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OTTON MARKETLOCAL AKET. Corete byONMatE Th Corrected Twice a Week. Co0rrected by 'Nat Gist. - - Eggs .. ........ ..20 Good Middling. .- 14% Bte .. .. ..2 Strict Middling.-. . .14% Hams, (co) .. ..17 to 20 Middling. . . .14% Fur.......... .25 By Robt. MeC. Holmes. - Crn ......... to ..5 GoMiddling.--..14%4 - - Ceal..... .. .... .. ..95. Good Iliddling. ...14% Strict Middling. . . .14% Sugar.........5% to6% Middling. . . . . . .14% Bacon......13% to 15% Cotton seed 30 cents. VOLUME XLVIU. NUMBER 4L NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLIIA, FREDAY, MAY 27, 1910. 'NEWS OFPPROSPERITY. Music Recital-Motor Trip to Spar tanburg Roads Meeting-Per sonal Mention. Prosperity, May 26.-The music class of Mrs. J. Frank Browne will give their recital on Wednesday even ing, June 1, at 8;30, at the city hall. The public is cordially invited. Full program will appear in next issue. Miss Julia Schumpert is at home for the summer. She is a student of Chicora college, Greenville. Dr. J. C. Kinard has returned to his home at Ninety Six, after a visit to Dr. G. W. Harmon. Messrs. J. D. Davenport and F. R. Hunter spent several hours in town Monday. Miss Addie Werts spent Wednesday in Newberry. Miss Tena Wise has returned from. a visit to Little Mountain. Miss Lizzie Hawkins, who has suc cessfully finished the last session at Marion college, Marioi, Va.,, is home for the summer vacation. A. G. Wise is attending the session of the Grand -lodge of Knights of Py thias at Bennettsville, -as a delegate from the Prosperity lodge. Mrs. C. M. Harmon and Miss Mary Lizzie Wise'spent Monday in Colum bia. Mrs. Percy Mahon, of Newberry, was the guest Tuesday- of Mrs. E. E. Young. Mr. J. F. Browne, accompanied by Mr. J. P. Bowers, left here for Spar tanburg Tuesday morning in Mr.' .Browne's auto. They were joined at Newberry by Mr. W. C. Waldrop and 'Secretary S .C. Cunningham, of the chamber of commerce of Newberry, arriving in Spartanburg safely and joining in the good roads 'convention, ere the proposed Columbia-New -Span-burg-AsheviIe -Etit ws thoroughly discussed. Ethel Counts, who is a teacher Darlington graded school, will e home Saturday for the sum vacation. dle Roll reception at Grace Lu ran church Friday afternoon, 4 to All the members of this class and eir mothers are invited to this re-, :ion. Tre Prosperity Stock company has ~ut in a full line of hardware in the stQre room formerly used for storing buggies. D .s me ens The U3. DC.swill meWdnsay afternoon, June 1; with Miss Effie Hawkins.' Miss lebe Langford is visiting her slikt, Mr's LyQn in Columbia. r. D. C. Delegates. The following delegates have been. elected to represent the Drayton . Rutherford chapter, No. 152, U3. D. C., at the district conference, whicu mCets at' Rock Hill, June 7, 1910: Mrs. Jno. Kinard and Mrs. S. J. Wooten, with .W. H. Carwile and Mrs. E. H. as alternates. Mrs. R. D. Wright been chosen,. as president's ap Attention, Carriers. F. D. carriers of Newberry -aw1i?: in the city May 30 to elect delegates to the. State convention It is hoped that every carrier and sub 'vill be present, as all are invited to 'ttendl a dinner to be prepared for t1em on. tat day. W. G. Peterson, Secretary. Death at Old Town. *Mrs. Julia Sanders, aged about 615I ars, widow of James M. Sanders, died yesterday morning at 1.30 at the ho'me of her son, Mr. W. H. Sanders, near Old Town and was buried at Trinity church cemetery yester -ay afternoon at 4 o'clock. Besides the son she was livng with she leaves 'four other sons-Rev. Jgmes Sanders. of Iowa, Messrs. John W. and T. R , living near Old Town and one in Cal iforniia. Mellohon SchooL The Mollohon school will close on une 1, ith appropriate exercises. After t exercises by the children, which begin at 8 o'clock in the eve- ere will be an address by D. . 'Cromer. The school has at this year by Mrs. Jane Miss Eula Darby and has NEWS FROM UTOPIA. Farm Work Progressing--Small Grain Crop Fine-Personal Mention. Other Matters. Utopia, May 26.'Cotton and corn are up to a fine stand, and farmers are getting on fine with their work, but will have a delay on account of the recent heavy rains. The small grain crop in this section is fine and there is lots of it making this season. There is a great deal of sickness in the community at present, but none serious. Miss Annie Herbert is on a visit to her sister, Mrs. Charles Gilliam, in Anderson now. Miss Annie Dubard, of Blythewood, is spending some time here with Miss Maggie Richards. Mr. George Sligh and sisters, Misses Lillie and Sarah, of Ebenezer, spent Saturday and Sunday with friends in this section. Mr. Jas. M. Alewine spent Tuesday night with his brother at Pomaria. Messrs. E. E. and A. H. Cromer, of the city, spent Sunday with Mr. W. A. Cromer, also Misses Annie and Mae Lake, of Silver Street, were the guests of Mr. Cromer and family. Mrs. I. H. Boulware has returned home after a week's visit to the city. Mr. C. H. Cannon and family spent $aturday night with Mr. I. P. Can non's family. Miss Annie Wingley, of Prosperity, is spending some time with Miss Sa die Mae Boulware. Miss Jessie Vaughn, of Silver Street, visited , friends in this 'section the latter part of last week. Miss Lena Belle Blair is visiting relatives at Silver-Street this week. Miss Lula Hawkins, of Hartford community, spent-'Saturday night a,nd Suiif~with -Miss Sdie Schumpert. Masters Thomas and Fred Hayes, and little sister, Ida Mae, of the Hart ford section, spent 'Saturday night with Mr. J. J. Schumpert's family. The school here closed Friday, and Saturday there were exercises by the children and a picnic which was en joyed by everybody present A. Mrs. Ida G. Barksdale. Laurens, May 23.-Mrs. Ida Gary Barksdale, wife of John Augustus Barkdale, died at the family resi dence, west Main street, yesterday afternoon at.4 o'clock, after an illness covering a period of several months. The funeral service will be held to morrow morning at 10 o'clock from the First Baptist church, and inter mnent will follow at the Barksdale family graveyard, two miles above the city. Mrs. Barksdale W&.S & member of the well-known Gary fesmily Two sisters,. Mrs. A. C. Welch and Mis Eva Gary, both of Newberry, survive. She is also survived by three sons, John A. Barksdale, Jr., of Atlanta, Eiliary G. Barksdale of Furman uni versity .and Drayton Nance Barksdale of Laurens, a lad 13 years of age. Twenty-one years ago, April 17, last, she was married, to Mr. Barksdale, who is a son of the late Dr. John A. Barksdale, for many years one of Laurens county's most prominent cit zens. The Laurens Advertiser says of r.i Barksdale's death: Mrs. Ida Gary Barksdale, wife of Mr. John Augustus Barksdale, died Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock at the family residerice, West Main street, after an illness covering a period of several months. Throughout her long affliction she bore her sufferings with that fortitude and patience which characterize the true Christian. Hers was a most beautiful life, one devot ed to service in the Master's king dom; and in her death the First Bap tist church, the Woman's Missionary society of the same church, lose a most valued member, her family a de voted wife and mother, her friends and co-laborers one who failed them not when duty called. Mrs. Barksdale was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hiliary Gary, deceased, of Newberry county where she lived until her marriage to Mr. Barksdale 21 years ago April 17, last. Smiling Truth. Caller-Is Mrs. Browne at home? Artless Parlor Maid (smiling confi dentially) -No. ma'am, she really is THE EPWOITH LEAGUE. State Convention Meets in Newberry. Plans Being Made for a Great Meeting. State Secretary Power W. Bethea has issued the announcement that the seventeenth annual conference of the South Carolina Epworth league of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, will be held in' the city of New berry, June 16-19, 1910. Over two hundred and fifty dele gates are expected from all the chap ters in the State. State President M. H. Howard, who is working to make this meeting a record-breaker in the history of the organization in the: State, announces that the program is now in the hands of the printer and copies will soon be ready for distri bution. Those, in attendance upon the conference may well anticipate a spiritual least in every sense of the word. The very flower of league tal ent in the Southtern Methodist church has been secured to deliver addresses. Dr. W. N. Ainsw'orth, president of the Wesleyan college, Macon, Ga., will de liver a-series of addresses on this oc casion. Dr. Ainsworth stands at the ver pinnacle of his profession, and is) quite a celebrity in school and church work. Dr. Horace M. DuBose, gen eral secretary of the Epworth league board and editor of the Epworth Era, will deliver a number of addresses. Dr. DuBose needs no introduction to' South Carolina leaguers, as he has addressed league conferences in the State on several occasions. He is one of the few scholars of the Southern Methodist church. The Rev. C. G. Hounshell, missionary to Korea, will also be present and enthuse the mis sionary spirit as never before. ProfL Arthur. L. Manchester, director of music in Converse college, Spartan burg, -will lead the song services. Th9 programme will lie very full in every way. Morning, afternoon and even ing sessions will be held, besides a sunrise prayer meeting service. How ever, reports wl be condensed as far as possible. District secretaries will make reports for their respective dis tricts, and no chapter reports will be allowed, The conference will convene Thurs day evening, June 16, at 8.30- o'clock, with brief addresses of. welcome and responses, after which Dr. H. M.~ Du' Bose will occupy the remainder of the evening.> It is very essential that chapters elect delegates at once. One. delegate for every 20 menibers or fraction thereof, provided no chapa ter has less than two delegates, should be e,lected. Junior chapters will be allowed one delegate. Rates have been applied for, and if neces sary, special cars will be attached to 'trains to Newberry Thursday. * * * * * * * * * * * * * SCINTILLATIONS. * * By' Squibs. * ** * * * * * * ** * ** It is wrong to blame Managers Ear hardt and Baxter for the failure~ of the comet to give as fine a perfor mance in Newberry last week as was advertised. There have been several cases of telepathy in town lately. The ox knoweth his master's crib. Dr. J. M. Kibler's horse not only knoweth its master's voice and per son, but also knoweth his footsteps.. Dr. Kibler regardeth his horse. It is strange that all men are not merci ful men as owners and workers of the dumb animals. People who think it is impossible toI keep flies out ought to visit Rodel sperger's beef market. Alderman Rodelsperger is one to get ahead of flies. This is especially good in a meat market. A Fine Fish Stew. At the close of the survey of the Duncan property on Indian creek, the surveying party enjoyed one of the olden time fish stews, and it was a plenty for' all and to spare. The in formant says that the only thing to detract from the fullest enjoyment was a heavy downpour of rain. Capt. Jackson Abrams was unani mously elected chief cook to all fu-' Mr. Bowen Goes to Ninety Six. Silver Street, May 26.-Mr. W. V. Bowqn, who recently resigned his position as freight and passenger agent for the Southern Railway com pany, at Silver Street, to accept a similar position with the Southern at Ninety Six, left Sunday morning to take charge of his new office. "Billy" as he is familiarly known, is a native of Columbia, and has only been at this place since April, 1909. It is with great regret that we givp. him up as he has always treated the pat rons at this point with the greatest of courtesy, thereby making scores of friends who are glad to know that he has made good, and is given this pro motion. He is one of the youngest agents on the Southern, and one of the most popular. Mr. C. W. Sawyer of Old Town, will hold down the job here now. Death of a Little.Girl. Jessie Mae Hunt was born August 3, 1908, and departed this life May 21 1910, iMaking her short earthly so journ one year, nine months and 1 days. She leaves a devoted fathei and mother, and many relatives and friends to mourn her departure: Another little lamb has gone, To dwell with Him who gave, Another little darling babe Is sheltered in the grave. God needed one more angel child Amidst His shiny band, And so He bent with loving smile, And clasped little Jessie's band. And now, dear parents, the only consoltoW that is vouchsafed you is the sweet realization of the fact tha1 your precious babe is at peace. The one upon whom you have lavib your afection is now in that land "watbe the weary.are at rest." -8 the poor little fames-will never *moe be racked..with the agonies of pain and suffering is at an end. Just think 'twill only be a little while until we all will cross the dark river and join our loved ones among the hosts of the saved on the other shore. Tula and Ada Hunt. Ancient Prediction. (Entitled by popular tradition "Mother Shipton's Prophecy." Pub lished in 1448, repq1blished in 1641.) Carriages without horses shalt go, And accidents fill the world with woe Around the earth thoughts shall fly In the twinkling of an eye.. The world upside-down shall be, And gold be found at the root of- 2 tree. Through hills men shall ride And no, horse be at his side. Under .iater mnen shall walk, Shall ride, shall sleep, shall talk. In the air men shall be seen In white, in black and -green. Iron in the water shall float As easily as a wooden boat, God shall be found and shown In a land that's now not known. Fire and water shall wonders do, England shall at last admit a foe. The world to an end shall come In eighteen hundred and eighty-one. 0'Neall Dots. O'Neall, May 26.-Mrs. Sallie Mor ris, of this section, who has been very ill, we arse sorry to say, isn't any bet ter. *Mrs. Catherine Long, of Lexington, has been spending a while with her sister, Mrs. L. Wilson Long. Misses Lola and Leona Lowman, and Mr. Oscar Wessinger,'of this sec tion, have been visiting friends of Excelsior section. Mrs. Harriett and Catherine Long and Miss Lola Lowman visited rel atives in Pomaria the latter part of last week. Dr. G. Y. Hunter and family were down in this section last Sunday to b.ear Revj Kreps' farewe}l sermon. We were glad to have them' with us. Little Curtis and Robert Pugh, oU Prosperity, are spending awhile with the0ir grandmother, Mrs. W. P. Pugh. There has been a concrete pool built at Bethel Baptist church. Mrs. W. P. Pugh has just returne~d from a vist to her son, Dr. Pugh, of Columbia Female college. Simple Ways. "She and her husband seem to think so much of each other." "I know it; but they were both rais ed in the country."--Boston Tran Mrs Jos. Mann's Brother. Woodmen from the Salisbury, Spen cer and Mill Bridge Camps filled a special car provided for them on the outgoing western train yesterday af ternoon and they were greeted at Statesville, where a monument to the late N., P. Jacoby, a member of Rose wood camp, by equally as large a body of focal choppers was unveiled. Upon their arrival the craftsmen formed in double file and marched to the cemetery a mile and a half dis tant. Mayor Grier was at the station and drove the speakers to the ceme tery in his automobile. A crowd of several hundred persons, among them the widow of the- deceased sovereign, gathered around the grave at the be ginning of the exercises. When the Woodmen had formed the angle at. the cemetery prescribed by the rituai, Consul Commander J. G. Brawley, of Rosewood camp, present ed Mi. Leroy ,Smith, who acted as master of ceremonies. Little Miss Barbara Clapp, daughter of Conduc tor Clapp, recited beautifully, after which the oration'was delivered by Mr. Jno. M. Julian. A beautiful floral design was placed upon the -grace at ter the veil had been drawn from the monument. At the conclusion of the exrcises at~the grave the members repaired to the Forest of the Statesville camp, where short talks were made by 'May or Grier, of Statesville, Mayor Smgot, of Salisbury, and others.-Salisbury, N. C., Evening Post, May 20. Mr. Jacoby was; a brother of Mrs. Joseph Mann, of this city. A lew (1) Species 'of 'eptile. An entirely new (?) species of snake- has been discoveed da Indian Creek. For want of a Petter name the people of -that com*:u41ty call it hadow snake. enew laud m0cassin-which! it very -much resembles-lies in its inabilty to bat its eyes. It is said that the shadow snake will lick out its tongue just like any other snake, but as before stated, can't wink 'at a fello Mr. Jeremiah Viits the Ball Game at West End, Ay 21. Mr. Editor: I wood like ter kno whar you wuz Saturday atter dinner. i wuz in ther crowd ov peepil er lisn ing to the musick ov' the "Newberry concert band," they wupz in the leettle "park" in front ov the ogea court house. (You kno thet is ther park thet ther Idler rites so much erbout(.. ' You kno thet I am er green'y in' Newberry feram frum --anther peepil 5w Newberry hay ter tel me' sumting, any how I axed er high, tall, long man what they wuz er playing an he tole me ther name ov every 1peace, as well as mi mine wil allow1 me ter riccolect they wuz as folldw Iering, "Official -IndIan" march, Wash-, ington Post March, The Directorate March, Megaphone Belles March, My Little New Habipshire Girl. ( Waltz). lNow atter they had stopped they went over ter ther "Union Station" one man tole me that that wuz what they call them here in Newberry, but thet haint what they call 'em in --- they call 'em' "depo," but eny how that is wvhar they went. I don't kno' whither they went ter meat them thar boys frumn Lauren.s or whither tney went ter meat Becky Ann Jones' "ex tinguished" visitors frum ther Tar Heel State, they moot awl ov' them an ther trane to, atter the trane stopped they played sum other peace, I1 furgot it's 'name an "Dixie." They had a boy in frunt ov themt er toating a big bannar an if red: "Baseball today, IWatt vis West End. Game at 4.15. Admission 25 and 15 cents. Ladies free." Yes sir that is so, they tell me in Newberry ther ladies air free, but ye hay ter pay -mighty dear fer sum ov them atter yer get them, so you see thet is ther reasson thet I am er ole "bachelar.' Any how talking er bout thim boys, I wuz dartarmined to sea whar 'they wuz er going, an if possible ter git in ter sea ther game free. I knoed that the boy who had toated the bannar er round wuz er going In fur nuthing, so I kinder sided up ter him an axed hem if he wern't tired, thet I'd toat thet thing fer him if he didn't kare. "Yes, sir,' said he, "I/am very tired but I haven't got very'-far to go Ye,I knoed that he didn't hay fee ter go now fer they wuz a turning the, corner at the last big hous an I cud 1, set1 the fence, an I knoed then thet I ba te. pa ther 25 or not sea ther MAN FROM PROSPERITY TRIES TO- END HIS LIFE C B. Boland, Fearing Arrest, Shoots Himself and Takes Poison In Savannah. Savannah,-Ga.. May 23.--Fearful of arrest by an officer who waited for him at the front* door, C. R. Boland this afternoon sent a badly aimed bul let at his heart, after drinking a lib eral quantity of carbolic. acid in a double effort to suicide. Boland was bookkeeper and coni dential man for Skeffington Broi, wholesale merchants, where there was a shortage in account. The charges of forging an indorsement on a $400 note at one of the banks also is hang ing, over him Boland's condition is critical though he may recover. Boland's home is at 'Prosperity, C. He bought a high priced automo bile(a few weeks ago, the first trace of extravagance that he had mant fested. game. I didn't have ther price, so t wuz very much perplexed, an Mr. Chaney tole me thet it wuz pay ter day an fre ter morrer. I ws ea standing thare an er looking er roun an I heFn sum thing say "Hoop! hoop!"' an ter mi amazement it wus Mr. Smith Langford in his attermo bile, so I kunkluded ter ax hem ter let me hole that thing whir he look ed at ther game. He hopped out ter get er tiket an I axed hem an he kni- - sinteg so ia I hopped like er goat jumoing over er read galley. We- got down to -e gran stan an the band wuz er playing,..'Cupids Chrams", se renade. Bo .while Mr. Langford wUs...' er tawing to some man er nutber I 1it out- on thetother side- fer. I wuz Akered-"mgt not -be uster musick an mite ruan er way with me. I santered er rotipd til I ot up as ner the ketcher as the roap wood let me go. I stud thar not long til I hearn. some one say, "Play ball." I knoed thin thare wuz going to bee sumthing er doing, and ye can bet yer life thet that wuz fer thirteen in nings. Sum said "two to nuthing" an others said "one ter -nutin in favor ov West End," I don't kno mi sef, but I do kno frum ther way that tiM. tha gals an boys yelled that West End beet the Laurens boys, but ter mi esti 'mation they awl: played "sum ball." Ther Lauxrens-piteher had a. hole lots of wing, he muster been uster throW ing balls at art-lites,fer he give three or fore men thare bases. John Ruff shore dun sum pitching fer thim thare West End boys he' didn't give but won 3 man a base an I speck he had ruEher not had it, he got a base hit awl rite but it wuz un hijs rite arm an I kno If I had ben hem :I ruther not got thet hit at awl. Sam1 Jones also done sina playin he ma.id a duble on seckon an first in ther sefenth inning. Tird wuz er big lot ov peepil tha, an Mr.I Walter Hardeman empired thet game an he give thim jistis. Well atter awl ov the peepil wuz in leaving I rickined ter mi sef that Ihad better hunt Mr. Langford up4 an make appoligize. ter hem, but ter mi joy I cud not fine hem, an I shore lawd wi.z glad ov that, fer I wuz haf skeered .an tother haf erfraid, not.or ' hem or, knous but-ov what ,he mite say. I got er way frum tha sum how er nuther but I hain't say how. Thin ther nex time I knoed eny thing I wuz at Willow Brook .er axing Mr. Jesse Ward to pull thim thar "com its" offer mi "paws." I rickin they wuz comits it sepmed like I wuz ther tail er trying to keep up. .But befgq he took em of I dun sum 'rollfhg, trumbling, crawling, begging an won time I think I looped the loop. But eny how I enjoyed mi set at* West End an If ever I cum ter New brry agin I rickin I will go over to Willow Brook. But befour I tri to ride on them thar little things I will - practise balm work. I speck I will - tri to - come agin whin Miss Laura Blease gives her "exerbition" at ther park. I wuz thar las year an I havn't furgot it yet. An if yew had er ben thare yew wood not furget it nither /, fer she allus tri ter make things as lovely ai fur as lie in her ower. s "I heard, your dad say 'like the ' etil' ti.e other day." "My dad. has a right to, talk about t e deil. He's a preacher."-Chica