toys of all kinds iM.re W77 rkEs! cres in towr, and will sell them ed stc ofFtncy Goeries RNTH CO ORNER. Here Is Somethir Here is something tnd read carefully. W tbout the good quality c >ur low prices, and we rou right here that we r ind price. No matter zuality is still there--e% ;tandard quality. Here )f our success: We m ll times and the char, Jise so high that any bL )f us. We are special :omprise Dry goods, Dress goo White goods, Embroideries, Laces, I Flannel, Embroi kerchiefs. Hosiery, Uu Domestics, Jeans, Bleachings, Shirtings, Ladies Wraps, Lf panes, Yankee Notion In fact our large stock comp ask for, all priced to suit you. points in all grades, cheap to v this department. Some solid, sell shoddy. Men's Shoes, Girls' Shoes, Baby Shoes. leather Shoes, the kind that I moderately. Walk Oyer Shoes for Aut( Regina Shoes for Woi Ide Come and3 exai Almost everyone has sells the best goods foi We Are Doing Because we sell more j Same goods i And you may always count upot way of Dry Goods, Notions, Gent at the very lowest prices. Come and inspect our line an< both pleasant and profitable to you, a The Place Where You I EXTRA And .Special I COPELAND T" UNLOAD AND REDUCE 01 ithe next few weeks cut the price sold at some price. An immense lini We Will Not Be Undersold Dar Dress Goods and Silk Departm< Goods, All grades and the latest ti Clothing, Sh( We Have the Stock, the Styles and Jome and See For Yourself. 100 Men's Nobby all wool Sni 100 Men's Nobby all wool Snil 100 Men's Nobby all wool Snit 100 Men's Nobby all wool Suji 100 Men's Nobby all wool Sail 00O Boys' and Childrenq Suits for $1. and $400. 50 prs. Children's Solid Leather Shc 00 prs. Ladies' Solid Leather Shoes 50 prs Men's Calf Shoes, Lace or C 50 prs. Men's Calf Shoes, Lace or C< Big Stock of Ladies' Jackets, Capei rices yet on Domestics. Come and ~OPELAND .ader of Low Prices on Anything tc we want you to read, e want to talk to you if our merchandise and want to impress upon sever separate quality how low the price, the erything we sell is of is one of the elements ake the price so low at acter of our merchan iyer can offord to buy ist in our lines which is, Silks, Velvets, Trimmings, Buttons, WVhite and Red dered Flannel, Hand derwear, Corsets, Calicoes, Homespuns, Outings, Flanelette, ce Curtain, Counter rises almost anything you may Millinery is one of our strong ry fine. We can please you in ood shoes for all. We do not Vomen's Shoes, Boy's Shoes, Let us fit your feet in solid :ok well, wear well and cost Men, >ao Shoes for Women, nen, al Shsoe for Chidri nine our stock. 3URS TRULY, discovered that Wooten -the least money-and ithe Business oofr l s money! 'od fle s a money! tgetting everything you want in the Shoes, s' Furnishings, e,, I we will endeavor to make your vis mdl( don't forget rEN'S et1 Your Monef WoriLa. VALUES -ow Prices at BROTH ERS. JR BIG STOCK, WE WILL TOR s on every line. The Goods must be iof New Goods fror you to select from. by Anyone, Try Us and See. Dts are packed .full of pretty New .ings from the Cheapest to the Best. >es and Hats. the Prices Lower than Anybody. s for $5.00 well worth $7.50. s for $6 50 well worth $8.00. a for $7.50 well worth $10.0(\ a for $10.00 well worth $14.00. s for $12 00 well worth $16.50. 00, $1.25, $1.50, $2.00, $2.50, $3.50 es at 50ec, sold at other stores for 75e. it $1.00 sold at other stores for $1 50. >ngress for $1.00 a pair worth $1 50O. >ngress for $1.50 a pair worth $200. s and Furs at Cut Prices Lowegek see us. - - BROTHERS. Wear for Ma~n Women and C(16d13