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V y y VOU XXXIV. qYlC LEAGUE MEETS K* omCIIS OECTEI MS A K- yjfWOfmWOMOfTMTfM Givis, puns m nmnti. On Wndnattaj •fternooo Jnn. 18th the Wnllerboro Gric bngi* held ha'Dret mMtinc for tho proorot '■ WALTERBORO, & C.'WEDNESDAY, JANUARY ij- >9“- NO <3 APPEAL ABANDONED J. J. JONES ABANDONS APPEAL TO SOPNEME COURT. AND WILL SERVE SENTENCE. KEENEST KONTESTEVER KONHD BYKOLLETON BOUNTY KNEWSPAPER. WOMAN’S DEPARTMENT un- the Court to our was the It being the custom to Reject offi cer! at this meeting, after thanking the outgoing staff of officer* for their service* and administration. The result of the election was as follows: President. Mrs. Theo. G. Kershaw. 1st vice president, lira. G. C. Brown. 2nd vice president, Mrs. T. P. Baker. N " Recording Secretary. Mrs. A. H Wichman. Corresponding Secretary, Miss Annie Savage Treasurer, Mrs. JamesG. Padgett. r The reports of the various officers for the past year were read encour- agicgly. During 1910. the Utgue has dertaken and nicely tfinished beautifying of our County House grounds-*at a cost treasury of $85 00. This main work done. The treasurer s accounts show $418 36 received with a total expenditure of $219 69 leav ing a balance of $198 36 in the treas ury. The efforts of the league were exerted ' last year, maiply through the medium of the spring bazaar, the moot court and the restaurant held at the County Fair. At this meeting many pLns were men'ioned for the raising of funds for civic improvement, during this ye at. but the only determina tion reached (*inee’ the afternoon ww well advanced) was that at an early date the League efcadf gf>entertainment for the benefit oi the Confederate monument, that 'the receipuTshall be wholly for thb caoK, and that, if we be allowed, we shall aee the eonsumation of tin pu«* for the erection of this monu ment achieved by the early epring. Resolutions of sympathy wer voted to those League members wh had suffered affix tion during th past year, and a committee was it • atructed to frame and tender t» same. Tne League herein also wishes t< express its hearty th-inx» an ‘ g****' tude to its valuable sustaining men berahip for both thmr financi-V » sysMnce in regular subscription- an- gifts and also in the supp »rr •** thei influence in co npleting s»-v<?val >1 our plans, and in particular, m t 1 « erection of a wat-r supnly «»n tl c Court house groun Is withou* ‘ehi , our landscape gardening would fuye been vain. For the coming year, we also s - licit your support, as well as tl e suppoat of others who*may assist u> who are officially s»rivi t g to reali e Waiterboro Beautiful. Columbia. January 23.—Special: JohnO. Jones, of Orangeburg Coun ty. is coming to the Penitentiary to serve his sentence of ten years and one month—or that part of it 'the State is permitted to claim—for the killing of Abe Pearlstine. at Branch- ville. in December. The defence to day abandoned the appeal to the Supreme Court. It was announced last week that Jones’s counsel would apply for bail here to-day, pending the appeal, so that the abandoning of the appeal created some surprise. -MEGGETTS NEWS ITEMS. Meggetts, January 21.—Special: One of most enjoyable parties of the season was a surprise party given in honor of Miss J Carr. Among the guests present were: Mr and Mr* W F Carr, Mrs R Mack, Mr and Mrs J B Shuman, Mr and Mrs W H Blitch, Bert Smoak, Lawton Smoak, C Smoak. Leo Blitch, Harry Bartell, J Anderson, Miss Addie Peeples, the Mis.-«es Sauls, Waiterboro, S C; Miss Vinnie Shuman, Master Perry and Aivah Carr , Master Glen Smoak, Harry Shuman, Miss Clyde Cinnon, Foster ami Grady Cannon and Mr and Mrs D Smoak. Music, vocal and instrumental, and games were the features of the evening. At 12 o’clock delicious refreshments weie served, a salad couneand ice*. Mias Addie Peeples entertainec Monday evening in honor of hei cousins. Misses Ethel and Rebecca Saul*, from Waiterboro. Mias J Carr, of Orangeburg, I* visiting Mr and Mrs W K Carr. Mr and Mra E L Commina spent Wednesday in Charleston, shopping ' Mrs J Devereux is spending a few day' with her daughter, Mra M St. J Biitch, at Meggetta. John Commina has returned from Edisto laland. after a succem.ui qua!ness trip. Harry Bartell. private telgraph operator of the N H Blitch Com pany, has returned to Meggetta. Mr and Mra H Carlton and Matter Dexter, spent a few day* in Charles ton last week. a l MASQUERADE SKATE. - The mw-querade skate held Mon day evening at Taylor’* hall was a roost enjoyable affair. There were quite a number of skaters on the floor, representing various .ancies of the wearers. Two prize?, given to the most orignal masqueraders, were won by Misi Atalie Moore, who was dressed in colors of the United States flag; and Lucien • Pat terson who \epieaenU-d a Colonial gentleman. ih.* sroceeds of this skate will be used by the ladns of the Parsonage . , ^ Aid society of tho Me.hodist church,^ High ftchoo. auditorium by thr . . . ; 4ladies uf the Parson .ge aid society by whom k Km*. of t|)e M( . t|10 , llllt c(mreh .. u u,- DCMITAN BICHAD a doll parade by the little gi. ls of HtPIIUn ^nur. the towiu Each person in the Sunday afternoon at Supervis-ir au ,jj ence *iu pe given two votes - Griffin’s re.'idene»* nea ,p town. Melvin I tne j of t ^ e mwt a ttractive little bish-.p and M.ssCarrie Benton were! for do u arH ] Cttr . marrieil, Mr. Griffin' P er f orm ’ n AA | r i a4e . Besides this doll parade i the ceremony. Miss Benton ip the I music will be furni^lied. youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Afl 15 Ctfntj , w ,|| te 0.ATQ Uf J. HUGGINS JOGER. Mr Roger died at, his home neai Corioin enured Jan. 15. He was a naliv* ot Coiieton county and in hi» 69th ye.r. He has Eieen in failing health for several y •»!*■«, hot was only confined to his bed about two weeks. When merely a boy he joined Fort Mode vyouipafly E, first regiment d-u h Carolina, volunteer company, Capi. J 1) Tresevant and Col. John L riiack, his leaders. He spent four years hard service in t »e war an 1 made himself a soldi *r t * be praised by hte country. Afte the war he marned Miss Hat tie pell, to wnom were given two children, C H and Liuda. Alter the death of rus first wife he married Mi s Rebeccas Baily, to whom was given three chiicren, J W, R L and J Huggins Jr. Ail of his children were with him during bis illness. Ht* was laid to rest at Laurel Hill • cemetery. Rev. B A Adams conduct-j lug burial services. A DOLL PARADE. Quite a unique entertainment will be given next Tuesday evening at What m proving ts bsths'llvelieat contest ever conducted by any newspaper in .Colleton county is the one now being run by«The Press sq4 Standard. One would think by the way votes’are being piled up that the last week of the contest is on, when as a matter of fact it has been in opera tion only three sreeks. So te very lively doings are expected in the near future. There are a number of candidates who have expressed their in tention to aee why they should not^be up somewhere near the top, and they are hustling with this in view. So there may be some very radical changes in the next few days. .There have been some this week. A care ful study of the list will show that several of the candidates have changed places, and that an unusual r umber of them have been voted for this week. Then there are several new ones this week. A DOUBLE VOTE DAY—MONDAY. JANUARY 30. In order to stimulate the filing of votes we have decided to make next Monday, January 30ih. a double vote day. This means that all subscrip tions paid that day will count just twice as much as on any other day. . Kiir instance a subscriber who pays $1 on subscription next Monday will S receive 2.000 votes instead of 1 000; $2, 5,000 instead of 2,500 and so on. This will test the hustling capacity of candidates, and show what they are willing to do. Remember that any subscription paid on that day will count just twice as much as on any other cay, but it will be for just that day. A TALK ON THE PRIZES OFFERED. Elsewhere in this issus will be found a new page adv. showing cuts of all the prizes but that of the buggy-which has not yet been received. We were in Charleston a few days aga and went round to select the piano from the Cable Company, and we have chosen a beauty. The cut will only faintly show how desirable it is, but we shall have the real piano on exhi bition at some central place in town in a few day* where it may be seen by the contestants, and where they m .y try it. It is worth all the effort any person in the contest can possibly make between now and the 15th of April when thecontest closes. The buggy has been ordered and will be p'ace i on exhibit at Tne Waiterboro Live Stock and Vehicle Campany s place of business as soon as it arrives. This is a carefully selected, made- t • order Taylor-Cannady top buggy, and will be a aplen 'id second prize The Imperiil Princess Range purchased from Brown Furniture & Hard ware Company is being made in Nashville according to order, and if it haa^ not yet been shipped out will be in a day or so, and when it arrives will be CKhibited at their store. This is not the Princess range which retails at $15. but it is the “Imperial” Princess, one of the finest stove ever seen in tiese parts. The machine will be ordered from the New Home Searing Machine Company, and is otte of the beat machines on the market today. Dmae-won by other cqntsafntiin the previous contests have given per fect satisfaction. 1 This prize is well worthItbe effort It will take to win it. NOW IS IBB TIMS TO WlimM PIANO. - <* - ‘ The tlm? to win any of these bea«tiful Wnd useful prises is NOW, not the next week or thi next year. There is po time like the present. Sub scribers really wish to help candidates bat they like to be asked for their votes. For instance a lady came into our office Monday and paid for two years subscription. When asked to whom she wished the votes to go, she replied: ‘T do not care—no one has asked me for my votes.” 2^00 votes any candidate could here hyd for the asking! There are ptaaty such over the county. Do YOU Wish them? Go after them if you dm Are YOU doing it? If not. do not blame anybody but yourself when the prises go to the other persona. “How did you win?” Thev asked the man. Who with defeat had tussled. “Three things I did.” he answered them, ** “Rudtled, bustled, hustled.” CONTESTANTS-WHO WILL WIN? Miss Gertrude Craven, Waiterboro .. 34 300 Mias Annie Padgett, Waiterboro, R F. D 2 29 530 Mrs. Annie Clough, W Iterboro 21,160 Mirs Carrie Smoak, Smoaks, R. F. D. 1 17,780 Miss Nan Breland, Waiterboro. R. F. D. 3 16.680 Miss Gertrude Rogers. Ravenel .✓ ^ 11.010 ' Miss Addie Bishop, Ruffin, R. F D 2 10 570 . Cottageville High School. Cottageville 8.800 Miss'Della Bishop. Smoaks, R F. D. 1 8.150 Mr. C. C. Crosby. Waiterboro, R F. D. 1 7.000 Mr. H W. Breiand. Waiterboro, R F. D. 4 6.560 Ruffin Graded School. Ruffin 4,500 Miss Carrie Ackerman. Cottageville 4,100 Mrs. W. M. Sauls, Waiterboro. R F. D. 1 4.000 Sniders School Ruffin, R F. D 2 3 510 Mr t t MISS H. E. MALONE MRS. VIRGINIA DURANT YOUNG. It was the pleasure and privilege of the writer to count Mrs. Young as one of hr .'ersonal friends, al though w> never met face to face. A correspondence begun on some slight literary matter in connection with the issuance of “Poems by Peter J. Malone.” grew between ua. and continued uninterruptedly fy one or two yean, up to within a few days of her sudden death. The very last letter 1 received from her re ferred to an address which she had delivered not long before on oc casion at a meeting ol the Press As sociation at the Isle of Palms in July. It was reminiscent of her connection with the Association, and aroused Vteat interest. This was her last public appearance; and it is pleasant to remember that she then received “the ovation that is always so grate ful ms coming from one's own people.” Mrs. Virginia Durant Young was born and reared in Georgetown, and was a member of the well-known Durant family of the Pee-Dee section ancestors of which were distinguish ed soldiers in the Revolution. Intellectually, Mrs. Young was an unusually bright woman, and what is known aa an “advanced thinker.” She became early in life an advocate of suffrage for women, and later on received enthusiastically the "new thought” principles, which'ta some ing and a sense of innate superiority that would never take advantage of those to whom nature and fortaae had been lees kind. He was vary fluent in speech, and when he eon- eluded an argument with his favor ite phrase. ’By the eternal. Sir/ It seemed aa if it must be the ftnal word.” Mra. Yqung not only pulished several novels and pamphlets, but was a frequent contributor to peri odicals, writing chiefly on woman suffrage and related topics. In 1890 or 1891, she established her own newsoaper, the Fairfax Enterprise. It was a local paper, containing principally the news of the vicinity hut always interspersed with some of Mrs. Young's bright or humorous paragraphs, in many of which were references to the woman question packed in a nut shell. At the time of her death she had >een married many years to Dr. William J. Young, a prominent ihysician. Theft'home was in Fair- ax, and it was an ideal one, Mra. Toung delighting to exemplify m avorite theory of hers, that intel- eclual pursuits and professional en gagements do not necessarily hinder a woman from being an excellent housekeeper. * ‘There is al ways Urn* enough for everything” was one of ter pithy sayings, breathing an at- Inosphere of “new thought” philoso phy, which was,quite characteristic. extent, have found expremioff in the. * 'The end came very suddenly. In most characteristic of her books. One of the Blue Ijtar* Chickens.” So lifelike and evidently aiaeere is this beok in spirit 4*ad portraitu ihatitishsurdto beNere that it is not largely an autobiography—that “Rigpah” b not substantially Mrs. Yeung’s own self, and the “Gener at” b not actually her father, at least some character studied from the life. Who, for instance, would not recognise such a sketch as thb? It b from Rigpah's story of herself. “I was at thb time, one of the most bashful, selfconacious. awk ward young women in the country and with my faculty of mindreading, 1 knew people not only drew com parisens to my disadvantage. be tween me and my sister, but won dered how I could be the daughter of snch a father, as the polite and polished General Norton. For ifly father’s manners were very fine,— marked by a certain grace of bear Paul Walter, Waiterboro...! 3.260 Mi?s Daisy Ackerman. R »und 3,020 Misa Alice S>k»-8. Waiterboro - 3.020 Mias Beatron Reynolds. Round 3 000 Mias Pet Rentz, iaiandton 3.000 Misa Rubye Johns, Stokes 3.000 Miss Pearl Garris, Williams.. 2.500 Waiterboro High School, Waiterboro '2 450 Miss HetlieVacm Brant * 2,UK) Mias Dora Langdale, Waiterboro . ?: 2.080 Misa Ani.ie Dandndge, Cottageville ; ... 2.010 Misa Ali<N? Hiott. Walu-rtniro 2.000 Mrs Carrie Robertson, Hendersonville 2,000 Misa Lillian Varnadoe; Hendersonville 2.000 Misa Lelha Brant, Walierboro, R K. D. 4 1.000 Misa Annie Weeks, R iuo t 1,070 Mit-s Nellie Bat nea. Smoaks, R. F. D. 2 1.020 Miss Aieen Jones, Lodge. R. F. D 1 1,000 Mr. H. J. O’Bryan Hendersonville... 1,000 spired by an encouraging and appre ciative criticism of hsr wprk by a Noe^mrn critic, aha was pbaniag to write a new book the belt by far,” she seii. “that I have ever at tempted.” The bet letter wsa re, fall of plane, of bright hopes, forward-looking thoughts! idea that one would have. with it was death—and yet death waa even then at the door. AfUg the briefeat illness she pasted away, and as if to remind that all thinge earthly are vanity, clooely following upon that message of life, warm with intellectual and physical vital ity, came the chill funeral notice. Mrs. Young possessed not only • gifted mind, but a sincere and lov ing nature. She had a great capacity for friendship, and it was her special delight to help those who stood ui need of assistance. For true sisterly feeling toward the sex, we have few women who can be compared to her. JOHN MCKNIGHT KILLED. John McKnuht. who was employ ed by Mike Fox to work round his -av mid. near Rantowlm, while re- turning from hauling umber Satur- G. A. Benton and a bdy °t charged and adlitional votes sold 2 lav’Sftei noon, waa thrown from the lor 5 cents. !•*agon and had hia neck broken. ^T*. .. . -h mutes became fngntened and F L Kinsey of the Waiterboro Live Stock and Vehicte Company w in the West Um wee^ purchasing a itimable qualuie*. Mr. Bishop is a prosperous your.g farmer, a son of Mr. and Mra. W. 1. Bishop of near Waiterboro. . The heat wishes of a large number of friends go with thb young couple. dragged two hundred yardj but for tunately escaped injury. None of the others w** hurt. Coroner Rhode was notified and held i he inquest Sunday morning McKni.'lu was a very good negro, and was rabed by the late J K P Fox. and waa about 50 veara of age. There will be preaching at r Great THE OLD AND THE NEW The old year b dying, dying, a few short momenta and 1910 with all its joys and sorrows will have passed away and 1911 pure aud spot less as a Virgin, will be given to us. even as a book pla *ed before us, by a loving God, leaving it with ua. whether we keep its leaflets pure and bright or stained with careieaa hands The old year is dying and the heavena are thidhg their pearly tear drops in aorrow o’er each blot ted page of in yearly record. To morrow i* New Year’s day. commenc ing a* it dix s on God’s nio»t holy day. the one day out of seven, may it prove to us indeed a happy New Year, crowned with Jehovah’s rich est blessings. May each and every heart’s record when we return them at the close 1911 be as free from blot ir stain as when we rectived them. 'J w^lve o’clock: The New year has arrived and . though’<is ushered m with tears, may the Sun shine nf God’s love aoide in each heart, lighting utf life’* rough road > with its cheering rays and as the days, the weeks and the months pa-a by, may eacn leave its inipresa of pleasant memorie* of some good deed performed and kind words spoken in his name. Thoughts tha. wit! intrude as the years »peed by. I stand beside life’s rapid stream. How many blighted hopea sail by On the bosom of that stream, Drifting on out to ocean wide. Like fragments of a dream? Twill not be long, the tireless ebb. Surges almost o’er my feet, And soon another bark will float. Soon one more left to weep. A few short days the ceaseless flow. Will sweep me from the strand, The stream’s strong, draw near Oh! God, And hold thy servant’s hand. G. W. O. Rivera. Jan. 1. 1911. ^’h mutes became fngntened rno away. Mr Fox himself Swamp the firm Saturday and Sun- And gase at ihie no*’* I know, driving, and there an re three other ‘(foy in Feb at 11 o’clock by Rev. {Aa down the cbn these* vavreprem, u the wagoa. Mr Fox was ^Georgs A Martin, i With never a backward flow. AWARDED TO J M. WITSELL SUPPIYCO. The committee from the County Farmers Union, who bad charge of arranging for pureha-ing fertilizers etc. for the union, met yesterday and after considering a numlwr of bids decided to award the husinere to the J. M Witseil Supply Co., this', company having made the lowest bid. « A SMALL BLAZE. The fire bell aroused rh<» town ee.riy Monday afternoon, and. on re sponding it was found that Dr. La- Dorn’s residence was on fire. There was only a amah biaz-j, however.* n the roof which was ^extiaguiancd with little damage. Mrs El M Jones and li’tle snn, Meredith, are visiting at the home of her daughter, Mrs S M Ridle to Sumter. Ttiey left Wectorefey. af !tat week.