The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-05-08
VARIOUS AND ALL ABOUT.

VARIOUS AND ALL ABOUT.
The Newberry Pastoral association
will meet in the Newberry college Ii
brary building Tuesday at 10:30 a. m
Eight liquor permits have been is
sued by Probate Judge Ewart tt
whites, and five to colored.
The Rev. H. W. Stone, on Saturday
performed the marriage ceremony fol
Miss Onie Mack and Mr.. John Shealy
both of West End.
A granite monument at the grave
of Myrtle, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Geo. p. Boozer, was erected in the
Smyrna cemetery by P. F. Baxter ano
Son last Saturday.
There was only one sale by the
master on Monday, the National Bans
Of Newberry against Bealah A. Smith
and others, the Kennerly place tc
the bank for $4,000.
1t is reported that National
guardsman exchanged shots Sunday
night with some unknown person al
the trestle of the Southern Railway
near the union station.
Mothers Day will be observed with
appropriate exercises by the Sunday
school at Tranwood school house on
Sunday May 13 at p. m. The public
is cordially invited.
By the time the producer, the mid
dleman and the retailer get through,
about the only thing left for the con-
sumer is the bill.-Saluda Standard
Then you said something.
The Columbia State of Monday car
ried a story of the capture Saturday
of a German vagrant at Bethume by
a squad from Company K. In the
capturing squad was Sergeant Guy
Brown.
Messrs. Robert Gist, Richard Floyd,
Silas Klettner, Metts Fant, and Dave
Caldwell, who went to JonesVille
Monday to stand examination for the
coast artillery, passed and will serve
their country in that company.
Probate Judge Ewart performed a
marriage ceremony at his Office Sat
urday afternoon at lis o'clock, join
ing a colored couple, Sarah Spear
man and Lewis Rhodes, both from
the Silverstreet settlement.
That is a good piece we copy from
the Anderson Mail on shopping early.
World Faces Shortage of Food That
Means Famine, was the startling
headline in a last weeks daily news
paper. Newberry is awakening and
getting alive to the situation.
The scholastic year having been
brought to an end at Hartford school,
there will be a picnic at the school,
house on May 12. The public is in
yited. This school has been taught
by Misses Annie Faris and Cleone
Hayes the past year.
James Smith, the colored chairman
of the Trinity district, has called a
meeting of his people to be held at
Trinity church Thursday afternoon
at four o'clock, to engage in the
discussion of food preparation. There
will be addresses by white and color
ed speakers.
The Clinton Gazette says that eV-
cry family in town should raise at
least one four hundred pound porker
by fall, and the Bennettsville Advo-
cate says the ordinance should be
amended so as to allow hogs Kept
under certain conditions and restric-
tions.
Then followed most admirable talks
by Rev. T. l.. Pressly of Woodruf1,
Rer. ]. w. Carson of Newberry and
Miss Bessie Bryd of Ora.-From Lau-
rensville Herald's account of the
meeting last week Of the district con-
vention of the Young Peoples Chris
tian Union,
The saluda Standard gives good
advice in this paragraph: There Is
one patriotic thing we can all do.
That is to buy at home and keep our
money in circulation at home as
much as possible. And the local deal
er can demonstrate his own patriot
ism by keeping his prices down as
much as possible. Every little helps
both ways"
An interesting special from York by
Mr.. Jas D. Grist to the Sunday News
recounts the visit Of Lafayette to this
country in 1924, and Of his visit to
Columbia in March, 1925, on his fare
we'll tour. In the article MIR. Grist
says: "The uniformed military COM
panies of Lexington, Newberry. Ian
caster, Chester and York went to Co.
lumbia to receive with pomp and
ceremony the distinguished foreigner
Among the companies was Capt
Meyer of Newberry, who had 125
men under his command, each one
mounted on a white horse, all hand
somely uniformed and caparlsoned
To this company afterward was as
signed the special honor Of escorting
Gen. Lafayette from Columbia to
Charleston"
Spectators in food stuffs create
high prices. High prices sap the Vi
tality of the people through the lack
~ euffic}on+ nourishment. Vitality 1e