The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-10-08

to visit this town influenced ne in my
acceptance. and over | went. 1t va
through the courtesy Of Mr.. II. J.
! Parr that had the opportunity g
get there. He offered me seat il:
his car with his daughter and be-
husband, Mr.. and Mrs. Patrick, and
on Friday morning we drove over,
arriving about II o'clock noon.
Mrs. H. L. Parr. one of the Judges,
had gone the day before, and Ms;
Bessie l.. Campbell, the other judge,
drove over with Mr.. 7. NJ. Mills and
Mrs. j. NJ. Workman and Miss Neil
Davis. Of course, as l have said, |
knew nothing about embroidery AMI
tatting and hemstitching and all tina;
sort of stuff, but when it came to
the fudge" and the pies and cakes
and things like that / was in m:y
element and knew what was what,
and the old relics and the preserves
and canned fruits / knew little
something about, but they would no.
open them so that they might be
sampled, and the only way for me TO
judge eats is to eat, and so l left the
fancy work entirely to the two ladies.
There was a fine display of cloth az.
ranged by Mr.. Addy, the cloth being
the product of the mill of course.
The needle and fancy work was
fine and there was great deal o. 1t,
and some of the paintings by tn,
girls were very good for amateur,
and the basket work and so on and
on, and we pinned red ribbons ard
blue ribbons and white ribbons G..
, many of the articles ard would have
been delighted to have placed a iii
bon on all the work. There was al
excellent piece Of work by one Of the
boys in the mill which was IN c;caccc:
all by itself, and it wac made by .ai..l
in his spare time. 1t consisted Ct :.
scre driver and some mill c.o;a
tools and the finish was as pretty IS
you could find anywhere. In 3&c.
it was gem. I do not recall the
name Of the boy who made them, Gu
he works in the mill. In one CT thc
tools he had worked On the inside ur-
der the outside finish a picture OF his
work and baby and the whole VS.
the work of genius.
When it came to the old relics
there was quite number of them
and / did not realize that good
Seceder like Mrs. Parr could get fs-
enough away from the matter of,iacss
to indulge a joke, but in pas.ins
around the relics she pointed OFT 3
clock which she said was SO old ;.,a.
the shadow from the pendulum II
the many swings which It had mao !,
during the centuries had really wor2
a. hole in the back Of the clock. i
did not examine it to see if she wa
correct or merely joking me. In fac
we could not exactly agree on the
relic entitled to the blue ribbon, and
the only way to reach a compromise
was to agree with her. was some
what undecided whether we should
pin the blue ribbon on the first pair
of pantaloons of Zack Suber or on
the Scotch champagne flask wliic!,
had been handed down for 125 years
through four generations whose
names were written on the flask end
| decided at last that the flask should
have the blue ribbon because of thu
fact that even now such thing 3 a
real curiosity in these dry and thirsty
days through which we are passing,
but Mrs. Parr would have none of it,
even though I had let her have he
say as to fancy work without med
ding en- my part. 1 thought that the
Scotch flask should at least have the
white ribbon, but none of it for Mrs.
Parr. She said she was going the
next day to attend a prohibition
meeting somewhere over about john
ston and of course could not COM
mend anything that even had a re-
senblsnce to or any connection with
the wine wnen it is red or even white.
So the blue ribbon for relics went
to an old fox horn made from cows
horn and labeled as made in lI36
and the red ribbon was pinned or {:
stuffed squirrel in perfect state Of
preservation though stuffed 35 years
ago. l do not recall now the relic
that got the white ribbon. l Go not
happen to remember the names Of
the winners of all the prizes FOR
candy and pies and cakes but l do