The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-02-13
VARIOUS AND ALL ABOUT.

VAkiOOS AMI ALL R6OOl-
This paper is dated Friday, the
18th. Don't stop reading it on that
account.
The Trinity valentine party has
been postponed on account of the pre-
vailing situation due to influenza.
Did not Jerome Harmon at Mowers
garage start all this round of infu-
enza? He was about the first to take
it.
At first the newspapers tried to
keep up with the influenza patients,
but the number soon got beyond con-
troll
Next Wednesday will be the 18th,
the time advertised for the sale of
those lots near the garages in upper
Main street.
The Newberry Telephone exchange
is in receipt of new telephones for
citizens who have none and are need
ing the same.
Sam White and Charley Bowman,
white boys paid fine of 50 each IN
! the recorders court Thursday on the
charge of assault and battery.
1t is tough luck to have to lodge all
night in an automobile on a lonely
road far from a dwelling. "and it
a-raining." The gasoline was out.
The indications are that Newberry
college will resume work on Monday.
We hope the promising prospects for
that normal conditions will not be
blasted.
The city health board of Columbia
does not think influenza conditions
warrant quarantine restrictions there,
although we have been told the "fiu'
was bad in that city also.
The valentine party which was to
have been held at the residence of
John w. Kinard in the Zion commu-
nifty on Saturday evening has been
indefinitely postponed on account of
the flu.
1t gives doggonned good satisfac-
tica to "most" everybody to know
that Manager Henry B. Wells has
leased the opera house for two years
from last Tuesday night. We hope
the house won't be dark much longer.
The new secretary Of the State
executive committee of the Union
Republican party is w. H. Thomas,
colored lawyer who is we'll known to
citizens of Newberrv, where he re-
sided years ago. Thomas is a smart
man.
The little shop round the corner,
from Caldwell street to Friend, has
Been adorned b. picture CT q shoe
above the doc, painted by James
Ferguson, NewDerry's colored artist.
for Prices electric repairing shoe
shop.
The lost cuff button advertised in
.TueeG};S--':- pee was found the same
dav-unGer the bed If a woman
mad los, a piece of jeWei.y she would
have found it that nj t; provided the
jewelry, like the button had rolled
under tie bed.
A citizen remarked that he saw
para graphical error in newspaper.
He meant Typographical. He was m
formed that these errors were so COM
mon to all newspapers that intelligent
readers are able to understand.
Sometimes the slips are grammatical
errors.
The Aladdin house for Mr.. Russell
NJ. Tidmarsh on his lot in College
street. this side Of Mr.. Ben A.
Havird's residence, is getting to-
gether. We hear of q couple more Of
these Aladdin buildings to be put in
plac esoon. Nc. Harry II. Blcase Will
be known as the pioneer for this make
Of houses in NewberTy.
A recruiting squad from Camp
Bragg. Fayetteville, n. c.. pitched
tents here Tuesday evcniAg and left
for Ian:enS Wednesday morning.
They attracted much attention with
their two Holt-made fve-ton tractors
on caterpillar wheels, tive-ton milll-
meter gun, tive-ton caisson, and other
trucks and touring car.
The weather has been very change
able. One day it is springlike and
one feels like planting corn and
working the garden, and the next we
are in the midst of what has the
appearance Of a blizzard. But it is
all right and this is the finest section
on the globe. If you don't think SC
then you should move on.
When people read of twenty-five
new cases of influenza in Newberry in
one day they don't know that many
of these are cases which by right