Friday, December 27, 1929. OBITUARIES Woodruff, Dec. 26 - ALFRED P. PARKER, 55, died at his home here early this morning. Funeral services will be conducted at Friendship Baptist Church tomorrow by the Rev. C.B. PRINCE, who will be assisted by the Rev. C.L. BOYTER. Surviving are his widow, who before marriage was MISS SYLVIA GWINN; a son, HENRY; 3 daughters, MRS. JOE SWEAT, Columbia, MRS. ETTIE PARHAM, Spartanburg, and MISS MARIE AIKEN, Pauline; 3 brothers, W.H., W.B., and A.J. AIKEN, all of Spartanburg, also survive. ------------- Sunday, December 22, 1929 STONE HORSE THROUGH, Relic of a Vanishing Era, Is Forgotten As Motor Age Advances Inroads by Bill Gaines The last monument to the usefulness of the horse has been removed from the ken of the majority of citizens of Spartanburg who once saw it as they went about their daily business, and by now is probably forgotten by those persons who formerly gained their greatest pleasure from a slow-gaited ride in a surrey behind old Dobbin. The stone trough, with graceful streams of water flowing from its sides, that once stood in that part of Morgan Square directly west of the monument of Daniel Morgan, is still within the limits of the city, but its glory has been tarnished and its prestige allowed to wane as it stands in silent contempt of its horseless surroundings. Not bitter, but rather sorrowing over the day gone by, its slow, ruminative flows of water point out the beauties of Cleveland Park at the juncture of the three main throughfares of the recreation center. Years ago, before Spartanburg had taken on its atmosphere of mechanical impediment , J.F. CLEVELAND and JOHN B. CLEVELAND erected the trough in its former spot in memory of their father, that the horses, them prominant , of city and county might find surcease from thirst at its brimming sides. For many years it served its purpose... No longer does its waters ripple merrily; no longer does the reflected sky reach that azure stage of the olden days. Time has not dealt kindly with the trough. Its day will come and if there is a heaven for horse troughs that have performed nobly and well, the Cleveland monument will be among the blessed. ------------ nancie o. - share, don't sell.