The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-05-13
MEMORIAL DAY.
Many Veterans Here-Dinner Tender
ed Them-Exercises in Opera
House.

Memorial day was appropriately OBJ
served in Newberry on Tuesday.
There were several hundred veterans
here, representing every section Of
the county. Many Of them were taken
to ride in automobiles during the
morning, and at l o'clock they were
rendered a dinner in the old court
house by the local. chapters Daughters
OF the Confederacy. The dinner was
bounteous and well prepared and was
charmingly served by the Daughters.
At $50 o'clock exercises were held
in the opera house, with an audience
in attendance which filled the house.
The stage was appropriately and
lastly decorated.
Col. O.. l.. Schumpert, adjutant of
the James D. Nance camp, U. G. v,
presided. The exercises began with
the singing of Dixie" by the children,
dressed in the red and white OF the
Confederacy, which was followed
with prayer by DR.. J. H.. Harms. A
hymn was sung by the select choir,
accompanied by Miss Hattie McIver
Leavell at the piano, and an appro-
pirate scripture lesson was read by
Rev. Edw. Fulenwider. "The Old
Kentucky Home was sweetly render
ed by the choir. .
DR.. James Mcintosh, the orator of
the day, was introduced in appro-
pirate words by Major James F. J.
Caldwell as a man who, although
reared in another county, has been a
citizen of this county for forty-fVe
years, and during that period a very
prominent life amongst u.s. "He has
become known by reputation to every
one in this assembly, said Major
Caldwell, "and personally known to a
very large majority of us. His intel
ligence, his experience as a Confed-
crate soldier, and his acquaintance
with the matters which he will dis
cuss before, you, furnish assurance
that his address will prove most in
teresting and most valuable to all OF
u.s." s..'
DR.. Mcintosh discussed in a clear
and lucid manner the causes which
led up to the War Between the
States, and paid a glowing tribute to
the loyalty and the heroism OF the
Confederate soldier. He recalled the
burning Of Columbia by Sherman, and
said that Newberry would have sui
fered a like fate had it not been for
the timely appearance of General
Cheatham's troops, on their way to
North Carolina to join General John
son He gave an instructive history
of the collapse of the Confederacy.
DR.. McIntosh's address showed
deep study of the conditions which
brought about the war. He was fire.
quently interrupted by applause.
A full synopsis of Dr.. Mc1ntosh's
address, is published elsewhere in this
issue of The Herald and News.
Crosses, of honor were bestowed up
III Veteran G. Luke Sease, and upon
Messrs. R. H. Wright and F. N. Mar
tin, descendants, respectively, of Vet
Grams R. H.. Wright and J.. N. Martin,
deceased.
Mrs. j.. A., Burton, president OF the
Drayton Rutherford chapter, U. D. c.,
was unable to be present on account
of her health, and in her behalf Col
sschumpert presented to the West End
: school a copy Of "Re%collections and
Letters of Robert 2. Lee" in recogni-
ton of the fact that the West End
! .cuool was the first school in New
berry and the first mill school in the
I; State, to contribute to the Arlington
monument fund. The volume vas re-
;eceived for the school by Miss Laura
Blease, the principal. Col. schum-
, pert said that in presenting the vol
ume he could do no better than Il
read the inscription which Mrs. BUT
ton had written: presented to. the
West End school in recognition of thse
fact that this school was the first II
. Newberry, and the first mill scnool
in South Carolina, to contribute Il
the Arlington monument fund Ma!
the spirit of Robert Edward Lee gro"
with your years, dear children, and
thus fit you for LIES duties. YOU
sincere friend, Mrs. James A. Burton
/ In the fire which devastated a con
! siderable section of Newberry three
! years ago the banner of the James D
Nance camp was burned, and Col
.schumpert announced that contrlbu'
lions we're being received at Mr.. Wm
Tohnson's store. He said it was de-