The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-09-23
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Augusta EXpOSitiOn.

HUNTER, S. c., Sept. 10, 1891.
Mr.. Geo. 4. Hanvey is busy making u lot
OF fine molasSeS.
Hunter is located about twelve miles
west Of Troy. This part OF the country Is
generally level and productive.
The people in this part OF the country are
industrious, prosperous and high minded.
Church advantages are good and first
class school is being taught in the neiShbor-
mood by Mrs. j. L. Bradley, wife of Hon. J.
+. Bradley.
cotton here is opening fast and everybody
Mr.. J. II. Link Is busy ginning cotton for the
public.
Mr.. n. b. Napier will leave next Monday
for Memphis, Texas, where he expects TO
make his future home. Much success tc
him. -
Mrs. ID. L. PRESLEY and son, of Due West,
are visiting at Hon. j. +. Bradiey'S.
Master Thomas Lyon, son of Capt. John
Lyon Is busy picking cotton to pay his way
to the Augusta Exposition in November. IL
Is quite Il pleasure To him to pick cotton ana
think obout the nice time he will have ut the
Exposition. Other boys who want to go
would do we'll to follow his example.
lion. J. +. Bradley is a stong friend to
Clemson College and says the wori: on the
buildings of this institution is progressing
rapidly and Satisfactorily. He says up
wards Of 500 applications for entrance have
already been filed.
The Hunter Brothers are getting in lot
of New goods They arc first class business
men and nave won the best wishes OF all
who know them.
The large oak tree in the yard of Mrs. NJ. L.
Neel is, two feet from the ground, eighteen
feet il circumference.
Mrs. &. w. CaSon, of Hodges, Is visiting at
Mr.. McCaslans
Mr.. John Evans is rebuilding the mill of
Hon. j. +. Bradley which was burned last
fall.
aI oil hiS hnn II rnS
There will be Il good attendance from this
part of the country to the Augusta ENpuSi-
lion this fail. The railroad fare is so low that
every body can 20, only one cent Il mile.
The health Of this ncighborhOod is good.
Miss. Carrie Wideman, of Due West, is visit
Ing Miss May Lyon.
Miss. Selma McCaslan Is teaching school in
the buffalo section.
\ one and halt year old child Of Mr.. B. a..
Boyd, of Mount Carmel, was drowned in a
tub of wafer last Monday.
Mr.. James Bradley in company with Prof.
G. q. Park inson of Troy, =. c., left here Fri
day olternoon for Due West where they have
gone to visit relatives and friends. Prof.
Parkinson is Tennessccan and iSa graduate
of Erskine College, class OF o. lie is princi-
pal of Troy High school and Is assisted by
Miss. Kittie Hermon recently of Bradley, =.
c.. formerly of North Carolina.
We learn their patrons are well pleased
with tn cir work.
Capt. John Lyon thinks that the county
should be divided into School districts OF or
j mites square and that only two schools, one
white and one colorcd, should be located IN
each township and that they should be placed
as near the centre OF the township US clrcum-
stances will allow.
This plan he thinks would give larger and
better schools and less uncomfortable school
houses and longer terms. The fact is some of
our school houses are miserable Shanti"S,
many OF them not even provided with win
dows, into which the poor. little. helpless
piteoblc childaen are crowded. This ought
not TO be the case. We have now in our
mind a picture of an unoccupied school
house in this county in which Il public
school was once taught.
The building is about ) feet wide and 10 feet
long and has IL stick and mud chimney, no
window, door swung on wooden hinges and
is SO low that four medium sized mon could
stand flatfootcd on the ground and lift of
the root. 1t takes just four courses of boards
To cover it, two on each side.
Master j.. w. Hutchinson is canvaSsing for
"The Beautiful Tree of Life' published by
Messrs. Il. +. Johnson &. Co, of Richmond,
Va He is selling good book and makes u
successful agent He is a very worthy lad
and deserves the patronage Of ali who may
wish 10 subscribe for his book. n. 0. Pyles.