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The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-12-03
t. A. DOMINICK.

Mr.. T. A. Dominick has first class
general merchandise store on the pub
lie square, literally patronized by the
people of Prosperity and those who
come into the town to trade. He keeps
full line of dry goods, shoes and no.
tions, with fine line of staple and
fancy groceries. Mr.. Dominick was
raised in St. Luke's section and has
brought a large line of trade from
that section into Prosperity to swell
the general trade of the town He
was educated at Newberry college, and
has made use of his education in do
ing all that he could for the uplift
of the community around him. He
has given literally of his time and
means to public service, especially in
the matter of the development Of the
schools of the county. He takes an
active interest also in all church work
and in general public service. He has
been a number of years in business in
Prosperity and by mis- fair dealing
and unfailing courtesy to the trade he
has built his business up to be one
of the largest in the community. He
has a very attractive store. wei.
stocked with a large line Of standard
Goods, carefully selected, and po-
lite and efficient corns Of salpsmen
and salpswomen Mr.. Dominick is one
Of the influential men in the commu-
ritv and is always alive to things that
will make the DEVELOPMENT Of the sec
ton from which he draws his trade.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-12-03
NO SUCCESSFUL AGRICULTURE
WITHOUT LIVE STOCK
(By G.. Y. Hunter

The present method of farming in
Newberry county and throughout the
state is rapidly approaching a crisis,
and l believe an introspective view
sometimes will be helpful to every
body.
Are the farmers of Newberry county
achieving as much success in agri-
cultude as they ought to accomplish
in region as richly endowed by ma
ture with resources for the creation OF
wealth as any other known to man?
Frankly, in my opinion they have
failed to measure up to their oppor-
tunities. The present method of farm
ing, as is generally practiced, is a
rank failure because it mas been sys-
tematically mining the soil for fifty
years, that is, taking from the soil the
necessary plant food from year to year
without ever returning anything ex-
cept high-priced commercial fertilizer.
The story is told in one crop sys-
tenn of cotton, year after year, until
a productive soil has been starved into
an unproductive soil for the lack OF
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-12-03
THE BANK OF PROSPERITY.

The Bank of Prosperity wiS estaD-
lished to meet the growing needs OF
the community for increased banking
facilities, and it has mad very sue
cessful career. 1t was organized by
Mr.. A. G. Wise, one Of the greatest OF
Prosperity's boosters, who laid the
foundations of its success and man
aged it we'll until compelled by failing
health to resign, when DR.. George Y.
Hunter, one Of the most public spirit
ed and progressive men in the county,
was chosen to direct it. A recent
statement of the bank shows it's con-
dition to have been, in the midst of
the most stressful period of the war
depression: Loans and discounts,
$139,O62.46; total assets, s169,23220;
its capital stock is $4,000; surplus
and undivided profits, S9,167.81; depos-
it's, $127, 7,0230S DR.. Hunter, the pres
ident Of the bank, has been leader in
agricultural development in the coun-
try, he has done his full share in en-
couraging the work Of teaching farm
ers how to make the most of the oppor-
tunities, he has been for years at the
head of the Stock Breeders association
of the state. and has taken live and
active interest in the schools Of the
county and of his own town. He .s
a South Carolina college man, and
graduated in medicine ar Tulane p"i-
versity, New Orleans, and was a sue
cessful practitioner and friend of his
patients He has shown by his own
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-12-03
THE BLACK DRY GOODS co.

One Of the most attractive stores in
the county is. that OF the Black Dry
Goods Company. Mr. \. l. Black and
son have been in business in Pros
perity for about ten years and are
thoroughly identified with all of the
,ocal interests of the people. Mr..
Black came from Saluda county and
engaged in business here, quickly win
ning the confidence of the people of the
community, and bringing with him a
considerable volume of trade from the
section in which he was raised, for he
was highly regarded in SaIuda county
before he came to Prosperity. His
store is we'll stocked with carefully
selected line of up to date dress goods
He carries the very best lines of Ia
dies ready to wear, dress goods and
trimmings, notions and fancy goods.
He is a live merchant. carefully study
ing the interests of his customers,
buying the best that can be offered for
the dollar and promising no more than
be can justify, and then justifying all
that he has promised He believes in
advertising for expansion Of business
and health growth, and through judi
cious use of printers ink he mas large
y built up his trade in this section.
He is popular in town and county, and
takes a live interest in all public af-
fairs.
The Black Dry Goods Company,
which succeeded n l.. Black & Son,
handles the stetson hats, Bostoniall
shoes and all such standard lines OF
goods, and full stock of the very best
millinery, with an experienced artist
to serve the ladies of the community
in this line.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-12-03
THE PROSPERITY DRUG GO.

The Prosperity Drug Company is an
Up to date pharmacy, carrying : iuii
line of drugs and medicines, supplying
the trade in this section with all that
can be called for IN a first class drug
store. DR.. J. l. Bedenbaugh is the
manager of tie store He is pro-
gressive, live business man and keeps
pace with the progress Of his business
and profession. The prescription coun-
ter is in charge Of Dr. c. K. Wheeler,
a registered pharmacist and druggist
of experience He was raised in Pros
perity and has the confidence Of tne
people of the community in his work
His prescription counter is equipped
with all that the physicians call for in
their practice in this vicinity and he
is prompt in filing orders for his
patrons. "a u
In addition to the drugs and medi-
cines the Prosperity Drug Company
keeps full line of druggists sundries
and notions, writing paper and school
supplies, toilet articles for ladies and
gentlemen. The store is equipped with
first class soda fount and ice cream
parlor is a popular resort for the
young folk and for all who find good
concoction with carbonic gas refresh
ing during the days work The Pros
perity Drug Company has a popular
store and one where people are pleased
to trade, town folk and country patrons
alike are courteously treated and
promptly served by the polite and ef-
ficient force of statesmen.
Or Bedendaugh has won his bust
ness success largely through his own
hard work. He educated himself at
Newberry college and the Medical De-
partment of the University of Georgia.
He has been successful as practl'.
toner, and especially so in winning
the confidence and esteem Of the peo-
pie of his section.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-12-03
A Brief Sketch of the Grouth and Development
of One of the Brightest TotUns in Central
Carolina. Newbeny's Younger Sister.
Market TorOn for Large Country
Round About.

Prosperity? We can not tell you
why, or whether it has been the name
that made the town, or some underly-
ing spirit of the people that botn
made the town and suggested the
name, at all events it is Prosperity,
and it looks it's name This is a new
town, even as towns go in the interior
of South Carolina are counted. The
present elder generation remember
when Prosperity was not town, and
the site of the present town was a
hopeless prospect, as far as one could
see, with no natural advantages to
bring forth town, but good, live town
builders ask only enough soil to take
root in and they build town as one
would build a house, by putting the
material together that goes to make a
town.
The beginnings of business in this
community were centered in the poul-
try and egg business, and they evident
u had somewhere in the country round
about the goose that laid the golden
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-12-03

egg, and they have not killed it. as Is
told in the fable, because it continues
to lay the golden eggs for the people
ot the town and to1 t2a3S Prosperity.
For years this section, close to the
Dutch Fork country, where people did
not know any other way of living
than raising what they needed and
selling the surplus. was the center of
food production, and at time when
all the rest of the state was busy rails
ing cotton for their creditors the peo-
pie of Prosperity section were raising
chickens and eggs and grain and hogs
and their own horses and mules, their
cane syrup and putting up their fruits
and vegetbles for winter use, and they
were the creditors of the rest of the
county, and they believed in element
ary schools and in churches and they
were moral, sober, industrious peo-
pie. Maybe the goose that laid the
golden eggs is not so nard to find
after all.
Moseley Bros. represent one of the
cd original firms, which was Brown
& Moseley back in the time when only
the fathers of the present boys and
girls can remember. The names of
Birge, and Wise, and Hunter, and Bobb
are still names to conjure with, that
were we'll known in the older times
when business was just opening. There
are new names in the town, too, that
the town people and the people round
about through the country have learn
ed to know and respect and call their
own, because they have done mucn for
the town and they are strong and lusty
builders of Prosperity in two senses
Of the word.
Prosperity had a fire not long ago.
1t wiped out good portion Of the busi-
ness section, but getting knocked down
N always part Of the game and these
people have gotten together and they
are building up a better section than
they had before, nice, modern brick
buildings in place of the frame build
ings that formerly stood there. Among
them is to be handsome Masonic
building which will have lodge above
and a modern store beneath and that
building is now going up, as we'll as
others, and one nice brick store has
already been completed and is being
occupied by one of the live young
merchants.
Prosperity has one of the most COM
Portable and attractive school houses
ia the county, and one Of the best
schools Prof. j. S. Wheeler is the
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-12-03
nd Progressive Business Community
Center of Poultry Trade, Grain and Cotton

Efforts at building a school what can
be done in building up community
hrcugh really good school. He has
taken an active interest in the devel>
opment of the cotton manufacturing
business of the community, and holds
stock in several mills and is one OF
the directors of the Mollohon mills.
Mr.. J. F. Brown, the cashier, is an
acti. e, public spirited man, he began
mis- business life as telegraph operator
in Prosperity. He is now interested
in all the enterprises that go to the
building up Of the community and is
popular and highly esteemed through
the entire section.
The directors Of the bank are S. S.
Birge, \. L. Black, J. F. Browne DR..
Hunter P B. Warner, Dr.. J. S. Wheel
er, the vice president, and ]. E. Hunter.
Mr.. J. A. Counts, popular young man,
raised in Prosperity, is the assistant
cashier
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-12-03
Prosperity, S. &.
a,NOSELEY BROTHERS.

Moseley Brothers represent the old
est business firm in the community,
cne that existed even before there was
a town of Prosperity. The old firm Of
Brown & Moseley, and later Wheeler
& Moseley, used to do the banking
business for the people of this sec
ton before state banks became gen.
eral. The firm now is composed Of
lNr. W. A. Moseley. They have large
brick building on one Of the corners
of the public square, two great stores
and second story full of merchandise
Their stores are divided into one for
dry goods and one for groceries and
hardware. On the upper floor furni-
ture is kept In the dry goods de-
partment one may find the very latest
and most attractive stock of every
thing that can be had in any large
city store, ladies' and mems ready to
wear goods of the heighst class, as
well as the cheaper grades for rough
Use. And an up to date millinery de-
partment where all Of the fashions are
kept up with and the ladies of this sec
ton can feel assured that no more
stylish or better looking hats, dresses
or trimmings can be offered them.
In the grocery department there is
a.erything that the best markets OF
the world can offer, staple and fancy
goods, neathly and attractively dis
played, and kept fresh. A large gen.
eral line of hardware and supplies in
that line for home and farm are Of
fered the public. This firm has al
ways enjoyed a large and gratifying
trade through the three counties of
Newberry, Lexington and Saluda. They
bave the confidence of the people and
through their courteous treatment of
their trade they have continued to
build it year after year.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-12-03

advantages of the South, are proving
that the live stock industry yields
profit to the producers and state at
large, such as the South has never ex
perienced since it learned 10 depend
90 wholly upon the one crop-cotton
Every bank, every merchant, every
manufacturer and certainly eyer5
farmer throughout the county and
state ought to increasingly preach the
doctrine of more and better live stock
and whether cotton be 5 cents or 20
cents a pound, there ought never to
be a let-up in presenting this truth
until every farmer and every citizen
of whatever calling, mas won for him
self that success and freedom which
can come only in the long run to the
people who raise hogs, cattle and
horses, growing the food to feed them
on, thereby selling the surplus corn,
oats, hay and cotton seed meal through
the live stock. Thereby enriching the
land which will grow more productive
all the time and finally bring wealth
to the whole country.
The state will soon be infested with
the boil weevil, possibly ii Two years,
and when this pest is scattered over
the state the production Of cotton will
be curtailed far beyond the expectation
Of most people, and if the damage to
cotton production in this state will be
as great as it has been in Mississippi
and Louisiana, and there is no reason
why it won't be, for the soil and eli
mate are about the same, Newberry
county will grow under boil wevil con-
ditions from five to eight thousand
bales Of cotton in year, while the
average now is well above thirty thou
sand bales.
This fact, for it is fact, needs no
comment, for a new condition is
brought face to face to every citizen
of the county, be he banker, lawyer,
merchant, manufacturer, farmer OF
employe.
How shall this new condition be met
the answer is farm diversifcation and
the raising of live stock. The duty of
every citizen is plain.
What will the answer be? Time
alone will tell.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-12-03

superb to. dent, he resigned from the
position of county superintendent OF
education to take the school, and ne
has been very successful with it. The
building is commodious and handsonS,
large class rooms and auditorium, a
department for manual training and
for domestic science, as we'll as for
all the branches of "book learning.
and this school has made exhibits of
its work in these special branches
that has attracted most favorable at
4ention. The people Of Prosperity are
mighty proud Of this school and of
the teachers, and they ought to be.
The faculty is made up of Prof. Wheel
er, Mr.. Norman Wessinger, Miss Susie
Langford, Mrs. France Morris, Miss
Clara Brown, Miss Quenie Langford
and Miss Bessie Lee Gibson.
There are two good banks in Pros
perity, a large oil mill and ginnery,
owned by local capital; two cotton
gins, several active cotton buyers, a
dealers, several large stores that would
sales stables, dealers and breeders OF
live stock. Two produce commission
dea ers several large stores that would
do credit to any city, number OF
stores for all lines of supplies, dry
goods, hardware, farm implements,
drugs, furniture and everything that
the people of a town or rural commu-
My night want.
In the matter Of points Of interest
Prosperity presents an ancient burial
ground, now used as public cemetery,
where the old time people laid their
loved ones to rest, the graves therein
dating back to the colonial and revo-
lutionary pe!lod The story Of this
burial ground is an interesting one.
but il VIII come another time, it is
the city Of the live and progressive
that We are telling now.
The LutEerans of this section have
In Prosperity one of the most attract
i've cGurches to be found in the state,
zem c. architectural beauty. The
building cost something over $4,000,
buJ that ~ NO means represents its
real money value, even, as building.
1t is prettily situated and the grounds
and lawn around it are being con-
stanrly ilnprovet There are, besides
this church, houses of worship, neat
and attractive for the Baptists, the
Ne.no;t:sts anc the PresbJEErians of
the a. r. P. persuasion, and the Epis-
copalians holG more or less regular
services III the community.
In lodges there are the Masons, now
erecting : s. 00t hall, the Knights Of
Fyth'as. the Red Med and the Wood
nlen of the World. These lodges are
strong and active in the community,
doing good work among the business
MN and the farmers living round
about.
Prosperity las good water and lights
for & small town, and the people are
moving fo~ better system of water,
fire deparrme ent and for electric light
and power. They have good streets
and the town is in good condition, with
mayor who is doing faithful work for
them and in whom they have abundant
confidence
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-12-03
e.. #. WYCHE,

DR.. C. T. Wyche has the old reliable
drug store of Prosperity. He has been
in business here for number of years,
and has always enjoyed the fullest con-
fidence of the people. This mas been
shown by the number Of times, even in
changing political epochs, that DR.
Wyche has been chosen to represen1
the people of Newberry in the legisla-
ture. He has been family physician
for most of the people in this neigh
borhood for years and has worked
faithfully and we'll with them in their
Joys and in their bereayements. He
belongs to them, and they are fond OF
him. DR.. Wyche has been for several
terms one Of the most influential and
hardest working members Of the leg
islature prominent especially in educa-
tional work He was speaker pro TEN
Of the house for a long time, and 3
prominent candidate for election as
speake: when he was stricken with
partial paralysis while presiding over
that body. Dr. Wycne has as his
pharmacist the we'll known DR.. ]. A.
Simpson, one of the most popular men
in this section, for forty years a drug
gist. Dr. Simpson manages the drug
store and keeps the stock we'll up with
the demands of the day and the prog
ress of medical science. He keeps a
full line of all drugs and medicine,
druggists novelties and notions, sta
tionery and school supplies and every
thing that one might expect in a first
class, UP to date drug store.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-12-03
GROWTH OF TOMATO CLUBS.
miss Willie Mae Wise.

One of the .'Ten Commandments OF
| Agriculture" laid down by the late DR..
| S. A. Knapp was this: Produce and
keep all the feed required for man ane
ANIMALS on the farm The home DEM
onstration work seeks to reach and
teach the girls and wife of the farmer.
The first clubs were organized in
South Carolina and Virginia in 1910.
It. was decided that one-tenth of an
acre would be enough for garden
and that the clubs specialize on the
tomato, thereby receiving the name Of
Tomato Clubs" At the work grew,
there was a growing demand along the
! lire of pick ing, preserving and oth@
canning. Consequently the work among
the girls has broadened, embracing
cultivation and canning Of tomatoes
beans Estate vegetable), county wege-
table Ito be selected by each county,
and all farm AMI. orchard products.
Newberry county has had the or
ganized work for two years. During
the past year there were clubs in the
following communities: O'Neall, ST.
Luke's, Fairview, Hartford, Johnstone,
Mt. Pilgrim, Pomaria, Prosperity, Sill
verstreet, Old Town and Hunter-De-
Walt, with an enrolment of so girls.
From accurate records kept by girls
the following goods were canned: To-
matoes, 10000; beans, 1000; fruit
(tin), 1900; glass jars, 5000; estimat-
ed at a value Of $4,000.
The ideal home has stood out as the
highest round in the ladder toward
which our work is leading. We know
of nothing that will help to bring about
an ideal home than to place the sub
ject of food upon a practical, scien-
tifc and economical basis. Hence the
Bread club work was introduced
among our girls. Three bread clubs
were organized last spring and some
Of the rural schools will put in domes-
tic science equipment to make the
work more beneficial and interesting.
AS a result of the successful work
among the girls the women asked for
organization. Home demonstration
clubs among the women are now being
organized with the following purposes:
l. To give knowledge which will help
to make:
a. Some of the burdens of home max
ing lighter.
b. Stronger, more nealthful people.
c. Homes more satisfactory.
2. To create an opportunity for ex-
change of ideas and discussion of home
problems
3. To furnish place of meeting for
social getting together of the neigh
borhood
4. To develop leadership.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-12-03

If we may credit the inscription in
Westminster Abbey, where he was
buried, Thomas Parr, a native of
Shropshire, who died in 1885, attained
the age of 152.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-12-03
Badly Aimed.

Blank always hits the nail on the
head.
Yes, but he usually drives it into the
wrong place.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-12-03

wonder why there are so few wo-
men architects?
Perhaps women. are afraid they
might be called designing creatures.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-12-03

Have you ever thought seriously of
marriage, sir?
Indeed l nave, ever since the cere-
mOny.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-12-03

The imprudent man reflects on what
he has said and the prudent man on
what he is going to say.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-12-03

What's the matter? Having trouble
with your car!
Not at all. just crawled under
here to play game of solitaire.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-12-03

egg, and they have not killed it, as is
told in the fable, because it continues
to lay the golden eggs for the people
oc the town and f0zr t@a3S Prosperity.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-02-05
ANNUAL Meeting
|. Of ANTI,SALOON
LEAGUE FEB. 26
Rev. P. A. Baker, National Sup
erintendent, viii Open the
Three-Day Convention

DR.. ]. w. Wadman and his co-work-
ers now are busily engaged in pre-
pairing plans for a convention to be
held February 26, %. 2s in the IA.
waiahao church by the AnttSaloon
League of Hawaii on its new and
broader territorial basis.
Delegates will be elected by all
churches and missions throughout the
islands and are expected to be pres
ent at this conference when measures
viii be considered and plans made for
more extensive work during the
year, under the auspices OF the league
An interesting feature in connection
with this conference will be the pres
enee OF Rev. Purley A. Baker Of Ohio.
national superintendent Dr. Baker Is
a national figure. He is the leader of
the forces cooperating to secure ma
tional prohibition for the United
States. He is gifted with unusual adj
ministratiye ability and is q platform
speaker Of national note DR. Doremus
Scudder has invited Dr. Baker to speak
in Central Union church on the morn.
ing Of February %, and on the evening
OF that day a nassmeeting win be held
in the opera house and addresses Civ
en- by DR.. Baker and other speakers
of local prominence.