The press and standard. [volume] (Walterboro, S.C.) 1890-current, June 17, 1908, Image 4
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Cbtf?rtss aniStanbarb
w. w. SMOAK, JR.
KOlTOat AND PROnUETOR.
( UR-lettoo’i repreteotaUTf, Mr Le
fare, applied bimwlf eloeelj to the
iotereata of the oaval atatioo, Fort
Moaltrie and local mattera in aod
aroood the citj of Charleauw.
Through hia effbrU heaecored a food
appropriation for continued operation
ot work at the oa?al station, got $**0
000 for the construction of torpedo
si ip* and f i25,000 for the sea wall
on Snllivan’s Island.
persons might object, was anppreaaed.
there would be little of io f Meat in
the newspaper, yet they refused to
see why this storv could not and
should not be omitted. They grew
indignant when it was suggested that
the principals in the fight sbonld
harp thought of arrest and news
paper notoriety before getting into a
fracas in a public place. The?
ALWAYS II ADVAICE.
Published every Wednesday
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1908.
Here will The Press and Standard
the people’s rights maintain,
Unawed by influence and unbribed
by gain.
Birthday Party at Brest.
Bt ant, June 8.—During the past
several weeks there have been
seveaal picnics, but this scirbc, be
cause of circumstances over which
he had no control was deprived of
attending any of them. It was our
pleasure, however to be present dnr-
ing quite a swell affair at the home
of G. L. Brant, at Brant, S. C. on
tfyj 4th inst. The occasion was the
ceieoration of the forty seventh
anniversary of the birth of G. L.
I'.rant. The aged father and mother,
The Walterboro Industrial \
Life Insurance Co.,
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Walterboro has a Civic League!
tome to town Monday and hear
the candidates speak.
At the present outlook a good hay
crop is being made in this county.
Perhaps the hay fields for Colleton's
fanners will be moved this side the
Miaissippi.
Why did you not go to church
6unda;? A nice dtj—not nearly so
hot as the temperature of one of the
plates prepared for angels.
WHY NOT WALT EH BO HO, TOO.
Anybody passing through this sec
tion of countxy would not need to be
told what an interest the people are
taking in education. The handsome
new school buildings that one sees in
a line from North Carolina to Cb&r
leston would speak for themseUer,
the handsome new buiUing at Latta,
again at Dillon, Florence, Lake City
and Kingstree tell their own story.
OUH NEW SCHOOL BUILMNG.
A number of new names have been
added to the petition to bond the
town for building a school house. A
more general iuterest has been shown
than was ex)>ected. Nearly all the
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business and professional men have
* jy
signed ana a large insjority of the
resident white freeholders. 1C is
without doubt the will of majority of
the white freehcldersthat the election
becalSed. We are now awaiting the
signatures of the negro freeholders,
and there is no reason for any objec
tion on their part. We trust they
will sign at once so the election will
be ordered without delay. It will
take time to sdve/tise the election
and lloal the U>nds, and the>se in
terested are anxious for work to he
argued that these men were people
H^hzing to the fulleHt extent the of standing in the commnnity^ and
great value that the completion of therefore should not have their names
the naval station will be to Charles- printed in connection with a brawl together wrtiTother members of the
ton, Mr Legare devftted ^ his likely
efforts to that cause and the results : “like
sp-ak for themselves. * They again grew indignant when it' secret from Mr Brant, untiTtfurbour
There .were numbers of other was pointed out that their conduct arrived when ail met to surprise
things that claimed Mr Legore’s at in this instance was only that of a him with a birthday dinner. About
tentiou and just before the final | “common police character.’’ one o’clock p. m. we were invited to
adjournment of congress be succeded It is the old, old question as to aswefnble in the back piazza, where
. JAS^E, PEURIFOY,
President.
( JNO. D. WARREN,
t Sec. & Treas.
G. C. BROWN,
Vice- President.
J. E. THAMES,
Manager.
to end in the police court t a mily h d well arranged for the
common j>olice characters." occasion, keeping it a profound
in having passed a resolution mcreas whose ox is gored, whoss toes are
ing the pay of employees in the , Pepped on, and, of course, the news-
house, aggregating about $50,000 a paper came in for some abuse,
year —The News and Courier. . The next morning, the readers of
” the paper received what they had
The withdrawal of Ex Gov. D. C. 1 j^a for—the news. This is the
had bt^n arranged a long iu Je,
ui>on which had been placed very
deftly such viands that art tin.ust
calculated to make a hungry allow
"swallow' his tongue" in consuming
them, to say the least it was a rich
Insurance premiums payable weekly—5 cents a week
„ , and up.
Offers Protection to Men, Women and
Children.
... . dinner follwed by ice cream and
Heywar rom e cap 1 y or t e stock in trade of the newspaper It is j eniona( j e galore, upon which all
United States Senate will cause. *^*1 tb** subscriber pays for, and feasted during the afternoon. Every
sincere regret to his many frinds in
this county. We believe down this
his subscriber is accept*-*i seemed to enjoy. themselves
paper agrees to give hugely, but 1 think the happiest of
It is only fullfilling all were the aged father and mother
when
the
, him the news. n
way that he would have been e.ected, ageement to the best of ita ability. Mr and Mrs W A Brant. All of their
and we are all grieved to know that —The State. children grand children, and great
the caus** for his withdrawal is his —— -- grand chUJren who are living were
health. May he sjieedily recover. 1 Owy'New Court Houm.
We should have liked to gamble
on his certaiuty to win even if he
were in Philadelphia. We regiet
that he did not allow his friends to
conduct his campuigu fur him and
elect him anyway. There is a “pair’’
from Colleton that has “won every
thing in sight” for a good many
years, and that pair is Miss Alice
Henderson and Hon. I) C Heyward.
With her as his campaign manager,
we should like to know how, he
could have been defeated. The
eloquence of Smith and Johnstone
would have Ueu of uo avail against
Miss Alice's shrewd political sagacitv.
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Mayor H G Hhett, comes of an old
**.
and honored family, and is a man of
ability, well qualified to take care ol
ibe interests of South Carolina in the
halls of our ‘'House of Lords'’’ He
comes into the race u little late, but
not tuo late to make bis opponents
icei that he is “also” running.
We trust a good crowd of the
voters of this county will be present
to hear the candidates for the State
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offices *peuk Monday of next week.
They are all men of ability and it
should be an intellectual treat to
present save one grand child.
G. L. Brant enjoyed the surpise,
and felt good indeed. The mem
bers of the Brant family are very
devoted to each uther and these sur-
At the last session of the Legi-
'lature, an appropriation of $15.(hhi
was made, through the efforts of
Hon. D. L. Smith for the purpose
of repairing the court house and the P 1- * 86 ot l be birthday dinners are
county jail. '. common things with them. The
Under the managment of D. C. L. |y° un K people seemed to appreciate
Hiers, employed by Supervisor 1 the occasion very much- There
Moore the repairs on the court house were quite a number of young lad-
have been completed, and the build- ies present, but there was only one
ing is very much improved. A neat single man to engage their attention,
iron fence which will ercloee the lot, 1 It seemed to be quite a difficult
In case of sickness pays a weekly sick benefit; In case
of death pays amount of claim to family or estate.
Bun no Bisk, Insure Today.
Absolutely safe. Claims paid promptly. Write or
see us about this vital matter.
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J All Letters Promptly Answered.
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will be erected later.
Unity Lodge No. |55, A F M,
holds its regular communications ith
SAVE YOOR HAY
BY USING THE
thing for him to entertain t s .em all
at one time. The whole crowd was j
happy, jolly and good-natured.
W. A. Braftt L now in his eight-
., . . 4 , ^ , , , ieth year and Mrs Brant is seventy
Friday in each month at 8.30 0 cloc t j,ree
pm. All visiting Brethren are To ^ em have Wn ^ ^ child .
cordially invited to attend. _ I ren, six of whom are living, they
E T II SH Ah hER,M. have fourtwn grand children and
N. G. MARRAM^ Sec’y , three great grand children. Besides
the Brant family there were present
•n^ nT * kln i ' rh,n ‘ r *• J 1 t ( *nip* r tes'ar 1^-, t hj s occasion twentyeight invited 1
The nmr* you ocraicti ibe worae it itch- J
e<*. 11*(Hit h Ointment cur*-* piles, guests,
e zenm—auy akin itching. At all drug
■torea.
Atlminiatmtor’s Norice.
One the 10 diy of July 1908 1 will
make me final tetnrn as adnnnutrator
of H S Wiltimia decea>*e.i and will on
same thwapply lo probate court for let
ters dismisacry.
H VI Williams
Administrator.
Jane, lOih.
It was an enjoyable occasion and
all were loath to leave, when the
time for separation arrived. We |
sincerely hope all me memoers of !
the Brant family will live to enjoy ;
many more occasions of this kind.
One present.
Deering Mower and
Rake,
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T R WILLIAMS JR., DEAD
NoricE.
The Democratic Executive committee
of C o leton county U be-eby called to
Resolutions of Respect, Hope
Lodge No 122 A F M
February HI l9<t£ our
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Whereas
bt’l‘PRESSING THE NEWS.
"I a n iguorant of the ways of
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giiu—The News and Courier sayt:
The people of Walterboro, anibi- they should uttemUhis speaking.
tious that their beautiful town shall —■—-— i—
grow and teccme constantly nure
attractive to home ceekers, will
scarcely neglect to accept the advice
or the Wallet boro Pi ess and Stand
ard K bond the town lor the erection
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of a new and well appointed school
hoLte The time has arrived in
£>outh Carolina when no community
that hopes to prosper can at lord to
te without first rate school facilities
tiear them. II our jeople are to vo e j nie «o „( waln-ib iro nn Thnr-dav Jure beloved Brother T. R. Williams Jr.,
intelligently fur these high oIILhs
25.hat 11 o’clock a in. Every member
was called from the labor of an
j is earpeaily ie«ine«ted to l>e preneni r>
i bisinea^ of iiu|>ortfince will come before j earthly temple to service in that
committee, by order of charman. Kingdom over which the Li. A. O.
h°mr: T. U. presides, and
Whereas, he was a true and
zealous Masun who during life ex-
newspapers," said a woman over the
’phone to the city editor ot a R est-
era news} A ier, “and so I rely on you
to tell me what is the method people
employ when they waut to keep news
out of the paper. Please tell me.”
Appealed to thus, the city editor
. . , , told her oarefully all the plans and
dm«,tofib«.o.n.«,d .d a*™ lhink of ^ lh< .
in the Mate have them,
ard Courier.
-The News
IN RE CONGRESSMAN
LEGARE
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Reproducing our editorial on lion.
Geo. S Legare. Tne Summerville
News sayt: Right you are Brother
Smoak and in addition we would like
to sdd, what baa George, charming she hit upon a scheme of her own.
fellow that he ia, done for any of the She had all her friends call up over,
country couattta in hia district? As * telephone aod threaten and plead
far «l-orcbe.i.r. Clarendon, Colle j “ a * r « ue ' But ““ *' or T »“ P«S«-
,,,,,, .. ed, because it was news and the sub-
ten an t y t acting » t .I'grcss- 0 f newspaper pay to receive
man goes, it is not only the news.
time that are used by persons who
had done things of which they were
ashamed and had the/eby become in
volved in troubles of various kinds,
to keep the public from learning
through the daily press of their al>
fairs. After he had explained a
number of the methods, be told bis
inquirer they were useless. Of
enurso she did not believe him, so
NOTICE.
There will be a vacancy in the gtate ' emplified so fully the great princi-
schoiarahip fer CoMeioa comity at ihc j pies of friendship niurauty and
brutherly love, thereby rellecting
Oiladel to be fill.d by conijH-tiiivt* ex
amination tida sammer. Thoee wishing
apply tunxt apply for permiHeion
fore July 15. I have all a*oeo*ary blanks
and urge that a* many who can prepare
to comiwte for the plac*.
H W Black Hr
* Co bup. Ed.
6 10 31.
p *«ib!«,’ but txctediugly easy, if the
country would stick together. We
have Learly twice as mony voters in
the primary as Charleston. All we
n .-eil cches.ou.
>\e telavc, bioiher Carroll, is
right and we believe the “cohesion”
is coming. W hat say you brethren
of tie prefs in Uhs*» coon ties? Down
The case was not an unusual one. 1
Two men had quarreled, a fight fol
lowed and one of the men had been [
placed under arrest. There was ai
public!record in the police head ;
quarters; the man would later Le
placed on trial. Fifiy |*ersot.s,
)a*rh»j>e, already knew of tne inci
dent, I he woman and her friends
Money to Loan.
To buy you *a home, a
farm or lift mortgages
on a long term of 10 1-2
years at 6 per cent, in
terest. Apply for par
ticulars to A. V. Willis,
Special Agent, Cottage-
ville, S. C.
Southern States Trust Co.
(INCORPORATED)
Home (»; mce: COLUMBIA, S. C.
, , ^ , printed, that th^y
tbu wj. we ,r! r™d, to ... eIl . c ^ other p^;.
"Any woman tliiiika *he’s capa
ble of reforming a man, but
. when i. comes to re-forming
admitted that stories of the kind etnp.oy s a dressmaker,
were generally
you:
-tfft LKttAKE.
j»:c. they ado itod that if- every
story, to winch so ne one or seyeral
Operation fo -pile-wilt nor b' neces
*ary if j«u u-e nm Z u Pil® R.medy.
But op ready to linirameed
Price 50c. Try It Sold by \V»!terboro
Drug Co.
credit upon our institution
Therefore* Be It Resolved.
1. That in the death of our Broth
er, Masonry has lost a strong sup
port, the community a good citizen,
the family a kind and indulgent
husband and father.
2. Tnat we keenly feel the irre
parable loss of our Brothei; we bow
in submission to the will of Him
who doeth all things well.
3. That we extend to the beloved
family our de; e st sympathy. - *
4. That these resolutions be
spread lupon the minutes of our
Lxlge and a page be dedicated to
the memory of Brother T. R. Wil
liams Jr, and that a copy of these
resolutions be sent to His family and
that tame lx published.
Committee.
J. C. Smoak,
J- M. Bennett,
9 C d A. Walker.,
The “water wagon’’ is run by
will power.
Compromising with ain is ac-
ccptiiii wnjro from Sitan.
\Vl)on we too ;• »ix.year-old
boy with long e inging curls we
know his mother L.ve* him, but
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we have doubts ahi-nt l er judg
ment in displaying ir.
A m.trtie 1 wonun’p ilea of a
satisfactory compromise is to
have lie): hunsbaud agree to do
just what she w she* hi:n to do.
We now have in Stock the INTERNA
TIONAL CO’S Reliable Disk Harrows.
We are always glad to show these implements to our friends
wh^n in tpwn. Parts of ea^di always in stock. Parts of Os
born Machine also carried in stock to supply purchasers of
these macnines.
o
A. Wichman Si Son
STILL GOING!
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We still have some summer Dry Goods \Aich we are
closing out
Do not miss this opportunity to buy. : [as they are
g* ling fast
TAYLOR’S
WALTER BORO'S POPULAR STORE.
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