Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Saturday, September 30^ 1939 :; "CHARLIE" SI By Charl >| "THE ROVIN( President Miller F. Whittaker "Of State College, Orangeburg, S. C., was one of the prominent educators who gave three minute ad, dresses on various phases of ' Book er T. Washington's career at the musicale by the Santee River ^ Singers under the direction of Eva Jes.tye in Sumter last Friday nite. Professor Charles Law son Principal of Lincoln high school . . . Rev. R. L. Pope . . . Prof. ? Richard Williams . . . Mr. S. J. McDonald . . . Tryphena I,ewis . . Miss Eunice Wilson . . . Miss Blanche Sampson . . . Mrs. Belva farker and the Sumter troop of The Boy Scouts of America, with Mr James Thomas, Scout Master, were among others on the program. Mrs. Edna Davis, was chairman of decorations. ~T Twelve Photographs by the Late C. M. Battey Of noted Negroes were printed and displayed by the writer, who purchased the entire collection of B%ttey negatives from his widow ?U 4.1.. .<4? l:?' j..iL ; ?i? Diiui ny ai ici hiss ut'uni, ill urucr that the works of his great Negro artist shall not be lost to poserity . . . There are seven .thous_ and negatives in the complete collection. The Santee Kiver Singer9* Drive for books toward the establishment of a library closed with the musicale and the names of donors will be published thru ?- the press by the group . . . Although the group was organized for the sole purpose of establishing a library, the demand for their services has been so great, tlirt ttrls now B perriranent organizaticm, and will carry out other j . programs in the interest of race pride and community betterment, now that the library drive is over. ' . ; . 1 Eric Hercules Dronned in t.? sen mo TIiumJo,, He left the same afternoon for New York City where he will direct the Calvin News Service which will be continued. M'r. Ihercules, who received his education at Wilb^rforce university, and McGill university in Canada, waa recently married t<y Miss Koberta (Douglass, - member of a t promiment North Carolina family in Charlotte. He cut short his honeymoon to attend Mr. Calvin's I FRIENDSHIP ANNOUNCES SCHEDULE FOOTBALL SQUAD I Rnelf 'Hill, R f , IROi? ' The Friendship Junior College I. / opened her football practice with thirteen letter men and a numbei of freshmen. Our new Coach Ben nett Brown from Tuskegee's 1 "Golden Wave" promises to whip his men into championship mate rial. He has already started to shift his men. Friendship is off * 4*to a glorious year. Schedule as follows: Sept. 25?Brewer at Greenwood (Night) Sept. -30?Benedict at Columbia October 6?Harbison at Irmo October 13?Seneca at Seneca it October 28?Voorhees at Denmark Nov. 4?Swift at Rogersville, Tenn Nov. 10?Haines at Rock Hill (Home-coming) Nov. 18?N. C.. State of Elizabeth City at Rock Hill | Nov. 24?Florida at Rock Hill --'Nov. 29?Clinton at Rock Hill. IIA I/TIMORE, MD. NEWS By J. W .Agurs September 24?iMt. " Pleasant ^ Baptist church held its usual' week ly services. Thursday night a quartet program was rendered by I the Mt. Hebron Female four with the Mt. Pleasarft FVmale four, the Sunrrse four and others. J Sunday morning S. S. at the usfi ual hour. Preaching 11:30 by the Rev. Meekin. At 3:00 p.m. the ^Sunday school convention was held which was enjoyed. At 8:00 *t>.m. evening service. ^ 1 At 3:00 p.m. Southern Baptist i church held their Deacons and Trustees anniversary which was ' largely attended. ? ? On Wednesday September 20t.i five plain clothes detectives surrounded six colored boys in the rear of William Alexander school - yard. No. 112 Calhoun street and shot and killed two of the boys, captured four and two escaped. ? * MThe two killed were Eugene Du val, 18, of 2146 Pennsylvania Ave. and Lawrence Havery 19, of 1219 Park Ave. The boys were sus r 'EARS'SMll** !; ; es Spears ' > J REPORTER** y funeral. } He is a fine looking, tall, young 1 brawn skin fellow, highly cultured 1 and intelligent, and looks enough ! like Willie Andrews, New 1 York ' Assemblyman, to be his twin brother. In fact I thought it wa? i Willie Andrews when he came in 1 the door . . . looked like him . . . 1 talked like him . . .and walked i and dressed like him . . . and when ( you can fool me . . . THAT'S f NEWS. - t 1 New Students Turned Away < At State . ( Because the largest freshman t class in the history of the institu- | tion has registered this year. \ resident M. F. Whittaker gave or- ( ders that registration of freshmen , was closed except foji those who ( have made reservations before ^ September 14. n?? ?> ' ... no unu many classes are reported overcrowded , ( Hc/wever the South Carolina A. ( and M. college, the only state sup. | poited institution of higher learn ing for Negroes in Sohth Caro- ( Una, is operating under a five. , year expansion program and ex. peets to have adeuate accommo. dations fc/r 1,000 students. The writer was do.ym there a few weeks ago . . . and under the j Administration of President Whit taker, it is rapidly developing into one of the most beautiful insti- ' tutions in America .... Little known is the .fact that hd is a not-1 ed architect . . . and also* an ar-;' tist. ? !1 * . 11 One Hundred High School )' Students "i4 In a great state,'were asked scrme. 1 time ago by their teacher to writo an essay on their aspirations . . J The winning theme was short . . 1 in fact just ten words long: "1 -aspire io~De a respected man irr~ the community". This short theme was the only one marked one hundred per cent perfect by the teacher. -Many aspired to . . . power . . . wealth ' . . . and fame. Others aspired to the benefit erf a college education. While the teacher commended the aspirations of the others, the . desil" hn i-nrpndti>rirw-hw npin.-1ion, sums up the real business ol .living. The boy who wrote that theme was a colored lad . . THE ONLY NEGRO IN THE CLASS.1 pected of robbery. The, Police Commissioner Robert F. S ton ton I late Thursday suspended the five officers^ One was a colored olficer who was discharged: -A- hear , ing is to be held. The police com. ! missioner is investigating the krll ing of the youths. Mr. James Hughes and wife, and his friend and wife were the visitors of Mrs. Mary Williams I Sunday evening. Read The Palmetto Leader fo\ J the news. MISS FRANCES RUSH WEDS 1 IN OAK GROVE CHURCH Lake City.?Miss Frances Rush" daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. i Rush and Mr. Pinkie Hilton, the son of the late Mr. Hilton and I wife, of Manning were married Sunday afternoon at -3:30 at Oak ; Grove A. M. E. church. Rev. B.' L. Guiles, the bride's pastor performed the ceremony, which was 1 followed by a receptiom in the home of the bride's parents. j Given in marriage by Mr. W. W. Rush, the bride wore a six. nippn fill' 1 I'*wv RU"|1 nuivc o*ii\ ticpc c* I III lace. She also wore a tull veil attached to a wreath, and carriedJ a bouquet of bride's roses. Miss Marjorie Montgomery was maid erf honor. The bride's other attendants were a sister of the . groom, Misses Hilton, Dorothy ? . The attendants of the groom Mr. Eugene Rose best man Mr. Elmer Graham and another friend of the groom of Manning, whose name we didn't get. The bride's attendants wcrre frocks of teal blue and shell pink chiffon and taffetta and carried flowers of the same hue. The maid of honor wore white satin. The gents wore full dress. The flower girls wore frocks of pink and white satin. Mrs. Susan Middleton o f Sumter played the wedding march. After the reception Mr. and Mrs. Pinkie (Hilton left fcfr Manning where they will make their home at 11 Reardon street. We all pray that they will have a | happy life together. . ?a-1^- .. *? . ? -- k ii - -- - a. Southern City Lays 55 Blocks Cotton Paving By Hodding Carter Along Shady Valliant Street in jieenville, Miss., a crew of road vcrrkers rolled a huge, eight-foot .vide bolt of cotton fabris, white ind coarse, and seemingly more suitable ior curtains or dresses than for this srange use. Housewives on Valliant Street ubbed their eyes incredulously What was City Engineer Franlt [fall up to, spreading hundreds pi square yards of cottcm materia, in the street which had been a rravel one, and which had been .craped down for a new kind of hard-surfacing ?- They aame out m the sidewalk, talking to each ither and to the engineer who was jutting down the first cotton mem arane .sreets on a large scale in the United States. Passersby fingered the heavy, loosely woven fabric vhich the workers were fitting up in the priming of asphalt, which sad -been laid earlier upon the pre pared gravel. Greenville was inaugurating this summer's day x road paving program which would result in the lard surfacing of 55 blocks of city streets with a cotton membrane riller between layers of asphalt. The work was being undertaken experimentally, on a large scale in conjunction with the..Depart, ment of Agriculture, which was1 supplying the fabric. The program bad been envisioned by Mayor Mi! ton Smith and City Engineer Hall And it was fitting that in Green ville, in the heart of the long-stapie cotton producing Mississippi Delta, this first large scale experi ment in cotton Jjfeving should be made. Only 30 miles away, at Scott, Miss., Oscaj- Johnson, presi. lent of the National Cottofi Coun. i 1 o rwl nnnrofn.. r\ f nno rxf fVio World's largest cotton plantations had himself laid down a mile of ?c/tton road seven years ago. The way in which that Scott plantation?road?has -stood?under heavy, trucking automobile travel end plantation machinery has con vinced-hwr neighbors th(at cotton could make an ideal membrane jn the building of qndujing hard.sur. faced roads. The National Council itself had become convinced this year of the potentalities of cotton in road building. To the task oi expermenting itT"this new use fui cotton it has assigned Dean Gil. ehrist?of?Texas A.?and?M.?And upon his findings depend the pos sible use of a million bales of cot ton a year in road making. But Greenville hasn't waited foi these findings, for the city offi. cials had alrady been convinced by the mile luid down at Scott and by similar small ventures in New Jersey.The the.ory behind the pro. pc/sed use of cotton in such roads in mat it c?t an u tuniuuu uc. wo<>h layors of gravel asphalt, a* well as a binding material, and slows down the deterioration oi the hard-surfaced road. If cotton is proved to be an. important fac tor in road -preserving, its use will be a construction economy, for in hard-surfaced roads, the up keep rather than the initial cost is what burdens the taxpayers. The actual laying of roads with cotton binder is as simple as ordinary blacktopping. The prepared base is first primed with asphalt, which is absorbed by the base in approximately 24 hcrurs. The cot ton membrane is then laid down, by being unrolled the length ol the street, doubling and splicing where necessary. Asphalt is then applied to the cotton and covered with gravel, and the gravel cover :? Vi'nallv lir. i u>icu auu Lwuij/Mft-vvw. * ?? /? asphalt is aplied to the rolled gra vel, covered with coarse sand and brommed and rolled to a resultant dense, smooth surface. Other cities besides Greenvillo are also experimenting1 in cotton roads, through the cooperation of the Department of Agriculture. But the drive t<* make the nation cotton road-conscious awaits the report of Dean Gilchrist. - CALVARY A. M. E. CHURCH ???? ?of Sunday school began at its usual hour with Supt. and teachers at their post erf duties. There will be a big rally at Calvary church Sunday. The public is invited You are always welcome to Cal. vary church. ' Miss E. S. Marshall spent Sun. day in Spartanbufg visiting Miss Sessions Williams. Miss Susie Moore left Saturday for Harrisburg, Pa. Mr. Hichard Nobles of Columbia spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.^ J. B. Quattlebaum. t THE PALMETTO LEADE S. C. State Has Largest Freshman Class in History Orangeburg, S. September 25th?Dbrnvitories fend m a n y classes were over,crowded at the S<aith Carolina State college when ~nrz?nrr.~ -r?T 1 * ? ? me largest iresnman class in the. history of the institution had completed' registration at the close of Orientation week. New students had to be turned away by the administration because accommodations were in?de. uate. The enrollment is expectel to reach seven hundred, a new nigh for the only state supported institution of" higher learning for" Negroes in South Carolina. Two hundred thirty-three freshmen had registered at the close of 1 Orientation week Thursday, Sep. I tember 21. President ty. F. Whit, taker gave orders that registra. tion of freshmen was closed ex cef)t for the/so who have made reservations before September! 14. South Carolina State A. & M. i college, iiiH'i'iiliiijr under" a fivoyoar expansion piosram launched here three years ago expects to have adequate aec?>o\nio?la(|jons for a thousand students. Oiu- new dcnmitirty, an eighty thousand dol lar library have already been e. reetedv equipped and are in use, the central unit of a hundred twenty thousand dollar trades building has been completed andj equipped and two wings are near, j ing completion, land-scaping. a new athletic field, .a renovated heating system are amony othei j physical items that have been com pleted. ! The five-year plan calls for the further additional physical Improvements. 1 - J. D. McGhee, reporter HELENA NEWS Mr. and Mrs. James Smith of Baltimore, Md., are "here visiting their many friends." Mrs. Fannie Nunn of White Plains, N. Y., is here visiting hot ^parents- "and ridative^^rrd-frirrrdv The Helena school will open on October 16th. Mrs. Mary Hayffes of Helena has returned from New York City and attending the World's Fair. 1S9 I This big, up-to-date We tionary has more than . . ; over 40,000 words special features. Bound flexible black artificial le stamped, round corners, headbands, four-color fr . . . printed on strong wl It will he sent you post} aX".'Ci'\e ".i :<Nn. /.if TODj USE THIS [ REE DICTION COUPON 1 MAIl TO The Palmetto Lc Drawer 327 Columbia, C. K MILLIiKANCH A.M.E. CHl'RCH Kev. I).I). Doughty, 1'astor i- ~ Services wore fine at eld Millbranch* Sunday, as there were | many in attendance all day.- SunI day school was line in every way, | The regular morning service beI tran on time with the pastor at -hts [Tost" of duty. ThF?pastor Iiverod a soul stirring sermcrn, sub ject: "The Spiritual Harvest Fi> '(I." Everyone enjoyed it. The stewards of Millbranch had a program at 1 in the afternoon. The Improvement Four entertain, ed them. The program was grand. Friends and relatives of Miss Lessie P. Guiles were proud r o have had her at church Sunday She has been spending some tim? with her sister -in Camden, N.J ! Mr. and Mrs. Carl Davis had a great host of friends and relatives as dinner guests Sunday. Every | '/ne. had a grand time. The fanners in this commut-itv are- looking a little sad, as., tho tobafCo markets are still closed Many of them have a lot of the -weed on hand. nirs. minder uurcn, "Mr. James K. Hynian ami Miss Abbie Myers' are on the sick list. The pastor and friends are getting ready for the Annual Con. ferenee in Dillon. Mr. Ned Moorro ?nd Bujjte! Brown are very tpiiet after being dressed up. f'KNTRAL R. M. l>. K. ( Hl Rt H Rev. R. N. Gregory, 1'astor ] Charleston, S. C.?Because of th0 Missionary convention in session at tip. St. James R. M. U. K. church Sunday, the pastor \va? absent and the Rev. Win. Snipe j filled our puljiit at ll o'clock and I prached a soul sirring sermon. | Text Joshua 2:12. At 8 o'clock four societies wen j addressed by the pastor at oui j church. He delivered a strong and noble sermon. Subject? ThRockfoundation. A hirge^ crowd attended both services. One person joined the church. ' ?Sunday the ' Missionary society 1 SCI > ivi: at .j p.m. The public is cordially invited. (Mr.) Samuel R. Watson reporter ff&SC m ^ TTERE bster Die- have 900 pages ; ; ; many in semi- ?with yOUT 1 :ather, gilt red edges, regular rat ontispiece Y OU lite paper. W in an SPECIAL ! subscriptio \Y! r~^V2 i 1 Drawer 3 i > Columbia IARY j PlMN set I *m enclosinj I NAME kader | 1L V* ft or ST.. | CITY i Vflfl i i On*~Way Coach Faro* From COLi'MBIA, S. C.: To: Atlanta, C3.__'- _.$ 3.75 .Baltimore. Md. ,__ 8.30 Charleston, S. C._, 1.95 Charlotte, N. C '.!... 1.65 Chicago, III f-~~ 15.95 Cincinnati, Ohio 9.)W Jacksonville, Fla.__: 6.10 New York. N. Y._______ 12.92 Orangeburg, S. C._ " .75 I'hifadelphiif, I'a. 10.67 Kock Hill, S. C.__ 1.3<U Savannah, Ca._^. ___ Spartanburg, S. 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