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LOWNDESVILLE.
The Question of Rainfall Involving
the Crops OF the Just and the I'm.
fvof GohnnIo
Lowndesyille. s. c., June IA. 1897.

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Lowndesville, s. c., June ID, 1897.
Mrs. Jno. r. Blake, Jr., OF Abbeville. came
up last Saturday week ago and spent n few
days with the family Of Mr.. H.. A. Tennent,
her brother.in-law.
Monday to visit Mr.. B. Bolin Allen and fam
lily.
Several OF our citizens, having a pressing
invitation to attend Court at Abbeville. went
down on Monday.
Mrs. E. w. Mason and her two boys, Mag
tiers Ralph and Edward, left Tuesday for Fair
field County TO spend sometime among Eins-
folk.
MI. E. ]. Huckabee and his sister, Miss Lii
lie. went TO Abbeville Thursday, and the last
named went that evening 10 Greenwood,
then on TO Spartanburg the next day to take
In commencement and visit relatives.
Master Roscoe Moseley, of Abbeville, came
up Tuesday to spend awhile.
Miss Leila Belle McCalla and Miss Annie
Clinkscales came home from Rock Hill where
they had been In College for the past few
months.
MIR. r. E. Moseley, who is in business with
MIR. John t. Burriss at Anderson, came down
home sick Thursday. He Is at this writing on
rising ground, and expects to return TO his
duties In a few days.
Rev. E. w. Mason went over to Bells Chap.
ell and attended the Third Quarterly Meet
ing for Antreville Circuit. He returned home
with him. They, with others from this place,
went to the Ridge the next day. where was
held the Third Quarterly Conference for
! Lowndesville station. Presiding Elder Har-
mon preached at the Ridge again yesterday
at II q. m.
Hon. 1. H. McCalla and MIR. ). 7. Clink-
scales, both living In the Fork. and quite near
together. can say what very, very few. II any
other can say, and that Ia. that they now
have fodder that was pulled twelve or fifteen
years ago. II Is a rare thing now to see fod-
der one year old.
It seems as II the end of the big storm is
| not yet Soma of the rpnfar6 In the ScOurRed
district have given up and left the land that
they had rented, which action upon their
part leaves the land holder, and the mer-
chants who were furnishing them with sup
plies, in the lurch. 1t is said that 1t rained
upon the just and upon the unjust" 1t did
last Wednesday night was a week ago, and II
hailed, too. Some Of those upon whom came
this terrible visitation were good Sunday-ob-
serving, church-going people, and the report
Is that much the larger part OF those whose
crops were destroyed, rarely II ever, attended
church. This gives rise TO the question, are
not home as well as foreign missions needed ?
Rev. E. w. Mason, when he came to this
pastoral charge nearly three years ago,
brought with him a fine bird dog named Don.
the country hunting. Everybody knew him.
A few days ago what was left OF him was
found In the woods near here. It Is supposed
that some one, from pure cursedness, shot
Messrs. NJ. D. Morrow. Earl Allen. Tom Lid
dell, Ernest Latlmer, Henry Moseley, VIC.
Tennent, Mr.. and Mrs. Barnes and Miss Nam
ME johnson and Miss Nellie Moseley last
Thursday night went up to Iva, or as II Ia
more familiarity known Cooks Station on the
8. v. r. r., a few miles above here, and at
tended q part OF the closing exercises of Prof.
J. F. Harper's school. The exercises that
night consisted Of dialogues. speeches, songs,
&C., by the Juveniles. These all performed
their respective parts with precision and nc
principal and his efficient assistant, Mrs. r,
j. Stewart, for the responsible position. occu.
pied by them. The music for the occasion
was furnished by Miss Annie Blake, of Nine
y,SixS 30, on the piano; a~csGmpani es 6y Mr.,
the violin, and Mr.. Guss Cook on the bass
violin, The selections were good, well rem.
dered and added much TO the pleasures OF The
night. There were supposed to be one thous.
and persons present.
The next morning at an early hour there
was q large ingathering OF the people from the
surrounding country expecting another treat,
and they were not disappointed.
An hour or two were spent In original
speeches and essays by the young ladies and
young gentlemen. Then Rev. o. y. Bonner,
who was TO deliver the literary address, was
tained his already acquired and we'll merited
reputation, as a fine and fluent speaker. His
address Is said TO have been a very fine one.
Last, but not least, a well prepared and splen-
did basket dinner was then opened out with
which the inner wants OF every man, woman
and child present were supplied. This was
q nttlng nnale 10 lhls 10 ne remembered occa-
sion. The school patronage is very fiattering
for SO small q place, which shows that not
only the town limits, but the surrounding
woods are full Of the material out OF which
men and women are made. The enrolment
of scholars is about no, showing that the peo.
pie Of Iva and It's vicinity are fully alive to
educational interests and are abreast OF the
times In their demands along this line.
Through an oversight 1t Ia not given In the
proper place above that Hiss Annie Blake
also gave a recitation tlat Is very highly
spoken Of. Troupe,