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NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA
O. E. ARMFIELD
Editor and PuBlisher
F’ihlished Every Friday In The Year
Entered as second-class matter
December 6, 1937, at tht postoffice
at Newberry, South Carolina, under
the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
How’s Your Knowledge
Of Your Home Town?
BY SPECTATOR
What do you know of your town?
Some of our papers have been em
phasizing the possessive or patriotic
attitude of the citizens towards his
town. The late William Banks, as
Editor of The Anderson Daily Mail,
put at the head of his editorial col
umn “Anderson Is My Town’’ and
he ran that as his flag throughout
his editorship of that paper.
What I sipeak of is this: Who was
the first settler in your town? Was
it one man, one family, or a group?
Who _<iecided on the name for your
town? For whom was it called?
Since I don’t wish to run afoul
of my friend, Mr. Axel Salley, the
well known authority on all such
matters, I venture to ask ques
tions rather than to make guesses.
Who laid off ' your town ? For
whom are the Streets named? It
might prove ihteresting to check up
on your knowledge (or lack of
knowledge) of your town.
I live in the town of Manning, a
place of entrancing beauty and
charm, especially at this time of
year. A drive down the Main street
is a delight which gives you a thrill
and soothes your spirit. But there
is no Main Street. Most people,
even most of our residents, speak of
Main Street, but it is Brooks Street.
The original business street is
Boyce street. Few people speak of
Boyce Street; some call it Main
Street; others think of it as the
business street, although North
Brooks Street is probably the busi
ness Street.
Manning has a Butler Street also.
Like the Streets in France, this
street has four names; it begins as
Bu;ler, then becomes Mill, then Fac
tory Hill and finally, the Jordan
Road.
I ran across three Streets in Man
ning called Short Street. Another of
our streets is known variously as
Boyd, Harvin and Chicken Alley.
The residents don’t seem to care for
Chicken Alley. We have a Church
Street also—one of our principal
streets.
I don’t mean to regale you with
the beauty and charm of Manning,
but to suggest a study of your own
town.
I’ve lived in Manning—or claimed
it as home—for some years. Through
out the years I’ve wondered about
the beginning of the town. Recently
I learned something about the early
days. Several names stand out as
builders; not a one of them is ap
propriately commemorated by the
town.
Manning used to have three rows
of fine oaks down Brooks Street.
The middle row was sacrificed for
paving. Who was the man of vision
to whom we owe the trees? Dr. Al
len Huggins, the first Intendent.
That ought to be Huggins Avenue.
Manning had an industrial pioneer
years ago, two of them, as I recall.
Mr. Winfield Scott Harvin built and
operated a hosiery mill employing
a number of French families. He
was a pioneer ice manufacturer and
electric lighting operator. I need not
mention his lumber operations, with
his own railroad. In his honor we
have a part of Chicken Alley and
two blocks near his home. Clearly,
I think, one of the long Streets
should be named for W. S. Harvin.
So we account for the town
planner, the man who loved trees
and made this a town of shade and
beauty; and then we have the in
dustrial pioneer of a half century
ago. Mr. Harvin wasn’t a town
booster; he waa a town builder. We
have no appropriate Harvin Street
—as we should have—but Mill
Street was named for his Mill; so
was Factory Hill—'Where no mill or
factory is today.
Another of Manning’s industrial
ists was F. P. Ervin, who organized
the Oil Mill—now no more.
Another of our town planners
and tree-lovers was A. LaMotte
Lesesne—to whom Manning owes
hundreds of fine trees.
There was a Lesesne Street, now
called South Street.
I wondered who were the Brooks,
Boyces, Butlers, Keitts for whom
streets are named. Nobody seemed
to know. I asked many, all res
idents of many years or natives of
mellow age. They didn’t know. I
was about to submit it to our re
cognized authorities. Our town
has three or four who love traditions
and keep alive memories of early
history. I intended to consult Mr.
Fred Lesesne, one of those who
know and love the history of all the
County. My friend G. T. Floyd, who
has read every word on record rela
tive to land, and who knows the
metes and bounds, more or less, of
everywhere, even he didn’t know
more about our streets. I feared
that even Mrs. S. J. Clark might
fail me in this, since Mr. Floyd
hadn’t run across anything in the
records. However, Mrs. Clark car
ries the whole county around in her
capacious memory. Two other names
occurred to me. If Judge Taylor
Stukes and Mr. John Ingram Wilson
didn’t know I should certainly have
to consult Mrs. Clark and Mr. Fred
Lesesne. But Judge Stukes had
the information: Our Brooks
Street was named for Preston
Brooks, who caned Charles Sumner.
How is your history? Do you re
member that? Charles Sumner of
Massachusetts, a Senator, denounc
ed in the Senate Senator Butler of
South Carolina, who was absent. It
grew out of the question of Slavery.
Two days later Preston Brooks, a
Representative in Congress from
South Carolina, went over to the
Senate and severely thrashed Sena
tor Sumner with a cane. Throughout
the South Brooks was hailed as a
hero. He was related to Senator
Butler. That probably accounts for
both our Brooks and Butler Streets.
We had a citizen named Preston
Brooks Thames, an estimable gentle
man, member of one of Manning’s
first families.
Manning has a street called Me
morial Avenue, though most people
call it Railroad Avenue; others call
it Depot street. The town has offi
cially a Rail Road Street and a De
pot street.
I like the English habit of retain
ing old names as a link with the
past, but I wonder if the names
Brooks, Boyce, Keitt mean anything
in Manning today; or if Boyce and
Keitt ever meant anything in Man
ning. Sounds very much like call
ing a little Colored boy-baby Hanni
bal, Pompey or Caesar.
Would it be well to cherish in
remembrance the names of those
who founded or built the town?
Huggins, Harvin, Lesesne. Captain
Lesesne and his two sons (A. L. and
W. T.) were identified with much
building and beautification.
Pin not writing a history of Man
ning or those who lived here, loved
the town and served it for many
years. Many names come to mind
instantly. I would be sure to omit
some fine name if I tried to men
tion them. But I wonder if Hug
gins, Harvin and Lesesne shouldn’t
be the names of our principal thor
oughfares.
What about your town?
31 years ago was organized the
fight on the remaining dispensaries,
with victory at the polls 3 to 1. This
campaign followed amazing and dis
gusting discoveries by the joint
legislative committee. Dispensary
corruption was not in retail store
operation but in wholesaling and
overall State political management.
With all respect for the propon
ents of the bobtailed measure one
cannot conceive of good men being
more grossly in error.
Liquor merchandising and gov
ernment wont mix without the taint
of liquor corrupting our polities.
Good apples never helped rotten
apples is known.
The only public reaction to the
Governor’s insistence will be State
Prohibition with the wholesale li
quor stores as the dominant issue in
the Campaign this summer.
Governor Williams is too much
concerned about liquor profits and
too little concerned with a wholesale
political atmosphere.
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The Governor has 40 constables
under his control, but seems to have
done nothing about alleged tie-ins
and various other alleged liquor vio
lations. Several weeks ago we were
told that the Governor would ex
plode a bomb. He waited until the
Legislature was about to adjourn
and then came forward again with a
renewed ple a for a State-operated li
quor business, a rebirth of the malo
dorous State Dispensary.
I have nothing in common with the
liquor business, whether retail or
wholesale. I know of no method of
making th> liquor business a sweet
smelling savor, but I do know what
we had in the days of the Dispen
sary. If I must choose between de
grees of evil, I can do so readily by
opposing the intimate, direct, poli
tical participation of our State as a
liquor merchant.
The Governor seems to have used
the Federal report of a tie-in for a
last-minute blast that would over
awe the Legislature.
I hope the effort to bobtail the
State Lqiuor Store plan wT be
challenged in every court, State and
Federal, until a new Legislature will
blast it to smithereens.
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Clemson, April 6.—“Since for
verious reasons, mechanization is
hitting South Carolina farms late, a
rapid change-over to mechanization
and the efficient use of labor in all
its phases is necessary,’’ Director
D. W. Watkins of the Clemson Ex
tension Service, said today, com
menting on the farm labor program
which extension workers are advanc
ing in various ways.
“This is a competitive age and we
need to aid in the transition from
hand to machine farming so that
our farmers may keep pace with
the times and meet the competition.
Special traning will help to do this,”
he said.
To this end county agents and
county farm labor assistants have
been schooled at recent district
meetings on various means and
methods of assisting farmers with
their labor problems. This week
and next field schools are being
held, at which these men and local
machinery dealers will visit farms
where planting machines are in
operation. Here experts assist the
farmers and show the agents how to
adjust and get the best work out of
planting and fertilizing equipment.
A little later similar field schools
will be held on farms where the
proper use and adjustment of cul
tivating equipment will be gone into
There is no good way to handle
liquor; but there are degrees of evil.
Time pases rapidly. It was in 1915
that the Dispensary was finally
killed—thirty-one years ago. This
State is now being governed by men
who were mere lads in 1915. They
have heard of the Dispensary scan
dals just as we once heard the con
federate solders tell of the Civil
War.
So complete was the politically li
quor demonation that no man had
even a remote chance of being
elected to public office unless be de-
clored on the stump his fervent en
dorsement of the Dispensary.
Let us not have it again—tne
State subordinating everything to a
liquor monopoly, blatantly pro
claimed with the great seal of the
State.
Chamber of Commerce
Notes
We are glad to announce that the
following have recently joined the
Chamber of Commerce: W. C. Huff
man, Dr. Bothwell Graham of New
berry College, C. D. Coleman, Purol
dealer.
The Chamber of Commerce hasj'e-
cently purchased a new Thomas Reg
ister of Manufacturers. This Regis
ter is in three volumes and contains
a list of all manufacturers in the
United States. The public is invit
ed to use this Register to secure in
formation about any type of manu
facturer they would like to locate.
It is again the season for solicitors.
We have had quite a few in Newber
ry recently. The merchants have
been asked not to contribute to any
solicitor until they show a permit
issued by the Chamber of Commerce.
If they do not have a permit, the
merchants have been asked to direct
them to the Chamber of Commerce,
also to phone the C of C and tell
them this solicitor is in town. Some
of the solicitors have gotten on to
this and are dodging the business
section and are making their rounds
in the residential section. I would
like to ask that the people in the res
idential section please cooperate with
us by following the instructions is
sued to the merchants. Ask to see
their permit.
A joint meeting of the old and
new Directors will be held at the
Wiseman Hotel on Thursday, April
11, at 7:30 p. m. At this time new
officers will be elected and plans set
up for the new year.
The CAA hopes to complete our
Airport next week.
We are proud of the many words
of appreciation we have received
from the merchants from the booklet
entitled, “Back to Selling Courtesy”,
by Elmer Wheeler.
on actual operating conditions. And
later the same thing will be done
with harvesting equipment.
‘This training should enable coun
ty agents and farm labor assistants
to aid the farmers generally in mak--
ing best use of farm machinery,”
declares W. L. Brannon, who is in
charge of the farm labor work in
the state out of the Clemson Ex
tension office.
Wilson-Wicker
Miss Dorothy Virginia Wilson and
George Maffet Wicker were married
Wednesday, March 27, at the home of
the Rev. Julian B. Harman, who per
formed the ring ceremony in the
presence of several relatives and
friends.
Mrs. Wicker is the daughter of
Mrs. George C. Wilson of the St.
FRIDAY, APRIL 12. 1948
Luke’s community. She is a grad
uate of the Stoney Hill high school
and has been employed in Newberry
with the Newberry Manufacturing
company.
Mr. Wicker is the son of George
K. V/icker of the St. Philips com
munity, and the late Mrs. Lula
Halfacre Wicker. He is a graduate
of the St. Philips high school and is
engaged in farming.
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