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VOLUME 7; NUMBER 38.
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CORPORAL JAMES RICHARD
THOMASSON writes his aunt, Mrs.
F. G. Hartley that he is now station
ed in (permany.vO©moral Thompson
is in fhe Service toffiitartv of <th*
9th Army.
CAPT. TOMMY WEST cables his
wife, the former Elizabeth Purcell,
that he has landed safely somewhere
in England. Captain West is a mem
ber of the Transportation Corps.
CPL. JAMES S. SANDERS, 20,
colored youth, was killed in action
in Italy on December 5th. He had
been in the service two years, and
overseas for 6 months. His mother,
Mattie Sanders, lives at 1409 Cald
well street.
CPL. CHARLES CHILDERS, who
has been a patient in the Field hos
pital in It^ly for the past several
weeks has been transferred to a
general hospital in that country. He
askc friends to write .him at No.
2628 Section Hospital, APO 698 care
Postmaster, New York.
PVT. GRADY S. GOGGINS, U. S.
Army, reported to. Camp Hood, Tex.
Tuesday after spending a 14 day
furlough with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. W. B. Goggins., Pripr.to his
furlough he was stationed at Fort
Sill, Oklahoma.
FIRST LT. RALPH P. BAKER
landed in England the latter part of
December according ’ to a cablegram
received by his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Ralph Baker last week. Lieut.
Baker is a surgeon with, the 121st
Evacuation hospital unit.
SGTfc «PBKY DUNCAN ywa* . r?-J
ported wounded in the left shoulder
in Germany about the 18th of Dec-
emlber,. Sgt. Duncan is a member
of the 8th division of infantry and
has been overseas a year. He was in
the original invasion ^f £
JIM WHEELER S2iC, a patient in
the naval- hospital at Portsmouth,
Virginia, is. spending a 15 day fur
lough with his mother, Mrs. J. D.
Wheeler and other relatives here.
Seaman Wheeler recently returned
to the states after being on duty in
the Pacific theatre with the Seabees
for the past 19 months.
SGT. ERNEST C. LONGSHORE
arrived in thfr city JfoUflay^to gcend
a 23 day furlough with his mother,
Mrs. Ruth Longshore, at 1505 Cald
well street, before reporting to Mi
ami, Florida for reassignment. Sgt.
Longshore landed in the states on
December 29 after being on duty
in the Southwest Pacific with the
Fourth Field Artillery for the past
33 months.
MRS. A. C. THOMASSON receiv
ed a letter Saturday from her son,
T|Sgt. Arthmur Thomasson written
from a prison camp in Germany ih
September, saying that he “had just
gotten his first letter from home af
ter being a prisoner of war in Ger
many since December 1, 1943, and it
made him feel so much better to
know that everybody at home was
alright.”
Number of Draftees
Increases Sharply
The following white men from
Local Draft Board 58 will report to
Fort Jackson on Wednesdrfy, Janu
ary J.7th for preinduction physical
examination‘‘ - * » *»
Jesse Preston Bodie
Edward Rollins
Alva Eugene Werts, Jr.
William James Lester
Fred Colie Grant
Leroy Aiken Benton
Oscar Roy Chapman
Jacob Oliver Hawkins
Culer Levasco Hester
Henry Herbert .Lathrop
James Albert ^SAber
Talmadge Dewitt Timmons
,Tames''-Maurice Bodie
Joe Setzler Clamp
Earl Ellison
Horace Bivens Rayfield
Jesse Willard
George Alfred Gardin
James Earl Micham
Loyd Hilton Brazell • *
Morgan Osborne
Edwin Durant .Reames
Jach Hatton Suber, jr.
Ernest Heyward Long
Harold Esby Smith - -
Herbert Thomas Long
James Carl Langford
Beamon Lominick .Mills
Elmer Reid Baker
James Roy Felker
William ' Jefferson Martin
George Hoggin
John Lindsey Gjant
Thomas Drew Clamp
Morgan Henry Bishop
Joe Sam Boland
Rayford Colie Evans
William Edward Cromer
Roy Houseal Clary
George William Blackwell
Bernice Eugene Stockman
Callie Ezell Knight
Vmmon Vester Aide^ * .
Matthew Shelton Adams
Harold Osborne Cook
Maxie Lee Dixon
Wade Ansel Erskine
Joby Johnson Betchman
WillUn** Oscar Ruff
Richard Edward Adams
David Scott Rowe
Blair Jenkins Rankin
Fred Morrell Hestbeck
John Ernest Kinard
Willie Lester Ellison
Judge Ray Tankersley
Arlis Huel Womack
William Thomas Elsmore
Ned Troy Livingston
Roy Bryan GalOwell, Jr.
Jesse James Tankersley
(From The Christian Century)
From time immemorial poets have
hailed a nd the people have acclaimed
the dawn of victory.” Victory
meant the beginning of a new day.
Thus it has been in the past. But it
is not so now. After these long
years of conflict, victory is almost
in sight. But it brings no promise
of a new day. No hearts are lifted
exultantly at the first shafts of
a new dawn flickering across an ex
pectant horizion. Instead, harried
man, worn and exhausted by the ter
rors of these years of torment, finds
himself frying to gather his weak
ened powers for a blind adventure
Into the unknown.
The United States entered this
war sustained by a great hope of
what it would accomplish. Presi
dent Roosevelt painted this in his
“four freedoms” which he declared
no vision of a distant millennium,”
but “a delnite basis for a kind of
world attainable in our own time
and generation.” It had been given
more precise definition in the Atlan
tic Charter. And it had found ex
pression in the daily language of our
people-^expectations of a world un
ion, a world federation, an end of
imperialism, a downfall of militar
ism, a rebirth of freedom. Has that
hope been achieved by the war? Are
we, in sober truth; closer to its
achievement than before the war?
Have we not, indeed, been get im
measurably farther from this goal
as the direct result of our fighting?
What has the war done to .Ameri
ca ? Beaving out of account the
slaughter and crippling of hundreds
of. thousands of. her sops—perhaps a
million before the victory is fully-
won—and the inconsolable grief of
millions thus bereaved, there are
other obvious things that the war
has done to America. Though it
has revealed a power for war mak
ing beyond that of any other nation
in history, the struggle hAs increas
ed internal tensions between
races and classes. It has extended
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To offset this, Britain is frantically
building its bloc—France, Belgium,
Holland, Portugal, r; Italy, Greece.
There are even sivtis that she may
be ready to maintain Franco in
power, provided he can give' assur
ances against a Communist Spain.
In this division Germany will
once more find herself the great
prize and focus of intrigue and con
tention. Will she fall into the Rus
sian or the British sphere? While
that uncertainty lasts German policy
will almost inevitably return to
playing off the one interest against
the other, just as after the last war
it played off England against
France. And the result will be
equally disastrous for any lasting
peace.
This post-war Europe will be
studded with territorial' and bound
ary disputes. Handing Poland not
only all East Prussia but all Germ
any up to the line of the Oder may
satisfy Russian demands for stra
tegic frontiers, but it will also sad
dle central Europe with another re
gion in which men will live for the
day of irredentist revenge—an area
of always incipient conflict even
more freighted with trouble than
Alsace-Lorraine ever was. Hungar
ian irredentism has already begun
to clamor a t the Mate of Transylva
nia. Marshal THo is again raising
Yugoslavia’s claims to Trieste and
the Istrian Peninsula—the same bit
terly contested claims on which the
peace conference of 1919. was so
nearly wrecked. And the only de
fense of these arrangements is that
this time the wrath of the peoples
involved will be guarded against by
transferring from ten, to fifteen mil
lion people with the shifting of
boundaries, a proposal which the
London Times on September 20 call
ed an operation whose magnitude
and brutalitv must appal even imagi
nations deadened by the unspeakable
horrors of the wfar: .
Nor do these political results of
the authority of the state until m ^e war begin to suggest the nature
penetrates into the most minute de
tails of our private life and of the
pursuits by which our citizens seek
to make a livelihood. It has broken
down the monumental tradition un
der which the term of the Executive
was limited.
of the crisis in which-it is leaving
Europe. Behind these political ef
fects there are the economic and
the social effects—and these are
likely to prove by far the most
powerful. The revolutionary im
pulses which the first world war
James Allen Glenn /
kins
(3 4
It has uprofited an im- P uls , es wnlc " Ilrst worm war
j portant minority of our citizens and j Jf* ™- se m R u ^ la un ea ^ e< ^
T| SGT. DANIEL H. McHARGUE
was recently awarded two bnyize
star Medals for “exceptional heroic
achievements against the enemy” in
Belgium. Sgt. McHargue is the
husband of the former Constance
Armfield. Mrs. McHargue is mak
ing her home in Charleston where
she is chief clerk of the enlisted
pay section in the U. S. Army Fin
ance office.
LIEUT. CAM WALLACE was
transfered in December from Moore
General hospital, Swannanoa, N. C.,
to Welch Convalescent hospital at
Daytona Beach, Florida. Lt. Wal
lace is recovering from injuries re
ceived in active duty overseas. His
mother, Mrs. R. G. Wallace of Col
umbia and sister, Frances, Green
ville, recently returned from a visit
with him.
PVT. JOHN H. RAY of Whitmire
is a member of a 105 millimeter
howitzer crew on the Fifth Army
front in Italy, who is helping send
another round crashing into German
held positions in the Apennines.
The gun section is part of the 175th
Field Artillery Battalion which re
cently fired its 200,000th round and
is the first battalion to go into ac
tion against the Germans in this
war.
PVT. LAWRENCE CONNELLY
writes his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.
B. Connelly, from a hospital in
southern Italy saying that the
building in which he lived caught
fire and he was burned in the face
and forehead, but not to worry about
him because he was being well taken
care of and would soon be alright
Private Connelly is a member of
the Signal Corps and has been on
duty overseas for the past 18
months.
Fred Warren Watkins
Edward Pearson Yon
The following from board 58 will
report on January 18th for induc
tion:
John William Leavell
Thermon Benrv Smith „ .. _ .
RolShd* WWpnran WRliams “ * * R
Jesse Caldwell Odell
Charles Edward Bedenbaugh
Thomas Horace Bouknight
James William Hunnicutt
Fred Sehpmpert j •
Luther Lee Jones
Edward Myers
Thomas Melvin Wicker
Victor Ray Smith ,
Ernest -Fleetwood MtCutcheorr
Wallace Nat Meggs
Owens David Eargle
James Washington Cranford
Roy Jackson Bledsoe
Edward Virgil Miller „ , (
Albert Mars
Thomas Earl Stroud
Board 59 is sending the following
white men for induction at Fort
Jackson on January 18:
Jones Edward Bedenbaugh
James David Luther, Jr.
Daniel Houch Sandel
Marion Everette Pitts
Claude William Riddle
John Carey Fulmer Jr
Lewie Verbee Shealy
The following from board 59 for
preiridiiction physical examination on
January 18:
Jessie Heyward Bush
William Perry Kinard • • ( » « «.
David Bundrick Ringer
Forest Paul Brannon
James Harvey Berley
Forest Lee Graham
Thomas Edward Scase
Thomas Adam Harmon
Hugh Ellis Fellers
Hermon Garrett Stockman
Olin Everett Graham
Gary Lee Ringer
Sam Pat Boland
William Herbert Ruff
Robert Herbert Ruff
Robert Leitzsey Long
Virgril Furman Kinard
William Henry Ringer
Joseph Harold Ruff . ., .
James Everett Morris
thrown then*.'into (j concentrati 0 ni b >\ this , wa r ^ “j, 1 , Europe clear
camps without charges 'solely npwtoi* the Btrglis-h Channel. At this
cause of their racial origins. ‘ | moment it is impossible to say with
The war has placed a load of debt ^pnfidence that there will not be
on the shoulders of our people
which will impose staggering taxes
on generations yet unborn. It has
filled^ our civilian workets and our
returhinf 4etdbadfe Witjf fear of a
coming economic collapse. It has
Communist governments in every
state in Europe, save perhaps the
Scandanavian nations, Switzerland,
and the United Kingdom, before a
decade has passed. Indeed, the war
has so torn up European life by the
sent thousands of our choicest ; roots that in much of the continent
youth to prison for conscience’s choice may quickly come to lie
sake. It has given tongue to other between a Communist regime backed
thousands clamoring to fasten per
manent militarism ort the' Republic/
It has left our colleges dependent on
by the power of Russia, and chaos.
Tp perceive the revolutionary nature
of the internal situation which the
the whim of departments of Govern- 1 war has brought to pass in Europe,
ment—and these in the main the | °. ne need only study the consterna-
departmet of >Wat and Navy. It has * 10n °r tne Vatican.
JOHN REXFORD NORTH III
Lieut, and Mrs. J. R.-North, Jr.
announce the arrival of a son, John
Rexford North III, at the Newberry
County Hospital on Sunday, Janu
ary 7th. Mrs. North is the former
Dot Ruff, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Charlie Ruff. Lieutenant North is
on duty in the Pacific theater of
war.
delivered us over to the false gods
of imperialism, instead of ending
colonial exploitation throughout the
world, we seem about to embark on
a, career of empire building.
The above sentences state only a
few of the domestic effects of the
war. They are selected at random
and suggest profounler effects which
time will disclose. Yet they are
sufficient in themselves, and more
than sufficient, to cast dark shadows
over the future of this nation. But
these only begin to suggest the' po
sition in which the war is leaving
us. What of the rest of the world
with whose fate Our own destiny is
inexorably bound ? Who is not sob-
erd by the unfathomable charafcter
of the future which the war has
created for Europe, for Africa, for
Asia, and for all intenational rela
tionships ?
• i r
What will be the Europe with
which we must deal after the war?
A continent freed from naz-ism, no
longer compelled to live under , the
shadow of the madman Hitler and
the vicious crew that surrounded
him and his satellite Mussolini. Yes;
Europe will be free from fear, from
want, from savagery, from other
tyrannies or from the misery of de
spair. Politically, all signs now in
dicate that Europe will be divided
into two great spheres of influence,
with Britain and Russia locked in a
precarious balance of power (whose j nothing to solve the problems
scales are heavily loaded in favor of
Russia), each watching the other
with never-ceasing anxiety, each
proclaiming a confidence in the other
which is denied by every move.
Instead of being unified by the
war, Europe is being divided a!? a ? n -
In the east, Russia is using her mil
itary power to build her bloc of sat
ellite states—Finland, Poland, Bul-
Where is the war leaving Africa?
Less affected, perhaps, than any
other of the continents on which
there has been fighting, but never
theless facing new problems. The
transfer of the Italian colonies to
British rule will probably be arrang
ed without serious difficulty—and
never mind what the Atlantic Chat
ter said about “no aggrandizement,
territorial or other”—but there are
other problems arising out of the
war not to be so lightly disposed of.
There is, for example, the develop
ment which lately took Mr. Eden
from Moscow to Cairo—the emerg
ence of a pan-Arab federation. That
will have Hs repercussions all the
way from India to the Straits of
Gibraltar, and nowhere more omi
nously than in strategic Palestine.
There is also the demand of the
Union of South Africa, voiced by
Marshal Smuts, that hereafter poli
cies for the control of the native
population jn the colonies of Negro
Africa shall be turned over to the
dominion. To those who know the
ruthlessness of South African treat
ment of the natives it will seem that
there could be no more certain way
of driving that continent toward fu
ture race war.
And what of past-war Asia? Who
can offer even a hesitant guess as to
what will happen in Asia within the
next 25 years? But some things
are certain. The war will have done
of
non-white empire which the age of
imperialism had produced only to
restore the white empires which a
colored people had overthrown, the
war is turning the Pacific into an
American lake and our nation is
probably about to plunge into the
greatest imperialistic adventure of
all time.
Within Asia the efid of the war
will leave the continent in political
and social chaos. Recent dispatches
from competent American observers
in China seem to take it for granted
that all moves in that harassed land
are now being- made in preparation
for a. civil war a s soon as the Japa
nese have been driven . out.- The
American victory over Japan may
open the way for the return of In
donesia to Dutch rule, of Cambodia
to France, of Malaya and Hong Kong
to Britian* even of Timor and Macao
to Portugal. But the sullen inhabi
tants will take no joy in seeing the
European Flags go up again, or the
European rulers, with, their insuffer
able pride of race, return to their
former abodes. They..-will submit if
they must, but their submission will
scarcely cloak their determination to
seize the first opportunity to strike
for freedom. And this, we believe,
is true for India as for the colonies
which the Japanese so easily over
ran.
Space will not permit extended
reference to South America, but
there, also the war is leaving height
ened rather than lessened tensions.
And what is there to offset these
tragic realities of the worRb which
the war has created? Dumbarton
Oaks? This is not the place for an
extended discussion of that proposed
plan of post-war world organization.'
But it is necessary to make at least
three observations.
First. Its most stalwart propon
ents present it apologetically. Take
it, they say, not because it is what
the United -States wants or what
the world needs to insure a lasting
peace, but take it because we can’t
get anything better.
Second. Indications multiply that
Russia has no more than a token
interest in Dumbarton Oaks. Russia
is primarily interested in protecting
her own future freedom of action,
and she does not intend tp bind her
self by covenant to any organization
upon whose unhesitating approval
of Russian policy she cannot count
or to which her own wjll must be
subordinated. So Russia intends to
make sure that if she goes into the
Dumbarton Oaks organization it will
be stripped of any possibility of
ever acting except when she wants
it to act.
Third. In the Dumbarton Oaks or
ganization 'the United States will
occupy the most exposed position in
all the history of our foreign rela
tions. For this organization is to be
based on the concept of a Big Four
pact to police the world. Yet of the
four nations thus ehosen to rule,
one' (China) is- obviously no stable
great power and can be propped up
in its- place only by the continued
support of this country, while
another -(-Great Britian) is commit-
tod to the preservation of a globe-
circling empire which the war has
demonstrated - it cannot defend with
out American help. And in the e-
Vent that the uneasy balance be
tween Britain and Russia is upset,
Britain will be utterly unable to
maintain her empire in ■ a war
against the Russian colossus without
the • support of the United States.
Can any American envisage such a
prospect without grave forebodings?
In a word, to make Dumbarton
Oaks function as a protector of
world peace—a moral responsibili
ty which lies heavily upon the con
sciences of the American people—
the United States may find itself
obliged to support the policies of
regimes in Asia and in Europe in
which Americans have no confi
dence and for which they have no
heart. Dumbarton Oaks, also, con
stitutes for the United States a
plunge into the unknown!
.Morale High;
Morals Low
colonialism and imperialism; in
Asia it has already exacerbated
those problems. It has done nothing
to improve the relations between
whites and the colored peoples; in
Asia it has made those relations
more tense. The United States,
which regards itself a s the champ
ion of democracy, which has fought
in the Pacific to protect the Asiatic
garia, Rumania, Yugoslavia, Hun- | peoples against the spread of an
gary, Czechoslovakia, perhaps even | oriental tyranny, is in fact coming
Austria. The Baltic republics, des- i out of the war in a terribly equivo-
pite her pledges in the Atlantic j cal position—as viewed by oriental
charter, she has forcibly absorbed, eyes. Having destoyed the j single
Who can see ahead into such a
future? The man who claims he
can is the man to fear All that hu
man intelligence can see with any
certainty is that the war, instead
of fulfilling the promises which ro
mantic proponents of American in
tervention were scattering about so
freely three and four years ago, is
producing a world whose political
structures have been shaken to
their foundations, leaving hardly
more than chaos and upstart power
out of which to build a new world
order. Post-war stability cannot be
counted upon even in the United
States; not if the economic after-
math of the war brings the mass
' nemployment that some sober anal
ysts now prophesy.
Sometimes it is said by those who
sense some of the foreboding reali
ties of the days after organized
fighting has ceased, that revolution
is in the air. Perhaps. But more
(Continued on page 8)
HOSPITAL NEWS-
(The following is part of a letter
from Franklin Armfield recently
arrived in England.)
“They have finally let us tell where
we gre. And this is England! The
country is very much as I expected
to find’it. The English countryside
I had heard so mrtch about and seen
pictures of, is just like a picutre. It
is all hills and valleys and every
thing is green. I was surprised to
j see this since it is also winter here.
J It has been pretty cold since we
came here and very, very damp.
Most of the time it is foggy. We
had sunshine for part of two days
since we came. Today it is beautiful
outside, but- it is still cold.
The day after Christmas, the frost
was so heavy it looked like snow on
the trees. Maybe that is whet they
call a “White Christmas” in this
country.
They don’t have much daylight
here either. It gets light about 9
'O’clock "and dark about 5. Most of
the rest of the time it is foggy. It
is always foggy at night, and with
the dim-Out you cant see a thing. I
don’t know what they did when they
had a complete blackout.
Naturally the buildings are typi
cally English; very much like Wil-
liaipsburg, Virginia. The town near
by doesn't' seem to’ be 'laid out in any
particular pattern. The streets just
wind in and out and go everywhere.
The roads are very ..arrow and the
autos are. -small,- but you don’t see '
too. many of them. The gas ration
ing must be very strict. It seems
funny to see people drive from the
right side of the car. The most
amusing thing I have seen .though,
are the railroad cars. Each coach is
divided into three compartments.
The box cars look like playthings.
They a re about one third the size of
the ones in the states. They are all
of the narrow guage type. I noticed
the name of one of the railroad
companies is the Southern railway,
but I don’t suppose it has any con
nection with the SR in the States.
The steam engines are evon. smaller
than the switch engines at home.
The passenger trains are rather
slow, but they ride pretty good. I
noticed that all the freight cars are
hooked together by chain and there
are no brakes- at all on them. Once
they get going I don’t see how they
stop them. I guess the passenger
trains do have brakes, tho.
We are in the southeastern part of
the country, and not too far from
Bristol. I haven’t been there yet,
but hope to go before we leave here.
London, I understand, is a little over
100 miles. The only city I have
seen except the one we are near is
Southhampton.' It -seems to be a
rather Targe city. We passed thru
thee but didn’t stop.
The morale of the people I have
seen seems to be pretty high, but
as far a s morals are concerned, that
is another story. They just don’t
seem to give a darn what they do or
where they do it. I thought we had
a problem in the states, but it is
nothing compared with conditions
here.The town and streets are over
run with teen-age girls and they are
pick-ups for anyone who will take
them.
It seeats. that the people here go
for the negroes the samp as for, the
whites. There is no race discrimina
tion at all. I have seen a few ne-
groe's in British uniforms.
They live Here Now
Mr. and Mrs. John Wilson are
now living in the Leavell Apart
ments at 515 Boundary street. They
formerly lived at the County Jail
where Mr. Wilson was jailor. He is
now Deputy to Lonnie Graham in
the magistrate’s office.
Mr. and Mrs. Emest Oxner have
moved from the Davis home on
Wardlaw street to the Leavell
Apartments, 515 V6 Boundary street.
Mrs. E. S. Boozer has moved to
1132 Douglas street in the Leroy
Anderson home which she recently
purchased.
Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Anderson
are now -living in the Baker Apart
ments on Walnut street.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wilson, new
comers to the city, are making their
home at 1312 Glenn street.
Mr. and Mrs. R. C. O’Dell moved
from 2018 to 2016 Eleanor street.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Fellers and
family are now making their home
at 1613 Nance street.
Mr. and Mrs. James B. Hall are
living at 931 Cornelia street.
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Force moved
to 105 Harrington street.
Mr. and Mrs. Bud Moore have
moved from the county to 1501
Caldwell street.
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Derrick
mooted from Cline street to 1728
Harris street.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Moates have
moved to 1401 Nance street from
1728 Harris street.
M-r. and Mrs. A. C. Quattlebaum
are now living with the T. M. Rog
ers on Friend street, having moved
from 1401 Nance street.
Bom to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Morris
of Pomaria, a son on Monday, Jan
uary 8 th.
Bom to Mr. and Mrs. Noland
Myers of route 2, Newberry, a
daughter on Tuesday, January 9th.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Johnny T.
Yarborough of Whitmire, a daugh
ter on Wednesday, January 10th.
Other patients: Baby girl Tuck
er, 209 Glenn street; Baby boy
Hooper, 800 Pope street; M. Duke
Sheppard, Silverstreet; Mrs. Ralph
Kirby, 1306 2nd street; Tom Can
non, Little Mountain; Mrs. Alice
Livingston, Brown street; Mrs.
James Cromer, route 3, Newberry;
James W. Johnson, Wiseman Hotel;
Mrs. B. R. Phillips, 2601 Fair Ave;
Miss Frances Boozer, Hunt street;
Wesley Von, Whitmire; Mrs. Bern
ice Gregory, 1305 Jefforson street;
Mrs. A. P. Morris, 1206 Jones St.;
Baby Jackline Gregory, 1305 Jeffer
son street; and Mrs. J. W. Roberts,
Whitmire. «,
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- ,. -- E. B. LOWERY
E. B. Lowery, 57, died at the
home of his sister, Mrs. Shuler in
Eutawville Saturday, January 6th,
and funeral services were held in
Sumter Monday afteraon where in-
tement followed in the Sumter cem
etery.
Mr. Lowery was business mana
ger of Fmnk Lominack’s Hard
ware for 14 years. He resigned
his position with Lominack’s about
fewm years ago on account' otf ill
health.
Mr. Lowery had many friends in
Newberry who will regret to hear
of his passing.
PFC. MACBEE HIPP, son of M.
B. Hipp, of Clinton and nephew of
Mrs. Q, O. Copeland of this city, has
been awarded the Purple Heart for
wounds received in action in France.
Private Hipp is in the infantry."
MR. AND MRS. JOHN BOOZER,
of Chappells, received a telegram
from the War Department Sunday,
stating that their son Pressley N.
iBoozer was wounded in action in
Belgium on December 20th. Private
Boozer, only son of Mr. and 1"
Boozer, has been in the service o
since last May. He had been in
France only a short time. His wife,
the former Miss Beck Sherard, a
teacher in the Greenwood county
schools, makes her home in Ninety
Six with her parents.
MAJOR OLIVER W. HOLMES,
who recently spent a 21-day leave
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. 0. W.
Holmes (Sarah Fant) in Fayette
ville, N. C. after being on duty in
the European theater of operation
for the past 30 months with the 15th
Air Force, spent the past weekend
here with his aunts, Mrs. Seth Meek
and Mrs. Butler Holmes, prior to re
porting to Miami, Florida on Janu
ary 9, for reassignment.
PFC. MARVIN E. WILSON, JR.
writes his mother, Mrs. M. E. Wil
son, from Germany, where hje has
been stationed with the First Army
since November, saying “the part of
the country where he is located is
beautiful with pine trees covered
with snow.”'
MAX S. COOK S 2!c and MRS.
COOK of Norfolk, Va., recently
spent a few days in the home of
Seaman Cook’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Sam A. Cook on Thompson
street.
Miss Margaret Kibler of Columbia,
was the guest of her parents and
other relatives during the past week
end.
MRS. MARVIN WILSON patient
ly waiting for her “turn” to get her
income tax made out. . . . MRS. J.
D. WICKER fussing about the laun
dry losing her extra pair of paja
mas. . . . BILL HATTON, Pomaria,
in the city Wednesday looking fine
after a recent illness, and saying he
had gained 15 pounds. . . . P. M.
GEORGE K. DOMINICK spending
his last dollar and wondering what
he was to do until pay-day. . . . The
tale is being told around town about
a boy overseas writing jiis mother to
send him some cotton underwear be
cause he was allegoric to woolen
ones, and his dad afraid if his wife
didn’t soon find them she would un
dress someone on the street and take
theirs. . . . JIM WHEELER being
greeted by friends in the Rationing
Board. . . . Clerks busy in the stores
taking inventory. . . . MRS. L. F.
FISCHER shopping. . . . Birthday
anniversaries: Mrs. Frank McCon
nell, Jan. 6; J. D. French, Jan. 7;
Emory H. Bowman, Jan. 8; Mrs. J.
D. Kinard, Jan. 9; Miss Grace Wil
bur, Jan. 10; Mrs. Van Price, Mrs.
Sadie Ringer and Mrs. Tom Suber
(Helen Mower), Jan. 11; Paul B.
Ezell, Jan. 14; Mrs. Edna H. Feagle
and Edna Hite Paysinger, Jan. 15;
Miss Mary Burton and Miss Jeane
Johnstone, Jan. 16; Mrs. E. L. Hart,
Sgt. Wilbur Long and Mary Eletse
Paysinger, Jan. 17; Mrs. Steve Grif
fith and Mrs. L. C. McCullough, Jan;
18.