The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-09-24

scarce and then he "had married
wife" and that tended to keep him at
home. 1t seemed to me that the thing
would have been to bring tie wife
along. Gus Kohn and Watson Dun
can and ". ]. Carmack and Bill
Panks arrived some time in the early
morning after getting lost and driving
.! around through North Carolina.
There have been many changes in
he personnel Of the association since
ry connection with it, and it seemed
% re that was almost among stran-
gers, so many familiar faces were
missing. And yet the boys were
clever and nice to me and 1 enjoyed
spending few hours with them.
The meeting was he'd in the Car
Degie library and a brief and approp
rate word of welcome was spoken hy
Col. jim Bell which was responded 10
by August Kchn who became remin-
;scent and told the boys that he hac
been in the game long time and had
rad many experiences. Then some,
papers were read and some discussion
OF the business Of running a paper
and then there was talk about in
creasing the subscription rate and the
cost system, and as we went to dinner
we went through the Ledger building
and took a look at DeCamp's print
shop. And by the way, he has one
of the best in the State, and it was
as neat as pin and everything seem
ed to be arranged for convenience.
1t should be a pleasure to work IN
such shop.
In the afternoon of Wednesday we
were taken to the Irene mill and were
shown through this excellent plant,
though it was not running as the
water was low. We were given a
beautiful souvenir in the shape Of a
lowell which is made by the mill.
From, the mill we drove out to the
Cowpens battle ground and there a
splendid address was delivered By
Col. Rion McKissick of the Greenville
News. 1t was replete with historical
facts in regard to this battle and they
were put in such concise shape that
they constitute a valuable contribu-
ton to the history of this struggle and
the paper will be preserved by publ
cation in the proceedings of the asso-
cation. The peroration of the address
was in beautiful and eloquent lang1-
age and the entire address was great
ly enjoyed.
The Cowpens battlefield is about 13
miles from Gaffney and a monument
built of stone marks the place. It
was erected by the Washington Light
Infantry in 1855. A United States
flag floats from flag pole over the
stone monument. I hope it will not
be in bad taste for me to say that
there is great need of a new flag for
this flag pole. The flag that is there
now reminded me of the flag that
once floated from the capital in Co
lumbia when the legislature was IN
session, it is torn in shreds. It is a
beautiful section of country aroun7
where this battle was fought and the
crops this year seem TO be very good
1 saw some very fine corn and the
cotton was good.
l was sorry that I could not remain
over to hear the address of my friend
the Rev. T. Dean Crane who was pres
ent and was to speak Wednesday
night, but I had opportunity as stated
above to drive over to Spartanburg
so as to get my train home on Thurs
day morning and I was back on the
job in Newberry Thursday by 10000
o'clock.
Pollock didn't come and Manning
was not there. do not know wheth-
er Cooper came or not, he had not ar