Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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TOPICS OF THE TOWN. Happening* of the Week Told !■ Short Paragraph*. •c J. F. Strit kland of Grover. waa in to ■M oa today. J«B. DnBoia of Islandton, waa here yeiterday ou boemeaa. T. P. Johnaon of Wagener’a planta- tion, had baaineaa in oar city Friday. lira Aehley, of KUenton, ia viaitincr her Bister, Mr* M. P- Howell tbia week. Mra T. A. Hill and aiater, of Round, viaitod relative* in onr city yesterday. i ( 1 J. 8. Griiiu, Esq., viaited Adama Kan yeeterday on profeBaional bnaineM. Mra B. 'H. CnMinoof Hampton, viait* ed Mra L. W. Mcleer in town last week. Dr A. P. Barnefl of Havannab, is spending several days in town with relatives. MrsU. A. Halford of Middle, Fla* la visiting her bister, Mrs Jacob O'tjain, at Hendersonville. Dr Ruldit k Ackerman, after spending several weeks at Glenn Springs, return ed home Saturday Joe. W. Lucas, who has been visiting in Greenville,Asheville and other points, returned home this week. John DT Warren was called to Atlanta Sunday to the bedside of his. son, Wal ton, who is quite ill. Mias Tharie Copeland of Ehrhardt, ristted Misses Golue and Blanche lliers in town last week. Mr and Mra G. T. Kemley of Savan nah, are Visiting relative* and fnenda in oor town and county this week. H. W Black, Jr., one of Waiterboro's most prominent merchants, ia now at the North baying new goods. . J ——j Mrs W B. Fraser, after two weeks delightfully* spent with relatives m Savannah, returned home Saturday. i Anna Sanders, quite a charming < yoong lady of Snmter, is visiting i Misses McTeer on Hampton street. | , 1. - Delaney Izard, formerly of Waiter- boro, but now ol Columbia, had bnsi- otf* 111 onr town several days last week. Wm Trowell of Florida, who has been visiting his parent*, Mr and Mrs W. J. Trowell, of Great Swamp, retarued to Ftytfdn Thursday. Mrs Jas. £. Fenrifoy and children, af ter spending some time with friends and relativeeio Chester and Cheraw, it- turned home Thursday. Mrs V. D. Bagot and Miss Florence Williams left Satnrdsy for Sullivan's Island, where they will spend sometime before going to Colombia. Mrs Olara Speights, after an extended viait to Mrs L. W. McTeer, left Satur day for Sullivan's Island. From there •he will go to Greenville. Mr and Mrs C. R Lucas returned to Jacksonville, Fin., Saturday, after spending sometime with the former’s in town. W. W. Smoak, Jr, cashier of the Farmers and Merr-hantb Bank, left this afternoon for Sullivan's Island, ahete he will spend a week. Mr and Mi sO. D. May left this week for Harris Lilian Springs. They will also visit Glenn Springs uud Waynes- ville, N. 0., before reiurning home. Mrs R. U. Wichmnu and children, af ter spending sometime with relatives at Scotia, 8.0., returned home Tuesday tiling. Mrs J. 0. P»dgott left yesterday after- noon for Bullivan’s Island, where she will spend eeveral days before going to Glenn Springs. Sirs W. O. Benton aud Miss May Walltower, of Savannah, are visiting the parents of W. O. Benton, Mr aud Mrs B. G. Benton, near Heudersonville. « Mra M. B. Patterson will leave to morrow for Laurel Bay Camp neo£ Beaufort, where she will spend some time with her sen, J»>* M. Patterson. O. M. Itead, Wm Jayoocks, W. J. Coloock and Maj. S. A. Marvin, promi nent rice planters of the Combahee River section, were in town yeeterday on hasiceee. Rev A. L. Patterson, formerly pastor of the Presbyterian church here, bat now of Blachshears, Ga., was hare lost - Thursday. Mr Patterson has a great friends in Waiter boro who were delighted to see him. -* r*rr . ) • . P. M. Murray, eecretarv of the Demo- oraHc axeontive committee of Oolleton county, request the executive oommit- teemeu of the vqrioas clubs to send him at cuoe, the names of the managers of electioB for their oinbs. v X Prof E. B. Bellinger spent several days last wtek with friends at Adams Ron. The acconnt of the Methodist Sunday School Conference, which was held at Little Swamp church last week, will be published next week. Did not reach os in time for this week’s issue. Mr and Mrs C. C. Anderson and chil dren, Florence and Dan, left this week for Glenn Springs, where ther will spend eeveral ’ weeks. They will visit Sullivan’* Island before retnrning home. Mrs H. W. Black, Jr., and son, Eugene, and Mr* K. L Locos left this weak for Glenu Springs and other points, where they will spend several weeks. Miss Belle Williams, the jopalnr and competent steoographer of the Colleton Meicantile and Manufacturing Co , left Monday for Glehn Springs. From there she will go to Asheville, where she will spend several weeks before retnrning home. It hi’8 caueed more laughs and dried more tear?, w iped away 4Meases and driven aw»y more, ftare than any other medicine in the world. Hollis ter’* Rocky Mountain Tea. 36 cents, Tea or Table. John M Klein. COUNTY SUMMER SCHOOL Opened at Walterboro flonday florn- ♦ log. X e The summer school of Colleton county opened lost Monday morning at the Academy in Walterboro. Profeaeora C R Calhoun and H W Ackerman have charge of the echool. As Professor Calhoun’s reputation as a teacher and educator is so well known in Colleton county, (he hav ing taught school here for a number of yean in the graded school, and conducted the summer school here lost year) it is not necessary to say that the summer school will be of great benefit to the teachers through out the county who avail themselves of this opportunity. Professor Ackerman, the assistant is a Colleton man, son of J A Acker man of Cottageville. He is * gradu ate of Wofford College; taught sum mer school two yean at Union, with good results. He was superintendent of the KTkdttl tchwl at Latta, Marion County, !&lt session. Prof ACkenp* 0 11 a man of ability and we feel that Colleton’s school teachers are for tunate in having os their instructors Professors Calhoun and Ackerman. The school opened with a very good attendance. Following ore the names of those enrolled: Misses Jennie Lee Ackerman, Mamie E Ackerman, Coralie Acker man, Ruth Ferry, Barbara Jaques and Ewell Ackerman, Cottageville. Misses Emily and Mary Sloman, Hendersonville. Miss Lnla Griffin,Omega. TT Bell, Islandton. Miss Martha Platt, Ravenel. Walter Caldwell, Bells. Miss Minnie Crosby, Lodge. John Avant, McLaurin. E 1’ Breland aud W W Stricklaud, Stokes. Misses Julia Fripp, Della Lang- dale, Lillian Kasteriin, Katie Lang- dale, Sarah Kohn. Birdie Owens, Alma Hoffman. J V Hicknjan, Mylnor Beach, J C vonLehe, Walter- boro. A little love, a little wealth, A little home for you and me; J "* It’s all 1 afk except good health, Which conies Ironi Rocky Moun tain Tea. John M Klein. Doath of an lofant. The many friends of Mr and Mrs F' S. Dixon will be pained to leara of the diath of their Infant, which occurred last night at theft home in Walterboro. The child was abont seven months old. Mr Dixon ii manager of the Colleton County Telephone Company. He moved his family from Charleston to this place, about six weeks ago. The funeral ser vice was conducted by Rev J. L. Daniel of the Methodist church this morning, and the interment took place at Live Oak Cemetery. We extend onr beart-fclt sympathy to the bereaved parents. Many a Defective Eye could be cured by wearing thr proper kind of glass es. 1 can fit you perfectly, because I know how. Spectacles in Aluminum frames never tarnish, 75c. Spectacles in gold filled ( guaranteed io years $200. Spectacles in Solid gold $4-75. All spectacles complete I with case, at S. Finn’s. Jewelry Store. L, Picnic at Ebenezer a Grand Aucces* • * The picnic at Ebenezer last Thurs day was a grand success. We had a pleasant day, plenty of people, a good dinner, lemonade, and ice cream, so what more could we have wished for ? Mr Editor, you ought to have been with us. We had several prominent speakers from Walterboro with us. Their speeches were, well received* and the day passed off pleasantly. M. B. N B Troth, St Paul, June 31, ’08. —I’ve lived so long, I remember well when the Mississippi was a brook, liy good health and long life came by taking Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea. 35 cents. John M Klein. BUSINESS LOCALS. Nannally’s Klein's. Delicious Gandies at • Mexican and Patterson HAMMOCKS 1 From $1 up A FULL LINE OF Porch, Hall and Lawn Goods., Refriqe* rators, Freezers, Etc., Etc. Remember! we sell Furniture and , Housefurnishing goods exclusively, nothing else, thats our business and we know our business. • We have more f!oor space than any one store in Walterboro, all of which is devoted to Furniture. We buy direct from factories in OAR LOTH and carry as large a stock as will be lound in the State. We caw furnish one Room or a dozen Hotels on short notice. IF you want trash DON'T COME HERE. We handle nothing but the best. k Q • REPAIRING AND UPHOLSTERING. Brown Furniture Company (Member Southern Furniture Dealers Association.) Wanted—A good white woman to do house work and cooking. Will pay $8 or $10 per month Apply to A D ^Dodd, Round, S. C. 6 27 4t Specials: 8 qt dish pans 10c, at War- ren’s 9 and 10c store. Second-hand sewing machines from $l.&0 up at J E Bryan’s Walterboro, SO. Insect powder st Klein’s. Specials: 8qt buckets at 10 ctsat Warren’s 5 and 10c store. Fly paper at Klein's*. ; . New goods just from New York at the 5 and 10 Leuts Store. Come in and be convinced of the low prices and rare bargains. Why pay big price for cheap machines when you can get a Singer or Wheeler & Wilson for same money on etuier terms. J E Bryan, Walterboro, S 0/ Bntst's Improved Rutabaga turnip seeds at Klein’s. Beautiful color lawns 20 cts value, only 13 cts at G W Glover s, Railroad Avenue. New goods just from northern fac- tonet at \\ urreu’s 5 uud 10 c s.ore. Now ready—turnip seeds for fall planting at Kleiti’s. New crop turnip seed at Klein’s. Special: Ice creum delivered to any part of the town, at 40c a qt. Warren’s ice Ci earn 1’arlor, at 5 and 10c store. The latest’ improved Singer and W heeler & Wilson sewing machines on easy payments or big discounts lor cash , By calling me un over the ’phone dr write me I will send either of these maobiues to any part of our town or county on trial. J E Bryan, Walter- bero, 8. O. 6 27 4t Buist’s Prize Medal Turnip Seeds at Klein’s. STOLEN—One large bay horse. Apr pears to be chest founded. Stolen Sun day night July 16th. Reward given by ' Calvin Fincken, Wiggens, S. 0. WAN TED—Prime Yellew Popular Logs, 10 (t long and up, 25 laches in diameter and up. Cost shipping point. Logs 26, 26, 27 in. diameter, $14 00 per thousand ft. Logs 28 in diameter $tf). per Dolye Log rule. Logs most be pealed and scabbed H M Wood, Moselle, S. G. Sr I CARD. A Serious Accidcn£. Edward Terry of New York, met with a serious accident last Wed nesday morning at the home of his sis ter, Mis A. C. Shaffer, in Walterboro. Mr Terry had been up all night with his sister and had retired to hi* room np stairs about six o’clock to rest. Before lying down in his attempt to adjust the window shade which reached nearly the floor, he lost his balance and through the window to the ground be low, a distance of thirty or forty feet. He was immediately discovered and carried to his room and has been quite ill, but we are glad to report that ha is aow much better. There wete no boot* broken hut Mr Terry was oons'derably shaken up He hops* to leave for his home U New York within a few doji. Modest Claims Often Carry the Most Conviction. When Maxim, tie famous gun inven tor, placed his f un Iwlore s committee of judges, be stated its carrying power to ho much below what he feu sure the gun would accomplish. The result of the trial was the relore a great surprise, in steed of disappointment. It it the same with the manufacturer* of Chamberlain's Colic, Cbo’era and Diairhoea Remedy. They do noi publicly boast of all this remedy will accomplish, but prefer to let the uters make the statement. What they do cliini. is that It wMl positively cure diarrhoea, dysentery, pains in the stomach and boweU a.:d has never been known to fell. For sale by John M KWv We beg to announce that we will continue our cash distribu- lion, notwithstanding the fact that we have given all that we promised. We are prompted to continue this generosity to show, to some extent, our appreciation of the liberal patronage given us. Don’t forget die BRICK STORE, where you get with each 25 cent purchase a ticket entitling you to a chance at the $5.00 cash given away every Saturday afternoon at 5 o’clock, and where, last but not least, a DOLLAR buys most. <£olleto n 1 Mercantile o . & Mfg. Go. Wl ■ ^