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A Yisit to Barnwell and Beaufort.
\ I cannot say that the town of Barnwell
has many charms for me now; but doubtless
the fault lies wholly in me. Duty
[ sometimes calls me there, but not pleasore.
For me, a walk along its streets is
little less than a stroll through a cemetery
where loved ones sleep. As a boy, I used
to think that Barnwell was the very hub
and centre of the world, and I really felt
a degree of tender sorrow for the poor
unfortunate whom fate had compelled
K to be horn somewhere else. But the insatiable
crave has swallowed up the
friends of other days, and I have lived to
- learn that it is the people, not the place,
that one comes to love; lave of country is
not love of dirt and bricks and wood, but
love of people.
I made a visit lately to the Barnwell
Association, which met out in what I
once knew as Slaytown, at the Friendship
chnrch, and there I renewed my youth
among those I would have known and
loved all the better, if I had not moved
away long, long ago to other confines. I
stayed in the home of a Bay, a name faV
> miliar in boyhood, and memory was busy
; '* all the time trying to summon up the dim
things of other days. I crossed Hagood's
mill, where I used to swim and fish and
get full of red bugs and seedticks?the
L "ixodes bovis" of natural history. They
say "the water that has passed never
turns the wheel," but it was not so with
' me. As I crossed the bridges, and looked
upon the flowing stream rushing
through the open mill-gates, all the wheels
in my head were set a going, and I was,
\ [ in imagination and fancy at least, a bare
fartied hnv once more with the end of my
big toe "stumped" off, according to thel
normal state and condition of boyhood.
n But I felt happy all the time, and was
? * glad to see and shake hands with many
?? whose life and mine had flowed apart
& r during thirty-eight years, which have, by
p some unknown means, mysteriously slipr'i-;
ped away and eluded me. Maybe I shall
find these lost years again in the storehouse
where all the centuries are treas;/>
ured and kept awaiting for us, with every
V issue that belonged to them. In speaking
> a word for the old preachers I took occaf
?on to tell the brethren that Barnwell
' county is a favored spot on the whole
T?v;.' earth. Ho man can go half way through
any community in it without getting full
4 of fried chicken, cockspurs, and beggar's
lice. And what more can a mortal
S&; want? v
. The Association was well attended, and
M quite lively. My old neighbor, Bob Mix;L.
son, the fellow with whom I ate dirt,
played and fought in boyhood, was made
~ moderator, and proved himself to be a
IRS . veritable master of assemblies. A few of
tt>? mnra venerable saints had a strong
Ifl;'; . desire to wjiste an hour or more of good
IM0- and precious time in reading statistics I
-J from the church letters, but a sort of comJY.
promise prevailed, and the time was more
? . profitably used. Why some wish to read
f these dry details, to which no one pays any
attention, and all of whiph will be clearly
presented in a comparative table, is one
of the religious questions to be solved
only in the clearer light of millennial
^ : glories. The fathers did this thing in a
f.?/ day when news was scarce and printing
' uncommon, and the sons feel constrained
, V to do likewise. So, too, the fathers sent
??? fraternal messengers to other Associa- J
tions to carry and bring the news, and in
some sections the custom still prevails.
This began in a day when there were
no newspapers, and communication was
difficult. The desire to keep it up now is
surely alnormal. However, the thing is
harmless, and I have no word of comf
plaint. j
On Saturday after the Association,
in company with Hoggins and Masters,
X'] we took the train for Fairfax, where we
had arranged for dinner by telegraph.
Hoggins was in his glory, and his teeth, I
from incisor to molar, |ran red with the
|?\ succulent sugarcane syrup, for which
f.; Barnwell county is famous. He became en-1
|thusiastic and almost poetic as he expatiated
upon its virtues, and one could see
in his eyes a yearning for the land of the
?: sugarcane.
Our objective point was Grahamville,
to Aid in dedicating the Euhaw church.
The four oldest churches in the State are
; said to be the First church in Charleston,
the church at Society Hill, the Liberty
, Hill and the Euhaw churches. These are
the mothers of all the Baptist churches
C i * in South Carolina. The First church in
Charleston dates back to 1683, and the
T,,-, tfAK Thrift or four houses I
Ciuuitnr ku niui ao...
have stood on the same spot, though the
original chnrch w^s built seven miles
away from the site now used. Grabamville
is a little country community of
people whose homes line the old Charleston
and Savannah wagOD road for a mile
if or more, beginning two miles from Ridgeland,
which is the railroad point of des
parture. It was the home of the wealthy
ante-bellum planters and slave-owners,
; and here ease and luxury once ran riot.
. The camp of the Confederate soldiers
was near Grahamville during the 60s, and
four miles away the battle of Honey Hill
was fought, where 1500 drunken negroes
i were mowed down by the Confederate
f guns, having been put in front of the advancing
column by "our friends the
enemy." The breastworks used are still
there, grim reminders of a horrible past,
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but the squirrel gambols about them, and
the quack of the wild duck in the adjacent
lagoons proclaims that grim-visaged war
has done his best, and passed on.
A forest fire last year burned the Euhaw
building, which dated back to 1845.
The handful of members?sixteen women
and four men?some of whom lived near
by, looked on in tears, and saw the dear
old church go down to ashes. Every
timber in it was heavy with history. It
was here that Calder A.. Baynard once
l&wrtrph and <tav#? tn find and his breth
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ren the very best years of his life. A
nobier soul never trod the aisles of any
church. Three hundred yards away,
under the swinging live-oak bows, Bro.
J. F. Morrall was born. After looking
sorrowfully upon the ashes, the Euhaw
members, weak and few, said if the Lord
wanted the house rebuilt he would give
them the money; so they went to work,
praying, giving and begging, and I venture
there is not a little church house in
the State as beautiful as the one they
have built. There are a certain few
to whose faithfulness the house stands as
a monument, but I know they have no
desire to see their names paraded here.
It was my privilege to preach in the
morning, Bro. Masters in the afternoon,
and Bro. Huggins at night, and we came
away feeling assured that the Euhaw
Baints would not stand in sore need of
preaching for some time to come, if their
fkft enrv.A la *> rtf dKnAt*mo1
appetite lux buc oaui^ 10 uv/v auuviwui.
I sojourned at Grahamville for a night
in the home of Mrs. Kirk, one of whose
daughters has been zealous in the cause
of the old preachers, and the other one of
whom Bro. T. 0. Lawton suborned away
as his bride last year. At the home of
Mrs. Sipples I also tarried awhile. She
has six daughters who are Methodists
like herself, and one other a Baptist. I
have threatened to direct some unblessed
Baptist clergyman to that dovecote in
order to reduce the number of Methodist
girls in the home where 1 was so pleasantly
entertained. Mrs. Sipples did not
name the denomination to which the
Sunday turkey belonged, but it was delicate
and delicious beyond expression, and
seemed to have had a call to enter the
ministry. In fact, the larger part did so,
because, because Huggins and Masters
ate at that table.
There is a cat in the Kirk home which
should have a place in this history, but I
must reserve him to point a moral on
annthpr n<v>ftsinn ?
Every time I travel in the low country
I become more and more infatuated. The
great live-oaks, the laughing fields of
sugarcane, the huge droves of cold-black
turkeys, the oysters and shrimps and
fish (we had all these at Euhaw) win both
my admiration and my affection. The
farmer in the clay country plows his
clods and runs his furrows through rolling
stones up and down the red hillsides,
and gets but little more than a living out
of the best work he can do. The lowcountryman
tickles the bosom of the
earth, and in return it casts back into his
arms an abundance unheard of. The
beautiful roads ruu along under bowing
oaks festooned with swinging banners of
moss, while fields white with cotton line
the way, and acres of sugarcane nod
gracefully in the breezes, making a
sound as of a princess robed in silken
garments. I know the up-countryman
shies away from the land of the feestooned
moss because he believes he will have
fever if he should dare to sojourn within
these precincts. I think he is correct.
He'd have the fever possibly three or
four more yearsin succession. In the upcountry
he has it but once, and when the
fever comes to seek for him the next
time it has to go to the cemetery to find
him. It is better to have fever five or six
years consecutively than have it once and
be buried. The low-countryman has a
continued fever with typhoid symptoms.
It never occurs to him that it will kill
him; he is is only worried to know that
he may be sick a* long time before he gets
well
On my return home I tarried a day in
Beaufort to look after the old preachers'
home I am fixing up there. I saw Pastor
Lawson and my friend Danner, and bad
a ride with them about the waters around
the island, and when I entered the diningroom
of mine host O'Dell I found a dish
of shrimps awaiting me, and before I was
able comfortably to dispose of them, a
waiter thrust a plate of steaming oysters
under my nose, and from that time on I
do not remember exactly what happened,
except that by and by I went to bed.?
C. C. Brown m Baptist Courier.
G. Frank Bamberg handles the best
buggies and wagons, yet the prices
are reasonable.
MAN'S UNREASONABLENESS
is often as great as woman's. But Thos.
S. Austin, Mgr. of the "Republican," of
Leavenworth, Ind., was not unreasonable
when he refused to allow doctors to operate
on his wife, for female trouble. "Instead,"
he says, "we concluded to try
Electric Bitters. My wife was then so
sick she could hardly leave her bed, and
five [5] physicians had failed to relieve
her. After taking Electric Bitters, she
was perfectly cured, and can now perform
all her household duties." Guaranteed by
all druggists; Felder & Matthews. Price
50 cents.
No household is free from danger of
accidents, therefore no household should
be without SHAW'S PURE MALT. For
sale at the dispensary.
IN THE PALMETTO STATE.
INTERESTING OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading
Pungent Paragraphs About Men
and Happenings.
The citizens of Greenville county do
not want the constables removed from
that county, and want the extra tax put
on to keep them.
. In an interview with a reporter in
Charleston on Friday, Senator Tillman
said the dispensary is "the only issue in
South Carolina."
Bankruptcy proceedings in the United
States Court at Charleston have been begun
against Thos. C. Duncan, late president
of the cotton mills at Union.
The municipal election of Newberry
takes place next Tuesday. There are
only two candidates for mayor and not
more than two in any ward for aldermen.
The State Baptist convention is to meet
in Columbia the first week in December,
while the annual conference of the
Methodist church will be held in Spartanburg.
Harry Ward, the colored sexton of the
Episcopal church at Yorkville, has been
arrested for selling liquor. He kept his
supply of whiskey in the vestry of the
church.
Mrs. Martha Orr Patterson, of Greenville,
was injured in a runaway in San
Diego, California, last week, from the effects
of which she died a few days later in
that city.
A young- white boy named Charlie
Hodge, 16 years old, committed suicide
in Sumter last week by shooting himself
f U/% Ixaa/I ntif U A rvinf <a1 \Ta VflOCAn
tUlUUgLft lucucau VYlbU a pio^ui. A.\\J iwaovu
is assigned for the act.
Senator Tillman was in Charleston last
Friday, and visited the new navy yard
now under construction. He declined to
talk politics. He was on his way home
from a leeturing tour in Florida.
Harvie Jordan, president of the Southem
cotton grower's association, is advising
all farmers to hold the remainder of
their crop for fifteen cents. He says the
crop is shorter than was generally supposed.
Governor Heyward has dcided to send
dispensary constables back to Union
county, conditions there having grown
intolerable, but constables will be withdrawn
from Greenville and Spartanburg
counties.
Sam Coleman shot and instantly killed
Tom Watkinsat Batesburg last Sunday
afternoon. Both are negroes. Coleman
says the shooting was an accident, but
the circumstances make it appear to have
been murder.
It is said that Thos. C. Duncan will
fight the bankruptcy proceedings against
him, which have been instituted by the
mills *of which he was president, and a
bank, and that sensational developments
may be expectedd.
White girls are now employed as waiters
at the St. John hotel in Charleston,
and they are giving perfect satisfaction.
This is certainly a step in the right direction,
and one which will do much toward
solving the negro labor problem in the
South.
The monument to N. G. Gonzales, editor
of the State, who was killed bv J. H.
Tillman, will be unveiled in Columbia today.
Appropriate exercises will be held.
The money to erect this monument was
raised largely through the offorts of the
women of Columbia.
Governor Heyward has made requisition
on the Governor of Georgia for the
man in jail at Swainsboro, supposed to be
Dan C. Murphy. In case the party is
really Murphy, he will be brought back
to the South Carolina penitentiary to
finish his life sentence.
Mrs. John Hinson, of Flat Rock Township,
Lancaster county, while standing
by the fire in her room one day last week,
holding her baby in her arms, suddenly
fainted and fell in the fire. Both she and
the baby *vere horribly burned, and It is
doubtful if either will recover.
Governor Heyward is of the opinion
that the dispensary constables will be
needed in Greenville and Spartanburg
counties. Whiskey was sold in these
counties unlawfully under the bar room
and dispensary regime, and of course it
will not stop because the dispensary has
been voted out.
W. Hampton Cobb, probate judge of
Richland county, was seriously fhjured
by an explosion of gas in his office in
the county court house at Columbia last
Monday morning. The gas had been accumulating
in the vault of his office,
where he kept important papers, since
Saturday, and when he opened the vault
and struck a match, the explosion occurred.
He was badly injured, and the
result may be serious.
Suit has been begun by the Columbia
Water Company against theNeals Shoals
Power Company of Union for $50,000
damages on account of a lack of water
in the Broad river. A temporary injunction
was granted before Judge Townsend
at Union last Friday, and the case will be
heard in Yorkville December 8th. The
Union company holds the water of the
river to such an extent that several industries
in Columbia are idle for lack of
power.
The chief of police of Augusta notified
Governor Hey ward last week that a man
supposed to be D. C. Murphy had been
arrested and lodged in jail at Swainsboro,
Ga., charged with horse stealing. It
will be remembered that Murphy was
sentenced to be hanged for the murder
of Treasurer Copes, of Orangeburg county,
and had his sentence commuted to
life imprisonment by Governor Ellerbe.
He escaped from the penitentiary a few
years ago.
Judge R. W. Memminger at Saluda last
Thursday declined to grant the motion of
the State for a change of venue in the
case of Eugene Blease for the killing of
Joe Ben Coleman, his brother in-law.
The prosecution contended that a fair
trial could not be secured there because
of the political prominence and popu'
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the case to some other county was vigorously
resisted by the defense, and the
Judge declined to grant it. However, he
granted a continuance, on motion of the
solicitor.
SHOT THROUGH THE HEAD.
Mrs. Hattie Carson Bronson, of Orangeburg,
Takes Her Own Life.
Orangeburg, November 20.?The community
was shocked today when it became
known that Mrs. Hattie Carson
Brunson had shot herself through the
head at the residence of Dr. John H.
PeSTyclear, in this city, where she made
her home. The ball entered the right
temple and passed through the head.
She died at 4:30 this afternoon. Her
funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon,
and the interment will be made in Sunnyside
cemetery.
Mrs. Brunson was the widow of the
late Henry H. Brunson, who died in
March, 1904. Mr. Brunson was a man of
attractive personality, and was at one
time probably the best liked and most
popular man in this county, and he exercised
large influence, although he was
still a young man, being under 40 years
of age at the time of his death. Mr. Brunson
was extensively known over the
State and possessed friends in every
county.
Mrs. Brunson was herself a woman of
refinement and many attractions. Since
the death of her husband last year she
has gone out very little, and it is stated
that she had manifested signs of considerable
despondency. The supposition is
that she shot herself and that it was for
the purpose of taking her own life. Evidently
her mind must have become temporarily
unbalanced.
There are two little girls, who will be
left fatherless and motherless, and they
are both exceedingly bright and attractive
little ones. One is about 12 or 13
years of age, while the younger is 9 or 10
years of age. Both children were at
school at the time of the tragedy.
The extensive family connections and
relatives of both Mrs. Brunson and Mr.
Branson's family ce prostrated with
grief over this unfortr.^f.te tragedy, and
the sympathy of the ?ntire community
goes out to them in thyir trouble.
Mill Will Sell Its Own Output.
Charleston, Nov. 10.?Something unusual
in the conduct of cotton mills in the
South is soon to be inaugurated by the
new owners of the Walterboro Cotton
Mills, at Walterboro. It is proposed tc
handle its own product and sell direct tc
jobbers and wholesalers without the intervention
of commission men. In othei
words, the mill is to sell as well as manufacture
cotton cloth.
The Walterboro Cotton Mills are capitalized
at $100,000 and owned by four 01
five individuals, among them being Walter
Pringle and others, of Charleston.
Pringle Brothers conduct a large dry
goods nouse nere, and it is presumed tnai
the goods will be sold directly from this
city. There are several owners residing
in Walterboro, but no wholesale >drj
goods houses there.
The mill is new and cost $41,400, has
6,000 spindles and 250 looms. Through
troubles that came with purchase of high
cotton a few years ago the mills were recently
sold by the United States Court
and the present owners secured the property
for less than half its first cost. The
experiment of selling from the mills will
be watched closely by those interested in
the cotton goods trade, North and South.
SON LOST MOTHER.
"Consumption runs in our family, and
through it 1 lost my mother," writes E B
Reid, of Harmony, Me. "For the past 5
years, however, on the slightest sign of a
cough or cold, I have taken Dr. King's
New Discover for consumption, which
has saved me from serious lung trouble."
His mother's death was a sad loss for Mr.
Reid, but he learned that lung trouble is
not to be neglected, .and how to cure it.
Quickest relief and cure for coughs and
colds. Price 50c and $1:00; guaranteed at
all druggists; Felder & Matthews. Trial
bottles free.
Barired to Death.
Bbunson, November 18.?A distressing
accident occurred Wednesday evening
about six o'clock at the home of Mr. A.
C. Branson, a prominent citizen of the
town of Gilford, in this county. Mrs.
Branson, engaged in household duties,
left her six-months-old babe for a short
while in the care of her little four-yearold
son, near the fireplace of the sitting
room. Hearing the screams of the children
the family rushed into the room and
found the younger babe completely enveloped
in flames from its burning clothes.
Mr. Brunson and his eldest daughter
were severely burned about the hands and
face, in their efforts to save the infant
from burning to death.
The little brother truthfully stated that
he had placed the end of a stick in the
fire and showed how in playing with it
the blaze had. come in contact with his
baby brother's clothing.
A DISASTROUS CALAMITY.
It is a disastrous calamity, when you
lose your health, because indigestion and
constipation have snapped it away. Relief
can be had prompt,in Dr. King^s New
Life Pills. They build up your digestive
organs, and cure headache, dizziness,
colic, constipation, etc. Guaranteed at all
druggists; Felder & Matthews. Price 25c.
in oiaen nmes me newapauers announced
births, marriages ana deaths
under the following headings: "Hatched,"
"Matched," and "Dispatched."
Under the heading "Scratched" should be
placed the divorce cases.
COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS.
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN YARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items Gathered All Aronnd
the County and Elsewhere.
Ehrhardt Etchings.
Ehrhardt, November 20?'The Walterboro
oil mill is in search of a book keeper.
A' good place for a man of that profession.
There is a good demand for lumber of
a good quality, well worked. It seems as
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so much demand as formerly.
The Ehrhardt Banking Company has
contracted for its vault door and burglar
prof safe, with the Hosier Safe Company.
The young folks are enjoying the sugar
cooks by the wagon load. At least wagon
loads of them go to them at night from
town.
A certain young man says a seven mile
walk after supper is healthy and good for
indigestion and disturbed slumbers at
night. I wonder if the doctors will agree
with him and prescribe such a treatment
for their patients.
Some gentlemen from Charleston spent
two or three days hunting birds in these
parts. The birds did not suffer much on
their account, as not more than thirty of
them were killed.
I hear it talked around that there will
be a marriage soon. It is talked careful,
and there is nothing positive to be heard.
It seems as if the contracting parties want
to keep it from the public. If what we
hear is true, we extend our congratulations,
and hope that they may have a
long and happy life together. This, however,
we want to impress upon their
minds: "That the world will go on just
the same." /
The county chain gang is getting on
very well with the new causeway across
Little Saltkehatchie swamp, near Mr. W.
I. Carter's. They have about gotten to
the run of the swamp from this side.
There is not so much work to do on the
other side, as the run is near the hill.
Capt. J. M. Dannelly, who has been
kept in doors ever since the State Fair in
Columbia, is able to ride out again.
! The wind last week blew several trees
1 across our 'phone line in several places.
1 Will try and get this end in shape today.
> Mr. J. D. Padgett went on a business
1 trip to Branchville last Saturday.
Mr. Jacob Ehrbardt will start a store
building today. The building will be one
' story, 35x40 feet. Mr. J. C. Westerlund
will occupy same as soon as it is com"
pleted.
Mr. J. C. McKenzie has purchased the
' store that he built and sold to G. Lewis
Kinard, now occupied by Mitchum Bros.
r and the dispensary.
' Rev. S. P. Chisolm sold his house and
1 lot to Mrs. Alfred J Chassereau last week.
> A merchant in town was inquiring for
a good market to sell peas in. When asked
how many he had, he said "about four
1 quarts."
Rev. P. E. Monroe will preach in the
Ebrhardt Lutheran church on Thanksgiving
Day, 30th November, at eleven
o'clock a. m. Jee.
If you want a higher grade buggy
than you can find elsewhere, call at G.
Frank Bamberg's.
Country Correspondence.
Quite a change in the temperature since
Sunday. This weather makes one feel
like it is nearing time for Santa Clans.
Master Everette Hanberry, of Denmark,
spent the day with his cousin,
Master Bartlette Jordan, Saturday, shooting
birds, squirrels, rabbits, etc.
Mrs. Etta Hughes is thought to be improving.
Cane grinding and syrup boiling is the
order of the day now. Such a sweet
time!
There was services at Springtown last
Sunday. The day for preaching has been
, changed from the fourth to the third
, Sunday.
Mrs. L. M. Ayer and little daughter, of
, Clear Pond, were visitors in our midst
Saturday.
Mr. O. P. Jordan spent Sunday with
his uncle, Dr. W. A. Hanberrry, of Denmark.
Misses Alma and Naomi Sandifer visited
their parents Saturday and Sunday in
our midst.
Next Thursday, the 30th, is Thanksgiving
day. How many of us will feel
true thankfulness for what we have? We
have much we can rejoice over, much we
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can 06 prouu Ui,auu uiuuu tuav w? ouuuiu
return sincere and grateful thanks for.
We regret to report Mr. J. W. Hill in
bed, but hope he will soon be himself
again.
Mesdames Ben Rentz and Daniel Carter,
of Oak Grove, were guests of Miss
G. E. Jordan, Monday.
' Miss Miller's school, at Hampton, is
progressing very nicely. May its success
continue.
Client?Is there a cause so bad or an
individual so infamous that your services
could not be obtained?
Lawyer (thoughtfully)?I cannot say
offhand. What have you been doing?
"Your father is certainly the politest
man I know."
"What makes you say that?"
"He's pretending that he's cured of his
dyspepsia in order that he shall not hurt
his doctor's feelings."
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SAVED FROM DEATH BY HIS SON.
Thomas Fuller, a Mill Operative, Insisted on
Standing on the Edge of Crossties.
Laurens, Nov. 19.?Thomas Fuller, a
mill operative at the Laurens cotton mills,
was struck and very seriously injured by
an incoming freight on the Columbia,
Newberry and Laurens railroad yesterday
afternoon between 5 and 6 o'clock, receiv*
ing a number of ugly and dangerous cuts'
about his face and on the head.
The accident happened in a cut just be*
yond the Laurens mill store and but for
the presence of mind of .his ten-year-old
son who was with him Fnllar. in all nrntv
ability, would have been killed outright 1 ::M
by the train. The injured man is near
sighted and is said to have been drinking
yesterday afternoon. Accompanied by hit
boy he was coming up the railroad and
when the freight came along Fuller yj|
insisted on standing on the ends of the -jr.*
cross ties while the train was passing. v iSaj
The little boy, seeing his father's danger,
had almost succeeded in pulling him from ?1
his perilous position by clinging to the 5|
coat of his father, when the steps of the Al
caboose struck the man on the head and jjj
knocked him off and out of further danger.
Fuller received prompt medical an4 :';M
surgical attention, and is reported to be .
getting along very nicely today. He had .
a close call.
Colston Dots.
Colston, November 21.?Rev. S. P,
Chisolm, of this place, preached at Spring -i3
Branch last Sunday.
Mr. C. W. Clayton and mother spent
last Saturday and Sunday with relatives
at Elko. . J
Mr. Hubert Chisolm visited Bamberg
last Saturday.
Several of the young folks from here > A AM
attended the carnival at Olar last Friday
and Saturday.
Sugar boilings are the order of the day
now in this section. Come down, Mr,
Editor, and get some juice.
Master Rice Beard, of Bamberg, spent .
Sunday and! Monday with relatives here. >jfl
Messrs. C. M. Yarn and B. W. Beard :;'3Sj
went up to Olar last Saturday afternoon,
Messrs. Julius Polk and Yeilous Beard, J-|
of Ulmer, were visitors here last Sunday. /qflB
Mr. J. P. Clayton happened to a very
painful accident last Thursday. While
coming home from Olar a small tree fell . j ^
side of the road and frightened his mule, $||
which ran away with him and threw him.
out of his road cart and dislocated hi*
shoulder.
Denmark Doings.
DENHABk, November 20.?Capt. S. P.
Boozer is having a neat six room cottage j rM
erected by Contractor Hope on Maple .
Avenue, near the Baptist church. j
Mr. C. J. Baxter has purchased the old
spoke and handle property, and is now ^
having a neat cottage erected by Con- ;V|?|
tractor Hope.
Mr. J. W. Arledge has been awarded
the contract to build Mr, U. G. Milhouse's
residence at Olar.
The farmers have about finished gath- %< '
ering their crop in this section, and are
now planting small grain. They are . :'f3j:
masters of the situation now if they will
only use good judgment and not plant >
too much cotton another year.
Mr. Jno. Tyler, formerly of Denmark,
but now of Waynesboro, Ga., spent Sun* ' .r
day and Mohday last with his parents.
Mr. Alfred 8teadman, formerly of Den- /'|JjS
mark, but now of Waynesboro, Ga., waa
called home last week on account of the -'VW
death of his aunt, Miss Lizzie Steadman,
Dr. D. W. Kittrell, of Monroe, Ala., ; ^
has accepted a position with the 8. A. L.
Ry. Co., and has moved his family to
Govan.
The ladies of the Baptist church will
have a fair on Thanksgiving Day in M
Guess hall for the benefit of the church.
All are cordially invited to attend ana - v?
help in a good cause.
Mr. J. W. Davis, of the firm of Oliver M
& Davis, railroad contractors, moved his
family to Denmark last week, and is now
occupying Mr. H. B. Rice's residence on ^
Palmetto Avenue, and on Friday lfcst
Mrs. Davis presented to her hnsband a
fine girl, weighing eight pounds, of -.5^
which he is very proud.
Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Hard wick visited %
relatives in Blackville last week.
Mrs. Nora E. Noon and Miss Jnlia
Zorn visited Bamberg last week.. Afl
Mr. A. M. Coz has moved into his new
store on Palmetto Avenue, which is just - (
completed by Contractor J. W. Arledge.
This is one of the nicest buildings we
have, and we hope to see similar ones go N -1
up in the near future, as they are needed,
as well as nice cottages.
Messrs. C. C. Sims and W. W. Moore, of
Barnwell, and H. F. Buist, of Blackville,
were the guests of R. 0. Hard wick, Esq., , j
several days since.
The carnival folks left last week, after
a stay in our little city for six or seven
davs, for Olar.
ft. C. Hard wick, Esq., visited Barnwell
last week on professional business.
The ladies of Denmark will] give a
church "Fair" on Thursday, November
30th. The public is cordially invited. , '
A clergyman who resigned his pastorate
to take up the practice of law assigned
as one reason for his change "that the
average man will pay more to keep out
of jail for one day than to be kept out of
hell for an eternity." .,
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