The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-09
WEST END.
Happenings and Incidents of n Week
Around the City.

Happenings and Incidents OF n Week
Around the City.
Miss Maggie Lowry. OF Louisville, Ga, Is
visiting the Misses Cater.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. II. Norwood, OF Calhoun
Falls, spent Monday In the city.
Monday was an unusually qnlet Salesday.
The crowd in town was small and business
hGl Miss Rosa Hart, Of cokesbury, is the guest
of Mrs. ]. c. Ellis.
Prof. j. F. c. DuPre came down from Glenn.
son College Monday. His host of friends were
delighted to see him, and only regretted that
his stay in our midst was not longer. He re-
turned home yesterday.
TIE PLACE TO GET GOOD PRINTING AT Low
FIGURES.
The Press and Banner Is not only the best
county paper in the State, but In addition TO
this has the best equipped job office In the up
country and turns out as good work as any OF
it's city competitors. If you have Job print.
Ing of any kind, from wedding invitation 70
a pamphlet, give the Press and Banner trial,
and you will be convinced that their work is
AL and the price as low as good work can be
done. Our people will do well to remember
this and spend their money al home' ana IN
so doing help home enterprise.
The entertai nment for the benefit Of the
public school library netted that splendid In.
stitution q neat sum, and this will be used at
once in the purchase OF quite NUMBER OF
books, all of them standard works. Our peo-
pIe should always lend helping hand to this
library. BY doing so our school Will soon
have collection of volumes that Will be not
the least but one of the greatest helps to Its
pupils, and TO those OF our people who are
mem bers of the library.
Mrs. Frank Myers. OF Augusta. Ga, arrived
n the city Monday 1t adtern9SI %Ghsr Mrs. Myers is
Capt. j. b. Lyles is taking short vacation.
Capt. Lyles left last Wednesday for Camden,
s. C., where he will visit relatives.
tnAC A r tJno In
city last Saturday. Mr.. Cothran bad just re-
turned from trip to Los Angeles, CAL. where
be went TO attend the meeting of the o. K G.
Besides visiting the above named city, Mr..
Cothrau took In many points or interest on
the Pacific slope and In the west.
How about another bicycle parade and
races? The first attempt was grand affair,
and much enjoyed by all who care for ont
NEW FIRM.
new firm launched forth in the business
world Monday morning,-Messrs. COBB u NC,
David, dealer In shoes. This hrm ls composea
of Messrs. o. H. Cobb and ]. E. McDavid, both
busipess b oualifcations. Well liked by the
whole community, these gentlemen nave ev-
ery prospect of making their business enter
prise They hayg SoIGhs o f5e snd en5'Fe
P Hammond Co., and will be found at the
old stand of G. P. Hammond Co. ready and
anxious to serve you. 49,
Mr.. c. p Hammond will still run his biey.
Gle and harness business at the old stand. He
having made arrangements TO retain that part
OF the building used to manufacture harness,
for at least the remainder Of this year.
will arrive In the city today: Miss Wallace
during the past year has had charge OF the
Art department OF the Due West Female Col
lege. During her stay here she Will be the
guest of Miss Florence Templeton.
Where Is there place OF Its size In the
South that sent more men to wear the gray
during the late war than Abbevllle? Where
place that moarns the deatn Oh 50 P many sI me ne
Southland there ia no community tnat gave
better, braver or more noble warriors tnan
this Should we not honor these heroes OF
the Lost Cause In nttlng ana suostantla1
manner by erecting a monument to them? :?
This work Of love should at once be set on
foot and never stopped until the result Is ac-
comp pIished. A noble monument TO grand
and noble men is what AbbeVllle ought 10 be
sT Prof ". B. Gibson left here last Wednesday
for his home in Massey, Ala. From there
Prof Gibson will go to the Nashville Exposi-
ton.
The cooking contest of the Glen-Jone Hard
ware Co. for the fine S25 Home Michigan stove
was concluded on last Friday. The "best ba-
kers" Of each day OF the contest came togeth'
er on that day To- "bake to win" The hall was
ten were left alone with the timekeeper.
These "prize winners" were Mrs. Mary
Link, and Miss Maud A. Milford, Miss Irene
Morrow, Miss Fannie Cason. ISIS Nell Ed
wards, Miss Florlde Reese, Miss Marie Gary,
Miss Alice A. Douglass, Miss Matte Lou
Knox, and Miss Monte Sign.
Twenty minutes were allowed to make and
bake pan of ten biscuit Now came the cll-
max OF the contest. With sleeves rolled up,
each little cook went TO work with vim
each one confident that their cake would not
be dough" They mixed, and kneaded, and
beat, and rolled, and the Home Michigan'
did the rest. As each cook finished, the
table, and ten such perfect pans of biscuit
were never aggregated In SO small space be-
fore The contestants were then dismissed
and the Judges came In to pass their judg
ment as TO " hich was best. Each and every
pan of these biscuit was model OF the Gull
nary art, and would have done credit to the
| finest chef de cuisine In the country. The test
was severe, and judges of less ability than the
| ladies who passed on them would have fou nd
! IL exceedingly difficult to say which were the
hest biscuit These ladies we're Mrs. George
White, Mrs. c. Chalmers, and Mrs. George 81
| Peckham whose names are synonymous with
| perfection in housekeeping. After very care
| No. was best and entitled 10 the prize. Ref
| erence to the list of contestants showed thai
| this number was Mrs. May Link, and she Ia u
| be congratulated as being the best young cook
| in Abbeville county.
The Glen-Jones Hardware Co. desire to re
turn thanks to all their friends for their Inter
est in this contest. The receipt by which the
the ADVERTISEMENT OF the Glen. Jones Hard
ware Co. There were about fifty contestants
for the stove.