The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-10-12
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What lis Happening Here and There.
Local Items of Personal Interest to
Our Readers.
DR.. J. L. B, Gilmore, of Holly Hill,
was in the city yesterday on business.
This year has demonstrated the
| need of mechanical cotton picker.
We do not need any more hot
|,weather at this time, so please pass
it over.
The farmers should put in big
crop of oats to supplement the short
corn crop.
The Chamber of Commerce ban
quet last night was grand success.
All enjoyed it.
Read the article on the first page
| from Commissioner Watson in ref
erence to holding cotton.
Don't forget the auction sale of
horses and mules in Orangeburg, at
the Court House on Nov. 9Th.
Fifty head of horses and mules
will be auctioned off by the Western
Horse and Mule Co. at Orangeburg,
on Mo-. 9Th.
The brutal and fiendish crime of
thai Honea Path fiend was soon
avenged. See account of the awful
! affair on the first page.
The Times and Democrat gives all
the news---local, State, national and
| foreign. Give it three months trial
and Sc how you like it.
| Everybody is invited to the box
party and ice cream festival at Good
bys School house on next Friday, P.
NJ, beginning at four o'clock.
The Edisto Rifles will be muster
ed back into service, and Captain
Moseley has called meeting Of the
company for tonight at the armory.
Did you ever see a year when more
than half the cotton of the country
had opened before the first Of Octo-
ber? That seems the condition now.
BY the first of January The Times
and Democrat expects to have at
least four thousand subscribers
| This is no hot air, as we will prove
it by our books.
What about the price Of cotton
The bears seem to have it their owr
way. The ginners' report knocked
a big hole in the price. The neA,
one will also give it jolt.
II any subscriber to The Time:
and Democrat, old or new, who, af
ter reading the paper year, vii
say that it is not worth $3.50 pei
annum we will refund him his mon
ey.
The Times and Democrat wants tt
add Just about twelve hundle ed new
subscribers to its present list to giv'
lit four thousand subscribers. We
expect our voting contest to do tina
much for us.
John Ashley appeared in new
role Tuesday as will be seen by thu
account g the lynuhing at Hones
Path on the first page. But as he
assisted in putting out of commission
we have no condemnation.
The ladies of the Basket Rand will
Iconduct a rummage sale Saturday
October 21st, on the new post office
site. Each member is requested tt
be on hand at $50 with al! the ole
garments they have no need of.
Elloree and all other towns should
have bonded warehouses, where the
farmers could safely store their cot
ton and market it when the price
suit. This is the only successfu
war to meet the cotton situation
from year to year.
If the farmers Of the County will
attend the horse and mule sale OF
the Western Horse and Mule Co. at
Orangeburg, Nov. 9Th, they will be
able to buy stock of all descriptions
direct from the West we'll worth the
money. Remember the day and place,
and don't fail to be on hand.
Ire Camden police caught fourteen
negroes playing craps on last Sun
day, and the mayor assessed them
nearly two hundred dollars for their
little diversion. This is all right and
pi oper, but why is it that the police
never can catch white poker players
as we'll as negro crop shooters?
While the best authorities in the
South on the subject, claim that this
years cotton crop will not be over
twelve million bales, the national
agricultural department places the
estimate nearly three million bales
above that. We believe the twelve
million bale estimate is the nearest
to what the crop will turn out to be
| A teacher is being prosecuted in
Atlanta for severely furnishing a
child in one of the schools three. At
lanta is different from OrangeburS
We have known a child in the SCHOOLS
here being so badly beaten that he
bled from several wounds, but the
| ,,,p u-bo did tho hpotinr was never