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Every Week More People Read The Sun The Sun Strives To Serve The H Whole People VOLUME 2; NO. 40 The Rising San—1856-1860 NEWBERRY, S. C FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1939 Slider 4 Greneker—1856-1860 $1 PER YEAR OUT AMONG THE PEOPLE THE WAY IS OUT A copy of Bill Eargle’s “North Au gusta Way” has reached our desk. It is a 12 page sheet filled with nice ads and lots of news. Bill has sliced off for himself a lot of hard work in attempting to print two papers but Bill is possessed with lots of tenacity and lots of energy and will put the thing over if anyone can. The folks of North Augusta, a South Carolina town, should line up behind the ne.v paper and give it good and regular support. Mr. Eargle like all other fool newspaper men. will always give them much more than they pay for as long as there is a glimmer of hope of succeeding, or a few words of en couragement to feed upon. PROMINENT ALA. MINISTER AT KINGS CREEK CORONER LIVES HANDSOMELY Coroner Wilson has a fine office, a shiny new desk, and an elaborate plush and leather footstool to rest his heels upon, yet he uses his office very little. So few people meet un timely deaths that he is reported to occupy it only at long intervals, and as he has been telling th > same jokes since he entered politics 40 years ago, no one cares to sit with him in his shiny den. The lack of someone to chin with does not bother the coroner, however. • He draws a fine salary and drives around in a fine car and spends much of his time at expensive hotels in the mountains and at th? seashore. We suppose good coroners come high, but that man is spending a lot of somebody’s money. Of course in addition to the tremendous salary he draws as coroner, his outside in terests fetch him a nice sum. A big drayage business, one of the best farms in the county, his goat indus try and so on yield a handsome profit. Two lawyers, an accountant, and three figure hi* imftfme tax, and after they get it figured he usually tosoes in a few thousand to make sure of hav ing -enough. Next year is e’ection and we have warned him against his style of living, but it does no good. Only yesterday we saw him eating an ice cream that must have cost a dime, and nearly every day it’s the same story. There seems to be no bottom to that man’s pocketbok. UNUSUAL PETITION • Fiscal affairs of Newberry county must have been in bad shape back in the years when the late George Boul- ware was supervisor, or else the coun ty board didn’t give a rap whether the ladies had accommodation. Un earthed at the court house the other day was a petition signed by some two dozen women pleading with the board to Install another stool in the women's toilet. We know nothing of the matter other than the silent tes timony of the old petition, but the fact that the ladies deemed a peti tion necessary would indicate that a hot fight was caused by their request. And, sad to relate, they never did get what they wanted until the good year 1939 when the new court house addition took care of all that in fine style. Special inspirational services will be held next week at Kings Creek, A. R. P. church near the city, accord ing to Dr. J. W. Carson, pastor of the Main street A. R. P. church. Dr. Carson wil 1 preach on Sabbath night, July 30, at 8:15. Beginning Wednesday evening at 8:15, the Rev. R. C. Kennedy of Comden, Ala., will preach each evening and morning through the following Sabbath. No service will be held Saturday morning. The Rev. Kennedy is the son of Dr. I. N. Kennedy and Mrs. Mary Emma Carlisle Kennedy. He is one of the most promising of the younger minis ters in the Associate Reformed Pres byterian church. He had the honor of being the pastor of the governor of the State of Alabama while Judge Miller was in office. Dr. Carson extends a cordial invi tation to all who can attend these services. HOW THE DELEGATION VOTED In the house of representatives Messrs. T. S. and J. L. McMillan and Mr. Richards of the South Carolina delegation, are reported as having vo ted against the Hatch bill. Mr. Ful mer voted for the bill. Bryson and Hare are not reported as voting. The Hatch bill prohibits federa' of- ficeliolders except the president, cabi net officers, congressmen, “policy makers,” engaging in political acti vities. Administrative officers in South Carolina, high and low, in fed eral employ would be subject to prose cution, if they undertook to influence voters.. MOLLOHON SCOUTS OBSERVE PARENT NIGHT Farm Market House Is Given Impetus A committee was named at a Sat urday morning meeting to inquire in to the matter of erecting a market building here in the rear of the new court house. The county delegation has had the matter of a market house under con sideration for some time but had been unable to find funds for its erection. The donations by delega tion members of their extra pay created a fund nearly sufficient for the building and the Saturday morn ing meeting was for the purpose of going into the matter further. It appeared that the county would supplement the extra pay money with a sufficient amount and a committee to further the work was named upon motion of Thomas Pope. The com mitteemen are Thad McCrackin, Hol land Ruff,' Mrs. D. S. Halfacre, Sena tor Abrams, and Miss Ethel Counts. The market house is intended for the convenience of farmers who have produce for sale, and to afford a mar ket of fresh farm produce for New berry housewives. CLINIC AT COUNTY HOSPITAL The Boy Scouts of troop six, Mollo- hon, had their parents as guests at the weekly meeting of the troop Mon day night in the Scout hall at the Mollohon school building. The main address of the evening was made bjr W. H. Toetford of the mill office. The. scouts joined in a number of songs and contests. Alvin Griffin from the Ninety Six troop joined troop six. Oliver Cromer, Scribe. A tonsilectomy clinic, conducted by Dr. A. T. Neely, wa* begun at the county hospital several weeks ago to continue until school opening. Recent tonsil operations include the follow ing: Miss Macie Davis of the city; Harry Buzhardt, city; Dorothy and Dalton Carpenter, city; Jack Jennings, Oakland; Jacqueline Addaway, Oak land; Roy Timmerman, Oakland; Mar gie Fuller, Mollohon; Joel Halford, city; Harold Amick, county; Inell Reeves Franklin, city; Bill Dufford, city; Alvin Fulmer, Mollohon; Mrs. Sara Felker, Oakland; Orin Amick, city. VISITING HERE Mrs. Helen B. Wells of Minneapolis, Minn., is spending a few days in the city with the H. B. Wells, the Charles L. Traberts, and other relatives. BIRTH OF SON WANTS ONE OF HIS OWN Ike Davis handed us a dollar with instructions (to send him the paper. His folks have been seeing it via a kinsman, but Mr. Davis decided, right ly, that he should have it come to his home. So, here it isi, Mr. Davis, hot out of the mailman’s pouch. And in this connection, we have had several lately to do as jMr. Davis has done. Gradually they learn about The Sun thru someone else and come Sn. We have made very little effort to get subscribers, having never sampled the city or county even one time. We are bolding to the theory that if you have something good folks will find it out. We had rather wait and have good, substantial subscribers than put on a lot of mushroom stuff thru high pressure methods. Mr. J. Dudley Dominick living on a Prosperity route is another who saw or heard about the paper and came in this week. We are building up a list of substantial folk which is good for the advertiser, and at the present low advertising rate of 20c the advertiser is getting hi? money’s worth in full measure. People who take a newspaper because they WANT it are always the best subscribers, both from the standpoint of the newspaper and of the adver tiser. BRIGHTER OUTLOOK Newberrians attending the citizens meeting in tht city recorder’s court room Friday night will find things considerably brighter around the po lice headquarters. By the weekend the much and long needed job of re- Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Mason an nounce the birth of a son at the coun ty hospital Sunday, July 23. The baby has been named William Allen, the third. Mrs; Mason is the former Miss. Nellie Fouche, daughter of Mrs. C. E. Fouche of the city. The Masons reside on College street but will move soon into their recently constructed home on Summer street. painting, recalcimining, repairing, and renewing will be completed at the station after two weeks’ work by local NYA boys. The four small cells and one large one that houses mainly weekend law breakers have been done over in grey and white. In the police office the same colors predominate while acting Chief Colie Dowd’s cubby hole has been repainted in white. The re corder’s room and Judge Chapman’s bar dazzle in their new paints and calcimines of white and tan. MAJORITY OF VACATIONERS ARE NORTHWARD BOUND The beaches and the mountains fall into second place this summer as the majority of vacationers are going northward—to Washington, Philadel phia, Baltimore, New York City, and even Canada. Of course the World’s Fair is the big drawing card so while en route visitors take in other spots in the North they’ve wanted to see for some time. Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Lominick and daughters, Anna Margaret and Patsy, and Miss Juanita Felker, all of Po- maria, left Sunday for Washington, Atlantic City, and New York where they will attend the World’s Fair, re turning by way of Niagra Falls and the Shenandoah Valley. Miss Margaret Scruggs is spending ten days in Washington visiting her uncles, Carter F. Scruggs and Fran cis C. Scruggs. Mr. and Mrs. E. O. Kinard and daughttr, Nora Katherine, of Po- maria and Miss Esther Huffman of Columbia left Sunday for Baltimore to visit Mrs. Kinard’s brother. They will also take in the World’s Fair. They were accompanied by Charles Glymph of Pomaria who will visit his sister, Mrs. Wilcox at Round Bay, Maryland. A CORRECTION An article in last week’s Sun told of a case in Magistrate Ben F. Daw kins’ court of a negro, Evans Miller. The article stated a charge of assault and ibattery with intent to kill. The charge should have been assault, as only such a case can be tried before a magistrate. A case of assault with intent to kill must appear before a circuit court. HARTFORD NEWS The Hartford Grange held its regu lar meeting Thursday night at the school house with a splendid atten dance. A well planned program was carried out. It was planned to have a chicken barbecue supper for the members in the near future. After a social hour delicious ice cream and cookies were served by the hostess, Mrs. W. B. Goggans and Miss Pearl Wessinger. The friends of Mr. Harold Amick are glad to know that he is doing nicely after a recent tonsil operation at the Newberry county hospital. IMr. and Mrs. Malcolm Moore of Whitmire spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Wessinger. Mrs. Bernice Wertz and daughter, Evelyn, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Goggans and family. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Shealy and family of Pacolet, spent Saturday with Mr. and Mrs. Henry Shealy. Miss Katy Shealy of Pelzer spent last week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Shealy. Mr. M. O. Fulmer spent last week in Columbia with Mr. and Mrs. Leon Fulmer. Masses Pearl and Nell Paysinger, and Miss Rose Lee spent Sunday af ternoon with Mis® Ola Summer. Mr. and Mrs. Will Neel and family of Florida spent Monday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Goggans. Mr. Harvey Shealy of Moncks Cor ner is visiting friends in the commun ity. Miss Gertrude Hamm of Silver- street spent last week with Mr. and Mrs. Ben Hamm. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Lester and family and Mr. and Mrs. “Doc” Shealy of Newberry spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Lester. Messrs. Carl and John W. Hamm delightfully entertained about 40 of their friends with a party Friday night in honor of Miss Gertrude Hamm of Silverstreet. Many games and contests were enjoyed throughout the evening. BARBECUE—A first class barbecue will be served at Jolly Street Wed nesday, August 9th. This will not be the annual barbecue as the big meeting is called off on account of polio. Pig foot stew night before. Sponsored by the ball club. Come out and enjoy 4 good" ’cue. 28-2t. m Bronze Plaque To Builders of Addition To the side of the elevator on the first floor of the court house two bronze plaques were erected last Fri day. The smaller tablet bore the in scription, “Federal Emergency, Ad ministration of Public Works, Frank lin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States, Harold L. Ickes, Ad ministrator of Public Works, Newber ry County Court House Addition, 1939.” Wording on the other plaque fol lows: “Newberry Office Building Com mission, Eugene S. Blease, chairman; Z. F. Wright, vice-chairman; Tabor L. Hill, secretary; C. W. Bedenbaugh, J. K. Derrick, James C. Duncan, J. W. Hipp, Legislative Delegation, M. E. Abrams, Senator, Representatives, Thomas H. Pope, Jr., J. J. Dominick, J. C. Senn, Heyward S. Singley, A. I. A. Architect, F. E. Moore Lumber Company Contractor.” STUDIES IN WASHINGTON Charlton McSwain of Clinton, formerly of NewVrry, has gone to Washington, D. C., to enter law school. He will attend school at night and work ail an apprentice st the Federal Bureau of Investigation during the day. Upon completion of school in three years he will become a special agent for the F. B. I. McSwain is the son of Mrs. Drucie McSwain and attended Presbyterian college at Clinton three years. He visited friends in the city last week before leaving Friday for Washington. AMONG THE AILING Allen Calcote, son of the Rev. C. A. Calcote and Mrs. Calcote, is a patient in the Duke hospital at Dur ham, N. C. He is being kept there for treatment, j*. _ : w * e condition or Mrs. P. B. Ezell, patient at the county hospital, is re ported improving. Stevie Griffith, small son of Mr. and Mrs. Steve C. Griffith, underwent a tonsilectomy in Columbia recently. W. B. Pearson of Strother is re ported improving at the county hos pital folliwing treatment. Horace Shealy, Prosperity, is a pa tient in the local hospital. John William Burns who suffered major injuries in a wreck near here last Thursday was dismissed from the county hospital Tuesday to return to his home at Cross Hill. Mrs. E. S. Werts returned Saturday after spending a few days with her daughter, Mrs. Scurry Riley, in Sa luda. Mrs. Burton Able has returned from Goldville where she was called on account of the illness of her daugh ter, Mrs. Ed Warren. Mr. and Mrs. Gardener Riley and family of Union spent Sunday in Newberry with relatives. George Pettit of Willow Grove, Penn., is spending two weeks in the city with relatives. SUMMER SCHOOL ENDS After a six-weeks session the New berry city schools summer program closes today (Friday). NOTICE FOR BIDS The County Board of Commis sioners will receive sealed bids for 65 dozen half gallon screw top Mason type fruit' jars on or before 10 o’clock A. M., Monday July 31st. Right is reserved to reject any or all bids. H. H. RUFF, Supervisor. « WORLD FAIR BOUND A party of five Newberrians, Chris Anthonas, Ernest Kinard, Olih Lay- ton, Richard McWhirter and Garvice Taylor left Saturday evening for an eight day trip to the World’s Fair. They plan to go by way of number one highway into New York and re turn by way of the Shennandoah Val ley. While in' New York they expect to see some of the outstanding radio programs being broadcast, having made arrangements through mer chants to get tickets to several of them. The group plans stops at Bal timore, Philadelphia, and Washington en route home. FOR RENT — Apartment in the Holmes house on Walnut street. Call 374. Richard L. Baker. 3tp Santee Salaries To Fore Again Columbia, July 24.—The proposi tion of salaries for the members of .the board of directors of the South Carolina Public Service (Santee- Cooper) authority is breathing again. There may be another decision on this in Washingrton before long. Washington, already has made one decision. It was adverse. A sal ary qf 83,600 a year for each of the seven directors was proposed to the PWA, which is supplying the bulk of the money for the $40,300,000 Santee-Cqoper power and naviga tion project, and PW \ did nothing. The $3,600 compersation was ap proved by the authority’s advisory council last year, while Olin D. Johnston was governor. (The coun cil is made up of the governor and the other so-called constitutional officers). Prior to the council’s favorable action on $3,600 and PWA’s cold ness, a figure as high as $7,500 for the directors had been talked. But it was soon apparent that this would not go over and it was dropped in favor ot $3,600. That was the figure which reached the council. For some time, the directors re ceived $50 a month. Even that went out while discussions were taking place last year regarding a higher salary. Unless it hag recently been restored, the directors are not re ceiving even the $60 a month they formerly got. Any salary proposition now in the making would be presented not to the man who was cold to the old one, Harold L. Ickes, but to the head of the new federal works agency, John Carmody. PWA is now in the FWA. THE ADULT education program of the state was sliced approximately 60 per cent by the general assembly —from $35,000 last year to about $14,000 this year.' Officials of the department of edu cation express “regret” but, being diplomatic, will say nothing else. But they may be placing some of the blame on the WPA. The WPA conducts a rather ex tensive adult education program in the state. Some of the legislators heard about that and calculated that the state could afford to cut down sharply and let WPA shoulder this burden of teaching adults to read and write. And a majority of the legis lators agreed with those who had discovered thfe WPA program. The education department’s adult division and the WPA adult educa tors have worked together in har mony. The state workers are, how ever, concerned now that the legis lature has decided to let the WPA do most of the adult educating. They are wondering what will happen if and when WPA simmers and dies. THEY ARE soon going to select the sculptor for the monument to Tillman, and artists are clamoring for the assignment. The Tillman memorial commission already has re ceived a large assortment of mod els and proposals from would-be builders of the monument, the total cost of which will run between $16,- 000 and $20,000. One has been in Columbia for months with this work as his objec tive. He is a handsome Russian, Nison Tregor, who has been some thing of a factor in Columbia society and has done busts of several promi nent citizens. Tregor has had a studio in the city hall. The Tillman memorial commission, however, has opened up the competi tion to any and all sculptors and will give all who wisn a hearing. Then it will make its decipion. THE BETTER liquor dealers have seized upon the new fair-trade the state has just imposed upon the whiskey trade as a means of demand ing a clean up of the bootleggers of all classes and all methods. The more responsible licensed deal ers, wholesale and retail, have accept ed the new fair-trade code in its en tirety but have not failed to insert the request that everythink possible be done to wipe out moonshine and illegal sale of tax-paid liquor. Dr. Walter G. Query, chairman of the state tax commission which administers the liquor laws, plans to seek the complete cooperation of all law-enforcement Agencies in a drive on bootleggers It happens that when Query sets himself to a task he means business, too. AT MYRTLE BEACH Pat Mitchell and Olin Wessinger are spending this weekend at Myrtle Beach. REMODELING BEGUN ON CARNEGIE HALL Remodeling was begun this week on Carnegie hall at Newberry college This building was damaged consider ably by fire April 19. The major part of the work will be done on the third floor, freshman quarters, where the fire began. Water damages on the ground floor and in the dlnfng hall will necessitate recalcimining the walls. The work is under the super vision of the Rev. E. Z. Pence. Following the fire last spring a temporary roof was placed on the building. The first year students were housed in the gymnasium for the remainder of the session. TWO NEGRO HOUSES ARE DESTROYED BY FIRE The fire department answered a call at 12:30 A. M. Wednesday in the negro settlement on the Boundary street extension. Two negro houses outside the city limit were completely destroyed by fire before the trucks arrived on the scene. With the aid of the booster tank on the new truck, neighboring houses were saved. The volunteers used hand pumps to extin guish small flames on surrounding property. ORANGEBURG PORK BUSINESS THRIVES Orangeburg, July 25.—At the an nual meeting of the Orangeburg Live stock association here today, it was disclosed that during the twenty-sev en-month period ending July 1, 1939, there were sold through this organi zation 34,462 hogs that weighed 6,- 597,165 pounds and netted $480,889.90 to the growers. In addition, the Caro lina Packing company plant here did a million dollar business in process ing, mostly hogs but some cattle, dur ing its first year of operation which ended several months ago. The gross receipts for the sale of hogs during the year ending July rrt, were $294,^4.35 of wh; $291,622.15 net was paid to the grow ers. There were fifty-two shipments of hogs for the year, most of them going to Northern markets. These totaled (288 1-2 cars of 21321 hogs that weighed 4,208384 pounds. The average weight for tops was 198 pounds, and the average price was seven cents a pound. Today’s meeting was attended by a thousand farmers and was held at the county fair grounds. The asso ciation president, Thomas T. Tray- wick, of Cope, presided. MRS. MINNIE WISE Mrs. Minnie Wise, 62, wife of James A. Wise, died Wednesday morning at her home near Jalapa after an illness of several months. Mrs. Wise was the daughter of the late Calvin Derrick and Mrs. Mary Ellen Fulmer Derrick and was bom and reared in the Lake Murray sec tion where she resided until she mov ed to this section eight years ago. Besides her husband, survivors in clude a daughter,Miss Bernice Wise; three sons, Olin Wise, Virgil Wise, Henry Walter Wise; one sister, Mrs. Ira A. Miller; and four grandchildren, all of Newberry. The funeral was conducted Thurs day at 4 p. m., at the St. James Lutheran church at Jalapa, with the Rev. Moses L. Kester officiating, as sisted by the Rev. V. L. Fulmer and the Rev. Julian B. Harman. Burial was in the church cemetery. DOWN MEMORY LANE Stalled in Parachute NEW YORK ... Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Rathborne of Old West- bury, L. I., who were spectacularly rescued from a parachute in the Parachute Jump, thrill ride in the amusement section of the New York World’s Fair, prove they can take it by making another jump. They were suspended 100 feet aloft for five hours and fifteen minutes when a pulley attached to one of the four guide wires around the chute became fouled. 30 YEARS AGO The rainfall for the past week has been around eight or nine inches. The roads all over the county are badly washed up and travel is almost im possible. For several days it will be bad to undertake to travel over the road from Prosperity to Little Moun tain, and the road to Jalapa is past traveling. Numerous small bridges all over the county are gone, and it will cost several thousand dollars to re build and repair the bridges. Washington, July 22.—Race hatred in the national capital engendered by attacks on white women by negroes and fanned by three successive nights of rioting, found expression tonight in clashes between whites and .Macks. A home defense guard was shot and killed, a second guard fatally wounded and another white man slashed sev- erly by a razor wielded by a negro. All of the negro assailants escaped. Approximately 2,000 troops—cavalry, infantry, marines, and sailors—(pa trolled the streets and waited in re serve for possible outbreaks supple menting regular and volunteer police. r ' t ■ y ' ‘ . j-- That was another heavy rain on Tuesday night and again on Wednes day. The creeks and branches have been very much swollen and much of the sand in the streets has been wash ed back into Scotts creek. And the weeds are growing beautifully along most of our streets. lit can’t be help ed except by doing some work thr.t will lost and that will not wash away with every rain. 1 CORRECTION a part of the are to be played and Friday, July 28. The pears in only about 300 of the papers so if you happen to get one of them please stand corrected. TO FLORIDA BEACH Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Turner and son, Bill, left Saturday fbr a week's stay at Daytona Beach, Florida. They were accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. B. I* Turner of Greenwood. QUARANTINE CONTINUES HERE Jake R. Wise, county health clerk, reported “all quiet”' in Newberry county concerning the infantile para lysis situation this morning. The only two cases in the county this summer have been dropped ftom the active list. It is unlikely that the quarantine for children under 12 will be lifted before schools open, accord ing to Mr. Wise. The state health department re ported the total number of polio coses through Wednesday to be 322. BETH-EDEN LUTHERAN PARISH Rev. M. L. Kester, Pastor St. James: Sunday: 10:00 A. M —Sunday school. Mir. Herman Epting, Supt. 11:00 A. M.—The service. Sermon by the pastor; Beth-Eden: Sunday: 8:00 P. M.—Chvrch Worker’s Con ference. All officers, teachers and leaders in all auxiliaries are expected to attend and any others interested are invited. SEEN ABOUTTOWN Mrs. R. B. Baker, who Is spend ing these warm days at her sum mer home, Tangiewood, on Lake Murray, In the city Wednesday buy ing grocery supplies.. .Jamec Hare of S^uda, passing through the city ...Raphael Masters and Margaret Dodgen, both former students at Newberry college in city Monday after Aoon talking to Chris Kauf- mann.. .the R. A. Goodmans riding in new anto.. .Coach Laval walking up street with coat thrown over his shoulder.. .Someone wondering how Brick Mason feels with a new office, a new home, and a new baby all at once.. .Deputy J. C. Neel and Constable Livingston en route to Clinton “to get a man”...Mrs. W. H. Carwile and Miss Fannie Mae Carwile with visitors, Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Speck of Saco, Maine, motoring about the city... Frank Sanders insisting on Pinckney- Ab rams accompanying him to the post office ,'and then having the auditor carry a heavy package pack to the court house for him.