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THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1954 » THE NEWBERRY SUN PAGE FIVE A MAHER OF OPINION By Denny McClung I thought they were as ■D good as engaged,” Gus Wheeler was saying. “Leastways, that’s what I been bearin’ for the past month or so.” Scowling, Eoin Feeney packed his stubby pipe. “Not by a long shot, they ain’t. Not so long as I got any say in my own home.’’ “Well, what’re you holdin’ again’ the boy?” Gus asked. “Far as I know, he’s one of the finest boys in the country. A real comer, they say.” “I don’t gainsay your word,” Eoin said. He applied a match to the pipe and puffed furiously until it w&i fcRfiTiiKg to his satisfaction. “But that ain’t the thing of it.” “That ain’t it? Feeney, it 'peers to me you’re a mite hard to under stand.” “Mebbe so—rmebbe so. But I don’t see as how my Norrie’s got any business marryin’ up with a lawyer. No sir, if farmin’s good enough for me, and my Pa before me, what does she want to go marryin’ up with a lawyer feller. It ain’t right, I say.” “Why not?” Gus asked. “Seems to me how that’s up to Norrie and Davy.” “I ain’t got nothin’ again’ Davy personally.” Eoin said. “But fo$ the life o’ me, I can’t take to what he’s gone and done. Why, his Pa was one of the best farmers in this section; and if farmin’ was good enough for old man Walsh, why weren’t it good enough for Davy? But look at him. goin’ and gettin’ himself educated so’s he can be a lawyer.” “You’re just getiin’ old and set in your ways,” Gus said. “Ain’t nothin’ wrong with what the boy did. Maybe everybody don’t like farmin’ the way you do. I say the boy’s got a right to be what he wants.” Gus Wheeler mournfully shook his head as Eoin picked up his box of groceries and left the store. Three weeks later. Eoin Feeney was in the store once again, puffing his stubby pipe at a jaunty angle, a satisfied smile on his seamed and craggy face. “Howdy, Eoin,” Gus said. “Hear tell you been havin’ a little land trouble. You and Cam Slaughter. Course it ain’t hard for anybody to have trouble with him, seems like that’s one man just about no body can get along with.” “Danged if you ain’t right, Gus. That Cam Slaughter’s crooked as a bent nail. You know what that fel ler did? Well, it seems like he was over at the county seat snoopin’ around the court house and he run across somethin’ in the land books —somethin’ that gave him the no tion he could twist around a few legal comers and grab part of my land that joins him. The northern acreage, it was; my best pasture field. But I guess we showed him; yes sir, I guess we sure did.” “What’d you do about it?” Gus asked. “Well sir, it kind o* had me stumped. And that’s when Norrie started workin’ on me. Finally got so I couldn’t stand to listen to an other word from her. So she packed me in to see Davy. “Well, Davy listens to what I got to say and then runs over to the county seat for a look at the land books. A few days iater, he goes into the magistrate’s court and proves that Slaughter was just try- in’ to take advantage of a legal technicality; proves that Slaughter ain’t got no right at all to that pasture land.” “Well,” Gus said, “looks kind of like you got your comeuppance this time, after all that big talk again’ Davy learn’ to be a lawyer.” “Yes sir,” Eoin said, “much as I hate to admit it, I guess I did. That Davy’s a right clever boy.v After what he done for me, I guess I ain’t got no rightful com plaint again’ him and Norrie gettin’ married. I guess mebbe I’m goin’ to be right proud to have that boy in the family.” / exclusive PAR.ISIENNE millinery 'AUS^-e “Darling, quick! Run over to Purcells Purcells is ready to lend money on any make or model of car to help you fi nance your needs. PURCELLS “Your Prlvave Bankers’’ 1418 Main St Newberry Quality Photo Finishing Quality is still our first consideration. 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The act, which requires any gar bage, regardless of previous pro cessing, fed to swine to be heated to 212 degrees F. (boiling) for at least 30 minutes, also prohibits the feeding of swine from a garbage dump. There is no cost attached to securing the permits. Dr. R. W. Carter, director, State Federal Livestock Disease Eradi cation Program, explains that the above law will aid materially in the control of vesicular exanthema, hog and trichina infections of hu man beings. ink it YOUR STATE AND MINE HE first agricultural society in America was formed in Charleston on August 24, 1785. It was called “The South Carolina Society for Promoting and Improving Agriculture, and Other Rural Concerns.” The fol lowing officers were elected, ac cording to The South Carolina Gazette: “The Honorable Thom as Heyward, jun., Esq., presi dent; Thomas Pinckney, Esq., vice-president; Peter Smith, Esq., treasurer; Peter Bounne- theau, Esq., secretary.” The dues were “one guinea on admission and two guineas on the third Monday in every Feb ruary afterwards.” Four meet ings a year were provided for. An executive committee of nine were chosen, consisting of: Hon. William Drayton, Hon. John Matthews, Hon. John Rut ledge, Gen. Charles C. Pinckney, Ralph Izard, Esq., Edward Rut ledge, Esq., Thomas Bee, Esq., Aaron Lockwood, Esq., Isaac Harleton, Esq. 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A native of Saluda County, he was the son of the late Charlie and Sally Lever Hyler and has spent most of his life in Newfberry. For the past two year, he had a veteran of World War II and the made his home in Georgia. He was Korean War. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Nell Farley Hyler, Warner Robbins; three sisters, Mrs. Oscar Harmon, Prosperity; Mrs. B. F. Corley, Newberry; Mrs. G. V. Rowe, Warn er Robbins, and a brother, S-Sgt. Frank B., Colorado Springs, Colo. Funeral services w'ere conducted Tuesday at 3 p.m. at Bethany Methodist Church in Saluda Coun ty by the Rev. H. F. Bouknight. Burial was in the church ceme tery with military rites by the S. C. Military District. Cousins assisted with flowers. \ Feagle Dies In Dothan, Ala. News was received in Newberrv over the past weekend of the death of E. L. Feagle at Dothan, Ala bama, on Tuesday, April 6. Mr. Feagle, who was 67 years old at the time of his death, was born and reared at Little Mountain. He was the son of the late John N. and Fannie Sease Feagle, both deceased, and was educated at the Little Mountain schools. He mov ed to Dothan, Alabama, some 30 years ago as a furniture salesman. For the past 10 years he had work ed that territory as a specialty salesman for Newton Manufactur ing Company of Newton, Ohio. Funeral services were held last Wednesday from the First Pres byterian Church at Dothan. He is survived by his wife, the former Lilly Dell of Dothan; four broth ers, George H., of Valdosta, Ga., Joe L., of Newberry, Robert and John, both of Little Mountain; four sisters, Mrs. J. L. Fellers and Mrs. E. E. Fellers, both of Columbia. Mrs. W. R. Betsill of Clinton, Mrs. B. L. Miller of Walterboro, and a number of nieces and nephews. Mrs. Hitt Dead At Cross Hill Mrs. Mae Hitt Price, 49, wife of Thomas J. Price of Cross Hill, died at a hospital in Columbia Friday morning after several months ill ness. She was a native of Cross Hill where she spent most of her life. Her parents were Mrs. Lula Cole Hitt and the late John B. Hitt. She was a member of the Baptist •Church of Cross Hill and received her education in Cross Hill Schools, Winthrop and Lander Colleges. She taught school for 20 years in Greenwood and Newberry Cunties. Surviving are her husband, Thomas J. Price, Cross Hill; one 'daughter, Mrs P Maude Glymph, Cross Hill; her mother, Mrs. Lula Cole Hill, Cross Hill; and one grandson. Funeral services were conducted Saturday at 3:30 p.m. at her home in Cross Hill by the Rev. T. A. Woolbright and the Rev. Wick Broomall. Burial followed in Beth- abara Church cemetery near Cross Hill. lable Radio Offers Console Quality To Families in Small Living Quarters BT EDNA MILES TF yours is a small apartment, chances are you’d like to own a small radio with the resonant and wide-range tone quality usually associated with console receivers. Such a radio is now on the market. 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