The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, July 14, 1939, Image 1

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— — ■, ■ -r' ■ ■ Every Week More People Read The Sun The Sun Strives To Serve The Whole People VOLUME 2; NO. 38 The Riling Sun—1856-1860 NEWBERRY, OUT AMONG THE PEOPLE ' ■& o V / -4 LIARS & SMALL LOANS It seems to me that the research division of the University of North Carolina is about out of something to do. The other day a slim, studious sort of fellow came in and present ed himself as doctor something or other and said he was sent out by the university to get the low down on small loan companies. He was out to contact actual borrowers he said and I suppose my gaunt and dow dy appearance appealed to him as a source of rich information. He just knew "l was a victim of the loan sharks and hia gentle demeanor won me right away. I have never bor rowed any money from such places but the fellow seemed so nice that I wanted to help him out in his great undertaking, particularly since he said he was finding it hard to get people to admit just how much in terest they were paying. “Yes,” I told him, I had long been a customer of the small loan com panies and to that I attributed my inability to rise in the world of finance. By this time he had bright ened up and drew from a very flat portfolio a long blank and began to question me closely and pointedly. After 10 minutes he got tired stand ing and asked if I objected to his sitting. I did not and he sat, and continued to question. I answered all his questions and he left, beaming. If you ever get hold of a big tome captioned something like: “Evils of the small Loan companies” by the Universiity you can put it down as my life's history. I am sure the fel low never got another interview; in fact he seemed so well pleased with mine that he said somethiing about : to Chapel Hill, now that his #ttrk was done. Newbemans Building Many Pretty Homes Three new residences are now in process of erection on Crenshaw street. Builders on this street are Pinckney Abrams, J. D. French, and William Hunter. “Brick” Mason is having erected a story-and-a-half home on Summer street next to the Gurney Summer home. Ralph. Haile is erecting a two-story bungalow on Kinard street. Other residences are also going up, or projected for the near future. CLUB MEMBERS BEACH Members of the Eagle’s club leave Saturday for their cigth “encamp ment” at Myrtle Beach. They will be gone until the 23rd and will be at the Prince apartments. Those in the party are: Mr. and Mrs. Tom Sligh, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Clary, Jr., Otis Whitaker, Frank Sanders, Miss Zula Blackwell, Mr. and Mrs. Griffin Langford, Johnnie Swittenberg, Miss Frances Counhs, Wyman Coleman, Miss Elizabeth Holt, Mr. and Mrs. Griffin Coleman, Pete Coleman, Miss Elizabeth Mower, and Ellerbe Pel ham. WEST END SCOUTS SPONSOR BARBECUE A lady from Fort Moultrie stop ped between basses to subscribe to the Sun provided we would agree not to print her name among a list bf subscribers as had been our habit. Her sister-in-law had been sending her copies along but she wanted to be certain of getting it each week and also to save the in-law a lot of trouble. We readily agreed to the proposition as we had decided some-, time back to discontinue the practice. It was done in the beginning to show that people were taking the Sun, as they are continuing to do. But what pleases us most it that easily 98 per cent of our subscribers are renew- ir»g when their time runs out. A number of methods may be employed to get subscribers but there is only one way to hold them, and that of course is to print the news.—all of it. There will be a Barbecue supper furnished at the West End Barbecue stand Friday evening, July 14th. The serviing will be at 6:30 and will con tinue until all has been served. Mr. Johnnie Wood of Weat End will be in charge of the cooking. Mr. Wood who has cooked so many of these stews and barbecues for the Boy Scouts and other organizations of Newberry is planning this supper with the hope that many of his friends that have not been able to come out at other times can come to this supper. He of course expects his old standbys to come out again, The supper will be served at the We*t End barbecue stand whiclj is a ’jpgat asset to our city. It* was largely through Mr. Woods effbrts that this fine stand was built and it now serves the entire community and any organization can use it for the asking. So let the men folks bring the ladies along and give them a treat. Supper will be 50c. Meat 50c pound and Hash 50c quart. ST. PHILIPS THE CORONER’S NEW ROOM Coroner Wilson is so tickled with his new office in the court house addi tion that he has about decided to atay there permanently and have his meals sent in. He even has a foot ■too! to cool his heels on. His only objection is the location of his room; he is in doubt about how he will get along neighboring with Frank Sanders. »€ ’ NO SOCIAL COLUMN The society editor is away this week at Montreat, N. C., on some sort of church affair and her column is necessarily ommitted. Time was when I could write society but It is long past. There is not much dif ference in social writing and writ ing a mushy love letter and I have noticed at the bottom of x an old trunk where my wife keeps them, a sort of sticky substance ozing from the cracks. They were postively gooey and gushy but effective and binding as these 20 odd years will testify. If I could just recapture some of that stuff and plaster it onto a present day wedding the world would gasp, but I can’t. That stuff postively wept and wailed and out of it also grew no little wailing in later years and per haps a little cussing when, just as you had rocked him for hours and carefully laid him away, he let out a yell that would have scared an In dian to death and you had it all to do over again Such is not calculated to keep the flame of romance burn ing and little by little you come to realize there ain’t no such animal; just a creature of young love on a spree. But some plastering is nec essary in writing society, and I am done of that. Mrs. James L. Aull of Columbia was the guest of her father James R. Davidson this week. I am very thankful to say to The Sun that I am upon my feet and able to go again; and also appreciate the nice things that the editor said about me. It will soon be thirty-nine years, Saturday the 15th, since I started writing for the papers. For that long time—it seems very short, but has been a rather long time—I trust my readers have enjoyed my pieces in the paper, and I trust that I will be able to write quite awhile more. On July the 5th at 12 m. we were Visited with a severe storm. It was the hardest rain we have had in a long time. It did a lot of damage in breaking the government terraces. The hardest rain lasted one hour and from one until one-thirty it rained steadily. There was also a good bit of hail mixed with the rain. The corn crop was blown flat to the ground. Even to the damage of the crops the people were glad to see the rain. But we trust that we will get nice rains, but that we will not get any more storms. Long Trail Leads To Masonic Hall NEWBERRY ENGAGES WINNSBORO Newberry will play Winnsboro here Friday night at 8:30. Williams a new pitcher will start for New berry, Newberry will agam play Saturday night when Clinton comes to town. This game is being played for the convenience of those who work thru the week and do not feel like taking in night games without a holiday ahead. TAYLOR IS VISITOR Former Congressman John C. Tay lor dropped in on us Wednesday. Some of his friends here say that he is already campaigning for next summer to oppose Butler B. Hare. Mr. Taylor’s main fence mending is in the mills. He got a representa tive vote outside the mills in the last election, but, strange to say, the mill boys who put him in turned him out. Mr. Taylor will not have a chance against Mr. Hare next year unless there is a general upset of the Democratic party. Such an up set would of course be felt in strictly Democratic states and may carry some worthy men down. Taylor would be in a pretty good position in a general revolt against the New Deal for he was never too strong for it. ‘ >. V ' „ ' •• There hangs in the Amity Masonic lodge here a picture of which only a few of the lodge members know the history. It is a history of romance, of war and of happy reunion seldom heard of. More than a hundred years ago a young Massaohussetts man came to South Carolina to claim the charm ing and aristocratic Eliza Evans for his bride. After a few happy months of honeymooning in the beau tiful low country they, together with a brother of the bride, Sam Evtns, came to Newberry to make their home. That was in 1830. The young husband of beautiful Eliza was Am- ith Bailey and it is his picture which hangs in the Masonic lodge here to day after a hundred years. What caused the young couple to leave the birthplace of the bride and move to Newberry is of course un known, but it is reasonable to sup pose that the thrifty young Yankee did not like the slow moving life of the low country. His restless spirit was not content in the low country for we find him after some years in Newberry answering the Westward, ho! call and moving across country with his. family to the great plains. Amith Bailey entered the jewelry business directly upon coming here with his bride. This business was later taken over by his son Edward and it was Edward who presented the lodge with a picture of hia father. Edward married Miss Thomas Ann Owen and later moved to Florida, where he passes out of the picture of this story. Amith Bailey’s oldest daughter, Susan, married J. J, Forde here in Newberry about 1841. A son was born to them a year later and this son married Miss Catherine Riddle hooper when he Was about 20 years of age. This is the only branch of Amith Bailey’s family whi Some tfme In i&d ^mith answered the call of the West and in pack wagons started with his family to Texas. But Amith never reached the great West. He died on the way, in Little Rock, Ark., and was buried there. His family continued on and one of the sons, Charles located at the then small town of Gainsville, Texas, where he entered the newspa per businss. Just the other day, after an inter val of more than 100 years, Edward G. Bailey and Bettie (Bailey) Staton, children of Charles Bailey, stood in the Masonic hall here and looked up at the pisture of the grandfather, with what thoughts we can only con jecture. They were accompanied to Newberry by Marguerite Branigan Sease of Greenville, a great grand daughter of Susan Bailey Forde. This was the first meeting of the South Carolina and Texas branches of the family in almost 100 years. The visitors were shown about by Mrs. Tom P. Johnson and they ex pressed delight over their visit and the courtesies extended them here. IY, S. C. FRIDAY, ittle Moun|ain iI JULY 14, 1939 Slider A Greneker—1856-1860 $1 PER YEAR Little Mo«fjn|ain Meet Cancelled This Year The Newberry college reunion at Little Mountain bett for many years on the first Fridvp in August will not be held this year, according to college officials. The polio scare is responsible for calling off the re union, the first gathering of which probably no one now living recalls. The Delmar and Little Mountain re unions are looked forward to each year by many Newberry people, and particularly by former graduates of the college. GRASS ES COTTON Rev. C. A. Calcote has returned from a three weeks trip to Mississ ippi and Alabama, where he went on a religious misekm. However, he observed crop conditions in that sec tion and report* that the grass has almost completely taken possession of cotton on the delta lands. He says that fa: rain checks”, similar to that hail section here there are drawing ovemmennt aid, farmers in the years ago. Mr. Calcote describes the tenant farmer in the delta as being in much worse economic plight than those of this country. They live for most part in shacks on the big plantations in a hand-to-mouth manner. The Rever end was glad to getback to the com paratively cool climate of Carolina. The weather there, he said, was al most unbearably hot. Of church life he found two thilqs of the adult population withbui memberships in any church. • County Officers In New Quarters MOVE INTO NEW OFFICES Visitors to the court house will have to do a bit of searching to lo cate the office of superintendent of edducation, probate judge, and the clerk and supervisors office. Not that they will be all that hard to find but- the unwary are likely to go to the accustomed offices. The superintend ent of education is now located just below the clerk of court in the new addition; the probate judge will be found just across the hall from him and Frank Sanders who presides over affairs In the supervisors office will be found in the basement or bottom floor. The new offices are nice and well FIREMEN GIVEN SERVICE BADGES Last month at Durham, N. C., at the convention of International Fire Chiefs, members of the local depart ment presented Chief H. B. Wells with a solid gold watch charm. On the obverse side of thf handsome fob is lettering denoting 50 years as Newberry’s fire Chief. Lettering on the reverse side denotes his term as president of the above association. Last Saturday morning Burton Wells presented each five-year mem ber of the local department with a small service badge. The badges were given for five years continuous service and are so inscribed. Members receiving the 5 year bajge are; James Sease, Ralph Whit- r.ker, J. S. Lide, Sam Glenn, J. F. Epiing, Harry Hedgepath, and O. L. arranged. Considerable new furniture Whit ^ r ’ I 10 T were THINGS TO WATCH FOR— A new bicycle speedometer which speeds up to fifty miles an hour and distances, up to 10,000 miles for a trip....More young men getting a chance to learn aircraft building as a result of Lockheed Aircraft plan, dictated by shortage of skilled aviar tion workers, to start an apprentice school A new furniture polish said to have (die quality of lacquer and “build” of varnish, but drying from three to five times faster than either Cinecolor, cosmocolor, and dunningcolor, up-and-coming rivals of technicolor A new type of iron ing cord for housewives. It stretch es easily to a 7-foot length but auto matically snaps back to an 8-inch coil when not in use. BUILDING OF HOMES HITS FASTEST PACT New York, July 11.—Home build ing in the first half of 1939 was the fastest witnessed in a decade, F. W. Dodge Corp. reported today. Dollar volume of residential bund ling contracts let in the first six months this year totaled <644,527,- 000 in the 37 states east of the Rocky Mountains, the heaviest ^ol- ipne for any similar period since 1929. The aggregate represented a gain of 61 per cent over the like 1938 period, and a rise of 25 per cent over the like 1937 half. MARRIED 62 YEARS If Mr. and Mrs. Sam Bickley live until November :hey will be able to celebrate their 62i\i wedding anni versary. Mr. Bickley is 86 and Mrs. Bickley is 80. Golden anniver saries are rare but 12 years over that is somewhat of a record. BRIDGE JN GOOp CONDITION ■ ^-4— The Aligator Rock bridge, over which there ha* been so much con troversy the {mat several years, is now in excellent condition according to Box Counts who crossed it a few days ago. ‘t'his ^xgjdge across Saluda population in do ~ and office equipment has been added, including some nice lounges for the well appointed ladies’ rest room. This addition to the court house has long been needed and the building com mission has made up for the absence of such accommodation by including in the plans a rest room that is all that can be desired, The court house addition includes a detention room for prisoners being tried, a dark room for photographic work, a large grand jury room, judges room, and a room for the court stenographer and perhaps other office space. SEVENTY-EIGHT SATURDAY George W. Summer, prominent in the life of Newberry over a long span, will be 78 years old Saturday. Mr. Summer was bora at the out break of the Civil war, lived through another great war and ’.ndioations are that he will witness another as his health seems good and two thirds of the nations are itching to fight. Here’s a Bargain Saturday night, July 16th, the Willing Workers circle No. 3 will sponsor an ice cream supper at the home of Mrs. Olin S. Richardson. Generous servings of ice cream and cake will be dispensed for only a nickle, 5c. Everybody is invited. BIRMINGHAM VISITORS The Rev. G. H. C. Park, pastor of the First Lutheran church, Bir mingham, Ala., who with Mrs. Bal- lentine and two pf their children spent the weekend with Mrs. Carrie Ballentine, near Jalape, preached the sermon at the St. James Lutheran church last Sunday afternoon. Pastor Park and Pastor Kester were bora and reared in the same county in North Carolina, were students to gether in the Theological Seminary and have been close friends ever since. It was a real pleasure and benefit to all who heard the sermon. DEMONSTRATORS HEAR MISS ETHEL COUNTS The monthly meeting of the Jolly Street demonstration club was held last Tuesday afternoon when 22 members gathered to hear Miss Ethel Count* discuss fall and winter gar dens. Devotionals were led by Miss Julia Kate Sease, she reading the first psalm. Miss Counts urged a more generous use of whole wheat flour, and discussed phases of fam ily recreation. A delightful sum mer course was served the members by Mrs. G. I. Kinard, Mrs. S. R. Metts and Mrs. Clarence Metts. STUDY AT UNIVERSITY Clarence C. Hutto and John F. Clarkson are at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, attend ing the course offered in finance and banking in the summer school. DORRITY-GAZES In a sample but impressive cere mony solemnized in the presence of members of the family of the bride, and a few friends, at the home of the officiating minister, Rev. M. L. Kes- ter, Friday evening, July 7th at 7:30 o’clock, Miss Ruth Dorrity became the bride of James Gazes. Mrs. Gazes, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Dorrity of Newberry, and a graduate of the Newberry High school is popular with a host of friends. Mr. Gazes, a son of Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Gazes of Charleston, attended Newberry college and is now engag ed in business in Charleston, where, after a brief wedding trip, the couple will reside. Mr. and Mrs. J. M Keller of Brooklyn, N. Y. are . in the state visiting relatives, including a brother C. E. Hendrix, of this city. They will be in South Carolina about a month. Mrs. Keller, a sister of Mr. Hendrix, is a superintendent nurse in the King’s county hospital, Brooklyn. North Carolina Farmers Visit This Section A list has been made of all tourists homes and boarding houses in New berry, with rates and other informa tion. This file has been prepared to meet a demand for this information which is received often through the mails. If anyone in this city has an inquiry along this line contact the Chamber of Commerce for full in formation. Wednesday morning the C of C was glad to cooperate with the Coun ty Agent in helping entertain the bus full of Guilford County, N. C., farmers who came here on a see and learn tour. Our small part in the entertainment was in supplying them with post xard views of this section, a place to write them and postage stamps. On their return to the city from a visit out in the county they were our guests for a drink at the Busy Bee. Some of the directors of this or ganization are taking grand trips for a vacation. Mr. Thad McCrackin is taking in the fair at New York, while Messrs. S. C. Paysinger and A. J. Bowers are taking a trans-conti nental trip to the Golden Gate Ex position. Directors John. Clarkson and C. C. Hutto have been away for one week studying banking at the short course conducted each summer at the University of North Carolina. Despite the vacation period 8 of the 12 board members were present at last directors meeting, held on Fri day. More and more organizations Are making use of the Chamber of Com merce quarters for committee and group meetings. This is very pleas ing to the officials, showing a greatly revived interest in making the Chamber of Commerce the meeting place of county wide organizations. Night meetings may be arranged by seeing the president. Day meetings by making your wishes known at the office or by phoning 356. awarded Harry L. Dukes, J. C. Long shore, E. M. Lipscomb, Paul Haile; 15 years badges went to H. O. Swit- tenberg, George Rodelaperger, E. L. Rodelsperger, Sam Beam, Sam John son and H. B. Wells, Jr. J. P. Vaughn received a 20 year badge and Tom P. Wicker a 30 year badge. As the badges are given only for five-year units pf service S. E. Whit ten will not receive his until next April. Other awards in 1940 will be the 10 year badge to O. L. Whitaker, and Harry Hedgeipath; 15 year badge to Paul Haile; 20 year badges to H. B. Wells, Jr., and Sam Johnson, and a 35 year badge to Tom P. Wicker. DOWN MEMORY LANE 20 YEARS AGO Fritz, the handsome and intelligent collie owned by Congressman Fred H. Dominick, died on Sunday. He was one of the finest of the collie speciep in this section, and because of his extraordianry canine intelli gence and kind disposition, he was well-liked by all who knew him. All the cotton on the Friend street side of the Standard warehouse plat form was burned over on Sunday af ternoon about 6 o’clock. This plat form was rented from the Standard by Mr. W. W. Hornsby, the cotton buyer, and many persons had the un fortunate habit of throwing off their cotton and leaving it there with no insurance. Just how the fire started Is not known. The firemen responded very promptly and soon had the place covered with water and the fire under control and saved any further dam age. The fire got beyond the doors to the warehouse and damaged 5 or 6 bales inside, but the automatic sprinkling system prevented any further damage. TO CALIFORNIA EXPOSITION Mtrs. Strother Paysinger and two children, Strother and Margie, and Mr. and Mrs. Jackson Bowers and children, Rosemary and Edna Louise, left Tuesday morning for a trip to the Golden Gate exposition in San Fancisco. They ter part of the DAY of the sports minded enjoyed Field Day at the local fish hatchery Wednesday where contests of various kinds were engaged in and where Ken Beagle gave an ex hibition of his skill with small arms. A big barbecue was served on the grounds precceded by a pig foot sup per the night previous. Details of the contests will be given next week. Jake Gosnell, who last Friday shot and killed Sheriff Hendrix Rector of Greenville county, was brought to Columbia yesterday on the midday train and placed in the State peni tentiary for safe keeping. Immediate ly after the shooting Friday Gosnelt was spirited away, the presumption at the time being that he was being taken to Columbia. Instead he was taken to Spartanburg and placed in jail. He was brought to Colu yesterday by Sheriff White tanbung county. TO Gladys day morning to buy fall merchandise a: in the World’s Fair. EQUINE DISEASE FATAL Kansas City, July 7.—Dr. Charles E. Salsbery, fifty-seven, a veterinary biologist, died today of equine sleep ing sickness contracted while he sought an antitoxin that would save horses from enciphalitis. A meeting of the patrons of the Some of this serum was given him JOLLY STREET GIRDS FOR ANNUAL ’CUE Jolly Street school 1 is called for in the auditorium Friday night, July 14th at 8:30 in order to dis cuss and make plans for theannual barbecue. A full attendance is urged. S. C. ROAD BONDS OFFERED JULY 27 in a final attempt to save his own life, a* was the blood from' inoculated guinea pigs. It was believed the first time guinea pig serum treatment was used in this manner. The sickness which claimed his life seldom attacks humans. ARTHUR, ARTHUR, & ARTHUR Union,—It’s Arthur, Arthur, and Arthur when accounts are paid by this city. Mayor Edward J. Arthur approves the payments. An uncle, W. D. Ar thur signs the checks, which are drawn on the Arthur State bank, ot which Henry M. Arthur the mayor’s brother, is president. Columbia, July 11.—State Treasur er, E. P. Miller announced today plans for the first ssuance of high way bonds in ten months. Bids on the issue, totaling <1,750,000, will be be opened July 27. The annuoncement followed auth orization for the issue by Governor Burnet R. Maybank in a telegram from his North Carolina summer home, where he has a slight illness. For the first time since 1936, the governor will sign the bonds. They are to be issued under the highway bond act of 1929. During the administration of for mer Governor Olin D. Johnston, an act was passed under which the treasurer was the one who signed the bonds. No road bonds have been issued since last September. Meanwhile, it was reported that no new road and bridge projects, with one excep tion, had been launched. The ex ception was for several grade-cross ing jobs financed solely by federal money. The highway department has not announced how the proceeds from the bond sale will be used. WOMAN HAS CHANCE TO THANK RESCUER AFTER FIFTY YEARS AUTOMOBILE SALES GAIN 3 PER CENT New York, July 9.—Factory sales of automobiles in June totaled 322,- 670 units, a gain of 3 per cent over 313,214 In May, the Automobile Manufacturers association estimated today. In June, a year ago, sale* were 189,402 units. On this basis the association said sales in the first six months of the year amounted to 2,045,723 passen ger cars and trucks, compared with 1,305,501 in the comparable period a year ago. Tl.e association represents all the manufacturers in the United States except Ford. Beatrice, Neb.—Rescued from al most certain death on sparsely set tled Nebraska prairies almost 60 years ago, Mirs. Fred Wheeler of Bea trice finally found an opportunity re cently to thank her benefactor. E. J. Piper of Lincoln, Nebr., back in 1880 was taking a census in Har lan county. While riding over the unbroken prairie he heard a child crying and found a lititle girl, too young to know her own name, tod dling along a draw. He took her to a nearby homestead where she was identified as Sarah McNamara, who had strayed away while playing. Prairie wolves were numerous in that section in those days and Pip er said, “the baby would have soon fallen asleep, for I found her more than two miles from her home.” Piper met Mrs. Wheeler, whom he had traced after the death of her father, when he came here to attend funeral services for hi* brother Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Hutchinson and Hughey Hutchinson are visiting Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Hutchinson in High Point, N. C. Mrs. R. C. Boylston has returned home after a months visit with her son, Coach James D. Boylston rfnd Mrs. Bolyston of Charlotte, N. C. • Mrs. R. C. Boylston, Miss Elizabeth and Reuben Boylston, Miss Emily and Anita Aull spent several days at Myrtle Beach the past week. Mrs. Eugenia Wise and son, C. R. Wise, spent Thursday with her daughter, Mrs. R. E. Livingston, Jr., in Greenville. Mr. and Mrs. Bennett Clary and two children are here on a visit to Mr. Clary’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Clary. They live at Cameron.