The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-05-02
Miss Lila Horne of Greenwood were

married on April "a.
The revenue tax went into effect or
Thursday and now # YOU want coiH
drink one cent is added to pay ths
tax. The same is true in like pro
portion for all toilet articles and sill!
hose above a certain price ard mant
other articles that are not consider
ed necessaries.
Newberry college has received
donation of $1,000 from a friend il
Charleston to be added to the gen
eral endowment fund
The Newberry college base bal
team leaves today for Wofford where
the game will be this afternoon be
tween Newberry and Wofford New
berry goes somewhat handicapped or
account of the illness of "Tub" Gro
mer, the star catcher and heavy hit
ter of the team. However the boys
will put up a valiant fight and here's
hoping they will win. AS the teams
stand now Newberry stands a good
chance for the pinnant and it is un'
fortunate that one of the stars of the
team should be sick.
| In the absence of Pastor Fulen'
wider Rev. NJ. j. Klutz will preach at
the Lutheran Church of the Redeem
er next Sunday morning.
Rev. J. W. Carson is in attendance
upon the A. R. P. synod at Charlotte
this week.
; A two horse team, one horse and
one mule. hitched to a wagon, ran
away from the Purcell Co. store
down Nance street turning at the
Central house and in going out to
Main street ran aground a couple az
tomobiles and separated the wagon
the fore from the aft and was halted
in entering Main street. Apart from
some damage to an auto standing in
Nance street no damage was done.
Teams of any kind should not be
left standing without some one is on
guard.
The closing exercises of the Silver
street school will be held on the
evening of May 1S
If you want to spend pleasant
evening and be entertained attend
the elocution recital at Mt. Bethel
Garmany on Saturday evening.
It's pity that the exercises for
memorial day this year at Newberry
and Prosperity should conflict. Me-
mortal day<should be a county affair.
Many people who will be at Newberry
would be pleased to hear Gov. Cooper
who speaks at Prosperity.
That was a nice shower on Tues
day evening.
The speed at which some of the
young Americans in Newberry run
their cars through the narrow streets
o. this town, the wonder is there are
no terrible accidents. And by tho
way we were just wondering, if there
Il a speed ordinance on the statute
books Of this town. -.
Mr. W. H. Counts has in possession
a quaint and valuable souvenir or
heirloom. It is a pair of ear rings
made Of the hair of his father, Mr.,
J Ben Counts, the hair being clipped
when Mr.. Counts was quite young
man. The rings were worn by Mrs.
Ben Counts, the mother of Mr.. w. H.
Counts. They are gold mounted and,
in almost perfect preservation. Mr.
BeE. Counts has been dead for sew
eral years and he lived to be more
than four score, so the ear rings
must be at least so years old.
Mr.. P. C. Gaillard has rented the
Jalien house in Helena and moved
there. He could not find house in
town.
Miss Mamie Crooks has sold her
house and lot in Glenn street to Mr.
L. B. Schumpert.
You'll laugh until your sides ache
when you see William Desmond as a
breezy, nervy Larry Donovan, adven-
turous and carefree Yankee in the
meshes of a Latin-American political
intrigue, in "Whitewashed Walls" at
the opera house Friday, May 2.
In the list of entrants for the high
school contest to be held at the Uni
versity on May l and 2 We notice
that from Whitmire school in the
hoys oratorical contest the name IT
William Child "The Deathbed cf Ma.