The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-10-01
LOCAL news ITEMS
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OUR REPORTERS.
What Is Happening Here and There.
Local Items Of Personal Interest
to Our Renders.

Local Items Of Personal Interest
to Our Readers.
The Methodist Conference will
meet in Charleston this year.
The rain Thursday afternoon was
regular trash mover hereabouts.
New shipments Of Gage shapes just
received at S. E. and NJ. Godfreys
millinery store.
The great John Robinson's Circus
will exhibit at Orangeburg on Fri
day, October IA.
S., E. and M. Godfrey's new satin,
velvet and felt shapes makes swell
ready to wear or dress hats.
Quite a number of ladies came TO
this city from Bamberg, North and
other places to attend the millinery
openings on Thursday.
In answer to an enquiry from q
subscriber we would state that Hon.
Cole. L. Blease, governor-elect is a
member of the Methodist church.
Last Sunday night at the residence
of Mr.. D. D. Dantzler, officiating min
lister, Mr.. John Goodwin and Miss
Sallie Rush, were joined in holy mat
rimony.
If you want to vote on the ques
ton of bonding the city to help the
railroad from here to North you will
have to get new city registration
certificate.
Should the Edisto River be made
navigable it would pay Branchviile
to have her own boat on the river.
Her merchants should be thinking
about this.
Orangeburg County needs some en-
terprising, thrifty Yankees, who will
become landowners and farmers. A
thousand or so of such settlers would
help out amazingly.
Capt. and Mrs. J. A. Berry will
leave this afternoon for New York
city, where Capt. Berry has been call
ed on important business. They will
be gone. about a week.
1T is expected that Hon. Cole l..
Blease, governor-elect, will visit this
city during the convention Of the
Odd Fellows. If he comes, he
will receive a warm welcome.
The regular monthly meeting Of
the Eutaw Chapter, D. A. R., will be
held on Tuesday afternoon at the
residence of Mrs. W. w. Taylor. Rev.
w. H. Bays will address the chapter
on "The Church During the Revolu-
tion.'
Orangeburg County does not need
any increase In her absentee land
owners. The selling of land to men
of that kind to be held for specula-
tive purposes, would retard rather
than advance the interest Of the
county.
Mr.. E. L. Horger, Of Jamison, left
on Thursday morning for Baltimo ore,
where he goes to attend the Univer-
sity Of Maryland, and will take a
course in Medicine and Surgery. Mr..
Horger graduated last year at Wof-
ford College.
The Glencoe Cotton Mills, Of Co.
lumbia, of which Mr.. T. H. Wanna
maker, late of this city, is president,
started up on Thursday afternoon.
We wish Mr.. Wannamaker and his
new enterprise great success. We re-
gret he did not build it here.
VETERANS Day" in Orangeburg is
Wednesday, October IL. We hope
our country friends will so arrange
their affairs that they can come IN
and help US honor these grand old
heroes, who made the renoWn of the
Confederate soldier world wide IS
we'll as immortal.
Two Georgia men claim to be the
inventors of cotton picker which
will pick the cotton clean from the
bolls without injuring the stalk or
gathering the trash and leaves. .
They have tried it and claim that 1t
Is a success, but we fear it will be
like all the others that have been in
vented.
| The Bamb berg Times says: "One Of
the saddest accidents that has oc-
Cured In this community in some
years was that which befell Mr.. Her.
bert G. Delk Wednesday morning,
when he had the misfortune to get
his right arm so badly mangled that
! it had to be amputated below the
elbow" This is the first gin accI-
dent we have seen reported this sea-
son. Ginners let it be warning.
The Dorchester Eagle says MIR.
Geo. W. Fairey, Of Crangeburg. was
in st. George on Wednesday, having
come down in his automobile. He
succeeded in closing deal with Mr..
r. L. Utsey for lot on Society street
and the firm Of Fairey Bros. of Or
angeburg will soon erect suitable
buildings thereon, and will conduct
an up-to-date horse business here in
the near future. We welcome this
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