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f|e llcrolD cnD jets. Entered at the Postoffice at New orry, S. C., as 2nd class matter. 4 E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Tuesday, June 8, 1920. The Newberry Building and Loan company is now ready to make loans for the purpose of buying or building homes to any member who may desire to own his own home. This company was organized primarily to assist those who desire to build and own homes and have not sufficient money to pay the cash, and the ferms will be so made as to permit you to make payment in monthly installments about the same as the rent you will have to pay, and thus at\the end of a term of years you will have your home paid for, whereas if you go on paying rent you will continue to Be a tenant to the end. The company is ready right now to make you a loan and this is the time to start and you will feel better to own the home than to be all the time paying rent. See President T. Roy Summer today if you would like to have a home of / your own. THE CLASS OF 1680. Eack in the '80's the graduating classes at Newberry were not as large as they are today. In fact when they reached seven or eight Dr. Holland thought the college was doing mighty well. o+a-w/^ru* KqpV f-.hpre at that com mencement of 1880 forty years seemed a long time. Looking backward it seems but as yesteryear and all the members who are living seem but as college boys to one another even to this day. There .were seven mmbers of that class that finished together, five of whom are still living and in active life and doing the work to which they have devoted their lives. The following members constituted the class of 1880: Elbert H. Aull, Andrew Jackson Bowers, John Belton O'Neall Jones, Muller 0. ,J. Kreps, Burr James Ramage, Bartow Bee Ramage, John W. S. Sheppard. . John F. Hobbs was a member of the class for one year but he took two years in one and finished in 1879. Of the seven five are living, Aull, Bowers, Kreps, Ramage, Bartow; Sheppard. Jones and Ramage, Burr J., passed some years ago. We invited all of the living including Hobbs to spend Sunday of commencement with us and take dinner. Ramage wrote a characteristic college letter regretting that he could not be here and Rreps also excused himself because he had to preach that day, but the other three with Hobbs spent a few hours very pleasantly together at the home of the editor. We regret that all of them could not have been here. It would * * - * ?/??>yvnin(?omAnf be a good ieaxure ux CUIlUlibUVVWvu. to have these class reunions especially of the classes that have been out for many years. In this case Hobbs an dSheppard had not met since they parted at college forty years ago and the meeting was very pleasant and helped to renew the youth of each. CELEBRATE 64th ANNIVERSARY. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Luther Aull, who live in Greenwood county near " " * * Aiii. ^ Dyson, celebrated tne oita anniversary of their marriage -on last Friday and had a family gathering. Invitations were extended to all the neices and nephews of both Mr. and Mrs. Aull and the widows and widowers of nephews and neices. There were present 21 nephews and neices of the blood and 17 of the widows and widowers of the nephews anc neices. Of the children all were presenl t except Mrs. W. W: (Rowena) Daniel of Camden. The other childrer are Elbert H. Aull, Newberry; Na than E. Aull, Estill; Mrs. A. D (Eva) Timmerman, who lives at th? old home; the Rev. William B. Aull Walhalla; Luther B. Aull, who lives near Greenwood. Mr. and Mrs. Aul have been blessed in that all the children born to them except a son who died in infancy, are still living and the children have been doublj blessed in having both father anc mother with them for so many year* and both in good health of body anc mind. Of the 20 grandchildren born IS are living. Of these 10 were present on Friday, the six little girls anc one boy of W. B. Anil and Mrs. T. Q Boozer, daughter of E. H. Anil, anc two boys of E. H. AuII. There arc three grcaf rrar,dchilc;ren rr. J c? the.-c only one was r.re-^nt, lit1.*C~r Boozer. In fact w^.'Ie the family o>? sp-ring is not large, in the 64 years there have been only three deaths in any of the families of the children, one daughter-in-law, Mrs. E. H. Aull and two children of E. H. Aull, Julia al the age. of . seven , and Elbert Her* 'man at the age of 16 years. Truly 1 a rather remarkable family record for which we are truly thankful and grateful to the mercy and kindness ( of a gracious heavenly father. ? i A number of the nephews and " neices could not be resent, some of j I i them living many miles away in dis- j . ~ O XT C\ $ t ll ?> 1VI j t till I. btaies, UUl liuin mauji v/i Xiiv... I J j came messages of congratulation! ( ; and tokens of love and esteem. Mr. jJ ! M. H. Witt, late of Brookland, was! J ' a nephew and also a groomsman at' ^ 1, the wedding 64 years ago. His widow, j ^ 1 Mrs. Helen Witt still lives at Brook- j i ' land and she sent a sweet 'message | * to the folk and regretted that she j J ' could not be present. jg In all there were present at the; i old home 104 .persons, many of them , ^ 1, being from Newberry where Mr. J. L. i J 1 ? - ^ j -_i i( j Auii was Dorn ana rearea ana waere; | 1; his young manhood was. spent and i ' ] where many of the relatives still j i live. Mrs. Aull, before her marriage, j * | was Miss Julia Ann Haltiwanger and; | ; she had a large familyof brothers J s and sisters as did Mr. Aul,l but these' t two are the only ones left, and being!c ,the youngest in their families have c manv neDhews and neices about their t j own age. } j A table was spread under the big; I oaks in the yard and a dinner of'a i f barbecue hash and accessories was ^ served, the hash being cooked by Mr.! ] ; Henry Williamson, a neighbor, who j c I ! Q j knows how to cook hash. J ? j The Rev. George S. Bearden, the jv family pastor, was present as was j our friend and classmate Col. John ] s F. Hobbs and both made some timely! 1 and appreciated remarks at the close j * of the dinner. i J ' ? ? ? n ii. i ! it was a pleasure to nave tnis gatn-. c ! ering and the day was a most de-! i : T lightful one, but the great pleasure j to us was in the pleasure wh?ch it j i g^ave the old folk to meet many of j their relatives whom they had not ? seen in many years, and the pleasure : [ it gave these relatives to meet the old \ folk once more. The only regret is j that all of those who were invited . could not be there. i s j These family gatherings are pleas- j ^ j ant and helpful in many ways. It , gets the families closer together t after years of separation, and keeps s . the family ties knit the closer and the relatives come to know one an- 1 '' other better and by knowing each j other come to understand one an-' 1 other. E. H. A. j 'j ? i j BROKE UP HAPPY HOME. \ j i 1 'j : * ' Wedding and All Lovely but Daugh- 11 I ter "Too Young." j* : i] Kansas City Star. j J ' Chicago.?The valiant knight on .1 - his prancing steed, the winsome maid 1 who loved him, the irate parents who , I placed the fair daughter in durance 1 I vile for marrying her hero?all enO i ter into the romance of Betty Elbert,. 1 l North Shore belle, and Robert Gor-j don Young, a wealthy horse dealer^ from Tennessee. j \ I ' . ' * L| Young, who does fancy riding ] I stunts at various horse shows, met ( ; Miss Elbert last fall. A number of j horseback rides followed and result- i ? I 1 ; ed in a marriage January 7. The ? t' affair was concaaled from Betty's {3 ' mother, Mrs. Estelle Elbert, 6240 1 1 Sheridan road, and her stepfather,;' [ ^ Henry C. Elbert. But the girl's father, j j | George T. Alter of Cincinnati, j 1 j heard of the event and immediately;' filed a suit to annul the marriage, al- j j leging his daughter was not of age. j. ,' An injunction also was taken out to i i prevent Young from annoying his j .1 girl bride. 11 <j h j Young appealed to his attorneys for j j , I relief and a suit for $100,000, charg- j . ing alienation of affections was direct- 1 ed against Alter and Mr. and Mrs. ^ [j Elbert. ! 'I 1 J ? |i J England's Cotton Supply. j J I The Nation's Business. j j ! Cotton plays a great part in the 1 j . lives of men, in England and in the = , United States. Even if in these later; j . times cotton has been more of a J i -j hand-maiden than a king, it has re- j. cently turned out a very haughty sort' ^ 4 of handmaiden and inclined to be ex- iceedingly self assertive. , j Two years ago England took note j j of such possibilities and has since | had a committee looking into things. ; ', This committee now points out that: i ', the world is short in cotton, if needs ! 1 ' are measured by the capacity of pre-1J ' war machinery, and the shortage is j that the shortage is great- j - 5 est in the kinds of cotton that go in- j '. to the finest kinds of cloth; that Eng-j J land is getting 85 per cent, of its cot- j' ton from the United States, which " each year uses more of its own crop; 1 and that the British empire can itself ^ with profit "produce the cotton it , ' needs. Egyrt, the Sudan, Ugand and j ' Inc'.T. ire part? of th2 empire in which ' accord" ~ d th3 committee, cotton ]j , j [ growing can be greatly extended. It seems the committee believes < > that to extend cotton growing in the j i British empire it will need funds?; < . something $500,000 a year. This , amount it proposes to raise by levy- j i ing a tax of 12 cents on each bale of. j raw cotton imported into England, j i iVHITMIRE SCHOOL HAS 1 tii A FINE CLOSING th , ie It was my pleasure to attend the VV rlosing exercises of the Whitmire pi school on last Friday evening:. Prof, th f. C. Brooks, tjie superintendent the a :>a*t session, had kindly invited me m; -o be with them on the closing even- th ng, and inasmuch as I had had the as >rivilege of attending all the closings )f this school for the past several real's, and'besides I feel a great in- Di ;erest in the school and love to go to Whitmire, I could not resist the ;emptation to be present The date vas first fixed for the 7th of June as ind I had arranged to be at the old ur lcme in Greenwood on the 4th to pe onnivprcflrv of the uienu buc wiwi ~^ ? narriage of my father and mother, te md of course had to be there. This a nade the day a very strenuous one W :or me, but I was at Whitmire, he ;hough I had to drive from home to ig Greenwood in the afternoon and take ^ iie train to Whitmire. j There had been rain in the after-: loon at Whitmire and the night was hreatening and as the town is en- H< raged in the making of streets and tic he laying of water-pipes and sewer- ^ ige, the town was transformed in the , iftemoon from a dusty place to one ^ rf red mud, and the streets were very all iifficult of passage over, but there sti vac a go.od audience at the Y. M. C. m< 1 +A oHond fV>Q r>lnsinc * ! (iUUitUI 1U1IX VXJ HrVbVUU VAAV 0 I0( rxercises. There were seven mem-, )ers of the class, four young men! ind three young ladies and the pro- sti rram was very creditably rendered, ga The members of the class are Clarice m< Elizabeth Dillard, James David Dun;an, Nellie Mae Holt, John Scott Shannon, John Randolph Jeter, John m? Stewart Little, Gracie Mae Stroud. Hi The salutation was delivered by he Hiss Nellie Mae Holt and then a ^ short talk was delivered by E. H. , r Vull. The class history was, given 1 >y John Scott Shannon; the class to >oem by John Randolph Jeter; flie Ri lass prophecy \by James David Dun- af :an-*- ...in The Auil essay meaai was won uy ,. tfiss Clarice Elizabeth Dillard with J]1' icrorable mention of M:ss Nellie "I lolt, wha gave a close race, and was he >resented by E. H. Aull.' The schol-: liship medal to that member of the I eventh grr.oc who mado the b(,vt iverage for advancement to the tiigii is <*hool wa? rvesented by Prof. J. O. le; Srooks to Miss Gladys Childer; and jjj, :Le medal in mathematics was pre ;ented by ^r. W. M. Sherard to Miss fttiry Spray. r??? fVion in PVf'.elli^nt je rnn. ui ui^u iddress to the graduates presented fa he diploma?, and the valedictory was (jl ;poken by Miss Clarice Dillard. , Prof. Brooks said the school had a 7jery successful year and the pros- Wl >ects for the coming session are very w< jright. ac ?o? hi, I had intended to come on home gj ;hat night but owing to the heavy jn ains and the condition of the roads I spent the night and came home by e 31inton the next day. The long wait it Clinton was made pleasant by the n* meeting of many friends in this good Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Wilson* sa \Tewberry people, who now run the ~~ Clinton hotel" gave me a cordial in- *? citation to dinner and I had the best at iinner that I have eaten at a hotel in So nany days, and they also invited Edi- ^ :or Harris of the Chronicle to dine cvith me, and the time passed very pleasantly. j j" O ; At Whtmire the .town is putting in j system of water works and sewer- T1 ige and also making arrangements to y( pave the streets. In fact this is one )f tfce real live and progressive towns n< yf the state and. a town that does ll b-nnms is ihings ana aoes uiem wen a 11VI xviiv n low to do them. The pity is that it re seems impossible to get the people of cr \Tewberry to realize that this is a , 7-ery important part of the county,! md as a result we have no road that j is worth while between the two w! places, and the business men of this jn :own of Newberry do not seem to ealize also that the town and county if Union is building a good road be- j ;ween this Whitmire town and Union, vi md that there is a good road from X, T - ?- * - QT?H t.VlPSfi u. UI11UII LU opcli MtllWUl^ m people will get the habit of going to |, :hese towns instead1 of coming to! dewberry when they want to get outj^ from Whitmire, and Newberry is go-iwi ing to lose a great deal more thanw: the building of a road would cost, ^ Besides this the people of Whitmire; ire willing to cooperate in the build- j ng of a road to Newberry and stand Wl ready to do more than their part in such an enterprise, but the people of \Tewberry will not, and it may be too n( late after awhile to do something.!, [t is easier to get people coming thisj ivay before they get the habit of go- de ing somewhere else than it will be to m " J mi. . ?i jet tnem aiterwara. ine very iuuu a that they are willing to cooperate in }n the building of a road is evidence . that they prefer to establish closer, relations with Newbev~:;*- 1?*' New-J berry continues to negiecc the op- to portunity it may be too late ;ifter n< awhile to do anything. I wish I could impress upon the people of , NTewberry the importance of keeping up good and cordial relations with this good town of Whitmire, and of st cooperating with the people in doing ai something for the road between the two places. Supervisor Sample ' is now building a good bridge over Duncan's creek and when completed w [ understand will make it above high le water and greatly improve the road is at this place. I ffl ??? ! di Some one told me that the legisla'ure at the last session passed some ar ?ort of an act looking to road improvement between the two towns, ni but just what is the nature of the act [ do not know, and how far it will ?ro toward ds'n.? anything I do ncL know. ;n We do not cot the laws of one ces ion of the legislature before ?no+h??* is ready to onen. Th:s is a matte :hat mi^ht have the attention of the ce w^errv cha-nb^r of commerce. w< And that ren<:. me to ar!:, what ^ iias become of this orrranizftion. 1 M nave not heard anything of it since 1 the drive for membership. It is ne it was getting to work. Now isf e time to work. I would love to f e two good roads from Newberry tr [ hitmire, one down by the Caldwell ] ace and one up by Cromer s, ana ! e building of these roads would be j fine investment for Newberry to ake. It would be a good thing for e chamber of commerce to take up its first work. E. H. A. . PEACE AT ANY PRICE \ M. Ashby Jones in Atlanta Constitution. Woodrow Wilson stands out today the most conspicuously lonely fige in the world. The outlines of his rsonality are clearly silhouetted :ainst the darkened background of well-nigh universal disapproval hat a contrast to the "conquering ro" in Europe in the early da>s of '19! Has the man changed or has ?? ^*1 -rJ rtVso 9 I c v> ui iu tiiang^u Article X. i And it is all because of Article X. )w he planned and pleaded for Ar:le X! IJow he has fought and enred for Article X. And now hardup from a bed of sickness, where he most died for Article X, we find him ill "carrying on" for this fundajntal thing for which he claims he i this people into war. Is this man who stands today so raight and tall, and unyielding a,inst the pressure of the most tre- ? jndous tide of influence which has : ? er been brought to bear against one ' m, just an unusually stubborn man? istory has not always selected her roes from the leaders of the majornor is she wont to choose as her ?hest ones those who have bended the storm of popular opposition, ither has she chosen the man who ter the long day's fierce contention revocably marries himself to his ?h and holy principle, declaring lere stand I, I can do no other. So lp me God." ' : ' j The Wilson Viewpiont. Is Woodrow Wilson such a man, \ Article X such a principle? At ast we must listen while he states s own conception of the issue. : "If Article X is not adopted and ted upon the governments which re- i ct it will, I think, be guilty of bad ith to their people, whom they inlced to make the infinite sacrifices ' the war by the pledge that they ouW be fighting to redeem the orld from the old order of force and agression ... We would have arned no lesson from the war, but j? lined only the regret that it had j volved us in its maelstrom of suf- j ting."- , i 1 And this is the afterthought pen- f id by Mr. Wilson since the making f : the treaty. That'is just what he t id when he led us a united militant t rce of crusaders into the war. And \ that time we said so, too. What a ' s * I >lemn 'amen' from the lips of the j i merican people rolled over the seas; t hearten the hard-pressed forces of s eedom. ' ' . . ' S Demand For Ratification. But all of that seems so long ago. t he armistice has been signed for a r ;ar and a half. The future of busi- P jss is uncertain, and the world is * 1 in a ferment of unrest. The cry i ratify the treaty, with or without t ~ ? TJ. 1.-U _ + servations. uniy ramy. it is me y of the war-weary, who would a tve peace at any price. i To the average man, a quarrel in * hose issues he cannot see his own ^ lmediate interests involved is a ? ieless quarrel, which should be got- * n out of the way. Thus he c ews the controversy about Article c Tf?e Q rmarrel shout words. and j5 ? XV O M ? ? 9 i wants the world made safe for isiness. But just here is the issue. * r. Wilson contends that a peace * ithout the principle of Article X ill not mean peace but war, and * at without it the world will not be c ii fe for business or anything else orth doing. He says: Keeping Faith. ^ "Any league of nations Which does * )t guarantee as a matter of incon- c stable right the political indepen-fc >nce and integrity of each of its * embers, might hardly be more than 1 futile scrap of paper, as ineffective its operation as the agreement beireen Belgium and Germany." t If Woodrow Wilson believes this j t i be true?and for the moment I am i ] )t arguing the correctness of his j J idgment?is he not justified in j < anding immovable? His letter to ! i r. Hitchcock is not the utterance of ^ ubbornness nor the outburst of lgered egotism. It is the calm deFrance of a man whose mind circles \ very wide horizon of interests, and 1 hose sympathies include nothing I ss than the needs of humanity. It f the deliverance of a dreamer, I ? ant you. But two years ago we all -earned such dreams. And our earns drilled . armies, dared death, | k id delivered this old world from a j ghtmare of autocracy. f fjlcz~ing of Grey Letter. Of course, Viscount Grey's letter: T evitab*y weakened the influence of!', e president with the friends of the | f eaiy. If Europe is willing to ac-|l pt us without Article X, why should ( contend about words? Ar.d yet a ; ireful study of the significance of is letter reveals in this very atti- s de of our allies the most dangerous When ; -4 tI"st uppui llUlUjf Knocks I f: She generally says: j| Let me look at y The man who has saved balance is the person who c . *' i : \ - account those opportunitie selves. J " ' t Hie Comm The Bank that Aiwa \ \ Each month has it / saries, birthdays and after all, is the bride graduates and of birt * t - Nothing could be n y\ a necklace of satiny tiful iridescent tints pleased to show you. Elite Jev v >ortent of the day. They have lost 'aith in the formation of such a eague as President Wilson fashioned, or the very reason that America reuses to ratify his labor. They are " - X- T ~ \TATTT urnmg irom wnsori lo uuugc. ^ ?t hey bid us enter into an alliance vith them ^ithout the binding reponslbilities of Article X. Yes! But j n that case nether will they be >ound.' Herein lie$ thfe . startling ignificance of Mr. Wilson's words to Senator Hitchcock: "It must not be forgotten, senaor, that this article constitutes a remnciation of wrong ambition on the lart of powerful nations with whom ve were associated in the war. It s tiy no means certain that without his article any such renunciation will ake place. Militaristic ambitions tnd imperialistic policies are by no neans dead even in the counsels of he nations whom we most trust and vith whom we most desire to oe associated in the tasks of peace. . . . i'or my own part, I am as intolerant ?f imperialistic designs on the part of >ther nations as I was of such deigns on the part of Germany." To enter tHis league without the )inding principle of this article would >e to reverse all that America has ;ver meant to the world. Friend and oe of the treaty must come to unlerstand that Article X is indeed its 'heart and life." To me, Woodrow Wilson standing >y Article X looks very large and teroic. The X looks so much like a rnss. Shall it be that one must be :rucified on it that a world may be >olitically saved? What a price to >ay for peace! A Bargain. It was evidently another case of he family trying to find a house to ent or buy that caused a small child n a picture show to pass the followng remark as one of the homes of J he "400" flashed on the screen:; 'Gee, daddy, if you could get that 'or $300 ycru'd get- a bargain, wouldn't you?" Commencement decorations look >rettiest at a home freshly and beau;ifully repainted; for instance the landsome home of Mr. and Mrs. I. t o lnvoW r>art of Calhoun It XX LU1 O, 111 u 1VT ? itreet. 5PECIAL ELECTION IN MONTICELLO SCHOOL DISTRICT, NO 17. state of South Carolina, County of Newberry. Whereas, one-third of the resident i roc-holders and a like proportion of ! ho resident electors of the age of i -venty-one in the Morticello School! )istrict No. 17, the County of New-j terry. State of South Carolina, have: iled a petition with the County toard of Education of i\Tewberry bounty, South Carolina, petitioning md requesting that an election he ield in the said school district on the [uestion of levying a special tax of ix (6) mills on the taxable property iriihin the said s.hool district. i / / / our Bank Book" jL and accumulated a ba&k SH an hold and turn to good ' ' ^ ' A s as they present them- f vy * r* <. . ? *. ercial bank lj iys Treats You Right ' . ' > >;%: s quotfe of anniver- ^ weddings, but June, month, the month of \ i| hdays. v ? m ? v i r lare appropriate than i pearls with the beau- i which we will be* fl : - ,( 4 :it velry Co. 9 , K \ ?? ??? . 1 Do you wai^t a large Talking Machine that is not a Columbia Grafo' nola nor a Sonora, Phonograph at a "Cheap price including 5 Rec^ ords Free" and wijfl play all makes of 'ord? 0.S TIE. Salt! UPTOWN STUDIOS has them in stock. * This is a good loud j tone talking machine^ plays Columbia Records and no doubt wijH please you perfectly. ^ \ : ; Now, therefore, we the undersigned, composing the County Board of' n i:?_ ? XT fttfrU A %? t? T T r*A11TlftT UlUUCaUUIi lWl HCIY UtlX J WWUUVJ y. State of SQuth Carolina, do hereby ; order the board of trustees of the Monticello School District, No. 17, to hold an election on the said question of levying a special tax of six (6) a mills to be collected on the property J located within the said school <jis- ^ trict, which said election shall be held at Monticello school house, in the said^ School District, No. 17, on Wednes! day the 16th day of June, 1920, ac which said election the "polls shall De opened at 7 a. m., and closed at 4 ' p. m. I The members qf the Bo^rd of Trustees of the Said school: (Jistrict shall act as managers of sai(J election. Only such electors as reside in the said school district and -return real or personal property tor taxation, and who exhibit their tkx and regis- I tration certificates as required in J ? V? nil T%a n M AttT ^eiierui CICCUUHISi snaa uc anv/wsu w vote. Elector! f-voring the levy of such tax shall cafii a ballot containing the word "Yc > written or printed i thereon, and ovh oTector opposed to such levy shall cast a ballot containing the word <r\V' written or printed thereon. Given under our hands and seals this the 2nd day of June, 1920. C. M. WIT .SON, O. B. CANNON, J. B. HARMAN, County Board of Education, New? berry County, South Carolina! 1 - .< - ' jfl y A N * a