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COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
/ SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
i IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
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News Items Gathered All Around the
County and Elsewhere.
k Ehrhardt Etchings.
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> Ehrhardt, Sept. 11.?A few days
of nice good weather will put the
staple on the move, as October notes
are coming before our farmers notice
to plan for each day.
Rev. L. E. Wiggins has been holding
services in the Ehrhardt Methodist
church last week, ending Sunday
night, by adding five or six to
his flock. Presiding Elder Herbert
fa. ifVio flrtnb Qiin/Tov Tlifht
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Two new houses going up in haste.
More houses wanted to accommodate
the people here now.
The Ehrhardt Hardware Co. have
a good stock of goods in now and
more coming every day. Mr. P. H.
Copeland will be delighted to see and
serve his many friends.
And still it's warm. Old weather
prophets say wnen cooi weatner appears
will have good dry weather,
but as long as it is hot may look for
more rain.
Fairfax Fancies.
Fairfax, Sept. 11.?Mrs. S. L.
Sanders has returned from a long
> and pleasant stay at Hot Springs,
Ark.
Our new teachers commence to
feel at home, and the new music
teacher will be here soon.
Dr. Ed. Addison, who has been so
extremely low, is convalescing now,
all the nurses returning to their
homes.
Mrs. E. S. Ulmer continues quite
f feeble.
Little Sadie Harter celebrated her
birthday by inviting many of her
school friends around. Merry games
were played and a delicious sweet
course was served. The little lady
is so popular that she received many
presents. One of the toasts offered
her was; "May Dame Fortune ever
t smile on you, but never her daughter,
Miss Fortune."
Mr. Porter Barber, the efficient telegrapher
here, has taken a vacation,
and is off for the mountains of North
Carolina.
Miss Copeland, of Ehrhardt, is
visiting her sister, Mrs. Martin
Lightsey.
Mr. L. O. Watson, Pathologist of
Clemson College, was a Tecent guest
of Mr. George Sanders.
Dr. Wilber Tuten was married on
the 6th instant at Orangeburg to
Miss Fogle. They will live here.
Our best wishes attend the happy
young couple.
Denmark Doings.
Denmark, Sept. 12.?Mr. W. D.
Rice has accepted a position with Mr.
C. T. Bamberg, as salesman.
A great deal of cotton is being
marketed here this week.
. Dr. A. B. Hooton, who has been
working for the Postal Tel. Cable Co.,
Augusta, Ga., is now in the city to
spend a few days prior to resuming
his studies at Charleston medical
College.
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Mayor J. Lt. DIUUACI ua.i
into his new home near the Tailroad.
Messrs. Christian Folk and "Chicken"
Rice left this morning for Clemson
college, where they will resume
their studies. ,
Mr. James Price expects to leave
in a few days on a business trip to
Georgia.
Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Rice, of this
city, who have been spending the
summer in the mountains of North
Carolina, have returned.
The Denmark school will open
next Monday morning at 9 o'clock.
Children are requested to be there
on time.
Mr. W. F. Rice, the efficient post
master, who has ben recuperating in
i North Carolina, has returned to this
city, and appears to be greatly benefitted
by his tripl
Miss Livy Ray has returned from
a trip to Rowesville, where she spent
some time with friends.
Mrs. W. D. Rice, who has been
visiting fier pairents in Chester, has
returned, and will leave again in a
few days for Applefcon, S. C., where
she has accepted a position as teacher
in the school at that point.
Mrs. Annie Moss and grand-daughter,
Meta Dowling, of Norway, S. C.,
stopped ove<r here Monday on their
way home from Black Mountain, N.
C., and were the guests of Mr. and
Mrs. George Riley.
Prof. E. M. McCown, of Darlington,
arrived Saturday to take charge
of the Denmark school.
Mr. J. H. Kelley, of Savannah,
Ga., was in the city Monday.
Mrs. -B. E. Allen spent several days
in Orangeburg this past week.
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BODY OF YOUNG GIRL FOUND.
Suspicions of Foul Play Regarding
Tragedy of Hendersonville.
Hendersonville, Sept. 10.?The
body of Miss Myrtle Hawkins, 17
years old, the pretty daughter of
very prominent people here, was
found floating on the waters of Lake
Osceola this morning. Discovery of
the body deepens the mystery caused
by the disappearance of the girl
from her home last Thursday. The
coroner's jury returned a verdict of
death from unknown cause, but
ldter developments promise to reveal
one of the most sensational tragedies
in the history of North Carolina. It
is said that Miss Hawkins was dead
before her body touched the water
and credence was given to the suicide
theory. However, there are suspicions
of foul play.
Another Account.
Asheville, Sept. 10.?The mystery
of the sudden disappearance last
Thursday of Miss Myrtle Hawkins,
of Hendersonville, N. C., aged 17,
and remarkably pretty, was apparently
deepened this morning when
her dead body was found floating in
the waters of Lake Osceola, three
miles from Hendersonville. The discovery
was made by three small boys
who wene fishing in the lake. Deep
bruises on the head and face caused
suspicion of foul play.
At the coroner's inquest this afternoon
a verdict of "death of means
unknown" was rendered.
< Miss Hawkins, daughter of W. H.
Hawkins, a jeweier or Henaersonville,
left her home last Thursday to
do some shopping. She never returned.
Despite the most rigid
search no trace of her was obtained
until to-day when the body was found
in a badly decomposed condition. It
is stated that certain evidence indicates
that the girl was dead before
her body had reached the lake. Reports
from Hendersonville to-night
are to the effect that later developments
may prove the death of the
young girl to be one of the most
sensational tragedies in the history
of the State. Lake Osceola fronts
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traversed daily by hundreds of carriages
and motor cars.
Denmark Social News.
Denmark, Sept. 9.?Mrs. J. B.
Guess and Misses Hattie Lee, Ruth
and Francis Guess have returned, after
an enjoyable stay in the mountains
of North Carolina.
Misses Lillie and May Owens, of
Dubarton, were the attractive guests
of Miss Lynn Goolsby last week.
G. W. Hightower spent Sunday in
Barnwell.
Misses Carrie Cave and Kathleen
Califf, of Barnwell, and Mrs. C. C.
Califf, of Brunswick, Ga., spent some
time with Mrs. W. L. Califf last
week.
H. W. Goolsby, of Fort Motte, was
in town Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Brabham, of
Bamberg, spent Sunday with Mrs.
Brabham's mother, Mrs. W. F. Rice.
Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Hardwick, accompanied
by their niece, Miss Mozelle
Humphrey, of Waynesboro, Ga.,
have returned from an extended trip
to the mountains of North Carolina.
R. M. McCartha was a visitor in
town Sunday.
Miss Belle Lanneau, of Savannah,
is the guest of Mrs. J. W. Wyman.
R. M. Willis spent Sunday in, Williston.
Mrs. J. W. Wyman was the charming
hostess Tuesday evening in compliment
to Miss Lanneau, of Savannah,
Ga.
Gaffnev Pastor Removed.
Gaffney, Sept. 9.?Great interest
has been excited in this city to-day
by reason of the notice which is
given below. The statement appears
in a local paper to-day and was the
first intimation that Gaffney people,
outside of the congregation of the
Limestone Street Methodist church,
had that anything was amiss. It was
known that Mr. Ferrell had resigned
the pastorate of the church, but outsiders
had thought that this was
merely in order that he might accept
a call to a Kentucky church. The
following statement from the Presiding
Elder of this district of the
Methodist church throws some little
light on the subject.
Spartanburg, Sept. 5, 1911.
Dear Editor:?Please allow me to
state that I have found it necessary
to remove Rev. W. A. Ferrall from
the pastorate of the Limestone street
and Beulah churches. The reasons
for this action are purely administrative
and do not involve any question
as to his character.
Very truly,
MARK L. CARLISLE,
Presiding Elder Spartanburg Dist.
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IN THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick
Reading?Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.
Bob Minus, colored, got his hand
caught in a gin at Fairfax, Barnwell
county, on Saturday, and it was so
badly lacerated that it had to be
; amputated.
Reports filed with the comptroller
general by auditors of 24 counties
show an increase of $3,500,000 in
personal property for taxation and
$1,500,000 in real property.
Sol Talford, colored, of Rock Hill,
killed his wife on Sunday by cutting
her throat with a potato knife. She
had just returned from a drive with
another negro.- Talford fled.
Pierce Allen, a white man, was
convicted in a magistrate's court at
Bingham, Florence county, on Thursday
of stealing a dog from a farmer
and was sentenced to the chaingang
for 30 days.
Ground was broken last week for
the new Y. M. C. A. building in
Charleston which is to cost more
than $108,000. The beginning of
the work was characterized by ap
propriate ceremonies.
Buford Young, a prominent young
farmer of the Walnut Grove section
of Spartanburg county, was committed
to jail on Thursday on the charge
of attempted assault on a 14-year-old
girl of % the neighborhood. He was
granted bail next day.
The legislature will have to elect
a chief justice to succeed Ira B.
Jones, and also an associate justice
of the supreme court, at the session
in January. It will be remembered
that there was a deadlock over the
election of an associate justice in
the general assembly last January.
News from Kearse.
Wanderer's Rest, Sept. 11.?Fifteen
days' rain out of eighteen is
the record here. The cotton is in the
field, and much of it has rotted in
the burr. No such spell of weather
at this season of the year has occurred
since 1893, when it rained
eveiry day for three weeks after the
great storm, and all the cotton that
was on the ground was lost, ana tne
same holds now, is all the bright
prospects of a month ago to be only
a memory. Foir brightest hopes all
torn and shattered is the end of the
hope of a big crop of pretty cotton.
Does nature give these bright prospects
only to tantalize! Many men
are fond of it, and to tease the other
fellow seems to be the chief joy of
life to them, see the cat turn the
captured mouse free, only to catch
it again and again, finally to crush
its life out in the end. But nature
is far more kind, for while the cotton
is injured, the peas and grass
are on a boom and where no hay was
expected a bountiful supply is assured
if the sun shines at the right
(time and the farmer will take time
to harvest it, and no farm work pays
better and every one should save
enough to feed his stock and some to
spare.
The dog days are gone, the mocking
bird sings his melody in his
sweetest strains, the roses, altheas,
and many other flowers are in bloom,
and only the old farmer goes with
bowed head and drawn lips, for the
notes will soon be due, and still it
rains, but they will pass, the notes
will be satisfied, and he, too, can
join in the happy chorus and smile
back at the violets as they soon will
be showing their blue eyes, seeming j
to say, "Cheer up, sad hearts, for I
only smile even through the frost of
winter."
Life is not all gone, and the vim
and effort is still here. The ladles
of the neighborhood are having
White Point school house painted,
their other halves are adding other
improvements, and few if any rural
schools will have a better home in
the county for young ideas to learn
how to shoot.
A church is to he built here in the
near future, and when it is finished
and a bright coat of paint is applied,
then will main street of this section
begin to put on city airs.
Mr. B. V. Kearse intends to build
him a new home to make joy complete,
for he is a happy father now,
and it is a boy.
Rev. A. C. Walker preaches us
some very fine sermons now, even
if the weather is hot and the sermons
preached at a disadvantage. Hopej
to give him better next year in the
shape of a new church.
OLD TIMER.
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XEGRO AT ST. MATTHEWS SHOT.
George Taylor Clubs N'egro Woman,
then Shoots Her Husband.
St. Matthews, Sept. 9.?The peace
and quietude of this town was rudely
disturbed last night at 9:30
o'clock by five pistol shots in rapid
succession. Three physicians were
rushed to "Buyck's Quarter," to find
that Olin Hampton had been shot in
the thigh by George Taylor, both colored.
The femoral bone was fractured
by the bullet. Taylor, it is
said, had brutally clubbed Hampton's
wife, his former paramour, in
the morning, and when Hampton
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later remonstrated witn mm iayiur
whipped out his pistol and began firing.
Taylor is of violent temper
and a dangerous character, having
been in several cutting and shooting
scrapes.
The Sunday-School Convention.
We would have given an account
of the Barnwell-Bamberg Baptist
Sunday-school convention in last
week's issue, but thought some official
report would have come out, so
as a number of our readers who
could not attend the convention
would like to know some of the results,
we will give a short account
of the proceedings.
The morning of the first day dawned
cloudy and promising of bad weather,
but the folks poured in hospitable
OlaT from every side and corner in
proportion to the down-pouring rain.
The writer did not arrive at the
morning session, but when we did, on
that southbound mid-day train, we
were kindly met at depot by numbers
of Olarites, who took charge of
all delegations and their baggage
and escorted us to the church, where
a tempting feast was spread in the
church, the inner row of pews being
used to support temporary tables
?and those aTe mighty strong pews,
too, to support all those good things
in the way of edibles.
The entire session was gracefully
presided over by Capt. W. T. Cave
as moderator and Rev. W. G. Britton
as secretary. The program was carried
out as published, except a few
breaks from absentees, but those
who figured on the program must
have neglected much else in order
to prepare a good show at the convention.
Special mention must be made of
Miss Clara Johnson's address on
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teacher-training, it was Droaa anu
deep, giving some of her personal
experiences along that line, which
'was a stimulus.
Revs. O. J. Frier, W. C. Baxley, W.
G. Britton; and R. P. Golphin made
some mighty good addresses and
talks on various methods of improving
Sunday-schools.
The addresses by Supts. J. A. Hunter,
of Bamberg, and Jeff Hair, of
Healing Springs, were strong and
forcible and each and every one who
had something to say said good
things.
We think it but fair to mention
K+fisv Mim Vflfiia M^nnrmsrlf's milfii
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cal ability. Though only thirteen
years of age, she adapts herself to
the organ in a manner becoming to
one several years her senior, and
played for the convention.
The entire session of the convention
was a most pleasant and profitable
occasion, despite the awful
rainy weather and all Olar seemed
to be Baptist in hospitality (and
water, too.) The writer asked if
there was any other church there
but a Baptist, as everybody seemed
one, and we were told that Capt.
Cave said in his welcome address,
"That when you were on the West
side of the railroad you were Baptist
and on the East side you were
Methodist."
Dinner was served on the grounds
atTAKTr /?ai7 an/i tVio homes thrown
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open to entertainment at night, and
we feel sure all who attended are
benefitted in every way by the Barnwell-Baptist
Sunday-school convention
at Olar, August 30, 31, September
1, 1911.
The Bamberg Sunday-school again
won the banner for having the best
collections and Hunter's Chapel came
next to it for having the best attendance.
Both of the superintendents
in these two Sunday-schools are
Hunters, and they are still hunting
for more students, etc.
COUNTRY CORRESPONDENT.
Prosperous Colored Man.
G. W. Abel, one of our colored subscribers,
who is a prosperous farmer,
came in to renew his subscription
last Thursday, and told us he had
sold eleven bales of cotton that day
on the Bamberg market for 11%
cents the pound. Bamberg's buyers,
as usual, are paying more than elsewhere.
This is ithe place to market
your cotton.
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CHIEF JUSTICE RESIGNED.
IRA B. JONES WILL MAKE RACE
FOR GOVERNOR.
Resignation to Take Effect Next Jan- ,
nary?Announces His Candidacy
for Governor.
Lancaster, S. C., Sept. 11, 1911. 1
Hon. Cole L. Blease, Governor,
Columbia, S. C.
Dear Sir: I hereby tender my res
ignation as chief justice to take effect
January 9th, 1912. '
Very respectfully,
IRA B. JONES.
The resignation of Chief Justice
Jones and his definite announcement
that he will be a candidate for governor
in the Democratic primary next
summer, while rumored in some
quarters, is a general suprise. By
many it has not been considered
likely that Mr. Jones would relinquish
the highest judicial office in the
State, of which he may have been
certain for life, at a salary equal to
that of the governor, in order to be- 1
come a candidate for governor. Gov.
Blease said a few days ago, in a
Charleston interview, that should
he do so Mr. Jones would find himself
a "statesman without a job." '
Manifestly, the chief justice is not
unwilling to put the issue to a test
with the governor. <
It is universally considered In po- 1
litical circles that Chief Justice
Jones at any time would make a 1
most formidable, if not an invincible,
candidate for any office in the State. <
He is a product of the Reform movement,
one of the ablest and most
aggressive leaders of the, warm political
fights of the early 90's, hut '
his career on the supreme bench has '
been highly distinguished for fairness
and judicial integrity no less
than for scholarship, learning and
ability.
Chief Justice Jones is a man of
most impressive personality; virile,
aggressive, alert and absolutely 1
fearless. Quick in debate, resourceful,
thoroughly familiar with South
Carolina affairs, he would at any 1
?<rolno+ onr nnnnsittnn hp
U1IIC auu agaiuoi, uuj
a difficult man to handle on the
stump, and should Gov. Blease stick
to his determination to offer for reelection
next year the candidacy of
Mr. Jones makes it certain that there
will be at least one antagonist able to
cope wdth the governor, whose
stump-speaking ability is highly regarded
by his friends.
Several other influential, strong
men have been mentioned recently
for governor, but so far none of
them has made any announcement as
to his intentions.
Also from Newberry.
Chief Justice Jones is a native of
Newberry, where he was born on December
29th, 1851. The early years
of his life were spent in Newberry,
I where he attended Newberry college
for a time, but in 1868 he entered
Erskine college and graduated in the
class of 1870. At college he distinguished
himself as orator and debater.
After graduation he returned
to Newberry and taught school
two years in that county and Edgefield,
studying law in the meantime.
While in Newberry he was associate
editor of The Herald. He was admitted
to the bar when 21 years old. 1
Candidate for Governor.
Lancaster, Sept. 12.?The Lancaster
News received to-day the following
statement from Chief Justice
Ira B. Jones, who on yesterday forwarded
his resignation, effective in
January, to the governor:
The Lancaster News: You are authorized
to state that if Providence '
permits, I will certainly be a candidate
in the primary next August for *
nomination as governor.
IRA B. JONES. 1
Lancaster, Sept. 12. 1
NEAR-BEER RETURNED.
Solicitor Otts Disposes of Near-Beer
Cases at Gaffney. .
Gaffney, Sept. 7.?The latest de- ,
velopment in the near-beer situation ,
in Gaffney is the return of the beer ,
seized when the raid was made by
the sheriff. The seizure took place ,
some weeks ago and since that time -g
the beer has been stored at the coofe; ^
ty jail until it was reuirneu lu lwu ^
of the owners by Sheriff Thomas. (
The order to return the beer was
from Solicitor Otts and the return
was made with the understanding
that the article be shipped back to
the brewery and that the owners re- j
frain from engaging in the sale of i
"kneehigh," as it is here known, in 1
the future. It Is thought possible 1
that this will mean the end of the \
cases against the near-beer dealers ]
in this city. 3
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RECORD BREAKING REPORT.
771,415 Bales of Cotton Ginned to J;
September 1.
Washington, Sept. 8.?The first
cotton ginning report of the season,
issued to-day by Director E. Dana
Durand, of the bureau of the census,
departmei^ of commerce and labor,
shows that 771,415 bales, counting
round as half bales, had been ginned
from the growth of 1911, to Septembcr
1, compared with 353,011 bales rfll
of the growth of 1910, ginned to |||j
September 1, 1910, 388,242 bales for
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J.*7V?7, auu -* \J?dy?dt*%J Uai^D JLVT1* XWU? s ' ^^3
Round Bales.
Round bales included this year are -^S|
6,994, compared with 10,976 for -'MrS
1910, 11,587 for 1909 and 20,862 ^|g
for 1908. The number of sea island ||g|
bales included is 539 for 1911, 218 l||j
for 1910, 1,236 for 1909 and 1,221' :M
for 1908.
Comparisons of the < number of
bales, counting round bales as half
bales, ginned to September 1, for
the past four years follows:. Ala- v.^lj
bama, 40,500; Arkansas, 170; Flori- ;
da, 3,764; Georgia, 134,075; Louisiana,
7,616; Mississippi, 1,849;
NTorth Carolina, 1,209; Oklahoma, <^|9|
4,205; South Carolina, 18,907; Ten- iSS ~,-h
nessee, 5; Texas, 559,114; other ' iWm
States, 1. ?
Record Breaker.
The ginning of cotton of the r:\
growth of 1911 was carried on more iactively
throughout the cotton belt g
to September 1 this year than in any
similar period in the history of the t-;| ^
industry, at least as far as acurate'SS ^
ginning records have been kep?j|
This is shown by the first ginning "Jl 't
reports of the-season compiled by the /J )i
census bureau from reports of ite,-Jl '
correspondents in the cotton growing ' J;:|
States. A total of 771,425 bales hae ^
been ginned up to a week ago. This|| yj
is greater by almost 300,000 balee^Jfl
than the previous record made in ^ p
Weather the Cause. |
The continued hot and dry weather
in a greater portion of the
especially in Texas, was chldfly '^3.
sponsible for the increase. These
conditions meant the early maturing I
of the crop, but 4t his alone is not oon-lJjafl'Y
sidered a cause of greater ginning.. |
Farmers have been more active in
ting their crop to the ginneries and; |
it is said, in some counties of Texas,^S^^
where the bulk of the increased gto- .'JBfc-J
nlng was reported, the entire crop:'.;|||SM
practically already has been ginned. vJmk|$
No Indication of Size of Crop. Ji
Little relaxation appears to existfV^j ^
according to the census bureau ex-*^
perts, between the size of the crop^.|l %
and the quantity of cotton ginned ^
during any period of the season. This ^ |
is shown in the bte croD of 1904^-i^BH^
1906 and 1908, each of which pfb^?:jj
duced more than 13,000,000 -baleik^pK^
In these years the percentage of the
total crop ginned to September 1 waf >
2.8, 3.1 and 3.1 per cent, respect- M %
ively, while in 1905, when the crop^' %$
was 10,800,000, 4.5 per cent, of i?|l? ^
was ginned by September 1. Lasfc;*1^^gj
year 3.1 per cent, of the total
was ginned to September 1.
EVANS FOR WOODROW WILSON. 3
Ex-Governor Feels Pulse of North^<
ato Rp.nnhlirflns. ',^.^8
Spartanburg, Sept. 6.?Ex-Govern-;^|1 i
or John Gary Evans returned to-dajsjBB from
a trip through Northern States*
He attended the annual meeting of
the American Bar Association in Boaton.
Mr. Evans stated that while in ;
the North he met many leading rep- :!||nr
resentative Republicans, who said
that if the South would put forward xi||!i3
a man for president they would sup- 5
port him. From these expressions ^|||
and others, the ex-governor is opti- ;
mistic over the prospects for Demo-?
cratic success in 1912, and said that,
In his opinion, Woodrow Wilson was
the best man for the Democrats to
nominate, and that he would be a
winner.
Cotton Crop Brought Billion.
New Orleans, Sept. 5.?"No /^||||
American cotton crop over grown
has sold for as much as the one just ?|gg
marketed, the total value, including
the seed, having been $1,030,000,This
remarkable statement is con
talned in the detailed statistics ot -^i||
iast season's cotton crop issued toJay
by Col. Henry C. Hester, secretary
of the New Orleans cotton
The crop was not so large as that '*|9H
3f 1908, but the prices were higher,
?Misses Grace and Quintora Hoffman,
who have been spending thtf"' -y?
summer with their grandfather Mr. .
[. W. Rentz, near Ehrhardt, passed
through Branchville Tuesday on
their way back to school. . Mr. A. K.
Rentz accompanied them as far as
Branchville.?Branchville Journal.