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\' ' I, VOLUJTE LUL, HUMifA,* 76 , , 3TEWBEBBY, S. C? TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1W6. TWICE A WEEK, $1M A YIA*. 1 '- ?mmm?mm f l ????art????ammmtmm?? ??i?????m II., ??I..' OLD FOLKS DAI AT . ST. PAIL LUTHEKA> CHURCH 1 ^ K-? Uai- W 1) ItAivn _ tiilt jJCHflwn i/j avc ? i, nvi/u? Large Crowd Presents?Good Dinner on the Grounds?Beautiful Day. Sunday Last was a beautiful day. It was not too hot and it was a fine day t > drive to the country. MTe went, as .. we frequently do, to old ;St. Pauls. It is the church of our childhood days. It was there that we first went to a Sunday school. It was in the oli school house that stood near by thav we first went to a day school. The . 'eld school house has been torn away after it had stood for near a centur-. A modern one teacher house nov occupies the site of the old house at which we first learned to read and to write. It was taught in those days by Tfcev. J. A. Sligb. We afterward went to school to Capt. J. F. Banks and to faDt. <T7. B. Whites and several lady teachers in the same old bouse, though, in those days the man teacher was the rule even in the one teacher school, as most of the country schools were. We had no modern desks in 1hose days and no black boards. We had "to do our sums". on the slate. And we took our first writing'lesson <on the slate. And school "took in" at 8 o'clock and "turned out" at five o'clock with an hour for dinner and one or two short recesses. It was an all day job to go to school then. Several of tne boys and the girls who were in school at St. Pauls in those days were out at Old Folks day op last Sunday. Many are living in distant lands and many have gone to the happy hunting grounds of the great beyond. And some of those win were then by us considered old folks were there too. They have- been " * 1 ? M i ? * spared may years uwause uictt wa^? <* long time ago. The familW faces or those days, those who were tin leaders in the church and Sunday school, were not there. As we sat in the old church we could see them ani could place them in their seats in the church, but they are gone. It was a beautiful idea, this thing of observing old folks day. It helps to keep alive a beautiful and a helpful j and a healthful sentiment of which there is great neecV in this age in w!hich we live. We believe the idea had its origin with. Grace church at Prosperity and that it was Mr. <Ai H. Kohn now of Columbia but then a member of Grafce church and the superintendent of the Sunday -school who suggested the idea. And I they 'have observed the day regularly at Grace church and it has come t? be a fixture. It was undertaken ontv a year or two ago at -St. Pnuls. It is a beautiful custom and the pity fi that more of the old people do not go.t St. Paul is noted for its large con gregations on even ordinary occasions and there was more than a capacity congregation on Sunday for the church and many were forced to remain on The outside. The older people are fast passing and as we sat in the church on las Sunday and thought of those w we had known and who are now ?o^j it occurred to us what an interesting story it w-ould have been if we could have had the rerollections of the i * _ ? cmircn ana its peopie auu yaswic from Maj. Jacob Epting, for instance, who -bad known the church and had been an officer for many years. Or of Mr. Levi Monts or Mr. Geo. A. Counts or Mr. Jacob ("X'") Bowers or 'Mr. Jacob Kibler or any of those j who are now gone had written out j their personal recollections what an | -s J- ? J.J woVA +A ! interesting <iuciilicxx h. ?<uuiu w the local history of the community as well as of the church. And we take the liberty to suggest here that the members of this congregation have seme of its members to write or cause to be written their recollections of the members of the church and the : I pastors during their life time. There J are several yet who remain that could go back a long way in giving history I Trom their own recollection. Mr. John D. Shealy has been an ofneer <5-? At* ^AT r* T n Qlio.olv nAXV ! 1UI *i D ) C M O. *ui. aavviy ? . 07 years old was for a Ion5 time a < member of this consrresza+ior and is stil! a member of Mt. Tabor which was formed nit of the membership of I ' St. Pauls large'y. And there are; others. Mr. David Wicker ?n3: Mr. Press Kinard could go back a good many years. We just throw out this suggestion as ia good way to preserve some local history of the community as well as of the church. The address by Rev. S. P. Koon was fittinor and aooroDriate to the occasion. He stressed the value and responsibility of long- life and the importance of the young to honor and respect the aged. He told how the great battles ; the ISuropean war were being le-i by the old men and gave the young r?or\niA some -wholesome admonitions as to their duties and obligations t? the old. It was our purpose to print a synopsis of this excellent sermon j but we find it impossible to get it se: j | In the lafternoon the address was made by Rev. E. F. K. Roof. He spoke well of the small things of life and how they affected our own lives. The day was a very pleasant one and enjoyed by the large congregation present. The dinner was boun v.y-.inrii rlio was larse LI1U. 1 CLLIU. tUVU^Ai witv v - _ _ the multitude was fed. HPRRTCAJiE HITS COAST OF TEXAS Corpus Christ! in Path of Storm. Considerable Damage Between There and Brownsrille. Corpus Christi, Texas, Aug. 18.? Blowing at a 70 mile an hour velocity the forerunner of the tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico was felt tonight as it approached the Texas ccast at this point and Brownsville and on the intermediate plains. Tonight the weather bureau station estimated that the crest of the storm would reach here about midnight with the wind at a velocity of probably 120 miles an hour. But few details of the storm's wct'i *outh or north of here had oeen received early tonight. In Corpus i Christi, however, the gale had car-! .ried almost every movable thing hefore it. In its wake it had Mt demniicTiort alon^: the beach front here, thousands of dollars damage to building's in the business section and a "heavy seat running in Corpus Christi bay. The waves hioped over the beach in the northern section of the cit. beachi"* small craft land carrying UP <>n the sho cebris from a score of docks and sr all bithing pavilions. Loyd's pier . one of the largest pleasure resorts in this section of the -coast, which juts out over the water 1.000 feet, had been almost complet? 1" aemonsnea sll d otiutk The only portion that remained was a two story structure adjoining the shore. Fronting the business section, which is built cn the beach proper, is i:i four foot breakwater. Incoming heavy seas were dashing over that and threatened to ^ash over it. The small freight steamer Piloi" Boy, owend by the Texai & Gulf Steamship company of Galveston, was sunk in the gulf today. One report received here stated that all the crew of 12 men were rescued and mnothe?* reported that three of the crew had been washed ashore at Port Arkansas. Thus far there has been no loss of life in or about Corpus Christi and, so far as known, none seriously Injured. (Ample warning of the storm, it was said, had given residents opportunity to prepare for the hurricane. The city of Corpus Christi 's situated on a boot sir/2d peninsula, IS miles from the open gulf but sur-j rounded on three sides by Corpus j, Ctristi and Neucas bavs. On the' j other side of the bay are Mustang and Padre islands, forming a brenkwater to any tidal wave that might ap proach from the gulf. On each side Oi.' one channel are situated Po:t Aransas and Aransas Pass. T\*hat d?mas:e has been done there, howr' or. is impossible to estimate, a5* J t'Jephonic communication was lost; 1? ~ "Railroad nron_ i V211 ly 1JLL IUC ? - - ? J ir this section, "has not bee-1 r Tiously damage. Corpus Christ! is connected with tiie : ainlar.d from tne toe o? th^ peninr.':!a br a causew??v a mfe p.rrt ?. w.zt-\ \ fv** I'm:* On it f*~n ctr^"iT to]oT-h^ne fP]?*,r'T3r,'> rM'rf"-. Tli** tnilcd of n^o'vt 1'"r' o'^'o^.V w ^OnTTl'lTTJl^.f.?OTl .'0 lillT! '.Rc ' p ^rr\r> Tf'j- fc) f-T-%1"'* t^TJlo nr< Gstyirw i3Tna,2re had T)PP"n ^ryn? fr> th<> ?;ay prop-T a <?ortrrefe istnic'jre. A?TAJL COJtRIXY KEUSION AT YOUNG'S GKOV f y ~ The t\ D. C. Will ?erve Barbecue?A fl. Dagnali to Speak?Also J. Fuller Lyon?Other Prosperity >"ews. Prosperity, Aug. 21.?The annual reunion of Confederate veterans belonging to the company here will be held at Young's Grove Friday, August 25. The U. D. C. chapter has secured as speakers Mr. lAi. H. Dagnall of Anderson and Judge J. *'uner jLyou j of Columbia. The exercises begin at I 11 o'clock and at their conclusion a barbecue dinner will be served on Uiu grounds. Misses Ellen Werts, Ollie Counts and Jessie Lorick are house guests of Mrs. J. B. Bedenbaugh of Pomaria. Mrs. F. E. Schumpert and son, Frank Earl, land Mower Singley spent! several days last week in Saludr.. Miss Marie Schumpert has returned from an extended visit to Greenville. Mrs. Franklin of Leesville has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. J. C. Kinard. l\C? 1 TT r<KAoOAn onont t'ho I IMd . J. 'XI. V/i uoavji oyvtiv mv ??? end in Columbia. Messrs. D. M. Langford and J. B. Stockman spent Saturday in Saluda. Miss Sallie "White has returned tt> Hickory Grove after a visit " to her brother, Rev. J. M. White. Miss Essie Black spent Saturday in Leesville. \ Mr. W. B. Wise of Little Mountain is spending a few days with his brother, Mr. A. G. Wise. Mrs. Hendrix of Newberry has b n. visiting Mrs. IM1. B. Barnes. Dr. and Mrs. A. L. Black have returned to Bowman after a visit to the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. Ij. Black. Miss Crouch, en route to her hom^ 1 in Saluda from- Brevard conservatory of music, spent a few days with Miss Bessie Taylor. Mr. Raw-! of by?kleslund is the guest of his sister. Mrs. M. . lYiorris. Mrs. B. B. Schumpert visited her daughter, Mrs. J. A. Hunt, of Saluda " oi Tr*/N/\lr iCl&L VV CCJL. 'Mrs. G. Y. Hunter leaves today for | the mountains of North Carolina. Little Miss Hoefer has returned to Columbia, after a week's stay with Miss Pearl iWiheeler. , < G. D. Harmon is spending this week with his sister in Greenville. Miss Lucile Lathan of Newberry spent the week-end with Miss WAir guerite Wise. Miss Margurite Wise left today for a visit to Miss Louise Ridgell at Batesburg. Mn*. Rose Lester and Miss Blanche Kibler are in Batesburg having been called there because of the ilness of : Mrs. Lester's sister. HAVOC IN THE CAMPS Soldier's Tents Leveled and Streets , Flooded. ( Si-'.n Antonio, Texas, Aug. 19.?Railroad and other public utilities corporations in the storm stricken district ^ along the southern Texas coast suffer- , ed damages aggregating more than ' S30G.000. exclusive of losses in Corpus . Christi, Brownsville and other points i in the storm centre, according to re- ^ ports received here. a The damage to the San Antonio & 1 Arkansas Pass railroad may reach ] $150,0*00. It lost a mile of the deck of i the two mile trev ue entering Corpus ; Cliristi and perhaps three miles of ? embankment near Portland. I A small portion of track of the St. i Louis. Brownville & Mexico railway, near Brownville, was washed out. The Western Union Telegraph coir - i pany estimated its loss mt $.r0 Cno The wind played havoc amon- th.-L army ramps in the Brownville district;.! practically half the ten*- having *>eei: i blown down by the storm and loss of * * + *,-na r>s> i con sri ear Die army enuipmciu *. rort^d TT^niiy 30,000 National Quit.! 3- < "icn ar>d regular soldiers, it ^*ar>. aid, slent in public -j ville last nri*i < ^'Oal'Ly " T<"*-lr?'T \- ? 1 ?-><sr? f-- 11 If? I ; ofa, T' ">'T ->T' "Ci f'f o o y r r'. ? r -'\r\ ? ' '! ?* ; ' > THE SEWS OF POMAEIA. Pomaria, lAiug. 21.?There was i very large crowd at Old Folks day at | St. Paul oil Sunday. It was perhaps the largest of the kind. The program was veil rendered. Dr. A. J. Bowers nrA.yidAri Rpv S. P. Krwm delivered the sermon to the old folks in the morning and in the afternoon tne Rev. E. F. K. Roof made an excellent address to the young people. Prof. W. J. Sihealy of Columbia; visited at Mr. J. W. Alewine's Friday of last week. Mr. and IM!rs. J. F. Epting of Columbia are visiting relatives in the community. 'Misses Louise and Helen Swygerf of Washington are visiting at Mr. \Y. W. Berieys. Miss Edna Ruby Cannon is visitingj at Mr. J. J. Hipp's. Mr. and Mrs. Lawson Shealy of-| Saluda i^re visiting^ Mrs. Shealy's; father, Capt. Glenn Metts. Mr. Ed Roberts of Monticello it visiting Mr. Wl D. Hatton. Mr. Boyce Oxner of Union is visiting | Mr. B. M. Suber. j Misses Mary and Ola Lomniclt spent | Saturday and Sunday with Miss ;Nettie | Murphy. j Miss Eula Swygert of Columbia is j visiting at IMS*. C. L. Graham's. Miss Ethel Berly of the Mount: Pleasant section is visiting iat Mr. .W. j H;- Graham's. Miss Frances Paysinger of New-1 berry is the guest of Miss Nellie I Murphy. Miss Bessie Long and sister have gone to Jalapa to visit relatives. Prof. Ben. M. Setzler has gone to; I Vij on a business trip. ) ' Mrs. Laura Koon after an extended visit to her son, Dr. Theo Koon. at Cumberland, ,Y*}? -has returned home. Mr. Lee Lalhrop spent the week-end with relatives near Newberry. Mr. 'Miller Stuck lias gone to Florida for a short stay. Miss Annie Mae Bedenbaugh has gone on a pleasure trip to Washington. Mr. Breaker Setzler and mother, Mrs. ,T. P. Setzler and Mr. and Mrs. Joe W. Alewine spent Sunday at Little Mountain. I\ftr. J. W. Stuck and sons retumeu to Union Saturday. There will be a missionary meeting at St. .Johns church on the 23rd. Children's exercises in the morning and in tbe afternoon a missionary address by the Rev. S. 0. Ballentine. HEADS OF RAILROADS WISH TO COMPROMISE Washington, Aug. 20.?The ranking ra ilroad edecutives of the nation, who have been conferring with the president for a week in efforts to avert a nationwide strike of their employes, tonight were understood to be working on a proposal granting some of the men's demands and offering O arbitrate others. The only outward development ii " XI * ~ Tim a +>1 a r? P-Ols rX- I ice sicuauuu uuuaj rvoo tuu ? , tion by President Wilson that, instead :> endangering the plan of arbitration, bis plan would strengthen it. ' Thanks for Eeorteu "On behalf of the 37,000 manufac-f turing organizations employing 3/000; j 000 persons and- utterly 'dep ndenr j upon interrupted railroad' servic-i' for their continued operation, I beg at ' OLce to express our deep appreciation ' of your efforts xo prevent ct?u tion of your efforts to prevent the' threatened stoppage of national rail- J roed service, and respectfully urge that you will, with iall the power of rcur great office and personality, as- j 5ert and maintain the principle o* ar i titration for industrial disputes af- ; 'ecting national intercouse. ? '?i i;? 4. Trie president repucu. Only One Point. "What I arc proposing dees no*. ( weaken or discredit the principle o"'i Arbitration, it strengthens it, rather It proposes that notning he concede-! except the eigfit hour day, to v;-hic": j te "wole economic movement of the, t'me *eem3 to p oint, and the imme- J diate creation of an agency for deter-j T*1rip.cr nil the arbitration eInT"ieriti *v, :c rrr;^ T-o^ht?Tt-Ot ofprclic' >ons or forecasts?hut of established r.nd ascertained tjets. This the 3-\ * vr. o," ' Si -'7irT^ ro~d tf> th? rfi^CO ? e\e -rvortf rerrnfi'rtPTl'f' hr,C!f? fo1 i i;AT1 TP^Trjc* tfoar v,r>se now available are supplied." | CORPUS CHBISTI SIFFCR9 LIT TLE ! I.aredo and Teat City Surrounding it Swept by Aftermath )f I Disturbance. First communication with Corpus Christi, Texas, where Friday's tropica] storm was believed to have been felt hardest, showed on, Saturday afteri noon that no great damage had been done to the city and that there were no fatalities there. Portions of thai city, notably the section populated by | summer -visitors, were under three i feet of water yesterday. I | Greatest property damage was in I that quarter where Corpus Christi I Beach hotel, a large ' summer hotel, ! was considerably shaken. I Some cottages and a pleasure pier I ( re demolished. j The business section of Corpus i Christi was not damaged beyond the | breaking of plate glass windows. | Interest has centered on the effect of the storm at Port Aransas, and i Aransas Pass, in the absence of defii nit* wn-rd from those there. It was pointed out as probable that these points might have felt the storm mor ? severely than Corpus Christi. j It developed Saturday night when: further information was obtained that the fatalities reported during the day at Rockport hjad been confused with the drowning of ten men of the crew o' the steamer Pilot Boy, which sank oft' Aransas Pass Friday afternoon.! these were the only deaths from the storm. Restored communication with La ' redo, Texas, showed that pjace and the military camps surrounding it to have felt a heavy aftermath of thb storm which hit the coast. The ga'o raged there for several hours Fridav n.ght and early Saturday morning tu: it?. most serious result was flOcdlng portions of the city to a depth of two f' O* and wrecking "hundreds of soldiers' tents.. Messengers who arrived at Sinton, Texas, last night from Kingville. reported the San Rieirdo hotel at Kingville badly damaged. A number of small buildings were blown down. it was stated. Reports to ilie veaTner b:;rpau ? it'Cn here indicated that the storr.t followed the Kio Grande valley vO afcont Del Rio. Texas, and then spent its force on the plains of northern Mexico. " . " Mrs. Laura Nichols Has Family Reunion. On last Friday, at the home of E. 0.: Lake was held the annual family reunion of IY.ts. Laura Xiohols- v, lio makes Tier home there with. her young- ; est daughter, Mrs. E. 0. Lake. This is ; the old Home iflace of Dr.W. E. Lake. Each year this occasion brings to-: gether the children, grandchildren: and a number1 of friends of Mrs. j Nichols to enjoy the . fine barbecue which is prepared for this occasion, j The chief cook on these occasions is j Mr. W. H. Nichols, who learned under j that past master Mr.''"Pat Blair, and! who has clearly shown that he was j an apt pupil. .These.-afe great barbecues, and yet they fere more than barbecues. Here' '* * ? TT-tfVi "Ko T ; one finds trie oest piumv muu becue meats substituted for the' picnic meats. After the dinner is J served, throughout the afternoon, j eopious supplies of lemonade and ice j ci earn are served, till finally in the : late afternoon children, grandchif- j dred, and friends gradually retire to i their "homes, and darkness finds the! once festive scene quiet and still j once more. "These are occasions when good old country hospitality is shown af best, and to one who has liveu j elsewhere than the country tiey are ' appreciated all tho more. Eighty-one were present to enjov"! this occasion. Mrs. Nichols' children, all of ^rhom were present, are: Messrs Tj. >M. Nichols. W. H. Nichols, | W. E. Nichols, Mrs. M. S. Hawlcin*. and Mrs. O. K. Lake. The followinc: txt XT' T.olre I ' fviends were presenx: u. **. , ~.t 'T "pt'V T. S?. N*"VoTs rn-3 ^?rn!') t*1 jr-v,'~'P'S p.ncl *'2iI" **. v~* ? I a-n/? J. V. and I ^milv t R. Pe^Tis rrri fn^n!! " .C. . j '?r,r>?* r? ?H ^Trn^v T%. A. TTflTTl ori.1 ; ' t* rr o T/,"Vi' two sons. Rev. S i n Tr??, --r ,7 fp^^Ty^ ar,^ Pr0?. Y7 .? i ! kp, .jr. j SUMMER BROTHERS COMPAQ SERVE DELIGHTFUL BARBECUE There was a big event in the village life of Jalapa last Friday. Autos aauV buggies made this charming litt' I viilaee the mecca of keen and comin* r.jpetites. Jalapa is exactly 7 miles north vest of Newberry and is situated on the Piedmont highway. For more than half a century it was a postoffice *nd was discontinued) only a few y% ars ago, the late S. B. Aull being ita last postmaster. The postoffice at Gary of which Mr. I. H. Compton was postmaster, was discontinued at the same time. Postal service is now rendered by R. F. D., (No. 3 out of Newberry. It is thought that Jalapa got its name tram a town ot the same name in Mexico. But we hiave digressed. We started out to tell of the free barbecue furnished by the Summer Bros. Co., at Jalapa. The 'cue was given by this enter' prising firm of farmer-merchants as a token of appreciation of the faithful work done by their tenants and oyer- ^ seers on the Jalapa and G<ary planta tions and for the pleasure of a lar.^ number of invited guests from the neighborhood and from the city. This firm is conducting a large store at Jclapa under tTie management of ftlr. W. Clarence Wallace who is one of the most promising and obliging young business men in this section. Besides the store at Jalapa the Jalap* plantation is under the management o? one of the best and most progressive young farmers in the county, Mr. E. B. Feagle. Mr. Feagle has under cultivation about 350 acres of cotton besides a large acreage of corn and other crops. At Gary Mr. R. ML Werts is monarch, of all the surveys. Be nas under cultivation some 400 acres in , cotton besides a large acreage in other crops including corn. Mr. C. EJ. Su-mmer stated that the two plantations bid produced enough corn in this year's crop to run until next year's crop. . Mr. Werts is. well known as a big farmer in every sen-se and the transformation at Gary the past two years is sufficient evidence of hi3 success as a farmer. But we have jumped) the track again. The bjrbecue at Jalapa vras spread under thick anrl beautiful shade trees and over 300 people white and colored were served. The colored tenants brought their families ana en- x . joyed the hospitality of their employers. Parson George Montgomery who drives one of the Summer drays pulled one over on the whites. When ti e negroes were seated at tne t&Dib he rose in "his dignity and asked tho blessing?something the white fol-ks iud forgotten. Parson Montgomery also made a speech of appreciation on befcalf of His fellow-laborers. The dinner>?was higlily complimented by all as being the best prepared and most efficiently served of tb? season. The dinner was cooked by two experts,, each a specialist In bis line. Mik<?>Caunts cooked the meats 1 -TT" /~' 01 tho "hiafih Thd 3.T1U. W\\ Vy, O'ligix uuv MUM?* ? ? service was supurb and each guest W could, not have received more attention if he had been seated at the home table among the home circle of anyone of the hosts. Plenty of good things to eat, sparkling cold ice water, attentive service and an air of welcome sums up the occasion. After dinner Dr. George B. Cromer made one of his characteristic speeches mail which was very appropriate auu fitted for the occasion. THIRTEEN KILLED HURRICANE TOLL f Corpus Christi. exas/ Aug. 20.? i-J- n/M-n/MIO U'OfO Vl 1 1 P d .IfUl i nintjfii yciovno > v- ? property valued at approximately $2,000,000 was destroyed in the storm which struck Corpus Christi Friday nigh* end swept trough ten adjacent counties in south Texas, according to rc-ports received here tonight. Of the lead nine were members of the crew of the small freigh steamer Pilot which founder^ off 'he Aransns Pas-* i'.ft'c? Thr"?. icans ~rrre killed :>t tacrine. :i ?eltIsrneQt on. the Kin?: rs?:ch near Alice, .intone rr,1~? l.t ?l"t Diego.