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Nothing'll cook your goose faster than a red- hot temper. Chasing a woman is fun. The trouble begins whert you catch her. \ VOL. 13—NO. 31. NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1950 ♦ / $1.50 PER YEAR FARMS AND FOLKS Now for 7 weeks I have been telling you one typed page a week about Mexico. Remember, I do not pose as an authority on that subject. Not by * tagful! I am just one wide* eyed countryman who had a chance to go there for a week. I try to keep my eyes open as I go around, and I have only been telling you a few of the tMngs I saw on a hurried trip that took me to many places down there. But so far I haven’t told you much about the main purpose of my trip, to see and learn about foot and mouth disease eradication, citrus black fly eradication, and irrigation. In December 1946 the dreaded foot and mouth disease of cloven footed animals was found by a Mexican scientist at Veracruz. It swiftly spread 600 miles across to the Pacific and was soon dan gerously close to our border. It took some time to get or ganized to fight the plague, and there wasn’t enough vaccine being produced in the world to start so bold a venture. So a big laboratory was built by the Mexi can government and the joint commission started an unpre cedented production of vaccine. A non-stop convoy of trucks brought thousands of cattle from nothern Mexico where the disease had not been and where no immunity was built up. The active virus was injected into their tongues and the cattle kill ed and serum extracted from their tongues before the disease had progressed far enough to cause condemnation of their carcasses. Animals of that sort would produce something like 20 doses of vaccine. In all, 60 million doses of this vaccine were produced and 17 million cattle treated several times. , Reaching these animals scattered accessible' WoTOTW quired 1,700 jeeps and four-wheel- drive cars and trucks, 3,500 hors es and mules, airplanes, and many motors and boats to go where even the sure-footed burro couldn’t reach. And on top of that they had to deal with pri- mative people who lived largely by their livestock and who had no conception of the outside world or what they were trying to do. Inspectors were killed, both American and Mexican. But relentlessly the job went on. The 600-mile northern border was fenced. Zones 50 miles wide were vaccinated first, and then the next fifty, getting every sus ceptible animal. Thus it was rolled back towards the center with these wide belts of treated animals gradually closing in. I will tell you of results next week. Clemson’s extension hog man, Gus DuRant of Florence, tells me that an important meeting of farmers and others interested in hogs will be held at Orangeburg on December 7. starting at 9:30 a.m. at Kingan’s plant. True, a hog is a hog. But some are better than others. Some make mostly lard, while others give a larger portion of the choiee lean meats. The Orangeburg meeting will look into these things. You will see the various types of hogs on foot and judge them. Then you can see what they look like in side after they are slaughtered, chilled, and cut up. Hegs with more lean, more of the choice cuts, are growing in demand. Certain breeds and crosses give us more of that. At Orangeburg in a day’s school ing you can learn a lot about the hog of the future. It looks like folks over the state the past season made cot ton in proportion to the accuracy with which their poisoning pro gram was carried out. I get that impression everywhere I go. The experts dealing with the boll weevil from all over the cot ton belt are meeting in Memphis on December 4-6 to put all infor mation together and formulate plans for the 1951 weevil fight. The National Cotton Council meets for the two days following that for the same purpose and to work out plans for a belt- de campaign of weevil control t _r next year. And then to bring [t right down home here, our Agricultural Committee meets in Columbia on December 12 to formulate and fire theopening pnm of the 1951 boll weevil fight in South Carolina. (\ VFW AUXILIARY TO MEET The V. F. W. Auxiliary will hold its regular meeting Monday, December 11, 1950 at 8 p.m. at the I community hall. Plans will be made for the joint Christmas party with the V. F. W. PROCEEDINGS OF CRIMINAL COURT RAPISTS GUILTY; GET 25 YEARS E. J. Hyler, Duke Hyler and Pete Harmon, Rape, found guilty by Jury, with recommendation to mercy. Given a sentence of 25 years each in state pen. Fifteen cases were disposed of during the December term of criminal court which convened Monday morning and adjourned Thursday, with Judge Badger Baker of Florence, presiding: State—Esco Pitts, using a motor vehicle without owners consent, nol pros. Bobby Clark and Artway Cald well, highway robbery and larce ny nol pros. Insofficient evidence Frank Goodman, non support and abandoment of wife and chil dren, nol. pros. Lloys Howard, house breaking and larceny, sentencted to state training school in Clinton, S. C., until discharged by law, but first committed to state hospital for observation. Ernest Cecil Cambell, assault and battery with Intent to kill, nol pros. Molly Allen, violation of liquor law, found guilty, and given nine months, suspended and put on probation eighteen months. Jas. P. Sheely Dies; Long With Southern James Preston Sheely, 83, died suddenly late Tuesday night. He was the son of the late John ’ D. and Laura Dickert Sheely of the Pomaria-Little Mountain section. Mr. Sheely was retired Novem ber 1, 1949 after 60 years service with the Southern Railway, c He moved to Newberry in 1900 as erator. He. was made freight agent in 1964 and continued in that capacity until his retirement. He served the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, as secretary and treasurer for many years and was on the church council, being made a life member. Mr. Sheely married the former Miss Minnie Lee Graham. She died in 1948. Survivors include three bro thers, Ernest* S. and Ludie A. of Pomaria and Edgar L. Sheely of Aiken and one sister, Mrs. J. W. Alewine of Columbia. Funeral Homer Douglas, Tommie Lee Goree, assault and battery with intent to* kill. Plea to assault and battery of a high and ag- gravaited nature, sentenced to one year and put on probation three years. Eugene McMorrls, George Abrams and Willie Sims, house breaking and larceny, guilty plea, and given one year, but suspend ed sentence and put on probation two years. Ray Turner and - James W. Bevill, criminal conspiracy, guilty plea, Each given a sentence of one year. M. T. Gallman, violation of liquor law, guilty plea, given one year, and three years probation. John Scott, keeping unlawful slot machine on premises, guilty plea. Given six months and su spended sentence upon payment of $50 and put on probation of eighteen months. Elton Shealy, Drunken driving, Guilty plea. 2nd offence, given one year and fine of $1000, su spended on service of three months and payment of fine of $200 and put on probation two years. John Edgar Skipper, R. T. Thorley and Clyde Picklesimer, Jr., housebreaking and larceny. Bob Franklin housebreaking and larceny, guilty plea and given one year, but suspended and put on probation three years. Ernest C. Cambrell and Audry Tyler, commiting and affray in a public place. MRS. ALICE F. WILLIAMS Mrs. Alice Foster Williams, 68, died early Wednesday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Bessie Bailey in Whitmire. She had been ill for the past five months. Mrs. Williams was born and reared in York County, daughter of the late Charles and Sara Jones Foster. For the past 23 years she had made her home in Whitmire. She was a member of the Whitmire Methodist* Church. Funeral services IniMI y afte * __ .. ^ - «» - Church with Rev* W. H. Dendy the same corner. Then and Rev. W. S. Allred officiating. Interment followed in the Whit mire City Cemetery. Mrs. Williams is survived by her husband, J. P. Williams and four children, Mrs. LiOla Mae Gil liam and Mrs. Bessie Bailey of Whitmire. R. O. of Gray Court and J. B. Williams of Union, 26 grandchildren and 20 great-grand children. DEED TRANSFERS Newberry Leo Hendrix to Charles E. services were held Leopard, two lots and one build- Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o’- jng on O’Neal street, $5750. clock at the Lutheran Church of Newberry Outside the Redeemer with Rev. Paul E. Monroe, Jr., Dr. R. A. Goodman and Rev. M. I. Cullum officiating. Interment followed in Rosemont Cemetery. Honorary escort were members of the church council and Dr. E. H. Moore, H. C. Holloway, W. E. Long, Sr. and H. C. Smith. Pallbearers were his nephews. new time for LIGHT CRUST DOUGHBOYS for tops in folk music best in labor-saving recipes WKDK 12:45-1:00 P.M. Mon.-Wed.-Frl. Johnny W. Wood to E. M. Wood, one lot $600. K. A. Cousins to Katie E. Cousins, two lots on Mayer Ave. $304.51. Mt. Bethel Garmany W. E. Taylor, Sr., and W. E. Taylor, Jr., to John S. DeHart and Mrs. Norene B. DeHart, 34 acres and one building, $2000. Margaret Gibson McCaughrin, at el to John Donald Rook and Rennetta Buzhardt Rook, 113.77 acres (J. N. McCaughrin estate) $4500. Whitmire Ray Gosnell and Pearle P. Gosnell to Mamie S. Gaffney, one lot and one building on Heron street, $4259. J. P. Stevens and Co. Inc., to M. E. Abrams, one lot and one building, 1202 Feaster street. $950. J. P. Stevens and Co. Iqc.. to James Davis, Marie T. Davis and Louise Davis, one lot and one building, 1203 Fraster street. $1000. J. P. Stevens and Co. Inc., to Pies Gilliam, one lot and one building, 1208 Feaster street, $950. J. P. Stevens and Co. Inc., to Raymond N. Jackson and Edna L. Jackson, one lot and one build ing, 8 Needmore, $400. J. P. Stevens and Co. Inc., to Willis Jeter and Helen L. Jeter, one lot and one building, 1296 Feaster street, $959. J. P. Stevens and Co. Inc., to James E. Johnson and Conell E. Johnson, one lot, $690. J. P. Stevens and Co. Inc., to Monroe Jackson and Clara B. Jackson, one lot an done building 1201 Feaster street, $950. J. P. Stevens and Co. Inc., to Roosevelt Quiller and Eula J. Quiller, one lot and one building, 1204 Feaster street, $950. J. P. Stevens and Co. Inc., to I’Dell Rayford and Ruth H. Ray ford, one lot and one building, 1209 Feaster street, $1200. J. P. Stevens and Co. Inc. to James Reed and Vennie M. Reed one lot and one building, 1200 Feaster street, $1025. Rodger B. Johnston to Anha C. Johnston, one lot on South Side of Main street, $1.00 love and af fection. Chevrolet’s Smart New Grille Head-on view of the 1951 changes that benefit the new of three massive horizontal bars, across the width of the car fi slots. Newly designed emblem, jet bumper guards are additional feati an indication of the styling _ radiator grille now consists lower two being extended farther parking lamps and air intake hood ornament and redesigned MORE ADVICE PROMPT MAILING •T TELL DOG HOW TO HUNT Remember that New Y olution for 1960—t** Christmas cards out « a change? Now’s the time to get counsels , Postmaster G. K. nick. "Revise your Christmas address list now, if you checked it already/ master advises. Christmas cards, stamp them at once, them some can’t be overioo time comes to pop the: collection bo*.” The Postmaster be tied in bui . can be run through the post office stamp cancellation machine without being sorted. The Postmaster strongly rec ommends three-cent stamps on your holiday greeting cards. “First-class mail receives pre ferred handling, transportation, and delivery—and that means a lot at the peak of the Christmas rush. The extra penny may en sure that your Christmas greet ing will arrive several days, and perhaps even a week, before slower third-class mall.” MRS. EDITH HUTTO News has been received in Newberry of the death of Mrs. Edith Hutto last Wednesday morning in Miami, Fla. Sur viving in Newberry is one son, Clarence C. Hutto, manager of the Bank at Whitmire and also connected with business enter prises in Newberry. Mrs. Hutto’s death followed a brief illness. Funeral services were conducted Thursday. COATS WILL ATTEND ATLANTA MEETING W. F. Coats, Newberry district manager for the Life Insurance Company of Georgia, will attend a two-day conference of managers at the home office of the com* pany in Atlanta December 13 and 14. One-hundred eighty managers from eleven Southern states in which the company operates will be present. Plans for 1951, when Life of Georgia will observe its 60th anniversary, will be discuss ed. MRS EMILY P. GREENE Mrs. Emily Piester Green, 86, died early Monday morning at the Newberry County Memorial Hospital. She suffered a heart attack last Sunday and had been in a serious condition since that time. Mrs. Green was a lifelong resi dent of Newberry County. She was born and reared in the Smyrna section of the county. She was the daughter of the late David and Mrs. Eliza Neel Piester. Her husband was the late Jordan R. Green. Mrs. Green was the oldest living member of the Aveleigh Presbyterian Church. Funeral services were held Tuesday at 4 p.m. at Aveleigh Presbyterian Church with her pastor, Rev. Neil E. Truesdale, conducting the service. Inter ment followed in Rosemont Ceme tery. She is survived by the follow ing children, Mrs. Annie G. Martin of Spartanburg, Mrs. Ban na G. Niles of Camden, L. W. of Wilmington, David P. of New York and T. P. Green ^f Rocky Mount, N. C.; seven grandchil dren and one great-grandchild. of the most interesting 'Olir statements concerning sporting dogs that I have seen in quite some time comes frqm the Old Professor Havilah Babcock. He “The unvarnished truth that a trained dog is a per ishable commodity. Few things I** 'j$o subject to deterioration.” I asked, what are some of things that contribute to ^deterioration, especially the ollable human factors? And on every professional train- t is over discipline. differ in the amount of ent they need, or can A f Word of disapproval as much, effect ere.ITNever 1 give dog more than that particular dog needs. It’s the inevitability of punishment, rather than the severity that counts, anyjvay. Dogs are often damaged by indiscriminate lending. A bor rower, however fine citizen he might be, can grievously mis handle a dog without intending to do so. Ordinarily, the more mature a dog is the less he will suffer from being mishandled. His habit are more fixed, his re* sponses more stable and pre dictable, and he is less likely to deviate from the conventional pattern of behavior. Therefore, give a boy an old dog to hunt. They won’t hurt each other. The same advice applies to all inex perienced gunners. Another good way to ruin a dog is to talk him to death while he’s trying to hunt. Many hunters are forever giving their dogs instructions, delivering lec tures and preaching sermons, telling them where and how to hunt. In other words, telling a dog how to run his own business. Too much butting in befuddles a dog, especially when he gets in structions which run counter to his nose and judgment. He loses his spirit and initiative; just piddles around to give the ap pearance of hunting. Another bad habit of some dog owners is running to a point and being excitable in general. Many a fellow bulls his way through the underbrush like a juggernaut, whooping and shout ing a mixture of threats and advice, trying to steady his dog’s nerves by making a damned fool of himself. No wonder the dog simply gives up. security office is the place to v *et . , it. Right away, every housewife •should wead the Hav* -A-- Mai4?’ bf^thid informaJfver nostage-free ‘ post card addressed to the collector of internal rev enue. When mailed, it will place her on the list for the March mailing of the envelope report form. CIRCLES TO MEET Circle meetings WSCS, Central Methodist Church to meet with the following hostesses, Monday, Dec. 4 No. 1 Mrs. Frank M. Schum- pert, 722 Boundary street at 8 p. m. No. 2. Mrs. Lonnie Holloway, 2304 Nance street at 4 p. m. No. 3. Mrs. Hugh Foster, John stone street at 4 p. m No. 4. Mrs. Claude Slaton, 1807 Harper street at 8 p. m. No. 5. Mrs. Viola Richardson, Jones street at 4 p. m. No. 6. Mrs. Ernest Clary, 1710 College street at 8 p. m IN GREENVILLE HOSPITAL The many friends of Mrs. J. L*. Watkins of Chappells, will be sor ry to learn that she is seriously ill In the Greenville General Hos-: pital. Mrs. Watkins suffered a heart attack last Sunday morning, while visiting her daughter, Mrs. C. E. Epting in Greenville. She is the mother of Ace W. Watkins of 1701 Brans street, this city. REPORTING MAID TAX MADE EASY Now the housewife who hires a maid can breathe more easily. Rumors of elaborate account keeping, report filling, and other time-consuming obligations under social security, are set at rest. To day the Bureau of Internal Rev enue and the Social Security Ad ministration unwrapped their plan for reporting regular house hold workers who come under social security on January first. It was a small package. W. P. Bowers, collector of in ternal revenue, displayed a small envelope. In form and in size, it resembled those in use by private insurance companies, magazine circulation departments, and other commercial firms. It is a one-piece, pre-addressed return envelope. There is space on the inner flap for the essential but brief items on the employee’s wage, and a pocket for transmit ting the social security tax. That’s all. It is estimated that 2000 house wives in Newberry County Will need this envelope form. They will be used for making the first reports on regular house hold employees in April. Under the new social security law, household workers who ara paid as much as *50 by one em ployer in the three-month' period. January through March (a cal endar quarter), and who have worked for that one employer on 24 days or more in that quarter, or the preceding quarter, wiU have their wages count toward old-age and survivors insurance. The tax, to be remitted In the envelope form will be 3 percent of the worker’s cash wages for the threermonth period. Tho housewives may deduct one half of this (1 1-2 percent) from her employee’s wages. One and one-half percent is her share of the tax. Before January 1, every reg ularly employed household work er should have a social security account-number card. The social The Law ... 4 WEST of the PECOS (Franklin Acker in the Anderson Independent.) Probably the most sensational murder case ever tried in what is now Anderson County was that of Uriah Sligh, charged with fatally shooting Jehu Orr, a veteran of the Revolutionary War. Mr. Orr operated a tavern at >aytonville. On the afternoon of February 12, 1827, young Sligh vho lived in the community, came to Mr. Orr’s establishment on a business mission. Along about night-fall the two men set tled down to a friendly game of cards. After a time Mr. Orr went down into his cellar and brought forth some stimulating refresh ments. Sligh was one of those men who become quarrelsome after taking a few drinks. Mr. Orr tried to pacify him and he did become quiet. Then Mr. Orr went back to the cellar to get another flagon of brandy. As he was coming back up the» stairs, Sligh shot him and fled. Mr. Orr lingered until March 18, 1827, then died. He is buried in the old Rutledge grave yard. His tombstone contains a lengthy Inscription, telling how he met his death, and winds up with a poem which assures the world that he will ever be remembered. The poem does not exaggerate, Today, 123 years after Mr. Orr departed from this world, he Is stil .being written about. Had it not been for Uriah Sligh, how ever, he would probably be for gotten along with countless thou sands of other heroes of the Rev olution. As for Sligh, he was tried at Pendleton, which was then the county seat, found guilty of mur der and sentenced to be hanged. This was done promptly on the outskirts of Pendleton. Sligh’s mother was present for the ‘hang ing. After the body had been cut down, it was placed into a crude But this is getting ahead of the story. We’ll discuss the sentence later. From the legal standpoint. Judge Bean wafin’t u judge at alL He never studieu a v and he owned only one law book. It seems that when he arrived in a certain Texas frontier town with a wagon load of whiskey to set himself up in the saloon busi ness he found things pretty row dy and nobody doing anything about it Being as he was a husky man and a crack shot, he appointed himself “Judge” and proclaimed that he was “the law west of the Pecos.” His court room was hla barroom. Such fines as he impos* ed and got he put into his pocket. Now for the classic sentence he imposed on the Mexican cattle rustler. The trial of the accused Tot under way when Judge Bean called court to order. . . Hear ye! Hear ye!” he cried . - ■-W& from behind his/bar. This honor able court is now is session; and if any galoot wants a snort before we start, let him step up to the bar and name his picen. Oscar, serve the gentlemen.” The defendant, one Carlos Robles, was charged with cattle rustling. He didn’t- understand English. Judge Bean asked him whether he wanted to plead guilty or not guilty. Robles grunted. “The court accepts your .plea of guilty,” said Judge Bean. “Nov* gentlemen of the jury, you may retire and decide on a verdict, if it’s anything short; ojL hanging, i’ll adjudge every one of, you in contempt of court.” The jury deliberated about two seconds and unanimously found Robles guilty. Mercy was not recommenced. ^ “Carlos Robles,” Judge Bean thundered, his voice qi ’M DR. KINARD IN RICHMOND President James C. Kinard of Newberry College is in Rich mond, Va., December 3-7 attend ing the annual convention of the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. Dr. Kinard is a member of the Com mission on Institutions of High er Education in that group of southern educators and secretary of the Committee on New Mem bers. Mrs. Kinard accompanied her husband to Richmond. VIGODSKY-GROSS Mr. and Mrs. Harry Vigodsky of Newberry anounce the engage ment of their daughter, Leah June, and Leroy Gross of Ash- ville, N. C., son of Mr. and Mrs. Murray Gross of Ashville and Miami Beach, Florida. MARRIAGE LICENSES Marriage Licenses issued by Office of Probate Judge during October and November 1950: Clyde Hubert Hartman, Pros perity; Annie Elizabeth Banks, Newberry Hugh Farley Longshore, Jr., Esther Earline Mack, Newberry. Ansel Lamar lyood, Laura Carolyn Davenport, Newberry. Renelder G. Graham, Whit mire; Mamie L. Brock, Newberry Marvin Douglas Cox, Mary Cynthia Dominick, Newberry Jimmy Eubanks, Laurens; Em ma Cooper, Clinton Thomas C. Sligh, Jr , Newberry; Troxel Genell Berley, Pomaria Roland Cornelius Rikard, New berry; Ullie MelUe Langford, Prosperity Willie Robert Martin, Margaret Sybel Thomasson, Newberry Everett Lawson, Whitmire; Bonnie Ruth Shealy, Prosperity Burlington Alexander Fretwell, Majorie Lenore Chandler, New berry George M. Corder, Dorothy M. Wallen. Whitmire Wister D. Kinard, Marjorie M. Dawkins, Clinton Hilland David Reed, Minnie Dorothy Roop, Whitmire Georgis Wellington Counts. Betty Jean Corley. Newberry Joe Hentz Welborn, Newberry: Nellie Ruth Wicker. Prosperity Thomas Harold Layton, New berry ; Janie Evelyn Colvin Chester Lloyd Fulton Kuykendall Frances Louise Durham, Clinton Houseai Grady Jay, Nelda Sum* mer Eargle, Newberry Philip Blake Hite, Prosperity: church, the church deacons refus ed to allow-' him the privilege of being buried in the church ceme tery. In consequence, he was buried on the side of the road. His grave may be seen to this day. Justice was both rough and ready back in those days and continued to be in the West un til after the turn of the century. All of which revives memories of “the law west of the Pecos.” And therein lies an interesting story. The “law west of the Pecos” was an especially choice brand of justice dished out by one Judge Roy Bean some 70 years ago in Texas. Etery well-read Anderson attorney is familiar with Judge Bean and his legal transactions; and especially a sentence he once imposed on a Mexican cattle rust ler. Heaven is of Hades; and they say you’re guilty of stealing cat tle. “Time will pass and seasons come and go. Spring with its waving green grass and heaps of sweet smeltin’ flowers on every hill and iq every dell. Then will come sultry Summer, with her shimmerin’ heat waves on the baked horizon; and Fall with her yellow harvest moon and tjie hills growin’ brown ttMpPld- en under the sinkin sun; and finally Winter, with its bitin,’ whinin’ winds, and all the will be covered with snoTt. “But you won’t be here to see any of ‘em, Carlos Robles; not by a dam’ sight, because it is the order of the- court that you^ be took to the nearest tree and hanged by the neck until you’re dead, dead, dead, you olive-color ed son-of-a-billygoat! ” LITTLE ITEMS OF INTEREST ■ ABOUT FOLKS YOU KNOW Elisabeth Lee Watts, Newberry 1 last week. Mrs. H. B. Kirkegard and two children, Karen and Elenor, re turned to their home in Siler City, N. C., Sunday after spend ing ten days here in the home of Mrs. Kirkegard’s mother, Mrs. P. D. Johnson on Boundary street. Mrs. Whit Brown and Luther Wingate, of Charlotte, N. C., aunt and grandfather of Miss Mary Ann Todd, visited her at the Newberry Memorial Hospital Sunday. • Mr. Wingate also visit ed his ' great granddaughter, Trudy Wingate, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Todd at the hospital. • Mr. and Mrs. E. V. Ragsdale and son, Edward, of Winnsboro and Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Sease and son, James< of Florence, were weekend visitors In the home of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. J., G. Sease on Nance street. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Weber of Columbia, were visitors Saturday in the home of Mrs. Weber’s mo ther, Mrs. Tom > Graham on Martin street. Mr. and Mrs. James DeHart of Spartanburg, spent Monday in the home of Mr. DeHart’s mother, Mrs. Lola DeHart on McSwain street. Mr. and Mrs. Oswald Copeland ind children, spent Sunday in Laurens in the home of Mrs. ^opeland’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Laws. Mrs,. Wilton Todd, of, Canada arrived in Newberry Monday, to he with her daughter. Miss Mary Vnn Todd, who underwent an ap- endictomy, in the local hospital Miss Sara Truesdale, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. N. E. Trues dale, underwent an append ictomy in the Newberry Memorial hos pital last Saturday night Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Hite of Florence announce the birth of a son, John Douglas, on Novem ber 26th. The Hites. have a daughter, Rachael. Mrs. Hite was. the former Catherine Brown, of this city. Miss Mary Ann Todd, who underwent an emergency ap- pend ictomy in the Newberry Me morial Hospital last Thursday is doing nicely and has returned to the home of Mr. an<j Mrs. R. Derrill Smith, where she is stay ing, to recruperate. Her mother, Mrs. Wilton Todd, of Canada, ar rived in the city Tuesday, and is now with Mary Ann at the Smith Home on E. Main street t Three building . and repair per* mits were issued during the past week to Boyd Robertson for one shed on Johnstone street $50.; D. O. Brown, add two rooms to dwelling on Milligan street, $1,000. and H. H. Stezler for one concrete block slab building on Fair street, $7600. BIRTHDAYS L. E. Wood, Jr„ Ann Clark, Dec. 9; J. C. Neel, and Tom Graham, Dec. 10; Mrs. Josle Me- Alhaney, Caroline Cook, Joe Sum mer, son of Mr. and Mra. W. E. Summer, Dec. 11; Forrest tomIn na ck, Mra. Betha L. Wright, Mra. Nelson Connelly and Dr. J. E. Stokes, Dec. 12; M. O. Summer and Alice Jean Riley, Dec. 13; R. Derrill Smith, Thomas E., Wlekar, Mrs. G. W. Shealy and Joan Sager Dominick, Dee. 15th. ' mr . . ■<* ... *