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0 W5MSJKW, JUST ROLLIN* ALONG Pangs of remorse visited me when I read Prof. Simpson’s column “Wild Life” in this week’s paper. I learn from the Professor that the little spheres so patiently and perfectly shaped by the tumble hug is really his food! The meals I deprived him and his family of when I was a boy would run well into the millions for I used to use those things for mar bles and right good marbles they were, too. I did not know then that •omewhere a brood of little tumble bugs with mouths agape were wait ing for mama to roll home the groc eries. 1 do know that I gathered up these little spheres by the box fulls and dried them in the summer sun and won many a marble tournament while shooting against store-bought marbles. I admit they were a little smelly but so was I. I don't remem- PARTNERS protection • Your family physician, or specialist, has a partner—an associate whose name doesn’t appear on the door. For your Doctor and this Prescription pharmacy are partners in pro tection. We work together in an effort to maintain the health of this community. Ask your Doctor about us. We are confident he will rec ommend that you bring his prescription here for filling. Gilder & Weeks “The Right Drug Store” Phone 101 ■ s— r?r»r j "■j.i.-ju-j! ber smelling good anyway umU I | was grown. Kids in my day stewed I in their own smells as it were and enjoyed every whiff of it. As I look ' back 1 know- why the teacher always 1 threw wide open all the windows it I the coldest weather. She couldn’t stand it—we carried those things around as religiously as we did our noses. But to get back to the subject. ! Some tumble bugs put out a decided ly poor grade' marble which would j flake off and burst just as I was | ready to ram home the winning shot. But after, a time I became expert in picking the good, firm, pungent balls which always gave good serv ice. I learned in my research that the faulty balls did not come from a lack of skill in the bug but from the materials he used. Each year after the marbling season was over I carefully put my balls away to be ready for the first days of spring for the tumble bug does not get to rolling in style un til along about June first -when the weather gets hot. Prof. Simpson says there are a few around and one of these days I’m going to find out. I want to recapture the days when I felt at home and at ease in the company of a tumble bug. I half-way believe that I would like to agair carry some of those neat little spheres around in my pocket and get some kids be hind the bam and show them what a game of marbles was like before ' they took the smell out of it. As we grow in stature we put aside the ways of the child and take on the ways of a man, but in the transition we lose something precious j—that pungent odor of a dirty boy. Once washed we don’t smell like any thing; in fact we don’t smell at all. I would be willing to swap all that j lies ahead for me in this scrubbed i and manicured world for a few sum- j mers as an evil-smelling boy, my pockets stuffed with tumble-bug I balls and the thrill of discovery of an even better, bigger, firmer ball my one and only ambition. Only my older readers who lived very close to nature will understand my nostgalia. The modem boy buys his marbles at the store—clean and scentless, and has never enjoyed the pungent aroma that was as much a part of boys 40 years ago as his britches. Very few young boys today have ever seen a tumble bug and that is a pity. A Society for The Preser vation of The Tumble Bug should be set up. It may be necessary for a while to help him with his rolling but that is no hitch. The New Deal could make that one of its post-war projects. “WHEN JOHNNY COMES. . THE NCWBEMIY SUN nsert raasaa MIIDAY, AtiOUVT U, 1144 If our boy* wer* to com* back w masse tomorrow there would be bands,and parades and great rejoic ing—a Wellcome befitting heroes, but the Johnnies coming back a few at a time are almost completely .ig nored so far as the community is concerned. Of course they receive t warm welcome from the few who are able to see them but there is no gesture of official recognition for the job these boys have done for us. j There are a number of boys in the , county who have been discharged .from the army and others with two year's service abroad will be trick ling in regularly from now on. There should be some set-up to at least give these boys a supper, maybe a gift of some sort or in some other manner acknowledge the sacrifice they have made. I had thought this would be a j good thing for the Legion to do but its public relations man, Jake Wise, i has been in dry dock for some time now and is not even yet quite sea worthy. Jake is interested however and something might come from this direction. A pot should be set up and sweetened handsomely; men here who have been making money and have no one in the service should be especially generous for they have ■acrificed nothing so far. I have $50 for the pot plus my services in any job however menial that might make these boys feel that they are appreciated. It is time that the general public make some sacrifice; only those with the gold star in the window know the meaning of that word. You’ve heard of the nice things in store for Johnny when he comes “marChng home’’ and that’s all very well but did you ever stop to think that Johnnies are coming home to Newberry county almost every day? UNDERGOES OPERATION Miss Pauline Clary, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Clary, Boundary street, underwent a major operation in the University Hospital, Augus ta, Ga. last Friday. Her condition is reported to be satisfactory at this time. NOTICE OF SALE SPECTATOR (Continued From Page Five) is talk of invoking the Hatch act about it. I’m told that a well-known attorney has devoted some time to a study of the Hatch act—which for bids Federal officials to take part in politics. The” South Carolina Democratic convention will meet even before this Spectator appears in the papers. It is not so important that we elect or defeat a man as it is su premely important to preserve the free institution of our Democracy. One of our greatest principles is fre quent rotation in the presidential of fice so that a man may not override the law. As soon as the convention commit ted itself to Mr. Roosevelt it did not seem to me of great importance whom the CIO might name for the vice-presidency. The Democratic platform is a CIO written or dictated document. As the Governor of Mississippi said, it was a convention of appeasement for the negroes and the CIO. Perhaps I’m wrong, but, in spjte of considerable experience with poli ticians, I can’t be happy when real Americans are bartered like horses and mules. All that is in me pro tests against the prostitution of America by alien and selfisb-grnups. Pursuant to an order passed by Honorable C. C. Featherstone, Judge of the 8th Judicial Circuit, in the case of Henry C. Havird and Lee E. Havird against John Oliver Hav ird on August 9, 1944, I will sell on Sales day, September 4, 1944 at 11:00 a. • m. in front of the Court House in Newberry, South Carolina the following described property: All the right title and inter est of John Oliver Havird in and to all and singular that piece, •parcel or tract of land lying and being situate in the Town of Newberry, County of Newberry and State of South Carolina,con taining twenty-five (25) sieves more or less, and bounded now or formerly by Boundary Street, by a street which separates it from lands formerly of C. L'. Havird and by lands formerly of Miss Elizabeth Langford et al. The interest of the said John Ol iver Havird is a one-fifth undivi- ed interest. Terms of sale: Cash. The success ful bidder will be required to pay for revenue stamifs and deed and will be required to deposit immediately five (5) per cent of his bid, and which shall be forfeited as liquidated dam ages in case of failure by the said successful bidder to fully comply with his bid within ten days after said sale. The sale will be final. Aug. 11, 18, 25. NEAL W. WORKMAN, Probate Judge for Newberry County NOTICE OP DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY ELECTION Notice is hereby given that a Dem ocratic Primary will be held in New berry county on Tuesday, August 22, 1944 for the purpose of balloting on a Magistrate at Newberry and a Magistrate a t Little Mountain. Pells will open at 8 a. m. and close at 4 p m., and only qualified Democrats may vote and only those persons whose names appear on the Club Roll of the Voting pre cincts will be allowed to vote. Polling places will be the same as in the first Primary for magis terial Districts 2 and 6 and the same managers will serve in said districts. NEAL W. WORKMAN, County Chairman MRS. A. H. COUNTS, Secretary and Treasurer McORAW . JACKSON Mr. and Mrs. B. H. McGraw an nounce the marriage of their daugh ter, Haynie Ernestine, to Wilfred Dargan Jackson. Bowman, S. C., on Saturday, August 5 at 11:30 o’clock. 1 Rev. W. S. Henry, uncle of the bride, was the officiating minister. Harry Dukes, Harry Bouknight, land Emory Bedenbaugh returned to the city Monday night after several day’s vacation at Myrtle Beach. Headquarters— FOR SCHOOL SUPPLIES. ALSO Candies, Cigars, Cigarettes, Gum Tobaccos, Etc. 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Conditioned stu dents and new students are expected ' to report for examination and class ification on Wednesday morning and Thursday morning, August 30th and 31st. All first grade pupils and other ipupils coming from other schools should register at the office of the Superintendent before September Ist. Under the laws of the State pu pils are not permitted to enroll un less they have been successfully vac cinated against smallpox. Please have this matter attended to before you send your children to school. 0. B. Cannon, Supt. THEATRE THURSDAY and FRIDAY Fred MacMnrray, Barbara, S tan- wick, Edw. G. Robinson IN “DOUBLE INDEMNITY” Comedy FOX NEWS SATURDAY Jimmy Lydon, Charles Smith, John Litel, Olive Blakeney —IN— “Henry Aldrich’s Little Secret” Comedy: Greatest Man In Siam UNIVERSAL NEWS MONDAY and TUESDAY Errol Flyn>, Paul Lukas, Jean Sulli van, Lurile Watson —IN— “UNCERTAIN GLORY” A Merrie Melody Cartoon M. G. M. 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