The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-01-25
GOOD RAILROAD NEWS.
GEN HoKE HAS NOT SOLD OUT, WILL NOT
SELL OUT, BUT WILL BUILD THE
ROAD,
All Sorts OF Newsy Paragraphs from
Greenwood $50 Pleasant Endorse.
ment Of Press and Cheap
Excursion to Florida.

GREENWOOD, S. c., Jan. @, 1888.
The recent freeze has not injured the oat
crop. Small grain is looking exceedingly
promising.
The Town Council are making arrangements
to improve the streets and repair the pnblic
wells For this purpose material has been
purchased and rs soon II Is received, the work
will be commenced.
a large quantity of material for tho new
Columbia & Greenville depot has arrived
and work will begin at once. A large orna
mental building will be erected.
For some reason, we know not what, the
Chinese Students failed to visit our town last
week.
Mr.. r. r. Calhoun, who has been quite Ill, is
Mr.. Eugene Tarrant is now employed as q
salesman by w. ]. Parks.
Mrs. Anne Watson. who has been visiting
relatives in En1nghom, s. c., forseveral weeks
will return tomorrow.
Miss Mary McGhee will take charge Of O
school near Cokesbury to-day.
During the recent rains some Of our side
walks were In very bad condition. We are
glad to say that they will soon be improved.
The Greenwood Tribune Is opposed to prohii
bition, and the influence of that paper VIII
no doubt, lie used to defeat If possible, prohi
bition in the coming election.
Messrs. Leavel & Gage have finished and
put up several very elegant monuments re-
Gently. Their business Is increasing as the
excellence of the work Is seen. They deserve
success and they will succeed.
Gen. Hoke, of the G.. G. & N. Railroad as
sures Director G. A. G. Waller that he has not
"sold out" and that work on the road will be
see the road completed to this place during
Me Messrs. ]. J. Cartledge and A. D. Calhoun
attended the marriage OF Mr.. K. s. Link, at
Abbeville last week.
The honest of our people was clearly de.
monstrated last Saturday night when store
was left open and when discovered or yester-
day morning nothing had been stolen or in
A great part of the beef now sold here is
totally unfit for use. 1t is of the most infe-
rior quality and not carefully prepared. Who
good market? He, who will do this, will be a
public benefactor and deserve the everlasting
gratitude of all our people.
Our "city fathers" will soon name day to
be observed as "Arbor Day."
All who own lots here, and are at oil inter-
ested in the beauty and health OF the town,
will of course observe the day and plant, not
one, but many trees, for which labor they will
Miss Mary Hodges, who has been visiting
Mrs. McGhee, returned to Hodges last Friday.
Goodwin says: 1.-THE newspaper should be-
and should take It's stand upon some high
and good principle and assert 1t boldly In the
face Of oil opposition" Many here are pleas
ed with the stand that the Press and Banner
has taken In regard to the coming vote on the
"whiskey question:" and there is no one who
has not an especial admiration for q truly and
thoroughly Independent newspaper.
On Wednesday round trip tickets to jack
sonvillc, Fla, will be sold here for $500. The
tickets will be good for twenty days which
would give ample time for a visit to Jackson
VILE and other place as we'll.
Three hundred and sixty-four negro chill.
dren are now attending the different schools
In this place, which is more than double the
number Of white pupils in our schools and
colleges What do you think OF this?
Mrs J. w. Sproles was called to the sick bed
of her sister, Miss Sallle McGhee, on last
Saturday. MAC.