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The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-06-28
cOLORED PEOPLE RALLY IN
WAR SAVINGS STAMP CAMPAIGN
Woman's Aid Society Pledges Support
at Great Meeting-Mt. Moriah A.
M. E. Church in Township 9 Goes
Over the Top by Subscrib-
ing for $4,000 Worth.

The Women's Home Aid and Burial
Society of South Carolina held their
quarterly session at Mt. Moriah Bap-
tist church, Newberry, one June 20
and 21. Over 100 representative
women were present representing
over 40 lodges. most of them being
from Newberry county. The meeting
was presided over by Mrs. M. R.
Graham, the grand president of the
organization, who is rendering valu-
able services to the race along with
her co-workers in all movements for
it's betterment and help winning the
war
BY invitation the colored chairman
of. the Council of Defense and the col
ored school supervisor were present,
who took occasion to compliment the
work done by the noble women of the
race, who are doing so much to relieve
suffering, caring for the sick and
burying the dead.
They also spoke of War Savings
Stamps campaign and urged that
everybody purchase them. Also urged
the raising of more foodstuffs and
the canning and preserving of some
after which unanimous vote was cast
by the organization as whole would
start by subscribing and then each
lodge and members the same would
follow.
Amid the business session OF the
meeting everything was suspended for
a while and the women took time to
give thanks unto God.
Over $500 was collected and paid
out for charitable causes. One thing
which accounts for the success of the
organization is that they place God
in front.
Lodge No. 7 collected and contrib
uted over $5 to the Red Cross last
week.
On Sunday afternoon at Mt. Moriah
"A. M. E. church in Township No. y
the colored people of that section had
their rally. DR.. George Y. Hunter OF
Prosperity was present and made an
excellent address, after which the
CONGREGATION came forward and sub
scribed for 1920 worth of War Say
ings Stamps, which carries them "over
the top" DR.. Hunter congratulated
them on their loyalty.
Another rally will take place in that
township at Shiloh A. NJ. E. church on
Wednesday evening at $3.50 o'clock p.
m. and it is hoped that everybody who
has not subscribed will come out and
do their part.
Accounts of what has been done in
other meetings will appear in later
issues of this paper as several COM
mittees have not been heard from as
yet.
Remember that the W. S. S. cam
paign ends on the 28th inst. IF you
have not subscribed please do SO now.
Any information desired can be Civ
en- by T. A. Williams, H. o. Reese and
Tt Q Co1Iuoon
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-06-28
IS3 19I
COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON
South Carolina's eldest College


Entrance examinations at all the
county seats Friday, July II, at a
m.
Foar-year courses lead to the B.
A. and B. S. degrees. A two-year
pre-medical course is given. Military
training in all courses.
a free tuition scholarship is assign
ed to each county Of the State.
Spacious buildings and athletic
grounds. we'll equipped laboratories
uneXcelled library facilities.
Expenses moderate. For terms and
catalogue, address
HARRISON RANDOLPH, Pres.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-06-28
NEWsERRY SCHOOLS, CITY AND
RURAL, TO HAVE TEACHER OF
AGRICULTURE NEXT YEAR

Prof. Verd Peterson of Clemson
College, head of the teaching Of agri-
culture in South Carolina schools, was
in Newberry last week in conference
with the school authorities and Mr..
T. NJ Mills regarding the establishing
OF an agricultural group of schools in
the county. Plans were perfected en-
abling Newberry city school and
group of rural graded schools within
Eve to seven miles of Newberry to
take advantage of the Smith-Hughes
federal appropriation for the teaching
of agriculture and the Smoak-Rector
bill providing 100000 for the same
purpose in South Carolina. The pur-
pose of these appropriations is to edu-
cate our boys for the farm by giving
them in the school room course of
three years of the study of agriculture
and it's sciences along with commu-
nifty civics. The main requirement is
to have 10 boys above IA years in a
class with s125.00 worth of equipment
in a large room for teaching. Prof.
Cannon has arranged for room and
the equipment in one of the schools
of Newberry, which will serve as the
class room and the laboratory for ex-
periments. T.
Prof. Peterson has selected an ex-
pert in this line who graduated in the
agricultural department of Clemson
college in 1912 and has had five years
experience in this work. The people
of the sections in which the schools
carrying this work are to have the
services of this man in the way of
combating hog cholera, plant diseases,
and various things connected with
farm life.
Prof. Peterson was driven out by
Supt. Wilson and looked over the
prospects of Mt Bethel-Garmany's
consolidated school, Jalapa, Symrna,
and St. Philips. Four schools will be
selected, considering the roads, dis
tances, number of boys, interest of
the people for making the group.
The man selected will teach each
morning in the Newberry school for
80 minutes then will go to his class
in one of these rural schools, where
he will also visit the farms and plots
of the boys. The idea of having
demonstration farm On the school
ground will not be tried as it has failed
in many instances, but each boy
studying agriculture will be asked to
work an acre orImore under the sup
eryision of his teacher of agriculture.
Effort will be made to secure the old
er boys and young men of the COM
@munity for the study of agriculture
also. The farmers, old and young,
will be reached as the man is here the
wear around to work in his schools
and communities.
Newberry county is fortunate in Sc
curing this agricultural expert and es-
pecially the Newberry community. Eff
forts will be made to organize other
groups in the county. The main re-
Guirement is to have group of five
or four schools with 10 boys over Il
years and above the 5th grade. This
will enable the group to secure the
federal and State appropriations.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-06-28
NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT.

will make final settlement Of the
estate OF Sidney B. Auli in Probate
Court for Newbe"ry conDty, s. c.. on
Monday, the 22nd day of July, 1918,
at IL O'Clock in the forenoon and vii!
Immediately thereafter ask for my
I:crharge as Administrators Of said
estate.
Talu a. Aull,
Administrative.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-06-28

DON'T FAIL TO SEE BILL T-4RT
IN HIS MASTERPIECE FRIDAY.
JUNE %. AT THE OPERA HOUSE.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-06-28

DON'T FAIL TO SEE BILL HART
IN HIS MASTERPIECE FRIDAY,
JUNE 2e. At THE OPERA HOUSE.
Evening star., 1918-06-02
R. H. D. as Society Editor.
PHILADELPHIA editor was tall:

A PHILADELPHIA editor was talk
6A ing about Richard Harding Davis
Davis was an excellent reporter"
he said. but he had no sense of
journalistic dignity. You couldn't re-
ly on him. Hence we had to super
wise his copy mighty carefully.
zone unlucky day the society cd
itor fell i'll and Davis was put in
charge of our dignifed society co.,
umn. Nobody edited Davis copy.
Everything he sent upstairs went into
print just as he wrote it.
We'll. the next morning at break
fast happened to glance at our so
ciety column, and the first paragra:,,.
that caught my eye was this:
"'In Fridays report of the en-
gagenent of Peter Penn and Marvs
Vaux Vaughan we intended to sa"
that the happy young couple had
been chums from childhood. The fool
compositor made it read "chumps
from childhood" However, the COM
positor wasn't so far of at that. for
anybody who would marry Peter
Penn might easily be mistaken for
a chump.'"
Evening star., 1918-06-02
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REPM NMNM NkUD AFnh War Story by Nine. De1arue-1adrus


Throngs jostled her. but with a
friendlier impulse. The repatriates
now wore on their breasts, instead
Of the German labels. little knots of
blue. green or rose, each with a diff
ferent signifcation. And those who
rose-colored bows didn't know that
that little butterfly of tender hue was
for them the saddest of all, since it
consigned them-a wandering band,
whom no one claimed-to the chance
good Offices of the various depart
mentS.
The little gold piece which had
been given to each of them on their
arrival, the concert offered them, the
discourse made on their behaIf-were
these preliminaries not promises at
last Of joy. Of happiness?
A tide OF French vigor ran brim-
ming through the hall. The women,
when asked in the cloakroom what
piece Of clothing they needed most.
invariably demanded an apron. An
apron? To work. To begin to re-
construct the past.
Frail, weak and timid, Nine. Du-
mont. behind the Others. waited her
turn. Some one came along to ex-
anime the labels they wore 1t was
for all the travellers, at the climax of
their fatigues and emotions, the truly
supreme moment-when they should
know. yes or no. whether some one
would claim them in one part of
France or another. whether the home
destroyed would be reconstructed
again, whether the poor human dog,
whose longing was visible in all their
eyes, was going to be freed from the
pound. in which, shivering, he had
awaited for so many weary days his
long-postponed deliverance.
Mime. Dumont, senior widow,
claimed at Paris by Mime. Dt mont,
widow, and her little SON."
A flood OF tears blinded the big eyes
of the lamb-like face-one poor grief
swallowed up in an ocean of other
griefs. And the little warlike old
lady with her beautiful otter muff
and her Sunday best hat, didn't know.
when thus inducted through that
curt phrase, into the mysteries Of the
last three years, whether she would
sob with despair because her son
had been killed in the war or from
joy because she had still some one on
earth near whom to die: because the
little voice of a child, still a stranger
to her, would greet her at the end of
the last stage of repatriation with
those three carefully learned words.
unhoped for. blessed. heart-stirring-
words which held in them all the
happiness in the world-"Good day
grandmamma! Good day, grand
mamma"
Evening star., 1918-06-02

luxuries-and also her Sunday hat.
over which some black grapes hung
TREMENDOUSLY. Like the others.- too.
she wore fastened on her breast, in
the midst of a number Of minute tri-
color flags. pinned on in the course
of the journey, the German identif-
cation card. on which was an an
nouncement, written in the two Ian
guages. that the human piece of bag
gage to which it was affixed had the
right to travel. and some other OIL
cial notifications of the same sort.
Nobody laughed, certainly. in the
tightly crowded compartment. Identi-
fication cards and little flags mingled; |;
Sunday costumes rubbed against one
another. The heads Of the poor trav-
elers stood out iamentablX. faces
above above bodices % % crinkied by T hours 3i oi
standing in the train-bodices whose
style went back three years. recall
ing 1914. carefree peace and all the
tranquil happiness whose sudden end
no one then suspected.
II X
There was conversation. naturally.
more frequently there were little
demonstrations of fraternal sympathy,
and, permeating all this, an immense
undercurrent of hope and love. To
see France once more-the true
France, under her own flag! Still
undiminished, the exaltation which
stirred us-the rest of US in 1914
filled their breasts.
A consumptive. in the last stages.
murmured. with a smile:
at would have been a grief to me
to leave them even my skin"
A soldier. showing two arm stumps.
exclaimed:
you will see IL I don't succeed all
the same in working the soil of
France"
= At the Swiss frontier the trum-
peters who had saluted them told
them of all the music and all the
discourses which awaited them and
that their return to France would re-
sembie an entry into glory.
At the table at the banquet given
them on. their arrival Nine. Dumont.
when the "Marseillaise" burst forth
and the prefect. loaded with decora-
tions. arose to speak, thought she
should faint, as three or four other
women actually did, entirely overcome
by patriotic emotion. Then, in the big
hall of the hotel which received them
she did all the thousand little things
which red tape demanded. She seemed
to go again through all the stages of
the journey.
Evening star., 1918-06-02
BY WILLIAM L. Nc
PHERSON.)

E~l HE WlDoW DUMONT, seventy.
one. frail. weak and timid,
would have experienced a
tranquil old age after the
great chagrins of her existence; she
would have been able to live COM
fortably In the homo Of her grandson,
the sole survivor Of many bereave-
ments, and of the young wife whom
he had married two years before "a
household, alas! without children. but
which spoiled the old grandmother.
Just as If she had been a little child);
she would have known all the sweet
nesses of declining days. little
waxen lady with a lamblike face. II
the hazards of war and invasion had
not come to brutalize her last mo-
ments. to introduce tragedy into them
and to make them famboyant with
terror.
Today is for her the last day of
three years of a hell on earth.
Repatriated!
Nine. Dumont is going to find out
whether or not her grandson has died
on the field of battle. whether or not
her granddaughter-in-l was shot
when she fled from the invaders in
1914. when. innocently remaining be-
hind to put the house in order. in
their little village in the north. the
frightened old grandmother had found
herself, entrapped. without any hope
of seeing her relatives again or even
getting news of them.
A train of repatriates! Can one ever
realize what that phrase comprehends
of misery and enthusiasm, of tragedy
and comedy, of small and great emo
tions. mixed with sort of mournful
buffoonery?
AS part of its human freight (al1
classes and all ages jostling one an
other). hustled from car to car. from
station to station, from frontier to
frontier. the Widow Dumont. frail,
weak and timid, observed with her
astonished. lamblike eyes all the
varied aspects of this voyage to free
dom.
Like the others. she had arrayed
herself. to honor her recovered father
land, in the clothes which she thought
the best and most becoming of the lit
tie wardrobe which she carried along
"a poor and almost ludicrous collec-
ton. She wore, then. in spite Of the
warmth of the season and OF the
crowded train. her otter mum. a rich
antiQue-the pride Of life devoid of
Evening star., 1918-06-02

forces under Aetius. aided by set
tied. semi-civilized. property-holding
Franks, soon broke the horde in the
final and terrible battle Of Chalons.
And the miracle. according to some.
was one girls extraordinary inf1u-
ence. She persuaded them not to
evacuate Paris in . land Of violence.
Tho people said: Tier prayers
yHrned the Huns aside" They meant
Evening star., 1918-06-02

aged and elderly men who were not
with tho armies. Tho parallel is as
tonishing; the same today. all
through. They fortified and sat
tight. The movement to evacuate
Paris was checked. In. those days the
fate Of refugees was terrible. Attils
was at Rheims. The kaiser Ia at st.
Gobain. They prayed some more.
Orleans. being detected by Aetius.
Paris was saved, because the allied
Evening star., 1918-06-02

her prayers and theirs together.
along with the heroic defense of the
allied armies.
So they have thought down the
Saint Genevieve. model of prayer. of
resignation. of patience and all the
virtues. terror of the Huns. helper OF
the besieged city. pray for u.s.!
other story. when Genevieve was
seventy-one years old. The Franklin
king. Clovis. was sure to become final
master Of the land. Genevieve. now
notable political figure. figure travelling cling
infant and willing. Yet she persuad-
ed Paris to hold out against Clovis
for ten years. The secret was that
Clovis was a heather. Genevieve and
Bishop Remy Of Rheims had cooked
up a marriage for him with the love-
ly young Christian princess Clotilde.
And Clotilde had not been able to
convert him.
This is why you see the immense
and her feet Of Seine boats. She or
ganized the entire business. Paris
was besieged and starving. By night
they miraculously passed the block
provisions at Troyes. returned with
the current to Romilly, Joined an
other fotilla which Geneyieve had
freighted on the Aube and after
entire double squadron into Paris. an
exploit worthy of q king or general.
Again and again they beat the block
ade. It permitted Paris to resist until
the year A. D. 595, when the Alamans
attacked Cologne and cut OF supplies
which Clovis had expected from that
direction In the historical battle of
the Rhine valley against the very
Alamans from which France takes
her general term for all Germans
A C1nufo fnvnLnd tho
Christ of Clotilde. won victory and
was baptized at Rheims on Christmas
day. and Immediately Paris welcom-
ed the friendly Franks.
palace of the Thermes. where modem
tourists visit the baths which re-
main. Genevieve lived with him,
ghostly adviser Of the kingdom, per-
sonal friend of Clotilde and spiritual
grandmother of the little princes. All
Paris and the Isle of France looked
on the venerable virgin as an ire
sistible influence. She led captains in
prayer for victory. farmers for rain.
famine and winter; and so did she
mix up prayer and vigils with organ
lied effort and solid collective labor
that none could disentangle them. nor
would. because the system worked.
+
She died. aged eighty-nine, mourn
ed by all the land. In her last years
she had persuaded Clovis to build a
great church on the site of the pres<
ent Pantheon, which retains part of
the ancient crypt. There she was
buried, on the hill where she had
lived; and it explains the existence
Of the Pantheon frescoes of her life
and works. 1t is quite another story
how the revolution finally took the
building. so that what remained of
Genevieve was transferred to the
neighboring church of st. Etienne on
the mount. IT is always the Mount
st. Genevieve, hilly east end Of the
Latin quarter. And here Paris in all
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-12-20
Worlds Oldest University.

The oldest university in the world Is
at Picking. 1t is called the school for
the Sons of the Empire" Its antiquity
is great, and a grand register consist
ing Of 800 stone columns. 10 reputed
to contain the names OF 10000 gradu-
otos
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-12-20
What The Y. NJ. C. A. Is Doing
With The Money They Receive

plain substantial type that the men
may spend their rest leaves In comfort
after their varduous work on the line
or behind the line.
Another 100000 will he required
to perfect and carry OH the edura-
tional projects. obtain ana erect
school buildings, buy tex. books and
equipment and acquire proper in
structors.
In a lump sum there has Just been
spent $4,000 for musical instruments
and entertainment OF the boys in
Great Britain. While this may seem
n large sum, the musical instruments
paid for themselves the first night
they we're used in the amusement and
whole some entertainment they gave
the boys in the various camps. Twice
this sum will be needed for the next
six months.
Each month is needed $4,000 Cor
stocks of goods such as cigarettes,
canned goods, candles. aside from the
regular oanteen supplies. Another
$4,000 for buildings, tents. huts.
equipment, etc.
Even the movie program reeds
$4,000 monthly just TO keep The boys
entertained.
The "Y" officials in Great Britain
are figuring hat practically every
single phase of activity will call for
more men and a larger program of
expenditure than was needed before
the war.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-12-20

LONDON. Dec. IS-A million and
n quarter dollars a month has been
required to carry on the vast work of
h American Y. NJ. c. A. In Great Bri
tain, according TO some facts and
figures offered as the result of q sur
vey just completed. The information
has been obtained particularly with a
view of ascertaining what the needs
for immediate future are. The report
shows that the Y. NJ. c. A. 'rog.am
has assumed greater proportions than
ever since the cessation of firing.
The Red Triangle army in Great
Britain now numbers about 900 men
secretaries and 400 women workers,
including a number of volunteers.
There is every certainty tina these
STATS must be increased. Ohicials of
the organization report that with the
conclusion OF peace at hand there will
be more uniformed Americans On
leave, more with leisure time on their
hands and consequently a great deal
more work for the "Y" secretaries to
do.
There is nothing too ADD for an
American boy in England" Is tho Y.
M. c. A. slogan here. Working On
this assumption. 1t is planning 20 ex-
tend Its activities in education, ath-
letics, technical training. religion end
entertainment. The $1,250,000 a
month II is spending at present has
been used TO carry on this program.
as well as for building OF huts. rent
ing of accommodations and admins
trative expenses.
Already there is great shortage of
sleeping quarters for officers and men
of both the army and navy in South
ampton. Liverpool and other cities as
well as in London itself. In the mat
ter of acquiring sleeping accommo-
dations for additional men $4,000
will be needed with which to take
over leases and supply furniture of a
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1918-04-19
5T--SSsS=s -ss.=-=E<@
/

Aunt Betsy Baxter. DIED at her
home near Burbank. Ala, on Sun
day April IA, 1918, and was buried
the next day in nearby graveyard.
We are informed that she had reached
the extremely ripe old age of 118
years. That she was somewhere
round hundred years old was gen
orally accepted. She had become
bowed with years and withered in
body but ambitious in movement,
coming to LeakesviIle along at inter
walls and going round without any
pilot, except her tall walking
stick.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1918-04-19
THREE BIG DAYS
AT CHAUTAUQUA
Patriotism, Information and In
Spiration to Be Featured.

The greatest hlndrance to the mani
pulation of the affairs of our govern
ment at the present time is not the
lack of patriotism, but the lack of in
formation. Never before has the great
American chautauqua been of such
service to the people who have sup
ported 1t as it has been since the war
was forced upon us. 1t has become one
OF the most powerful mediums where
by the government departments, upon
which the burden of the winning of
the war must fall, may send out per-
sonal message to the rural districts as
well as to the great cities.
The chautauqua program which has
been arranged for our town during the
three days as advertised has but one
object in view, and that Is to help win
the war. 1t comes with messages of
patriotism and with instruction along
vital lines, and is worthy of the sup
port of all our citizens. Not only will
noted speakers and representatives
from national institutions be present,
but through the inspirational music
and splendid entertainment numbers,
we will strive to KEEP THE HOME
FIRES BURNING" while the boys are
"over there" We must not forget
'the old home town." for it must be
better when the boys come back than
when they left it to fight for rs
This arGcle prepared in plate by the Chau-
tauqua Bureau