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Vol. LXX-No WINNSBORO.--:AY, MARCH 2, 1916.'Etbse14 CARE We have V, Lak rosm Can Supply Jno H. M ANOTHEI FINE COME AND U THE .BEST BR( I be sold at Th*( OWENS LIVE Opportu Come to everyonle, ar quire a cash ga3 What will y< portunity come ing for it now? Many---vei pairing for opp( Why don't YO1 Bank C Winns ~Live Sto< W.H. F] Is Prepared to Insu and CATTLE a CALL IEN SEED Ill the Standard arieties uists .e Shore Ln Brothers you in this line cMaster & Co. 2 SHIPMENT MULES )OK THEM GV8R. )UGHT 'HEiRE Y. ~Riht Price while ey Last.; STOCK COMPANY nities id they generally re rmentsmall or large. U do wehn your op s? Are you prepar -y nany---are pre rturity at this bank. f Fairfield boro, S. C. :k Insurance LENNIKEN re your HORSES, MULES gainst death, from any Cause. aN SEE iME. Of "alEM. R11ANDOM RECOLLEVIONS OF FAIRFIELD CUE The Burning of Winnsboro by Sherman. The evening before Sherman's army arrived in Winnsboro my sister Mary and I were sent out in the yard while my mother and father secreted boxes, packed with all kinds of goods, between the floors and the ceilings of the house. She was a little girl and I was a little boy.. We were afraid that the Yankees would come and burn us out. Our par ents were afraid that we would be frightened ipto telling the Yankees where the things were tidden. While we were walking up and down the lot we nbticed a glare on the ground and turn ing around my sister said, "Oh my, they are burning Colambia!" There was a red reflection that went high up into the heavens and seemed to meet from horizon to horizon. Sherman's soldiers arrived in Winnsboro as my father was hav ing morning prayer, and as I started to kneel by my chair-It being near a window-I looked out and saw one of Sherman's men knocking a panel out the store door on the, corner diagno ally situated from our dwelling. This store I think at the time was occupied by Mr. Hugh-Md Master,. or Mr. Charlie Cathcart. I saw 'them- an enter the store and when I a from my chair my mother asked e what was the matter. I rep "Noth ing." She said, 'I krw there is; I know you are sick" Itod her there was nothi.g wrong withme. In a few econdsmy father looked .out the widow and-saw a Yankee. ,He shok his head at my mother As-much as to say, "There is the cause. I di4tot hear his prayer h monnmng. We went down to passr having my father .t, whieb hehad takenfrom thewardrobe. My"atlieferept carefillyup be hind -him and snatching the bat fromithe knapsack *here the soldier had it, 'sereed it under his coat and walked alongside-df the Yankee. The Yankee weit to a desk out in my father's gin shop and prizing it open with a bayonet took a razor and a -box of soap, my 'father at - the time grabbing another razor. I re member the YankIe,s remark; it was this, "Well here is some soap 1it will kep me clean," and with' that he walked out.~ My mother prevailed on my father to ask some officeer for a guard, and after a while a guard was placed in our front porch. Be was relieved at.eertain inter vals by other guards. I sup pose because of the presence of 'this guard our house was com paratively free from a great many intruders until about night Mr. Boyleston, a neighbor who way living on the site of the present Methodist Church, sent a bottle of brandy over with the request that my mother try to save it for him. She was hunting her keys, as was often her custom; my father having set the bottle of brandy on the mantlepiece was helping to look for the keys at this moment I saw a Yankee who had passed the guard walk right up to the mantlepice and takethe bottle by the neck. He marched out and in five minutes the place was literally swarm ing with Yankees. They said there was whiskey in the house and they were going to have it. My mtherexplained the cause fo h r.esence of the bottle but they did not believe her and it greatly incensed her that they would doubt her statement. She told them they were a low down set to doubt a lady's word and Ithat she would prove them so to be, and with the lamp in one handand the keys in the other she marched them from garret to cellar. When they failed to to find the whiskey she asked them the question, "Is.there any whiskey in the house?", They s~aid, "No, madam, there is no whiskey in this house." She 1said, "You intimated to me that I was not tellinz the truth and I have proven you to be illbred degenerates. You contemptible cowards, get out of my h'ouse." My father told her to desist or they might burn the house. She Isaid, "Let' them burn; IJ am not ariofthe whole set of them." One fellow remarked, "If Bob Lee had them all as game as you ar, he would been in Washing ton a long tiune ago." She said, "If it were not for these child ren:i .bedi pointin to ily iyself. I woul have4 o yuniform and would Rob Lee tonight MrK onW house jus acros et i from us wa burnt an] 4welling caugh severab' I must-.say i justice..i&kbf Sherman's mei that Is.. hem on top of thi house father and other trying dut the shingle that had t-from Mr. Boy leston's We never knev why our Jwas nct set afir unless it t . presence of th4 uard. negro whom w4 had by 61 'of Aaror. Boy< told me Put a sign on ou gate iidi t my fathei was a thizer. H< said-* e on Mr. Charli< Cathceg -ne onCap tain . He claimt to have-' -these signs fron the Yankeed he told me h( kniw he g to the Yar kees. ( always doubt ed this Stor The fre. ued from Mr Boylestoisi Up to the build ing then ed by JohiK Catheart as o-e and dweling There were . dwellings and 2 cotton w and the Cath cart prope etroyed- in thic section. den related tc me-thIt*- -e,ire was aboul to igniteibW David Campbel house, att d known:as th Reuben Lua n house, that a officer ri bik blac lhos who was i be GeneraYWil liams; ro6&4:to_the men whc werez the Camp bell house c"lIed out 'B3 G- men, refi had bettei stOPnght d . den says men put the A her ofthe town pre did iit~w ~iimi,bthe here else iles wide across the State o tiath Carolina. While the eswere roaring and crackir and -the people were leavin heir homes in de spair draggi what few things they could h them, Sherman's men were ,er3g oit i the street, "By G- -re ember- Chambers ville"and An -tam. we will burn .this earth a foot deep!'! Prarie sod bArns beause. of the matted root nd thqg were usedito such sights The railro~d .was torn up by Sherman's npand the work of destruction asdone with dis patch. One ~t of men would go along;- and @aw thie spikes, an other set woid tumble the iron rails off on thi path each side of the track, . ile another crew would pen thdecross ties through which the iroj rails were pushed and the whol business set on fire. They vw|re heated red hot *n.the middle bd men with grap mng tongs irtheir hands got at telndrand lvtecithem around Mk 'ister bid I *were in thei bed i t' westirn room when we noticec\a sh#ow flickering on the manklpiee. (When reading the line i~ hbe's Raven: "and each sentrae dying ember wrought i ti upon~the floor" reminds iim f the. shadows of the flames N Episcopal church fire showed tour chimney jam.) She remar4' "Oh, what is it they burninaback of us?" We sprang up tode window and saw tetower of t(Episcopal church wrapped in fAes. I saw the timbers fall fithe tower and heard the bell Ig as it crashed to the graund. \Nobody in the world butione herman's men jwould have b ( the Episcopal ehurch in Win ~r. A rumor~ mos li through ne-I groes.reaed Usthat the bum-I mers in *rmans army had lopened a je'wlymLde grave in this yard bMievin t t the grave was a pre. to b'dA silver, and bein ~ ointkst finding a! corpse, th przedia mouth ofI the corpse ad~ Auck a po tato in in after leaning it up against a ;('Ihis.was told! 'by the n anU E do not vouch for 1 have 1rneii lately that the dead soldi'qwas aMr. Manigault' from Ca~tn. A Winnsboro lady noir ~g in:Columbia told me.that I id 'was taken from the coffin the body sat up in the gravei osed to view. The late4omas K. Anderson was in At1o~ some years before his death" met a man some Cnn oin Page 2.) g TEACHERS 1O ASSEMBLE I State Teachers Association t i Program. t Spartanburg, Feb.-The pro a gram for the annual meeting of a the State Teachers' Association s in Columbia March 16-18 is re s garded as- one of the most at S tractive in a- number of years. - The chief address of the conven 7 tion will be deliv6red on the a night of th'e opening session, a March 16 at 8:30 o'clock. by Dr. 3 Bruce R. Payne, President of i Peabody College for teachers, Nashville, Tenn. The teachers are expecting a treat in this ad a dress. The annual address by Dr. Henry Nelson Snyder, the President of the Association, will i also be delivered on Thursday evening. The report of the special committee on the reorgan - ization of the Associations will - be delivered Thursday evening by Mr. R. S.'Rodgers Cnairman, of Dillon county. The first session Friday will be given over to a discussion of the next steps in Educational Pro gress from various p o i n t s. Among those who will take part in this discussion will be R. T. Hallum, Pickens, T. C. Easter ing, Marion, Miss Elizabeth Dlickson, Miss Madeliie 'Spigen er, Lueco Gunter, W. H. Hand and Dr. D! M. Douglas, Pres ident.of the Presbyterian College. Friday afternoon.a receptibn will be tendered the visiting teachers at the University of South Carolina gymnasium. Friday evening an address will be delivered by Re. Arthur W. Dunn of t he United States 1 Bureau of Education.' Super intendent of Eduication Swear ingen and Dr. D. M. Ramsey wiff.also deiveraddresse&. Srday.wle given ovr to,, reports qt committees. . frative programs hg.-also. d6anged by all o the de-j Mrs.W. IGelston diedat her ( Some1115 Calhoun street, Col umbia at 8 o'clock Saturday s night from a stroke of appoplexy which she -suffered about 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Funeral services were held at 4:30 o'clock s Sunday afternoon at the Asso- s ciate Reformed Presbyterian t church, and the interment was e made in Elmwood cemetery; I Mrs. Gelston is survived by herI husband, Capt. J. W. Geston and the following children: J. W- a Gelston, Mrs. R. C. Smith; Miss Mildred Gelston, Miss Belle Gels- e ton anid Miss Rose-Gelston, and 3 -by her father' and mother, Mr. e and Mrs. W. J. Burley, of Mon tieello, and following, brotherse and sisters, Charles.Burley, Wil- s liam Burley, -Samuel Burley and*. Tillman Burley and Mrs. Walter s Ruff, Mrs.' Clark McGill, Mrs. e Gussie' Rabb and Mrs. E. R. a Roberts. ' The late Mrs. Gelston was a h woman of an amiable disposition and inany fine traits of charac ter, and her sudden death came as a great shsck to her family and friends. The pallbearers were John McCormack, R. M. n Simpson; - Henry Elliott, Austin I McCreight, E. C. Draffin and C. ti B. Draffin. ti County 'Borrows Money at ti Low Rate. ir di Bids were opened on Monday it from three banks of the towni for the loan of $26,000 to the county to meet estimated ex- f, penses during the year 1916 and r: the bid of the Bank of Fairfield i was accepted at a rate of 1.45- hi The next lowest bidder wasst The Winnsboro Bank at 1.5.a Under the term of this loan d all county officers except Clerk e of Court, carry their officeial se accounts with this bank during the life of the loan,.i This is the lowest rate that has ever been obtained by the county. si L Prominent Cotton Man Takes c Own Life. H Charlotte, N. C., Feb, 28.--0. , P. Heath, senior member of the a cotton firm of 0. P. Heath & c Co., this city, committed suicide is in his office here today. He was t one of the oldest merchants inm the cotton business in this sec- w tion and one of the largest opera- bi tors. Two years dago he met financial reverses, but apparently B was doing a thriving business at this time. Several of his broth ers are prominent cotton manu facturers in this section. 1 S Ddn't forget to be at the Thes- c pian hall Friday night March 3, S< to enjony the old time sngs. h Maggie Wilson Arrested I Rock Hill. Maggie Wilson, the begga nuisance, is very well know by most folks in Winnsboro, b; virtue of numerous calls that sh makes at each door "having Jus come from Ridgeway, and trying to beg enought money to' get t( Rock Hill, where she has a% sicl daughter." She was here abobi two weeks ago, and e-identl. got enough money to get to Rock Hill, judging from the following clipping from the Herald of Feb. 18th: Wearing a shabby looking long black coat, shabby dress, a hai fashioned in the ninetie- and with a wrinkled and care-worn appearance, over which a pall of sadness had descended, Maggie Wilson, general beggar-nuisance boarded the noonday train and swore she would never again set her foot in Rock Hill. There is reason. Known to the police of the two states -and .probably others, Waggie is a regular nuisance, one that it is extremely hard to get .id of. For years she has been plving her profession and .as a :onsequence is an actress of no nen ability, insofar as hr arit-is :oncerned. She goes, to a. home ind the appeal of tears in her voice and a well figdred expres ion of direst need on her seamy visage% are calulated to melt the leart of an adaint. And she isually ,ueceeds; though not 3very tire. Sometimes she' is eferred to the:Associated Chari ies. Cn such occasions, her ..pealing.voice suddenly 'changes Lnd she retorts something like his, "Lookahere, I have broken wo umbrellas over the heads of women teling me to go to the sass ted'Charities. had$9) in greenbacks ma in penies, nickles, m arters when caught his . Sheaelso had a iank olumbia savings - .r .qxi e apprame oesanswer he charge of- begging. Then lid Maggie adopt --hern appealing ttitade. Appealing hysteri6ally he moaned, T1Ill kill myself, lease don't take my money, I vill starve, I worked -so hard for t. Itisall I have,' and con iderable more of the same "soft tuff." But she had confronted he chief before. If you ever ome .here again, he told her, 'wilf take every cent you have, ank book and all, and -keep you i jiil. " She had been detained fter se'veral people, had com lained of her actions.,which are' othing i'ess -than a'nuisance. L.nd besides she has already >nsiderably more than $3'7.b0 rhich is. the per capita of the ~ itizens of the U. S., and con-J equently does not need to beg.. Mag said she was extremely) rry she struck Rock Hill. p >st me more than I got, she~ verred. She seems to have, a tania for begging and evidently aards'all she gets. Caution! With 'a shortage of ships to ove our cotton to foreign shores; ith no indication -of the end of' te war; with the Nation stirred rer preparedness for eventuali es; with the buying power of te entire world gradually lessen g day by day, it beeonies our ity to issue this formal warn g as the time of planting cotton at hand. Let everyone encourage the: rmer to beon the safe side by Ising plenty of feed and food r the community as well as for mself, his family, -and his live ock. (A calf, a pig chickens, id a garden often mean, the fference'- between want and~ oney ahead.) Economical and~ fe living for all asvwell as ]l 3afe farming" must be the ruleJ prosp~erity is to.abide with us. i Six-cent cotton this fall 'would >ell disaster irnthe cotton States. >w price follows over-supply as rtainly as the night the day. igh-prices and prosperity over e South this year prove what >luntary reduction of cotton reage does. 'Any marked in ease in aergge over last year going to result in a great loss Southern cotton producers, erchants, and bankers, and [11 similarly affect all allied Lsiness and professions. Conference of Cotton States mnkers. The .ioint conventions of-the inday school workers and the oman's Auxilliary of the Epis pal church of the Diocesesif uth Carolina began in Spartani trg Wedneday monng.' DUIKES' T FARE UN. rl BigSCOLEIKf T Have Bought Lare Tr Land fand Large':,.e, Surveyors at-.. We have no way of.kfiM for every man that we.hage who is in a position. to absolutely mum, but 4d6 that the Dukes ,aid thousarids of acres a the Wateree riveri th - that they now have civil engineers surve property with t;e tention-of deveVIngt power along this j& the further intezi4:? on a large scale Tfre ploved Mr. T. W.Rf ton,.one of.the inost farmers in this State, to havegeneit of their farnung this county. The * Iask ' other properties i 'We dislike towrite enterprises:that we.d the particulars but:A about all that~ andidi touch witlithese 7 find 6u, But'te all of this frme can look.dk g in Fairfieldro -School Jnrvmt The locat Asseia improvemniet met the rei.rt t he pre eut168t"m with gift of fo.r ze ofielpforet Company 'J J Mr. Tom-iak MrB Grady" eutr', OTe r house .are ~Lexercrsese wif nent tskers other states Otir people ardelie the:adyantageof ed havie ing the paistiA erseted a modern schoo ulig provement Their ef ~ v e i Y valuable i ment, whic~ b~ withouttai pi&' fund. AKIibrar - Aladdinlampa globe having be.* vided. At the ls ragggnd;two:book ~hts donateddfor thlris hii reading rooni by Ms Clayton. Adozei en with scitiial adnj were the' ift of? Caldwell. Atthemeigit voted to-buy-as&e Dictionary and ishe,p cups, for craeAdIt giving thietamdnnrad which have nid tI these ladies. to saisefndtbu additions to' the ehelgq inent/ The redinre, 2 be furnished by gifftCii prove an .attractive senter as the school'-st ad ;ide the main road oboa Erom the stationandhaKa The full program 'fo 18th will be pdblisl$ed aO( Shelton C. '. Church N~is The Christian Enavo ;y of the -Presbytefiafn~ ield their usualUweeldyWu fter. SudaMeeli'e tfternoon. Thiis soie; mumber of eakw ~ neetings are mostll - aJ' who attend.. Rev.P.B elesiding 1$ >f the R&&Xflyilistiit,s: Jonfer~e i~ce nwe ng sroathtie .ien ieeed n the M ahoit churceon.Swnd Lay night HisA:ext Nas "What to ye irik of Christ Bishop Guerry%'iU Dayn ~hnreh on'Sunday. Maah The Baptists of K ~eived a hardbo ight when their onage -were ~round. Theonm strous fire is uinn )roperty was rnltefr alue.