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V X ®k and Standard. VOL. XXXI. WALTHRBORO, S. C. JULY 21, 1009. NO. 4S S. S. CONVENTION. SEABROOK-PALMER THE FIRST ANNUAL CONVENTION 0F J POPULAR COUPLE WILL WED TODAY THE COLLETON COUNTY SUNDA1 SCHOOL CONVENTION. M W. BROW N AT HOT SPRINGS. ARK- OTHER NEWS. PROHIBITION DEPARTMENT EDITED BY JAS. E. PEURIFOY ANDW. W. SMOAK. JR. CAPT. TRACY_ WRITES MRS. PETER LARSEN DEAD HE IS OPPOSED TO THE BOND ISSUE. DIED LAST THURSDAY MORNING AT The first annual convention of the Colleton County Sunday School As sociation will be held at the Metho dist church here July 29th and 30th. Adams Hun. July 15.—Editor Press and Standard: Pleasant re freshing showers and a fall in the temperature, encourages me to A very interesting program has j further inflict the public, and try been arranged for there two days, the patience of our long suffering contemplating services Thursday editor and his staff with some of our morning. Thursday afternoon and Thursday evening, Friday morning, Friday afternoon and Friday even ing. This is a convention of all the Sunday school of Colleton county, and will be held for the purpose of helping all the these Sunday schools. The commiUee in charge of the arrangements has spared no pains in getting a program which will be of interest to ever} Sunday school worker in the county. They will be assisted in their work by Mr J. M. Wav. General Secretary of the South Carolina Sunday School Association, Miss Grace W Vandiver, Elementary Superintendent of the South Caro lina Sunday School Association. Mr Simeon Hyde and Mr H. L. Erck- mann of Charleston. Pastors, superintendents and teachers of all the Sunday schools in the county are urged to attend, along with to delegates from each school. The delegates and all those who wish to attend will be enter tained in the homes of the people of Walterboro. \n especial feature of this conven tion will be the mu sic, which will be jn charge of an experienced and ac complished musician assisted by the best talent of the county, organists and choirs of all doings down here. Miss Mattie Sanders. who has A STRONG LETTER BY P. M. P. I am no longer in doubt as to what I am going to do in reference to the coming ugust election. My duty in the premises is plain and I am go ing to vote for prohibition. For a time I reasoned in this wise: Prohi bition will not prohibit; whiskey will be shipped here by express and sold churches in Walterboro are especi ally invited to meet at the Methodist church on Tuesday evening, July 27th, for the purpose of rehearsing the music for the convention. The following hymns have been been visting Mrs S. J returned home. Her dulcet voice which filled the air for three weeks is greatly missed by more than one. Miss Bessie Barnwell is the charm ing hostess of two very attractive young ladies. Miss Edith Oliver of Beuna Vista, Ga., and Miss Bessie Rivers of Mt. Pleasant. M. W. Brown left last Monday for Hot Springs. Ark. Mrs. Brown and children, S. J. Rumph, J. G. Palmer, Prof. E. B. Bellinger, Joe Taylor, Gordon Taylor, accompanied him as far as Charleston. They went down in the automobiles, Mr. Taylor bringing Mr. Brown’s machine back. Mrs. Malloy is visiting her sister, Mrs. M. W. Brown. Mrs. Ada Barnwell and her grand daughters. Misses Marion and Bid- die Brown have returned from a pleasant visit to Mrs. Edmund Bellinger at Hendersonville. T. D. Ravenel left Sunday to join his family at Chapel Hill, N. C. Miss Annie Ravenel has gone on a visit to her old home at Pinopolis. Miss Jenrtie Ilderton, who has The‘been visting Mrs. E. L. Chassenau the has returned .to her home at Sum- Rumph ht,! W "Wind tigers" thus fostering a same merville. Mr. and Mrs. Osborn Barnwell and children of Charleston, are visiting their mother, Mrs. Ada Barnwell. Miss Nonie Dodd is visiting rela- selected for use on this occasion, and tives in St. Matthew this week. are taken from the consolidated numbers of the Gospel Hymns: 416, 440,281,511,514,467,45. 159, 272, 298, 373, 428, 429, 441, 444, 361, 518, 566, 584, 626, 340. 261, 448, Miss Nancy Newton left Saturday morning for a visit of length to relatives at Stokes. Mrs. W. Nowton and Master Berkley visited relatives at Ravenel last Wednesday. Rev G. H. Newton and Miss New ton visited relatives in Dorchester OUR AIMS. 1. To increase interest and effi ciency in Bible study. last week. 2. To secure accurate Sunday invitations are out 'announcing school statistics for the State. the marriage of Miss Seabrook and 3. To encourage the organization , J- G. Palmer to take place at Rock- of Teachers’Union. AilleJuly 21, at the Presbyterian 4. To encourage intelligent grad- c h urc h- ing in all our Sunday schools. This is an event around which 5. To promote the observance of much interest is centered. The Rally Day. ^ v bride-elect is well known here, and 6. To secure tee best methods of has won many friends by her Sunday school management and ! charming manners, who are pleased Bible teaching. ! to welcome her as a resident of our 7. To encourage the building of town. The groom is a popular rice properly equipped Sunday school planter and is too well known to rooms. 8. To stimulate interest in and attendance on all church services. 9. To emphasize teacher training and encourage the organization of teacher training classes. 10. To extend the cradle roll and need an introduction to the public. Our popular editor was a welcomed visitor to our town Friday, and while we owe the pleasure of hia visit to business alone, we were glad to see the light of his coun tenance upon any pretext. He the home department to ever}- Sun- stopped at the popular and hospita- 1 ble home of S. J. Rumph. Come day school. 11. To secure the attendance of men and women in our Sunday schools by promoting the organized adult Bible class movement. 12. To secure the organization of Sunday school associations in all the counties and townships of the State. 13. To encourage the teaching of temperance and Missions in every Sunday school. 14. To stimulate interest in again, for our “Farmers Union” is bound to become a flourishing lodge, so says the judge. More Anon. DEATH OF ONLY CHILD. Cottageville, July 19,—Special: This community was saddened Fri day by the death of little Glenarvan Ackerman, son of Dr and Mrs H. W. Ackerman. This was the only child weekly teachers meetings lor the 1 0 f his parents and they worshipped study of the lessons and the disces- the little fellow. He waa a year and sions of Sunday school interests. u little over nine months old, and 15. Secure daily ‘Bible reading had been ill only a few weeks. The among church members by Attend- en d came at noon Friday, and the ing the membership of th§ interna tional Bible reading department. 16. To encourage soul winning by promoting the observance of Sunday school week and decision day. ICE CREAM FESTIVAL Thera will be an ice cream festi val given at Mewv'Ue school house ^eaneaday evening. July 28. Pro- ««eds will be devoted to Black Creek Btptiat Mraooage fund. interment took place Saturday morn ing at the Cottageville cemetery. The funeral waa conducted by Rev. J. P. Inabinet. in thepras6»ee of a large number of relatives and friends. The entire community sympathizes deeply with the bereaved parents. Rev. Luther M. Hiers who has been holding a 10 daya meeting at Evergreen, returned to Me hone to day in Minouri. disregard for law and at the | time defeating the intent and pur- ! porses of the prohibtion law. Thinks I, it will give citizens of other states privileges that our own people do not enjoy and enrich them : at our expense Colleton county is now ont of debt, I went on, and we have the dispensary to thank in part I for this and besides we need money for school purposes and to defray expenses of the county. Then too the Devil whispered, “Why look at old Georgia: she has just had to use the tax on her beer to pay the legislators who voted for prohibi tion.” The foregoing is conceeded, but I am going to vote for prohibi tion. Colbton county is out of debt, l 1 • only in a money sense. She owes something to the homes she has dastroyed, by the licensing of this ’ monster, to the lives blotted out and ; to the s >u!s damned, that only a for giving G n! can pay. She also owes 'something to the living that she cannot pay until she arises in the majesty of her might and votes this accursed institution from her bor ders. I hold. Mr Editor, that it is more honorable to be in debt than to come out in such a questionable way. In olden times, Mr Editor, wrath visited upon individuals or cities was said by Biblical writers to be punish ment from God. But not so today. We see towns destroyed and say it was due to upheavals in nature, but surely if God was in the one He was also in the other. “For God moves in a mysterious way. His wonders to perform. He plants His footprints in the wave. And rides upon the storm.” God metes out punishment in His Providence to cities and individuals alike, as it is deserved. Hundreds of people in old Colleton today owe their disgrace or downfall to the in fluence of whiskey. Hundreds more will go the same way, and there gre still hundreds notwithstanding all of this, who will march to the polls at the coming election and vote for the dispensary. And many of these may still live to see their daughters runined, sons murdered or homes destroyed as a result thereof. For it is one of the laws of nature as the law of God, that “Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” Fathers can you say positively that you will not be one of these? Your only safe course is to vote for prohibition, vote for morality in stead of money, for justice instead of gain. Having behind you the best interest of your county, the support of all good people, as well as the smile and approval of Almighty God, remembering that the dispensary is in voge with the devil and if you vote for it you are a corporator with His Majesty. If I sell a man a drink of whiskey, .and he in turn commit murder, I am a partner in the crime. Mr Editor, when there was an attempt to cut us off from old Col leton and join us with Branchville, those out of the district to be cut off could not understand our feel ings in the matter. Not that we feared the good people of Branch ville for we did not, nor did we fear the raise in taxes, but we love Col leton. We love thy name.' * “We love thy rocks and rills, > Thy woods and temple hills. Our heart with rapture thrills;” But if Colleton county must still have blood money to educate her eons and daughters. If she moat | take from ths month of hunger to 13 cents per capita for school pur poses is revenue with a vengeance mostly vengeance. THOUGH HE SIGNED PETITION ASKING FOR ELECTION. The article this department by P. M. F. is one of the best we have seen. Read it. Several very fine contributions to this department are being held for future use. It is said that according to the act under which the election will be held August 17. the dispensaries will be closed four weeks instead of two. In Colleton they will be closed forever. Let there be no hard feelings over this prohibition fight. Let it be kept, as started, on a high plane. A good way to do this is to avoid personalities. It is not the men we are after, it is the traffic. “An example of prohibition’’ said Rev Cauthen, “was what waseffeted by the manhood of the municipal authorities of Walterboro in closing the dispensary here Christmas. Lit tle girls gratified their motherly instincts with their Xmas dolls be^ cause the father could not spend his money for liquor; little boys, had wagons for the same reason” now. isn’t this true? TRAGEDY IN TEN ACTS. Time: July.—1909. Place: Doctor Shop, Drug Store, Dispensary. Persons: Sick Wiftj and drunkard. Husband. Druggist, Dispenser, and Physician, (a true story). Act 1.—A man and wife come to t^wn, she hunting health: he, liquor. Act 2.—Wife consults Physician who prescribes for her ailments. Act 3.- Prescriptions would cost $1 at Drug Store. Husband bor rows $1 of friend. Act 4.—He goes to dispensary. Act 5.-65 cents he spends for liquor. Act 6.—Husband half drunk asks Druggist to fill Prescription for 35 cents! ^ Act 7.—Druggist refuses. Act 8.—Sick Wife and Drunken Husband go Home (?). Act 9.—Drunken Husband will vote for retaining Dispensary. Would sick wife ? Act 10.—The manhood of Colleton county, will outlaw this hellish traf fic in Drunkenness, Degradation and Disease: She expects every MAN to do his duty. DISPENSARY ELECTION. THE LAST CALL SENT OUT BY AUDI TOR WEST. By direction of Governor Ansel, dispensary Auditor West is sending out the “last call for breakfast,” as it were, regarding the great drought that is to fall over the State like a sad, sad pall on the morning of Au gust 3. when every dispensary in the State must close it doors tight to stay closed till the morning of the 18th, the day after the election provided for by the act of the last legislature. From the 18th to the 15th of No vember all counties in the State now wet will remain wet-including those which go dry in next month’s elec tion, the dispensaries of the coun ties voting dry remaining open to dispose of their stock. On the morn ing of the 15th of November those dispensaries voted out will close and go out of business, while the others will continue to do business. maintain her government, we are ready to be cut off, nor will we shed a tear at the parting. Better by far, Mr Editor, that our boys and girls grow up in ignorance and learn their letters in Heaven than to read Greek in Hell. P. M.P. Williams. July 19. Mr. Editor, - I, along with others who have the interests of the town at heart, am somewhat confounded at the ordinance published in your columns for the election to bond the town. This ordinance is founded, or presumably so, on a petition filed be fore Town Council, which is referred to in a preamble published with copy of the Ordinance. The Ordinance, 1 as published, is as follows: “Ordain ed, ordered and directed that a special election be held in the said town of Walterboro on the 23rd day of July, 1909, on the question of is suing the said bonds for the purpo*?e aforesaid, such election to be con ducted in accordance with the pro visions of the law. That said elec tion shall be held at the City Hall on the day aforesaid, and the polls therefore shall open at eight o’clock a. m. and close at four o’clock p. rn. and at such election the electors favoring the issue of said bonds shall vote ballots with the words “For the issuing of bonds Yes.” ‘X X X X. That at such, election only those qualified shall be allowed to vote, and the registration books for said election sLiall-Ge open twen ty days before the election and re main open for a period of ten day.” It would seem from this adver tisement that the whole amount must l)e expended in “the erection of a school building,” and I must confess that Walterboro does not re quire a twenty thousand dollar school building just now in view of surrounding circumstances. The Constitution of 1895 provides that the town shall onfy issue bonds to 1 the extent of eight per centum of the assessed value of the taxable property therein. The taxable property of the town, as shown by the auditor’s books is only $316,815. Eight per cent, on that would be $25,345.20. By the election, if it should be carried, we propose to bond the town for $20,000.00, which is very nearly our limit. If it should become necessary to further bond the town, we could only issue $5345,- 20, and a second issue of bonds. Do we suppose that we could get par for such issue? We would have a very fine school building, and noth ing else. Does that presuppose that property would enhance in value? I, for one, am doubtful. And I am so doubtful that I propose to vote against the issue of the bonds ”for the purpose aforesaid,” though I signed the petition. I am in favor of educational progression, but I do not propose to handicap.my town in so doing. I sec very grave errors, or so they appear to me, in the election which it seems that the favorers are so sure of carrying that they have already advertised in The News and Courier, that a certain broker in the city of Charleston has bonds of the town of Walterboro bearing the rate of interest, and fall ing due at the time when by the Ordinance just referred to these bonds should fall due. I do not think that it is by any means a cer tainty. and I propose by any means in my power to prevent silch issue, the more especially that the town of Walterboro is now free of debt, and we propose to keep it so except for some purpose not comprised in the ordihance aforesaid. C. C. Tracy. 1.30 O CLOCK -WAS NATIVE OF DENMARK. The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Larsen were grieved to learn of the death of the latter at home here Thursday morning at 1:30 o’clock. They have been residents of our town for only a few months, Mrs. L^arsen having been a native of Denmark. S. C. She had been ill of cancer for about four weeks before her summons came. The funeral was held Saturday afternoon at 4 o’clock in the Metho dist Church. Mrs. Larsen was a member of the Luthern Church, but not having a minister of that faith present, Rev. H. J. Cauthen conduct ed the funeral services. Her re mains were enterred at Live Oak cemetery. ^ Those who acted were C. A. Eckardt. J. D. vonLehe, R. L. Jones and A. A. Patterson, Jr. Mrs. Larsen was forty years of age, and was survived by her hus band. four sons and one daughter, all of whom were present at the funeral. Her children are George of New York, Herbert of Charleston, Theodore, Loper, and Ruth of Wal terboro. as pallbearers P. M. Murray, Fraser. E. M. NEW TRUSTEES. The County Board of Education have appointed several new trustees to take the place of those resigned. Commissions have been issued the following new trustees: District. No5,—S. P. J. Garris, Jr. and J. B. Smith, vice F. J. Ber ry and J. L* Smoak. District, No. 7—V. E. McCormick vice B. B. Goodwin, resigned. District, No. 15,—C. B. Linder and L. J. Messervey, vice H. D. Dodd and C. H. Platt, resigned. District, No. 3U,—B. R. Bennett, vice H. W. Carter, resigned. ^ District, No. 31.—Paul K. Crosby, vice George Crosby, resigned. PROHIBITION CAMPAIGN FUND- Previously acknowledged $77.89 Zion S. S.. W. R. Beach. Supt. 2 00 Bethel S. S., C. M. Grace. “ .75 Pleasant Grove S. S., C. L. Langdale, Supt 1.00 Smoaks Baptist S. S., J. L. Lyons, 1 Supt 2.90 Phil M. Padgett, Williams 1.00 Walterboro Baptist S. S., N. G. Morrall, Supt "... 2.80 .$87.74 Mrs. J. B. visiting in Monday. who has been returned home MRS. WESLEY DRAWDY DEAD. Mrs Wesley Drawdy of Ritter, died July 7, 1909. She j'”as bom June 22, 1855. Mrs. Drawdy was a great sufferer for 14 years. But she never complained, as she was a true and de voted Christian; was a member of Dr’s Creek church;Jwas laid to rest in Ebenezer Cemetery, Rev. D. K. Rhode conducting the funeral ser vices. Mrs Drawdy was a Miss At kinson, adopted daughter of Mr. and Mrs Jacob Hall. She leaves a devoted husband and four children, two boys and two girls, and many relatives and friends to mourn her loss. Mr and Mrs C. W. Drawdy. FARNERDIXON. » The marriage of Mias Pearl V. Farmer and Mr. John J. Dixon took place quietly at the home of the bride’s mother, 740 Henry street east, at 9 o’clock Thursday night, July 15. The Rev. J. S. Wilder, pastor of the South Side Baptist church, per formed the ceremony. The wedding was attended by relatives and a few close friends. Mr. and Mrs. Dixon will reside at No. 114 Oglethorpe aveftu^esst. Miss Farmer is the daughter^ Mrs. M. E. Farmer. Mr. Mr. DUorf is the manager for the Louis-Gallaher Company.—Savannah Press. JAMES HENRY RICE HERE. Jas. Henry Rice* Jr.. Secretary of the Audubon Society of South Caro lina, was in town Friday in the in terest of his society. Mr. Rice is a very enthusiastic member of this so ciety, and will shortly make an effort to effect an organization in' this connty. He has been invited to be present at the educational mass meeting to be held here August2Sth, which time he will organize. Mr. Rice secured several members during his visit here, and it is thought that he will have no trouble in getting a large numbor to join later. * .1 it j * iMiii slia f*r J74 *■ a :,