Saturday the birthday of Gen Robert E. Lee, the great Confederate leader . . . John M. Daniel, the state attorney general, saying that he believed the school of the state should all celebrate legal holidays by having the pupils giving short programs in which the history and significance of the occasions would be impressed upon the youth.

Miss Anna Belle Voyle, Charleston, now a student at Columbia college, talking to Governor Johnston at corner of Main and Hampton . . . T. S. Lucas, Society Hill, with beautiful japonicas, at the State House, presenting the governor with some of the blossoms and leaving others for Mrs. Johnston.

Mrs. Robert W. Gibbes telling of a friend who was going to Plant City, Fla., this week and would like someone to ride with her for the companionship. The individual must have been references, she added.

Crowd gathering on 1200 block of Main street to witness the arrest of a Negro woman who had imbided too freely of “forbidden spirits.” Fully 100 people had congregated at the spot within a few minutes. The woman was crying and begging. “Please, Mr. Policeman, don’t take me to no jail. I ain’t never to no jail. Mr. Policeman, don’t lock me up.”

Mr. and Mrs. H. Peyton of Washington, D. C., visiting Mrs. W. J. Reynolds, 1229 Blanding street. The Peytons are on their way to Jacksonville, Fla., where they will spend the remainder of the winter with Mr. Peyton’s son, Dr. Harry Peyton . . . . Harold Whittle, remarking that in China, where he remained for two years in the Chineses army, chop suey is not a regular dish, and is hardly known to the Chinese.

Charles T. Smith, Jr., calling at the chamber of commerce to arrange for a meeting there next Thursday afternoon of alumni of the Citadel of the Central district . . . Miss Billy Smoak of Orangeburg. . . Mrs. Horace Williams of Batesburg . . . Miss Eileen Auld of Lamar. . . Miss Ella Cathcart of Winnsboro . . . Mrs. J. N. Brown of Blaney . . . Miss Virginia Haymaker of Winnsboro . . . Mrs. R. B. Geiger of St. Matthews and W. B. Stevenson of Cassatt, all visitors in Columbia for the day . . . . Mrs. W. B. Donne and Miss Mildred Rowe of Newton, N. C., in town shopping. . . . Mrs. Ellen Bruce of Woodward in town . . . . Mrs. Fred Wienges up from St. Matthews. . . . J. T. Gettys in town from Lugoff. . . . Mrs. L. C. Boone of Rowesville paying Columbia a visit . . . Miss Willie Boulware here from St. Matthews. . . Miss Eloise Boozer in town from North . . . . Miss Allene Stuckey up from St. Matthews. . . . Mrs. R. O. Derrick over from Lexington . . . Miss Mamie Gulledge in Columbia from Winthrop college. . . H. T. Wike and H. T. Wike, Jr., down from Newberry. . . . Managers of all McCrory stores in North Carolina and South Carolina holding a district meeting here today and Monday, with F. J. Dutton of Columbia, district manager, presiding.

Number of those who saw preview of “Lives of a Bengal Lancer” at the Carolina theater last week, saying it was the best motion picture they had witnessed in quite a while. It is a real “he-man’ picture . . . . Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Nye of Augusta, Ga., shopping in Columbia yesterday.

A paid advertisement in a recent issue of the Horry County Herald – “On Christmas Eve I dressed up and went places and also seen things and I want to notify all the doctors, drug stores, hotels, cafes, hotdog stands, bootleggers and many other places of amusement that if I have left any unpaid bills please file same with – Signed –