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THE NEWBERRY SUN
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1949
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1218 College Street
NEWBERRY, S. C.
O. F. Arm field
Editor and Publisher
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1937,
at the Postoffice at Newberry, South Carolina, under
the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In S. C., $1.50 per year
in advance outside S. C., $2.00 per year in advance.
Newberry Farm Women Attend
Council Meeting at Spartanburg
pointed out the fact that the
sound agricultural economy is
the source of American strength.
He said that American indus
try had been built by contri
butions of the American farm.
Fifteen counties comprise the
Piedmont District of Farm Wo
men and registration showed a
total of 572 in atendance. An
derson County was awarded the
Attendance Vase for having 125
present. Newberry county won
second place with an atten
dance of 102.
One hundred and two New
berry County women attended
the meeting of the Piedmont
District Council of Farm Women
at the Spartanburg High
School Saturday, October 8,
1949. Mrs. B. O. Long of New
berry, district director, presided
and Mrs. John Earle Smith
served as secretary. The New
berry County Council Chorus,
directed by Mrs. M. B. Crooks,
furnished special music. Mrs.
Wlarren Abrams, president of
the Newberry County Council,
talked of the plans and goals
of the Newberry County Council
for 1950.
The highlight of the meeting
was an address by Donald
Russell, former assistant sec
retary of State. In speaking of
the atomic bomb Mr. Russell
said “If both sides made enough
progress in construction of
atomic bombs neither will want
to hazard its use”. “This will
mean we will have to think of
war along additional lines which
validates to a degree the navy’s
thesis” he declared.
I Mr. John Senterfeit, Jr., led
the devotional centering his
remarks around the parable of
the sower. He reminded the
farm women that “we teach
with our influnce, our lives,
and our example”, and that
“opportunities and privileges
bring responsibilities”.
Miss Juanita Neely, State
Home Demonstration agent
brought greetings. She com
mended the councils and clubs
for holding high their goals for
every year we must face chang
ing conditions. She flung a
challenge to the farm women
as she reminded the farm wo
man that “as she builds her
home she builds her nation.”
The presidents of each of the
fifteen counties discussed their
program of work for 1950.
Miss Jane Ketchen, Mrs. Ray
mond Kinsler, Mrs. P. P. Hurst,
and Mrs. Harold Wallace very
interestingly discussed Com
munity recreation.
The theme of the program
was “A Farm—A Nation” and
the guest speaker, Mr. Russell,
Singers Broadcast
Sunday, Oct. 23rd
Newberry County will be
well represented in the New
berry College Singers by the
following: Doris Segar Domi
nick, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Fred H. Dominick, Newberry;
James B. Fulmer, son of Mr.
and Mrs. F. O. Fulmer, New
berry; Barbara Jean Long,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.
E. Long, Sr., Newberry; Faye
Mitchum, guardian. Miss Bessie
Campbell, Newberry; Charles
Pruitt, son of Mrs. W. S. Lom-
inick, Newberry; James G.
Shealy, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Berley C. Shealy, Newberry;
and Kernie N. Wessinger, son
of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Wessinger
of Newberry.
Also, Imogene Counts, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. J. O.
Counts of Little Mountain; Jen-
nylee Counts, daughter- 4 of Mr.
and Mrs. James L. Counts,
Prosperity; Bonnelle Graham,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dan
iel Graham, Pomaria; and Mar
gery Smith, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. I. M. Smith, Kinards.
Miss Faye Mitchum and Miss
Margery Smith will be heard
as soloists.
The Newberry College Sing
ers, under the direction of Mil-
ton Moore, will broadcast, Sun
day, October 23, from 12:00
noon to 12:30 p.m. over the
facilities of the Mutual Broad
casting System. This program
of religious music will be car
ried by over 500 stations from
coast to coast.
“THE OLD BLACK HEN”
Said the little red rooster, “Gosh all hemlock! Things are tough,
Seems that worms are getting scarcer, and I cannot find enough.
What’s become of all those fat ones is a mystery to me.
There were thousands through that rainy spell—but now where
can they be?"
The old black hen who heard him didn’t grumble or complain,
She had gone through lots of dry spalls, and lived through floods
or rain.
So she flew up on the grindstone, and she gave her claws a whet.
As she said, “I’ve never seen the time there wasn’t worms to get.”
She picked a new and undug spot; the earth was hard and firm,
The little rooster jeered, “New ground! That’s no place for a
worm.”
The old black hen just spread her feet, she dug both fast and free,
“I must go to the worms,” she said, “The worms won’t come
to me.”
The rooster vainly spent the day, through habit, by the ways
Where fat round worms had passed in squads back in the rainy
days.
When nightfall found him supperless, he growled in accents rough,
“I’m hungry as a fowl can be. Conditions sure are tough.”
He turned then to the old black hen and said, “It’s worse with you
For you’re not only hungry, but you must be tired too.
I rested while I watched for worms, so I feel fairly perk:.
But how are you? Without worms too? and after all that work?”
The old black hen hopped to her perch and dropped her eyes
to sleep
And murmered in a drowsy tone, “Young man, hear this and
weep.
I’m full of worms and happy, for I’ve dined both long and well.
Die worms are there as always—but I had to dig like helL”
Story of Oil Is
Fabulous One
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YES, Its FAIR
TIME!
It is also...
WITH
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There are a few weeks of good painting weather
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We have a paint for every purpose. Paint for
barns, for roofs, for the exterior or the interior of the
home. Paints for farm machinery, for furniture, for
floors. Good, durable paint in all the colors of the
rainbow.
And of course we have most any item of hardware
for the home and farm.
NEWBERRY COUNTY FAIR
October 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29
Opening Monday at 6 P. M.
R. M. Lominack Hardware
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This is the story of the fish
that didn’t get caught and of
the beginning of an era *of
progress. This is the story of
how the oil industry was born
ninety years ago.
According to the best rec
ords of the petroleum industry,
a blacksmith and well driller
by the name of “Uncle Billy”
Smith had planned to gb fish
ing with his sons on a Sunday
in August, 1859.
But that morning they found
oil when they made a cursory
examination of a well they had
drilled to a depth of 69 and a
half feet. That discovery can
celled Sunday’s fishing (expedi
tion and marked the beginning
of the petroleum industry.
This week, “Oil Progress
Week” in Newberry and in
other communities all over the
country, oil men are re-telling
the story of how “Uncle Billy”
brought in America’s and the
world’s, first oil well.
They tell how it was the de
reliction of some other well
drillers that placed “Uncle
Billy” in the pages of history.
Or, they explain, maybe those
other well drillers just had no
confidence in the idea that pe
troleum could be found by
drilling i well like those which
they drilled for salt.
A retired railway conductor,
Col. Edwin L. Drake, had been
commissioned in 1858 by the
Seneca Oil Company to drill a
well for oil at Titusville, Pa.,
near where oil often appeared
on the surface of streams and
pools of water. Never before
had anyone proposed that oil
existed in such fashion under
ground that it could be found
and brought to the surface by
drilling a well
When Colonel Drake arrived
in Pennsylvania, he decided
that he should hire some of the
local experts who were drilling
salt wells. A crew of three
that he employed never show
ed up. Their dereliction was
the chance that made “Uncle
Billy” famous.
When his drillers didn’t re
port for work, Colonel Drake
borrowed a horse and headed
for Pittsburg and Tarentum,
Pa., to talk to William a Smith,
a blacksmith whose reputation
as a well driller was highly
spoken of by salt well people.
The Colonel hired “Uncle
Billy” on the spot, but was
greatly chagrined when the
driller insisted that he could
not come to Titusville before
the late spring of 1859. He had
too many jobs already lined up
in and around Tarentum, he
told the Colonel.
Smith arrived as scheduled
on April 9, 1859. Drilling start
ed in May. Work progressed
slowly. The drill was down
only a few feet when quick
sand was struck. They drilled
through the sand readily, but
when the drill was withdrawn,
the sand filled the hole.
It was Edwin Drake who
came up with the solution. He
suggested they push down a
pippe through the quicksand
until rock was struck. Then
they could remove the sand
from the pipe and continue
drilling operations through the
pipe.
This held up drilling until fi
nancial arrangements for the
pipe could be made. The pipe
arrived in August, 1859, and
they quickly drove it through
the sand to the rock below.
On that historic August 27,
1859, the cursory inspection had
revealed, just a few feet be
low the surface was the black,
magic liquid: petroleum.
A new industry had been
born and a new era in man’s
pprogress begun. ‘“Uncle Billy”
cancelled his plans to go fish
ing that day with his sons
James and Samuel who had
helped drill the well.
The ninety years since that
first well was drilled are sig
nificantly the ninety years of
the greatest progress in Amer-
PVT. MAGBEE AT
CAMP GORDON
Pvt. Wilbur E. Magbee of
2018 McCravy street is station
ed at Camp Gordon, Augusta,
Ga., where he is a student in
tre Radio Operator Course,
Southeastern Signal School, ac
quiring the knowledge and
skill that will make his a cap
able radio operator in the fu
ture.
After completing his train
ing at Camp Gordon, he will
be assigned to Casual Detach
ment, Arlington Hall Station,
Arlington, Virginia.
A certain ambitious young
movie actress complained to a
declining star: “It irks me to
think that I get only $100,000
a picture.”
To which the other rejoined:
“Nice irk if you can get it.”
ica. Along with the discovery
of oil fields and the subsequent
development of new used for
oil products have come the ma
chine age, the automotive age,
the flying age, the communi
cations age and many modern
marvels unknown to us less
than ninety years ago.
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When you want a loan come put your feet under
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m
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3. Transmission and differential drained, flushed and
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5. Air cleaner checked, deaned and serviced.
6. Radiator drained, flushed and refilled. Anti-freeze
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7. Wheel bearings repacked for safe winter driving.
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