The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-09-11
DUE WEST.
News From the Classic City-COttOn
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News From the Classic Cfty-COttOn
Coming fn--PIeasure seekers at
Buffalo.
Due West, Sept. 10, 1901.
After pleasant months stay In Georgia,
Miss Jennie Galloway returned home Friday
OF last week.
Mr.. j. A. Devlin and Mrs. II. c. Poore are In
a critical condition from heart trouble.
Mrs. w. E. Henderson OF Nerdery has been
with her sisters here for some days.
MIR. Jno. c. Haddon is now engaged with
one Of the scrapes in the upper part Of the
county. He is an efficient man for the posi-.
ton and will no doubt see that good work Is
done on the public highways.
Prof. D. G. Caldwell returned from his can.
vasslng. trip in North Carolina Saturday
night.
ChIcora College at GreenvilIe was In Due
West on business last Friday.
Mr.. Eb Ellis returned from Boston last
Wednesday. He has been in the view busi.
near Harvard College during his stay and had
an opportunity OF seeing the Bunker Hill
Monument and other places Of historic inter.
est.
MIR. Samuel Pressly and Mr.. John B. Pressly
who are In the Adirondack Mountains in the
northern part OF the state OF New York. Mr..
Samuel Pressly now Weighs one hundred land and
ten pounds since he went there month ago.
Mrs. Stella Holland Brice Of Gastonia has
been with the family OF Rev. Jas. Boyce al
the Female College for The past ten days.
The little boys around town are coming
money now by picking cotton and peas. The
price paid Tor such work is forty cents per
hundred pounds.
MIR. C. Tribble has out the first bale OF
cotton in this community. He is a hustler
from Hustlersv1lie.
For the past two weeks Mics Nettie Brown.
lee has been with MIR. and Mrs. Samuel john
ston at Woodrrtfs. She returns home this
week.
MIR. Press Smith has been making some
needed improvements in the laboratory ol
Erskine College for Prof. Reid.
Miss Martha Watkins, after pleasant stay
OF several weeks at Ashville, returned 10 Due
West on Saturday. She is the popular and
efficient Art teacher in the Due West Female
College.
Miss Lemmie Tribble Will teach school In
Fairfield County. She will have pleasant
school and receive good salary. Miss Trlb-
BILE is well qualified for the work Of a teacher
having graduated from the Due West Female
College and taken special course In Ersklne
College.
Tepnie Grier, Barbara Grier and Hodo Grter
Robert Nickles expects to attend Clemson
College next session.
Rev. ] "A. Brown, with four OF his little boys,
left for his home in Virginia, Monday after.
little rest and vacation.
Crawford Clinkscales and Mark Ellis will
enter the South Carolina Co-educational In.
stitute at Edgfeld in few days. Due West
will expect them to make their mark down
there.
Mr.. r. L. Haddon has one hundred acres OF
land set IN Bermuda grass. He says this grass
makes the finest pasture In the world. He
has nice flock of sheep and has fresh mutton
whenever his appetite demands 1t.
The Due West party enroute TO Buffalo is
having good time. They spent aId Gay lay IN
Washington; when last heard iromwere speed
Ing on their way to Buffalo. They were all
we'll and having good time.
Mr.. ]. E. Todd is in Charlotte for medical
Miss May Blackwell will soon begin teach.
ing school in Newberry County.
Sabbath morning "a telegram was received
Of Of his son, MIR. Feaster Hawthorn, at Jackson
ville Fla. He had been sick Tor three weeks.
The first inIlmation the family had OF his III.
ness was q letter from his boarding house
Keeper, received two hours before the tele-
grain, stating that he had been sick for three
weeks, had q relapse and bad been removed
10 the hospital. The body is expected 10 ar.
rive st Donalds Tuesday afternoon and will
be taken direct to the cemetery at Due West
for burial. For the past year Mr.. Hawthorn
has been engaged in the lumber business.
The family OF the deceased have the SYM
pathy OF q large circle Of relatives and friends.
Mr.. Grier Pressly and Mr.. Ernest Hagan ale
selling window locks Tor the Twentieth Gen.
tury Lock Company in and around Harmony
Mr.. VIM. Deylin, Mr.. Hill Devlin, Miss
Mrs, Lula Cogburn have been IN Due West 10
zee their brother, Mr.. John A. Devlin who is
quite sick.
Mrs. A. S. Kennedy, Miss Lavinia Kennedy
John Kennedy, Jean Kennedy, Kate Ken
nedy, David Ken nedy and Miss Julia Ken.
nedy are at Fairview, in Greenvilie County,
to see Grandpa Anderson.
Miss JAMIE Young will change her place Of
residence after the eighteenth Of September,
and under the most pleasant circumstances
Imaginable. as indicated by the Invitation
printed below. After the above date her
name will be written Mrs. j. G. Harper and
her home will be at Attention, Ala. The
young gentleman who has induced her TO
change her name and place OF residence is
handsome and q young man of splendid
character. We congratulate him In advance,
but We are sorry that he Is to take away from
this town young lady who 10 30 popular aud
so useful and who will be 70 badly missed in
social life and In the church, AS seen from
the printed Invitation the marriage will be
solem niZed In the A. Il. p. Church and will
be witnessed by large crowd of friends and
admirers Of the bride and groom who are ex-
pected 10 make atfectionate and solem proml-
ses to each other Oh this OCCASION:
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Matthew Young invite
daughter, jamie McCIinIock Young, to Mr..
Jacob Clairmont Harper. on Wednesday
evening, september the eighteenth. nineteen
hundred and one, AZ hallspast eight O'CLOCK,
ut the Associate reformed Presbyterian
Church. Due West, South Carolina.
Miss Lucretia Drennon will assist Mrs.
Boyce In the domestic department Of the
Female College next session. She has had
considerable experience In this line Of work
ann her services will prove very valuable,
The young ladies will find her TO be easy OF
approach, pleasant and agreeable, and at.
teutive to their every wish. While discharg.
ing her varied and exacting duties she will
do much TO make College liie pleasant to the
entire college family.
Miss Anna NJ. Marshall, OF Millersburg. KY,
has been secured by the President OF the
Due West Female College to teach the busi-
ness course, short hand, typewritiug and
bookkeeping. Miss Marshall is a graduate
of a business college in Atlanta and was en-
ployed for sometime In practical work in an
office in that city. She will prove valuable
department should be literally patrioniZed.
Mrs. q. McDuf1e Miller, OF Laurens, is visit.
ing her daughter Mrs. w. w. Edwards.
The people OF Due West are pleased to have
Miss Lizzie Penney with them again. She
tlls an important position In the store Of R.
NJ. Haddon & Co.
Rev. f. B. Kennedy returned to Barlow,
Fla, last Thursday after pleasant stay Of
two weeks at the old home.
The prospects OF Erskine and the Due West
Female College are good. They begin work
on Wednesday, Sept 18th.
Mrs. Lois Pressly returned Saturday night
from visit at Newport, s. g. She went to
see Miss Jennie Lind Moffatt, who has been
quite low with typhoid fever, but who 10 now
on fair way 10 recovery.
The South Carolina Presbytery meets with
the Greenville Presbyterian Church Thursday
morning Sept. 18th. The opening sermon
will be pree ched by the Rev Mr. Rodgers Of