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12 PAGES. PART 2, PAGES 9 TO 12 VOLUME XXI LAURENS, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1913. NUMBER 20 FnAliur% n - A 0m -- - vH vu U. UAILLAKU DIES IN BALTIMORE Dug Culebra Cut and Conquered !Pansinia ('anal Mlides. A Son of South Carolina. * Baltimore, Md. December 5.--Lieut Col. [David Duboso Gaillard, United States army, who directed the engi flooring work in the Culebra Cut, a division of the P'anal:na Canal, died at Johns Hopkins Ilospital here tod/. Laieut. Col. Gaillard had been 1a tieat at the hospital since Augi 17 last, suffering from a growth is 1Vi. head, the result of seven years' ardu ous labor in the tropical climate of the Canal Zone, le failed gradually but steakdily, and for the last two months had been in a. state of coma, duo to the pressure of the cranial gr'owth upon the brain cells. The phy sicians decided some time ago that an operation was useless and might has ten his death. He is survived by his widow and a son, Lieut. David P. Gaillard, United States army. Both were at the bedside when the end came. Native of South Carolina. Lieut. Col. Gaillard was born at Winnsboro, S. C., in 1854. le gradu ated from West Point Military Acade my in 1884 and since that time had won many honors in the cngineering service. A bill was introduced in Congress last month promoting him to the rank of colonel In recognition of his distinguished serv;ces which culminated in the great engineering feat in the Culebra section of the Pan ama Canal.. When Culebra Cut was flooded by the blasting of Gamboa dike ori Octo ber 10 last Col. Gaillard lay uncon scious in his bed at the hospital 'here. Duo to Hard Work. 'Col. Gaillard's death is the culmina tion of a breakdown incurred by long hor-s of work and ex-posure in the Ca nr.i Zone, where he pitted his skill as an engineer against the fhifting soil of Culebra Cut. 'To him had been given .the most difficult task in connec tion with the canal's construction, to [roster the landslides and quicksands which extended for eight miles along the line of the Culebra Cut. During the early years of his contest with the landslides Col. Gaillard never knew what a morning was to bring forth. Over night the mountains moved and covered with their deposit the 'tracks, and even the cars; which were used to remove material. The Culebra Cut runs through the backbone of the Aenerican Continent. Gaillard dug in domitably until hill after hill found ite angle of repose and lie checked the landslides save at Cucurncha and points nearby. There the sliding was persistent, but had. visibly weakened, when the engineer was compelled to stop his work and seek rest. Saved (government. Money. For the greater period of his work on the Tsthi:nus Col. Gaillard was with out At chief assistant. Ile wanted to save money. le gave his attention not only to the great engineering -prob lenms, but to all the details of shovel 'work, train work and dirainaige. lie checked up on tile small things and once it was computel that by his care 'filoversight lhe had saved the Gov ernment. $1'7,000,000. Men who worked with him said that he gave twelve hours of each (lay to the Culebra Cut. Tn addition lhe had -a voice in all matters pertaining to engineering wvork in tihe zone, to clvii administration and to tihe general con duct of affairs. The hard wvork, theo nervous strain, the worry n'nd the trop) ical climate combined brok~e his health at the hour of is final triunmphl. There was little left there to b) (lone but to remove the soft earth of the slide at Cuecuracha. Final arrangements for the funeral have not been made, butt the interment will take place in the National' Cem etery at Aillngton on Mfonday after noon. It ia expected that the b~ody will be0 removed .to WVashington eithler to night or telmorrow. Croupi and Cough Remedy. Cr01up is at terrible disease, it at. tacks children so sudelenly they are very apt to choke unless given the '1proper remiedy at once4 Tho:'e is noth ing better in the wvora) Ith"n Dr. 1<ing's New Discovery. Toei is Chamerlmain, of 3Manchester, bioj writes fihiout his clhidren: "AMom .' I rrJs hin severe at. ' tacks we were a '' fd they would dile. butt sinice we mrosedl what a emitin remedy Dr. 1ing's Newv ilscovery 1V we halvo no( fe'sr, We relv o it ,;r 50e. nnd r $1 .(0. A i'tott ' eb~'ou d be' in Celver lbome. At al 1 ',.. 'it' . IT. I. Bucklen & Co.. P'hila. 'nd 'Mt. Icuis. 9g ! Photo by Oliver HISTORY As we stand upon1 the threshold of this mnagnificent school building, .a monument to the meu- and( wVomen of Trinity-Ridge community, Father Time lifts a veil and we see before us a rude little school house situated uPon the banks of a rippling brook about three quarters of a mile dis tant. Over the door of this building flashed the (late 1810. Our minds are all alert. We realize that we are to have a lesp into and antiuated school raon. We lutlse s enlg to the iutr mu r of v'oices on the inidef, and'as we listen the ..little brook whispers gently, "Mb n may come and men may, go hit I go on forever." The (Oor Oens dr ther, standing before a class of 8age fuces is a typ ilal schoolmaster of the forties, 0o Professor Kershaw, who is pleastant ly rceemberedl by3 some of his pupils today. For two years he and his wife were the educational leaders of this school. Mrs. Kfershuaw ini connteetion Mith her primary work taught art and sewing. ue waIls of this room were bare save the hats, wraps d tint dinner pails that dlecorated them. The only furniture were slab benches, a long writing desk and a chair for the teach er. The only attractions wvero the beautiful, intelligent faces of the girls ano the handsome boys, who were es tinedl to become heroes in lates lays. For a oeriod now of ieradhaps forty years, we see following in succection theso teachers, Messers Chaney Stone with his daughter Miss Nancy as an assistant, Tack Wright, Jeramiah Cooper and sister, Miss Abigail, who later became the wife of Rev. Mar tin and mother of Rev. Jodi A. Mar tin of Cross I11h1. At tils period the attendance had eacthe sixty, many of whome wore boarders in the community, sonme from a, distanuce, even one from Columbia. Next came Mr. Luciu MSwain and sister, Miss oIfttle, Mes Eddie oar lington, IDave Tiumbert, Jame3 Mad dhen, Thlomas Griifln, W. L. Gray, Trhad Nelson and Miss Laura Martin. Our community hlad suffered financially during the Period wvhen tihe thunders of war shook our country from north to south and no0w that all was qiet, reconstructionu over and( business flrmu ly estalhishied again, we see some of those same boys of Prof. Kershiaw's school advocating better schoo1 l ad vantages. TheO outgrowthl of whh was thle dilscardilng of the 01(1 building andi site and the erection of a neat, framed schiool roolm at Chestnlut Ridge with plasteredl wvgls, equlippedI with heater', blackboards, mlodlernl deskhs andl a teachler's dlesk. In March, 1883 this new room wvas clhrlistenedl 1)y Mirs IA', zieo Alexander, whmo Ia no0w 0ne of tihe lege. She0 was, followe'd by MIss TIda 11011mes, Mr's. Tihompn 0l, dI sse's i l - lie Wite, Janie11 Fe~athmerstoni, ('1rau ries, alrv lerguna lun Ia I ot -An TRNITY-Rf,1 DGE>N S(CHOOL1 OF TRINITY-RIDG By Mrs. Guy Smith. Alice lilakeley. in 1898 the people of the upper part of the district, thinking it too far for those in the remote corner to send to Chestnut Ridge had that part of the district cut off and established a school for themselves. They built a neat, cc sortable house on the church grou.nds at Trinity. This they 'equip ped with modern apparatus and Miss Alice Blakeley opened school there in the fail. Trinity was successfully and siuecess;ively taught by Misses Blake Iey, Mamie Clardy and Lucia Barks dale. The ('hertnut iRidge school, after he separation was taught b' Misses Arutho Pope, Lula Pitts, Sara Cope land, Prof. James AMadden and Mar garet, Imua and E~lizabeth Iludgens. Ilere were two schools situated nIbout a mile apart on the lonely church grounds of Chestnut Ridge and Trinity respectively, each with some thing like an average of twenty pupils from the first through the ninth grade; each with a teacher deeply interest ed in the pupils and doing the best work possible under the circuinstanc es. But the wide awake people of these communities realized that "In union there is strength". They saw at once that with these two school con solidated more eflicient work could be done by two teachers, than to remain as they were and expect one to teach in one day all subjects from the pri mary through advanced classes in La tinu andl Mathematics. Accordingly a mleeting of -patronsa and trustees was called and( cosl;idation thoroughly dliscuissed. They decided to purchase a lot half way between the two schools aind roll the two oltd buildings togeth cr. in a few (lays the trustees hiad pur'chased these three acre8 of land from Dr. Dial at $50 per acre. A' lit tIe later across the field on one side camle rolling the old Chestnut Rlidge school room, whilo down the road facing it came Trinity. They met on thtis beautiful knoll and to them a third rim~, at that time used5 as an~ aud~itoriumil, waIs add~ed to them. We now had a huilding v'aluied at $1,000. In order to maintain the school thius established a four mill Itax. whieh at thant time was thue limit was voted. School opened inl September, 1907 with Mr. L,. D). h'iedhge as principial andl Miss E~liza.lbetlh lud~genis assistant. The enIrollmnent this session was seventy five. Tile groundls were coveredl, even to the dooers, with cotton. After the cotton was gathuered the patrons came with their plows. wagonsscrapes, etc and leveledl off thie grounds1, iput out t reeu andc sodded the Iaw'v with l Iermiiuda. Th'le Sta te improvemnent Associat(loll awa rde i us a prize of $71 at thlelr meit'ei inh D~ecember. Tihis we used to1 inht the house. The ieachi'rs real e~very her' and1, girl a lo * for the be'auit iiu. aol the miore :! raliveit an i the bithe t~ ha af~(aannC ona mllI' E SCHOOL. efficient the work, gave an entertain ment, the proceeds of which were us ed to better eqtip the interior. After the close of the second ses sion the trustees decided to divide these sevepty-five pupils into three departments and to elect a third teacher. In September 1909 school opened with two new teachers, Miss I acie NicCarley in the primary alid Miss Nellie Itellet.t in the gran ma grades, Miiss Elizabeth iudgens had the eighth, ninth and tenth grades to devote her whole time to. TIhink of the change; in 1907 this same teacher had closed school at Chestnut Ridge where she taught. nine grades, hearing on an average of forty-five reetatio)ps a day. 'i'ltese three teachers were fol lowed in the fall of 1910 by Mr. .1. lierce' "'oats, .\Iisses Paine and Put nam. Last. year a change was made in the grammar grades by the resig nation of Miss Payne and the election o"' Miss Rtoper. A period of some seventy years has elapsed since we were given i peep into the little school room by the brookside. We have progressed slow ly. it is trite, but today the educational advantages in our co'inmunity far ex I ceed our fondest hopes. Our bright est educational era will have dawned with the opening of this session. IHere we have a magnificent building, mod ern in every respect, valued at $8,000. In this building is a large basement, consisting of stove and dining room for the teaching of domestic scien~ce. Several acres of good land have been sectured foir a school farm. Aiiss i2auie A\ull or Clinton, has charge of the high school, Mliss Alice ('inkscales the gtraninar' grades, Mliss Anntile Pu tnam th te ptimiat y and Niliss Nora Clinkscales music. 1IE A hAlliiY, (00STI VE, Slek Hlerahte, llnd Bt'renth, Mittr Sltm. achI, mtenni Lier andti Howels are clogged-Cheer up? (;et a 10-cent box. Sick headache, bliousness, d izzi teSs, coatedi tottgtue, foul taste anti foui breath-~-.always tracee them to torpid iliver: dlay ' ed, lermtenItig food ini the hiowels or~ sou~; gassy stomnacht. P'oisotnouts mat t erfloggedl in the in testi nes. intsteatd o 'i ttig cast ott . of the systemt is r .-absor'bedi in to the loed~. Wihent tis ipoison treacheos the delicate brain t isstue it causes con gestion and that. dutll, timhrobbing, sick ent ig headache. C!ascartet sIm inned ia tely cileanuse lhe stelmach, remnove thle sourt, untidigested food anld foit gases, t ake the exces' bile from thle Ilivert anid car'ry out, all Ito con st ipa ted waste nuattIer and ioisots ini~ jlie bowels. strl A (Case trt tonhght wIt}url str'alghtent youi out by miorni g. Thecy wo'rk whili e you slee ' a 10 cet box fronm youri dut meanstu yoitur head Out' store' i' 'i ke w !hi the bedt S. .\i. k I Il Wlko,'i (M WHENEVER YOU NEED The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless c:ll Touie its Equally Valuable as a Geacrail Ti: cause it Acts on the Liver, Drives Out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and Btilds up the Whole System. / For Grown Pcejlc and C.Ldren, V'ou know what you : n: t:kin~ wh':1 yIu t: ca v. ' T.i.t 1i1l 'Tonic tas the formula is printed on cvie:V ibl slha. ei:C. thAt it cont:: :. . i k:oEwn tonic propertics of ( l'ININI ai l :0i)N. It i .,.A a., tI C'est hiner .tonic and is in Tasteless Forti. It 1:: 1!) ucial for '1:ba ita, Chi's -1t4 Ic-cr,. Weakness, getietal (lebility atnd Ios of app1;e Iti. ('iv: !i ia iwL i, to -u'.tm -; Mothers and Tale, Sickly C hibilret. - Rcmoves il ttSau '-s w it 1d Ct pun-in Relieve, Nervous depre Si siont lin' low r irits. roussus the liver t' action ni d purifies the bloo . A True 'oIntic iid ure A neti 'wr. A C'tl ple e -t en-g tit b er. No family should be withotut it. Guaratte I by yoiur Druggist We ncan it. 50c. CLEANING AND DYEING FOR Fall Winter Needs Should be Done Now. Send them to Footer's Dye Works Cumberland, Nid. America's Greatest and Most Saiuitary Cleaning and Dyeing 'staI)lishinellt. If we have no Agent in your locality, send direct by Express or Parcel Post. The advantages of the Parcel Post place our wonderful facilities and univer sal service at your door---so to speak. Mef h Suh-Sv. 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