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A Spectator at History s Maying Bishopville, Oct. 21.?This city has the distinction of being the home of a remarkable centenarian. Mrs. Abagail DuRant, who has lived in this community all her life, celebrated the 100th anniversary of her birth July 3, 1922. The 101st year of her life found her in good health, self-reliant, vigorous for her years and with the fine intellect and keen interest in affairs that has always marked her. Mrs. DuRant is the daughter of James Rembert, who was of French Huguenot stock. She was born on her father's plantation near this place. A large part of this beautiful plantation, which contained more than 5,000 acres, was inherited by her and has been in her possession for over 67 years. Mrs. DuRant was married 84 years ago. Her husband was JOnn u. -Lruriant, granusuu ui Henry DuRant of the American Revolution. Mrs. DuRant has lived through the anxieties and sorrows of five wars, I She had relatives constantly in peril during the Indian war in Florida in 1832. When the Palmetto regiment; marched to the Mexican war, Caleb' Rembert, her only brother, was onej of its brave volunteers. She never j saw him again, as he died from disease and was buried in the City of Mexico during the seige of that stronghold. To the Confederate war went her husband and two sons, David and James. This great war took its deadly toll, too, as James died from disease in the Confederate hospital at Charlottesville, Va. Then came the Spanish-American war and the anxieties connected with the peril to her grandsons engaged in it. And finally the World war, in which were engaged many grandsons and greatgrandsons, one greatgrandson, Hugh Merritt, having made the supreme j sacrifice. Naturally the Confederate war made the greatest impression up her, and she talks most interestingly of her experiences. Like so many other brave Southern women, during that period she worked unceasingly to keep the plantation going, to care for the young children at home and to cheer and aid loved ones in the field. I She must have realized that the j end of the Confederacy was near, i when one Saturday night in March, | - 1865, while she and her five young daughters were seated at the supper table, there rushed into the room, entirely unexpectedly, more than a dozen Union soldiers. They ransacked the house and made merry with brandy which they found. They formed part of Sherman's army, camped a ..few miles away. On the Sunday following hundreds of Federal soldiers pillaged her place. They took horses, cured meats, chickens and everthing to eat that they could find. They burned the barns and outbuildings and the gin with hundreds of bales of cotton, but they left her home standing. For a week, she says, nothing was cooked in the "big house," for the soldiers would stand around the store while the food was being prepared and would eat it as fast as it was cooked, so sue naa . to stop trying to prepare anything. The only food which she and her young children had during that time was brought to them secretly by faithful negro slaves. She did not go to bed for a week, but just slept for a few minutes at a time, day or night, in chairs. During this weelrofficers interviewed her constantly, trying to get in? formation as to the whereabouts of the men of her family and threatening to burn her home if this information was not given. Sometimes they would make preparations to carry out their threats by pulling brands from the fireplace and would boast of having burned Columbia. With brave calmness, which she still evidences, she told them that she did not know where her men folk were and that if she did she would not tell. Probably no one else, in South Carolina has lived through as much history as Mrs. DuRant. She was born the year after the death of the great Napoleon, when the world had been recently torn with wars, and she lived to see, nearly 100 years lat. er, practically the entire world in arms again. As a girl and young woman, she heard constantly of the great political questions that were beginning to divide the North and South. She recalls vividly when nullification was a vital issue and South Carolina prepared to resist forcibly the tariff laws of the nations, and she, with other South Carolinians, took pride in the debates of the great Calhoun and Webster. She remembers, too, the intense interest of that day in the question of free and slave states, and how this finally brought on the Confeder ate war. fUmaw tout nU?rl|t)fi tttej. 0 \ PROGRAMME . j 5th Sunday Unions, Barnwell Ass'n. Oct. 28 and Possibly 29. Union No. 1 meets with Spring Branch church; No. 2 with Friendship church; No. 3 with Elko church; j No. 4 with Sycamore church. Saturday, October 28th. 10:30 a. m.?Devotional: No. 1, N. H. Fender; No. 2, C. C. Morris; | No. 3, S. A. Hair: No. 4, G. J. Anderson. 10:45 a. m.?Enrollment of delegates and miscellaneous business. 11:00 a. m.?Sermons as follows: No. 1, L. H. Miller; No. 2, M. B. Buckley; No. 3, O. B. Falls; No. 4, C. M. Robinson. 12:00 m.?Topic: The Bible doc-j trines of election and predestination and their practical value. The fol- j lowing brethren will lead the dis- j cussion, followed by general discussion: No. 1, 0. J. Frier; No. 2, J. F. Davis; No. 4, J. R. Cullom. Rev. G. C. Epps will discuss stewardship and tithing at this hour at No. 2 instead of the above topic. Dinner. 2:00 p. m.?Devotional. 2:45 p. m.?Topic: The claims of our denominational paper, led by the following brethren, followed by general discussion: No. 1, Dr. Geo. F. Hair; No. 2, Dr. J. R. McCormack; No. 3, R. E. Woodward; No. 4, Guy I Martin. 3:45 p. m.?Rev. G. C. Epps will speak on stewardship and tithing at l union No. 1, at No. 3, W. M. Jones; No* 4, J. L. Bragg. At union No. 2 the Bible doctrines of election and predestination will be discussed by Walter Black, or D. W. Heckle, followed by general discussion during this hour. Miscellaneous business and adjourn. As some .churches have objected to dinner on the ground and some pastors object to being away from their pulpits on Sunday the programme committee has left it with - *- '"" * o Qll tictL'LL UJilUU LU UCUUC UU U uauuu; service, and its own programme for I same. SEAT IX SENATE GOES TO GEORGE Atlanta, Oct. 17.?With 26 counties yet to be heard from in today's special senatorial primary, the nomination of Judge Walter F. George of I Vienna to succeed the late United j State senator, Thomas E. Watson, I was virtually assured, according to incomplete unofficial returns compiled tonight by the Atlanta Constitution. Judge George had a decisive majority of 250 county unit votes or 41 more than the 209 necessary for nomination, the Constitution's returns showed, and of the 136 counties tabulated he had carried 104 as compared with 24 for Gov. Thomas W. Hardwick, who was credited with 96 county unit votes. Seaborn Wright of Rome was running a poor third. He carried his home county of Floyd and five others, which gave him a total of 20 unit votes. John R. Cooper of Macon had not carried a single county, according to The Constitution's figures. The Constitution's returns indicated that Maj. C. E. McGregor of Warrenton had won the nomination over his four opponents in the race for state pension commissioner to succed the late Judge John W. Lindsey. Nomination in a Democratic pri^ ?- - - : J mary in ueorgia is wusiueieu as equivalent to election, and it is thought certain that the nomination will he confirmed in the regular election on November 7. Explaining Him. A theatrical manager bought and staged a play and then became cursed with the usual doubts. He felt that it would never go. The author stood in the wrings at dress rehearsal, very proud and confident, in irritating confident, in irritating contrast -with gloomy manager. One of the stage j hands was a person of peculiar as-j pect, and just to make conversation 1 the author asked. "Who 19 that strange-looking, fellow?" "That!" said the manager. "That's an Eskimo." "Why in the world an Eskimo?" asked the author. "Why," said the manager wearily, I "we had to get somebody that could stand the frost around here opening night." Would Tote Hi? Own Bundle An old Irishman was struggling along the high road with a heavy bundle when friend passed in a cart. It was a hot day, so the friend thinking Pat would be glad of a lift, said: "Jump up here, old man." Pat was delighted and after climbing up, rested his bundle earefully on his knee. "Put your bundle on the seat," and his friend. "Oh, no," Pat4 answered. "Bince you are eo good as to gife me a ride Oi'll not he after asking yen te earry e tudle as well!" V Nor America "Close." Conway Field. Thank goodness, the Near East isn't really near. Destroy cotton stalks now. TAX NOTICE. ??. The treasurer's office will be open | for the collection of state, county, : school and all other taxes from the loth day of November, 1922, until j the 15th day of March, 1923, in- | elusive. From the first day of January, j 1923, until the 31st day of January, j -1923, a penalty of 1 per cent, will be ' added to all unpaid taxes. From the j first dr 7 of February, 1923, unt-i the | 2Sth day of February,1923, a pen- i alty of 2 per cent, will be added to all i unpaid taxes. From the first day of ' .March, 1923, until the 15th of | March 1923, a penalty of 7 per cent. I will be added to all unpaid taxes. The Levy. For State purposes 7 1-2 mills | For county purposes 7 mills | Constitution school tax....3 mills j For highway purposes ....1 1-2 mills j Total 19 mills Special School Levies. Bamberg, No. 14 21 1-2 mills Binnaker's No. 12....W 3 mills Buford's Bridge, No. 7 ....4 mills Clear Pond, No. 19 2 mills Colston, No. 18 9 mills Denmark, No. 21 16 mills Ehrhardt, No. 22 19 mills Fish Pond, No. 5 2 mills Govan, No. 11 12 mills Hutto, No. 6 6 mills Hampton, No. 3 2 mills Hey ward, No. 24 2 mills Hopewell, No 1 3 mills Hunter's Chapel, No. 16 12 mills Lees, No. 23 8 mills Lemon Swamp, No. 13 4 mills Little Swamp, No. 17 8 mills Midway, No. 2-. 2 mills Oak Grove, No. 20 10 mills Olar, No. 8 16 mills Oakland, No. 15 8 mills St. John's, No. 10 8 mills Salem, No. 9 12 mills mi.... .mi. XT/% A 8 mills J. Ui ec-.uac, -z West End, No. 25 10 mills All persons between the ages of 21 and 60 years, except Confederate soldiers and sailors, who are exempt at 50 years, are liable to a poll tax of $1.00. Capitation dog tax, $1.25. All male persons who were 21 years of age on or before the first day of January, 1921, are liable to a poll tax of $1, and all who have not made^r turns to the auditor are requested to do so on or before the first day of January, 1922, and thereby save penalty and costs. I will receive the commutation road tax of two ($2.00) dollars from the 15th day of November, 1922 to the 15th day of March, 1923. In addition to the above levies there is a three mill levy for drainage on all property in the town of Bamberg and some of the surrounding territory. G. A. JENNINGS, Treasurer of Bamberg County. "Bid DEPENDA "A REAL IHERCHANI Mammoth Rei THIS ENTIRE STOCK OF DRY G ING, LADIES AND MENS READ Y AN "ATLANTA SALES COMPA N [everything This Great 15 Friday, Oc 11 And Lasts for I GOOD-BYE ME looHnnHHBHBBnHnni FREE-FRIDAY Im I rilll iU.LLUv given to the first hundred ladies and rtiDUiDni men attending this fctlKilAKlM sale. 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