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Cb<¥ress anb ^lanbarli
THIRTY SECOND YEAR.
^V;-W. SMOAKt^
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
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ALWAYS II ABYAICE.
Pabltated mt%rw WedoMdsy.
»t Wtlterboro, 8. C.
Entered M the Wnlterboro, 8. C.
Fontofflce m •econd-claM noatter March
t, 1879, under Act of March'3, 1870
WEDNESDAY. SEPT. 1. 1909.
The financial report of the county
superintendent of education in this
issue should be carefully studied.
THE EDUCATIONAL RALLY.
We cannot but wonder at times
what the future of Colleton county
will be, when we think of the seem
ing indifference of her [>eople to the
• great cause of education. Last
Saturday there was held at the
Court House an “Educational
Rally,” in furtherance of a plan by
our efficient young State Superin
tendent of Education. He had sent
some of the leading educators in the
State here to try to aid the people
of Colleton county in bettering the
condition of her schools. Resides
there was much of our ablest home
talent present for the s^me purpose.
Yet only about seventy-five persons
of all ages were present, and fifteen
per cent of these had to be present,
being on the program! Fifty per
cent of those present were from one
to two and a half hours late, and
sixty-per cent left before the exer
cises wer.’concluded. So if it were
not for those who will read the re
port of the meeting in The Press
and Standard, we would say the
rally did hut precious little good.
1 here should have been present
(11 every school official in the coun
ty, (2) every teacher (3) every
t
patron who wishes to see better
educational advantages given our
children (4) every child who really
is striving to 1m* educated.
The people of W alterbont alone
should have tilled the Court House.
Now. people of Colleton county,
there is a screw loose somewhere.
We must find it ar.d see that it is
tightened. . What is the matter? Is
the season for this indifference with
the county officials? Is it with the
officials in the districts? Is it the
teachers? Is it with the patrons?
Or are the schools in Colleton
county all that could be desired?
Are they so perfect that learned
educators can offer no suggestions
that would result in improvement?
Statistics show that this county has
almost the shortest school term in
tlje State, and that our percentage
of illiterates is among the largest.
People of Colleton county, this is
a serious matter. We must awake
to our duty, or ours will be the
responsibility for the murder of in
tellects being committed. A fa
mous writer has said: “That one
cnild should die ignorant that has
capacity for knowledge-this I cal 1
tragedy.” Oh, the tragedies in
Colleton county!
option; they prized its benefits; they
indorsed its principles; they won
victories under its provisions. W hen
they now attempt to repudiate the
principlp of local self-g(.v r.irrent
they are not acting in good faith
with those who have dealt with them
fairly.—The State. n .
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If the retention of liquor in the
six counties that have voted to retain
it would not affect any of the thirty-
six “dry” counties, then we would
say that South Carolina may not so
badly need State-wide prohibition
Unfortunately, however,- the pres
ence of dispensaries in any of these
counties will, to a large extent, de
stroy the effects of prohibition in the
adjoining counties.
The converse proposition, howev
er, is not true. W’hen “Marlboro and
Greenwood counties were the only
dry counties”, their Deing dry did
not affect the adjoining counties, ex*
cept for good. Now in Colleton coun
ty, for example, the people cannot
have the kind of prohibition they
would like to have, for the reason
that Charleston and Beaufort being
“wet” w’ill create a zone of satura
tion, because, unfortunately, there
will be a capillary attraction. We are
going to have trouble down next to
Beaufort county on account of the
dispensary at Yemassee. If these
counties retaining dispensaries would
show that they wished to aid their
sister counties in enforcing the law
of their choice, and remove those ‘ court h^rVin", I wil, sell at |uib] ic out.
dispenaries in contiguous territory, cry before the courthouse in Walter-
there would be some reason to feel 8epteinl»er next,
. . , , , (*>th day, 1909) within the legal
tolerant of their choice and not wish hours ()f 6ale< tht , following described
to force State wide prohibition at ! Realty:
this time. Bu^look at North Augus j 8 *f“ ate
Li . , , the county and State aforesaid, con-
ta ami watch .the officials of Beau- taming eight hundred (NOO) acres,
fort county and set* if they remove more or less and Iwundeo, north by
the Yemassee dispensary! No, these 'J * ll8iier » * tnown 148 ^ e P*
* herd tract; east by lands formerly of
Peter Kentz, Handy Henderson and
AN ENJOYABLE DANCE
A most enjoyable dance was given
Thursday evening by the young men
of the town —Music was furpished
-by the r Rh* d
After spending a very pleasant
evening, in spite of the heat, the
dance w-a* broken up at 2 o’clofl)c.
Even then the young people seemed
loath to leave.
The chaperons were Mesdames
C. A. Fraser, Jno. F. Lucas. J. C
McLeod, C. C. Anderson.
The following couples were pres
ent: ■ 1 ‘ .
D. B. Peurifoy with Miss Ellen
Duval; M. G. Gruber with Miss Ruth
Price; S. G. Price with Miss Ray
Jones; Paul Baxley with Miss Annie
Laraen; C. H. Fraser with Miss Edith
Lucas; Charlie Anderson with Miss
Emmie Strobe); W. G. Hyme with
Miss Dollye Price; Vernon Padgett
with Min Florence Black: Fuller
Fripp with Miss Lillian Farmer; Ben
Sanders with Miss Essie Hyme;
Harry Anderson with Miss Minnie
Price; Hughes Murray with Miss
Hattie VonLehe.
Messrs A. J. Anderson. A. S.
Karesh, - John F. Lucas, Harold
Fripp, Herbert Anderson, John
Crosby and C. A. Fraser.
MASTER'S SALE
STATE OS SOUTH CAKOLINA,
Colleton County,
In the Common Pleas.
P. W. Risher, et al,
y?.
Ruth Rilber.
By virture of the decree of above
' NOTICf Of ELECTION
W litre**, api'lu-atioo ha* t* 1 en mad*
to ibe Count* Board of tulncadoii lor
V ol.etOD Comity to order an •iartion to
B. (i Bank NcLool Dtatrict No. 47. ou tl»<»
qaeatioa of votioif an additloual fa*
•vT-trf-3-mWla-ia satrt DBtrttd for sri.o i
counties will work for “revenue
and doubtless dispensaries will be es-
Mauldin: south by lands of Mauldin,
tablished to catch the trade of the bj lM ' 1 ' lom * rl 5' of K D
“dry” counties, caring not for the Terms of sale—One half cash, bal-
efforts to mak< the the law prohibit CDCe in one Vfar, secured by bond and
• mortgage of the property sold, bear
in tnem. ~ j r g mteresT'.at 8 per cent jier annum
By all means let us have State-wide from day of sale, with option tp pur-
prohibition. If the problem of en- c ^ lii8e,r P a Y' n f? Purchaser
- . | to pay lor papers,
forcing it in any county is tob hard ^ (; Henderson
for that county, on account of polit- Master.
ical machines or personal favoritism *^ u P l, 8 t 14, I'.i'
by those in authority, let the State "
step in and make the law effective. MASTER'S SALE
Metropolitan police can aid wonder
WELL, WHY Nor
Replying to an inquiry, Editor W.
W. Smoak. Jr., of Walterboro. said:
“I w °uld favor a State-wide prohi
bition law at the next seasion of the
Legislature for the reason that what
i» good law for thirty-seven counties
■hould be good law for forty -two.”
According to Mr Smoak’s logic
when Marlboro and Greenwood were
the only dry coon ties in South Caro
lina, they aould have been forced by
the Legislature to get into the wet
column.
• According to the same principle,
Congieas should enact a national
divorce law, requiring South Caro-
linato cease being the one exception.
Thirty years ago, prohibitionists
in this State contended for local
fully where the community gets too
big to enforce a law unless it meets
with the peculiar ideas of those in
authority in such community.
W’e fear the logic of The State is
at fault or its reasoning bad when it
strives to carry its "local option”
theory so far as to include the di
vorce law. Local option can only be
effective in dealing with questions
such as. these when the units are
large. The county is too small a unit
and already we have carried the lo
cal option theory too far. Then there
is little in common between divorce
and prohibition there is. more kin
ship between divorce and soloonism,
both destroy homes. By all means
let South Carolina as a whole outlaw
both these gigantic evils: or would
The State have the divorce question
too submitted to the counties? .
STATE OF SOUT CAROLINA,
Colleton County.
In the Cemmon PI,-as,
The Combahee Fertilizer Co.,
vs.
DIEDATBLUFFTON-
Mr* Uhrlsiioe Hiott, wife of .1 M Hiolt
of Blpfftos, died at her home there
Tburedav eveniug of laat week. Mr*
Hiott had been in failing health for
•ometimr, and *nccnmbed to an attack
of malarial fever, fhe was interred
Friday afternoon at Indian HIM Bapti*
church of Btnftton. The interment wa*
to have taken place at Doctor’s Creek,
but a* no oertifleate from her ph)*ician
nad been obtained, the body could not be
brought to Walterboro.
Mrs Hiott wa* C5years old, and leaves
kaslaid, this# tons aad font daughters
8be is also survived k by two brothers,
Senator J 8 Grlftin and Supervisor J O
Griftn, and ike following sister*: Me*-
dame* Henrietta Herndon, Harriet
Hiott and SneeaBa MorrK Mr aad Mrs
Hiott have been living at Bluff ion for
thirty years, aad their many frienda and
relative* in tbisoonnty will be pained to
learn of her death.
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A man who lives right has
more power iu bis silence thau
•ootbtM^hM by hia words.—i'hil-
J. W. Messervey, et al.
By virtue ol the Secret* of above
court herein, I will sell at public out
cry before the courthouse in Walter
boro, on Balesday in September next
(bth day, 1909), within the legal
hours, the following described Realty;
at risk of former puichaser, Mrs L W
Messervey:
All that certain piece, parcel or
tract of laud, situate in Adams Kuo
township, county and State aforesaid,
on the north side ol the public road
known as the “WiHtown road,” con
taining fifty (50) acres, more or less,
and bounded as follows: Northward
ly, eastward ly and w eat ward ly by
lands pf Annie Messervey, and sonth
wardly by the “Willtown road.”
Terms of sale one half cash, bal
ance payable in one year from day of
sale^ cured by bond of the purchaser
bearing interest at 7 per cent and a
mortgage of the property sold, said
mortgage to include the usual tax,
insurance and attorney’s fee clauses:
with privilege to purchaser to pay all
cash. Purchaser to jmy for papers.
C G Henderson,
Master.
August 14,1909.
rurpomr* aud a ptution pn-M-nud •ut.e-i
bj nns ttiird of the free holder* m **id
Diet net, praying mid election be onieret
It is ordered, under Section 120b of
tbe Code of Uivlc Lawa, 11102, that an
emotion be held Friday, Sept 10, HTii.
at Canuaday School houae. or other con
venient ptacu within *aid dutrict, and
that only thorn peraona who return real
or peraonal property for taxation, and
who exhibit their tax receipts and re
gifftratioa certificate* as required in’
seneral,elections, be allowed to vote At
aeld election, each elector In favor of tbe
proposed tax shall cast a ballot contain-
ing tbe words • For Additional Tax*’
printed or written thereon, and each
elector opposed to said additional tax
■hall vote a ballot containing the word*,
“Against Additional Tax" printed or
written thereon. . ^
Polls will be opened at It o'clock a. m.
aad closed at 4 o'clock p. m
T K Risher, J F Strickland and 8 J
Patrick, trustees of said district are
hereby appointed managers to conduct
•aid election.
"If the matority of the vote* cast in
»aid School District Khali be "For Ad
ditional Tax' and not ‘Against Addition
al Tax, tbe additional tax shail be
levied.''
Within ten davs after the election,
the above named manager* shall report
to this Board the result of tbe elect ion,
and fnioish them with the poll list, the ,
ballot box and all paper* appertaining 1
thereto
II W BLACK, SR,
J RICE DUDLEY,
W W sMOAK. JH.
Co. Bd ot Education Colleton County
Walterboro, 8. C., Aug* 28, 1V09
9 1 2t.
NOTICE Of ELECTION.
Whereas, application ha* been made
to tbe County Board of Education for
Colleton County to order an election in
8moak* School District No. 5, on tbe
question of voting an additional tax
levy ot 3 null* in Mid District for school
purposes and a petition presented signsfl
by one third of the free holders in said
District, praying »aid election tie ordered
It L ordered, under) Section 1208 of
the Code of^'ivil Laws. 1902, that rtu
e’ection be held Saturday, & pt. 11,1909,
at Smoaks School bouse, or other con
venient place within. Mid district, and
that only those persons who return rial
or personal property for taxati >n, and
who exhibit their tix receipts and re
gistration certificates as required in
general elections, be allowed to vote. At
eaid election, each elector in tavor of tbe
proposed tax shall cast a ballot contain
ing the words "For additional Tax”
printed or written thereon, and each
elector opposed to aald additional tax
shall vote a ballot containing the words,
"Against Additional Tax” primer! or
written thereon.
1‘olls will be opened «t 1 o’clock p m
and closed at 5 o'clock p, m
John B Smith, S P J Garris, .!r, and
II F Strickland, trustees of said district
are hereby appointed manageis to con
duct said election.
‘if the msjoiity of the votes cast in
said School District shall be "For Ad
ditional Tax' ami not ‘Against Adnirion-
al Tax,’ tbe additional tax shail be
levied."
Within ten days after the election,
the at*ove uamtd managers shail r**po;t
to this Board the result of the election,
and furnish them with the poll li* - , the
ballot boxes and ail papers appertaining
thereto.
H W BLACK. SR,
J RICE GODLEY
W W SMOAK JR.
Co. Bd. of Education Oodetou County
Wallet boro, S. C , Ang. 28, 1909.
9 1 2t
ifiret
Against Your tfoV^e
faitwSs££nt nder coIlar *■ • crime against your moot patient and*
Melt! Adjustable Hamden fodUrs
cow and prevent it. They are the beat and most humane collar ever
made bwauae of thU. Won’t wear out. Always keep their shape. Don’t
uf erfe< $£JS djuat ^ to th ® lM>rse * whether spring fat or fall poor
Make him pul! better with more load and keep him in perfect working Con
dition every day in the year. Distribute the draught evenly. Attached to
any harness. Easier than others to put on and take off. No straps or
buckles. Set easier and more perfectly comfortable. All wearing parts
.can be replaced for a few cents when worn out. „ * -w
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A. Wichman & Son
ON ELOCUTiON.
This finest of the arts is perhaps
receiving more attention toilay than
any other accomplishment: and by
virtue of the various modifications
of Delsartean principle, it is hard to
say to what it may not aspire in fu
ture. It has already become a valu
able means not only of social enter
tainment tits ostensible purpose! but; an or«.i!i:trv piece
of physical culture, ami even < f gestu:\*s in? toad.
been neglected with us is what is
called, in Boston and other metroi>o-
litan centers, reading, but which we
perhaps would call recitation, since
it is delivered without book. We
hear people object sometimes to
reciting the standard poems because
these may afford few of the gest
ures that they think so essential to
every rociration. They will 'h<>ose
tnnr almi's of
\ ‘readifig’ is a
moral and ethical trairuig. through recitation wh re bit' i»*\v <-e-*it•••■•<
the relation of expressnm to feeling, if any, are made, its charm in* in
But if we have no fault at all to Ueauty of enunciation, variety <>f
find with the theory as imagined by
the* highest artists, ttiere is some
what in practice now ami then
which we could wish that even the
mere amateur might strive to put
right.
t me, appreciative rendering ot the
mrtre, anti sympathetic insight into
the sentiment of the selection.
With a gifted reader, the expression
of the face and the whole derffeanor
contributes no little to the general
DR. WM. R. BARRON,
HENDERSONVILLE, S. C.
Wishes to announce the
opening of an office for
the practice of medicine
in this community. He is
boarding at Mr. J. A.
Marvin’s.
MASONIC MEETINGS.
NOTICE.
Trustees of the various school dis
tricts will please take notioe that do
teacher should be employed who does
Dot hold a teacher’s certificate. Teacher 1
accepting schools who do not hold such
oertifleate will not receive pay for
their service*. All teachers whose oer-
tlfiaatee are not on file in this ofilos will
settd them in for rsgieuatkm. ee no
claim will be approved ualem the oertlfl-
cate of the teacher is filed in tkk office.
Second or third grade certifloatee will
not be renewed.
By order of the County Board of Edu
cation.
H W BLACK. 8R.
County Boot, of Education.
Walterboro, 8 O, July 26,1909. 7 28 St
Don’t waste vbur money baying
piasters when yon can cat a bottle of
Chsmberlala’s Liniment tor twoatv-flve
cents. A piece of fiannel dampened
with th's liniment is superior to any
plaster for lame hack, pains la the side
and cheat, and mnch cheaper. Bold by
all dealers.
UNITY Lodge
No. 55. A. F.
M., holds its
regular com
munications on
the 4th Friday
in each month
at 8:00 o’clock, p. m. All visiting
Brethren are cordially invited to at
tend-
P. M. BUCKNER. W. M.
N. G. MORRALL. Sec’y.
UNIONISM’S
Why is it that tjie county
president nor the county secre
tary-treasurer never have any
communications in this page?
If yonr hearts are in the order,
brothers, let it be known in this
department.
There mast be some definite
action taken at tbe next meeting
of the County Union in reference
to the County Pair. We under
stand there is yet some stock to be
•nbacribed and this mast Le got
ten op at once. Let those who
have lists of stock subscribed
bring them in.
For instance, the idea obtains effect. The writer had the pleasure
rather widely that in reciting a | once of hearing Miss Breneman, of
poetical piece of the popular narra- the celebrated Olmstead, Pott vin,
live kind (the one# “that tells a Breneman Company, ‘trad’ ‘Kneh
story”) all vestige of versification j Arden’ this way. It was indeed
must be done away with, and the | aa exquisite bit of representation,
piece merely ‘talked our,’ as nearly! Very much in the same manner the
as possible like ordinary eonvena- f tmous Mrs Mowatt, alter making
tion. The rhyme is suppressed, and
the rhythm slurred over, so as to
convert the selection practically into
prose. But jf this is right, why not
choose prose from the first? It
would be more direct, for then no
fier reputation a4 a reader in the
Northern cities, toured through
some of the Southern, visiting
Charleston and Savannah.
W’e think the valuable aid of elocu
tion should be more freely given to
effort would be necessary to destroy | make reading a fine art. and then
the rhyme and metre. some of our best literature would
The English say that Americans no longer be neglected.
“have a tendency to overacting.”
The fault mentioned is merely the
over-acting of principles in them
selves very reasonable and true—
that there should not be a sing-song
at the end of every line, and that in
poetry, as in prose, all conversation
should have a natural vatie'y of
intonation, appropriately expressive.
We frankly admit that nothing could
be more disagreeable than this same
sing-song, and the regular pause at
the end of the line which so often
accompanies it; and in elocution a
dull and ‘wooden’ style of recitation
is, justly, the unpardonable sin. It
is perfectly natural that in the zeal
to avoid such errors, people should
sometimes go to the opposite ex
treme. Still the case remains that,
in the use of poetry, it can never be
Helen E. Malone.
MR GRUBER TO PRESIDE. '
Columbia, Adg.ist 30 —Special: <;<*-
ernor Ansel to-day appointed Attorney
W B Gruber, of tbe Colleton Bar, to pre
side over tbe special term ot tbe Court
of Common Pleas at Barnwell, be*!*
nlt'g on October 4. Tbe appoinUEert
was made upon tbe recommendation of
Chief Justice Jonee. The special tens
was arranged for at the request of lb*
majority of the Barnwell Bar.
'‘My child was barned teniblv abo«
tbe face, ueek and chest I app ted Dr
Thomas Rclertric Oil Tbe pain cett*jj
and tbe child ank into a restful sleep
—Mrs Nanny M Hanson, Hambnrg, 8.
^ •
“She is enjoying the heyday
n woman’o life.” “What is that
right to destroy the rhyme, if it in ‘‘After h iving t> ask her ha»-
written rhymed; for that would he cent she had foj
•be has come
to defeat the plain intention of the
poet, who, if any one, must have
known how he wished his piece to
sound. The beat elocutionists in
variably attend to this, givirg
delicate and due emphasis to rhyme
find rhythm, without the least injury
to aenae or exprenaion.
A branch of elocution that hta
thirty v-.ra
his life insurance.”
iott
CHIItfrwn Cry
FOR FLETCHER’S
CASTORIA,
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