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Every V/eek More People Read The Sun The Sun Strives To Serve The Whole People VOLUME 3; NO. 49 The Rising Sun—1856-1860 NEWBERRY, S. C. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1940 Slider and Greneker—1856-1860 $1 PER YEAR OUT AMONG THE PEOPLE WHITMIRE AND NEWBERRY In a bulletin from the Chamber of Commerce from v/hich we are not supposed to quote, we quote: “Cham ber of Commerce directors gave a supper in Whitmire, having Whit mire citizens as guests. Expenses were paid by the directors personally, no cost to the chamber. Whitmire citizens said this did more to im prove relations between the towns than anything ever done before.” This is too good a work to blush unseen, or unread, and we want to here commend the chamber of com merce. For some reason buried in the past Whitmire has always seem ed more inclined toward Union. We have more to offer than Union and we can woo and win her bv this sort of evidence of our good will. We want Whitmire to consider itself a New- berry county town and for no pecun iary reason. Wh : tmire can help all of Newberry and in turn be helped. The good work should be continued; in fact, this should be a major cham ber of commerce undertaking. Newberry Headquarters For District Supervisor SOME TALL SWAPPING I swapped my neighbor across the hill, Collier Neel, my famous pea patch in exchange for cutting some weeds on my upper farm. Box Counts, who does a lot of farming In front of Johnson-McCrackins, says I ought to try early spring cabbage. He planted one-sixteenth of an acre some years ago and sold $80 worth of cabbage from it. I figure my acre ought to yield me $1,280 on that basis, and you can believe me that beats printing. Box didn’t bother to explain why he quit cabbage. I sup pose he just got tired making money so fast. I believe cabbage is my forte any way. I had four or five rows in the garden and put up from it some 10 gallons of kraut. It doesn’t look so good with the green leaves mixed in but it eats where you hold R. I haven’t noticed any ill effects so far from the poison I put on those cab bage back yonder when they were young and struggling to take their place among the nations of cabbage. My tummy is pretty much in a tur moil all the time anyway and a little extra disturbance only calls for a little more bicarb. And speaking of gardens I want to report to Mana Connelly on the prize okra seed he gave me to plant. I planted them all right and nursed the tender plants until the jungle of grass and weeds got ahead of me. i forgot all about mv Okra until Col lier came to cut the weeds but it v as still there and about three feet high. After the weeds were cut away I was really ashamed for that okra for itj was naked as a iay bird. There were a few leaves right in the top of each bush but from there down it was stark naked. However sunshine was ali it needed and it promptly began to put on clothes—and fruit. Mrs. Minnie Hood Blease, district supervisor of public health nursing, arrived this week to make Newberry headquarters for the work she car ries on in the Piedmont district com prised of seventeen counties. Formerly in Columbia doing simi lar work, Mrs. Blease was transfer red to the city as a result of change in districts of the state. Her work comes under the state board of health and she is connected with the local county health office—Newberry being the head of the Piedmont dis trict. Mrs. Blease has an office on the third floor of the Exchange building She supervises public health nurses of the following counties: Anderson, Abbeville, Cherokee, Chester, Edge- field, Fairfield, Greenwood, Greenville, Laurens, McCormick, Newberry, Oc- oree, Pickens, Spartanburg, Saluda, Union and York. Mr. and Mrs. Blease are residing at the Margaret apartments at 1934 Johnstone street. Youth From 3 Counties In Meeting Monday A conference of 300 NYA youths from Fairfield, Laurens, and Newber ry counties was held here Monday with Mrs. J. H. Summer, area super visor of NYA, in charge. | The morning session held at the new county court house was opened with the advance of the flag, Ned Purcell, president of the Chamber of Commerce, and Secretary Ted Bremer of the Chamber, greeted the visitors. Dr. James C. Kinard was the prin cipal speaker of the morning, talk ing on today’s oportunities for youth. Earl Chandler, head of the local Employment office, presented a pic ture of employment and labor. Dr. Tom Peoples of the state health de partment spoke on the importance of good health. Miss Lueiile Kennedy and Miss El la Mae Corn from the state NYA of fice in Columbia had short parts on the program which concluded with group sieging led by Mrs. lone -Wal lace. After a picnic lunch at the Mar garet Hunter park, two conferences were held when Mrs. Summer spoke to the boys and Mrs. Carlton to the girls on personal improvements and importance of training for employment. Recreation in the afternoon consist-! ed of a baseball game on the Speers 1 Street diamond played between the Lauiens and Newberry shop boys. i Mickey, a rubber doll with the big gest ears, was in the house. Peggy' Jean scampered inside on her eager two-year-old legs to bring Mickey out in the afternoon sunshine. She started across the street to join her sisters. She started across the street— Seep by Playmates. After the accident, the driver, a white man, stopped, got out of his truck and walked back to where Peggv Jean was lying with Mickey by her side. Then he ieturned to his Drys Want Prompt Legislative Action Columbia, Sept. 24.—Drys of South Carolina asserted today that the 1941 general assembly should be prompt in enacting a “streamlined” prohibi tion act in view of the advisory wet dry referendum last month which went decidedly dry.” A statement issued after the first meeting of the executive committee of the Federated Forces for Tem perance and Law Enforcement since the vote declared: Point to Majority “On August 27 out of a total vote of 319,727 in the statewide referen dum, 189,361 citizens voted dry, which was a majority of 58,995. This victory gladdened our hearts be- yound measure. The trend of public opinion is unmistakable. “When our state voted wet in 1934 by a majority of only 24,531, the next legislature lost no time in repealing the prohibition law and establishing the legal sale of alcoholic liquors ir every county in the state, although 19 of these counties had voted dry. “Now we expect the legislature of 1941 to be equally prompt to heed a dry majority which is more than twice as large as the wet majority of 1934. With such a mandate from the people there should be no unreas onable delay in outlawing the entire alcoholic beverage traffic within our commonwealth. To Guide Legislators “We are ready to aid our legisla tors in working out constructive and wise legislation to replace the pres ent liquor lews. This new legisla tion will have to be worked out un der the provisions of the 21st amend ment to the U. S. Constitution. South Carolina will be the first state to en act dry legislation of a statewide na ture under that amendment. “A number of our thoughtful lead ers have suggested that this new legislation should be postive in em phasis. The mere prohibition of the beverage liquor traffic, while es sential to effective dry laws, is rath er too negative if left alone. It will be wise to streamline our new legis lation to meet the needs of this new day. “We have appointed a special com mittee to study the whole situation and to make suitable recommenda tions to the next general assembly. It private' I s not an easy task, and it will call i for much consultation. Constructive (Continued on page eight) Citizens Don’t Want Cannonball Removed (By The Chamber of Commerce) PARACHUTISTS “Five thousand balloons, capable of raising two men each, could not cost more than five ships of the line; and where is there a prince who can af ford so to cover his country with troops for its defense that 10,000 men descending from the clouds might not in many places do an In finite deal of mischief, before a force could be brought together to repel them ? ” Sounds like Hitler? Well, it isn't. Old Benj. Franklin, one of the most versatile individuals who ever lived, wrote those words as far back as 1784. COULDN’T HAPPEN—BUT DID You have many times seen birds light on high tension wires without suffering ill effects. A bird, or a hu man either, must be “grounded” be fore any harm can come from “hot" •wires. That’s what we have always been taught to believe. But, believe It or not, there is at least one in stance where it did not work out that way. Frank Wheeler came by our office Tuesday afternoon with ten Star lings, all of which had been electro cuted on a rural electrification line out on the Belfast road. The birds clearly showed burns, and Frank said six of them were hanging head down from the wire, dead as dodos, when be came upon them. Wilbur Long at the light plant, said he never heard of such a thing and then proceeded to explain how it MIGHT have happened. A surge of lightning on the line, or the large amount of static electricity usually present on rural lines, COULD have been the cause, but he wasn’t ready to say that it was. BUT NOT TOO LITTLE TO DIE Yesterday was a nice day, sunny, a little crisp, fine for a little girl to play with her dolls. That’s what Peggy Jean Vannada of 432 Linden was doing yesterday. She had been playing in the back yard of her home, the sunshine gleaming on her blonde, wavy hair, when she thought of Mickey Mouse. 100 Women Attend Civic League Meeting T! ’ Civic League comprised of a lergi number of women from the city and county held its first fall meeting Tuesday afternoon at the home of its president, Mrs. J. H. Summer, on East Main street. Approximately 100 members and guests were present. Ted Bremer, secretary of the Cham ber of Commerce, was the first speak er on the afternoon’s program, who in addition to telling how his organ- truck and drove away. " ' grated with the Civic From across the street Juanita,! meetings from the 10, and Normagean Vannada, 8, ran tbe two speclal Vls,t0 rs of the to Peggy Jean and then to Mother. Mrs. Vannada rushed out to Peggy Jean and picked up her child and picked up Mickey too. She carried them to the porch. She looked at her child and she screamed. At Baptist hospital doctors pro nounced the child dead. Mother Warned Them. “I always taught my children to be careful in crossing streets and not to play in the streets” Mrs. Vanna da said. “But Peggy Jean was too little. She didn’t know, she didn’t know.” Peggy Jean’s last day was a nice one. Maybe she will have a nic" day tomorrow for her funeral services But last night couldn’t have been very pleasant for that driver. It couldn’t have been.—Memphis (Tenn.) Commercial Appeal, October 21, 1939. MRS. ROOSEVELT DINES The speaker is Mrs. Eleanor Roose velt, wife of the Democratic Presi dent, Franklin D. Roosevelt: “Last night I dined with the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. ... It was quite a lengthy party and the breakfast hour this morning arrived all too soon.” If that were the wife of a Republi can president speaking, we good Dem ocrats would stand aghast as the members of the above brotherhood are Negroes, but we don’t raise the finger of scorn against talkative El eanor. Oh, no, she’s the wife of Democratic Franklin, and as good Democrats we must swallow all that tribe dishes out. Fraternizing in this fashion with Negroes is not only dis gusting to us of the South, but it is bad for both races. It puts ideas into the heads of Negroes which will have to be knocked out with baseball bats. And if Eleanor only knew it, sen sible Negroes don’t approve of this sort of thing. They have never sought racial equalitv and if let alone they never will. Eleanor is of course angling for the Negro vote for Franklin and if it takes dining with Negroes, Hotten tots, or what have you, she does not hesitate. The First Lady wants a third term worse than her mate. Mrs. A. F. Spigener, past state president of the South Carolina Fed eration of Women’s clubs and pub licity chairman for South Carolina Garden clubs, spoke to the gathering praising the work of Newberry’s Civic League and after her remarks introduced Mrs. R. L. Burnett, the second visiting speaker. Both Mrs. Spigener and Mrs Burnett are from Columbia and were over just for the afternoon. Mrs. Burnett is the writer of the interesting column, “How Does Your Garden Grow?” that appears in the Columbia Record. She is also chair man of conservation in women’s clubs. She spoke on the subject, “The Civic League and Its Effect on Home, Industry, and Conservation.” After committee reports a brief business session was held with Mrs. Summer presiding. The members de cided to become affiliatd with the State Federation of Women’s Clubs. The League voted to sponsor again this year the annual Red Cross Roll Call. Mrs. Summer will head the Call and Mrs. Vernon Carlton was named head of the Junior Red Cross, a new organization for Newberry. A favorable vote decided the giv ing of $5 each u nth to help sponsor the training of 25 young Negro girls of Newberry county at the Laurens training center. Such girls will be trained to make better servants. At 10:00 a. m. ygsterday, Wednes day, September 26, a group of about forty merchants met with M. E. Ta te m. superinteident of the Southern Railway’s Columbia district. The meeting was held in the Newberry Chamber of Commerce office for the purpose ot hearing the railroad’s side of the question concerning the pro posal to remove trains Nos. 15 and 16 which come through Newberry on the Columbia-Greenville route. It comes as no surprise to Newber ry citizens that the passtnger traffic on these trains has fallen off in re cent years until the trains now oper ate at a definite loss. Mr. Tatem stated, however, that there are are only four passenger trains in the en tire Southern Railway system which are now making a substantial profit for the company. It was his opinion, therefore, that this decrease in pas senger traffic is by no means local or limited to this section of the country. Said Mr. Tatem, “This seems to be a definite trend throughout the nation today. People are simply using the highways and planes more than ever before.” He laid some interesting figures be fore the group: The average num ber of passengers on this 145 mile rup is only 28 per day. Wages along for the necessary crew amount to over $37 per day. The expense of operating these trains amounted to $78,387 in the eighteen months period from February 1939 to July 1940; du ring this same period the trains took in only $49,400; this represents a net loss of about $28,987 to the company. Mr. Z. F. Wright, chairman of the Chamber of Commerce committee on Highways and Transportation, stated that he was sure all Newberry ap preciated the position of the railroad company, but that it was felt that the railroad could now afford to stand by the people through whom they had in former years, made substantiol profits. He said thaj, if nearly all passenger trains rfft^operating at a oss, it was hard to understand why trains on this particular route should be chosen for removal. His opposi tion was sympathetic but very strong. Mr. J. N. Beard, of the Belk- Bcard Department store, pointed out the inconveniences such removal would cause in the department store business. W. F. Rutherford, of the Mollohon Mill, told of the great ef fect such a move would have on our textile plants. Mr. Jackson Bowers, Jr., of the Bowers Insurance Agency, made a strong protest, pointing out the fact that we might never have these schedules installed if they are once lost. Mr. Huffman, operator of a turkey farm of which Newberry County is so proud, told of the effect this might have on his business. Many other remarks were made by those present, practically every one voicing sympathy with the situa tion but strong objection to the re moval of the trains. The meeting was presided over by the Chamber of Commerce President Ned Purcell. The Southern Railway was represeited by Superintendent M. E. Tatem and by Division Freight Agent A. S. Eggerton. Further ac tion will be decided on immediately by Chamber of Commerce offkials, possibly culminating in the sending of a committee to appear before the S. C. Public Service Commission hear ing. Annual County Fair Conies Next Month Plans for the annual Newberry county fair are progressing accord ing to schedule and fruits of the field and garden as well as livestock, cattle and poultry are expected to be exhibited in quanity as well as qual ity. The fair will be opened officially at noo.i on Tuesday, October 29th. En tries must be in hand Monday. The county fair grounds and build ings are in excellent shape and huge crowds are expected to attend this year. Usual entehtainment will be pro vided by a carnival and other attrac tions. RELIGION IS ON WHEELS Washington, Sept. 24.—Religion in the armyis becoming mechanized. The war department has announced that each division chaplain will be provided with a one-and-one-half-fcon delivery truck and mounted on a trail er. The public address system will be suitable for an outdoor gathering of about 2,000 persons. The mobile chapels will be equip ped with field desk and typewriter; filing cabinets, field safe, portable al tar. portable pulpit desk, mass kit with elements for celebration of Cath olic mass, communion kit, with ele ments for holy communion (Protest ant), container with testaments, pray er books, Bibles, rosaries and medals, chaplain’s flag and tentage. Topics Announced For Richardson Talks The following topics will be used by Dr. Frank Howard Richardson, M. D., when he speaks in the city Fri day: Friday afternoon at the high school auditorium at four o’clock “Educating our Parents”; Friday night at a dutch supper held at the Willowbrook club house at seven thirty — “Everyday Psychology for Everyday Adults: What Makes the Wheels Go Round.” The public is c 'rdially invited to both sessions at which this famous doctor speaks. The afternoon pro gram is sponsored by the local Mo thers’ club and the night one by the three service clubs in connection with the observance of Better Parenthood Week. BETH-EDEN LUTHERAN PARISH M. L. Hester, Pastor School, Mr. COLONY: 10:00 a. m., Sunday Claude Wise, Supt. 11:00 a. m.. The Service. This be ing a fifth Sunday when ordinarily no service would be held, the members are asked to be present. The public is invited. BETH-EDEN: 10.00 a. m., Sunday School, - . Herndon Hentz, Supt. operating at a t,™ tnrlovef q tori urVixr OA. J iYl 10:00 A. M.—Sunday school. Harold Long, Supt. The young people of the parish are again reminded of the youth confer ence to be held at the Church of the Redeemer Sunday evening at 7:30 and are urged to attend. Dr . P. D. Brown of Salisbury, N. C. will be the director of the conference. Mr. Mr. 15 States Represented At Newberry College Bundle Day Success The Bundle Day held Monday by members of the American Legion Auxiliary and the Mothers club at the county courthouse brought a good response. The large amount of clothing received on that date was distributed Wednesday and Thursday afternoons to underprivileged child ren of the county. Anyone having clothes to contri bute to this work mav turn them over to Mrs. Mae A. Aull, county attend ance teacher, or contact Mrs. Odell Wilson, Mrs. J. D. French, or Mrs. J. W. Martin. Coats and shoes will be very welcomed and school books are needed. Jake R. Wise Heads County Draft Boards Jake R. Wise, prominent in Legion circles here and clerk of the county health unit, has been appointed Chair man of Newberry county’s two draft boards by Governor Maybank. Members of the District one board besides the chairman are William Scott of Whitmire, and Frank R. Hunter of this city. The physician is Dr. E. G. Able. The second district board is com prised of John A. M„yer of Peak, Virgil O. Shealy, of Little Mountain, and George W. Harmon of Prosperity. Dr. Vaughn A. Long is physician. Attorney for the two county boards has not been announced. Members of the boards will go to Columbia about the first of the month is it thought for instructions. Regis tration, of those in the draft age be gins on the 16th and will probably continue for several days. Gets Money From State Ralph Black, Treasurer, has receiv ed from the insurance department a check for $1,420.39 which represents the county’s part of additional rn^ur- anee premium fees. He also receiv ed from the state treasurer $883.7". the county’s part of the beverage tax for April, May and June. DRAYTON RUTHERFORD MEETS The Drayton-Rutherford Chapter, UDC, will meet Tuesday afternoon, October 1, at the home of Mrs. Hun ter Brown on Calhoun street. Mrs. R. D Wright and Mrs. T. N. Parks are associate hostesses. The meeting is called for four o’clock. A total of 376 students have regis tered to date at Newberry College. From the respetive states are the fol lowing: South Carolina, 315; Geor gia. 20; Florida, 8; Ohio, 7; Alabama, 6; Pennsylvania, 5; New York, 4; North Carolina, 4; Tennessee, 1; Michigan, 1; District of Columbia, 1; Louisiana, 1; Mississippi, 1; Indiana, 1; Texas, 1. There are 63 in the senior class, 66 in the junior, 99 in the sophomore, 103 in the freshman, 25 in the busi ness department, and 20 in special courses. Enrolled are 207 men and 169 women. The division of students according to religious denominations follows: Lutherans, 181; Baptist, 78; Method ist, 76; Presbyterian, 14; Catholic, 11; Protestant Episcopal, 6; Associate Reformed Presbyterian, 6; Advent Christian, 2; Reformed Evangelist, 1; Pentecostal Holiness, 1. Before registration officially closes at the college Friday of this week, 400 students are expected to be en rolled, according to Registrar Chris Kaufmann. The dormitori(es on the campus, both men’s and women’s, is crowded to capacity this session. GINNING REPORT B. M. Wise, special agent, re ports that 2,423 bales of cotton were ginned in the county from the new crop up to September 16th, as com pared with 8,079 bales to the same date last year. PROMOTION EXERCISES IN- SABBATH SCHOOL ARP The annual Promotion Service will be held in the Associate Reformed Presbyterian church next Sabbath morning at 11.30 o’clock. These ser vices are always interesting. All the members of the church are urged to be present. A cordial invitation is extended to all. Gold Stock Swells Washington, Sept. 24.—Shipments of Russian, Canadian and Australian gold swelled United States gold im ports during the week ended Sep tember 18 to $107,349,191, almost 50 per cent above the previous week’s total. Canadian gold shipments from Aus tralia totaled $14,604,827. Russian gold shipments were $11,175,000. Portugal sent $6,598,355, and $6,377,- 324 was received from the Nether lands Indies. Gold held for foreign accounts at federal reserve banks decreased $45,677,701 to $1,672,064,136. Program Launched To Make Draftees^Happy Washington, Sept 24.—A two-fold campaign to “make the boys happy” and win public approval of compul sory military service was started to day by selective service and army officials. Their general intention was to pre vent any conscript from leaving home dissatisfied with the draft or coming back disgruntled with army camp life. Frederick Osborne, chairman of the president’s six-man advisory com mittee on the draft, told a ‘ confer ence of army and draft officers that the prime function of his group was to prevent public misunderstanding of the system by which men will be selected. The war department, meanwhile, issued a formal statement saying that “adequacy in the preparation of shelter, hospital and sanitation fa cilities would be the keynote in the army preparations for the induction of selectees.” Addressing army-^ personnel offi cers from the nine corps areas, and selective service Kaison officials, Os born said that the draft should be conducted so justly and the trainees treated so fairly that public support would be given to compulsory serv ice. ' ^ ' •' • Osborne said that his committee designated last week by President Roosevelt to assist the draft admin istration, also was keeping watch on social security, industry employ ment and other problems of concern to trainees, their families and em ployers. The army statement said that both national guardsmen and drafted men would be inducted only as fa cilities were made available to give them healthful arm comfortable liv ing conditions. Plans were announced by the de partment to establish about 100 in duction stations throughout the country to receive and examine draft ed men. After one day at the sta tions to be located in key cities, the trainees will go to recaption centers at army posts for two or three days to be classified, equipped, innoculated and assigned to permanent stations. Hospital Auxiliary Sponsors of Gardening Movies 20 YEARS AGO The city of Newberry now has a woman official, the first in its history, the first woman to be appointed to office exclusive of notary public in Newberry county, and perhaps the hrst woman member of a board of health in South Carolina This dis tinction has come to Mrs. Ola C. Floyd, wife of Mr. L. W. Floyd, one ot the leading business men of New- berry Mrs. Floyd was appointed to take the place of Mr. Jo n M. Kinard who resigned a few days . ago. Mrsj Floyd was sworn in Wednesday; she took the oath of office before Miss V. Thomasson, Newberry* first woman notary public, and her comission was delivered to her by Mayor Blease. The community was shocked and saddened on Sunday morning with the news of the death of Mrs. Alice Lo max Wallace, wife of Mr. W. H. Wal lace, editor of The Observer. For nearly fifty years Mr. and Mrs. Wal lace have trod the wine press of life together, going up the hill hand in hand and on down into the sunset glow. Looking forward from that distant day, fifty years seemed a long, long time, and the sunset far, very far, in the distance. Looking back ward it seems as but yesteryear. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace have been blessed beyond the average in that they were given so many years together. Another little jewel sparkles in the diadem crowning the lives of two more “where home is the kingdom and love is the king”—at Mr. Duncan Johnson's house. A girl, 8Ms pounds. The resignation of the Rev. Mr. Fulenwider was granted on Sunday morning by the Church of the Re deemer to lake effect the fourth Sun day of October. Mr. Fulenwider will begin work in his new pastorate at Salisbury the first Sunday in Novem ber. During the twelve or thirteen jeays of his labors tere, A gad. Mrs, years of his labors here, he and Mrs. Fulenwider have made many friends who will regret their departure. NEWBERRY’S OLDEST CITIZEN DIES AT LITTLE MOUNTAIN The Newberry County Hospital Auxiliary, after not meeting for the summer months, held its first meet ing of the fall last Thursday after noon with Mrs. H. B. Senn, presid ent of the group, in the chair. After usual preliminaries, Hal Kohn, treasurer of the Crippled Children’s Fund, was heard as guest speaker of the afternoon. Accom panying Mr. Kohn was Mr. Goodwin of Oakland mill village who came to express to the Auxiliary his appre ciation and gratitude for the help given him from Auxiliary funds. Al most a year ago, Mr. Goodwin was rendered helpless because of a spine injury. An niperation would (have cost $600 and ncessitated a year in bed. A brace, which he still has to wear constantly, was furnished by the Auxiliary. This enabled him to keep his job and thus support his family, who otherwise would have had no means of obtaining a liveli hood. Mr. Kohn offered the Auxiliary an opportunity to add to this fund for the needy by sponsoring the pictures to be put on at the Ritz Theatre on October 10 at ten a. m.—“How Does Your Garden Grow?” and “The Ar rangement of Flowers”. Every gardener and flower lover will want to see these pictures. Tickert will be 25c and will be sold by members of the Auxiliary. At least $50 worth of prizes will be given away that morn ing. Don Van Meter, technician of Newberry county hqspital, attended the meeting by invitation to tell of ways in which the Auxiliary could help supply their needs. He told of a plan to freshen the interior of the building and furnish Venetian blinds for every window. The Auxiliary voted to sponsor the project. The auxiliary is counting on the support and patronage of the county and town in this project. Every year the appeal is made for a larger en rollment in the Auxiliary. The an nual dues of 50c puts membership within reach of all. Mrs. Walter Hunt, Publicity Chairman. Mrs. Kate Monts, Newberry coun ty’s oldest citizen, died at Little Mountain Sunday after a few weeks illness. She celebrated her 102nd birthday July 13. Funeral services were held at the Holy Trinity church at four o’clock, with her pastor, the Rev. E. Z. Pence, officiating. Mrs. Monts is survived by three daughters, Mrs. J. M. Sease, Mrs. W. A. Counts, and Mrs. W. B. Shealy, all of Little Mountain; and the fol lowing grandchildren: Mrs. McKen zie Barr of Leesville, A. M. Counts of Mullins, V. B Sease of New Bruns wick, N. J., J. C. Sease and Miss El- berta Sease of Little Mountain. Cattle Raisers Invited To Lovelace Farm Farmers interested in dairy cattle or beef cattle are invited to attend a field meeting on the farm of B. O. Lovelace in the Mt. Pilgrim com munity Tuesday afternoon, October 1, at 2:30 o’clock, J. L. King, assistant county agent, reports the following program sche duled: , 1. Comparison of fertilized and un fertilized lowland pasture. 2. A guessing contest on the green yield of fertilized and unfertilized cowpeas. A prize will be given the winner. 3. A discussion and inspection of annual grazing crops. 4. A demonstration in calf dehorn ing with cslustic potash. 5. A demonstration in the use of the burdizzo in bloodless castration. Extension specialists from Clem- son College will aid in the discussions and demonstrations. THANKLESS & PAYLESS It should be borne in mind by those affected by the draft that the gentle men on the draft board were them selves, in a way, drafted for the service. None of them sought places, but te refuse to serve would have put a damper on conscription to start with. The men who comprise the Newber ry boards are very representative. They have undertaken a difficult and thankless task in our hour of danger. And not only is the job a thankless one but a payless one. The draft boards in Newberry county are going to do the right thing by everyone, you may be sure of that. Any action of the boards which does not seem just right should not be criticized until all the facts are in, for they are in position to know all about each draftee and the public is not. ABED STILL Floyd Bradley remains confined to his home on Calhoun street. New York City purchasing agent complains that women employes ruin too many towels with lipstick stains. Come now, ladies, none of your lip! e.y... ■