The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-08-16
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Miss Alice Agnew is attending the
! Linwood Conference as delegate
from the Due West Y. P. C. U.
Mr.. T. A. Putnam, Jr, who is
studying pharmacy in Macon, Ga,
was at home for few days last week.
: 2Ir S. A. Pressly and family and
! Mrs. and Miss Crockett have returned
from visit to Virginia.
! Miss Laura Agnew has returned
from New York where she has been
attending Columbia University.
Mr. Jno. Winn returned last week
from weeks stay at Black Noun
tain, N. C. His family is spending
the summer there.
DR. and Mrs. F. Y. Pressly left
Monday to attend the Conference al
Linwood. DR.. Pressly is to make an
address at the conference.
Mrs. Emma Ellis Cathcart return
ed to Winnsboro Monday morning
after spending some days with kin
dred in this section. She attended
the Ellis reunion at Bethlehem on
Thursday.
Mr.. Floyd Seawright has Just re-
turned from trip to Texas. He re-
ports crops good in that part of the
state where he was, but not much be-
tween here and there.
Miss Katherine Galloway returned
last Saturday from a visit of several.
weeks to Bluefield, w. Va, Charlotte
N. c., and Kings Mountain, N. C. She
expresses herself as delighted with
| her visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. S. Camp left
Monday for vacation in the noun
aims of North Carolina. They eX-
pect to make Sunset Mountain their
headquarters.
Miss Virginia Galloway left Mon =:
day for Aynor, S. G. She will pursue
her studies in voice for several
weeks, under direction of Mrs. ]. B.
McCutcheon. She expected to stop
over in Columbia for a short stay,
with Miss Josie Baird, as she went
down.
A committee of farmers, Mr.. C.
B. Leonard, chairman, is preparing
to build two story brick ware
house near the depot, to store cot
ton and farm products. This is a !
part of the general movement for
warehouses in the south.
Mr.. and Mrs. K. S. Galloway left
Tuesday to attend the Linwood
Conference. Mrs. Galloway expects
to go on to Hendersonville, N. c.,
for a visit for few days and Mr..
Galloway will go to Columbia,
Tenn, to attend the celebration of
the Centennial of the Hopewell
church. He expects also to visit Fay
etteville on this trip,
DR.. R. L. Robinson reached Due
West Monday afternoon after Wis
it of several weeks to North Caro-
lima and Kentucky. He came by
Rock I'll! and pre- sched fo- DR..
Rock Hill and preached for DR.. shrd
Rogers, who is taking his vacation
in North Carolina. DR.. Robinson re-
ports his college overf1owing with
applications.
This section of the country has
been visited with fine rains. The
crops are very promising. A gentle
man who made a trip around the
outskirts of the town, after return
ing from the circuit remarked. "Due
West is surrounded with a green
paradise of corn and cotton" If the
present prospects materalize, abun-
.dant crops will be gathered. The
army worm has appeared in a few
places. The farmers were at first
quite ueasy, but the scare passed
off, under the belief that it was not
the regular army worm and that no
very great damage would be. done.
Mr.. w. w. McDill who had been ex-
perienced in Mississippi remarked,
~ would not put rs cents in ex-
pense on the worm as my expert
ence is that they do little damage,