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<s> * ?< v z * v * v ? V'v v j v -i v i %* '* v t Marie Cromer, Mother < I Girls, Tells ? | By Isma Dooly in A '$> v \ v r v v "Ladies and gentlemen, before this very inspiring conference concludes I want to introduce to you the organizer of the first tomato club for girls in # the world," was the dramatic statement by Miss Virginia Moore, of South Carolina, whose clear womanly voice . has rung through the four walls of nearly every little one-room school house of rural Carolina as well as in the bigger normal schools, and she led from her chair the rather shrinking figure of a girl, and presented the littie mnrhpr of tomato clubs. The occasion was one of the many sub-conferences helcl-under the conference for education in the South in Nashville, for this particular conference hinged on the human interest s theme of the girls' tomato clubs of the country, as led by women who for the past year have organized them in every agricultural State in the Union. Miss Moore is director of school improvement work in South Carolina. i Dr. Bradford Knapp of the farm demonstration department of the de-1 partment of agriculture, had made the j leading address and drawn brilliant j reports from the women of many ^ States; he had gone to another meet- j ing. It was growing late; the group were beginning to consult their j watches with the knowledge of other inrhan "tho rrmthpr r?f tomato VaiXO) Tf JUVU 4MWMV. w- - ? v clubs" took the floor. She is not near the height women claim as "medium." She does not weigh a hundred pounds. She looks scarcely 18, and when her voice first broke upon the silence her introduction commanded it had the note of weary womanhood blended with the long \accentuation children of the country give the last word of their sentences. i "Well, if Miss Moore thinks it Will * do any good I'll tell my story," she said. Before she had spoken five minutes pencils slipped from nervous fingers, note books were laid aside and white tissue veils were drawn from women's faces that they might see as well as hear. Doctors of theology, university presidents, editors of national note lost themselves in emotional following of the drama of rural life interpreted by that heroine of the remotest scene in which these dramas centre the teacher of the rural school. >"o Studied Effects. There was no need for studied effects; no epigrammatic efforts; no play to the emotions, but just the intensely held thoughts and sentiments of the speaker as she conscientiously related facts of the homeliest problems which can be converted into the most beautiful truths of life. Her voice grew higher when lost in !her interest in the subject, two red spots came on her cheeks under black deep-set eyes and she appealed in her tones when she brought her audience f -with 'her over muddy roads and rocky roads to the little barren schoolhouse or the court house in the rural centre where 6he fairly forced the girls of that, community to unite to form a tomato club. They did not want to?it did not sound stylish, and she had to reach, out and verily drag their interest in, as the circuit rider preacher 1 ~ ? i 3-.CC i aoe? wuen ue laues an muiuereuL flock. 4 "I am Marie Samuella Cromer," Miss Cromer began. And she thus told her story to me: "I had had much. experience as a country school teacher, my first teaching done in a little school about four miles from Abbeville, S. C. I was bom in the country. I live in the country; I know its lonesomeness and sleepy spiritedness. I love the country and the country people, and I made up my mind I was going to do something for the little girls of the country. I felt ? i.i ? i i . n j."u sorry xor mem; ior scnooi was an uiey had to go to, and one could not always be telling them of school and keeping them in school to talk to them. They needed something to keep the thinking up when school was over and they went home. It was not bright at home; it wasn't bright at school, and there was not much interest in going from one place to the other, and that was about all there was to do. " 'Marie Samuella Cromer,' I said to myself, 'what is the use of your thinking these things if you do not do something about it' I had talked before fho, too/>horc of the OOlintV I had begun to work as the school improvement director in the county, but it seemed to me that there "was so much about the school and so little about the home, and so little to be brought from the school to the home. Chrysanthemum Club Suggested. "I had taken charge of another school, further out than the one I had 2 /, /. + *. ?* * ** ' > ~ * T T v" v v v )f First Tomato Club For j Her Story. I <?> tlanta Constitution. *i V5 A.? -?* ; .v*.vfc.v t been teaching in, because I thought : the people further out in that, commu; nity needed more what I might l>e j able to do for them, little as it was. Still, 1 had not found the point of interest. 1 talked about it. to the other teachers, and to the county superin- j j tendents, and somebody suggested I i chrysanthemum clubs for the girls. But that did not seem practical enough. "I spoke to Mr. Ira Williams, the i | corn club director in our State, and | : he suggested a plan by which the girls | | of the community should be taught to j I make good cornbread and muffins, j That was a venture, in a way; but I ! felt I had been something of a success teaching school, and I questioned whether I could teach them how to cook good bread or muffins, so I deI t \ clined the bread proposition. "Finally, I said to Mr. Williams: | 'Why don't you start canning clubs ; ! for the girls like you have corn clubs i 1 | for the boys?' His reply was: 'About I ; fiftppn Vmnrirftri neo.nlp have asked me i that, but nobody lias done it.' | " 'Well, if it is just a matter of some- j body doing it, I'll do it' "He laughed and doubted that I j could; but I had always intended get- j ting'a canning outfit for myself, as I; like to work with tomatoes, and knew ! there would be money in it. But, how | i was I to start? Where was the money j ! for the prizes to come from? I knew | j the girls would not want to do the ; work without some inspiring object. . % "The county superintendent, how- j ; ever, was encouraging. He suggested I begin with a tenth of an acre near j the schoolhouse where I was teaching j and then reach out in the county and j organize the girls. I started, but I did j not seem to be able to get the interest. Some of the girls were scornful about i 'work with tomatoes,' some of their parents thought the teacher ought to stick to her job of teaching school; and I saw I must have money for prizes, so one day I just put on my ; best clothes and went over to Aiken to see Mr. John D. Rockefeller to ask him for the money. He was out riding once; busy another time (they said), and after a second fruitless visit, I began to write him notes. I don't think j he ever got any of them, because he i never sent me any money. The secre- j tary wrote polite notes for him. "Then I wrote Mr. Thomas Hitchi cock, of New York, who lives at Aik en. I failed there, at first; but, God bless Mr. Hitchcock?but I have not come to that part yet. Ashamed at Thought of Fail?<re. "And it looked to me for a while as if I was losing out in my plan. But I shamed myself at the thought of failure and I determined to make one grand effort. I called a mass meeting at the court house one night; I sent word to everybody?men, women and children?to come; that I had something important to tell them; and I determined to offer a prize myself, and that nothing less than a scholar- I ship at Winthrop college. " 'You are crazy,' said the county superintendent, for he knew I had already spent my money I saved in the school improvement work. 'Where are i you going to get that money?' j "I did not know when I offered the prize, but I made the kind of speech that got them all; I offered the schol-: arship, and the result was the girls got interested and the first club was organized January, 1910. "Then to every school house in the county I planned to go; the clubs began organizing, the one-tenth acres everywhere doing their work, but that prize money was not coming! "I went home one night feeling awful sad and down-hearted. I was boarding then with the mother of the ; superintendent, and after I had my j supper I felt I could not sit with the j others without sighing, and was about to go, when the superintendent handed me a letter. I remember every incident of that night because it brought me to the realization of my scheme, the success of the tomato club. "I opened it and, good people, what do you think it contained? The prize money from Mr. Thomas Hitchcock! Well, I could not tell them what had happened. I threw up my hands; I cried out with ioy; I just danced around the table, and I cried and laughed and said I am so happy!" and as Miss Cromer rehearsed her joys witn cniiaisn realism sne surrea ai. that was tender and sympathetic in the group hearing her story. "When the story of my tomato club was told by Dr. Seaman Knapp to Mr. Secretary Wilson the latter said: 'I will give the $100 for prizes out of my i own i.ocket.' But there was no need for that, for very soon afterwards there was the movement of the tomato clubs started everywhere, and in August, Mr. O. B. Martin, who is the director of the farm demonstration work for the department of agrictuiture m Carolina, announced that for the merit and feasibility :>f my plan I was appointed director in South Carolina of the Girls' tomato clubs, called now the Canning and Poultry clubs. Twentylive thousand dollars has been given by the general education board for the work among girls," explained Miss Cromer. Korkcfcller Did Give .Honey. "So, after all, Mr. Rockefeller did give the money," somebody suggested Miss Cromer. "What Mr. Rockfeller gives to that board?it is his money," and Miss Cro-j mer reproached herself bitterly. "I will write him a note at once and j thank him," she said. "I have really had very hard feelings toward him for not sending me the money for that first prize I wanted. ^ . i "Yes, the girl who won the prize for j the first clubs I organized went to i Winthrop college and is doing splen- i did work there. "Yes, it is true I have been asked J to go and tell the story of the work; I have tried to do in the country in j the church of which Mr. Brown of the I Union Theological seminary is pastor j in New York. I met him in the conference for education in the South. You know those people there are working it out. They have got the church worked up now, and if the church gets into this work to wake up interest,! and the school and the home, then! the boys and the girls and the fathers : and mothers can be made to be inter-; ested in the same things, and the vital things which they have not been wak-J ed about . It will be a new?a bless ed?life in the country-. All Dr. Wal- j ter Page said could happen in the < country was true when he addressed' the conference. It was good and true! and I wish I could remember it ail to take back home!" 1 The Macon Reunion. j Editor The Herald and News: The; following letter was sen. by me to; the Columbia Evening Record on Sat-: urday last, but has not appeared in that paper. In justice to the veterans, I wish you would publish it in The Herald and News. Yours very truly, M AT R11 ford. Newberry, S. C. To the Editor of The Daily Record: It is mortifying and annoying to all; Confederate Veterans, and to their friends, to read, in your issue of 10th, instant, the following paragraph: ; "The Confederate Vets in Macon for-: got the war was over. They raised j , r. i-Ko no a +ho fj-poriria citv! CL UiOlUI UU1IVU *xx ^ 0 ? , on Wednesday that the militia had to be called out to restore order." The charge is slanderous and un-: true. There was disorder in the convention?a good deal of noise, a good deal of loud talking, and frequently several persons attempting to address j the convention at the same time. But; there was no "disturbance" "raised"! "in the city of Macon" requiring the: militia to be "called out to restore or- i der." I attended the reunion through Tuesday and Wednesday, and mingled freely with my old comrades in the ^ ' - r- Ori/1 ot fllflir convention, uli me succis auu m. wvn quarters, and I never saw a large crowd better in their deportment. I never saw a man who appeared to be intoxicated or ill-behaved. On the con- | trary, the Veterans were sober, digni-! fied and gentle, and evinced their ap-j preciation of the munificent hospital-i ity of the city by conducting them- j selves with perfect propriety. The o. ly boisterousness I saw or heard c Was llie ClctlilUr 111 ULlfc} cuurcuuvu Lian, which I have mentioned, and it certainly was not needed to have the militia "to restore order." I hope that you will properly correct that paragraph; or, if you refuse to do so, that you will furnish proof of the facts it asserts. The Confederate Veterans are ready for investigation. Yours very respectfully, M. M. Buford, Adjutant James D. Nance Camp, No. 336. Newberry, S. C., May 11, 1912. H JOHN JAMES HEMPHILL DIES VERY SUDDENLY Former Member of Congress and Well Known Member of Washington Bar Stricken Down. Washington. May 11.?Funeral services for John J. Hemphill, for many years a representative in congress from South Carolina, who died this morning shortly after 12 o'clock at his residence, 2108 Bancroft place, from an acute attack of angina pectoris, will be h(\'d here Sunday. Feeling in the best of health Mr. Hemphill yesterday attended the garden party given by the president and Mrs. Tali and later went to a reception givn by Mrs. Thomas Gaff. At th latter place lie was stricken. He was rushed to his home and died shortly after Dr. Sterling Ruffin, his physician, arrived.Mr HFpninhill was hnrn in Cluster in 1849, studied law under his father and was admitted to the bar in 1870. He served several years in the State legislature a ad later was electd to congress. As chairman of the district committee he beetle much interested in Washington, his later home. He was a member of the Metropolitan and Chevy Chase clubs and also a prominent member of the bar of the district. Mr. Hemphill's widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Hemphill and a son, .John -I. Hemphill, Jr., a student at Princeton university, survive him. Asking Papa. He was a fine, manly-looking fellow, and there was the unmistakable stamp of honor upon his face. Any one seeing him for the first time would have felt strongly drawn toward him. How any one could deny onv ronnoct fhaf h^ miorVit -moire eo?m?. * v/kj ^ umi, i-i^ nmnv \D^\s*-?~? ed past comprehension, and yet, in spite of all his pleading, her father remained adamant. "I have said no three times, Mr. Tawney," said the old gentleman, "and my no means no, especially when thrice repeated. I like you personally very much. I know you to j be a fine fellow, and the soul of honor, \ but it can not he." The young man looked down at the brim of his hat and nervously twirled it. "I quite appreciate your feelings, Mr. Peters," lie said slowly, "and I can assure you it embarrasses me more than I can say to continue to seek your acquiescence in my proposal. Yet I can hardly do otherwise in strict honor. Your consent I regard as essential, and it seems to me that your daughter's wishes?she has spoken to you, hasn't she, in the matter?" "She has," said the banker.- "A dozen times." . "I knew she would," said the young i man. "That was definitely under-! stood between us, not only that 11 should speak to you, but'that she would also. I will add, however, that had she not requested me to do so I should not have spoken to you." "You mean to say you would have put this thing through without my consent?" demanded the old man. "Most assuredly," said the young man. "Your daughter's yes, together with her mother's approval, would have be^n suffic int. for ni?. Your daughter, however loyally insisted that in a matter of such importance you should be consulted." "Well, that does not affect my decision," said the old gentleman. "I am to understand, then," said the young man, rising, "that despite the fact that your daughter has expressed to you the dearest wish of her heart and that I have come here honorably to lay the matter before you, her mother consenting, you still decline to consider my"? "I do," interrupted the banker, im patiently. "My answer now, henceforth, and forever is no, no, no! I will go so far as to add, sir, that if you can give me any idea as to how many times I must repeat that no before you are convinced tliat I mean it, I will say it that many times offhand or will instruct my stenographer to write it down on paper for you that many times, thus relieving you of any assumed obligation to return." "I am quite satisfied," said the young man, walking toward the door, "but," he added, pausing on the threshhold, "let me tell you this: It will jbe many a long and frigid day before J -1 1- ^ _ T j you gel anouier caance sucu as i ! offer you to buy a $6,000 limousine I for $4,500. If you want to throw $1,500 out of the window, it's your lookout, not mine. Good morning, sir." And putting his hat jauntily on his head the young automobile salesman walked out of the office without mak> or coin + V*r* KoriL'Dr'c? 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Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will make final settlement of the estate of Elizabeth Sohumpert in the Probate Court of Newberry County, South Carolina, on June 15, 1912, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, and will immediately thereafter apply for a final discharge as executor. All persons holding claims against said estate will present the same, proved according to law, and all persons indebted to said estate will make settlement forthwith. J. A. FOY, Executor of the Last Will and Testa-j mont of Elizabeth Sehumpert. "?-10-4t-ltaw. i STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF NEWBERRY. cnr*rt ott1 rn\T\Tnv pt paq Milling-Moore Mercantile company, a corporation, Plaintiff, against Tom Kinner, Defendant. By an order of the court herein, 1, j will sell to the highest bidder, before , the Court House at Newberry, S. 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