The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-06-19
HagOOd News and Views.
Council then adjourned.

Telling the other fellow what to dc
is an easy matter. Doing it yourself
is different proposition.
No man knows how the shoe pinch
es like the man who wears it.
Some folks would like to manage
other folks business but if they did tho
| others would soon have no business
| Have you ever seen folks who
would sell their money trees and rent
others as a paying business? 1 have
After all it is will that counts in
the battle of life.
Our people have found it difficult
20 get their grain harvested
The Boy Scouts of Camden, those
splendid youths who were here last
Jear, have come and gone. They were
under the same able management OF
I. X. Trotter. Esq.
On the 18th the Boy Scouts of Co.
.umbia come in to remain till the End
Of July. Diniins Mill or Lakewood as
it is called is quite popular as a pleas
ure resort. So soon as these are gone
We expect a company of young ladies
o be here camping.
We are beginning to need rain. Corn
Wits considerably and melons are
ailing. Gardens among us are very
ordinary owing to dry weather.
Mrs. Palmer Mcclellan of McClel-
.anville, is at home with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. w. j. Spencer.
Mrs. Alex McCabe, of Washington,
}. c., is on a visit to her mother, Mrs.
[. r. Moody.
Mrs. Edwin Kerrison, of Charleston,
yho has been spending sometime with
ler parents. Mr.. and Mrs. G.. II. Le-
loir, has gone to Camden.
Miss Marguerite Lenoir, Just grad
,ated from Winthrop, has been Offer
I'll and has accepted work in Lancas-
er, SO we understand.
Since beginning this letter rain has
come we hope sufficient to meet
r.oisture
better be a kicker than do nothing.
A vigorous kicker makes things live
Does it make difference on
which side your bread is buttered +?
;ome people think so.
Soul effects soul through the body.
y word, a look, grasp of the hand
-hrills the being.
Cotton is looking well and is gener-
lily clean.
Word comes that Mrs. w. j. Spen-
,er and her little daughter Lola are
jick. Nothing serious we hope.
Owing to the continued dry weather
many people have few potatoes set
out.
Mrs. j. S. Jackson Of Hagood, S. c.,
returning from Winthrop. where she
took training curse. stopped over
few days with her aunt, Miss Lizzie
Gilbert, at Kershaw, S. C.
Manly w. Barfield of your city ran
up to see us the other day.
Carrie Wright. colored, wife o.
rhos. B. Wright, died at the infirm
iry where she had gone for treat
nent last Wednesday, and was buried
1t the Rafting Creek colored Baptist
church, Sunday, the whole country
side turning out to the funeral She
was useful woman, doing her par;
n life faithfully and cheerfully. Tom
has doubtless felt the shock keenly.
although her early death was uneX-
pected, because she ever proved a
true helpmeet and mpaniOnable
wife to him. She will be greatly miss
ed in her church and among her peO-
pie.
Mr.. James Freeman, of Camp Jack
son, is visiting his brother. w. ]. Free
man.
The dashcr in the old fashioned
| churn as it moves up and down says
Come butter, come butter, come
| butter"
Ants enter kings houses and some
! other things, as we know to our sor-
row are in unexpected places We
! once tried to sleep in bed of fleas
HagoOd.
Rembert, June II.
AS the present conditions have