The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1905-05-19
WARDS NEWS.
The Wards Graded School commence

ment will come of May 81 22- %.
Sunday, 2lst, IL a. M. commence
ment sermon, DIR. C. f. Burts, of
Edget field, s. C.
Moncay, May %. lO:3O q. m. Literary
Address, Hon. A. F. Lever, of Lsxing-
ton S. G.
SPIN. Defamation contest-Bass
Medal.
Declaimers-Willard Vansant, Lessie
Jones. Ernest Bodie, WILDER Edison,
Clark Smith. Horace Buzhardt.
Solo-Tit for Tat-MiSs Emma Horn.
Military drill-Twelve young ladies'.
Song-Comin' Thru the Rye.
Dialogue-After Marriage-Ernest
Bodie, innie Winn.
Tuesday. May 22nd-School Picnic
Town Park.
Address-Hon. O.. b. Martin and
Rev. l.. A. Cooper.
Sp. m. Defamation Contest -Trus-
| tees.
Medal Declamers-Nell Wright,
Theora Bodie, Hassle Pou, Minnie
| Winn and Estelle Buzhardt.
olo Asleep in the Deep-Prof. l.
T.. Whittle.
| Recitation-Choice Of Trades ;Oration
the call OF the Twentieth Century,.
| L. Whittle.
DR. Lee Trotter will build brick
building on Main st. The brick are
now arriving for same. The DR., Will
occupy the building for drug store
and will build u dwelling on lot next
to Col. Jas. Wards relidence.
Mcssrs Brooks Hallman, Jim Jones
and Fate Jones visited your city last
| week. They report Batesburg as being
| on boom.
Prof. Whitte visited his father at
Edgetield last night. Rev. Mr.. Bass
had charge OF the Wards High School
| during his absence.
Miss F. NJ. Thomas and C. L. Jones
were delegates to the cotton growers
convention at Saluda yesterday. 1t is
said that Jones made speach.
Mr.. H. G. Wright is now on the
road, regular X of the G.
The defunct K ani p. lodge
at Ridge Spring reorgarized last
Thursday night. Some of our boys
went down and was nishiated 1t is
said that the . oat was so hard to
ride that they would curse little, cry
a little and then laugh a heap.
Hiss Ellie Jones has returned home
from BateSburg, where she has been
for three months, learning the art of
dreSSmaking She is now ready TO fit
| the most fastidiOus and can be found
at the home of her father, Mr.. Fate
Jones, on Church street.
Maj. b. b. Evans, Of Saluda, spent
/ last Saturday anu Sunaay With mis-
friend Mr.. Henry Wright on Satcher
st.
Mr.. and Mrs. Victor Ward, of Co.
umbia, are spending a while with rela-
tiveS and friends in town,
Capt. &. Ward is arranging to do
nate twelve hundred dollars each to
the Methodist and the Baptist church
and the Wards Graded School, making
a total of $1,000
Mrs. II. S. Ration one of our most
| conSecrated christian women, is still
very i'll with a cancer on her breast.
She has the sympathy of every body
rs Miss Lou is by all. young and old.
Rev. n. n. Little of our town is pas
tor OF Shiloh church near Aiken and
breaches for them the lSt Sunday in
each month.
Mr.. A. II. Edison, the r. F. d. man,
is certainly very accommodating, as he
seems not only TO deliver the mail to
the people along his line. but nearly
every thing else, that they need.
notice that G. NJ A., from Baxter.
wants TO know if any good ever came
from Base ball. Well | have been try
ing to figure out something and have
got so far, ii makes boys lazy, teaches
TO lie. gamble, quarrel and tight.
Causes them to make sorry men when
grown up, causes some our old people
to neglect their business, grass to take
cotton and corn, the clerk 10 neglect
his duties, causes, the girls to leave
the fishes for mother to wash, tn,
house to scrub the supper To get and
all in all have decided it is one of the
common curses or our country.