The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1908-01-24
THE NEWS OF PROSPERITY.
Play to bc Given at City Hall Fri
day Night-Death of Mrs.
Mary j. Bobb.

III >Waddlng clothes when Prosperity
was putting on airs are today put
tag iii waite! works and electric light
pla.ts and forging head and Pros
pcrity is sitting quietly down ana
permitting the procession to pass by.
New we, your humble scribe. want
to make Il suggestion to our city.
The oil mill has power plenty and TO
spare. Why moi the town put in =
dynamo and get the oil mill to fur
nls'i the motive power and thea we
could have electric lights. If We
ran'i DO this. get NewIberry TO fE
nish the power. Why noi do some
thing to join in the march of pro-
grcss.
The local company of Ameteurs
will give the play, Jumbo jun on Fri
day night, January oath. Admission
10 cents. This will be treat for
T all who attend. The proceeds are for
the U. ID. c. monument to the veter-
ans Of the last cause who lie buried
in Prosperity cemetery.
Mrs. John Brown, Of Johnston, is
visitin" Mrs. j. +. Browne this week.
Mrs. Iseno%h, of Maryland, is Wis
iting her husband at the Wise hotel.
Mr.. Isenogle is s,pclint ending the
erection of the new Lutheran church.
Mrs. S. ID. Duncan and j. =.
Wheeler visited Mrs. II. r. Boozcr
in Newberry Monday.
Mr.. f.. c. Mathis left Wednesday
for Bat esIburg where he will go into
he drug business with DR.. McFall
Ridgcll
d. +. Ridgcl, Esq, of Batesburr
visited his aunt, Mrs. A. M. Lester
Mr.. ID. w. Boland has moved into
the Dominick house on McNeary
street.
Mr.. J. Y. Thompson has moved
into the house vaetcd by Mr.. Boland.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kreps and Mrs. G.
Y. Hunter visited Rev. and Mrs. Bed
clhhaugh on Tuesday.
Mrs. Connie Whites Mart, Of At
iHn"a came over to attcr,i the Tuner
~ of 'rtr aunt, Mrs r.aL.
Pref w. +. Alon5s is expected on
Il visit TO Prosp:."it : this week.
Mrs. w. A. Moseley is spending
the week with relative: in Columbia.
Mrs. Bachman Pugh is expected
home from the hospital in Columbia
where she as been for some weeks.
Capt. j. b. Fellcrs was on the
streets today, Wednesday, for the
first time since he met with his ac-
eident the first of September. His
maHy friends were glad to see him
able to be out again.
Mr.. j. II. Hunter was iii town
Monday.
Dr. Wyrfre spent Sunday and Mon
day al nome. returning to the capital
on Monday right
Mr.. f. f. Sclrumpert ffaS gone TO
Atlanta for few days.
DR.. p. ID. Simpson spent Sunday
with his parents.
Mrs. j. I. Wheeler; Of Columbia,
returned to her home on Monday.
She was with her sister; Mrs. Bobb,
at her death.
Miss Belle Buckley. of Helena, is
visitin" Miss Marie Counts.
Dr.. j. ". Wcssinger, of Ballentine,.
paid Prosperity a call last week.
The roof rs going on the new
church and the brick wrrK is all done
except the tower.
The r. r.. d. patrons Of 1he HeralI
and News read their papers last Fri
day but we town demizcns did not.
Somebody is going to lose their scalp
if it happens again, and it iis not this
scribe. See IL it is.
Mrs. Mary J. Bobb (lmc Feagrey.
was born at Tile family homestead
near Pomaria, S. Z. New: 10TH, 1912,
departed this life January II, 1908,
aged 66 years and 2 months:
Mrs. Bobb was twice married, tire
first time to Walter W. Kohn, in 1860.
Mr.. Kohn was wounded at Gettes-
burg, and falling into the enemy's
hands died prisoner. at Point Look
out, Md: From this marriage ono child
was bora, Sidney J. Kohn, Of Pros
perity. She was married second
time December 2, 1872, to Frances
Bobb. of Prosperity, five children
were the issue Of this marriage, two
of which died in infancy. Misses Mar
10 and Gertrude and Ofen still sur