Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I TOPICS OF THE TOWN, Happenings of the Week Told In Short Paragraph*. lfi«* Bessie Smith, of Smoaks, visited Walterboro this week. • W. P. Felder went to Charleston on business Mondar. Col J. G. Padgett is attending court in Bamberg this week. B. B, Pentcn, cf our city, visited Hitter Sunday. Miss Maggio Harley is visiting rela tives at St George this week. G. A. Benton and Cleveland Hudson, of Getsinger, were here Monday. E. P. Glover, of Adams Bun, had business in our town Tuesday. Drs C. H. Es’Dorn and Riddick Ackerman visited Charleston last week. Mrs H. McW. Williams, of Mewville, visited relatives in town Monday. B. Levy, Jonr efficient postmaster, •pent Easter with relatives in Beaufort. Miss Leila Trowell, of Walterboro, spent last Sunday with friends at Rit ter. - Mrs Jacob O’Quin, of Henderson ville, visited relatives in Brunson last week. Miss Georgie Guerry is visiting rela tives and friends in Georgetown this week. Senator Jas. E. Peurifoy visited rela'ives in Colombia Saturday and Sunday. » ° Miss Isabelle Thomas and little brother, of Ritter, were in town yester day. Elliott Fishburne, of Garnett, visited bis parents, Mr and Mrs O; P. Fish- burue, last week. Mr and Mrs Henry Stokes and little daughter, Bessie, visited relatives in Walterboro Sunday. Kirkland and Earle Graves, of Great Swamp, spent last Sunday at Ritter with relatives. M. Halsey, a promitent lumber man of our county, had business in Charles ton one day last week. Miss Caroline Guerry left Tuesday morning for Columbia, where she will spend several weeks with relatives. Hon and Mrs J. M. Walker visited the latter’s parents, Mr and Mrs T. H. Caldwell, near Lodge last Sunday. W. St. E. Capers, T. E. McTecr and Randal Robinson, of Hendersonville, had business in Walt erboro Tuesday. ■ 0 ■ • Mrs Clara Speights, of Henderson ville, and Miss Rosa McTeer, of Hamp-. ton, are visiting the ’family of E. R McTeer on Hampton Street. Henry O’Quiu and sons, Getsinger and Ashley, of Williams, visited rela tives near Walterboro Saturday and Sunday. Rev. R. S. Williams of Salkehatchie, Revs. J. T. Hires and B. W. Ackerman, of Ronnd, had business in onr city M°nday. Abe Karcsb, manager of H. W. Cohen’s clothing store in Walterboro, •penUfcvernl dnys in Charleston last wee^ , T» Jl. Witsell and grandson, Lawrence Xiuoas, of Charleston, spent several days in our city last we^k with the former’s sister, Mrs Annie O. Chaplin. Mr and Mrs' H. T. , Herndon and children, Viola, Denny and Augustas, of Getsinger, were among these who visited Walterboro Monday. r - ‘ Prof E. Ladson Fishburne, of Allen dale, spent Saturday and Sunday in Walterboro with his parents, Hon and JJrs W. J. Fishburne. Miss Lila Gregory, who is engaged in teaching school at Young’s] Island, visited relatives in onr town the latter part of last week. Miss Estelle Hudson, a beautiful and highly accomplished young lady, of Getsinger, visited Walterboro Monday. * Miss Hudson is the efficient postmis tress at Getsinger. Mrs C. D. May, accompanied by Miss Edna .MpTeer, spent several days in Charleston last week, returning home Monday. J . Bev Stanly R. Grubb will preach at Evergreen church on the night ot the S6th inst. The public is cordially invited, Mr and Mrs Fred McFarland, of . Darien, Ga., are visiting the latter’s Mater, Mrs A. 8. Morrall this week. Mias Mamie Strickland, of Stokao, passed through Walterboro Monday af ternoon on her war home after a visit to her Meter, Mrs Joe Garter at Bmn- Mrs Annie Rickenbaker and Miss Atilec Moore, alter spending several weeks very pleasantly with relatives in McPhersonville, returned home last Friday. u H * J. Bartow Benton, of Brighton, 8. G., Hampton County, vUited rtlatives and friends in Walterboro and Great Swamp last week Mr Benton was born and raised neaT Walterboro, but left-Colleton 13 years ago. Hrb many friends were glad to see him. > * Miss Emmie Burnett, after an ex tended visit to Miss Emma Tracy in Walterboro, returned to her home in Grabnmvilie last Thursday. Miss Euruett was accompanied by Misses Belie Williams and Emma Tracy who will spend several days in Grahamviile. JOTTINGS ABOUT TOWN. Supervisor Moore is engaged in putting iy the sureage system in the court house. See the Farmers and Merchants Bank ad on another page of this paper. ' * See the New Idea ad elsewhere in this issue. Don’t fail to read the business locals this week. /. _ Mist Lillian Easterlin, of Charleston, is now in charge of Terry & Shaffer’s dry goods department. Mrs Lncy T. Hiott has opened up a new millinery business next door to H. W. Black’s store. See ad elsewhere- in this issue. \ St. Jude’s Junior Auxiliary were quite successful in their egg hnnt given Monday afternoon. Quite a nice little sum was realized. $60.00 in gold to be given away by the Colleton Mercantile and Manufac turing Company. See page ad in this issue. R. H. Wichman, president of the Fanners and Merchants Bank, has be gun the erection of s handsome brick residenoe on the lot formerly owned by Mrs A. C. Farmer. Mr Wichman ex pects to build a handsome house which will no doubt be a credit to the town. The ladles of the Baptist church of Walterboro, will give an . entertainment at the courthouse Friday evening, April. 90, commencing at 8.80 o’clock. Ad mission: Adults 25 cents; children 15 cents. This entertainment will be a musical concert, consisting of vocal •bios and quartetts and instrumental solos and duetts. The proceeds will go towards the incidental expenses of the Walterboro Baptist church. FOUR OF COLLETON’A YOUNO MEN Returned From the Medical College Last Week and Have Entered Upon Life’# Duties at Home. M Cam Fishburne, who has recently graduated in pharmacy from the Char leston Medical College, returned hume last Thursday. Mr Fishburne has ac cepted a position with Dr John M. Klein. » Dr L. M. Stokes has graduated in the department of medicine and will begin the practice of his profession in Walter boro. His office will be in the building opposite Captain Ilaysor’s residence. W. W. Garvin, who graduated in mney at the Medical College in lesion, has accepted a position with Kleiu’s Pharmacy. Most of his tixe will be devoted to laboratory work. A, P. Barns, another of Walterboro’* rising young men, finished his coarse last week from the Medical College of Charleston and is working for the pres ent with the Walterboro Ding Co C. W. McNEALY BADLY CUT -a By Melvin Hiott in Walterboro Cot ton Mills. 0. W. McNealy, foreman of the card room of the Walterboro Cotton Mills, was badly carved across the abdomen, chest and left arm last Monday* af ternoon by Melvin Hiott, an operative of the weave room. It seems that Hiott had occasion to go into the card room, and while in there began frssing with one of the card hands. Mr McNealy, seeing that Hiott was hunting trouble, told him to leave the room. Hiott then turned on McNealy with a° knife, inflicting three painml wounds. Mr McNealy was taken to the Wal terboro Infirmary immediately, where he still is. We understand that the wounds are serious, bat not fatal. Hiott was arrested, bnt has been turned loose, without giving bond. Mr McNealy came to Walterboro the first of this year and has been foreman of the card* room in the cot ton mill np to th$ time he was ont He has made many friends here, who sympathise with him. He is getting along very well; st preeent m -'o’Yefii •4U * - /V a WW <■ * * f 'A , - W V-'- * J Ik* * *'-•■* v j,/* a *. va* V • H 1 n s^jsW (bISC ( RI f PTIOJh Full size, solid Golden v oak frame steel springs and good upholstering in red, green or old gold. * - . ... A Regular $7.00 Lounge for $3.95 This is an extraordinary offer we are making and you will miss a BARGAIN if you don’t send in your order before they are all gone—no charge for packing and shipping. Terms, c^sh with order. Satisfaction guaranteed. Write us to-day. * Brown Furniture Company, THE BIO FURNITURE EilPORIUM. THE H. W. COHEN STORE. Iri Fine Fettle For ^ 0 " ■ . 0 Spring and Summer. ^ This store is in fine fettle for Spring and Summer. It was never before quite so full of attractions for lovers of good style, good goods and sound sensi ble economy. Each season it is our earnest aim to gather a stock which shall surpass all our past records; and this Spring we feel that we have unquestionably succeeded in doing so in every particular and from every standpoint. This is ever a live, alert, growing store. Every year we better understand your needs; every year we are in better position to fill them advantageously to you. * if you will come and see the storeful of fine merchandise that awaits you here- full of the newest and best that the market has to offer, sold at prices whose low ness is only possible in a CASH stores we believe you will be both astonished and delighted at the advantages we offer. v ^ ’ Slothes That Are Worth Wearing. Our Men and Boy’s clothes are worth wearing. They are made by good tailors from good materials, cut in the very latest and nobbiest styles, and sold at prices that are incomparably low for such quality, durability and dressiness. We have many kinds and colors and patterns for you to pick from. It will be a pleasure tor you to select from so large, so choice and so good a stqck; and to have the satisfaction of knowing that you are buying at the lowest prices obtain able. A Shoe Stock — • Beyond Compare. Our Sl\oe stock is beyond compare. It is immensely ‘better and more varied than any other in this county, and replete with values that are absolutely un-- matchable elsewhere. In our Men’s Ladies’ and Children’s Shoes and Oxfords, every grade and style shown is a phenomenon of good value, . Furnishings For * I- * * i Men and Boys. . 0 " * An unmatchable line of Summer Underwear, Dress Shirts, Collars, Cuffs,? Neckwear, Belts, etc., that can’t be duplicated elsewhere, awaits your inspection. j;.*.