The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1897-07-27
VARIOUS AND ALL ABOUT.


Tho last round has been put on the
standpipo.
Some electric fans would be u great
| comfort these hot days.
Tho power house whistle has been
| heard for several days past.
Mrs. Iloise Brown, of Grecnvillc, is
visiting friends in Ncwberry.
Mr.. l.. a. Riser leaves today for
Tryon, N. c., to spend tho summer
Hon. Geo. S. Mower left yesterday
for Glenn Springs for Il couple days.
Prof. Thorp~ci1 Haynes will not
teach tho~Ttopia school ncxt session.
MYAdam l.. Aull will give IL first
GLASS barbecue at Pomaria on Satur-
day.
Prof. w. w. IIcntz and wife, of Has
kcll, Ten, arc on risL to relatives in
Ncwbcrry.
Miss Annie Bynum has been elected
q teacher in the Florence Graded
Schools.
Miss Mamie Clary has been elected
to teach the Tranwood school, No. Al,
next year.
Mrs. Ada Smith, Of Ncwbcrry, is on
visit to her sister, Mrs. w. IL. Brown,
ut Long Lane.
Mr.. Junius w. Swittenberg has been
elected teacher o! tho Hartford Acadc-
my for another year.
Misses nellie Kennedy, of Due West,
and Lula Mosclcy, of Prosperity, arc
visiting in the city.
Supcfvisor Schumpcrt notifies the
townihip commissioners to have the
roaqssput in good condition.
,.Phcrc will be an eclipse of the sun
Hsiblc between 8 and 10 q. m. in the
United States on Thursday.
Miss Lillian Glenn was reelected
teacher of the Helena School at the
meeting Of the trustees on Saturday.
The crops in this county arc good
and the prospects now for II fine yield
arc as fine as ever seen at this season.
President Geo. b. Cromcr went over
to Saluda yesterday afternoon and de-
livcrcd an address there last night on
education.
Prof. }. l.. Long and family of Dal-
las, Texas, arc on q visit to his father,
Mr.. G. F. Long, and other relatives in
Ncwbcrry.
Mr.. II. G.. Perry has returned from
pleasant trip of a couple weeks to va
riOus places of interest in the North
and East.
The old grave yard needs attention.
The weeds arc about to take it. Could
not council have it cleared Off? 1t
would cost but little.
Nobody around here objects to dou-
bic daily trains between Columbia and
Grccnvillc, and the road that puts them
on will get the travel.
The patrons Of Utopia school are TO-
qucstcd to meet at the school house on
Saturday afternoon, 3lst, to elect a
teacher for the next scholastic year.
The Union Times says that the bee
tic infccts the trees Of that town also
ard gives forth the same unpleasant
"uor that VIC have from this little ami
NAL in Ncwbcrry.
The reception committee has ap-
pointed Cole. l.. Blcasc. Esq, to meet
the candidates and sec that they get to
tho hotels and mako arrangements to
take them to the Fair Grounds.
Supervisor Schumpcrt went over to
Saluda last week to have consulta-
tion with Supervisor Banks in regard
to the bridge across Saluda, but Mr..
Banks was absent from home. He has
written to him.
The Cokcsbury District Conference
meets at Greenwood July 27-August 9.
The Southern Railway will sell round
trip tickets July 81 and %, good to re-
turn August 2 for ~. 90 from Ncwbcrry
and from Prosperity for 1926.
We understand that the electric
lights arc to be turned on either to-
night or tomorrow night and that the
citizcns arc invited to visit the power
house. How tho invitation is to be ex-
tended we do not know. The time of
turning on depends on the arrival of
somo machinery which is expected to-
day.