The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-09-18
HARTNELL ". AYE4
EXPIRES SUDDENLY

tAFlRES SCUDESAA
T;ell knowA Newspaper Editor Dies
While Sitting in Chair Before
fire-.ysst Home Prom Oh
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News ard Courier.
E:crs nee. Sept. 13.-It was se-
we're shock 10 all Florence tonight
w',9n the sad news passed out from
the :.ome CT Eariwell Moore AVER,
editor OF the Florence Daily Times.
tha: tn. summons had come to hia
suddenly and without a moments
warning. TO lay down his pen ror-
ever. and to come up higher anc rest
from his labors. Mr. Aver had bee1
at his Office all day in connection
with his duties as editor and pup
Usher CT his paper, and hai only
reached home a few moments prior 10
he'OS StflCheu. ne i~Lu oooii ii
lated yesterday against typhoid, anu
his devoted wife had just asked no"
the treatment was serving him. He
attempted to reply. and in a nal1-oaz-
Cd manner dropped over in the chal''
in which he sat beside the fire ana
without he;ne able 20 speak more,
passed away.
HIS Newspaper Career
Hartvell Moore Aver was son OF
the late Gen. Lewis Malone AVER ot
old Rarnwell County. He was porn
IN January. 1868. and was. therefore,
eortv-nine wears old last January. He
was educated in the common scnoolS
- Rarnyell County and under tne
tutorship of his learned fatneF'
He attended the South Carollha
College from which he graduated IN
tbo class OF 1887. He later went IN
TO newspaper work, and for a time
was connected with the Charleston
World. later with The News anu
ronriar ana then. coming to Florence,
nur.hased the old Florence Times
from DR.. C. H. Prince, the then own
or ue continued the 7ub';cation or
his paper for several years untll ~
oro, :.ad and became the founder o.
the present Charleston Evening ros''
Later he returned to Florence ana
resumed the editorship OF the Flor-
apce Times and the Florence Daily
Times. He built wha: Is known as
the Tines building in West Evans
street which be recently sold to j.
~ o.Dowd. He was widely known
as an enthusiastic newspaper maa
and loved his work. He was devoted
to his family and to Florence, Ms
adopted hone.
Active fn Many Ways
a.r. Aver was great lover OF the
military, and was for time cap
tain OF the Calhoun Light Infantry,
the local military oragnfzation. he
believed in education and was a work
ar N all branches that tended thas
vav. He was a member OF the FIor-
ence City School Board OF Commls-
sioners and has done valued service.
1Ia served Florence county as a mem
Der OF the Legislature Of l9Os-19lz
and was a faithful representative OF
1be ueople. He was married to Miss
Cornelia walter Smith, Of Charleston
and to this union seven children were
horn hye OF whom, with Mrs. aver,
euryiye. as follows: Misses EllzaDetn,
Carnelia and Werner Aver. OF Flor-
enca: Mr.. Banks Aver, OF Pensacola
Fla. who is in the aviation corps, and
Master Lewis Aver, of this city. BE-
sides chese Mr.. Aver is survived Dy
his mother, new Mrs. J. W. Hamilton,
Of st. Paul, Mimi, and two sisters.
Mrs. J. R. Vandiver, Of Anderson, and
Mrs. Knut Okerberg, Of Munich, Ger
many
Funeral Saturday
AS yet the hour for the funeral
services has not been announced, Due
It viii be he'd at st. Johns Epis-
copal Church, of which Mr.. Aver was
a member and Vestryman, on Satur-
day morning, September Is, and the
interment will be at Mount Hope
Cemetery.
For several years Mr.. Aver had
been the Florence corr 6"'c0d"nt 80:
the Columbia State, and filed the du.
ties TO the satisfaction OF that paper.
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