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VOL XLII. NO. 141 NEWBERRY. S.*C. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22. 1905. TWICE A WEEK, S1 50 A YEAR THE NEWS OF PROSFERITY. A New Lutheran Churehr-Secret Order 1 Elections-The Prosperity Drug Com pany-Personal and Otherwise Prosperity, December 21.-At ,he annual election of the Wood men of the Word held on the first Thursday the following officers wqre elected for the-ensuing year: Consul Commander, A. H. Kohn; Adviser Lieutenant, S. D. Duncan; Banker, W. W. Wheeler; ,Clerk., T. A. Dominick; Escort, J. B. Wheeler; Watchman, A. Z. Counts; Sentry, J.- Arthur Counts; Manager, 3 years, J. S. Wheeler; Manager, unexpired term, R. C. Counts; Physicians, J. S. Wheeler and J. J. Dominick. The camp will have a banquet on the night the officers are installed. The president of the Law, and Order league has called a meeting of the executive committee at New berry on Tuesday, January 2, (Salesday), 19o6. All who can, should attend. As we write the Christmas feel ing is aborad and we,wonder how many will dishonor the day and who will honor it. Grace Sunday . school having started a fund for a new church has been joined by the church council, who at their last meeting decided to build a new house of worship. We have been an advocate of a new church from the beginning and we wait and hope to see a nice new church here in the very near fu ture. Grace (Newville) congrega on was organized in 1855 or 1856 d a church building was erected 1858. It will be a fitting round ing out of the first fifty years of the congregation by the erection next year, 1906, of a new church. We are requested to announce that there will be a Christmas tree at St. Luke's on December 27, and that all who desire eetn put pres ents on for their friends, relatives and ?. The exercises will be in the morning at 11i o'd:k. The exercises in Grace church wil be Mond .: even.tg -Decea .kr 7th. Ever:.'b. dy is invited to fhc, services. All the boys and rgirls who are away :from home at school andi teaching will be home titis week excepting the Winthrop girls, who will have no home-going. We wish them much good cheer and hope they will enjoy their Christmas din ner to the fullest extent. At the annual election of the Knghts of Pythias the following officers wvere elected for the ensu ing year: C. C.. C. T. Wyche; V. C., A. H. Kohn ; Prelate, Jacob S. Wheeler ; M. A.. J.*D. Quattlebaum; M. W., A. Z. Counts: K. R. & S., F. E. Schumpert; M. E., J. F. Browne: J. G., L. C. I?ferchant: 0. G., J. P. C.annon: Trustees. L. S. Bowers, A. H-. Hawkins, E. N. Kibler: Phy sician, T. I. Bedenbaugh. The Lodge will have a banquet with adldresses one night during the first week in January. at which -time the officers-elect will be in stalled. There is work ahead for the lodge and the first meeting -night in the new year should bring out quite.a large attendance. 1r. T. L. Sease will leave in a! ew davs for Lake City, Florida, o spend the winter with his laughters, Mrs. julian and Mrs. ance. Rev. M. 0. J. Kreps was called :o Columbia on Tuesday by the leath of a nephew. Rev. C. M. Boyd, having re ;igned the pastorate of the A. R. P. :hurch here, will go early in the 1ew year to his new field of labor it Anderson, S. C. We regret rery much that Mr. Boyd has .de :ided to leave us. He had endeared iimself to all our people and in our iumble opinion his place will be iard to fill. While we regret his oing we are glad that he goes to o large a field of usefulness and ve wish him abundant success in is new field. Prosperity's loss is Anderson's gain. We learn that Rev. J. J. McKain ,vill not be returned to this circuit >ut will go to the western part of :he state. Mr. McKain had made nany friends in the two years' work ere and he will be missed. Mr. J. L. Wise has been confined to his room for some days. The Prosperity Drug' comxpany. as received its charter and is now a regularly chartered institution. The board o..directors are Drs. G. Y. Hunter, Jacob S. Wheeler, J. I. Bedenbaugh and J. J. Dominick. The officers are Dr. J. I. Beden baugh, president, secretary and treasurer; Dr. J. S. Wheeler, vice president. Dr. C. E. Traylor has arrived and assumed the 'duties of pharmacist at the Prosperity Drug company. Mrs. R. L. Gaston left on Wed nesday ito spend Christmas with Mr. Gaston's parents in Blacks and her. sister in Richmond, Virginia. Miss Erin Kohn will return from Hickork, N. C.. to spend the holi days at home. Mr. S. S. Birge is doing nicely and is said to .be practically well. He is expected home next,- week. His many friends will be glad to know of his recovery. Mrs. A. B. Bro.wne and Mary Lizzie and George went to Colum bia Monday to visit their uncle. Mr. S. S. Birge. Our folks are in the midst of the Christmas trade and all are doing their "level best" to sell. Rev, and Mrs. C. M. Boyd have gone to Due West to spend the hol idays. Mrs. Lizzie DeWalt has return ed from a very pleasant visit to Newberry. Miss Sonn, of Lexington coun ty, is visiting her cousin, Miss Ju lia Ann Sonn at Capt. J. B. Feller's this week. The election for officers of the Prosperity Lodge A. F. and A. M. was held at last meeting. Dr. G. Y. Hunter, W. M.: A. N. Crosson, S. W.; WV. T. Gibson. J. WV.: N. H. Young. treasurer: F. E. Schumpert, secretary:; C. M. Harmon, S. D.: J. F. Browne, J. D.: S. C. Barre. Tyler. Messrs. A. G. Wise and C. F, Lathan have gone wvest for mules. They will be gone about a week. The weather is paying .its debt to us now. We don't know to ever have experienced a itore dreary. dismal, rainy day than Wednesday was. It has been a great factor in nullifying the Christmas trade. Married by Rev. S. P. Koon, Mr. -arI Rankin. of St. Luke's and -.\ Iss Jeanette Feagle. of Ala chia, Florida. Mrs. V. A. Moselev and Misses Lula. Lena and Jessie Moseley at tended the Carlisle-Kennedy wed Misses Leckie and Rawl. the teachers in our graded school will spen(l the holidays at their respec tive homes. . A iss Nannie Simpson will spend the holidays with her parents. Messrs. J. C. and Jones Quattle-' baum, of Statesboro. Ga., have been on 'a visit to their brother, Mr. J. D. Quattlebaum. While here they bought a lot of mules to take back with them. Mr. J. D. Quattlebaum attended the Tri County fair at Batesburg, last week and won the 2nd prize for the best pair of mules and 2nd1 prize for best driving.horse. Mr. J. L. Quattlebaum of Bam berg will spend Christmas with his mother in our town. Miss Leah Boland leaves for At- i lanta Friday to spend the holidays with her grandparents. Rev. H. W. Whitaker the new Methodist minister is expected here by the new year. The R. F. D. boys will observe, their only holiday on January 18. They will spend Christmas on the road. Mr. L. A. Sease went to Clem son college Tuesday to attend a meeting of the board of trustees. Mrs. J. F. Browne's music class will give a recital early in the new year. Program will be given later. The latest~ from Mr. S. S. Birge stated that he .would be permitted to be up a little on Sunday and would be permitted to return home' the last of next wveek. IProgramme of exercises of Grace Sunday school Monday evening, December 26th. Quartette, Silent Night. Processional, Merrily Onward. Prayer. Song, by school. Exercise, The Wise Men. Song, by school. Class Recitation;~ Miss Eva'Les ter and scholars. Song. by-boys, "He is King." Recitation. Miss Mary Wheeler. Song, four little girls, "Church of Bethlehem." Song, by school. Motion recitation and song. Infant class exercise. Song. by school. Collection song. "Merry Mission aries." Closing hymn. Benediction. Organist. Miss Eva Lester. SALUDA VOTES IT OUT. Big Majority Against the D)ispensary in County Aeross the River. Saluda on Tuesday voted out the dispensary by a big majority. Comn plete returns are not yet in but it is stated that the majority against thdspnsary is very large. CAPT. MITE HELD UP. Kr. Moote Refused Hold Up Hands and Highwayman Fired, But Missed Aim, Columbia State. An unknown highwayman, wear ing a long black overcoat which 1 reached to his feet and enveloped his body, and with a pair of auto mobilists goggles over his eyes, at tempted to hold up Capt. E. S. Motte. the well known Southern railway conductor, near the corner of Ehnwood and First avenue, at 8:40 o'clock Tuesday night and' when Capt. Motte grappled with him the local Raffles fired at him at a distance of a few feet and ran, making his escape. The young man passed Capt. Motte without speaking and after taking two or three steps beyond, suddenly turned and in-a gruff voice ordered the conductor to stop, and at the same time commanded him to put up his hands. Capt. Motte, thinking that he recognized the voice of an acquaintance and that it was a jest. turned and aske(? what he meant by such behavior. Another stern order to throw up his hands brought him .to a full realization of the situation. He de manded to know who the man was, but was told that if he did not put up his hands the robber would shoot. Instead of doing as he was told, Capt. Motte dashed at his as sailant. attempted to overcome him but the unknown retreated out of his reach and threatened to kill him if he did not throw tip his hands at once. In his efforts to gct a hold on his man he. caught the robber's pistol by the muzzle but it slipped through his hand. Seeing that he was unable to get his hands on the elusive crook and thinking that he1 might get him in reach by subter fuge. Capt. Motte held his hands partly up and told the gentleman of the goggles, if he wanted them any higher he could come and put them up; but instead of doing so he or dered the captain to turn around. This strategy having failed, he again rushed at the young man, but his grasping fingers came just near enough to feel the goggles on the manl's yes and to cose without taking hold of anything. The would-be highwayman leaped back out of reach and at the same time pulled the trigger of his already cocked revolver; there was a blind ing flash and a report, but the bullet fortunately went wide of its mark and tihe robber turned and ran at full tilt towvard Elmwood avenue, where he turned westward towardl the baseball park and was soon lost to view. Election of Health Officer. Notice is hereby given that the Board of Health for the Town of Newberry will elect a H-ealth Offi cer for the ensuing year on Tues lay. January 2nd, 1906. at a sala ry of $43 a month., Applications must be in the hands of the Clerk of the Board by 12 o'clock of that E. Cabaniss. Clerk of Board. 9,282,191 BALES GINNED. rovernment Report Shows Much Smaller ' Number Than for Last Year. Washington, December 20.-The lensus bureau today iss'ued a bulle in showing the quantity of cotton rinned from the growth of 1905 to )ecember 13 to be 9.282.191 bales, :ounting round bales as half bales, ts compared with 11,971.477 bales n the same date in 1904 and 8, 526.244 bales on the same date in E903. The amount of cotton ginned by :he several cotton growing states :or 1905 up to the date named is as Eollows: South Carolina, i,o42,8o6. A Pretty Home Wedding. A pretty home marriage was sol fmnized last night near Prosperity, when Miss Lucy Bedenbaugh be came the bride of Mr. J. Herman Werts. The ceremony was per formed by the Rev. Z. W. Beden baugh, father of the bride, at his home. Only the immediate rela tives were present. Miss Bedenbaugh is a daughter of the Rev. Z. W. Bedenbaugh. With the charm of her personal ap pearance she combines talents and a disposition that is at once sweet and attractive. Mr' Werts is at present canvass-r ing agent for The Herald and News. He is a native of this coun tv, and a young man of character and energy. Both the/ young people have many friends who wish them much' happiness through life. NOTICE OF ELECTION. Notice is hereby given that the Town Council will hold a meeting Tuesday. December 26th, 19o5, at 8:30 A. M., for the purpose of elec ting the following officers for thie year 1906: Clerk and Treasurer at a salary of $50.oo per month. City Attorney at a salary of $1oo per annum. Chief of Police at a salary of $50.00 per month. Four Policemen at a' salary of $40.00 per month, each. Street Oveseer at a salary of $40 per month. Lamplighter and Janitor at a sal ary of $25.00' per month. Hose Wagon Driver at a salary of $30.00 per month. The clerk and treasurer will be required to -give bond for the faith ful performance of his duty in the sum of $5,000.00, the chief of po liee in the sum of $1.o00.00, and the. policemen in the sum of $500.00 No application will b)e consider ed for but one position and must be in handwriting of applicant, ex cept that of lamplighter and jani tor, and must be filed with the clerk of the Towvn Council by 6 'clock on the evening of Decmber 25th. 1905. For further information apply to the clerk andl treasurer. A. T. Brown. Eugene S. Werts. Mayor. C.& T.T.C. N.