The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-05-25
VARIOUS AND ALL ABOUT.

VARIOUS AND ALL ABOUT.
Keeping up with the chautauqua
and the movies is big job.
The chautauqua hours are 4 and
8:15.
Another speeder, Lonnie Davis,
paid his SIS Friday.
There was preaching at Reddick' S
chapel on Sunday by the Rev. j. G.
Smith.
An expensive French wig is worn
by Pauline Frederick in ''The Paliser
Case," which picture is to be shown
at the opera house Thursday.
Two colored boys, Clarence Will
liams and Tom Greenwood. case of
assault and battery, fined s5 each in
recorders court Monday.
Well, well, well. Some people, who
are not at all old, tell us that the
brick foundation on the old hotel lot
was the top of former well. Well,
we'll, we'll.
At chautauqua Tuesday afternoon
Donald H. McGibeny will deliver his
lecture on Modern Unrest" and at
night there will be a comedy, Moth
ing But the Truth
The Newberry Lumber company
and Mr.. H. L. Parr had great eyes
for business when they got those
wagons from the government at Camp
Sewer.
1t doesn't take a dose of "dog
juice" to start the gastric flow with
some people when they contemplate
that car of salmon-one thousand
cases-over four thousand dozen
cans received by Summer Brothers
company.
A colored citizen of the county,
Hillary Copeland, died on Mr.. Mel
Chalmers place in the Jalapa settle
ment n:Friday, at the age of 80
years. He had the sleeping sickness,
having slept a week without once
waking up.
No doubt there will be numerous
customers at the store of government
goods under the management of Mr..
W. w. Bullock, the former popular
manager of the Newberry hotel.
Canned goods and lots of other
articles will be sold there.
Three thousand tons of sugar
reached Charleston from New York
last Wednesday. And yet some say
there is a sugar shortage. The man
who composed "Sugar in the Gourd"
could add good stanza were he liv-
ing today in Newberry.
The well people, under the super
vision of Mr.. J. R. Connolly, are going
right along with the new well, having
reached depth of 81 feet Saturday
afternoon. Superintendent Homer
Schumpert says there is not going to
be water famine in Newberry if he
can prevent it.
At the chautauqua show on We'd
nesday afternoon will be shown the
children's pageant, "The Good Fairy
Thrift and the Swiss singers and
yodlers. On Wednesday night the
Swiss singers and yodlers will give
another entertainment and Ralph
Parlette will lecture on Human
Efficiency"
The stork likes to visit along Har-
rington street, and sometimes around
in the same neighborhood, the latest
place visited being at the home of Mr..
J. Reuben Boozer and family, bring
ing little girl there Saturday. The
stork is partial to girls in that family,
where there are now four to one lit
tie boy, and he is next to the baby.
One of the crises Of the acting
hangs on the work Of the big dog, for
he is called upon by Ruth Fulton,
played by Miss Miriam Cooper, to
find where lightning" the race
horse, has been hidden by plotters
just before the start of the big race.
See the picture at the opera house
Tuesday.
Wednesday will bring us Elsie
Janis in "A Regular Girl" at the
opera house. Miss Janis is Daugh-
ter of the American Revolution and
an honorary member of many other
influential organizations. The Amer
lean Legion of Honor elected her to
an honorary captaincy because Of her
untiring efforts in behalf Of the A.
E. F.
Under the heading "So-called sugar
shortage myth, says manufacturer, u
the Anderson Mail of Thursday con-
tanned an interesting article in which
it was stated that as speculation is
the trouble the association of nation
al preservers and fruit producers Will
combat the high sugar prices in or
der to help the makers of jams, jel-
lies, etc. Hope they'll succeed.
New York banks apply pressure to
dealers and prices come down.
Headline in daily paper. The article
| relates that price cutting spreads,
cuts ranging from Is to 70 per cent.
being advertised in many leading
, stores. 1t is earnestly to be hoped
that the spreading may become cpl
demic. as it is ''high" time something
{ was happening in the other direction
Deputy Sheriff McCarley and Con-
; stable Fortune Of Whitmire found a
still in the house of Henry Crawford,
colored, on Mr.. W. c.. Scott's planta-
ton near Whitmire, Friday; also 8
barrel of mash which the officers de-