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'7 IN .*y"( w'4 k v is ~ '-.vl~..., ~ # ECuteued APrf1 289 1900 at Pickensh IL.0.9 sscn ls matta4,'under awt of Oongrews of March B.- lff*9 VOL. ZU IlL ICI AUNIURQfAI TMAT NOTI33N2log9 The Latest Sitts and General News. A special tern of court has been call. ed in Spartanburg Nov. 11 to try Johti Irby, the rap6t, and also Ularence As. new for wrekIg the: train near Well. Sord. These are she negroes who daus id thatirecent riot.at the jail. Senator Tillinan 's writing a bock dealing with the race question. Col. T. J. Lipscomb. died last week in Columbia. F<.r 12 years he was superiu. teudent of the penitena7y. Abbewille is now the only oo%inty in Piedmont region with'a dispensary. Last week four counties voted disper.saries <u .,The sta4e -s now exacly half dry, out of 42 counties 21 retainingdispt.ns ries. The next lepllature will doubtle'.8 iniake South -Carolina-a prohibiitin state. The survivois of -C-rr's reuiment hold their reunion in Abbeville Nov. 11-12 Vickena--helped to make up this com mand and should be represented. . Senator Tillman is not i favor of state prohibition, but it is comin alle simee. The National Farmers' Union meet in New Orleans Nov. 11, to try and devise some plato to raise the price of cutton. Zach McGhee is writing a novel, with scene and characters from tle ''lJaric Corner" of Gie-inville. It w.i le all right with the bovs. jut No Z selc ,ni don't giv - away in his forthe ,miis g bo> the lUation of any Of tbt.o, Ilhi.. mill Mathew Berman, a merchant of El berton. Ga., died a horrible death frous - hydrophobia. Several weeks ago h.s lip was bitten off by a ma.-dog. Just before his death Mr. Berman escaped and rushing into the bath-roo.n lapped up water as if periqhing from thirst. The boll weevil is said to be travelling toward tiouth Carolina at a ieed of 75 to 1t0 miles a year. If cotton remains below cost of production our farmers .ought - -meet it with a brass ba id and .a barbecue of tender ) oung bols. . chath y Adams, a 12-year-old white boy ot J;fteaville, while swinging to the -end of a couplinmg-lole, felt and was .cru"hed to death by the wagon-wheels. -hTyphoid fever has broken out among the to girls at Winthrop College. The -%vater is beinganalyzed. Col. W. P. Price. who some 50 years ago lived in Greenville, and well known to tlhe older citizens of Pickens. died last week at his home in Dahlonega, Ga. In Georgia Hryan reoeivqd 78,789 votes, Taft '41,292, Watson 17.018, and the .Hearst,tieft onty 81.- Aryan's-majonty wasonly 18.471. Taft curried 27 count ties and Watsoa 9. The Atlanta Journal eays the vote shows that Tom Watson Is aAead duck in Georgia's p)litical mud puddle. , Tomi has survi6ea several such Aemises, but always resurrected hin self. Roosevelt and Bryan are both sugges ted for the U. 8. senate. So soon as his term tspires the President will go to the wilds of Africa and hunt big game. President-elect .Taft may spend a part of tile winter In Augusta. Ga. To see the garden spoti of God's country he should visit Pickens by all means. A man in Atlanta had, a live electric wire on the street to-drop and entwine around his le; but as it was a cork le.r lie escaped injury and it t-aved his life. At Cross Hill, in. Laurens county, a young man named Thornwell Boyce was occidentally ahot and killed lost Satur day by his fui -nd Wade C. Pinson. Both were in a buggy with a young lady and fired a k un to frighten her. Miss Mary BroWn, the Young- lady in the buggy, says the -.hooting was not aeidental that Pinsi a was drunk, ar.d when he fired his gun was aimed at Boyce's head. An underground like was last week found, which Inay delay for years the comrldtion of-the Panama can,l. Canal authorities denounce the story its false. Mrs. Eastman, daughter of the late Cartei Harrison, of Chicago, and Col. *V. E. McBlee are at law over the Buck -Shoals power, the old home of Bill Nye, near A shville, N. C. Cards were.last Saturday distributed <ver Spartanburg threatening any law yer wno defended the negrocs,.Irbr and Agnew, the rapist and train-wrecker. Greenville threatens to tar and feath -er Win. R. Hearst if he ever.sets foot in that city. How about J6hn Tem'ple Graves, who nas a sister livlng ini Green 'ville? Col. Graves was on the ticket and often visits that borg. The Federal circuit court last week *decided that the tobacco trust is an Ille gal comnbino. Uncle Sam is now after the fertilizer trust, organized by John D. Rockfeller, and all signs lP)lnt to the thing being ~rushed. This combine is robbing onr fa mers of millions. TIaft .roke into the solid South. Bry .iri pryved muchu weakcer tihan his party, * running behind the tic'cet in several s tates. He did not poll the popolar vote of even Judge Parker, while Taft excee de4 Ro'sevelt's vote. The republicans * will control both branches of c mngress. Dr. J. A. Barks-fale, a prominent citi zsn of Laurens county, died Saturday. -The press of Georgia is now protesting ngainst the destruotion of Tallulah Falls, as a ses ong company threatents to devel e.> its 'power for commeleial uses. Ii would ..e as grept a d eseoration as blastt. ing awayv Table Roqck to sell ti granit i .The Greenville News secoinds the r om. -ination of Cel. William Jennlng Bry. an as. our dern.ogra-.ic 4 r be's four years hence. Ini base bM par "nce , e S is "three strikes and out." arid 00l B lryan has been thyioe at the 4ezo,tc hat. But no)9gintas this Thomas Sims, a weaver in the Bragot cotton mill at Anderson, while drunk, ou'cided by shooting-himself. The Southern railway has put its em ployees on ft 1. time and the work ol double-tracki: g -he main line apd othei improvementi will be pressed.. Harvi Jordan predicts a speedy im provoment in tl e price of cotton. There are six cases of typhoid fever now at Winthrop College. 'the dispensary advocates will agair contest tie election in Laureis county. A. dam to cost $3,500,003 has been con tracted for across the Savannah, 2( miles above Augusta. The Co-naus Bureau says 8.199,003 bales were ginned up to No.v, 1. which is largely in excess of any previous year. Norris. Hea'th gool, bu4 news d'sLressingly scarce. The series of meetings which were held in t e Norris Baiptist church closed Suhday night, after at week's running. There wre 1i w1ditions to the church. Hurrah for Norris, Mrs. Richar.1 Hallum and childruA1 visite<l Mrs. H.'s father and motl:.;r, Mr. and Mrr. J. C. Garrett, last we-j1. mis. Mary Uktrrett, of Greenville High School, whol haa len visiting her father and muthar, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Garrett, returned t. her school Monday morning Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Maddox, of Hen. egar, Ala. nave conle back to old South Carolina, and will make it their future home. Mrs. T. S. Tins and children visited Mr. and Mrs. Pink Moser last week, from Auguta. Hello! "Old Riddle," what's the mat. ter? - Wake up. and give us t to news. BONt IE BLUE Eyes. Ntrr's, Nov. 8. Liberty. Kind readers of the S.-J.: The fates were good to you 'ast: week, and caused the children to forget a letter to the 8..J. that I had intrusted to them to mail. I have been very busy doing the win. ter sewing, and have just got to where I can take tiu.e to look out and admire the trees dressed in their autumn colors, I-know that it is no use in repininv, but I sometimes wh we could "live with. out dining" and sewing and darning, and ob eer to many othfr ngs that kepi us from.enjoying )cio4.4he.loveef of the fail months. Otow-when I'd look out -and see thd trees with their brown, red and yellow foliag* and see from my window the last of the wild asters seem. ihig to invite me to come and love them, I could scarcely sit at the machine. Per haps I am ipistaken, but it seems to me the past mOnth was the loveliest in many years, and the trees just magnificent. I ave often heard the maple's praises sung, but to my eye the hickory and the s>urwood are prettier than the maple, at least in fail time. There are two sour wood trees.that I can see from my win cow, that have been a pleasant sight for over a month with their scarlet leaves and .white blossoms. - Besides, these trees bloom twice a year. Baby, noticing the trees in their fall attire, said, "See, mama, see Dod's f'ees dot on p'etty v'eses.'' *hen a child I fancied the falling l,eaves were the, trees weeping at the death of. summer.' Gooi.bye, dear old October, hope to see you again. I promised to say something on the schobf:question. and had whot I thought a convincing argument in favor of coim. pulsory education all fixed up in my "forgetory," when chancing io see an item in the Woman's Magazine to the effect that although compulsory educa. -tion had been in force in France for 25 years, still there are 40 illiterate men and 60 illiterate women per 1.OCO, Wtill I would like to see education made 'coi. pulsory, then some who keep thelh children from school under first one pre. text and another, and who think they can't possibly do any more In the way of schooling their children than they are doing, would 'slt up and take notice.' We can,; all do-~seemingly-impossibk~ things when we are compelled to, or at Mrm. WViggs says. "When we have 's thing to do we klon do It." Mrs. Bryan told last wmnter in the Uncle Remut Magazine of going to see a young manl who was -sick and taking him delicacies and reading matter. His folks thanked her kinidly, byut said -the books and magazine~s coultd afford pleaanre- only sc fa' js booAing et the pictures, for nlont of the fatally could re&d. 'She went ori to say that there were several brotheru of them, all finely-built, handlsothe young men, with a beau furnished home, with sig ob every side, but *tsls could read." Nor doubtth kept them at home amassi the expense of their educ en he had been compelled t t< echool a given number hbe tween the ages of 7 and one't them would have been a 'dth< literature that Mrs. Bryan tem. Compulsion Is not necessary' ie tie, gro, for if they can get a tin' rcm bread and black molasses, they en off to school, while the poor whi ld i.s of ten kept at home because he c dresi as well or carry as dainty a In) 1as the child whose parente are abte send their children off wli-clad aud '*e14e Oh! childret,, an- edoba I ton~ if you are not si *l-.fixed;fi sobool es your fortunate wates. Remna ber 'tbbit the child that is born wltb . [ve .spoon in his mouth'" is of6 vPry desirable gualities that you can all h1tve if you vill only try. My letter has grow n so long tt a' I must close without saying all'i wam. to on the school question. Before eloping I must tell .Uncle Z_-ke" a,ad Gary H:ott that I predict for and wish 'them un bounded success in their new field. Rather late to tell them so, but batter late than never. I r'emain a Dat.Ait' Daousville-R F 0 1. We have been having some flne weather for the gathering of crops, and the people have beeu making good use of the time. Btalth in this section very good at this writing. lJori, unto Mr. an<i Mrs. N. M. Lor per, and also to Mr. anck Mrs. J. M. Looper, on the 24th ult , girls. We need no immigrants. A large crowd of young people at tended the, singing at J P Rft-binson's I Lst f3unday evening. All ei jayed a fine time. Rev. J. T. Sinccleton filed bis aproint mient at Nine Forks, Sanilay. preaching a very interesting sormon to a Lrge congregation. J. W. Looper has nearly conp'ett d his new residence and barn on his fart., r cently bought from W. N. Hughas, which will add much to the value of the place. Geo. Garren has his new residetice well under way. and wheA completed will be a beauty. Mr. Editor, why did my paper not come ist we(-k? I have not received it yet. Where is the trouble? It has never come to Dacutville. Is it the neglect of the postmaster. or who? Has the new top buegv quit coming, "Old Riddle?" If it lias, just give the "Mountumn Boy" a chance, or there will be an old bachelor and an old maid left to mourn over lost <,ppnrtunities. MOUNTAIN Boy. The San Jose Soa'e in South Caroltna. The San Jose (San Hozay) scale is the mhost pernicious in sect pest of fruit and shade trees in South Carolina. In some sec tions the owners of trees are cutting them down owing to the presence of this insect. The Division of Entomology of the South Carolina Experitnent Sta tion has repeatedly emphasized the-fact, in the press that.there is no necessity for cutting d6wh' or otherwise destroying a tree merely because it is infested with San Jose scale unless the tree is so far gone that it has not enough vitality .left to recover after the scale is killed. Although one of the worst in sects of America, it has Men demonstrated over and over again.that the pest can be suc cessfully and, economically con trolled. Fruit-growers all over the United States who are trou bled with this pept are controll ing it by the sprays devised for that purpose. All citizens of South Carolina who haye trees dying or who know that their trees are Infested with scale, or who have trees in an unthrifty condition, are invited to write to the Division of Entomology, South Carolina Experiment Sta tion, Clemson College, S. C. In formation is cheerfully given and no postage is required to insure a reply. A Delightful Occasion. Satur lay, Oct. 31st, was a beautiful day, an ideal one to take in the beauties of nature. The occasion tht I r3ught us together was the reunion o-thew St. phens family. We met at the old Bay.ess Stephens homestead, 2 1-2 miles from Pickens. A striking feature of the any was when the long table was arranged in the .3ard and the many good things to eat were spread thereon. Thp family and gue sts the-a gathered around the bo&rd, 64 in number. Jas K. Lewis, of OEahoma, a brother. ji-law of the family, offered a very touching, tender prayer, thanking God for *paring their livieg td meet' again, W. o. Stephens andl family, of Blour bon Mo.. who have been gone for niany years were p)resent to enjoy the ooca IA was a great treat to be present and eijoy the good cheer and hear the con ver.sation or friends and relativ( s who ..ad been away from each other 1for years. as they talked of the happy by g. ne days, those days of chid tood, y, un C manhood and young womanhood which will never return. We could but wish that another and even a happier reunion may be held of thi.i and other families opa this oth er sid A of ti.e river, when we shall not be called u nto.epaatenorsayt'ae eum' word g -b/ say A FaIEND, tIe cognpaoies o' malitia are guard. hR thb jail in 8 bugran th PoM*d is la An usty a6 awte A. K. F West JEnd. Dry Goods We are now. ready for Fall ai stock of Dry Goods and Shoes, late, when there had been Br< anxious to sell, and offering ext Being in a position to accept th at much lower prices than 1< means you can buy your dry go did last year. My prices will more 7c. for calico but the best 5c. Goods that sold last seaso Heavy i z'4 c. Canton Flannel Heavy yard wide Sheeting..5c The best selection of wool dr for less money. Better underw 36 inch $1.25 Taffeta Silk 'for I bear the standard of Good ! Come and let us prove what A. K. ness' sake stop leaing against the bell-push and let the rest of the family got some sleep." PARKER'S HAIR BALSA Cleante i:td, bmautiflos the . Proillutes a lUzurift th. 3 - Wever Flts to Restore: Gray3 a d I t lou t a Tax Notice. Office of County Treaturer, Pickens County. Pickenv, S. C., September 28th 1908. The books for the colleetion of State and County. taxes will be open from October 15th1908 to Deeember Bst 1908. Those who. prefer to do so can pay in Janua' I ry J07, with I per cent additional Tho who prefer paying fi ebruary 1900, ca do so with, 2 per cent addhIo a .. Those wh prefer paying in March 190, to the lbth of sai month, can do ny paying an additional 7 per .cent. After said ( ate t e books wilt closo N. It -Tax payers owning Oroperty or paying tax for others, will please Ksk for tax receipt in each township or special school district it which he or they may own property. This is very important as there are so many special . school districts. Those who do not wish to come to ihe office cain write me,. not later than D4.cember20th,,and I will furnish them with the amount due and. they enn remit me b check, money order or istered letter, stamps ar.i sent do not s above the two (2) cent ones, as I ca.not use them. Please do not send me cash without- reestering same, as it is liable to get lost; If sent otherwise it must be at sender's risk. Levy for State tax ...... .........5% ?illa Levy for Contititutionall school t *ax millm Levy for Ordinary C ounty tax. .... ...4 mills Levy for Sisking Fund ....... .........13 mills Levy for Past Indebtedness........... mills Levy for Chain Gang... ...... ........ 2 mill Levy for State Constble...... ...... mill Total 17 nills SCHOOL TAX. Special Levy for School District No. 2,...2 mills Special Levy for School Dtrict No. 3....2 mills 4 Special Levy for School District No. 4....2 mills. Special Lev) for Reholl 1istrict No. 8....2 mits ,Sp eclat . evy for School District No. 9.. .8 mills Special Le7y for School i)strict No. 10, 1% mills Special Levy forSchool District No. 11,51 mills S pecal Levv fe-Shool istrict No. 13,..6 mills 8pecial Levy for School District No. 14,..4 mills Sp ecial Levy for School District No. 16.. .2 mills Special Levy for School )istrict Nq. 17..4 mills Special Levy for School District No. 18...2 mills. Special LevyforSchoot District No. 19,..2 mills Special Levy for School Ilistrict No. 22,..2 milft Special Levy for School District No, 28,..2 mills Special Levy for School 1)istrict No. 27,..2 mills Special Levy for School 1)istrict No. I1. 6% mHila Special Levy for School iDistrict No. 42,. .temi3s Special Levy for School Dilstrict No. 49,...2 me.11s Hlurricane townsh ip...... ........2.mills L evy for interest on ilckens R1. R. lionda e astatee townscip....... . ..... ..2j.millh Lavy for interest otn Pickens R. R. IHond(s 1 ickens U. II. township.. ........ . .mills, loll Tlax, One (I l)Dollar. livery male citizen from 21 to to do years is liable. exc,spt C;onfeder ate soldiers, who do not pay after Oyearus, and those excused by law.' Commutation Rtoad Tax, *1.50. All persons desiring to pay this lax for t19b9 in lieu of ivo daya work on the road, can do so before Starch 1st. 1909. All persons between the ages of 21 and 50 years are liable for this tax, except those excused by law. Capitation D)og Tax. All persons owvning] dogs are required to pay a tax of llfty (50) cents on each dog. Respectfully, B. D. G ARVIN, Con nty TP~easurer. Pickens Bottling Works 'R. L. DAvis, Prog'r. 'Main Street, PICKENS, 8. C. Manufacturers of All Kinds Soft Drit ks The W hokh a tie Trrade Supplie d Promptly LET US KNOW YOUR WANTS. Also handles, at retail, Soft Drinks, .Cigars, Toba,ccos, Cannedl Gooas, Fancy and Shelf Gr*oerica, Ele., Etc Your patronage solicited. R. L. DAVIS, rrp'rn AR and Shoes nd Winter business, eith. .full I did not go to market until .aks in Prices. I found sellers ra inducementg to cash buyers. eir offels I bought largely and )r several seasons past. . That ods for less money than you be based on 8c cotton.- No branded goods wlll be sold for n for 12Yc. and i5c. now voc. fo.r Oc. !ss goods I have'ever had and ear for less money. $1.00 ;hoes for little money. we say. Park, Notice. , A few (very few) have come In and settled with me,i but.there are many others. Those know ing themselves to be indebted to me will please do me the favr to come in and settle up. M books can be'found at Bolt - Co.'s drug store, and they are authorized to receipt for me. No extra charge for receipts. Yours very'truly, 30-3t JAS. L. BOLT, M. D. .Dissolution of Partnership. I Notice is hereby given that the JUMt. iership lately existing between jR. Ashmore and Major 8. Nimmons, both of Pickens, S. U. under the firn. " e of Ashmore & Nimlmons. was dise6lved an the 23d day of 'October. A. 1). 190, pursuant to the terms of Articles vf Agreement of the same date. All debts owing to the said partner.. ihipI are to be received by ths d J. R. A,shmore. who will recept for-the same. ind all demands on the aid partnerhip tre to be presented to him for 0% t J. R. ASM9&* M. 8. NIMMOK9 October 28, 190S. CMonty Commissioner's meeting. Notice is hereby iven that the Board f County Commiseioners ' Wll meet geksday after each Balesday and on 'esd'y every two 'weeks to yrove md pay claims. No claim will be pajo ?xcept on those days. Pe-rsons h*'n business in the Supervisor's office-wuf *ome on the days above named and no iiser. tf E. F. LOOPER, SUpe;visor. Notice of School Elecim. tate of South Carolina. County of Pickens. - V hereas, a petition from the freehold ra and ualified voters of the mohool dis. ~rict of Eickens has been filed with the rustees of Pickens school district-No.81 >n the 2d1 day of Noveinhbeu, 19ooslVe y a majority of the freeholders and jtualified voters of ,aid district.nrym. ' ;hat an election be held to delemin. whether additi.onal bonds shall be issued n the su.a of one thoubanld dollars, and yearing a rate of interest of six per cent. w'r annum, payable semi-annmaall, and n accordlancei with the act of the rs ature authorirging the same, It is hereby ordAred by tbN board of rustei s that said. election be and the same is hereby ordIeged to, be held on alondlay, Nov. 16S, 19(Y,, to determine whether said bonds shall be.Issued 0r riot, and that J. E. Cox. R1. A. Bowenm mad D. B. Finney are-hereby apo ted 4ianagers to conduct said electon at Eickens courthouse; and that the polls pen at 8 o'clock a.. m. and close at 4 > clock p. mn,. and said managrs shall leclare the rEsult of said election, and rnake return thereof to the board. And *t is further ordered that tbis notice of ~lection be published in the Pickensi Bentinel-JournaI for a priod of teni lays. ' J. 'T.Taylor, Rt. E. Yongue, J. D. Sol. Board of Trugte . Pickens, S. C., Nov. 8, 1908., 1 L VALLEY PhyJSCian aM A