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/ i •Mm tandari VOL. XXX. WALTERBORO. & C, MARCH 4. 1908. NO. !* “SUKAT” HOME-MADE w. E* C»pwi Writ*# *1 M*ay Tkiac# mmi Talk ■■ * Friaad. What has become of “Moae’s Rock/ the well? It seems Hughes was as big a failure as the previous contractor. I commend your idea of road work as Hie beat solution offered yet as the old was and is a roaring farce and Ailed with too much politics. There is not much news in our village as most of our summer resi dents have moved to their planta- tiohs for the winter and spring, while we have lost by marriage lately some of our lovely and lova ble young women. We can still boast and justly so of many more in of New York. I wish every prohi bitionist in South Carolina had his speech before them that they might read and learn something. We are having a great deal of sickness. Dr. Willis has eight cases of pneumonia and I am just out of bed where I have been confined for over two weeks with grippe which the doctor feared might end in ty phoid but his skill has brought me around and I have lost the fever now, but oh! 1 feel there is only one thing worse than the grippe and that is the morning after calling on “Miss Sukat.” We have Baptist and Methodist pastors residing in our village two doctors, a nice sc'iool and two nice store and your valuable paper is 100 MILE MARCH FOR CADETS OF CITADEL Battali Waltarw to Coma to ftbotoioApvfl. * Capt W H Simona, U* S. A. ( commandant of t|w South Carolina Military Academy, and Capt. H E Raines, quartermaster, left Charles ton this morning for the purpose at riding over the proposed route to be taken by the cadets in a hundred- mile march for two weeks dnring the latter part of April. Walterboro will probably be the objective pwnt of the inarch. Capt, Simons and Raines will go over the grouud to be traversed by the cadet battalion; select camping sites and get a general idea of the course to follow. For several days rumors have been floating about the barracks at our midst and were you not mortgag- anxiously looked for each week as ed I would write you to come and see is the dear old Christian Advocate for yourself, but alas thou art lost and my daily paper The News and to them, still you might come and Courier then too we get the Farm . see the writer and eat come back-, and Fireside the Ruralist, a splendid at ' a( ^' r y iy lhat a rnarc uas in bone, turnips and collards all grown farm paper, so when I run for office st0rc ^ or catfcts. and the depart- by himself and ff you would promise I can claim I am a farmer, which 1 1 ure ^is morning of t apt. Simnons not to tell Jim Hill and Pinckney will be able to prove if theory and and Capt, Raines made the rumors Fishburne, I would give you some rough hands and patched breeches “Sukat” of my own make. As times ' will be admisable evidence. With are stringent what is the use to be best wishes, poor when a gill of it will make you Yours very truly, A B. D. Tatta Mar* *f tka Warkaf Om Lagtalatara. Editor Ptmb and StandardIn all of my reports from the legisla tor# it has been my aim to give each member at our delegation credit for what he did, and thus enable our eonatituents to judge for themselves, Whether or not we have been faith ful to the trust committed to us. But I am informed that I gave Mr. Smith credit last week for work that should have been given to Sen ator Griffin. The county officers salary bill came from the committee on Ways and Means and proposed to raise the superintendent of education to $800. I offered an amendment making it $600. Mr. Smith offered an amend ment making it $800 and alsj rais ing the .superv isor, county commis sioners and clerk of the board $'A» each. SENATOR GRIFFIN. HW.U Stvsifk am t* J B rich enough to hire Roosevelt for a garden boy. Still I warn you in advance if you are not copper lined or bram fastened to beware of the animal as she is the least bit shy or you might fare as did my friend, ‘‘Whaley.”a few years ago whilst here. He had tackled the dispen sary stock and came off victorious so felt he was so immune to the ravages of anything down the pike and he tackled some of this “Kat ” at our Club House one night and finding he could not hold his own he made for his home only s few hun dred yards away. He remembers coming in contact and rooting up a number of scrubby oaks by the W. E. Capers. Hendersonville, Feb. 10. SCHOOL PRIZES OFFERED. Stata la _ Columbia, February 28.—The South Carolina School Improvement Association offers thirty-five prizes to the schools of the State for the most decided material improvement made during a given length of time. Five of the priws are to be $100 each and thirty are to be $50 each. Regulations concerning the thirty- five prizes that are tc be awarded road side as they "tfSuld persistently' by this Association are as follows: climb into his breast against his entreaty, and wending his way home ward as he thought. He trudged bn at three o’clock in the morning, my friend Rufe McTeer heard some one whooping in the sw’amp in the back of his home, going out he hailed to know who it was, after much entreaty he sang out “Mr John Wescoat lost what direction is Whaley’s house now?” On inspec tion he had lost his hat one snoe and ■ode and had the appearances of rorniny j n contact with a buzzsaw. Poor John could well exclaim, “deliver me from my friends.” But knowing you are a little green I will promise to take good care of you and aee that you get out of the woods before sun set and under the protecting care of friend Jackson a«<l Hickman. What a pity Jack Smith’s bill did not pass the house for th^n we would have prohibition as she is writ: and our dear old ladies on ifarms who dared make a jug of perriomfih beer would find them •elvea before the “grand, jury/ Alaa the goodold days of would look true. The march across the country will last for for about two weeks. No studies of course are in order dnring this time, but ti e cadets become familiar with a taste of real camp life and get to know what marching means before they return to their barracks. It is the custom to inarch them about fifteen miles a day, form one camping site to another. They advance in heavy marching equip ment. On the ninety-mile march of two years ago only one man fell out of ranks during the whole time the cadets were swinging along the country roads across country. It can not be said that the cadets are wildly enthusiastic over the coming march, because it is no soft thing. From a military standpoint such training as the marching and Editor Press an P Standard:—I am sorry that it has become neces sary for me to make an explanation of my actions and doings in the State Senate in your esteemed paper. I am a public servant and the people are entitled ^to know what 1 have been doing for them. I am not ashamed ef my record and am glad of the position I took in the Senate for them on every ques tion; for I verily believe tnat I have thoroughly identified myself with the interest of the masses of people in Colleton County. I have only pushed my pen in the whirl and rush of business to make this explanation, in reply to an articlj written in your paper last week .by my distinguished friend, Mr. Goodwin and I voted against; Hon J B B Dodd, of Round, in Mr. Smith’s amendment, but it pass ed and 1 so reported it, giving Mr. Smith the credit. But Senator Grif fin now informs me that the three last named raises were made at his suggestion and he thinks he should have had credit for it, to which lact I cheerfully call attention. I did not know of any previous understanding between Messrs. Smith end Griffin and hence I stated facts as I saw them, Mr. Smith made, a good fight against a bill to raise the salary of the circuit judges $600 each, and to his efforts is largely due the defeat of the bill and a saving of $6000 a year to the State. It is also due Mr. Smith that I make mention of his splendid fight against the Burea : of Immigration. He introduced a bill to establish this Bureau and en gineered it through the House in a manner that would have done credit 1. Improvements must be made between Janauary 1 and December 10, 1908. 2. Prizes will be awarded to schools where the most decided material improvements have been made during the time mentioned. 3. Under material improvements are included local taxation, consolid ation, new buildings repairing and painting old ones, libraries, reading rooms or tables, interior decorations beautifying yards and better gener al equipment. 4. No ichocl can compete for any of these prizes unless it is a rural school. No town with more than 500 population shall be eligible to the contest. 5. All who wish to enter this con test must send names and descrip tions of schools, before improvements are made, to the president prior to Octobor 1. 6. All descriptions, photographs ard other evidences sheering ^ ^ provements must be sent to the ftaqp it may ckaire. president before December 15. The ~ chairman o| the iqhool that , is raust-approve all before and-after improveffeente camping gives is very desirable, and, to a legislator of much longer expe- hence Capt. Simons is keenly interst- rience. He took the bit in his teeth ed in the outcome. —Evening Post. ; and dashed fearlessly into the lines i of the* enemy, when all the chances , , seemed against him, haring to fight lodge Notes* This pencil pnsher has been silent for several weeks for cause, but now that the March weather is so balmy and inspiring, it is time to show forth again and let oar ooantj friend, and any others, know how our town and neighborhood are progressing. Farming, our chief indnstry, is not as far advanoed for March as is osuaTin cur region; bnt the boys are hard at work, preparing the nil for the sowing time. Spring oats are still. being nwn, delayed by the rain Feb ruary. Our town is growing, Messrs. Bennett and Fox are preparing to erect here a large sawmill and one of the most up-to-date ginneries of our time. The Machineiy is principally nil now on the ground. r We w. : ib for the firm all th& pat. which he misquotes me, not inten tionally however, and he no doubt thought they were true when made. You should know the facts as they a> e, as I cannot hold my ipen from public view and have nothing to conceal whatever. My friend from Round in his artiek dated Feb.. 24th. 1906, uses the following language: Mr D L Smith is responsible for raising the salaries of the Superintendent of education, the Supervisor, the Couaty Commisioners, and the Clerk of the board of County Com missioners. In reply to the statement I desi re to sav, while I am not boasting of the fact, yet I conscientiously thought that the salaries of th-» County board of Commissioners and their clerk should be raised. I did not think they got enough for their work. 1 know of good men who desired the office last campaign and would not enter the race because the salary was too small. On Saturday morning on our way from Columbia to Charleston to BISHOP DUNCAN DEAD. Spartanburg, March 2.—Bishop. W. W. Duncan died here at this morning, interment Wednesday af ternoon at 3 o’clock. He wus bpro Dec. 20, 1639, and has oeen Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, since 1886. He was well known and loved by all who knew him irrespective of denomination. P. M. Buckner Hurt. P. M. Buckner happened to a painful accident Friday. ‘ While rid ing horseback in the woods near many of the strongest men in the| v j s j t t h e Citadel, near St. Stephens' Green Pond, his horse stumbled. He House. During his speeches on thi.s bill, many questions were fired at him thick and fast from every side. law if they wanted it, but wbw I thought of the great trouble aaf as pens* and the great preparatloa to be made by the adjoin ag eemmvu- tias, my duty was plain and the de feat of the bill followed.' Also the grand jury ef my eewify recommended that the membess of the legislature have a statute enact ed for the appointment ef an expest to examine the county office* mad county finances for the last ti ejhsu of Col'eton county. In obedience thereto I had a bill so prepared ps«ed it through the Senate and did all I could to carry out the reccap. mendatioh of the grand jury, tmt find in some wav or somehow that the bill was defeated in the lower house. So far as my actions are concerned I have no ai>ology to make. J. S. Griffin. Walterboro. March 2. LONG FORM THIRD. Last night at Ashby Farrow Lodg*» here the long form third rank was conferred on Esquire Chassereau. This is the first time this long^form rank has been conferred at this lodge, but it was done well. The following compose the team ; King, M. P. Howell, senatore, |I. C* Umacks, J. M. Ackerman, D. B. Black. P. M. Buckner, W. B. Acker man, E. L. Fishburne, G. C. Brown, E.|D, Lemacks. Executioners, S. G. Price and J. A. Diederich; Herald. W. L. Easterlin ; Headsman, J. R| Halford; Master at Arms, 3L L. not ition can’t i than you can prevent i and woman from seeking each othmoeompany., Safer as I am concerned it makes nodfrace. Iam54yomaoUand have never yet been unable to B01 Wanted night or day rao -UamMe, weekday or Sunfa dtr or counter, wide open b!n£te hida bouri prohibition town* ail tho toons looked alike to me «d I could get the goods. What a mlswliln farce the : whole .tHug is and, always will be. When our people come to tlwMasuem and reelise that their naighher*! have some rights too and “ uv taw that r--Prizes will U nwardad in * anduai iiialing.«f Mm Carolina School * Improve* ment AmoctaMoir, ’December 81. 1908. The prieei ere tola used ior further iceeiving them bbaefit of tb* Methodist ohofreh.’ We* •\’ the idea r will rfebe rhi I QkUet GmfecUrmU Vetunua den*. Owes Prissier of the neighborhood, died at hie bos Thersdsv at the age e* 106 Mr Prketer has assn asrvioe in three warn, the Mexioaa War, the Seminole war sod the Civil war. Ha mw in mCn? impede a remarkabk nan. He oontmoed active op to i peek before his death. Ootagoetmmho eked of Mrew, taaomt way he Ml hrsekieg hit me, a day later his ether side mu pnlysed. He remained in this help fcm condition cnly a few days when is sad earn H*MU all of which he answered with the skill of a man who had his . subject well in hand. The bill passed the lower House by four votes, but was killed in the Senate. ' Mr. Goodwin introduced a bill to put certain portions of Warren and Bell townahips under the operations of the general Stock Law. This passed the House but was killed in the Senate. Mr. Goodwin also in troduced a bill to requife the Board of Registration to open their books one day at one precinct in each township before the primary. This bill passed and became a law. I offered an amendment to the Car . rey-Cothran Law to make all viola tions ofete Dispenaftry Law pun- n The last building emetsd waft Mm iehable hr imprisonment without barn aafflitebleiwf Beane* and fine, but this was votfed down. Fox. • - We^UAdl against ^he jM sol- «*- ^r» hWM r? i, the„lowerlfou.e. tain men tf to be had in on» aahota we all voted for rrohibKNU* IvqM for. tfe repeal of tf* Lien Law, Mr. Qftodwia voted Igainst it, Mr. Saikh wae absent, and Jdr. Grif- I* M aak^ taJ^a exqueed from voting on the ground thpt he did not know what hk people wpnted. We all opposed compulsory educa tion in Mm lower Hoops. • Now, Mr. Editor, I have given you aa hot I can from memory (I haven’t Mw Journal before me) the in which jvft have each tried to perform our duty. If I have over in which any ef are interested 1 will be glad to auawer through the columns of Tho ftwteand Standard any Q« kms rataftlvt to our stewardship. , We go ta Columbia to-morrow to eket a United «8tatap Senator to fill mt by the death ofSOtarUtfaMr. I>01 given I had * talk with Hon, D. L. Smith , !!t\ rkl ' e and th. horse>ear. , . , . 1 . II U- , i mg upi fell back on Mr. Buckner a!- about sa aries and told him that 1 - - wanted the, salaries of the Connty Commissioner- and their clerk raised fifty dollars ($50.00) each, that they were not getting enough, to which he then and there consented and promised it should lie put in bill which he did, orjt was in bill when it reached the Senate. Them facts Mr J B Dodd fdid not know’to my knowledge, hence his statement This it not enough for County Com missioners hut it will help, I had previously gone to Mr. Dodd how ever, and told him I wanted these raises and he afterwards told me if I would move for non-concurrence he would consent for the clerk’s salary to be raised. These were ob jections to the raise of these salaries and a*tog* K most dislocating his right shoulder. The doctor thinks fhe muscles were unduly strained. While painful,Mr. Buckner is thankfnl it is no worse, as he could easily have been killed. He is out with his right arm ‘out of use. Our school Is still holdlag its own aa to the uuabsr ot pnnils It is a ssrioea drawback to tbs rfflc^socy of a rural school that tbs pepils havs to drop oat so fraqesstly from shout tbs first of February. Still it makes tbs country bow sod giH value thair opportunities, and make better ora of the winter mouths than the averaga boy sad girl ia Ihw town who knk upoa school nil tbe timt» from September to June sen kind of Bfoessery evil. Aloqri School Improvement Aseocia- hmn orgsnismiera with u fSmbek as ben were enroll oibers dent of was $300, Lion ps this raise alone when I saw the con iM fee of ia. work of As fiaptiatoharohg preached fo*4 mtmoA aa apt Methodist ohureh kat Monday night, ftnm the theme, Witheat Mth, k k impomible te please God." He enjoyed a large aadknee wha warn mapy time repaid for their good attaftka Tieaaurer Jem* nad np km week Mi beam feihs gfed Mr*. W. W. Oaee, ha frame keg viMt to Mr parents aft Walterboro Mr and Mm R E. Janes, ’Into" who nc war JM tetthinf ia lover Colletoe, petftd through town lent ^etardn^p on tar Lodge March*. Civil. Mu* the *V' v . withi on tho whir with retaMves at CeotrevUk. She by her mother. . 3 . k' . to 1 introduced a bill in the Senat^to repeal the contemptible and.obnqy- roadtaw enacted hatband pamad it, and at the time I told the members of the hooee I war oppoeed to any amendment, and I would re- .pyal It in the Senate and place the reeponMbRity on thehr shoulder*, and if they did not want it they would have to bold it up, I did not it hold upne;itwas aereature of mine bnt on, the contrary I did all in my power to repeal it w my people were oppoead to R. Idldnotmhfbr aybffito behold np. anrely not, bat said they would have to held Hap ae ttay taden- 1 intended te peal jaet m fSar as I eealdmto did eo» to get back aader M working roads, by pmuMtMi to work or parm he saw fit. president, Iso led, sad pi number of to join at the Hen meeUee. hood Won tb* alert edOte- Jog sod she' trtteles from kruf .Cstdwell, “Kola* isa Sober sad ot J ba' vkdtl with as I that t* wmm wae m mm Jfto W# VAIIICe havtaf raped the 12 y hter of Tonev Bkhoo S noon. It w3l bo mm Bkhop kaerviagalitoi way leould, tried to of my pet a stock taw bfll in having , pemed the houcc ti Mw people, 1 irank ef tbe bill Ofi op’s wife. c., ... eu yeeteroey us xne swamp, aka having committed fiw tohklL At gw mm. gjM lb. Cm* ako Drougnt aicck wesmngton. n wmm negro, to jafl. pcs .td '-'ii jITBI . .. ’ r. ivy. mm u*m