Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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|jt firtss ani ^tanDari) TWENTY-NINTH YEAR. W. w. SMOAK, JR. editor and propkihtor. I —TERMS— Dm yba* MONTHS " IB MONTHS. _.4ioo #0c — 25c AIVAYS IN ADVANCE. Published every Wednesday. at Walterboro, t}. C. Entered afr the Waiterboro, 8. C., Poetoffice as second-class matter March ,8 1879, under Act of March 3,1879 ■ 11 III I w -1 ,1 a- fii '^ili If MP WEDNESDAY. bfeC. 30. 1908. LW ■■■ - Here will The I’ress and Standard the people’s rights maintain. Unawed by influence and unbribed by gain. A happy new year! To any left out Happy New Year. *9 1909 will be a year one more chance Colleton hsis to develop. The j sum of the individual effort will be ' the net gain the county will make. | May it Ik.* great, hot each reader do Jlf or her part to keep the average , Up. * Colic to.', needs prohibition, better I school, l*etter roads, better farms, befter homes, better stock; more readers and more to read. Add an improvement along these lines and she will go forward with giant! strides. _ L WALTERBORO IN 1909. With the birth of the new year we hope to see some of the many things I Waiterboro needs accomplished,! First of all we want to see a limited j effort on the part of the citizens to 1 pull together for the accomplishment j of what is good*for the town. This spirit will give us many needl'd .im provements in 1909. The first thing we would like to To our advertisers A Happy New | see would he a new, improved and ! RESOLVED That it shall be our constant aim to have the Right Goods at the Right Prices during the coming year. RESOLVED That you shall be satisfie3 In / u ^ with each and every transaction you may have with u5 d ,]r ' n g 1909. RESOLVED That every • ’phone order shall receive prompt and careful attention. 4 t O' RESOLVED That all goods will be delivered as promptly as possi ble. *■' RESOLVED that during 1900 as during the past 34 years—A square deal for all. mi«s«#m. i«t : rm BREAKS HIS LAND IN THE FALL AND THEN 1 .. CUTS IT WITH A - DISC HARROW; L L CABBAGE PLANTS FOB SALE. Tear. To our correspond* nta Happy New Year. A verv, ' youth To our Patrons Year. A Happy New To our (Mfice Force A Happy New Year. We are situated on the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad main . . ,,. . , . . , line with four expresses daily. Any one buying cabbage : more interest in the. training of our P lan « from us " l11 have Hne da >’ * advanta - e OVCr the Mc S' . This is very easy to aceom- a " d Votiug's Island territory, as they only have one plish, ami could be assured in a very express a day. Our plants are frost proof anti will stand any short while if all property holders would work together with that in view. Then we would like to sec an electric lighting plant for the town, ► * To our Exchanges A Happy New Year. How does it feel to be sober Xmas? at Be careful how you write it after Thursday it will U* 1909. To our subscrilfers Year. A Happy New climate. Lots. 1,000 to 5,000 $1.25 per thousand. Lots of 6,000 to 20,0.00 90c. per thousand. Varieties: Charleston Wakeheid, Early Jersey Wakefield we have abundant use for such a and Elat Dutch. Satisfaction and count guaranteed. Always means of lighting and it would be a senc | cas h with order Give us an order and see for yourself, paying investment for the town or Green Pond Plant Company, CABBAGE PLANTS 1 o onr j >aid-in-a< 1 vance su 1 >scr A Happy New Year. MKTS Start the new year right by sub scribing t„ The Press and Standard. hroiii the grave of 190S let us turn with expectant hope t 1909. some private individual. A visitor to Waiterboro recently, coming in or the evening train anil being escorted | PQ^|D, ' ' SOUTH CAROLINA. down Railroad avenue, asked Vwhy are you taking iRe down this dark Back street; why not let’s go down a better lighted section of the town? ’ lam the cabbage plant man. Have had several years l'he escort had to admit that Rail- experience in the plant business at Green Pond. I know the road avenue was the ne plus ultra of kind to plant for gardening and have ’ them at usual prices, streets in Waiterboro. Send me your orders. Lots of >000 at $1.25. Special prices Another necessity which is a pos- on larger lots. Shipped C. O. D. 1 * *!••. a * sibility for is better streets i and better roads leading into town. Nothing .Would give more pleasure! or bean ore profitable to the We have a full line of the Celebrated International Co’s Reliable Disc Harrows always in stock. Car load of wire fencing just received—any height you wish. '»*» Full and up-to-date line ol all kinds of hardware, tools, farm Implements, Plows, Buggies, Wagons, Saddles, - Harness, etc. Have you a Stove? Let us quote you prices on Heaters C < A o or Cook Stoves. 0 . • t> MAIL ORDERS GIVEN PROMPT ATTENTION, A. Wichman cN Son 1 G. S. ARNETT. GREEN POND. 0 . : : S. C. reM- lyms <)f town and the rural districts Xmas eve than i; did a year ago the birth of 111 , , , than good hard rttads for five No subscriber, it was not ^failure. Prohibition prohibited in Walter! all right. out in every direction. miles Another said; “We have done the 'I his is a biggest business vye have ever done” HON. D S HENDERSON HERE. NEW YEARS GREETINGS. I >oro Pardoh us-but don’t you think this thy* best issue of The Press and Standard you have ever seen? The power of Mayor Fishburne seems to be ample to keep the dis- P«wary closed permanently. We can furnish evidence in abundance that it is a nuisance. The editor of a neighboring con temporary is going to get married. This shows that the editor is not al ways as poor as he is painted, for getting married is expensive busi- ness.—Spartanburg Journal. The carnival has gone. Thank goodness!—Waiterboro Press and Standard. It was not allowed to come to Edgefield. Thank goodness!—Edge- field Advertiser. COLLETON COUNTY IN 1909. For a generation China has been known as the ‘‘Sleeping Giant of the East,” and the “Awakening of China” has become a well * known phrase. So great are the possibilities of the coastal region of our Stale that persons have gotten into their heads a similarity of application, so that we hear now of the awakening and development of this part of God’s Vineyard. It is only a ques tion of time when China shall awake, and it is only a question of time be- fore this rich and favored portion of South Carolina riiall also rouse her- • self and niake use of the resources with which it has hem so bounti fully endowed. The attitude we shall show toward this awakening will determine whither or not we are to share in ite friuts, or whether they willgo to some one from out side. We are the heirs—why sell our birthright? The Hon. P.S. Henderson of Aiken a brother of our Col. C. G. Hender- , . ..soil, spent from Saturday to Tuesday )UMiie*s necessity lor VYa.terboro. an ,i so on . ,\11 these attributing ; in town as the guest of his brother. There are openings here for several ; ^ • 1 Mr Henderson is enjoy iffg the best of .. , . , , their increased business to the clos small manufaturing plants that would give employment to many of | , l‘-"l K ‘ nsar - v • I^'t us.illustrate how the disi>en our people: notable among these may be mentioned an ice factory, and a sary hurts business and impoverishes canning factory. the people, if illustration be needed: On the whole the year 1909 is A few days ago a man was seen go- pregnant with possibilities for Wai terboro. What will she do with them? Join the army of those who DO things or just drift along, which? PROHIBITION DOES PROHIBIT. From Tuesday evening to Monday morning, the dispersary at Waiter boro was closed by order of Mayor Fishburne, Four days it was im possible to get liquor in Waiterboro, and four days was long enough to demonstrate the value of prohibition in Colleton county. There are per sons now who are prohibitionists who before were opposed to it. Why? Because they observed tnat the men who usually spent their money for liquor during that four days turned their cash into legitimate business channels, and bought things that would be of some use in their homes. Because, on the streets of Waiter boro no “ drunkenness was seen. Ladies could go with impurity into any part of the town while the dis- pensary way closed without fear of seeing the disgusting sight of a drunken man, or hearing improper language, and this, too, on Christ mas eve. Because it was demon strated that bo many persons could be happier if they could not get liquor, and it is known that many a poor wife"and mother breathed a sigh of relief when it was known that her husband or son would be unable to get whiskey to drink and would come home sober. Other reasons could be advanced. For instance, despite hard tunes, one firm, among the largest in town, did 42 per cent more businesf this ing home from town with a quart bottle of whiskey, valued at 75 cents, a pint bottle at 40 cents, and a con dition that indicated he had drunk not less than 50 cents worth, mak ing a total of $1.65. Just before go- ing out he remembered his wife asked him to bring home some gro ceries, so he hunted in every pocket and could find only 49 cents with which he bought groceries to take to his wife and several children. This is a fair sample of many cases. If this man could not have gotten whiskey he would possibly have bought $2.00 wofth of groceries. His family would have been happier and better o<T, and legitimate trade increased. Men of Colleton county, in the face of such evidence as this will ycu keep open these fountain heads of iniquity and poverty? Or will you make permanent the order of Mayor Fishburne to close? health and spirits, and recalls with pleasure the three months of the summer taken up by his European tour. _He is looked ui>on as one of the ablest lawyers in the state, and his powers as an orator are of such character as to wdn for him the name “Silver-Tongued Orator. His friends in ^Colleton are always glad to see him. TEACHER’S MEETING. The following program has been arranged by the program committee for the teacher’s meeting to be held here Saturday Jan.9, at 12 o’clock. Prayer—Rev F A Drennan, Song—America—Audience. Address—Pres L S Betty. Reading of minutes by Secretary, Recitation—Miss Bertie Glover. Address—W W Smoak Jr. Vocal solo—'Miss Edna McTeer CORPORATION NOTICE. Notice U hereby given that on Jana ary 1, 1900, a copartnerahip will ba formed bv J E Smoak, Dr H M Carter and 1 M Maxey for the pnrpoee of doing a general mercantile bnrtneoa at the old stand of J E Smoak at Saoaka, 8. C under the Arm name of Smoak, Garter <& h axey. The new firm will sell only for oesh for a period of thirty days or mors, which orlll allow time to take n complete inventory and get everything in shape for geoeral baahtess. All person# indebted to the firm of J E Smoak. whoae notes or accounts are doe will plsass make payment to him at The nndersicned desires here to (bank his friends and customers for their pat ronage given him and confidence re posed in him during the past. About twenty years be has done boil Less at Smoaks, and he solieits a continuance of their patronage with the new firm, which extends nothing but honest and fail treatment to all. J. K. Smoak. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Oonnty of Colleton, Oonrt of Gommon Pleas. Peter B. Bradley and Robert S. Bradley, Plaintiff*, against Densh Howard, Henry Fishburne, Wil lie Fishbnroe, Anns Fishbarne, Mary Fishburne and Rosa King, De fendants. To the Defendonts, Henry Fishbone and Willie Fishbarne. Yon are hereby rummoned and re quired to answer a complaint in this ac tion, which is filed in the office of the Clerk of Common Pleas for the said County, and to serve a copy ol your answer to the said complaint on the subscriber at his office No. 11 Rruad Street, Charleston, S O, within thirty days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service. And if yon fail to answer the said complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action wifi apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the complaint. J. Wattes Waring, Plaintiff’s Attorney. November 18, 1907. Filed December 7. 1908. H. D. Padgett, C. C. P. 4 G. 8. To the Defendant#above named: Ton Bril) take notice that the com plaint In this action was filed on the Tth day of December. 1908, in the office of the Clerk of Court of Common Pleas for Colleton County. , 4. Watlee Waring, Plaintiff’i Attorney. 13 80 to Feb. 4. ’09 Do you want a beautiful and durable Rock Hill buggy free? If so, enter The Press ana Standard's Great Contest. See our ad else where in this issue. We have had a most prosp^rous^year, and our business has increased wonderfully ior which we are thankful to our many friends and customers. 1 lere’s hoping that each and everyone of you may. have the most prosperous New N ear you have ever known. And remember, please, that our stock of Dry Goods is always complete. - . In sincerity, V TAYLOR’S j j - WALTERBORO’S POPULAR STORE. 1 A HAPPY NEW YEAR. We desire to retnm thanks for the very liberal pat- * ronage given us during the past year, and ta wish each ^ and every one of your readers a Happy and Prosper- * A ous New Year. When in need of Millinery or Hats, remember us. MRS. W. A. • o Pine Millinery. * ft ft ft ft ft BLACK 5 Waiterboro, S. <5. .» • I Earl Dodd of Coder Springs is at home for the holidays with his parents, Mr, and Mrs. J. B. Dodd. Mr. Dodd is progressing very nicely in his studies- There will be a big New year’a picnic at Bethlehem church Friday for the benefit of the Sunday school. A large crowd and a good time is expected.