The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1900-08-24
POINTS FROM PROSPERITY.
Burial OF Babo-PereOnal Notf-A Dispen.
sary Election.

old baby girl of Mr.. and Mrs. J. A. Dom,
mick, Of Kinards died at their home at z
a. IN. Sunday morning after suffering
about three weeks with pneumonia. The
baby was brought to Prosperity Sunday
! afternoon and laid to rest III the cemetery
here beside its little brother DR.. Pressly
OF Due West performing the burial ser
vice. Sad indeed arc these doiugs of the
J Divine hand, vet lie "doeth all things
wcll' and givcth grace for every trial.
! The bcrcavcd parents have the sympathy
of this entire community in their hour of
| aiiliCtion and sorrow.
Misses Alma Summer and Lula Mathis
| OF Atlanta are visiting relatives here.
MIR. Jno. S. Barr is at home again after
four weeks stay in Salt,la
Messrs. Purcell and Chalmers, of New
berry, visited friends here Sunday, and
Sheriff Buford spent Sunday night and
Monday morning III town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Il. Patton Kennedy, of
Due West, returned home Monday after
quite pleasant visit at the home of Mr..
ID. II. Witherspoon, Mrs. KS. father.
There has been considerable fever here
| and around for sonic time time past,
some of it being typhoid, some ,naaral.
Among those who have been suffering
with it are Lulian Bruce, May Witller-
spoon, p. {. Singley, w. w. Bruce and
Jerome Harmon, Of town. AL are con-
valescent again except the latter, who
has had typhoid for more than five
weeks, though he is now improving.
Our physicians have been very successful
i'll treating these cases.
DE-. J. l.. Prcssly, of Due West Female
College. preached excellent sermons in
| the a. X. p. Church here last Sabbath
! morning and the Methodist Church in
the afternoon. They were elcvating.
MIR. J. l.. Wise's large ten-room house
will soon be flushed His family will
| move in this fall.
TO be or not to be-" that is tho qucs-
ton. Our town council has ordered an
election on September 10th OH the uues-
ton Of "Disrensary" or "No Dspcnsa-
ry" for Prosperity. This will be the
third annual election on the question,
and it is opined that this time the dis
pensary will ''be."
The officers Of the A. X. p. Church are
,noderatng call for pastor, Rev. A. G.
kirkpatrick having resigned the charge
and moved with his family to All Heal
ing, N. G..
prosracted meeting will be held in
the Methodist Church here soon, begin
ing, probably, about the first of Septem-
Der. May great good result.
We had most delightful and greatly
needed raiu yesterday afternoon, and
more Of the same sort last night, making
Ill all good season. The former was ac-
companied by considerable wind, which
blew scttccs from porches and flower
pots from piazza shelves, though 10 Sc
rious damage has been heard of. How
grateful we should be for the seasonable
rain! Hope it was general.
have noticed phenomena the pn,t
few nights which some reader of Tie
Herald and News can possibly explain,
viz: The twinkling of the stars. Every
star in the firmament has twinkled COLI
tinuously, except about seven of the
brightest and best. The evening star,
lying about rs degrees from the horizon
at 10 O'Clock, little above south, seemed
brighter than usual, but twinklcd not. A
bright aud very red star between it and
the milky way twinkled assiduously. One
other to the left of milky way, one di-
rectly overhead and three or four others
father to the west and north we're very
bright and did not twinkle; but all others
seemed dancing III their places. They
carried me back to the nursery rhyme of
Twinkle, twinkle little star,
How wonder what you are,
Up above the world SO high,
Like diamond in the sky"
And it made me think Of the little tots
sweet answer, when asked what the
twinkling, stars were. She said they
were "angels winking their eyes" Per-
haps some "star-gazer" can tell us why
the present twinkling goes on, and its
significance.
The canning factory here has closed
for the season. The tomato and peach
crop were small and. only 1900 cans
were put up. The several private can-
nerics around are putting up table goods
for families.
Our roller mill continues to run day
and night, turning out the finest of what
the darkey calls "heavcnly dust"
DR.. j. M. Kinard, druggist at DIR. Ow-
ings' i'll Columbia, is spending a part of
the summer with relatives in our midst.
Mrs. J. p. Wheeler, accompanied by
the little ones Of the family, left Tuesday
for visit to relatives at Silver Street.
The first bale of new cotton was
brought to Prosperity last Saturday by
Mr.. ]. S. Nichols 1t weighed 46s lbs,
classed strict middling and was sold to
Hawkins Bros. for 9A. The crop Is
opening fast here and on an average it
will take four acres to make bale.