The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-10-16
HERE AND THERE.
A Few Plain, Pithy, Points Practical
Iv Put in Parag raphical Phrases by
CIV H. NJ"

A Few Plain, Pithy, Points Practical.
Iv Put In ParagraphicaI Phrases by
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The feable life Of little marguerite. the four
months old infant daughter Of Rev. and Mrs.
NJ. w. Gordon, passed quietly aWay.last w cd
nasday afternoon, ane the little spirit return
rhe body was laid away in Long Cane ceme.
terry, Rev. r. II. Jones conductieg the funeral
services. The bereaved parents and little
sisters have the sympathy OF The entlre COM
munity in their bereavment.
Three fiye cluster incande'csnt electric
liz hts Of ninety candle power each have been
put In the Court House. SO, now this build
ing Is well lighted and person can see u
play there now without nearly straining his
eye balls out.
A slight change has been made In the teach
ers at the Puolic School. Prof. Bradley has
been taken from the ninth grade and given
straight, of which that grade is full. Miss
Susie Brunson has been given the ninth
grade, which is nearly all girls.
The engine at the electric light plant broke
down last Thursday evening, so the the town
was in darkness till after midnight. 1t is
seldom that this happens. Aboeville has u
good electric light system for town Of It's
size. -
Factory Hill is part Of Abbeville with a
population OF over a thousand people, and
there should be four or five arch lights down
there to light up the streets. AS 1t Is now on
uu-moon-light nights 1t IL so dark that you
can hardly see your hand before your lace.
During the winter the mill operatives have
TO 60 TO and return from their work at night,
anu when IL is rainy and sloppy they have
bad time of 1t as you may we'll Imagine.
Let every one who has buggy or carriage
DECORATE 1t up and come out and join In the
grand floral parade next Friday afternoon al
three o'clock. Every citizen should be patri,
otic enough to try to make every feature oil
the fair a success.
every grade OF the Public School take part ln
the grand parade. 1t will BIZ little thing
for them TO do. and will help out so much
Some OF the children have been ara 10 say
that they did not think they would go into
II, but Is to be hoped they WILL change their
minds and all take part.
The Public School and McCradys School
will both give holiday during the three days
of the fair. No use TO attempt TO try to get
the children to study when any such fun as
the brass band and carnival are In town.
Abbeville has a population to-cay OF 22Oo
whites and 1900 colored. The county mas q
population OF II sou whites and 2O,U colored.
Green wood has a population OF $500 whites
and $50 colored. The county pupulation d
Of $3.50 whites and $4,000 coored. In the State
as u whole out OF every lOh people there are
SO of them colored and IL white. or the col.
ored only ane-half Of one per cent are Chi
ueese or Indians. The rest are Negroes.
Miss Victoria Amos, pretty. attraclive
young lady, of Spartanburg. arrived In me
city last Thursday, and is spending awhile
wiib her sister Mrs. M. w. Gordon. Miss
Amos spent some time here during the past
summer and is most pleasantly rememoered
by host Of friends aud admirers VINO well
come her back to the city again.
Mr.. Gillian Aiken. who has 80 afaoly
and agreeably to the public filled the position
OF clerk at the post office Tor The past rev
months, has resigned and accepted tpe nI posi,
Edward Roach has taken his place In ihe
post office.
Miss Ettie Moore and Miss Dora Patterson,
two charming young ladles dr OF Mine,y 3,SInS SiX
the fair. Miss Moore Is the daughter OF Mr..
Tom Moore, who used 10 be clerk OF the court
here.
day yesterday as she was passing through on
her way home TO Atlanta from Charlotte, n,
g., where she bad been on two weeks WISH
To her daughter Mrs. Tadlock, whose little
baby was quite sick, but IL now much better
Mrs. Corrle says may move back 10 Aobeville
soon. She and her family lived here some
six years and they have multitude offriends
In Abbeville who will welcome them BACK
again.
Mr.. Overcash, who was a freight conductor
on the S. A. L., and has been living in Abbe.
VILE with his wife the past year or more, has
moved to near Marietta, Ga, where he ex
poets TO 20 into the truck garden business.
The last census gives the Negro population
of the United States at S,S4O.7S5. About nine
tenths, or eight million, OF these live in the
South. This Ia the best section OF the whole
country for the colored people. They know
II and so stay here.
The latest reports as to the cotton crop is
that 1t will not reach over nine and hall
million bales this season. Cotton Is now
bringi ng eight cents and over, and may pos
sibly bring nine or even ten cents before
Christmas.
There is one.legged man at the Atlanta
Exposition who has more nerve than he has
sense. He rides an automobile down high