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• c I'm Standard. VOL. XXXIL WALTHRBORO. S. C .DECEMBER 22. 1009. NO. 18 MONUMENT TO SOLDIERS LETTERS TO SANTA CLAUS MUCH INTEREST SHOWN IN PROPOSED MONUMENT TO BE ERECTED ON COURT HOUSE SQUARE. MANY LITTLE BOYS AND GIRLS TELL THEIR WANTS TO GOOD OLD SANTA GLAUS. CONTESTJNI'S BEGINNING TO ! AND UST GROWS LONGER DAILY! LOCAL AND_PERSONAL ORGANIZED S. S. WORK ITEMS OF ITNEREST PICKED UP IN j DEPARTMENT FOR ORGANIZED SUN- Ruffin. Dec. 20. Dear Santa j Clus lam i’al’as & MaMas Litttlei Pet. 1 want ^<»u to please Brinjf; Brooch with Please Santa bring thete turn Moultrie. Cecil Rhoad Following the editorial which ap peared in last week’s paper inquiry was made to find out something about the effort formerly made to me a doll a rattler a arect a monument to the Confeder- my name Cecil on it ate dead, on Court House Square. Col. C. G. Henderson was into- viewed by a reporter of this paper. Ruffin i>ec. Dear Santa. I who kindly furnished a copy of the want two packs of firecrackers and minutes of the last meeting of the a horn and horse and a ap^le and a County Survivors Association, touch- g Un an j j w j.j a jj j-ipht. Now ing this matter. i (j ear santa if you have anything ex- Col. Henderson stated that the t ra £ or nic . w j 1 y j w j|| t a k e it. funds now in charge, and subject to James Will Smyly. Jr the order of the committee, of which he is chairman, are in one of the Savings Banks in Charleston, and on January 1st. will amount to $212.37. This mon*y was contributed by the soldiers themselves. Several contributions have since been made, but through their efforts they have Rutfin, Dec. 20. Dear Santa- Merry Christmas dear Santa Claus My mama read lots of letters other little girls and boys wrote and I small i want write one too. I want you to bring me a big doll some fire crackers and lots of candy and ap- been able to realize only the above ples * rom amount Their investigations at the that showed that it would require not leas than $1000 to purchase suit able granite shaft. Col. Hendeieon stated that any efforts by the sons and daughters of the Confederacy * further this righteous cause would meet with the hearty support of this committee, only three of whom, himself, CapL G. W. Way and L R. Hiott. arc now living. These funds are being held by this committee and have been subscibed for this specific pur pose, to erect this monument on the Court House Square. It is therefore, with considerable pleasure that the list of contributions is headed with this amount. This, indeed, is a worthy purpose, and contributions for this object may be sent direct to this paper, where due credit will bo given for same, and as soon as the sufficient amount has been realized • the mon ument will be erected. At Ijast $1 ,000 should be raised within the next few weeks, and within a year at most a handsome monument to th» Confederate Soldiers should grace the Court Hous»* S iunre. Ada Rutledge Smyly. Bells, S C, Dear old Santa Clause I want a horse and a dog and a little nife and chain and some fire crackers and rome fruit. Ralph Warren. Ruffin, dec. 17. Dear Santa you know what I want I want some fruit and some candy and a doll carriage and a tricycle now dear Santa if can send Miss ida Teatcher next 3 ear. your little Mae for my The following :s toe minutes oi the last m •eii.u of tV ivoi Association hetd October 10. « taken from the offictal <• L U > Secretary. Oct. lu. 18^8. The Countv Su*- vivors Assoria: on n et thi* day: Gen. Wni Srokea tendered rus res ignation a* President (be having moved to Hampton Count..), and Robert S. Williams was eWvtt* 1 President in his *tead. C. t». Hen- Henderson, who was secretary, was also elected Treasurer in place of Robert Black deceased. On mo tion it was resolved, that the Con federate monument be placed on MaeCeurt House Square and not at the cemetery, and in furtherance of the resolution the President ap pointed the follow ing building com mittee: C. G. Henderwm, R. s Williams, M. P. Howell, M. P. Hiott. G. W. Way and L R. Hiott. who are vested with plenary pow^ to take charge of the whole matter and superintend the building of it to a completion, and the treasurer -of this Association v is hereby directed to honor any and all drafts made on him for the purpose of this commit- fi iend Lonie Carter. Stokes, Dec. P. Dear Santy Claus please bring me a box of dhcllsatop and swine fire ci ackers and a box of horse cra'kers and roman candles and *ky c rockets some candy and appeU and oranges and bannas and 1 will be salistide. yore lowing Irit iid Harry Copeland. Dear LSanta l want two hoes and a toy train and a raw and gun & taw and han mer anJ a box of chocolate candy and apples and oranges. 1 wi.l leave you a stalk of cane by my stockings. Hallum Smith. Dear Santa 1 want a doll baby and a doll rpcaing chair and a box of apples and oranges and bannair'. Santa you will find a piece of cake by my stocking. Gladys Smith. Walterboro. Dec 19. Dear San ta Claus I write you to let you know wha> 1 want you to bring me for Xmas. First 1 want you to bring me a large wagon, next 1 want you to nring me a nice mouth organ and then a drum and i want some candy, up i« s oranges, bannanas sugar plum* ami too Dear old santa 1 want > »u to bi mg me some fire works such as crackers large and small ooe». Now 1 hope you wont think m; list too long. Wishing you all m. d ar little friends a Merry Xmas a id a Happy New 0 Year. 1 am Your little friend, _ Joel Van*. R"«»nd. Dec. 18. Dear Santa Claus bring me some fruit and some home crackers and some of them other crackers. Some apples and some oranges and roman candles some nuts and a little doll. I am six years old go to the Gloverville Miss Chase Black; Walterboro — 9.260 Master Kates Smith. Walterboro 6;640 Mr. S. W. Linder. Walterboro 5,000 Mi* Jennie Connor. Smoiks 4,685 Mr. J. A Saunders. Walterboro 4,500 Prof. H. G. Sheridan. Walterboro 4,020 Mr H. Lee Chat sen au, Walterboro, R. F. D. 3 ’ 3.750 Mis* J,izzie Delte Blocker, Walterboro, R. F. D. 2 3,570 Mr H. J. Du Bo is, Ulandton ; 3,000 Mias Ruby Hill, Round 2.770 Mr. W. P. Smoak, Ruffin, K. F. D. 2 v . 2,510 Miss Mamie O’Quin. Hendersonville 2,400 Miss Jessie Dodd, Round 2,260 Miss Maggie Graves. Walterboro 2,260 Miss Lucile Hiers, Walterboro 2,<i80 Miss Maggie Ramaey, Williams .. 2,000 Miss Bille Wescoat, Walterboro 2.000 Rev. B. R. Ulmer. Ruffin 1,800 Miss Jennie Addison. Cottagcville 1,510 Mr. T. L. Hudson. Ruffin, R. F. D. 2 1,500 Miss Lather Linder, Walterboro........ 1,500 Mrs Eva Brant. Ruffin 1,160 Miss Viola Connelly, Walterboro 1,130 Miss Addie Peeples. Meggett 1,090 Miss Blanche Griffin, Ruffin... 1,060 Mrs. Gertrude Strickland, Smoaks, R. F. D. 2 1,020 Miss Nancy Newton, Adams Run 1,010 Miss Nell deTreville, Walterboro 1,000 Mr Lee B. Hudson, Rutfin 1,000 Miss Darling EL Smith. Islandton ..1,000 Mrs Sallie Smith, Islandton 1,000 Miss Zula Carter, Ruffin, * !... 1,000 Mr. L. C. Padgett. Smoaks 1,000 Mins Alice Sykes, Walterboro. R. F. D. 3 1,000 J. Vv\ Baggett, Jr., Hendersonville 1,000 L. C». Drawdy, Weeks 1.000 Miss Irene Bryan, Ruffin 1,900 Miss Dora I^ngdale. Walterboro 1.000 Mr. J. VV. Bavgett. Jr., Hendersonville 1,000 kr. L. G. Drawdy, Weeks 1,000 V.i-s Lillian Redudi, Weeks 1,000 Mi.-slluth Brant, Brant 1,000 AND ABOUT TOWN DURING THE PAST WEEK, Official— C. G. Henderson, Secretary. Committee afterwards G. son. chairman, and M. P. Howell, Secretary. , The ganized; by electing C. G. Hender-; school and have a verry good teach er. Beatrice Fisk. Round, Dec. 18. Dear Santa Claus Six of my little cousins are coming from Hampton County tfi sp&id or ’ j Xmas with us. ^-Please bring us all something nice, bring me a tea set I am ten years old and going to school every day. Dear Santa Claws I will write you to let you know what I want you to bring me for Xmas. Please bring me a little train, a billy goat and wagon and a ball. Your little friend Leroy SykesJ P. S. If you can’t send these some please bring Miss Ida Mac? Fishburne back to us. ' and si>e‘Rockers. 1 am a little boy j three years old. Pleas dont forget me old santa. Your little friend Frank Martin. Brant.1 Dec. 20. Dear Santa: j Please bring me for Christmas a litt>e doll baby nnd a little carriage and a ilttle rocking chair and omges and apples and nanas and some candy. I am a little girl five: j onns Island. Dec. li. year old. * ole Santa Calus Please ^ our little friend | a little gun and a little Bessie Martin.; car t and Harness and a Waite: boro, Dec. 26. My Seet some candy, old santa 1 want you to please bring 1 am your friend, me son.e nrewoiks an i some fruit Julius Fox. and candy and a cap pistol and if . Johns Island. Dec-. 17. My Dear you can bring me a suit of clothes Santa Claus Please bring me a doll for my Xmas. I am a little boy ten ego cr y nnd go to sleep and bring (10) y^ars old. j me a little tea set. I am a little girl > our true little friend j 7 year old. Bring some candy and a Dwight M. Linder. little range. I am your little friend Walterboro. Dec. 26. My Dear Jimmie Fox. Santa Clause I want you to bring me Dec. 17. Dear Santa yoo must a cap pistol some fruit and candy bring roe some apples and orange and some fire crackers and some ro-1 jmd candy and Post cards. ByBy The banks of the town will In closed Xmas and New Years days. Mr and Mrs Rizer of Leesville will arrive in town Saturday evening to • visit their daughter, Mrs M C Kish- J burne. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Taylor and children will go to Summerville Saturday evening to spend Xmas with relatives. Misses Minnie and Lula Bryan of Ruffin were oleasant callers at onr office Thursday. They were in town doing their Christmas shopping. The bazaar conducted last week by the ladies of tne Methodist and Baptist churches was quite a suc cess about $150 being realized. There will be an early morning celebration of the Holy Communion at St Jude’s church on Xmas mor ning at 7:30 a. m., the Rev. Dr. Kemhaw will officiate. Jo#. M. Moorer. Esq. went to Co lumbia last week and appeared be fore the Supreme Court in an ex amination for admission to the bar. He passed with flying colors and is now a full fledged Attorney at Law. Miss Claudie Hiers of Savannnah, who has been spending a week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Hiers returned Monday, accom panied by her sister, Miss Lottie and Miss Hattie Smith. Promise of something new in the Concert line, the Glee Club, which has been recently formed, will play and the local, vocal and instrumen tal talent will be augmented by ce lebrities from Cnarleston and other cities. The Christmas celebration' of St. Judes Sunday School will be held in the church on FYiday night Dec. 20 at 8 p. m. and will consist of carols, a short address by the Rev. John Kershaw. D. D., of St. Michaels Church Charleston and the distrib ution of the presents for the chil dren. Those who attended the wedding of Miss Martha Gage and M. P. Howell, Esq, which took place at Chester yesterday, were Asher Howell, Hon W. B Gruber and Capt. E. L. Fishburne. Mr and Mrs Howell will return the lat ter part of the week Jind will be at the home of Mrs M. H. Howell. DAT SCHOOL WORK. CONDUCTED BT MISS IDAM. FISHBURNE. •O Or At the recent Baptist State Con vention held in Anderson. S. C.. and the South Carolina Methodist Conference convening simultaneous ly at Abbeville, the Baraca and Phi- lathea class idea received hearty endorsement and the organization of such classes was strongly recom mended in all of the schools under their charge throughout the State. My Dear bring me Pony and sadle and man candles. I am k little boy away out in the sticks please coma to see me. I am as ever your true little friend. Henry D. Linder. Ehrhart, Dec. 6. My dear Santa ^ s | ee p » 1 .1^ doll. Or some fruit Or some kind of little toys. That is all 1 want 1 will be glad for that much. I will have to close for this time l - Ymas. . . from your little Baby. Mabel Fox. Johns Island, Dec. 17. My Dear Santa Claus. Please luring me a little tea set snd a little range and a ??" Ir* ^ brin f.r^' Uttie ifri 'oldl"m going to school, j 1 am your Dear friend Estell Fox. Dear Santa Claus 1 will be glad if * " * _ Rprtha F sk CHRISTMAS TREES IN TOWN J 1 The Xmas trees of the various churches will be enjoyable events' for the members of the various schools. They will be held the latter part of this week. The Xmas exer- risss of the Methodist and Episcopal churches will be held Friday evening; the Baptist tree wilt be Saturday evening. It is hardly probable that the Presbyterian Sabath school will hromatreift. as Col. Henderson, tbe Superintendent has been ill and school hold for several Sabbatha. Round. Dec. 18. Dear Santa I want a mouf organ, some apples some oranges A data all. No I want some nuts. 4 years old mamas man c i Edgar Fisk. Brant, Dec. 11. Dear old Santa Pleas bring me for Chri^maa a vrittle goat and a wittle wagon and some apples and oranges and some candy and some fire crackers. ' I want some nuts too nnd rttnn tanles from Grace Moore. Adams Run, Dec. 16 Dear Old Santa: I am a little girl ten years old. I go to the Adams Run School I am in the fourth grade. I wish you would please bring me a doll carriage and some fruits, fire crackers and roman#' candles and oblige Your little Adams Run Friend Ethel Smith. $[Adams Run, Dec. 16. Dear old Santa will you please and comedown to see me. I live at Adams Run Village, bring‘me a doll umbrella and some fruits and roman candles horse crackers. * j 1 Yours always Ruth Smith. Ruffin. Dec. 17. Dear Santie Clause 1 want you to bring me a doll a carriage a set of dishes and fruit of all kinds. I live at Ruffin. S C, and my name is Ida Breland. you will come and bring bubber and ! myself some presents for us oranges apple candy fireworks of all kind I have to dose as the time is nearly out for writing. 1 will close hope* ing to hear from you soon. Little Inez Langda|e. Dear Santa Claws I will write to let you know what I want. Please bring me a doll, a ball, and ‘ some fruit. / Your little darling „ Evelyn Bennett. Dear Santa Claus I will write to let you know what I want. Please bring me a doll, doll carriage a little chair and some fruit. Your little friend Vera Bennett. Adams Run. Dec. 16. Dear San ta would you please bring me a doll and carriage and a watch and a little basket of fruit and some Lfire crackers and a bracelet. Your little friend roabelle Platt. Adams Run, Dec. 16. Dear Santa bring me a horse and wagon) and a pistol and watch and fruit and fire crackers. Your little friend Julian Platt. Walterboro, Dec. 20. Dear Sant Close please bring me a drumb and a horse and a horn and fire works policeman suit your loveing friend douglas bryan Walterboro. Meggetts, Dec. 18. Dear Santa Clause Will you please come and bring me this Xmas 2 pounnds of ■hot, also five packs of fire crackers. Hope you wont forget. Your little chum Fritz Peeples. Walterboro. Dee. 20. Dear Santy Clause please bring me a drum and and a horn and a polican suit and some fireworks. Your loving friend Theodore Crosby. Desr Santy Claus Please bring me a little rifle and two pound of shot, so I can help Fritz shoot birds you must bring a big doll too v Your little friend Mabel Peeples. P. S. Do Dont forgst to come and bring fire crackers. Dear Old Santie Clause 1 want you to bring me a ruber dolie and some fruit. I am a little girl nearly 3 years old and I live 3 miles from town and I will be so thankful if you will call on me for I hayeent eny PaPa he has been dead neat ly a year. I will close looking for you to come Christmas eve. Your little friend a Vermeil Robertson. ^ Stokes, Dec. 19. Deare Santy Clause. Please bring me an auto mobile if you cant bring the auto mobile please bring me a express wagon and 2 horses that will wind up and run and 2 pks of fler- c nickers and 2 bones of horse crackers and some candels bring me som apples and oranges bananas and some candy. yore loveing little boy darrence Copeland THE ORGANIZED BIBLE CLASS. In the past the Sunday school has viewed very largely as an organ'za- tion for children. It has been "ailed the children’s Church and to a considerable extent the older peo ple have been lost sight of as an ob ject of Sunday school endeavor. In practice too as well as in theory, following the line of least resistance the school has sought to adapt itself to the children, neglecting, and to some extent even repelling them. In view of these facts it is not surprising that the adults, and the men especially, have been very con spicuous by their absence. When a small boy I used to attend Sunday school in a village, aud 1 recall very well how a few men from the sur rounding country would drive in to bring their children Jto school, and while the children were in tbe church being taught would them selves sit outside and talk about the crops. The school was for the chil dren, and had nothing to give that could command their interest and respect. The adults that attended the school did so as officers and teachers, or else they were princi pally to look on and encourage the children. And this is not an iso- olated case, but an illustration of what has been the prevailing con dition. In “The Church and Young Men,” Mr Cressey gives us the re sult of a study of thirty-eight Sun day schools, showing that out of a tetal enrollment of seventeen thous and one hundred and thirty one there were only three thousand one hundred and sixteen men and boys over fifteen yeears of age. This is a recent study, and the per cent of adult attendance is doubtless quite above the average. But within recent years our con ception of the Sunday school has jeen undergoing a marked change. We have come to see that it is not the children's church, but the ed ucational department of the church, designed for the systematic instruc tion and development in Christian service of both young and old. And in keeping frith this changed conception adults are finding a much larger place in the Sunday school. They are no longer urged to attend school merely to encourage the children, but are recognized aa having a place on their own account. The school is being more and more adapted to their needs, coursesj of study are being prepared suitable to the adult mind, new features of work are being added to attract and develop men and women. With larger plans than ever before for theorhild, the school has grown broader and higher to make room for the elder brother and sister, the father and mother. Along with the gradual transfor mation of the theory and practice of the Sunday school with regard to adults has come the rapidly in creasing number of adult classes. From the early days of the Sunday school, adult classes have existed in the school, but recenty they have multiplied with surprising rapidity. And many of these classes have as sumed large ordportions. and by reason of their great success have become known throughout the country. The influence of thia new move ment is touching the entire country and inspiring every Church with new zeal in working for men and women. 'Sunday schools here and there have caught the spirit, and adult classes have been organized and are in successful operation, but we are only at the beginning. The movement, no doubt is destined to continue until adults will form an important part of every Sunday school, until thousands upon thoua* ands .of men and women will be gath^ together in orgunM Bibla classes studying the Bible and doing active Chr\stian service. V