The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1901-10-18
VARIOUS AND ALL ABOUT.

Cotton Is coming in rapidly.
! Some say we have had frost.
Fun to- the children at the armory
this afternoon at four o'clock.
| The advance agent for tho "Wantcd,
Family" company was in tho city yes
! terday.
Don't put off paying your taxes. Pay
now. The town and county both need
money.
! The town political pot is beginning
to simmer. Candidates are coming to
the 'front.'
Treasurer Epps collected over hun
drcd dollars the first day the tax books
| were open.
Our readers will be glad to hcar that
| Prof Bowers is improving, and OK
| poets TO be ont in q few days.
! Alderman e. A. Carlisle, uf Ward :,
Is announced in this paper as Il candl-
date for reelection from his ward.
Mr.. Chas. j. Iobel is having his
house at Helena neatly and tastefully
painted. 1t presents nice appear
| ance.
Mr.. II. G. Williams is improving his
premises at Helena. by adding an ad-
dition and otherwise improving his re-
sidence.
Friends Of Alderman J. J. Langford,
of Ward 4, nominate him in this paper
as q candidate for reelection on the
aldcrmanic board.
Mr.. Amos Wells Is running up and
down the road now learning tho ex
press business. He will likely have a
good run In a few days.
Don't forget to send the children to
the armory this afternoon at four
o'clock. 1t wont cost them much and
1t will help the Exposition committee.
Certain prominent prospective can
didates are already feeling the pulse
OF their friends in regard to their enter
ing the race next year for some county
office.
Deputy United States Marshall Da-
wilson carried Tom Greenwood, the
colOred cnunterfeitcr, to Greenville
yesterday to be tried in the United
States court. The negro plead guilty
and was sentenced to three years.
Rev. DR.. s L. Hallman has been in
vited by the Faculty of Leesville Col
legc to address the students on Friday
ninfT vet Il vi I,n "a.
of synod at that place.
Prof. S J. Derrick, of Newberry Col
Iege, will deliver an address at Grace
church, Prosperity, next Sunday after
noon at four o'clock, the occasion being
Children's Day exercises.
The many friends of Dr. Geo. B Gro
mer, were pleased to see him on the
streets again Wednesday, having suf-
ticiently recovered from his recent ILL
ness to take some outdoor exercise.
The greatest joke that we have read
lately is, that Charleston policeman
the other day allowed pickpocket to
rob him of his watch and chain on the
streets of that city while the officer was
on duty.
None Of the trains are max ing their
schedules these days. The up pas
sengcrs ON both roads Wednesday
were over an hour late. II is rare
thing for any of them to come on time
any more.
The Palmetto Club, of Newbcrry, has
secured Its charter. The club is to be
social organization, and their quar-
ters will be over the Herald and News
Office. Mr.. l., w. Floyd is president of
the club.
Mr.. II. G. Bardin, we'll known here,
has taken charge of and will manage
the st. Johns Hotel, Charleston. MIR.
Bardin is a well.known hotel man and
will succeed in the "city by the sea-"
The st. Johns will opcn on Dec. lst.
Another candidate for the Newberry
post office has developed in the person
OF Mr.. Frank l. Bynum, who forward
ed his formal application for the Office
to Washington on Tuesday. Mr.. By
mum is at present acting postmaster.
Our citizens should look to their in.
terest and have the Southern Railways
Good Roads Special stop day at New
berry. 1t will go from Columbia to
Grcenville, and with little effort on
our part, could be secured here for ono
day.
a special agent of the national ad-
ministration, it Is said, spent several
days here last week looking into tho
post Office contest. The result of his
report Is awaited with anxiety, espec-
tally on the part of some of the appli-
cants.
Magistrate w. L. Suber, Of the coun-
ty, was In the city yesterday and paid
Us a pleasant call. Mr.. Suber was in
the city attending Magistrate Chap.
pel's court, one of his cares having been
transferred to Mr.. Chappell on account
of relationship between some of the
parties Interested.