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"- ' <■“ ■■y■,-■'■¥■ TODAY, JANUARY 4, 1952 NKWEERBY BUN Ivelyn Jeannine Ballentme Weds Cpl. Bedenbaugh Dec. 2$ ▲ wedding of widespread in- it was that of Miss Evelyn le Ballentine of Prosper ity and Cpl. Earle Joiner Beden- baugh, U. S. A. F. of Prosper- I ity, and Guuter Air Base, Ala- | bama, which was solemnized on Fr^ay afternoon, Dec. 28, at 5 o'clock in Grace Lutheran Church, Prosperity. The double ring ceremony, by candlelight, was performed by the bride’s pastor. The Rev. J. LeGrand Mayer. The chancel of the church was decorated with a carpet of white, a background of southern smilax, and pines, baskets of white gladi oli, branched candelabra holding white candles, covered horse shoes with satin bows. Miss Belvin Sease of Little Mountain and Charleston, organ ist, Mrs. J. Whitfield Gilliam of Greenville and Mrs. Carroll Der rick of Little Mountain, soloists, presented a delightful program of wedding music. The ushers were William H. Leaphart, Jr., brother-in-law of the bride, Dennis Bedenbaugh and Hubert Bedenbaugh, cousins of the bridegroom and Robert W. Ballentine, brother of the bride. The candles were lighted by William Leaphart and Dennis Bedenbaugh. The honorary brides maids were Ann Bedenbaugh, cousin of the bridegroom, Mrs. R. W. Ballentine and Mrs. C. F. BalleAtine, sister-in-law of the bride. Mrs. Joel Taylor, Mrs. Walter Hamm, Mrs. Harold Ept- ing and Miss Martlia Counts. They wore evening Besses with corsages of carnations. The matron of honor was the bride’s sister, Mrs. William H. Leaphart, Jr. (Miriam Ballen tine )of Prosperity. She wore a gown of winter green French Faille, designed with scalloped drop shoulders 'and a full skirt. She carried a bouquet of red poin- settias with red satin streamers and loceton. Mr. David Bedenbaugh of Pros perity was his brother’s best man. - The bride w^s given in mar riage by her father, William A„ Ballentine. She wore a gown of lustrous white slipper satin, de signed with an off shoulder scal loped neckline, with a yoke of imported Chantilly Lace. The tiny self-covered buttons extended down the back of the waist and the tight fitted sleeves ended in points over the hands. The full gathered skirt extended into an afternoon train. Her fingertip veil of French illusion with a Chantilly lace border fell from a seed pearl tiara. The bridal bouquet of white carnations was centered with a deep red throated white orchid. The bride’s mother wore a dress of wineberry crepe with ac cessories of gray and pink, and a corsage of pink carnations. The bridegroom’s mother was dressed in beige, with pink accessories. She also wore a corsage of pink carnations. # Immediately after the ceremony the bride’s parents entertained with a reception in the parish building. The guests were greet ed by Mrs. J. A. Singley who in troduced them to the receiving line, composed of the bridal couple, bride’s mother, bride groom’s mother and matron of honor. The room * was decorated with greenery, candles and white glad ioli The bride’s table was cen tered with a lovely two-tiered wedding cake, silver candelabra, with white ’tapers and a silver bowl of white gladioli. The tablq was covered with a white cloth, crocheted by the bride’s mother- a gift to the bride. Miss Effie Hawkins presided over the punch bowl. Individual wedding cakes, green and white mints and toasted nuts were serv ed by the honorary bridesmaids and Miss Ann Hendrix, Mrs. H. B. Hendrix and Mrs. Cole Wes- singer. The bride’s register was kept by Miss Kathryn Pugh of Columbus, Ga. After cutting the wedding cake, Mr. and Mrs. Bedenbaugh changed to a suit of irredescent worsted check in wineberry and navy, with acces sories of winter white and black velvet. The orchid was lifted from the bridal bouquet to com plete the outfit. Mrs. Bedenbaugh is the youngs est daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam A. Ballentine. She graduat ed from Winthrop college in June 1950, where she received a B.S. degree in f Commerce. At Win throp she was active in student activities, serving on the Christ ian Association Cabinet for two years, later being elected treasure er of the association. She was FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZRR Clemson Extension Information Specialist For Details Call 197 E. B. Purcell - a freshman counseled active in; the Lutheran Student Association, serving as president, and treasur- j er of the S. C.-Ga. Area Associa tion. She served as co-chairman of the 1950 ' Southern student | Christian Association, which was held at Blue Ridge Assembly ini North Carolina. Since her gradua tion, she has been a member of | the faculty of the Whitmire High School. Mr. Bedenbaugh is the young- j er son of Mrs. C. Boyd Beden-1 baugh and the late Mr. Beden-l poWE RAT WORK baugh of Prosperity. “He receiv-1 There is no magic to the aver- ed his B.S. degree in Anima 1 8 ^ e wor k er producing so Husbandry from Clemson colleg I muc j 1 more than he used to. He in August, 1948. Before enteri g I is hamegging power to do it. the Air Force in December, 1950’ I Not long ago j waa deep in he was in business in Prosperity. M exico, in a region where this After completing his basic tra -1 had not reached, ing in the Air Force he ® There I saw the most fortunate tioned at Mather Field, Cali or . j ones OX en hitched to the At present he is attending I anc i en t forked tree. And many air force school at . lof the less fortunate didn’t have Base Upon! comp I All they had was a forked tion, he w|ll return to California, j they stirred up little plots of soil with. On W. D. Jackson’s farm at Bowman some time ago the fol lowing monsters of the power ago were at work there at the same time: 2 large bulldozers, one dragline ditcher, 5 dump trucks and a dozen men. And there 12 men plus the machines were doing the work that it would have| taken a veritable multitude of men alone to have done. In fact you couldn’t get enough men on that area of ground to do in a day what that combination of machines intelligently handled was doing. County Agent MftComb there told me of seeing a piece of rug ged cutover land that was stand ing in the rough on Monday mom ing, just as it had been since the timber was cut. It was just a jungle of hardwoods, brush, stumps, and decaying tops. These mechanical monsters lit in on it then. On Thursday it was a field in beautiful tilth and al ready planted in cotton. Orangeburg has two heavy land clearing outfits that operate under a commission, of which Me Comb is secretary. He tells me that several thousand acres of rich bottoms have been cleared with it And that has more meaning than it * sounds like. For much of the work was done in pushing back, clearing, and draining the bad places that cobbed out ex- \ Transfers Father Time It has been said that you can see your old age approaching by looking at the faces of your friends. Your friends all do business with us, why don’t you? PURCELLS "Your PrivatB Bankarf* Kaitt Pureall Newberry George T. Davenport et al to Margaret Wood Davenport, one lot and one building (M. L. i Davenport Estate) $6.00 love and affection. Newberry No. 1 Outside C. B. Farmer \o E. A. May bee, Jone lot 100’x244’ and one building Acre" plan, , with variations. on High Point Circle, $600 and Some had the acre of crop. Others I other considerations, grew out a hog, or put up canned I e. E. Norris, et al to R. Hou- goods, and the like. goal Norris, 246 acres, $5.00, love In the fall they had County and affection (Emma S. Norris, Agent Brown down there to auc-1 Estate), tion^it off for them. One of the e. E.,Norris, et al to*R Houseal leaders in it, D. W. Horton, told Norris, 41.98 acres, $6.00 love and me that all of the stuff brought I affection (Emma S. Norris, a total of $1,678.92. And what a [Estate). good time they had at the picnic ^ H au.eal Norrl., et al to and selling It there that day! Jolm T No rrls, Jr.. 170 acre*. SOUND FARM CREDIT 195.00 love and affection, (Emma Back in the great depression, | g. Norris, Estate), farm credit dried clear up. Folks I r Houseal Norris, et al to Eu who were farmlhg then will never g e ne E. Norris, 187 and 26 acres, forget that. Banks were so hard 95,00 love and affection, (Emma pressed, they could do ' nothing. I g Norris, Estate). All we had left was the “Seed I * Sllverstreet No. & Loan”, and it was nothing like | John h. Kunkle to Mrs. Ellen ■ I Our Contribution Happiness The ■ adequate to take care of the m. Sanders 16.6 acres, $826. ful I 1 f n ® e Q ^ *. „ I David C. Waldrop to William F. Credit Associations were organic I B ' Webb * M8 ed all over the state. I had a c ’ c H u tto ' to william F. Webb part i* organizing that one at and Helen B Webb , B88 acres, age^’dld elsewhere JS? 4 01 “ y *“ Each year I attend the annual 11118 prope R|ver v meeting of several of these a&- Guy B gwittenburg to Eugene sociations All that I’ve seen Wil8( J n and Maggie Lee Wilson, are sound and going organiza- one lot 16 o’ xB 60’. $86. tions, serving farmers with a Rutb Epting Shealy to Annie type of credit designed for farm Belle Mar ^ and Nathaniel Mar- needs * tin, 3 acres, $200. In mid-December I attended the| Whitmire No. 4 meeting of the Kingstree As- W. E. Baker to E. R. Baker sociation that serves the farm- j DBA, W. E. Baker and son, one ers of Williamsburg, Georgetown, hot and one building (His interest and Berkeley counties. Close to in 413 Grant street), $200. 500 folks, white and colored, w. E. Baker to E. R. Baker were there. J. B. Clarkson, Jr., DBA, W. E. Baker and son, one their secretary-treasurer showed lot parcil ‘B’ of J. P. Stevens the business of the association j Company, 200’x on Gilliam very plainly on large charts. Dur- street, $700. ing the years they have operat- l w. E. Baker to* E. R. Baker ed they have made 12,731 loans DBA, W. E. Baker and Son, two for a total of $7,339,074. Losses hots, 40'x200’ on R. R. Avenue to date have been only $457. and 36’x200’ on R. R. Avenue, And at the close of business this $3000. fiscal year they didn’t have a W. E. Baker to E. R. Baker cent of past due accounts! Yes, I DBA,. W. E. Baker and Son, two sir, collections were 100 percent! jots 40’x200’, each and both lo- Now, folks, in this world of C ated on Duckett street, $176 trouble and turmoil, we seldom, | e. R. Baker to W. E. Baker, _ loo'xiiy percent to the good. But there I on Bridges street, $1000. \ we have it. Farmers owning Charles F. Steen yto Leo A. and managing their own financial I Kinard and Burnelle C. Kinard, Services Held Sunday For Thos. W. Powell Thomas William Powell, 71, died suddenly Friday night of last week at his home in the Broad River section of Newberry Coun ty after several years declining health. Mr. Powell was bron and rear ed in Fairfield County, a son of the late Jacob S. and Melinda Rowe Powell. He had lived in Newberry for a number of years. He was a member of St. Mat thews Lutheran Church and the Woodmen of the World. He was a retired peace officer, and was a member of the South Carolina Peace Officers' Association. His wife, Mrs. Carrie Ruff Pow ell, die! several years ago. / Surviving are two sons, Tnomas W., Jr., Pomaria; and Forrest L., Newberr/; two daughters, Mrs. Mozelle Ringer, Newberry; and Mrs. Frances Graham, Pomaria; one sister, Mrs. A. J. Meyer*. Columbia; and three grandchil dren. Funeral services were conduct ed Sunday at 11 a.m. at St. Mat thews Lutheran Church by the Rev. M. T. Cullum and the Rev, S. K. Counts. Burial followed in the church cemetery. ATTENDS GATOR BOWU GAME W. E. Turner, Horace Switten- burg. Dr. F. A. Truett, Raymond Blair and George W. Martin at tended the Gator Bowl football game in Jacksonville, Fla., on New Year’s Day. I , - * a>yK\S3 Your one lot and one building, 1130 Sinclair Avenue, $450 and other is ting fields. Their outfits are ^ _ ^ 52T f ^nd'Te 81 tellf me^thfy O^t'to'loo | mT’intorert"to 'one"lot are quite sure they will pay out and finally not cost the coun ty anything. They charge $11 an hour for each machine. A fixed portion of that goes to pay the county back the original pur chase price, and the balance is for upkeep and operation. “LORD’S ACRE” I told you about a small coun try church down in Sumter county that practices the “Lord’s ^fa- institution, and. Oh yes, I forgot to mention this, they have paid the government back every cent of the money originally put in to help get the thing started back there in those dark days of 1933. And not only that, they now have a surplus working capital that runs into six figures! Is there a cynic’s snarl any where in / South Carolina that agriculture is not rapidly improv ing its lot here? This and other credit suited to farm nee^s, on top of a growing diversification, is building a farm solidarity that we haven’t known before. considerations. - „ Harrison Israel to Charles J. O’Shields, >one lot and one build ing, 1613 Church street, $887.70 and other considerations. Whitmire No. 4 Outside . W. E. Baker to E. R. Baker DBA, W. E. Baker and Son, one lot 210’x210’ on old Whitmire- Newberry Highway, $460. J. Woods Thomas to Hattlei Mae Dawkins one lot, $100. C. J. O’Shields to J. H. S. Wicker, two acres and one build ing, .$12000. Oscar Crisp to R. S. Nelson, one lot $100’xl60’ on Smith street, $300. E. R. Baker to Cleo Joiner, one lot 60’ on Calhoun street, conveyed to grantor by T. L. Hill Tax collector, $60. Prosperity No. 7 T. B. Morris and Elvira R- Morris to John C. Billingsley, 90.76 acres, $2000. .Bennie T. Young to James Richard Young, 9.2 acres, $388. E. A. Counts to John W. Taylor, one lot 2/10 acre near Elen street, $200. J. G. Huffstetler to James D. Cotney and Thelma B. Cotney, 53.28 acres, $4200. U\‘! ■ v - NEW YEAR We are pleased to announce the payment of our 33rd Semi-annual dividend of $68,117.46 1 a ■ mm PAID TO 2415 INVESTORS Ux 1 -. - All accounts received on or before January 10th, will receive divi dends as of January 1st. Each acccount is insured up to $10,000.00 by the Federal Savings & Loan Insurance Corporation, Washington, D. C. $5.00 or more will open a regular Savings Account. Newberry Federal Savings & Loan Association 1223 College Street Newberry, S. C. ■; ’ "■ - mm Effective January 1, 1952, the two fire insurance agencies, “Hie Bowers Insurance Agency” and “Louis C. Floyd, Insurance,” will both be under the management of Louis C. Floyd. Business will be tr \ ed for both agencies in the Belfast Budding, 1117 Boyce Street, Newbe: ry, S. C. For the convenience of our patrons and friends and to facUitate the handling of our businesses in one location, our agencies will operate i W ’ under the combined title of: The Bowers - Floyd Insurance Agencies Post Office Box 196 Telephone 4 We ask everyone to make note of our new business title. We are pleased to announce also that Mr. Bowers will continue to maintain his offices in this location. m The Bowers Insurance Agency . • . A. J. Bowers, Jr., Owner Louis C. Floyd, Insurance Louis C. Owner : • i m . . Y ••ffBasSSStl jgf