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VOLUME 2; NO. 25
The Rising Snn—1856-1860
NEWBERRY, S. C FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1939 \
OUT AMONG
THE PEOPLE
OUR FRIEND RESUMES
We rejoice that our companion in
suffering is back at his desk at the
bank following a stay at a private
hospital in Columbia. While he
couldn’t take over a longshoreman’s
job still he is able to mark “insf” on
the back o(f checks when you get
that way and do other jobs about the
bank requiring much skill but little
labor. Floyd, like your correspond
ent, has one of those model “T” con
stitutions which require a lot of pet
ting to get even a reasonable amount
of mileage; one day you feel like
kissing your mother-in-law (or even
your wife), the next Mae West
couldn't stir your appreciation of the
esthetic. Organized civilization is
hard on the model “T” constitution;
you’re expected to be nice when you
feel like crying or dying; you’re ex
pected to eat greasy food and listen
to rotten after-dinner speeches when
your normal diet is cracked wheat
cooked six hours to be darn certain
it won’t upset the digestive apparatus
of an incubator baby. Dancing with
a fat gal who forgot to tie herself
in gives your sensitive tummy an
agonizing massage, but it’s expected
olf you and you must do it. You
either keep place in the line or you
go on the scrap heap of the forgotten
m en—and who wants to be forgotten ?
Well, there’s probably nothing to
do about it. You can’t cut it out for
you can’t localize it. It ranges from
your itching scalp to your athlete’s
foot, including the flag stations. The
■man who first made the jack knife
was a dispeptic—that’s where he got
his idea when he got straightened out
again. The only solace or peace of
‘ i of us on the physical
*• p of the medi
soothii
Without A Country.
Spanish Ambassador Fernando de
Los Rios, following the fall of the
Loyalist government, is expected
to stay in this country and teach
>n a university.
Pranks Pull Alarm
Boxes
imgand full of the promise
of the bloom of health that I read
them for hours upon end. I read
them all and buy extra papers for no
other purpose than a hope that I
might find some of my favorite read
ing material. One old bird is my
particular pal. His ads are long and
full of warmth and accompanied with
a picture of a benign-looking old gent
beaming kindly upon the suffering
reader. He is long dead (Allah rest
his soul!) but his ads and his pills
ere immortal; they live and breathe
a hope for the incapacitated gizzard.
When he speaks from six-point lines
faith is rekindled and hope wells up
until you foul another spark plug
from deceptive exuberance.
The longing to" eat and push your
belly out that it may take its
place in a ^iety of decent bay win
dows is at times overwhelming and
the temptation is strong, but deep
down you know that constitutionally
you’re a slat and as such you will
meet the angels.
THE PARKING DRIVE
While we doubt the wisdom of
cracking down, on first offenders to
the tune of $2, the enforcement of
parking ordinances in the city is a
good move. It should be enforced
without fear or favor, not for a week
or a month, but all the time. Usually
when such a campaign begins first
offenders are called before the city
court and let off with a warning
which seems to us as it should be.
Nothing should be done to “sour”
tion good citizens on the city admini
stration, however ittle it suits some
of us. The city administration has
been duly elected and should be re
spected as servants chosen by the
majority. However, their election
does not carry a mandate to be un
duly harsh on people who have no
intention of deliberately breaking
the law. Enforce the parking laws
by all means, but temper the enforce
ment with a large dose of common
sense which is the basis of common
law.
The new fire alarm boxes have
been pulled for one fire and five
false alarms bo date. The boxes were
put into operation about two weeks
ago. A siren has also been installed
at the comer of Main and Caldwell
streets and will sound simultaneously
with the general alarm to clear
Main street for the fire fighting ap
paratus to pass.
The fifth false alarm was sent in
from Main and Summer streets
Tuesday night about 11 o’clock. The
first came from Mollohon, box 439;
the second from O’Neall and Pau
line, box 514; the third from Dray
ton and Starvation Hill, box 421, and
the fourth from Pope and Brown, box
box 417 which is located al
Drayton and McSwain streets.
“There is no question about going
to the right place now,” said Burton
Wells, “but something must be done
to stop the false alarms.”
Chamber of Commerce
Be Reorganized
HARE PROMISES AID IN
FERTILIZER PROBE
Washington, April 10.—Represen
tative Butler B. Hare, of South Caro
lina, today announced his cooperation
with the federal trade commission in
their attempt to gather data on price
fixing in the fertilizer industry, now
being investigated by the department
of justice.
An investigation instigated by
Representative Hare in 1928 resulted
in some thirty-two companies being
indicted for unfair practices. The re
presentative has promised James A.
Horton, chief examiner for the fede
ral trade commission, that he will file
any information he has received with
the commission.
MEET SATURDAY
The regular monthly meeting of
the beekeepers of Newberry county
will be held at the County Court
house, Saturday, April 15, at 2:30
p. m. E. S. Prevost, Extension Bee
specialist, will have charge of the
meeting.
MURRAY IN DANGER
Fishing in the big lake whose wa
ters have spread far and covered
ground on which broomsedge has
flourished for the past two or more
years, is more or less desultory at
the present. The biting has not been
of such nature as to make the angler
want to hurry back. The few being
taken are hooked along the edges in
shtiMow water which leaves your
correspondent with a record of al
most exactly nothing to date. Fish
ing in shallow water isn’t fishing—
it’s just slipping up on a fish when
he is trying to get an honest meal.
But when you drag him out of six
feet of water you’ve given him an
even break. The catch in Lake Mur
ray has beer gradually falling off
each year and unless it is restocked
and protected, in a year or two more
FROM THE NORTH
Law enforcement officers from the
North and South put their heads to
gether last weekend and discussed
criminal problems in general when
Sheriff Louis N. Springs of Warsaw,
New York, visited several days with
Sheriff Tom. M. Fellers. Sheriff
Springs was accompanied to Newber
ry by his wife and two children, Avis
and Raymond, and nephew, Clarence
Schneckenburger. They were the
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Fellers at
their Harrington street home.
Plans for a complete reorganiza
tion of the chamber of commerce, and
a thorough drive for new members,
axe now in the making according to
members of the special committee
in an interview granted members of
the press here Wednesday.
Newspaper men met with the com
mittee composed of Hal Kohn, C. C.
Hutto, S. C. Paysinger, and G. D.
Blackwell in the chameber of com
merce offices and heard of the plans
for a new organization. The affairs
of the chamber of commerce are in
the hands of the above committee for
a period of 30 days, after which they
will report findings and make re
commendations to the membership of
the body.
Mr. Hutto said that it was hoped
to make the organization “a coopera
tive association for the purpose of
creating and holding good will among
the business and professional men of
Newberry county and to make the
county a better place in which to
live”.
Mr. Kohn praised the attitude of
retiring president G. D. Blackwell in
joining wholeheartedly with the re
organizing group to assure a suc
cessful conclusion of the reorganiza
tion.
“We should awake to our possi
bilities and put the chamber of com
merce on the map” Mr. Blackwell
said. He was sure the city wanted
and needed such an organization.
The aim of the committee is to se
cure membe ships to insure a mini
mum of $4,000 yearly. As much as
$7,000 yearly has been taken in by
the chamber of commerce in years
gone by, it was said.
Mr. Kohn pointed out that only
about $900 could be realized from
present members for the balance of
the calendar year. Some of the
t larger firms having already paid the
full year)* dues.
A financial report was made by
Mr. “Hutto. It was revealed that at
present the body has only 74 mem
berships; sixteen of these are held
by the city and a sizeable block by
mills and railroads. Mr. Hutto said
it was the hope of the committee that
a treasurer could be employed for
the new set-up, relieving the secre
tary of this work.
Asked about the possibilities of se
curing a secretary Mr. Kohn stated
that the committee already had two
applications and that he thought
there would be plenty of others.
“But our policy here”, he said, “is
to make haste slowly." Mr. Kohn
considered the selection of a secre
tary a highly important matter. The
secretary of the reorganized body
would not be allowed to have outside
work of any nature, it was said.
A drive for memberships will be
made sometime this month, the com
mittee being already assured of
hearty cooperation on this point. A
minimum of 150 memberships would
be necessary for the body to function
properly, Mr. Kohn said.
One of "the recommendations of the
committee will be to change the name
of the organization to the Newberry
County Chamber of Commerce. Mr.
Kohn said he believed such an or
ganization should be county-wide in
its scope, and that the county as a
whole needed representation the
chamber could give.
The injecting of new blood into
the chamber of commerce has met
with general approval over the city,
judging from expressions heard over
the city.
one will be wasting time to fish there.
In fact, that point has almost been
reached now. The wanton destruc;
tion of Murray as a fishing paradise
cannot be laid to any one cause.
Trapping, netting, seining may be
said to be the greatest cause, but
those of us (and that is most of us)
who took big catches from the lake
during spawning season when they
were biting freely are not altogether
blameless.
We appeal to the gentlemen of the
legislature to give us some laws at
this session to curb the unlawful
fishing which now goes on. Many of
us who cannot afford trips to the
mountains or the seashore in the
spring and summer can find a bit
of pleasant recreation on Lake Mur
ray if fishing there is properly pro
tected. This is one appeal that will
not cost the delegation anything more
than a little thought and one which
the constituency will be grateful for.
CARD OF THANKS ,
We desire to thank our friends for
the many kindnesses shown during
the last illness and death of our
Mother. These kind acts will never
be forgotten and may our heavenly
Father’s richest blessings ever be
yours.
Children of Mrs. T. J. Wilson
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April 19, 20, 21, 22
GILDER & WEEKS
Tentative Program
Celebration Events
Saturday: Sesqui Centennial Sales
Day.
Sunday: Outdoor Church Service
—8:00 p. m. (All churches partici
paring).
Monday:
10:30—Registration of Visitors.
1:30—Hill-Billy Band Contest and
Fiddlers’ contest.
4:00—Pet Parade for Children.
8:00—Band concert at pageant
grounds.
8:16 — “Calvacade of Progress.”
(First Performance.)
Tuesday:
9:00—Coronation Ball — Newberry
College Gymnasium.
Wednesday:
4:00—Parade.
Huge- parade featuring several
miles of beautiful floats, bands and
historical pieces.
6:00—Basket Picnic at the Margar
et Hunter Park.
8:00—Band Concert at the Pageant
Grounds.
8:16 — “Calvacade of Progress.”
(Second Performance.)
10:00 to 1:00—Public Dance—Am
erican Legion Hall.
Thursday:—Band Contest.
4:00—Speeches by Governor May-
bank and other notables, Margaret
Hunter Park.
6:00—Barbecue at Margaret Hun
ter Park.
8:00—Band Concert at Pageant
Grounds.
8:16 — “Calvacade of Progress.”
(Final Performance.)
10:00 to 1:00—Square Dancing at
Legion Hall.
This is a tentative schedule and
subject to change. All events where
times are not listed will be announc
ed at a later date.
Wooden Money
Seen About Town
“Have you taken any wooden
nickels?” If not, then make it a
point to get yours immediately at
your favorite store. These unique
souvenirs were issued this week and
have already proven to be a popular
success. Many merchants have come
back for more as the attractiveness
of this negotiable piece of money has
caught the fancy of everyone. Next
week the second issue will be print
ed and this will be of a different
color and bear a different picture
than the one now in circulation.
Make it a point to get one of each
series thus you will have a complete
set of souvenirs of the Newberry
County Sesqui-Centenial Celebration.
Committee Finds New
Sources of Revenue
The sub-committee of the State
finance committee investigating pos
sible sources of additional revenue,
has suggested that the State under
write its workmen’s compensation
insurance. About $750,000 yearly
would be available under this ar
rangement, the committee reported.
Imposition of a business and occu
pational tax would raise some $500,-
000. While the committee did not
elaborate it is supposed that this tax
would include all businesses and such
trades as plumbers, electricians, car
penters, and other craftsmen. Full
recommendations of the committee
follows:
1. Operation by the state of the
program of Workmen’s compensation
insurance: $750,000.
2. Imposition of occupational and
business licenses: $600,000.
3. Lower income tax exemptions,
increased rates and taxation of fed
eral salaries, $1,000,000.
4. Higher corporation income tax
rate, $500,00. <
6. Sales tax on candy, $550,000.
6. Amusement admissions tax
$200,000.
7. Reduction of discount on pur
chase of revenue stamps and crowns,
$250,000.
8. A three per cent sales tax on
automobiles, trucks, and accessories,
$500,000.
9. A ten per cent sales tax on cos
metics, $150,000.
10. A 20 per cent sales tax on
chewing gum, $125,000.
11. A 20 per cent tax on beer and
wine, $200,000.
12. A five per cent sales tax on
electrical equipment and fixtures,
$250,000.
13. A 12 cents a gallon retail tax
on lubricating oils, $400,000.
Y'ff Increase of Hie liquor tax from
96 cents to $1.28 a gallon, $500,000.
Slider ft Greneker—1856-1860
Inherits Millions
$1 PER YEAR
MISS ETHEL COUNTS GIVES
LECTURE AT CLUB
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CONFERENCE AT ST. PHILIPS
Well, I guess, everyone had a fine
Easter. Saturday looked like we
were going to have unfavorable
weather but in the evening the clouds
passed away and we had a very pret
ty Easter day.
There will be a conference at our
church on the 10th and 11th of May
which will be on Wednesday and
Thursday. A cordial invitation is
extended to all and the women are
asked to bring well-filled baskets. If
you want to hear good preaching and
singing put your chickens in the coop
and get them good and fat.
The farmers are now very busy;
all they ask is open weather and an
opportunity to work. Some of them
have com up. Some of the early
birds say they will be ready to plant
cotton by Friday if it doesn’t rain.
The ladies are busy with their
gardens, some of them* having al
ready planted beans.
QUITS CHAMBER JOB
J. P. Moon, secretary of the local
chamber of commerce for the past
several years, announced his resigna
tion from that position last week. Ac
cording to the announcement he will
engage in the brokerage business
with offices here. Mr. Moon engaged
in the brokerage business and travel
led before becoming associated with
the chamber of commerce. It is said
that there will be no haste in select
ing a man to fill the vacancy.
1200-POUND HOG
Burlington Flats, N. Y. — Fred
Nichols just can’t weigh his Chester
white hog. It’s too big to get
through the gate of its pen.
The Otseto county farmer esti
mated the two-year-old animal's
avoirdupois at more than 1,200
pounds and says it’s still growing.
It stands 44 inches high and is six
feet, seven inches long. Unlike most
such weighty hogs, it readily stands
on its own feet.
The Johnstone Home Demonstra
tion met Mondey with ten members
present. Devotionals were conduct
ed by the president, Mrs. George Min-
ick, after which a song was sung and
two poems were read by Mrs. Ollie
Sligh.
Miss Ethel Counts then took charge
of the meeting, very capably discuss
ing the use and care of milk. She
also lectured on manners.
The hostess, Mrs. Minick, served
punch and individual cakes after the
meeting.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. . . . Left
$2,750,000 by the mother who had
lost her and searched for her for
29 years, Mrs. Robert C. Moore
of Tucson, Arizona, is the newest
Cinderella Girl.
Encounters Negro In
Yard of Home
Johnson Hagood Clary mixed it
hot and heavy for a few minutes
Monday night with a negro youth
whom he found hiding in the shrub
bery at his home. Mr. Clary said the
negro appeared to be about 18 years
old and that he was pretty certain
that he had seen him about town be
fore. Mr. Clary returned home about
eight o’clock and spied the negro
trying to conceal himself in shrub
bery about the bedroom window. He
grabbed- the negro and knocked him
to the ground but after a short tus
sle the intruder broke and ran. Mr.
Clary looked over pictures in the
man there.
INVITE YOUR FRIENDS
Register the names of all out of
town friends you want to invite to
the Sesqui-Centennial Celebration at
the headquarters and an engraved
inviatation will be mailed them.
Newberry County citizens are
asked to stop in at headquarters and
give the names and addresses of the
persons they wish to invite. These
invitations will be mailed from there.
If you can’t get to headquarters, just
mail the list to the Sesqui-Centennial
Headquarters, Exchange Bank build
ing, Newberry. Take advantage of
this free offer at once as the supply
of invitations is limited. Buy your
“Cavalcade of Progress” tickets now.
CUB SCOUT PROMOTIONS
MADE FRIDAY
Pack No. 66 met at the Boy Scout
headquarters on Pope Terrace Friday
night, March 31 with an attendance
of 43. The meeting was presided
oves by Mr. J. N. Beard, who is Den
Daddy to this fine group of boys.
Uncle Joe Piper gave a delightful
illustrated talk and conducted the in
duction exercises which added three
new cubs, Harry Dukes, Jr.. Roy
Longshore and James Guis. Billy
Denning graduated into troop 2 of
Boy Scouts. “Uncle” Joe appeals to
any group with his sincere interest
in boys. One little fellow remarked
that “Uncle” Joe got under his skin.
Games and several good stunts were
given and refreshments were served.
The following proi. lotions were
made: John Davis, Phillip Aull to
Wolfe Rank; Fred Weir, Bobby
Schumpert and Billy Denning to
Bear Rank. Billy Denning received
gold and silver arrow point on Wolfe,
gold and silver arrow point on Baar.
James Keisler also received a gold
arrow point. These awards show that
a cub can do things. They are a
thoroughly interested group and can
grow and grow if the parents will
stand by and give sympathy and your
cooperation. Don’t nr.iss the next
meeting.
—Contributed.
JOT FROM JOLLY STREET
Overflowing crowd at Bachman
Chapel church Blaster morning...
Walt Richardson having repair work
done on bis place...Hugh Kings-
more in his new store located near
the school and a big improvement...
Mr. and Mrs, J. B. Lmdley moving
to Jolly Street from Simpsonville.
Welcome!.. .Jeff Metis driving new
V-8.. .Baseball gets under way Sat
urday with Hartford here... Fisher
men of Jolly Street in full blast...
Clarence Metts reelected secretary-
treasurer of the Saluda Valley league
for the coming season... Mrs. W. B.
Boinest admitted to Columbia hospi
tal Monday for major operation...
Farmers busy getting ready for an
other crop.
JUNIOR MUSIC CLUB
The Junior Music club will hold
its regular monthly meeting at the
home of Mrs. Neal W. Workman Sat
urday, April 15, at 2:30 p. ni.
NOTICE, UNEMPLOYED BOYS
All unemployed boys in Newberry
county between the ages of 18 anl 24
should see Mrs. J. H. Summer at the
NY A home on Main street at once
if they wish employment. Boys who
Wave recently been discharged from
CCC camps are urged to visit the
NYA office immediately. If quick em
ployment is desired a parent should
accompany him to request work. Mrs.
Summer will be in her office all day
Saturday to interview unemployed
boys.
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COLLEGE BASEBALL GAMES
The Newberry Indians baseball
team are faced with a heavy sche
dule this weekend and next week.
Friday April 14 they will play the
Clem son team at Clemson. Satur
day at 3:30 at Setzler field they
will engage the Binghampton, N. Y.,
team. Binghampton is a Class A
team owned by the New York Yan
kees and in training at Ware Shoals.
Games for next week include Caro
lina at Columbia on Tuesday, the
18th; Erskine at Due West on Thurs
day day, the 20th; and Citadel here
Friday and Saturday the 21st and
22nd.
THEY’RE RED HOT
Jesse and Dick of The Newberry
Drug company are offering some
very special specials for the weekend
as will be noted from their advertise
ment on the hack page of this issue.
The $1.75 value in Yardley products
for a dollar will attract ladies, and
the list offers something for every
member of the family at big savings.
Call for these specials and tell them
you saw it in The Sun. Both they,
and we, will be grateful.
DOWN MEMORY
LANE
20 YEARS AGO
Newberry is getting reedy to give
the returning soldiers a rousing wel
come. There will be a great parade
in the morning of July 4, followed by
a basket picnic and barbecue, in
which the entire county will join. A
speaker will be invited to make the
welcoming address, and in the even
ing of the day of celebration an open
air dance on the public square will
be held with music furnished by a
military band.
The jail commission who had in
charge the building of the new and
handsome jail organized and began
work on the 10th of April, 1917, and
on Wednesday, the 9th of April,
they formally turned the jail over to
Supervisor Sample for the county.
The report of the financial dealings
ihows that the comission turned
back to the county $7.27, and the
commission was released from furth
er duties. It is one of the hand
somest jails in the state. The com
mission is composed of J. Marion
Davis, chairman; L. W. Floyd, secre
tary; Dr. Z. T. Pinner, H. P. Wicker,
J. V. Clary, Dr. J. M. Kibler, and S.
C. Baker.
Jenkins Smith Shot
By R. E. Reese
Jenkins Smith, young white man is
in a serious condition at the New
berry county hospital as a result of
a wound in his right chest when shot
by R. E. Reese inside the Reese
Brothers store in the Mount Pleasant
of business Wednesday about mid
night and noticed someone in the
■store. As the man approached the
door Mr. Reese fired one shot which
took effect m Jenkins right chaat
County officers were called and upon
entering the store found Smith on*,
the floor. About $16 was found on
Smith and some money scattered
about the floor Where he fell. It is
thought by officers that this money
was taken from the cash register of
the store. Officers believe Smith en
tered the store with a skeleton key.
Mr. Reese was placed under $506
bond pending the outcome of Smith’s
injuries.
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III
SEEN ABOUTTOWnI
Roy Clary back on job after re
cent illness Mrs. Mae Aull go
ing to her office carrying a box of
animal crackers Prof. J. H.
Gentry, Chappells, in city Tues
day Keister Willingham walk
ing about his home after spending
several weeks in hospital——Fran
ces Baxter and Elizabeth Mower
hurrying down College street
Overheard: negro sayhtg that he
had his WPA “Recreation” card
Bob Wallace going into court
house Will Waters and wife rid
ing in new car “Scrap” Hendrix
and Mrs. Hendrix taking little son
“Scrappy” to ride, and showing
him the city If you want to see
a lovely spot, drive by Mias Jusnits
Hitt’s home on Nance street; the
tulips are simply lovely Roy
Summer enjoying sunshine after
being confined to his home with
pneumonia Hugh Shannon sit
ting on curb eating crackers
Bill Earle, editor of the Saluda
Standard, visiting friends in New
berry Monday White Fant giv
ing his store a new coat of paint
——L. G. Eskridge on his way to
Columbia. >
Ernest Mayo is a patient in the
Veterans’ hospital in Columbia.
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