The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1899-06-30
i'achninn Chapel apd Union Academy chin
Mrs. w. l.. EDlow, who was quito i'll
week ago has improved.

| Ol laSt week.
Mr.. G. j.. Scasc passed through this
section last week thrcshing out tho
grain. Some crops turned out pretty
well and some not SO we'll. This WAS
Il bad year on the grain crop. But wo
hope that the farmers will not become
discouraged, but SOW more abunduntly
another year. Remember, only those
who SOW bountifully shall reap bounti-
fully.
lfa garden is half IL living, We have
only lived half this year. Let the gar
den be whatever part Of Il living it may,
we know living without IL garden is
very expensive living.
| Ncwhcrry wouldn't entertain a bull
! light, but she booms up Sam Jones
| lecture, and what's the difference?
| We'll, we suppose that the people will
lind out after while that Sam Jones is
not God.
For the past two weeks it began to
| look like farming. The land was in
splendid working order, the crops be-
gan to grow on nicely, the farmers all
got III better spirits and things gene
rally look more hopeful But the
| drought continued Il little too long for
| the first planting of corn. The worms,
together with the drought, prevents it
from making Il full crop.
Talk about your biz spreads, but if
The Herald aud News is not fast ap-
proachlng such Il thing We arc willing
TO Jump over the moon With the
Editor and such Il correspondent Us old
brother Kay 1T the Capitol, and such Il
lr"al editor ut the county scat, II wide
awake reporter at Prosperity. and
such Il good force Of typos, together
with It's June bugs, my, oh. what on
| earth can there be to equal The uuruld
and News Socome along now. friends,
II You arc not subscriber, enlist on
| our roll and you shall never perish for
The news. Am | not right, Josh? Now,
friends, if you want the paper, don't
pass Chips by. He is authorized to
take and receipt for subscriptions.
llurrah for Ncwberry, she is not only
progressive city, but never ccasing in
her progress. If she continues to build
up for the next fifteen years as she has
Tor the past fifteen, She will be the
leading city Of the State. Another
cotton mill IS on foot, aud with the
kind OF material Ncwbrrry has, it will
roll mp like IL storm. There is no hum-
| ming and murlnuring among the bust.
ness men Of Newbcrry. When they
get ready TO do any thing they Just
! simply go on and do it Ncwbcrry al
ready has Il cotton mill almost unsur-
passed by any in the State But why
should we wonder at the success of any
enterprise when it has such business
men at its head us MIR. II, j. McCrary.
We have often heard it said that it is
, an impossihility ior Il man TO please
everybody, but W. believe Mr. McCrary
can come as near IL as any other living
soul.
Another session Of Newbcrry College
has come and gone. She has Just passed
her twcnty-iirst commencement, and
sent out httecn more noble young men
we'll equipped for any capacity Of life
they may choose. Every year New
| berry College is turning loose more and
more Of her good material, scatl crinr
them abroad, and it should be ulitc Il
source Of qualification, not only TO the
faculty, but to every other man aud
woman of Newbcrry who has the intel
est OF their country Az heart. to know
! that those builders ali over the land
arc hunting for our Newbcrry material.
| Our work was SO pressing that we could
: spare but one day at the commences
mcnt. If we were one IF those 90
| ahead farmers we cOnld have attended
| every day. But it is either our for
tune or misfortune to be one Of those
come ahead farmers. and our time is
, always very limited. When We have
but one day TO attend commen ement
we always try To make it convenient
Tor that day to hc Wednesday, 50 as to
get to hear the graduating class shoot
OH ITS oratoriral gun. The faculty
knows its business, but it seems to us
that IT. is II perfect hardship on those
boys, after they hayc studied so hard
to prepare their speeches, TO only allow
one-half Of them to speak, even il it.
had taken little more time. Could
/ there not have been u short recess
given and th'n rcasscmhlc IT, hear th,
other half? 1t seems to us that this
would havcs 'cvn Il more satisfactory
arrangements The speeches were ali
OF the highest character, and delivered
in most eloquent style, and even those
VINO tailed TO get medals and prizes can
have the satisfaction of knowing thut
they did we'll. A great number of peo-
pie look forward to these commence
mcnts. They are always very cnioy-
able occasions. Friends get to meet
clch other there who in many instances
never meet only at commencement
We have often thought that it is u
great pity that the commcncements
! "a