Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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HE NEWBERRY SUN f*AGB FIVB FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1N4. FOR PLAYTIME Typical of play suits which are favorites this summer is this mid riff costume of white cotton, with low oval neck, worn by Janet Blair, lovely Coin nibia star. The water- blue lace sleeve bands and rick- rack edgings add charm to the out fit. NOTICE OF SALE 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) a'cres 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 stamps and deed and will be required td 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 NewberryCitySchools Begin Session of 1944-1945 Pupils in the Newberry City Schools are asked to report to their respective schools on Friday morn ing, September 1st, at nine o’clock for lesson assignments and other preliminary work. Conditioned stu dents and new students are expected to report for examination and class ification on Wednesday irjrning and Thursday morning, August 30th and 31st. All first grade pupils and other .pupils coming from other schools should register at the office of the Superintendent before September 1st. 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. LOANS ON Real Estate Automobiles and Personal Property NEWBERRY Ins. & Realty Co. NED PURCELL, Manager Pltbne 197 Exchange Bank. Bldg. Best GI Story of England (The Greenwood Index-Journal The following interesting descrip tion of England was written by Francis Sligh, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Sligh, who is now with the armed fonces in England: Perhaps my opinion of things I 1 see here is a little biased but I guess I have reason to be-—as every South Carolinian should be, for One of them is the Pbb. That is somewhat similar to our bar but The main drink is warm beer and wine--. They are on every block in central England but one does not find as many in northern or south- eon sections. They are the center of the town life and the family en masse goes there and spends the evenings. They are open from five I there is no other place in the world .till ten at night and are generally { quite like the Carolinas. | crowded. Some a re pretty rough | The countryside of England is 1 pteces . and , the better classes do not one of the most beautiful I have ever P^hronize them. The better class seen, and is beyond words to describe. I Unghshman has his tea and cakes ] The south is like a garden, with its 'bout eight or nine m his home. I well tilled fields and flowers; the h . ave been rnvited a number of central has a wilder, more barren *>">** t? teas and have en- look, while the north is verv mOeh,-’ 0 ^ them Y ery mufch th ough it is like our mountain regions, ‘it is a a dose to down the tea—give me very small country, no point being , 8 ^ 0,d T . American coffee every- 'over 200 miles from the sea, but is ? ,me - > s qul te an art to the mak- (fl country of distinct contrasts in “„ th ? ^ and E " gU3h w , OTn< ; T ! i people, climate .and customs. The , ul talk for hours on how it should fields of the farmers are not fenced ^ made-hot pot, hot cup, water as we have them but are divided off JU ' st to th€ b 01 *- , etc - I a m no,t a cook into squares by rock walls several i 90 . ° an 5 appreciate all of these feet high or well trimmed hedges. |P° ,n j bs but } could appreciate a This is the reason every picture srood cu,p of Max well House njht .from the air looks like a checker-I now ‘ | board. The farms are very close to-|. The main recreation here is dan?- gether and at no place can one find . in *T—and do they dance! They dance la distance of more than one mile ! on a 'l occasions and think there is j from one house to another. The | nothing like it. However, you do ! great estates are bounded for miles n<>t see s much jitterbugging but | with high walls or hedges and ever ma ’ n *y t( b e f° x trot and waltz. As ! so often gates into the fields. I don’t much a® they dance, if they jitter- ' know -what the main crops are over 'bngged, ttv>y wf>uk) have to stop here but from the looks of the fields working on account of the strain, wheat seems to be the main one and : O n weekends, everyone, rich and second to that is trucking. They, ! row. married and single, goes to however, do not know our methods , the country, or if they live in the of truck farming for very large country, they go still farther into the horsepower—that is the reason the cars are so small a nd light. An- j other peculiar system is that the I tenant, although he doesn’t own ]the house, has to pay the taxe son ; it. They pay a cheap rental so that added expenses vs not so much after all. They are taxed on the I amount of water and gas they use land must at all times keep their 'present monthly figure below that of the previous year. I don’t see how they do it but they manage somehow. Salaries are very low and incomes limited so guess they I limit everything accordingly. Lux- , uries which we are accustomed to | are frowned on here and one has to be careful in spending money. That is reason thertj has been so much criticism of the American soldiers i—they have thrown money away —or so the British think—in a way that they are not used to seeing. That can be partly explained, how ever, when one understands the difference in wage scale and income of the average GI. The scarcest articles in England today a re silk stockings, perfume, powder, candy and gum, and the things we take as a matter of course as being necessary for every day life. When I first came over here I saw only one place but I have tra veled over the entire country from end to end in the last few months so have seen quite a bit of it and while it is not America, it is a much quieter place today than some pqrts of the continent quantities but have everything on [auch a small scale. Instead of rows of tomato vines and acres of this and that, they have one or two rows and think that is a lot. The favor ite way for growing tomatoes is to grow them in pots in a glass enclo sure or in their front windows Needless to say the price is very high a nd the fruit even more scarce. England is a land of flowers, and they are everywhere. The fields are lined with beautiful blooming flow ers, the names of which I do not know', but they are beautiful none the less. Every small city yard is painstakingly laid out in a formal pattern and if you can look over the fences you can see some very beautiful sights. Everyone seems to like flowers and a groat deal of care is given to them. Right now the iris lilies are unusually beautiful and several weeks ago the pink flowering peaches were in bloom and were a sight to behold. Soon the pinks and other summer flow ers will be in bloom—every yard seems planned to have something im bloom a t all times for most of them have something at all periods. The grass of the lawns is well kept the woods and beaches or whatever they have near. The main mode of travel is by bike and the highways are so filled that it is very hal’d to drive a car without hitting some one. They have quite a liking for tandem bikes, have a little basket with the lunch on it, dress in shorts and start pedaling. Occasionally one will see a couple that are unfortun ate in having a small child which cannot ride, so they have a little side car with one wheel that fits on the rear of the bike and in this rides the baby. They are very cute little things and I think would ,be good for use in the states—be a good place to put the mother-in- law. This excursion to the county begins about seven on Sunday morning and continues all day- one would be surprised at the age of some of these riders—it is not unusual to see persons that look to be 70 or more pedaling gaily down the road just as good as a 16-year- old. Transportation is now limited mainly to bikes but there are still a few cars in use. They are gener ally small, of the baby Austin type, and seem to operate with great ease. BAPTISTS PLAN FIVE CONVENTIONS and always seems to be green. Of i The buses are generally large, course, this climate does a lot for I double deckers and are kept in ex- grass and shrubbery that we can-|cellent repair. Quite a few of these not expeet to have. Guess that also | are in use on the streets and be- is one reason they have sudh pretty i tween neighboring towns and offer flowers. the quickest and best method of Homes in the cities are quite dif-j tamspocfation to be found for the ferent from those in the small trains are rather uncertain in their towns and country. The city homes !schedules. The trains are small af- as a rule are large three storied du- j fairs and while they are supposed plex affairs—built together hut each I to be very fast cannot carry many owned by the tenants who live in | passengers or any too much hag- them. The rented homes are all gage. The freight cars are called similar — blocks upon blocks as goods wagons and one glance will alike as two peas in a pod. That tell you why. They are very small gives a very monotnous aspect to the towns, that, and the fact that everyone has a wall around his yard and none of the pretty flowers can be seen unless you peep over the fence or through a gate. The houses are all stone or brick and have tile or slate roofs. They all have bay windows and sutoh things as screens are not heard of. In fact, I haven’t seen a screened window or door in England. They say they don’t have flies—but they do, and plenty of them! The country homes are generally of stone and stucco with half tim bered effects and are rather mpre attractive than the city ones. Occa sionally you see a thatdhed roof that looks as if it were a hundred years old. All the bams and out buildings of the farm are of stone and in most oases mudh larger than the house itself. All the houses seem to have small rooms and the plumbing for them, if any, is al and cei’tainly could not carry more than an ordinary sized wagon. Probably one thing that is mis understood more tha nanything else is the food problem. There doesn’t seem to be as much scarcity of food as there is talk of it for I have noticed that the average gro cery store sems to be well stocked. The main thing about it is that the ration system keeps the people from buying all that they want and also limits them to more or less everyday eating and they cannot buy the fancy things that we are used to in the States. There is a scarcity of fruits and if one has a ■can of pineaple he is considered very lucky. The bread is all dark, very much like our whole wheat bread but not as tasty or as sani tary either for that matter, for no loaves are wrapped and they are handled like so many sticks of wood—if one accidentally drops on to the floor it is picked up and Columbia, Aug. 17—Plana for ob serving the 100th anniversary of the Southern Baptist convention, in the Sunday schools of South Caro lina, will be one of the feature an nouncements made in the five con secutive Sunday school conventions to be held in as many points in the state during the (period, Sep tember 4-8. The time and place for these conventions, as scheduled, are as follows: Oharleston, First Baptist, Sep tember 4; Florence. First Baptist, September 5; Columbia, First Bap tist, September 6; Greenville, Pen dleton Street Baptist, September 7; and Gaffney, First Baptist, Sep tember 8. Specialists from the Sunday School Board of the Southern Bap tist Convention will appear on the program. Listed among those to appear on the program are the names of Dr. W. R. White, editorial secretary and J. N. Barnette, sec retary of the Sunday school divis ion of the Baptist Sunday School Board. A complete corps of spec ialists for the various departments will be made up from the Sunday School Board’s list of specialists end that c* th r ' Su’ "biv School De partment of the Baptist General Board of South Carolina. Philip B. Hams, superintendent of Young People’s work, Baptist i Sunday School Board, Nashville, Tenn., will conduct the young peo- | pie’s conferences in the five con- ventioue. The five conventions are taking | the place of the one central con- j vention formerly held for the en- | tire state. This arrangement is a : part of what is calli-i the “Serve the Folk at Home” program launch ed by the Sunday School Department of the Baptist General Board . in South Carolina, when traveling be came difficult. COTTON FARMER URGED TO HOLD Farm Federation Heads Urges Grow er* Not Sell Just Now ways on the outside. The bathroom dusted off, and no one is the wiser. LIJ e !7... 0f ^^„ 0Ve L J he tl f r 0n iJ <>0T '™!" i 1 prefer to have mine wrapped up the city homes and the pipes run up by the door. The kitchens do not have any of the conveniences that we have such as waist-high sinks, etc., hut are very old timey. Gas stoves are universal but refrig erators are unheal’d of—in fact I haven’t seen one since coming over here. They put the food that will have to be cooled in the pantry’ window, or buttery a® they call it. I sometimes wonder what an Eng lish woman would do with an up to date American kitchen. Fires ire' limited now so that they can have one only .in emergency. Also, water and electricity are limited and you are politely informed that two baths a week are your allow ance—one is to be preferred. Most of the walls are papered in fancy patterns and the woodwork is gen erally dark, though occasionally you see solid color walls and white woodwork. Stained glass is used in all homes, rich and poor, and may be found in every place from the pantry window to the front door. Also, there is generally a large brass door knocker on the front door. Some of these are very pret ty, and some of unique design— particularly those with the letter slots in them. England is a land of some very odd customs—at least to us Yanks it seems so, but guess they think it is odd that we don’t have them. Tea is rationed hut coffee is not *o a number of people are trying to get used to coffee but the concoc tion they brew is like so much qui nine—one cup is plenty for anyone. The favorite sweet is jam or jelly tarts and can be purchased in some sections of the country much easier than in others. On every corner in England they have Fish and Chip shops — fried fish and potatoes. They are good, provided the pota toes have not been fried in the same oil with the fish — and that is generally the case. Meat is scarce but they use a lot of Spam and that has become quite a music hall joke here. Also sardines and salmon are plentiful and if you should be invited out to breakfast it is not at all surprising to see a dish of sar dines on the table—that and pow dered eggs. I don’t think that hens lay on this side of the water—at least it is very seldom The average restaurant will have a nice menu listed hut when you begin to ask for this and that they will shake their heads and you gen erally come out with a meal of spam, chips ad tea. The American Army mess hall is the best restau rant on this side of the water. Some few things that the English do have here should be mentioned. One is their system of taxation. The taxes on autos is governed by Washington, Aug. 17—Southern cotton growers were urged todlay by Edward A. O’Neal, president of the American Farm Bureau federation, to hold their 1944 cotton crop off the market, putting it under government loans, if necessary, until prices climb to “approximate parity” under the Bankhead-Brown amendment to the stabilization extension act. ©•’Neal telegraphed farm bureau leaders in the south that the bureau is working with Senator Bankhead (D-Ala) and “other friends of the cotton farmer to get the adminis tration to carry out the Bankhead- Brown amendment.” This, he explained, requires the price administration to adjust cot ton textile ceilings so as to reflect party prices for cotton to farmers and directs the president to “use all lawful means” to raise cotton prices to the parity level. “If cotton is sold-below parity^’ O’Neal said, ‘it will mean a loss of millions to farmers which they would receive if the law is carried out. “Farmers should be fully informed of the true situation, and should cooperate by holding '■ their cotton, putting it under government loan if necessary until prices approximate parity, which is now from six to eight dollars per hale above the new 1944 loan rates. “Government loatns are available to cotton farmers at 92 1-2 per cent (parity on the 1944 crop Farmers must be aroused to protect their own interests.” Senator Bankhead made a similar appeal yesterday for holding the 1944 crop off the market pending parity prices. Miss Margaret Omer, student at Winthrop College was a weekend visitor in the home of her parents, Mr and Mrs. Horace Oxner at Kin- ards. —Photo by Wynn Richards Mrs. Ellis Arnall, wife of the Governor of Georgia, poses with their son. Alvan, in the Mansion at Atlanta. The portrait, showing both Mrs. Arnall and her son dressed in cottons, will he the sixth presentation in the-cotton industry’s “First Lady” series and will appear in the August issue of Vogue. For the portrait, Mrs. Arnall selected a charming sum mer suit and hat of brown and white striped seersucker. She dressed her young son in a checked jacket and gray trousers of smart sturdy hopsacking. TAX NOTICE 1943 tax executions are now in the office of the Tax Collector. r The tax laws of South Carolina are very exacting albout delinquent taxes. Having been appointed tax collector by the Governor, it is hoped that those who have not paid their past due county taxes will come by and do so at an early date. This office is under oath to exercise diligent pursuit of delinquent taxes but will be fully cooperative at all times. Your cooperation is earnestly requested. Tabor L. Hill TAX COLLECTOR i Many a million strong, healthy chicks have been hatched with the safe, even heat of Sinclair Super- Flame Kerosene. It burns without odor or gases be cause waste elements that cause them are removed by expert refining. Sinclair SuperFlame Kerosene is so pure that it’s water-white in color. And it saves money and ration tickets because it gives maximum usable heat per gallon. Try SuperFlame in your incubators and brooders. LET ME DELIVER TO TOUR FARM S. C. Paysinger, Agent NEWBERRY, S. C. A.