The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-08-26
ROTARY CLUB HAS
FORTNIGHTLY LUNCHEON

The Newberry Rotary club held its
regular fortnightly luncheon in the
grill-room of the Newberry hotel on
Wednesday afternoon at l o'clock,
practically every member of the club
and a number of invited guests being
present.
A feature of the meeting was the
reading of reports from the various
Rotary clubs of the state, in which
the activities of the clubs Were recit-
ed. The following clubs were rep
resented by local Rotarians, each of
whom read the report of his particu-
lar club: Greenwood, Rotarian Roy
Summer; Columbia, Rotarians Zach
| Wrigh5 and Lad Eskridge; Charles
ION, Harry Dominck; Gaffney, Ben
Dorrity; Spartanburg, Henry Wells;
Florence, James Kinard; Orangeburg,
! 1McHardy Mower. These reports
were very interesting and proved the
worth of a Rotary club to my COM
munity.
Secretary Mcdaniel of the Newber-
ry chamber of commerce, "our cham
Der of commerce." as the genial and
wide-awake secretary put it, address
ed the club and told something of
what our chamber of commerce is now
doing and will do. Mr.. McDaniel's
talk was greatly enjoyed.
| Short talks were also made by the
other guests of the club-Mr. T. W.
Keitt, Prof. Geo. w. Ke:tt of the
University of Wisconsin, Rev. |. +.
Long of Charleston, Mr.. J. Lawson
Goggans of Dallas, Texas, and Scout
Master Carl julien, of the local troop
of Boy Scouts. The guess were IN
troduced by Presidel', George B.
! Cromer, who, as master of ceremo-
nies, made it his business to see to- it
that there was something doing all
the time. =
The musical part of the program
was little short in quantity, hut
what it lacked in this respect was
amply made up for in the qGality
dished out to the very musically in
clined Rotarians and their guess.
The way Rotarian John Kinard led
"America" was simply in class by
itself, that's ALL After Rotarian X
nard had executed this part, of the
program (some of the very awful Ro-
tarians say that he murdered" IT'D,
and Rotarian William Wallace was
called upon to lead the bevy of song
birds in singing some classical crea-
! ton, that last-named Rote stated that
| he aided and abetted Rotarian klnard
in his execution. This is written SIM
ply to counteract any claims Of Rota-'
rian John Kinard that he alone was
responsible for the remarkable lead
ership in the rendition of this song,
and to prove, according to Rotarian
Wallace, that he was there with the
goods when the execution took place.
Not content with thus exhibiting
the singability of the Rotarians, both
individually and collectively, Presl-
dent Cromer had the nerve to call
upon Rotes Haskell Kibler and En-
nest Summer for their highly-cherish-
ed duet, "The Old Grey Mare" This
pathetic little ballad proved to have
kick to it, but it seemed that the
aforesaid kick came from those who
were forced to Sit and listen. Any
way, they got away with it all right,
or, at least, they were allowed to tin
isn one verse.
A large American flag was present
ed to each Rotarian and guest, with
the admonition from Secretary Hal
Kohn that this flag and countless 9TH
ers be used by each recipient for dec
Grafton during the meeting of the
South Carolina American Legion
naires here next month. Rotarian-
Hymn-H lister Ben Dorrity then SHOW
the boys how to do things, when, as
soon as the flags were distributed, he
led off in singing "The Star Spangled
BANNER" while the starspangled
banners waved.
Altogether, it was a great meeting.
! Everybody enjoyed it, and now the
Rotarians can hardly wait for the
next luncheon, which is scheduled for
the sixth of September.