The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-12-25
LOwndesville News.
Lowndesville, Dec. 23d, 1901.

LoWndeSvllle, dec. go, lSOl.
Monday morning, Mr.. Bruce Nose.
ley, of the G. A. G. cadets, came home
to spend his two or three weeks vaca'
tiCn. .... ...
The Saturday night weather fore
cast cold wave arrived on time. Sun
day was cold day and Monday was
too, or three combined. ' 49,.
Last Wednesday was sort Of mat
rimonial jubilee in this section. That
day at 10 o'clock q. M, Mr.. Will Nc
Twain, of Abbeville, and Miss Rosa
Bell were united in marriage at the
home of Mr.. r. o. Bell, father Of the
bride, near Latimer. Rev. J. L. Dan.
iel of this place officiating. Miss An.
ME Liddell accompanied the above
minister to the marriage.
On the same day at $50 p. m., DR..
J. A. Dickson, of Abbeville, and Miss
Lena BroWnlee were married by Rev.
J. F. McKinnon at the home of Capt.
J. E. Brownlee, of Penny's Creek
father of the bride.
DR.. J. B. Moseley spent several days
at Anderson last week.
Mrs. Albert Gilbert, of Bordeaux,
came up Monday, and was the guest
of Mr.. J. Il. Latimer that night. From
there she went to Capt. Brownlee's to
be present at the marriage next day.
Mrs. R. l.. Smith went to Anderson
on Wednesday.
The same day of the above marriages,
Mr.. w. Mcmahon and Miss NJ. Mar.
tin came over from the other side of
Rocky River and were joined in holy
wedlock by Rev. H. c. Tennel at his
own home.
During the past two or three days,
our absent ones have been returning
to their old homes to spend their
Christmas holidays. DR.. J. L. Fennel
of the Medical department., of the
University of Ga, Misses Emma
Bowen and Jessie Clinkscales of the
Elberton High School, Mr.. J. w.
Barnes of EIberton, Miss Jennie May
Dunn of the Due West Female Col
lege, and Mr.. J. Henry Carlisle of
Atlanta, are here enjoying a reunion
with relatives and friends.
Yesterday, having been set apart.
by the late South Carolina Conference
as "Orphans day." Rev. J. L. Daniel,
pastor of Methodist Church, gave to
his hearers sermon along that line,
and at its close, took up a collection
and received SlS.76 which was quite a
liberal one, as the weather was cold,
which prevented q full attendance.
Mr.. R. l.. Charping, fan aged man
who spent the greater part of his long
life in this place, and who som etime
ago went to Anderson to spend his
remaining days with his son died
there last week. His remains were
brought down here and buried in
Providence Cemetery. He was for
the greater part of life, u member of
the Methodist Church, and good
man.
What large number of flowers of
matrimony are now being culled =?
The newspapers all over the country
are teeming with notices Of union
of hearts and hands at Hymen's al.
tar. At the present rate the supply
will soOn be exhausted, the God Of
Matrimony will be out of a job, and
will have to wait for another crop. Ii
all of those who have been and will be
in the near future, "made one" in a
temporal or material sense in eating
and wearing as they are in a legal
sense to the stress Of looked for hard
lmes,i because of short crops, etc.
Many marriages necessarily bring
about vast expense in way Of bridal
presents. While these are expressive
of the high esteem of the donor for the
recipient, yet oft times they partake
of the ornamental instead Of the use
ul. 1t would be better, in many in
stances to reverse this order. The
newspapers tell of an instance along
this line, that breaks all past records
They say that when the Hon. Chan
cy NJ. Depuy left New York a few
days ago, for Paris, where he is soon
to wed Miss Palmer, that he carried
with him, as bridal presents for him.
self and bride, two tons. When they
are opened out, what display there
will be.
Troupe.
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