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EDGEFIELD ADVERTISER Established 1835. ._- _. . _*_ j.h. mms - - - - EDITOR ? TERMS: ONE YEAR.$1.50 SIX MONTHS - - - .75 WEDNESDA2, MAY 12, 1909. Make yourself an ( . honest ?an, and then yon may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world. - CAltI/XXE. FlorkUwill pass a law1 probibi ting gambling at horse races. The j laws thronghout the southern states j prohibiting gambling in cotton fu tures have proved to be a great blessing to the. people^of the south. Edgefield will be swept and white washed from centre to circumfer ence on or by Saturday next. The board of health will 'then make a tour of inspection of the premises in town. The ladies of the Civic Club have again offered two prizes to those having the cleanest^ yards. Five dollars will be given as first prize and two-and-a-half dollars as a second prize. Better get busy at once. 1 Mr? Calhoun Retires. Mr. Wm. P. Calhoun's failing, health has caused him to sell the Edgefield News and withdraw from the ceaseless grind of publishing a weekly newspaper. The News was founded a little more"than two years ngo and during that ??time has gath ered about it friends who will re-j gret to learn of its discontinuance. Mr. Calhoun will now resume,- the j . active practice of law. The editor of The Advertiser has purchased the plant of the News and the suhsciptibn list will be merged into that of this- newspaper. An ar rangement has been made whereby j The Chronicle will improve its \ plant by,adding much of the material used by The News to its equipment. The following is the announce ment published this week by Mr. . Calhoun in the last issue of his pa per: Ceases Publication. This is the last issue of the News. It is with regret that we make the announcement.. -The. condition of my-health is such that I cannot con tinue the publication without doing injury to my already weakened con stitution. The work on a weekly paper is more laborious and worry ing than is supposed. Where there is biit one man on a paper he has to act the editor arid play the devil, besides looking after every detail of the business. The patronage of the paper has been good. For its reputation, it .; must stand on its record. It has stood for the betterment of the town and county of Edgefield, Except that I will continue my j law practice, I have no ^further an nouncement to make. The paper has not failed, but has ceased publication for the cause given. The plant, not the paper, has ' been sold with a few exceptions. The plant and good will has been sold to Mr J. L. Mims of The Ad vertiser. Those subscribers who have ' paid in advance will be turned over to him to carry for the unexpired term except- such as would be dupli cates on his book. Those will have their money refunded as soon as I can arrange. Those who have not paid in advance have been absorbed by The Advertiser and Mr. Mims will communicate with them*. I-mest cordially thank all who I * have patronized the paper. The public has been liberal to me and 11 appreciate it very much. I desire to say before closing that I will now have time to act with our committee in connection with Augusta-Ed ge field railway. That enterprise, I hope will take on new life- ' Wm. P. Calhoun. Graded School Exercises. . The annual closing exercises of the Graded School will be held in the college auditorium Thursday evening? beginning at 8:30 sharp. A miscellaneous program has been arranged that will prove to be very entertaining to all .who attend. The S.'.C. O'. I. "band will also play sev eral selections. Everybody in Edge field remembers how delightful these entertainments by the. chil dren hare been in years past and shoald not have tobe urged to at tend. The admission fee will be 85 'cents for reserved seats, 25 cents vfor general admission and 15 cents for children. As the salaries of the teachers were reduced when the pay term began, aa well as oh account' of sickness of many pupils, the money realized Thursday evening will be divided equally between the ladies who have taught 'so faithful ly in the graded school. . 100 sets of buggy harness soon to arm*- Full assortment 'f car-" riage and wagon harness. We buy in large quantities and our patrons get the benefit of the advantages thus gained. Ramsey & Jones. HART STORE FIXTURE. Cabinet Patented, by Mr. J. E. Hart Being Manufactured in Sumter, S. C., De mand Increasing. Notwithstanding: she fact that with n the past seventy-one years the Patent Office at Washington has granted 1,524,748 patents, the fer tile inventive geniuses of the coun try are yet finding something "new Under the suni" Of the 57,679 pat ents granted in 1907,. -the state of Illinois was va ithe lead with. 3,470, \vhile South Carolina filed only 72 applications. One of the few inven tors of this state is a resident of Edgefield. During his long experience ?8 a dry goods merchant Mr. J. E. Hart has seen the great need for a store fixture that would not only display table oil cloth but protect it from damage at the same time. When heavy rolls of oil cloth are placed one upon the -ether in a horizontal position, particularly in hot weather, the gum or rubber on the cloth softens and adheres, one_ layer to another. There have been crude de vices used from time to time to dis play and protect oil cloth but noth ing has fully, met the need. Mr. Hart conceived the idea of con structing a cabinet that would hold the rolls in a vertical position, and after being fully satisfied that such a store fixture would meet the need of long standing he applied for a patent from the national govern ment, which was readily granted. Prior to six months ago Mr. Hart had'put very few cabinets on the i market, owing to the' difficulty ex perienced in having them properly manufactured. At one time he thqught of organizing a stock com pany for making the cabinets here in Edgefield bat after some cor respondence with the Sumter Tele phone vManafacturing Company, de-^ cided to. lease the. patent to the lat ter company. The progressive Sumter company, which is one of the foremost enter prises of the kind in the country, be I; I ! m gan last October, after secur ten-year lease, to develop an vertise the Hart fixture. In of the depression and stagr caused by the panic, they hav with very encouraging results. The fixtures are being ma tured in nine sizes, so as t every demand, whether from : dealer Qr large departinen Four of the largest whole? goods houses in New York i bing the Hart cabinets, ha1 shipments made from Sumte company also has other rep; tives in other northern and cities, also in Cuba. Shipmei been made to California a nearly all of the southern st: There are two things stn favor of the Hart oil cloth ( making it a' valuable posse Mr. Hart after being tho introduced: First, it is a sile man as well as p reserve r cloth, and second it is the ture of the "kind on the other attempts at oil cloth cabinets being total failure The two views that are ; herewith give a oorreet ide cabinets td those who h seen them, making a det cription unnecessary. Th tia J aie now being mad? ter give entire satisfacti part being nicely adjusted, and the finish being equal to thi.t of the furniture in any library or drawing room. Mr. Hart made no mista' e in placing the patent with the Sumter concern, for they are alr?ady es tablished as leaders in manufactur ing high grade telephones, anc their well equipped plant makes ii easy for them to turn out the fix tures in the most approved styl A .correspondent of the News ? Courier recently had the following to say of the Sumter enterprise: "On account of their unexcelled equipment for doing all kinds of woodland metal work, they were especially well, equipped for making this. cabinet ' W?ich has proven so mueh of ? Success that they are now taxed tc> meet th? demand. But they are progressive enough for the oc casion and have now begun work upon a large addition to their al ready large factory." After the fixtures are thoroughly introduced, a steady, and let us hope very handsome income, will be realised by Edgefield's inventor. -;r-" ' We have one odd lot of Regal and R. & G. corsets that weare closing out at 50c each. ( Rives Bros. Notice. The Farmers Union No. 222 will not hold its Tegular meeting at Har mony Friday 7th, on account of district conference at Johnston, brit will meet Friday May 14th. Let all members be on hand at 3 o'clock. H. W. Dobey, Pres't. Freshen and beautify the interi or of your home by using our cal cino and alabastine. B. Timmons. Unicn Meeting. Th? union meeting of the 2nd di vision of the Edge-field association will meet with Rehoboth ch trcli on Satur(?ay,May 29th. 10:00-devotional exercise:. 1st t^i3ry-%TVbuld it hot ba ad visable for our churches to devise and adopt some plan to equalize- and. systematize our contribution.? for the support and advancement of the cause of christianity, Rev. P. B. Lanham, lt. Al Cochran. 2nd Query-How can iva best develop young Christians into active church workers? J. I). Hughey, W-\ p. Holland. . .?' 3rd. Query-The great work of the Sunday school/and who should be in it. Geo. Wright, J. I). Tim merman, C. E. Qnarles. 4th-Whi.t do we know about onr mission fields? Rev. J. P. Meal ing, Rev. J. T. Littlejohn. Sunday morning 11:30-Mission Tnaw are more McCall PatternBsold ferteUnked State? than of >nr other make of pattern?. Talala on account of their style, accuracy arid simplicity. McCall's Mairaz!ne(Tbe Qoeenof Fashion)ha? ?soresub?criber? than any other Ladies'Mapatine. Ona Ttar*T subscription (12 numbers) co.M 50 cen tn. Latest number, 5 cont*. Every subscriber eels a McCall Pat tern Free. Subscribe today. Lady Acento Wanted. Handsomepremlomior liberal cash commission. Pattern C?tulocue( ot 600 de dtu) ?nd Premium Cata.'ocue (?howing 400 premiums) .Sat fr**. Address THE McCALL CO, New York. Enormous Amount Paid Out For Insurance. The-foliowing from the Colum bia Record^shows that, an enormous tmpunt^f money is sent out of the state each year for insurance pre miums:. ; "The premium paid on fire risks written of 8173,032,282.60 amount ed to . 82,2.92,518.65, while the fire losses paid were only 81,205,195.15. There were .78,216 lifo policies written during: the year, amounting to. $22,457,061.70, and the total premiums paid on insurance in force, amounting to some hundred million dollars, were 83,053,053.05, while the losses paid were only * 1,442,601.00. ' The accident premi ums amounted to ..863,230.00 and .the losses ?28,277.G0.( Thc fidelity and casualty premiums were ?213, 433.56 and losses paid on this busi ness 8102,804.32. The fraternal or ders collected ?469,024.46 in premi ums and paid out in losses ?340, 871.04. '"For. the past nine years, inclu sive of 1908, the fire companies have collected premiums of 812, 441,667.08 and have paid losses of only ?6,641,469.59. In that time the life premiums amounted to ?23,090, 732.09 and the losses to only ?8,783, 350.79. So far as the life premiums are concerned it is hardly just to stats these comparisons without di recting attention to the fact that the large amount, of insurance in force offsets some of the great difference between" the yearly premiums and the yearly losses. If-South Carolina life-insurance.,, poli cy holders were to caijh.Cin how and pay no more they wotild have many millions' to their in paid up insurance and cash surrender value. ' The- shake-up in insurance cir cles in N?w York a few years ago j and tha'.pasfcage of the Armstrong | la'w were reflectad here in a de creased business, butthevear 1R0S showed a decided gain over tho pre vious year, in both tire and life business. In i*.)07 ,the fire f-isks writt?ri'amounted to ?145.006,526. 23, fire premiums ?1,030.00J. 14 and tire losses paid to 1 ?894,700.'.>0. The life business writ ten was ?22,089. 738,-showing a gain ol* slightly less than half a million for 1908. The premiums received on life policies in 1907 were ?2,955,533.02 and the losses paid 81,272,018.70." . Often Tbs Kidneys Are Weakened by Over-Work. Unhealthy Kidneys "Slake Impure Blood, Weak and unhealthy kidneys are re? spon^ibleformuch sickness andsufferingj therefore, if kidney trouble is permitted to continue, serious re sults . are most likely to follow. Your other organs may need at tention, but your kid neys most, because they do most and should have attention first. Therefore, when your kidneys are weak or out of order, you can understand how quickly your en tire body is affected and how every organ seems to fail to do its duty. ;[f yoj/are sick or "feel badly," begin taking- the great kidney remedy, Dr. ? - "O oot. A 'trial will con it merit mmediate .effect of great kidney and soon realized. It :ause its remarkable Dperties have been ?i the most distress d a medicine you Homo o t MTAap-RooL lave kidney or on this paper filmer & Co., make any mis lame, Swamp ier sell you .amp-Root-if inted. Friend. ? h medicine ." declares ?, Me., for of Dr. id seeing my own mvinced coughs, ?ry one ay. Re quick nchitis, grippe, r lungs Trial W E folstein, Jon dru?: unnally's received olstein. th garden > and Fer re perfect monms. ??ssing .an in g and econd floor of th hejipaM ,urning and re spec.. .y solicit the patronage of the ].. dev. I can clean and press men's clothing so as to make them appear brand new, and I also make a specialty of pressing ladies' skirts. My prices are reasonable, and I guarantee satisfaction on every job sent out. I also clean hats. I respe.ctfuiiy ask fdr a share bf .our business. Wallace Harris. TU 1,5 Ls L\\? <o? pon to give you ?liickens a tonio. We can*- supply rou with Pratt's Poultry Food and Stock Pnwd-rs. Nothing better. B. Timmons. MONEY TO LO?N $100,000.00 to lend on Improved farms-Terms, of Loans 5 years Interest payable annually. We are Headquarters-therefore, no de lay. When writing give number of acres-number of acres cultiva ted-Kind of buildings and amount wanted. ; JAMES FRANK & SON, Augusta, Ga. Wishes to tender its sincere appreciation to a generous public in helping to make the stork a satisfactory shopping place. ,'? - Spring business has been fully np to and beyond our ex pectations. In fact we have had but few if any dull days. A re there reasons for this Good Business? YES. A complete stock of correct merchandise at correct prices marked in plain figures. Served by a courteous salesforce. This with our never varying motto to ?ain maintain and mer it the confidence of mankind air add to the Corner Store's pop ularity. 'Tis our purpose to continue the same high plane of business methods and ?submit here a few things which if fol lowed up will point the way to manyniceUhings in 36 inch Sheer Linen Lawn 35 cts. up. 40 inch Heavy Linen for Separate Skirts and Suits. Embroidered Swisses 15c up. Pretty wash Organdies in dainty colors, Pink, Blue, Lavender and Champagne at 10c yard and up. New ideas in Dainty Laces, Pleasing styles of Round Thread Baby Irish Maltese Vals, Filet and Butterfly Effects. Stylish Millinery. New fea tuers Added Every now and then. THE CORNER STORE, W. H. T 1X3T11 er9 Proprietor. The rams The harvest we nope is assure We offer Deering binders, mow ers and binder twine. Come early and avoid the rush. W. s & CO When in need of a buggy try a Chase or Moyer buergy. As to the lasting and easy riding qualities of the Mover buggies ask T. G. Talbert B L. Jo*nes,A. A. Edmunds,Dr. J. N. Crafton, W. H. Powell, W. R. I Swearengen, M. C. Parker or J. M. 1 Cobb. Edgfield Mercantile Company. Beautiful lot of suit cases, travel ing bags and trunks. Ramsey & Jones. Cotton Seed Meal and Hulls. I take this means of notifying my friends and the public that I keep a large supply of fresh Cotton ton Seed Meal and Hulls constantly on hand and can fill their orders at reasonable prices. Warehouse near site of old depot. Your patronage solicited. A. M. Timm er m ar. Watch and Jewelry Repairing Eyeglasses Fitted All Work Guaranteed GEO. F. MIMS, Edgefield, S. C. FROST PROOF CABBAGE PLANTS GUARANTEED TO SATISFY PURCHASERS I to?BL? JEUSVY WAXETUXD C'UARLKfTOX LARGC ' ThfKiriimt TVPK W'AKKFIELD The Btrtlott g. AUttlsUUr > FLAT DUTCH CabtacrGrovtk 2J liriiart. Q Ftot Had Variety. . thu SwoMtoa. .UiptaJ UmtOibb?t?] . PEJCL In lok ol 1 to 4 m. at $1.50 per E., 5 to 8 m. si 51-25 per E. 10 m. snd over. ?1 $1.80 per m. F. O. B. YOUNG'S ISLAND, S. C Our Special Express Rates on Plants ls Very Low. . We grew the first Frcit Proof Plants in 1868. Now have over twenty thousand" satisfied customers ; and we have grown and sold more cabbage plants man all other persons in the Southern states combined. WHY? because our plants must please or we send your money back. Order now; it is rime to set these plants in your sec don to get extra early cabbage, and they are the ones that sell for th??host money. ?T?Z?? 17S Yoong'sbbwlS.Ct| Spring Clothing We are showing the latest weaves and styles in men's and boys Clothing. Come in and see what we are offering. Large stock of Shoes, Easter Trousers. Underwear, Hats both straw and felt, and Neckwear Call Early and Get First Choice of the New Arrivals. Our styles are the latest; our quality the best; our prices reasonable. New CrossettShoes & Oxfords MS