The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-08-12
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS.
PICKED UP ALL ABOUT BY OUR
REPORTERS.
What is Happening In the Country

holm's got it.
The weather for the last few days
has been warm.
How about that new cotton fac
tory for Orangeburg?
Miss Nellie Farnum is visiting
relatives in the city.
Mrs. ]. W. H. Dukes has gone on
a visit to Hendersonville, N. G.
We had another gentle shower.
which cooled the atmosphere consid-
erably.
Pure apple vinegar, made from
Virginia apples, at Chisholm's.
Phone 13.
Miss Eta and Jessie Rideoutte of
Columbia are visiting Miss Ruth
Dukes in this city.
Miss Larena Haigler, of the Cam
eron section, is visiting her cousin,
Miss Georgia Sims.
Misses Novice Haigler and Ethel
HOLMAN, of Cameron, are visiting
Miss Emily Cutler in this city.
The condition of the crops in this
section has materially changed for
the better in the last ten days.
The St. Matthews correspondent
of The State predicts that Calhoun
county will go 'dry" next Tuesday
Mr.. w. L. Moseley will leave on
the sixteenth for the Northern mar
kets to make purchases of fall stock
Rev. w. R. Richardson, D. D., who
| had been .~"o for some weeks, has
returned to u home in Nashvilles
Tenn. E
Misses Pet and Rose Brunson re-
turned to the city several days age
after spending several weeks in thes
mountains.
The first bale of new cotton fora
this season was received at Barn
we'll last week. Grangeburg will
soon be receiving new cotton.
The Chronicle thus weeps over the
situation in Augusta since the North
Augusta dispensary closed: Beer
near but dearer; tigers thicker,
meaner liquor"
The. handsome residence being
built on Ellis avenue by Mr.. e.
Laurence Salley is nearing compile
ton. It will be quite an addition
to that section of the city. s
A Virginia farmer claims to have
killed q snake with head at both
ends, says the Augusta Chronicle
That is nothing to what some Or
angeburg people will see If they
don't quit drinking blind tiger
whiskey.
An exchange asks that its friends:
| will hand in news items when they
are fresh. 1--WE prefer not to pub
lish a birth after the child Is wean-
ed, marriage after the honeymoon
is over, or a death after the widow
is married again.
Train your. eyes to rest on the
brightest spotes in life. Pass the
darkness on the, other side. one
of the sunniest places on earth Is
the sept made sacred by the hal
lowed influences Of those who love
in our own homes.
The people need to be educated
to the fact that money apent Tor
good roads is not money thrown
/ to the fact that money spent for
makeshift improvements is worse
than thrown away, says the Louis
Vile Courier-Journal.
Mr.. ]. M. Jones, Of Mars Bluff, In
a letter to the Florence Times, says
"let us teach by precept and example
that the drinking of liquor to excess
is wrong and sinful and the best way
to stop the sale of liquor is for us
prohibitionists to stop drinking It,.
Pretty good advice.
The attention of the proper au-
thorities is called to the many wa
termelon rnds to be seen lying
about in the hot sun in back lots
and on back streets, at this season
of the year, carelessly thrown
around by melon feasters. Rotting
vegetation of this kind is very de-
trimenta to health.
The time to have the brightest
lamps lit, the hottest supper ready,
to wear the gayest dresses and
hunt up the funniest stories in
ones memory, is the cold rainy
night when there will not be any
company, but when the home COM
ing husband, sons. or brothers will
doubly enjoy the cheer.
Mr.. w. l.. Moseley is building a
handsome new residence on East
Russell street near where his old
residence formerly stood. The work
is being done under the supervision
of Contractor Lane, which is a
guarantee that the work IS being
we'll done. When finished it will be
one of the handsomest residences in
that section of the city.
South Carolina has been asked to
take part in the National Corn ex-
position which will be held in Oma-
ha from December to IS. All