The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-09-30
VARIOUS AND ALL ABOUT.

Every body go to the circus toda!
and enjoy yourself.
There has been a rise in the price
Of cotton at Newberry market.
People are admiring the fine auto
mobile bought by Col. Purcell.
Lena Rivers at the opera hous'
Thursday night. All who have reat
the story know that it is fine.
Crowds of students for NeWberr!
college have been arriving daily fol
several days.
Carrie Maffett, a colored woman
who lived on Mr. NJ. l.. Dickert's place
dropped dead Tuesday morning a
7.30 o'clock.
The public cannot expect the opera
house managers to bring good show;
here unless the people patronize tht
entertainments. Wake up, Rip Var
Wrinkles.
The Starkey players will present
"The Man and the Brute Friday night
Beyond Pardon Saturday Afternoon
matinee, and Tempest and Sunshine
Saturday night.
Where the circus will exhibit de-
pends on the weather. If fair the
show is to be held in the bottoms, il
foul it will he pulled off in rear of DR.
elders residence.
The election commissioners fol
NeWberry county are as follows
State-G. G. Sale, J. C. Gary, M. M
Boozer. Federal-J. B. Derrick, J. B
Hunter, ". H. Sanders.
The farmers are getting monej
for their cotton and cotton seed in
Newberry. Continue bringing the pro-
ducts to this market, where you gel
good treatment all the year round, MOI
spasmodically.
The convicted blind tiger, D. B.
Thompson, mentioned in last issue as
having been sentenced by Mayor
Blease to pay $3.50, serve term on
the gang or leave town never to re-
turn, decided to take the latter course
Since the government and Mr.. G. B.
Boozer have become so active in the
cattle tick business our merchants
have been receiving larger supplies o!
tics and their lines Of domestics are
finer than heretofore has been the
case.
Chief of Police C. W. Bishop got a
phone message Wednesday to go to
the country and arrest a negro chick
en- thief. The chief went and arrest
ed him, but turned him over to the
trial justice as no town case could be
made Of it.
This is circus day. Take your chill
dren to see the animals and the show.
Everybody cordially invited to do so.
If you have no children of your own
take somebody's children. Make the
children happy and remember you
were once a child yourself, crazy to
go.
President I. H. Hunt of the cham
Der of commerce has appointed DR..
Jas. Mcintosh, and Messrs. Nat Gist
and W. H. Wallace to represent the
Newberry chamber of commerce at the
Southern Conservation congress to be
held in Atlanta, Ca, on be 7th and
Sth of October.
The fire horses, Frank and Cole,
were out on a trial test Tuesday aft
ernoon. The way they pulled the hose
wagon through Caldwell street by The
Herald and News Office was enou2
to make glad the hearts of all true
fremen, from Wells, Wright, and
Swittenberg down to Carl Epting and
the devil in The Hell and News office.
But those horses ran some. They are
all right. A new expression for run
ming will have to be originated. Burn
ing the wind" doesn't express it for
Frank and Cole.
Bob Poterfeld has opened a. restau-
rant in McKibben street. Bob is look
ing we'll since his recent retirement
from business and his rest from the
cares incident to strenuous life. It
is to be hoped that Robert, the former
blind tiger king of Newberry, the
Vincent Chicco Of the town, will dis
appoint many people by running
strictly a restaurant. Only that and
nothing more. The former king Of
blind tigers has had a busy life in the