The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-08-14
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Confederate ReuniOn--.The Oil Mill.'
The Ninety.Six Stock ShOw...CrOp
Rep0rts--Kind Words for the Edi-
tOr...PerSOnaIa.

GREENWOOD, s. c., Aug. II, 1889,
Let Greenwood have the refinery.
Mr.. j. w. Dacus Of our place has rented
store room in Greenville and will go into bus
Jordan and Frank Martin will go with him as
statesmen.
From what we can gather from our farmers
the crops are better than in 1882. This Is GER
tainly encouraging 10 the drought stricken
farmers who have suffered SO continuously y
since then almost without change. The
rainfall has been copious and seasonable. Az
the time of this writing steady gentle rain
is falling. A heavy rain fell here on Sunday
last. Everything portends to full crop this
Mrs. ]. w. Wells is summering in Charlotte,
DR.. and Mrs ]. C. Maxwell are back from
% Rev. W.. ". +. Mathews is spending his vaca-
tion at Yorkville. s. c., and Rev. G. II. Carter
The track to the Factory will soon be finish
ed. The grading is all finished and Is now
ready for crossties and rails.
Messrs. Wells & Mays have just burned
kiln OF brick and are now prepared TO fill Or
ders, We saw specimen Of them this morn
ing and can safely say that Augusta brick is
Hon. Ben. Tilman, of Edgefleld, was in the
city one day last week on his way to Pendle-
Capt. J. T. Youngblood returned from Will
liston last week where he has been spending
several weeks.
DR.. S. L. Swygert is back from Alabama,
from this place. The Doctor expresses him
self as being highly pleased with Alabama
and expects to return In few days. He Will
remain until after the Ninety-Six Stock Show:
Mr.. Hugh Wilson, the honorable editor OF
the Press and Banner was in town last week.
Our friend gave us the 60 by. much to our dis
comfiture, as we would have liked to have
shaken hands with him and congratulated
you must not forget us who travel in the more
humble walks Of journalism. 1t throws
kind Of bread tray reserve over US and makes
US feel unhappy.
Mrs. A. G. Youngblood is still quite sick.
Mrs. g; A. Swygert took trip to Columbia
Mr.. jerome Bell left Friday for trip to
Some Kind friend from Ninety-six mailed
Please accept our thanks and best wishes for
the success Of the show. Our Ninety-S Six
friends have made strenuous efforts for the
success Of the show and we can see no visible
reasons against VIII the S,6n gnnfag
friends have entered into this feature we think
1t will by far exceed anything Of the kind that
they have had previous to this. Pendleton
had better look TO her laurels. We hope that
we may be able to attend the show along with
large part Of our people who expect to be on
hand.
Owing to press of business last week we
were unable to get off our communication,
which OF course Is now stale. The Press and
Banner came fraught with interesting matter
and full Of news. We congratulate the Editor
in charge during Editor Wilson's absence.
We hardly knew the difference. -
Miss Sudie Self Is visiting In Edgedeld
county.
There was O spectacular entertainment at
the Male College Hall on Thursday evening
last. Among the different and varied displays
were the Gipsy Camp. the Five Foolish Vir-
gins and the Judgment of Paris, all OF which
were good.
A reunion OF all Confederate soldiers Of Alb,
beville county will be held in Greenwood on
Thursday, the5th Of September next, at 2 p. M.
A Survivors Association will be organized,
and steps taken to erect suitable monument
to perpetuate the memory Of all soldiers who
were Killed in the war. There will be barbe-
cue dinner furnished to supply the inner man.
PEMBROKE.