The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-01-28
started in Newberry, use the old.
knitting mill. That would have been
good place for the laundry.

we hear definitely from some other
reliable source. We don't like to
run risks as there is occasionally a
'slip between the cup and the lip
Some people seem unable to dis
tinguish between exorbitant prifits
and stealing. Anderson Mail. They
sure do.
The Hotel National, under the pro-
prietorship of Mr.. A. +. Duff, is
open to the public, having made a
favorable beginning and taken on a
new lease of life in charge of the
present pleasant management, every
thing in the hotel having undergone
a change for the better. The family
is an agreeable addition to the city
and we feel that the National is now
in good hands, which will be pleas
ing announcement to the community.
When the t"newness" wears off and
the Duffts become. generally known
they will get their share of transient
and permanent boarders.
A certain man having said that a
young lady in this city was worth
her weight in diamonds and ought to
weigh a thousand pounds, along
comes another fellow and ruins his
compliment by saying she is worth
her weight in radium and ought TO
weigh a ton. One would have to
travel from America to Holland or
some other overseas country to beat
that.
i The postofice management <did a
good thing in removing those baskets
from the lobby and replacing them
with something far better for the
waste paper. The public will appre-
ciate the change, as people were al
ways kicking the baskets without in
tending it; they seemed to be in the
way of many feet.
There will be a special meeting of
the stockholders of the Kentucky
Carolina Oil company on Tuesday,
February s, at / 80 p. m., in the Of
fee Of Mr.. B. V. Chapman, secretary
and treasurer, for the purposeS in
creasing the capital stock. DR.. c. D.
Weeks is president of this new COM
pany.
It comes into some lives to expe-
rience the blessedness of "angels of
mercy" One does not have to go to
heaven to find angels; they are in
Newberry.
The weather made sudden jump
from summer to winter. Saturday,
Sunday and Monday were beautiful
days Of near-summer. time weather.
Who then thought that Tuesday
would see sleet and the trees bending
low with the weight Of icycles?
Some people saw pigeon on
cne of the hands to the city clerk
the other day. 1t was no stool pigeon
looking out for the police.
Emma Scott Williams, notorious
colored character with a big sound
ing name, was before the recorder
Tuesday for one form Of disorderly
conduce. It cost. her $40.
It rained, sleeted and showed ali
at the same time Wednesday morn
ing. Newberry has a wonderful cli-
mate.
Pennies and pistols figured promi-
nently in the loot bagged by the
at Silverstreet in his
raid you will see mentioned else
where in this paper
In figuring on the weather remem-
ber February. There's no telling what
she'll be or do.
Some people who don't know are
wondering wherejChinch row IS since
mention was made of a motor trip
through that locality last Sunday af-
wonderful Sunday.
Forget it.
January is all but gone and New
berry hasn't yet had a really hard
time It's a little rough now, but it
could be worse. Every bad condition
in life could be worse, and we all
have much to be thankful for. 1T
sometimes looks dark, but hope
brightens the way.
Postoffice people, railroad people.
telephone and telegraph people and
some other people are the ones who
catch it hard in sleety and snowy
weather.
The Drayton Rutherford chapter,
U. D. c., will meet with Mrs. Mary \.
Fant on Tuesday afternoon, Febru-
ary l at 3:45 O'Clock. Members who
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