Pond Branch community notes and campus visits fade into fall
Local items center on community activity and illness. S. L. Robertson faces serious illness at home. Miss Ethel Miller teaches a Boiling Springs summer program that ended abruptly. Various local coords report church, school, and social events, including a Pond Branch play, missionary society formation, and a Sunday school outing to the Rock House with baskets and songs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pond Branch School House
Claud Jones
Columbia
R. L. Miller
S. R. Taylor
Huffman
Burnt Mill
Lester Crout
Clemson College
Clemson
J. Olin Crout
Sarah Ann Bouknight
Ina Gunter
D. W. Smith
Erin Crout
Pond Branch School
Henry
Pisgah Social Notes Highlight Local Visits
Mrs. Shelton Taylor and daughters Nova and Elever visited Mrs. Jacob Lindler on Wednesday. The Seases hosted Lindlers and other locals. Weeber Rawl and family paid calls with kin. Picnic trips and Sunday visits linked Pisgah households with Kyzer Lindler Rawl and Taylor families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shelton Taylor
Nova and
Elever
Jacob Lindler
Sallie Sulton
Dent Sease
Weeber Rawl
S. J
Frank Lindler
Tommie
Piney Woods
Little Son
S. L. Rawl
L. M. Kyzer
Louise Lindler
Bessie Kyzer
George Taylor
O. L. Kyzer
Mises Lottié McCarthy
Ridge Spring
Pisgah
J. F. Lindler
Louise
Weeber Rawl Surady
DOTS FROM THIRD BRANCH Fodder work and visits continue
Forsgers keep busy pulling fodder and receiving reinforcements through the week. George Whittakeria and Redmond attend Saturday events with neighbors. Miss Sissie Whittaker and daughter Futh visit Ben Jeffo, while Miss Mamie Redmond from Columbia stays with her mother. Alice Jeffcoat visits her sister S. A. Redmond. Mrs. D. L. Redmond visits Swansea parents. Will Furtick and family spend Sunday with brother Lewis. Cleveland and Dargon Wise see Redmonds Sunday morning. Rosa Redman and children visit Joe Jumper and Mattie Jumper. E. R. and Judson Martin, D. L. and S. A. Redmond travel to Columbia on business. Sallie Redmon and Miss Paul- is noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Messrs. E. R
Judson Martin
D. L
S. A. Redmond
Columbia
Sallie Redmon
Paul
Redman Visits Mrs Huffman Amid Trinity Church Meeting
Redman visited Mrs. Fletcher Huffman Wednesday morning. Reverends Sam Danner and Arant from Orangeburg led a four session meeting at Trinity Church with crowds in attendance. Misses Bessie and Blanch Seigler spent the weekend with Mrs. Joel Jumper at Swansea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ine Redman
Fletcher Huffman
Sam Danner
Ar|ant
Orangeburg
Trinity Church
Bessie
Blanch Seigler
Joel Jumper
Swansea
Community notes from St Matthews area churches and gatherings
A series of Sunday visits and family get togethers across the Steele Keisler McCartha Crout and Lindler households. Sunday singing at J A Crout home and planned divine services at St Matthews church on August 28 at 11 am and 2 pm invite the public to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. D. Steele
C. P. McCartha
J. H. Keisler
J. A. Keisler
Girlie Keisler
Grover Keisler
Ethel
Blanch McCartha
J. E. McCartha
Adair
J. A. Crout
Ellie
Lessie Keisler
Emily
Thelma McCarthy
Ollie Keisler
Oren Lindler
Maggie Miller
Ethel McCartha
E. W. Keisler
Pearle
Eveline
Essie Keisler
Estell Keisler
Webster tSeele
St. Matthews Church
Our Ladies Missionary Society Meets Saturday Afternoon
Our town mourns after a Macon hotel fire claim. John S. Hayes, brother of Mrs. Perry Hall, died from injuries from a fall while escaping the third story as flames gutted the hotel. Friends and relatives extend sympathy to the bereaved, with local residents visiting and staying with kin. Miss Pliny Timmerman and Vera Merchant joined Azalee Hall, while Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Barr of Atlanta returned home after visiting T. B. Barr’s family. Mrs. C. P. Lawrence Floy of Orange Heights is visiting Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Quattlebaum. Mrs. J. C. Dosher visits her mother in Graniteville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Our Ladies ‘Missionary Society
John S. Hayes
Perry Hall
Macon
Hayes
Pliny Timmerman
Vera Merchant
Azalee Hall
A. A. Barr
Atlanta, Ga
T. B. Barr
C. P. Lawrence Ter
Floy
Orange Heights
Fla
A. B. Quatlebaum
J. C. Dosher
Graniteville
Diuush
Bell Weevil
W. C. Corder
Leesville Hospital
N. C. Corder
Sara H
Ruth
B. J. Rogers
J. B. Burgess
Fraklin Hallman
Rook Corder
W. O. Corder
C. J. Thraikille
Monetta
F. S. Burgess
J. B. Johnson
Lee
Samaria Baptist Church
Pond Branch News And Local Crops Report
S L Roberts has been sick but is improving. Crops are poor with cotton yielding at most a quarter. Boll weevils devastate late crops. Most residents suffer the blues yet trust in God to guide them. Pond Branch is noted for children and babies. a playful note imagines a baby show. An elder recalls Uncle Henry jumping logs in a jacket with nose jewelry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry
Chapin News Update Highlights Local Names and Health
Mr. Bickley improves under Dr Pendle care while his prize fighters train. J J Hiltiwanger remains at work in Columbia. Edna and Martha Bickley visited Hilton last week. Henry Barrett plans a new cottage. Mrs. Rufus Wessinger recovers from a broken arm. A B Slice and family attended the Newburg barbecue. Sidney Wessinger had a well- that ends abruptly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
SO. Bickley
Patrick Bickley
Dry Pendle
Deak
J. J. Hiltiwanger
Columbia
Edna
Martha Bickley
Hilton
Henry Barrett
Rufus Wessinger
A. B. Slice
Newburg
Sidney Wessinger
Weekend house party with Hilton string band
Last Saturday night the 20th a local man hosted a house party inviting neighbors to enjoy music by the Hilton string band. Watermelons were served after, and some were saved for the band to take home. The band is slated to play at White Knoll on September 8.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hilton
Wessinger
White Knoll
Samaria Happiness and Visiting Notes At Leesville
Local column records visits and health hopes from Samaria and nearby towns. Multiple families, including the Corders and Hallmans, visit relatives, with prayers for speedy recovery for ill children and notes on parish life at Samaria Baptist. A light aside quotes Brooks and patting himself on the back, and mentions Fishbones as fertilizer.
List of agents for sale of game licenses in Lexington
The county designates many residents and businesses as agents for game license sales. Notable names include H L Harmon, J N Harmon, Caughman Kaminer Co, Hook Bros, R D Kinard, E H Addy, J B Addy, G D Row A, Jno C Swygert, and others in Lexington, New Brookland, Batesburg, Cayce, Leesville, Chapin, Pelion, Swans, and surrounding towns. County Game Warden A. M. Caughman notes the list dated August 23, 1921.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lexington County
H. L. Harmon
Lexington
J. Long
P. H. Shealy
Caughman-Kaminer Co
L. A. Lawn
W. D. George
J. J. Roof
E. L. Taylor
S. E. Shealy
H. Shull
J. N .Harmon
L. A. Shull
Q. M. Gayden
New Brookland
W. L. Yates
Hook Bros
Batesburg
Craps
Gilbert
E. Hammond
D. A. Hendrix
H. E. Snelgrove
Summit
M. Swygert
Leesy
A. L. Bedenbaugh
Lee
R. L. Oxner
Leesville
R. D. Kinard
D. C. Taylor
J. M. Caughman
Steinert Nsw
Be careful what you hate and what you praise
A compact reflection on moral learning from warning against uncritical praise and disdain. The text contrasts inherited judgments with personal discernment and notes how a child learns values from a parent’s examples.
Luck Is Not Luck Says a Quiet Philosopher
The passage asserts luck comes from hard work and a noble resolve, not talent or dreaming. It emphasizes tending one’s own garden of life and keeping it free of weeds as the path to glorious deeds.
Yorkville Enquirer Snippet Reflects Rock Hill Poet Claim
George Bulla Craven reports Budd Biggs relayed a poem he says was written by a Rock Hill poet. The verse describes fashion details such as silk and lace, a knee length skirt, tasseled waist and a single shoulder strap, ending with an unusual line about Eve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yorkville Enquirer
George Bulla Craven
The
Lancaster News
Budd Biggs
Rock Hill
Barbecue at Boiling Springs School House
The Ladies' School Improvement League will host a first class barbecue and serve refreshments on September 3 at Boiling Springs School House. There will be speaking and all are invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies’ School Improvement League
Boiling Springs
Just Thoughts on People and Society Functions
Quotes reflect on judgment and reputation arguing no man is wholly good or evil. Society events are used for revenge while self made men fall short against tailored rivals. The piece muses on memory, enemies and friends, and the paradox of human character.
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Wateringford
Pisgah News
ST. Matthew Dots
Steedman
Pond Branch News
Chapin News
Samaria Happiness
Tom Halli
W. A. Rawl
T. P. Hallman
Franklin Hallman
J. M. Hallman
Anon
Amiel
Charles E. Hughes
Hoy
Taleng “Blank
John E. Buff
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