The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-09-04
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS.
PICKED UP ALL ABOUT BY OUR
REPORTERS.

What is Happening in the Country
as Well as in the Cities and
Towns.
Orangeburg has been having
mountain weather for the past few
days.
Coroner F. A. RIckenbaker has
gone on a deer hint in Colleton
county.
Messrs. Stacey Feirey and Region
Myers. Of Bowman, were in town
yesterday.
Rev. ]. L. McLees has returned.
home from a. short vacation in the
mountains.
Mr.. Ed Stoudenmire has accepted
a position with the Orangeburg Dry
Goods Store, where he can now be.
found. =
How much better it is to TAX.
the brambles out Of the path O:
your friend than to add thorns to-
wound his feeta,
Miss May Ransom, Of, Denmark, Ia.
now with@the; Orangeburg Dry Goods
Store, where she will be glad to.
serve her friends. -
This Is one year that the farmer
who holds his cotton will get fifteen
cents or, more for it. The mills will
need more, cotton than is made.
Misses Nell McLees and Angle
Dantzler have returned home from a
delightful trip to the mountains OF
North Carolina. ~
For the last two or three days the
trains on the-Southern Railway from
the mountains were crowded with
excursionists returning home.
Mrs. Y. E. Arson, of North, Is
visiting her sister, Mrs. j. H.
schacte, in this. city. Mrs. Axson
is accompanied by two of her bright
children. - =" NJ
The city schools will open on the
goth instant, as we guess they would
in our last issue. So get ready,
boys and girls, and be on hand at
the opening. ~. E.tt
- The alarm Of fire on Thursday at
ternoon was caused by very small
fire at Rev. T. E. Wannamaker's
residence:on Whitman street. Very
little damage was done.
Mr.. Harry c. Murphy, represent
ing the -H..-G. ,Le!ding- Company, ,-of
Charleston, was, in. the city yester-
day morning selling groceries to the
wholesalers at this place: :
Sims Book Store has already
received the books for the Graded
Schools and children can get them
now any time they call. 1t is best
to buy them early anu avoid the
rush.
1t would be well for those chill
dren who know what books they
need to buy them before the open
ing of the schools. In this way they
will avoid the rush and be served
more satisfactorily.
Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Switzerland
and little daughter, Caroline, left
Monday afternoon for North Caroli-
ma, where they will spend a few
days with relatives and enjoy some
of those cool breezes. ~
:: Superintendent A. j. .Thackston,
of the Graded Schools, has arrived
home from his vacation, and Is busy
arranging matters for the opening
of the schools, on the goth instant.
He wants every .iboy and girl in
place bright and early on that date.
With the condition of the cotton
crop nearly ten points below what
the average condition has been for
the past ten years cotton IS not
bringing on the market what it is
worth. and what it will bring If the
staple is not rushed on the market.
Capt. w. w. Wannamaker is out
for alderman. He is successful
business man, q clean, honorable
gentleman in the very best sense
of that much abused term, and would
make most excellent city father
He should make good run.
The Hon. Thos. N. Raysor, who
was a delegate to the irrigation
convention at Seattle from tins
State. has returned home charmed
with lis trip. While out West Mr..
Raysor visited all the points of in-
terest on the Pacific coast and the
far West.
The comet that will appear this
fall will grow brighter day by day
as it enters the orbit of the solar
system, until it becomes visible to
the naked eye. 1t will exceed in
brilliance any object to cross the
heavens in the lifetime Of persons
now living.
The small registration of voters
would indicate that, the people are
satisfied with the way the city has
beeen managed during the past two
years. If that was not the case it
seems that lmore ,oa them would