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The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1908-06-30
THE TOWN OF CLINTON.
Dr.. w. P. Jacobs Gives Interesting
History Of Origin Of Name.

The last issue Of the Clinton Gaz.
cite contains an interesting article
from DR.. w. y. Jacobs ON the origin
Of the name Clinton. DR.. Jacobs
says:
"m yours Of last week notice the
kindly reference to myself, with the
request that | give The origin Of the
name Clinton for this town. | have
never seen the following statement in
print. but, heard il in 1861, just after
coming to what was then the little
town Of Clinton. and can only vouch
for il as traditional. 1t is said that
there was about 1923 Il very strcnu
Gus discussion as to the future name
Of the promising little railroad town
which was then the terminus Of the
road and which was showing signs OF
having considerable vitality.
cone party advocated the name
'Round Jacket in honor Of one Of IFS
citizens whose favortc habllimcnt
was Of that class, while others advo-
Gated the name Of give Points, then
notorious in connection with New
York roughs tand tou"hs. The idea
~ {, that five roads came together At
apint &.nd hence The appropriate
A,Tthe designation
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1908-06-30
SPECIAL EXCURSION RATES
Account Fourth of July Celebrations
via Southern Railway.

Greatly reduced rates will be in
effect between all points on the
Southern railway on acc",mt Fourt h
limit July Sth. 1908.
July celebrations. Tickets will be on
sale July 2nd. 3rd and lth. with final
limit July. Sth, 1905.
For details, rates, etc, apply to
Southern Railway Agents or
j. e. Lusk.
Division PASSENGER Agent.
Charleston. S. c.
j. L. Meek.
Asst. Gen. Pass. Agent,
ATLANTA. Ga.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1908-06-30
WANT A PARK,
1T is Urged That the Gibbes Green
Should be Preserved for All
Time to Come.

me ot'te.
Considerable dissatisfaction has
peei' caused Dy the announcement
.llat the trustees or the University of
o"t.h Narollha propose to erect on
! "lppeS "reeh Il building for which
''e ieSlsla'ure OF south Carolina has
appropriated $4,000. 1t is hoped that
"ioheS Green can be kept as it is,
"l'houl penn" married by buildings Of
any KIND.
Inc green IS very beautiful park,
with ITS grassy slopes and its pines,
oeautil"l though too Few. 1T is urged
tllat the university has so much real
estate that IS available that it would
DE sacrifice to mar the beauty Of the
green with any buildings, no matter
now beautiful.
\ petition with the n,1lowino pre-
amblc ,has been sent to the board Of
trustees, the board having onro,,ncd
that it would meet Yesterday:
TO the Honorable. the Board or Trus-
tees, University Of South Carolina:
Honorable Sirs: We. the undrrsiou-
ed citizens and taxpavrrS Of the city
of Columbia. and the State Of South
! Carolina. do most rcspcctful]v pcti-
ton your honorable BODY to rcscind
your decision TO erect the new univcr.
| sity building on the green, or Gibbcs'
\ Green, in the rear or the president 5
/ house.
TO erect college building on this
beautiful athletic field would not only
remove from the cit> or Columbia its
only rcmainn" available park site.
but would do great hurt to those pro-
4 pcrty owners in the ncichborhood,
kmany Of whom have expended large
eAlc assumption that the green would
&ays remain an open space or athlc-
keld
from this latter reason, an ap-
fxcfish one, if it may be so
would, in our humble ,iudg-
better to erect the new
,in the present enclosure.
more important consid-
- }clicvc. is that the cree
din" on the green would
mmctry Of the present
. ding plan, removing the
BT0' the buildin" Of a
HfAin university building on the pres
4! ent site Of the prcsit.2nt $ house.
Tn our humble Judgment, the pro.
posed building could well be placed on
ri bn,. Si1n ,T Ikr ,,rnSiInpt :. hnnSp
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1908-06-30
NEWBERRY UNION STATION.
Arrival and Departure of Passenger
Trains-Effective 1901 A. M.
Sunday, June 9TH, 1908.
Southern Railway:


Southern Railway:
No. Is for Greenvillc :. ..S.57am.
No. IS for Columbia :. LILO pm.
No. II for Grccnvillc :. 1920 pm.
No. 16 for Columbia 49,. SAT pm.
c., N. & L. Ry.
"No S5 for Laurens :. -. .5.10 am.
mo. 20 for Columbia :. ..8.47 am.
No. So for Grccnviile =. 1856 pm.
No. SO for Columbia :. ..3.2O pm.
mo. 81 for Laurcns ;. ..7.25 pm.
mo. Sd for Columbia :. ..S.36 pm.
Does not run on Sunday
This time table shows the times at
WHICH trains may be expected to de-
part from this station, but their de-
parturc is not guaranteed and the
time shown is subject to change with
out notice.
G. l.. Robinson,
Station Master.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1908-06-30
S, Is. Jones. Proprietor.
DJ:dJ I.D ~

tcnti on stock Of Fancy and Staple
grocer ca and sol cit ut Yeast por ion or
your potronaHo during This year.
v" tc"l ""r@ IT. &"vio| a..: cur "Lo." i"
the complete that is oIlcrod "oro l,nd
that VIC serve you ir {, a;ttiaructory man.
nCr.
por tant points: quail ty Of goods prompt scr-
vi &C moderate pri ccs.
| you al ready {, Gus toner o. ours
Wou Id be pl cas- cd add you to our long
lis Of salts sfi cd tomcrs.
We wish 1908 to be banner year. will
you DIN in makin it SO?
Yours for bus mess,
Jones' Grocery.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1908-06-30

nam university building on the pres
.ent site Of the prcsit-cnt $ house.
In our humble Judgment. the pro
posed buildin" could we'll be placed or,
either side of The president 5 house,
and the general university plan re-
tanned, with benefit To the institution
and to lis friends in the community.
RcSnccl fullN submitted,
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-01-02

speak each evening and during the day work out
the details of some suits they contem-
plating to further test the constitutionality of
laws legalizing the liquor traffic. and the accept
ance of revenue from it. Mr.. NEwL1Ns itinerary
will be as follows:
Thursday, January q North Vernon, Indiana.
Friday, January 8, Jeffersonvie, Indiana.
Sunday, January 5, Nashville Tennessee.
Monday, January g. Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Tuesday, January z, Rome, Georgia.
Wednesday, January s, Zenith Georgia.
Thursday and Friday, January and 10, Atlanta Geor
ga.
Saturday, January IL, Cleveland, Tennessee.
Sunday, January 49, Knoxville, Tennessee.
From January Is to II, North Carolina.
From January 1S 20, Virginia.
January 81 and 49, Washington, District of Columbia.
January %, Baltimore, Maryland.
January "a, Wilmington, Delaware
January 25, Carlysle, Pennsylvania.
January 20, Harrisburg Pennsylvania.
January ~, Willamsport Pennsylvania.
January %, Somerset, Pennsylvania
January 30, Paramount, West Virginia.
January 80, Morgantown, West Virginia.
February 1, Washington Pennsylvania.
February 2, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
February 8, East Liverpool, Ohio
Other points in central Ohio may secure Mr.
NEwL1N's services by addressing his office, 1912
East Washington street. indianapolis.
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-01-02

Since the treaty of annexation and the conse-
quent increases in tourist traffic, and especially
the increased number of warships and transports
that put in here, saloons have multiplied in num-
Der, influence and malign resuts-the native hav-
ing become not only customer but also pos
sibe commodity in liquor legislation and law
nonenforcement-a have been tolerated by the
good but futile leading class" on the hoary mis-
conception that the military and tourist visitors
are against unfermented hospitality in all its pos
sble and delightful forms, when almost any tour
ist and an increasing number of soldiers and
sailors would testify that they drink because they
up against the goods and the custom rather
than because they seek to do it.
The white population is small intelligent,
reputable, prosperous and benevolent, but greatly
weakened in its political influence by a certain
South Sea, unconscious Observation-Disclosures,
which, along with a splendid inheritance of good
blood, good sense, good training and good fortune
has come down from missionary times; and
parayzed, in its political efficiency, by intermar-
riages
Long contemplation of the immoralities of the
natives has induced prevalent strabsmus in the
Whites as to mmoralities of their own and civic
courage has gone glimmering in a mesh work of
affnities and consanguinities. The basest job
chaser is likely to be son-in-aw or brother law
to the best and the cleanest, the wine and the
spirit merchant is likely to be cousin to the
deacon, and the brewery stock spreads like the
Russian thistle through the assets of the pious
All this, of course, is fatal to clean admnistra-
tion but only for the time being, for sounder
substratum of good character than there is here is
nowhere. The federal and territorial officials have
been and are with exceptions, men of I'M
bemished integrity, but the county and city or
CARNATIONS molasses barrels to the blue-botle
flies of tainted politics.
In the native mind, white society is missionary
society, and the inconsistency of missionary
preaching with missionary practice is the bons
asinoram of native progress. In the old mission
airy days the chiefs were absolute and the people
something worse than serfs. The teachings of
the missionaries took strong hold of the king and
the chiefs, with such effect that the islands came
by fiat under complete prohibition, more than
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-01-02
coURIER-JoURNAL WAIVERS
Colonel Watterson's Saloon Champion Almost
Persuaded to Come Into the Prohibition
Column-Traffic's Brutal Defiance
Rouses Dormant Honesty

LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY, December 24-(Special
correspondence 1.-The liquor dealers of this city
are so brutally defiant of public sentiment that
even the Comrier-Jourmal is disguised and almost
ready to go over to the Prohibition column The
particular offense that has brought matters to
crisis is the opposition of the saloonkeepers to
the reduction of the number of saloons and to the
increase of the license fee measures to which
the Comier-Jomrnal was particularly devoted as
in harmony with its regulation theories.
On Friday and Saturday evenings the city
council had these matters up for consideration,
the special proposition being to raise the license
fee from $3.50 to $500 per year. The saloon
keepers packed the council chamber; the coun-
cilmen were "beset behind and before" with per-
sonal solicitations; the chamber was filled with
noisy demonstration that amounted almost to
intimidation, and on both evenings the council
failed to take the action which the people de-
sired
Monday morning the Cowiey-Jomynal published
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-01-02

ST the liquor udIHC IL VIII UC iSdu Will ihtSiS0'
Note
half century ago, and even the great chiefs
poured out their fluid deviltry upon the sand.
Then crime and disorder all but disappeared and
the wonderful little christendom enjoyed its golden
age Afterward came the constitution, with rep
sentative government, freehold lands and the
seven-devilness of renstated liquor trade, and
finally, American rule, with moneyism, partyism
and the infamous doctrine that saloons and slums
and crimes are normal symptoms of human lib
erty.
This missionaries" were, relatively, as unfit
for suffrage as the natives. They had learned to
think of themselves as wheat kernels in bins of
chaff, and before they had quite awakened to the
phenomenon that what seemed shucks to them
was grain, too, the political liquor dealer had pre-
empted the mill site.
1t is land of principle and of good department,
but the only conviction | could see that was red
hot and ready for the anvil was that the natives
are amiable, unstable and desperately in need of
temperance work. But the natives not only bear
the brunt of the liquor evil, they have the votes
by which to Danish it. The population of the
islands is about $4,000, of which there native
Hawaiians $4,000, white 13,O00 Chinese 10000,
Japanese $4,000 and few thousand negroes and
Porto Ricans. Of the orientals only those born
here are entitled to vote
I visited several conventions of native ministers
and found them very intelligent as to conditions
and very receptive as to ways and means. My
interpreter was the Rev. Stephen Desha, half
white grandson of the old governor of Kentucky
a man Of power in whose glorious eloquence my
small speeches became sheaves of thunderbolts,
whereat my pleasure was made humble and my
humility pleasant But the problem was to reach
the native. masses. Accordingly, at the time this
letter is written I am route around Robin
Hoods historic barn to the ballot box via the
school-house.
Armed with permission from the territorial SUI
perintendent of public instruction, have spent
eight days circumnavigating this island of Oahu
in road wagon, and speaking in every public
school on the island about how to mix drinks and
good gray matter to produce success in life
siasm and knew instantly when beginning to adj
dress them that the soil was ready to be sown
A few questions brought out clearly that the case
against the liquor traffic is made out in every
nook and corner of the country. Practically every
child who was old enough to understand was
keen to sign the pledge of total abstinence. But
l asked them to postpone the decision until they
had talked it over at home, when, if they wished,
they could write me a letter.
| go now to make similar tour of the other
islands. Then having met all the teachers and
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-01-02
I'm Far Sea Islands
BY JOHN G. WOOLLEY, LID.

month in tina ct
n
o with
WooLEYs
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-01-02
NEWLIN STARTS LONG TRIP

Business Mems Association of Indianapolis
Plans Wide Tour in Many States
INDIANAPOLIS, IND, December 3O.-(Special
correspondence 1.-The Business Mems Associa
ton of this city will start their secretary-treas-
urer, c. E. NEwL1N, on six weeks trip in the
interest of their work on January @ He will
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1908-11-10
Miss Benton Christens
Ship With Champagne
Protest Of North Dakota W. C. T. u Ignored BY Ship Build
ing Company and the Wine Is Used-nspring Scene
as Great Vessel Glded Into Weymouth Harbor.

bel Hubbard. Miss J. M. Walker, all
of Fargo.
Mrs. A. ". Page. B. F. Brockhoff. A.
S. Dinnie, W. H. McGraw, Pres. Web
ster Merrifield and wife, A. S. Burrows.
James Turner, sr.; F. G. Lang and wife,
Geo. e. Duis and wife, Geo. L. Coger
and wife, NJ r. Moran, A. p. Swenson
and wife, Ezra Andrus, John Dempsy,
Howard Monley, l.. Freeman, all OF
Grand Forks.
J. X. Swan and wife, Geo. w. Lynas
and wife, Fessenden: Charles Klaus,
Michael Murphy, Jamestown; A. r.
Coger and wife, W. D. McClintock and
daughter, Rugby: j. Fl. Terrett and
wife, Michigan; Charles M English
and wife, Niagara; Geo. J. Longfellow,
Buxton; J. r. Mayer, WalhalIa; HI. G.
Middaugh and wife, M. ]. Kelly and
wife, f. M. Cole and wife, Kenmare;
%. p. N. Anderson and wife, Stark
weather; Miss Edythe jerks, Arvilla;
Fl. j. Hanson, Litchville; r. A. Nc
Michael, LaMoure; J. e. McKone, Mi
not; Major Buttz. Buttzville; A. s.
Gibbens and wife, Cando; e. T.. Gil
bert and wife, Casselton; p. C. Dono-
van and wife, Neche; VIM Nelson,
Menoken; Charles r. Lyman and
daughter, st. John; James Buell.. La
kota; Alex Currie, Cando; Lee CoweIl,
Valley City: P. b. Cox. @. L. Bickford
Bowbells
Entered Water Like a Canoe.
Quincy, Mass. Nov. 10.--As easily
as a canoe In the hands OF an Indian
guide glides into the lake. the $4,000
tons OF iron and steel comprising the
hull of Americas greatest battleship
and her first all around big-gun naval
fighting machine, the North Dakota,
today slipped into the waters Of Wey-
mouth harbor.
Tugs Harness Floating Ship.
The battleship North Dakota today
slipped into the waters OF Weymouth
harbor without a tremor, as the last
one Of the supports were cut away and
the great bulk OF metal acquired MOI
tion. Each instant gave her greater
speed and In less than half q minute
her huge kettle had parted the river
surface and she was cutting her way
through wide sweep Of water towards
the farther shore. Four waiting tugs
ran up beside the ship and with cables
gradually overcame her momentum AS
soon ais she had stopped the little
craft began urging her towards the
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1908-11-10

When completed she will carry ten 12-
inch guns and 14-5 inch rapid firing
guns. In her secondary battery she
will have four 3-pound semi automatic.
two 3-inch field guns and two 30-cali-
bre automatic guns, In addition to
this she also has 21-inch submarine
torpedo tubes and is equipped with two
Of the new type military standing
abreast. The Curtis turbine engine
has been selected to furnish the power
taking less room than reciprocating
engines used on other United States
ships. 1t win require SIS officers and
s7s men to man the vessel. The total
cost to the Unitee States when COM
plet~a Will be about s7.ooo,0oo.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1908-11-10

form was decorated with fsss and
bunting.
Miss Benton the certssa vssu9e.
MISS Mary Benton, the gagss sor of
the now craft, was dsssssss6 IN a gown
of whiilA Shs wax .lic central figure
on the ffunching stesld. She was at
tended by Mrs. Alice Nelson Page of
Grand Forks, n. D., as ciaperone
Miss Benton carried bouquet of
American beauty roses
Invited guests besides the North DsL-1
kota party who occupied positions on
the launching platform were Comman-
der Rentzman, naval attache OF the
German embassy, Lieutenant Com
n1ander Raider De Aquino, Brazilian
naval attache; Commander Baron Won
Preuschen, Austrian naval attache:
Naval Constructor Elicit snow, u. S.
N; Charles SkentelberE, Hon VIM r.
Shea, Rear Admirak Swift, u. S. N;
Rear Admiral A. 81 Snow, u. S. NJ.
Captain and Mrs Thesis. II. S. N.
Launched 1t 1927.
Quincy, Mass Now 1o.--The battle-
ship North Dakota, tho first American
war vessel Of the Drkadnaught class,
was launched at the yard of the Fore
River Ship Building fCo., at Quincy
Point, today. The launching took
place at 1927 D. m.
Quincy, Mass, Now l0.--More than
10000 people, including the represen-
tatiyes Of two states land Of the ma
tional government. gathered at the
yards Of the Fore River Ship building
Co. today to witness the launching of
Americas most powerful sea- 1aghter.
North Dakota
Whilethe North Dakota follows near
ly a dozen great vessels launched at
the Fore River yards. her advent into
the sea today was regarded as estab-
fishing a new epoch in tps history Of
the q. 81 navy. because of her tre-
mendous strength. both On attack and
on defense. by additional thickness OF
her armor and BY the fact that she ii
the first all big gun ship Of the navy.
The Christening Party.
The christening party came on
special train from North Dakota, In
Guiding Gov. John Burke and Miss
Mary 4. Benton Of Fargo together with
q number Of officials aneA many ladies.
Arrangements for seeing the launch
ing We're ample. there being many van
tage points about the yard and along
the sides OF the river, which is quite
marrow. The guests of the gard came
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1908-11-10

AS the latest addition to Uncle Sans
lighting forces slipped into the water
Miss Mary 4. Benton Of Fargo viii
sponsored the new American Dread
nought
Miss Benton is the charming and cul-
tured daughter OF Col and Mrs. John
D. Benton. Colonel Benton is one Of
the prominent pioneers Of the state,
and IS at the present time member
sof Governor Burke's STAFF. Miss Ben
ton has been educated in this country
and abroad and has travelled consid-
erably. The last few years of her life
have been devoted to art. She Is very
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1908-11-10

ship-yard bank and In a short ttna
she was carefully berthed in a posi-
tion where she is to be tied In ths
further stage of her preparation f6g
her place in the national navy.
Dignitaries Witness Event.
A distinguished gathering of officials
from North Dakota, together with sew
eral representatives of Massachusetts,
naval officers and three foreign naval
attaches, viewed the launching.
The party arrived at Quincy on q
special train, which was run into she
ship-yard about an hour before the
time set for the North Dakota to enter
the water. A platform had been erect
ed at the bow Of the vessel and there
Governor Burke and Miss Mary L. BEN
ton, sponsor for the ship, together with
Francis Bowles, president OF the Fore
River company, took their stands.
inspected by Officials.
AS the noon whistles blew in the
yard, the workmen began to knock
away the supports. At 1927 p. m. the
last piece was cut, giving the vessel
motion. At that moment he-ribboned
bottle OF champagne was swung by
Miss Benton against the bow and she
said:
II christen thee North Dakota
While the vessel rested on the ways.
she was critically inspected by the gov
ernment officials, who looked her lines
over but did not enter the interior OF
the ship.
After the launching the invited
guests gathered in the great mold loft
OF the company, where luncheon was
served. Felicitous speeches were made
BY admiral Bowles and Governor
Burke.
Greatest ship IN the World.
Quincy, Mass, Nov. TO- When the
battIeship North Dakota eased down
the ways today at Quincy and launch
ed into good American waters, the
United States had afioat the greatest
lighting ship the world knows or has
ever known
This American Dreadnaughf, when
she has received the additional groom
ing due her after she is afioat, will be
bigger and sWifter and deadlier By far
than the British vessel that Inspired
her and viii be an Improvement on
that vessel BY SO many features OF
Yankee ingenuity that there VIII BE no
comparison between the two IN moth
&sfsxxf syassy4 ns4 ia eyn hTss&x
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1908-11-10
Immense Crowd Attends
Brilliant Launching
More Than 10000 People Saw the North Dakota Leave the
Ways and Dip Into the Sea- Mighty Cheers GO Up
as Fargo Girl Baptzes Gigantic Man-o-wA.

!
Boston. Mass. Nov. 10. With the
band playing The star spangled Ban
ner, cheers from thousand throats,
the waving of handkerchiefs and a
bedlum of whistles from many tugs.
& the battleship North Dakota. the
mightiest warship in the world. and
the first dreadnaught OF the United
States navy, was launched at 1921
! o'clock today at the yard OF the Fore
River Shipbuilding Co
The great battleship started down
the ways amid a breathless silence.
The bottle of champagne, red with silk
ribbons had been attached to the bow.
Rear Admiral Bowles. who had been
watching the preparations with the
trained eye of an expert of many
launchings, told Miss Mary Benton to
be ready. The huge hull began to
move Il christen thee North Dakota"
shouted the fair sponsor In loud. clear
tones. and smash went the bottle OF
champagne against the steel side of
the battleshiD.
A distinguished gathering or officials
of North Dakota, together with several
representatiy . of the state Of Massa- X
chusetts, naval officials and three for
eign naval attaches. saw the launch
ing.
While the vessel rested on the ways
she was critically inspected by the
government officials. but they did not
enter the interior OF the ship. After
the launching the party on the launch
ing stand proceeded to the mould loft
where they were entertained by the
Fore River Shipbuilding co. Luncheon
was served.
M. %. Party Arrives.
Gov. John Burke Of North Dakota,
and party OF forty-five representa-
tive men and women Of that state ar
rived in Boston at I o'clock this morn
ing. They breakfasted at the Hotel
yendome, after which they were taken
TO south Station and left on special
train for the Fore River Shipbuiiding
yards at 1915 o'clock.
Brig. Gen. w. B. Emery represent
Ing Governor Guild, Major Talbot al
drich and Major Philip s. Sears Of
Governor Guilds staff greeted the
North Dakota party and led the way
to the launching stand They were
met ty Rear Admiral Francis Fl.
BoNles. presidentssor sor the Fore River
Ehipbuiiding Co. Tho launching plat