The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1909-03-16
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| see it stated that Senator Till
mans health is alright and that he
feels as we'll as ever. I do really be-
lieve it would be beneficial to my
health if DR.. Babcock would take me
on a trip to Europe and let me- take
Mrs. Idler along with me. Well, any
iow, we are all glad that SenaiSi Till
man has regained his health.
"Talking 1t Over' in the Augusta
Chronicle has the following bit Of
observation. When the Veteran was
doing those stunts that now entitle
him to wear a Cross Of Honor [ bet
you they never stopped to enquire
even if he now and then drank lit
Il: real beer. The prohibitionists are
generally good people but there are
lot Of cranks among them. A cross
of honor is to be priced but If it IS
| to be withheld on account of what the
man is doing now it better not be
given:
"Isn't this a piie of rot?-to take
away Confederate Veterans "cross
of honor" because he elects to sell
near beer?
"Was it presented to him because
he sold real beer?
"Or because, like the hero that he
was, and is, he went to the front in
battle, and offered his life, if needs
be, for his Southland?
"There is much to say in favor OF
prohibition. There is much to critl-
cize in the methods Of the probibi-
tionists.
"A "crcs. or honor is, and ,i.ould
be, a priced possession-not because
it's owner is cross-eyed, buys cheese,
sells liquor, drinks buttermilk, prays
when the clock strikes, pretends to
hypocrisy, looks pretty Or is knock
kneed: but because it is q bulge Of
bravery, of patriotism, of loyalty, Of
self-sacrifiCe-of valiant service on
the battlefield under the Stars and
Bars.'
Speaking about prohibition l read
the other day very sensible article
in the Southern Christian Advocate
on that dispensary church at Living
ston in Orangeburg county by Rev.
Geo. H. Pooser. I saw where the
town of L'':1s5st"n lad contributed
from dispensary profits to the erec-
ton Of the church and some Of the
Methodist oppose accepting it. Mr..
Pooser says the money belongs to
God and the church should be dedi-
Gated to his service. Wonder if any
money made from the sale Of whis-
kec cv"r went into the cause OF the
churches in Newberry and if any Of
it was ever refused. I never heard of
it.
My young friend Harry Dominlck
has been reading the annals Of New
berry. A good thing for him to do
and for other young men and women
hereabouts. But Harry has found
that the screw auger was invented by
Newberrian and he sends the fol-
lowing story to the Augusta Chron-
icle:
"It has just been found by per-
son, who is always on the lookout for
something out of the ordinary, that
the screw auger, than which there is
hardly a more useful tool, was inven-
ted by a Newberrian-a Quaker
Benjamin Evans, during the latter
part of the eighteenth century. Ev-
| and lat.ar n.y., IL r,,tl other 80 ds to
Ohio. a
"In this enterprise, Evans had as
sociatrd IL lii Joseph Sml il a.:
John Edmondson, who learned the
trade and followed it after Evans left
! Newberry. Edmondson IS said ID
have made quite a little fortune out
of the manufacture of the implement.
"Judge John Belton O'Nea!!, in lis
Annals of Newberry, state: that
"many a box Of screw augerj have |
seen sent by wagons to Charlie s:pn
between 1900 and 1907. I. think that
Samuel Maverick, then residing in
Charleston, shipped some to Eng
land" The kind Of auger, used pricr
to the invention of Benjamin Evans,
was the barrel auger, with mere bit
to enter the wood.'
Mr.. Featherstone says he attended