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\ « V ■rr’;- /' irM » • i / VOL. XXX 7 WALTERBORO, S. C, AUGUST 14, 1907. NO, 1. FIRE AT MEGGETT. Store Off teen of N. H. Blitch Co. Des troyed by Fire. Supposed to bo of lacendUry Ortgio. > On Saturday night, August, 3 about 9 o’clock, the store and ofltees of the N. H. Biitch Co. at Meggetts and the jail, or “Jimmy” as it is called down there, were burned, ANOTHER HOMICIDE. HAVE YOU SECURED Tbos Washington Kills Fraud Rich- Your ardson. As Usual There is a Woman in Case. Teacher for Seaaion. the Neat SURGEONS MEET means not to employ a second grade * . Editor PJess and Standard:—! saw . unday afternoon about three j^y your sometime ago ^here o dock on Seabrook Island, which is our wor thy county superintendent ( teacher. All honor to the teacher near Fenwick Island, trank liiohard- 0 f education had appointed trustees who gets a second grade certificate s >n was shot to death by Thomas f or various school districts of when he goes before the Now, Mr. Editor, if you see any thing in this article publish it, and if you hale titne and feel like endor sing what I have written, write an Denti,u ’ Phy«ici»iu, und Optician* Hold editorial and explain this article to B«*ino** Meeting in Walterboro— our trustees and tell them by all j Dinner at Hotel. staling a loss 0.. the N. H. Blitch Wasington with a double barrel gun jtolleton county. both negroes. ' I wish to have It word to say to seems that Washington and those trustees who, no doubt,-Teel Richardson had been good friends, need of education/ (some of but got into some dispute, about a them) as keenly as the writer docs, me in. n. w ^ man ' Washington claimes that j Hivoyou secured your teach- The fire is ^‘ c ^ ar ^ 80n 8 ^ ruc I c a stick e rs yet for the uext session, and if and then got. a single barrel gun y 0U have what grade do they hold threatening to shoot him. He rushed an( j how many years have they been into the room of Middleton’s house, teaching? ; seized a double barrel gun, came 2. What progress has been made ikuu-u a uctv4 ^ out an d shot Richardson. Both loads ! in the communities in which iracRcu Him Liiivuxi, * uc.v* entering Richardson’s right side kil- tp^-W hiei freshly ploughed land to where his .. . . , . . . leacoer nas oc-en icacning. horse was hitched and i f is thought mg him almost ms ^ ant ly* " ashl1 ^" I 3. How much are you going !? u ’ u 1 1 if ° ■ ton was brought to town Monday e i ve vour teacher ner month'* he w.ll soon be apprehended It morn . nBandc0mm . t ^ to hy g.ve your teacher per month. only after hermc effort that f* 16 war-tnt .worn out Magistrate J. H. store of C. F. Neyle and the buggy; ch , u of Grecn Pon j and carnage factory of Smoak and Legare were saved: the latter of Work or Service, Which? Co., of about seven thousand dollars The entire stock of goods in the store and the office furniture were consumed together with the store books. The Co books of the N. H. Blitch Co were saved, thought to be of incendiary origin and it is believed that they arc on close track of the party who set it on fire. After the burning, they tracked him through a field ' of goes oelorc the county board of education, but he should not attempt to teach until he gets a first grade certificate. A. B, C. •♦♦ - — Why Do They Do It. Mr. Editor: Following your able editorial of last week with refer ence to the Mail O r( I° r Business, kindly allow me space for a few words. It is very strange to me compense. 1 notice that Dorchester County has her Court Housfe to pay for. and in addition to a oonnty levy of-iTmills. pays 1 mill for interest on county bor*D, and 1 mill f r sinking fund, making. M mills for* county expenses in a 1. Orangeburg County pays 2 mill for ordinary county purposes this year, and the county commissiouexs add one mill , road tux but each township gets the benefit of what it pays, as the law On Tuesday. August 12, the Colle ton County Medical Association had a most delightful meeting. The members present being: W. A. Kir- bye. B. G. Willis, J. T. Taylor, T. G. Kershaw*, R. Ackerman, W. G. Griggsly, A. J. Anderson, H. W., , , , . Black, W. B. Ackerman, C. II Kv Mpmulj require. <m thu adeem tax Dorn, and L. M. Stokes, _.Dr Robert ° r r0a<1 ‘ , ‘ Wilson. Jr., of Charleston, was the But lhe who own th« land guest of the soeiqtlL,and delivered J n . the proposed new ccuoty will be a most interesting and instructive the heaviest suffers. In the Comp- address. Dr. A. J. Buist, also ofj* ro N e r General’s report, 1901 the Charleston, professor of surgery at county commioners of Dorchester your that our home people will send their Med ‘<;al Cqfege of State of South estimate its present expenses at 115,. money away to th6se brokers (for t 0 brokers they are) for goods that they ca.o buy at home at just as low which caiight, but the fire was ex tihjpiished. The store of the N. H. Blitch was kept by J. W. Smoak w ho gone away on a vacation Thursday, closing the store at 8 o’clock Thurs day evening. The book-keeper and the stenographer of N. H. BlitchJCo. had left the office at 5 o'clock on Satuaday afternoon, and the store had not been opened since Thursday J. W. Carter who had just returned from Charleston was asleep in room above the store anJ heard the par- tles come in Die hall between the ✓office and the store where the build ing was set on fire.' Mr Carter is blind in one eye and had been to Sev 4. Is your teacher a farmer who prices, quality considered, teaches in' the fall a^d winter weeks ago I had a talk with a man • 4 ., while there is not much doing on the (a man who owns property in Colle-1 . . * 0 e a8S0C,a ,on • Carolina read an able paper on an interesting surgical procedure. Dr. Edward F. Parker, councilor for taxaple property is $2,75(>/‘00. ^ America must surely be a labor- had countr y* B is not a country which makes use of word “w’ork” as the Americans are making use of it in expressing the elevation of mankind morally or physically. One Had worked himself up to a high position, another up to a fortune. In some languages the word “ser vice” is used I suppose i£ is taken from the army, raised in serving from one rank to another, but the word “work” only is used in this country, and in fact everything is w’ork and no standing still. It is necessary for a man to work to make farm? ' 5. Is your teacher a girl of 18 summers, who has a fellow who will claim her at the close of her school? Right here, Mr. Editor, I wish to explain myself to the trustees. I was raised in the backwoods and had but few advantages, but my parents did all they could for me, for which I am grateful, and what I am going to say to the trustees is in good faith, and free from malice to any one who has ever taught school in our county, I am as far from wounding the feelings of one of our teachers as the east is from the w’est. But if I don’t express my self I will “bust”. Trustees, if you have employed ton county, too) who had just or dered an article from some Chicago house. He told me what it cost and after investigation he found that he could have gotten a much superior article in Walterboro for the same price after adding the enormous freight he had to pay from Chicago. *’eral < ^ str * ct 1. of South Carolina was present and made a few encourag- Dr. Johnson of St. George was among our visiting friends. We are al ways glad to have our Charleston friends—it is a pleasure to have then. Dr. Johnson's visit works the beginning of what promises to be a most interesting and t)eneficial friendship between the physicians •Joo, requiaing f 1 mills. The Leg- islature gave them M mills. Their The The article he got did not even have | of Dorchester and Colleton, the manufacturers name on it while! . w e expect to be represented the article he could have gotten at home would have been one of a standard make. If you will take the trouble to look over one of these “Northern their meetings and also have among-us when we mefct. The folks of Dorchester are known far and wide for their hospitality. In fact new Connty of Branchvill will have just as much expense and will aot have over $l,750,o00 of taxable prop erty so that for county purpoaea alone, tax would be over 8 mills, which is 5 mills more than the Or* angebnrg County tax, and is 3 mills more than Colleton County tax or Dorchester County. We are fortunate in Orangeburg County in paying less taxes than a t any county in the State, except the them | County of Charleston. Every other county pays over 10 mills for State school and ordinary county purpose*, while Orangeburg and CharleatoD Counties esch pay 9j mills (See a success. Work useful In considering Charleston! to Dr Barker for treat *nt for the other, and was con every useiui age. mently almost eatirely blind, jfc • «t of work, my aManhoty* at- ameH the smoke of kerosene and heard\he flames. He was later res cued by\l. P. Gay. A two gallon kerosene Oil can was found after the tire* is the glory of any teachers who hold second grade This is the^third incendiary fire in [.this neighborhood recently. The tint was the burning of Hr F. Towles’s barn about a month ago. Then came the burning of the barrel factory about one week be fore this last fire. . , -s« Islandton Items. Editor Press and Standard.— Please allow me tpaoe in your paper i ibr a few dots from this section. -The fanners are now beginning to [pnll fodder. Mias Losla Murdaugh is very ill her brotbei’i boose near Ashton. MiS Jos Anna Polk and danghtei* >na, visited their son, P L Polk, Varnyille Saturday last A large crowd attended prayer ig at the Methodist church iv night. Mraad Mrs W 0 Gibson have near Island ton. Mr aid Mis A E Rents visited daughter, Mrs E K Dopson Wedneeday evening, lisses Addie and Rath Walker ’ Pert Royal, two charaiing young tfc are visiting, their ancle, A E its- j Qaits alarge crowd attended A E ill's social Snnday night last fiannie Mardangh dined with A jf/Rieand Frank Rents on Sunday. Dr BP Garter dined with A S a days ago. We are glad 'to hear that Mr Aal's baby it improving. Utass Addle and Bath Walker Fat Beats dined with M J Rents evening. Dr EsDorn ot Walterboro passed Islondton Friday in his ppl ... Addis and Ruth Walker I Reads served a birth^af din- ^ 1 Amelia Beau on Fri Aooh enjoyed by all met at WB Barnet's t bantalttti* fan ofT at the ef get- a B r and Mrs W J IviU wish tracted by the work of our county organ, “The Press and Standard.” It has been about a year since the Hon. W. W. Smoak has taken charge and the weight of the papers mailed has increased from 75 to 145 pounds, and for one month since the contest it went up. It reminds me of one of the county representatives ^iivho went to Columbia and walked from the depot to the State House and it tired him out. He wiped the persptration and exclaimed, “Oh! If the Lord made the world on the other side of the State House as hot as it js from Buckhead to the State House, the world must be a scorch er.” If Mr Smoak will keep on working with The Press and Stand ard, he will be a scorcher. There is no reason why Mr Smoak should not make a success. A county paper is a necessity. It is a path to educa tion. The Government makes no charge for postage if printed in the same county, and only one cent a pound if printed in another county. Why? Because a paper help* to educate the people, and my being a foreigner makes me appreciate the value more than a native We foreigners look upon the home paper as being an acquaintance. It acquaints us with the acts and happenings of the peo ple. It helps us to understand the paper, and in that way we climb up from one paper to another until we learn some of the English language. We may fail in the pronunciations, but we never fail to know what we read. No doubt a paper is more help to a native than a foreigner; therefore, it is a principal duty for every citizen to patronise the home newspaper, and also the duty of the merchants to advertise. Itisafact, that on a good metolic tool we find the manufacturer’s name but a cost iron tool has no name on it he is ashamed of the quality. Therefore, I say that any chant who does not coma ovtfin the county paper is ashamed of Mb wares I know tome people *'We don't due for the eoonty) papers when we get state papers and magazines,” but I don't mind them, they are Eke people from ooean& of evreooBty: after enter ing evenraOea in the county. Mow they are tired ad CoUotan, on. taittfon of a f the «lo|b njpMis the trdugk or bucket. B. Levy. certificates fire them at once, and do it in a nice way by telling them any old thing. But if you have to come right out and tell them why you can’t employ tKen them stand up like men and tell the truth.- Trustees, with all due respect to the teacher who hold second grade certificates, you are taking the child ren’s money and throwing it away nine times out of ten. I say this and can prove it. I take a teacher who has been working hard on the farm all the year he is not prepared to teach your child if he holds a second grade certificate. Why? Because if he iolds a second grade certifi cate instead of a first grade he has not applied himself ■ as he should; (this applies to either sex) had he the board would have^given him (or her) a first grade ceruncate. Pay your teacher not less than |40dollars a month, and, if possible, pay him |75 per month. "For the land sake, we can only run four months at 390 per month. ’ This may be true, Mr Trustee, but here is the idesr Refuse all cheap teachers; if you are interested in we consider them just as catalogues you wi 1 [ find that there is! f ood 88 Colleton people and are glad Com. General’s lie^rt'inst not a single article of a standard ™Z et ,n with them again. Branchville County, if formed moke offered. Why? Because they ? ere 18 0 Walterboro-St. George would be the poorest county in the cannot induce the manufacturers of | Au p omo " ,lc Transfer Company? ! 8U(e a Uxab!e value of 11.750. these high grade goods to cheapen ° th tP f ® gra "’ of ^! 000 »s clamed. Saluda Uonatj, now medical meet.ng. Dr. Kershaw read „„„ the „„ . f , x , b £ ^ their product and sell them for n °lheU*almerchants have to «» these good, honest goods becausej r8 J ° eartily m the discussion th e r J mill f or pagt indebtedness! ..i i K«r»ir of their papers and each meetimr oiner * wr past inueoteuness. an annual mils, besides an* they know that they will come back to them if they are not what they are said to be. Judging from one of these Mail Order advertisements we are forced to believe that the hard working southern farmers are their main support. In one of their advertisements re cently I noticeid that they make it, . plain that they do not issue cat*- there m always room and Coun- papers and each meeting one can see that the association is •bowing thvt she has not kept up with growing stronger and increasing in ber expenses in her ten yesrs of its usefulness. . > 1 existence. After the meeting adjourned a These are facts for the “sober, most delightful repast was enjoyed second tho K ht” of the people who will at Walterboro Hotel. Eckardt, treats the doctors royally and weenjoy dining with him and food your neighbor’s child and call a mass-meeting in your district and have some speakers who are inter ested in education, not politicians, attend your meeting and speak on edneation and at. the close of the meeting plan will be formed to employ a fifty or seventy-five dollar-.teacher, for 6 or 8 months in each year and then in ^ few years your community will be^iiy to pros per, but until this is done, your ser vices as school trustee* are worth less. ..-gear For instance: Suppose you ^et 3150 free school money for each school in your district and you em ploy a teacher for each at a salary of 350 per month for eight months, the patrons of the schools will have to raise 3250 making a total ot 3400. Twenty-five men of each school will only have to pay 3(0 each in order to pay a fifty dollar teacher. Nov, Mr Trustee, you wont to say, "oh me, 1 cant raise this amount." But 1 say you canl Call a meeting in your give a picnic in order out and have your on hand to explain to the patrons their duty as parents, and yofi will get the money alright vRl go to town and logues to any person in Cook ty, (11. Why? . Because they know that their goods would be too near home and if not feund satisfactory they would be returned, while the southern farmer is not eo close them and when he gets “stuck” they cannot hear him holler. Let us patronize our home merchants. They help us to pay, our taxes. They sympathize with us when we are in trouble and always give a helping land. Their success is our success. The more business they do the more our lands around them is worth. All he Mail Order Houses in Christen dom would not increase the value of your farm one cent. A Propertyholder. for one more. So those who were ab sent this time must not forget Dr. Kerslv.'-'’3 invitation to dine at Eckardt’s on September 24, 1907. MR DIBBLE'S REPLY. \ A Line to St George. Friend, have to pay the taxes for these expenses will come ayear after year, and will binder our growth, and im- proverish the people. And I would say to the people of the (own of Branchville please remember that if you add to the tax burdens of the farmer, they will have less money to spend as your enstomers. - Now, Mr. Editor, these are the Dibble" ideas, if you choose to call them so; vnd I think you will fioA Answer loan ArtfeU Pablisaad ia the | chat Some, SB least, of the older OMO, Branch villa Journal. who in the post worked With OM Itt Conclnded from last week. I the-stniggle to free our State Ami School tax, le eivedon ber echo 1 u * ation * wiUl attendance from the same tax $1.33. 7°“ n 8 business sgainof$98.60, owning to the fact ^ -0 beb that the city of Orangeburg pays sev- County, as a eral thousand dollars more of the 8 P ro l )0,l ^ on- . can B P ar ® mill tax than she can get by her ^ ^ ******* school attendance and this helps the will make us profits school funds or $2,500 in other | u,,U ^ of «**** “ maxuX] J..^ win Sometime ago mention wa-< made in these columns of the great need we have for an auto mobile line to St. George. Yester day a party of business men from here were driven over there by N. E. McNelty of the Army Cycle Co., of Charleston, in on elegant .22 h. p. Buflc Touring Car, which they sell. The trip was mode in 1 hr and 45 min running time. The people of St. George were found very anxious to obtain this connection with Walterboro, and entered into the plan with enthu- aiam. A stock will, be formed to operate this line, and It is proposed to maintain a regular schedule be tween the two places. A committee was appointed, having charge of the organization composad of J)r. John Johnston ot St, -George, G. C, Brown and W. W. Smoak, Jr., of Walterboro. The line is practically parts of Orngeburg .Cooty. In like manner East Branonville na 10 **• 3^87.18 end pays only $i66 92 gain iog f120.26, which she will not get she leaves Orangeburg County- west Cowcestle, in like manner gains $187.68 surplus: Car tan No 87, in Edisto Township, gets frw» the 3 mill tax $£8* more Umh she pays, let the school trustees consider how they writ run their schools on so much km money; for the town of Bmnohvilk cannot help them,for it gets $6 more than it pnyc. Now «4 to the town of Brancheille where I claim e voice by reaeon of er expenses. Samuel Dibble, Read the advertisement this in The Press end Standard, and vole to day. A Vertkble Gusher. Walterboro, Aug 9--An excelled flow of 120 gallons per minute bos been obtained at Colkton. This loo for volume acavoeely hoc its equal anywhere, The water ooataina seme excellent mineral properties and ll both potable and healthful The well » i * j , | is 465 feet deep and was drilledhyO having lands in yoortown and i am B k0 ^ oi oWrkalon. ThM iotsreotedinyoar prosperity. The * G.G M. Buckner, B. L. Barnes, W, Jr ’tss Er-"* 1 -* “sr ear worthy mayor oailt the chatter jail for fV>00 nod he will tell] yon it cannot be bailt now, except! Bead the advertisement this far upward of $1000 more, The tin The Prms end Standard, iad unto DorobcsfaKTtfont Home Is too|today. Spall, and B east $9,000. If Brash- . ' — for taxpayers) f *' “ Itl Iritfoat cvmI it tsd»