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FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1950 THE NEWBERRY SUN FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. Eleazer Phones in Clarendon With County Agent Grainger as chairman of the group, the 94 school trustees of Clarendon county are making a complete survey for rural telephones in Clarendon county. “We plan to take in all of the county or none,” says Grainger. The rich territory will help take care of the sparsely settled. And, if their plans work out, every farm in the county that wants a phone will get it. “It is area cover age we are after,” he says, “and not just the thickly set tled areas.” In late years the benediction of electricity has come to most of our farms. And farm-to- market roads are putting many an isolated farm out of the mud and on Main Street. And, now, add telephones to that, and we will surely have the elements for better living out on the lands of the state. Bad Music I like to ride at night when the moon is full. It was the other night, and I had a long trip across state. And good music fits ' in there too. I had looked forward to that, after a busy week. Well, sir, that turned out to be a beautiful night. And it would have been perfect, if I could have found any good music. Usually you can, by hunting through the mire and jumble of impetus ads, wild and wooly torch singing, jangle of furious jazz, and the doleful tones of the hillbilly. But that night I couldn’t find any sure enough music for a long time. A lot of folks must like that sort of stuff, there’s so much of it. But after wangling that knob for over an hour through spots that sounded like cats fighting, battles raing, and funeral dirges I came to some music about midnight. And from there on the . sailing was smooth, as the motor purred gently in the crisp air across hills and vales. I was simply out of this world when twof ine voices, backed by abundant orchestration, hit Victor Herbert’s “Song of Love.” And there followed for an hour similar good music by voice and instrument It was really good living from there on home. Pleasant composure, a moon lit night, a car rearin’ to go, and good music not ruined by overdoing the ads—all went to make what might have been a dreary trip an evening to re member. Two years ago radically new sort of radio station was start ed in New York by a man who had suffered the disturbance I did in the first part of that trip. It was dedicated to good music. Split-second timing was ’abandoned. Ads were', short and dignified: The listener’s pleasure was considered fore most. ‘ The thing has succeed ed big, I understand. And where did they get the idea that the crudest of hill billy stuif is typical of farms and appeals most to farm lik ing? Watch a farm audidhce react to good music, as I did at Clemson’s Farmer’s Week, and you’ll see. And if farm people like good music, I be lieve other folks do too. Don’t get the idea I’m going high-brow on this music thing. I can take a little hillbilly and jazzy stuff alon with it. But, goodness sake, I get founderea on a steady diet of the stuff. And I can’t use much strictly classical music either. But there in the great middle- ground is an ocean of great music on which we average folks can sail and feast for a lifetime and find new thrills every day. I wish more of the radio program makers found that out. Flowers and Gifts for All Occasions CARTER’S Day Phone 719 — Night 6212 mv i LARGE, well-known, AAAI mfgr. needs two men for perm anent, work in sales, service dept., full-time with no lay-pffs. Forty-two men in S. C., starting green, are making more money than ever before. Perhaps you could use more money than in 1949. If you are 25-50, married, clean character, and can furnish ref erences as to honesty, energy, have car, write State Manager, Box 5112, Columbia, S. C. for interview this week. A Beautiful Sight Late on a recent day I pass ed the riugh Perrow farm near Creston as a midwinter sun was setting. Across from his beautiful rarm home his fine herd of Polled Hereford cattle were grazing on dark lush greenery thac looked to be a foot deep over the ground. My radio was on. Ana the news caster was telling of blizzards in the West and or critical areas in the great cattle country out there. Looked like maybe the army would have to be called upon again to fly hay in there to starving and freezing cattle marooned in the deep ice and snow. Soon after that (the middle of February) I went with Clemson’s grass men. Woo die and Craven, on the state win ter grazing tour. All parts of the state were touched and sights like that at Perrow’s were seen in every county we visited. Most of the county agents are conducting similar county tours to see their win ter grazing demonstrations. This thing carries a lot of meaning for us in the South east. FLORIDA ORANGE BLOSSOMS It seems timely to mention that the state flower of Florida is the Orange Blossom. It is always timely to mention the friendly, cour teous services offered to our policyholders. s Your Protection Our Business PURCELLS u YOUR PRIVATE BANKER” Phone 197 USE YOUR HEAD... AND GET AHEAD Boys Are Thai Way The pride of possession and the yearning for security just come naturally I guess. I experienced them both early. At an early age my folks gave me a goat that I prized above all else. And then I got some ducks that were my very own. These possessions gave me great pleasure. But they brought responsibility that I realized a bit. And that was, they must be fed. My brother had his pets too, and he reacted as I did. His were a dog and guin eas. Feeling our responsibility, each fall we sallied forth into the fields after the harvest and gleaned the nubbins that were left. These we stored for the rainy day. For winter was at hand. Wle used old cotton picking sacks, strapped to our shoul ders. Our fields, and those of neighbors, were gone over thoroughly. A nubbin left here and there eventually gave us as much as we wanted to tote. Then to the house we trod, added that to our pile, and felt a bit more secure that night, as the frosts of winter fell. One day, away down in Cousin Ed’s ! creek bottom, I found a whole pile of com they had overlook- 1 ed there in the tall grass in a fom middle. It practically fill ed my sack. And I sat on that until my brother garnered the field for an hour or more to get his. Experiences of childhood! How pleasant they are to look back on! And I can live it all again, as I watch our young sters today. Wle kids always liked to ride NOTICE The City of Newberry will accept sealed bids until 10 A.M. March 15th for 1 1950 model, long wheel base, 1% ton truck cassis with cab, equipped with duel rear wheels and four speed standard trans mission, and single speed rear end, six 6.50x20, 8-ply tires. The City reserves the right to reject any or all bids. THE CITY OF NEWBERRY m* From your “take home pay” take part for savings. You’ll find it worthwhile to save first, and spend what is left after saving. Start with any convenient amount in your own insured savings account here. TAXI 24 . NEWBERRY J Federal Savings AND LOAN ASSOCIATION OF NEWBERRY Willingham, Sec’y Newberry, S. C. For Expert Repair Bring Your Radio GEO. N. MARTIN Radio Service SALES and SERVICE BOYCE STREET Opposite County Library 24 HOURS SERVICE Telephone 311W on the load of seed cotton^to the gin. "It rode so good 'and smooth. Otherwise riding there in the stone hills was a con stant jarring, in a wagon with no springs. ’ We would often stand on tiptoes and our feet would then absorb the shock. But those rides a few miles out to the new “suction” gin of Mr. Cal Shealy’s at White Rock were a treat in several ways. We simply floated through the Julian woods and didn’t feel it when the wheels bounced over roots and rocks. And then we were fascinated by that cotton suction pipe that took it from the wagon. Up to then the only gin we had was one that you had to carry the seed cotton upstairs in baskets and pour it in the hopper. Then -you picked the lint up off the floor in great armfuls and carried it to the other side of the building and pitched it in the press. And when the press was full of • oose cotton, we would jump in to pack it down and would sometimes go out of sight in the fleecy staple. Mr. Cal’s new gin was an in novation for that day. I liked to push that suction pipe around and see that cotton hus tle into it. Once I way play ing on the back of the load when they pushed the pipe up and drove the wagon up a few steps so the pipe would reach the back of th e wagon. That suction pipe got my hat as it went over my head. I was frantic. My yells brought Mr. Cal from the gin room. Learn ing my plight, he just lauhged, went back in, watched for it to come in view above the gin- heads, and got it for me. After that I always suffed my hat in my pocket when we went to the gin. NOTICE—Am now prepared to assist taxpayers with their in come tax returns and am lo cated in two rooms of the BUS station at the rear of the court house where I’ll appreciate your business. Mrs. A. H. Counts. CRADLE NEAR 9 CENTURIES OLD AT MRS. TOOHEYS The GreenviUe News. A cradle 194 years old and a clawfoot table about 164 years old, are two of the prized possessions handed down in a Greenville family. They are at 809 McDaniel Avenue, the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Toohey and where Mrs. Toohey’s moth er, Mrs. J. Y. McFall resides, when she is in the city. ' The cradle, a quaint old thing, has been used for eight generations. It was first own ed by the late Richard Griffin, who was born in Wales. His mother was Edna Goode. He married Nancy Ann Clark, also a native of Wales in the year 1754. On leaving his birthplace, and coming to America to live, the late Mr. Griffin settled first in Orange, Hanover County, Virginia, and afterwards settled in Laurens district, South Car olina, where he made his home. He and his wife reared a fam ily of 17 children, 11 boys and six girls. Therefore the cradle got plenty of rocking in those days. There was one set of twins, both boys rocked in the cradle. Nancy, the couple’s first born, was the couple’s first child who occupied the cradle. When the Revolutionary War broke out, Richard Griffin was the father of 10 children. He wa£ a brave, loyal and faithful patriot and aided in gaining America’s independence, ren dering valuable service in sup plying all heeds for the Con tinental Army from his planta tion throughout the war. There are many descendants from his family of 17 phildpep who are loval, useful citizens scattered all over the United States. Two of his children married children of Col. James Williams, hero of King's Moun tain. He was buried in the old Griffin cemetery in or new Laurens County. Some of tne late Mr. Griffin’s descendants living in Greenville include: Mrs." Edward S. Toohey, Rich ard McFall Toohey, Edward S. Toohey, Jr., Mrs. Jesse Young McFall, Mrs. Joseph R. Craig, Patricia Craig (of the eighth generation), William Young Fair, Praetor A. Bonham, Capt. Milledge L. Bonham, now of Elgin Field, Fla.; Lt. (jg) Wil liam Ryan Bonham, U.S.S. Roosevelt; Richard Griffin Bon ham, Daisy Bonham, now of Beverly Hills, Calif.; Mrs. Peter Hodgson and Mrs. Jay E. Haynes, the daughters of Proc tor A. Bonham, who live out of town. Many other promi nent South Carolinians were descended from the owner of the prized old cradle. The old claw foot table came from the late Lt. Stephen Wil liams’ family. The Lieutenant was a brave and loyal soldier who fought for his country throughout the Revolutionary War, This table has been hand ed down from generation to generation and is a lovely piece of ornamental furniture. The same four generations are descendants of Stephen Williams as well as of Richard Griffin. Living in Greenville at the present time are four genera tions of the descendants of Richard Griffin. They are: Mrs. Jesge Young McFall, Mrs. E.- S. Toohey, Mrs. Joseph R. Pi Craig and Patricia Craig. Ancestors of Richard Gr: from Newberry are: Mrs. John ug Ancestors of Richard Griffin' swberry T. Norris, Jr., Elizabeth Grif fin Norris, Mrs. J. L. Keitt, Margaret Land Keitt, Anna Joe Keitt, Mrs. H. M. Bryson, Mrs. R. B. Waters (Rock Hill), Mrs. J. W. Thomson (Charlotte, N. C.), Mrs. C. A. Renneker (Orangeburg), James A. Burton (Kew Gardens, N. Y.), Frances B. McCaughrin, Lucy W? Mo- Caughrip, Albert G. McCaugh- rin and three children, Mrs. Benjamin Piekeps (Spartan burg), Mrs. Charles Hsdtiwapg- er (Columbia), Mrsj. ft B, Kil- lings worth (Roslyn, L, J.), R. P. Fair, Mrs, Walker Richard- SGT. WISE RESTS IN NATIVE SOIL Recommittal services for Sgt. Grady Lemuel Wise were con ducted Saturday at 3 p. m. at the graveside in St. James Lutheran Church Cemetery by his pastor, the Rev. C. J. Rice, and Dr. R. A. Goodman. Military rites were in charge of the South Carolina National Guard, Newberry Unit. Sargeant Wise, the youngest son of Mrs. Ida Fulmer Wise and the late G. Lemuel Wise, died a prisoner of the Germans, March 10, 1945, while serving with the 42nd Infantry of the 106th Infantry Division. Immediately following his graduation from Clemson Coll ege, he was inducted into the U. S. Army at Ft. Benning, Ga., and later trained at Ft. Jackson where the 106th Division was activated. The group was shipp ed from Camp Atterbury, Ina., to England October 19,” 1944, and into Germany early in De cember. Along with hia entire infantry outfit he was taken a prisoner December 19, 1944, during the Battle of the Ar dennes, He died near Erfurt, Germany, Survivors besides his mother include four brothers, G. Her man, J. Harvey, Ray A. Wise, all of Newberry, and Charles E. Wlise of Lockhart; five sisters, Mrs. W. V. Pugh, Mrs. E. O. Shealy, Prosperity; Mrs. J. H. Keisler, Gilbert; Mrs. J. R. La- than, Burlington, N. C., and Mrs. J. L. Fulmer, Charlottes ville, Va. •V:' son (Memphis, Tenn.), J. R. Fair (Little Rock. Ark.), Wil liam Y, Fair (Greenville), Mrs. William H, Ashbaugh (Glen dale, Calif,), Mr#, Arthur H. McCarrol, Margaret McCarrel (Lancaster), James H. McIn tosh (Columbia), Mrs. Hart well Spelling (Marshall, Texas) Waiter Hunt McIntosh, Baxter McIntosh (Chicago), Mrs. E. S. Toohey, BURNS FATAL TO VIRGIL F. KINARD Virgle Furman Kinard, 33, died early Saturday afternoon at the Joanna hospital after be ing serverely burned in an ex-^| plosion in the slasher room of the Joanna Mills early Saturday morning. Born and reared in the Back- man Chapel section of New berry county, he was the son of Charlie F. and Mrs. Lizzie Long Kinard of near Newberry. For the past four years he had made his home in Joanna. He was a member of the Masonic lodge and the Woodmen of the World. Mr. Kinard was a devot ed and faithful member of the Bachman Chapel church but had recently moved his member ship to the Joanna church. Funeral services were con ducted at 4 o’clock Sunday afternoon from McSwain Fu neral home by the Rev. L. H. Jeffeoat Interment followed in the church cemetery. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Leona Amick Kinard; his parents, Charlie F. and Mrs* Lizzie Long Kinard, five bro thers and sisters, Heyward Fred Kinard, both of Thurnal Kinard of Mrs. Broadus Baker of J and Mrs. Robert Turner of N« berry, and a number of un and aunts and other relatr MRS. ALICE G. Mrs. Alice H. Gary. 77. wic of J. C. Gary of the Ki] section died suddenly Thi aftemqon at her home. Mrs. Gary was a member Bush River Baptist Church. Surviving are two daug Miss Sara Gary, a member the Clinton School faculity,. Miss Margaret Gary of Kii four sisters, Mrs. George of Newberry, Mrs A. E. of Columbia, Mrs. R. G. and .Mrs. Ella Webb, both Washington, D. C. Interment was in the Bush Rive*, Baptist Church Cemetery. r-' - ,.<v mi S/YF! Meet America’s Top Truck Values! JPerformance JLeai Mg®®®*. : ADVANCE-DESIGN TRUCKS Tice Leade rs • vJ i£ Mas/ Powerful Chevrolet Trucks Ever Built I New Chevrolet trucks put business in "high gear" with stepped-up power and perform ance. 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