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Social and Person! News By Mil* L?""* Worry Tin- \ra V to worry when jaw see 1)l (i i iiiiik- are not us ttoy should be, is Ju*t to work with all y*ur might IV m.tU the troulbl## end all right. The wa.v to worry, is to go \i,d bustllo *or c'u,ft ?ou 0>V0 Yoii'ir novel get It sitting down A?d pulling floomy frown. tVbvu >011 are in the depth* of our*, Tin* wu v to worry then und there I. hut'lu JiUC vourm'lf about Au<l find this mean's of geflTiiif o.ul". WJiOji p|j?n> you've made are apt to fall It ? i:i iiot hi-lp ut all to wall TlioreN only ono thing then to do, And that's to see the trial through. . \|| nun liiust worry, hut the wise impress their fear in- uctlouJs guise; \VUt?I? w<i?'ry comes to earnest lUeu. The v win hy working harder then. ? Rxchuugc. Party For Mist* Scott. bast Thursday afternoon Mrs. Marion ,'Zetnp out or tallied in honor of Miss Scott. of Sumte|\ Two tables of l.lidct \sr\r enjoyed, after which1 was 9em*t iee<l tea, sandwiches, o#Ve and iiiiidy, Tin* guests were Misses Hetty 1 lailv." Ktully Woolen, Kstelle Harding, I'olly 1 lePa'sx, Margaret Mills Jose phine Ciivfu.., und Dolly Singleton.' Death of .Mr. Denton. Mr A Denton, a native of this , .unity, died on the Springs & Shannon plantation a few miles north of Cain deu el i the < l.ockliu rt road Tuesday afternoon, lie was OS years of ago and ilu hod'y was taken to Stoneboro awl inn ied near Stoueboro Wednesday at'iei'iicon. .Mr. Denton's wife prede ceased- him several years ugo, 1?ut lit r> ?uruved hy ten children. two sis r?;i> und one brother. .Mr. Denton, was :i victim of malarial fever. Death of ? Child, I. it i ie Kuth Mnlcom, aged '.five years, . died at the home of her grandparents. Mr. ami Mrs. It. J. Mel ntyr<V\iu the West Waterer section on .Sunday fol ir.winK a vm short . illness. The little girls pinvnt.s reside temporarily at Ureeiirlioro. ,\> she was on a visit to her urn nd parents *Whett stricken ftilh her fatal illness. She was laid a\va\ in a steed vault in the Smyrna eluuchyu rd in West Watoree. Able to Return. Home. Mr iti i 1 1 Croft, who was badly, shot "through tli.- thigh several weeks ago in a difficulty with a tenant on his farm, and who has boon in the Oam-. deu hospital for several weeks, has been able to return to his home in the Stockton .section. ? ~ Towels. ~ tF "77, The t'ii ?t UMrof towels occurred be fore the introduction of handkerchiefs. Peojih- usually carriotl large ..square piece* of clotb for drying their hands after washing or after meals; these were < a 1 l?-?i "tollies." French for linen or el"th. The word beoame corrupted to "tow el-" and later their use was re.striru-ii t?. drying purposes only. Mr and Mrs. .1. II. Le<jrand and two children, of Sumter, will soon uiovc to (jnndeii and Vill reside in the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. W, Kvauv Mr. I.eCrand will travel out of ('amdeii .is n Milesmaii. Kindergarten , K.iid? : i.mi will open on Monday. !>rptcmb..r I'Jth. Hours '.from 0 to 11 l-i in*, {c.voo ;i sehopl month. MKs. i:. ,r. McLioon. ? CA1.IFOKMA I.K.MONS ? per do/. f I ? .?h store. Majestic Theatre PROGRAM uit l>r>Mille Presents I UK LOST ROMANCK" ^ ? ad Nugol. Txds Wilson k Holt. I 'a the Weekly News "vimrday. September Hnl, i ?? last episode of Mil \VKN(iIN(} ABKOW" t!li Huth Itoland P..IM.T K?'nton in ' I IIK HIGH SIGN" v :i ''hriatle Comedy M\N vs. WOMAN" September 5th. ?I 1 i r - 1 National rrex-ulrt V\',.su'.y Horrv in "DINTV" I" picture* >tho\v? h??re i 'la > I n?*s<la.v. September fith. 'iul.l?vii Presents ' r~a!dlne Vurrar in lii? \N(man and thf> Puppet" Thunderbolt Jaot. ' \\ riin? >(l;iy September "J tit. I ir>r Xationnl Presents ^ "itna Tnlmndge in "IF, I' \SSION FIX)WERM \ ... s< reen Magazine Hiursday. September 8th. '?Mrtwyn Presents ' '"lay, September 2ml. " ??. m.f l4^ m/U V:m? Ptuhe New*. PERSONAL MENTION. Mis* Luclle Turner, of Humter' la visltliig Mrs. K. I.. Moseley. Mis* Olive Khaine has returned from u visit to friend* In Manning. Miss JasMtmlne Seott, of Blunter, is the guest of Mrs, Marion Kemp. Miss (xmlse Nettles is spending tliis week with frleuds iii ColuinYdn. Mr. aud Mrs. Kobe its, of KUIIuun were visitors In Otuu&en Tuesday. Miss Harriet und Cornelia Nelson si?oui Sunday with relatives hyre.v Mrs. William King and son McLean, haw returned- from a trip to Ciastonla. Mr. H. I/. Team, who Ik now located at Hamlet, N. (?;; sjn'iit the week end hrre. AlTss lOll/uheth Stuall has 'returned to Jefferson after a visit to Mrs. S. F, Hrasington. Mr. Harry {feVaid, of Maiming Is spending some time here with friends and relatives. ltov. W. Ill Hodges, pastor of the Methodist church has returned from his vacation. / Miss 'Bessie White, of Augusta, (in., was the guest of Mias Anna Kate Al foril last week. Mrs. S. B. Hall is visiting her lis ter. Mrs. A. II. Baxtey, of near Ker shaw. this week. l>r. and. Mrs. it. K, Stevenson re turned Tuesday from a t,w?? weeks slay id (Jastonla, N, C. Mrs. K. (!. Whistler has returned home after a pleasant summer spent with friends in Vermont. Mr. and Mrs. .ii>hu It. CJoodale have returned from a trip to Washington, Baltimore and other points. Mr. and Mrs. .1. 10. Khnme have re turned home after a pleasant stay of two weeks in the mountains. M iss Ruth Hodge*, of Brownsville, is a guest this week at the home of, Itev. atld Mrs. \Y . II. Hodges. M rs. Lydia Murelilsou. of Camden. I is visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. S. It. J. Smith. ? Sumter Item. Miss Cirace I'ilrOss, of Mobile. Ala., has been a visitor at the home of Mrs. It. 10. Chewning for (lie past two weeks. Mr. C. J. Shannon, Jr.. returned this week from a vacation spent at Hpt Springs and White Sulphur Springs, Virgiuia. Miss Hanna Ik'll Hlrsch, of Charles ton will return to her home. Sunday after spending two weeks with Mrs. A. Karesh. Mrs. Frank L Ze.nip and daughter, Dorothy, who have been away all sum mer have returned to their cottage on! Mill street. \Mr. and Mrs. Ancrum Boy kin of Boy kins spent Monday night here as' guests of ?*&?*.. FmHrf. Qell.^Rock HCtt Record. 'W- > Xj, Mrs. M. J. McCauts and daughter 'Miss Mabel .McCants, of Orangeburg, is spending some time hero with Mrs H. S. Zeigler. ? Mrs. Willie Dempsey, of Itoek Hill lias returned home after .spending a while here with her parents Mr. and Mrs. I). F. Dixon. Miss M>tl>el Alderman, who has been the guest of Miss Mazie Herbert the past two weeks, has returned to her home in Greensboro. T. Baxter MeClaln of Camden, spent Sunday in Yorkville, and was greeted by many old friends ^rid aequaint anees. ? York Enquirer. Miss Ila Pitts, of The Fashion Shop, has returned from a vacation spent at her parents home, Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Pitts, of the Westvilie section. Among the many visitors from Sumter who attended the Base Ball games last week were Dr. and Mrs. Weinburg who were here for several games. Mi's. Laura Kvans and daughter, Mary Klizabeth Kvans, who have been visiting Mrs. S I-'. Hraslngton have returned to their homes in Monroe, North Carolina. Mr. and Mrs. (it-urge \V. l'embcrtoji. I of Columbia were guests of Mrs. ! Marion Zomp last Tuesday. Mrs. Pein tiertuii before her marriage, w?< Mis> Maria C?i?er*. uf this city. I >r. and Mrs. Kdwin Muller return ed Tuesday from a months vacation spent at The Oaks, off the coast of Rhode Island, and from there they vislt^i their son' in New York City. Dr. and Mrs. Garland, of Gaffney, motored to Camden on Tuesday. Mrs. Garland will visit Mrs. Frank Zemp <>n Mill street. I)r. Garland went on to Georgetown to hunt and fish for a week and will return to Camden he fore going homo. Mr$k L. A. Kirk la ml has returned from a weeks visit to her lister. Mrs. C. V. Salmond at Spartanburg. Friends fn Camden of Mrs. Halmoiul will-regret to learn that her little girl of about eight years of age was badly burned sometime ago, The burils were on tier back, but fortunately, fur the little lady the buru will leave no sears and She la rapidly improving. A most pica san t company of friends gathered at Mr. William Whitaker's on Tuesday evening for i? very enjoyab^ course sUpper Th? house was bright xrlth bTAck-eye susans and ferns. Those present.were Messrs. W. W. Halle, Henry rearce. Henry Carrison. Jr.,' Willie Barrett, Roi>crt Kennedy, Dr. S. O. Zemp. Grorer Blaekwell. T,. A. Whltaker and Willie Whltaker. rOlNClUBNCBS Kxwupled Show Thai They Aw Kw Stnuigrr Than Fiction. \ Colucldojtees iu life are at ranger l ban anything hi fiction. There used to be two steamer* call ed the Itoinulus and the Koinus. A IV? yciirs back tin* former was lost In the channel. Within three V0lu the Keiuus was wrecked a thousand udlea away from the scene of Her sister! chip's disaster. Many reliable qnthorilles regard Hie following as tlu> most amusing eouei -j dence on record. Mole than two linn d'red years ago, December T?. 1004, a boat crossing thj* Menu! Straits with ? elgbty-pne , passeugers encountered aj terrific gale, and foundered. The only man to escape death wii^ a Hugh Wil liams. More than a hundred years later, Pcceuutoer 5. 17S0, another vessel, with, a large number of passengers sank In the same circumstances ami in the same spot. All the passengers were drowned except one, Ills mum*, was Illicit Willianiv Again; I >eeembcr 1820. a boat carrying ? thirty people, sank in the siime spot. The sole survivor was a HUgh Williams. The figure '?> has a peculiar connec tion with tbi' career of the ex-kaiser. He was born In the fifty-ninth year of tbi> century; entered the army in 1800, and completed bis university career In 1870. The dates of bis birth and mar ring? January 'J7 and February 27 ? both make nine, if two and seven arc added together. And the same number figures in bis defeat and exile. That occurred in 1018, which Contains one t'igifte "0" ami two figures that added together make "0". Also lie was 51) years obi when bis career as ruler ended. It lias often been pointed out (bat f he letter M. for better or worse, dogged the footsteps of both Napoleon the Great and Napoleon the Little. In .the case of Napoleon I. it was Mar iwuMif amJki first recognized bis geuius at the military college, Margeugo was bis first great victory. Morller was Ids best general, Moreau betrayed him Marat died for bini. Marie Louise "shared his fortUnesr Mosi-ou' marked the turn in those fortunes. Melernieh beat hi in in diplomacy. Ills first battle was Montevotte, his last Mont. St. Jean. He stormed Mont mart re. took Milan, Marmouut desert ed him. His right-band man w.v? Montesquieu, bis last resting place in France, Mu'maisou. He surrendered -to Captain Maitland, and bis coinp.i.L, ions at SL* Helena were Montholon ami Marchland. 'His marshals wore Mas sena. Montier, Marmout. MaclTonabl, Murat and Mduccy, uutf*no fewer than twenty-six of his generals had names beginning with M. , Napoleon ill married 'tbo Countess of Moutijo and bis most intimate friend was Morny. ami the tutor Mo reith of Montelmnr. Ilis greatest military successes were I lie capture of the Malakoff and the Mauscioii Tower. His biggest battle was Monlcbello. and MacMaliou won Margenta for him He .drove the Austriaus out, of Mari guano, and made bis triumphal entry into Milan. He was repulsed before Mantua, iu his last war driven back t > the Moselle and his fate settled by Moltko at Motz. ? Answers. London. Kershaw's First Bale. The first bult? ?f new cotton brought to the Kershnw market was fold last Thursday by Henry Barfield, of the DeKalb section, to the Kershaw Mer cantile & Banking Company, for 14 1-2 cents per pound.- Kershaw Fra. Pastor Returns 'Home. 1 >r. IMwIn Muller i> baek from his J vacation ami will occupy his pulpit at I the Presbyterian Church Sunday morn ing at 11 o'clock service. You are cor | dially invited to attend this service. Guilty of .Manslaughter Greenville, August .11. ? Tom Ilarri j m?u who went on trial in the Court of General Sessions here Monday, charg ed with the murder of his wife, Mrs. Gertrude Harrison, was found guilty of man-laughter by a Jury that de liberated eighteen hours'and ten minu tes before reaching a verdict. Harrison's attorneys immediately gave notice of a motion for a new trial. No time was set for the hearing by Judge Memminger. but it will be heard some time this week. The penal ty provided under the verdict , is im prisoument in the State penitentiary or on the ohaingang for a period of two to thirty years. If Harrison re ceives a sentence of more than ten years under the law he will be held without bond nnd will have to await the hearing of his appeal to the Su preme Court behind the t?ar-< of the eonntr jail On account of the crowded condition of the I/C^ington county Jail. Mrs. Mjjrcellu* Cook and Uer daughter, who are implicated In the killing of the woman'* husband, have been transfer red to the Richland county jail. Manager Hall of the Anderson hotel. Iloclc IIIII, was arrested last week, charged with running a bawdy hoiww. TARANTULAS IN FORT MI1.I. ?lust dropped In Via Omriwtty from Crnlral Amerlc:*. The long ride from Central Ameri ca, probably, to Fort Mill ended Sat* urday fur two tarantulas which ?r: rived lu u bunch of, bananas ordered from Charlotte h,v Ferguson'** grocery, *?ya the Vori Mill Times. The t rli> j proved loo much for one of the turau tula#, however, ami it died on tho way. Tlu? other. oiu* wait very much alive when It was discovered Monday moru lt?tr wear the top of i !?*? buncl) of bannnns. It has since mnde IK hone lu a fruit jar, along with tho remain* of its dead companion, and had been an object of curiosity for many Fort ' Mill people who had never before seen this spcclys of spider. The tarantula is three or four times larger than the largest spider common to ihl* sec tion Hiul it?i hi to is said to prove fatal fn many Instances where promf* mod leal at tent ion cannot he had. l>r. .1. H. Ih'sl'ortes of Fort Mill, who spent several years' on a big hanaua plantation In Hrltlsh Honduras and who in that country had occasion frequently to observe the tarantula, says it does not Idle as many people , as is generally supposed In this conn- j try. ; ?. /'The natives in gathering the banana j crop are always on the lookout for the t:i rant ula," yesterday said I>r. TVs -j Fortes. "They seem to know where It ' Is hiding in the hunches of bananas and kill most of them before the ba nanas are taken -.aboard ship for ex port. * . I "More than two-thll'ds of tho ha- j nauas consumed In this country are , O grown- in lt.ri.tUh. Honduras," contlnn ed l?r. Desl'ortcs. and most of them eonie Hi rough the iio.rt of New Op- 1 leans, where they arc put In cold stor- 1 age awaiting shipment to the various distributing centers. The Honduras | tarantulas that reached he United States with these hananas have a hard time surviving the cold of the refrlg- j orating plants, hut now and tlieu one | does survive and finally lands where the bananas are .to be consumed,. They j are not attractive in appearance and I worrhl not advise one of nij* friends to try to make a pet of them." To IMeet In Newberry. (ireouvlllo. S. <C.. August -den era I S. I>. Hurler, fighting Murine.' who rose from the ranks and made an en viable record at Chateau Thierry/ will he the .principal speaker at the annual ? ?For one day only, f'riday, September 2nd , we offer best granulated sugar at 6 3-4 cents per pound. We have only one thousand pounds of this sugar on hand, so come early and get yours while the supply lasts. Only 25 Pounds Will Be Sold to Each Customer. The Cash Store (FORMERLY McLEODS GROCERY) convention of (.In- Amor kun legion to bo bold at Newberry; September 7th and 8tb. Gen. Butler is at present Commandant of the Marine Station at Quant loo, Va. He holds the rank of iirigmlier General and Is 40 years old. lie will bring a strong message to the several hundred delegates who will gather at Newberry, representing the -SO posts of the I/cirlon In Bouth Carolina. (.!. Heywurd Malum, Jr., State Com? mandcr and \V. It. Wutkins, State Ad jutant have prepared an interesting prog rani of events for the convention and there Is every indication that it will he theVbest ever held. The Ameri can Legiou has grown to large propor tions in South Carolina under (lie lead ership of Maj. Million. Many important subjects are to be discussed at the convention. The prln elpal work uOW before the organiaa tlon of ox-servleo men is to provldo for the 1111*11 who were Injured during the war. Short talks will be made at the con vention t>y representatives from National Headquarters 011 the program of work of the Legion. Alvln M. Owsley will apeak for the*1- American ization Commission. The lied Cross and the Federal Hoard will he repre sented. Delegates to the National Conven tion will he elected and a number of important resolutions (proposed. The people of Newberry are bend/ lug every energy to make tho stay of the veterans a pleasant one and a nam Iter of social features have been plan ned. 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