The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, July 24, 1958, Image 3
THTJBSDAY, JULY 24, 1958
THE NEWBERRY SUN
PAGE THREE
FARMS AND FOLKS
By J. M. ELEAZER
Clemson Extension information Specialist
Recent Marriages
Louis Frederick Sligh of New
berry and Martha Joan Brown of
Prosperity were married on July
13 at Newberry by Rev. Clarence
B. Word.
Elbert Roy Rranklin and Fran
kie Elaine Shealy of Newberry,
were married by Rev. G. B. Cor
ley at Newberry on July 12th.
R. Dupre Harmon and Mildred
C. Goforth of Newberry were un
ited in marriage on July 15 by
Rev. Thos. F. Suber on Newber
ry ,Rt. 4.
Robert E. Berry and Carolyn
Taylor of Newberry were mar
ried in North Augusta on July 12
by Rev. B. L. Reed.
Johnnie Grin sley of Newberry
and Lois Graham of Pomaria,
were married at Pomaria, June 28
by Rev. Thomas P. Poston.
John Williamson Brown and Le-
titia Ann Haltiwanger of New
berry were married on June 25 at
Newberry by Rev. Paul E. Mon
roe Jr.
Ronald Terry Green and June
Elizabeth Medlock of Whitmire,
were married at Whitmire by Rev.
David F. Bridgman on July 17th.
Claude L. Dominick and Fred-
na Cook of Prosperity were mar
ried December 21, 1957 at Pros
perity by Rev. Paul C. Scott.
Jacob Amick of Prosperity and
Faye Shealy, Rt. 2, Newberry
were married at Newberry on No
vember 10, 1957 by Rev. Paul C.
Scott.
Mr. and Mrs. John Ross and
two children, Marcia and Laura
of Charlotte, N. C. spent the
weekend with Mr. Ross’s mother,
Mrs. Maude G. Ross and other
relatives on Drayton St.
EZELL RETIRED IN
NEWBERRY
Over 200 friends from over
Newberry County assembled at
a banquet back in the spring
honoring their retiring county
agent, Paul B. Ezell, and pre
sented him and his wife a beau
tiful silver service. The event
was sponsored by their county
agricultural committee, through
which Ezell had worked so ef
fectively for 28 years.
I speak often of change, this
changing agriculture. Nowhere
have I seen a once all-cotton
economy more completely
changed into a diversified one
than there I rode with Ezell
rather often. Good grass and
cattle and dairies had come to
hundreds of farms, pine trees
had assumed the stature of a
crop, and farmsteads looked
good anywhere we rode. On one
of my early visits there, I want
ed to see some of their pastures.
Paul asked me which way I’d
pick to ride, for fenced field*
and good pastures were to be
seen in any direction or along
any road. And we rode for miles
through areas once just about
all cotton, and hardly saw a
patch. I was mightily impressed
then with the great change that
was coming to the lands of
Newberry. And it has continued
up to this day. In all of that,
Paul played a major part. He
was always progressive, yet
conservative enough to be prac
tical. His ideas and advice were
sound, and his folks believed in
him.
He is succeeded by his wor
thy assistant, A. F. Busby.
Knowing the progressive people
there and knowing Busby, my
guess is, their progress will not
be interrupted.
CHICKENS IN CHESTERFIELD
Several years ago the county
agricultural committee of Ches
terfield set poultry as one of their
goals of new money crops. County
Agent Willis tells me it has pro
gressed constantly since then and
their central marketing agency
has consistently gotten a good
market for their eggs. And when
I was there three new poultry
producers were building houses.
They are not fooling along with
ordinary farm flocks, as we’ve
known them in the past. But their
producers are studying their busi
ness, they get the best strains of
chicks, provide adequate hous
ing and equipment, and generally
do a good job of this rather new
venture.
A NEW 4-H ANGLE
tional 4-H Club Week last spring
in a unique way. Fifty-four of
their older 4-H Club members,
dressed in 4-H uniforms, and
worked in Columbia stores that
week. They gave out information
about 4-H, studied the business
they were working in, and helped
with routine jobs, just like regu
lar employees.
This week was wound up with a
luncheon given by the . merchants
to these 4-H’ers, their county and
home agents, and leaders, about
100 in all.
A lot of good rural-urban rela
tions built there!
DIVERSIFICATION
IN WILLIAMSBURG
Although they have their to
bacco, and cotton is still rather
strong as a crop on the good
lands of Williamsburg, County
Agent Jackson showed me a lot
of their hog work when I rode
with him back in the spring. That
county is a natural for hogs.
Their lands are good for corn and
grazing. And you put those two
things together, with a protein
supplement, and you have the eco
nomic elements that turn out
profitable hogs.
Jackson said they were market
ing around 1,000 finished hogs a
week. At that rate, they have an
other major money crop in hogs.
And they had not reached their
limit. Others are expanding in
hogs and they had just gotten in 9
fine boars and 15 gilts with which
to improve local stock.
“Crops plus livestock,” to quote
The Progressive Farmer, you
can’t beat that.
I WONDER WHY
I read where the crow is our
longest lived bird, often exceeding
100 years.
Most birds are rather short liv
ed and beneficial. But I’ve never
heard of anything much good the
crow did.
They are about the slyest of
creatures. You see ’em often. But
seldom get near one. That adds to
their life span. They are wise to
our ways.
It’s a pity some of the benefi
cial birds did not share the
crow’s cleverness.
DEVELOPING LEADERS
Young trees develop leaders,
that is, a central branch that
reaches for the sky. We can run
over the abuse them when they
are small, and break their leaders
out. But give ’em a little time.
They will straighten up, as best
they can, and immediately develop
another leader and start reaching
for the sky again.
Communities are, or can be, like
that. And this community leader
ship is now being nurtured as
never before in the many organiz
ed communities we have over the
state. Our man Southerland,
who works with them, through the
county and home agents tells me
we now have 245 such organized
communities in South Carolina.
CHAPPELLS MOVES . . .
(Continued from page 1)
number of years and also a mem
ber of the town council. He also
was a former school trustee for a
served for eight years as a mag
istrate in his community. He likes
hunting but does not bother to en
ter the sport of fishing. He is too
busy to retire, and is as happy
with his work as anyone could be.
Everything is quiet around the
depot except the croaking of
frogs, the chirping of the cricket^
and an occasional murmer from
some animal along the river
banks.
While this correspondent was
sitting in his office a freight
train came rumbling by. Mr.
Spearman stepped outside, waved
to the engineer and the conduct
or, leaned from his cab and threw
out a bill of lading, showing that
eight cars loaded with coal were
being sidetrackked at Buzzard
Roost, a power plant, a little over
two miles up the road. The busi
ness at “The Roost” also helps
swell the freight businenss and it
is good news to hear Mr. Spear
man state that the railroad
freight business, is good.
The large depot at one time
filled with express shipments and
tickets and other material is now
almost empty, a typewriter, an
adding machine, a stove, a few
chairs, a few books and some sta
tionery almost completes his in
ventory on the second floor.
The Southern operates two pas
senger trains laily through the
town. One passes through at 8:10
a. m. enroute to Columbia and re
turns at 10:10 p. m. enroute to
Greenville. Very few persons
patronize the passenger' trains
nowadays according to Mr. Spear
man and for that reason he does
not stock a supply of tickets any
longer. What few persons ride the
passenger trains remit to the con
ductor.
Mr. Spearman in speaking of
his work in the early days of rail
roading Said, “In the early years
of my railroad work everything
was shipped by the railroads and
practically all travel was by
train. We were required to work
seven days a week, with no vaca
tion and no holidays.
There was always plenty of
activities around the station. One
day while awaiting the arrival of
a train to carry the body of a
corpse to another place for bur
ial the funeral services were con
ducted in the depot office and at
another time when an engineer
and fireman met their deaths
when a cow wrecked a passenger
train near the depot an inquest
was held in the office. There were
plenty of gay times as picnic par
ties left for a days outing and the
newly weds went by train on their
honeymoon trip. Then on Sun
days a large crowd would gather
to buy a morning paper from the
news butcher on the train.
In speaking of the weather,
Mr. Spearman said it became so
dry for about two months in the
summer of 1925 that you could
wade across the river at almost
any point. Then in 1928 it rained
so much that the water guage at
the river rose to over 30 feet,
flooding the depot to around four
feet of water, also flooding the
stores and the children of the com
munity. made a swimming pool
in the middle of the town and on
another occasion in the winter of
1917-1918 the river froze over sol
id and the ice did not break up
until the sun shone out and melted
it. When the water was at its
heighth I made the trip to the
depot in a boat.
Mr. Spearman who has served
as agent and telegrapher for many
years, first began work at Dawk
ins in Fairfield county in 1912 and
since that time before perma
nently locating in Chappells he
worked at Alston, Peak, Silver-
street, and Honea Path.
# Mr. Spearman was born on a
farm in Anderson county and at
tended the country schools near
Williamston. He was married to
Miss Kate Betts of Chappells and
they are the parents of four chil
dren, one daughter and three
sons, all four live nearby and all
are employed at the Buzzard
Roost Power Plant. They are Mrs.
Mildred Spearman Long, book
keeper; Louie Spearman, turbine
operator; W. E. Spearman Jr.,
result engineer and Wayne Spear
man, hydro turbine, the latter
graduated at Newberry College in
June.
Through consolidation of the
schools throughout Newberry
county the Chappells School was
merged with the Silverstreet
School. However the women and
men got together and converted
the school building into a com
munity center where meetings,
picnics, and other gatherings are
held regularly for people of the
town and community. In addition
to modernizing the buildings into
a center the grounds have been
improved with flowers and shrub
bery.
Now near the intersection of
the two highways a number of
stores stand to serve the people
of the county and the traveling
public and with the exception of
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Mrs. Barltlett
Rites Saturday
Mrs. Rosa Lee Senn Bartlett,
63, widow of Robert Benjamin
Bartlett, died Friday morning at
Newberry County Memorial Hos
pital after a year’s illness.
She was the daughter of the
late William Edward and Emma
Fryday Senn and had been an
employee of the Mollohon Plant
of the Kendall Co. here until her
retirement about a year ago. She
was a member of the Glenn St.
Baptist Church.
Surviving are two sons, Frank
Irvin Bhrtlett and Robert Edward
Bartlett, both of Newberry; two
daughters, Mrs. Mary Frances
Merchant of Newberry and Mrs.
Sarah Talbert of Columbia; four
sisters, Mrs. F. W. Dickert of
Newberry, Mrs. Ben Willis of Co
lumbia, Mrs. Jim Craig of Ander
son and Mrs. George Wilson of
Camerton, N. C.; and four grand
children.
Funeral services were held Sat
urday afternoon at Glenn Street
Baptist Church by Rev. Fay L.
Lanford and Rev. Joseph Walker.
Burial was in Baxter Memorial
Cemetery in Newberry.
Active pallbearers were Ray
mond J. Willingham, J. J. Kib-
ler, J. F. Jenkins, C. A. Shealy,
Dudley Hawkins, and C. A. Shea
ly Jr.
Serving as honorary pallbear
ers were Dr. E. J. Dickert, Will
Hamby, Claude Hipp, Cecil Mer
chant, Monroe Boland, C. J.
Jackson, J. F. Hawkins, A. P.
Boozer, Ralph McIntyre, * C. L.
Cook Jr., George Slice, Heyward
Jackson, and E. F. McCutcheon.
Assisting with the flowers were
Mrs. A. P. Boozer, Mrs. George
Slice, Mrs. Dudley Hawkins,
Mrs. Monroe Boland and Mrs.
Claude Hipp.
Robert Moore
Dies In Ohio
Robert Moore, 70, of 914 Fred
erick St., Toledo, O., died at his
home July 13.
Mr. Moore was born in New
berry County, S. C., the son of the
late Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Moore
of College St. He had lived in
Toledo for about 50 years. He was
a railroad machinist for about 45
years and had worked for the New
York Central System 10 years be-
the railroad and pulpwood busi
ness all of it is carried on at the
intersection.
fore retiring about a year ago.
Mr. Moore was a member of
the Eagles, Loyal Order of Moose,
Maumee Valley Legion of Moose,
and held a fellowship degree in
the Moose.
He is survived by his wife, the
former Margaret Matthews; four
sisters, Mrs. Julia Blalock, Mrs.
W. B. Goggans, Miss Marie Moore,
all of Newberry and Mrs. Estelle
Summer of Aiken. Two brothers,
J. B. Moore of Newberry and
Heyward Moore of Bay Pines,
Fla.
Services were held Wednesday
at 2:00 p. m. in Pierstorff Mortu
ary, conducted by the pastor of
Emanuel Baptist Church, Toledo,
with burial in Toledo Memorial
Park. The Order of Moose con
ducted their services in the mor
tuary on Tuesday evening at 7:30
—Toledo (O.) Blade.
Brother Of Local
Woman Drowns
The body of Boatswain’s Mate
First Class Harry T. Autry, broth
er of Mrs. Sybil Brooks of New
berry, was found Sunday in the
water near the Coast Guard Base
at Boston, Mass.
Autry, 33, native of Pelzer, had
been missing for several day»
from his duty station at tho Nan-
tucket light ship. Death was ap
parently by drowning said the
Coast Guard.
Mrs. Koon Rites
At MondceUo
Mrs. Nora Koon, widow of Da
vis Koon, died early Sunday
morning at Newberry County Me
morial Hospital. She had been in
declining health for the past sev
eral years and ill for the past
woak*
Mrs. Koon was born near Siler
City, N. C., and lived for a num
ber of years in Fairfield County.
She had made her home at the
Newberry County Home for more
than 20 years. ^
Graveside services were held
Monday morning at Monticello
Methodist Church Cemetery in
Monticello.
Mr. anH Mrs. Leon Nichol*
and family returned to their
I'ome on Evans St. Wednesday af
ter a few days vacation at Kitty
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mill streams, Americans industry has
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the quickening tempo and multiplying
needs of the industrial and business
world. This bank, today as always, pro
vides efficient financial services to the
growing enterprises of this community.
Bank Of Commerce
Prosperity, S. C.
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