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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
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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
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Call For Bottled Coca Cola
Newberry Coca Cola Bottling Co.
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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.
FARM IMPLEMENTS & SUPPLIES
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