Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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DURING CHAUTAUQUA WEEK YOU MAY GET YOUR MEALS AT THE (THE HOME OF QUALITY) KENNEDY’S NEW BLOCK, WILLISTON, SOUTH CAROLINA i I i ' * — M- P. S. HEADQUARTERS FOR THE FINEST FRUITS AND THE BEST CANDIES. MICKIE, THE PRINTER’S DEVIL By Charles Sughroe ^ V/*»cem Newspaper (.1 nion It Pays to Read the Ads Swiss Yodlers Coining Here Chautauqua Week MADE WAY INTO SACRED CITY (JrolM'ckt'r's Swiss Ndillcrs will jw\c n I'ull roiirrn iiu<l a prilinlc at ;h*‘ Corninu livo-day Utdpalli ('liaiitaihpia. Tliis company is cnitiposcd ticmiint* Sviss Yndlors |»i'«‘sriitin^ tii'thf' Amt'iicnn ptildic a pro^iam of tnif Swiss mouiitaiii tutklurt'. full <if t'din alif>n- al as well a s wid <Tt a it in a 'ii i Lvatun's. •|)addv" < Irnlit'rktT, a^ lu* is alYccticui atwly <a!lt‘d h\ Ins people, is the manager oi' the eoinpany.. Tlit* Yodlers appear in their pietnresipie Swiss mountain n't tire and siiLg melodious Swiss,yodle Sony's, interspersed with popular and standard Auier- iean sontrs and also dpsl nijneutal niusii* rendered on the uui<|ue musical instru ments of the Swiss mofliuaIiuhts. The Yodlers are n picturesque and thoroughly entertaining organization. CAMP MORRALL TO MEET ON MAY 6TH CONFEDERATE YETS TO HOj I) ANNUAL MEETING. Commander J. Staff Halford and Ad jutant J. A. Meyer Issue Cor- dial Invitation. All roads will lead to Meyer’s Trli!l on Friday, May 6th, the occasion being the annual reunion of the surviving members of Camp George W. Mor- rall, U. C. V., their families and friends. This is an event that is look ed forward to with mueh eagerness every year by the people of this .sec tion of the State, they having come to know so well the true old-fashioned hospitality of the people of Meyers Mill and surrounding country. An ex cellent program will be arranged for the occasion and, of course, “the inner man” will be well provided for. Tjie following- call has been issued by ( oriimander J. Staff Halford, of Darn well, and Adjutant .1, A. Meyeu, of Meyer’s Mill: “The annual meeting nf Camp George W. Morrall, U. C. V., wiTt be held at Meyer’s-Mill op Friday, the 6th of May, next, and all Veterans and Sons of Veterans of Barnwell and ... "* f *' adjoining counties arc respectfully in vited to meet with us on that day. Do come, all that can. The Camp is growing old and ,\Ve wish to keep it alive as long as possible. The Rev. Mr. Clark will address us on that oc casion and we vouch for him that what he may have to say will be uplifting and instructive. The ladies are also respectfully invited and requested to meet with us and bring with them well filled baskets of things good to j Enfllfihman Claim* to Be *the Only Living European Who Has Set Foot in Holy Shefshaon. Ii: Tin- Morocco correspondent of the London 'rimes claims lo 4>e “altuost with certainty” the only living Euro pean who has hitherto visited She- shawaii, the mysterious “secret” Mo roccan inland city which Is officially stated to he occupied by .a Spanish expeditionary force, Xheshawau, or - mm-e correctly Slicf- shaoitv lie writes, is a small town of a few thousand inliabitants situated itt the trilieland of the Beni Zcjel, about 40 miles to tin- smith of Tetuqn. The Tillies man says he visited it in Moorish disguise in ix^Sund-only es caped with difficulty. • , He adds that the tuVvu 4s small, huilt ailing a sort of terrace on the high mountain side, and is renowned for its springs, and streams. With tlie exception of its picturesque, situ- ati iji among mountains, its afoofnuss and it-i surroundiiig gardens, Xhe- slm\yin presents no .very particular TeaTtitvsx ’~ T »' ••• ., Us infKibitants are poor. 'Their in dustries are the milking of furtiTluj'e in painted Wood brackets and tables -and tin- weaving, of woolen stuffs, lliey are rep owned for their mean ness, and “a nal ive * proverb states : “If you see ;e Moslem nien liant from Fez weeping, it is only a Afjior of 8he- •shawan who could ini\e got the bet* ter of him.'' . — :-x-xox«x-x»*x-x-x-x-:-x-:«>x-x-x-x«x-x~:-x-:»X“X-x-xo:~x*-x-xo:-. ' ■ .ii.i, i . i -i x^xx-x-i-x-x-x-x^-x-^x^x-x-x^i-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x^ PARODIES ALWAYS IN ORDEft Omar Khayyam and the Vj Ever-Delight- fol Pepys Have by No Means Ex hausted the it. % * Does your nienjory go back to the time ' w hen • • \ •*ry <ua- w as Writrug par- odies of the Kuhaivat of Umar Khay yam? When it was considered very literary to khmy ait about Omar, and when all the. wrirrus. both would-be and professional, were ’ reducing the hypnotic quatrains -to modern terms? The newspapers were full of “Omars Up-to-date,” and quite a lot of them got into the magazines before the craze died down. After That parodists sought other inspira+i Ot)» ufomnl no material thHt suited them quite so weli.^intil a few years ago, one of them chanced on the Diary of Samuel Pepys.' 'What a riej vein. The parodists wept mad over if, and have been digging there ever since. Almost anybody can fill-up a column with chronicles In the Pepy*. style, while the clever writer, by this means, can make himself entertaining. Some other original genius will soon take the place of Mr. Pepys in the re gard of the copyists, fm- the popular ity of the creative masters of litera- lure 14 more or less changeful, de cat. I he music lor the oeeje+ien will pendent npoH time or. circnmatmices. be furnished by the young ladies and gentlemen of that vicinity and, we trust, will be as meritorious as in the past. “J. Staff Halford, “J. A. Meyer; Commander. “Adjutant.” while the work of the parodist goes on forever.—Ohio State Journal, t, ‘XK-X-X-XK-X-X-X-^X-C-X-X^ Advertise in The People. -:~x*xx-x-x-:~>*X“X-xk-x~x-:*<»* ^s<r : m 5 Year. ''a*. ’ >t 9^0 -T- , ± k< -'t<* 'T* ' TJfc .. t ^ -