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.a- r.r.i t c*rv3£Vi* i % OUT AMONG THE PEOPLE BLEASE MADE THE CHANGE When you go to vote next Tuesday you will note your state ticket is on yellow paper and your county ticket on white paper. This has been so for several years but ever since the inauguration of the Australian bal lot system. All tickets used to be white which caused no end of trouble in the mixing of state and county ballots in the same box. Our fellow ♦nwnsman. Judge Biease, is responsi ble for the change. It is a result of legislation he introduced while a member of the legislature. THEY STONED MA HAYDEN The new novel, “They Stoned Ma Hayden”, by J. Irbjl Koon, former Newberrian, is one that all in this section of the state and especially Newberry County will find extremely interesting. The fact that the auth or of the book is well known in this community will make you want to read it and once you get into the book, you will find the story taking all your interest. The setting is laid in our section of the state. From some of the names of persons and places that Mr. Koon uaes, we cpn almost be .3«-i'red that he has used Newberry county for the scene of his story. And, too, the plot of “They Stoned Ma Hayden” may have been taken from true life of people of this area as it has been reported that such an experience that Ma Hay den had has actually occurred in the county. The story is one of the South’s underprivileged. It’s th e descriptive life of the poor who are convinced that their poverty is predestined. They accept this fate, not trying very much to better their lot. In this gripping novel of the South, men and women toil side by side in the field, their whole existence being centered around their close-quartered shacks. Nancy Hayden is the cnetral figure of the tale. Suspicion, rumor, and gossip prevail the surrounding terri tory when the question arises, “Did Nancy Hayden bear a black child?” The story moves on with Nancy’s search for happiness in striving to live down the suspicion which so un expectedly encompassed her. The ending of the novel, which has been referred to as the “Good Earth” of America, brings to light the expla nation of the mystery that has made the life of Ma Hayden one of misery and long suffering. “They Stoned Ma Hayden” is out standing for its “vital characteriza tions and power descriptive quality.” When one has finished reading the book, one is impressed by Mr. Koon's thorough knowledge of the life and habits and customs of the people he writes about. J. Irby Koon was boin September 12, 1880 in the Fairview section of the county near Prosperity. He was reared in that community and at tended Newberry College, graduating in 1908. From Newberry he went to Columbia University where he enroll ed in the school of journalism. Mr. Koon was engaged in newspaper work in New York and later returned to South Carolina and for a time wrote legislative news from Columbia. His interesting comments on state poli tics were carried by the Newberry Herald and News some two years ago. “They Stoned Ma Hayden” is a novel that you will certainly want to add to your “must read” list. The attractively; bound book containing 246 pages may be secured in the city at Hal Kohn’s for 82.00. AMONG THE SICK SCHOOL CONDUCTED FOR COUNTY BUS DRIVERS Six patrolmen of the State High way Department conducted a school for county bus drivers here Tuesday. About 35 drivers were present. County buses were inspected by the patrolmen and later in the morning the group went to Speers Street school where talking pictures on high way safety and safe handling of school children were shown. Concluding the “school” was a lun cheon at the Newberry Hotel at noon. Law Enforcement South Carolina state laws require cars to stop behind school buses loading or unloading children. Many motorists fail to do «o. Highway patrolmen have instructed bus drivers to take the license number of cars failing to stop, and report them to the local patrolmen. The driving public will do well to take notice of these instructions and drive accordingly. INQUEST INTO DEATH OF NEGRO HELD Maybank Replies To Manning's Charges Charleston Mayor Defends Name of City; Predicts Election Tuesday An inquest into the death of Na thaniel Watson, 19 year-old Negro, who was fatally injured Tuesday af- ternooh at the home of Otis Barnes, colored, on IMr. Lem Wise’s place near C. B. Parr’s home, was held Wednesday afternoon at four o’clock by Coronor I. H. Wilson. At this time the coroner’s jury declared that “Nathaniel Watson came to his death as a result of gun shot wounds in flicted at the hands of Sarah Barnes.” Sarah Barnes, colored, is being held in the county jail. She confessed to Deputy Sheriff Hub Quattlebaum Wednesday that she had accidently shot Watson with her father’s gun. CLUB ENDS YEAR Wyman Counts has returned to his home in Prosperity after recently un dergoing an operation at the county hospital. Miss Claudle Lee Shealy of Little Mountain underwent a tonsil opera tion «t the local hospital Wednesday. Her condition is reported fine. Henry Dominick who had an opera tion some two weeks ago at the hos pital is reported to be improving. CARD OF THANKS We- wish to take this opportunity to express to our neighbors, friends, and relatives our heart-felt thanks for the kindness shown us during the illness and death of bur dear wife and mother. Also for the words of sympathy and. for the lovely floral tribute, which added so much to our comfort. The. family of the late Mrs Ann- Eating Sons., With the annual August picnic, the Smyrna Home Demonstration Club brought to close its official club year. The picnic was held at the Margaret Hunter Park with Mrs. Mattie Booz er in charge of recreation and amuse ment, and a picnic lunch was served at six o'clock. During the past club year, all meetings were well attended and much interest manifested in the work. An Open Letter Editor The Sun; One year ago a great hail storm swept through Newberry county lay ing waste to about 400 farms and throwing approximately 2000 people upon the charity of neighbors and the government. This great destruction of crops em braced a section which reached from on e border of the county to the other. The hard work of a year was wiped out in a very few minutes. In their dilemma, the farmers of the stricken section naturally turned to those in authority. They turned to their Congressman, John C, Taylor. A meeting was held in the Newberry courthouse with many farmers of the desolated section in attendance. We do not have Mr. Taylor’s exact words as no one took them down, but the import of his remarks before those farmers was to the effect that they were entitled to nothing from the government. He told them in sub stance that they were no more en titled to government aid than a man whose home had been burned. Of course, this reasoning was fool ish in the extreme. If a single farm er loses his all, his neighbors will pitch in and help him out, but when all the neighbors are in the same fix, how in the name of reason and com mon sense could Mr. Taylor expect them to help each other. It is interesting to observe the dif ference in th e attitude between Mr. Taylor and Butler B. Kara when he was in congress, for we find a news paper article of June 6, 1928, which says: “Congressman Butler B. Hare re turned to Saluda today from Bam berg and Barnwell counties where he had offered his services to those who had suffered loss of crops as a result of the hail and windstorm Monday. The Congressman has tak en the matter of securing aid up with the Red Cross and, the Secretary of Agriculture. He says he /visited a number of fields where there was not a vestige of vegetation left,” Mr. Farmer when you go to cast your vote Tuesday, September 13th remember what happened to you In this case when you were in distress. Do you want to vote for a man who would not help you out if your crop was destroyed tomorrow, or do you want to vote for a man who has a deep sympathy for the farming class? —This ' is correct, J. P. BOOZER. Greenville, Sept. 5.—Mayor Bur nett R. Maybank of Charleston, op posing Wyndham Manning of Sumter for the Democratic gubernatorial no mination in the second primary Sep tember 13, said tonight he did not claim to "have made Charleston t perfect city” but that he h..d “en forced the laws and punished the wrong doers.” “My opponent exhausted his vocab ulary to broadcast not only to -i jjth Carolina but to adjoining state* an untrue and unfair description of Charleston,” Mayor Maybank said in an address delivered over a state wide radio hookup. “I want to give to the people of South Carolina and those in other states who hear my voice tonight what I consider is a sufficient answer to my opponent and show that he himself does not believe the state ment he makes. ... “You know and I know that if my opponent believed all the things he said about Charleston, he would not have sent one of his own flesh and blood into such a community to re ceive his education.” Earlier he said that to receive "over one-third of the votes cast In a field of eight candidates is indeed an honor and one for which I am grateful. . . , “You cannot recall when a candi date for governor received in the first primary such a lead as the 118,- 000 men and women from every section of South Carolina gave me last Tuesday. My lead was more than 43,000 over the second candi date and leaves no doubt as to who will be the people’s choice for gov ernor i n the second primary a week from tomorrow. “The fact that I received such a magnificent vote in practically every county in the state, having actually rad a plurity in 26 counties of the 46 over my seven opponents, shows beyond question that South Carolin ians are now thinking in terms of good for the whole state and cannot be swayed by narrow appeals to the prejudices against any particular city or section in South Carolina. “The people of South Carolina know that during the campaign I visited every county, presented my program for progressive government and the development of our state and not onc e did I indulge in any mud- slinging or criticism of any one of the candidates for governor. “I took the position then, and I stand by it now, that attacking an. opponent would not convince yon 1 would make the kind of governor that South Carolina needs. “I had not expected during the re maining days of this campaign to make any further political argument because for ten weeks I have pre sented my views to the people of South Carolina. But last Friday my opponent in his desperation to ex plain why in his second race for gov ernor he ran such a poor second, viciously attacked my home people and even reflected on the 118,000 good men and women who voted for me in every county in South Carolina. I can not refrain from expressing re gret that one seeking the high office of governor would stoop to such po litical methods in a desperate effort to win a few more votes. . . . “You will recall that Senator Brant ley W. Harvey, chairman of the legis lative committee that issued the re port on law enforcement in South Carolina, publicly stated that condi tions In Charleston were bettered un der my administration and that re ports to the contrary did me an in justice. “Charleston was not the only city under attack in that report. In fact investigation by the legislative com mittee was an outgrowth of condi tions here in Greenville where I am spooking tonight. But no one would be so unfair as to blame my friend, Mayor Fred McCullough, for the con ditions outlined in that report. “I do not claim to have made Charleston a perfect city under my administration. It is impossible to legislate morals into an individual or Into a collection of individuals but I have enforced the laws and punish ed the wrong doers. “In Charleston county are to be found law-abiding, God-fearing peo ple who are rearing their children in as wholesome an atmosphere as can be found in any community in South Carolina or the nation, and because of this, my opponent, since I have 'v-'j FARLEY CONGRATULATES SMITH The question of whether Senator Smith has been congratulated by the administration, in part or in toto, was answered Tuesday by an item in the New York Times quoting James A. Farley as having sent^uch a wire to the victor in the retient senatorial race. Mr. Farley, in Maryland with the president, took occasion to tell re porters that he had; congratulated both Smith of South/ Carolina and Downey of California.! Asked whether he (Farley) had inquired of Senator Smith whether he was a liberal under Mr. Roose velt’s interpretation, fir. Farley re plied: “It is not my habit to ask that question.” Senator Smith is on vacation on the coast and from there confirmed the fact that such a telegram had been received. BISHOP PURCELL WILL PREACH AT SALUDA The following announcement will be of interest to local Methodists who may desire to attend the meeting: “The public is cordially invited and urged to be present at the eleven o’clock service at St. Paul Methodist church in Saluda on Sunday, Septem ber 11. “Bishop ,Clare Purcell, bishop of the four conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, in North and South Carolina, will be present and will preach at that time.” MAHON, BRYSON RUN AGAIN The State Democratic Executive committeo, meeting Tuesday in Col umbia to declare results of the first primary and to heir appeals, ordered a second race next Tuesday between Congressman G. Heyward Mahon, Jr., seeking renomination in the Fourth district, and his opponent, Joseph R. Bryson of Greenville. Mr. Mahon’s counsel asked for a recount of the vote cast in th e dis trict, but Paul M. Dorman of Spar tanburg county, moving for the run- over contended, “if you have five re counts, I venture to say that no two of the five would be the same.” The motion for a run-over carried by a vote of 28 to 14 and followed strong appeals from attorneys for both sides, Mr. Mahon asking *or a recount and Mr. Bryson for a nin- over. The appeal to the state com mittee came over the close vote for the two men. Meanwhile, the committee declared officially the results in the other state races, the official results varying but little from unofficial tabulations. Mr. Bryson’s counsel argued against the recount and pleaded that a second race would be “fair”. Congressman Mahon, after the com mittee’s action, told newspapermen, “I’m perfectly willing to abide by the committee’s action.” He claimed that a recount at the box in Goldville, Laurens county, would give him 50 additional votes to overcome the reported eight-vote lead held by Bryson.' “PAT" McCARRAN, “COURT REBEL,” FOUR TO ONE CHOICE Reno, Nev., Sept. 6,—Senator Pat McCayran, who sought Democratic renomination jn today’s primary elec tion, ha4 a four (to one Igad tQqjght over Albert HHiiard, 100 per cent New Dealer and McCarrap’s principal opponent, in the first scattered re turns from three counties. Returns from fiya pf the state’s 262 precincts gavei McCarran, 88. Hilliard, 21, GIRL SCOUT TROOP ORGANIZED AT MOI LOHON D. A. R. MEETS FRIDAY The Jasper Chapter D- A- R -> will meet Friday afternoon, September 9, at four o’clock, at th e home of Mrs. J. D. Caldwell with Mrs. Cald well and Mrs. R. p. Moore as host esses. This is the first meeting to be held this fall and all members are urged to attend. The program, the topic of which is “Constitution Day”, will include an address fey Mr, C. E. Hendrix and en editorial by Mrs. H. L- Parr. Miss Grac e Summer, Regent, Mrs. C, M. Smith, Secretary. A Girl Scout troop has been orga nized at Mollohon mill with Mrs. Mamie Hawkins as Captain of the group. Twenty-five girls reported for the first meeting Monday even ing at t^e Mollohon Club House. At this time the Scout paotto, slogan, promise, and laws were read and the aop given the name, ‘.’Blue Bird”. Mih&e4 Counts and Edith Jones were named first and second lieuten ant, respectively, and Elizabeth Boozer was mad e chaplain. Members of the troop are as fol lows: Margaret Perkins, Mary Drig gers, Dorothy Hannon, Elizabeth Willis, Pauline Hamby, Margaret Reeves, Ernestine Bickley, Sarah Reeves, . Carolyn Addy, Dorothy Reeves, Parlee Turner, Margaret Mc Carty, Alliene Golden, Dorothy Counts, Ola Mae Burton, Louise Wood, Nell Lee, Sara Alice Mildstead, Margaret Cook, Muriel Mayo, Loleta Suit, Mildred Counts, Edith Jones, and Elizabeth Boozer. MRS. McB. HIPP PASSES CLINTON AT CORNER STONE SERVICE PLANNED FOR CHURCH The comep stone laying services for thp Bethany Lutheran church (Oak land) will be held on the fourth Sun day afternoon, September 26, at 3:30 o'clock. Different officials of the S. C. Sy nod, the Newberry Conference, the Women’s Missionary Society of S. C. and the District Brotherhood of New berry Conference are to be present and to take part in the services. It is hoped that as many of the friends of the congregation as pos sible will be present. The work of the building Is making good progress. It is now ready for the roof to be put on. More money is needed to carry on this work, but we are being encourag ed by the help that is coming from th* different sources. VISITS IN COLUMBIA Mrs. Jake R. Wls e spent Friday in Columbia with her sister-in-law, Mrs. Richard Plowden. Mrs. McB. Hipp, 52, died at her home in Clinton Tuesday afternoon following a sudden illness. Mrs. Hipp had been in declining health for some time. She was a native of Laurens county, the daughter of Thomas H. and Ella Henry Little. She was a member of the Presbyterian church. Surviving are her husband, McB. Hipp; one son, McB., Jr., and trree daughters. Misses Mildred and Irene Hipp and Mrs. W. M. Self, of Parks- ville; two brothers and one sister, John W. and E. T. Little and Mrs. L. D. McCrary, all of Clinton: and one grandchild. Funeral services were held from the hom e Wednesday afternoon at 5 o’clock conducted by the Dr. D. J. Wood, the Rev. Marshall Dendy of Gainsville, Ga., and the Rev. C. A. Calcote of the city. Pallbearers were William J. Hen ry, Alex Henry, H. L. Baldwin, Jack W. Anderson, Joe Davidson, Henry M. Young, Aldine Blakely and Dr. A. T. Neely. NOTICE—Mrs. Hal Kohn will open a class in piano, Monday, September 12. it p been mayor, sent his own son to Charleston to attend school. “You know and i know that if my opponent really believed all the things he said about Charleston, he would not have sent one of his own flesh and blood into such a community to receive his education. “My opponent expresses wonder that I received such a large vote in Charleston county. Yet he knows if I had made such an attack on his hom e county of Sumter as he has made on mine, the good people there would have resented it and they' would hav e justly carried their re sentment to the polls ag the good people of Charleston bnve done. . “His ridiculous assertions, in an at tempt to explain his own small vote, ( Continued on page 8) Kendall Mills Lutheran Parish Itav. J. B. Harman, pastor Bethany (Oakland school house): Sunday 16 a. m., Sunday school, Mr. E. B. Hite, superintendent. Sunday 11 a. m., Divine worship. Summer Memorial: Sunday 10 a. m., Sunday school, Mr. Eugene Shealy, superintendent. Sunday 6:30 p. m-, Luther League. Sunday 7:30 p. m., Divine Wor ship. • Visitors are invited to worship with us in all of these services. RETURNS NORTH Miss Marion Davis has returned to her home in New York City after spending several week in the city with Miss Frances Wallace at the home of her parents’, Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Wallace on Caldwell street. The Wallaces accompanied Miss Davis to Charlotte, N- C., Sunday where she boarded a train for New York. Courthouse Board Issues First Report The court house building commis sion, appointed by the legislative de legation, Wednesday issued the fol lowing statement upon receipt of word from Atlanta headquarters of WPA that a government grant had been made for the project: September 7, 1938 Honorable Marvin E. Abrams, Senator, Whitmire, S. C.; Honorable Thomas H. Pope, Jr., Newberry, S. C., Honorable J. Claud Senn, New berry, S. C-, Honorable John J. Dom inick, Prosperity, S. C., Members of the House: Gentlemen: The County Building Commission for Newberry County, created by an Act passed at the last session of the General Assembly, desires to furnish to you the information herein given as to the work of the Commission, and the progress made so far toward accomplishing the project for which it was created. The Commission, cosisting of Messrs. John Wiliam Hipp, J. Kess Derrick, Z. F. Wright, Chesley W. Bedenbaugh, James C. Duncan, Eu gene S. Blease and Tabor L. Hill, duly organized, as required by the Act and elected Eugene S. Blease Chairman, TT F. Wright vice-chair man, and Tabor L. Hill secretary. Mr. Heyward S. Singley, of Colum bia, S. C., formerly of Prosperity, Newberry County, was selected as the architect for the Commission. Mr. Stev e C. Griffith, of Newberry, was elected the Commission’s attorney. After full and thorough study and examination, the Commission came to the conclusion that it was feasi ble to construct an addition to the rear of the present court house build ing, at a cost not to exceed the sum of $36,360.00. Of this amount, $20,- 000.00 was, and is, to be supplied by Newberry County. The balance of the necessary amount, $16,360.00, ,waa to be sought, as a grant, from the Public Works Administration'w the United States Government. Under the terms of the Act, the Commis sion was empowered to request such grant. The Commission took immediate steps to make the proper applica tion for the grant from Federal Gov- ernment. Plans of the proposed build ing were drawn by the architect, af ter repeated conference with the members of the Commission and all the County officials of Newberry County. The county officials showed their great interest in the matter, and cooperated at all times. Their sug gestions as to the needs to be met were valuable. County Treasurer J. C. Brooks, who was authorized tc make the application for the Feder al funds, efficiently cooperated with us. The architect and attorney pre pared very promptly all necessary papers in support of the application. Their work was done so capably that no correction in any plan, or any paper had to be made, and no addi tional information had to b e supplied. Consequently, there was no delay In the immediate consideration of the application by the proper authori ties. We are glad to inform you that we have today been advised by Cap tain J. L. M. Irby, Assistant Region al Director of the Federal Emergen cy Administration of Public Works that the application for the grant of $16,360.00 has been approved by the headquarters in Washington, D C. Our Commission appreciates the manner in which our application for the Federal grant was acted upon by the office of the Regional Director. Honorable H. T. Cole, Atlanta, Geor gia, and the administrative authori ties in Washington. The application was bandied entirely in a business way, and at no time was it necessary for your Commission, or any person connected with it, to seek aid from any public official or to ask for any political influence. The whole mat ter has been attended -to in strictl’' business methods,. It is expected that within a fev days the proper advertising will ap pear for bids for the construction of the building. While the Commission as a whole, and its several members, and thosr who hav e cooperated with us, are entitled to some credit, more, or less, for this needed improvement in the court house of our county,, we cheer fully give the Legislative Delegation of Newberry County full credit for making it possible for .our people to hav e a modern building for .the con duct of the '-‘County’s business, and for the manner in which this has been effected. The plan you put into '.j/-.' September is all the mosquitoes. One of the professors, the Rev. E. D. Kerr, who was in the Spanish- American war, will likely be absent for the year, serving as chaplin.— Notes on th e Columbia Theological Seminary in The State. The cotton crop in this section is going to be short, and from what we hear it is going to be shorter in the great cotton growing states on ac count of dry weather and other causes. The government estimate puts it the smallest crop in years. Now the congress or some govern ment board is talking about fixing prices. If /bat is done there will b« no market- except as. the mills may consume and they , will buy only aa they need it. ■' Next Tuesday will be settlement day between Peeples and Pbllock for the short term of th e United States Se nate to fill out the late Senator Ben R. Tillman’s unexpired term. The t&ople will punctuate Peeples’ politi- cai periscope with PoHock “Pebbles" or penetrate Pollock’s pellucid petras. us with Peeples pointed “pellets” -» nil in the shape of ballots. The rumor is going around that girls will not be accepted as students it Newberry college this year. This. a mistake. Girls will be accepted* and more than the usual number w|l| attend. Even the dolls in the Jno. B. Mayes book and variety store seem to have smoles on their faces since the advent of little ten-pound Jno. B. Jr., Mon day night. But maybe it is only bright reflection from the countenance of the A DAUGHTER Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Kittles of Glenn street announce the birth of a daughter, Betty Ann, at the hospital Wednesday, August 31. Mrs. Kittles is the former Miss Tommie Graham of Donalds. \ INJURED IN WRECK Anne Jenkins, colored, was injur ed in an automobile wreck Wednes day afternoon three miles this side of Strothers when a tire blew out and overturned th e automobile in which she and her husband, John W. C. Jenkins, were riding. The couple were en route to their home in Florida after a trip to New Jersey. GOING AWAY?— See our line of Trunks and Rags. J. J. LANGFORD & SON SEEN ABOUT TOWN | Chris Kaufmann meeting orthestra boys at bus terminal—Jim Wheeler snatching handful of cotton from pas sing truck—Rev. C/-A. Calcote tak ing small son to see “Snow White”— Jith Hickson talking politics—Ruth Mims wearing colored glasses -on’ her ' iead —Miss Emily N^wbtrrj? slid Sis ter, Miss Bessie Newberry, Walkiiig up street—-Dick Mims, Pete Cble’rtian, and ^oj/irison Clary eating' ice cr^sih cop$s—^ojin Scurry from - uji> Chap; pelts way 'in Sunoffice lyednesday— Soupy Campbdl trying p6 'pO£''“ but fire in car engine—John Gerald Htp'p back in city for js fevf days ftom Emory University y,’here he is a‘ stu dent—Eilerbe Peljliani calling ' |bA!g distance on tejephon^—Carrie Wight- man leavjhg fpr Epworth Orphanage where she .will teach yguin this year —demson Wilson, Columbia, visiting in Sunoffice—Mrs. J. E. Wiseman >■' Mrs. J. L- W e Hi n 6 in conversation— Miss Ethel Counts in, a stir trying to get a check written and cashed be fore bank closing at two o’clock— Clarence Metts of the Jolly Street community in city Wednesday—Box Counts, secretary of the county De mocratic club, getting everything in readiness for the second primary Tuesday, September 18. execution is on e of good business, and at the same time ^here will be no burden upop our taxpayers. Yours very truly, EUGENE S. BLEASE, Chairman, TABOR L. HILL, Secretary, n' - County Building - Commission for Newberry CeOmHy^ v