The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1898-10-04
THE CONVENTION AT GREENwO0,,.
"""'' r"'y delegates, Representing tho
io"n" from Coiumbia To Anderson.
Pot'tton for Increased Train

Service.
, Newberry sent u good delegation to
the meeting ut Greenwood on Friday
hlght TO see what could be done to Sc
cure the morning train on tho South
ern from Columbia to Greenville in
stead OF from Prosperity.
Owing to some little misunderstood.
ing rs to the call, there wero not as
many delegates present US possibly
would have been. However,, we had
about sixty to seventy-tive delegates
present.
From Newberry we had II. II Evans,
X. II. Welch, G. l.. Blease, l. II. Hunt,
Il. T.. Epting, ID. L. Copeland, J. l..
Nor wood, NJ. l.. Spearman, Z. IL. Anil.
From Chap1ells, Geo. II. Reid; and
from Prosperity, X. Baker; and from
Nincty-SiA, T.. M. Lipscomb and j. p.
Philips. We have not list of the
other delegates.
Our party reached Greenwood at
noon and secured rooms at the elegant
new hotol, "rhe Oregon" We had
the entire afternoon to meet friends in
Greenwood and take in the town. The
Greenwood people did not know the
meeting was to De held until the arri-
val of the Newberry delegates, but
Col. d. A. p. Jordon, Mayor DuPree,
Maj. Hartzog, Mr.. Hayes aud several
other gentlemen, prominent among
them, Mr.. McGee of the Index, soon
made themselves at home with our
delegates and arrangements were
made for the meeting at the hotel that
night.
Delegates from Anderson, Abbeville
and the other towns above came in on
the night train. he meeting was held
on the arrival Of the train.
The following report Of the meeting
is taken from the Columbia State:
Greenwood, Oct. "A large and en-
thusiastic meeting was held here last
night at the Oregon hotel in regard to
the taking of steps toward asking the
railroad authorities to run the morn
ing train from Columbia rather than
Prosperity to Greenville. About SO
men representing nearly all the towns
along the G. & G. line were here and
were unanimous in their desire to have
the train service extended.
Mr.. e. II. Aull, of Newberry, was
elected chairman and Mr.. G.. G.. Lang
ston secretary Of the assembly.
Resolutions were offered and adopted
to petition the railroad authorities to
extend the run Of the extra train aud
TO petition the postoifice department to
put on mail service.
Upon motion. a committee was ap-
pointed to report within ten days to
Chairman Auli, who, if he thinks best,
will call another conference to meet ut
Greenwood and take further steps to-
ward attaining the desired end.
The following committeeman were
appointed:
l.. H. Aull, chairman; II. H. Evans,
r.. II. Welch. Nj. l.. Spearman, New
berry.
A. G. Wise, Prosperity.
N. G. Gonzales, j. Q. Marshall, b. A.
Rawls, Columbia.
j. II. Parks, =. b. Speed, r. r.
Hemphill, Abbeville.
ID. G. DuPrcc, ID. A. =. Jordan, f.. G.
Rice, Greenwood.
r. S. Nicklcs, NinetySix.
G. T.. Moore, HOnea Path.
G. V. Martin, Donalds.
G. w. Sullivan, Pelzcr.
j. w. Wideman, Due West.
A. S. Powell, Piedmont.
G. II. MahOn, Williamson.
Il. A. Lewis, Bolton.
j. ID. Moore, Hodges.
Geo. II. Reid, Chappells.
A. II. Coleman, New Market.
j. II. Morgan, Grecnville.
Chas. McAlister, Greenville.
| T.. &. LangstOn, Anderson.
This committee is to investigate mat
ters and see what can be done.
The thanks of the Newberry dele
| gates arc due Mr.. Welles of the South
crn for holding the train Tor us a.
| Greenwood until 10 o'clock, so that W.
| could hold the meeting and come OF
home the same night.
| We hope some good may come OF the
| meeting and that the train will bt
given q trial, and then il it Is found i
does not pay it. can be taken OFF,
|
Truth wears we'll. People hav,
learned that DeWitt's Little Earl,
! RiScrs are reliable little pills for regl