The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1909-01-19
was the grocery store Of ". 6. Mayes
and the old Thespian hall.

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On Law Range, on the corner where
E. r. Hipp now is, S. 7. Agnew con-
Quoted general merehanise store
tile only store on that block. Then
came the Newberry bank. B. D. Boyd
president. and then the law Offices Of
l.. J. Jones. y. c. darlington and {.
II. Suber, Simeon Fair and J. Elvln
KnutS, James D. Nance and VIM. D.
Rutherford, James NJ Baxter, james
H. Williams. Above the office Of
Darlington and Suber was the Con-
servatist, one Of the newspapers of
the town at that time.
Starting at the store occupied ~
Summer Bros. as a clothing store, at
the corner Of Main and Caldwell
streets. facing Main and going down
Main street towards the depot. Sum-
mer Bros corner was occupied by
the store Of Robert Stewart and
branch Of the old State bank. NeSr
was ". H. Hunt, who dealt in cotton
and groceries; then Henry II.
Blease's harness and tin shop; then
Adam. Riser, tailor shop: then a bar
ber shop: then Rodlesperger & Horns
by's shoe shop. and then julius
Smiths tupper house, on the corner.
Across Nance street, still going down
Main. law office stood where Mayes'
drug store now stands; then was
James Grants bar room, and the next
store was occupied by Jews. Over
this latter store was the law office
Of Henry Summer.
Starting at the depot, and coming
up Main street,. the first place Of
business was Martin Harris shop;
then Vince Pope's hotel; then two
stores. one occupied by Horton Mar
shall and the next by first one and
then another. Horton Marshall later
moved and the store vacated by him
was conducted as candy store by a
Frenchman. Across the street, where
stood the plant Of the Carolina Manu-
featuring company, before it Was
burned, was the old Pratt spring and
some stables, and where the building
stands which was occupied by Dean s
Furniture Store at the time part OF
his stock was recently destroyed by
fire, now occupied by Boozer Bros.
restaurant, was the place Of business
of Whitfield Walker, who dealt IN
cotton and groceries.
It was about this time-about the
time of the erection of the present
old. court house-that the old, rock
Jail. which stood where the Confeder-
ate monument now stands-was torn
down. The Herald and News ex-
poets in a future issue to give some
reeollections of the old rock jail.
The physicians were Drs. 0. B.
MAYER. Thomas Thompson, P. B.
Ruff and David E. Ewart.
In 1855 Thos. P. Slider began the
publication Of the Rising Sun, of
which The Herald and News is the
successor, and the files Of which are
now in The Herald and News Office.
In 1856 the Newberry Mirror, the
successor of the Newberrian, passed
into the hands Of VIM. F. Nance and
Jno. c.. McLemore, and the name of
the paper changed to the Conserva-
tist. 1t afterwards passed into the
possession. of James D. Nance and
Silas Johnstone. The Sentinel, New
berry's first paper, had been started
in 1919 by James H. Giles, with A.
c. Darlington as associate editor dur
ing the last two years he published
the paper. 1t was afterwards sold to
James VI. CroSson and Thos. P. Slid
er, who disposed Of it to Jos. S. Reid,
then publishing the Weekly Newber-
rian. started in 1852. 1r. Reid dis
continued the Sentinel in 1853 and
changed the Newberrian to the Mir
ror. In 1854 the Mirror was made a
tri-weekly, and year afterwards
Gen. 4. C. Darlington was associate
editor. In 1856 the Mirror was sold
to Messrs. Nance and McLemore, as
stated above.
In 1856 Rev. William Berly was
pastor Of the Lutheran church, and
later Drs. Stork and Brown, OF the
college, served the church. Rev. n.
L. Murphy was pastor of the A. K. r.
church. The Rev. A. D. Montgomery
was pastor Of Aveleigh Presbyterian
church. The Baptist church was serv-
ed by DR.. J. j. Brantle,y. and the
Methodist bv the Rev. ". A. Nc