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VOL. XXX. VVALTERBORO, S. C, JULY 29, iqoS. NO. 50 PROHIBITION DEPARTMENT. ■m, EDITED BY ' % Jas. E. Peurifoy and W. W. Smoak, Jr. ■5» - ' BY FRANK D SHEETS-COLUER’S WEEKLY CONCLUDED. Of courso, the amount the city WATERWORKS!! B! G. O’BRYAN IS DEAD.; MR ZE1GLER INQUIRES. WJI Smoaks. Green Pond and ° ne of Colleton’* Honored WanU to Know Co»t of Well Other Remote Section* Have Waterwork*? Vetran* Passes Over River of Death the the smaller per-capita-savings ac- Smoakp, .1 uly *27—Editor Press counts, and in the purchase of homes and Standard : i'lease allow me the total amount paid by the patrons space in your splendid paper for i»u K ci. “ cu " u pays into the saloons would be of no 0 f the saloon for boer and whisky, a few lines. I might say mis- on y a * or .tune, ,l >t at 111 importance if what it received hack x hat iSf lhe , nuney expended for came as partial repayment for some- ij quors did not reach the bank, the Monday evening at eight o’clock B. G. o Itryaa answered the ffmn- mons of th? death angel. He hud There is being agitated in Col- age there was littl* hope entertained tur his recovery, though all thing that made for civic righteo^- tradesmen, or the hemes, save th*t l et on a quest.on of vital rntpor- ness and manhood. 16,5W) would part of it used by the one hundred be nothing for 45,0(K> people to pay to two hundred employees and per annum to purchase happiness proprietors and their familier and weal, sobriety and peace! But That goes without saying, the saloon business is not carried on (6 ) jhe city of Rockford also for thgt, purpose. A saloon-keeper p a jd i n the “charity” work neces- frankly admitted to to the writer Stated by very- recently that he w-as in the 0 f its male wage-earners no small business for the money he copld get interest on the$o4,000 it got from its out of it; that the people who pat- saloons. ronized him must take care of them- n 0 effort has b:en made to state cellaneous lines. ,. . . ... tur his recovery, though all was done for him posssible Mr O’Brvau wa* m his seventy-third year and for 2 que* ion j- ew y eaM been engaged en usiatui . n f arniin g > haring a farm near »mong«mc of the P*ople. vu, |0rwB , w He WM , , naa ol the Walterboro mammoth ar tance right now. which has caused an selves. in figures the cost to Rockford in It would seem to the most casual th e matters mentioned in paragraphs thinker that the Citv Council of 4^ 5. an< j j 3 unnecessary to do a very bad sq The profitable existence of tesian well, or waterworks. We the intemperate habits have been told that this well has grown to a giant in expense to the county and that our super- viaor is goring old Oolletou’s commonwealth financially. We wonder if he ha* become like Saul of old. Saul wa* very well acquainted with Samuel'* com mand to destroy the Amalekites, and not preserve any of the spoil of the conquest, but did not obey in every respect. He took some of the spoil. We don’t claim that our supervisor has taken any of the spoil, but unless we Rockford had made a very bad bargain for the people of Rockford saloons to a city to-day is a matter when it gives them only $252,280 0 f mathematics. Their cost can be for $716,560. In common parlance, got at at a i m0 8t to a dollar. The it has handed out a “lemon.” ; a j m 0 f thj 8 article has been to sug- A trail of i>ebts gest the method. There is no ex- But the debit side of the ledger aggeration in the estimates. The sh^Ws much worse. There were voter business man. in whatever 2,237 arrests in the city during the city he lives, can determine for him-, are badly mislead, the people’s year 1907. Of these about 1,000 self weether the saloon pays. He were lor drunkeness. will find that it doe* not. (4) The city of Rockford paid The moral aspect of the saloon is for’he necessary police, the police not under consideration. Does it magistrate, the city attorney, and pay the wage-earner the ho;ne-keep- tht board in the city jail (where jail er, the taxpayer, t ie business man, sentence was imposed) of these 1.0C0 n( »t the exceptional oat the average, less the amount collected in fines, to vote to license the saloon? If And the city of Rockford paid the city of Rockford could levy an through its factories and its homes additional tax of $5o.<>00 upon th« in the loss of efficiency of every equalized as^xl town value ot f 1 !) 226, man incapacitated for best work by 662 it will lose if it votes out saloons his drunkenness. The not be stated in exact figures, easily appreciate!. (5) The city of Rockford in the decreased trade o. its d y goods and shoe merchants, grocers, amount can!this coming April money of Colleton county has been txpended contrary to their will or consent. Mr Editor are you or any one else able lo tell the voters, (those who are not worth consideration oily on vo'ing (lays) whether the steel resoru.ir tank will be large enough lor Colleton, or whether the pip^s ejecting the water will reach to Smoaks, it would oi.ly in-{Gr»en Ton i and other remote It is crease the individua tax six mi;ls or points in Walterboro or not, the dollar. This it can not uo. but ! ((joiiet on .) Did I say Walter- paid the tax accretion permissible would ko r0 v Well I meant 0 dleton . be scarcely felt. “The saloon in our town” from a butchers, and other tradesmen in 1 financial point of view is an octopus. The Registration Muddle. It seems that the people of Colle- ton are up against a tion is as far from settlement as it was formerly. The county attorney now has the nut'er under advise- * /r • • pccu mr , ment an( j w j|| ron ^ Ar hjg 0 pi n i 0n j n condition of anair.s in regard to the _ U0..0 n u •. j . . . “ , , j a few days, which will be awaited prohibition election is to be held , with interpst on the 25th of August. « In the meanwhile, it is hoped that This election IS to he held under ^ many 1( . a , ible wil , conle the rules govern,ng general elec-! to , own aml re(fisU . r tions, which require that the regis-1 tration books piety, humility and a high sense of honor, generous to s fault and a friend of every one. He was a vet eran of the War between the States being s survivor ot Co A. 3rd S. C. Cavalry, and bore to bis grave a wound received in the service. Mr O’Brya" was early married to Miss Ellen Lesch, a sister of onr townsman, F. W. Leach, and of this anion one child survives, Mrs K. F. Huggins, who has been bis mainstay iinoeMhe death of Mrs. O’Bryan which occurred in December 1901. His adopted son, Roy O’Bryan,'also survives. *. Two sisters, Mrs John Baggett and Mrs J D Blocker of Hendersonville are the sole survivors of immediate family. Theodore W Loach for many years a resident of the family, and for whom Mr O’Bryan had a father’s love, came on from his home in Beaufort when he heard of Mr O'Bryan's illness and did all he coaid to help make his last hours comfortable. The funeral services were held et five o’clock from the Baptist chnrch. to Couny. Stokes, July 25th, 1908.—Editor Press and Standard;—In your last issue ts a detailed account of tde town’s waterworks which the county is to help keep up. Will you kindly let the readers of your valuable paper know what the tax payers of Colleton county have lost in the hole on the courthonse yard' It looks like a shame that the people’s money shall be wasted in snch a manner. Taxes are* getting higher every year and the waste still going on. The tank and the whole stuff will not do the mass of the connty tax payers any good as 1 can see. 1 ask this for informetion. Plesse let me know the cost of the hole and the good it will do the county. Yours respectfully, * ’ W H T Zeigler. Complying with Mr Zeigler’s request, we have secured from the town clerk and treasurer a statement of the cost of the well and the esti mated cost for the tank, compressor, etc. The figure* follow: Expense of boring well, $5,662 92 Eat cost of tower and tank, 2,318 00 Est. cost of air compressor, 462 00 Cost of foundation for tank, 283 94 Walterboro vs. Walterboro. Up-Town and Down-Town Team* Played Good Ball H« w« , faithful m.n.Vr, ! ing mainUim » e th , itw | Unk ot tk. found.™ of the Walterboro' » 0 U tower hereafter," which «. ,ui, churoh. Ke. F O 8 Ourti* leelihitlr meana aalarr k f peraou to look Tout, $s,726 8*1. , The county pays one-half of this, or $4,363 43. This does not .include the cost of installing the system in the county’s two buildings, viz., the court house and the jail. In addition to the above the county has entered into a perpetual contract to pay one-half the cost of “Operat-1 Anderson 2,1. M. Fishburne 1, Taylor 2, Brown 2, Lucas 1. 1 he town turned out en masse to witness the game of ball between up town business men and the down-town business men. They were full repaid for the exertion necessary to attend this game. It was rich. Several of the play ers demostrated their possibili ties on the diamond if it had not been cut short by careers, as a small boy expressed it, in “Dry Goods”, “Fnruiture”, “Grooer- i«,” “Soda Water”, “Law”, “PullingTeeth”, “Telephoning” “Rolling Pills,” “Gutting Log*,” etc. It required the services of two scorers to keep up with the game, and even now it is impossi ble frsra their score cards, to get any idea of the number of errors made. At the conclusion of the game the score stood 12 to 9 in favor of the up-town team. For the up-town team Fripp, Peurifoy and Adams pitched, while Grady Griffin caught the entire game, doing splendid work, hor the down-town team Glover and Anderson pitched and tobinson caught. For the up town team runs were made as follows: Black 1, Peurifoy 8, Adams 1, E. L. Fishburne 2, Morrall 1, Fripp 1, Halsey 1, and Griflim 2. For the dowu-town Picnic at Mt. Carmel. hall be at the polling places on the day of the election. The General act of legislature Saturday about .500 persons assem- providing for the rc-enrollment of bled at Mt. Carmel church on the the voters, provides that the tooks site of the 0 | d Mt Carmel Camp of registration shall be open for Ground, for the purpose of enjoying that purpose at the county seat each a day spent in listening to the day during the months of July and Children’s Day exercises and enjoy- August, and that during the month j n g a big picnic dinner, with its of September at least one day shall attendant social intercourse. Rev. be spent in each township. S. D. Vaughan is pastor of this With these facts before them, the church. Willie Linder is Superin- County, Board addressed a .com- tendent. Miss Ida M. Fishburne munication to the Attorney General, ; wag j n charge of the singing, which asking for his opinion on the matter. wa s a feature of the occasion. Sev- Should they not reach these points wo believe the people wculd rather have the phenomenon sdhl and get just A little of t of the money back they put in it. I said they put in it. 1 better modify that, l:st I be called an unthruth teller—some one else put iu it. I said some one else pul it in it. Wonder if he had everybody’s consent, or rather the sentiment of people or wore i they really in favor of it? N \ but really it has been a success. Itsucceeled in spending every body’s inonev. Well, maybe they are going to act recipro cally. That is, heln other : op tions of county, dig big provided that Walter hero don’t supply all. Well, we will stop right here, asking that some one conduced the services after wnich the regains were taken to Live Oak cemetery for interment. This was postponed, however, till after the ut the evening train in order that Roy could arrive from Mc Cormick. £ U V Benton came on from B?au(ort to attend the funeral. The pall bearers were; H W Black, Jr, PM Murray, N G Mor rail,.I I) voni>he, A K Beach and C M Grace. after engiue, compressor and tank, find lor engine, repair to compressor tower ami tank, and keeping up the syeUMii in the two county buildings. Mr. Zeigler can answer his other question as well as we can. Editor. The following letter was received by the Board in reply: Mr C A Walker, and others, Board of Registration, W’alterboro, S. C. Gentlemen:—Your communica tion of the 11th instant is at hand. In as much as the questions you propound in your letter are very likely to come before me as a member of the board of state can vassers to be passed upon judicially, I do not think it wise for me to ex press an opinion upon the question at this time. You are aware that in these elections upon the dispensary question, that the election is almost invariably contested, and it is finally decided by the Supreme Court. It Is my duty as a member of the state board of canvassers, to pass upen these questions when they are properly brought up, and you can readily see that it would be highly improper for me to advise in a mat ter which will most likely come More me for a disposition judicially. eral delightful solos were rendered! Too much praise can not be given the thorough preparation and ease with which the children recited and went through exercises. The address of the oceassioa was made by Col. C. G. Henderson, whose subject was Love of Christ f >r Children, which was mpssially directed to the children present, and contained much interesting informa tion and wholesome advice. In the afternoon there was a game of baH played between the Smoaks team and that of Mt. Carmel. The score was 5 to $ in favor of 'Smoaks. CARD OF THANKS. We desire to return our. heartfelt thanks to the many friends who ao generously assisted us during the illness of our little son who was painfully injured by the fall of a horse he was riding. FhpeciaHy do we desire to thank the for their timely and skillful stt—d- ance. Mr and Mrs And! Waltarboro, July ft* Crop Conditions in Colleton. The crop outlook for this county i- more encouraging now than it ha> been for sometime. Through t'je belt where too much rain has wells lx ‘ en during the ea?!y spring well cro P 8 are considerably improved. Of course, the improvement is not so marked on corn as on cotton. It is feared that this improvement is * ,il ‘ a little late and that a full crop of the knowledge, give us light atrl co tton in this section will not lie Children’s Day at Williams 1 riday about 800 to 1000 persons from far and near assembled at W. W Speights 3b, E. Williams to enjoy Childrens Day ex ercises. They brought along well- filled baskets w’hich were used to make a fine picnic dinner. A crowd Jones 2, the score by innings being. Up-town -12-0-1-4 2-l-l.il - 12 Down-town - 0-3 2-0-8-0-1-0 0 - 9 VV bile there were many errors, several individual plays were Teiy good and elicited much ap- plauee.* The line up of the teanib was as follows: Up town, D. B. Black, 2b; D. B. Peurifoy rf, O. D. O. Adam* L. Fishburne rf, N. G. Morrall cf, J. E. Fripp p, M, Halsey ss, Grady Griffin c. Down-town—L. straighten us up if we are wrong. A.P.8. made. The corn crop in the truck ing section in lower Colleton is said , to be very fine. Around Cottage- NEW "WILD ANIMAL” THEORY. viUe in Warren >nil Br0XUm t0 ^. Cottageville, July 25.—Editor shigs, crops are reported to be very Press and Standard: Great un-1 fine. easiness is still felt here about the Fodder pulling is now the order string* and gruesame animal that of the day. has lately been seen in our neigh-1 borhood. ^Nearly everyone you Withdraws From Sheriff’s Race. meet has a different opinion regard ing it. As “Citizen” reported last week, some think it to be a spirit or the Devil, while others seem to re gard the story as a job put up on the candidates. If this theory is correct it has had the desired gffect as it is said that not a candidate has in or near Cottageville since the first appearance of this animal. Still other people seem to blame the whole thing on the dispensary. (Anti’s attention is specially called to this) They say that if dispen- “licker” will make a man pink frogs in the dead of winter why not strange animals? We do not know who “Qtisen” is, bat it is beBeved by many that he is a candi date who Uvea near here and wants this animal ranght ao that he nan in safety. Another CMeen. Ritter, 8 U, July 27—Editor Press sud Standard; On account of my mother's illness, I have jbeen unable to be among my friends for some time past, and as she is not expected to live, I find it necessary to with draw from the race for sheriff of Colleton county. I will, however, re-enter the race four years hence. Many thanks to my nutnerona friends who have expressed themselves so enconragiaglj^ Kindly insert the above in yonr paper this weak, and oblige, Years very truly, J Mannie Garter. Senatorial Meeting The aandidstm for United States- Senator will addmat OoUstea 1 * voters Gratitude is the fairest bios- •om that aprihgi from the soul. —Preach. _ N. Glover p, of candidates and others came up M. (^. Fishburne If, O. Robinson the train to c ? ^ . «L Anderson rf. I. M. Fish- Almighty from Walterboro on take in the picnic. Hymn—Come Thou King. Welcome address Prof Hugo S, Strickland. Parable of Sower—(read by) S. D. Vaughan. Prayer -Rev. C. W. Burgess. Song—Work for the night is coming Sowing Time—(Dialogue by two boys) Leon Utsey and Austin Martin. The seed and the sower—(by twelve small children) Berry Kin sey. Pei z-r Utsey, Winston Piercy, James Martin,. Everett Utsey, Lee Kinsey, Mamie Dell Garris, Roselle Martin, Sarah Kinsey, Reba Maxy, Leila Breland, FThel Maxy. Recitation—“God’s Love” Mamie Hadock. King’s Heralds Marching Song. Recitation—“Children’s Day . Cora Wright. Recitation—“One Little Penny by ten small children—lone Kinsey, Shelton Carroll, Rbba Martin, Leola Maxy, Sarah Kinsey, Marvin Utsey, May Brabham, Florence Breland, Sallie GarrisJDella O’Quin. Address—“Our Bible Fund” Rev. B. F. Halford. Song—The sower,—Lula Kinsey, Ruth Garris, i Leila Breeland, Cora Wright," Pauline Kinsey, Hattie Warren, Mamie Dell Garris, Roselle Martin. Recitation—“Parable of the sower”,—Mias Pearl Garris. Recitation—“On the other Train Mim Nellie Kinsey. Song—Haste to the field of , labor. Collection while singing, “Bringing in the sheaves”. Addrev Jabers Harrison—Makers of Nation. *ddram On Ons’s Duty, by Col. C. G. Henderson. Chain of Prayer—Lola Kinsey, Leila Breland, Havleea Utsey, burue 2b, W. J. Tavlor ss, G. O. Brown cf, P* J. Lucas 8b, W. E. Jones If. Umpire J . K. Lawrence. It is understood that another game will shortly be played that will prove even more exciting than this. It is also suggested that a game be played by the “old maids” and “old Bachelors” of the town, with the condition that whichever side wins do the proposing. Announcement will be made concerning this game later. Ruth Garris, Hattie Warren, Pauline Kinsey. Address in regard toaHigh School at Williams-Dr. H.W. Black. Recitation—“The old and the new South”,—Frank Kinsey. Recitation by Rev. S. D. Vaughn. After a few remarks by the Superintendent J. D. Utsey, J. J. Padgett rave a very cordial invita tion to all present to repair after the benediction to the bountiful table prepared by the generous people of Uiams. CIVIC CLUB PROPOSED. Editor Prees and Standard: print in your paper the length of term and the salary of the county officers. Your voting contest has a great deal of among the young people who would appreciate knowing the daties ot each officer, in addition to the length of term and ndary. This is an op* [Thanks for the suggestion. Wb ritoB do this at Mia 1 Mble.—Ed.]