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'■ TWO V ^ t»b apy Legion Post Is Active One By JAKE R. WISE “The American Legion was con ceived by practically the entire per sonnel of the Army, the Navy, and the Marine Corp.” These words from the preface of Wheat's story of the American Legian express the determination present in minds of al most all ex-service men to foster the ideals for which our Nation prose cuted the war, and at the same time to cherish the comradeship formed during the periods of service. The American Legion was organized at which is named The Paris Caucus on March 16 1919, by a delegation of officers and enlisted men. On September 19, 1919 application for charter was made by Newberry County Post 24, The American Le gion, to National Headquarters with the following ex-service men signing: E. E. Stuck, T. Roy Summer, Duane A. Livingston, Carl E. Epting, Bene dict Z. Burn, Prances E. Pant, Huiett 0. Caldwell, Thomas A. Hair, Charlie J. West, Ferd P. Scurry, Marvin O. Summer, Carol M. Den nis, Thomas E. Bullock, Andrew Jackson Bowers, Jr., and Holland Sligh. The National Executive Com mittee of American Legion granted the post a charter on the 25th day of September 1919. At the organiza tion’s meeting on September 19, 1919 the following officers were elect ed to serve the post: Post Command er, Hal Kohn; Vice Commander, John B. Setzler; Adjutant, J. D. Caldwell; Historian, J. L. Keitt; Finance Officer, B. M. Scurry. Through the generosity of County Board of Commissioners the old Court House was made available to Post as its home. At a cost in ex cess of f2,000.00 the building was made comfortable and commodious quarters for Legion Home provided. It was made a community center wihere social gatherings and com munity meetings were held. The cost of renovating was accomplished through efforts of the ex-service men. The following men have served the Post as Commanders and Ad jutants respectively since 1920? 1921: Commander, John B. Setzler; Adjutant, S. C. McCarley. 1922: Commanders, J. L. Keitt and Elbert J. Dickert; Adjutant, S. C. McCarley. x 1923: Commander, Elbert J. Dick ert; Adjutant, John F. Floyd. 1924: Commander: Neal W. Work man; Adjutant, John B. "Setzler. 1925: Commander, B. M. Scurry; Adjutant, John B. Setzler. 1926: Commander, Jake R. Wise; Adjutant, John B. Setzler. 1927: Commander, Jake R. Wise; Adjutant, John B. Setzler. 1928: Commander, John B. Setzler; Adjutant, Jake R. Wise. 1929: Commander, Henry T. Fel lers; Adjutant, Jake R. Wise. 1930: Commander, Price K. Harmon; Adjutant, Jake R. Wise. 1931: Commander John M. Kin- ard; Adjutant, Duane A. Livingston. 1932: Commander, Roy H. Elam; Adjutant, F. E. Adams. 1933: Commander, T. M. Fellers; Adjutant, C. A. Dufford. 1934: Commander, Paul B. Ezell; Adjutant, F. E. Adams. 1936: Commander, Duane A. Liv ingston; Adjutant, W. H. Sterling. 1936: Commander, F. E. Adams; Adjutant, Gurnie R. Summer. 1937: Commander, Tabor L. Hill; Adjutant, Frank S. Sutton. 1938: Commander, Jake R. Wise; Adjutant, Roy H. Elam. 1939: Commander, S. C. Paysinger; Adjutant, D. W. A. Neville. From its organization the Ameri can Legion thrived. Its membership and influence have grown in pres tige. On September 6-7, 1921, the Local post of American Legion en tertained the Department Convention of South Carolina at Newberry. This was the 3rd Convention and was at tended by approximately five hund red Legionnaires. The Local Com mittee in charge of the entertain ment and program was composed of John B. Setzler, Joe L. Keitt, Duane A. Livingston, Elbert J. Dickert, C. M. Dennis, Hal Kohn, S. C. McCailey, and W. S. Matthews. The post has always taken an ac tive interest in all the civic and bene volent organizations in the city. The post has been active in the aid of all service men in need of assistance of any kind irrespective of whether they were members of the Legion or not, helping them with claims fbr compensations, hospitalization, and assisting veterans of Newberry County in securing benefits to which they may have been entitled. This service has been extended to widows and orphans of veterans, Spanish War veterans, and their widows and dependents. In 1927 the post maintained a free bed at the Newberry county hospital at a cost of a dollar per day. For this it received national recog nition from National Headquarters of American Legion. In 1921 the post organized Troop 2, Boy Scouts, and sponsored it for years. Since the war fifty-four world war veterans (white) in Newberry County have died, the majority of whom were members of the Legion. Through the years the American Legion has had as its able and sym pathetic ally in carrying on their work the Legion Auxiliary Unit which was organized on February 23, 1921 with twenty-eight members. The post and its Auxiliary have sponsored the proper observance of each Armistice since the war and Memorial services on May 80 for de parted comrades have fittingly been observed each year. In 1938 some members of the post conceived the idea that it would be well for the Legion to have its own home. Application for W. P. A. funds was filed and approved. The building committee was formed, of wricb Roy H. Elam, was chairman. This home is now near completion and within a short time will be of ficially opened. It is a beautiful structure located on property known as the Fair Ground, and is a credit to the community and the local post. The Legion marches on! It serves community, state and nation. It be lieves that the disabled veteran should be properly compensated for disabilities he incurred while serving this country. It believes America should have more and adequate de fense, that the Universal Draft Act should be adapted by congress, and sponsors a vigorous Americanism program. Coloring in the higher animals is caused by a colorless chemical, chromogen, acted upon by a ferment .. ■ ‘ - •- W ) We feel we are entitled to be called “Pioneers” in the Auto Repair field, having started “way back” when the industry was young. Great Changes have come about in the structure of automobiles and consequently in their repair. We have tried always to keep posted in order to render intelligent service to our customers. Thank You, Friends! We want here to stop and thank you for the confi dence long reposed in us. You have made our busi ness possible and nothing is too good for you, our customers. W. H. DAVIS & SON Lower Main Street Newberry, S. C. 1000 Residents At Mollohon With George W. Summer as the moving spirit and with the assist ance of other able business men of Newberry, the Mollohon Manufactur ing company was organized July 1, 1901, and the operation of its cotton mill began on August 16, 1902, mark ing a far step in the material ad vancement of the city and of this section of the state. The mill started with 10,800 spindles and 300 looms. It has grown since that time to 46,720 spindles and 1,152 looms. The mill now operates two shifts with approximately 626 employes. When first organized for the pur pose of manufacturing print cloths atari convertibles, the capital stock was 1200,000. In 1926 the Kendall Company, of which Henry ?. Kendall is president, bought Mollohon Manufacturing company, now known as Kendall Milis ; Mollohon Plant. After the plant was acquired by the Kendall Mills, the product was changed to surgical gauze which was sent to Slatersville, R. I., and Walpole, Mass., to be processed. Due to changes in the economic situation, however, it has been necessary in recent years for the Mollohon Plant to go into other lines. At the present time, in addition to some of the original sur gical guaze constructions, the plant is now manufacturing print cloth, tobacco cloth, meat cloth, curtain FftlDAT, APRIL 28, 1889 COMMENT ON EARLY POPULATION OF COUNTY MANAGER AT MOLLOHON WILTON TODD cloth, diaper cloth for the Kendall Layette Diapers, wall canvas, and special seed bed covers. The plant has been remodeled since 1936 and new machinery put in several departments. The residents of the Mollohon village have all the advantages of life afforded by the very best of managements. There is a good school which was originally built and maintained by the mill, but is now a part of the city school system. There are three splendid churches. Summer Memorial (Lutheran), Ept ing Memorial (Methodist), East Side (Baptist). For recreation of the employes and their families the management has provided a beauti ful community park, ball park, and recreation building. There are a number of organizations ip the community, namely, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, baseball club. Women’s club, and numerous church organization. The Mollohon village consists of 216 houses, and the population ap proximately 1,000. Of the 526 Mol lohon employes, 12 per cent have been connected With the mill over 20 years, while 62 per cent have been there over 10 ybars. The wages,' salaries, and local purchases of the three Kendall companies in the City, Mollohon, Oak land mill, and the Palmetto Cotton company, amounts to over one-half million dollars annually, not Includ ing taxes. The managerial personnel of the plant at the present time is as fol lows: Wilton Todd, manager; W. H. Tedford, assistant manager; W. F. Rutherford, office manager; Miss Mary Alice Mitchell and Mrs. J. F. Hawkins, stenographers; C. L. Cook, overseer of card room; D. F. Barnes, overseer of spinning room; P. D. Hatley, master mechanic; F. H. Jones, yard foreman. Boston—A sign in Boston, NO kid- din,’ reads as follows: “Pedal Ligaments Artistically H- luminated and Lubricated For the Infinitesimal Remuneration of Ten Cents Per Operation.^ That’s better, don’t you think, than “a dime a shine?” From The Rising Sun, Aug. 31, 1869 Messrs Editors:—I regret the ne cessity of occupying space in your columns again. In your paper of the 17th inst, in answer to an article which appeared in the Conservatist of the 16th, asking for an explana tion of the cause of decrease in the white population of Newberry dis- drict, I endeavoured to give the re quired explanation in a very con cise form, presuming that you could not spare very much of your valua ble space. I laid down the great cause by referring to the large plan tations occupied now solely by ne groes that a few yeans ago were were worked as small farms by 15 or 20 white families, which every man of observation knows to be the main cause of decrease. Some however, seem to be so dull of comprehension, that I hope that you will allow me to call attention to a few others. I will try to take up the reasons shat the editor of the Conservatist gives why there should be an increase in some form, but as I have not a copy of that great luminary of the present age before me, I may fail to take them up in their proper order. First he says that our town has increased since 1849. That is true, I believe that it has increased, including slaves and free negroes, about 600, maybe not so many. Now let us see where this influx comes from, and to make it plain it will be necessary to name some of the many families which have moved into town from the sur rounding country within the limits of this district, by which statistics of the district gains nothing at all, but -he town gains much by these worthy families. Hoping I will be excused for naming those who have moved in to our midst during the past ten years, I give them to the best of my recollection as follows: Dr. Moon, Mr. Bane, Mr. Merchant, Mrs. Harp, tits. Scurry (now Mrs. Nance), E. P. Lake, Esq., Mr. Chambers, Mr. Lagrone, Mrs. McCullough, Mr. Tay lor, Mr. F. A. Boozer, Mrs. Peterson, Mr. James Glen, Major W. G. Glen, Dr. Daniel Glen, Mr. Metis, Mr. Ducket, Mrs. S. P. Boozer, Mr. Wil- lian Martin, Col. Whit Walker, W. W. Houseal, Esq., Mrs. Love, Mr. Cop- pock, Mrs. W. D. Goggans, Mrs. Dansby, Mr. Morgan, Mr. Bradley, Henry Halfacre, Esq., and Henry Summer, Jr. Many of these are wealthy families, and have brought numbers of servants with them, while other families have a goodly number of children. The most of our young men too are of our own district. An other point, in taking the census of the town it is customary to take all transient persona, though they do not expect to remain more than one quar ter for such are required to do street duty or pay exemption fees, also stu dents in college which number 113, including those of this district with those from abroad. Here the town gains quite a number which it is not lawful for the state census taker to reoaive as citizens, i. e., the transient population and students from other districts. Number all these families with their servants, the students in college, the young men in town who were numbered in the district in 1849, with the many ladies of the district who have married gentlemen of this place, who live here, with the ser vants they brought with them,, and the negroes who have been bought in the county and brought in, and the whole will number more than half of our population at this time, not say ing anything about increase of the last ten years, which is not more than one third. Next he refers to the village of Helena. It is true that the beautiful village of Helena, a considerable ad vantage and an ornament to our dis trict has been built up in the last de cade, but it must be remembered that a good part of that place is made up of our own people from various parts of the district, also that there were many there whom it was not lawful for me to put down as citizens. While the editor was naming places that had grown up and improved ra pidly he ought not to have ommitted *Frog Level, which is a handsome place and I think deserves credit for the Improvement made there in the last decade as any of our towns. And where did it get its increase, why from the surrounding county, except perhaps for eight or ten individuals, to the best of my recollection. To show that it is reasonable that our white population has decreased It is only necessary to refer to some of the families that have emigrated to other places in the last few years, viz.: The Holmans, Livingstons, Kin- ards. Longs, Schumperts, Reids, Sloans, Paysingers, Colemans, Mc- Morrises, Bond’s, Bargers, Sigmans, Wrights, McCays, Cooks, Duprees, Moores, Andersons, Higgins, Mc Clures, DeWalts, Caldwells, Kilgores, Wilsons, Warrens, Horneys, Peoples, Flecks, Scruggs, Whitmires, Duckets, Ekhelbergers, Cromers, Piesters, Lynches, Spearmans, Hattons, Mor gans, Adams, Boyds, Reeders, Monts, Sibleys, Millers, Hunters, Wessons, Bolands, McGomrys, Spences, Neels, Darbys, Densons, Davenports, Mor gans, Crossons, and many others that time and space will not allow me to name. Now I have & fair offer to make to anyone dissatisfied with my return, and to the editor of the Conservatist himself if he pleases to accept it; I Will take the census again, and let who will go with me and do the same, and if first return be correct and they pay me for the trouble of re taking it, If not corect I will pay them |10 per day for every day con sumed in correcting it, for if I have made a mistake no one would pay more liberally to have it corrected than myself. But I have no fear and would be willing to risk my ex istence on my return being one of the most correct that has ever been made. The editor of the Conserva tist says in his second article that he did not intend to attach any blame to me, nor do I believe that he did, for he has no cause to believe that I would misrepresent anything, much less a thing of so much importance as a return of the census of my own district, which I was very much in terested in, and was anxious to make 10,000 if possible. If only Mr. Wil liam F. Nance had been concerned I would not have noticed his first ar ticle, but others seem not to under stand and misconstrue it to my in jury. Some men are hard to under stand anything that embraces two sentences, others again not quite so dull are very corrupt at heart and delight to mislead others, so I have found it necessary to have or make some explanation, as capital was be ing made of Mr. Nance’s first article. Any error of the head that I may commit, men of small calibre and less souls can jeer at if they see proper, but motives of the heart I claim the right to and will defend. With this and my above fair offer, which I am willing and ready to car ry out, I am done with the census, leaving those who are not satisfied with my return to help themselves as best they can. Being under many ob ligations to you gentlemen for pub lishing my hurried and imperfectly written articles, I am yours most respectfully, HENRY H. BLEASE, August 24, 1869. ♦Prosperity. From the Tri-State area centered at Plainview, Tex., more than 2,- 000,00 pounds of butter is shipped anually to the West coast and most of it to Hollywood. Lets fause Let’s pause after 150 years • of proud, constructive his tory and pay tribute to the “founding fathers” of our good county. LET US ALSO PAUSE- during celebration festivi- vities and find refreshment in a delicious bottle of ■'Si Call For Bottled Coca Cola Newberry Coca Cola Bottling Co. = A STREET SCENE The Farm Comes First One hundred and fifty years ago or today the farm has always been of first importance in our economic life. The feeding and clothing of the world rests upon the shoulders of the farmer, therefore every means should be employed to insure better conditions in this basic in dustry. <J Our county will make even greater strides in the years that lie ahead if the true worth of the farmer is recognized and rewarded. Johnson-McCrackin Co. 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