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...this anniversary (Feb. 22) of Sherman's visit to my ancestral Mt. Hope here at Ridgeway my great aunts, aged 90 and 80 years, tell me of his soldiers' taking off all the silver that was not buried including a silver urn that had come to the family from General Francis Marion, "the Swamp Fox." This Yankee soldier beat the handsome silver vessel against an early blossoming plum tree until it was flat and would fit into his saddle...
...Ridgeway, Mo., Albert Harding freed his cow. For 17 days it had been prisoned under a huge snowdrift against the side of a haystack, nibbling into the haystack for food, licking into the snowdrift for water...
...grant that parts of my native South Carolina (Ridgeway) are "flat, sandy, scrubby, down-at-heel," but these parts are offset by the plantation river homes of the low-country, Charleston with the churches, homes and public buildings of unsurpassed architectural charm, gardens, gates, doorways and streets that equal any in the world. The beauties of Italy, Amain, Sorrento, Naples remind me only of Charleston and its surrounding "low-country...
Next night almost everybody with a clean shirt went to some kind of ball. The Elks Club gave a ball for Elks. The Catholic Club gave a ball for Catholics. The Rex-Ridgeway Club gave a ball for Jews. The Memphis Country Club and the Nineteenth Century Club gave balls for the elect...
...Robert Ridgeway past president of the American Society of Civil Engineers and member of the Colorado River Hearst, will give an illustrated lecture on "Boulder Dam" this evening at 7 o'clock in Pierre 110. All members of the University are welcome...