The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1916-01-11

sent her.
The Rev. W. R. Bouknight lost
very fine horse on Monday morning.
He valued the horse at 1925.
Newberry's artesiain water is cold
and clear. So was the weather last
Sunday.
A simple guy asked the new bus man
how much it cost 10 ride in the jitney
bus
The members of the Newberry dele
gaticn have gone to Columbia for the
legislative session.
AS soon as the great European strike
is o.er no doubt the men will go back
to work
Sergeant-at-arms J. Fred Schumpert
of the senate has the chamber ready
for the senators. He says the new
rostrum is beauty.
One writer puts it, GA settled coun-
try tnat isn't worth good road and
good school isn't worth living in"
: There is no getting away from the fact.
Do you believe in signs? If your
paper stops coming to your home, 1t
! is sign that your subscription has
expired
Roll on thou dark and deep blue
ocean roll,
41,o,,-o,,I r,,b,,, -innc NAV Sween
thy crest for us.
Leslie's moving picture show IN
Caldwell street has opened up with
good pictures and fourishing busi-
ness.
The jitney bus has come and is do
irg good business. Now give us jitney
movies and jitney grocery store
these three, and the peoples happi-
ness will be complete.
The temperature last Friday morn
ing dropped so far and so rapidly that
the friction caused by the swift drop
ping of the mercury burned out sew
eral thermometers in Newberry.
There are seven passenger trains
through Newberry on Sundays, yet it
is impossible to go to Columbia on
Sunday and return on the same day
by rail. But then, who wants to go
to Columbia?
Mr.. David Cook of near Prosperity
will erect fine dwelling on his farm
as soon as the lumber can be sawed.
i Mr.. G. W. Kinard's saw mill has been
moved there sor the purpose Of saving
the lumber.
The parent teachers association OF
Boundary Street school will be held
Wednesday afternoon at 4 O'Clock,
Prof. A. Keiser will address the as
sociation. Every mother is expected
to prove her interest by being pres
ent.
Miss Ida B.. Neal, who will be pleas
antly remember as member OF the
Office force at the summer school, Aas
accepted a position as secretary to
Miss Frayser Miss Neal is a sister
of Georgia Neal of the class OF 1913,
and who is now teaching in Statesboro,
Ga.-Winthrop Weekly.
Hon. B. V. Chapman says he Will
introduce a bill in the legislature to-
compel all old bachelors to get mar
ried imediately or go to the electric
chair. Provided tnat members of the
legislature from Newberry county
who are bachelors are exempt from
this law.
! Sheriff Blease arrested a man named
C. G. Corley of near Holly Ferry, sa-
luda county, for rather unusual Of
Tense The man was selling, or at
tempting to sell a recipe for making
booze at a very low cost. He had a
quantity of alcohol in his pocket, which
is used as one of the ingredients in
this unique compound.
Mr.. B. B. Reid's portable museum
contains another relic not mentioned
I in our last account. 1t is a paper
ten cent or "shin plaster" as they
were sometimes called. 1t is about
three inches long and two inches wide.
One side is blank and on the other
side there is the picture Of two cubes
representing China tea and barrel
lying on its side. The inscription runs
thus. P. CantweIl will pay the bearer
ten cents on demand in correct funds
P. Cantwell, Columbia, S. c., June,
1862.
The auto transfers should not de-
spair. There is profitable field open
for the man with the energy and the
will. Put on transfer line from New
berry to Saluda court house and re-
turn the same day. Two cars would
make it possible to visit each county
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