The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-04-22

Probate Judge C. c. Schumpert is
absent from his office on account OF
sickness. He hopes to be back at work
in few days. In the meantime any
one wishing to transact business
through the probate judge will phone
Mr.. F. NJ. Schumpert.
1t invariably follows that if man
live solely for himself he becomes
miserable. Not that way does happi-
ness and cententment lie.-Orange-
burg Times and Democrat. This is a
truthful little paragraph for people
in Newberry as in every place.
If you dislike public man or pri-
vate citizen say nothing about him.
Silence is golden in such a case
Spartanburg Journal. If every one
would follow this excellent advice this
world would be more beautiful than
it is.
The Columbia Records Newberry
correspondent says the Venetian
scenes are especially beautiful at the
Newberry opera house. Manager
Wells has had Miss Jessie Art. of
Detroit, to put in and paint new
scenery, and she is an artist.
Now is a good time to begin clean
ing up the premises.-Winnsboro
News and Herald Any time, all the
time, is a good time. oYu don't have
to wait for cleanup week or set
day. Any day, every day is good day
for this duty
Old William Tremble Toe is said to
/ have been a mighty good fisherman
I Iaurensville Herald That has moth
| ing to do with Peter Rogers eating
fish and catching cells, has it? Well
excuse you on the ground that spring
has come and you feel the fishing
sensation tickling you.
1t doesn't do to take peoples word
for everything, but the reporter thinks
it safe to take somebody's word for it
that the new scenery at the opera
house put in by Manager Henry B.
Wells, is fine, beautiful and up-to-
date. "They say it is and we, who
have not seen it, believe it to be true.
1t makes the electric current run
through a fellow to read of fish fries
at Pocalla Springs and at other places
in the below country with such fish as
speckled trout, ball-faced Dream, yell
low perch, etc. 1t will not be long
now until you hear of some parties
going down.
Second place in the Southern Inter-
collegiate Oratorical contest in Co.
lumbia on May was won by Mr.. G. P.
Barre, of Newberry, representing the
University of South Carolina, which
was determined at preliminary in
Columbia on Friday night. Mr..
Barre's subject was, "Our Nations
Need
A circumstantial story is going the
rounds of the press about a leopard
having been killed in Horny county a
week or so back Droll, isn't it, how
some people don't know sightless ii
ger when they see one?-Georgetown
Times. Several people here say there
are a few of those sightless tigers in
Newberry.
Governor Cole l.. Blease made an
address last night to a gathering of
former slaves at Newberry, his old
home The old negroes gathered for
a banquet and were delighted when
the governor said he would make them
short address. He returned to Co.
| lumbia this morning.-Columbia cor.
News and Courier, 10Th.
The Shelley-Wheeler company has
been changed to the Wheeler-Lang-
ford company and capital stock in
creased from $4,000 to $4,000. This
is strong company and the members
of the firm are popular and successful
busir ess men, who, knowing how to
succeed, know how to make their place
of business a pleasant house to visit.
To the school boy or girl between
the ages of 10 and Is years who writes
the best composition on the repair and
maintenance of earth roads, gold
write