The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-01-04
saohman Chapel Chronicles.


We could have advertised everything g
fresh on ice down here last week.
From some unknown cause Rev.
Prof. 4. ]. Bowers did not preach in
BachtEan Chapel on Christmas day.
Too much visiting during the holi-
days to note all, and as we don't want
by any means TO act partially, we will
| omit all.
This has been a remarkably quiet
Christmas throughout this section; in
fact, the most quiet that we have seen
out Of thirty-six.
Ridgeroad school resumed its work
this morning after weeks vacation.
There is considerable complaint about
sweet potatoes rotting.
We believe everything sold to its
full value at the estate sale Of II. NJ.
Singley, deceased, on Friday last except
the engine, gin and thresher. This
whole outfit was sold to John J. Sing
ley for S279.25
According to the old Dutch sign..there
there will be scarcely any fruit this
year. They say when the nights Of
the twelve days" are light there will
be no fruit that year However, We
never get alarmed at such signs.
Our young people have become quite
soeiable throughout this section. They
average now about two socials week.
We are not regular member, but we
60 occasionally, not to satisfy the de-
sires Of our own fancy, but simply to
please the children. We went to that
one given at Mr.. J. II. Kibler's last
Friday night. This was one of the so
called socials, but it happened to get
mixed up with little of the balance
to-your-partners-and- d-promenade-all. A
host Of young people were present and
not a few older ones. In short, the
crowd was large and well-bebaved and
everybody present seemed to enjoy
themselves to their fullest capacity.
The amusement broke up about u
o'clock with great big old-time cake
walk. When the gun was fired the
stick was found in the hands Of Mr.. A.
Fellers and Miss Bessie Enlow. The
lucky couple was quite liberal and
divided the spoils among the crowd.
We have often heard of abundance Of
Christmas chicken and turkey, but we
never saw as much on one pile as We
found in our chicken house on Tuesday
morning before Christmas. A mink or
some other kind of a notorious animal
of voracious nature crawled into our
chicken house and took the lives of
twenty-five chickens the previous
night. Not being satisfied, it returned
on Friday night following and killed
two more chickens. With a visit pre-
vious to the two mentioned, it makes
decrease of twenty-six in our chicken
crop during the past few weeks.
Hoaor to whom honor is due. This
is what the legislators did when they
elected Hon. J. A. Sigh as one Of the
railroad commissioners. It is not only
an honor to Mr.. Sigh and his many
friends that he was favored with the
position. But it is quite fortunate for the
railroad capitalists, for while MI. Sigh
is staunch reformer, he always goes
according to his own convictions and
Judgment regardless Of factio1al lines.
So we consider that the railroad capi-
talist is fortunate in having Mr.. Sigh
on the board, and we can assure them
that their interests are perfectly safe so
far as he is concerned.
I will say to all the readers Of The
Herald and News and the Press and
Reporter, that they need not be sur
prised if they see letter Of the same
type, as am regular correspondent of
the Press and Reporter, and will also
write letter occasionally to The Herald
and News.
Well, we have been writing, talking
and voting, and passing our views gen.
orally upon the liquor traffic for con-
siderable while, and it seems to be a
fixed fact that we have at last got some
kind of a liquor law, whether it meets
the appreciation of the majority of our
old Palmetto State or not. Our law,
makers had pledged themselves to their
constituents that if a majority Of the
people voted for Prohibition, they
would do all in their power to pass
prohibition law, and hence they didn't
seem satisfied to leave the capital with.
out passing some kind of g liquor bill.
Whether or not the dispensary law will
answer the desires of the people in the
way Vi = q 0OCSU4OA
answered. It seems to me that when
the liquor traffic is placed in the hands
of the State, to be sold only by ap-
pointed officers, it is placing great
deal Of responsibility upon a very few
people. The word dispensary means
place for dispensing medicines, and if
liquor is only to be dispensed within
the medical line, why not place the
whole thing in the hands Of the drug
gists. But it il now the law, and we
may just as well get ready to meet it.
If the bill proves not to be the thing
that the people want in the way of Pro-
hibition, it will be an easy matter for
the next Legislature to repeal this new
law and substitute some better in it's
place.
In conclusion, & happy and prosper
Gus New Year is the sincere wish Of one
and all and of Eli; may unity and love
abound in the hearts of each one of US
throughout this new year. W.