Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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LIVELY TIMES Thursday In order to reduce stock we have decided even at this early day to make a clean sweep in many lines of Summer Dress Goods. The white goods offered come in fancy weaves only, the designs are choicest, and the texture such as will bring comfort to the wearer at this season. For inexpensive Lace Curtains see the three numbers at per pair 49, 65, and Among the colored goods are 15c Crin dle cloth at 90c *2^c Probably the unkindest cut will be seen among a line of very fine figured Mulls and Nippon Silks they go at | Or* the uniform price per yard 1 VC On the tables in the rear are placed several bundles representing many weaves known as man ufacturers shorts these come in white, in useful lengths for childrens wear. Included with these is a small lot white washable silk mulls marked 20 cents a yard worth double the money. Sunshades and Umbrellas on these the new tag tickets will prove that here too the prices have been tampered with. Solid color soft Silk finish checks were 20c cut to Solid Silk Mulls, colors, white. Green, Ca nary and Cream former price 20c now Satin Finish brocatels, white grounds with neat figures old price 25c your choice now for 17c 15c 19c All articles for this special have been removed from their wrappers some of limited quantity when only the quick buyers will come in possession. No trading stamps or prize numbers offered as an inducemenf or chromos given away but in lieu of these the drawing card is the one on the goods on it is marked the price in plain figures where all may read and in value share alike. 5pot cash from which there w ill no deviation This special price offering w ill continue until July 3rd, and on that date will positively be withdrawn Gather them in 7 Laurens, South Carolina. ^tr\. -<i* PAPERS READ BY GRADUATING CLASS Of LAURENS CITY SCHOOLS \t llio closing of llio Laurens city ? >!s. it hau been customary for (ho gradual iav: class to In. I! ?class djaj . "erclses", consisting of a history nf i.lio elans, a prophecy and a will. This : i ar tin- graduating class ph nsed i.^.r friends with a nuuilici' of excel- J Ion! papers, ahove the ordinary and (her crcditiihlo. I n add.lion '.O -:.<> usual papera, there were this' ?? ? a i rentl :o on t lie old school . ' ding had one on the new. so Interesting was this part of tin- school ? losing here that The Advertiser ro . v.-'rvc-s Hit' papers below; they were: IntCl dOU for last week's issue, but tile J ft/go amount of matter printed in hut udttloi), prevented. Following -are the papers read by Iht members of the graduating class it the ox (rclses on Friday morning: Clnss History, .< By 1 m?gen Wilkes i Plio Class of 1909, now closing its * ...k as the tenth grade of the Lau rena graded school, numbers as you sixteen. Only one representa tive of the present class, myself. !>?? gasi in the first grade with Miss Mary I .Miller as tea< her. Mow well I re- | member that first day at school, how each one clamored to sit with his own ' icclnl friend, and how timid I felt yd j rand to know that the path of j knowledge was now open before us. Again as the only representative of Ups class i passed through the second grade, learning still more of the xdcaaurcs and dlillcultlcs of school, i had heard, in (he first grade of o\ ?mlnntIons, but did not know yei what );... were, but I COIltd readily guess ?!,,.; they must he something terrible from the way the older girls talked abOUl them While in the second ?grade i became acquainted with them iftd before the year was out I was Handing real examinations. In the third grade 1 was Joined by icy friend. Miss Hetty l.a o. It was ?.luring this year that we learned the real meaning of going to school, ex cqCtftinntlons and also the diff rent formt! of punishments. How do reme/tfber having to sit with a boy for fioine slight offence, the terror if?d shame reducing ourselves to tearfl and thereby bringing ridicule ttlpon the guilty one! hi the fourth grade we nailed no re cruits, but pursuel th ? evoii tenor of our way. sharing the Joys and pleas ii:' ".; of the (luss, hiding tiudr mis- . chief and learning for the tirst time the Joys ami competitions in spelling matches, picking up our bits of know ledge ami becoming wiser hud wiser, in the, fifth grade we received qiilto an Increase In number. There wo hailed joyously the (idvenl of Misse:; Willie and Roberta Dorroh, Mary Sul livan and Clara Davenport, who have boon most faithful in attendance dur ing the past years of school. Here our punishments as well as our joys and pleasures became mote intense, certainly more frequent, and some times lasting for weeks at recesses. It may have been the added mischiev ous spirit brought by these new mem bora for we more fro(|uentl] fell in disgrace. Here, too. wo learned our tirst st.e;i in history an.t geography, paid much more attention to our English and also took much pride iu our eonipositions and map drawings. Notwithstanding our difficulties wa ;?n six here passed our grade success fully and triumphantly entered the 110X1 higher. Here the class became so large, i; was necessary to make a i division. Misses Hetty Lake ami Mary Sullivan going In one section taught by Miss Kit In Voting, while Misses Clara Davenport. Willie a ltd Roberta Dorroh ami I remaining under the care of Mrs. L. 1). Pitts, To our div ision came tWO new members, Miss AddlO Shealy and the first hoy added to our present class. Mr. Kugene Drown. Now the problem\)f arlthmo? itic for the iirst time threatened to swamp us and future promotion looked somewhat dark. It was here that we added one new line of Rtudy to out course, nature study and gar dening, and many happy days were spent catching butterflios and worms as specimens and classifying plants, tending and caring for garden. The class still being so large It was fiecessary to keep the two sections in the seventh grade. Again we were separated. Misses Willie and Roberta Dort oh and Mr. Kugene Drown going in fh" Election taught hy Miss ileywnrd while Misset) Hetty Lake. Clara Da? venport, Mary Sullivan. AddlO Shealy i a ml in.vhi.lt were taught by Mrs. Ful ler. The class here made a happy increase of five members, Misses fiJva Coleman . Mary Teague, Pearle ("lar ily, Kitty Owings and Mr, Yates Drown, We dal our firsl departmen tal svork in tin' seventh grade also taking iii' two now studies. Latin and algebra, which became so difficult that in our future promotion it caused I many to fall by the wayside, causing the next grade to decrease from '<? to -?"? pupils. Mere we wer.? brought together again in one room, with an additional member, Mr. Kniest Machen; In this' grade many happy days were spent wandering in the woods for flowers, and picking cotton in order to buy a new picture to adorn the walls of the old building. At the beginning of the session of ! the ninth grade Misses Jessie Thomp soil ami Tonnie Madden joined us. It was here that real hard times again began, for the lessons were more dif ficult, and many tears were shed on account of them, still taking much pride in adorning the walls, many new pictures were bought. Not w ithstand ing all the difficulties, many happy days were spent on picnics and such pleasure trips. As the lessons in this grade were hard, many thought that they would not pass, but at the end all gladly entered the tenth. Now as the last year was reached all determined to do good work and show the school what the class of '00 could do. At the beginning of the session a new study was added which proved to be a regular stumbling block at lirst. This study was geom etry. In order to carry out our plan of determination we settled down to hard study, and each has been tri umphantly successful. While our ed UCntOn here is llnished, it is the am bition of every one of us to Complete it in a still higher way. by attending Hie best colleges of Ihe state. June 1, 1909. The Old School Building, i I'.y Mary Teague > I have been appointed to tell you something of the history of the old school building that is fast sharing the fate of many other splendid his toric structures, its crumbling walls will soon he entirely down and the material of which they were con structed will be used for other pur poses. Times have changed; this grand old building that was good enough for the fair young maidens of "Lang Syne" is not sufficient for the needs of today and so the "old" must give place to the "new." Many of the dainty maidens who once attended this old college, in the days <>t' their happy youth, have grown old, bul "Memory faithful to her trust, calls back in beauty from the dust: the friends, the scenes of long ago.'" and carries them back to the bonnle. Winsome days of their girlhood. They live over again the many, many years of changing vicissitudes and see once mare the faces and hear the voicos of their beloved teachers and professors. They recall the long, sad years of civil strife, which occurred during their school days, when many of our citizeus on *.he sen-coast were forced to leave their Lomes and take refuge here from the cruelty of the invader. They remember how in 18015, on the davs of their commencement, the bloody hat tie of Gettysburg was being fought and how some of the girls were grieved and saddened by the news that father or brother had been killed on this terrible field of blood. Then as memory rolls on and on into the deeper recesses of their school life, they recall the day on which no bell tolled, summoning them to their duties. But what wa.s that day and why did no bell ring? Ah! 'twas Hie fateful April day on which General Leo gave up his sword to Grant and his long lim* of weary, foot sore yet faithful soldiers laid down their arms. Twas a (lay when Southern hearts were too sad to think of anything but the dark shadows of war?terrible war that had bllghtod ami .-battered all their foil I hopes. Hut here the tide of memory turns Into a brighter channel. They recall the pleasant hour.- spent with their respective schoolmates in planning a trip to the woods, a picnic, or some amusements that suited their fancy. They picture themselves as they ap peared on the night of ihelr.i"May party'" as they flitted about like so many fairies, a bevy of happy, charm ing ?Irls, with no cares, no burdens, nothing to mar their pleasures. They rememher the many charades acted on that old stage in which they them selves were important characters and by which they were enabled to erect the tirst fence around our city ceme tery. ThtlS they float on and on. in the boundless! sea of memory; but at last awakening from their reveries they realize that the happy thought less days of youth nie forever past, yet they see how sweet it Is to open the book of memory and look hack upon the blissful childhood days when they went to school. The obi building, where for so many years these now aged pupils went to school, was established In i^">7?fifty two years ago. The corner stone of this Institution was laid In 1857 ami on the second Monday in 1858, exer cises were begun, Itev. E. T. Buisl being llrsl president and Revs. David Wills and '/.. I.. Hohnes assistant pro fessors. The exercises for a time were held in the old Presbyterian chUrch which is now the residence of Mr. B. c. '.'risp. but by the next Septem be i' the college was ready for OCCUpailCy and ?.he exercises were con ducted there. For a nuinheV of years this institution was known as the Lnurensvllle Female college, but as time pnsscd on it ceased to be success ful as a college and was sold by the Presbyterians lo the town lo be used as a city graded school. Such it was when we. tin; present tenth grade became acquainted with It. We have spent ten long, yet seem ingly short, years within the bounds of those old bl'lck walls and our affec tions, like the ivy vine have crept into the nooks and corners of the building until every brick taken from those crumbling svalls holds some fond rec ollection of days gone by. Let us for a moment look hack over those past years. How well we remember that first day at school and how proud we felt as we traversed for the first time the old school grounds. Wo almost fan cied we were in fairyland, so new and strange everything seemed. We re call the patient efforts of our teacher to leach us our A ll ("s and w hen thai task was accomplished we re member the beautiful little stories of birds, i.ees and flowers thai we read. Then she taught us In write, ? how grand we were in our own estima t ion. However, as we advanced step by step up ihe ladder Of learning we realized how little we knew ami again we recall the loving work of our teachers to lit us for a place in the world. Somotlmos we thought them harsh to us but It WAS only for our good and now we thank them for it. We think again of the tedious hours spent In trying to translate some dif ficult passage of 1,111 In In order to learn something of Ihe great Roman Bmporor, Caesar anil the stirring orator Cicero. Wo remember how when clouds hung low and prospects of success seemed dark and gloomy the dear little teacher, with her pleas ant Smile and gentle manner, would banish the darkness ami bring back again the bright rays of sunshine. A sigh escapes our lips as we think of tin? numberless tears shed over thos i mysterious propositions in geometry or some perplexing quadratic in alge bra. Memory now brings up tin1 long walks in spring and autumn to view the works of nature, and I hi' pleasant, days spent with two of our class mates in their country home, whore we picked cotton with Which to pur chase pictures tor the ndornmonl of our class room. Then with cheeks blushing and tingling with shame, we recall the long weary recesses when we were kept in lor writing notes and talking in class or spoiling the ti'ati (pilllty of a recitation by "giggling." Ah! who will dare say that school days, free from the cares and burdens of life, are not our happiest days? The memory of them will he like the poet's vase, "Vou may break .you may ruin the vase if you will. Hut the scent of the roses will cling to it Still," and although the dear old building is torn down and lost to tts we love It still and thoughts of the happy days spent there will ever live In our fond est recollect in.is and in later yearn 4h \ when we too have grown old, often as the evening shadows lengthen ; ml tan sun sinks to its re..t we will sigh,? "Go backward, yes hackward, 0 time in your Iii?lit. Ami make me a child again just for tonight." Then memory, that golden link which hinds us to the past, will carry us hack over the years to the happy days Whctl we wet'O children ami went to school. The New School Building? (By Willie Dorroh.) Beautiful for situation is our new school building, situated on a high hill overlooking the busy, progressive city with it ; many ami varied Indus tries. "Man makes the towns, Cod makes the country." From the front we view with pleasure the winding walks, bordered on either side hy lovely magnolia trees; ami from the rear of our splendid new building WO look into the green valley beyond, across the stream in its onward How to the dark green woods farther on, with the blue sky overlooking all. This place has historic associations which I will relnte before enumerat ing the many and multiplied advan tages over the school building of "Lang Syne." Mere was the home of Dr. .lohn W. Simpson, the father of Judge W. D. Simpson who served bis state in many capacities; as fin ofllcer during the war between tbo