The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-11-21
VARIOUS AND ALL ABOUT.

Newberry will furnish the Thanks
giving bride.
If everybody is not thankful next
Thursday he should be.
Cotton brought 81 1-2 here Thurs
day; seed s1.27 1-2.
The Junior Worker band will meet
at the Church of the Redeemer
Sunday afternoon at a o'clock.
Tickets for the Experience" show
will be put on sale at Glider &
Weeks today, Friday, at 10 o'clock.
The entire lower floor, including
general admission, is the same price.
The people are urged to secure the
reserved seats first.
The city schools pledged $10O for
the memorial fund and paid $177.65.
The pupils made the money them
selves, as Superintendent 0. B. Can
non would not let them beg it out
of their parents. In going over the
top and nearly doubling the assess
ment the city schools did nobly.
He is cowpuncher, she princess,
and yet love found the way. See
Tom Mix in "Rough Riding Romance"
Monday. In it Mix shows his right
to be called the daredevil of the
world. It is thrilling romance of
love and adventure in which cow
boy wins European princess.
On account of the State Teachers
meeting in Columbia November 27
and %, the State Board of Educa-
ton has asked all boards of trustees
to grant Friday, November % as a
holiday to any teacher wishing to
attend the meeting. Of course this
does not affect any school whose
teachers do. not expect to attend.
At Laurens on Saturday the high
school girls Of that city defeateds the
high school girls at basket
ball 80 to ID. A dispatch to The
State from Laurens says it, was
"Newberry's first game, but the
team showed good form, and it was
only due to their inexperience and
frequent fouls that Laurens won."
Wright Rutherford, an old negro
who had been in the Johnstone family
all his days, died on Wednesday
morning at 6:15 o'clock and was
buried in the city cemetery on Thurs
day afternoon at o'clock. His last
days were spent in the employ Of
Col. and Mrs. George Johnstone. He
was "a years old.
The Newberry high school pupils
are 100 per cent. efficient in mem
bership in the Red Cross. Every
member of the school has enrolled
as a member of the Red Cross.
of High Schools Stod-
dard visited the school few days
ago. and was very complimentary IN
praise of the work done and being
done.
County Organizer Hal Kohn, Of the
American Legion, told US that the
meeting on Sunday afternoon was
we'll attended and that so many i'm
portant matters came up for action
that he has not had time to write the
meeting up. He also stated that
steps are being taken to put a post
in Whitmire, Prosperity and Little
Mountain. We expect to see great
things come from the Legion.
One of the returned overseas SOL
diers, Willie Williams, colored, Of
this city, will have to return to the
hospital at Fort Mcpherson, Atlanta,
Ga. He expects to leave this week
after spending leave of absence at
home here with his relatives. Will
liams is troubled with an abscess,
which grew worse, resulting in his be-
ing transferred to the hospital for
treatment.
At the home of Mrs. Derrill Smith,
on Thursday afternoon at $3.50
o'clock, one of the most elaborate
ever given here in
honor of bride-elect was held for
Miss Trent Keitt, whose marriage to
Mr.. Ned Purcell on next Wednesday
evening will be the event of the sea-
son in society.
D.. Geo. K. Hutchinson has re-
turned to his former place as phar-
macist at DR.. P. e. Ways drug store,
where he will be glad to see his
many friends of the city and county.
DR.. Hutchinson is justly regarded as
one of the most thorough prescrip-
ton clerks that ever practiced the
profession in Newberry, his careful
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