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r t Entered at the Postcffice at NewV#rryt S. C., as 2nd class matter. E. H. AULL, EDITOR. j Friday, July 2, 1920. A WORD OF EXPLANATION We have always held that .one of the most valuable and interesting features of a country paper is the, local news and the news and even I the comments of the country corres-: pondents, and we have always endeavored to feature these departments in The Herald and News. As to the correctness of the news items we of course have to depend upon the integrity of the correspondent. We have no way of verifying the facts. We do not care for jokes. Facts are what we want. And then there are serious matters about which we should not joke. i In the last issue a correspondent signing the name Violet mentioned several marriages and several prospective marriages. We understand that at least two mentioned never took place. This is too serious a matter about which to joke in a newspaper, and we regret that this correspondent wrote these marriages as fafcts when ihey were not, and w? fkot: correspondent was honestly mistaken, but there is no excuse even for that, because the correspondent should have been certain of the facts before stating them as facts. We regret the publication more than we can express, but *s; stated we were under the impression that the corrau ?:vle*it w&* stating facts, and we had n ? jneart of knowing otherwise. We hope this will not occur again. We want the news and a marriage is news, but not if the marriage does not take place or had not.taken place as in this case one at least was stated as having aireaay happened, which had not taken place. ( BIG DAY AT WHITMIRE. J There are to he big times at Whitmire on Saturday. There will be a free barbecue and foot races and baseball and all sorts of pleasant and helpful amusement, and tnere will be a big crowd there and the people up this side know just how to make the day pleasant for you, and thev want you to come and have a good time with them./ In other words these people are going to celebrate \ the fourth of July on Saturday. And they have the best and most complete baseball grounds in the state and they have a good team and have fine baH there every week. VOTE FOR THE SCHOOLS. \ ic Tin creater asset to any JL UVJLV 0 community than the schools of the community and anything that will help the schools should* have the hearty cooperation of every good citizen of the community. ? To have good schools it takes good teachers and in order to have good teachers there must be money to pay them. Then the^e is need of good physical equipment and this takes i money. There is to be an election in New-1 berry school district on Saturday for the purpose of raising the money to t pay the teachers adequately and to provide better equipment. Every goocl citizen owes it to the children^ of this community to go out and cast a vote for the schools and that means a vote for the tax. You owe it to yourself and to the children of this community. You will not fail in your tft these future citizens and to the advancement of your community. SIGN THE ROLL. j Don't forget to sign the dub rolL Better do it now while you think of it. There is a new enrolment this year. If your name was on the club roll two years ago it will not answer for this year. A new enrolment this year. Get your name on the roll right now. You can not authorize any one to sign your name. You must sign it yourself and if you fail you witt not be in position to vote sin the primary. ' . A COUPLE DAYS OUTING. j The boys at the office very kindly granted me a leave of absence from duty for a couple days test week that I might tav* a little owfcing. Yen' know a|te? ;many yfears-ef' struggle/ and hard woi*k it is ^ome/Teiief te be able to know that you don't have to be at the shop oney?ry Saturday, and dont have to worry about mak ing the "ghost walK" so tnat tne wheels will go round and round the coming week. And yet it was with some difficulty that I was able to forget that I had been able to shift the load?I had been carrying it for so jnar.y years it scarcely seemed'natural but no* even in the brief period of one year I do not "worry or even think about the,matter, and just like the rest of the help walk up a&d get ? 'j i my little ^ay check, and go on and try to do my best for the old paper and feel thankful that at times I can get away and not feel that things are going wrong at the shop, and go on Saturday and spend a few days where I will. They do insist that I be at the shop on every Monday and every Thursday and I try to comply with that regulation. We are trying to cooperate and every one nil his station and do his part, and we are getting along pretty well so far, and I believe that it is going to work out all right. I hope so. But this is not the story I started out to write. You know Adam AuH, that is some of vou know him. Well, he is a kins man of mine, and if I do say it, he is one of those big hearted generous fellows, one o? God's noblemen who would, rather serve than to be served, and that is the truth and will be borne out by all those who know him. Well, he has been complaining because I do not come to see him often enough, and don't, stay long enough when I do go, so I told him that I would be at his \ouse for dinner on last Friday and that I would just him until Sunday after v-? noon. And that I would bring the two young American boys and their mother, and it was all right with him only he would have been glad if I had brought the other boys at the office and some others besides, and had remained longer. The only trouible about, a visit to his home he wants you to eat too much and he never tires trying -to do for you that which will make your stay pleasant. And by the way, he holds some record against race suicide. By his first marriage to Miss Lillie Kibler there were twelve children born and all of them are living and married except one and there are numbers of grandchildren and great grandchildren and they are good citizens. There are eight girls and f6ur boys and all of the four boys served in some capac;a ? -????+ TrrsiWM wnr fwn nf Iiy III II1C ICVCllb r> V1AU !?* *! ?v them for several months overseas. Of the sons-in-law who live in this county there are Joe Counts, John Huffman, Me?tts and Shealy and in Columbia there are J. E. Cannon and Stockman and over in Marlboro is Bundrick and one daughter Myrtle, who lives in Laurens and is not married. Of the four boys Luther (Kcon) lives at fiome ana j-?ee m uaumno and Jeff in Portsmouth, Va., and Rostoe in Richmond and all married. Of his present wife there is one bright little girl six years old. ?o? Really he is one of the rich men of the county, maybe not in dollars and broad acres, but he has a fine place with all modern conveniences and ar nice farm and grows all the things he eats rieht there and while "they say" he does not work he owes no money and always has some and is rich- in the service which he takes delight in rendering to his fellows, and after all is not that the fullest and richest life in this world. Of course I do not mean to be understood as saying that Adam is without faults, because if I thought so I would not visit him, because I am afraid of the perfect man who still wears the human flesh. - ? - - 1 j ] On JbYiday aiternoon my oiu menu Jake Hipp, who lives not far away, came over and brought some fine peaches, arid then we drove out to the "mountain" and at my request we went around by the old "Uncle" George Feagle place where Mr. Joe Counts now lives in order that I might see that section some of which I have not been through since the days of my boyhood. I wanted tp see about where "Uncle" Peter Suber lived and where I went for beef on Cofnr/i'ov WhilA the club lasted. Both U?WUi.wv*j the houses of these good old people of the other days are torn away and there is not nrach there now to remind one of the scenes impressed in the .days that are gone. Many a good red watermelon have I helped to eat at "Uncle" George F eagle'a and the peaches and the other good things. The lands have been cleared and the roads changed and jiew ones opened. And everything looks so different one * ? tfrculd scarcely recognize tne pxace. The old house with the bread rflteza some six or eight feet above ground where the melons were cat, is no more, and Joe Counts be* a new, modern building. j ' ???' ..We went in by the home ef. Dr. ifaoob tL. Bowels who lives at the old to me. of his father, MBijg X," 1 *eKeve he was called. Dr. Bowers keeps the place in good repair aad he has one of the largest and nicest of pecan groves that I have seen in the county and they tell me that the trees bear abundantly. The crop3 are good in this section and the roads had recently been dragged and were in fairly good shape. In fact there have been opened several public roads in &is section since "time when I would go home from school with Arthur Kohn and others to spend the 1 ' ATI/5 nignt arxi wrien my iamci ?) mother would go from preaching at ?Ji St. Pauls to take dinner with "Big" j? George Counts or "Uncle" George si Feagle. I was glad to see the evi-1 8 dences of piosperity and progress, j 8 Saturday morning before sunup we , 1 were over to Walter Richardson's to ^ Ij eat a barbecue breakfast. Walter j 8 had killed a couple hogs and made!? some hash and had barbecue meat for sale and Adam had sent a pigjS over to be barbecued for him and we decided chat we would have a bar- j becue breakfast and it was fine. The j | remainder of the day was spent at: I Pomarda and Little Mountain and j resting and lounging at home. You i know I was let off for a couple days i to rest and do nothing and I fol-J lowed the advice as closely as I! could. * . ' * Walter Richardson has a fine coun-j try store at his home and does a good business. And by the way it is sorter, I.i+flo Mrtnutoin T7A11 line aiUUllU JL/lVWb *>. . v U. J _ meet a man and don't exactly know B his nafrie just call him Mr. Richard-; I son and you will not miss it bad, I just as you would come pretty near S guessing right around Little Moun- 11 ftain if you called every one yoir met I either Shealy or Boland. This place I j - ^ 1 J 1Pi/tVai?/)anniril1a I SilOUIQ OC UlllOU iwiviu4ivuvuva?v? / They live all around there and it is really a country village and they are ' all good citizens and are working for the betterment of the conditions in the: country, better schools, '"bitter churches, better roads, ,all ,of which*. are; indicative of good citizens. Jim Wheeler cam? down S^fur&kyn ? * ' ' ?_ : M?i.r afternoon at Mams mviw?Livii w ? join us in attending service.at old I St. Johns. You know this "was Jim's 1 home church and where he was con'- I firmed and he lived near the church I for many years, and was one time a I Lutheran^ but when he married a I good Mefhodist he went with her to I the Methodist church. This is one of 11 the old churches of this country. The g1 present building I am told < wass I j erected about 1808 and still is well I j preserved and looks good. It has re- B i cently been repainted and inside and I j out and is As neat as you would care 8 to see. The gallery-is there as of I old and was built for the use of the I negroes but the high pulpit is gone I | as well as the sounding board and a. I nice altar in its place and recess for I the pulpit. There was a large con cnreeaticft present and many of the | people I knew and they all gave me B| ji warm welcome and an invitation to ? come again. The nails in this church 9 were made in a blacksmith shop and ?J are of good irqn. - Mr. William Sum- I mer had the church bulit and the r ' nails made. There was a church Ij building before this built of logs and I used afterwards as a school house 8 And by tiie way ine scnooi nouse jlux this district stands near the church. The congregation o.wns a large tract of land much of it in original forestN of oak and hickory and the land is fine. The Rev. Mr. Stroup is the pastor of this congregation in connection with Piney Woods and preaches here on the second and fourth Sundays. He preached a good sermon on Sun j 7 day Oil me De&uiy auu vdiuc ui : merciful and the duty of it. The graveyard near by the church has very few graves for a church as old as this. And there seemed to be very few very old ones according to the markers and yet there are many graves there that have no mark at all. And then in the early days it was the custom to have family bury i*i? crrrmnHs and even at St. Pauls which is also one of the old congre- I gations of the country there was no I burial ground at the church until the I latter half of the last century. ,1 i And by the way when I was over I home the other day I was telling toy H father about my visit to old St. Johns I and he asked me .if they still had the | box pews.. He said he at one time was a pretty regular attendant on preaching at this church and in those days they had regular box pews and on a hot summer day when you got settled in one of them it was about as hot a place as you would find, sol deep were tfeey that all the air was< cut off. They are gone now but the* good women are talking right now about placing new and more comfortable seats in the church and no doubt will soon provide them. , I am going back down in this section again some time before long and spend a few hours in that fine library^ at the residence of Mr. John Sum-, mer. I have very cordial invitation from Mr. and Mrs. Summer to do so. This is a good section of _ country, the land is productive and R as a rule the people grow on the I farm what they need for the farm -I 'and always have a little 'money and If i plenty to eat and they know how to 11 . prepare it. The roads could be im- I proved by a little m-are work. 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