The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1898-10-07
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lhar" Is y college girl IN thus city
who is q wonder in her way, She is
Miss Anna HslSey, graduate OF
Mount Holyoke, anil she has demon,
stratcd that knowledge is power even
in the dairy business, that well.
trained mind helps one to turn milk
and cream and eggs and butter into
money. Furthermore she has shown
that scientific learning, such as is
gained within college walls, teaches
one 10 improve on the products of
even the most aristucratic and well.
fed COW. After talking with this
very remarkable youns woman for
while the thoughtful person is con.
vincei that the day is not far distaht
when, in the course Of her expert.
menting. she will discover some pro-
cess whereby even the proverbial
boarding house cream will be render.
ei actually thick and the butter
made--well, at least not to proclaim
its presence, Miss Halscy is Srcrc-
tary Of the Sheffield Farms Com.
pany.
1T seems odd that YOU, college
graduate, should 60 into this bust.
neSs," remarked a Sun reporter to
her
Not at ALL" she answered with q
smile calculated to turn clabher INTO
sweet cream. 1T wonld have been
odd had not gol,r into this busi.
ness. You see am q country girl
and am proud of 1t and | feel sure
that havr q born talent for this
very business SEQ no reason why
having graduated from colego
shonld keep me ont OF this business,
for it was just rs natural for me to
go to college as into the milk bust.
ness. My father is graduate Of
Princeton and my mother was one of
the first girls to graduate from
Mount Holyoke, and they never had
any other thought than that their
children should all go to college,
There arc four of us. My brother,
who Is the Treasurer of tho com.
pany, graduated from Princeton; ],
as you know, am II Holyokc girl Of
the class Of 'H0; my next sister is Il
student Mt Wellesley and the young
oSt one is preparing for Vnssar.
"Why did they not go to Mount
Holyoke, too? Oh, we don't believe
in all the girls Of family going to
tho same college. We think it moro
broadening to 80 to different places,
and then, if a younger sister follows
IN older one to a college sho falls in
with the same set, knowing the same
people, gets into the Same groove, rs
it were, and that won't do in this
ngc. But this isn't telling how I
came to go in the milk business, is
it?
"Ihls company is sort of family
affair, with my father, Louis B. Hal
s"y, ms President, my mother First
F'co President, and I've stated the
posts occupied by my brother and
myself. There are two other small
stockholders one director and that's
all. It's irtcrf sting the way my ia.
ther came to go in the milk business,
l think, and it clearly shows why /
am in it. He was a lawyer, but ne
hated the profession because he liked
an outdoor country life He was
living with my mothers mother out
On little farm ia New dorsey,
though he practiced here ia this CITY
My grand mother had two COWS, and
he used to be always telling her that
she ought to make the farm pay, that
hhe o"Sht 10 SOIL mix and butter
and eggs.
4" Very well, then,' she retorted,
I'll make the things to sell il you
will find buyers
"A bargain,' he answered, and q
few mornings later, when he WAS
starting in TO his law Office, she
handed him Il package, sayinp:
There's Il pound Of butter for Won
TO bell
Il was Il .ny girl, bnt remember
perfectly, though it Was eighteen
years ago. Ny father sold that but.
ter 10 " lawyer friend and rot an ex.
orbItant price for it, and from that