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THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1953
THE NEWBERRY SUN
PAGE FIVE
Cowpens National Battleground
Know
South
Carolina
COWPENS — South Carolina was overrun by British
forces in 1781 when on the morning of Jan. 17, American
backwoodsmen proved themselves a match for European
regulars.
The American army of the South had too few troops to
risk a general engagement with Lord Cornwallis’ strong
British forces, so their commander, General Greene, used
his small forces to harrass British outposts.
Greene ordered Daniel Morgan’s backwoodsmen to join
General Sumter’s troops in a move toward the British at
Ninety-Six. To parry his thrust, Cornwallis ordered Col.
Banistre. Tarleton’s cavalry to move against the backwoods
men. The two forces met at Cowpens, about 20 miles from
the site of the earlier battle of Kings Mountain.
Tarleton expected an easy victory and moved his 1,100
men confidently against the slightly smaller force of Amer
ican militia and regulars.
Morgan employed a three-line defense, ordering his men to
fire at the attacking British and then fall back.
The result was a resounding victory for the partisans,
who killed, wounded or captured 85 per cent of Tarleton’s
command. Morgan lost 12 men killed, 60 wounded.
The place is now the Cowpens National Battlefield Site in
Cherokee county. It was established in 1929 and contains
one acre .of ground with a suitable monument in the center.
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Ticklers
By George
Bob Whites Range With Impunity; Bunnies
Also Feel at Home in Evans Street Gardens
If one is to judge by the large
number of partridges seen daily
by residents of Evans St. here
in Newberry, the mighty nimrods
of this section will enjoy a bount
eous hunting season come Thanks
giving Day.
The birds seen daily in pairs,
though sometimes there are three
along, in the front and back yards
as they pass present a lovely
sight. The call of the Bob White,
referred to as the Bob Hopes, by
Leon Nichols, young son of Pho
tographer Leon Nichols and Mrs.
Nichols, residents of Evans St.,
can on numerous occasions be
heard from as many as three dif
ferent directions at the same time
as the Bob Whites continue their
calls for long lengths of time.
Probably one reason the birds
are so brave and tame is because
they live and parade near New
berry College and are educated
to the point that hunters are not
allowed in the city limits and are
thus free to roam at will.
One Newberry resident, Mrs.
George Martin, peeping from her
rear door spotted a pair with about
20 young birds.
Heretofore in past years the Bob
Whites have been seen occasion
ally walking around in pairs but
not as often as in the case this
season and too not in such large
numbers.
The residents on Evans St.,
which is the mecca for the birds
in Newberry since Scott’s Creek
with a tributary near Evans flows
nearby, are proud of their quail
and hope that they will continue
Watchmakers Set
State Meeting
South Carolina Watchmakers
and Jewelers will hold their sec
ond annual State-wide meeting in
Columbia on Wednesday, August
5, at 4:00 p.m. The meeting will
be held at Kester’s Bamboo
Restaurant, 749 Saluda Avenue, in
the Five Points section of Colum
bia.
Reservations will cost $2.00 per
person, and must be made on or
before July 29. Persons desiring
reservations may send their name,
occupation and address, along with
their check to Mrs. Stephen Men
del, 2524 Glenwood Road, Colum
bia, S. C. All members of the
Watchmaking and Jewelry pro
fession are cordially invited
to increase and become more edu
cated as the years roll by for the
birds do not molest or destroy
anything.
Rabbits also are increasing in
numbers and becoming remark
ably tame. Only one day recently
five were seen in one back yard,
jumping and playing gleefully. The
playing and jumping is all right,
but what about their destructive
ways? That is the question per
plexing the Evans St. residents.
One gardner reports the loss of
an entire row of pole beans, the
stalks being cut near the ground.
Others report damage to azaleas
and other flowering shrubbery.
No Truce Seen
In Weevil Fight
Clemson, July 27—Prospects are
still favorable for a good cotton
crop in South Carolina but grow
ers must continue to fight the boll
weevil. The Clemson Extension
Cotton Committee cautions that to
stop applying ineecticides now
may result in the loss of invest
ments so far made in the crop.
Growers in Coastal counties
should continue to make applica
tions to protect young bolls un
til all bolls expected to mature
are at least 3 weeks old. In Pied
mont counties cotton is still
blooming freely and growers in
that area should Snake at least 3
to 4 more applications to protect
immature bolls. In other w r ords,
the insecticides applied in Coast
al counties are to save bolls al-
Veady set and in Piedmont coun
ties to both set and save the bolls.
Reports rfom county agents
throughout the state continue to
show increased weevil infestation.
Cotton is reported opening in
some Coastal counties. Spider
mites, lice, and bollworm infesta
tions are increasing in some areas.
For control of these pests growers
should use emergency controls as
recommended in Clemson Exten
sion Circular 380 available at of
fices of county agents.
The Clemson committee points
out that to save even one boll of
cotton per running foot or row
will mean a saving of from $15 to
$20 per acre.
In many counties in the lower
part of the state cottoh plants are
lapping in row middles and under
these conditions applications can
best be made by the use of air
planes.
Fairfield Adds
Conservationist
To Local Staff
The Fairfield Forest Products
Company here at Newberry has
recently hired a conservation for
ester as an addition to their
forestry staff. He is Dick Boyce,
a forestry graduate of the Vir
ginia Polytechnic Institute, and is
from Norfolk, Virginia.
All pulp and paper companies
who are members of the Southern
Pulpwood Conservation Associa
tion (SPCA) have a number of
conservation foresters, depending
on the size of the company and
their holdings.
Fairfield Forest, a subsidiary of
The Champion Paper and Fibre
Company, now has another con
servation forester to represent
them in the SPCA’s conservation
forestry program. The job of this
man is to suggest ways and means
of enabling the landowner and
farm woodlot owner to grow trees
as a crop and at a greater financial
return to him. These recommen
dations offered are free of charge
and place the landowner under no
obligation. For the private land-
owner, Fairfield’s conservation
forester will mark his timber if
it needs thinning, or will assist'
him in determing the correct
management practices to follow.
He will help in finding the market
that will bring the greatest return
financially, be it sawtimber, ve
neer logs, or pulpwood. As an ad
ditional service, the conservation
forester will show movies on var
ious forestry practices to any
group interested in seeing them.
He may be contacted at the Fair-
field Forest office on Boyce Street
in Newberry.
The objective of the entire con
servation forestry program is to
promote good forestry and sound
land management so that the
South will be insured with pro
ductive forests today as well as to
morrow.
Mr. Boyce is living in the Carol
Court Apartments.
LADT AND TIGSB . . Nancy
Petraborg, 18, Seattle model,
gets friendly with this six-month
old female tiger kitten from Siam
destined for Woodland Park zoo.
MR. AND MRS. H. M. BRYSON
have returned to their home on
Harrington street after two weeks’
vacation at Ocean Drive beach.
W. P. Leaphart
Died Monday ,
In Prosperity
W. P. LeapharT, 85, died early
Monday morning at his home in
Prosperity. He had been in ill
health for the past several months.
Mr. Leaphart was born and
reared in the Prosperity section
and was the son of the late Wade
and Carrie Harmon Leaphart.
He was one of Prosperity’s old
est citizens and was active in civic
and church work as long-as his
health permitted. He was a for
mer member of Prosperity’s city
council and a member of the
Wightman Methodist Church.
Mr. Leaphart is survived by his
wife; two sons by his first mar
riage, W. H. (Pete) and Heber J.
Leaphart, both of Prosperity; one
sister, Mrs. W. B. Taylor of Co
lumbia; and three grandchildren.
Funeral services were conduct
ed Tuesday morning at 11 a. m.
from his residence in Prosperity
by tho Rev. R. P. Hook. Burial
followed in the Zion Methodist
Church cemetery.
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Poor Jenny
By Virginia White
TT had only been fun when It
* started, but it wasn’t funny any
more, now that Jenny was dead.
Marilee looked at the still, crum
pled form, lying in the shade of
the Elm. She knew she should run
home and tell Mother, but she
couldn’t, not Just yet. Mother hkd
told her to take care of Jenny
When she moved away from the
tree, she didn’t go home. She
walked up the road to Ronnie’s
house and went in without knocking.
I There was a man sitting in a chair,
j reading a paper and she went up to
| him.
| “Well, little lady.” he said, "who
j are you?”
Marilee swallowed hard. "Jenny’s
! dead!” she said.
Mr. Roper lowered his paper.
“Ronnie!” he called. “Come here!”
“Come here!” Mr. Roper said
i firmly. “Do you know this little
girl?”
“Jenny’s dead," Marilee sSaid
quietly, “Ronnie killed her!"
Guilt shone from Ronnie's eyes
Panic gripped his small body
“Ronnie!” roared his father,
"what did you do to Jenny?”
Ronnie turned and N ran. He ran
through the living-room and out on
the porch. With his father reach
ing for his collar, Ronnie didn’t
wait for the stairs, he took them in
one leap, and fell! He gave one
terrified gasp, then screamed!
“Susan!” yelled Mr Roper, try
ing to gather the struggling boy in
his arms, “call the doctor! Ron
nie’s broken his leg! Susan!!”
Marilee walked quietly down the
stairs and across the lawn. She
didn’t look back as Ronnie con
tinued to scream. “It can’t hurt
him more than it hurt Jenny," she
whispered and her throat shook
with a stilled sob
She trudged up the dusty road to
Harlow’s house, wondering as she
went, how she was ever going to
tell her mother. Harlow saw her
doming, reached up and firmly
locked the screen door.
“You can’t come in!” he said,
defiantly.
“Why^ Harlow!" Mrs Henry ap
peared behind him. "You mustn't
treat your little friends that way-
Come in, dear,” she said to Marl-
lee, "and don’t look so sad. Har
low didn’t mean to be so impolite!''
Harlow ran to the hall closet,
found his grandfather’s cane and
came^iitit swirt^Wg•‘I’m not afraid
of you!” he shouted, waving the
stick above his head.
“Harlow!” said his mother. "Put
that cane down!"
As Harlow hesitated. Marilee cut
in with a solemn statement “Jen
ny’s dead.” she said. The tears
ran down her cheeks but only her
eyes cried her mouth was n
tight slit in her white face.
“Why child!” said Mrs. Henry
"What is the matter?”
“Jenny’s dead,’.’ Marilee said,
"and Harlow killed her!”
“Oh. now. I’m sure you’re mis
taken,” Mrs. Henry said soothing
ly “Harlow wouldn’t hurt any
thing!”
Harlow looked at Marilee and his
mother, then suddenly decided to
brazen it out. “Yes I did!" he
said. “I hit her and hit her and
hit her!” He swung the cane wildly,
carried away with excitement “I
hit her!" The last swing of the
cane connected with a vase on the
hall table and knocked it to the
floor with a shattering crash!
“Harlow! My Persian Vase!” His •
mother was momentarily stunned,
then she grabbed hpr son and :
hauled him over to the sofa. She ’
laid him across her lap and brought!
the cane down across the seat of.
his pants!
Marilee walked slowly out the
door She could still hear Harlow’s
shrieks of pain and pleas for mercy
as she came to tile bridge that
spanned the brook. She turned in
there and followed the bank until
she came to the Elm. She stood
for a moment looking at Jenny,
stretched out so peacefully in the
shade
“Poor Jenny!", she said softly,
"they hurt you, didn't they!” Then
with infinite tenderness, she picked
up her d'’’/ and went home!
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