The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-03-20
VARIOUS AND ALL ABOUT.

The high wind of Sunday blew
sparks in Easley from fire and
caused the destruction Of the slU,-
600 Baptist church in that town.
This was sad news to the Rev. E. v.
Babb, who was formerly pastor oI
the church. There is an insurance OF
$4,000 on the property.
In it's account Of the meeting of
the department of English teachers
OF the State Teachers association III
Columbia last Thursday, The State
contained the following: y. P. Kin
ard spoke on the material equipment
for teaching English. He made seV-
eral practical suggestions making 10.
greater economy and efficiency In the
teaching of English and discouraged
the excessive use of red ink"
The Head Camp convention OF the
iNoodman of the World, jurisdiction
of South Carolina, will be held i'll
Greenwood Tuesday and Wednesday
There will be about a thousand dele
gates in attendance. Those from this
county are as follows: W. H. Har-
deman and A. vigodsky from New
berry camp, No. 542; NJ. A. Attawas,
Oakland camp, No. 694; J. H. Baxter,
Maple camp, No. AL. F. H. Camp
sen of Newberry camp, will also at
tend.
TIE case against General Floyd foc
cruelty to animals, mentioned in the
last issue Of The Herald and News.
was disposed of by Magistrate c. ".
Douglas Monday afternoon. Floyu,
guilty, was sentenced to pay fine OF
SIS or serve 80 days. The fine was
paid. Magistrate Douglas was induc-
ed to deal leniently with the culpri.
upon promises by the man for whom
Floyd works that he would be mace
to feed the mule and take good care
Of it and treat it right.
The United States Army recruiting
officer at Savannah, Ca, writing from
the recruiting station in that city
to Postmaster W. A. Hill, says: "You>
are doing splendidly and having ex-
cellent results as an army recruit
ing agent, and it is certain you will
have further success Those are
fine words spoken of Mr. Hill and his
good work shows that he deserves
them. If there are any other young
men who may wish to join the army
the chance is open to them now. Mr.
Hill can procure you for enlistment
right away II you so desire.
Wednesday will be the 21st Of
March. For the information of peo-
pie who forget from one year to an
other We will state that, borrowing
from Webster, Easter is always the
first Sunday after the full moon that
falls on or next after the 2lst OF
March. If the full moon happens on
Sunday, Easter Is celebrated one week
later. The full moon is ;. ascertained
according to certain calendar rules
look up the calendar, and
see the full moon when it falls. after
Wednesday, and then get ready for
Easter. = E.tc -,
DR.. D. D. wallace is running an in
teresting department In the South
ern Christian Advocate under the
caption, The Times A Boston,
Mass, man tries to be funny when
he says Dr.. Wallace's caption should
read THE London Times or 'The
New York Times" The opinions Of
DR.. Wallace. have weight in South
Carolina. Only last week the Char
lesion News and Courier, having oc-
"a sion to mention him smoke of hin,
as having IAN enviable reputation.
both from the standpoint of thought
as well as personality as platform.
speaker" We prefer to accept the
News and Courier's estimate of Prot.
Wallace, from the standpoint Of
thought" rather than the opinion OF
the Boston man On "The Times
whether 1t be london, New York or
just plain Times.