The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1908-12-15
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS.
PICKED UP ALL ABOUT BY OUR
REPORTERS.

What Is Happening in the Country
as Well as in the Cities and
Towns.
You can buy Teachers Bible a.
Sims Book Store from $500 up
ward.
Mr.. Wise has two beautifully
dressed show windows. Take a
peep at them.
The Orangeburg Orchestra will
hold their annual ball on Thursday
evening, Dec. 81.
Sims Book Store has a number
of nice things for Christ! AS
presents that are being sold at cost.
Make your Christmas purchases
at once as there are not many mole
shopping days between now and
then.
If you have not paid up for your
Times and Democrat please do so ut
once. We need the cash to pay our
honest debts.
Nothing mikes more appropriate
present than Bible. Sims Book
Store have the best at prices rang
ing from S1.20 to $500.
Christine" is less than two weeks
off. Don't forget the little ones.
They should all be made happy dur
ing the Christmas festivities.
The annual conference of the A
| M. E. church, which convened here
last Wednesday, adjourned yesLer-
day, after completing its business.
Some folks do not understand how
we can afford to issue paper three
times a week for the small sum of
$3.50. Well, it's all in knowing
how.
Don't forget the poor that dwell
among u.s.. They should be made to
feel that they are not forgotten
during these glorious Christmas
days.
Superintendent of Streets Ethridge
is doing some good work on Amelia
street. When completed it will put
that street in fine fix for years to
come.
The gang that Is laying the new
rails on the Southern Railway has
reached Orangeburg. The new rails
are much heavier than the ones be-
ing taken up.
Twenty drops of carholic acid
evaporated from shovel, says an
exchange, will Danish flies from
room quicker than all the sticky
fly-pr per in eyistance.
Pick out some people who are not
blessed with as much Of this worlds
goods as you are and send them
some useful little Christmas pres
ent, and soc how happy it will make
you.
The paving of Russell street will
being early in the New Year and
will be pushed on to completion as
rapidly as possible. 1t will BE- a
great Improvement to the street,
when completed. 4
Mr. Madison Felkel, of the Elloree
section, while out hunting recently
accidsntly shot himself in the arm.
The arm was SO badly injured that
it had to be amputated. Such acci-
dents are always to be regretted.
The world is coming to an end
and that within short time, ac-
cording to the prediction Of self
appointed prophet. 1t may be false.
but it won't hurt YOU to he ready,
for the change If 1t does not come.
If more of the parents would at
tend the Sunday school services VIC
are sure that they would find them
very interesting, besides their pres
ence would encourage the superin-
tendent, officers and teachers. Try
it.
The City Council should require
all business houses in the city to
be connected with the sewerage at
once. 1t would improve the sani-
tary conditions very much to dc
away with the present unsanitary
arrangement. The Board of Health
should recommend this Improvement
to the City Council.
1t Is said that ten thousand dol
lars will De appropriated by c'n-
gress to enable the Secretary Of
Agriculture to conduct experiments
to determine the practicability OF,
making paper out of cotton stalks.
If the experiment proves success
Orangeburg should establish cotton
stalk paper mill.
Stand by your town. Not dollar
invested there but some good comes
of it. There is no family like ones;
own family, there is no wife like
ones own wife; there should be no
town like ones own town, where we
live, educate our children, on whose
street our babies play, ana where
we may some day sleep.
Read the advertisement Of Ligon
Brothers on the second page. They
Will sell at auction on Friday several
fine building lots in the hustling,