The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, July 03, 1917, Page FOUR, Image 4
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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]
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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,
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and he and his good wife spared no
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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
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I am not goibg to write of the pro- j
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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.;
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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
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Make This
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| Our Officers
believe in en
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saving habit an
| divide our pr<
! customers by
,
I 4 PER CENT COMPOUND
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BUY ONE OR MOKE LI1
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; Exchang
j \*The Bank of
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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!
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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.
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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
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BERTY BONDS TODAY
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;e Bank
the People"
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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.
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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.
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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
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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<
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THIS hUIND is
SYSTEM of whic
ables us better thi
MERS with the ci
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ORGANIZED ms
IF YOU are no
OUR DEPOSITC
HELPS YOU.
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THE NATION.
From Keport to the Com;
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RESOURCES
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Loans and Discounts
Liberty Loan BondsJ(Installme
U. S. Bonds
Banking House
Cash and due from Banks and
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B. C. MATTHEWS, T. I
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| President
Send for Bookie
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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
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Farmers
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the FEDERAL RESl
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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..
$738,6 39.34
lal Bank of
!C. JOHNSTONE, H. T CANN
Cashier Asst.[C
t "HO W DOES I I
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:t would not ha-.e been so great a fail- j
are if the selective draft measure had
not t?een passed. Man:* who would
have volunteered are now waiting to
be selected and drawn. a
. (
has just begun. And that it is only
by an absolute mobilization of man M
power and machine power that it can '
be won. Maj. Kilburn said it would
not be won by bravery or dashing,
but that the allies were up against A
the most powerful and best organized
righting machine that the worm naa
ever seen, and it would be necessary ?1
to bring against the machine a better H
machine and a more powerful ma
chine. Mr. Xorthcliffe is also against
this country making the mistake that
England made by its censorship of 1
the press and the suppression of the
facts. We just as well face the
facts, them there Germans are not
yet whipped. Neither are they starved.
And that in order to win the war
the United States has got to furnish
the money, the munitions, th? food
and the men. In fact she has got *
to do about the whole job, and the *
sooner we get through with the job
the sooner the war will be over.;
No. 666 f
This it pretcriptioa prepared especially
tor MALARIA or CHILLS & FEVER.
Five or lis doici will break any case, and
if taken then * a tonic the Fever will not '
return. It acta on the liver better then
Calomel tad doet not gripe or licken. 25c
rvice for
gating a thouassembled
by '
kof the farmhe
country.
ER VE BANKING
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lowing Condition at the
7.
LIABILITIES !
.. .$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
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ashier Asst. Cashier I
BENEFIT ME" !
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