The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-12-12

attribute it. to jealousy.-Orangeburg
Times and Democrat Nothing else,
and little of that is here.
Our usual luck! We once had a
'possum but no sweet potatoes. Now
we own peck Of yellow yams, but
no 'possum.-Greenville News. You
are not the only one.
Speaking of preferential presiden-
tial matters, of course there are some
people who would rather vote for
president direct through the pri-
maries
Mr.. P. F. Baxter has gone to Mount
Vile to begin work on that $4,000
school building-$80,OOO as the types
once had it and some people believ-
ed it, while somewhat hstonisaed.
Nearly all the papers are having
something to say about carnivals ex-
hibiting in various parts Of the State.
The best carnival on the road las
been granted permission by city coun-
Gil to be here early in February.
"They say" the vaudeville brought
here this week was some of Manager
Wells best securings. Whenever the
reporter can't vouch knowledge he
falls back on old "They say as per-
fectly reliable authority.
Each individual in the United States
is theoretically % cents richer this
year, than last, according to the an
nual report of the comptroller of the
currency.-Being rich theoretically is
very unsatisfactory.
Just one thing after another in
Greenville! ThanksgiVing's hardly
out of sight-and yonder is Christ
mas right ahead in the bend of the
road.-Greenville News. Sounds like
Herald and News talk We know be-
cause we are familiar with it.
twenty-five thousand miles of mo-
tion-picture films, enough to stretch
around the globe at the Equator, will !
be the export record of the United
States in the calendar year 1913. This
is something to think about in New
berry
A diphtheria epidemic in sufield,
Conn, is attributed to public-school
pupils biting lead-pencils which were
distributed each day. We have al
ways thought that the practice of
changing pencils among pupils was a
bad one.-If this practice is done in
Newberry cut it out.
The latest joke Of the season is
the announcement of the New York
police that they propose to enforce
the law against speeding automo-
biles.-Anderson Mail. 1t must be a
joke in Anderson or the Mail wouldn't
have said that. How about it in New
berry? It's joke here.
Buy some Red Cross seals. They
don't cost much, and the money spent
that way will do some real good. Most
CT as throw away good deal of
money in various ways from time to
time, and we should not mind spend
ing "a little occasionally for good
purpose.-Anderson Mail. This is
good advice which we hope will be
taken everywhere.
Sometimes the reporter forgets a
personal or other item; then again,
occasionally, if he waits two or three
days to write it, he can't make it out
from his note book. This is no joke,
is not intended as such; it is an ae-
tuality. alt actual Teaiity-you call
it lapsus something. C. B. Martin
heads the class that can verify this
and tell what 'tis.
When DR.. w. E. Pelham, ST., with
drew from the drugstore business he
started a change of movement along
the line, DR.. J. e. Stokes resigned
from Glider and Weeks to go into tle
store successor 10 w. E. Pelham and
Son, DR.. Geo. K Hutchinson with
drew from DR.. P. E. Ways to fill the
vacancy at Glider and Weeks and DR..