Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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| DE Some time ir to show you Wi E==r | Columbia and \ Winther trucks are no H but they are, by the rec The motor truck oi To the dealer in rr truck leaves your hanc In less than three } ?g truck field. To the user of mote than have ever been p( "fleet" to any extent, Winther Rear Drive a need which may notbe 1 We handle t 1 interested in tr HISTORIC WHITE nrr At i qroM1 V>/1 I 1J?ji?x vy i i? JOEL R. PO The White House was destroyed her by fire o~ December 28, last?-not ;nr the one in Washingon, but a famous gre one in Georgetown county South no! Carolina. The place was the property ol of Mrs Eiizabeth W. Pringle, c'5t daughter of R. F. W. Allsroi:. ihe C0L' of South Carolina. He was the J most dstinguished member of a Rec family whose wealth and culture was once proverbial in the Carolina*. Mrs. Pringle had lonu' contribute ! '?U - 01 tor the New York Sun under the aon non de plume of "Patience Pentur riington." which were later put into one book form under the title of ''The . :n Woman Rice Planter." 011 v V liti* House was o*v< of the niort; , famous colonial mansions in the state. It was at one time the resi- ;vni dtn- e of Joel R. Poinsett, an v.a* ~ * f* i? i.1. / ?. eminent public man 01 souui \j<xl- ^ir olina. in ihe diplomatic service, who a f discovered the . beautiful tropic ;-'?c flowe:\ "poinsetta," and who adorn- Ro< ed the c?tnte with trophies of his "' travels. In the Y mds of the Allston s0,i family it was the center of soeia; anlife and a landmark along the Pe^ mu t-> i the Dee river. I Mrs. Prngle's futher is said to was T*?.? Viave been the largest slave dealinj; rri Tit /bO"\ country at one time. It is note-. * . . , "o worthy that he married a sister o . of the eminent lawyer of Charleston j ?j sou James L. Pettigru, who was thet j strongest Union man in the state,. and an opponent of seeesison, j tjje while her cousin, James Petti grew or(j of North Carolina, was opposed to'aft slavery and tried to limit it when he moved to South Carolian an'! was t.aj] fleeted to the legislature of that awj tate. He subsequent'v became a cen brigadier in the Confederate army ere nnd was killed at ueiiysuur>c, im\ uik i suu 'ieen in Pickett's charge Mrs. the Allston survived the governor many) maj years living most of tho time withjWh: Mrs. Pringle at the old Al'iston home, har. Chicora" an even more famous old estate on the Waccamaw river in a v Georgetown county . President sorl Cleveland visited Mrs. Allston at mot M0NSTRA1 ? April we are going hat the Winther toil the truck will be put Da t "cheap trucks" They embod ord of hundreds of owners anc : great interest today-alike to lotor trucks Winther means le I. fears the Winther connection >r trucks, large or small, to th )ssible in the past; greater ec< and to fit any requisite with i ,nd Winther-Marwin Four W1 i met within a Winther. "Win he "Winther True iirk niionrl ucrvo ?.v/ titivi tvt? G. < u...; .. iii'i!;iiiimiiimiiiii:!'!:li:;i'.:i,i:.,lini,!i!i'' ..i'1 ill. ; I' mn!i<:t10inilliH'?!n:il!1ll!!i ' mmrnme HOUSE HOME f;c"*wi1 ful old s 5 AND OF places wit and lived INSETT ' hot do nn home and said some comnlimen- , , , , his naked y things on the occasion so a mjnjstor atly was he impressed with the r0|km.(- w. /iliotxinfo^ r\ -T +hn nrf ni f urnwon vriuwrtvici \j i. i/uv; giwctv ? wiu*n JU "'ftOV the splendid old lady, who was 1 of the great wom?n of the hy Govcv intry all her life. ; ' the fac riie Allston family is known in the of tion with the tragic story of gime had i odoria Burr, av.^lnar c.f A v '-n because it, who was lost at sea while en r:loratic :te to join her father in New <' on. sho i'k. But she was the wife of acteristic, ther Governor Alston of a ten- < aristy ago, whose name is spelled with low .i!m: "I", a distinction of import;-ice j his slate's the two families, as they arc' But an v only two very distantly related. ml of hi? )ne of the saddest tragedies in eyes so history of the Albton? was the I'.i.er f; rder of the ol >i-t grandson on 1he .. in ernai side, aYid the nnmepake of, was not I pernor Alston after he had made posstiic-a ight for his health only compar-jluid his li to that of young Theodore rorslitutio Dsevlet, and had got in a fair way work as i mend the family fortunes hv pp.r hand*. H al exertion as splendid as that of and t r New England pioneer, and in laid his li rked contrast to the way In which markable original wealth of his forefather- years?an ; accumulated. The stry f 3Irs. He was s ngles nephew, whose home as a sought a : had often been at the White the slope i use, is one of the unwritten epics Asheville the south?the post-bellum decided th, j mountain ' Robert Allston was the son of the ^ one roon Benjman Allston a colonel in decided 1 Confederate army who took grapes. 1 ers in the Episcopal church his own 1 er the war. The paternal estates posts for Georgetown had become practi- ture with Iv unprofitable. The labor went cation thai ly to the railways and industrial subject, ters, the neglect of the fields in- one of the ased the malarial incidence, and,?probablj n nearly all that remained of j agriculture ii* former grandeur were the two of the sta hnmnc nf unrl 1 to ite Huse, filled with portraits, in full mi dsome furniture imported in the and vegetc days from London and Paris, and, -Tapes ant wealth of family treasures of all went alonj ts. The two widowed ladies,! no mount; ,her and daughter Kept the j ~?id hardei ION OF WII j to give a demoristrat I do. A represent thru some of the usu te to he Announced. I ly materials and exclusive Wintf 1 used in every industry, the mos the seller of motor trucks and tc sss sales resistance, easier sales ; has become generally recogniz( e owners of a single truck or a h 3nomy of operation; lessened ] i Winther of exactly the size and ^ TN "IT M 1 leei Drive models, witn seven cn ther-Marwin" means Wmther ? k" for Abbeville aw V/atch for Date. CITY GAR 4 HARRISON, M t HE iiffii mazsmmmm sg :h the help of a few faith wealthiest and mof ervants and their families - outhei n families, h the help of a few faith- mends w?th his moi: on the luxuriance of a :o plain manly fa: Rev. Mr. Alston ]je succeeded. I ything on the place with v.c j jjg tu!lt a co hands, and his stipend as houses to rent and was limited, llis only, dents and then h<- n i ssent to the stale eolie.'se t ?] ,f n retired En it had ben reeorjani od. ho Fri'N.' fireiw i . : S"ttled i:i the famoi nor Tillman, and in spite .. .. XT valley ot Nortr. Cai t that manv ot the old re- . , i:::neu to prosper, their patronage because , , . , . terests and 'nvestnv removed their patronage . _ , ... ' , , , of it built up on t of the man who had , , , . ?.\.-n iiailds. At tni?' institution, Rooert stay . , . \v mdenendent, a wner one of the most char- .... : :iv to he weidaiiei All.-ton qualities in so ? ' , , , father nr ! bee': wm ?i-it f ? * rm Prvnorf c+nv c J slaves beh n<; him in to n.eep n:m away from historic institution. Then came the tr attack of measles at the v'!-o had been omp i sophomore year left his tbo vines in a part impaired that he could '-rur.k and when M nish hi', education nor c-n- 11 by he had nej : y clerical occupation. He at :l critical time t c.+,.rtr,n- +vm,10-Vi Distol from his pock of a tern will and a sound through the heart wi ncs of procedure with re- warning. m. So he decided to go to Robort Alston's i farmer with his own p|.onounce(| to be m e had y>ot the capital to I'lno] Viero in o equ:pt a large piace. He .;n ordinary m nes of procedure with re t0 all> the humbie , sagicity for one of his a]y^ (}efevejQtial to hi: d it was ail his own plaji. pl>actical judgment eventeen years old. He without bigotry, a good climate by going to ?ut a tracc of snobb of the Blue Ridge below jn jdca|s ut(p. on the line of the South- . parent conscousness to specilize on Niagara ??? r r to oge, he was one of land there cheap. He built , t? . . ? * of the Americanism i cabin and lived alone. He to specialze on Niagara Mr. Allston left o fie cleared the land with daughters. The bo land cut and planted the guished himself in tl the wires stud'ed viticul to say that some day a close and practical appli- parent conscousness L made him a master of the to hold his share of 1 His grandfather had been ures at Chicora an< ; 1'agricultural" governors but now many of tli j did more for scientific the smoke of the old 1 . T ; than any other governor ?'"c l>t-e. nuwr-.n-, to excopt Tillman. Robert did children are exhave inherited that quality strength and beauty t easure. He planted corn! Ambassador Phelps < tbles between the young a house in the mount 1 lived on the place as he Robert Allsto^ and rc r without going into debt., war was not in vain linecr ever lived simpler pated such a young r than this scion of the, Vernon in Atlanta Jo MTH.F.R TRIO v inm nf n "jVKzJi f Ti^l JCK IUI I v/i W. ? \.B?J I A JL-4 JL A W V/l ^ e of *ke factory will com at and many of the unus Mter. ier construction not possible in the trucl t economical of any motor truck prodi > the user-is beyond question-WINTH and a refreshing absence of service tr 3d by the "trade" asihemostdesirabL undred, Winther means simply this; g maintence and repair cost; the ability t capacity for the duty required. "V assis of each type, there is no higher g: our wheel drive. d vicinage and we wan GE anager. -. HMri'iuttKithtilllillMtlliiluliMUIiinlHIIiUIUUiiiilklli Mili.iiin it partician of ukawS SWOItDS AT THE | Hg lie also made OPENING OF DIM IN COFKT I fig Jnf"?n n(,iKhbors March 22 -Ar.nor..! cars, H shion. . j||, jv.-or ' ! an in- In j. .. ' . earing hehavi.* escort- Sfl lis grapes paid (1,j ^,,1^ nf u,e assizes co.rt at Ga!- If ttage homo then i i e court house thi mornnig. flu to summer resi- Guo in addressing :Iie R'-ar.djgS jury, said there liad been four mur-jfljfl m-n.ed a iru.gli- (jc,.s .,vo miitcries v.-iih :inns and,gg gli?.Ti gentleman, many other crip'es such ; ; shootingjSp j-en ice. who had ' ,]l? holies since the last assizes. g * The Tipoerary Urban district coun-ll as French Broad (.j| jias adopted resolutions i-ondeinn- B olina. He con- the murder of Thomas MacCur- i adding to his in tai?- lonl ma-vor oE Cork- fc cnts, every cent "" he labor of his iy he was practi ; ml was likely at ' ' than his grand j |?v |?\ tr -jv - y?^ y > & irj "I \j. ifc. | agcdy. A man jw loye<^ ^ ^ ^^^ | character was g ore like that ot t {f 1 Y-. I V%1*5^ ? a story book 3 J X j \f l j M> j oi tnl. Courteous J \ V / ij y ind poor especi- \ yj| s elders, sound in I M\^y{ gentleman with jl /| Ll^ ' ery, pure morals |j i |\fv^ S rly without ap- pj \ U ?=HIrl ' e of hs hgh lne gj \\ j' I the finest types || [~<%W I Kj of the old. I <*- ?? ne son ani" two S / | | { y lately distin- | | RJ ^ ic war. He used S j ) r he would build n ! J ?m Ivy t\f tl of his high line ' v I ? I tl Lhe family treas '?j I White Hous-j'S Shirts, Neck ware and other furnish em arc gone in &. mansion on the y crminating taste. i II O 1?r <j? m I ^ Z3 ^ ... . ,, a It's a pleasure for us to show youemphfying the g ' of the old stock. here. >nee met young S ;ains big enough 9 ^ w ? ^ason <&M< man .?o. i . V ?? ive want j \e up from f? ual tests. | cs built to a price; aced to date. [ER. ouble after the m e in the -motor m reater reliability | ;o expand your Vith a full line of rade motor truck it everyone i 1 I W. I u ? TM3 ONLY S A7 YOUR OOOCEKS 1 HAXWEtl HOUSE ! COFFEE i _^3L.~-imjaiiBAiiHiiiw> wuumuaag^wjujHB s 2 3 HERE \ | 3 im! Here Are The New ? ignrSie (-1' nil r v mr ni mm ? u spring Suits To Put You In ^ ? rune With The Season S A , . f ii.. \ generous assortment 01 me i seasons most desirable patterns, 1 shades and fabrics ;-ij Jingle or double-breted, both ire stylish, and both are here 3 STe\v Spring Crowns for every ^ load hats and caps, just the 3 hape, and shade to become $ y very face. IS )ur showing of Oxfords include H !1 of the newest creaetons in r outwear. Extreme English- I ledium English and conserva- I ve toes, shown in Hach and ,/ u> popular shades of brown. b' ings to please Men of dis ?Come in while the best is :Allister j iwiiWJJWaawiMug.- .j . ?.T^j