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* vm A- VOL. XXIX. WALTERBORO, S. C, FEBRUARY 6. 1907. NO. 26. LEADING CHUKCHMEN MAY BE BISHOPS WORK IN THE LEGISLATURE. The Bishop* Tlcert aoU Smith Have Died Recently and Others Are Unwell and Getting Quite Aged. •v > ! * Four or fire leading chuchmen may shortly be elevated to th? high- t0 11 il rai «^ * whirlwind in opric if a movement which has been the lower bouse and a splendid fight Editor Press and Standard: lien law is cn us for one year more* at least When a bill was introduced Efleet of Newspaper AdvanUing. COULDN’I M|£LP fl-VR^YlNG. . I he author of the "Autobiography Said to Have Had Fourteen of a Business Man,” in the February ; Wives .•jent to Prison for Bigamy. Everybody’*, sayr Toledo. Ohio, January 31.—"1 have a ‘‘For a number of years I adver- spiual^alTection. which caase* a brain Used only in the windows and in pressure, which, impel* me to marry,. Editor Press and Standard: some of the street-cars, because 1 did ! women. 1 cannot lesist the impulse." It, ueedless to say we have change- •tarted by- Methodsit minsters and laymen, looking to a called session of the general conference of the Metho- was made on both sides with the re not feel that I could afford to ad vertise in the daily papers. Two suit of passing the house by a sweep- years ago last September I was hiv ing majority. But when it reached itig a cravenette coat sale, and I suc- for a couple weeks about fifty coats a day. thought 1 would try a columu ad. of I in dist Episcopal church, tfoutb, is car- the senate it was killed and we will ceeded in selling ried to consummation. have to carry the burden until coudi- Under the constitution of ths lions change in the senate. «. church, the college of biahoji*, by a Next to this in jioint of importance one of the evening papers. The next majority vote, may call an extra ses- came the whiskey question. The day this column ad, appeared in one •ion of the general conference, and a Cary-Cothran hill, which provides of the evening pa(>er8, and by the , 1 be Hlee Club will give • another GRBATbST OFFER EVER MADE minstrel tbow next Wednesday evening New coelnmes and a uew program will _ . In Colleton County, be rendered. ______ TWO TRIPS TO THE JAflESTOWN EXPOSITION AND TWO LAMBS GOLD WATCHES, jo YEAR GUARANTEE Letter from J. T. Polk. So Albert Holden, alleged minister, who a t,le W e»tber; all Colleton is realising 1 to be given to the four most popular pleads guilty to the charge of bigamy, ' told Judge Barber to-dsy. “You are a menace to eociety,” re plied the judge, "and 1 will eend you to the penitentiary for six years. It should have been seven years, but as you !n.ve pleaded guilty, I will uot be so severe on you." It is said that Holden has about four- leieu wives and that he his two sons uu dtx iudictmeut for bigamy. Holden that fact. young ladies in Colleton Ccuatj, Most of the farmers around Welmer provided 25,000 votes be cast and McL*nrin have rheir arrangements orK PLAN IS THIS made with labor for this year’s crop ' Any young voted for before Moselee and Ashton station* on the H ! March 10th. will he considered a & 11 H H ere the point* for the people candidate. After that time no new in this section. And you might think names will he allowed, that there was very little business done A j| paying subscriptions around here bat when you see these either old or new subscribers will be two depots then you would certainly entitled to vote for any young lady in change your miud. I presume that! Colleton County whom they would * i , _ pTMOUIf majority of the anmml conferences, by for local option and the abolishing , bye, it was not the one that has the married every time the spirit movwl him there is need at present for fifty to like to win one of these prizes, formal vote, can also call it. All of of the State dispensary, came up for largest circulation in Chicago; I |Hs courtdiijM w>ok p!a«‘ilmiiu-one of seventy live cars to take ar.sy from f the conferences have been held, hut discussion on Tuesday and all parties selected the paper that this ad. *p- the annual meeting of the college of "ere lined up in battle array. Ti.e peared in because they gave me a bishops will be held in March, then, local optionists and prohibitionists low rate, but tliev agreed to give my as usual at this meeting, it is said, the on one side and the dispensaryitc* on ad. u good position in the pa|>cr. The matter of a called session of the geu- the other. But just as the bill was result was was that the next day the hi* revieuU, *nd hi* victim* w*m* o »l- wsys miff nt those whom he had taken into the church The Voting Contest. We have been very !uu f *h gratified the interest iihowu in the Pres* at tinJ •y ,rom ,he “ e The young lady receiving the high- two point* the product of the mills and number ol votes in each district farm* we believe we are living in a pret wi u t* entitled to one of the tripe to ty good *ectiou of country, we have th e exposition. The one receiving good schools, churches, farm*,ginneries the next highest, will be entitled to and 6uw mill* all of which are prepared the gold watch. to do good service and we can guarau- We have divided the county into tee no one need be idle a day if he will two districts, as follows: aral conference will he considered. If read out, Mr Smith of Colleton, sales, which formerly had been about Standard coutc*f. A great many young enough petitions are sent to the hi- threw a bomb in the camp which fifty coins a day, jumped to 112, and Untie* have been entered ** candidates only work. Some of our, planters arc District No 1. All persons who get •hops it is altogether likely that they scattered all the forces and when we. in fifty days I sold over 3,50 » rain- and we have the aemrauce of represent - putting in modern appliance* to make their m.itl at W alterhoro, Williams, will issue the rail. got gathered Up and bad OUT ducks coats. atlve citizens of many section* in the ehe-MHT cultivation and more profitable Stokes, IHifiin, Lodge, Colleton. The Wiiliamion plan of The situation iu the church is this: iu a row again we found we had the “For the year following that sale I co * B,3r u '* t i' W,U ^ l»t>«hir in their . . ~ O u m j u ie r *i .. , / , .. . . neighborhood* Several iboutond corn culture ts being agitated and some. ’ •. n ^ Ke , r . Hn 0 ai * one ta o e^oon tnu o m ver tse m us one have already been cast, bo there oar People are going to try it this Coke Smith have died, and Bishop dispensary ties on one side and the paper. Last fall I felt that I could i, UO( i ol ,bt »bout the rupiired 25,000 Duncan is ill at his home in Spartan- local optionists and the other half of afford to invest, say, about ^sOoQ iu votes being cast. 1 urn prond of oar count v paper. It (s burg, having broken down from long the dispensarvites i n the other. Mr advertising ir. some of the other i*a Thi* contest is aouiMhing new In a letter from our friend* all over. continued sraiu and overwork, and Smith moved to strike out all after pers. 1 used three morning pa tiers Colleton county, ana we wi*h every the county. \\ hat could be better than t. friend of the paper to try to create an to be In touch with tho<e In whom we although encouraging reports are oc- the enacting words of the Cary bill and three evening papers, the best in asio'utly rycivel frjin his home, it and to substitute a shraightout pro Chicago. The results have been is thought that he will never again hibition hill in liue thereof. something pbenotntnal. 1 did not be able to give to the work of the We had three full sessions of have to invest $5,000. The profits church the attention he formerly did. speech making. A great many strong came back from the newspaper ad- Up to the time of his collapse he was speeches were made for and agairtst vertising before their bills came in, the names of the contestants will be one of the most active bishops in the the substitute and men who claim to and I do not figure to d»y that 1 have P ab h* he<l wi,h the number of votes re- Methodist church. Bishops Key and have been life long prohibitionists^ a dollar invested in advertising. In ^^y ^qiVav<T itVcacdidate Morrison are quite old and are said to fought it because the dispensaryitesf my opinion the only way to advertise or candidaies' The race is open to all. be in feeble health. Bishop \\ ilson. favored it, bedieving as they said, that is to give ti em plain, common-sense Save the coupon* publishtd iach week who was raised to the episcopacy in the dispensary people had run this talk. Tell them the truth. Do not entitling you to one frue vote, because 1882, celebrated his seventieth birth- bill on us to trap us and save the get a customer to come to youp store these may aid yon iu electing ytnr Colleton, if they will brio day a fortnight ago and has never dispensary. Others of our forces did and find that you have faked him, cft,1(l id'»te. It is not necessary for * will put in a p one an been robust. Bishops Granberry and not believe that this position was for that is poor advertising besides Fitzgerald are superannuated. ’ well taken, being too vague and the being dishonest” This leaves the work of the church ultimate result too obscure. But we „ - to he borne by Bishops Hendrix, believed that the sudden changed Candler, Hoas, Ward and Atkins. ! ccndition hud been brought about by interest in it. We hare no favorite*. interested, and all Colleton shonbl No one connected with the pa;** will he uuited iu onr grand effort for the be allowed to enter the contest. A com- betterment of onr people financially plete record of every vote cast will be and spiritually by the wav we want u kept, and each w‘6ek after March lOth telephone line from Walterboro to our ton, Ciockemlle, Brunson, Fairfax and iu fact to all the ^own* and a greuy many country home* in Hampton coun ty audio Ehrhardt in Bamberg county. Veimer, Ehrhardt, McLaurin and S monks. District No. 2. \ 11 persons who get their mail at Cottageville, Getsinger, Round, Ritter. Green Pond, Island- ton, Salkehatchie, White Hall, Hen dersonville, Meggetta, Ravenel, Osliorn, Adame, Run, Bi-ant, Jack- sohoro, Young’s Island, Weeks and Bryan. VOTES A LI,OWED 3 months subscription to The Pr and Standard, 25 votes. 6 mouths subscription to The Prea and Stsffidard, 50 votes. 1 years subscription to The Pre« and Standard, 100 votes, 2 years subscription to The Prea Now onr greatest interest i* and should a,, d Standard, 250 votes. Resolut ions AdopteiJ. T.' Resolutions adopted bv Ashby It ia stated that the dutiee of the the fact that the death of the dis- Farrow Ii0dge No fl K 0 f p on the church have grown so wide and num pensary was inevitoble and its sup- deah 0 f Major M P Howell. Adop erous that there is enough wotk to porters were glad of a chance to sup keep fifteen active-bishops busy from port prohibition rather than have January until December, if the county dispensaries. But to come to church would keep abreast of the the point the vote was taben at 1 tunes and in line with the forward o’clock on Wednesday, long before all ted Feb 5 1907. - Whereas it has pleased Almighty nowly together as piacticable God in his infinite mercy and wis dom to take from our midit our la- voter to mode in the county. Any sub scriber can vote. The young lady voted for. however, must be a resident of the county It i* not essential that she be unmarried ei her. We are not of those who hold that a person get* old as soon as married. Kach of the distiicts has about the same number of subscribers, and we have tried to let the territory b? a* There are some subscribers who get their m& 1 iu another county bat who rta de iu Cel- lie Last of u* to Waiterboro and all of mg us a line we hcflo with our 1 reads in Waiterboro, Cottageville uud every other town and home iu the coun ty aud will be glad. My wife say* this is good for the v ante basket so I will close Veiy truly yours, J T Polk. .*.o More Sponsor*. / Gen Stephen D Ijee, General Com mander of the United Confederate Veterans has recently issued an order 3 years subscription to The Pren and Standard, 500 vote*. Coupons will also he published in each week’s issue, good for one vote. CONTEST OPENS FEBRUARY FIRST AND CLOSES JUNK FIF TEENTH. All subscribers paying after Jan. 31s^ will be entitled to vote. So clip the a’tached coupon, fill out the blanks, ami wail it to u« with your remittance. Proper credit will he given and the results pub lished for the first tune, March 13th. NOW H THE TIME TO ENTER YOUR CANDIDATE. Watches are on exhibition at 8. ie too "and we’»nay"have~om'uted a post- the date of the seventeenth an- Finn’s and J. A. Wester berg’s Jew- Ottice: In the event that inch Lethe case nual reunion for Julie 1, 2 and 3 elry Store*. . mented brother, M P Howell, who wlU( morement goiDR oo in otberdeDomin^ ^...^'^rtedthi. life Jodom, Uth Utl7 (b. or per«.n. «»U oom ?)-ill nerL Thi. reunion-ill be held at - and; be considered as belonging to the Dis- Riclitnoud. He also decided not to Whereas in his death Ashby Far- trict nearest to which they reside. iiatne any sponsors, as the custom of fnerence will be held, unless au extra feet at the same time, asking to he row x 0> 63 Knights of Pyth- Either of the jewelry stores will take having sponsors, relegates the old ias has suffered an irreparable loss ations. It is now three and a half wished to do 7*0. When a speaker years before another general con- took his seat, a dozen were on their to he •ecsion is called. A situation similar recognized and the nearer the end to the present one, it is said, has came the more anxious were the naver arisen before in the history of members to get the fioor, and when Southern Methodism. the roll was called it revealed the fact No effect upon the Creighton con- that too many prohibitionists had troyerzy would result from the calling been duped by the local option side of the special session, it is understood of the house and we fell through by Mr Creighton’s appeal is to the regu- ,12 votes. ' lar session, nearly four years hence, i Then the Cary-Cothran hill was a pleasure iu showing yon the watch on soldiers in whose honor the reunions j—• exhibition, so when yon are iu town are held to the background. He also and its membership has felt the keen an ,i ^ wa tchei. Anyway says that the expenses of the reunions pangs of parting: Therefore Be It Resolved: 1. That in the death af Brother M P Howell this -Dodge has lost an honored name, a true loyal Knight and a consistent member, and that we mourn his loss to our ranks. send in yonr candidstes. Either coupon have grown too much, can be used iu making the nomination. Now I Lay Me. :put to YOU- ana P M«a b, .goodj n TW. blank page in our re majority. This bill has some objec-^ Minstrel J>how. The young men of the Waiterboro Glee Club gave a m st creditable enter tainment at the court house here last Friday evening. This is the first time File ia Bamberg. Bamberg wiirf visited last o u Q , rkora ia * innohin<7 atnpv fnhl nf a —' ^ ' cords he inscribed with his name so There ts a touching story told ot a tioilttble feature but in the main it littla girl who was to undergo an op eration. The physician said to her as he was about to place her upon the operation table. “Before we can 'make yonr well, we mast put you to •leep. ’The little girl looked up and smiling, said, “3h, if you are go- that inquirers in future may learn ol Wednesday morning by a disast- Od rous lire, which had its origin iu ^ J S Jenniups livery stable. The p origin of the fire is unknown. Mr ^ an attempt h*H been made by the u«n»- j 0llI1 ini;s lost everything in his < ber* to give a uiiuhtrel show, bat they Dr J J Clcckley lost a acquitted themselves as veierun*. Some hors*, W L McPhatl a COW. Mr U O a c X! 3 £ 2 Ja T3 3 5 o ► : a a. i II a 71 1 il ia • o VS 1 Mi V **«VJVSS*V.*M *S* *Mt>MSV» SIS ** J ' V *** **’ V/* « ■ V V V *k W »» • <•*» • is a good bill and in the light of the hi ■ d t ^ emulate ^ !B>e local hits weie specially good Jennings places his loss at $3,000 p a? ' ^ J < AaaWtM 14 a **•««$ U-a * fY/’', I-»V O XXIVli TilXXVI • *. * • ** A V ^ S'X/'X Ik . _ . r cent investigatious, we are forced to support some substitute for the State uispensary. Every report reveals more and more of shameful corruption until we Messrs Halsey aud Es’Doru as eud men, w itU insurance of $1,600. Bug- ^ bronght down tie house. J K »ry an ,l carr iage shop Of M M ^ That a copy of these resolu- foy’s lecture on icience aud JE Pinck- caught, his loss ^ teoos be suitably engrossed and sent ua/’s jiggiug aud the choiuse* weie wag 1^500 w ith insurance of £ to bis sorrowing family and that the much enjoyed by the rudieuce. We»- |2 t 000. Stable* of E L Smoak them. 111. are sure that no other plau that may same he published to the Press a u>{ to pot me to .leep, I raoet my mj ^ ^ ^ m , tteri| auy pravers first.’ 1 Then she knelt down ^. o _ e bati ie the table and said. I -podgy a w ju waa passed to require -«ow I Joj me do-o to sleep i |e|e( , r ,, openiU) „ t0 IUn a M eI . 1 praj Thee. Lord, my (out to keep i]mna tion l>e r ore a State hoard of ex- If La bo a Id die before I wake, I pray Thee, Lord my sonl to take.” , Tike surgeon said afterwards that ha prayed that night for f^ie first time lor thirty years. This little girl was only about her Father's business •« Christ waa when he w aminers before they can be employed in the railroad service. J. B. D. Columbia, Jan 31, 1907. * • A Disastrous Fire. C R Calhonn. D B Black. E L Fishhiirne. Committee. The Pardon Board Meats, v The Pardon Board will meet in Colombia to-day. Capt C A Savage, the member from this county, left yesterday to be present at the meet- ley Mima wassh^ut being too unwell next j ur , e( j His loss was about CU to take part. The following is he p:o- $2,000 with insurance of $1,000. UJ K ram: The dispensary was • burned. X March and Song—Hottentot. Most of the stock being saved. H Ballad-When the Eveuiug Breeze T |, e |oM*on building, which i* shilling, "Home, Sweet Home" by’ was owned by G A Jenning, was ‘•JohlJrui9 ,, Hoefer. about $1,800. Several other I ^ Coon Kick Song—Seein’ is Believin’; 3 11 o ► % o H a W T3 •3 i XJ1 •n 3 3 1 % H 2 § 3 o s a *> J a listening' Sunday night about 11.30 o’clock, ing. Several petitions for pardon a barn filled with corn and fodder, will be presented, among them being ne 18 80 \i.n n Uo- that of R A Adams, from Colleton. and.asking qneations. No one is so . u~ r CD ll*v that of R A Adams, •mall but he can attend to the basi T* Messrs W B Groberand Wm J Fish- Mas ot prayer. Thank God that J 1181 oatd, ^ e t ^ ie l0WD on burne, attorneys for Adams will be there u, HtUe burden', little worU^ f.ro. wMdi«)Y.r«lt. be on fire pn *.nt Jm^I Penrifoy, Ek,; will deedjud nnee rf.pted to littli. Nothm * e “ ,d U do " to “’*»“» ot "pn*™ the 8t.te »t the !««>»«• Vm. .umIi bkMM mmf 1m«.i «.v the contents. His loss was about 7501 „ , 1 . .. ~ mm Cm. -1-11 *kMM MMf i Q Major Julian Hite hell Dead. !■ While delivering an address before ohildren, for shall they not lead us." (Isa. )—Record of Chriftain Work. bushels of corn, 12 tons of fodder, •orae form implemenU »od the hoild-1..." 1 a '' ,re " D * , “ 1 “ ur T5, De,on! T. x the Charleston Federation of Womens by Fred Dixon. Ballad—Love'me and the World i* Mine; by Norman Morrall. Coon Plaint—What's the Use of Lov ing if Yun can’t Love all the time ; by ‘•Cat" Brown. Ballad—"Asleep in the Deep; by Bane’* Ackerman. citizens sustained small losses. urothlnn Pro 11 !■ Vebr*«lt*. Not only Is there no question about the water supply In western Nebraska a* lon£ us the riven run. but soil culti vation D easier than under ditch Irri gation. Not only I* the elevation less than some of Colorado’s most famous if a woman can’t brag about her ‘“It- W|U »»reg.te from $1301) c|ubfi|MlWeJtJlJliyafteruooni Mltj IwabMid for My thing elee.it will be to?’-"’"®. The origin of the lire i*. Julian Mitchell of that city, waa .bout how near he came to yoine ^t tiiown. j atricken with apopleiy in the mulat u LX. • u I. I - oftlts ipcach and died Wlthont" WF *** Wh “ W " 1 *’ Better the YYorld ahonld know you 0 » n * oio “ ,neM Us i° r Mltcbel1 as a sinner than God know you as Coon Song—Good bye Mr Green Back by"Mat” Halsav. “ Ballad—By the Winding Tennessee Where I was Born; by Irving: F.ah-1 burne. „ I Ballad—In Dear Old Georgia; by "Lad” Fisbbnrne. Goon Plaint—Sympathy; by “Red” Es’Dorn. When the Harvest Moon is Shining on the Rivtr, by Johnnie Hoefer. Lecture, Science—Rev McPherson. fruit districts, but the cllmato is at least equal to and very little different from that of Colorado. Cool nights, ample moisture and bright sunshine all combine to give the high coloring and fine quality which have made Colorado fruit famous. Western Nebraska has all of these.—E. F. 8. in Orange Jodd; Farmer. K«»r 9b«t m U< In regions where the hens go into Woman was made from the rib of and aha makes no bones about. a hypocrite.—From the Danish. wa« a member of the law firm, Mitchell and Smith, and was con nected with many public enterprises. rilntr Orar-xn.-'TixWxr Prnir.i winter quarters about November and m-oix Qua (ett*=Hari»eyrB«rwttr^ Wom t mt ttn the snow metis ia .T: ^^ , , wx-l APYU CYeY» ct boo. I. adYtaabl. to The Dude Goon* and the Rowdy tAk# ^ u f lQMct , -rut*, etc.. —Halsey, Brown, Mimt, Hoefer, Pinck ney and Es’Dorn. take the place of Insects, grubs, that the bens Sad when foraging dvr- H C/2 W H O CJ Q Q < H uz Q >5 <5 % Ch w S 2, a $ w % o I r l *o * O i A