The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-11-08
Bachman Chapel and Union Academy

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! Jack Frost has come in full force al
last aid vegetation has become thing
of the past.
Mr.. A. B. Pipster completed bis con.
tract on the Quattlebaum bridge last
week.
We learn the stockholders of the
Prosperity Alliance Warehouse have
elected Johnnie Mayer, son of Mr.. J.
Adam Mayer, to take charge of the
business for the coming year. Mr..
w. D. Hardy, who has been in charge
| of the warehouse since it was built,
will move back to his plantation near
Whitmires. Prosperity will lose one
of her best citizens when she loses Mr..
Hardy, hut her loss will be Whitmires
gain. Mr.. Mayer is young man OF
bright intellect and good reputation,
and is fully equipped for the business.
We believe be will give general salts
faction.
DR.. Werts stated last week that hog
cholera was raging in his section.
There is none reported in this imme-
diate locality. 1t is great pity to see
the hogs dying after the people have
had such a struggle with the high
price of bacon almost the entire year.
But just such things will happen in
life.
Mr., Editor, we thought that one of
our darkeys down here was getting
along pretty we'll in the molasses busi-
ness. Green Cannon made 64! gallons.
But after we read that Pink Suber had
made 542 gallons We began to believe
that Green hadn't made any.
But think that can buck you on
the hog business, Mr.. Editor. Mr..
Reese's pig made very fine progress in
the way Of meat. But Mr.. Jefferson
Quattlebaum has shown me two pigs
that take the prize, I think. He says
he bought the pigs the latter part of
last February, they both weighing six
teen pounds. and I am satisfied that
the two will now weigh over SO lbs.
gross. Mr.. Quattlebaum says that he
intends to make GOO lbs. Of nett meat
out of the two by Christmas. I may
give full details later. This is the kind
of an experimental station we poor
country people need. Try your luck,
brother farmers, and let each other
know how we are getting along. !
have just bought fine pig of the old
time big Guinie stock that intend to
keep for a breeder, and I propose to
give you an account of my luck in the
hog business later. I an not after
preaching one doctrine and practicing
another
Tell Doc that I am very much
obliged for his kind compliments. l
am not too high to stoop to little
fattery.
Tell John am not exactly ready to
fire off my dispensary gun yet.
Wonder if the boneyard didn't feel
right lonesome Monday under the dis
pensary law?
The principal part of the crops is
gathered. The potato crop is the only
one that has come up to anything like
a fair average. The most of the farm
ers are trying to supplement the short
corn crop by sowing early oats and
barley. Farmers, we had just IS well
come to tive have got to learn an
other tune than "il's cheaper to buy
our supplies than to raise them"
AS was previously statel, a meeting
of the patrons of this school district
was held at the new school house on
Friday last. Nearly ali who were in
terested in school matters turned out.
The chairman of the board of trustees,
Mr.. J. J. Galirnan, called the meeting
to order and explained it's object. tt e
first thing in order was to. baptise the
child, and to do this it first had to have
name. MIR. w. NJ. Bobb thought
that inasmuch as the two schools had
now consolidated. the most suitable
name would be Union" Mr.. NJ. NJ.
Long presented the name of "High
Point" but said that he was perfectly
willing to withdraw his name and
vote for Mr.. Bobb's. A unanimous
vote then showed that the school
should hereafter be known as "Union
Academy" The trustees agreed to
leave the election of teacher to a
majority Of the patrons. Three appii-
cations were handed in, and after some
some consideration a vote was taken
which was pretty close, but resulted in
favor of Miss Lillian Glenn. The pa
irons decided to open the school on
Monday, the Goth instant. The aues-
ton of consolidation has been in agi-
tation between these two schools for
the past five or six years, and effort
after effort has been made by our ex-
School Commissioners and few of the
patrons who saw and felt the necessity
of making one good school out Of two
pieces. But there was always a suf11-
cient amount of kicking that would
spring up and keep up division: But
as there is a time for all things, I hope
the time has at last come when we
will put stop to so much Of this eter-
nal party spirit, prejudice and strife.
Let US 60 to work fighting for the edu-
cational interest of our children and
stand under the banner that we have
now raised. "United we stand, di-
vided we fall" Mr.. Editor, es am a
chip carrier for both sides you can
make my headlines read "Bachman
Chapel and Union Academy
CHIPS"