The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-06-05
COLLEGE CHIMES.
Governor McSweeney EudOrsed-Pros.
perOus Farmer I'm Due West Town.
ship-Preachers, People and Chill.
0ren.

Governor mcSWeeney 1uuOESeu-EEo"-
perous Farmer in Due West Town.
ship-Preachers, People and Chill.
dren.
Due West, s. G.. June 4, 1901.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Grier Pressly are In Due
Mrs. A. S. Kennedy, Master David Kenne-
dy, Jean and Kate Kennedy will spend COM
mencement week at Fairview, in GreenVllle
Mrs. Mary White Pearson of Westminster
expects 10 attend the Commencement.
After q pleasant school session In Ooonee
County, Miss Machie Blackwell Is at home
The people of Due West endorse the action
OF Governor McSweeuey In declining TO &C.
oept the resignation OF Senators Tillman and
Tuesday, June 18th, is Commencement day
In Erakine College. and Wednesday In the
Due West Female College.
Turkeys, chickens, eggs and butter are
bringing good. prices In Due west and Will
play prominent part IN the commencement
programs. II will be too late 10 bring them
10 next week.
The reaper and selfbinder of Mr.. NJ. B.
Clinkscales is doing nice work in the grain
Mr.. J. Mack Nickels, who has been teaching
q large and t1ourishing school al Rocking
ham, N. c., is at home for the sunni mer.
Mr.. ], Grier PresSly, of Tamp1co, Mexico,
has finished up his school WORK at Leslies, IN
York County and Ia here TO attend commence
ment and renew his acquaintance with the
young ladies OF the town and college,.
Va. with her two sons, Frank and John Dev
lin Woodruff, is visiting her old home. The
distap ice, about four hundred miles, was made
In about twenty.four hours. Mr. Frank
Woodruff will come to Due West later IN tne
Rev. Boyce H. Grier has decided to accept
the call extended TO him by the congregation
at Ora in Laurens County. Mr.. Grler 10 AZ
nj a
and Tirzah In the First Presbytery. He 1s
spleudid preacher and popular pastor, ana
the congregation at Ora is 70 be congratulated
upon the prospect OF having pastor 30 well
qualified for the place.
Dr.O.P. Hawthorne visited friends III North
Mississippi last week, some OF whom he had
not seen In thirty.fve years. He did not re-
coRnize them nor was he recognized by them.
Mrs. Josephine Sloan, OF Cedar Springs, Is
In Due West to remain for the commence.
ment exercises. She is the guest OF Rev. and
Mrs. James Boyce at the Female college.
A company has been organized here TO push
the sale OF the leader window lock recently
invented by q colored blacksmith at Mount
Carmel. DR.. G. B. Cowan and Mr.. J. Grler
Pressly are at the head OF the concern which
may take on the proportions of mamm 9th
trust. - $40
The condition OF Mr.. James Magill has
greatly improved within the past week. We
feel quite sure that his friends, who are leg ION
IN number, will be pleased TO learn OF his I'M.
proved condition..
Miss Elizabeth Howard Young, daughter OF
J. Mason Young. Esq, OF Inverness, + la, Ia
visiting relatives here and will remain for
com mmencement. Mis- Young has been al
tending Agnes Scott Institute at Decatur,
Ca. the past season.
Mr.. Eugene Patton. of Baltimore, Ia expect.
ed 10 reach Due West Monday night OF tn Is
week. II has been q good many years since
we look ed him In the eye. A cordial welcome
awaits him In the home OF Mr.. A. ;. Kennedy
and among other friends Of days Of yore.
Miss Edith Dsrgan. of Florence. has accept.
ed position In the intermediate Department
of the Due West School. Miss Dargan grad.
yates at Winthrop College this week. She
has spent four or five years there hitting her-
self for teaching. For the past two years she
has bad extended experience in the model
practice school connected with the college
and her work has been pronounced very sue.
cessful by the critic teachers In that depart
ment. She will spend the summer IN Chicago
doing work that will make her still more ef.
dcient In the grade OF work that she will
have In ihe Due West School.
Mr.. J. H. Brock Is one Of the most prospe.
rous farmers in Due West township. He was
married about 1874 and started from the
ground. He now owns three hundred and
seventy.one acres of land on which he owes
two hundred dollars. Last year he made on
the land he work ed forty bales OF cotton, two
hundred and twentysix bushels OF wheat
and 800 bushels Of corn. He also collected
800 In rents.