The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1908-12-08
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS.
PICKED UP ALL ABOUT BIZ OUR
REPORTERS.
What Is Happening in the Country

as Well as, in the Cities antb
Towns.
There was big crowd in town yes
terday.
The usual amount of horse swap
ping was INDUCED in yesterday.
Mr Dennis Gilmore, of Holly
Hill, spent Sunday and Monday with
Mr.. J. L. Sims.
Yesterday was a, sloppy day, bnt-
it did not keep people FROM moving
about the streets freely
The weather is very changeablc.i
but it will settle down to steady
business after Christmas.
Settle up for your paper as soon
as you can. We need the money to.
pay our honest debts.
The Hon. Samuel Dibble and Col.
w. G. Smith left last evening for
Washington to attend the Southern
Commercial Congress.
The members Of the police force
have appeared in thajr new he'll
NETS and uniforms, and they present.
a handsome appearance.
The city is having some good per-
manent work done on Amelia street.
When finished it will staItd, and
save the taxpayers money.
All the land sales made here yes
terday amounted to some S3S,000.
The lands did not sell as high as
they did some time ago.
A tenant house on the farm of
Mrs. w. w. Taylor, just outside the
limits of the city on the Bull Swamp
road, was destroyed by fire about
five o'clock on friday morning
The Walsh Directory Publishing
Company, of Charleston, S. c., has
six men in town getting up data for
the new city directory, which will
be published early in the New Year.
The Majestic Mfg. Co., of ST.
Louis, Mo-, has a man at NJ. o.
Dantzler's store this week, showing
the Majestic Range, in actual op-
GRAFTON, baking and serving bis
cults to the large crowds.
1t costs considerable money to get
up city directory, and the mer-
chants are earnestly requested to
help out the publishers by taking
advertising space in the directory
that is to be issued soon.
Mr.. Taft might save himself a lot
Of worry If he would let the news
papers choose his cabinet for him.
They are evidently willing to do
it, but the trouble is, that no two
lists of appointees exactly agree. =
Messrs ]. ]. and w. A. Snow, Of
Charleston, representing the PERU
vian Guano Corporation, gave us a
call yesterday. Mr.. w. A. Snow will
reside here permanently to repre-,
sent the Corporation and distributei
, its goods among the farmers.
We are asked as to the origin Of
the saying, He isn't in it." 1t was
first used by an editor who died and
went to heaven and looked around
for the man who took his paper three
years and left it in the postoffice
marked refused"
East Lynne" a noteworthy pro-
duction by company of well-known
IDlp no ~ h,a
Academy of Music tonight. East
Lynne is a great moral drama, aa1
should he played to packed house
in Orangeburg.
Rev. L. P. McGee, who was re-
turned to st. Paul by the Conference.
was greeted Sunday morning BY a
large congregation to whom he
preached a splendid sermon. Mr..
McGee and his congregation are
looking forward to prosperous and
profitable year.
We agree entirely with the Or
: angebure correspondent CT The News
! and Courier that this county's liquor
affairs are in the hands of honest
and capable men, who pay close at
tention to every detail of the bus
) mess, thereby saving many dollars
to the taxpayers.
The other day man happened to
stroll into store where they didn't
advertise, ana was lnnkins around
among the relics Of ancient days
stored there, when he ran across Il
man who was wanted on charge Of
murder, and who had remained safe
ly hidden there for years
Men sometimes broach the subject
of saving to their wives. 1t is re-
corded that once upon time, one
said, MY dear, We'll have to be
more economical" And she reptie',
Yes, lets smoke less tobacco; and Z
that ended the conversation, but diT
not begin the economy.
kett Cummings in a buggy and
: Gel d. Weston ShCler in. 4 buggy
collided on Russell street and the
Colonel's buggy was Turned over.
, bruisin~ him a littl., ana hurting his
hand. We did not learn how the ac-
cldcnt hrppened. The Colonel was
driving his pair Of ponies.
The alarm of fire on Saturday
morning about nine o'clock was
caused by the burning Of some oil