The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-11
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS
PICKED UP ALL OVER TOWN BY
OUR REPORTERS.
What Is Happening Here and There.
Local Items Of Personal Interest to

What is Happening Here and There.
Local Items Of Personal Interest to
Our Readers.
Miss Ella Dukes has gone to Sui
lir; ms Island for a months outing.
Judge B. H. Moss and family have
gone to Sullivan's> Island for a two
weeks stay.
Miss Ruth Holman has returned
home from an extended TIP to the
Pacific Coast.
Miss Georgia Sims left Friday
morning for Cottageville for stay
Of several weeks.
Eutaw Chapter, D. A. R., will meet
at the home of Mrs. John Cart this
afternoon at six o'clock.
Few peaches are offered for sale
here. We were in hopes there would
be good crop this year.
Tommorrow afternoon at six
o'clock, meeting of the Chamber of
Commerce at the City Hal.
Watermelons are now plentiful on
this market at reasonable prices. Fiji
teen cents will buy good one.
Mrs. A. D. Webster and children
left Friday morning for the Island
for stay of about three weeks.
If tie County Fair is to- be a sue
cess every one must put their should
ers to the wheel and help it along.
Miss Mary V Jennings of the Cope
section and Ethel Blewer of Cordova
have just returned from a visit to
friends in Elloree.
Governor Blease arrived yesterday
morning from Columbia and was i'm
mediately taken to the picnic grounds
at Four Holes in an auto.
Several small boys wanted to sell
The Saturday Evening Post. Priles
and commissions. Apply Thursday
morning at Sims Book Store.
We hope all sections of the county
that needed rain have received It by
this time. This Immediate section
has been visited in tie last week by
several showers.
Gov. Blease did not stay over to
the concert Friday evening as his
friends hoped he would. Important
business awaited him in Columbia
and he had to return at once.
The people have about caught on
to the tricks of the wire pullers that
manipulate the school trustee elec-
tions for their own benefit, and they
will see that it is not done again.
Drs. Lin C. Shecut and C. I. Green
have gone to John Hopkins Hospital
in Baltimore, where they will be for
about six yeeks. They will take up
special courses in medicine and sur
gerry.
We have a letter from someone
travelling, now at Augusta, Ga, and
he says that he finds farm run by
two Orangeburg boys in mighty good
shape. The former Orangeburgers
are Donnie B. Kittrell and L. +. Barr
of Cope.
The political pot is beginning to
simmer in this county already. The
contests for the different offices next
year are going to be numerous and
warm. If what is being whispered
is true, there will be contest for ev-
cry office where vacancy occurs.
Wednesday afternoon at the City
Hall the regular monthly meeting Of
the Chamber of Commerce will be
held, beginning promptly at six
o'clock. This meeting Is one that
should interest every business man in
Orangeburg, and should be attended
by all.
Mr. Ashley E. Merrimon, formerly
student at the graded schools here,
now rising senior of the Citadel,
and who distinguished himself at the
State Oratorical Association, is visit
ling at the home of Rev. B. M. Fore
man. He will be in this city for sew
eral weeks.
A report from St. Matthews says
the County Farmers Union has been
figuring on bank there for q year
or two but very little has leaked out
ircm the inner circles until the last
few days. Even now nothing off,
cia! has been given out. but the bank
is not said to be a dead certainty.
Will the party who evidently took
by mistake, a box containing dry
goods, sewing implements, ETC., from
a buggy on Four Holes picnic ground
on the 7th instant, state where it ms
be had or if destroyed, the value 50
can be left at the office of The Times
and Democrat. Information is de-