The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-09-20
THE NEWS OF PROSPERITY.
New Lutheran Church to be Erected
Excellent Opening of the Grad
ed School.

visiting DR.. and Mrs. nluther.
Mrs. 4. w. BcdenV /l,,as rety' =: .
ed home from a VIZ J$m = :. to
Rocky Mount W>//Ysf She
was accompalY/>//,c}T .ew, Mas
ter Frank pN/I/|I
Miss L%f5p.s aYy. i'll charge Of
mss, '1s "''''"/<y y 'ep'2'e"' at Mrs Cal
Miss SoutcrlaT. arrived today and
will have charge Of The millinery de-
partmcnl at Mosclcy Bros.
Miss Mary Kinard has gone TO At
lanta I" spend some time with her sis
ter. Mrs. McWatcrs.
The Sorosis will meet today (Fri-
day. with Mrs. G.. Y. Hunter. This
will be social meeting and will be
an enjoyable meeting.
Miss Walker Whitaker and Her.
bert Langford have gone to Wofford
college.
Misses Clara Gibson and Willie Mac
WE left Tuesday for Winthrop col
les J, Rock HILL
= 2ion. *. Baker was in town for a
! . hours Wednesday.
The congregation Of Grace church
has sold the old church building and
services were held in it for the last
time on last Sunday. The services,
both preaching and Sunday school will
be held at the City Hall at The same
hours that they were held in the
church. The old church will be taken
down to make room for the new. The
congregation will note the place of
meeting. The three churches in town.
~. r. p, Baptist and Methodist were
placed at their d;, osal. The council
decided that there "ould be no con-
fllct of any services by having
them in the City Hall, hence they ac-
cepted the tender of The town council.
Mrs. Lizzie Hunter is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. a. IT. Hawkins.
Mcssrs. j. B. Latham and J. II.
Wise, Of Little Mountain, were in
town Oh Tuesday. -
Mr.. H. l.. Wheeler is spending Il
few days at home with his parents.
Miss Marie Bobb has returned to
Nincty-Six.
Mrs II. II. Rikard and children, OF
Ncwbcrry was visiting her parents
this week, Mr.. and Mrs. j. NJ. Wheel
cr.
Mrs. Mary Rawl has returned from
visit to relatives in Georgia.
Miss Gertrude Simpson has return
ed to Newberry and will resume he,
duties as teacher in the graded
schools.
DR.. and Mrs. Wheeler spent Tues,
day in Nawberry.
Mr.. A. r. Mayer, familiarly known
as "Berry' is with the Prosperity
Oil Mills as bookkcepcr.
The attendance AT this time is the
largest III the history Of the graded
school for the first month. The nun
Der Of pupils in our school and the
hnmhrr Of young people "oin" from
Prosperity to ihr Aiffrrrn. COLLEGES i,
-" state shows tn" interest uf uln
p"Hp'" in "duralion. II j, 4 good in.
dl"aii"u and We are clad ln ~nr il.
The slump in cotton has laid cv-
rrNlhM- low Hud il seems l2rinou,
TN" crop will be short in This nrcl; Of
the woods.
On" of "lu progressive farmer, say,
that as long as he can Gel ! | cents an(
| upwards for cotton he can afford [,
buy land. lie has averaged tract a
year for the past 3 or 4 years. IIt
just completed through Mr.. r. r
Hunter the purchase Of the Hannah
Lester tract about ! - miles from
Prosperity. "Cap" (Mr. S. J. Kohn)
says he wants to buy all the land tha
joins him and with ~ cents cotton hi
will try it. He has one Of the best
cotton crops in this section. He say.
he is off 25 per cent. which means q
, or more bales from what he expected
Mr. J. A. Baker, who recently sole
his plantation near Fairvicw has pur
chased lot and will build a home i,
the near future. We are glad to wei