The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-11-26


done in the county by his department
of the government. Representative
Wyche spoke on good roads, and Mr..
Holloway, Farmers Union organizer,
talked On the assistance that cham
bers of commerce may be to the far
mers. These gentlemen were heartily
applauded.
Under the head of reports Of COM
mittees about twelve chairmen were
heard from. The chairman of the
committee on new members reported
about 1877 new members of the cham
ber of commerce received within the
last year.
Among the visiting secretaries we're
Messrs. Adams, of Greenville, Cum
ningham, Of NewbeEry; Handy, of
Columbia; Carpenter, of Anderson,
and DR.. Hunter, of Prosperity. All of
these made interesting talks except
Mr.. Cunningham, who gave way to the
visitors. DR.. J. ". Folk, of Jalapa,
and Mr.. A. D. Hudson, of Newberry,
president of the South Atlantic Corn
exposition, also made interesting
talks. Mr.. Handy, of the Columbia
chamber of commerce, made an ex-
cellent speech on the subject, "a
Greater South Through Greater
South Cardinal" He suggested that
the commercial boards take young
men into their ranks and give them
plenty to do.
The Newberry chamber Of COM
merce is to hold another meeting on
the Goth of December, at which time
a special banquet will be served. Mr..
Adams and Mr.. Handy we're invited
to attend the meeting and the BAN
quet.
The visitors we're given a ride over
the city by the Newberry hosts.
The visitors report that they were
royally entertained by the Newberry
business men, and they all left the
city singing the praises of the cham
Der of commerce and its hospitality.
Secretary Adams, in his talk, spoke
in part as follows:
"When I received a long distance
telephone message from your presi-
dent, Mr.. Hunt, yesterday morning,
asking me if I would come down to
Newberry for this evening 7 answered
right away that I would. I still have
most pleasant recoNections Of a visit
to your city several months ago. You
know a secretary never gets a chance
to talk in his own town except to
committees and we are but human so
we naturally like to go abroad and
burden others with what We are
thinking about.
"When your president asked me to
say a few words to you hesitated,
but thought of little joke and I
take my cue from it. One Of Americas
most widely known ambassadors was
attending a banquet in London, and
the king was present. At, the side OF
the ambassador was one of the first
ladies of the land. During the course
of the evening the lady dropped an egg
from her plate to the floor. She turn
ed to the ambassador and asked in ex-
citement, "What must I do, ambassa-
dor?" And he suggested in that char
acteristic way so peculiar to him,
"why cackle, madam, cackle.'
"Mr. Hunt tells me that this is sim
ply a business meeting, so I suppose
you are interested in those things for
the good of your organization.
"I want to go a round-about-Way to
bring matter to your attention.
During the last twelve months in
the city of Greenville SO new business
houses and manufacturing plans were
established I'D started in operat' On.
You notice that is over one week
for the year.
During the last year s5,269,0Oo
we're invested in Greenville business
concerns and the GreenVille business
men were e led upon for their pro-
portion of subscriptions and respond
ed as required in every instance. The
record for the year was over six mil
lion dollars as some of the enterprises
did not ask local support in the way
Of subscriptions.
sThe pay roll Of the city Of Green
Vile is s4,500000. Each workingman
makes a yearly wage of $3.50 for the
year making a total pay roll per week
in Greenville s12,666. The banks de-
posts show that two-thirds of the
wages received find their way to the
local banking institutions.