The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1905-01-27
PROSPERITY NEWS.
The Comings and Gongs Of the Peo-
pie of Live and Progress
sive Town

Prosperity, Jan. 2o.-1 mere VIII Oe
services at Bachman Chapel on Sum
day morning at II o'clock.
There will be services in Prosper
ity A. R. P. church on Sunday even
ing at 4 o'clock. This being the fifth
Sunday.
There are four things that we are
very desirous to see in Our town IN
the near future.
First. The new school building for
which bonds have been voted.
Second. A building and Loan as
sociation for the up building of the
town.
Third. A circulating library, so that
we who want to read the latest stand
ard books can do so at minimum
cost.
d. A literary society in which both
ladies and gentlemen can take part.
What is to hinder.
In a drunken gambling quarrel c'-r
2s cents Geo. Smith killed Will
Bouskett n Saluda county one night
last week. This kind. of thing is get
ting quite common.
Messrs. R. H. Russell and Mllllken
of Hamlet, N. c.. were in town over
Sunday. They returned on the p. m.
train.
In Our notes last week we said or
the "masheen" made us say that the
town primary would be held or Feo'
7th it should have been March 9TH.
Look. I am going to put the execu-
tive committee onto the man running
that "mershene" next time to sore my
scalp.
Mr. A G. Wise has returned from
a trip to the west.
Mr. J. D. Ouattlebaum made trip
70 Atlanta returning "Wednesday.
Rev. J. A. Sigh was in town tor
short time Saturday.
Rev. 7. L. Buck of Saluda county
was in town on Tuesday.
One of the questions agltatlng the
minds of our farmers is how mucn
less cotton shall I plant this year than
last and how much less fertilizers
shall I buy. One farmer told me he
would plant 40 acres less. inns IS
, question in which we are all inter-
ested Shall it be cut down one fourth
one third are one half. This IS what
the cultivator says "Cut down our
next crop one half. This will settle
the question at once and in the best
manner. Only let us exhibit the same
zeal and energy in cutting our area III
cotton which, we have always display,
ed in trying to increase the yields anu
cotton will go to ten cents "l.liii,
three months. Let every lnol'iaoai
farre, beein to cast about pruden-
+1v for other lines of profitable agr'-
cultural products" There are many
undeveloped lines that can be maoe
70 Dav good return on the invest
r,ent In talking with an ac-
tive and progressive young 1ar,
mer last Saturday he told me ne soio
sasoo worth of millet seed last year
and had a quantity for sale again TINS
wear. He was selling them at $1,000
ner ton and peavine hay at $1,000 per
ton 50 cents and S1.oo per hunoreo'
We saw on his book quite num0ef
of orders and he had plenty more:
This Young man had also maoe oo
bo1es of cotton and had sold SO
4 good figure. He was not making
cotton his only chrop but was WORK
;no more in proportion out OF ms
grasses and peavines than out OF MS
cotton. This is what one has DONE
Are there not others who are DONG
equally as we'll?
The happily marriage bells are still
ringing in many directions. The last
notice to be rung out was from Mt.
Tabor and gave out the marriage at
the brides parents Mr.. and Mrs. Jno.
A. Sheely, Sr.. of Miss Carrlee A.
sheelv to Mr.. Willie E. Koon OF
Chaplin. May their married life be
long and happy one.
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