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PAGE 4—The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C. Thursday, April 10, 1969 BOUKNIGHT'S BAND IN NEW YORK CITY For the second consecutive year, the Laurel High School Band, of Laurel, Delaware, re presented the State of Delaware in the annual St. Patrick’s Day JASPER CHAPTER MEETS WITH MRS. HARMON The Jasper Chapter. DAR, will meet at the home of Mrs. P. K. Harmon April 11 at 4 p.m. The assistant hostesses are to be Mrs. Meredith Harmon, Mrs. Kemper Lake, Mrs. James A. McKeown and Mrs. Maude Ross. Mrs. Alfred Schriver will read the President General’s Letter and Mrs. Ralph B. Baker will give some points on National Defense. Reports will be given on the State DAR Conference. Parade in New York City on March 17. The parade route was up Fifth Avenue from 44th to 86th street, across to Third Avenue. The route passed St. Patrick Cathe dral where the Archbishop of New York blessed the band. The 71-member Laurel band is the mascot band of the Aut- rion County Society of Long Is land, New York. The band dir ector is Robert (Buddy) Bouk- night, a 1960 graduate of New berry College. He is the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Bouknight. His sister, Mrs. Mary Taylor, resides at 1409 Drayton Street. Sentenced for car racing Two young men have been sentenced in Williamsburg county to six months in jail for having engaged in a car race on State Highway No. 16 near Kingstree last fall, the South Carolina Highway Patrol has reported. They were listed as Earnest Anderson, 23, of Rochester, N. Y., and Harry Lee Darby, 19, of Rt. 3. Andrews, in arrest records. Patrolman T. J. Marshall ar rested the two drivers late in the afternoon of Nov. 17, and charged them with violation of Section 46-356 of the South Carolina Code. That section of the law- makes it unlawful to engage in a motor vehicle race or contest or speed on any pub lic road, street or highway in this state, or to aid or assist in any such race. Drivers convicted under the section are subject to be fined not less than $200 nor more than $600 or imprisoned for not less than two months or more than six months, or both in the discretion of the trial judge. The driver also forfeits his driver’s license for ayear. UDC Chapter hears paper by Miss Shannon The Calvin Crozier Chapter of the UDC met at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 1 in the State Bank and Trust Conference room. Hostesses were Mrs. W. D. Beard, Mrs. John Epps, Mrs. B. F Hawkins, Mrs W R. Feagle, Mrs Ruby Trice and Mrs. W. A. Mason. The meeting was opened with prayer by the president Mrs. A. T. Neely, Sr. Miss Dorothy Buzhardt, Chaplain led the rit uals after which Miss Juanita Hitt historian called attention to Special Days to be remem bered and explained that the program would include mater ial which was to have been pre sented at an earlier meeting, cancelled because of the influ enza epidemic. Miss Josephine Shannon pre sented a very informative pap er on “Medical and Surgical History of the War Between the States, dedicated to the Great Southern Poet, Sidney Lanier, who needed the aid of Modern Medicine.” The War brought a medical revolution, and above all an awareness of the needs of public health, nursing dentis try and pharmacy. Three sur geons and 21 assistant surgeons resigned from the U. S. Army Medical staff to enter Confed erate service. The other 3000 surgeons who served were gen eral practitioners who had lim ited experience in surgery and had rarely treated any gunshot wounds. Samuel Preston Moore of South Carolina served as Sur geon General of the Confeder acy for four years, and Dr. J. J. Chisolm of this state wrote a Manual of Military Surgery. More than 50 establishments were called hospitals but the best known and largest military hospital in the world at that time was Chimborage Hospital, with Dr. James McCaw of Rich mond in charge. It became an army post and 6000 patients were admitted. After Manassas the Robert son Hospital was equipped and run by Miss Sallie Thompkins. After all hospitals were taken over by the Confederate States Army, she was left in charge and Pres. Davis commissioned her Captain. She was the only woman officer of the Confeder ate Army. Not until 1862 did CongreSo grant women the right of be coming regular members of the medical department Among the many who did outstanding work was Mrs. Felicia Grunday Por ter of Nashville Tenn., president of the Women’s Relief Society, which collected vast sums of money for artificial limbs. The Medical College of Vir ginia at Richmond was the on ly medical school in the Con federacy still in existence, which graduated a class each year during the War. It produc ed 330 physicians during those years. Pharmaceutical laboratories were established to manufacture drugs from native sources, such as senna. Jimsonweed replaced belladonna. Opium was secured from local poppies. Blackberry roots and persimmons were used for dysentary and water cress for scurvy. Three remarkable improve ments were bromine solution for gangrenous wounds, better ventilation, and the boiling of cotton and horsehair by South ern surgeons who thus empiri cally discovered asepsis. Quinine was used for almost everything, and calomel was us ed to such an extent that mer cury poisoning was not a rare occurrence. In a very interesting way, Mrs Ray Feagle reviewed the book, “The Virginia Bishop” by John Summer Wood. John Johns of Delaware the Yankee Bishop of the Confederacy, was one of the foremost presidents of the Col lege of William and Mary, and by all standards one of the most Christian gentlemen of our na tion. He served as president of William and Mary between 1849- 1854 and also was assistant Bis hop and Bishop of the Protes tant Episcopal Church of all Virginia from 1842 to 1876 . He baptized and confirmed Jefferson Davis, and confirmed Robert E. Lee, and was the first Bishop consecrated in Vir ginia. He was a genius whose life was devoted to God above self. He was a genial humorist, was tender but strong; at pro per times serious but not sanct imonious; both a learned scho lar and a princely gentleman amidst all kinds of emotional environments after the war. He had no Southern back ground at the time of the War, and was the only Southern Bis hop who had not been born in Virginia or the Carolinas. John Johns was born in 1796, ent ered Princeton at the age of 16 and was graduated in 1815. He spent two years in the Theolo gical Seminary of Princeton. He married Julianna Johnson in 1820. Her father was Gov. John son of Maryland. He never re turned to his native state. The Rev. Edwin Lewis Good win, for many years Historio grapher of the Diocese of Vir ginia and editor of the Southern Churchman who personally had known Bishop Johns, declared without qualification that he was “the greatest preacher that the church in Virginia has ever had”. A copy of the book has been presented to the Library by Miss Hitt in the name of the Calvin Crozier Chapter of the UDC. Also a copy of “Tales of Edisto” will be presented to the College Library. Following the business meet ing, the hostesses served deli cious refreshments. Last year South Carolinians paid $17,089,484 in State taxes on Beer UNITED STATES BREWERS ASSOCIATION INC PO BOX 6247. COLUMBIA SC 29206 ’ ^