The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-11-01
* BECKY ANN WRITES OF VISIT. =

that you never had a thing in yore
paper about the concert at O'Neall st.
Metherdist church last Sat mite. IL
wuz won of the biggest tretes We
ever had, an wuz jest the out come
Of havin mill president with hart
big as the mill he presides over.
Mr.. Zach is alters a studyin up
sumthin fur the benefit an plezure OF
West End peepil, all he ordered a II
class Concert Band frum Columby,
which wuz made up of three hily
educated blind men an their manager.
They shore wuz all good singers an
musicianers, an intertaned US with
the very best of CLASSICAL music. Mr..
J. NJ. Davis sed they vuz "rale ar
tists," but 7 never seen any OF their
nicters. an 7 don't see how a blind
man can paint no how. They sung
sum mighty funny songs, an won IN
pertickler, where a ole man an Wo-
man wuz a goin to celebrate their
fifieth weddin annerversy, keeps
ringin in mi he'd. The chorus started
this way:
"Git yore Gle gray bonnet with the
blue ribbins on it
While hitch old Dobbin to the shay"
an I tell you it wuz shore fine. Tney
had a song about niggers steam
chickens, and won Of EN- wood cackle
fur all the world like a old domineck-
or rooster, while the others Wuz
singing, Oh. it wuz funny an god. They
had sum little toy horns an mln1ck-
ed West End band a playin Red Wing
an peepil like to a kilt thelrselVes
= latin. Mr.. Wherry CWest End band
MASTERY looked like thirty cents an
sum of the other boys looked st1ll
cheaper.
I thought shore you wood a had
raporter over thare, or that sum OF
them good Metherdists wood a seen
after it, or I'd a tuck mi pencll an
naner along an done it miself. I'm
a1,ers wonderin if Mr.. Zach has any
idee how much we all appreshate MS
kindness.
There's a heap of things happenln
m this side of the Rale Rode that
ort to git in yore paper an don't
NV helfh haint been no account an
ba;n+ worked none in three months
but I tuck a agency fur a aruckle an
went to N. C. about three weeks ago.
an made enuff to pay my expenses
while 7 wuz gone, an had a swell time
hesides. Mi helth improved sum While
WIZ gone too, an if Jeems hadn't
q kept ritin about bein so lonesu"
I'd a stade longer then too weeks.
It's a mighty long ride frum Cnn-
ton to Wadesboro, an if thare hadn I
= been a preacher on the trane tnaO
node me, I spect I'd a passed the time
off by playing wilder agin' an ca1cnln
me- a bo. There wuz drummer Oh
+hare that looked intrestin. When we
s+onned at Chester fur the trane to
rest a. few ninites, a little niger
come in a sellin papers. That drum
mer tuck a, seegar outen his pocket
=, sorter held it out, an when that
little Niger cum along he sed:
"say, coon, do you smoke? Inc
smiles broke out over that little mig
gers face same as measles an he roll
ed his ize toerds that seegar with
kind of a. glory-halleluyer look an an
sered emfatic like:
"Yessur, boss, + shore does!" Then
that drummer stuck the seegar PACK
into his pocket an ansered mlgnCS
seris: :,
"Better quit tits a mighty bad
habit" An the disappinted coon pass
ed on with his lips curled luther way
while every body but me LATED Mt to
kill. wuz sorry fur the little teller.
stade mitey nj a week in Wades-
boro, where I shore had a fine time.
Thare is a site of work goin on there.
reckin thare wuz mighty III Infee
hundred men workin the street.
cementin, gradin an pavih. Thare
Wiz lots of curis mersheens ever
WHARF. and it wuz dangers to walk
around. Then thare wuz a lot OF 1el-
7ors 9 clinin hi poles an stretchln
close lines mighty nj all over town. an
T spected ever time I past won OF
them poles that feller WOOD cum
. tumblin down on to me an Smash
- f;++or R11t law SakeS!