The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1908-12-25
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS.
PICKED UP ALL ABOUT BY OUR
REPORTERS.
What Is Happening in the Country

What Is Happening in the Country
as Well as in the Cities and
Towns.
A right, real. merry-go-round,
happy Christmas.
We horc % o. our merchants ha,:.
4 fine Christmas trade.
There is mach cheer in a kind
word and Merry Christmas.
Merry, merry Christmas and "a
happy, happy New Year to all.
The value of a Christm4s gift lies
in the Testimony it gives of the az
feet that prompts it.
Here is hoping that there was not
= single empty stocking in Orange
burg county this morning.
Don't tank up on v'hiSKey during,
Christmas. Keep sober and rem :lu-
ber why the day is celebrated.
Beautiful and right it is tha. gifts
and good wishes should fill the air
like snow fakes at Christmas tide.
1t is to be hoped that there is no
truth in THE old saying THAT a green
Christmas makes full grave yard.
Some thief entered the warehouse
of Measrs. Fairey & Weeks on Tues
day night and stole three sacks of
-four.
The st. Paul's Sunday School will
have their Christmas tree on Mon
day afterr oon. when III the little
ones will be mada happy.
A mammoth oyster she'll was put
in the Book Store window by Mr.. W.
A. Mackty. 1t WITS taken from Boil
| ing Springs in Barnwell county.
Maybe by January I, 1910, The
Times and eDTocrat will bloom out
into a daily paper with perss dis
patches. Stranger things have hap
pened.
Single copies of the three-times-a-
week Times an! Democrat will BE-
sold for two cents. Some enterpris-
ing news boys could make mon"j
selling them as se make great re-
dUction to tben.
The first Issue Of the three-t1mes-
a-week Tilhes and Democrat will an
pear Tuesday, Jan. 5. From THAT
date ON you should receive the
paper every Tuesday, Thursday an
Saturday
The Times and Democrat went to
press Il little earlier yesterday rhan
| usual in order that all connected
with it could have a little holiday.
The paper will be issued next week
as usual.
A new lodge of Knights OF Pyth'as
will he organized short distance
out from Orangeburg in the near
future. 1t will ba known as Thorn
we'll lodge and will meet at Barton
Hall.
Think of newspaper being de-
| liyered at your home for less than
one cent copy. That is just what
Tha Times and Democrat will do
for its subscribers next year. One
hundred and fifty-siX papers during
the year for only S1.50. 1t Is the
cheapest country paper in tll.'
Stat.
One of the leading merchants of
Orrngehurg in comalimenting Our
enterprise in giving orr subscribers
a three-t1m2s-a-week paper at the
price of nFekly, remarlIing tina.
The Tines and D. mccrat had always
been ab ut ten years in advance Of
the town. We appreciate such COM
pli!acats.
If yn. are not already a subscrib-
er to The Times and Democrat. SEMI
or brig % cents and get the three
timss-.l-week Times and DemoclM.
for two months and see how you
like it. We will send you twenty
four COPIES of the paper for 25
cents which will enable you To
Judge 1t.
Eu:lrybody owes it to hin self and
to- others to get the best good out
of life, but how to get it is the
question. Certainly it is not to be
acquired by finding fault and :hus-
inY 9TH is. Rather is it ~ ne foun !
by cheerful performing oNr daily d:,'
tics. by doing good and BY taking
our proper place in the wcrli.
The consummate sccundfel who
swiped the editors only turkey is
deserving worse fate than those
doomed to writhe and w,igcle
through the countless ages of etrr-
nifty in the storm centre of hades."
The above is what the editor OF the
Lancaster News said about the
thief who stole his Christmas trr-
ky.
! church entertainment will be
given at Gemzin church near Vance
on Thursday afHIrno"n, Dec. 81,