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A N IE. NS W , . V. ANDX. HE9 ESTABLISHED 1844 WINNSBORO, S. C., MAY 27th, 1921 VL LX O FAIRFIELD COUNTY REPORTED BY WHITE OAK. Miss Florence Patrick is visiting her sister, Mrs. R. C. Grier, in Co lumbia. Mr. John C. Wilson, Jr., met with a serious accident Monday while vis iting his parents. His leg was bro ken by being kicked by a horse. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Whitworth have been visiting the latter's pa rents, Mr. and' Mrs. Hedgepath. Mr. Earl Wilson is visiting his brother, Mr. Leonard Wilson, of Winnsboro. Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Patrick enter tained at a delightfUl dinner party Tuesday evening. Covers were laid for eleven. Rev. 0. W. Carmichael, pastor of Neely's Creek church, in York coun ty, held a meeting for the White Oak church last week end. His messages were most helpful. Mrs. David Parks is visitinq h! parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Wilson. Rev. and Mrs. W. W. Parkinson have returned from an extended trip to points in middle and west Tennes see and South Carolina. . Miss Rena Wilson has returned from a visit with her sister, Mrs. David Parks. GREENBRIER. Mrs. J. D. Lyles has returned home from Winnsboro after spend ing two weeks with her sister Mrs. Gladden. Mr. Walter Ruff, lof Monticello, has been visiting in our community. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gadsden were recent visitors in our commupity. Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Castles and family spent Sunday with Mr. W. R. Ashford and family. Dr. and Mrs. C. T. Brooks, of Co lumbia, spent Sunday with Dr. Brook's mother, Mrs. J. P. Brooks. Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Lyles and Miss Helen Lyles spent Sunday in Mon ticello. Misses lone and Lois Smith spent Saturday night with Mrs. H. H. Castles. Miss Helen Lyles is visiting int Monticello. Mr. and Mrs. Hoke and Miss Daisy Brockington spent Saturday in Winnsboro. ? Mr. T. W. Ruff, of Great Falls, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Estes. Miss Erline Lyles is at home for the vacation. Mrs. J. H. Oswald and family are visiting Mrs. Oswald's mother, Mrs. J. D. Lyles. WOOD WARD. S Mr. and Mrs. Claud Keeley and children spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs S. P. Johnston. Miss Inez H-arvey is visiting her grand-mother at Stover. Miss Annabel Harvey, who has been teaching in the Albermarle Nor.. mal and Industrial school, is at home with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. M. Harvey. Miss Lila Nicholson is visiting her *sister, Mrs. Minus, in Spartanburg. Mr. and Mrs. Angus Nicholson and children, John and Eva. arev iting Mrs. A. R. Nicholson. Mr. Nicholson is principal of the school at Auburn and Mrs. Nicholson also teaches in the school. Mrs. J. L. Brice, with her chil.. dren, June and Lewis, are spernding some time with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Bishop in Beaufort. Miss Ellen Stewart, of Chester, is visiting friends and relations hiere. Mrs. Macie Brice and children and Mrs. T. W. Brice and children mo tored to Chester Friday evening to see Charlie Chaplin in The Kid. Misses Sarah and Mary Jane Pat ack and Thomas Patrick were vis ors in Chester Monday. Rev. Brown, from Charlotte, peached at Concord church Sunday aternoon. Ctherin Ladd Chapter U. D. C. was held with Miss Lila Nicholson the second Friday afternoon. As there 'was a great deal of business to at tend to, the historical program was dispensed with. During the social hour the hostess, assisted by Mrs. A, WV. Brice, served cream and cake. NEWS AS CORRESPONDENTS LONGTOWN. Mrs. W. B. Kennecy and Miss Sa rah Kennedy, of Ridgeway, visited Mrs. S. D. Harrison and other rela tives in this section during the past week. Miss Bessie Jones is at home from Ridgeway, where she has been spend ing a while with her sister, Mrs. D. W. Ruff. Jr. Dr. Dobson, of Ridgeway, was in Longtown Sunday. Miss Laura Matheson, who has been teaching in Saluda county. is at home now for the summer vacation. Mr. D. G. Smith and Mr. William T. Stewart attended the reunion in Camden last week. Miss Marie Jones, who is a mem ber of the faculty of the Ridgeway high school, spent the week-end with her parents, Mr, and Mrs. John J. Jones. Miss Irene Stewart is spending some time in Winnsboro as the guest of her cousin, Miss Lillie Mae Weir. Mrs. Essie McEachern, of Savan nah, Ga., is visiting Mrs. John J. McEachern. ;Mr. and Mrs. Riley Stewart and children, of Ridgeway, attended the services at the Longtown Presbyter ian church Sunday. Miss Nancy Dawkins and little Miss Janelle Bush are stayi g A -bile in Columbia with Mrs. Nannie Bush. Mr. Joe Tidwell spent part of last week in Camden. The many friends of Mr. John T. Stewart will be pleased to learn that he has recovered from his recent ill ness. MiFs. W. E. Wilds has been on visit to relatives in Chester. Mr. W. C. Peay, of Rockton, was in this section recently. Mr. McLeod, of Lee county was the guest ~of Mr. and Mrs. Thos. E. Smith Sunday. Mr. James Harrison, of Columbia, spent the week-end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Harrison. Mrs. John C. Stewart has return ed from a visit to her sister, Mrs. Bankhead, in Columbia. E. H. D. WALLACEVILLE. Summer has come with a rush and the weeds and grass seem to have been just waiting for a good chance to show what they could do. Mrs. Vivian Jeter has returned from her school in Blaney where she has taught for the last three years. Mr. Tom Glenn, who has been in the U. S. Navy for several months, is at home on a twelve days' leave Everybody voted for bonds for good roads, and if we don't get the good roads, I suspect there'll be quite a lot of "wanting to know the reason." BRANNON-HUMPHRIES. Miss Annie Brannon and Mr. C. E. Humphries, of Bellefield, were married at the Bellfield church Sun day, May 22, at 2 o'clock, by Judge A. W. Matheso~n of Longtown. The church was beautifully deco rated in yellow daisies and ferns. The bride and groom came down the aisle to the strains of Lohen gren's Wedding March, The bride was married in her trav eling suit of navy blue tricotine, with hat and accessories to match, Both are very popular young people and we wish them much suc cess and happiness in their journey through life, A Friend, RION. Mr. John Humphries has returned to Winnsboro, after spending the week with his grandmother. Mr. and Mrs. B. R. Gibson and lit t15 daughter, Catherine, spent the week-end with her grandmother, Mrs. Nichlson, who has been very ill, Messrs Raymond Young and Ed gar Timms spent Sunday with Mr. Max Young, Mr. and Mrs. McIntosh and son, Albert McIntosh, and Miss Helen Mackin attended the B, Y. P. U. in Winnsboro Sunday afternoon, Miss Marie Young andl Mrs. An. drew Young have returned homne af ter spending the week with relatives NEWS FROM THE WINNSBORO MILLS On last Sunday evening while at tending worship at the hall, Mr. J. J. Robinson was seized with an attack of acute indigestion. He was taken to his home and a physician sum moned. Dr. Lindsay administered treatmenet and he was soon feeling much better. He is out again at this writing. Our village was saddened Monday morning about 9 o'clock to learn of the sudden death of Mr. J. H. Ball. Mr. Ball had been sick for about ten days, but it was thought he was im proving. He was sitting up in a chair at his home when the end came suddenly. Heart failure was . the cause. Mr. Ball was laid to rest Tuesday morning in the Winnsboro cemetery. Rev. Geo. C. Gibson, assited by Rev. Mr., Culp, of Kings Mountain, con ducted th, funeral services. Mr. Ball was a member of the Baptist church, and also a member of the Oddfellows, Red Men and Po cahontas Lodges. He was a faithful man in his home, the church and his lodges. He is survived by a wife and eight children. all of whom live in Georgia. To the bereaved family tenderest sympathy is extended. The many friends in Winnsboro of Mrs. Juliani Lipscomb will be 9-lad to learn that sh,, is slightly oetter. after an operation at the Colum bia hospital. Dr McMeekin, of Winnsboro, and Rev. Georg, C. Gibson made a busi ness =trip to Columbia Wectnesday aftei noon. Mr. J. S. Braddock, who has been in Florida for several weeks, passed through' our village Tuesday en route to Manning, S.,C., where he will be located for a few weeks. Miss Jessie McLendon, wio has been in- Camden for sevsfdC* , returned to Winnsboro Monday. Mr. Boyd Fisher, of the Service department of Lockwood. Greene & C.. Managers, spent the day with us Monday. We are always glad to have these splendid men with us. Mr. Fisher motored to Columbia Mon day afternoon, from there to be en trained for Edgefield. Mr F. L. Caridee, service manager of Winnsboro Mills, accompanied Mr. Boyd Fisher Monday afternoon on his trip to the Edgefield Mills at Edgefield. Mr. H. S. Redman. -f the proriuc tion department of Lockwood, Greene & Co.. Managers, was with us last Thursday and Friday. The Winnsboro Mills ball team suffered defeat on the local diamond last Saturday at the hands of the strong Columbia Mills team. The game was a struggle from start to finish. The final score was 7-3. We are making no alibis, still if there had not been a couple of crioples on the mill team the score might have been different. The team goes to Camden Saturday to play the crack team of the Hermitage Mills. A crowd of fans is planning to go over with the team. We regret that in our haste last week w'e neglected to inform our readers of he high tribute and honor paidl t our agent, Mr. Gordon A. Johnstone, by the Southern N'extile Association. Mr. Johnstone was unanimously elected president of this great organization. There are over 2,000 of the leading cotton manufac.. turers and mill men of the South who are members of the organization. For the past three years Mr. John stone has been vice-president. For the past year he was also chairman of the programme committee. Mr. Johnstone's ability as a mill man is attested by his popularity with his host of associates and acquain tances in this wide field -of business. We are proud of this distinction for Mr. Johnstone. Our amateur .iudg ment is that he merited the honor. The center of the stage of activ ity in our village this week is held by the revival meetings that are be ing held by the Methodist church. Each evening the Rev. Mr. Culp, of Kings Mountain. is delivering strong and searching messages. We believe that much good is being done. The Junior choir of the Baptist church, COMMENCEMENT AT MOUNT ZIO1 The commencement exercises fo Ut. Zion Institute, session 1920-1921 vill be held on the evening of June md 3-Thursday and Friday-a 3:30 o'clock. On Thursday evenin. ;he class..day, and on Friday evening :he graduating exercises will be held rhe authorities of the Communit: House have given us permission t, ise their building-another evidenc. f the great service the promoters o :hat enterprise rendered the town o Winnsboro. The graduating class consists thi 7ear of four young men and eigh oung women: Joe Elliott, Bob Jen sings, Jack Lemmon, Cornwell Jen ings; Rebekah Macfie, Jessie Doug ass, Margaret Ketchin, Frances Neil Lizzie Clarke, Katharine Turne, Merrill Turner and Louise Hamilton he public is cordially invited to b present at the exercises that marl :he close of the graded school life o hese young people. Merely to sta: in school eleven years is in itself n, ittle attainment. Those who stic1 ,o the end, are, in a very genuin sense the elect of the young peopl f any community. It is not to uch to say that from these twelv Young men and young women wil :ome most of the leaders of thei ,eneration in this community i sa: from", you will observe, for ther 'll be a further "weeding out" il he years to come. The process wi :ontinue until, finally, out of the fir : time will come the exceeding fin gold freed from all dross. G. F. Patton, Supt. POSTOFFICE DEPARTMENT BUL LETIN. wish of the Presic-ent ths shallg - ull i ation concernmgM rnmenil departments. It is espec ialy his desire that all those wh ::ome to Washingtop to transact bui iness with any department or burea 3f the Government may quickly b dvised as to the exact location an means of reaching the particular de artment or bureau in which ma be centered the business which tha :esire to transact. For this purpose there has been es ihshed a Bureau of Information o the ground floor of the Post Offic !artment Building, Iccated o Pennsylvania Avenue at Twelft Street which is in charge of com petent people who will definitely ar sver queries of this character. The public is advised of this ar rangement and invited to make us >f the facility. Will HI. Hays, Postmaster General. THE METHODISTS TO RAISE $33,000,00( Sunday, May the 29th, is one o great epoch making days of th Methodist Episcopal Church Soutli Every Methodist is urged to be i ruls place of worship Sunday mornin, it 11 o'clock to dio his part in th ?hristian Education movement. Thi .s the most vital and constructiv sork that has challenged the Meth >dist Church in the past 25 years Let every Winnsboro Methodist b present Sunday morning and th Methodists of Greenbrier Sunday af :ernoon at 3:30. Jno. D. Holler, Pastor. HICKORY RIDGE. Miss Margaret Young, who ha yeen teaching school at Greycourt,i mt home for the summer. We are glad to know that Mr Robert Dove, who has been very ill ss some better. r and Mrs. A. A. Young motore< o Columbia Thursday on business. Misses Eula Brice and Paulin' Roberts, Mr. A. W. and George Parl upent Sunday in Columbia. Miss Eulalee Timms is at hom' rrom her school in St. Matthews. E. U. Brice spent Sunday inu thi: :ommuny. Mrs. J. D. Park was called homi Monday to her brother, John C. Wil son, of White Oak, who had his lei REPRINT OF TiE E TE THMC r Inquiries have been made and re. quests have been made from time tc time for the history of the Mt. Zior t Society, so through the courtesy oi Mrs. T. H. Ketchin we are reprinting articles about the society written by Mr. S. D. Dunn and Dr. Jas. H. Car. lisle which were published in 1907. For more than a century Winns boro has enjoyed the distinction o! f being a community devoted to educa tion and culture. This has been due dcubtless, to the fortunate circum. c stances that cultivated families o0 low countrymen made their home here early among a most vigorou and intelligent settlement of up. countrymen. The blending. o: these people-the one having a lov( for education and refinement, and the B other a passion for civil and relig. ious liberty-formed an ideal com. munity for the promotion of knowl edge and instruction in those truth, which elevate the mind and purif: the heart of man. B Thus as might be expected, wE 3 find in the earliest history of th ) community the establishment of 2 school in a log school house-the ori I gin of Mount Zion College. ThiL r was ten years before the Revolution r and it was about the time the villag B acquired its name from th.. circum, stance that John and Richard Winn I who had moved from Virginia, ha( e gotten possession of the lands wher( e Winnsboro now stands. . Plans for the enlargement of thi school soon developed. In 1777 ai application was made to the genera assembly for a charter for the Moun - Zion society by John Winn, Rober Ellison, Thomas Woodward, Richar and William Strother, Joseph Kirk t land, John Milling and John Kenne - Charleston. Tie cha > ed on 'the 13th day of February, 1777 "for the purpose of founding, 'endow. i ing and supporting a public school ir e the district of Camden." In th( i preamble to the rules of the Mounl Zion society \appears the followin "appeal: ."When we cast our eye! v around and behold a rising gener. tion, the greatest part whereof mus I live in ignorance on account of ther( being no place of instruction nea them where they can be properly ed. , ucated, becoming thereby useless t< , their country, to society land them. selves, we cannot help being sensi -ble \to these tender feelings whici the Divine Being hath impressed or -our natures, as a spur to prompt u eto lend a helping hand."....O country calls, nay, the voice of rea son cries aloud to us to promote knowledge as the firmest cement o0 a State."' The school was broken up whei Cornwals occupied Winnsboro i! 1780-81. But in 1784 it was reopen fed and in 1785 a charter was ob tined for a. college. There is nothing especially note. Iworthy in the history of the schoo until 1834, when Mr. J. W. Hudsox became principal. Mr. Hudson wa a great teacher and disciplinariar whose powerful personality dominat. -ed not only the school, but the com munity, for a quarter of a century, Under his administration, which con. tinued until 1858 the school becam( -Ifamous, acquiring a reputation co. extensive with the limits of the Southern states. It was the ambi. ~bition of favored young men to avai themselves of the superior advantage! of Mount Zion as a training schoo Sfor higher institutions of learning sespecially for the South Carolina cc! lege. Of the many bright .,cng -net who, as assistants to Mr. Hudson contributed to thg fame of Mt. Zion Sand' afterwards adorned, reflected honor on the school may be men. Stioned: William Bratton, Thoma! SMcCants. D. Wyatt Aiken, Georg H. McMaster, James H. Rion, J. SWood Davidson, Ellison Capers. For 20 years longer the school was Sconducted as a male academy. Dur ing this period of stress, trial and dis. aster the exercises zf the school wer( -never aho'w ed to cease. When th4 building was occupied by Federal soldiers and afterwards when it wa ISTORY OF UNT ZION SOCIETY burned to the ground the school was conducted in the Baptist church, the Thespian hall, in out-buildings, wherever a shelter could be found. The teachers who chiefly administer. ed the school, maintained its reputa. tion and left their impress upon the community during this period were: Gen. Alston, J. P. McCarthy, Mr. Muller, Maj. Leland, Mr. Mc. Candless, Windfield S. Rivers, T. J. Wells, Victor E. Menget, G. A. Woodward, W. W. Farrow, Capt. Moultrie M. Dwight. In 1878, to meet the conditions'of the times, a public 'raded school was established-the first iE the State outside . of Charleston-under the able management of Mr. R. Means Davis. This undertaking proved to be a most gratifying success, the system met the needs of the commu. nity, and, under the inspiration of this master teacher, the school rival ed in merit its earlier distinction. In 185 just 100 years from the granting of the original charte", it was determined if possible, to reVive the collegiate feature of the school, and in connection with the graded school instruction tc furnish to the youth of the community the oppor tunity of obtaining a complete, prac tical, high-school education at home. A joint meeting of the Mount Zion society and the citizens of the town was held, at which it was determined to issue bonds of the town for the purpose of erecting such additional buildings as were needed. This was done and the session of 1886 was opened in a large and well arranged brick building, furnished with im proved seats, 4esks, physical and chemical -laboratory, and sll neces sary appliances. It was at this timp that Prof. W. H. Withero*be the school continued to flourish and grow in usefulness. At present the school is conducted by Mr. J. H. Thornwell, Jr., who for three years was assistant to Mr. L. T. Barker, former principal of Mount Zion now a professor of pedagogies in the University of South Carolina. Mr. Thornwell who is a grandson of the distinguished theologian and teacher, Dr. Jas. H. Thornwell, is a young man of high character and at tainments and is succeeding admir ably as a teacher and disciplinarian. Under the management of this ener getic young man, assisted by an able and cultured corps of teachers, the school is making excellent progress. The very traditions of Mount Zion are an incentive toi pupils to strive -to excel in scholarship and honor abli e~mduct. During and after Mr. Hudsm's time, students trained~here have stood remarkably well in the higher institutions of learning they have attended. Prof. Win. P. Du Bose, of the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., says in "Rccollec tions of Mount Zion," that he was a pupil of Mr. Hudson from about 1845 to 1831, and that after leaving at the age of 15 for the Citadel academy. he did not touch Latin or Greek for five, years-not till at the age of 20 he entered the University of Vir ginia and that to hjs surprise he found hL had lost nothing he had - -ever known and had been taught much more than he had thought of these languages. He further inter estingly says: "I am grateful for what Latin, Greek and mathematics I really learned and the way I learned them at Mount Zion-not merely for what knowledge I have had or what use I have made of them, but for the permanent effect of their acquisition upon the texture and compositon of my mind and charac ter." When Mr. R. Means Davis was principal of Mount Zion, 1877-1882, many of his pupils were so suces ful in winning scholarships that the Hon. Hugh S. Thompson, then state superintendent of education remark ed jokingly that it was no use for him to hold competitive examinations (Cntined on page seven)