The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-08-14
ECHOES FROM CHICASAW,
James Magill and Family Celebrate
His Eightieth Birth Day-VariOus
Turns of the Kaleidoscope.

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Due West, s. c., Aug. IL, 1901.
| Rev j. A. Martin has been conducting u
protracted meeting at Mountville IN LauTens
| County.
Coroner w. b. Goings attended the political
| aummer sch ool that was In session al Union
Thursday and Friday of last week. He will
extend his stay in the county for ten days or
two weeks.
Mr.. Sam johnson, one of the successful bus
mess men OF Laurens, was with the family OF
MIR NJ. I, Brock, of Honea Path. was here
one day last week working up the Asheville
excursion.
Willie and Johnnie Addison. after a
months stay with their mother, returned to
the Thornwell Orphanage last Friday. They
are manly boys and have many friends
among the little boys in Due West.
DR.. s. A. Wideman, after pleasant stay
here of ten days, returned to Leslie's Friday
last.
Newton and Robert Gordon are hard work
ers. They have a good crop and are now
hauling cord wood to town. We can recon-
mend these young men 10 persons who may
be waiting for partner In the housekeeping
business.
Mr.. James A. Bowie, OF Abbeville popu.
lar travelling salesman for an Atlanta notion
honse, was here for day last week.
Walter McAd8ms has been suffering and
| confined to the house for two weeks With
sore foot.
MIR. Allen B. Martin sold here last Friday
the finest watermelons we have seen this sea.
| son. some of them weighing over 40 pounds.
The boys about town have bathing spout
on the branch below the old Lindsay place,
where the students had a similar dirt remov-
| er forty years ago.
Ralph Grler and speer Bonner spent last
Friday at Jones'.
| DR.. jesse Bell was out on his AntreV1lle
| farm for two days last week.
Revs. l.. S. Burnett and Boston Jones have
been carrying on a protracted meeting at the
Methodist church for several days.
In q competition examination Mr.. A. ID.
Latimer, Of Chester. graduate of Erskine
College, class Of 1900. was awarded scholar.
ship in the Peabody Normal Institute at
Nashville. Tenn.
| week in Anderson on business. He was quite
unwell when be reached home, but the next
day was himself again.
Mr.. George Sharp and Mr.. Olin Brownlee
have been elected elders In Greenville Pres.
byterian church, and Mr.. William Mckee
MIR. w. N. McAdams sold his crop of goats
to Mr.. Williamson recently from Canada, and
Mr.. W. c. Haddon is stocking his farm with
sheep. and proposes TO devote more OF his
whether or not there is money in it.
Mrs. N M. Grier returned from Charlotte
last Saturday. Her friends are glad to know
that she is stronger then when she left Due
West.
Mrs. M. E. Kennedy. Mrs. Nellie Moore and
Miss Alma Kennedy are spending while In
the lower part OF the county.
Mrs. ]. g. Pressly. after pleasant stay with
friends at Louisville, Ga, returned here last
week.
Mr.. Jas. Magill is celebrating his elghtieth
birthday Today, Monday, August l2th. He He
be present TO lend Joy. and happiness TO the
occasion. Our friend has been spared TO
reach a good old age. He has experienced
some of the joys of life and has likewise met
of 90 RI nj froQ N 70 Dn
Mr.. J. N. Maglll aud family OF Atlanta are
here to attend the Magill reunion. We regret
that their stay was very short.
During the meeting at Greenville Presoyte-
rian church there we're twenty-three access
sions TO the membership, sixteen by profes.
sion and seven by certificate The preaching
OF Rev. Mr.. Shives was greatly enjoyed by
the large congregations that attended the SER
Miss Sallie Sitton and Mr.. John NJ. Sitton
reached Due West Saturday night. They
have been at Montreal, n. c., for several
OF September. Mr.. Sitton has spent the past
year travelling In the far west.
Mr.. John r. McGee, Furman MCGEE, Robt.
Hagen, NJ. B. Clinkscales. Ernest CIinkscales,
Crawford Clinkscales, j. Il. Wren, James
Bell, Joseph Nance, Paul Pressly went to
Clemson College Monday morning 10 attend
Mrs. Eta McDapieI, wife Of Mr. M. E. Nc
Daniel, of Ekorn, Laurens County, has been
In Due West looking for suitable house to
rent Should MI Mcdaniel decide to come to
Due West be will have ak children TO enter
the various schools. He is man OF means
and will do a wise thing II be comes here for
the purpose OF educating bis children. The
best schools in the land are to be found here,
and cordial welcome awaits all who come.
Mr.. A. A. Pearson IL the happiest man In
town. A handsome daughter has come TO
gladden. his home.
Mrs. Mamie Edwards Taylor, wife OF Mr.. ].
E. .Tay lor of Lancaster, died at the sanitarium
of Doctor Pryor In Chester, Wednesday after
noon at $50 o'clock. Her remains were taken
10 Lancaster and then TO Shiloh metery
and there laid away by loving hands. DR..
and Mrs. Edwards reached her few hours
before her death. Mrs. Taylor had been In
delicate health for sometime, but her early
death was not expected by the friends whom
she left here about two weeks ago. A bereav-
ed husband and three children of the immed-
late family are lett to mourn her loss. The
family have the loving sympathy OF large
circle OF friends.