The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-06-13
DUE WEST.
A Thousand and One Good Things
the CITY and Her People.
Due West, =. G., June IL, 1900.

for another hard years work.
The town council Is having the streets pu,
in splendid condition for commencement
The roads leading into Due West are also In
good shape. The scrape was In charge OF
Mr.. Arthur Bell and Mr.. Clarence Crawford
who understand and carry it on i'll business
like way.
DR.. o. p. Hawthorn attended the reunion
at Louisville and enjoyed 1t immensely.
Mrs. II. NJ. Morton visited Miss s. f.. Morton
last week. She was accompanied by her two
fine looking sons, Thomas and Willie.
Miss Viola Poore returned home u few days
ago. For the past nine months she has been
teaching at Renno, in Laurens county. She
has been asked to take the same another
year.
Prof. j. Grier Pressly and wife reached Due
West last week from Mount Carmel and will
be here the greater part Of the summer.
Miss Fannie Wldeman will attend the sum-
mer school lor teachers In Anderson. Sne
has been teaching in that county during the
past year. ....- a.
GOOD SUGGESTION. r.ss
The Abbeville county summer school
should be literally patroniZed by the teachers
In the public school. There is much valuable
Information to be gained in such, schools and
no teacher should be content with his or her
present attainmentin the line Of school work
but ever strive for that which will assist them
full In imparting instruction. :&Ii9
GOOD TEACHERS.
We had an opportunity this morning OF
shaking hands with the principal OF the Ear.
plished daughter Of MI. R. o. Branyon. Miss
Branyon reports that there were abouta hum
dred pupils enrolled In her school with an
average OF about eighty-one. She5is q grad
enthusiastic teacher. She has taught the
Sisted By Miss cora Eisin. WI Who is also quite
favorably mentioned as 9 teacher.
FILLED WITH BREAD.
DR.. o. P. Hawtaoin nnishsd :sutting wheat
than Two hundred bdsheis and Will not ru n
short OF bread xhe nextsyear or two.l IN
ere9n als sa5%,ns as Sy yys ,9o'
Mr.; w. 9; EAlss shos tof wheat
any one can Zee band
acres Of wheat from ID ia get
seventy.ffye 6dShs16 ~ " x {ss jsss :.
Quite q heay& M 4tf# s. = le d hood
OF Mr.. J. sath farnoon.
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pGMaiis Miss 81 1aii1sR ssss sho pss
Ss pss. tSs %ess Ms msass ~ 3 eSspsI
N. C., where Ahs aftshd q Normal s'Ilsti-
tuta for seVeral EeaBs 40 ~: +, eysiif
Mr.. Bsra afd5H Sl1if ifsd friends at atAntrevtlle
afs Donald nal d Humphrey automobile passed
throughtd Tuesday morning In charge OF
conduotors0 0ealge Sharp. After being oiled
up twilie6e IkAdy for the wheat crop
Cap. .: ~ epphIan ven, % Charlotte - ssy, s,s
neice, who ID q daughtero or Mt. r. E. Cochran
q prominent INSURANCE man In that city. :.
Paper hangers from Charlotte spapered
several rooms nthe girls dormitory last week.
COMMENCEMENT SERMONS !,
On next Sabbath night at, 8 O'Clock Rev. ].
c.. Galloway,5D d., 5of Gaston1R, N. Ca will
preach thS5tc0mmencements sermon TO the
class that viii graduate from Erskine Theo-
! 0fsS1t fsrsons nsi who like good preaohipg should
hesr, the sermons OF Rev. N. e. Pressly and
Rev. ]. g. Galloway, D. d., next Sabbath. A
cordial Invitation is extended everybody TO
attend these services.
fS i, st5 sG.sANNUAL ADDRESS
( Rev. C:s E.@McDonald, efsWinnsboro, will
max @, the Alumni, Address al commence
ment. II some great big broad spties DO not
ppiatform piar @ we viii Be surprised os his sake
(he weighs over three hnnGre1 pohndsl we
nope ths weather Will be COOL and pleasant I.
His spseehsw,lI Iresch the hiea3gaier, mark; ark
lass s. Mili ILL asSH 4 9 i 4 ahe best
we're sers q esgsss ROOD TheSwere the
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y Rev. lev. I sltss rsssnt sraeuate Of the
semins5y e Sola aa Y 9eshy
lgs serIsn cnaschsss @ HeSsk Ess bis bon Sat Don.
aids. We nndersand Sh6 peopIs a&areenville
are pleased with HIM
DR.. G. 4. Wychet 81 toapeEtyi candidate @
Wed nesdays sn{6htt trouble to discover
what his business Ger he strikes straight
out from the shonidef
RuSxvAYs HORSES.
Two run.a.way horses on one street In one
afternoon last week and not Il very good day
for such things either.
Miss Alice Wingo will spend part of the
summer with her sister, Mrs. J. ID. Brooks.
She completed her work as teacher In a coll
lege at Waynesboro. Va. about the first OF
may and came direct TO Due West. She
taught several years In the Due West Female
Mr. Charles p. Pressiy has been visiting Mr..
A, s. Kennedy and other relatives. lie was
in the Consular serytce at Marsviile and Bor-
deaux, France, f6f aye years and his home Is
In saa' M Z New sR Yorf ssrs
In May and VIII t6hain in South Carolina
about Two weekswhen he Will return to his
The Senior rrCInss OF Ersklne entertained
their special fftnpds among the young ladies
at the college home last Saturday night at
their annual banquet. Just what was said at
the banquet and 70 and from the banquet we
do not know.
The Misses Wideman entertained about
twenty-five of their friends last Saturday
evening. Delightful social features were in
terspersed with delicious refreshments.
Mr.. Hugh Bowen, OF Zarline, is a good far
mer and is also an expert at turkey raising.
He has fifty little turkeys on the way TO gob-
blertown. Last season he sold large mum.
ber at Abbeville. While in Due W est he en-
gagged come fat gobblers to be used the week
after CONN mencement.
Mr.. K. c. Brownlee, Sr., says he has the best
hands on his place this year that he has had
for many years. When he lived out ON bis
farm he was very successful at raising cotton
and was called by his neighbors Cotton Bob
Brownlee."
attended service at Abbevllle last Sabbath.
NOTABLE EFFORTS OF A YOUNG LADY.
Miss Green, daughter OF Mr.. b. p. Green
attended the school at Rock Spring this
year, the distance she walked being about
thl ee miles. The school was taught by Mr.
Mason Miller, and the number of pupils en-
rolled was sixty five, some OF whom had al,
vanced studies. We loaned her some good
books to read and advised her father TO send
her 10 college.
WE'LL ALL GO A REArING-wHo'LL HE TILE
BINDER?
Mr.. Luther Haddon and MIR. William Had
don have bought Mccormick reaper and
binder. 1t cuts all the wheat, binds 1t into
bundles and throws off about q half dozen IL
| q pile. few enterprsing, progressive farm
ers In community, by introducing labor,
saving machinery, may do vast amount
4 of good.