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k VARIETY OF NEWS FROM SCRANTON TOWN. XIUS PROSPECTS?H. OF P. CELEBRATIM-WH1T PEOPLE IRE SAYING AND D0IN6. Scranton, December 1:?Again we are reminded that another Christmas is nigh and already the fancy of festive youth turns to thoughts of Santa Claus. May each dear little hopeful heart realize its fondest dreams. AyTf is in the early morn of life > that we learn, mayhap, that' life is worth the living. The! good things come then; disap-j pointment, discouragement and failure complete the wreckage when the shadows have grown longer. Mr E J Turner, a popular salesman at Wright's, was very sick last week but is better and is going at his post ot duty. f!on PS Wall, who gets more real substantial enjoyment out Ot 3t>o uays man most pcupic, returned home Saturday flushed with success. He brought the antlers of a noble buck as a trophy of a successful hunt down in the lower section of the coun-! ty. He said the rest of the goods were "spilinV Miss Allie McCullough, who is;teaching^the public school at Blossom in Florence county, was a welcome visitor at home during the week-end. k Hon R H Kellahan, whose ^ name is so inseparably linked B with the history of our county Fseat, was in Scranton one day last week. He was returning home from a visit to his friend and colleague in the legislature, Rev W P Gause. Mr Kellahan, always alive to business opportunities and a real factor in the development of waste places, made some pertinent observation as to the vacant lots in this promising "burg." R T Grimsley, a popular young business man of Salem, was in Scranton Thanksgiving. Mr C B Butler has accepted a position as salesman with Mr Winslow Wright. Miss Beulah McCullough visfrian/1 Vfrc T T at lieu uei uieuu) 4?xio v *%*vv) mv --- Timmonsville last week. Mr and Mrs P M Lee attended the automobile races in Sav-j annah last week and they do ' say the races were grand. Rev .J W Truluck was in Charleston several days last week. The Conference reports announce the removal of Rev \ w S Henry from Scranton cir-1 cuit to Donalds Bad news! We hoped our worthy pastor would labor with us another year. We) shall part with him with genuine sorrow. Miss Eunice Haddon, a popular school ma'am, was a guest of her sister, Miss Helen Haddon, of the local graded school faculty, during Thanksgiving. Miss lladdon deserted Bishopville to spend the festive holiday in Scranton?a sensible idea. Miss Rena Kinard, of the faculty of Coward's graded school, delighted her friends here last week by a brief visit. Miss Estelle Coward of Hartsville and Miss Ola Coward of Lake City spent Thanksgiving in town with their parents* Mr and Mrs J M Coward. Mr J T KimbalJ 01 Conway is spending some time with Mr and Mrs P M Lee. Mr Kimball says lie will probably make his future home in our quiet and lovely little town. Sensible! Mr and Mrs Winslow Wright went to the "Old North State" k^Bto spend Thanksgi nng with MJrelatives and friends. w Mr John G Singletary reports a delightful visit to his brother at Bisbopville during the Thanksgiving period. A daughter was born unto Rev and Mrs W S Henry on Wednesday of last week. Several of the young people of the town attended the "box party" at High Hill Wednesday / t ft night and another at I night following-. The sign paint town last week dences of their ha the merchants h and attractive sig designate their res^ ot business. A mar' MrsGCCusaac pitai at Charleston ; medical treatment. . ! Miss Helen Hadd' urday seeing the fence. She went th; sister, who was < Bisbopville. The writer has he Bert Evans, a former, boy who is now in the L The letter, dated Fort Piagi. Washington, tells of the agra I able situation of the writer. H description of his travels is 1^ teresting and this news will be a satisfaction to those of his friends who earnestly desire to hear of his welfare. Messrs Archie Bacot and John Wiggins of Elim were down last week hunting. K P Byrd of Tiramonsville was i down one day last week looking after his business interests here. The Knights ot Pythias will hold an interesting meeting on Friday night, December II. Mr F P Cooper of Charleston will be ^present and make an address on the Thornwell Memorial proposition, while the local flames will illuminate the occasion with emanations from the realms of nocturnal lucubration. A "fetch ing feature" will be the sumptuous supper that will be served during the evening, [Say, Mr Editor, come. | An aerial artist in the person of an ebony-hued son of Ham, did some clever stunts in the way of wire walking Monday afternoon. He teased a few nickels and dimes out of our local philanthropists, but not enough to encourage him to come back again. Mr W E Summerford, who has | been an honored citizen of Scranton until this day, has sold his possessions to Mr Ezra W Singletary and will hereafter move and hav/ his being in the Rutledge county capital. The Holiness preachers have folded their tents and quietly j left town. We hope their labors for good will be more acceptable in other fields. Mr Myers Matthews has sold j his farm near town to tyr Win Jordan and will move in the near future to Florence county,where he has bought a more desirable plantation. Miss Addie Cannon, who is unspeakably popular in Scranton, deserted her school at Hebron last week and came home to see her friends. V Messrs W W H Cocktield, W L Jones, and others perhaps, are down in the neck of the lower \ section of the county hunting. The county dispensary board came to town Monday morning and checked up the local dispenser. "0 K" they said Messrs F R Singletary ol Florence and R E Cockfield ol # i Charleston visited relatives in Scranton this week. Dave Webb, an old negro whc has served his days, was the victim of an amputation operation Tuesday. His leg was taken off. Mrs Hargrave, formerly Miss Linnie McKnight and a former popular belle, was on a visit to her brother, Mr RE McKniglit last week. W E C. Hot Supper. There will be a hot supper at Mr S H Bovd's on Thursday night., December 10, for the benefit of Mt, Vernon church. Everybody is invited. Come one, come all. Blentj to eat and a general good time ; promised to all who will attend. Respectfully, J T Frierson and J 4b Pi.ayek, Com mittee Bagging and Ties at Wilkins'. >1 , \ today w at \nty com to othei uiy seat. Mi ..t the taxpayers oi .re loud in their disap c. jig cut off for a part ol t.^Jge county. He declares thai e will not be eleven votes cast in rof Ruthdgecounty in liis town i and a fight is now being waged mn^Oi^aiiist such a move. the people iu that ot mind the distance /rence as the roads are i be dtsired and they ;reat advantages in FlorJy that they would not have dge countv. He says you can co tjou Pee Dee going strongly against ?dge county. Mr ' uberry said he did not kr.ow ho Ilannafrstood on the que* tion. It i. 'be ^>ortedthatJ' nah would V vote f chanp" efinite inJ tion can be ding b I. .. uon. it i: i r Dee kicJks < weaken II* new coy any figh that Hai fight yet, to have was start uen it unanimous. The new county fight isg be watched with a great interest not only by Flore. Williamsburg. It is not that Pee Dee aud Hannah ar to give up the privileges th in Florence and go to a ne?". whose future prospects are problematical, while here t. car tain.?Florence Timex, JN. *******************<* ** * High School Notes, j ************************** Miss Hallie McCollough, one ' * " * 1 fit- A. 1_1_ ot t&e young- lacues 01 me lenui grade, spent the Thanksgiving holidays in a very pleasant visit to Manning. Almost all of the lady teachers spent the holidays out of town. Miss Erckmann spent the time at her home in Charleston. Miss Campbell and Miss Beckham went to Florence to visit a friend. Miss Ross went to Bennettsville to attend the wedding of a friend. Mr. Kibler was content to stay at home and instead of visiting,he himself had a friend, Miss Lucile Dickert, to visit him. Miss Dickert is from Newberry but is at present teaching at New Zi^n. 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Though t this is the first attempt for some , of them, yet we expect it to be such a success that Mr Kibler, I the manager, has already made arrangements in Lake City for ; having the minstrel there. We promise that everyone who comes will enjoy it immensely , and we expect the townpeople to turn out in full force the , night of the event. ii The librarian and her assist* ants are kept busy at every first recess sending books to the pu; pils. It is not only thelarger ! pupils who are tak> Veres t in reading res are also ver ij -i reade it will will det The sent out started. the puadi ug. # ye enough and own tangle* )tice. to hunt or our lands in M, *yan, NO, I 11-26-4t Trespass NoticeAll parties are hereby warned not to trespass upon the lands of W. W. H. Cockfield, said land being in the county ofj Florence. < W. W. H. (.'ockfield, Scranton, S. C. 11-12 4t Trespass Notice. 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