The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, July 07, 1939, Image 5
FRIDAV, JULY 7, 1M9
Society
and CLUB
NOTES
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What could be a better way to
begin a column than relating the
birthday celebration of one of New
berry’s most well-known and belov
ed ladies? On Wednesday of this
week, Mrs. W. R. Smith of College
street celebrated her 85th birthday.
Entertaining for her at a lovely
birthday dinner Tuesday evening was
her daughter, Mrs. R. C. Floyd. The
Floyd home on Mayer avenue was
the scene of the celebration. Cosi-rs
were laid for eight guests in the din
ing room and a two-course cold
plate dinner served. A pink, blue,
and white color scheme was used in
the dining room. The table was
centered with the birthday cake, iced
in white and covered with pink rose
buds. Blue flowers were arranged
about the cake and in a basket of
white icing on top of the cake were
tiny blue flowers. Pink candles
burned on the cake and about the
table. The place cards were attach
ed to the chairs and with them, old-
fashioned nosegays of pink and lav-
endar flowers. The birthday cake
was a gift to Mrs. Smith from Mrs.
R. G. Wallace. Attending the dinner
were Mrs. T. C. Pool, Mrs. J. W.
Simmons, Mrs. W. H. Carwile, Mrs.
Lucia Merriweather, Mrs. Derrill
Smith, and Mrs. W. O. Holloway of
Chappells.
Another Birthday
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. West enter
tained at a buffet luncheon Saturday
at their beautiful Calhoun street
home honoring their nephew, Gene
Parker, on his 20th birthday. Guests
for the occasion included Miss Dovie
Crooks, Miss Lalla Rook Johnstone,
Miss Iva Mae Pritchard, Miss Con
stance Armfield, Mr. Parker, Sidney
Styles of Cullman, Alabama, and Mr.
and Mrs. C. I. Youmans. In decora
tions and in the luncheon a red,
white, and blue color motif, sugges
tive of July the Fourth, was carried
out. The birthday cake, cut by the
host and served with the sweet
course, centered the dining room
table. It was iced in white and gaily
decorated with flags, soldiers, and
motor cars.
Wedding Date Set
The marriage of Janie Lou Coth
ran of Belton and Ralph Whitaker
of this city will be solemnized in the
Cedar Shoals Baptist church of Bel
ton Thursday, August 10. Just now
wedding plans are incomplete but we
learn that Miary Lane Whitaker, sis
ter of the groom-elect, will be the
maid-of-honor and bridesmaids will
be some intimate friends of Janie’s
who teach with her at the Silver-
street school near here. Ralph’s
best man will be his brother, Roy
Whitaker, of Columbia. We hear
that Janie will be visiting in the city
before her marriage but as to the
time when parties will be given here
for her, we’re a little uncertain. The
couple will make their home here and
Janie will continue to teach at Sil-
verstreet where she has been for the
past several years.
Personal Paragraphs
Miss Ethel Jones left Wednesday
for Brogdon, near Sumter, to visit
her sister, Mrs. J. C. Brogdon. Ac
companied by her sister and others,
Miss Jones will attend the World’s
Fair around the first of August.
Mr. and Mrs. L. S. McGhee of
Bristol, Tennessee, arrived in the
city Sunday to spend a while with
their daughter, Mrs. C. A. Oalcote
and sons, Allen and Mac. Mr. Cal-
cote, who has been in Jackson, Missi
ssippi, at a Presbyterian gathering
for the past two weeks, returns this
week.
Miss Lucy McCaughrin is spend
ing a few days this week with her
sister, Miss Fannie McCaughrin. She
is from Columbia.
Spending Tuesday, July 4, at their
summer home on Lake Murray were
Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Wallace and fam
ily. With them were Mr. and Mrs.
Bill Reid. Mr. Wallace’s birthday
was celebrated on the Fourth.
Visiting in Clinton this week is
Frances Wallace, the guest of Mary
Bailey Owens. Frances returns Sun
day when her cousin, Marion Davis,
from New York City will arrive here
to spend the rest of the summer
with her and her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. R. G. Wallace on Caldwell
street.
Spending July the Fourth with
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon D. Blackwell
on Cornelia street were their son,
J. R. Blackwell and Mrs. Blackwell
of Darlington.
Miss Edna Johnson and Mrs. Roy
Clary were in Prosperity last Tues
day as the honored guests at a tea
given by Miss Eloise Singley at the
home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
J. A. Singley. Approximately 150
guests from the city and Prosperity
attended the affair.
Arriving for a week’s visit with
Miss Cornelia Mlayer at her Main
street home was Miss Lucia Cock
rell of Jacksonville, Florida. Miss
Mayer met Miss Cockrell in Columbia
Monday morning.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed McCrackin spent
Sunday in Johnston visiting Mark
Boatwright and then motored on to
Augusta to visit other friends.
Professor J. D. Rook and Mrs.
Rook have taken an apartment in
New York City where they will be
for six weeks. Mr. Rook, a member
of the Newberry College faculty, is
doing graduate work at Columbia
University.
Sunday visitors of the Thad Mc-
Crackins on College street were Miss
Tillie Helms and Clyde Lisk of Char
lotte, n. C. Miss Evelyn McCrackin
returned home with Miss Helms for
a week’s visit. She will later go to
Sanford, N. C., to spend a while with
Miss Nancy Mclver.
CHARLOTTE VISITOR JOINS
BRIDGE CLUB MEMBERS
Mrs. Earl Summer was hostess at
a contract bridge party for members
of her club Friday morning. Play
ing with the members was Mrs.
Frank Phelps of Charlotte, N. C.
Before the games, Mrs. Summer
served light refreshments.
When scores were tallied, prizes
went to Mrs. Griffin Coleman, high
scorer, and Mrs. P. J. Stokes, who
held second high. At bingo, Mrs.
Marion Wicker was winner and was
also awarded a prixe.
MRS. COBB ENTERTAINS
AT THURSDAY PARTY
Among the weekend bridge par
ties was the one Thursday afternoon
given by Mrs. O. M. Cobb for the
weekly club of which she is a mem
ber. Tables were arranged in a
floral setting of lovely gladioli.
The high score prize was awarded
Mrs. Herman Wright. When bingo
was played after bridge, Mrs. J. E.
Wiseman was winner.
An ice course was served late in
the afternoon.
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MARRIAGE SATURDAY
The marriage of Miss Elizabeth
Ballentine and Harold F. Long, both
of Newberry, solemnized at nine
o’clock Sunday morning, July 2, in
St. James Lutheran church was one
of unusual beauty and simplicity.
The Rev. M. L. Kester, pastor of the
bride and bridegroom, officiated, us
ing the impressive Lutheran ring
service.
The altar before which the vows
were spoken was J>anked with ferns.
White candles in candelabra and bas
kets of white gladioli and Queen
Anne’s lace were effectively arrang
ed before the ’ altar.
Preceding the marriage ceremony,
the nuptial music was rendered by
Miss Christine Wingard, pianist, and
Miss Helen Wingard, vocalist, cous
ins of the bride.
The candles were lighted by the
ushers, William Ballentine, brother
of the bride, and Carl Edwin Long,
cousin of the groom.
The bride and bridegroom entered
the church together to the strains of
the “Bridal Chorus” from Lohengrin.
During the ceremony “To A Wild
Rose” was softly played by Miss
Wingard.
The bride, an attractive brunette,
wore a model traveling suit of navy
triple crepe with harmonizing acces
sories. She carried her Service Book
covered with white satin and shower
ed with Egyptian Daisies and fern,
from which the marriage service was
read by the minister.
The bride is the daughter of Mrs.
Carrie Ballentine and the late John
A. Ballentine of Newberry. She is
a graduate of Winthrop college.
Since her graduation she has been
teaching in the Little Mountain
grammar school.
Mr. Long is the son of Mrs. Nora
Long and the late Rufus Long of
Newberry. He is a graduate of New
berry college. He now holds a post
with the Southeastern Life Insurance
company with headquarters in New
berry.
The couple will make their home
with Mrs. Nora Long.
THE NEWBERRY SUN
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ST. PHILIPS ITEMS
There will be Sunday school at
three o’clock Sunday afternoon and
divine services at four ftVlocl:. Ser
vices will be conducted by the pastor.
Well, people have been enjoying
the Fourth, going to barbecues and
ball games. It generally rains on
the Fourth but missed this year.
Crops in this section are needing
rain badly and unless it soon comes
will be cut very short.
Business is picking up in mar
riages. On Saturday afternoon Rev.
Emmett Roof married two couples:
Miss Rebecca Kibler and Daniel Rig
gers, also Miss Alice Sue Wicker and
James Robert Shealy.
Mrs. Riggers is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Kibler She has
been employed in the Whitmire cot
ton mill for several years. Mrs.
Shealy is the daughter of Mrs.
Ethel Wicker. Mr. Shealy is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Shealy. All
are of this community. Best wishes
to these young couples.
TO MONTREAT
Mrs. R. W. Culbertson and Miss
Constance Armfield left Wednesday
to spend a week at the Presbyterian
training grounds in Montreat, N. C.
Widow of Casey Jones Visits Fair *
FORMER NEWBERRY ATHLETE
DIES AT POMARIA
Funeral services for Clarence
Counts Epting, 48, who died sudden
ly of a heart attack Tuesday aft
ernoon at his home near Pomaria,
were held Friday aftemon at four
o’clock from Bethlehem Lutheran
church conducted by the Rev. Ernest
A. Counts and the Rev. J. W. Car-
son. Burial was in the church ceme
tery.
Mr. Epting, better known to sports
fans as “Nig” Epting, was a farmer
and business man. He starred with
Newberry college, of which he was
a graduate, and later pitched for
Augusta in the South Atlantic
league, and with Detroit in the
American league. For the past year
he has been an inspector for the
state rural electrification authority.
Mr. Epting was twice married. His
first wife, Mrs. Marie Bundrick Ept
ing, died a few years after they were
married. His second wife, Mrs.
Mary Price Epting, survives with
one son, Bobby Epting; four sisters,
Mrs. D. L. Wedeman and Mrs. Joe
Shealy, Pomaria; Mrs. David Half
acre, Newberry; Mrs. Johnny Kohn,
Columbia; one brother, Ernest W.
Epting, Pomaria.
GLASS clothes
Visitors to the New York World’s
Fair can see with their own eyes
how glass is spun into fine threads
which can be woven into fabrics for
almost every use to which fabrics
are put.
Even underclothes have been made
of glass, but their wearers say they
are a bit scratchy. Curtains, wall
hangings, and draperies of beautiful
colors and designs ?>re being woven
from glass. They are fireproof and
damp-proof and can be cleaned with
a sponge or a hose.
Modem glass makers have been
making building blocks of glass for
some years. Now the fine glass
fibers are being applied to hundreds
of other purposes. One of the latest
applications is for automobile brake
linings. Glass has the advantage
over other fibers for this purpose in
that it resists heat and wears better.
Nobody knows who first made
glass, but tradition has it that it
was first developed by the Cartha
ginians in northern Africa, where
there is plenty of sand and natural
deposits of soda, which are the main
ingredients of glass. Glass bottles
at least five thousand years old have
been found in ancient tombs and ex
cavations. Now glass is being made
unbreakable, which makes it the most
durable of all materials.
CAMPHOR Japan
The uses of camphor affe so wide
spread that Japan, which has prac
tically a monopoly on the production
of natural camphor, used to take in
a hundred million dollars a year or
more from selling the white crystals
distilled from the sap of camphor
trees which grow on the island of
Formosa.
When the price of camphor went
up to $3.65 a pound, in 1920, Ameri
can chemists got busy and found that
they could make camphor from tur
pentine or pine oil to sell for less
than fifty cents a pound. Now one
Florida company makes quantities
of camphor from old pine stumps, and
the great DuPont chemical works
makes it from turpentine.
To add to the distress of the Jap
anese, who have lost their camphor
market, new synthetic fibers which
are stronger and softer that silk are
now being manufactured in America,
thus promising to kill >-ff the last
remaining important source of reve
nue of Japan
Nations can’t fight without money.
Japan is broke and can’t keep on
very long trying to conquer China
when it has nothing left to sell to
the rest of the world.
BABIES war
For hundreds of years it has been
known to governments and students
that after a war there are always
more boy babies born that girls,
while during a long war more girls
are born than boys. The idea used
to be that Divine Providence paw to
it that more boy* were bom to take
the place of the soldiers killed in
war.
Modem scientific research tells a
different story. The younger the
mother, the more likely her first
children will be boys. Older women
have more girl babies. With the
young men away at war, the married
women left at home are mostly past
thirty. When the young soldiers
.
PADGET PICKS WOFFORD
Fletcher Padget of Saluda has de
cided to attend Wofford college on the
$4,000 scholarship donated by Eddie
Cantor, according to an announce
ment by Dr. H. N. Snyder of the
college. Young Padget had t£»e privi
lege of selecting the school he wished
to attend.
LITTLE MOMENTS IN BIG UYES
Kessler
P. T. A. MEETING
The P. T. A. of Bush River High
school will meet in the school audit
orium Wednesday, July 12 at 3:30.
All members are urged to be present.
CHAPIN AT JOLLY STREET
NEW YORK CITY . . . Mrs. John L. Tones, widow of Casey Jones,
hero of a song and poem, who ./as kdi-d in a train wreck on April
30 1900, shaking hands with engineer Herbert Nicholson, who is in
the cab of the William Mason cf 1870, one of the many locomotives
«nd trains on exhibit at the New York World’s Fair.
A ball game that should attract
much interest is the one between
the fast Chapin club and Jolly Street
outfit at Jolly Street Saturday, July
8, at 4 oclock.
Visiting in Union with her uncle,
W. T. Summer, is Mrs. Ed McCrack
in of this city.
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GURIPTIAW PRESIDENT OF THE C.G. PPPHOG 4/UD BUMPEC 00.,
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BECAME QUITE po CPPOLA©.
come back from war they marry
quickly and usually pick the young
est girls they can get.
So the preponderance of boys born
soon after a great war is due to the
fact that their mothers were girls
of seventeen to twenty-two. Girls,
if you’d rather have a family of boys
than of girls, marry young. That,
at least seems to be the advice of
science.
DOWSERS water
In my boyhood, almost every
country town had one or more in
habitants who were known to the
community as “dowsers.” A dowser
was a person who could take a fork
ed stick of witch-hazel, hold the
forks in each hand and walk along
until the end of the stick turned
sharply downward. Then the dowser
would say “dig here,” and one could
always find water by digging at that
point.
I’ve seen it done too often to ques
tion it, though I haven’t been able
to find any scientific explanation of
it. Some dowsers were reputed to
be able to locate iron and other min
erals, though I never saw that done.
Modern science, however, has dis
covered that mineral deposits may
be discovered by the use of trees,
shrubs, or even leaves. By collecting
the leaves or stalks if growths in
a certain area and analyzing them
T
chemically for their mineral content,
English scientists, have found iron,
zinc, and other minerals. Vegetation
growing above or close to the min
erals carries a higher percentage of
them in its fibers
TOMATOES .... fertiUzer
Down in southern Florida, in the
famous Redlands district south of
Miami, there was almost a total
failure of the tomato crop a few
years ago. As that is the place
where the earliest and highest-priced
tomatoes are grown, it was a blow
to the farmers. Experts from the
Department of Agriculture were call
ed in to see why the crop had failed
to mature.
Careful soil analysis showed that
what had made the land of the region
produce tomatoes so bountifully was
a slight trace of copper in the earth,
and the copper had been used up by
successive crops.
A formula for a special fertilizer,
containing a tiny fraction of copper
salts, was worked out, and the next
year the Redlands district had the
biggest and best tomato crop on re
cord.
There is no such thing as “poor”
land for farming. The only question
is whether it will pay to add the
necessary chemicals to the soil. I
am watching the new “hydrporuc”
or dintless farming with much in
terest. No soil at all is needed; only
a solution of the proper chemicals
in water, in which the plant roots
can grow.
1939 American Father
NEW YORK CITY . . . Guy S.
Buck, a post office employee of
West Plains, Mo., who was chosen
by a national poll as •‘The Amer
ican Father of 1939,” is shown with
his 12^year-old son, Phil ‘—^
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