Cheraw chronicle. (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, January 03, 1907, Image 1
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VOL 11. CHERAW. CHESTERFIEL^DOUNTY. S. 0.. JANUARY 3 l?07. .NO. 10 *
BISHOP A, COKE SMITH
DIES IN ASHVILLE.
A DISTINGUISHED METHODIST
DIVINE* SUCCUMBS AFTER
LINGERING ILLNESS.
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Elected Bishop In 1902, While
Pastor Epwerth Church,
Norfolk, Val^JJad Removed
toAilhville
For His Heatfii. _
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Asheville, N". 0., Dec. 27 ?
Bishop A. 'Joke Rtnith, of Jbe
Methodist Episcopal Church,
8outh, died tonight after a lingering
illness, although his
death was tinexp^Bdy He
w?h 57 years of . 4^^ having
i been born in Lynchburg 8. C.t
\ v in 1849. He graduated from
\ Wofford College, Spartanburg,
\ 8- C , in 1873 and immediately
joined the South Carolina Con
ference. He was pastor at
\ Cheraw. Columbia, Charleston
\ and other South Carolina points.
\ He was at different times u
\ member of the faculties of Van.
derbilt and Wofford. While
k pastor of Epworth churoh, Nor*
| folk, Vs.. in 1902, he was
I elected bishop. . Two years ego
V he recdoved to Aeheville for, hie
\ health.
Alexander Coke. Smith, eon
of Rev. William H. Smith and
Mary I. Smith, wee born in
Sumter county* Sept. 16, 1849.
No boy was ever more greatly
Inn if lin. -r I I
?IVU(^ wuo I&UV U1 UUUiU
influence than be. With such
parents, it would have been dif
ficult for bim to have been anything
but a good boy. He had
access to the common schools of
the community in his early
years. With a good preparatory
work thus done, he entered
Wofford College in October,
1868, from which institution he
graduated in June 1872. His
college record was one ot the
great success and popularity.
"Coke Smith" was always a
fsvprite in college and the
friendships then formed have
deepened as the years have gone
by- " \
work in Columbia.
After leaving Wofford college,
from which he goadunted,
I My Hair is
Extra Long
Feed your hair; nourish it;
give it something to live on.
Then it will stop falling, and
will grow long and heavy.
Avar's Halt* Vinnr lo ?tiA nnlv
? J w sawat V *19 ???V V?? J
genuine hair-food you can
buy. It gives new life to the
hair-bulbs. You save what
hair you have, and get more,
too. And it keeps the scalp
clean and healthy.
The beat kind*of a testimonial?
y "Bold lor QTar eixty yeare."
/ 1 SAMATAULLA.
flyers sa, ^
he wm into the South
Carolina deference nod was
sen I to Che*iw?Cheraj^ being
his Bret paetpral charge.^,While
here endeared himeelf, not *mly
to thoHo of hia.oW^jshurch, ?lit
the entire coorint^ity. The
next year he wmb sent to. Wast*
ingtori Street church, ('Oluuibf^
wohre he remainee three yeare.
InJDec?-mber# 1876, he went ?o
Buncombe Street church,
Greenville, Where lie remained
four veurs. During the yeare
1881, 1882 and 1883 he
at Trinitv church. Oharl??eA*t
J V ^
At the conference of 1883- he;
wna sent t i the Colombia district
as presiding elder. In
Jun?, 1886, be was elected to
the chair of men lied and ifcpral
pbilophy m Wofford coBkmp,
which place he filled for Mfcr
years. At fbe gejjjw$l conference
oi 1890/ heldT^-fit. Louie,
he was electe<n^dTO&ihe m jjs
sionary secretaries of tne
church. This place- be resigned
in July of fiieWme year to
eccept the chair of practical
theology in Vanderbilt university.!
After remaiuiog there
for two years he^ resigned this
dIucs to r?l urn In
r r""'"1
work. At that time, 1892,
Rev. W. E. Evane baveng J^tt,
the Metbodtft church, the pillESTABLISHED
1887.
Capital,
I T itri U
uuuiviuuu riu
Resources,
The oldest, larges
in Chesterfield Coun
We solicit your b
4 per cent, irvteres
posits?compou
South Carolina.
Lying south of North Carolina
we come to South Carolina,
another one of the original thirteen
colonies, with an area of
30,570 square miles, 19,000,000
ttf.res. The population in 1900
was 1,340,310, a density of 44
square miles, or, say, 15 acres
per capita. South Carolina was
originally settled by Huguenots
and English. Its white population
has always beem of a high
class. It has a long coastal front
age on the ocean, deeply indented
with bays, with several excellent
ports. The coastal section
is well adapted to rice and trucking.
but its agricultural greatness
is based upon cotton, it being
the only Southern state in
which every county is a heavy
cotton producer, and only two
running below 5,000 bales per
year. Taken all in all, it is, perhaps,
fair to say that it is the
best cotton state of the South
and that its farmers are the best
cotton farmers. It leads all
pit of th? QmndJ^Lfreet church,
Norfolk, Va., UtjKyacant . and
he was invited the vacancy
until cdof^Bc*. ^When
conference conygHp in 1892
tWkijffllcial hodv ^Rhat church
requested Bisba^fefeudrix to
trai.efar him mflfe Virginia
Mpl fere nee and JBon him at
GHfatndy Street, the. bishop
din. TmlerRR natttor&te
Epworth church,^R>rfolk, .one
of the moat beSEful churcj
nrilfipna in fha U..I1*
vufr, UUI1V.
Id Noveinberb^m>. he was
went to Court Lynchburg,
VaM wbe^ KsOccessfully
labored for fo^Hfeara, ufter
worth church, Nflttljk.
_ On Dec. raber ^Mfel875, Dr.
whh wart mflHid to Vlisa
Kate KiriHrd, <if l^Rberry. Of
the children bornjfcu^bis marriage
the followiii^Htotill bring:
Mnry Louia^^Rrancie Osgood,
Edward J^Wcb, Alice
Glenn. Isabel Henry
Ipnard, CatheriiM Ke, and a
Dr. 8mith'^i|w Sh- member
of the SoqtluHK ^^RSciference
wan often t?H I MO the general
conference $ HKa church.
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$ 50,000
fite <t
a a bN^ \p VJ mmr J W W V
$25 lb,000
t and stronalst "Bank
tV" ll
usiness.. I
t paid on Savings Derided
quarteJy.
I Southern states i its manufacture
of cotton goc 3, having now
over three milli spindles in
operation in som< >f the largest
mills of the work It is a good
farming country r other things
thau cotton, prod Jing well small
grains, corn, and rasse9, and is
making great stri es in ail lines
of progress.
The Sou^i C 'olina people
have always t>een zery independent
in their wn. of thinkihor
and are not gover 3d in ther institutions
very m ;ii by consideration
of what ol er people do.
Thus, it is the onl state in the
Union which has > divorce law.
It is the only stat in the Union
having the State ispensary for
the handling of li lor. Its pooar
high spirited, 1 mpitable, and
brave, and are w 'king for the
> Palmetto State a freat destinv.
?Editorial cor. dtton Journal,
Dec. 26, 1906.
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A jewelry store tn Mobile, Ala.
' was robbed of $1 XX) worth of
I diamonds Monda;
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the latter conference was chairman
of the committee on Epworth
League. As a preacher
Dr. 8mith ranked with the foremoat
of our laud. His sermons
evinced great thought ana wide
range ot information. But the
most valient 'characteristic was <
the magnetic influence he wielded
over his audiouce His eloQUeilCf
wan *ir. Mi'h'i.? "
a % ~ -J,-*-' ?
but it was never studied or rap- ;
id wordpainting. The secret of
Dr. Smith's pulpit power was (
in bis sympathetic soul. Be ,
loved his fellowtnau and shared .
his sorrows and his joys with a
depth that one rrrel? finds.
In the social circle Dr. Smith (
had few equals, being unaffected
in mauuer and possessing a
sense of humor and a aesource
of anecdote thatfmade him the
center of. attraction wherever j
he went. Appreciatiating his
worth, Virginia Metbodsate,
both preachers and peeple, did
not fail to honor him witb their
confieece and Love.
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Death of Mr. R. H. Pef ues.
* Mr. Richard H. Peguea died at
hiahomein Washington, D. C.,
on Dec. 80. His bod j was brought
to Ohcraw Tuesday morning
and funeral services were conducted
by Rev.O. W. Boyd, after
which the rem sins i were interred
death came as a shock to . his
many friends here as it was not
known that he was sick. On Dec.
28 he vti itrinlran with nur^ln.;.
- ? . ? w Tlt*W|rW?W?f ?*
and died the following Sunday.
I Mr. Peguee was well known
i in Oheraw having lived here a
number of years before moving
to Washington. He married Miss
Sallie Duvall, sister of Messrs.
H. P. and M. W. Duvall, who
survives to mourn his death.
He was first manager of theold
Pee Dee Telegraph office here
holding the same position for the
Western Union Telegraph Co.
when that company bought out
the Pee Doe Co. About this
time he bought the old printing
office here and launched the 1
Carolina Sun. After a very fit
ful life the Carolina Sun suspend
ed publication and the outfit was
moved to Chesterfield. A few
years afterward Mr. Pegues
secured a position as a printer in
the Government printing office
in Washington, which position
lie held at the time of his
death.
Of a genial and kindly disposition.
lie made personal friends
and held their., and they sincerely
mourn his death.
I
Death of Miss Elizabeth Graham. <
Miss Elizabeth Graham, well j
known to our older citizens, |
having been postmistress here i
for many years, succeeding her t
mother who was postmistress *
away back yonder shortly after ^
the war between the states, died ]
here last Friday.
Miss Graham was a native of
Pennsylvania. She had been an
invalid for a number of years. '
s
Gilbert Smith, of The Chron- ?
icle force, spent the holidays in c
Lancaster the past week with t
relatives. I
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THE SOUTHBOUND RAILWAY
New Road Will be a Great CoalCarrying
Line From the
Mines to the Sea.
A Winston dispatch of recent
date says:
From a most reliable source
this correspondent has been in
formed that within th?Tnfext three
years Charleston, 8. C., and
Winston-Salem will be connected
by bands of steel and that the
Southbound railroad will be one
of the greatest cpal carrying
roads in the country.
Those who doubt this can just
sit quietjy by and watch.
The Atlantic Coast Line Railway
Company has just now a
party of surveyors out on their
line of road between Wadesboro
aud Florence, S. C., who are surveying
the old Cheraw and Salisbury
road leading from. Wadesboro
to Cheraw, S. C., for the
purpose of straightening out the
kinks and of securing a safer and
a securer roadbed.
Id addition to this the surveyors
< are at work also between
Che saw and Florence for a like
purpose. It
is further stated that the
CheraV and Salisbury and the
CherawSmd Darlington railroads
of the Auntie Coast Line system
will bdt almost entirely **?
-??v
finished their \Fo?k7*ctive work
will begin on the construction of
such parts of the road as will
have to be changed iu order tq
straighten out the track, and all
of the waterways will be concretated
and filled up.
The entire road will be rock
ballasted and it will h? morio ???
of the most substantial links in
the great Coast Line system-.
Work is now being pushed on
the Southbound and they have
until April 11, 1908, to have the
road in operation from Wadesboro
to Winston-Salem.
Of course, this new road is
not to be owned by the Atlantic
Coast Lihe, but it is to connect
at Wadesboro with the Coast
Line system.
About all of the rights of wav
have been secured for the Southbound
and there is nothing now
to be done but to build the road,
when the rights of way have all
been secured.
The Southbound will be 92
miles in length. The Coast
Line's.trackage from Wadesboro
to Florence is 60 miles and from
Florence to Charleston is 102
miles.
f- Greenville,
Jan. 2.?Col. John
C5. Boyd, who suffered a stroke
nf parrlysis here Monday afternoon,
passed a bad day today and
tiis condition tonight is worse.
tie was moved from his apartmeuts
at the Normandie hotel
ihis afternoon to the Greenville v
lanitorium.
A report from his bedside late
anight says he is resting well.
Sis condition is serious.
At Asheville Charles H. Buckler,
Chapel Wyatt and Alpheus
AToodfin Wheeler have enteTed
mit against the South and Westsrn
Railroad for fcSO.OOO each, for
Itmnfffio fV?n ?i.nnn/1 4
??wuiDvot WWW PI&VUUU uoill^ tUUlf
hey were held in a state of
)eonage.