The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-10-01
THE WEWS OF POWARTA.
Oil Mill Prospering-Good Sunday
School-Town Growing-Good
Cotton Market-Free Schol-
arships.

dAbu1pS.
Pomaria, Sept. 3O.-tMrs. f. r.
Schumpert, Of Prosperity, spent last
Wednesday night with Mrs. J. p.
Settler.
Mr.. L. r. Cox, president Of the Po-
maria Oil and Manufacturing Com
pany was in Pomaria for a few davs
last week. His health had been bad
during the whole summer, and ais
friends here were glad to find that it
had improved very much.
The directors Of the Pomaria Oil
and Manufacturing Company held
meeting several weeks ago and
found the affairs of the company
IN an excellent condition. A dividend
OF lo per cent was declared, and, be-
sides, surplus was carried over to
the following year. Mr.. r. D. Jones,
OF Slmpsonville, S. c., is the superin-
tendent Of the mill.
The editorial, in fridays issue,
touching upon the question of those
free scholarships which give moro
than tuition in our state colleges, is
one in which a good many of our peo-
pie are interested. It is a question
which they would like to see furth-
er discussed, both as to its ethics and
ITS bearing on good citizenship. Ger
talnly the way in which such schol-
arsh1ps are now conferred is open to
objections, for those boys and girls
who most need them, have little
chance OF obtaining them. Only those
who are in circumstances that will
enable them to prepare themselves
for college-those who would proba-
ply go to college anyway, even if
they do not get the scholarship
stand much of a chance of winning
them III competitive examination.
Mr.. Roland Ringer is now clerk
ing for the Settler Company. lie
takes the place of Mr. E. B. Fcaole,
who recently resigned to accept other
work here.
Pomaria cannot boast Of anv
churches, yet she mas live Sunday
school. 1t meets every Sunday af-
ternoon in the Bethel school house.
The enrolment is IS with an average
attendance Of about three fourtns of
that number. This Sunday school nev-
er goes into "winter-quarters," as
is the custom with some country
schools, but the attendance is
as large during the winter as in the
other months Of the year. Mr.. w. S.
Seybt is the efficient superintendent.
Pormaia changes cotton weighers
each year. Mr.. Albert Richardson
was elected to this position some time
ago and will discharge it's
duties for the coming season. He is
an excellent young man, honest and
palnstaking, and will endeavor to
give a "square deal" all around.
BY the way, Pomaria is one of the
few placcs-are there any others in
the county, or even in the state @
IN which the buyer pays half of the
expense Of weighing the cotton
This seems to be an equitable ar
rangement, for there is no evident
reason why the farmer, rather than
the buyer should bear this expense,
even though it is small.
In proportion to her size, Pomaria
is one Of the best cotton markets in
the county, and she keeps the price
we'll mp at the top. Comparatively
very little was bought here this last
week, however; probably not more
than third Of as much as the week
preceding. A good many of the far
mers are getting to the place now
where they can hold, and they will
not sell at the present decline.