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The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-01-17

My father had MILL at the old
hills which ground wheat and corn and
sawed lumber, and which had been in
the service of the Confederacy during
all the war times. The old mill house,
two story building which stood along
side the branch at the foot of the
hills, is no more, and he had two burr
mill stones or rocks, and he ground
wheat during the summer, beginning
as soon as the grain was dry enough
to turn into -four after the harvest,
and the mill never shut down except
for Sunday from the time the grind
ing season began until about the first
of September, and he usually ground
up from 10000 to 10000 bushels of
wheat each season. There were busy
times around the old mill in those
days, and men who raised their own
bread would engage days way ahead
for their grinding days, and they
would come from miles around and
camp until they got their -four. And
on Friday he would put one Of the
mill stones to the grinding Of corn,
because in those days the farmers
would eat their own home raised corn
bread as well as their home raised
wheat bread, that is the farmers who
made any sort of success of the bus
mess of farming. And we would
grind from hundred to hundred
and fifty bushels of corn each week.
Of course that was after the first year
when the men who had been in this
great war had had time to make a
crop. They came home in April and
went to work with what they had and
made crop. There was not much
that they had with which to work,
but they soon managed to get some
thing because they worked and then
worked some more.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-01-17

more, but their ranks were very much
broken. Many of the flower Of the
young manhood as well as the
strength of the old manhood had been
left on the field of battle. But this
is not intended to oe in any sense a
reminiscence of the war or war times,
because l have very faint recollect!ons
of those days, but of the scenes just
following those times.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-01-17
"A "REMINISCENCES

The death of my old friend Nh.
Geo P. Griffin at Prosperity the oth-
or dav calls to mind the days of the
long ago, and somehow just can not
keep from writing line or two about
il. Maybe it will be of interest and
read by some of the many readers CT
The Herald and News. Now and
again my mind wanders back to the
davs when we lived down at the Aull
hills, and to the scenes that were
enacted during the happy days CT
childhood. And l recall the faces G.
the men who then were young, out to
me seemed old men, and Mr.. Griffin
is one of those who was an actor anid
those scenes that come to me. 90
not say, and I am not one who IS al
the time preaching, that the old days
were better than the days Of the pres
ent. Human nature has been very
much the same all through the ages.
There are good men and women IN all
the eras of the world, and there are
those who are not so good. There
are those who make life the better for
their having lived, and sometimes l
wonder if there are not those who
seem to have pleasure in making those
around them unhappy, and life seems
to be burden to them.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-01-17

Well, what has all this to do with
Mr.. Geo. Griffin. There were no
trucks and autos in those days follow
ing the war, but nearly every farmer
who did any farming to amount 20 any
thirg had good team Of mules and
wagons, and my father had in those
days fine mules and wei! groomed and
good wagons. He had to have them
in order to carry on the business, be-
cause the old boiler he had ct the mill
in those days was one Of the big
things abou. four feet in diameter and
some sixty feet long and without
tubes and it had a smaller BOILER
along side this big one called ne
heater. It took about three hours to
get up steam and about a cord of
wood but when you got up the steam
YOU had some steam. And then 1t
burned about three or four cords Of
wood day, and so it took some cord
wood to keep the thing hot and steam
ing. And Mr.. George Griffin, a young
man Just back from the war, came to
work at the mill and he drove one OF
the teams and he was considered one
of the best wagoners in that section
and took a great pride in keeping
his mules looking we'll and in good
condition and he could haul a load
with that team and / used to think
if l could drive wagon like Mr..
Griffin why my whole ambition would
'oe satisfied, mean a four mule
team. And then my father had an
other wagner in those days, white
man, Mr.. Boland, who was also
good man, but my recollection is that
it was the impression of me and the
negro boys that Mr.. Boland could not
always get his team to pull the load
that Mr.. Griffin could from his team.
In other words there was sort of art
and science in the driver by which
his team would be all good pull to-
gether mules, or if some of them
would balk now and then or stall, /
reckon that is a good word in this
connection, at any rate that IS what
we would say, that is me and the ne
gro boys who were my playmates IN
those good old days. The old hills
then were alive with the activities of
the times and it was public place
and the mill was off the public road
though my father in his day usually
kept the road pretty we'll worked so
that the wheat and corn wagons could
get to the mill with their grain and
ge. away with the -four and meal.
There may not be as much wheat
grown in this section now as there
once was. In fact soon after the old
mill was taken down and moved to
Greenwood county, then Edgeteld,
the Prosperity wheat mill, Wheeler
and Mosley, owners, or Brown and
Moseley, was established and it pros
pered for awhile, but soon the roller
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-01-17

Those old days were pleasant days,
and the people were not in such a
hurry, it seems to me, to go some
where and then come back, and IN
great hurry in both directions and not
accomplishing a great deal either.
But then there were no automobiles
and no trucks and electric paows and
many of the other things that we have
today. But it was time when men
and boys like Mr.. Griffin had just re-
turned from bloody and hard fought
war, and one which had not >oeen
waged on such scientific plans and
with such long range deadly guns and
deadly gas as were used m the great
world war, but the men from the
south who fought it suffered many
hardships and pIivations. There
were no first aid and second aid hos
pitals wish all the trained nurses and
the other conveniences and contrN-
ances to make even the hardshlps and
dangers of war more pleasant. There
were no airplanes and no fighting IN
the air or with the many other things
now used in war. Tie people and the
civilization have advanced IN the
methods and instruments of destruc-
ton Just as they have in the comforts
of life. When these boys came home
from that struggle at the beginning
of planting time they came home to
empty larders and barren cribs and a
country devastated by the march and
destruction of the enemy. They did
not complain and grumble about the
hard times but they went to work to
restore their land and their homes
and to build a new South. A very
great proportion of the man power
of the country from the boys on up
to the old men had been engaged in
the actual war and only women and
the slaves had remained at home. The
slaves had been faithful and true
and but for this there may have been
even greater privation than these men
in their torn and tattered uniforms
found when they reached their homes
They were glad to he home once
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-01-17

I have long had desire to return
there and end my days among the
scenes of my boo3.lood, out have new
er been able financially to build so
that l might live in some sort OF COM
fort, but if I had the money to build
bungalow even, 1 would go back
right now. But this feeling too IS
nothing but human nature as it has
ever been. And it is good that J.
should De that way, because this love
of native land and home and birth
place is the foundation for patriotism
and love of country and that which
makes us ready to give up life even
in it's defense.
Z n q
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-01-17
stones on. Of the business.

I should say, of course, tia: we had
a let of bought corn tc grind IN
those days, but it was tfp" .'eA. just
as the diver sifcation propaganda IS
trn: sodas, that the farmer who mad
bought coyn" to grind to get lis corn
bread as rule was i'll debt, and jiad
moor mules and no wagon woltl
sneaking about, and tine lesson learn
cd in this way at that time has made
ma as editor of The Herald and News
for the past thirty-fve years strong
an, persistent advocate of the ra'sihg
~, the farm what was needed for tie
farm and then all the cotton you can
grow regardless of the price, and the
farmer who has followed that rue IS
not today feeling the pinch OF hard
times. because he does not owe any
one for what he has eaten and can
Get along very we'll even if ne does
make a great deal Of cotton, as ne mas
not been in the habit of making much
cotton Eut diversifcation to tha1
extent is an old song for The Herald
and News. and has been sung for ma
nv wears in these columns. 1t is
Measure to have so many good people
;o;r IN +he chorus and help to carry
the tune. May be it will come. Ihls
diversifcation we are talking about
and have been for so many years.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-01-17

The old mill was not roller MIL
hut made mighty pretty and gooo
Aonr On one of the cloths ne had
what he called first quality and then
second quality and then middlngs ana
shorts and bran and he usually got
a3out 40 to As pounds of first quallty
f,our from the bushel of wheat, be-
sides the other grades and the bran
and after the toll was taken out'
which in those days was the tenth Tor
wheat and the eighth for corn. Why
more toll for corn l never could un-
derstand, because there is less work
in the ginding except that 1t was not
worth as much as wheat. Flour SOLD
then from ten to twelve dollars the
barrel. The same old mill is standing
I'M at the new home in Greenwood
county. but it has never done the SER
vice it did down at the old hills. Inc
people up there never grew the wheat
they did down here, and then they
would take it to the mill all the year
round just like we used to grind corn
and it never seemed the same mill al
ter t was moved away. The Old mill
house and the dam in the creek and
Tho lonc box that brought the water
to the mill, and all the evidence OF
the old days at the hills has disappear
ed. and there is nothing left there
of the other days as evidence of what
thew were except the hills and the old
house and the branch and the pines,
and the spring of clear and cool and
sparkling water that comes through
the rocks at the foot Of the everlast-
mo hills.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-07-29
OBENCHAIN JURY
STILL DELIBERATING

Los Angeles, July 29.-Another ef-
fort at reaching. a verdict was to pc
begun this morning by the. jury In
the second. trial Of Mrs. Madalynne
Obenchadn for the murder OF her
sweetheart, j.. Bolton Kennedy, a
young broker at Beverley Glen, q
suburb, August S, 1921,
The Ave men and sevent women
who retired at 10t o'clock last night.
were reported at that time to stand
s. to- 6 on VI verdict.
sf4t, They received the case at 4:04
o'clock In the afternoon, devoted ap-
proximately two hours to dinner and
presumablY deliberated four hours.
/, While the jury was celebrating.
Mrs: Obenchain declared she was COM
fident OF, aequittal but that the strain
was Aevere. s 4. It f2..ss$ 2.s3$s
These months Of waiting, Z ~ she
said IL have told on my feelings: While
[I.feel. the same cqnhdence in the ulti- :
mate res1lt. the tensity and strain OF
the proceedings affect me.
iA disturbance was caused In the
court room late last night when J. D.
kennedy, father Of the slain man was
said to have threatened Judge Rush,
CHIEF defense counsel. Rush laugh
ed and an investig from the dis
trict attorney ofhce escorted KEN
nedys from thescourt ROOM. When he
returned he said he had searched
Kennedy Il y .s u, III "A, gtt
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-07-29
To Give Part OF
Inherited Fortune
!. To Starving Miners

New York, July 2s.-The first ap-
preparation out OF the 100000 given
to the new American fund for public
service by Charles Garland. who is
giving away his inherited fortune, will
go to ''the relief of starving miners
in the western Pennsylvania coal
fields" Il y f5.EtS r.
The appropriation amounts to $2,-'
900. For time the principal Of the
fund established by Garland ''for the
benefit of mankind" will remain in
tact, only the income being used for
appropriations. -.
To determine how best to spend
the money, four committees will sur
vey the fields Of periodicals and pub
lications; educational campaigns Nor
new ideas; experimental educational
institutions and research, particularly
industry and economics. - NJ
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-07-29
DAWESiDE''|fE|;l|'lDS
HOSPITAL ! ! Isl ! I PLAN J | I
OF y GEN. SAWYER , | |;
Says Men Who Attack Pro,
1 posal Are Making Bad
3. i. !, N. .
4 Nx40Se4EAVS -r,4 sSeN7t

Chicago, July 29.-Charles Dawes,
Chicago banker recently head of the
national budget has come TO the de-
Tense of the federal disqualification
planstof, Brig. General Charles E.
Sawyer. the presidents personal ply
stefan and chief co-ordinator of the
federal board Of disqualification, in a
message to President Harding We'd
nesday made public last night.
In the message Mr.. Dawes said:
/. cApropos. Of the public attack on
General Sawyer, the well-meantng
friends of the American soldier are,
in my judgment, making mistake
in their methods. It was necessary
for, the LegionEto arouse public sentt-
ment two years ago In behalf Of the
soldier and a new era OF enort ana
but this present method of publicity,
in my. judgment is ill-timed.
II feel that certain members of the
American Legion in the best inter-
est Of the soldiers themselves should
involving public sentiment to back
General Sawyer instead Of. to en-
barass him.
"The tendency on the part of many
public officials to run to cover when
ever the Legion. men give blast and
to change their plans in order to
.front.a public statement sof one side
fofs a case involving the interests Of
the soldier has been Responsible In
my Judgment, for much unnecessary
delay, waste and lessened efficiency
inErelief work at the expense of both
the soldier and the government.
One. trouble with our. public Of
ficials today ia$thats We have too many
towards 10 the men who will, take
to to be. rempesaFily lysfhs populara Course,
irrespectivefo Of whether it is right and
General. Sawyer as head of the
federal disqualification bureau has al
ways been an earnest friend of the
soldier and of soldier relief, but he
has had the courage always to stand
for sanity and the. exercise Of popu-
lar business methods in. connection
with, this large subject whether it was
popular at the time or not.
Possessed of information for rea-
son OF his official position, General
Sawyer's attitude has been in my
judgment uniformly calculated to
bring about situation in which the
interests, of the government and the
public are both .subserved. ~
I'm view Of the personal attack on
General Sawyer, desire to make this
record of my complete confidence in
him. While have been an advocate
of economy in public expenditure, I
place the relief of the wounded sol
diers above any question of economy.
My opinion, however, formed as d.
rector OF the budget, has been that
hasty expenditure does not always
| bring rapid relief and that de-
termined pursuit of formulated policy
| will not only make. money 20 fur
ther but not bring speedier relief"
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-07-29
Would Give Authority
To City Planning Bunch

Fargo. n. D.. July 29.-Recommen-
dation that the city planning commit
tee through legislative enactment be
made more than recommendatory
body and one with. authority to act
on matters of land subdivision, open
ing of new streets. or park area: that
a comprehensive city plan following
careful analysis and study be adopt
ed to anticipate the future develop
ment Of the city: were contained in
the report made last night. to the city
planning committee by Harland Bar
tholomew, city planning 8engineer of
st. Louis. following his preliminary
survey Of Fargo's situation.
The city plan, suggested by Mr..
Bartholomew would be most compre-
hensive, would require about two
years Of careful study and analysis
and would cost from SO ,ooo to $15.-
900. & 3.si iSjs.,5
The city planning committee ac-
cepted Mr.. Bartholomew,s report and
will meet within few days to de-
termine their report TO the CITY com-
through whose sanction they
function and TO whom they report. Il
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-07-29
Work Condemns The .s.
!. "Unrebuked Pageant
C: &c: OF Savagery In U. S."

I: Chicago, July 2s.--what$ he termed
"a, pageant of :sayaEery, still unre-
buked," was cohdemned in the. open:
ing address, at <Sthe Pageant Of Pro-
;gress here estodays by Postmaster Gen
erai Hubert Work. Declaring he
principles Of pnionism and collective
to warn org1 1nized
labor that sanctions. or. commits vio-
ience,.:y he said. The. Pageant of
savagery that, recently sralked
'aDroad by day III this fair state. still
.unrebuked. would have pallored, the
painted Indian, he said.
While expressing concern over in
dustrial relations. the postmaster gen.
cerning the modern young person and
concerning prevailing feminine
modes. He said that the fashiona BILE
short skirt hung from : the shoulders
with unrestricted waist was some
thing which physicians E,.haYe urged
for generation.
"Some OF the young people we see
care-free and light minded" said Dr.
Work, "but Il know that, the mothers
and schools of the United States have
in the last generation, produced a
higher type of citizenry, than the
country has ever before known.
II would make an appeal for the
relief of those who work with both
head and hand, from those who work
only. with their. hands and who are
being exploited by leaders for their
immediate personal gain.
"Those labor organizations which
restrict the available employment, in
a community to its, preferred mem.
bers, and prohibit other members
from seeking employment where
they may find 1T. have not in mind
the principle of the greatest good ir
the greatest number. They are
blindly bidding for the open shop: the
competition Of disorga nization within
their own ranks and a. return to the
old method. of wage determined by
efficiency, governed by the law Of
supply and demand rather than tt
their own formulated rules.
''One-half of organized labor i:
conservative. They are home owner:
and their children become good citi
zens They must very soon breal
away from those in their own craft!
who disregard the rights and necessi
ties of others, who do not approve o.
practice the creed, An honest day.
work for an honest days wage o.
who are willing to do murder to xii
competition."
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-07-29

Chicago, July 2s.Two stxfk-
ing Illinois Central shopmen weee
wounded in fight between IS
strikers and . squad OF depufy
U. S. marshals At the Burnside
shops this morning. 4 =
The trouble started, according
to the deputy marshals, when tho
crowd surrounded j. N. Morgan,
one of the deputies and the mob
leader said to be Clifford Bailey.
q striker, shoutcd: Lets get
him. ~
Morgan shot Bailey In thu,
stomach and in the ensuing riot
Carl Caltakie, another striker,
was shot in the leg.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-07-29
LONG PRAIRIE
hLl|lR|SHAL,.KlL.L|EI:D|. | ! r | |. | /: ! }.
BY B BANDIT ] ! | I y | I GANG !
Officer Attempts to Nab
Robbers; They Open Fire
...:...l .,.s. :: 3: and Kill Him.

Long Prairie. !; Mimi. July 2s.-.
George Williams, village marshal
here. was shot and killed shortly
after o'clock this morning by rob-
bers who had made san unsuccessful
attempt to blow the safe of the bank
at Hewitt, a. small town in this,
county. Answering a telephone call
from Hewitt, which told OF the at
tempt to rob the bank, and that four
robbers were headed in this direction !
Marshal Williams and Deputy Sheriff
Adarns went out from here to block
a bridge the fleeing men would have
to cross. When the machine carry
bridge. Williams jumped on the rum.
ming board and ordered the men to
hold DIP their hands. One of the
bandits replied with a shot, killing
the marshal instantly. ~.
The bandits then abandoned their
car and running fight followed in
which eighteen shots were fired by
the deputy sheriff and the bandits,
who ned into neafby woods and disap-
Members of the national guard
coinrany ofLpng Prairie, fully armed;
Joined q posse. at once and began q
search of the district where the
bandits entered the woods.
Marshal Williams was SO years old
andais survived by his widow. He
had been village marshal for ten
years. III .s
3, hs4sSobbsss who gained entrance
.iItr0ttHa-sE1gMift bank through rear
door were esfrustrated in their attempt
to amper with the vault. by several
young men who were returning from
q dance early this morning. These
men shouted at the bandit, who i'm
mediately gave, up their attempt and
fled TOWARD Long Prairie, y&
sThes Bandits had cut The telephone
and tsfsfS6phs wires leading out Of the
GOWN bat pVerl oolsads one line, over
which the alarm WAS sent here and
which resulted in the death Of Viii
la me- n .Llf.,I - a =. ~ " + Is W
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-07-29
! I MENTION ]! -! | ]! [ | !.
] {. OF MISSING !.
J. ]. I. !. 7. SUBMARINES !; / | \ !:
Tender Reports by Radio to
Naval Station That She is
"All Right E.

San : Diego, Cal, July 2g.-The
tender Beaver, from whose convoy OF
four. were reported miss
ing last night, was in touch by radio
with the, naval air station :. here
shortly after 2 a; m. and reported
ton of any OF the convoy being
missing. fts
Y Los Angeles, July 29.-Four sub
marines which left Los Angeles Tues
day for Hampton Roads, as part Of q
'flotilla of. twelve, scheduled for de,
commissioning Friday were reported
missing Thursday of the Lower Cali
tornia coast south of Emsenada.
thenL-5, 'L-6, LIT, LIB, all Of which
were built at Long Beach, CAL, dur
Ing theswar. u
The story of the apparent disap-
pearance of the four submarines was
brought to Los Angeles by the liner
City of Honolulu, Captain Thomas W.
Sheridan from New York. %.
Captain Sheridan said that yester-
day below Ensenada the City of Homo
lulu sighted a cloud Of smoke some
distance away and changed its course
to learn the cause.
!. ..,s 4. I. Sub smoking
a"It was..a submarine, badly snek-
irie.p he sa!d; IT made ne ansaNer =,
Later" continned. Captain Sheh-
dan, we signAlled the tender Beaver
which Had THE submarines in$convoy.
At hrst she made no answer. to our
signals but later responded to our
semaphore' offer. of assistance. She
said she had eight submarines in con-
voy and needed no help"
H' \ Eight Accounted
"a message received at the submar-
rine base at Los Angeles harbor from
Commander Roy Slower, in command
OF the submarine flotilla stated he
had eight submarines in convoy. The
message contained no reference to the
other, four ,%S s- rs !;
r.! Officers at the submarine base last
night were said to be unable to &C
count for these two craft or the other
two of the Lstype, reported missing.
1t was believed definite information
concerning the vessels would not be
received here, before today, wher
the flotilla was due at Acapulco, Mex.
to take in tow the submarine s-s2
recently disabled.
The other eight craft in the fiotiils
were the H-2, H-3. SH-4, HIS, H-6, HI
HIS, and H-9. -
Captain Sheridan said he counted
only eight submarines when he me
the fotilla. 81