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The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1907-07-27
me institute ond Pic,,fc at EIoi,,

The Farmers Institute at Ell
gin Wednesday was, one Of the
best IN many particulars ever
held IN the county. The attend
ance was good and the verv best
OF order prevailed throughout the
day. The Clemson College pro.
tessors who spoke were given
the closest attention. Their ad-
dresses were practically the same
as those made here the following
day, which are reported else
where in today'a paper.
The picnic feature of the insti.
tute was all that could be desired
Elgin is proverbial for It's fine
picnic dinners and the spreads
Wednesday were fully up to the
high standard of that hospitable
community.
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heotoat Meeting ct Bearer Creek

church.
Providence permitting the pas
tor will begin revival services AT
Beaver Creek Baptist church at
IL a. m; on 1st Sunday in An.
gust Services also at early can
die light. Will have the assist
ance of able ministers. This or
der of exercises will probably
continue throughout the meet.
ing, though conference lust af-
ter service Sunday morning may
decide on change. The public
cordially invited TO attend.
j. III. Pearsy, Pastor.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1907-07-27

Mrs. Otis Osborne, of Blacks.
burg, is the guest of Mrs. ID. A.
Williams.
Miss Florence Truesdale left
yesterday for Kershaw, S. O.,
where she goes TO visit friends
Charlotte Observer.
Mrs. Sid Hilton, of the Be.
thune section, is visiting her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. FL.
Sowell .--Kershaw Era.
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Mr.. Z. F. Mcdaniel met
with painful accident at his
home in West End. While run
ming a chicken he fell and knock.
ed his ankle out of place.
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LOCAL DOTS
The Sumter ice factory was
destroyed by fire this week.


The Rev. r. E. Small, for
merly of this county, has accept
ed call to the pastorate of the
Baptist church in Walhalla
The infant child of Mr.. and
Mrs. Roach Vincent, of Flat
Greek township, died last Wed.
nesday night, aged three months.
The Rev. j. M. Pardue will
be unable to fill his appoint
ment at Crenshaw school house
tomorrow, on account of sickness
IN his family.
-Thetrustees of the Charles
boro school have elected Mr.
Theron Gregory as teacher of
their school. The summer term
was opened yesterday .--Ker-
shaw Era.
AS will be seen by notice
elsewhere, an election for cotton
weigher will be held in each of
the towns of Lancaster, Heath
Springs and Kershaw on the 18th
day of August.
The Rev. w. A. Belts. of
the South Carolina Conference.
who is we'll known here, has
been elected to a professorship
lrMansfeld Female College of
Louisiana. He will remove to
that state in September.
Mr.. j. II. Oaskey, who now
lives in the river section. visited
south and east Of Lancaster this
week and reports crops as looking
finer than he has ever seen them
IN this county. The corn crop is
particularly promising.
The Southern will run an
excursion from Gaffney to Char
lesion, by way of Rock Hill, Ian.
caster and Camden, on July 80.
The fare from Lancaster, for the
round trip, is $3.50. The special
train will pass here at 8 O'Clock.
a. m. Tickets will be good to
return on any regular train up
to and including Aug. 1st.
Master William Greene, son
OF Mr.. and Mrs. w. L. Williams
celebrated his 10th birthday
last Wednesday evening with an
enjoyable party at the no ome of
his parents. Quite number of
his young friends were present.
Refreshments were served.
Mr. John @. Adams bas left
at this office a couple of freaks,
which he found growing in his
fine crop of corn. Each is a clus-
ter of numerous small ears pro-
duced by one stalk. There are
43 ears in one bunch and almost
as many in the other.
While DIR. j. B. Patrick
Miss Lizzie Connors and her cou-
sin, Miss Connors Melton, of Col
umbia, were out driving Thurs.
day afternoon the horse became
frightened at a pile of trash in
the road and, turning suddenly.
threw Miss Connors out of the
buggy. She was painfully, but
not seriously, hurt.
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PERSONAL

visiting Mrs. J. N Outen.
Mrs. b. A. Hilton, OF Kershaw.
Is visiting relatives in Atlanta.
Mr.. j. E. Mcdonald, of the
Winnsboro bar, spent Wednes-
day in Lancaster.
Judge James Hough, of Ches
'erheld, visited Lancaster, his
old home, this week.
Miss Eula Caskey, of Spartan.
burg, is visiting her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. w. @ Caskey of New
Cut.
Miss Connie Witherspoon re-
turned this week from a visit to
Mrs. Leroy Davidson in Ker-
shaw.
Mr., Lester Nelson, now of
drlffin, Ga, is on visit to his
old home few miles above Ian
caster.
Mr.. and Mrs. s. Il. Laney, of
Chesterfield, visited relatives
mere this week, returning home
yesterday.
Mr.. James Hamel, now one of
the teachers in the Kersbaw
graded school, was in town
Thursday.
Mrs. w. Il. Williams returned
from Rock Hill this week, accom-
panied by her mother. Mrs. A.
I'll. Greene.
Miss Mayme Croxton, ofI
Hartsville, is visiting her parents.
MIR. and Mrs. w. l.. Croxton
Kershaw Era.
The Rev. and Mrs. j. X. Hall
and children, Of McConnellsyille.
are visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Marion
Witherspoon.
Miss Estelle Armstrong, of
Taxahaw, Sc, is the guest ofI
Miss Mary Sherrin this week.
Wingate cor. Marshville Home.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. F. Jenkins. of
Waycross, Ga, are visiting the
latter's parents, Hon. and Mrs.
w. U. Clyburn, of Halle Gold
Mine.
Miss Mari Cunningham, of Lib.
erty Hill, who has been visiting
her uncle, Mr.. It. j. Cunning
ham, went home yesterday .-I
Chester Lantern.
Mrs. Eliza Jane Wylie and
grand daughter, Miss Juanita
Wylle, spent several days in the
city last week at the home of DR.
w. w. Fennell. Rock Hill Her
aid.
Mrs. |. Meyer and little neph.
ew, JUNE jacobson, of Lancas
ter, spent several days in Ker-
shaw last week with Mrs. Mever's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. l.. Hirsch
Era.
Misses Ada Clyburn and Viola
Williams left yesterday to visit
} JamestowH, Washington, Balti-
more, New York and Chicago.
alter which they will return to
Iibitha, Va, Miss Williams
home, and spend some time
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Lad Bitten On Mad DOg.

Master Willie McKissick. the
little son of the Rev. E. M. Nc
Kissick, pastor of East Lancaster
circuit, was bitten by dog sup
posed 10 be mad Wednesday
night. The dog belonged to Mr..
McKissick and the lad was try
ing to pen or fasten the animal
when it attacked and bit him on
the nose. The dog. which has
since been killed, had been act.
ing strangely for day or two.
Mr.. McKissick carried his son to
Charlotte Thursday, to have a
mad stone applied to the wound.
Misses Mettie and Rachel
Steele have returned home from
a visit to Mrs. P. f. Mcdaniel.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-15

She bathed his feet in hot mustard water
until they were lobster-red. She also placed a
mustard plaster on his chest.
He announced that these remedies did him
not good at all-no good at all. With an air
OF martyrdom he endured perfect downpour
of .motherly attention all that day Thus the
hrst Friday was passed in safety.
With singular patience he sat before the
books, only complaining of pain when he sus-
pected his mother of thinking that he was
getting better.
The next day being Saturday and holiday,
he was miraculously delivered from the arms
ly healthy boy.
He H., no further attack until Thursday
night OF the next week, when he announced
that ne felt very. very poorly: The mother
was already chronically alarmed over the con-
dition of her son, but DR.. Trescott asked him
questions which denoted some incredulity
On the third Friday Jimmie was dropped at
the door of the school from the doctors
buggy: The other children, notably those
Of distress, looked at him with glee, seeing in
him another lamb brought to butchery. Seat
ed at his desk in the school room, Jimmie
sometimes remembered with dreadful dis
tinctness every. line of "The Charge of the
was utterly empty of It. Geography, arith-
metic and spelling usually great tasks-quite
rolled off him. His mind was dwelling with
terror upon the time when his name should
be called and he was obliged to go UP to the
platform. turn, bow and recite his message
to his felow-men.
Desperate expedients for delay came to him.
If he could, have engaged the services of a
real pain, he would have been glad But
steadily, inexorably, the minutes marched on
towards his great crisis, and all his plans for
escape blended into. mere panic fear.
The naples outside were defeating the
weakening rays of the afternoon sun, and in
the shadowed school room had come a still
ness, in which, nevertheless one could feel
the comnlacence Of the little pupils who had
already passed through the flames. They
were calmly prepared to recognize as spec
tacle the torture of others
Little Johnnie Tanner opened the cere-
mony. He stamped heavily up to the plat
sns and f bowed Sr in such ht% manner that hat he
would i'll befit him to sit silent while the
name Of his fair Ireland was being reproach-
ed and he appealed to the gallant soldier be-
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-15

fore him if every British battlefield was not
sown with the bones of sons OF the Emerald
Isle. He was also heard to say that he had
listened with deepening surprise and ,scorn to
the insinuation of the honorable member from
North Glenmorganshire that the loyalty OF
the Irish regiments in her. Majesty's service
could be questioned. To what purpose, then,
he asked, had the blood of Irishmen flowed
on a hundred fields To what purpose had
Irishmen gone to their death with bravery
and devotion in every part OF the world
where the victorious flag of England had been
carried? If the honorable member for North
Glenmorganshire insisted upon constituting a
mere pothouse row between soldiers in Dub.
lin into grand treachery to the colors and
to her Majesty's uniform, then it was time
for Ireland to think bitterly OF her dead
sons, whose graves now, marked every step OF
England's progress, and yet who could have
their honors stripped from them so easily by
the honorable member for North Glenmor-
ganshire Furthermore, the. honorable mem-
ber for North GlenmorganshireM, .
1t is needless to say that little. johnnie
Tanners language made it exceedingly hot
for the honorable member for North Glen
morpanshire But Johnnie was not angry.
He was only in haste. He finished the hon
orable member for North Glenmorganshire IN
Susie Timmons then went to the platform,
and with face as pale as death whispering
ly reiterated that she would be Queen OF
the May The child represented there a per-
feet picture OF unnecessary sunelihs her
opened wide, stared with a look of horror at
nothing.
The phlegmatic Trass boy, with his moon
face only expressing peasant parentage, calmly
spoke some undeniably true words concerning
destiny.
In his seat Jimmie Trescott- was going half
blind with fear of his approaching doom. He
wished that the Trass boy would talk forever
about destiny If the school house had taken
fire he thought that he would have felt sim
ply relief. Anything was better. Death amid
the flames was preferable to a recital of The
But the Trass boy finished his remarks
about destiny in very short time. Jimmie
heard the teacher call his name, and he felt
the whole world look at him. He did not
know how he made his way to the stage.
Parts Of him seemed to be of lead. and at
the same time parts of him seemed to be light
as air. detached. His face had gone as pale
as had been the face Of Susie Timmens He
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-15

was simply child in torment; that is all
there is to be said specifically about it; and
TO intelligent peopl the exhibition would
n .aye been not more edifying than dog
de bowed precariously, choked, made an
said,
"Half leg"
league" said the teacher, coolly.
League" W said the The teacher.
League" repeated Jimmie, wildly.
Half a league, half league, half league
onward"
he paused here and looked wretchedly at
the teacher.
Half a league" he muttered-s'half
He seemed likely to keep continuing this
phrase, indefinitely, SO after time the teach
er said, "Well, go, on"
nj THalf league" responded Jimmie.
and she read from it:
nAll in the valley Of Death
Go on" she concluded.
Jimmie said,
nAll in the valley of Death
Rode the-the-the-"
He cast a glance Of supreme appeal upon
the tap teacher ss and n; breathlessly whispered,
Rode the Whatv'
The young woman flushed with INDIGNATION
to the roots of her hair.
Rode the six hundred"
she snapped at him.
The class was arustle with DELIGHT az this
cruel display. They were no better than a
Roman .populace in Nero's time.
Jimmie started off again.
Hall, leg-league, half a league, half a
league onward,
All in the valley of death rode the six hun.
Forward forward forward
''The Light Brigade" suggested the teacher.
sharply.
e'The Light Brigade" said Jimmie. He
was about to die of the ignoble pain of his
position
As for Tennyson's lines, they had all gone
grandly out of his mind, leaving it whited
wall
The teachers. indignation was still rampant
She looked at the miserable wretch before her
with an angry stare.
'sYou stay in after school and learn all
that over again." she commanded. "And he
to speak it next Friday. / am as.
tonished at you, Jimmie. Go to your seat
Jimmie fled to his seat amid the eibes Of
his school mates. He gave no thought to the
terrors Of the next Fridav to come. The evils
Of the day had been sufficient.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-15


thus made. By process of school law, un-
fortunate boys and girls were dragged up to
address their fellow-scholars in the literature
of the mid-century. Probably the children
who were most capable of expressing them
selves, the children who were most sensitive
to the power of speech, suffered the most
wrong Little blockheads who could learn
eight lines of conventional poetry, and could
get up and spin it rapidly at their class
mates, did not undergo a single pang. The
plan operated mainly to agonize many chill
dren permanently against arising to speak
their thought to fellow-creatures.
Jimmie 1rescott had an idea that by exhi-
bition of undue ignorance he could escape
from being promoted into the first class room
which exacted such penalty from its inmates
He preferred to dwell in a less classic shade
rather than venture into domain where he
was Obliged to perform certain duty which
struck him as being worse than death. How
every, willy-nilly, he was somehow sent ahead
into the place of torture.
Every Friday at least ten of the little chill
dren had to mount the stage beside the
teachers desk and babble something which
them orators. If it had been ordered that
they should croak like frogs, it would have
advanced most Of them just as far towards
oratory.
the end of the list of victims. but his time
was none the less inevitable. Tanner, Tim
mems, Trass. Trescott-" he saw his down
fall approaching.
He was passive of the teacher while she
drove into his mind the incomprehensible
lines of "The Charge of the Light Brigade:
Half league, half league,
Half league onward
He had no conception of league. If in
the ordinary course Of life somebody had told
him that he was half league from home
he might have been frightened that half a
league was fifty miles; but he struggled man
tic six hundred, who were performing some
told He learned all the verses.
Rut as his own Friday afternoon approach
ed he was moved d, to a; make known to his fam,
R that dreadful fs disease t was upon h; him. and
Going to his beloved school.
On the great Friday when the children of
T,S Prescott was away from home, and the moth
er Of the boy was alarmed beyond measure
at ,Jimmie's curious illness, which caused him
to to lie on the rug in front of the fire and
groan enormously.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-15
Wanted a Change

A Vermont boy who has been the possessor
of cats of several colors and sizes, felt like
having change. and so remarked to his
mother the other day, as he stroked the cat he
held in his lap:
"sMamma, | hope the next cat I have will
be a dog!"
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-15
Quite So

Little Boston Boy (who, with his mamma,
is visiting New York )Oh, mamma, what a
little silver of moon they have here! Why,
in Boston it's great big round moonl"
Mamma (complacently) Waldo; but
you must remember that New York is very
different place from Boston.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-15

the school at Whilomville it was
the habit, when children had pro-
gressed to a certain Glass; to have
them devote Friday afternoon to
what was called elocution. This
was in the belief that orators were
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1907-11-14
Rochester News.
E. NJ. HARVEY, Local Editor.

Mrs. Temples Telegram, 300 nights IN
New York. 100 nights in Chicago, the
laughing hit of two continents, at Chand-
Ter Music hall, Randolph, Tuesday even
ing, Nov. 10.
Marvelle G. webber Is in Rutland for
few DAYS on a business trip.
Leon Mcintyre is at home from Spring
field, Mass, for few weeks.
Miss Daisy Miles ha. gone to Bellows
Falls to spend several weeks.
Carroll Bush left here Saturday for Bos-
ton to stay through the winter.
Miss Carrie Jones Is in Boston, where
she has a position for the winter.
The Electric Light company is putting
in a new water wheel at the power house.
John Holton Of Bethel recently spent
a few days with Mr.. and Mrs. Erwin Hol-
ton.
c. :. Bush of Providence, r. l., was in
town Saturday in the interest Of the tale
Gardner Ashley Of south Royalton
spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. +. L.
Pierce.
Lr. Z. b. Richardson has sold his
house IN the village 20 Arthur Miller Of
Hancock.
Mr.. and Mrs. +. d. Morse were in
Pittsford last week to attend the funeral
Of a friend.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Curtis were in
Randolph Sunday to attend the wedding
Of their son.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Wilcox Of Sails
bury spent Sunday with her grandpa
rents. Mr.. and Mrs. Downs.
G.. d. Parker Of Boston and n. l. Bray
Of Wilmington were al the Rochester
House Friday and saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Kelley Of wey-
bridge have recently been visiting their
p-.ents. Mr.. and Nr-. Edward Downs.
Mrs. Truman Lyon and daughter, Mrs.
Rowe. Of Brandon have been passing a
few days with Mr. and Mr.. Grant Lyon.
Cards have been received announcing
the marriage Oct. Is Of Carl q. Hunting
ton and Miss Gertrude Rogers Of IS Up
ton street, Boston.
". d. Hodgkin- and Mrs. Ro-elle
Nichols were in Randolph Sunday 10 al
tend the wedding Of their granddaughter,
Miss Florence Hodgkins.
Cards have been received here for the
wedding Of Dr. Harry Narsel Hubbard 81
PlaiuHeld. y. j., 90 Viola May Billing
ton on Tuesday. Nov. 26. az half after
twelve O'Clock. SIS Jersey avenue. jersey
City. y. }.
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ROBIN SON

Miss Sadie Whitney has gone to Whit
ing to work.
J. f. Trudo of Pittsford was here the
first of the week. .T
Mr.. and Mrs. d. X. Fassett were in
Brandon last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. w. Hulett were in
Granville Saturday and Sunday.
w. c. Henson has moved into one of J.
o. Robinson's tenements at Rochester
Mr.. and Mrs. J. o. Robinson expect to
leave Nov. 18th for Florida, where they
are to spend the winter.
The Corner school closed Nov. Sth for a
two weeks vacation. The pupils having
no absent or tardy marks during the term
were Anna, Harold and Mildred Atwood,
Lloyd Baker, Leah Dyer, May and Wal
lace Fuller, Queenie and Joey King and
Grace Perkins. Honor pupils-A class,
Earle Henson, Grace Perkins and Ernest
Flanders; class, Julia Hen son and
Anna Atwood; c class, Leah Dyer. Wal
lace Fuller and Lloyd Baker. Number OF
pupils enrolled, "a; average attendance,
20 1898. Florence Skinner was teacher
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A Renaissance.

Merrill A. Owen of Norwich, who is
stopping with his daughter. Mrs. c. y.
Brown, of LilIieville tells some interest
ing facts about earlier times. Mr.. Owen
is eighty-four years of age, but unusually
vigorous in mind and body. He says it
is due to taking life easy and not worry
ing. He was born on the farm now
owned by Charles Il. Dustin in Bethel
Gilead and was the son of Silas Owen.
He owned several properties around Beth
ell, the last being the farm now owned by
George Wight. When the railroad was
being put through between Bethel and
Randolph, there was a bet up as to the
time that trains would be running into
Randolph. In company with others. Mr..
Owen was engaged in furnishing ties for
this section. All the ties the men had
gotten out were used up and there were
not enough to take the tracks to Ran
dolph.
It was resolved to adopt heroic mea-
sures. On the Jefferson P. Kidder farm.
later known as the Horton Sargent farm,
situated just over the town line from
Bethel into Randolph, was a swamp con-
tanning some fine tie timber. The owner
refused to sell and though entreated was
firm. A band of men organized and by
threats and persuasion got permission.
They then went to work. Mr.. Owen saws
he remembers every one of them and of
them all he is the only one now alive.
They got the ties out and completed the
road in time to win the bet.
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EAST BETHEL

Mrs. james VI. Fowler was in South
Royalton Saturday.
Leonard Paine spent Saturday and sun
day with Lawrence Folsom in South Roy
alton.
Miss Marcia Godfrey went to Lebanon.
\. H., Saturday for visit to her aunt,
Mrs. still.
Miss Annie Fowler and her niece, Miss
Edith Ferguson Fowler, were in Randolph
Center Monday.
Fred Fowler and daughter, Freida.
went to Boston Saturday. Mr.. Fowler
will return this week.
Mrs. Alice Moore, who had been much
better, so as to be able to be out OF doors.
suffered a relapse Sunday and at this
writing is confined to the bed.
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PITTS FIELD

Henry Hovey was in Mortified satur-
day.
F. H. Davis was in Rutland a day last
week.
DR.. Fletcher of Gaysville was in town
Sunday.
Mrs. Albert Vose has returned from
Rutland.
Henry Hovey has bought the c. b.
George property.
Rev. F. W. Days horse, Teddy" is
very i'll with pneumonia.
G. A. Brigham and family spent several
days in Rutland recently.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. c. Thayer were in
Bethel the first of the week.
Rufus Holt has been quite i'll the past
week, but is somewhat better at this writ
ing.
Mrs. George Bishop of st. Regis Falls.
n. Y, was a recent guest at Frank Bfsh-
ops.
Miss May Parmenter has finished her
school at North Sherburne and is at her
home here.