Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Wednesday, oan. ?i, . | Xocal j [flews j I: personals : 1 I Mrs. Henry Hagerman has returr ed to her home in Greenville, afte a pleasant visit of several days t her mother, Mrs. John Harris, o South Main street ? * Mrs. Lalla Graydon came ove from Greenwood last week to visi Mrs. John Sutherland, who has bee quite sick. Clifford Pope of Atlanta, cam over and spent Sunday with his su ter, Mrs. J. Irwin Gilmer. Ben McKellar and C. E. Klugh o Greenwood, spent last Thursday i the city on business. Ernest Hagan and J. R. Winn o woaf here Saturday o' A/UV f? ?. ?. _ < business. Miss Olive Fuller of Mountville, i the attractive guest of her sistei Mrs. G. L. Flynn on Magazine stree1 Cheves Sondley came over froi Atlanta Saturday night and spec Sunday with his parents. Miss Ruth Crowther and Pro: Ralph Crowther, who are teaching a Sharon, were in the'city on Saturda shopping and attending to othe business. Mrs. A. W. Clark returned horn Saturday from Monroe, after an es tended stay with her daughter, Mr Fairley Tiddy, ' Vi . ' 1 Mrs. Mabry Cheatham and he \' three interesting, children, are visi ing Mrs. Ames Haitiwanger in Co umbia this week. ', Miss Lillian Richey returned horn today from a pleasant stay with Mit Carrie Fuller in Atlanta. Frank Sherard of Calhoun Fall spent Sunday with his mother nes the city. Leonard Whitlock spent Sunda with his home people in Greenwood. .v* * Misses Janie Belle and Julia Pei nal, Misses Sadie Hammond, Juli w.AiKa+an and Mildred Cochran wer iUWXXlll0W4 MMV* ?? - to Greenwood last Wednesday aften noon and attended "The Birth of Nation" on Thursday morning. The had a delightful time and enjoye the picture. i George P. Cannpn of Andersoi ' was in the city for'the week-end. Miss Eunice Calhoun went ov< to Chester last Saturday afternoo to visit her cousin, Mrs. Edwin Ca hbufe. iMs Eunice is a favorite i Chester and is the recipient of muc pleasant attention while in that cit; Mrs. Edwin Greene and young soi * James, returned to their -home Philadelphia last week, after a fe days stay with Mrs. Frank Wilson i Watts. Miss Mary Grace Wilson of Watt was shopping in town on Saturday. Miss Mary E. Hill returned Moi day from a pleasant week's visit 1 Mrs. Tabor Hill in Greenwood Mrs. M. B. Syfan and little Mi . Mary Nance spent several days la week in Atlanta with Capt. and Mi Ben Cochran. Miss Harvey Cochran went over 1 Atlanta last week and will stay son time with her uncle, Capt. Ben Coc; ran, who has been quite sick f< several weeks. Mrs. Joe V. Elgin and Joe V Ji returned last week from a visit i ? ' * Ml _ Mrs. Uamer, at cennexxsvuie. Misses Oney and Caro Morse ha returned from Atlanta, where th< visited relatives for several days. Mr. and Mrs. William Moss ai little son of Norway, are here cn visit to Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Barnel Mrs. J. ?. Roche and children r turned to Abbeville this week fro a visit to relatives in Fort Law That Mr. and Mrs. Roche will mal their home' permanently here will ] good news to their many friends. BIRTHDAY PARTY. Little Miss Ovelle Gilliam eel brated her fifth birthday Saturd; afternoon by entertaining her litl friends with a party. Merry gam were played until cake, gypsy ai candies were served at the close the party. A delightful afternoi was spent, and her little frien wished for the hostess many mo happy birthdays. MRS. SUTHERLAND IS SICK. The friends of Mr. and Mrs. Jo! Sutherland will be sorry to learn the latter's serious illness for t past several weeks. The sympat of many friends is extended to t family. TUP UACDITAV Ill inc. nvoritni.. Miss Lizzie Penney has been si for several weeks at her home Depot Hill, and it was necessary i her to go to Dr. Pryor's hospital last Friday. She was accompanied Miss Gerrtrude Penney and it hoped that after several weeks trei ment in the hospital, she will able to return'home much improve g COL. SONDLEY INVESTIGATES, gi st in? Washington, D. C., Jan. 12, 1917. {V Hon. Richard Sondley, *1 Abbeville, S. C. Dear Mr. Sondley:? Your letter of some days ago, ask- 0f ing me for the truth about the visit of Bill Greene and Sain Wakefiled sh to Washington shortly before Christ- tir mas, has been received and I hasten fu I to reply. I assure, you that there is no truth in the reports which you an mention, and I am reallv distressed tfv I that such reports should" have been circulated. he The boys blew in here on a Tues- en day, as I remember. They went to m? Mrs. Raleigh's boarding house on ah Pennsylvania Avenue, which is a PI< l~ very respectable place indeed., Mrs. Wi ,r Raleigh took a good look at them, th< ? and then gave them a room upstairs an n which had a big bath tub in a closet It was a beautiful porcelain tub and had hot and cold water attach- th< * ments. As soon as Sam saw it he pa lt said he wished it were Saturday fir, n night, so he could take a bath. Bill be explained to himthat up north lots he] of people took a bath every day, and co] e that he might take one then if he ; '* liked. Sam thereupon took off his fu] clothes and got in thetub, and he ab, , says he bathed all over, and I sup- go I pose he did. Sam says Bill also took ft II a bath that same day, and two the by next day and one the third day, and b? . now, Sam says, Bill won't need any to 1 more bathing until next spring. tra I went up to see them tliat Af- He ter talking with them a while I told sta 3 them I was on my way to prayer vei . meeting, and asked them if they he j/ would accompany me. Bill said he an: had a cold and couldn't sing, and a i Q Sam said he was sleepy, and so I left ho ^ them and went on to where I was he going. I came back by the hotel to tha see them after prayer meeting, and ga , found that they were out, ana so I inj c: went into the sitting room and talked =: * to Mrs. Raleigh for a while. It was ? almost eleven o'clock when' they got back, and they told methey had been to a show at the Temple of Torpsichore, on Ninth Street. I asked ; them if it was a good show, and Sam replied, "Yes, it was good; but I Was hoping to see a bad one." And then he tola me about a tent show . that was at Calhoun Falls not lone f ago. "They had a lot of girls in-it, I he said, "and their dancing costume 7 consisted of a smile and a ruddy > complexion. The show tonight wasn't anything to compare with x a that." I started to tell them about the good service we had atthe prayer meeting, but Sam insisted on talking about thetent show at Calhoun ' Falls, and so I left and went home and to bed. The next day they came down to ,y the capitol to see me, and I showed them over the building. They seemed right well pleased with it. As we were going along one of the corridors ~ I stopped them and said, "When lf Grover Cleveland was president he was passing along nere one aay una ' his shoulder got to itching and he backed up against this corner and j scratched. If you want to' scratch yourself on the same corner that President Cleveland used, now. is 1 your chance. But be in a hurry, for ' it won't do to let the police see you." Well, you should have seen ;r the look on Sam's facias he backed ' up against the comer and scratched 1_ himself. He was just the happiest " man I ever saw. Sam believes that v Grover Cleveland was the greatest man that ever lived, and he will aly" ways love me for giving him the opportunity to scratch himself on that corner. You will appreciate the joke when I tell you that Mr. Clevet land never in all his life visited that particular wing of the capitol building. After they had finished with the ' capitol, I sent them over to the Buonr) PriTl+inOP HI i cau VI UII5I C* T 1115 M1IU A _ where all the paper money is print a" ed. Before they started I said to I them: "Over there they always give I visitors souvenirs in the shape of I brand new $2 bills. Be sure and | 3s ask for the souvenirs, because if you wm st don't the guides will claim them, s. and Docket them. You had just as well nave them, for the government provides them for you." Late that to ^fternoon Mr. Ralph, the director ie of the Bureau, called me up and told me that if I ever again told any ,r countrymen that yarn, and made them believe it, he would do some thing to me. He said Bill and Sam fi insisted on getting the $2 bills, and l1' that it took six policemen to get them out of the building. Of course I was sorry to have caused Mr. Ralph so much trouble, but it was a good joke on Bill and Sam, don't you - LIU II K. : The next day they came back to 1(j me and inquired the way to the liva ery stable. I asked them what on t. earth they wanted with a livery stable, and Bill paid Sam was feeling e- rather poorly, and thought a.dram m would do hii| good, and that they\ n. wanted to buy half a pint of liquor.< ?e I explained to them that there were be saloons all over town and that they could get all the liquor they wanted from any of them. "Yes, I know, explained- Bill, "but you know Abbeville is a dry town, and the only e_ place we can get anything to drink ~ is from the negro at the livery sta-io ble, and as we have got accustomed gg to that we fear that good liquor n(j might not agree with us." I tried Qf to argue with them, but it would do on no good, and finally I looked in the jg city direcrtory and got the address re of a livery stable, and told them how to find it. They left me with hope written all over their faces. I don't know whether they found it or not, but they seemed to be all right next hn dayof It was not with them all the time he they were here, but I saw them at hy least twice every day, and they were he all right and in good shape every time I saw them. I am prepared to make affidavit, Mr. Sondley, that fhorp is rm truth in the reDOrtS that you mention, and you may so quote ck me in any company. I am absoluteon ly sure about this. I believe I can 'or Mrs. Raleigh to make an affidavit on too, if it is necessary. by i As they were leaving I asked them is the object of their visit, Bill exat plained that Sam has invented a doobe dad to go on a cotton gin which, he d. claims, will double the speed of the n, quadruple the output of lin1 rengthen the staple, and greatl; crease the quantity 01 seea xruu bale, and that they had come her Bee a lawyer about getting a pat t on it. If the thing will work cl will do just half that they <clain r it, Sam will be a rich man som< these days. The boys left here in the best o ape, and said they had had a goo< e. I have written you a fairl: Li and accurate account of thei: ly here, and I do hope it will pu end to the distressing report at you mention. These few lines leave me in goo< sJth and I hope they will find yoi joying the same blessing. Writ* s when you can spare the time; wil vaya be glad to hear from you sase remember me to Mr. Hugl ilson and Mr. Bob Link, and al s rest of our mutual friends. Trulj d sincerely, your friend, A. M. Carpenter. P. S.?I see by the papers titial 3 tent show that was at Calhour iia November will be here thf 3t week in April, so I would hoi surprised if Bill and Sam turn ui re aDout that time. How aboul ning along yourself 1' A. M. C. Mote:?Col. Patrick Roche hat rnibhect us with a copy of the ove letter which he tells us Col, ndley has been showing around, seems from statements given uf Col. Roche, that early in Novemr Col. Sondley made applicatior stand the examination for enince into the Consular Service i went up during the holidays' tc nd the examination, and got alonj ry well on "language," but whpr came to stand the physical ex ination he fell into the hands oi doctor who had formerly been i rse doctor, who knew as soon ai looked at the Colonel's teetl it he was older than the age h< ve in, 87. (Fearing that his feel g8 would be hurt if they told hin . /JZ\ # Of Oiu S The depos K books include H ness and profess whose financial t us often involve Their faith h established b / tion to ev service v tended t< itors, bo1 V small. V I Safety?HonestyHie Nati Abbevi n ?S5 IIJP light every nook and Built of solid brass they 'ast a time. E 7 t0 Carry ~ ea! clean. SnSBa) Use Aladdin Secu & economical kerosene I STANDARD O I (New J I BALTtMC S Washington, D. C. J Norfolk, Va. I Richmond, Va. i, the trbuble was about his age, h< y could get no satisfactory reason foi a his rejection. Being of a suspicious e nature he immediately conjured the r theory that Col. Sam Wakefield and the writer went to Washington to a try to keep him from getting an ap0 pointment, and it seems from the above that he has had an old detecf tive named Carpenter, tracing us 1 up while we were in Washington. 7 The statements that Sam and i were f in Carpenter's company at all or t that we were visited by him, will s hardly be taken seriously. We had luncheon at the Cosmos Club with 1 Secretary Houston one day, and 1 spent our time with other notables ; while in the city. 1 W. P. G. I YOU CAN MAKE YOUR PUTTY T VERY EASILY AT HOME t Clemson College, S. C., Jan. 18.? Get some bolted whiting and linseed , oil of your drug store man and for ; a small sum you can make sorfy* of . the finest kind of putty with /which t you can reputty your sashes.', This will be a fine little job during the . winter when you haven't so very ? V A- J_ s mucn iu uu. 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