The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-11-01
INTERESTING LETTER ABOUT
THE CITY OF NEWBERRI
Edgefeld- Advertiser, 26th.
Dear Advertiser:

Edgefeld Advertiser, 26th.
Dear Advertiser:
have been in Newberry now for
several weeks, and each day / become
more and more impressed with the
progress of her people and che great
extent of her growth during the past
decade. This IS instanced particular
ly in the number and beauty Of her
churches. The following denomina-
tions have fine brick churches and
progressive congregations: Methodist,
Lutheran, Baptist, Episcopalian, Pres
bvterian and A. +. p. While in the
Newberry Mill village are three large
church edifces, with beautiful par
sonages of the Baptist, Methodist and
Lutheran churches, and in one of the
other mill villages are Methodist and
Baptist churches. l had the pleasure
of being driven all over the city yes
terday afternoon and had rot until
then realized the size and beauty OF
the town. AS evidence of its wealth
and material prosperity are the many
very beautiful homes and we'll kept
acres, and l say acres advisedly, for
there are very few of the handsome
homes without the beautiful lawns
and grounds,
/ One thing that I particularly like
are the great number of flowers, both
those grown out doors close up to the
buildings, and pot plants in the WIN
dews of stores, garages and even IN
the windows and door way of the
chamber of commerce. It speaks OF
the great degree of culture and re-
fnement in the taste of her business
men.
The town numbers about sever
thousand people and her business &C
tivities are net confined to one small
street or square but are scattered
over a large area. Many of her
streets are very narrow, but nearly
all of them have paved sidewalks
while the street proper is Of asphalt.
There is a beautiful government post
Office building and Newberry's old
court house which is good brick
structure, is used for Offices and as a
home for the Newberry post OF the
American Legion. The beautiful new
court house is up to date in every
sense of the word and is a credit to
this wide awake community and her
love for the law v
i There are many organizations be-
sides the fraternal orders, among
them Rotary club, chamber of COM
merce, free library, two organizations
of the United Daughters of the Con-
federacy, post of the American Le-
gion with its accompanying auxiliary
of women, chapter Of the Daughters
of the. American Revolution and many
others.
! There are several beautiful parks
! and nowhere have l seen more beau
tiful trees than are here, but the van
dal hand of progress is being laid to
the root Of many of these, as to prop
erly build sidewalks many of the old
landmarks have to be sacrificed
There are two fine newspapers in
Newberry, one, the Observer, with
Editor Wallace at the helm, the other
The Herald and News, under the ed
itcrsh;p of the Aul!s. This is the old
est paper IN this section, l think.
Hortense is in charge Of the social
column of this paper and is also the
linotype operator. 1t is issued twice
week, so she is kept pretty busy.
The town lies on the route Of two
railway lines, the Southern and the
Columbia, Newberry and Laurens, so
there are ample facilities for travel.
The graded and high schools are
under fine dictatorship and occupy
fine and commodious brick buildings.
: This is rather random letter, but
in my next l shall try to say little
) of Newberry's prominent men and
women and the work they are doing
for the world.
Agatha A. Woodson.
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