The Continuing Adventures of a Very Lucky Black and White Dog By Penny L. Hunt Chapter 5 – Smokey Last week: A severe thunderstorm warning canceled the PTO meeting and sent most of the families hurrying for home leaving two small puppies alone inside a drainage pipe. As River and her dad left the PTO […]
The Continuing Adventures of a Very Lucky Black and White Dog By Penny L. Hunt Chapter 4 – Flash Flood Warning! Last week: One of the puppies living in a drainage pipe near Whitman Academy was rescued by the headmaster’s wife and the sixth grade class has devised a way to save the others. The […]
The Continuing Adventures of a Very Lucky Black and White Dog By Penny L. Hunt Chapter 3 – And Now There Are Two Last week: The sixth grade class at Whitman Academy began plotting ways to catch three puppies living in a pipe… The plan was brilliant! A can of the smelliest cat food anyone […]
September 12, 2012 The Continuing Adventures of a Very Lucky Black and White Dog By Penny L. Hunt Chapter 2 – Not Fast Enough! Wham! Bill kicked the ball hard shooting it like a bullet over the pitcher’s head and into the outfield where it whizzed past Rhett and smacked against the chain-link […]
Next Stop – Disney World! By Tiffani Ireland – Three young men from Germany invaded The Advertiser office on Thursday afternoon, Sept. 6. Well, all right, maybe not invaded actually, but they did hold us captive with the exciting stories of adventures they have had while here in the States. Rob Keck, noted […]
September 5, 2012 Piper Tales The Continuing Adventures of a Very Lucky Black and White Dog By Penny L. Hunt Chapter 1 – Puppies In A Pipe No one saw the paint-worn, rusty pickup or the old man driving but sometime during the night, with its headlights out and motor idling low, it had crept […]
Deacon Tommy Williams and his wife Barbara Williams of 378 Long Cane Rd. in Edgefield County came by The Advertiser office to show a gigantic elephant ear that they grew. They enjoy gardening and have other plants and flowers. However, they did not know the name of this large plant and were asking for information. […]
Oldest African-American in US. Mamie Rearden reaches 114 on September 7 and her family held a gathering for her recently in Johnston. The following article, by a family member and one of The Advertiser correspondents Ethel Butler, tells of the occasion. “An Awesome Woman of God” by Ethel Butler I had the special privilege of […]
Death of a Policeman; Birth of a Baby Get ready. For those who enjoyed Guns of Meeting Street by Felder Dorn, there is another book that he has written, to be published this next month. It has to do with a woman who was up for execution, like Sue Logue, but the sentence was commuted […]
The following stories ran in the print edition of The Edgefield Advertiser on July 4, July 11 and July 18, 2012, and held much interest for those connected to Johnston and the school which no longer exists. Here they are, in sequence, for all to see. — A Johnston High School Newspaper — From 1944 […]