The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-03-07

could have been secured with the same
outlay of money, whether it paid big
dividends to the public spirited men
who put their money in it or not.
And so it is with other enterprises.
they may not pay fabulous dividends
directly back to the men who put up
their cash, but in the make up of the
community they are real and very val
liable assets. And . pay indirectly
many times the outlay.
An up-to-date ana modern office
and bank building is also an asset
to any town the size of Newberry. OF
course in this day of skyscrapers and
Dig office buildings, they are common
in the cities Of the land, but in a COM
munity the size of Newberry they are
not so common. And yet, why should
not a town like Newberry have a
modern office and bank building with
all the modern appliances. That is
he question Henry l.. Parr and as
sociates asked themselves and an
swered when they set about the build
ing of just such structure at the
corner of Main and College Streets,
and made no fuss about it, but there
it stands monument to their con-
structive ability and Mr.. PARIS un-
firing and never weary energy, and
mis- confidence in the community in
which he makes his home. 1t is
credit to the town and to the men
who put it up.
Henry L. Parr is both kinds OF
builder which we mentioned above,
builder "of carved marble" and
granite fronts and columns, and also
builder of "a house for hospitality
where cheerful flames cherish and
warm him" and over which dainty
and modest and home loving and
church loving little woman presides
who has shared his fortunes and mis-
fortunes with him, as they have trod
life's highway together through the
years. We wish we had the permis-
sion to print his life story from the
time he plowed an OK among the red
bills of Fairfield and secured a lien
to get supplies to run him from MI.
David Hipp at Pomaria, to the time at
which the hour hand is pointing to-
day and which marks him as
builder who is worth while in his COM
:nunity: 1t would read like romance
and be an inspiration to many q young
man struggling to get on in the
world, but that is another story.
Associated with him in the build
ing to which we are to direct this
article is the courteous and efficient
cashier of the Exchange Bank, NJ. l..
Spearman. The two have worked to-
gether faithfully and harmoniously,
Mr.. Parr having the charge OF the
outside and real constructive work,
and Mr.. Spearman attending to the
many and multifarious duties of the
inside.
The building is FIVE stories and the
basement, and work was begun more
than year ago but owing to war
conditions it was very much delayed.
Pity they could not have secured the
old Crotwell Hotel building sooner. for
then we would have had hotel with
an entrance in Main Street and the
two buildings could have been made
more into one, and Newberry would
have combined modern hotel with
a modern office and bank building, but
as it is the hotel building is being
thoroughly overhauled and the inside
taken entirely out and -rearranged,
and steam heat and running water
placed in all the rooms, and nearly all
of them with bath. And when the
overhauling is finished Newberry will
have first class hotel building. But
it. is of the other building that this
story is to relate. AS we understand
it, MIR. Parr and Mr.. Spearman are
the owners of the hotel, and it is sepa-
rate from the Exchange Band build
ing.
The Exchange Bank is the young
est Of the banks in Newberry, but has
had remarkable growth in the past
few years. It had its days of ad
versity, but they seem to have been
but days. of experience and trial out
of which it has come full dedged and
growing rapidly and healthily.
It was organized in 1905 with ]. D
Davenport as president and M. l.
Spearman as cashier and in a very
] few months w. B. Wallace went in as