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f|erai8 nog gem Bstered at the Postoffice at Newkttrgj S. C., as 2nd class matter. E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Tuesday, July 3, 1917. THE PRESS MEETING AT BEAUTIFUL BEAUFORT I want first to apologize to my ?? ? rr Pant s H Rodeers. for JUUUg lU&uu, w saying in a public meeting at the Press Association on Thursday evening that he was the only one present ' tiiere who was present when the association met there last, and that he "was one of the officers. I do not find - bis name recorded as a member of the association that far back. Ofj course I should have known better tbaa to say such a thing. The last association held in Beaufort before the one last week was in May, 1881. The only newspaper man who was present at that meeting and wlio is i living today so far as the record sbows is Col. Hugh Wilson, then of! the Press and Banner of Abbeville. And Maj. J. C. Hemphill who wrote! , up the meeting for the News and1 Courier. The officers elected at that meeting] i iwre: T. B. Crews of the Laurens-] rille Herald, president; J. B. Lucas of! the Merchant and Farmer, 1st vice-! president; M. B. McSweeney of thej J. O, p I Hampton Guardian, savuu, o. ?, MelHchampe of the Orangeburg Times, i .third; Hugh Wilson Ci the Abbeville Press and Banner, fourth; Chas. Petty of the Carolina Spattan, fifth; Tbos. J. Adams of the Edgefield Advertiser, corresponding secretary; A. S. Todd of the Andersdn Journal, secretary; T. P. Greneker of the Newberry Herald, treasurer. There wera only about twenty members of the association present at this meeting and# Maj. Hemphill says they were met at the depot by - ? AC hmre-ie?? a committee ana a 11 d>lll Ut MV?00. and carriages drawn by high spirited horses was in waiting, and the strangers were conveyed to the Sea Island hotel where comfortable quarters had been provided for them." That road from the depot to the hotel was a toll road then and over the toll gate a -banner was raised and the words "'Welcome" and the "Pen is migh~ ivo.tvi written tier tnan me S WUIU V ~ - _ thereon. The supper was served and the trip down the river in the Pilot Boy was taken. It seems to me that I saw that name on a boat there the other day. Maj. Hemphill says "the scenery along the river is most enchanting. An old Spanish fort near Beaufort, which was built in the 16th century, is pointed out with evident pride by those who love romance and antiquity, and the ruins of a deserted house on the river bank are still standing, in which some years ago was found, hung upon a stout nail * driven in the wall, a bag containing the fragments of a human body." The remains of the fort are there but the house must be gone and the mystery of the human body still unsolved. But I must hasten' because if I get * reminiscent I will never get to this meeting of last week. President BanKs snd Secretary' Sparks and the rest did "well when they decided to hold thi3 meeting in Beaufort. Everyone who fejsui traveled any at All over the State knows of the unbounded hospitality ot the people of our coast counties and a meeting held in Beaufort could v not have been other than pleasant. But thore has been such wonderful development in this section that the people among the hills should be ferid about it The people do not depend upon rice and fish for a subsistence nor for the mony which they spend. And then the mobilization of -our troops there made the visit doubly interesting and instructive. The only draw back is the time it takes to get there from this section and tfc-e time it takes to come home. But tiie trip going was made pleasant by the fact that the party traveled to v ovon with a. wait at Al geuuci auu V ? 1 en-dale it was not tiresome. And then at Allendale the committee from Beaufort composed of a bevy of pretty girls and handsome men boarded our special and served a most delightful lunch and made the trip njuch shorter and much more pleasant. The committee was in charge of Mr. W. E. TfcVhardson. cashier of the Beaufort bank, and the following ladies (ffcl the serving: Mrs. E. E. Lengnick, Misses Louise Cunningham, Edna and Estelle Lawton, Dorothy Home, Inez Lom"berg. And by the way. Miss Lomberg ie the editor of the Beaufort Gazette and she has one pt the most delighti ful newspaper cfeces I have ever seen.. When the p^rty arriyed at Beaufort there was not a Use of buggies fc _ | a.nu carriages and spirited horses, but ! a line of automobiles and good chauf. ieurs and soon we had been taken to j the private home of the good people j of the city where we were made to j feel perfectly at home. I was taken ! the first night to the hospitable home ! or Mr. and 31rs. Bailey fronting right on the river and I had a most deligntful room. The next day, however, my j young friend, Hon. R. R. Legare, with i whom 1 served in the legislature a { few years ?.go, came around and inj sisted that I should spend the rest 1 of rhP time with him, which I did, i I and he and his good wife spared no I pains to make the stay pleasant, and I do not know when I have had a more delightful sojourn at any place.' I Mr. J. E. Kerr of the Aiken .Journal! : and Review was also entertained in I this home. It was the old time hospi| tality, whick I tear is getting too I scarce in this day. I want to thank j these good people for a great deal of! the pleasure of the trip to Beaufort.1 attentions and kindnesses will linger for many days. j 1 ?o? I I am not goibg to write of the pro- j * 1 ceedings except incidentally, mcj were devoted mostly to hearing oth-; I ers present claims for which it was desired to enlist the services of the! editors. Mr. D. R. Coker of the de- J fense board was to have been present to outline that work, but on account' of illness in his family he could not come. Mrs. Rembert was there to taik' about her work with the board of; health in removing tuberculosis. Mrs. i Duncan was there from the woman's i clubs to present the illiteracy ques| tion and enlist the aid of the press ! in removing it. Gov. Manning wrote I a letter regretting his absence. I do ! not know what he was to talk about. I General Wood could not come, but i Admiral Beatty was there to talk I about tthe army and navy. And Mr. j J. K. Breedin sent a letter asking! 1 that national prohibition be endorsed.; ?O? i Thes* are all good causes, but I am' not so sure that it is the purpose of I the association to tackle all of them I j in their meetings. We have all help-1 j ed as best we could in exterminating j tuberculosis and in driving out illitI eracy from the land. As, to nationwide prohibition there is a difference of opinion and it is a political ques-! i tion with which as an association we should have nothing to do. I enjoy-j j ed the talks of the two good women j and also their presence at the meetI ing and hope to see them often. The I rftflUGSted by' ! pruuiuiuvu icowiui,<v ' ? -x | Mr. Breedin was laid on the table.! ! There was a proposition to send a | telegram to President Wilson endor< sing whatever he did, but if it ever came before the meeting I did not hear i of it. We did pass a resolution which i I offered to ask our representatives; in congress to see if something could j be done to give the federal trade1 commission authority to break up the news print paper trust. But I want to write about Beaufort. The press party was given a drive on Thursday a\ernoon down to Port1 | Royal and out to some of the truck-1 I ing farms. Those shell roads are fine, but the sand is something else. It was a little out of season to see the growing truck but some of the results of these farmers read like fairy tales. We drove out to the farm of Mr. "W. R. Eve who has only re, ecntly engaged in the business. He I Make This j | Business j WE DON'T V I 1 | Our Officers believe in en i saving habit an | divide our pr< ! customers by , I 4 PER CENT COMPOUND I j BUY ONE OR MOKE LI1 ] t I I ; Exchang j \*The Bank of 4. has u. beautiful place out on the river1 bank and it is stated that lie paid $30,000 for his farm and made tho money clear in 90 days on his lettuce crop. And others are doing the same thing. Potatoes and cucumbers and' tomatoes are the money crops this! year. This country is just beginning its development. The city of Beau- j fort has two elegant bank buildings j hsnVo are DrosDering. I! CWIV1 tuu ? 4 - _ found my friends, W. J. Thomas and W. E. Richardson, president and cashier respectively of the Rank of; Beaufort and by their courtesy I had; the pleasure of going through the; building. It is handsomely fitted upj and the report which has just come: out shows that they had something, like $300,000 in cash in their vaults. j And making money for the stockliold- i ers. And by the way, my host, Mr. Legare, is vice-president of the bank. J I met Mr. and Mrs. M.* S. Epstin ! and Dave Mittte. all farmer Newberry j citizens. Mr. JSpstin has the handsomest store is. the city. The trip down the bay on Friday i to the government training s-tation ! was a very interesting trip. By per-' mission of Secretary Daniels our par-' tv was permitted to 'and and goj through the grounds. There are now; about 8,000 boys th^re/ in training, the flower of our young manhood. It; makes me just a little sad to view these training stations. Somehow 1 can't help having a feeling that it Is a terrible thing to take our best man-j hood and our best resources to fight war with, and I have a feeling that our civilization is still a failure when it has to be maintained by the sword. These boys are from all over the United States and are getting ready to go abroad to engage in the war. The wooden barracks are being built with all the conveniences and comforts that are possible in sucli a place. They have the sewer and the bat'^s and the sanitary kitchens and about all the modern conveniences, but all this is but the development of the physical and the human that is in our nature. Admiral Beatty said that tho ma.rinps were now the best arm of the service. And they are a fine looking: body of men and seem to be getting the training. - We also went to the Aarget practice and I was told that this practice place has the record for good shots. I ?o? The climax of the meeting from th3 pleasure standpoint, however, was the reception at the home of Mrs. A. H. Christensen. Th.e old time mansion is in the midst of one of the most hoaiitifiii flower erardens that tTi'e eye could behold. It is a clraem of beauty and comfort and luxury and when lighted up with all the lanterns and | electric lights that adorned the place that evening it was surely like unto ; a fairy land. There is a laurel drive that skirts the garden and with the i flower garden and the magnificent old | trees it makes one feel that he has | entered some elysium where there j is perpetual youth. * " v.nafiiiff nn Pri/ldr nn this At IUC UU A X iuu; V-.V ! beautiful lawn Admiral Beatty spoke ' of the Red Cross and stated that he \ wanted to start a movement by i which all smokers and chewing gum fiends and ice cream and soft drink ; habitues would agree to cut down the allowance in one half and put the I other half in the fund. He also sug Bank Your ? Home. /ANT IT ALL and Directors couraging the d are glad to ?! Hits wren our allowing them I INTEREST ON SAVINGS | BERTY BONDS TODAY i i _____________ I I ;e Bank the People" / jested that the ladies who played; cards would have a "kitty"' and every time a eaine was played each one put) a nickle in the "kitty" to go to the, Ked i/ross. And he also suggested! that the poker players turn.the "kitty" j over to the Ked Cross. He took hand ! primaries and his propositions and j tlie vote was pretty general. -a? Maj. Kilburne, Gen. Woods aide, spoke of the army and told some | very piam iacis wmcn it would, be well for all the people to hear. He said this country was now up against a real fighting machine and we had, to prepare a bigger and more efficient machine to go up against it :1" we wanted to win. He said we would win but we just as well face the facts that it was some war. He feared just what was before them. ?o? Tt was.- altogether a very enjoyable meetin2*anrJ T am snrp all +ho msm_ bars had a most delightful as well as a most instructive and inspiring1 trip to the old town of Beaufort. But somehow I can't get rid of the idea that we as members of the association get more benefit from a meeting when it is held in a resort hotel where all the members live at the same place. But the people of Beaufort were untiring in their efforts to make the members have a srood time. It took all day for us to get home. We left Beaufort at 7 in the morning J -1 3 1 ? * ttuu itracuea nome ai 7 in the evening. E. H. A. Over in Greenville where they have some good roads they are having DaHav D< UCUCI Ui i i i | A VAST F1 | sand million c I Act of Congr | ing and busin THIS hUIND is SYSTEM of whic ables us better thi MERS with the ci i during crops and ORGANIZED ms IF YOU are no OUR DEPOSITC HELPS YOU. l COND THE NATION. From Keport to the Com; C RESOURCES 1 \ # Loans and Discounts Liberty Loan BondsJ(Installme U. S. Bonds Banking House Cash and due from Banks and T T C \j, o. utaouici.. i TllA NftllAV i lire nauun B. C. MATTHEWS, T. I i | President Send for Bookie [ ?? p I some trouble in dealing with the speed lovers. t With this new arrangement i of having only a State number it is ' very difficult to locate a car and the i police have been unable to stop the i speeder. He just niovfts on and you j cant locate him. But the Greenville5 police have a plan which stops them.! They send one man ahead and when i the speeder refuses to stop the man' ahead just throws some planks with! spiKes in tnem across the road and the speeder is forced to stop. It is a strange thing to us that! in this Christian age and the age of! law and order that there should be so much wilful violation of the law An J ^ J U lUtl. dllU ULUiL UiCU 5UUU1U MXY tJ SU litlitl 1 C~ I gard for the rights of the other fel-! low. The machinery of human na- j ture is running wrong somewhere. It; needs oiling up and adjusting anl maybe that is what this world war is, * -_H . 1 11 1 _ I lur, to eau a nait aua get. me iua- i tvhinery properly adjusted once more. ' "Red blooded men will be accepted as volunteer^ by >U. S. army now.1 Slackers come later. Which are you?" j This is the wording on a'poster >n; I the postolik-e calling for volunteers j the arrnv. This seems to us to be ; unfortunately warded. Surely the j authorities do not mean by this that; all those who do not volunteer are lo be termed slackers. Especially when the authorities were so bent on passing a selective draft measure. And certainly it could not be meant that those who are drawn in the selective irirAft' arp slflptprs &nrrv xtA CQ-CF it The volunteer call was a failure, but 196 anking Sei s / Farmers UND now aggre lollars has been ess to stand bac % ess interests of t / the FEDERAL RESl b WE ARE A MEW an ever before tofsu] red it and currency tl to PROTECT THE irkets. t linked up with this >RS come in and let i 1844 ENSED STATEMEI 41 BANK OF Newberrv. South Carolina ttroller of the Currency. Sh lose of Business June 20 191' -$547'9IO-73 Capital Stock, ruts) .. .500.00 Surplus and U ... 100,000.00 Circulation... ....12,000.00 Deposits Rediscount wit 78,228.61 Bills Payable.. $738,6 39.34 lal Bank of !C. JOHNSTONE, H. T CANN Cashier Asst.[C t "HO W DOES I I j :t would not ha-.e been so great a fail- j are if the selective draft measure had not t?een passed. Man:* who would have volunteered are now waiting to be selected and drawn. a . ( has just begun. And that it is only by an absolute mobilization of man M power and machine power that it can ' be won. Maj. Kilburn said it would not be won by bravery or dashing, but that the allies were up against A the most powerful and best organized righting machine that the worm naa ever seen, and it would be necessary ?1 to bring against the machine a better H machine and a more powerful ma chine. Mr. Xorthcliffe is also against this country making the mistake that England made by its censorship of 1 the press and the suppression of the facts. We just as well face the facts, them there Germans are not yet whipped. Neither are they starved. And that in order to win the war the United States has got to furnish the money, the munitions, th? food and the men. In fact she has got * to do about the whole job, and the * sooner we get through with the job the sooner the war will be over.; No. 666 f This it pretcriptioa prepared especially tor MALARIA or CHILLS & FEVER. Five or lis doici will break any case, and if taken then * a tonic the Fever will not ' return. It acta on the liver better then Calomel tad doet not gripe or licken. 25c rvice for gating a thouassembled by ' kof the farmhe country. ER VE BANKING [BER, and it enpply OUR FAR I '? icy neeu kiur pro1M against DISf ^ \ W system as ope of ^ lis tell you how it * SIT OF NEWBERRY j f lowing Condition at the 7. LIABILITIES ! .. .$ico,ooo.oo ndivided Profits 24,018.95 | 100,coo. 00 " 42i'237.27 . ,h Fed. Reserve Bk. .43,383.12 50,000.00 * $738,639-34 Newberry [AN I a/ \17 rDAuCD IV/il, | TT . TT . V/lWmtilV * I ashier Asst. Cashier I BENEFIT ME" ! 4