The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1898-06-14
OUR PROSPERITY BUDGET
ALL THE NEWS OF A LIVE: AND PRO
GREssIvE TOWN.

| Gne rlght. Mr. EiltOr, lS there any
law on this question or Is it an unwrit-
ten law? Give us tho law II thcre is
any or the common usage and the au-
thority for 1t. We want to know the
situation just as it is.
The Board Of Trustees Of tho Pros
| Eerity Graded School unanimously re-
elected the present faculty for another
year. Prof. N. T.. Aull, principal,
Prof. Thornwell Haynes 1st assistant,
Miss Gertrude Simpson I'd assistant,
Miss Lilly Aiken music. The faculty
will canvas during vacation in the In,
terest of tho school. Tho enrolment
this year 10 the largest In tho history
OF the school and we hope to see it go
even higher in the next year.
Col. I. II. Hunt was in town Friday
aud was looking after the ordinance in
| regard to vaccination. The ordinance
provides for fine Of $50 or 80 days i'm
prlsonment. The physician and on ofll-
Ger of the Board Of Health will begin
their house to house canvas Tuesday.
Owing to the continued spread Of small
pox In Saluda County near the Saluda
river our town has placed quarantine
on tho entire section and any ono COM
Ing from there will have to show sue
cessful vaccination mark. From re.
ports that come to us there is quito Il
number Of cases. We trust that as
soon as the town here has been thor
oughly vaccinatcd that the quarantine
will be raised.
There was an unusual ending to q
laweuit here Saturday involving two
white mon for trespassing. Each had
his lawyer and aftor talking the mat
ter over they agreed to divide the cost,
pay their lawyers, stop the case and be
friends. We are glad that they came
to this solution. Had it gone on it
would no doubt have involved the
neighborhood in the quarrel. How
much better it is to thus end their dif-
ferences. Would that others would do
that way and we believe that If neigh
bors would interest themselves many
unfortunate feuds would be avoided and
communities would feel better for it.
Quietly passed to the great beyond
on Thursday, June 9th, 1903, Mr.. j. II.
Cannon, aged 81 years, S months and II
days. Uncle Hack, as he was familiars
ly known to oil, experienced a stroke Of
paralysis about one year ago from
which he rallied but never regained his
usual health and when the second
stroke came last Thursday about 3 D.
IN. he was too weak to resist it aud ne
died that evening at 7.l5. He was
borD near Bethlehem church in Now
berry County on December %, 1886,
and lived all Of his life in his native
county. He was married March 25,
1858, to Miss Rosa Lovcnia Singley. A
wife and four children survive him. In
his early life he attended the Lexing-
ton Classical Institute (now Newberry
College) and had as college mates Rev.
DR.. Hawkins, Rev. J. d. Bowles, Rev.
J. A. Sligh, Rev. j. Austin and others.
He was down street on the morning of
the 9th, and the. announcement of his
death was quite a shock. He was laid
to rost in Prosperity cemetery Friday
afternoon.
l am requested to return the thanks
of the family to the many friends for
their many kindnesses to them in their
hour Of sad bereavement, and would in.
woke the blessings Of kind Providence
upon thom.
The closing exercises Of the Prosper
ity Graded School on Thursday night
were enjoyed by all who attended. The
program as printed In The Hereld and
News was carried out. The drills were
fine and elicited much praise. The
young mon acquitted themselves with
credit and will no doubt do honor to
the institution In the years to come,
The address OF Hon. H. Frank Wilson
was replete with good advice and i'm
pressed on all the Importance of i'm
proving the time today, for tomorrow
never comes. He gave the children
some idea Of how their parents and
grandparents got what they know. Ho
told about the old log school house
with cracks daubed with mud, and old
puucheon benches and glassless win
dows, etc. Our mind went back to
those old days and could imagine my
self once moro in the old log school
house shifting my position to find the
soft spot In the old split log seat. His
address was fine.
Strayed or stolen from Wilson Mayer
near Little Mountain June 9th one
black marc mule about Is hands high
and branded on jaw with letter G or
w. Had on red halter when last seen.
Any one who has seen or heard of the
mule will confer favor on poor man
II they will write him at Little Noun
tain. He will gladly pay for any feed
bill, ETC., that may be incurred, If you
hear OF 1t write him. His mule is all
his dependence to make his crop and he
is not able to buy another.
In the death OF Uncle Hack Cannon
our town has lost one of it's oldest citi-
zens, and his familiar face will be