The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-11-20
TEACHERS BY THE SCORE.
An Industrious Farmers Hard Luck
Death OF a Foreign Missionary
Public Building DESTROYED.
Due West, 8 c., Nov. l9, 1901.

.... Due West, 8 c.. Nov. l9, 1901.
Miss Mackie Blackwell left for Seneca last
school. She taught the same school last ses.
sion and was much pleased with her school
work and with the good people OF that com.
munity.
Craytonville in Anderson County. She
taught there two years ago with great accept
ance. Both the young ladies are graduates
OF the Due West Female College.
Rev. J. A. Martin aud Master Luther Mar.
tin Of Waterloo have been over to see their
Due West friends.
Prof. w. B. McCuen, Principal OF the Due
work and devote his whole time to the work
OF the gospel ministry.
Miss Euphemis Young went 10 Princeton
last Saturday, where she will teach in large
and tiourishing school. She has had expert
ence asa teacher and will give satisfaction.
The Principal OF the school Is Mr.. James r.
Young, graduate OF Erskine @ College and a
young people are children OF Mr.. H. M.
Young successful business man of Due
West.
Miss Maud Martin, daughter of Rev. ]. A.
Martin is teaching good school at Bar.
more's Turnout. She boards with Mr.. James
Lapgdon Barmore.. Miss Martin Is q gradu-
ate OF the Due West Female College.
The fourth Sabbath OF November, will be
Communion sabbath with the A. r. p. con.
gregation at Due West. There will be preach.
Ing Friday afterr Don at four O'Clock, Satur-
vices on Sabbath.
Thursday night last interesting memorial
services were held in the A. X. p. Church in
honor Of Mrs. Emma McDil Hunter, whose
death occurred at FL Maiz, Mexico, Tuesday
Nov. 18th, at noon. The services we're pre-.
sided over by Prof. E. l.. Reid, the President
of the Foreign Missionary Society. Addresses
tary, and DR.. F. Y. Pressly, the Chairman OF
the Board OF Foreign Missions. A paper pre-
pared by Miss Matte Boyce (once q mission
A series OF resolutions, prepared by Rev. c.
f. Todd. was adopted. The resolutions will
be published.
One year ago MIR. ]. Mack knight leased
the place Of Mr.. James Tucker, near Sunny
. Slope, for three years and moved to II.
Monday OF last week the corn crop was
divided and Mr.. knight stored his part OF the
crop in his barn. At half past eleven o'clock
that night the family was awakened and the
barn was discovered TO be on fire. The family
succeeded in getting out mule. The barn
was burned. MIR. Knight lost sixty bushels
corn, seven hundred bundles fodder, one COW
valued at twenty dollars, fifteen bushels cot.
ton seed, ten bushels sweet potatoes and his
plantation tools. The loss sustained by Mr..
knight represents, In large measure, the re-
suits Of his years work, and to poor man is
q aerious calamity.
The Due West town calaboose Is no more.
Its work was done and IL is now thing OF
the past. Tuesday night as the 'townspeOple
lay fast asleep In their, little beds midnight
maranders felt their way through the dark
ness and piece by piece the various parts OF
the villsge prison were laid upon the ground
until not one plank lay upon another. The
destruction was rapid and complete and
when the work was done the maranders left
for parts unknown. The town council View
ed the remains and wondered how and when
another could be built, only this and nothing
more The work of destruction Is supposed
10 have been done by wanderers on the way
from Buffalo to Charleston, or possibly by
Bulgarian brigands that have not been seen
wandering over the byways and highways
leading to this quiet country village
Monday morning last, DR.. W. l.. Pressly re-
ceived a Telegram from Rev. j. S. A. Hunter,
at Ell. Maiz, Mexico announcing the death OF
his wife, Mrs. Emma McDill Hunter. which
occurred at noon Friday, November 18th.
Mrs. Hunter had been suffering for ten days
with appendicitis. She was attended by two
physicians, and 1t IN likely an operation was
performed. Mrs. Hunter was about forty-six
years old and had been missionary In Me1i-
CO for thirteen years or more She was an
earnest christian woman and literally gave
her life to the cause of Missions In Mexico.
AS an active worker she was perhaps unsur-