The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-02-20


in other places for charging Is cents
for one loaf of bread. They ought
to be punished. 1t is time to call a
halt somewhere.
Forty oil lots were sold to one
family by Colonel Buford one day
last week. He is selling these lots
right along. Better get lot or two
before they all go. 1t is proving a
good investment.
The "fire" Tuesday afternoon at
$3.50 o'clock was in some grass on
Mrs. o. L. Schumpert's premises. Put
out before the company got there.
Funny Zasu Pitts will be here once
more in a picture, Friday, entitled
"Seeing It Through"
It is to be "High Pockets" at the
opera house again tonight, led By
Louis Bennison. 1t is the Western
stars latest thriller, wherein he
shows great versatility, the drama
being the most thrilling Of Bennisor
Western frontier life.
! The Dutch prophets prediction
that there will be another short CROP
of cotton this year ought to stiffen
! the holders of cotton and also boost
farm land prices.-Greenwood Index
Journal. And just as long as cotton
is high, cotton goods and other goods
will be high.
Services will be conducted during
] the season of Lent, by Rev. W. S.
Holmes, rector, every Wednesday
afternoon in this city at homes, alter
nately, of members of St. Luke's
! Episcopal church. The Ash-Wednes-
day service was held with Mrs. O.
MGR. Holmes.
After spending two or three days
in Newberry the large army recruit
ing outfit from Camp Bragg, N. c.,
left on Thursday morning for Spar
! tanburg. The outfit attracted much
attention and made the public square
by the opera house look like a fort
in war times.
Bird hunting can be indulged in un-
til the first of March, and partridges
and quails may have hard time liv-
ing for several days yet. The quail
is said to be a little larger than the
partridge, but they "all look alike"
to some people. Maybe they call them
quails up north and partridges down
south.
The. Newberry readers of the
Charleston News and Courier are
very much put out because they have
l. zait so often until the 4:05 train
+: for their papers. What's the mat
i ter? We wish it could be remedied.
People here want the News and Cour-
; ier to come on the, Cannon Ball
every morning. Late in the after
noon doesn't suit them at all.
A trifle before II o'clock Wednes-
day morning the fire alarm sounded
again, calling the fighting company
and the people to the corner of Main
and Nance streets, where the little
F., fire between the stores of Gus
Metchicas and Campbell Havird was
caused by defective fue in the first
mentioned building. The fire COM
pan:y's promptness in arriving at the
scene and applying the chemical hose
prevented further damage than the
burning of hole in the roof to the
loss of probably not exceeding SIS.
A new stairway between the stores
of Miss Anne o. Ruff & Co., and the
Newberry Hardware Co., was not put
there any too soon, as it was rotten.
Patrons of Jack Gilliam's barber shop
need have no more fear of falling
through and they will now have the
pleasure of being shaved and other
wise treated in barber fashion with
more satisfaction. Miss Ruff, who
owns the building, is making improve
ments on it, having determined to do
so as soon as possible after she got
the property in her hands.
We heard prominent business
man say that the "high cost of IL
cense" hit him pretty hard, but that
it was the right idea; that if the
people wanted a live and growing
city they had to spend the money to
get it. He is willing to pay his part.
1t takes money to make a city go.
The money paid in licenses is money
we'll invested, because improvement
enhances the value of property.
Greenwood grows as fast as the
business men there put money in the
city. Newberry will do likewise in
the same circumstances. 1t is like
bread cast upon the waters.
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