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McOORMHk AND kcCDRtflCK (’OtTNTV, S. & iiliitES m sides the large stock of general groceries that places this house in the front ranks of dealers in pure food table articles, special brands of canned meats, vegetables, fruits, condements, coffee, tea, spices, cakes, crackers and sweets, are handled in large variety. Heavy staples are furnished to the trade demanding them. This store is owned and operated by two brothers, O. B. and J. L. Smith, young men of sterling qualities, both as business men and as worthy citizens. They are natives of McCormick and are known all through this section of the country. As business men they are a success and as citizens they are prized highly. In addition to their merchandising interests they operate large farm properties. They were both deeply instrumental in furthering the interests of the new county movement and were enthusiastic workers for the cause They are public spirited and ever ready to support any project that will result in the good for either town or county. STROM-BELL DRUG CO. No business enterprise is more essential to the health and pros perity of a community, or that occupies a more prominent place in the commercial activities of an industrial center, than does a high- class, efficiently managed drug store that maintains the highest standards of reliability. And no other drug store in this entire section, more admirably fulfills every essential requisite, than does that of the Strom-Bell Drug Co., of McCormick, occupying the ground floor of the beautiful Brown-Andrews building on the cor ner of Main and Gold streets. This enterprising concern is equipped with heavy oak and glass cabinets and fixtures and maintains a strictly high class prescrip tion department that conforms, in every detail, to the most scien tific principles for compounding pharmaceutical preparations. This department is under the personal supervision of W. M. Strom, one of the members of the firm, who is a pharmacist of thirteen years of practical experience in the drug business in Edgefield with G. L. Penn & Son, Greenwood with the Greenwtood Drug Co., and then came to McCormick and entered the drug business with the present firm of Strom-Bell Drug Co. This firm has gained the confidence of the public and is recog nized as an institution whose policy is to give the trade pure drugs, chemicals and medicines. In addition to a regular and complete line of drugs and drug sundries, the Strom-Bell Drug Co., carries a large assortment of toilet articles and beauty preparations that draws trade from far and near. Nunnallys candies are also an important item of the jstock handled, while the beautiful fount, from which delightful and refreshing soft drinks of all kinds and cream in pure fruit flavors, are dispensed, is the feature of the business that has caused this store to become headquarters for the young folk of the town. Dr. D. A. J. Bell is the other member of the firm of the Strom- Bell Drug Co. He is one of the best known physicians in this sec tion and is recognized as one of the most proficient in this territory. He has an extensive practice and it is continuing to grow larger each year. Dr. Bell is a native of Edgefield County. He graduated from the Medical Department of the University of Georgia in 1889 and Came to McCormick where he has remained to the present time. Both Mr. Strom and Dr. Bell were enthusiastic supporters of the new county move and were largely instrumental in bringing about the successful termination of the cause which resulted re cently in the formation of McCormick County. MRS. M. P. McCAIN. In exploiting the resources and advantages of McCormick, it will not be amiss to mention the fact that the advantages, afforded to those who come to McCormick to investigate or stop here for any other reason, in finding the most homelike and hospitable ac commodations to be had anywhere one may seek. There are ample Hotel accommodations and also several places where board may be obtained at very reasonable prices, but the most popular place among the latter; a place that is comfortable, neat and most pleasant, as well as wholesome to a degree of per fection, is the home of that excellent lady who is dear to all who know her, Mrs. M. P. McCain. Born and reared only a few miles from McCormick and having moved to this place some twelve years ago Mrs. McCain is known by hundreds and hundreds of people throughout this part of the country as one of those admirable ladies of a Christian and benevo lent nature that are so scarce these days. She has been running a boarding house for the past ten years with the exception 6f one year spent in Greenwood, S. C. operating a large hotel. She is one of those rare women who cares for her boarders as a mother cares for her children, anticipating the needs and desires of those around her and supplying them with every comfort and choice morsel of food in her power. Mrs. McCain is an active religious, and civic worker. She is a member of all the ladies societies in the church of which she is a member; an active member of the Civic League; a member of the Ladies Aid Society; is an Eastern Star and at one time held the office of Martha in the Grand Chapter and at another, the office of Esther in the local chapter of that order. No one is better liked by all who know her than is Mrs. McCain and no place will be more like home to one who is forced to leave his own fireside^ than is the home of this excellent woman. Residence of Hon. E. C. Robinson. Willington, S. C. McCORMICK COUNTY A prosperous town of McCormick County, situated on the C. A W. C. R. R. between McCormick and Anderson. A spot noted for the great number of nationally noted men who were born or educated here. (By J. Edwin Porter.) Tortured by a tyrannical French Government, persecuted to an unbearable degree, men and women who thought more of their re ligion than their lives, men and women with ideals they were will ing to die for, longed for freedom, happiness and prosperity. These noble old Huguenots turned their eyes to the New World and in 1764 France lost the best blood that ever flowed through human veins. Two hundred and twelve of these persecuted French protestants, suffering on account of their religion were induced by their pastor, Rev. Mr. Pierre Gibert to emigrate. They left France at different times, and as, it were, by stealth meeting at Plymouth England, from which point they sailed for Charleston where they arrived in April 1764. They spent the summer at Beaufort and re turned to Charleston in October. They soon set out for the back country—land having been surveyed and assigned to them in the neighborhood of Long Cane. They called their settlement Nouvelle Bordeaux. A part of this settlement was given the name of Will- ington by Dr. Moses Waddell in 1813. It was one of these vener able old Frenchmen with the milk of human kindness coursing through his veins who gave Lethe Estate to the poor children of this country, Dr. John De La Howe. The monuments in Willington cemetery show forth to posterity that our ancestors were of a patriotic dispisition. The stone that (narks the grave of Mr. Andre Guillebeuax shows that he carried to his grave a bullet in his thigh received in the Revolutionary war. It was their decendents who helped win the battles of Vera Cruz, Chapultepec, Cherbusco and others in the Mexican war. No inconsiderable number of Company “G” of the 14th S. C. Volunteers who defended the bloody angle at the battle of Spottsylvania were raised in this community, some being of Huguenot descent. Some idea of the intensity of this fight can be gained by the knowledge that a large tree was cut down by minnie balls and fell among Company “G”. All honor to their bravery! From 1804 to 1816 there flourished here the greatest educational institution in the United States under the able direction of the famous educator Dr. Moses Waddell who founded the Willington presbyterian church in the year 1813. It was under the supervision that John C. Calhoun received his early training. Judge Longstreet, Judge Wardlaw, George McDuffie, Preston Brooks, James L. Petti grew and others of equal note here, received the training that was destined to make them men among men and makers of history. John Temple Graves was born here. It makes our hearts glow with pride when we think of the many grand noble brave and illus- trous men who owe their nativity to this section of McCormick County. Would it be rash to think that the climate, the water, the air, the land and the general environment of this section of the jpountry tends to produce BRAIN. In the year 1898 the town of Willington was incorporated with Capt. S. S. McBride as mayor. Mr. J. A. LeRoy and Mr. J. T. Black later served as mayor of this progressive town. Mr. R. F. Morris