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Newspaper
Abbeville Press And Banner
Location
Abbeville, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1908
Page
1
A King asks if thumbscrews should be abolished with supporters and opponents. A Kansas City Journal item recalls a circuit court horse case where a witness joked about age and a prosecutor objected to a hypothetical exchange with a horse.
A humorous anecdote recounts a neighbor who borrowed a college paper, triggering a string of mishaps from a shattered fence and injured father to ruined milk and fleeing daughter. The piece ends with a moral urging subscription and a discussion of kimono etiquette and marriage.
Local society column lists guest visits and travels across Calhoun, Thomaston, Due West, Atlanta, and Columbia. Names include Mina Ronle Harrel, Willie Clary, P. L. Grier, Alpha Lomax, Milas Laurie Johnston, Walter Visapeka, Ethel Lyon, Roy Power, J. Lowrie Wilson, Mattie Nickles, T. A. Kilpatrick, Joline Vi best, G. Thomson, Low ArmetiGoe, W. G. Templeton, Edd Acker, John Thompson, Ward Thomson, Hessid Simpson, Annie Hawthorne, Aline Harris, Nannie Seal, May Robertson, May Jones, Clara Bonner, Edwin Parker, Miss Fretwell, and more. The Bridge Forty elven event featured a Perrin house party with elegant lighting, games, and a charity supper.
Mr J H Clinkscales formerly of Die Went now in Greenwood called Friday for the Pies for Justice mission work. Mr W A Hook barber formerly of Abbeville now in Elberton, Ga., was in town Friday and seems well. Mrs W McCurry returns from Anderson to spend time with former associates. A Confederate veteran praised for wearing the Cross of Honor by the Daughters of the Confederacy, as Time passes, the legacy of Confederate history fades.
Bellevue community notes recount candy pulls at various homes, visits by Mrs. W H Britt and others, and a list of attendees including Miss Bessie Link and Master Tommie Lyon. Florida trips by W H Kennedy and hunting guests from Mt Carmel and Canada are noted, as well as a death of Jane Edward Bradley, with funeral arrangements and prayers offered by Rev. E B Kennedy and Rev. RF Bradhey. Weather and farming remarks accompany early spring plowing, with cautious notes on expected rain.
A long Abbeville column recounts teacher association meetings, sermon and charity acts by a Sandy school girl, and town notices. It notes a fire in a Dr Wilson dwelling area, village travel for exams, and community ads for Rexall products and period goods.
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