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I Get the I SUPPOSE, MV LITTLE SI^L/TWA" H J&& Vgfty -HONEST?: i n 1 TVT 1 uenerai news j | _ An Augusta Territory Mill has B just finished 500,000 khaki uniforms and has booked an order for 1,000E 000 more uniforms. Half this order goes to the French army. I The Federal prison at Atlanta is I said to be an ideal place of it's kind if and many reforms are being inau gurated, namely: The abolition of stripes, calling men by name instead of number,, freedom of conversation R at meal time, the use of safety ra zors and more tobacco every month. g The Savannah Ice men are going +n the Drice ud as summer ad varices, while Charleston is putting the price down, The State of North Carolina has appropriated $20,000 for the purchase of Mount Mitchell. This is for the purpose of saving the beautiful forest from depredations. The North Carolina Legislature has adjourned after a session of sixty-three days. S. C. Armstrong, master of mechanics at Orr_ Mijls, shot and in stantly killed W. (J. Ureene, a tramp mill operative when he was found breaking in the Armstrong house. The news from London is that the Academy of Fine Arts at* Louvain was reopened yesterday in the building formerly occupied by the staff of civil guards. -Germany has arranged through the $wiss government to exchange 30,000 French civilians interned in Germany, for 30,000 German civilians, interntd in France. The Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias will meet in Orangeburg in May. Ten thousand new men are to be employed by the Western railroads to replace the men laid off by the winter schedules. Six thousand men will be required by the Union Pacific alone. Judge Woods has appointed Judge H. A. M. Smith to hold court in the new Federal district until appointment is made. I. Spi I Wedn< H March I H7T? "C ; gg ivnss u isfo who has m; i^| Departmenl *the past tl L f||| with us a pleasure in - H| Spring Ha assisted by jj|^ Miss Ruth I Y\nAi Ill =0 Mo r VOU] j AMD THAT 7ou(2 PA1 -honest, too George W. Tidwell, convicted in Greenville county in May and sentenced to twelve years, has been granted a new trial. Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, wife of the oil king, died at their country home near Tarrytown, N. Y., on [March 12th. She is survived by | | two daughters, one son and her hus- j band. The Belgian soldiers are to be equipped with new uniforms, of a greenish brown shade. During the month of February the fire insurance companies doing business in South Carolina, reported 158 fires to the State department of insurance with a loss of $85,226.10. Since the strawberry season open ed in Florida, 434,327 quarts have been shipped north, and the growers have received in exchange money to the amount of $86,016.10. The average price this season is better than it was last year. A disastrous fire in Columbia last Friday destroyed the Masonic Temple and the Bryan Book store. The loss is estimated at $125,000. The Bryan Book store is the oldest concern of its kind in the South. T 1- r> 1 A JLiincum DWUllcj', mucxica o uivov famous aviator was killed in San Francisco Sunday while making an exhibition flight. o 20 Cars of Horses. A train of 20 cars, loaded with horses, passed Seneca the other morn ing. They were gathered by commission dealers in Atlanta and New Or- J leans and many of them came from this section. They will be loaded on transports at Norfolk, Va., and sent to Europe, where they will be used by armies of the allied forces.? Seneca Farm and Factory. HADD iiiff ] jsday 24th !va Lazenby anaged our Millinery t so successfully for tiree seasons, will be 1 *11i1 igam, ana win taKe showing you the new ,ts. She will be ably Miss Luly Power and Syfan. 4 W Liuii= y t ther Doesn't Sp 7pv is i Ir-1 AthiEf ; well> NoPE, [.AHP-HOv* I^THAT^ Jio. 3421. REPORT OF TH The National Ba at Abbeville, In the State of S. C., at the clo KESOl 1. Loans and discounts 2. Overdrafts, secured, $2,597.96; unsecure 3. U. S. bonds deposited to secure circulat Commercial paper deposited to secure c 9. Subscription to slock of Federal Reserv Less amount unpaid All other stocks, including premium on 10. Banking house. $5,000.00; furniture and 11. Other real estate owned 12. Dun from Federal Unserve bank 13. una irom iippruveu rrwnr m *>? Due from approved reserve agents in ot 14. Due from hanks ami bankers (other thai 15. Outside checks and otln-*r cash items nickels and cents. $95: 60 IS. Notes of other national hanks 20. Lawful money reserve in bank: Specie Legal-tender notes 22. Red?mption fund with U. S. Treasurer i culation) Total LIABII 1. Capital stock paid in 2. Surplus fund 3. Undivided profits Reserved for Less current expenses, interest, ant 4. Circulating notes . . Less amount ou hand and in Treas in transit.... 9. Demand deposits: Individual deposits subject to check UHl linCHWS OI Ut*|>USIt uu?- III iwo LI Cashie's checks outstaidincrs " Deposits requiring notice of less thi 15. Bills payable, including obligations rep Total : State of South Carolina, County of Abbevil I, H. ti. Smith, Cashier of the afcove-i above statement is true to the best of my fc Subscribed and sworn to before me this Correct?Attest: J. S. MORSE, J. P. BARN w ELL. A. M. SMITH. Directors. THE LOSING SIDE OF MAIL ORDER TRADING How an Iowu Farmer Lost Over Five Thousand Six Hundred Dollars. Hans Garbus, a German farmer, of Iowa, has discovered that the benefits which appear on the surface as attaching to. the mail order plan sometimes spell disaster and has written a very interesting story of ON-W Vlillii A ini ir a uiai jl Extended t( of the Town Your pres an opport" NEW SPI Ne White H ?spe< 7ilson ( eak to Daddy 1 ^iin ri l ?~ast NIGH Lg , ] \ ( 44QtP, 4 i H A 1:3 11 E CONDITION OF ink of Abbeville, se of business Marcb 4,1915. JECES. It' $217,691 09 d, $804.32 3,402 28 ion (par value) $18,750.00 ireulation (book value...$38,057.67 56,807 67 e bank $6,800.00 $4,200.00 $ 2,100.00 same $ 500.00 2.600 00 fixtures, $ . 5,000 00 5,000 00 3,800 00 ?ntrat reserve cities $ 5,333.46 her reserve cities $10,984.77 16,318 23 u included in 12 or 13) 3*532 63 , $4,103.72; fractional currency, , 1 4.196 32 ..... 2,310 00 8 8,244.00 S 4,105.00 12,340 00 (not more than 5 per cent on cir 2,327 50' $335,334 72 j [TIES. * 75,000 00 30,000 00 $11 ?23.33 S $ 11,523.33 i taxes paid $ 4,642.23 b,u?l 10' $ 46,550.00 sury for redemption or x $ 46,550 00 : $142,613.38 lan 30 days $ 23,794.85 $ 494.39 in 30 days $ 166?90B 62 resenting money borrowed 10,000 00 $335^334 72: lo ee lamed hank, do solemnly swear that the :nowledge and belief. H. G. SMITH, Cashier. \ 13th day of March, 1915. W. H. WHITE, Notary Public.. his views in a certain farm paper. Here is a part of his story: "We farmers need; awakening: to> the fact that we have unmistakably reached the period where we must think and plan. I am one of the slow German farmers that had to be oitiTtm ?>nr? T am now civiner my experience that others may profit, for knowledge, iir. more expensive now than ten years ago. "Twenty-nine yefl.rs ago I began my farm career. I had an old team and $50. Our furniture was mostly flLSOl lerj 1 nvitation is 3 the Ladies and County ence on this . n i unity 01 sno"vi SING and SU w Spring f3-nnrll? T a V/WILKJi) I M\ otfully, ^ A 1% Vow T, vNHEN MAMMA WAS OUT | I'U tiM 5A1 To NUf?gE,-HE ^ TpipHZi EEnl | vjjjjaaii jra -DP- ' I 111 fact Everything: C. A. Milford Phone home-made?chairs, cupboard and 1 lounge made from dry goods boxes,; neatly covered with ten-cent ere- j tonne by my girl wife. We rented 1 J eighty acres. Being a boy of good j J habits I got all needed machinery | and groceries of our home merchants 1 on credit, until fall crops were sold. J The first year was a wet season and T /If/I Tint malra on nucrVl tn nav eredi- ^ tors. I went to each on date of pro- 1 mise and explained conditions, pay- 1 ing as much as possible, and they all carried the balance over another year. They continued to accomodate me until I was able to buy a forty-acre piece of my own. "As scon as I owned these few acres the mail order houses began sending me catalogues, and gradually I began sending my loose change to than, letting my accounts stand in my home town where I had gotten my accommodation when I needed it. <ittr*. A liriffiAflf. *V C IUC11 liau vuc. Vi. utv little villages in the state?good line of business in all branches, mere bants who were willing to help an honest fellow over a bad year, and a town full of people who came twice a week to trade and visit. Our little country town supported a library, high school, ball team, and we had big celebrations every year. "A farm near a live town soon doubles in value. I sold my forty acres at a big advance, and bought , eighty, gradually adding to it until I had 200 acres of the best land in Iowa. 1 then felt no need of asking favors, and found it easy to patron N CO. Openi Tk,? Marcl occasion will ring you, not MMER HATS Coat Suit aces, Silk; tbeville, i By Gross BUT YOUR I ints, Oils, Stains, | arnishes, Liquid | Veneer, Etc. jf g in this Line from | & Company I 107 * zi rzi rri m m m m nn rs m ro ra ra ir3 rs fnl fnl fnl fnl fnl fr3 fnl fnl fi3 fi3 fnJI ze the mail order agents that came almost weekly to our door. I regret to say that I was the. first in the :ounty to make up a neighborhood Dill and send it to a mail order house Though we got bit every once in a while, we got the* habit of sending k iway for stuff. "Gradually our merchants lessened ;heir stock of goods?for lack of patronage. Finally we began to ealize that when we needed a bolt quickly for machinery, or clothing for sickness or death, we had to wait and send away for it, which wasn't so pleasant. One by one our merchants moved to places where they were appreciated, and men of less energy moved in. Gradually our town has gone down; our business houses are 'tacky' in appearance, a number are empty; our schools, churches and walks are going down, we have no band, no library, nor ball team. There is no business done in the town, ana tnereiore no taxes to keep things up. Hotel is elosed for lack of travel. Go down "to the depot when the freight pulls in and you will see the sequel in mail order packages. "Nine years ago my farm was worth $195 an acre; today Fd have a hard matter to sell it at $167 an acre. It is too far from a live town ?so every farmer has said thatwants to buy. He waists a place near schools and churches, where his children can have advantages. I have awakened to the: fact that in helping to pull the town down, it has cost me $5,600 in nine years."" no* 1 | rsday 11 li 25th ? afford us H onlv the B i, but the gj 3, Etc. I ?. C. g