The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-11-11

er OF this county on Saturday and
turned him over to Sheriff Blease.
The man is charged with grand
larcency amounting to 5000. He is
in jail awaiting trial. He admits
that he was in Detroit recently, but
that he is innocent. Until the pre-
liminary is held The Herald and
News will NOT say anything further
about the case.
The largest, fines; and sweetest
persimmcn, the kind grown princi-
pally in Japan, was brought to this
office from the hc:::e Ct MIR. R. H. Z;
Swittenferg, who has a tree in his
yard. There were Is or 20 more Of
the some sort where the sample we
are mentioning came from. This
particular 'simmon fell into the
hands Of the reporter, who took it
home, where he divided it among
five persons, each one receiving a
large slice, it was.so large.
/ The announcement has been made
that all the BARRIERS had agreed to
charge 20 cents shave hereafter.
That was a misunderstanding. Mr..
+; HalIman told the reporter that he
did not propose to raise the price,
as he thought Is cents enough. Since
then Mr.. Farrow stated to us that at
his place the price of a shave would
remain at Is cents, except that he
would charge cents extra for
neck shave. No other barber has
said anything to the reporter about
it.
That dog-gonned old belled baz-
zard has come to life again. The Pick
ems Sentinel says that a Mr.. Robin
son saw it one day last week near his
home, flying low, and that he heard
the bell very distinctly; and that a
Mr.. Lark also saw it. It must be
Bell Buzzard, Jr., because that other
one ought to have been dead long
ago. These Pickens gentlemen
may have seen and heard a belled
buzzard, but the story might sound
to some people like Robinson Cruso
on a lark joke. The original B. B.
was seen in .Newberry years ago, and
then again, it is said.
Here is what Mr.. Roland G..
Spearman of the Southern Bell
Telephone company at Palatka, Fla,
says of his new field, as reported in
the Southern Telephone News
s"There are great discoveries being
made every day. The greatest dis
covery Of my life is Palatka, Fla
Situated on the bank of the beauti-
full St. Johns river, which is about
five miles wide, it is truly a land of
flowers, snakes, alligators and good
fishing and hunting. I was surprised
to find the summer here so delight
ful and the winter just fine. Oh,
how the black bass do bite! No
promotions for me and no transfers
.. will be. considered-In just stay
here until I die"
When we read last week that an
aviator charged $40 passenger for
little fight in the air at the State
fair and that the station" was
crowded with persons eager to take
the trip, we wondered if those per-
sons who had "money to burn"
I would be eager to give $40 apiece
for the thousands dying Of starva-
ton in Petrograd," as announced in
last weeks papers. When we read
of Hunger in Budapest" and "Red
Cross nurse tells narrowing story" :"
and other like horrible news, and then
see how our people, some right here
in Newberry, are literally throwing
money away, we think of the cry of
a woman who, with her dying baby
in ner arms, exclaimed: "My God,
thousands rolling in wealth and my
baby starving"
It has been predicted that the COM
ing winter, when it does come, will
be most severe and long drawn out.
In view of that fact we call atten-
tion to recent newspaper statements
concerning the destitute condition Of
/ the Jews in eastern Europe. he con-
ditions are worse than ever before,
and it will be tragedy with winter, as
one paper had it, not sufficiently fed
for years they are not prepared to
combat cold. When we look around
F.; in Newberry and see people with
more money than they know what to
do with, many spending it lavishly
and often foolishly, it is hard to
realize that other people are dying
of starvation. The situation is ap-