The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, December 03, 1915, SEMI-CENTENIAL EDITION, Section Four Pages 25 to 32, Page TWENTY-EIGHT, Image 28
The History of a People is Typified in
ITitat They Do For Posterity
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Not only in -war and politics has
Newberry served the state, but her
people have led in the great cause of
public education, and they maintained
a college for higher education for
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vast to them as the building of the
Panama canal is to the government of
today, and they have contributed to
the cause of science and arts, to medicine
and literature, and they were
among the first to exploit the manufacturing
of cotton goods and other
commercial and industrial enterprise.
We judge people largely by the stock
from which they have 6prung, and it
is a safe way to judge, ordinarily, and
the people of Newberry are quite willing
to be judged by their ancestors in
the old district. It is the inspiration
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of the past that builds for the future,
and while we can not and do not care
to live in the past, the past is the foundation
on which the nresent is built
and on which the future is to be predicated.
Newberry of Today.
The Newberry of today is a flourishing
interior cotton and produce market
for a large section of well developed
territory. The city has about seven
thousand population. There are three
large cotton mills in the immediate
vicinity, two railroad systems serve
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delivery routes go out from Newberry
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within a radius of eighteen miles with
their mail and offering them the mod
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are four banks in the city, with ample
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There are two cotton seed oil mills,
one belonging to the great. Southern
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The city is well lighted and the industrial
concerns have electric power
day and night, it is well policed, has
I od streets, a fine system of public
schools, even to a high grade college
for men and women. There are parks
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children, churches of all religious denominanons.
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works and sewerage system, its taxes
are moderate, it supports a splendid
fire department. There are two large
standard cotton warehouses where the '
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garages for automobile repair. The1
stores of Xewberry are large, well ,
stocked and offer to the people of the
community all the goods that they can
demand, in variety and in price to:
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compare with any city in the state. It ^
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all parts of the country all the week,1
ana on Saturdays its numerous wagon '
yards and streets are crowded with a ;
miscellaneous throng of people. There |
are good lawyers, doctors, dentists ;
and other professional men to respond
to the needs of the people.
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percentage of arable land than any
other district in the state. The land ;
is beautifully rolling, its hills are ccv- j
ered with verdue, either the original
forest or the product of the husband- \
man. Fruit and grain grown in abun- \
dance. Cattle graze all the year in j
the valleys. The farmers of this sec- j
tion have raised their own food crops :
far more generally than has been done |
in other sections of the state and they'
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of the churches. An abundance of fine
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busily in all sections of the j
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City and county present handsome |
homes, well kept lawns and a thrifty i
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Newberry of today needs more in-!
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