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19 VISITING IN FLORIDA. Mrs. J. F. Bradley and Mrs. C. B. Klugh Spend a Pleasant Vacation in the La?d of Flowers and Mrs. Klugh Writes Interestingly of What They Saw?Rev. and Mrs. Henry Pressly Are Happy and Suc-j cessful in Their Home?The Stur-j dy Scotch of Florida?Launching - Skin?R?autiful and Gay St. Petersburg?Mr. Wilson Succeeds in Florida. The pleasures of life are most en-1 joye\)d by those who have not been; surfeited thereby, and so with those] who have traveled but little. On leaving Aibbeville in the late afternoon by way of the Southern in company with Mrs. Bradley and Mrs. tHarve Wilson, we reached Columbia at midnight, making close connection (with the Seaboard for Jacksonville. !?. We regretted that Savannah was passed during the night, giving rather) a dismal impression of that old city. I Reaching Jacksonville in the early ti. morning, everything bouyant with the life of a fresh day, our first impressions of Florida could only be the best. Through the kindness of Mr. Wade Wilson, once of Abbeville county, andj a brother of Mrs. Wilson, our stop: ever of two hours was filled with the' sights of the city, covering a drive' on the beautiful river front, where' the broad sweeping St. Johns is( edged by the magnificent homes of the wealthy. The public buildings,' schools, churches, parks, and especially the very handsome new station, i;- tell the tale of progress in this, Flori-1 da's metropolis. Mr Wilson ispros-, pering in the drug business here, and is investing in Florida lands. Efc Leaving Jacksonville at noon we made our last change, Tampa being the point of vantage our minds were j|t >' centered on?this splendid port city, of the southwest coast. Except for! the usual little railroad stations, i5j !was a long dreary ride through stretches of country covered with! stately palms, long leaf pines, and trees festooned by long gray moss, which delight the eye for a while, but three hundred miles of this somg ' . *bre scenery becttaaes monotonous. | Tampa was reached at eight o'clock.; Mrs. Pressly with baby, Margaret,' met us at the station with her car. I She drove to a neaiflby boarding house where we left Mrs. Wilson, and then to the A. R. P. Church, where wej were reinforced by Revs. Pressly and McAuley and little Ruth McAuIey' I from Greenville, S. C., making a nap-1 py and congenial party in the Pressly heme. We found a stirring revival going on in the F trst A. R. P. Church.1 Services were held at night, and for, ' a week we went to preaching at night, j and sight-seeing during the day. The Pressly's live three miles out en route', , to Ybor City. The home joins Mr. , Williams, pastor of the Second Tam? pa Church. A spendid orange grove] r i is in front of the house, and equally! as large grape fruit grove at the rear, to whioh the familv have access:'. I and to those of us who have long'j since dreamed of gathering the golden fruit from the trees, the realiza-,1 tion was most heartily enjoyed. |? Mr. Pressly thinks of moving back ! to the city where he will be near his": work. Besides his work as pastor, 'l he fills the chair of Spanish in one'i of the senior high schools. Tampa l\ has a large Spanish element making ] g it necessary to add this language to < the regular curriculum. ' !' The personnel of Mr. Pressly's lit- 1 tie church was to me quite interesting, being- composed of tourists, once ! members of the U. P. Church north, ' many native Scots, where the psalms : K?- were wont to be sung in the days of, the covenanters, and who cling to the^ faith of their fathers, and others whowere reared in Tampa and had never, affiliated with any church. Mr. and Mrs. Pressly are workers and to use the common expression, good mixers.' They are awake to the times, and have a cordial greeting for the stran-j gers on the by-way, as well as in> the sanctuary. A true reciprocation was shown by the members in manyj ' ways, most substantially, by filled baskets of good things, while the visiting kin were with them. We accepted invitations to dine and tea in 'some of these Scotch homes, an exverience for which we shall always be glad. Tables were laden with good things somewhat different from our cooking, always servir.g hot tea instead of toffee. We were given pieces of white, pink and purple heather from It Ayrshire, right from Bobbie Burn' home, from a real kinsman of Burn! Dressed in the Highland kilts of Ro Roy plaid, a genuine son of Dunbai ton gave us many selections on hi bagpipe. Old Scotch melodies intei spersed with our own national air: and ever pleasing ragtime. No e> ? * " ?v* ???/\ r?lnoom<r flifl1 penence w<io mui c JJIOHIU6 . mingling with these sturdy hones people, many of whom are skille craftsmen in the art of shipbuilding commanding seventy-five and a hur dred dollars a week for their work. The city is quaint and beautifu and to one who has never been fai ther South you have the feeling o being in the tropics, induced by veg< tation and atmospheric condition: The homes, churches, schools and a pul-lic buildings are just as you se everywhere. The ever interestin drawbridge, and the water froni which is always attractive, brilliar bribiscus, trailing vines of golde glow and stately palms lend a di; tinct beauty to Tampa found in fei cities. The Tampa Bay Hotel and ground beggar description. Domes of Turl ish architecture looming up amids the tall palms and evergreens of tropical American garden, brfghtene by hedges of bribiscus and golde glow, the whole over looking the baj makoo n st.ndv for the artist and monument to Plant who did for Flor da on the west coast in part, whf Flagler did on the east. The roads were a marvel to mi being paved all over the State muc like our public square. Where the found so many brick was a great* wonder than the money for doing i The great number of Northern pe< pie touring in their splendid cai make these paved roads a necessit; Cigar factories are to be seen on a sides, cigar making and shipbuildin being the main industries. We ha the good fortune of seeing a fir new boat launched while there. A pleasant day's outing was a tri by boat to St. Petersburg. There v found a citv given ud to tourists, ar a city where the sun is said to shir every day in the year. We can testii to the mid-summer radience the da we were there, while" back at honr on the same day, everything was ii cased in ice. We mingled among tt tourists under the shade of the grei live oaks, while the Scotch band dii coursed delightful music, all givin the impression of a veritable Sprin time picnic. The only real hill w saw in Florida was here, with cui ning little dwellings on sides an summit much like our mountai towns. On reaching St. PetersbuT one of the first things that attract attention is the great number o pelicans squatting on posts all ? round the pier, seemingly as ta^e a the famous pigeons of St. Mark: They watch the crowds of fish in th clear water of the bay, and are mor successful when they dive for thei prey than the anglers along the plan walk. Another afternoon was spent a Port Tampa ten miles west, the chie port for boats going to Cuba, this be ing the nearest point to Gulf o Mexico. Nothing is seen h6re excep the longer vessels and Gulf Refininj Co. Our last afternoon was spent ii Seminole Heights, a suburb built ii recent years. Most of the homes ar bungalows of unique designs. Thi drive leads out to the Sulphu Springs, where there are swimmin pools and aligator farms. Thousand af large and small aligators are di nded in pens according to their a^e5 r i TYim.ii lauge iixMn one nunarea am fifty years to eighteen months. The, are lying in that dormant stat characteristic of the reptile famil; in winter. Mrs. Bradley purchased ; little one which proved a most aj predated souvenir for her youm sons. Perhaps the novelty will wea off, but our impression of Florida an Tampa were such, should summer b as delightful as the winter seasor we would like to cast our lot ther for all time. Notice CITY REGISTRATION. The City Books of Registratio are open for registration of qualifie electors, and will remain open unt April Gth, 1920, at the ocffie of til City Clerk. T. G. PERRIN, 2-13-20?2t. Registrar. PrercS at Cokesbury. The Rev. .Tames. L. Martin, D. D will preach at Cokesbury Sunda morning. ' ? k V k K . V . kl 3VVVVVVVVVVVVVV V pi * 1 V V1 s-. vl b V GENERAL NEWS. V M > % sUUUVUVUVV^, I I Greenville is to open up Saturday 3j ft] _ ,the first electrical bakery to be estaiblished in the South. Fresh baked I bread will be turned out every fif,'teen minutes. d "?rr r "t Three negro hafckmen have been " J.' "D arrested in Florence charged with ? stealing suit cases from Pullman ^ ^cars on the Atlantic Coast Line. The "irobber.ies were committed January r< 6th and 8th and brought the negroes *( !"j about twelve thousand dollars in se3,icurities and valuabes. * 11 1__ n: ei Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Zimmerman, ^ cr "W husband and wife of Greers, died hi C< ^within twenty-four hours of each other, and a double funeral was held n| Wednesday morning from the home J" of their daughter. Mr. Zimmerman ^ w was eighty-two years old and his ' wife seventy-five. , i ' " " t The South Carolina Bar Associasi it tion will hold its annual meeting in a'Columbia April 22nd. Senator' Wil- " i a d liam H. King of Utah, will make the nj chief address. P. A. Willcox is presi- ^ p/dent of the Association. a! 1 ? i-1 At-the request of the club women 7 it'of Greenville, hereafter the court room will be cleared of visitors when s women are tried, against whpm delik cate charges have been preferred. t y 1 Col. Wattie Gilliard Smith, state r t warehouse commissioner of Sotith F Carolina, died at his home in Orange- c ^ burg Monday morning after an ill- j ness of about one week. 7-\ I! I \ | A Potatoes Peelers Union has been lg formed in Chicago and they are de'^jmanding a wage of six dollars a day '^for eight hours wox!k and three meals 1 thrown in for good measure. . IP \ l re Mr. Edison was 73 on February 11 s id and the thousands of Edison emle ployees wore buttons inscribed with g y j "Seventy-three."" As an old time ^ ty telegrapher, Mr/ Edison will see a le'good luck wish wherever his eyes . i-.turn on his birthday. lci: f . ? at j Two hundred, soldiers with the s-'American Army of Occupation on j g the'[Rhine have married German g girls. Fifty others have married ^ rej French and Belgium girls and all g l- have been ordered home. n Gaby I?eslys, the French actress t g and dancer, died Thursday. Gaby ? ^gained considerable notoriety a de- ^ if cade ago . when she was mentioned i-jin dispatches from Paris in connecsjtion with Manuel, the boy King of g s.; Portugal. Her last appearance on ^ e thes tage in America was in 1916 p e when she had a leading part in ^ r "Stop! Look! Listen! j k ? a Fifty thousand school children are t sent home each week from the city f I 1- ~-C XT V?1. I j ui jl^cw iuia wii anuuiiL ui -jthe' increasing _ resignations of f; teachers who find themselves unable I t! to live, on the salaries paid. There I ? have been 993 resignations of s n teachers in the New York City ^ n schools since September. t e j g f An appropriation of two and a ^ r half million dollars is asked of the v House Naval Affairs Committee to- ? I r s day to construct the largest dirigible . J n the world. The annual mainte-j * .j nance of such a dirigible is estimated I ^ to be $500,000. y\ e | The American Legion has come j y out flatfootedly for adjusted com-j . a pensation for service men in the late'^ war, amounting to more than $1,c 900,000,000. This amount is to be i a r distributed on the basis of one $50 | j bond of a new issue for every month L e of service. . L ! ' The executive committee of the1^ e Legion also voted at the Indianapolis^ meeting to discontinue the Legion ^ 'Weekly, having ascertained that thei^ Legion is already in debt more than j j$300,000, being largely attributed tOig the cost of publishing the weekly. ^ j n, Thomas A. Edison, whose seventyd fliin .1 U i U f] n tt J t.rtf ^' will u UiI niua^ was tcicuiaicu ^c^- | ^ terday, said that he believes wireless 0 ie messages from Mars are possible. :c OLD FASHIONED DANCE. jp ! c j On Tuesday niqrht at the home of n |Mr. Marshall Hall, near town, was . the scene 0/ auite an interesting n 5 * y square dance. Especially was this so c td the writer, it being his first ap- c earance at a "frolic" of this kind. a The guests from Abbeville follow: s [ax B. Moore, J. T. Moore, Claude li filson, Dewie Campbell, R. B Fergu- n >n. 1; Skeet Cothran, of .McCormick, was c [so on the scene. THE CHURCH AT McCORMICK " In the Presbyterin of this week obert S. Owens Chairman of the uilding Committee of the A. R. P. [ission at McCormick says: The total amount which we have jceived from all sources according ) a statement furnished to me by reasurer, Mr. R. L. Dendy, is $5,40.20. Our total expenditures alount to $5,595.57. This me^ns that 'e are overdrawn on our account rith the bank by $455.37. We cannot ontinue to go on unless we receive elp from some source. We still have smething over $700 due from the ppropriations made by Synod atid ave some unpaid pledges which will e paid. The people of McCormick ave responded liberally **hen the act is considered that most of the ubscriptions obtained locally were lade necessary by members of other enominations as there are very few lember^ of the A. R. P. denominaion here. AYNE SELECTED TO BE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR | WaoMnirfrm TToh 19 TaViti Rnr- ! on Payne, of Chicago, has been se- { ected by President Wilson to be sec- j etary of the interior to succeed j ^ranklin K. Lane. Mr. Payne is now j hairman of the United States shipping board. I Mr. Payne came to Washington , rith Edward N. Huryel, former ihairman of the shipping board, and ook charge of the board's legal dejartment. Later he went to the raiload administration as counsel, "j ?7hen Mr. Hurley resigned the ship>ing board chairmanship, Mr. Payne mcceeded him. He is a Chicagoan and has been ictive in politics and the civic affairs of that city. He was born in Pruntytown, Va., n 1855. Before going to Chictgo he vrAfHfpH in Vircinio twViot-o Via I ras special judge of the circuit court if Tucker county and later mayor of Ongwood. He went to Chicago in 1883 and en years later became judge of the uperior court of Cook county. Mr. Payne will take over his new luties March 1, when Mr. Lane reires at his own request. Mr. Payne's uccessor as chairman of the ship?ing board has not yet been anouncedl I ' Former Senator John Franklin Ihafroth, of Denvor, Colorado, is unerstood t^o have been selected by 'resident Wilson to be chairman of he shipping board, to succeed John iarton Payne, who was chosen today s secretary of the interior. Mr. M. G. Donald Sick. We rerget to say that Mr. M. G. )onald continues quite ill. Dr. Cox )onald of Tennessee, came out to ee him last -jveek and stayed - a few lays returning home on Friday. At he annual meeting of the Board of )irectors of the Rail Road a resoluion of sympathy, confidence and re;ret on account of Mr. Donald's illtess was passed and a. copy sent to Vio familv A ft Proehtrf-orinn lSKS commission to help farmers Columbia, Feb. ,13.?Addressing a jint session of the general assembly ist night, J. Skottowe Wannamaker, resident of the American Cotton ssociation, urged the passage of an ct creating a cotton commission to e composed of ten members, one com each congressional district and liree from the state at large of rhich the warehouse commission to ave charge of the administration of tie state warehouse system. The ommission would be named by the overnor on the recommendation of ha A movinin rnftnn QCCApintinn Amendment of the warehouse actj o as to permit the chairman of this I ommission, who would be heavily j onded ,to make acceptances, dis-j ounts and borrow money for the I urpose of effecting direct sales of! otton was also urged by Mr. Wanna-i laker. It was declared by Mr. Wanna-! laker that this would enable the j ommission to make direc'. sr.le:- of I otton collectively both at home a:id( ibroad. He would have the commision given the further power of icensing graders, weighers and ginlers, every bale of cotton eventualy to be graded and all grades stenilled thereon. The teaching of the commercial IjCJCdjmCJEJEJCiJEJCiJCiJIHJCiJCaEJCilCdJEJEJJCiJCSCaEiCiJIllieiJE j D. Po j Just Re From the Ea: 1 ???? I a I The merchandii | j ing daily in every a We are ready to a new and complete n | goods under the r I D. POL I . Abbevil iciMSM2l5J3?S?3J3?c!ISMSI3J3f3i3?SJ3IS? Sherard B h We handi Bell Automo Truck 0 I Sherai Their Medicine C IT is characteristic of Colics after they pass the allotted f'three score years and ton," to look back over the days that are gone and thoughtfully live them over. I find myself, at seventy-one, frequently drifting back a quarter of a centuiy, when I see myself in the little drug store I owned at Bolivar, Mo., making and eelling a fn mrr friandfl and cuitomers?what was then fciown only as Or. Lewis' Medicine for Stomach, Liver and Cowel Complaints. For many year9 while I was perfecting my formula I studied and invostigatod the laxatives and cathartics on the market and became convinced that their main fault was not that they did not act on the bowels, but that their action was too violent and drastic, and upset the system of the user; which was due to the fact that they were not thorough enough in their action, some simply acting on the upper or small intestines, while others would act only on the lower or large intestines, and that they almost invariably produced a habit requiring augmented doses. I believed that a preparation to produce the best effect must firct tone the liver, then acton the stomach and entire alimentary system. If this was accomplished, the medicine would produce a mild, but thorough elimination of the waste without mo USUBI UlC&CUIUg Ituaawmai the user feel better at once. After experimenting with hundred"? of different compounds, I at last perfected the formula that is now known as Nature's Remedy, which I truly believe goes further % ( THE McMURRAY 1 A n^rmSTT ?| side of production in the state schools and colleges was aso strongly urged by Mr. Wannamaker. He told the general assembly that they had an opportunity to enact some constructive legislation. liakoff j | iturned | ' || stern Markets \e I bought is arriv- ?| department. j serve you with our 5 line of up-to-date ! jlj narket prices. | ^ He, S. C. 1 ros. 'efthe Davis and the . bille and Kalamazoo i -I d Brothers Jl Agents " ; r'?i ' ':f J ? =^===: ~ 'I hest For 20 Years / . '3 and does more than any laxative on the market today. The thousands of letters from users have convinced me I was right, and that the user of Nature's ItMisrfy as a family medicine,"even though he may have used it for twenty-ftva years, neTer has to increase the dose. My knowledge of medicine and the re- i dults of its use in my own family and among my friends, before I ever offered it for sale, causcd me to have great faith in Natore'i Itantdy from the very first. And now as I find myself nearing the aga when I must bow to tne inevitable and go to another life, my greatest pleasure is to sit each day ana read the letters that each mail brings from people as old or older I T wKa *<*11 nf h.irfrnr Wafure'o Rtmedy for ten, fifteen and twenty years, and how they and their children and grandchildren have been benefitted by it. It is a consoling thought, my friends, for a man at my age to feel that aside from his own success, one has done something for his fellow man. My greatest satisfaction, my greatest happiness today, is the knowledge that tonight more than one j':!lion people will take a Nature's Remedy (NR Tablet) and will be better, healthier. \ happier people for it, I hope you will 1 be one of them. A. H. LEWIS MEDICINE CO., ST. LOUIS* MO. DRUG COMPANY.