Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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l UfSiiay. .Marco zi, i:?^i STATE PRESIDENT GETS HIGH HONOR MISS SOUTH COUNCILLOR TC NATIONAL ASSOCIATION iViiss Sarah Ci!!man of Cclunib:; President of State Economics Organization The State, IS. M:?s Christine X. South. ?tate hcr.n demonstration agent. a".d mir!n< president of the State Home Econoir ie association. was named state cour cillor to the American Home Econom ies association yesterc'ay afternoon a the meeting: of the st :ito sssociation Miss Sarah C. Glllman, director o home economic? in the Columbia hi?' school, was elected president of th< state association, and the othe- ofl> f rs are as follows: Mi-s La la .Marf!? of Spartanburg', vice ppresidert: Mis L. E. Swvgert of Chicora college, sec retary; Miss I'auime oor.ton ot care? burg:, treasurer. It was also decided ,bv the state asociation to affiliate with the Amc-ri /-. r\ *> U aa T?r\ i a? o o - ao 1 n i a v\ \.clii ijv.v/:iv n v?3 kiouii. Miss L. E. Swygert of Ohicora col lege was the first speaker of rho movn ing, having as her subject. "The Ho lations of the Home Maker to the Community.'' Miss Swyzert said th< home maker has a great responsible ity in merely making: the right kind of citizens of her own children. '"Th* Opnortunities for the Home Econom ics Woman in the Industrial Field' was the sabject of an address made by Miss Beatrice Perry, in charge o; the cafeteria at Winthrop college Miss Perry took up the different phns es of work along this line?schoo 1 1. A _ J, * A. 1_ _ i. _ 1 jtuncn, caiPisna. Tea room, noreis zt,< hospitals. Mir.s Florence Ward of th? extension office at Washington spol;< on "A Uniform Homo Economic Pro gram" and outlined this program ir detail. "What Place Has Home Eco V, : AT 3 ? / Ti. ir . i' T-k..)-T xiujiiics inane ior ltsen in xne ruon Schools?" was the subject of a tail made by Miss Helen Louise Johnso? of New York City, former editor o Harper's Bazaar, the magazine fo the general federation of women' clubs and assistant editor of Goo< Housekeeping. She is now engraved ii special home economics work. "The art of living is that to which all othei arts are dedicated." Miss Johnsor said. She discussed the three fol< appl'?ation of efficiency, physical, in tellectual and spiritual, as concern' the working of home economics in the public school. Miss Edith Thomas o: Raleigh, president of the Sou then Home Economics association, and als< regional director for the Souther? states in the American Home E?or am lrtf ri cpi/\ rt t 'av. */\l J ^-T-? am! wiuii, lUiu in ill" wui r "being: done in North Carolina and o" the organization of the Southern a? Fociation. She also discussed the re organization of the American asso ciation and urged affiliation with it. We see by the papers zhat anothei mnvlno- nir-rnvp r hue o*nnp vtf*' eclipse. This i=; f.i-t age. I1 loesrvt ia!c< a man Ion;: to (hir.k iiimse'f to <! at! now. /vm / CAR* X^cne fBACK is a Great C Great Produ of Farmers with respect tion, as Vhave shown them Prosperity on thei MAKING SOIL AN! Every Farmer can do the ^ . ? way. uur riucjrj v^xup ^ us a postal ana state wha Most valuable and interest: CROP BOOK DEPT. BOX 1616. Farmers Cooperative As J. T. Hunter. Agent, Pn ? <?? j k AN OLD FENCE CORNER ; k to ( > * ** * * *' * 4 f * * Dr. J. \\. Daniel in boiuhern ( hns-1 jtian Advocate. !' A few days ajjo I rode :;lo?m- a very ' 1 old road: it had been almost abandon- , ed. nor many people traveled it he- ] ( lire the population h;iri shifted to a ; : wer thoroughfare nor far away and the. old road was almost forgotten; j ? yet a thousand thought? and r-iemo-:? rcame to me n? 1 rode along the*. - neglected road?thoughts that no long'. - stretch of modern highway would i - have ever suggested, and memories;; rh:.l. ihr-v fould never awaken; forh . the new high-way, ;ncorpora:in? all the ( f scientific ideals of modern road build-; 1 i in jr. is lamentably ignorant. oecause * > it has no fato communicate to ( - you. no memories and associations to ] i connect itself with one's power of s thought and no sweet sentiments to . . i;>u-:-h the dearest lit:]- corner of the;< . human heart. It is like a new house ! 1 without a sou! to make it home. Two ^ - centuries will scarcely be sufficient . . to put a sou" into a new road, a liv-i] ;irT sou' that talks back to you. b * ' ?- ^ Ti .Ail OKI WCmi-itMiCf. i v \v<n> ujai..v ,j i - there by the old roadside; the ends 1 - of the 7'ails were decayed where they i > joined at the corners, but the fence ] > c::;l held together: vines, woodbine,' 1 - wild grapevines and the trumpet- < " fewer had woven themselves through i > the crevice* of the rails then mounted \ . the branches of the low-spreadin.s: : ' j dog wood?, holly bushes, sparkle-berrv ; > i bushes, nersimmon trees and red-haw 5 I f-hushes that studded the comers of s ihe old fence and held i: together not- ] .'withstanding the ends of nearly all ; ] t're vaite had rotted where thov joined i j j each ether. To me it was pathetic, t ? i 1' seemed that the vine's were try in? ( *! to preserve an old fence that had pro- 1 . toe ted them when they were young i t i and tender, saved them from the 1 .! crushing hoof of the ox, sheltered i ~; them from the cold blasts of winter i ; and then kindly offered its rails As t j; trellises to lift them into the warm 1 - nnvfi lir r\f hd!)VPTl "I f CWiVi ?.* * v? jl **v ? - V ... ? r; clematis and trumpet-flower had re- < 5j solved themselves into a floral com- j limit tee and kcnt fresh flowers or. the i 5 j old fence morning:, noon and night, i , How much better is a clematis, or a t jJi'mmpet flower, than some South Car- 1 , olinians in whose hearts no sweet sen- } * | I timents, growing oui of the memories J _} of ;he past, flourish, and whose hands ; , i never lav one little offering of grati- t * { % jtude at the shrines of the heroes and ] pi the heroines who made our free insti- i Itution? possible to us? Ah! that was t ! f-hp first thought that the old fence c ) j - - - - - c {whispered into my ear. 11 Did vou know that the old zigzag f - ? .; fence has its counterpart nowhere l Jeise in all liie nations in the world?. I It is purely an unadulterated Ameri- ( _ jean product invented in Virginia when < the colonists began to cultivate the j soil. The timber cut from the forests, i which were converted into corn and r tobacco fields, was split into rails and j built into a snake-fence to protect the c crops from the wild animals. There- j fore it is known as, and frequently s called, the Virginia-fence. Lincoln , was a champion rail-splitter, that is s why I have always admired him and c i j t GMA\ 3 LIN A \ |pT7 ^ jj THIS MARK Pf ; Company and a Svfj j ict. Thousands lyy j* look up to it fn ; and apprecia- IB i C Fertilizers i1 the way to Greater t r Farms, for Y-C is ' 3 CROPS FAY MORE. j same if he will farm the V-C ok will tell you how, just drop t Crops you are interested in. ing Crop Books ever published. V-C FERTILIZERS 'r RICHMOND. VA. f \ sociation, Prosperity, S. C. j f jsperity, S. C. > a 1-1 ?' " " wt* " mmmtm t nnr-imnu. ( : ever defied him. If wo had a Lir i-oln now ami thin the presidents hair perhaps a few t;f our knolt; cLiestions would he split into kinc line wood to make bonfires to celt1 hrate our victories more noble tha those of war. History does not reveal the name o :he inventor of the old zigzag: fencbut i have always felt grateful to tha jnknown genius. Was the pionee Virginian.who first split rails and thei ill a snake-fence, an artist? Lh'nk he way. He may not have bee; in educated man but he was a schola for 'ru- contributed an original idea t' he fund of human knowledge. A long as I live I shall fed grateful am :h!nk kindly of the unknown invento f the old worm-fence for every cor ner was and is a college and all o :hem taken together make the great :st university the world has eve: crown. Do you doubt the assertion fhen learn a little botany and mak tn old fence corner your study? :here your doubt will be dissolved. :o le into the country years ago, whei there were no automobiles, rode wit] i slowly moving funeral procession ft was a wearisome ride eight mile or.g. The ride would have been mud nore trying if it had not been fo :he company of a bright English gir in her teens who kept me good com ?any. She had come across the wa :er when an infant and lived in th< onntrv. I soon discovered that sh< .vas dissatisfied with country life. Shi :ol<l me that she grew so lonesom ome times that she actually wept. Fo some cause .the slowly moving hears* topped and of course all the prcces ion of carriages which followed it [ got out of the carriage and phu-ire; j few flowers and plants from an ol< ?ence corner and during the remaind ?r of the journey I told her the storj if the flowers and the plants, iold he io\v ricn in botanical jo re me on *enee corners were and how tin iirds brought the fruit of every ber -y-plant and vine to the old fence *ow, where they so frequently buil heir nest?, to feed their your.g, hov he seed took root protected by th< *ence corners, thus making every an rle along it? line a laboratory fo' riant study and bird lift. She wa: nterested and her eyes kindled anc he little wnidow I had opened int< he mysteries of an old fence corner kVhen I went home that night I sen icr an elementary treatise on botany ;he devoured it and bought othe: )ooks along the same line. She onc-i old me that there had never been ; onesome hour in her life after sh' nade the old fence corner her Inhoia orv and that all desire to live in tin rity had left her and that no induce nent could persuade hpr to leave th< lowers, plants and birds of the hed^e ows. Did you ever think of Low mucl lod has put into a small comnass t< lelight and edify your soul? Ther< s no place for loneliness in thi vorld. old fence! You stand as < monument to an unlimited timbesupply. Who ever looked down th< ine of a zigzag rail fence and did no' ;ee beauty and art in it? No t\v< ails are alike nor any two of th< iame size. The split followed th< rrain of the tree. "Straight as a shin rle?twisted as a vine," I can heai he old rail-splitter soliloquize as h( 1 rives with the steel wedge one afte' mother. Then the split surface was ike the waves and troughs of the sea md again they were varicolored a; he timber from which they were split ^re you old enough to have walkec ilong the line of a new rail fence nd do you still remember the whifl :ou got of the ne.w oak timber?' 01 ourse you remember it, and you wil tever forget it. It was pleasant tc he nostrils and is still pleasant to the nemorv. Are you old enough to re nember how these new, white rails urned to that gray, satiny sheen as hey became weather-beaten, then irhen they got older do you recall how he moss and lichens grew on them? lanv great men have gone and arc ven yet going, to school to the mosss and lichens?did I not tell you that he fence corners were colleges'! Jlessed inventor of the old fence >oth artist and his art are no more. The old fence about which I began o write was sinking to earth, burienecl with many long years. There vere perhaps twenty rode in it; ength along the road side. It ran hrough a body of woods and every orner was overgrown with brambles 'in.es. briers, sumac, and thorn bush' 'S. The leaves had fallen from $ ^ l '1 T ? A+U?A/1 f oucri OI HUM, aim 1 ijuulcu mui u?v ild fence had been a paradise of love flaking and mating for the birds. Cearlv every thornbush and bramble tad an old bird-nest in it. The bird? lad sought these thorn-bearing; bushs and vines for the protection oj hemselves and their young. I like nature's parables best of all, anr -very thornbush and bird nest y.'as iarable to me. I almost resent tin 'act that so harmless a creature as r it tie bird had to seek the bramble* ind brier? to protect its helpless >. j younjj. Alas! it is V-n power is i] so insatiate as the destroyer. Xot j only ! ;) (!> but men have to protect j. | their young: ami themselves from tho . j insatiate maw of the devourer. even .> ; our history faiis into its stomach of forsjet fulness. The old fence corners, c about which I have been writing and * - * 11 ? ? I whose suggest) veil ess iea :ne 10 mori alize, die! their duty well. What rich L | j cluster? of wild violets, wild thyme, 1| mullein, goiden-roi and a hundred I ; other interesting flowers and shrubs j have found protection in these old j ferce-corners. 1 hnve lingered around ithem for many days. s | An intelligent. educated an 1 re,i!fined Jewess came across ;'ne street r | the other day to say to mi* as she .Itook my hand. fj "I want to tell you how much I - jenjoy your Out-door History, I r the paper and read them every one -'before I sleep." o! mi i_ l J .... TT:~i ft v I irianK you: uui-udui ~!l like people who are mentally able * to coin an idea. All history but de1 eeption, irascibility, meanness, mur'a der, crime and like things, is out idoor history. Thank God for snns shine, light, gratitude, the log-cabins ^ of our progenitors and the old rail r fence wich its protecting corners. I was walking the other day down an old pathway in Chester county? " the leavs had grown yellow from age e and the board fence that shut ihem in - was ramshackled and decaying, but - down the pathway 1 found an old, old ? flower in a forgotten fence corner, as r fra.urant as if it had bloomed only s:' ye:' erday. jviiriter had been defeated at Fish in/ Creek (1781)?the flower of InJ dvj'f i;flence was withering on Caro*! lira's soil and sad, disappointed hearts " \v\ re aching and the Blighter of sweet f :h - n iiis was overrunning the land. r Old Mrs. Adair was living on South Firh!ng Creek, at th? place where the e ro.id from York to Chester crosses " that stream. That afternoon before " the battle at Williamston's plantation, * a? related in my last .paper, Huck and v hi", rrcopers stopped at Mrs. Adair's 2 heure. They ate all that was eatable, - then Captain Anderson laid a strict r in;unction on the landlady to bring s he- Eons under the royal banner. Af 1 tcv the battle that night Mrs. Adair 5 and husband were s.-r.t for by their sons w-ho were among the victors, in t oti'C:' to send them With Col. Edward L;;;-y into North Carolina for protecr tion from the tories. When Mrs. Adair - reached the battle ground she alighted 1 from her horse, greeted her friends - joyously and then passed around to lock at the wounded tories. Presently 2 she came to a tent with her two stal" wart sons where several men v, ere ? lying?Captain Andi^'son among " them. ''Well, Captain," said she, ,;vou or3 ? , , , r* s Get ahead of t by t i "SCOCO" I ; None See us before you r 5 Manufactured froir : mater 5 ' The Southern 1 Phones 81 and 118. : Harry W. D > _ . . . . _ . . fUK Feed Oats: t 95 per cent Nitra All grades ''Poco including 7-5-5 for gardens. ' Se: Deltatype ] Cleveland Big Bo j Get our i :i Dorrity Bonds Telephones > : 1 , r (Icri'ti me yesterday to h:iri^r my >ebelj .-"ons, heiv ;m' two ol' th.-.n and if Ihe j third had been within a day's ride hoi would have be"?? here also."' ! The defeated officer s/npiy re-' plied. j "Yes. Madam. I have ?v:i them." : | This patriotic* oid mother, a daJigh- j ter of Chester. was the momer ox | John Adair of KeniucKV. , t MRS. McINTOSH HOSTES-S FOR FORTNIGHTLY CLUB i | j ; Mrs. James Mclnto.sh was hostess, j for the las: meeting of the Fortnight-1 ily club when she entertained the j members of the club and a few friends very delightfully. Eight tables were j jarranged in the spacious rooms for a! igame ol' rook and the shamrock score j cards v.vre used. Flag lilies, snow j drops and tulips and other loveiy i spring blossoms were used in decorat-! I in? the home. At the close of this de-1 lig'ntfu! party a tempting salad course j jwith Russian tea was served by Mrs. j I J. L. Bowles, and Misses Mirgaret jKinard and Betsy McFall. ?tt> A New fork woman dyed her cat.: And then the cat died. | i Some automobiles have too much , horse power and some drivers have l too little horse sense. | NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT; I I will make a final settlement of the < < estate of Phil Ford, in the probate court for Newberry county, S. C., on Saturday, the 25th day of March, 1022, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon. All persons holding claims against the estate of Phil Ford, deceased, are hereby notified to file the same with the probate judge of Newberry county, S. C., and those indebted to said ertnte will please make payment likewise, as I will ask for my discharge as administratrix of said estate. KATIE FORD, Admx. ) j NOTICE OF SALE j Notice is hereby given tnat me ui;dersigned, .M. M. Wells as trustee, will sell at public outcry to the highest bidder on salesday in April, in: front of the court house door at Newberry, S. C., between the legal hours of sale, the following descr;bed rea! j estate: Al> and singular that certain piece,! oareel or plantation of land situate,j iving: and being in uromer lownsnip,: Newberry county, state of South Car-i olina, containing1 four hundred and ' forty-eight (448) acres, more or less,! and bounded as follows: On the north j by public road and Glenn-Lowry Mfg. j Cc. land; east by Duncan's Creek an.lj spring branch; south by Cromer lands, ! una on the west by landi of Cromer and Mary Thomas. Terms of sale: One-third cash, balance in one and two years. Deferredpayments to bear interest at eight], per cent, and secured by a first mort-j gage of the premises sold, with the option to pay all cash. Purchaser to j j pav for napers and revenue stamps, j M. M. WELLS, Trustee, i March 7th, 1022. J <5-J U-'JTliaw I I iwiiiBinwmi ?ii.ui Jinn- ? 1 ?a??? | ;he Boll Weevil ! ising i TDTH f?rPQ I Lili ILil&LilUJ better. place your order. i the highest-grade j i r? 1 n T"v T r ictib u,y I Cotton Oil Co. i i ik r ommicK, manager. r ! SALE | r-i . fertilizer: te of Soda. moke" Fertilizer, "Truck Grower" I i eels Lens Staple and ' 11 Cotton Seed, prices. id Warehouse : 4 and 315. ? . - ?-? ) ? . i .Wrial -- Sahirriav Sale | K/|#VVAMA w ? ? Cafe Assorted Chocolates farampk ? Frail Jeiies ! Hfinpv C.muli Thins ? Jordan Almonds Mixed as you wish j 43 cents pound Some enthusiastic purchasers have said "it eats like $1.00 pound" See what you think of it ' Member Newberry Chamber of Commerce ) . I ' II I I I ? . V % m $ !<&/* A AVI (/Oil 1 opdi c me upuuii in time of sickness. Doses of medicine must be taken to get well again, but a lot will depend upon the quality of A ? ? the medicine the spoon holds. Bring your doctor's prescription here and you will get just ^ ^ ? ? ? J ^ ] r. /> M 0% A wnai nib uruei iui} mauc up of the purest and freshest J uru^trj wiim cuiwuiiiniw.iv wuiv/ and skill, yet charged for most reasonably. Prompt service. H/ltfkwT <r\n Qt AVA mayca mug owiz Newberry, ^outh Carolina I I I I Member Newberry Chamber of Commerce.