The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-04-30
VARIOUS AND ALL ABOUT.


VARIOUS AND ALL ABOUT.
Baseball in Newberry is about as
constant as rain.
Saturday will be the first of May.
The June commencement Will be here
before you know it.
''Pollyanna" is in town, to the de-
light of many people. Mary Pick
ford is the little girl to play it.
City council elected Dr.. T., W:
Smith on the board of health to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of
Dr.. Glider.
There will be public meeting CT
the Luther League at St. Phillips
Sunday afternoon at $3.50 O'Clock.
The public is invited to attend.
The opera house was so full for
"Pollyanna" Wednesday night peo-
ple were turned away. Couldn't get
up the stairway for the jam.
Next Tuesday and Wednesday
will be the days for the expert dem
onstration of cooking by electricity
at the Office of Goggans and Cam
eron.
The Drayton Rutherford chapter,
Z. D. c.. will hold its next regular
meeting on Tuesday afternoon, May
i, at 4 o'clock, at the home Of Mrs.
E. R. Hipp. ;,
At the meeting Of city council
Tuesday night arrangements were
made to borrow $4,000 at 5 per
cent. interest, through the National
Bank of Newberry.
Crowds of people are wondering
who is going to carry off that fine au-
tcmobile and who will get the other
valuable prizes in the contest now
raging in The Herald and News.
Sessue Hayakawa will give US
:'The Brand of Lopez"\at the opera
house Friday. At the same time, IN
. the evening beginning at o'clock,
the carnival of the high school will
also be on.
People are better educated than
formerly, generally; they are 'edu-
Gated up to" different things-among
them to the fact that if an item is
somewhat belated here it was writ
, ten for the previous issue.
Two hundred and twenty electors
of the city have qualified for voting
in the special election of May Z. Mr..
; Jno. w. Chapman says it is the larg-
est registration since he has been
in office, although it is small:
Two of the policemen-Oficers e..
H. Cousins and D. N. Livingston
have resigned; designations to take
effect May Is. Who wants to be po-
l;cemen in their places? Let your
wants be known. "Tell it to the
police"
The women of the First Baptist
church are invited to meet with
Mrs. Walter H. Hunt, Monday after,
noon, May 3rd, at 5 o'clock. All
women of the congregation are invlt-
ed. as matters of especial interest VIII
be discussed. -.
A birthday party was given by lit
tie Miss Brantley Pelham on Iues-
dav afternoon, and a number of her
friends enjoyed the happy time with
her. 1t was a merry gathering OF
bright and sweet children, refreshing
in their innocence and beauty.
All this reporter has to say about
the raging discussion of easy mark
! customers demanding goods that
have been ':run up in price to suit
fools is that, in the language of an
other. 'when insanity is an epidemic
the few sane are regarded as the
crazy ones
Monday will be salesdav If there
are to be any sales except at the
stores we don't know of them. Hope
all the merchants may do thriving
business and advertise in the next IS
sue of this paper. Between 500 and
1000 names have been added to our
subscription lists. considerably near
er the 1000 mark.
Our accommodating and prompt
supervisor of city streets, Mr.. Joe
w. Werts. had his hands up Harring-
ton street Wednesday fixing the
ditch to which attention had been
called. Supervisor Werts didn't
want mosquitoes or malaria to at
tack the little children Of the neigh
borhood. Nothing like having some
little children for an excuse. Thank
you, Joe.
The reporter is pleased with a pic
ture given him by Reighley & Buford.
It advertises the Vulcan plow, but is
pretty picture nevertheless; being a
scene of spring, showing happy
! small boy taking dads dinner along
the friendly road winding through a
! valley made lovely by a streamlet
flowing between grassy banks OF
green hills and level land dotted with
wayside flowers and shady trees.
A bald eagle was flying over this
county several days ago. The big
bird flew near enough to Mr.. Kemper
Albritton to shoot at it. The eagle
took a rest in front of Mr.. Milton
Caldwell's home, and Mr.. Caldwell
saw it at close range, pronounclng
it bald eagle, grey back without
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