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6 VOL. XXXI. YVALTERBORO, S. C, JANUARY 27, iqo 9 . .NO. 24 THANKS TO A. P. S. WARREN ORGANIZED. THE PRESS AND STANDARD C8MPLI ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING HELD MENTED. SMOAKS TO HAVE A SMOAKS BAPTIST CHURCH. CANDIDATES CHANGE. IN THE LEGISLATURE PRAISE FOR SMOAKS. o AT A phenomenal week of voting some of the things engaging the plenty of hogs and handsome RAILROAD. OTHER NEWS. Smoaks, Jan. 25*—Editor I'ress and Standard: In the very thres hold of my article 1 want to con gratulate you for the remarkable improvement >>u have made in your OFFICERS ELECTED. MAKESGHANGES IN CANDIDATES. TIME TO CLOSE CHANGED. ATTENTION OF OUR SOLONS AND OTHERS. Smoaks. Jan. 25: In accordance wiin the ,.u.jnshed notice, a meeting was heiil .''umla|t’ afternoon at 4 o’clock at tne smoaks Baptist church for the j-uri-ose of^orgamzing War- was a large and enthusiastic con gregation present, who listened with a gaeat deal of pleasure to the interesting program which had been paper, notwithstanding the fact that ren township into theintenlenomina- there have been things said and done - tional Sunuay xchool work. There that had no tendency to aid and dis seminate it. It has, by your hard and efficient labor, spread and built up which is an evidence of the fact that you are right and that you are arranged, gaining ahead. Today The Press and Stahdard appears to the reader a more beneficial and developed paper than ever before since I have known it. To this fact I have heard numbers of corroi orating state ments. _ Well Mr. Eflitor. I think the hap- Fishburne. wtiuse subject was, "Or- penings in this section have been ganued Sunday School Work,” she written up pretty closely. The vvas followed by Hon. James E. farmers have turned new leaves, for Peurifoy, of Ualterboro, who de- so far they have done more field j livered an especially able and in work preparatory to planting than I structivv address on the subject, ever saw before at this time of the j “Some Advantages of Organized j ear. We'would be glad to see , Sunday School Work.” This address everyone thus awakened. ! by Mr Peurifoy went into the object Smoaks is on an increase, the rail- to be accomplished by the organiza- road is nearly completed. Stores tion. Prof. Petty was called upon are in course of construction, at the conclusion of Mr Peuritoy’s Preachers arranging to have more address and made a few remarks services. In fact, I believe that upon the necessity for thorough everything looks brighter. People preparation of teachers, seem more interested and there are A nomination committee consist- really less melancholy clouds about ingof P. L i. irris, J. L. Lyons, and here, however such condition of af- P. W. itishci wu> appointed, whore- fairs must prevail before our repre-, tired, icturning shortly with the sentatives can achieve even a good following nominations, all of whom road law’. This enthusiam must! "ere eijeted «y P. C. Gan i', ox If you wish to study something of interest, get last 'week’s pajier and compare the vote then with the vote in today's. You w ill see totals today tha r will stagger you it does not s**t m possible that candidates should | pile up so many votes thus early in the contest hut they did. Now next week is going to have more changes than this, so keep your paper and compare thefn. Many of STEWARDS IN WARREN TOWN SHIP. SALARY RAISED. This has been an un-eventful week in the legislature. The following synopsis of the work in thg senate about covers the legislation up to : now. Th 1 senate duting the week has accomplished the following work: j The bill to provide for county at-1 torneys w-as killed. ' The bill to increase the term of prisoners w’ho may Ik* allowed to! the candidates are working quietly work on the county chaingangs to 20 j The meeting was presided over by but are getting votes just the same, years instead of 11) years, as is now ! Re^v G A Martin, the new pastor of and these will co^nt when cast. Do the case, was killed, the Bapi^t church, and was opened not think because the totals of some The bill to provide for capital pun- with prayer u> Prof. W. O. Petty, candidates are not large, that they ishment for attempt to rape was principal of. the Williams High are despondent not a bit of it. ! School. afterVhich a very interest- There are several who are just get- ing paj>er was road by Miss Ida" M. ting busy and their votes will begin to come m soon. Saturday was the biggest day of the contest so far. That day there were 28,425 votes cast and we added just 2b new names to our subscrip tion list. This was to be for no more popular contestants have ever entered a contest in Col leton county than those who are try ing for the prizes in the contest of The Press and Standard. Now to stimulate new subscribers we are going to continue the offer of 500 extra votes for a new subscriber at lea>-’t thirty days longer. So get bu-v and let them come in. passed and sent to the house. The Governor’s salary was raised to $4,000 from $3,000; State officer’s ' salaries arises from $1,000 to $2,250, this bill being passed rnd sent to the house. During the coming w’eek the sen-1 ate will be busy Tuesday with the | expected, j election of a United States senator. Wednesday both houses meet in j(*int session for the election of associate justice to succeed Judge Ira B. Jones, who was made Chief Justice last | ( week. This will likely take some time as there will be several candidates. These elections will break into the | ; work of the week. The following bills have been in-1 rtoduced by the Colleton delegation: start as a local lire and spread to every perimeter in our county. No doubt, good plans have been men tioned with regard to good roads, but they must be prepared for exe cution and then get people inter ested. Mr Editor, you said I believe, not to name hard times. I have given the optimistic side, and want to say that the old fellow is about here and there. Really there is very little* hard times. Italy has been amitten by hard times, and surely we would not say we have hard times, for our times compared to Italy’s is more different than the owla screech and the symphony. So ear times are good times. One of tne best entertainments of the holidays was given at Black School hou e. Prof. P. C. Garris and his assistant. Miss Leila, cer tainly merit the praise of all who were present for the efficient and successful manner in wRifch they conducted the services. No one can but say that everyone connected with the entertainment did his or her share, both teachers and pupils to make it what they did, a success. Before closing 1 would like to say that I certainly enjoy news from Mt. Carmel, Sniders and other points. Write every chance. With best wishes to The Press and Standard. A. P. S. A CORRECTION. The program furnished us of the meeting of the Union for the Second Division of the Colleton Baptist As sociation was incorrect in two par ticulars. Sunday at 10 a. m. “Our Sunday School Work and What About It” will be spoken to by Rev. J. P. Graham instead of Rev. F- 0. S. Curtis. Rev. Mr. Curtis will preach the Missionary sermon at 11 o’clock Sunday. Another change: Instead of clos-, The bill by Mr. Robertson relative ing the contest April 15th, we are to repeal of the seed cotton law. in going to put forward this time just, this county was killed, nine ihivs and close it Tuesday April Mr. Griffin To provide for bien- acclamatioh: Pres: tP h at 2 o’clock P. M. Deducting ten * nial sessions of the general assembly, the Methodist Sun- days ioi the Sundays this leaves 58 Mr. Griffin Totaxcertaintimbor day school at Smoak; Vice Pres. A. jda\ > in which to work. Time , or land. C. Hiers, o; the Smoaks Baptist Sun- enough t,» get enough votes to win Colleton County Delegation To day school; Secretary and Treasurer The result of the contest with the j amend or act relating to the office J. C. Goodwin, of the Little Swamp j names of the Winners will be pub- Sunday senoul; Executive com- lish.il in our regular issue of Apii mittee J. L i.yuns, J. J. Padgett, P. Till. Now do not get the idea that Dear Advocate: I had been rather skeptical of the wonderful reports of our preachers as to the unbound ed hospitality of the people of the Orangeburg district, but should the whole district be like Smoaks circuit 1 am now prepared to vouch for the truthfulness of such reports. Although my family is still detained in the up-country, these people’s smokehouses and pantries have over flowed into the parsonage already. The hogs, and hogs (four-legginl king only), 1 had no idea there was as many hogs in the State as I have already seen around Smoaks. The crops are abundant and signs of prosperity everywhere. The stewards (as handsome and intelligent body of Christian gentle men as I have ever seen) met yester day, and in order to put Smoaks in the front rank (as one steward ex pressed it) and not have the pre&cher looking up Smoaks on the map. *hen read out to it, as former ly, hut to make Smoaks known and looked at with longing eyes by the preachers, determined to raise the salary for the preacher in charge from $400 to $1,000. One would in deed be an ingrate if such treatment did not bring forth the best that is in him in the service of God and sue a people. Yours truly. Jas. M. Lawson. Smoaks, January 8.—Southern Christian Advocate. CANDIDATES ENTERED. THE FOLLOWING NAMED PERSONS HAVE BEEN NOMINATED IN THE CONTEST. schools Baptist A. C. W. Risher, J. J. Jones, and B. B. Go-idwin. There are seven Sunday in this townsnip. Smoaks Sunday School, Professor HidVs and J. L. Lyons, super intendents; Smoaks Methodist Sun day school, P. C. Garris superinten dent; Tabernacle Sunday school, Asbury Jones superintendent; St JohnrSunday school, J. D. Utaey superintendent Williams Sunday schocl, J. J.* Padgett superintendent; Green Pond Sunday school P. W. Thomas superintendent; Little, Swamp, Sunday school J. C. Good-1 win superintendent. This township therefore, is a splendid held tor an interdenomina tional Sunday school work, and it is safe to predict a roost successful organization. we are going to change this time again, for we are not. The close will positively be at 2 o’clock Tues day afternoon April 6th. Get your friends to get busy for voii. If you need blanks or anything kindly let us know and we shall at once furnish them. r HIS RECIPE. they LITTLE MISS EULALEE WICHMAN DEAD. After an illness of nearly two weeks little M ss Eulalee Wichman , the seven year old daughter of Mr.! and Mrs. R. H. Wichman died Sun day morning at 11 o’clock. Two weeks ago she contracted a severe cold wnich developed into pneu monia. A [ hysician from Charles ton was called for consultation a week before her death and confirmed Dr Kershaw’s diagnosis. A trained nurse was summoned, and all done lor her that was possible but it was of no avail. A fatal termination was not looked for, and the attend ing physician thought the crisis had passed and that recovery would be complete. So the news of her death was a shock to everyone. “How did you win': asked the man, Who with defeat had tussled; “Three things 1 did,” he an swered them, “Bustled, v Rustled. Hustled!” of Master for Colleton county. Mr. Sanders To declare a new pension law for the State of South Carolina. Mr. Griffin: A joint rsolution to authorize and empower the Governor to appoint a commission to investi gate and report upon the financial condition of the county of Colleton and to provide for the compensation of said commission. RHODEGRUBER. Round, Jan. 26,—Special: Thurs day afternoon the /friends of Mrs. Mary Rhode and Mr. N. B. Gruber of Maple Cane were suprised to learn of their marriage, which took place at the home of the bride, in the presence of a few relatives and friends. Rev. L. B. Ackerman per formed the ceremony. Mrs. Rhode was Miss Mary Jaques, daughter of 0. W. Jaques, Mrs. Jaques is Mr. Gruber’s sister, his seebnd wne. Mr. Gruber has also been married twice—his first wife being Mr. Jaques daughter. This makes Mr. Gruber Mr. J aqua's son- in-law. and brother-in-law. Will some one kindly inform us what re lation their children will be? The commamity al! wish Mr. and Mrs. Gruber the very best of suemss. Wt RAVE FIRE LAHMES. Little Eulalee would have been seven years of age at her birth day, July 6th. She was a general favorite among her playmates, and was loved by all who knew her for her cheerful disposition and kindness of heart. The Presbyterian Sunday school met Sunday afternoon, adopted ap propriate resolutions and adjourned out of respect for its faithful little member. Among the many beauti ful floral tributes was one from this Sunday school. The funeral ^ras conducted at the residence of her parents Monday morning at 10:90 o’clock^ by Rev. F. A. Drennan church, after arga n umber 1 friends of the family) The remains n to the cemetery in- The pall bearers ware B. G. Hyne, W. A. Gruber. R. L. Fraser," P. J. Lucas, B. B. Benton and I. M. Ftshbuxne. Mim Gladys, her aistar. who bed been attending the coH—e for Women in CLOSING A DISPUTE. Editor Press and Standard: W’e regret very much to have to intrude upon your space in the columns of your paper, inasmuch as we said we would have no more to say to Mr. Breland, however because of the criticism and personal abuse that he uses, we cannot refrain from giving him some information. He seeks to evade the question involved and tries to exonerate himself with the fact that one of us, J. S. Jordan, had a little unfortunate accident to be fall him several years age, which he puts as his adage. We heard of another adage when the doctor wanted tc make a nice little bill and keep his patient sick so that he could km o ciock oy xvev. r. of tfcr. Presbyterian which, followed by a er of miatfres ’ and la; derddta T|wf. idf it’s firs, w the fob firs-fighton summoned Monday msnta The satin UR deeply with the < of their 1 ” w home make several more visits, and Bre land wanted a little pocket change and lost his papers and made several more visits to Waltjerboro, and pays himself out of the little manager's pay ,in their absence, and says that if we will have the State to pay him for this he would return our money. If he can with his excessive overflow of brains, explain or even say, that the managers are any more respon sible for his losing his papers than the State we will send him the little he has not already taken. His los ing the.papers proved to be a paying business for Mr. Breland, as he was only entitled to $1.00 per day for the work he agreed to do, but for his extra tix days he pays himself $2.00 per day, but then how could a man of Mr, Breland,s brains and ability afford to even work for that much. He would have you believe that Jor dan is *n jdiot. Suppoeeheis canyou conceive of a worse thing than a real mnart man like Breland t# r ^ f *g from a hmatic. 10 doubt the first S blac pap be had over had. Now min the beginning we asked for 1, out wfcrt d •A. - ptmtoMthAI lfTh>ffpgr jy j —^— —a. did Wf get, snation that counting up his trips to Walterboro; so many because the boxes were stolen, wjiose fault was that? We suppose ne was the man to have the keys or if he was doing his duty, he would have seen that they were *ecure. Any rate they were stolen and put on six extra diys. Then for this extra time, because of his carelessness, the managers and clerks of the various precincts of the county had to pay him some $12.00, He lays great stress oh .our hasty response in sending our claims again after they had been stolen, then jumps the other way and seems to be very much annoyed because of the fact that the managers at Ruffin were late in sending their claims, so any man with an ounce of sense would readily see that we put him to as little trouble as any of the mana gers by his own words. Now then Mr. Breland, we will tell you something that you had too much brain to understand; we have written to the Comptroller General and submit here with a copy of his letter: Columbia. Jan. 18, 1909. Gentlemen,—I am in receipt of your letter of the 17th in which you ask to he advised if the Board of Election Commissioners have any right to deduct pay from the mana gers and clerka of General Election. I be£ to say that they have no au thority to charge for service unless it is a matter of agreement between the managers and commissioners, except the exchange charged by the bank for collection. Very truly. A. W. Jones. Comptroller General. Now then Mr. Breland, a man with as much brain * as you have ought to understand the Comptroller Gen. words, and you cannot say that you had any such agreement with os, if you were to say so you would be untrue. Now then Mr. Breland, you tried to intimate that we could not understand or did not have sense enough to underfland your frivolous explanation, but hope you will gather your witaandyou will find that we were seeking by what au thority you could diacount our claims. We do not suppose that the Comp- troUgr General has lost any of Ms HENDERSONVILLE CHIPS. Hendersonville, Jan. 25,— Special ?—Editor Press and Stan dard :—It may not be amiss for one to aive a few items of inter est in and around our progressive little town. Hendersonville has long been a noted summer resort, it being the nearest point to Combahee nee planters living on their plantains in winter, can iisk to build summer homes. Hence at thia season of the year the popu lation ta somewhat thinned out. Hut aside from the migratory part of the population, then is a good by number of permanent residents here. i'he spirit of progress is in evi- deuce. There has recently b;en put iu operation oue Saw-mill, cotton gins and grist-mill com bined. Also a machine shop with grist-mill. We have four stores, two black smith shops, post office, one church, and a graded school with an efficient, progressive teacher, who by his earnestness is work ing *0 make it a High School, two doctors, one preacher and a magistrate. Among the new buildings near ing completion, l would mention that of our hustling young mer chant, Mr. T. S. Boynton, whose hou*e will soon be ready for oc cupancy. Also the Methodist parsonage on an adjoining lo; to the church,promises to be a plain, but commodious, comfortable building. The building committee, con sisting of Dr. H. A. Willis Chair man, and Mr. $• A. and E. A. Marvin, have raised iu cash and by subscription material suffici ent for the building and are pushing to completion the work, which when finished, will not only be a credit to the Hender sonville circuit, but an acquisi tion to the town, a comfot table home for the pastor, and a valu able piece of property. Correspoudent. The following are the first to en ter The Press and Standard’s great contest. Of course* this is but a starter there will be many others. Now is the time to start: Lee F. Berry. Smoaks 24,990 Miss Willie Miller Cottagoville.22,845 Rev. U. W. Burgess Ruffin 11 ; 135 Miss Sal lie McTeer Walter 10,925 Miss Pearl Berry, Ruffin No 1 . 7000 Miss I^iurie Drummond. Wal. . 6500 (’. P. Fishburne. Walterboro,... 5250 I). L. Smith. Walterboro 4000 G. L. Smoak. Ruffin No. 2 4000 Harvey Griffin. Ruffin No. 1... 3750 J. B. DuBois. Islandton, 3200 Miss Mamie I^ne, Bryan 3200 T L Martin. Ruffin,.. 3085 Miss Kate Ramsey Green Pond, 2700 Miss Dora Bishop. Ruffin. 2560 P. W. Leach. Walterboro 2055 Phil M. Padgett. Williams, 2000 Miss Lillie Halford, Wal 2000 Miss Mattie Herndon, Stores .. 1950 Miss Susie Hiott. Walterboro,.. 1700 P. S. Hill, Round, 1700 Miss Pearl Beach, Stoves 1505 Paul K. Crosby, Ruffin 1500 Andrew W’alker, Ruffin, 1500 Miss Barbara Jaques, Cot’ville.. 1500 W. D. Givens. Islandton, 1500 Mrs. Mabel Hiers, Stokes 1250 Miss Dollye Price. Walterboro, 1200 Miss Eva Ihley, Hend’vlle, 1160 Miss Cora Yarn. Ruffin 1045 W. W. Bryan, Ruffin 1000 Mrs Mamie Crosby, Ruffin 1000 Calvin G. Saunders, Stokes 1000 Mrs J no A Carter. Smoaks. 515 Mrs. Ella Herndon, Ruffin 505 J Kierce Getsinger. Ruffin 505 Andrew Bunton, Hend’ville,.... 500 F. S. Dixon, Walterboro, 500 J. S. Jordin and Pals. ENTERTABUKRT SriSSrH dadkflhank JkS&MK aod 10 HONOR ROLL FOR THE RENDER SONVILLE GRADED SCHOOL Hendersonville, Jan 26th:— Editor Frew and Standard: The following it the honor roll for the month doaJng Jan- 16th, in Handaiaonville Graded School: 0th grade, Heggie Marvin, 06: 0th gradt, Laland Draw, 06; 7th grade, Myrtle itarfiji, 06; 6th grade, Mclver McTher, 06; 8th grade Vera Marvin, 06; 8th grade Rena Mafrin, 06; 8th grade. Both 'Marvin, 06: M grade. Van Bam*.' H; M grade. Gledia fStfe - ro/, RUFFIN ITEMS. Ruffin, Jan. 26, Editor Press and Standard:—Please allow me space in your valuable papei and I will give you a few dots. The farmers of this section are preparing for another crop. Baas Walker was in our communi ty last Sunday. Arthur Herndon visited friends in oar neighborhood last week. Mr. sod Mrs. Lee Herndon snd children spent last Saturday and Sunday with Mr. A. Walker at Pine Grove. v\ e are very sorry to say that Mrs. Hetty Hudson is not improving. J E. Herndon happened to a very bad accident last week by turning ovei a keg of nails and finrt his leg very badly. However he Is getting along nicely. Little Essie Herndon who was very ill last week is better now. Mrs. J. E. Hudson spent Wednes day very pleasantly with Mrs Ella Herndon. Janie Hudson spent last Sunday with Alma and Marie Carter Mrs. Dunnie Breland and chil dren visited Mrs. Mary Carter last week. Wishing you a happy N?w Year, Brown Eyes. DOTS FROM ROUND. Round, Jan. 24, Special: Allow me spaoe in your paper for a few items. Mrs. W. F. Hill visited Walterboro last Saturday. Mr. Joe Kogcr and daughter, Miss Edith visited Cottageville last week. Tilman Utaey and sister spent Sunday with friends at Givbani. Mr. Nathan Gruber and Mrs. Mary Rboad were happily married Thurs day afternoon. Miss Mena Reynolds and brother spent Sunday with Miss Dora Saun ders. Rev. Inabnet preached a very good sermon st Rebobotn Sunday after noon. There was a large congrega tion present. With best wishes to the Press snd Standard, Brown Eyes. Visdiift ialmatj* mA* kr CANIE BRANCH SCHOOL To The Press and Standard; The Gsnie Branch school under the management of Pro! W. B. Nettles has given perfect aetisfiftotion to nil of the patrons, nd we hope to secure him to tenoh oar school next yenr. Mr. Eli Smith of Hons Pen has moved into bis estnhllahnmnt In this tkm. W. E. O’Qoi., School Tnat*. A mm • lookino fbranrd 1 mrai tf sSSTl A* Ml m jforrf ; \- v V>Li " vt . -4 • $ V-