The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-02-27

F o.. Black, looking after the wants
of another fine little girl in Supel-
intendent Blacks household.
Prosperity seems to be proliti
field for Mission Secretary Patterson
in his Old Guard campaign among the
Lutherans. as We CLEAN from the L.
theran Church Visitor. Lutherans
must cover the territory in that sec
ton Of country as leaves on the
ground al autumns $ close.
While playing with some other lit
tie children at the residence Of DR..
and Mrs. C. D. Weeks on last We
nesday afternoon, Master Ellerbe
Pelham, the seven-year-old son Of
DR.. and Mrs. W. E. Pelham. Jr., fell
and broke his left arm between the
wrist and elbow. The accident, how
ever, didn't keep the placky little fel-
low from going to school as usual.
At the State Teachers convention
in Columbia, which will be in session
March 1911, DR.. Jas. P. kinarl viii
speak on Material Equipment for
English Dr. J. Henry Harms on "The
Scope Of the Association and its Prob
lems," and Prof. s. J. Derrick on
Rural Night Schools" Miss Sadie
Goggans is president Of the depart
ment Of primary teachers.
The survey for the electric rail
way from Columbia to Greenwood
WAS made through here Friday. The
line comes into Leesville through
Railroad avenue, and runs parallel
with and not more tnan forty or fifty
! feet from the Southern railway for
nearly a mile. The line runs from
here to Saluda.-Lees lille Cor. Lex
ington News, 21st. Hope you Will not
De disappointed. If we can't get the
good things we don't begrudge our
neighbors getting them.
A great lesson can be learned at
the opera house today in "The Man
Who Forgot" from the book by
James Hay, Jr., featuring Robert
Warwick. Tomorrow the opportuni-
ty will be given of seeing "The Brand
of Cowardice.' in which is to appear
the gifted Lionel Barrymore and
Grace Valentine. 1t is a Metro Won
Gerplay of supreme power. And on
Thursday there viii be a presenta
ton of OLIVER Twist" featuring
Marie Doro in an elaborate and faith
ful picturization of Dickens great
work
1t is pity that gossips did not
have private lines. That sentence
occurs in an editorial in the Green
wood Journal on Telephone Gossip. y
1t was based On remarks by the Louis
Vile Courier-J Journal, to the effect
that the authorities in Colorado have
been asked to prevent women from
monopolizing telephones to exchange
neighborhood gossip, farmers being
unable to transact their business over
the telephone because the rural Wo-
men "use the lines ad libitum for idle
exchange of news aud opinion We
haven't heard anyone say anything
about such in this. city or county.
In the receipts for Connie Maxwell
Baptist orphanage, as printed in the
last issue of the Connie Maxwell, we
find the following items: West End
Sunday school, SO; First Newberry
church, s12OS; West End Sunday
school, S12 .We see by the same
issue that Sparrow Swamp church
contributed II chickens, two barrels
and one box of groceries, Bull Swamp
". NJ. L. one barerl of syrup and a
box of hose. Dry Creek church one
keg of syrup, and Four Holes Phila-
thea class one barrel Of syrup There
is much more on the same order, but
We mention Sparrow Swamp, Bull
Swamp, Dry Creek and Four Holes
to show that they are good places
also.