The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-10-05
for Scandal" Wednesday at the opera

Thursday. Follow Madge Kennedy
in the picture.
There will be special picture
Tuesday at the opera house, entitled
''In the Heart of a FOOL
Watch "The Purple Cipher" at the
opera house tonight, Monday, with
Earle Williams featured in the pic
ture.
Down in Calhoun county, among
the school teachers, they have Hamm
and Lennon in the same boarding
house.
The special rates for the State fair
October 25-29, and for the colored
fair November 1-6, will be s2.4O
from Newberry and S2.O2 from
! Prosperity.
Trinity Woman's Missionary So
ciety will meet with Mrs. R. A. Pitts
at 8 o'clock on next Friday after
noon. All the women of the church
are asked to be present.
The Mollohon band gave concert
Saturday afternoon on the Confeder-
; ate monument lawn and made good
music, which was much enjoyed by
a large crowd.
On the 18th of October, 1884, says
Fir. Thomas j. Hays, there was the
biggest kind of frost in Newberry.
The weather was very pleasant from
then on, with no more frost that year
until after Christmas.
Weather Observer w. G. Peterson,
we are glad to state, is back on the
job. He reported the official ther-
mometer as registering SIS Friday
morning. The rainfall on Tuesday
was one inch and Wednesday night
and Thursday 1.16.
Encouraging to many Newberry
people are the following headlines in
Fridays State: ''Slump in prices be-
ing extended. Consumers soon to get
benefit of drop. Public now exact
ing. Wave begun by wholesalers to
be reflected by retailers"
This is still leap year, but we don't
hear anything about it. The only
feature of it left standing is Christ
mas, which comes one day later this
year on account of the ''leap." Christ
mas was on Thursday last year, you
remember.
Twenty-four negro gamblers who
were "corralled" and brought in by
Deputy Sheriff McCarley had hear
ing before Magistrate Douglas Satur-
day. The magistrate extracted SIS
from each, which you can see for
yourself made a grand total Of $3.50.
!. 'The Flower Shop" show cleared
$3.50 for the two performances
Thursday and went to Clinton Friday
night, clearing S44 there. To clear
this much after all expenses paid and
the promoters share gone, is fine
showing.
i The motor truck driven by Mr..
John T. Danielsen collded with Mr..
B. C. Matthews automobile Saturday
afternoon by the store of Summer
Bros company. The big truck was
not damaged, but it tore up a fen
der and bent the steering rod of the
car.
Ernest Farorw was locked up in
Newberry because H. M. Cook, a
negro preacher of. this city, says the
Laurensville herald of the 1st in,
slant, charged him with stealing a
pistol and pair of shoes. Farrow is
now in Jail waiting to stand his trial
on the charges preferred by the par
son.
A great deal of the writing for a
newspaper in each issue is done on
press day. Circus day and press day
came together Monday, with the re,
suit that circus day won out. Who
feels like writing when the town is
full of people and everybody looking
for the parade, with thousands get,
ting ready to go to the show? Circus
day always did make big time fol
little children and children of a
larger growth.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. B. Leitzsey have
located in Chester. Mr.. Leitzsey was
for quite awhile postal clerk or
the read between Columbia and
Greenville but on account of rheu,
matism from which he suffered fol
several months had to give up the
run. He is now running betweer
Chester and Lenoir as postal railway
clerk and his family have moved tc
Chester and his health has greatly
improved and he is doing fine.
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