Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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UK CUIlWUaj ) A'iuj M LV'V < ? LOCAL I sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssgg r Miss Annie Cochran came over from Atlanta Sunday and is spending her vacation here with her home people. mv Mrs J. K. Durst. Jr., of Greenwood, spent Monday in the city as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Barksdale. Dr. J. S. Moffatt pfeached in Abbeville Sunday in the Baptist church, both morning and evening. Mrs. McLain and son, of Knoxville, are in the city visiting at the home of Mrs J. C. Cox. Mrs. McLain is well remembered here as Miss Inez Schroeder, and her friends are glad to see her. Mr. J. R. Simpson of Monroe, came down this week and spent several days with his son, Dr. W. D. Simpson. Miss Louise Brown, who has been visiting friends in Charleston is at bome again. Miss Margie Bradley has returned to Abbeville after an extended visit - * *? "? to ner granamuuier, xuis. l uutuc, m Columbia. Terrell Jones, of Spartanburg, was in the city a few hours Saturday, seeing his friends. George Cannon came down from Anderson Saturday night and spent Sunday with his mother. Mrs. W. R. Hargis of Atlanta, was in the city a few days last week with friends. Mrs. R. W. Rodgers of Atlanta, spent a few days this week here with her father, Mr. W. H. Long. Misses Mary and Virginia Aiken are at home for the summer. Miss Mary comes from the Anderson college and Miss Virginia comes from Clinton. Miss Eula Crowell is in the city -visiting her cousin, Miss Ruth Howie. Miss Crowell comes from Monroe, N C., and is making many friends. Mr. and Mrs. George Gambrell, Mrs. J. M. Gambrell and Mrs. C. H. McCall of Bennettsville, made up an automobile party last week and went up to Anderson and spent the day -with Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Cason. i Mrs. E. C. Horton went to Asheville last week, where she spent several days in attendance on the Baptist convention. From Asheville, in company with other members of her family from Williamston, she will go to Statesville, and visit a sister, be- J fore returning home. The whole trip was made in a car. Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Alston were in the city last week visiting at the liome of Prof, and Mrs. R. B. Cheatham. They were interested attendants at the exercises of the school Friday night. TMVcr P T. DarirflTi and Miss Marv I Louise Dargan are off this week to Spartanburg for a visit to Mrs. Frank Magee. Several automobile parties of i young people went up to Anderson | Monday and Tuesday to see the "Birth of a Nation." The rain kept j a great crowd from going. Miss Leila Link is at home from Converse for the summer. She is accompanied by her friend, Miss McCoy, who will visit for some time* in the city. Mrs. J. L. McMillan left Saturday for Clemson College where she goes to see her son, Leslie, graduate. Leslie has taken a good stand in his classes and his friends congratuate him in starting out in life so well equipped for the fight. Mr. R. N. Tiddy and young Richard Tiddy, leave this week for Shelby, N. C., where they will spend a week -with Mr. Tiddy's mother. They will spend one dpy in unarioue seeing the sights. Mr. R. L. Dargan left this week for Columiba where he goes to attend the meeting of the K. of P. Lodge. He was joined by his two boys Wednesday and they go on to Darlington for a week's visit to friends and relatives. L. B. Simpson, manager of Western "Union Telegraph Company, attended the Managers Conference in Columbia this week. This is quite an honor as managers of small offices like this are very seldom invited to attend mutinirs. Miss Mary F. Poole is returning this week to her home in Newberry after completing a successful year as teacher in the Abbeville High John Perrin has invested in an automobile and is giving himself and all the pretty girls in town many good rides. NEWS | ? i i ?i, school. Miss Pool leaves a host of 'disconsolate friends who regret to know that she will not come back to Abbeville next year. Mrs. Henry Hagerman came down from Greenville last Friday and attended the funeral of her friend, Mrs M. C. Owen. Mrs. Hagerman remained over for a day or two with her mother, Mrs. John Harris on South Main street. Mrs. J. T. Cheatham and Robert Cheatham have been called to Columbia to see Miss Norma Cheatham, who has recently been operated on for appendicitis and from whom the latest news is that she is not so well. The many friends of Miss Norma hope that she will soon be well and i out again. r Mrs. J. C. Klugh is at home after. a visit to her daughter, Mrs. Maultz-1 I by at Bennettsville. Mrs. Maultzby ! has been quite sick but is on the road 1 to recovery now. j] Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Marchant, and i rresion opeeu litmc uuwn uvw Greenville last Friday to attend the j funeral of Mrs. M. C. Owen. Owen ' Speed came home from Charleston i for the same purpose. |' Miss Ruth Brown, who has taught in Abbeville for the past two years, ' has been elected to an excellentlposi- 1 . tion in the Graded school in Cblum- 1 bia. Miss Brown is an excellent ' teacher and a sweet and charming 1 young woman and her friends are 1 glad to know that she is so pleasantly 1 placed. * The Book Club. ] The regular meeting of the book < club was held at the home of Mrs. < George White last Wednesday morn- i ing. This finishes out the club year 1 and the members all expressed themselves as delighted with the club and : 1 eager for the new books which will 1 be distributed at the next meeting. |i Delightful refreshments were serv- j ed at the close of the business session. Mrs. Thomas was elected as i a member of the club. Sad and Sorrowful News. ] Misses Edith and Louise Sullivan 1 are returning to their home in Honea ! j Path this week after finishing a sue- j. 1 cessful year here in the High School. 11 , Miss Edith has taught in Abbeville ^ I for the past three years and has (1 I proved herself a competent and cap-j< ' able teacher. Miss Louise has taught , here for two years and has the repu- j tation of being an excellent discipli- , narian and a competent teacher. I, Miss Edith will go to Greenwood j next year and Miss Louise will remain at Honea Path with her parents. Both young ladies are popular in Abbeville and their wide circle of friends give them up with regret. ] ' The Rain. ' After a drouth lasting over seven ' weeks, Abbeville had a pretty good 1 rain beginning Monday morning be- s fore daylight. The ran fell softly , and did great good to gardens and I crops. Much of the cotton in the ' [county is not up yet on account of 1 the dry spell and the grain crop is said to be a failure. In the gardens English peas have been a failure and the Irish potato crop will be small. i Home on a Visit. < I Mrs. A. L. Harvin is here irom (j | Washington on a visit to her parents, j, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sondley. Mrs.' Harvin has many friends here who I are delighted to have her back and to see her as charming as usual. BORN j At Abbeville, May 18th, 1916, to ^ Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Parker, a son. < 1 Base Ball. I Superintendent Thomas, at the Ab- 5 beville Mill, has arranged a schedule j J of baseball games for the Abbeville r boys with the boys of the surrounding t millc one) lmnnv crnorl pames are 1 being played at the grounds on Bluej Hill. Saturday afternoon the game * was between the Abbeville team and iA Elberton, the score resulting in < favor of Abbeville, 25 to 0. |t A regular schedule has been made t out and the games will be played all r during the summer. They should be well attended by our people. i Visiting In The Old Home. I Mr. W. W. McDill is here from s Mississippi on a visit to his old home and to his many friends. He has been spending the last several days in Abbeville with the family of Mrs. J. I Hayne McDill going from here to Due West on Tuesday. Mr. McDill is a man of affairs in his home and he 1 is a welcome visitor when he comes < back to South Carolina. * t For the Convenience of the Public. C Many improvements are being made j at the Bowden-Simpson store, chief1 ? among which is the thorough reno-! vation of the back of the store, where J the prescriptions are made up. This 1 I part of the store has been cleaned < up and painted until it shines and j the bravest germ in the gerin family. could find no place to lodge. In the front of the store a counter < phone has been put in, the public 1 generally is invited to make use of 1 this when it is necessary to send a ^ phone message. The women of the . city and country are especially in-1 vited to use this phone. I( Ford Agency Changes Hands. Messrs. Longshore, who have been selling the Ford cars in Abbeville, have given up the agency, and it has been taken over by The il W. White Co. Mr. Victor Lomax will be the sales manager in the automobile department. In order to carry a full line of cars, and to show them off properly, the 3tore-room next to the new office of rhe Press and banner (the old post office) has been rented, and will be tonnniad of nnpo Kv this hrflneh of uwuyivu <?v vow the business of the L. W. White Co. The Ford, is the most serviceable :ar in general use. On this account, and on account of the fact that it sells for less money than any other :ar on the market, it has always been in great demand. It is now bought by mail, over the telephone, and in jther ways just as sugar and bacon are bought, because a man knows what he is getting when he buys it. The readers of this paper, when they are in the city, are invited to inspect the line of cars carried in the new show rooms. The new agents will carry all shapes and styles of bodies, and these will be in stock, so that a purchaser will not in the future be called on to wait on his car after he has decided to purchase. Letter from Mr. Lawson. To the good people of Abbeville County: I ask your indorsement for another term as County Superintendent of Education. Yours truly, Rev. J. M. Lawson. Wardlaw Street. Nobody died suddenly on Wardlaw street Thursday, neither was the "calf out." The explanation of the terrible racket Mrs. McMurray, Mrs, Renwick Bradley and Mrs. Chalmers were raising lay in the fact that Snookums Bradley, John McMurray and James William Chalmers, all un der 6 years old, had decided tnat cnej needed to go in washing, and for that purpose had gone out to the creek at Will Lesley's, three miles from town, without informing theii maternal ancestors, and while the? were gone and being frantically looked for all over town, five mad dogs got loose in the city, all oi which in the imaginations of the three mothers, were then busy nibbling or the three hopefuls. After a half day's search for the fugitives, and when all seemed lost to the mad dogs, and the mothers had about succumbed, the boys strolled in. Thd reason they stayed so long was that they had to let their hail jet dry so the mothers could not tell what they "had been about." In explanation of where they had been, they told their mothers that they had been trying to catch a mad dog in the 400 section of Main Street, and that the policeman shot it just as they caught it, but only after it had bit Snockums. A hurried examination followed, but it disclosed' that the dog left no "slobbers" or 'Snooks", or if it did, they hadn't soaked through the dirt. After taking a short rest each mother led her boy into the back /ard, where soon afterwards "the panorama lit up." The School Entertainment. 1 A Hnara ine entertainment, m uic vr?>. House last Friday given by the pupils of the school was a success in svery way and was a credit to the teachers and the children. There was standing room only and an admission ivas charged at the door, the sum of Dne hundred and forty dollars was realized. A Rook Party. Mrs. J. V .Elgin entertained at a Rook party of four tables last Wednesday morning in honor of her quests, tho pretty young lady who is lere from Virginia. The games were ively and the refreshments were jleasant and appetizing. Completing The Year. Last Sabbath completed the first fear of the pastorate of the Rev. -M. R. Plaxco in the Associate Reformed >hurch at Abbeville. Mr. Plaxco came io Abbeville immediately after his graduation at Princeton and has been iteadily at w.prk in the interest of he church since. Under his ministry ;he church has made rapid strides orward and is now in a healthy and growing condition. Mr. Plaxco is veil liked by the members of the :ongregation and has made a pleastnt impression on the people of our own. He preaches an excellent sernon. The latest (enterprise of the church s the purchase of a handsome two nanual pipe organ which will be intailed by the first of September. JAMES T. HESTER DEAD dominant Citizen ^_of Mt. Carmel Died Suddenly on Sunday Mr. James T. Hester died suddeny at his home at Mt. Carmel Sunlay morning. He had not been well :'or several days and lay down to ake a nap and never awoke. Heart lisease was the cause. Mr. Hester was about 55 years of ige and leaves a wife and several :hildren. Mr. S. J. Hester of Hester s a brother. Mr. Hester was a farmer on a large scale, owning large ;racts of land on both sides of Savannah river. He was also a breeder >f fine horses, and was well known >y the stork men all over the state. 3e has had horses on the track in ;his county at different times. The jurial was at Hester Monday.?Anierson Daily Mail. From General Bonham. W. P. Gr?cne, Esq., Abbeville, S. C.: i Dear Sir:?I am sending you here1 with some corrections in the list of | names of officers from Abbeville County published in your account of Memorial Day. Please publish this ' corrected list and repeat the request for any additions thereto or correc-1 [ tions therein. If the Medium pub- f 1 lished the list in the shape you did, [ please ask them to publish the cor- f rected list. I think it important that; j the record be kept straight. | Please present my kindest regards to the charming young lady in your office and to "Genl. Smith." Yours very truly, i M. L. Bonham. CORRECTIONS. I General Gary was a native of Abi beville but went to the war from ' ; Edgefield. There seems to be some doubt . whether General Perrin was a native of Abbeville or of Edgefield, both | districts claimed him. Add General Gray of Louisiana, who was a native of Abbeville. ' | General Baker commanded an Alabama Brigade. He was long a resi, dent, and I think a native of Abbeville. In the list of Lt. Colonels substitute John C. Simkins for John S. i fiimmnns nnH T A HnHoana fnr T A. Haynes. In the list of Majors change J. S. t White to J. L. White, and add Maj. , A. B. Wardlaw, who -was major on | General McGowan's staff. In the list of Captains change R. H. Bradley to P. H. Bradley. Add the name of J. N. Cochran. Divide the name Theophilus Baker Holloway | as follows: Theophilus Baker and . Bird Holloway. ^ Press and Banner:? ; Inasmuch as you have invited ads ditions to the published list of Cap' tains from Abbeville County in the War Between the States, I would call | * . attention to the fact that when the i South Carolina College students went i to the front they chose as their Cap; tain an Abbeville County man, viz: ^ John H. Gary, who was born and . reared at Cokesbury and who was i killed at Battery Wagner, while de fending Charleston. His company ^ had a conspicuous part in the capture i of the Federal Steamboat, Isaac P. 1 Smith in Stono River. Son of a Veteran. May 19th, 1916. m The comes in being clad i You've noticed how and how others seem in the clothes t The one illustrated s the t A complete assembl lars, Hos 6 DEATH OF MRS. M. C. OWEN. Mrs. M. C. Owen died Thursda afternoon at half after five o'clocl May 18th, 1916, at the home of he damrhter. Mrs. P. "S. Sneed. after a illness of two weeks. Mrs. Owen was the daughter of D John Cunnard, and was born in Jai per County, Ga., in 1846, thus mal ing her in her seventieth year. Sh has made her home in Abbeville fc the past twenty three years, comin here at the death of her husban< Rev. J. M. Owen, which occurred o September 13th, 1898. Mr. Owe was a member of the North Georgi Conference and stood high in th councils of the Methodist church. Since coming to Abbeville Mri Owen has devoted herself to goo worsts, being interested in all the er terprises of the Methodist churcl For many years she was Secretar of the Woman's Foreign Missionar Conference of this State, giving u her work about five years ago on a< count of her health. At the time o her death the was Treasurer of th Working Society and of the Woman' Missionary Society of the Methodif church and last September she gav up her work as Treasurer of th Civic Club, all of which organizatior she has served competently and wit loving fidelity. Mrs. Owen was a woman of larg heart and she will be missed in on community. Her benevolences wei many and she was ever a friend g those who were sick and in trouble. Mrs. Owen was a lover of ever] thing beautiful and it was due to he good taste and loving care that tt plaza in front of the City Hall wi such a thing of beauty and a deligl to every one. This work has addc so much to the Civic standing of ot city that the City Council express* its gratitude to Mrs. Owen for h< work in a set of resolutions and rising vote of thanks at their mee ing last October. Funeral services were held in tl Methodist church Friday afternoon i half past five o'clock, being conduc ed by her pastor, Bev. J. L. Dame Mrs. Owen had always taken tl greatest interest in the Easter dei orations of the church and it wi fitting that at her funeral the chai eel shorfd be filled with flowers, handsome piece from the City Coui cil, one from the Civic Club and 01 each from the two Methodist soc eties adding their beauty and the The Daylight Corner A Man's Store Care-hre< jo correctly thatappea some men seem a part i to have fallen in by mil hey wear. You'll feel -Tailored* Oo *10 en J. _ eon nn ipi^.QU LU ipUU.UU hows the smart lapel v< noment. Call and see lage of Shirts, Neckwei e, Silk Gloves, etc., noi / message of sympathy to the scene* Mrs. Owen was devoted to young peo,y pie and her body was borne Into the church by her young friends, H. G, Smith, Lewis Perrin, George Penney, ,r P. H. DuPre, Otto Bristow and Albert n Henry, and was followed by the immediate family, a delegation from r. the Cicic club, Mayor and Mrs* Gam1 11 1 U .U.. utok. 3- VI Cll (U1U UVl tlUOC lilUUUO OUU UV1|^ J. bors. iie Mrs. Owen is survived by her only ?r daughter, Mrs. P. B. Speed and her g children, Mrs. T. M. Marchant, Pres* 1, ton B. Speed, Owen H. Speed, and n William H. Speed and by two broth* n ers, Messrs Newton and Clark Cuna nard and one sister, Mrs. Jane Dil? ie lard, all of Georgia. An only son, Lucius L. Owen, died in Abbeville in s. 1901 and is buried at Melrose, d All the beauty of Melrose Cemei. tery is due to Mrs. Owen's faithful i. work and it was here that she wm y laid to rest. y In all the walks of life she- filled p well-her part. >. May she rest in peace. < < e A Corning Marriaf*. >B Invitations have been received, in it Abbeville to the marriage of Mis? e Clara iBorcn and Mr. Wilson Lear e Peebles which interesting event will ^ take place in Pomona, N. C., on h Tuesday the sixth of June. Mr. Peebles has lived in Abbeville for the e past year and has made many friends ir who wish him all the happiness in >e the world and who will give his wife >f a warm welcome when she comes to .( Abbeville. jp As lone as it is only talk* let the' e other fellow have his way. Why should yon care? 18 . -Hg it : u- II! For the I J: Graduation i; | a ; j There is nothing so ap; j: propriate as a nice Mttk Watch, Ring, Pin, ' y >e :|; Cuff Buttons, Fob or ; j something in the line t j of jewelry that will k : last and always be te : remembered.. c" : We have it and the ^ is ; price is very reason- ill a~ ! able considering the jj; a ' i? Quality. ! > / ' ?| R.KIRKWOOD ;! ' I i- ;|; Tli* New Jawdtr. I ;Air || ranee is beyond cavil. I of their surroundings I (take. The answer is | at home in a suit of I i/lQS I j est still the vogue of > it. ar, Stiff and Soft Coln on display. ? J u ^ I 4 _ " t - V**