Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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t PAGE EKrftr (FRIDAY, AUGoSV i-x, Xi/46 Society and CLUB NOTES iXxX; MISS WILMA DAVIS WEDS PVT. GRADY F. GRAHAM A wedding marked by lovely sym- plicity was that of Miss Wilma Da vis, of Cros Hilf and Pvt. Grady F. Graham of Newberry and Fort Jack- eon, which took place Sunday after noon at 4 o’clock, August 9th, at the Baptist church in Cross Hill. The Rev. Byrd, pastor of the bride, offi ciated, using the impressive ring ceremony. The bride was becomingly attired in a lovely navy dress with white ac cessories, and a shoulder corsage of pink rose-buds. Miss Virginia Graham, niece of the groom, presented a short musicale preceding the ceremony. Her selec tions included “To a Wild Rose,” “I Love You Truly.” The “Bridal March” by Lohengrin was softly played while the vows were spoken, and the wpd- ding march “Midsummer Nights Dreams” by Mendeleson, was played during the recessional. After the ceremony the popular young couple left for a short honey moon trip through the mountains of North Carolina. IS THIS YOU? Mrs. Bill King and Ernest Brooks were the two persons described in the Sun last week. Our first description for this week is of a gentleman seen at his place of business Tuesday morning clean ing up some aluminum that he was going to sell to the government. He was wearing a blue stripped shirt open at the neck, khaki trousers, brown belt and shoes. He has partly grey hair, brown eyes and wears glasses. Our second description is also of a gentleman seen Tuesday morning at his office on Caldwell street talking with a friend. He was wearing a blue stripped shirt, light tan trousers, black belt, and brown shoes. He has dark hair, blue eyes and wears glasses ! Classroom Favorite SWEENEY i SON by AL POSEMl ^ KY SON, YOUR POP IS JUST ABOUT THE V SMARTEST MAN I KNOW- HE USED TO BE EXTRAS-; A6ANT AND SQUANDER Alt HIS D0U6H I BUY U.S.WAR BONDS YESSIREE - AND WATCH S MY MONEY SROW/— -fy * THEM bAYS IS V j OONE FOREVER/ r HI rf r*. V. S. Trtantrv Drpt Courteir Chicago Tribune Syndicate, .i If either of the above description could be you, come by the Sun office and receive yor ticket which entitles you to a quart of delicious FREE ice cream (and what would taste better these days?) from STOKES’ DRUG STORE, compliments of Stokes’ and the Sun. MRS. DAWKINS BRIDGE HOSTESS Saturday afternoon at her apart ment on Main street,Mrs. P. B. Daw kins was hostess to two tables of bridge. Vases of late summer flowers were attractively arranged in the living room where the tables were placed for the players. High score prize was awarded to Miss Clara Davis, second high to Mrs. J. C. Carpenter and bingo was drawn by Mrs. M. L. Youmans. Punch and sandwiches was served by the hostess. GOLINSKY-MILLER A marriage of interest to friends, in Newberry and elsewhere was that of Miss Sadie Golinsky, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Golinsky of Columbia and Joseph J. Miller, of Bishopville which took place Saturday evening at her home 131 South Sims street in Co lumbia. Rabbi David Karesh, pastor of the bride officiated, using the ring ceremony. The bride was attired in a beige suit with luggage accessories and a shoulder corsage of red roses. Miss Beatrice Miller, sister of the groom was maid of honor, and Morris Wengrow acted as best man. Mrs. Miller attended the Newberry city schools and is a graduate of New berry Business college. Mr. Miller, son of Mrs. Ida Miller and the late Mr. Miller attended the Bishopville city schools. He has just completed a course in Air Craft In structor Training, and recently ac cepted an officer’s rating in the Navy. Immediately after the ceremony the bride’s mother entertained at a reception at her home. A SON Mr. and Mrs. Robert Creekmore of Newberry announce the birth of a son at the Newberry County hospital August 10th. AULL IS FIRST CLASS Elbert Aull, son of Mrs. Mae A. Aull of this city, has been given rank of first class private at the Airplane Mechanicsschool at Keesler Field, Miss. Mr. Aull was employed by the Newberry Cotton Mills before enter ing the service but got his basic train ing in philosophy, printing and cuss ing in The Sun office. li/Uai you Butf, 'With WAR BONDS Essential in the equipment of ev ery Soldier, Sailor, Marine or Flyer is a first aid kit, consisting of band ages and antiseptics for instantane ous use. These materials are packed into a compact box and cost about $1.50 each. MRS. TURNER RETURNS HOME We need millions of these first aid kits for emergency treatment. They are also used by Red Cross work ers, in field hospitals and wherever needed until hospital treatment may be obtained. Even a child could buy one or more of these kits through purchase of War Stamps. Buy War Bonds and Stamps every pay day and invest at least ten percent of your income in these government securities. u. S. Treasury Department Mrs. Howard Turner and little son, Howard Jr., returned to their home on Hunt street Wednesday from the Newberry hospital and both are doing nicely. Cotton seersucker will continue to be tops in style and con fort when co-eds journey back-to-col- lege this fall. The frock shown abo'e, modeled by Peggy Drake, RKO film star, is chalk white with the wide stripes in fla>, red. Skirt fullness is shirred at the waist and hip, to obtain that long torso line. The peasant blouse is gath- ered at the round neckline—casual and very feminine. PREACHING SERVCES AT ZION There will be preaching services at Mount Zion Baptist church Sunday afternoon at 4:30. The preaching'to be done by the Rev. Walter Sanders. The public is cordially invited to at tend. WANTED TO BUY—Scrap Iron, Copper, Aluminum, auto radio parts. Rags, Inner-tubes and Zinc. Loca tion in alley leading to Standard Oil company bulk pla.nt. W. H. Sterling. NOTICE To dog owners in town Please keep your dogs at home off of other people’s property, thus saving us the necessity for drastic action- 5 Thank you tor your CO' operation. Herman S. Langford, Mayor WELLS THEATER THURSDAY “BLONDIE GOES TO COLLEGE” Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake Added—WORLD IN ACTION Mat. 9c-25c Night 9c-30c FRIDAY" AND SATURDAY The East Side Kids in LET’§ GET TOUGH Leon Gorcey and Bobby Jordan Added—“GLOVE SLIGERS” Comedy and “SPY SMASHER” Admission 9c-25c | MONDAY AND TUESDAY i $2,000,000 worth of thrills—Kipling’s “JUNGLE BOOK” in Technicolor with Sabu (the Elephant Boy) Added—PATHE NEWS Matinee 9c-25c—Night 9c-30c OPERA HOUSE SATURDAY TIM McCOY in “ARIZONA GANG BUSTERS" Added—“Captain Midnight” Good COMEDY Admission 9c-20c SON WRITES OF VALIANT SIRE Mrs .D. V. Knight has handed us | member, who lived across Cannon iVICTORY km BUY UNlTJED STATES WAR BONDS AND STAMPS the following interesting and timely letter from a brother who writes about their father, the late Captain John F. Banks. Students of New berry history know something of the heroism of Capt Banks and this con tribution by his son will be of inter est to them as well as to others who cherish the memory of the fighters of yesteryear: , “Dear Freddie: It was very commendable of you to try to, get father’s military history and while he probably told me more about it than anyone else except mother, still I probably remember more about it than mother would have, for a boy is more interested in military talk than mother would have been. It is not clear in my mind, and I never asked him, but father attended a medical school, but whether before of after he was in the army. I am inclined to believe it was before he entered the army, as subsequent events will indicate. It is my recollection that he enter ed the army when he was about },9 or 20, as he was in the Military acad emy at Columbia, S. C., and he was taken out of the military school ‘be fore he graduated, because of the need of young men of military train ing in the South to train the raw recruits for the army. He evidently went into the army as a second lieu tenant. Later he was promoted to first lieutenant. At the battle of Gettysburg he was made a captain. He was under General Stonewall Jackson through all the fighting in Virginia. At the battle of Gettys burg he was commanded to take a hill on which was entrenched a nest of Federal artillery. I heard father apeak of his com pany fighting behind a rail fence they had gained in their rush up the hill to take the nest of Federal artil lery; they sniped at the artillerymen on the hill from behind the rail fence in the sage brush. They made a break for the top of the hill and captured the Federal artillery nest, but were shortly afterward surround ed by Federal soldiers and father being wounded there through the calf of the leg was captured and taken prisoner by the Federals. He was taken then to a prison camp up on the Great Lakes by the Federal?, but travelling in those days was very slow, so by the time father arrived at the prison camp gangrene had set in and a large hole was eaten out near the top of the calf of his ’leg and about in the center, though the bullet had gone through the calf of his leg sideways, that is, clear thru the under calf of the leg, leaving an infected hole in each side of the calf of the leg, and the gangrene ate through from one side of the bulelt hole to the other side, and then be gan eating down the bone on the un der side until the calf of his leg was virtually eaten away from the bone down nearly to the ankle. In those days they had no anaes thetics such as chloroform, etc., and operations had to be made without anaesthetics. The surgeons at the Great Lakes prison camp told fa ther, who was about 21 then, that the leg would have to come off. He told them that if that leg came off he would go with it. He asked for nitric acid and a swab. The sur geons asked him what he was going to do, and he replied he was going to swab that hole out with nitric acid all the way down to the bone nearly to the ankle, as the gangrene had eaten the calf of the leg away from the bone, leaving a hollow space between the calf of the leg and the bone. The surgeon exclaim ed: “My God, man, you can’t do that; you will faint before you ’get started!” Father took the swab and saturated with nitric acid and probed the hole all the way down; that killed the gangrene, and the leg got well. There was left a small scar on the underside of the calf of hig leg near the center of the calf, and from there on down the calf of his leg was greenish and bluish that is the flesh was that color, and the scar of the hole in which the probe entered was about the size of a half dollar. The leg healed up and grew back to the bone and the leg was good as new, as you know he never had any trouble with it. He certainly knew something about medicine, and this incident is one reason why I believe he had been in a medical school before he went into the Army. I heard him once make the remark that when he entered the dissecting room where dead bodies are dissected by students that he felt like leaving the room by way of the window. He was held captive at the Great Lakes Federal prison for the duration of the war and took no part in the war after the Battle of Gettysburg. He was a 32nd degree Mason, and for this reason, the Federal officers did not take away his uniform or sword, but pa- roeld him on his honor as a Mason that he would not try to escape and he also ate at the Federal officers’ table throughout his imprisonment, and was one of them socially. He went and came as he wanted to. He had no guard at any time. He was treated by them as a guest. And they had considerable respect for him af ter he cur;d his leg by such heroic method. He was in Col. Lester’s compjmy, and youl may remember Col. Lester, as he lived down in the Stoney Hill section below Frog Lev el, or Prosperity, as it is now known. I have been with father at Pros perity when he and Col .Lester would meet, and father had the greatest respect for Col. Lester and loved him like a brother. At one time Col. Lester had father put into the guard house for some infraction of miltiary rule, and I heard father tell Col. Lester that was the greatest favor Col. Lester could have done for him, and they laughed about it. Col. Lester was a very high type of man; he thought a great deal of father, commending father as one of the best soldiers in his regi ment. Mooney Kinardwhom you may re creek from us, often told me that Capt. Banks was the bravest man he ever saw, that he always took the lead of his company when they went into battle, and that father did not have any fear at all. I told father what Mooney Kinard had said about him, and he replied that any man who said he was not scared when he went into battle was a liar, but that after the bullets began to whistle around you, and the shells bursting and scattering death deal ing shrapnel, that fear compeltely left, and he was unconscious of dan ger, and only wanted to do one thing, and that was to advance. I have heard father speak of the Battle of Cold Harbor, which was one of the shortest but most feroci ous battles of the war. Gen Jack- son gave the order to attack. Be tween the Confederate troops and the Federal troops was a pine wilder ness large and small pines, but when the battle was over there was scarce ly a tree left standing, all mowed down by the artillery of both sides. Father told me a story about General Stonewall Jackson. The Federal soldiers were march ing through a little town to attack Gen. Jackson’s army, and they told it in the town as they marched through that they had Jackson in a jug, meaning that Jackson was sur rounded & could not get away. Lat er those same Federal soldiers came back through the same town in re treat, and one of the townsmen re minded a Federal soldier that he undersotod they had Jackson in jug, and the Federal soldier replied: “We did have him in a jug, but be blew the stopper out.” I used to go with father to all the Cofnederate reunions, and as a little 10 and 12 year old boy I talked to many men of father’s company, and a great deal more could be told, but would not have any bearing on the matter more than I have already related. All the old timers at Prosperity will recall Col. Wm. Lester, for he was an old man when I was a 10-year-old boy and he must have died in a few years after I met him. And he may have left some memoirs that would might give you facts, if such memoirs are still in existence. So Col. Lester must have been a Newberry county man. It is evident that father was inducted into the Army from New berry county. —Clifford. NOTICE OF PRIMARY ELECTION Notice is hereby given that _ Democratic primary will be held in Newberry county on Tuesday, Aug ust 25, 1942, for the purpose of bal loting on a United States senator, governor, lieutenant governor, secre tary of state, attorney General, stale treasurer, comptroller general, ad jutant general, state superintendent of education, commissioner of agricul ture, congressman, two commission ers, and two magistrates. Polls will open at 8 a. m. and does at 4 p. m., and only qualified Democrats may vote and only those persons whose names appear on the club rolls of the voting precincts will be allowed to vote. | The chairman or some member of each group of managers named be low are asked to call for boxes on Saturday,August 22, preceding the primary. A list of managers and polling places follow: t Ward 1—E.L. Rodelsperger, H. D. Whitaker, Hiram Speers, Mrs. Sam Beam, clerk. Place of voting—Police headquarters. Ward 2—Mrs. Marie Milam, Mrs. William Milam, John Peterson, R. E. Blair, clerk. Place of votingi—Court House. Ward 3, No. 1—McK. Hutchinson, E. H. Bowman, E. B. Purcell, Charles Bowers, clerk. Place of voting— Spinks store. Ward 3, No. 2—J. E. McConnell, Frank L. Simpson, Claude Jackson. Place of voting—Domitory. Ward 4, No. 1—Mrs. Maude L. Eskridge, Miss Clara Bowers, Thos. P. Wicker, Junius H. Long. Place of voting—1018 Main street. Ward 4, No. 2—Bluford Buzhardt, Miss Minnie Havird, Henry Chappell, Leo Hendrix. Place of voting—West End boarding house. Ward 5—Rev. V. S. Fulmer, Rev. N. K. Polk, Mrs. Verty Wise, Mrs. Dovy Hamm. Place of voting—West End Barber Shop. Bush River—J. H. Bedenbaugh, W M. Buford.Bob Longshore, Herbert Longshore. Place of voting—Bush River school. Central—E. S. Shealy, C. F. Bo land, E. H. Koon. Place of voting— Central school house. Chappells—L. E. Werts, J. F. Scur rv, J. J. Boazman, M. L. Connelly, clerk. Voting place—Werts’ store. Dominick—Hugh Chappell, Helen Epting, Mrs. H. T. Oxner, Mrs. Nan nie McKittrick. Voting place—Dom inick school. Fairview—M. H. Lester, L. P. Mar tin, J. N. Cotney. Voting place— Fairview school. Garmanyi—L. H. Folk, Minnie L. Leitzsey, B. B. Leitzsey, Vinnie Kate Price. Place of voting—B. B. Leitz- sey’s residence. Hartford—W. B. Goggans, V. J. Livingston, J. W. Carson, J. H. Ear- gle, clerk. Voting place—Hartford school. Helena—Mrs. Jerry Baker, J. R. Wood, R. E. Gee, Mrs. E. E. Melton, clerk Voting place—Mrs. E. E. Mel ton’s store. Jalapa—V. E. Miller, J. F. Long, W. E. Counts, C. C. Wallace, clerk. Voting place—Jalapa store. Johnstone—J. F. Banks, M. E. Wil son, Daniel W. HolSanback, Mrs. A. B. Sligh. Voting place—Johnstone school. Jolly Street—George I. Kinard, T. W. Metis, O.S. Richardson, T. A. El lison, clerk Voting place—Hunter DeWalt school house. Kinards,—A. D. Johnson, W. D. Boozer, J. B. Smith. Voting place— Dominick’s store Little Mountain—R. P. Richardson, A. M. Stoudemire, Miss Myrtle Mat thews, C. B. Metts. Voting place— Dr. Sease’s office. Longshore-J. W. Wilson, H. W. Shealy, W .0. Senn, D. F. Senn. Vot ing place—Long share’s store Long Lane—W. S. Hentz, L. E. Chandelr, C. M: Folk, L. C. Hargrove. Voting place—Long Lane school. Maybinton—J. R. Thomas, F. B. Hardy, B. H. Maybin, Mrs. Jno. B. McCollum, clerk Voting place Hen derson’s store. Midway—W. Snipes Counts, -G. L. Bowers, G. L. Shealy, Ross George, clerk. Voting place—Midway school. Mt. Bethel—Geo. S. Ruff, John H. Ruff, Langford Alewine, Chalmers Brown. Votig place—Wilbur Epps' residence. Mt. Pleasant—J. T. Gilliam, G. H. Cromer, Mrs. Mary Ringer, Mrs. Maude Graham Voting place—Mt. Pleasant school. Mulberry—Oscar Graham, Howard Boland, Miss Ruth Graham, clerk. Place of voting—Oscar Graham’s home . Oakland, No. 1—Mrs. H. W. San ders, Mrs. James T. Berry, W .0. Aarial, D. D. Darby. Voting place— Oakland boarding house Oakland, No. 2—Claude Kyser, Henry Martin, Carl Hugins, Mrs. F. H. McConnell, clerk. Voting place— R. E. Kyser’s home. O’Neal, No. 1—R. C. White, H. B West, F. O. Koon, Pat B. Wise. Vot ing place—Mt. Olivet church. O’Neal No. 2—G. A. Lindler, Ash ley Long, A. F. Pugh, R. M. Monts, clerk Voting place—O’Neal school Peak)—Joe. E. Mayer, C. E. Stuck, H. L. Suber, Jno. A Mayer, clerk. Voting place Town Hall. Pomaria—L. A. Mayer, E. W. Ep ting, J. F. Stuck, R. H. Hipp. Votifig place—Town Hall. Prosperity, No. 1—R. P. Luther, T. L. Hawkins, H. P. Wicker, J. S. Wheeler. Voting place—Magistrate’s office Prosperity, No. 2—R. E. Singh Jno. W. Taylor, Drury O. Lovelace, S. A. Cook. Voting place—Moseley Building. Red Knoll—T. B. Lindler, J. Frank Lowman, L. C. Shealy, G. H. Shealy. Voting place—Red Knoll school. Saluda No. 7—R. S. Sanders, W. D. Bozardt, J. H. Pitts,Ralph Lancaster, clerk Voting place-—!. J. Dominick’s store. Silverstreet — T. Maffett Fant, James Alewine, Jno. H. Bowers, J. C. Butler, clerk. Voting place—High school. Stoney Hill—N. R. Lester, J. I. Boozer, A. C. Hunter, Mrs. R. C. Hunter. Voting place—Stoney Hfll school. St. Paul—D. L. Wedeman, Lester Willingham, Noland Wicker. Voting place—St. Paul’s church. St. Phillips—D. Govan Sease, M. E. Enlow, P. S. Halfacre, J. D. Koon. Voting place—School. Trinity—Luther Bedenbaugh, Reed er Pitts, H. B. Hendrix, Hugh Pitts. Voting—Usual place. Union—Geo. S. Enlow, J. C. Kin ard, J. A. Bobb, L. A. Kinard, clerk. Strictly Formal Movie star Rita Hay rorth sets the pace for formal wear this fall in a fine crepe lislt evening dress, designed by a famous Hollywood stylist. The hose are of the same spun-sugar sheen as the pink and silver dress. Voting place—School. Utopia—Ernest Derrick, R. P. Boulware, G. W. Nichols, D. E. Schumpert, clerk. Voting placed— James Halfacre’s store. Vaughnville—Mrs. T. H. Neel, Mrs. J. H. Booer, Walter Robinson, Frank Stewart, clerk. Voting place—T. H. Neel’s home. Walton—W. B. Graham, George Hentz, M. B. Crooks, Mrs. J. E. Crooks, clerk. Voting place—J. L. Crooks store Wheeland—Mrs .0. C. Derrick, Ned Boland, Harold E. Metze, clerk, M. Q. Boland. Voting place—Wheeland school. Whitmire, No. 1—J. R. McKittrick, G. E. Young, T. W. Abrams, R. C. Lake, clerk. Voting place—City Hall. Whitmire, No. 2—A. H. Dallas, T. P. Scott, J. W. Gary Voting placed— Y. M. C. A. Zion—Joe Ringer, C. B. Eargle, Forest Lee Goodman, C. B. Suber, clerk. Voting place—C. B. Saber’s store, Neal W. Workman, Chairman. Mrs. A. H. Counts, Sec. & Treasurer.. Let’s Talk COATS! Fur Coats and Woolen Coats— If your plans include a coat this winter or during “the duration” —now is the time to select it. Furs nor woolens are rationed yet, and any type coat you care for is still available; for how long of course none of us know* Due to early heavy buying our stocks are already large and var~ ied with more coming with each express. \ Come talk it over with us, soon. Carpenter’s Mrs. Eunice Glasgow, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Glasgow, Mrs. Spence Glasgow and Mrs. Emmie Adams' of Greenwood, visited Mr. and Mrs. James Smith Sunday afternoon.