Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1917-04-19
Local O. Personal
News

Mrs. J. w. Elkins, of Pageland. 8.
c., spent Monday in the city.
Mr.. John Justice is spending a week
at his home in Naples, N. C.
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Mr.. Henry Po1ton has moved into
the ]. c. Kendall house in Wilsonia.
Mrs. H. D. Malloy, of Baltimore,
Md. is visiting relatives in the city.
DR.. and Mrs. d. H. Laney, of Ches-
tereld, S. c., were visitors in the city
Monday.
Mrs. Walter Stevens and children.
Of Lancaster, S. c., are visiting rela-
tives in the city.
Miss Chestnut Evans of Society
Hill, S. c., is the guest of her sister,
Mrs. w. R. Godfrey.
Mrs. John F. Matheson and chill
dren, of Union, S. c., are visiting rel
atives in and near the city.
Miss Wincie Catoe, who is attend
Ing Coker college, Hartsville, S. c.,
spent the weekend at home.
Mr.. John E. Doyle aid Miss 10. lie
Baldwin were married Monday nieht,
April 16, at the Cho:aw Methodist par
sonage, Rev. E. H. Beckham per-
forming the ceremony.
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Miss Elizabeth Waddill, who has
been visiting her aunt Mrs. James
Dillingham;, in Newark, N. j.. returned
home on Tuesday.
Motor car service will be installed
on the c. & L. road within a few
days. The motor car has been re-
ceived and is now being tested out.
1t Is Ford chassis with a body some
what like the horse driven buss.
There will be an oratorical con-
test for both girls and boys at Ches-
terfeld. on Friday evening 2Ttn
April. On Saturday morning there
will be the usual athletic contests.
All schools OF the county teaching
high scoool grades Will Le eligible
to enter. Medals will he given. Send
names OF participants to X. y. Rouse
not later than one week before the
above date.
Mistress Mary's Garden Party at
the opera house tomorrow night-60
little people of the town will take
part. Proceeds for benefit of the
Daughters of the Confederacy.
Mr.. ]. Sidney Smith, of Ruby, S. c..
was visitor in the city Tuesday
morning. Mr.. Smith is one of our
county's most progressive farmers,
and If every farmer in South Carolina
would follow his example there would
be no shortage of food stuffs in South
Carolina-Mr. Smith reports more
than 200 bushels of corn yet on hand
from his last year crop, besides gal
Ions and gallons of canned fruits,
and that his crops for this year will
be made up practically of all food
stuffs. Speaking of cotton, Mr.. Smith
says it is a mighty poor farmer who
cant, at the present prices Of cotton
and corn, make more money per acre
raising corn.
Rev. c. c. Brown, of Columbia, S.
c., preached in the Cheraw Baptist
church last Sunday morning and ev-
ening. DR.. Brown Is still hale and
hearty and the same old jovial fellow
he was thirty five years ago when the
editor of The Chronicle stuck type"
on the old Sumter, S. c., Watchman,
OF which paper he was the editor and
part owner. 1t was a great pleasure
to US to again meet DR.. Brown anu
talk of some of the happenings of the
long ago." DR.. Brown is a most
wonderful man-may he be spared
many years to continue his work for
the uplift of humanity.
Mistress Mary's Garden Party at
the opera house tomorrow night-6u
little people of the town will take
part. Proceeds for benent of the
Daughters OF the Conlederacy.
The Andrews-Curry meeting be-
gins in Cneraw on sunday, April Zylh
and Will continue 1or two weeks. 1t
Is feared tnat tue large tent unuer
when the services VIII be held VIII
not arrive 1Or tue initial service,
as IL wnI not pOssIuIe 70 snip IL
untii aIter tne ciUse Vi Tue weunes-
day nisnL, tapiM [o) service III ~.
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