Sunday another beautiful spring day with the streets and highways crowded with persons out riding and enjoying the balmy breezes . . . Tress in the Shandon section budding out rapidly and passerby remarking, “What a pity it be should a freeze come and kill those tender twigs.”

Edwin Maddox, teacher at Flat Rock school, Kershaw county, a visitor in Columbia and at his home in Blaney during the weekend and driving a new automobile. . . .Mrs. J. T. Rutledge and son, William Rutledge, passing through Columbia yesterday on their way to their home in Conway after visiting relatives in Swainsboro, Ga.

Birthdays today: Dr. E. N. Kibler of Prosperity, S. B. Pratt, Jr., of Fort Mill, George B. Clinkscales of Spartanburg, Alex K. Ball of Eastover. Heyward Brockington, recorder of police court of Columbia; Junius N. Lipscomb of Gaffney, Dr. Ben F. Wyman of state board of health.

President James Madison born at Port Conway, Virginia, March 16, 1751, graduated from Princeton and College of New Jersey in 1771. At the age of 25 he was elected delegate to convention which framed the constitution of Virginia. Sent to continental congress, elected to first congress in 1789, became secretary of state under President Jefferson, who he succeeded as president in 1809.

Harold Colson, leaving for Pageland to visit relatives . . . J. L. Williamson, 1717 Hampton street, relating the peculiar fate of a grasshopper which he observed had perched on the ledge of the widow of the cab on the engine of the Southern railway one day as he left New Market and the insect remained there in apparent enjoyment until the train reached Greenwood, a distance of two miles, where, flying off about 50 feet, it was nabbed by a sparrow.

Mr. and Mrs. George Steel of Leesville worshipping at St. Paul’s Lutheran church, where their son, Clyde Steel, a member of the senior class at the Lutheran Theological seminary, assisted Doctor McCullough, the pastor, in the service. Also Mr. Steel, Sr., and Doctor McCullough had been special friends since their young manhood when he lived at Prosperity and Doctor McCullough in the near by Colony Church community.

Miss Sunnie Metts of the McColl high school faculty spent the weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. D. Metts of College Place. She had as guest Miss Alva Brooks, also of McColl schools.