The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-07-15
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THE IpLER.

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hear that the civic association is
really going to try to do something
yes, really going to help the trustees
and the city to make beautiful parks
around the Speers street school and
the Boundary street school. Or may
be arrange Fairgrounds for the chill
dren. All very good and commendabIe
am really sorry for people VINO are
near sighted and some who are blind.
l cont mean physical defect when
I refer to near sightedness, or blind
ness, for would not parade the ply
sical defects of any one, and, by the
way, some of those who have this
sort of blindness can see further
through mill stone than any one
you ever saw with good eyesight.
Well, was just thinking about the
civic association and what it could
have accomplished since l have been
helping it, for the past several years,
if it just had the pluck to go ahead
and do things. l am not cr1tlclzlng,
and am not personal, because 1 do not
know who the officers are, nor VINO
the members are, nor how much mon
ey the organization has on hand, but
I do know that if any number OF good
women, such as we have in NeWberry,
would only band themselves together
and determine to do something worth
while there is nothing could stop
them, and they would soon have the
men interested and at work, but 1t
takes determination and bull dog te-
nacity to do things in this town. What
/ started out to say is if only the as
sociation would take mold OF some
thing worth while, such sls park Tor
the town., if they had done so since
we have been talking about it, the
mark would have been built. 1 hate
to see the old town go backward and
the people pulling apart instead OF
together. o, we'll, what's the use. 1t
is not all worth while to worry about
and am not worrying, but I will tell
you now and then how it strikes me-
and let me assurepyo that it makes
no difference to me whether you act
ON nv suggestions, or take them SER
iously or not. l can get out OF this
town as quick as any of these fellows
that are going off, but I am going TO-
stay right here, and the next time you
hear from me 1 will be right here at
tie same old place.
There is one thing worth while men
tioning, there is no place on top the
globe, or underneath the spreres,
where a rumor derogatory to one OF
the citizens will travel any faster or
gather force as it goes more rapidly.
The old three black crows story that
you used to read in the blue back
speller not a circumstance and IS
absolutely obsolete in this rapid tran
sit town, and 1 don't think l ever saw
2. place where there were so many
good people who took delight in keep
ing an unkind remark travelling, ana
seeing Lhca fast it could travel The
speed lust of the fastest motorcycllst
is not a small circumstance The
only way 1 can account for it is that
we have so many ladies and gentle
men of leisure they have to give at
tention to their neighbors. But what's
the use. Let's talk about something
else.
/ was trying to sleep a little the
other day right after fairly good
dinner-I mean good for me-and the
flies wer very annoying and l was
wondering why the fly. Why the
gnat. Why the other annoying in
sects. Everything was created for a
purpose. was thinking about the
good old days before the war when
u,o bod tha flies and the old fashioned
peafowl fly brush. And the good