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NEW is a city of Culture and offers many advantages to" parents wishing to equip their children to take places of importance in society. NEWBERRY— offers the investor good cli mate, abundant water and pow er supply and the cooperation necessary to insure success of a well grounded venture. VOLUME 1; NO. 6 The Rising Sun—1856-1860 NEWBERRY, S. C, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26,1937 Slider & Greneker—1856-1860 $1.00 PER YEAR OUT AMONG THE PEOPLE NAMED HIM WRONG Mana Connelly stopped by the other day to tell us, among other things that we have been spelling his given name wrong all this time. He gets “Maynard.” “Manor” and others, but its Mana. We’ll remem ber that but the-writing of that word will always bring to mind the stuff the ancient Hebrews ate while loaf ing around in the desert. CARPENTER’S RE-OPENS After several weeks of remodeling under the direction of Contractor E. F. Livingston, the remodeled and well-appointed store of Carpenter’s, •slii open it’s doors Friday (today) for p.iblic inspection and patronage. The new store in no way resembles the old. Changes effected include the entire structure with the excep tion of the outside walls. An eleva tor lias been installed for the con venience of those who do not care to ascend the handy stairway to the second floor. Rest rooms and com modious fitting rooms are to be found on the second floor while present-day fixtures of many sorts may be seen on both floors. The show windows are of late type con struction and simply dressed lend a metropolitan air to the shopping district of the city. The Carpenter store is an asset to the city not gen erally appreciated by those giving little or no attention to the source of our trade. Enjoying for years patronage from outlying towns and villages this store has thus been a means of added business for trades men in other lines. The new ar rangement to facilitate the handling of business, together with added lines of merchandise is a distinct as set and The Sun adds its best wishes to that of many others for a profit able career. TWO CASES DISPOSED OF Second Week Court Starts Tuesday TWAS MARIHUNANA Augustan Given Cigarettes By North ern Negro A new dope which is given federal offiicers and workers with young peo ple much concern made so far as is known its first public appearance in Augusta, Ga., this week. A collector for a pressing club was given four cigarettes by a Negro from Chicago and subsequently robbed. The dope had the characteristic effect of rend ering the victim senseless to his whereabouts. Marihuanu dope is made from a weed which grows wild in most every section of the country. It is used mostly in the cigarette but dens have been discovered where pipes were furnished for smoking the opiate. In larger cities boys and girls have ^aken to the habit to the extent that the Federal government is giving it spread much attention, raiding joints daily. The greatest concern over the opiate comeis from the fact that it is so easily obtained, and anything like complete eradi cation seems impossible. Discovery of the properties of the weed has been recent, although it was known to the American Indians. ATTENDS HEALTH MEET Attending a two day session of county health officers of the state in Columbia last week were Miss Theressa Leightsey, Dr. Claude Sease, and Jake R. Wise. SEEN A BOUT TOWN Solicitor Hugh Beasley in city for civil court...Mrs. Theo Albrecht and New Jersey visitor on the streets... Mary Wightman hurrying to work... M. L. Connelly, Chap pell citizen, in the city...Harry Bedenbaugh relating all of his troubles... Elizabeth Mitchell buy ing pair of shoes and wearing them home... Frank Sanders purchasing hat...Ellerbe Pelham stating that Thanksgiving Day would find him working.. .Charlie Harden tipping hat...Judge Blease going to office ...Fred Gilbert, Jr., riding bycycle ...Claude Sanders planning to at tend Furman football game...Mrs. Hugh Boyd wearing attractive wine colored dress.. .Roy, Anderson tak ing mail out of box...A. M. Sum mer in grocery store.. .Pauline Summer window shopping.. .Mr. and Mrs. H. B. W’ells shopping .. Miss Eugenia Epps going into Ex change bank building. . .Sherriff Tom Fellers leaving for Columbia.. The first week of the November session, of civil court adjourned Tues day afternoon for the Thanksgiving holidays, only two cases having been disposed of. The case of Agnes Stockman who brought suit as a result of a wreck oegan Monday morning, concluding Tuesday afternoon when the jury at four o’clock rendered a verdict in favor of the defendant. This case grew out of an automobile wreck at the interection of the Pomaria, Col umbia and Greenville highways on March 18, 1937. Paul Stockman nusband of the plaintiff was driving one car and Miss Dickson, who now leaches in Batesburg, was driving the Ford against which charges were laid. Miss Dickson was enroute to -he teacher’s meeting in Columbia. In the case of T. W. Folk against Edmund W. Hurt, of Atlanta, Ga., which was brought up late Tuesday afternoon, an agreement was reach ed, Hurt paying Mr. Folk $1,250. This case also arose out of an auto mobile wreck which occured on the new Winnsboro highway May 21 of this year. Court reconvenes Monday morning with a full week's docket. However, no jury cases will be called until Tuesday. DEALERS” DAMN SCOUNDRELS Wishes South Haa Been In Civil War Victorious “In that same delta area, I talked to an old planter who was also a lawyer and politician. Between drinks of Bourbon whisky and plain- water chasers he cursed the North ind East with soft earnestness. A- ?ain and again he repeated that he wished the South had won the civil war. “But not for the reason you think. Not on account of slavery. Slavery '.hould have been abolished. It would have bee nabolished. No^ir the war ruined the South, but. freed the niggers. The Yankees kept the South from creating its own economy, an agricultural econo my. It made a colony of us, and that’s what we’ve been ever since. You don’t see how? What’s the function of a colony? I’ll tell you. To furnish raw materials. How about our cotton, our tobacco, our lumber, oil and minerals, and our labor? “Another function of a colony is to buy a lot of manufactured goods from the mother country. We do that too. And more than that, we re the most submissive people on the face of God’s green earth. Why, we not only keep order down here for our conquerors but we are ready at any time to furnish them with hun dreds of thousands of loyal troops. Talk about the British colonies, talk about India. The most profitable colonies in the world are the South ern states of this country. Talk about subsidies. The damned scoundrels are only doling out a little of the money they’ve robbed us of, year in and year out, with their tariffs and their capital.” —Quoted form the Saturday Evening Post. A LONG TIME OFF FAMILY GATHERING Represenative Senn Says Much Happen Before Summer Can Asked if he would seek to suceed himself in the summer primaries J. Claude Senn replied that much could happen before then and that he was not prepared to say definitely at this time. However, it is believed he will certainly be in the race. Mr. Senn has applied himself diligently to the problems of both county and state and has familiarized himself with state problems to a surprizing degree for a first-termer. Attorney Aubrey Harley will no doubt be in the race for the house and Thomas Pope will probably seek his seat again. We have learned nothing of Dr. J. J. Dominick’s attitude. LEGION “HOME” Local Post Plans to Build Meeting Place Plans are being made by the local American Legion Post to construct a Legion Home in Newberry, it was learned today from Jake R, Wise, post commander. A committee composed of Tabor Hill, S. C. Polhemus, and Guy Whitner, has been named to select a suitable location for the proposed “home”. This comittee will make its report at the monthly Legion meeting Tuesday evening at 8 o’clock in the American Legion hall. JURORS DRAWN Second Week of Court) Tuesday The second week of civil court Will start here Tuesday morning, November 29 with Judge J. H. John son of Allendale continuing on the bench. The following list of jurors have been drawn for the term: F. R. Red dick, J. B. Campbell, J. R. Thomas, W. E. Nelson, J. C. Abrams, H. C. Richardson, J. F. Wheeler, N. Hunter, Wilbur L. Mathis, J. because it gcott, J. H. Cromer, J. S. Senn, J. Sanders, R. C. Hunter, R. Parks, Luther A. Mayer, Joe. Simpson, A. J. Bowers, Jr., C. Chapman, J. A. Hamm, Thomas Stockman, G. H. Shealy, A. M. Nich ols, C. S. Ruff, George E. Brock, J. McD Schumpert, S. M. Gary, C. C. Wallace, W. B. Franklin, W. E. Long, R. A. Livingston, V. E. Miller, R. G. McGill, A. M. Johnson, J. E. Neel, A. A. Boozer. THE LIQUOR TAX Checks totaling over $1,000 have been received for Newberry’s share of the alcohol tax for the last quarter. The revenue from beer was larger than from hard liquors. WE THE PEOPLE SPEAK— What do you have to be thankful for today—Thanksgiving day? O Mary Wightman:— “I’ve so many things I can’t think of any one in particular just now.” 0 Elbert Aull:— “Plenty. I’m thankful I’ve got a job to go to every day—even Thanks giving day.” O Mary Kester:— “I have everything to be thankful for.” O “Soupy Campbell:— “I’m thankful I don’t have to work ’he football game.” tv*. "ixrq» “I’m thankful I’m not in jaiL” Elizabeth Harmon:— “I’ve so many things, I just don’t know.” Forest Lominack:— on Thanksgiving day so I can go to “Plenty. Lots of things.” E. B. R. G. H. W. B. EXCHANGE MUST BEHAVE Or Commission Pressure Will Apply The The Securities commission has very bluntly told the New York stock ex change to get ready for a Federal house cleaning unless operators themselves stabilized the market. They are accused by the commission of using questionable means to push the market up and down in extremes. The commission called on them to surrender their control of the exchan ge to persons with "a clearer public responsibility.” Wall street opera tors have been accused recently of breaking the market in order to dis count the administration and at the same time line their pockets at the expense of the lambs. NEW COLLEGE BUS Newberry college football players are now riding in a new modern General Motors bus. The bus was purchased by the athletic association of the college a few days ago and has been painted the college colors of scarlet and grey. The freshman squad was the first to take a trip in the bus when they played Porter Military academy in Charleston Friday. At present the varsity team is using the bus' for a Florida trip. STOCK FGR LAKE Unlawful Fishing Proceeds Interferance Without More than 50,000 fingerling bass have been dumped into the waters of Lake Murray from tbe rearing pools in Lexington county. A bass is said to grow from a fingerling to about a pound in a year and by next spring many of these will be large enough to come within the very liberal (6 inch) limit allowed by law. A strong movement Is under way to secure some worthwhile legislation next year and the six inch limit is expect ed to be raised to at least eight and probably ten inches Fishing with trot lines, baskets and nets goes on unabated and fresh fish are offered for sale openly and above board by squatters on the backwaters. In Hoaor of Mrs. 3healy On Sunday, November 21st at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. S.i Shealy of Little Mountain there was a hap py family gathering. The occasion was the 70th birthday of Mrs. Shea ly and also the 71st birthday of Mr. Shealy, which had been a week earlier. When the couple returned from church they were greeted by all their children, grandchildren, and greatgrandchildren. All had brought baskets and a delicious dinner was served. A beautiful birthday cake centered the table. Three o r the grandchildren of the family had also celebrated birthdays within the past two weeks and a small birth day cake with candles was provided for each one of them on the child ren’s table. Rev. and Mrs. E. Z. Pence joined the family at dinenr. Those pres ent wore Mr. aitf Mrs. Brabham Bowers, Hubert, Katherine, Mildred, Robert and Betty : Bowers, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hentt, Billy and Claude Hentz, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Boland and Christine Boland, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Kinard and Misses Cora, Louise, Emma Lizzie and Burnell Shealy. REV. GIPSY SMITH Services at 7:S0 Each Evening The series of services being con ducted by the Rev. Gipsy Smith, Jr. at Aveleigh Presbyterian church be gan Sunday morning are being held each evening at 7:30. Mr. Smith’s messages are dynamic with the irrssistable gospel. The public is cordially invited to attend the meetings which sontinue at Ave- k leigh church. The song service, under the leadership of Dr. F. O. Lamereux, begins at 7:30. However, the preach ing services does not begin until 7:45. Mr. Smith preached the annual Thanksgiving sermon at the First Baptist church this (Thursday) morn ing at 10 o'clock MRS. MATTIE COOK Mrs. Mattie C<y>k, 83, widow of George Cook, died Sunday morning at the home of her brother-in-law, James Wise, Sr., ia the Mt. Olivet community. Although in declining health for several years, Mrs. Cook was ill only a few days prior to her death. She was a member of Colony Lutheran church and was a woman of Christian character. Services were held from the Pros perity cemetery Monday moring at eleven o’clock, aondusted by her pas tor, the Rev. M. L. Kester. She is survived by one brother, John Garrett, and a number of nieces and nephews. CRACK DOWN ON FORD C. I. O. Members Picket Plant The Ford Motor company, almost the only large maker of automobiles to emerge from the series of strikes tied up by C. I. O. workers in the>r several weeks back, has at last been St. Louis assembly plant. The views of Mr. Ford on union labor are well known and it ia thought he will op pose present demands until the last. Mr. Ford claims he is the origina tor of short hours and high wages in industry and needs no union to com pel him to deal justiy with his em ployees. While striking employees picketed the two main gates of the St. Louis plant, Mr. Ford, in Detroit, was giv ing one of his rare interviews in which he said the present business recession was “temporary and arti- ficaL” “No one” he said “need to look at next year with uncertainty. The present slow-down is not a back set; its the pause before another climb.” Mr. Ford blames the stock market crash for the back-set but said it would have ne permanent ef fect. MRS. GRIFFITH HOSTESS TO HER BRIDGE CLUB Mrs. Steve C. Griffith was hostess to her bridge club Tuesday morning at her home on Main street. After several progressions, scores were totaled and high score awards were presented Mrs. John Clarkson, club member, and Mrs. Clem You- mans, guest of tie club. Mrs. T. L. Hicks won the binge prize. Refreshment* were served after cards TO SISTER’S HOME Miss "heressa Leightsey was call ed to Fairfax Tuesday because of the serious illness otf her sister, Mrs. Hattie GroscJoee. Men Apprehended Are Wanted Here Sam Thompson and Worth Proctor To Be Tried Here For Thomas and Howard Job Five members of the notorious Bill Paype gang of North Carolina are safely lodged behind the bars, two of them in Columbia and three in Vir ginia prisons. Deputy Hub Quattlebaum of the local sheriff’s office and other of ficers say they have considerable evi dence that ties these men in with the recent attempt robbery of the Thomas and Howard grocery here. According to Mr. Quattlebaum, Thompson and Proctor will be brought here for trial at the March term of criminal court. A comparison of gun shell cases and bullets found here after the robbers riddled the car of Dan Johnson are said to compare with those taken from an automobile stolen from a Kinston, N. C., dealer and stored in a garage in Augusta, Ga., and recovered a few days ago by South Carolina authorities from the Georgia city. Mr. Quattlebaum has been working on the case with Lieutenant Leo Jenkins of the highway patrol, and other Columbia officers. Three other members of the Payne gang, Paul Edward Sykes, Eddie Cobb and Roscoe Grice, were arrested in Fredrecksburg, Virginia Thursday of last week. Sykes has been brought back to Augusta to face charges in connection with several larcenies and Cobb and Grice have been turned over to the North Carolina authorities to continue long prison terms. Chief C. J. Wilson of Augusta said South Carolina authorities came to ’hat city Saturday night and seized an automobile from a private garage on Greene street without communi cating with his office. They had seiz ed the keys to the garage and the stolen Buick automobile from Cobb and Grice in Virginia. Mrs. C. E. Reid who rented the ga rage (probably to Payne and Jack Barden) said the two men did not look suspicious. They looked and act ed plainly, just as business men would, she said. Mrs. Reid said she had not seen the men after they rent ed the garage. They drove in the automobile, locked the door and left, she said. A number of robberies over this state, North Carolina and Georgia, including the Maxwell furniture store robbery in Augusta, is said to be the work of 'this gang. The following account is taken from the Augusta Herald of Tuesday: Two rendezvous of the Bill Payne gang’ from North Carolina, suspects in the Maxwell Furniture Store safe-blowing were smashed in and around Augusta early Sunday morn ing. The “breaks” were the ones forecast in Sunday’s Herald. Augusta police had arrested a wo man confederate of Payne, head of a gang of desperhdoes, wanted by auth orities in several states. South Carolina authorities swooped on a private home garage in a resi dential district either on the 600 or 700 block of Green street, and seized a quantity of firearms, burglary tools and amunition. The garage on Greene street, how ever, could not be located by report ers and Patrolman A- T. Ripley. The two blows on the gang, which may mean its »nd came almost sim ultaneously Sunday morning. Police Chief C. J. Wilson, Captain George R. Folds and an operative of the Federal Bureau of Investigation were “covering” a house about 18 miles from Augusta in South Caro lina to await the arrival of Bill Payne. Payne never came, but a woman did. She was suposed to meet there the arch criminal, whom she told po- Hce she hadn’t seen in five of six days. While the South Carolina rendez vous was being “covered” with ma chine guns, there came there Lieuten ant Jenkins of the South Carolina Highway Department, several Colum bia policemen and an undintified white man believed to have been Sam Thompson, a member of the Payne gang arrester in Columbia last week. Lieutenant Jenkins told the Herald Chief Wilson asked him to join the covering party. But Chief Wilson said Moiiday morning, the South Carolina lieuten ant left the scene saying: “I guess you are looking for the same parties we are looking for.” Chief Wilson said the South Caro lina officers came to Augusta with out telling him they were going to raid the garage. In the private garage, Lieutenant Jenkins told the Herald, he found at the garage a brand new edan stolen from the showroom of a Kinston, N. MOTORCADE HERE Celebrate Opening of Short Route Augusta, Ga., Nov. 23.—The Au gusta Junior chamber of commerce will sponsor a motorcade December 4 dedicating the opening of an all- paved route to Charlotte, N. C. This motorcade will visit Johnston, Saluda, Newberry, Salem Cross Roads, Chester, Rock Hill and Pine- ville. It will be headed by Mayor Rich ard E. Allen, Jr., of Augusta and an honorary public escort. L. B. Ergle, publisher of The Sa ida Standard, is cooperating with the Junior chamber of commerce in planning the ’cade. The ’cade will leave Augusta at 9 o’clock, lunch in Newberry and spend the night in Charlotte, re turning on Sunday. Since the opening of this route motorists can save bn hour in trav eling time. Augusta and Charlotte are 25 miles closer to each other. It is expected that this route will induce more tourist to drive through Augusta enroute to Florida cities. This will give small Carolina com munities more transient business. Rodney S. Cohen, Jr., president of the Augusta Junior chamber otf commerce, said a large bus has been chartered to make the trip. It will be joined with a number of private automobiles. Stops will be made at the several ’ities enroute. Plans are also being nade to take the Piedmont Academy military band of Augusta on the motorcade. TAKE TO LAW. YOUNG MAN At Least These Lawyers Made : No Mistake in A Career r Winston-Salem—An order signed recently by Judge F- Donald Phillips >n Forsyth county superior court Tranted the Greensboro law firm of Brooks, McLendon and Holderness $75,000 as futher payment on the $500,000 fee for representing Anne s According to the petition, the firm has already received a $150,000 pay ment from the Safe Deposit and Trust company of Balt-more, guardian of the Maryland estate of Anne Cannon Reynolds II. This payment also is to be made by the Baltimore company. At the end of the suit in June, 1936, the court here agreed that the Greens boro lawyers should receive a sum equal to 5 per cent of the net estate of Anne Cannon Reynolds II, as their compensation “for profess ional services rendered and to be ren dered, including all professional ser vices in the matter of assessments and attempted collection of any Fed eral estate taxes.” The fee. however, was not to be less than $500,000. C. dealer recently, and at least six or seven different state tags which the bandits could use at their convenience. Augusta authorities believed the South Carolina officers brought one of the two men arrested in Columbia to show them the place. The car was stolen by Roscoe Price rnd Eddie Cobb, two other members of the Payne gang who escaped from Augusta in another automobile Wed nesday night after Augusta detectives and South Carolina officers raided a room at 310 Ninth street, where an- )ther small arsenal of firearms was .■ecovered. ... . Lieutenant Jenkins, however, told The Herald that the keys to the auto nobile and garage were sent- tq him from Richmond, Va., where the pair were temporarily lodged after being: arrested in (Fredricksburg.Va., last Thursday. He said he did not bring Proctor of Thompson to Augusta. Lieutenant Jenkins said they seized in the garage a number of guns, sev- ir.'.l ounces of nitro-glycerine, 300 rounds of ammunition, bolt cuttqrs, a luai.tity of dynamite caps wired for nstant use with a battery, five sets >f stolen automobile tags, a number it drills, chisels, and punches, several it which showed use. three wrecking bars, a “Jimmy bar”, cash boxes and noney bags from various parts of the :ountry. He said he believed strongly tnat ither the two men held in Columbia rr the three arrested in Fredrecks- Durg “pulled” the Maxwell job with ’.he aid of Bill Payne and Jack Bar- len, who are still at large. They are ■Iso suspected in the robbery of Jesse Redd, a taxi-driver. They will be sent back to prison. The lieutenant said he had already connected the two men he was holding in Columbia, Proctor and Thompson, with recent robberies and burglaries in Newberry, Clinton. Laurens, Chea ter and Camden S. C. DOWN MEMORY LANE TWENTY YEARS AGO The voice of the silver-tongued orator, lawyer Eugene S. Blease, is again heard ringing in the court house, to the pleasure of the many friends of his in the city and county. Turkeys were selling in Newberry Thursday at 25 cents !a pound, and some cotton brought 29 cents, while cotton seed istood at $1.08. Two soldiers passed thru New berry Tuesday with a deserter cap tured belojw Columbia. They were taking him to Camp Sevier. A jury is in good hands when turned over to Sheriff Blease for a season and we will bet, mentally speaking, that the jurors don’t ob ject to be put in his care. Since a parking ground for auto mobiles has been provided by city council it should be used by the cars comings into the city. The streets are too narrow for cars to be parked in them, besides the cars are too numerous and they block the streets. The stars and stripes still stir up big demonstrations of enthusiasm in the French capital, even though months have elapsed since the United States entered the war. There is a gas! shortage in some of the cities, but there is no short age in Newberry. There was |a community fair at Rutherford which we missed this y.ear, and they do say they had some of the finest country ham that this county affords, and that is saying some, and that they had one of those icnic dinners for ham. We are sorry, but country newspaper man is tbe veri est of slaves and his time is not hii own. The sugar shortage in Newberry, about which much haa been written, has been relieved. A man in thisl county paid a debt otf fifty dollars the other day after a lapse of twenty-seven years. He borrowed the money from Mr. H. H. Abrams. He hadn’t paid it because he “was up against it" during those years. The high price for cotton enabled him to send his check to Mr. Abrams. 78 YEARS AGO (From Files of The Rising Snn) In the proceedings of the Diocesan convention of tbe Protestant Episco pal church of South Carolina which met in Charleston lately, we observe a very interesting and able report made under a special committee upon the inquiry, “Under What Circum stances May a Clergyman Unit* Slaves In Marriage?” The report ia too lengthy for our columns but w* must give the conclusion in regard to the slaves that are separated by mas ters that slaves involuntary separated permantiy may be married again. Under no other circumstances may a clergyman unite slaves by marriage. A local druggist advertises “Sir James Clarke’s Celebrate*. Female Pills. Each bottle bearing ti.e stamp of Great Britian.” (Kow did the old humbug manager overlook a "male pill.’’—Ed.) J. W. .Duvall is still prepared with good new cards to card wool for all who may want work done in that line. Notice is hereby given that appli cation will be made at the next session of the legislature for an extension of the charter of the Town of Newberry, S. C. W. G. Mayes, Intendent. It is affirmed that in the last ten years 4.000,000 imivrants have reach ed our shores, each bringing with him an average of *100 in gold, making ar. aggregate of $400,000,000 of currency. A New York restaurant, which first introduced female waiters has been obliged to give them up, because first, the crinoline impeded locomo tion, and occupied too much space, and second, because the young women had too many male cousins among their guests to whom they gave too much attention.