The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-10-11
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS
PICKED UP ALL OVER TOWN BY
OUR REPORTERS.

What Is Happening Here and There.
Local Items of Personal Interest
to Our Readers.
We have had our first touch of
real fall weather in the last week.
The days of cheap cotton are gone,
and the Southern farmer is coming
into his own.
1t is hard matter to run school
with a circus in town. 1t was the
same way when you were boy.
One way to boost the town is to
make every stranger you come IN
contact with feel at home while he
is here.
Major General league. who will
be here on Old Veterans Day, will
| be accompanied by his staff in full
! uniform.
AS soon as Secretary Matheny was
elected he was told to provide his
office with needed necessaries and go
to work.
Cotton continues to climb in price,
and we feel sure that it will reach
20 cents per pound before the next
crop is made. 49,.
Orangeburg has certainly been a
good cotton market this season. Our
buyers have been paying the top
notch price for the stable.
It has been suggested that the
merchants and others decorate their
places of business with corn on the
day of the Boys Corn Fair. -
The Winthrop Daughters will meet
this afternoon at half past four
o'clock, at the home Of Mrs. James
Albergotti on Amelia Street.
"Wednesday should be proud day
for Orangeburg, and it will be If all
the old Confederates will honor with
their presence on that day.
The prices quoted as being paid
for cotton in Orangeburg means cash
money, not credit on accounts like
the price quoted at some places.
The Woman's Guild of the Epis-
copal church will hold an important
meeting at the residence Of Mrs. A.
l.. Dukes this afternoon at 5 o'clock.
We do not know anything that
would pay Orangebdrg better that a
county fair one year. We would
all get better notwithstanding
and city folks.
The Old Veterans will be with us
on Wednesday. Let each one con-
stitute him or her self into commit
tee of one to see that the old heroes
have a good time.
The Orangeburg Baptist Associa-
ton meets at Cardova tomorrow and
will continue through Thursday. The
| Association comprises churches III
! this and Calhoun Counties.
We hope that every subscriber
who has not yet paid his subscription
will do so before January. II: takes
lots Of money to run a paper like
The Times and. Democrat, and We
need every dollar due US.
Mr.. Fordham M. Salley, who man
ages one of the State farms at Co.
lumbia. was In the city yesterday
shaking hands with his many friends.
He looks as fine as he always did,
and seem to be enjoying life.
Like the Farmers Union Sun, We
are opposed to giving advice. but If
we had cotton we should be in no
hurry to sell it. The chances are
that it will reach prices approximate
ing those Immediately subsequent to
the war.
The postoffice department requires
US to keep our subscribers paid up,
and we have sent out statements to
a lot of them asking that they help
us to comply with the ruling of the
postoffice by paying up at their ear
liest cnvenience.
Mr. and MES. Lee H. Lightfoot
have the sympathy of their many
friends on the death Of their little
dalghter, Elinor 1t is hard, oh, so
hard, to give these little ones up,
but the Master takes them to himself
and they are safe.
There will be lecture at the new
East Orange School House by DR.. II.
w. Bays of OrangebuTg on Thursday
evening, October l3, beginning at Z
O'Clock. No admission fee will be
charged. Refreshments will be serv-
ed. The public is cordially invited.
Let all the members of the Cham
ber Of Commerce stand right behind
the Executive Committee while the
committee stands right behind Com
mercial Secretary Matheny while be
boosts Orangeburg for all he is
worth. That is the way to make the
thing a success.
The alarm of fire about half-past
two o'clock Monday was caused by
the burning of a small dwelling on
Oak Street, owned by J. H. Fordham,
colored. The fire department was
soon on the ground and kept the fire
from spreeding. There was some IN