The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-06-23

plenty in the land. From the first of
January to the first of May the Sou
thern freight department received IN
Newbery 25 carloads of flour, ap-
proximately 923,O0O pounds; five cars
corn, 100000 pounds; four cars feed,
121 900 pounds; six cars hay, 12O,-
600 pounds; one car oats, 10000
pounds. To say nothing of the large
shipments of bacon, sugar, etc. We
have much, while in countries where
there is really hard times the starv-
ing people are eating the dead and
purified bodies of human beings.
Miss Wolling has made many
friends since coming to Abbeville as
sterographer for W. P. Greene and
they hope she will continue to live
here.-Abbville Medium. You ask
Julian White about that; he has more
to do with it than anyone else.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. R. Partridge and
children left Detroit, Mich, their
home city, last Thursday for Buffalo,
W, Niagara Falls, and after spend
ing a couple of days in New York
with DR.. Stanmore Cash, Mrs. Par
tridge's half brother, will go to At
lanta, their former home city, for a
few DAYS, when they will come to
Newberry to spend the summer at the
home of her parnts, Mr.. and Mrs.
B. F. Goggans, Main street.
Mrs. w. H. Zeigler and family re-
turned the first part of the week from
a motor trip to Camden and Spar
tanburg.
Work on the new place for the
Commercial bank has been started
and will be carried forward rapidly.
The whole of Newberry will be inter-
ested in seeing it go on.
Scott's creek was up again Tues
day night from that heavy downpour'
We didn't get up to see it but saw the
signs next morning; but anybody
could have told she was way up. by
the way the rain fell in torrents.
The moon rose. 1t began rising
lust after The Herald and News had
circulated it's last edition, and now
sends out it's rays from over the Ma
tional bank, but shining brighter by
day than by night.
Mr.. A. G. Wise Of Prosperity has
been made a, colonel, Governor Har-
yey having given him a position on
his staff.
Mr.. John Swittenberg is another of
Newberry's best planters, which
would be apparent to anyone who
could see his abundant and fine yield
of Irish potatoes.
Two-in-one has been ',eaten. Go
to the Copeland Bros. building and the
American Sales company will show
you three-in-one, surprising anything
of the kind ever seen in Newberry.
The 4th of July draws nearer for
holiday at the postofice. What about
the 9th?
A special from Spartanburg, men,
tioning the death of Mr.. ]. H. Sem,
highly respected farmer of the Mayo
section, whose burial in Newberry
was reported in The Herald and
News, says that Mr.. Sem had been
operated on nineteen times-on his
hand, arm, back and both legs-blood
poison having developed from small
scratch on his hand which became
infected.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Spearman and
his mother, Mrs. F. G. Spearman, Jr.,
left Thursday for their home in
Lynchburg, Va, after visiting at the
home of his father, Mr.. Frank G.
Spearman, in Helena.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. D. Smith, Sr., and
Mr.. Forster Smith went to the Bap-
tist hospital Sunday to see Mrs. Fors-
ter Smith, who, we are glad to say,
is doing nicely after operation.
Ladies and girls are learning to
swim right along at the country club.
We have been asked about dog
days Webster says: ga period of
from four to six weeks, in the sum-
mer, variously placed by almanac
makers between the early part of Ju-
ly and the early part of September. "
Miss Bertha Crooks, who is visiting
her sister, Mrs. L. G. Mccullough,
spent the weekend in Spartanburg
with her college mate, Miss Grace
Holcombe.
Mr.. Calhe Boyd Parr and his bride
returned last week from their trip
through the North Carolina noun
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