The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-03-28
NEWBERRY At EXPOSITION.
WHAT IS TO BE SEEN TIE WOMAN'|
BUILDING.
Newberry's Exhibit Is Vsrl'd and Above
the Average.

The following account OF the EXHIBIT
of Newberry, by the ladies, is taken
from the Charleston Bureau depart
ment of The State, of the 18th instant:
Newberry's exhibit is varied, and
vet is above the average in quality.
The distinctive feature is the number
of wedding dresses. First of all is one
made by Mrs James Gauntt before her
marriage. She was four years in MAX
ing it.. The dress is beautiful filmy
kind of material. Mrs. Thomas Creme
ker's wedding dress was OF homespun,
but she planted and picked the cotton,
wove and fashioned the cloth-during
war times
Newberry also shows lot of this
'bronze lustre' crockeryware which is
made so much over. Mrs. A. G. Wise,
of Prosperity, shows sugar dish OF
this ms to ~ial, and Mrs. L. W Jones has
a mustard pot and Mrs. M Lindsay
water pitcher. Some old dishes Of the
Gaillard family are displayed. There
is a pewter platter for beef roast and
two pieces of blue delf. The platter Is
two hundred years old. The delf is
dated 1885. An old English gilded tea
pot shown by Mrs. James Mcintosh is
very dainty. The arrangement OF
china is unique, there being bits OF old
Irish in green, old English In blue, old
German and late German and Ameri-
can. Of the latter Miss Douschka Mar
tin has display of very fine work.
Mrs. 4 oert II. Aall exhibits very
old bit of tapestry flowers OF ribbon
worked into baskets of silk ribbon. A
hat crocheted by Mrs. W. L. Werber
during the civil war shows how the no.
BILE women made the best OF clrcum-
stances.
Mrs. N. B. Mazyck two very old as
we'll as antique articles of toilet which
are not matched in the building.
One is an Individual table set, knife,
fork and spoon of French silver, in the
original pocket case, brought to Amer
lea from The Isle of Rhe in 1850. The
initials of the owner, Pauline La Tour,
are carved on the handle. The other
is a lady's lunch companion, made Feb.
16, 1859. 1t is of silver and the size OF
q match safe, containing knife blades,
etc., which screw into dainty little
handles.
Several quaint little suits of clothes
are shown. One of them is so years
old and was sent down by Mrs. Scott OF
Little Mountain. This is also little
dress worn by Mr.. Samuel Spence over
10 gears ago, and by its side his we'd
ding boots. But the quaintest of all is
the little suit worn by Col. John Adam
Summer when he was four years old.
The long trousers were buttoned around
the ankle, and this child was further
srrayed in waistcoat and "jim-
swinger." This suit is owned by Col.
T. W. Holloway of Pomaria.
Other curios are Chinese fan
used in New York society in Knick-
erbocker days, an immense tortoise
shell comb fully four inches tall,
contributed by Mrs. Renwick; a silver
mouthpiece for bottle; and pistol
with bayonet captured from an Indian
squaw by Col Asbury Tennent on the
site of the city of Atlanta. A lace
shawl by Mrs. Holbrook, a knitted
shawl by Mrs. R. p. Holland and
battenburg by Miss Sallie Brown are
very pretty.
In conspicuous place is an "extra"
of the Charleston Daily Mercury, Dec.
20, 1860, declaring THE Union is Dis
solved" This is more like railroad
excursion handbill than a newspaper,
and the item of news thus narrated is
copied into the note book of nearly
every Northern visitor.
The Newberry exhibit was arranged
by Mrs. g. A. Bowman, Mrs. E. o
johnson and Miss Nathalie MazYck.
Miss Nathalie Mazyck of Columbia is
always delighted to show visitors
around the Newberry, Anderson, Edge
field, Orangeburg, Sumter, Berkeley
and Snartanburp rooms.