The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1905-04-07
SAYINGS AND DOINGS
OF PROSPERITY PEOPLE
APPROACH OF THE COM
MENCEMENT SEASON.
Crops Looking Well-The Literary
Sorosis-Selling Cotton Per
sonal and Otherwise.


crops and gardens are looking fine
Some of our early gardeners are eat
ing radishes, etc, already.
Say, Mr.. Editor, you came very
near getting your humble scribe into
great trouble, and with the ladies of
the Sorosis. AS you know, your cor
respondent has been particular to
give all the news Of Our town and last
week, when we had taken such pains
to write up the banquet of the Liter
ary Sorosis, that you should leave it
out! I know that you explained to
me that the paper was full and you
could only put in two columns but
that you should leave out such an i'm
portant matter! Of course we had
to do the best we could and promised
amends for it in the future, and we
want to give the office due notice that
the next time it must go in if every
thing else should be left out.
Constable Eison overhauled a bar
rel OF Fuss. Ex' containing ten gal
Ions of booze. The stuff was ship
ped in and the negro went home a
sadder, wiser and poorer man. 1t
created quite sensation for while
and large crowd gathered at the
Southern depot to learn results.
The Rev. C.. M Boyd has gone to
Due West for couple OF days. He
will go from there to the A. R. Pres
bytery at Doraville, Ga. Capt J. B.
Fellers is the. delegate from the
church here.
One Of the largest crowds ever
seen in Prosperity was here last
Saturday. The trade was one of the
largest for spring day for many
years, if not the largest. The mer-
chants had more than they could do.
The fertilizer men did an unusually
large trade. While the credit trade
was large, it was not so large as last
year for the first of April.
The city election will come off on
the second Tuesday in April, the I1th.
Since the primary there has been
little interest. A nomination is prac-
tically al election.
Mr.. c. A. Stewart, agent of the
Southern railway company at this
point. will go to Blacksburg, S. C..
Mr. Dinglehoef, relief agent, will be
Will, US for a short while until the
regular agent arrives.
Messrs. J. D. Quatlebaum and +.
A. Dominick spent Wednesday in
Columbia on business.
Mrs. Carrie Caldwell is visiting
Mrs. J. H. Hunter this week.
Judge S. S. Cunningham is visiting
Mr.. J. H. Hunter
We regret to announce to the many
friends of Mr.. Frank M. Gibson, OF
Nichols, Ga; that he is critically ILL.,
Mr.. J. c. H. Fellers and niece, Miss
Matte Fellers, visited the family OF
Mr.. S. L. Fellers the past week.
Quite a large delegation from Pros
perity went up to see the ball game
Newberry VS.. Erskine. They say 1t
was fine game.
The Jolly Dozen will hold a busi-
ness meeting on the afternoon OF
April 6. There will be no fun aboard
that day, I am assured %
The Sorosis will meet with Mrs.
p. w. Boland on April II.
We are told that Our progressive
CITY fathers will give us light on
dark s,tbject-a 1000 candle power
gas light on the public square. They
wifl not give US this ligh' before 1t is
needed. They are also making some
new streets. We need some old ones
worked-one running from Mr.. A. F.
Dominick,s residence, on the north
side of the Southern railway, to the