The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-06-09
SYMPATHETIC NEWBERRY
AIDS THE SUFFERERS.
GIVES OF HER MliANS FOR THE SUFFER-
BRS FROM THE FLOODS.
Citizens Meeting Held Yesterday Morning
Appoints Relief Committee Results
Most Gratifying

The news of the terrible disaster.
(which devastated Gainesville, Georgia
and Pacolet and Clifton, in our owr
State was received in Newberry with
deep sorrow, and the sympathy of the
people of the city went out to the orphans
! and the widows, the fathers of whose
families have been snatched from them
to the homeless and the hungry ones.
AS soon as the news of the Gaines.
willie disaster was received last week
Mayor Earhardt had circulated through
his police force a subscription list fo1
i, the benefit Of the sufferers. The re-
sponse was liberal, as it was expected
it would be, and in very few hours,
Policeman S. G. Carter, who had cir
D culated the subscription list, had in
hahd over $4,000. This amount was sent
/ yesterday to the Atlanta Journal sub
scription fund.
Even more deeply felt was the disas-
ter which swept away several of the
largest mills in Spartanburg county
killing numbers of people and leaving
thousands destitute and homeless. The
heart-rending cry for aid which filled
the whole State from the mountains to
the seaboard met with response as
heartily as it was ready. A citizens
meeting was called on Sunday morning
by Mayor Earhardt to be held in the
opera house the following morning at
ten O'Clock.
The meeting was called to order
promptly at ten o'clock yesterday NOR
ming, about fifty representative citizens
in attendance. Mayor Jno. w. Earhardt
was chosen chairman of the meeting
and John K. Aull was made secretary.
The object of the meeting was stated
by the chairman, and after a full and
free discussion of the best means of
extending aid it was decided to appoint
three committees to present the mat
ter to the people of the city, and to the
people of West End and Mollohon.
The following committees were ap-
pointed by the chair:
Newberry: Messrs. Jno. M. Kinard,
Cole. l.. Blease, w. l.. Seabrook, w.
H. Hunt, E. H. Auli, and j. A. Burton.
Mayor Jno. w. Earhardt was made
member ex officio, and was chosen
chairman.
West End: Revs. N. N. Burton, j. j.
Long, and G. e. Edwards.
Mollohon: Messrs. A. l.. Northcutt,
w. O. Wilson, Ed. Merchant.
Nearly two hundred dollars was sub
scribed on the spot by those in attend
ance upon the meeting.
=, The relief committee held a meeting
Immediately after the adjournment of
the citizens meeting, and Mr.. E. H.
Aull was appointed treasurer. The
subscription lists were circulated and
the totol sum for the relief of the
Gainesville sufferers amounted last
night to $552.87.
The citizens authorized the city coun-
Gil to make an appropriation of 500 if
council after survey of the situation
thought necessary.
The committee has issued the follow
ing appeal:
AN APPEAL.
To those who have heard the sad
story of the destruction of life, loss of
property and dire suffering among our
people in the upper part of the State,
no appeal to their sympathies nor for
their help is needed. Their sympathies
are awakened and all they need is the
opportunity to give them practical ex-
preston.
That opportunity is given by the sub
scription now being taken in Newberry.
Let all in town and surrounding county,
who have not been waited on by the
committee, send at once their contribu-
tion to e. H. Aull, treasurer of the
Relief Fund. Prompt help is needed.
j. w. Earhardt,
Jno. M. Kinard,
j. A. Burton,
Cole. l.. Blease,
w. l.. Seabrook,
E. H. Aull,
w. II. Hunt,
Relief Committee.
CONTRIBUTIONS.
Collections opera house Sunday s IS 62
Bachelor Maids $500
Woman's Club 2s 90
Voluntary Contribut ions from
Citizens 4o7 rs