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FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1939
THE SUM
FIVE
Society no
Chit'Chat
By CONSTANCE ARMFIELD
The life of a columnist is just a
round of ups and downs—one time
there’s nothing to write about and
the next time there’s so much it’s
practically impossible to handle all.
The latter is the case this week. The
vents of our much-publicized sesqui-
centennial celebration would have
been a gracious plenty to write about,
but on top of it comes May Day,
marriages, engagements, and plays.
What is a person to do? Since the
sesqui ?ame first we had better take
that up in the beginning and write
about the perfectly grand Coronation
Ball that was held Tuesday even
ing in the College gymnasium. The
decorations of the gym were the most
elaborate ever. The members of the
Eagles Club who sponsored the dance
simply outdid themselves. Small
pines were banked around the walls
of the room and under the blue cov
ered lights overhead hundreds of
streamers dipped from side to side.
At the upper end of the hall was ar
ranged the elaborate throne for the
queen and at the other end, the
Eagles emblem. To the side of the
gym was a special constructed stand
for the College ‘N’ Orchestra and
from here, the dance was broadcast
over WIS. T. E. Epting presided over
the crowning exercises when Miss
Frances Greneker Wallace was pro
nounced queen of Newberry’s sesqui
centennial celebration. Mr. Epting
introduced Zach F. Wright, honorary
chairman of the celebration, who
placed the crown on Miss Wallace’s
head. After the awarding of prizes
to the queen’s attendants, a floor
show was presented for the queen's
entertainment by dance pupils of
Elizabeth Mower. And then—on
■with the dance. There were about
as many dancers from out-of-town as
from the city. And 83 nwh as your
■writer would like to list the visitors
and some of the lovely gowns, space
grows small and time shorter. The
grand march of the evening was led
by the queen and her attendants and
dates and members of the Eagles’
Club and dates.
Thursday Tea
Prominent among social events of
cur gala celebration week will be
the lovely tea this afternoon given
by Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Floyd at
their beautiful Mayer avenue home
in honor of Governor Burnet R.
Maybank and Mrs. Maybank of Co
lumbia and Mrs. Floyd’s nephew, Dr.
Harold J. Bowen and Mrs. Bowen of
Charleston. Mrs. Bowen is a sister
to Governor Maybank. The tea will
take place on the lawn of the Floyd’s
colonial style home. A variety of
spring flowers and shrubs will form
a most attractive background for the
party. Over 200 guests have been
invited to call from 4:46 to 6:30.
Greeting the guests at the walks will
be Mrs. Fred Dominick, Mrs. Robert
D. Wright, Mrs. Herman Wright, and
Mks. Allen Johnstone. Miss Mary
Burton will introduce callers to the
receiving line. In the line with Mr.
and Mrs. Floyd will be Governor
Maybank and Mrs. Maybank, Dr.
Bowen and Mrs. Bowen, Mrs. Der-
rill Smith, Dr. Z. F. Wright, and
Thomas H. Pope, Jr. The line will
form on the left lawn just in front
of a beautiful banked pansy garden
Jn full bloom. To the side of the
line, a colorful scene will be in view
—a flower garden brilliant with
blooming poppies, flocks, candy tuff,
snap-dragons, sweetpeas, and red
climbing roses. On a terrace of the
right side of the lawn refreshments
will be served at a beautifully ap
pointed table. Mrs. J. D. Taylor
and Mrs. E. E. Stuck will pour punch
and serving it with cakes will be
M!rs. Roy Anderson, Mrs. William
Eeid, Mrs. R. F. Nichols, Mrs, Earl
Scott, Mrs. Thad McCrackin, Mrs.
Gordon Clarkson, Mrs. A. W. Mur
ray, Mrs. H. M. Bryson, and Mrs. R.
W. Kirkland. The front of the Floyd
home will be thrown en suite for the
■occasion and music throughout the
lea will be rendered by Mrs. J. P.
Moon at the piano and Miss Mary
Alice Mitchell, violinist.
May Day
The May Day exercises at Newber
ry College this year will be unusually
lovely. The program varies a great
.deal from the one pi previous years
The exercises take place on the col
lage campus Friday afternoon at
SiSO at which time Elizabeth Mower,
cider daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mc-
Handy Mower, will be crowned
Queeffi of the May. The maid of honor
is Elizabeth Propes of Lyman and
the Queen's attendants, are the fol
lowing: Frances Baxter of New'
berry, Elizabeth JJischoff of Charles
ton. and Joyce Wingard of Lexing-
ton, seniors; Marlon Ponahoe of
Charleston, Ruth Haigier «f Swansea
and Dorothy Day Wheeler of Pros
perity, juniors; Evelyn Cromer of
Newberry, Virginia Gaetjens of
Charleston, and Harriet Harden of
Newberry, sophomores; Catherine
■Collins of Georgetown, Ruth Monts
of Clinton, and Jewell Schaeffer of
Summerville, freshmen; Margaret
Franklin of Graniteville and Evelyn
McCrackin of Newberry, business
students. The attendants will wear
gowns of pastel shades made the
same style—full net skirts and tight
fitting blouses. Their picture hats
will be of net trimmed in tafetta
flowers. The train bearers, little
Doris and Joan Dominick, and the
flower girls, Harriet Reid and Kate
Rutherford, will all wear long white
dresses. The heralds will be two
college girls, Frances Henderson and
Madeline Shearhouse. After the
crowning of the Queen by President
James C. Kinard, several dances and
orchestra numbers will be given for
the entertainment of “her Majesty”.
In the dances a “seasonal motif”
will be carried out. The spring dance
Is the May Pole dance. The dancers
will wear green organdy gowns deco
rated with daisies. A baloon dance
will be put on by the summer group
and costumes will be white organdy
gowns trimmed with circles of varied
colors of cellophane. For the aut
umn of the year a Harvest Dance
will be given. The girls in this
group will wear brown organdy
frocks trimmed in leaves and a neck
less of nuts. The winter dance is
the March of the Wooden soldiers.
They wear white slacks and red mili
tary-looking coats trimmed in black.
All dances are being directed by
Miss Truberg, physical director at
Newberry, and by Miss Caroline
Mayes, student.
Marriage of Interest
Much interest centers here in the
marriage of Miss Lucille Florence
Crump and Dr. Chester Edmund de
Cordova which took place Friday,
April 28. Lucille is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Crump of Har
rington street. She trained at
Roper hospital in Charleston and
received a degree in nursing from
the Medical College there. She later
did pest-graduate work at Lyingin
hospital i* Providence, R. I., and is
now in the United States public
health service jn Savannah, Ga., at
the Marine hospital, Mr, jSqrdova
is from Texas and is a graduate jn
dental surgery from Baylor Uniyer-
eity of Dallas. He Is now serving as
interne in the Marine hospital at
Savannah. After June the couple
will move to Corpus Christi, Texas
to make their home. They visited
in the city over the weekend with
the Crumps.
You Guess
Before so many more days have
been torn off the calendar you will
be hearing of the marriage of a lo
cal boy and gjrl—both well-kown
and well-liked, It is being told the
marriage will take place anbn but
since the bride-to-be prefers P9
forehand publicity I’ll just have to
give hints and not names. She is
an attractive light brunet and lives
up in the Boundary street section of
town. His home is in a nearby
county but he has been working here
in one of our Main street stores for
quite a while. After the marriage
the will live in an apartment on
Boundary gtreef which they are busy
even now furnishing, (Can you
guess ?
Still They Come
Romance is certainly in the air—
at least for some people. We hear
of marriages and marriages-to-be on
every hand. Now comes the news
that a June wedding will be held in
the city. The future bride is Miss
Julia McAlhaney, daughter of Mrs.
Josie McAlhaney of Boundary street,
and the groom is Thomas Clyde Tin
dall of Columbia, son of Mr, and
Mrs. W. M. Tindall of Neeses. Julia
graduated from Columbia college last
spring and this year has been
teaching the third grade in the
school at Neeses. Well be hearing
mMch more later about plans for
this marriage,
Sesqui Visitors
The city is full of them—visitors
from far and near for our gre*^
Celebration. Visiting Mr. and Mrs,
William Tedford at their home at
Park View Court are the latter’s
parents, Mr, an< i Mrs. W. W. Cromer
of Greenville.,. Mrs. Roy Shirley of
Atlanta, Ga., is the sesqui vistor of
the J, H, Wests on Calhoun street...
Mrs. R. F. Nichols iof h er cele '
bration guest her sister, Mrs. Jack
Gentry of Spartanburg,,,Dr, HsroUi
J. Bowen and Mrs. Bowen of Char
leston are taking in the Thursday
and Friday events while visiting with
the Richard Floyds.. .Mr. and Mrs.
James Boylston of Charlotte, N. C.
are expected in the city for weekend
happenings of the sesqui.. .Miss
Elizabeth Boylston, teacher at Mar
lon, end Miss Elizabeth Potter and
Miss Mary Nichols, also Marion
teachers, were jn the city last week
end. They expect to return this
weekend for the celebration.,, Dr.
H. B. McCullough of North Carolina
was in the city Sunday and Monday,,
Miss Mildred Adams of Columbia is
the sesqui visitor of Miss Doris
Armfield.. .Taking in the entire week
of the celebration as guests of Mrs.
E. E. Stuck on Johnstone street are
Capt. and Mrs. L. K. Tarrant and
daughter, Cornelia, of San Francisco,
Cal.; Mrs. Cecil I. Butler and two
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Author of Sitter Mtry't Kitchen
Last year we hod a neighbor in
the country who planted pole lima
beans along his garden fence. He
wasn't a native but brought his idea
from another state where he said
“we figure the fence might as well
hold up the beans and save us cut
ting poles.”
The idea is really a splendid one.
Pole lima beans are far more pro
lific than the bush verities and a
few hills will supply the table. Aside
from this they make beautiful vines
that you might well use wherever
you need an annual vine for shade.
Figure on planting sweet corn
where you had early peas in your
garden. Of course you’ll want some
corn planted before the peas are
gone, but I always have, not several
but many planting of sweet com so
it will keep coining over a long per
iod. As soon as the peas are through
bearing, pull up the vines and plant
corn, thinning after the plants are
up to one foot apart in the rows.
Corn requires considerable nitrogen
which peas take from the air and
make available as plant food in the
soil.
Whether you are building a new
kitchen this spring or merely lifting
the face of the old one, there are
ever so' many fascinating new ideas
to study. Look into the ready-to-in-
stall cabinets before you decide to
have them built by the carpenter.
These new cabinets that are built
down to the floor look built in and
permanent, but are actually portable
and can be taken with you should you
move to another house.
ge sure there is plenty of toe room
at tfee bottom of any built-in-the-
floor cupboard, This epp be best ac
complished by making a recessed
platform under the cabinet. The site **“'
of the recess naturally varies but a
space two to four inches deep is ne
cessary for comfort.
The height of your working sur
faces is of the utmost importance,
too. Here your own height should
be considered, of course, but the av
erage woman will find thirty-six
inches from the floor a happy choice.
Many modem ranges are made this
hejght and with all the cabinets and
work surf9fes ftb eyen thirty six
inches you have an unbrokep Upe fpf
your kitchen counter.
Patricia dow
I haven’t found anybody who
thinks well of the new and increased
taxes recommended by the special
group of the Senate Finance Commit
tee. Even Senator Sims of that
sub-committee mildly dissented and
filed a dissenting explanation.
’JTiroughout the State there is an
ipipressjon that the legislature has
not grappled the problem in the
proper spirit.
As I find the sentiment, based on
correspondence and visits, this Is
about tlje result. We have one of the
best legislatures we have had in
many years; we have a first-class
man and proved executive in the Gov
ernor’s chair; we have more sound
thinkers and broadminded men ip
public iif§ than in a generation. Yet,
the general imprasaiqij js $h$t they
have all backed off from the real pro
blem or tried to side-step it.
I find a wide-spread disgust at the
ide a of the program of the Finance
sub-oommittee. Without exception
every one has expressed the thought
that the business condition of the
fSt^te calls for reduction. Summariz
ing not only reports, letters and re
marks of callers, but including men I
have talked to from Charleston $9
Greenville this may be deduced;
1. That special report was prepared
to befriend the Highway department
and that any sort of new tax or in
creased tax will be imposed in order
to avoid touching the Highway de
partment,
2. That the e»ly proper cSH 18 ? 18
to bring all commitments of the State
within the probable Income without
new or additional taxes.
So far as the business men are
concerned mi rt of them who have
been willing to express themselves
tell me that all the efforts being
made to get new industries for this
State will be completely nullified by
any more taxes of any kind.
daughters, Rose and Amelia, of
Rockmart, Ga.; and Mrs. Lawrence
Spearmen of Davidson, N. C....
Down for the Coronation Ball Tues
day evening was Mis* Mary §ailgy
Owens of Clinton, guest of .the R. G
Wallaces.
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G wi;
!"At'
William Peery, first place win
ner In the county high school spell
ing contest held recently, and Viv
ian Chapman, grammar grade win
ner of first place, will represent
Newberry county at the state
spelling contest to be held at Win-
throp college in Rock Hill Wednes
day, June 31.
The second and third places in
the high school contest went to In
gram Shealy and Margaret Reddin
of Whitmire, respectively.
Second place winner in the gram-
mer grade contest was John Hug
gins of Pomaria with third place go
ing to Mariam Hendrix of the Sil-
verstreet school.
MRS. CANNON ENTERTAINS
EMERY CIRCLE FRIDAY
Mrs. C. H. Cannon entertained
members of the Emery Circle Fri
day morning at the home of Mrs.
R. G. Wallace on Caldwell street.
Tables were arranged for the
members and a number of extra
guests to play rook,
4 variety of spring flowers de
corated the rooms where the play
ers gathered.
At one oclock, a three course
luncheon was served.
Clarence T. Summer
THw ORIGIN OF NEWBERRY
COUNTY
(Writtervj for The Sun)
Ancient history shows that Old
Lady 96; then 96 district; now New
berry county once practically held
Newberry county in her lap prior to
the 1783. For Statutory History shows
that oul- South Carolina legislature
passed a law in 1783 directing that
40 miles square be cut off form Old
Lady 96 District’s expansive and be-
flowered Apron; this evidently having
been cut from the lower, or Southern
part of this Old Lady’s apron, dur
ing the year 1784 for Judge O’Neall’s
Annals of Newberry; Chapter 2 page
13 for the Act of 1786 for laying off
the counties therein mentioned etc:
Abbeville, Edgefield and Newberry
are spoken of as existing counties;
Laurens, Spartanburg and Union are
not only laid off, but also named in
the Act.
This shows us that the Statutory
Law, or Acts of the legisature in 1786
recognized that these Three districts
now counties; viz; Edgefield; Abbe
ville and, Newberry as having been
previous to 1786 cut off from Ninety-
Six District. He (Judge O’Neall)
calling attention to Newberry being
spelled Newbury in the Acts of 1786.
And too, 'Judge O’NeaU’s Annals,
see chapter 2, page 16 states that dur
ing the March term of court for New.
berry district that the several jus
tices after accepting the gift of John
Coates of what Is now know as the
Public Square, issued an order dated
March 3, 1789 directing that a Sur
veyor’s Plat be made of this public
square consisting of two Acres, this
was done, signed in presence of the
order of court dated March 31, 1789
by Philemon; D. S. William Caldwell,
D. S-:
This plat being on record In Deed
book A, page 1180 and states that it
was made in presence of an order of
court dated March 3, 1789.
Hence and therefore, counting
from the year 1784 when Newberry
first became a district now county,
her 160th anniversary of her exist
ence as a county certainly was in
1934—thus we are five years slow or
behind time about celebrating New
berry county’s sesqui-centennial. But
let’s all boost ourselves all the more
to make our Newberry County
Sesqui-centennial Celebration a great
er and a grander celebration so that
its echos will go on down the next
150 years.
WANT ADS
NEW LOCATION—The New South
Express lines are now located at
1311 Caldwell street, just below Dr.
Lide’s. I. H. Wilson, Agent.
APARTMENTS—Furnished and un
furnished apartments for rent near
business section. Rent reasonable.
Call telephone 22-J. 2tp
BOLL WEEVIL Molasses and Cal
cium arsenate. Any amount. For
sale by Johnson-McCrackin Co. ^-4tc
WANTED—Fit cows and veals. FOR
SALli—fresh hog lard, country
hams, and middling meat. Will deliver
in Newberry. A. Cecil Quattlebaum,
Prosperity, S. C. 10-3tp
LOST—A platinum ring with one
large diamond in the center and
three small diamonds on the sides.
Possibly lost in the business section
of the city around the first of Feb
ruary. Reward. Finder please re
turn to The Sun office. §tp
FOR SALE—.Eggs for hatching—
from pure bred English White Leg
horns or New Hampshire Reds—
prize winners—$1.00 per 15. R. Der-
rlll Smith, Wholesale Grocer, New
berry, S. C.
NOTICE!—We renovate mattresses
for $3.50 and do all kinds of up
holstery. All work guaranteed. One
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FOR RENT—We have for rent sev
eral Safety Deposit Boxes in the
Insurance Building. Apply to A. J.
Bowers, Jr.
FOR RENT — Upstairs apartment,
possession given May 1st. Garage.
MRS. T. C. POOL, 1727 Harrington
street,
GRAIN BINDERS—New and used
steel or rubber Bull wheel. 6 to 10
ft. cut. See the famous McCormick-
Deering line for sale by Johnson Mc
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MRS. W. P. SMITH DIES
AT COLLEGE STREET HOME
Mrs. Lottie Smith, 74, wife of W.
P. Smith, died Monday morning at
the home of her son-in-law and
daughter, Dr. and Mrs. E. H, Kib-
ler, on College street after a short
illness. Mrs. Smith was a native
of Toronto, Canada, but had made
her home with Dr. and Mrs. Kibler
for several years. She was a mem
ber of Central Methodist church and
had many friends here who regret
to learn of her death.
Besides her husband and daughter,
Mrs. Kibler, she is survived by a
grandson, E. H. Kibler, Jr., of Bos
ton, Mass., and a great granddaugh
ter, Helen Elizabeth Kibler; four-
brothers and one sister, three of
whom live in Canada.
Funerai services were held Tues
day afternoon at four o’clock at the
residence with the Rev. H. , O.
Chambers in charge, assisted by Dr.
R. A. Goodman. Burial was in Rose-
mont cemetery.
SERVICES WEDNESDAY FOR
MRS. LILLIE LANGFORD
Mrs, Lillie Griffin Langford, 55,
died suddenly Monday night after a
brief illness. She was the widow
of David A. Langford who preceded
her to the grave some years ago and
the daughter of the late B. F.
Griffiin and Lillie E. Barr Griffiin.
She is survived by one son, B. G.
Langford, and one brother, John B.
Griffin.
Funeral services were held Wed
nesday morning at the residence and
interment was in Rosemont cemetery.
JOHN B. LEVER DIES
SUDDENLY MONDAY
Funeral services for John B. Lever,
69, who died sudenly Monday at his
Nance street home were held Tues
day afternoon at 6:30 at the resi
dence with the Rev. C. C. Vaughr.n
in charge, assisted by the Rev. B.
F. Rogers. Burial followed in Bax
ter Memeorial cemetery.
Besides his wife, who vias the
former Miss Lila Saber, he is sur
vived by two sons, W. C. and O. M.
Lever; one daughter, Mirs. Ernest
■Taylor; one sister, Mrs. A. D. Row
land; and two step-children, Mrs.
John Cook and A. G..Farrow
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Holiday Notice
'
In observance of Memorial
Day, this Bank will not be
open for the transaction or
business on
WEDNESDAY, May 10
S. C. NATIONAL BANK
Newberry, S. C.
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