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l • tJ A? •'* i* . . THE PRESS AND.STANDARO. WALTERBORO, VALTEXBORG’S ADVAKTAGES AS PAGE SHOULD THE FARM BOY DRINK? - My Dear Farmer Boy. One of AN EDUCATIONAL CENTER. Eicperimenu which a distin-> HAPPENINGS AROUND SNIDERS. iruished group of -scientists made i The Following Article Is From The Pen Of M. P.^Howell And Appeared In The Write-up Of The Town In The News and Courier. is the drinking habit, and I should like for us to talk together about it just a little this week. ! Now I am not going to lecture you. and I am not going to say a word about its being an ‘‘awful sin’' or anything of the sort. We are just going to talk about it as a business matter ami find out if it pays. That’s till. " 1. Walterboro is especially proud of its educational advantages, and jdstly so. No town in lower Carolina, and very few rowns in the State, can boast better equip ment or better teachers. But what is more important and more encouraging still is the fact that the citizens of the town are enthusiastically behind the great movement to perfect our educa tional system. Equipment and teachers can always be secured, hat it is usually difficult to enlist the active and enthusiastic sup port of the people. And with out the sympathetic co-operation of the patrons and tax-payers- no school can ultimately succeed. There was & time in Walter- boro's history when its educa tional interests were neglected hr the great majority of the citizens and a poorly equipped aphool with poorlv paid teachers was in some way Kept open by a few faithful men whose efforts and sacrifices were not appreciat ed. A few years ago, however, the awakening came. Business The school is now in charge of Prof. Hugo (i Sheridan, an educator of wide experience and recognized ability. The other teachers are Miss Annie S (iallo- way. Miss Leonie Padgett. Miss Jessie Fraser, Miss Lillian Far mer, Miss Ruth Harrington and Miss Edna Barre. The board of trustees is com posed of n en deep y interested in education and well qualified to build up the educational advan tages of town. Hon. W B Gru ber is chairman of this board and the follow ing are the other members: M P Howell, J G Pad gett, W J Fishbume. B G Hyrne, Dr. L M Stokes and R H Wich- man. And the trustees are supported in their efforts by all of the pie of the town. Walterboro’s school is not only a great benefit to the citizens of the town but it is of great im portance 10 Colleton county. Our county is in area the largest county in South Carolina. Its Ni.w, my conviction from a great deal of observation and study is that it doesn’t pay and I am going to tell you the reason i why. If your drinking were sim hav with a group of laboring men showed that evpif beer drinking decreased the/ output of labor 8 and one-halt per cent; while in cle^jpal and intellectual work the damage was even greater. It is because the people under stand these things that all classes are frowning on the young man who drinks. If you want to get a job. the boy who drinks is passed over and the young fellow I who doesn’t is taken. That’s I one reason why country boys usually beat the city boys in business a there is less drinking in the country. If you want succeed in farming as I hope you do and if you want to mar- Mra. Henry O’Quin. of Williams, spent from Saturday till Sunday in A goodly number of the folk | town with "rvlalives. around here attended the County* Fair. I Mrs. Ann O'Quin. who has been Misses Dora ann Addie Bishop her son. Henry O’Quin. at were in Walterboro last Mondav "diiann. was in town Saturday en iply a boyish prank, I shouldn’t 1 f' Pettiest or smartest girl Ae a thing to sav about it. be- | ,n , ne . , Jffil >< ' r fiood as I hope , ■ - ... ' vr»n .1.1 It’s .. 11 ♦ —.. cause I know that while you may play rough practical jokes and may take dare-devil risks now and then, that’s just the boy in you. and you are straight and square and honc%t at bottom and you are going to come out right. What I want to say about this drinking business, however, is that it is a very different matter from these pranks and feats and jokes in which a boy may natur ally and healthfully “let off steam.” They may not leave you any the worse, but drink peo- will. A great danger is that if you begin drinking at all. you can’t keep from drinking immoderate ly. There are all kinds of chances that you will wind up as a dirty, bloated, worthless drunkard - one of the kind, as Uncle Remus i lands are the most fertile in the says, that is “not fitten to-etop a men began to realize that no State and its development along gully wid” -but what I want went development could be all lines of progress have been ! you to remember is that even if most marked in recent years. • you should only dnnk moderate- Heretofore the common school j |y t you will not live so long, you system of the county has been will not be so healthy, nbr will you be so happy, as you w’ill be perma hoped for unless our educational advantages were made attrac tive. A town is usually judged by the kind of school facilities it offers, and the strangers or pros pective resident inquires first as to these. Aside from the fact that a good school, is a duty which every community owes to its children, it is also a magni ficent business asset. It is the best advertisement a tow n could 1 sadly neglected, and the school at the county seat has been little better than those at the country cross roads. However along wdth the great awakening in if you don’t drink at all. II. In other words, no matter Walterboro has come ar. awaken- whether drinking is a sin or not, ing throughout the county. The you want to live a good long life. people of the thused and are county are en- willing to pay have. Walterboro’s business j extra taxes for better schools, and professional men have realiz-; School districts all over the ed this and have provided a mug-; county during the past year have nificent school. : neld special elections and * raised / In August, 190‘d. by practically their tax levy. Better buildings a unanimous vote, the property j have been erected, letter equip- hol^ers of the town decided to ment purchased and nlbre corn- issue twenty thousand dollars potent, teachers employed. Out worth of bonds and to invest it of eha'-s system is l>eing created, ail in a school building. The; The common schools are being erection of this building was properly graded and the sessions entrusted to' a committee ^ofsire being lengthened. T,h e citizens and they have donethei; ’children of the county are being work well. This committee con-j properly prepared to enter the sisted of W B Grulier, R H Wic h and you w-ant a healthy body, a steady nerve, and a clear brain, and you can’t have these if you drink even moderately. Take the matter of length of life. The life insurance com panies have been keeping care ful records of thousands and thousands of men beginning years and years before you were born, to find Out just how drink ing affects a man's health and length of lif^. It’s their busi ness. you know. Well, they started out before they began these records with the idea that you do it’s all the same story. The chances are against you if you drink. IV. Now there's no use for me to discuss this subject further with you, and I can only ask you to look up the further facts set forth in our “Two-Minute Health Talk” last week on “What Med ical Authorities Say About Drink ing.” The whole story is that I want you to live out a long, happy life, and 1 want vou to be a success, and I know the chang es are against this if you drink. That’s why I want all our "Pro gressive Farrqer Boys” to have nerve enough to let liquor alone. I like a boy ^vho has spunk, and you do, too; and often it takes more spunk to refuse to take a drink than it does to ride a bucking broncho or swim across a raging river. But if you will shake hands with me on this proposition I am sure I can trust you to show the spunk when it’s needed.—The Progressive Farmer. „ Sincerely your friend,. Clarence Poe. shopping Billie Bishop visited his sister near Brants last Monday and Tuesday. David Yarn who has been suf fering with rheumatism is slowly improving. W C Sjnoak of Riverdale. Fla., attended the County Fair at Walterboro. Mr. Henry Kinsey the oldest ^jjman in our community died last Monday aftenoon at three o’clock.. He was laid to rest at the Bethel! cemetery. About thirty people gathered at the home of .1 I) Yarn last i Thursday night Nov. 10th to give him a surprise supper celebrating his fitly sixth birthday. He! said tnat he felt as young as 1 when he was in thirty. Cake route to the home of her son. Jasper O'Quin. who I’eniel. youngest lives at Little Miss Kthei Francis, of Wal- terooro. has gone to Charleston to at.end school. She will board with her aunt. Mrs. MctJatfts. Loose coffee gathers dust and store' sweepings. Paper bags leak strergth, iifrshness and aroma. I apples and cane juice was served.! A tuint tiLAi*on n'olrwilr AV-Af*v < .rwi 1 About eleven o’clock every one left for their homes wishing forj him to live to enjoy many more 1 birth-day suppers for he appreci- ‘ ales the people showing so much respect toward him. If this escapes the waste bask et I will write again. Billie Bishop. Nov. 12. B. J. anl C. C. Crosby, who reside on mail route one. were among those in town Saturday. a *IL»* LUZIANNE COFFEE lit Its air-tight can Is dust-free, strong fresh and of j>er- fect quality. IfjgsSfti man and E L Fishbume. The old sclr.os Ourumg wa removed to another lot :n th< town and given to the negroes and they now hav \ peTh? ps. best negro school in any town o this size in the State. The new building erected for the white children is modern in every particular. It is built oh a magnificent campus in the heart of the town. It con taint over a dozen spacious clas c rooms, besides havin* onv* rooms for the teachers and fo meetings of the trustees. Ii< building also contains a magnifi cent auditorium with a ^atini capacity of at least six hundred It is built of brick and is in ever way skilfully and beautifull; constructed. Each room of this new build ing is handsomely equipped with appropriate furniture. Thedas rooms contain modem individual pupils desks and all other neces sary furnishings to make them comfortable. The teachers rooms are provided with desks and chairs and the auditorium is fit ted with modern opera chairs, both on the lower floor and in the gallery. The stage in the auditorium is provided with a handsome drop coutain and all other necessary fixtures. The entire building is lighted by acetylene gas and the heating facilities are ample. A modern sewerage system has been in stalled and renders, the building and equipment well-nigh per fect But the generosity of our peo ple didn’t stop with the erection of this magnificent building. In July of this year by a unanimous vote an extra tax levy of three mills was decided upon. This levy is in addition to the regular constitutional tax and also a special tax of four mills hereto fore levied. So that now the trustees have ample funds with which to successfully operate a , modem school, and at the same time the tax levy in the town is not at all burdensome. The school has an excellent corps of competent teachers fairly well paid, and it is the PwpoM of the trustees to pay evs® larger mlarics Lathe future. dign school, and Walterboro, the a man was actually helped by county seat and geographical drinking some whiskey, and in centre of the county, is furnish- England 40 years ago they tried ing high school advantages to all to make Robert Warren pay *'a i * ho will come. higher premium because he was The boy who receives a certi-^a teetotaler. So Warren started ficate of graduation from the a society which has kept track Walterboro High School is of thousands and thousands of thor > ghly prepared to enter any > English insurance cases for over college or University in the 40 years, the result proving that jtate. or if he be unable to avail lim-feif of a college education, le is fairly well equipped to mter into business. ^ | It is Walterboro’s desire to ac- the death rate is over a third higher for moderate drinkers than for total abstainers. In other words, in any given year, four men die among the rommodate every bov and girl, drinkers for every three who die vhc EDISTO EDDIES. Editor of The Press and Stand ard:- Replying to your comment to the article in your last weeks paper, beg to say that for three reasons we desire to be annexed to Bamberg county to wit First: We do not think we have been treated right with our roads. This is the fourth year that the) present law has been in effect and our roads are still unworked. Would you please state where the money goes. You see that we are not adopted children but eat cold victuals. Second: We consider that we are unjustly taxed. Where is the justice in taxing a lot of swamp land at $2.50 per acre. The Bamberg County Auditor says “that the lands of three mile and Fish Pond Townships in Bamberg county are valued thus: - cultivated or improved land $2.00^per acre, now im proved high land *1.50 per acre and all swampy land $1.00 per acre. This is another case of eating cold victuals and not adopted children either. Third: We want stock law and we know if we go in Bam berg county we will get it. Therefore after taking every thing into due - consideration, though we shall be adopted children and eat cold victuals, as you think, we are sure that they cannotpossibly be colder than that which we have received in Col leton county, and if its death to annex ourselves to Bamberg, where the angel of death comes, our last words will be —“Let my bones lie anywhere except in Colleton county. M. M. W. Our Millinery Opening was the largest and most successful we have ever had. an 1 our customers seemed] all to lx* pleased with the season’s latest. : .: : : Our stock of Millinery and l >rr-.s Goods is * most complete. We shall be pleased to have you visit our store. : /: : MRS. W, A. BLACK L THE LEADING MILLINERY „S T O R E ft ft OftftftHftftHft ftlftMftDftftBMftft «■! f Colleton county who wishes a!among an equal number of ab- iigh school education. There . stainers. Of every 100 drinkers ire hundreds of boys and girls in. the life insurance companies ex- ne county who will av£l them- j pect to die in a year, 94 of the .elves of this opportunity and 100 die. but of ever 100 expected he time will come when Walter- deaths among abstainers only 71 wro will become the educational! die. centre not only of Colleton coun-; Again, it has been proved that y, but of adjoining counties as i of every 100 persons thirty years veil. The health of the town is old who drink, only 44 of the 100 •xcellerr. the social and religious will live to be seventy: but if influences are good, and living you take 100 jlO-year-old persons expenses are reasonable. j who don’t drink, 55 of the 100 Walterboro is exceedingly will live to be seventy. Isn’t it proud of hetjeducational facilities | worth something to you (even if and the town by reason thereof | drinking paid in other ways, as is bound to thrive and prosper, j it doesn't* to have 25 per cenU MASTER S SALE . _ . ^ | c^nce to live out your j STATE 0F SOUTH CAROLINA, MASTER S SALE STATE OF SOLTll CAROLINA. County-of Col lei on, in the Common W. V. Carter, et aJ. v». J. Adiim Carter, Trustee, et ai By virtue of the Decree of above court herein. I wit ael! at public outcry before the courthouse in Walterboro on salesday m December next, (5th day) within the lejral hours of »>ale, the following described realty: All that certain piece, parcel or tract of land, situate in the county and State aforesaid, containing one hundred and forty-one and one-half (141 1-2) acres, and bounded North by land? of William Carter. Major Joe Carter, and a part of the original tract, now ownrd by Curry. East by lands of Jamea Goodwin, south by lands of S art Walker and II. W. 1 Carter, and West by Carolina Rivers and H. W. Carter. Terms of sale cash. Purchaser to pay for papers. C. «. HENDERSON. Master. November 12, 1910. ANNOUNCEMENT TO THE PUBLIC ' L K* I H Colleton County. In the Common Plea*, J: G. Padgett, vs. D. W. Connell (nee Hiers) et al. By virtue of tne Decree of above court herein, I will sell at public “three score years and ten.” as voy do by not drinking. . Ill These figures are based on the English experience, but the figures for America tell the same story. In a recent address at outcry before the courthouse in WaL one of our Southern agricultural i terboro. on eaU$day in December colleges I heard Richmond P. inext, (o'h day) within the legal Hobson, the famous Alabama hours uf sale, the following described Spanish War hero, give the i !***{*>'•, farmer boys there the showing ’ AI1 l *l at cerlam P ,ece - p f, rc ' , !. or of these Amencan statistics., ^ o'", ' S * 4 4 1 • a 1 I said, containing one hundred and out that without drinking the i ninety-eight (198) acres, more or prospect of life when you are 201and bounded as follows: North 'E have moved opposite the Court House and invite you all to come and see our new’ store, our new stock and the same old friends. Our store is the people’s store—the BIG STORE you heat so much about The store where your DOLLARS GO PAR- THEST. '•i \Ve leave it entire!) to you our goods. We e the value are satisfied to Hayward, of White Hall, years old is 44 more years of living, hut with drinking only 31 years—an average reduction of IS.years in length of life due to the drink habit. Or take the evidence of Mr. Edward A Woods, a practical insurance manager of Pittsburg. Pa., who says furthermore that 40 per cent- nearly half—of the men who'have such diseased bodies, weakened nerves, etc., that Cney can't get life insurance at all "are for causes connected with aleohei by lands of Solomon Hiers; South by lands of G<*orge Sullivan; East by lands of estatoof F. Mim.-»;Jand West by lamia of Harley Groves, John j Groves and Solomon Hiers Te.rms pf sale cash. Purchaser to pay for papers. C. G. HENDERSON, Maater. November 12. 1910. »» Mrs. Blake Sander*, of Daniel’s Island, who baa been spending some time with relatives in Walterboro and Sandy Dam. has returned to to judg and quality of Jot YOU (itcidv that you «fet a squarr deal on every purchas* made with us. V ,, \V«: also have a lot back of .Jht Press and Stand ard adjoining our lot that wfl are pleased to offer you at’all times. - w WITSELL SUPPL Y CO. - v-r -n. —~