The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-05-03
THE NEWS OF PROSPERITY.
The City Has Three Important Events
ALI at Once-AI Sue.
cessfuL

Prosperity, May 2.-Prosperity has
been in gala attire for the past three
days. Our homes and streets have
been filled of strangers and our
hearts with gladness and hospitality
and our minds with host OF
thoughts worth the storing. Today
the white heat Of excitement has fad
ed to the roseate hue Of remembered
joys and we are resuming the normal
and finding time to tell our friends
what pleasures have been ours re-
Gently.
On Friday at the twilight hour
parents and friends and children be-
gan gathering at the auditorium in
order to hear DR.. Cromer's address
and incidentally to learn who the
successful contentants for the med
ais were.
The school sang many bright, glad
some, appropriate songs which were
greatly enjoyed by all the listeners.
The primary prize was awarded to
Master Corday Counts. Honorable
mention being made Of Nellie Wise,
Grady Bedenbaugh and Bertie Saner.
The intermediate meadl was given to
Susan Quattlebaum. Caro- Wyche and
Grace Sease were also excellent run
ners in this race. The grammar
grades medal was won by Ruby
Wheeler, with Susie Langford and
Mary DeWalt Hunter as close sec
onds. The high school medal for
scholarship was very creditably won
by Miss Grace Burton Reagin. The
essay medal given to the ninth grade
for excellence in this respect was
won by Miss Eun:c" 'healey. The
presentations. of these s1Jtimonials Of
hard work were made by DR.. |Crom-,
er, Superintendent j. S. Wheeler, DR..
Wyche, Rev. Mr.. Morris, Rev. Mr..
Kreps.
When DR.. Cromer comes to Pros
perity, to use the words of DR.. Hunter
in introducing him, prosperity de-
lights to honor him." He is SO well
and favorably known as a man and
also as a speaker that no heralds-
no glaring posters are necessary to
secure for him full house. Indeed,
he always comes so brim full Of in
teresting information, anecdote, Illus
tration and quotation that we wish
his coming were not such a semi
occasional happening. His timaly
subject was ..'Thoroughness." H.
gave excellent advice to parents,
teachers, patrons, pupils, trustees and
all parties interested in the public
welfare and future of this common
wealth. He plead for good, thorough
foundation along character and edu-
cational lines and a better, under
standing of the common, every. day
objects with which we are so famil-
lar, but about which we know so lit
tie. He advocated the training of
eye-gate and heart-gate and all the
other gates that tend towards the de-
velopment Of well rounded, right
hearted men and women.
At the close of the exercises Dr..
Hunter announced that, the same
number of medals would be given
next year, with several = additions,
may be, and that school would begin
next September at the regular time.
He also stated that this closed one
of the most successful, harmonious
years in the schools history.
The K. of P. convention was a
great success. 1t seems that the
pleasure was not all ours, for the
delegates were as much pleased with
Prosperity as Prosperity was charm
ed with them. A certain gentleman
in high fraternal and literary circles
said that without infringing ever so
little upon the domain Of f1attery, he
could say that this was one OF the
most cultivated, most enlightened,
and altogether desirable towns he
has ever visited.
On Saturday routine work prin-
cipally was transacted at the two
meetings. We shall not report these
at length-not because we are not
initiated (?) or a goat-rider 90
but because we don't want to tell any
tales out of school.
In the evening at the auditorium
three well-worth- going-a-long-dis-
tance-to-hear talks were made by
Messrs. A. NJ. Deal, of Columbia; c.
D. Brown, of Abbeville, and Prof.
Rembert, of Spartanburg. This gift