Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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mmm m m BIG SALE JUST BEGINNING TO HUM BARGAIN HUNTERS, GO MAD-PACKED TO THE LIMIT-JAMMED TO THE DOORS _--?m i i i i i. II i_uiiiowumj-i^-M---?!-i-I-"-??.^M^^MI^1__JJ_ Only three more shopping days before Xmas. Bigger and better every day. Come join the happy throng. Miss a day, miss a bargain. Every day bargain day. We are opening up new Xmas novelties every day. Sit down; make out your list of wants. Come early while our stock is complete. i m m m m m m m CORNER STORE PLEASANT-PROFITABLE-SHOPPING mmm mmmm Mr. Whatley Writes Again From North Augusta. Our new pastor, Rev. H. Floyd Surles, called to the North Augusta Baptist church is a persistent and an earnest worker, both in the church and Sunday school. Mr. Surles began his charge here last April. Since that time 76 new members have been add ed to the church and the Sunday school, Baraca and Philathea organi zations have been greatly revived and strengthened. Our Sunday school has about 275 regular attendants. The Baraca and Philathea classes are largely attended and much good is being done. Money for all purposes is easily raised. There is an earnest and tireless race between the Baraca and Philathea classes * to see which can have the largest attendance. Our two modern brick school hous es here, one a high school, under the auspices of Prof. Rickerson, are in a flourishing condition. Through the medium of your paper I want to thank the good people of Edgefield county who write me such encouraging letters for my "holy boldness," as one terms it, for the stand I have taken in regard to the whiskey question in Edgefield. I was horn and lived in Edgefield county, and I love it and its people (some of them) and would like to see it the banner county for prohibition. How ever, not all the people in Edgefield favor my stand against whiskey. "Some are hitter toward me and make fun of my feeble efforts but the good Lord says "Blessed are ye when men revjle you and say all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." There are two stills near Modoc on the West side of your county that have been doing business quite a long time. The prohibition director has knowledge of these as well as some others in Edgefield and I hope ere long they will be swooped down upon and the arrest of the parties, whom I know, will be effected and be given what is coming to them. Peo ple who are unknown to me are en couraging me and giving information in regard to these stills and whiskey runners. I feel this way about it: Ev ery man and every woman in Edge field county is responsible for every drop of whiskey made and sold in Edgefield until he or she has done his or her level best to put it out. All men know full well what will be the ultimate end of those who persist in making and dispensing whiskey. No one is so blind as he who refuses to see. J. C. WHATLEY. North Augusta, S- C. Six Per Cent Money. Under Bankers Reserve System six per cent loans may be secured on city or farm property, to buy, build, improve, or pay indebtedness. Bank ers Reserve Deposit Company, 1648 California Street, Denver, Colorado. ll-22-8t. To Pre. e?. t Blood Poisoning ipplv at once the wonderful old reliable IA PORTER'S ANTISEPTIC HEALING Ol?,, a sax ?lcsl dressing that relieves pain and heals ai -?un? time. Not a liniment. 25c. 50c. SLOB Harding Names Tolbert Again Washington, Dec. 9.-The presi dent today returned the nomination of Joseph W. Tolbert to be marshal of the Western district of South Carolina, to the senate. Senator N. B. Dial of South Carolina, who has fought-the nomination of Tolbert, will continue to fight, it is announced tonight. The senator is hopeful that the subcommittee considering the nomination will report it adversely and thus make unnecessary a hitter fight in the senate. The belief here is that Tolbert will never be confirmed. Washington, Dec. 9.-Joseph W. Tolbert, who was nominated today for a third time by President Hard ing to be United States ?marshal for the Western district of South Caro lina, can not resume the duties of that office, which he filled for some weeks under a recess appointment that expired when it failed of con firmation in the special session of congress, ending Monday, until his nomination is confirmed by the sen ate, according to opinions expressed here today in well informed quar ters. In the meantime, Nelson R. Greene, Democrat, who succeeded Tolbert by appointment of Federal Judge H. H. Watkins, having been sworn in at Anderson, S. C., early in ?the week, will continpe to act as mar shal. Opinion to this effect is based on precedents, it was explained. Tolbert, Republican executive com mitteeman from this state, was nomi nated by President Harding to the marshalship at the last regular session of congress. Senator Dial of South Carolina opposed confirmation in the senate, urging the charge that the nominee had been convicted in the courts and was ineligible. He suc ceeded in preventing the nomination being confirmed. After adjournment of congress, President Harding tendered Tolbert a recess appointment, under which he was sworn in and assumed the du ties of marshal. This appointment failed of confirmation when the sen ate took up a large number of pres idential nominations on the last day of the special session. Following announcement today that the president had again nomi nated the Republican committeeman, Senator Dial announced that the fight against confirmation would be re sumed. Judge Watkins, it. appointing Greene, who is a former sheriff of Anderson county, acted upon the ad vice of District Attorney Ernest E. Cochran to the effect that he had been informed by the attorney general of the United States that the judge had authority to fill a vacancy existing under these circumstances, according to reports received her?;. , Trespass Notice. Notice is hereby give a that al] .per-, sons are forbidden to hunt or in any manner trespass upon my land and that of Limus Perry. The law will be rigidly enforced against those who disregard this notice. lt. T. HILL. Vest's Eulogy of the Dog. The "Eulogy on the Dog," one of the most famous speeches ever made by the late Senator George G. Vest of Missouri, was made in the course of the trial of a man who had wan tonly shot a dog belonging to a neigh bor. Vest represented the plaintiff,) who demanded $200 damages. When Vest finished speaking, the jury, af-1 ter two minutes' deliberation, award-' ed the plaintiff $500. The full text of the speech follows: Gentlemen of the Jury: The best friend a man has in this worl? . -vi turn against him and become his en emy. His son or daughter that he has reared with loving care may. prove . ungrateful. Those who are ..neanejK and dearest to ns, those whom we trust with our happiness and our good name, may become traitors to their faith. The money that a man has he may lose. It flies away from him, perhaps when he needs it most. A man's reputation may be sacrificed in a moment of ill-considered action. The people who are prone to fall on their knees to do us honor when suc cess is with us may be the first to throw malice when failure settles ?to cloud upon our heads. The one abso lutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacher ous, is his dog. Gentlemen of the jury, a man's dog stands by him in prosperity and poverty, in health and in sickness. He will sleep on the cold ground, where the wintry winds -blow and the snow drives fiercely, if only he may be near his master's side. He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer, he will lick the wounds and sores "that come in encounter with the roughness of the world. He guards the sleep of his pauper master as if he were a prince. When all other friends desert he remains. When rich es take wings and reputation falls to pieces he is as constant in his love as the sun in its journey through the heavens. If f ortune drives the master forth an outcast in the world, friend less and homeless, the faithful dog asks no higher privilege than that of. accompanying him to guard against danger, to fight against his enemies* and when the last scene of all comes, and death takes the master in its em brace and his body is laid in the cold ground, no matter if all other friends pursue their way, there by his grave side will the noble dog be found, his head between-his paws, his eyes sad but open in alert watchfulness, faith ful and true, even in death. A small cash payment and our easy terms on the balance would make the purchase of a Ford car for your fam ily Christmas an easy matter. Had* you thought about it? u YONGE MOTOR COMPANY. - FOR SALE: Thirty Duroc-Jersey pigs bred from the best Duroc strains in America, all entitled to registra tion, weighing from 50 to 75 pounds. J. B. TOMPKINS, Edgefield, S. C. 10,000 Murders in 1921. More than 10,000 murders were committed in the United States dur ing 1921. This is revealed by a check up conducted by Dr. Frederick L. Hoffman, consulting statistician tof the Prudential Insurance Company. Hoffman found that 28 leading cit ies, with combined population of 20, 558,770, had 1,910 murders last year. On a population basis, this is over I 10,000 known murders for the whole country. To them must be added the unknown number of murders that are successfully concealed and do not show up in the police reports. These probably run1 into the thou sands. The death toll'should, draw a grim smil% from the Turks, next time America gets excited about Arme nian massacres. Picture a town of 10,000 inhabi tants, all murdered in cold blood dur ing one night. A frightful picture. But it's a true picture of the murder situation in our so-called civilized With this slaughter spread out over a gigantic territory of people, with a murder here and there, day after day, and we lose sight of the terrible total. Dr. Hoffman found that the 1921 murder rate was a fraction more than nine out of every 10,000 Americans. Allowing for concealed murders that are never definitely discovered (including many "missing persons' cases,) a conservative estimate is that one American in every 10,000 is murdered yearly. Meaning: Your chance of being slain is one in 10,000 each year, one in 100 during a period of 10 years. Figure it up over a lifetime and, if you lived 100 years, one chance in 100 of being murdered. The Greenville Piedmont, quoting the above figures, observes that the brighter side of the picture is that, while more than 10,000 are murder er in a year, at least 108,000,000 are not murdered. As in all other forms of crime, evil is "far and away" in the minority. That's why evil gets so much attention-it's the exception, unusual. Most of us, after all, are decent j law-abiding citizens.-Gerenwood In dex-Journal. The Knockers. It is a curious trait of human na ture that makes people hate those from whom they have n?ceived fa vors, or to whom they have done an injury. lt is this quite as much as any thing else that explains the knockers. The next . time you hear a man knocking another, try to get at the bottom of it. As likely as not you will find that he has done some injury to the man whom he is knocking, or| has received some favor at his hands. -Carolina Citizen. invigorating te the Pale and Sickly ?fe-.P,d StanCi.d general strengthening tonic GROVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC.drives ou Mal a ri a,cnn ch es the blood, builds up the system, A true Tonic. For adults and children! 50c When Christmas Comes to Stay We look and long for 'Christmas As a bright and glorious day, From our early childhood Until we are old and gray. Its coming bespeaks much pleasure, Good eats, fun and mirth, The grown-ups and the children Rejoice throughout the earth. But there's yet a deeper meaning Why joy should abound, Why each should be happy And pass it all around. For this momentous occasion Is the birthday Of Him whose second coming Will bring Christmas here to stay. W: S. G. HEATH. : Thanksgiving. We thank Thee O God For Thy grace and mercy. For the bounty of Thy love; And the blessings that we enjoy. For our free nation And the peace that we enjoy; For the golden garnered grain And the ripened ears of corn. For the dew drops that sparkle And the sunshine that dries them away.' For the flowers that bloom And the birds that chirp for us. For the gift of Thy dear Son, All so freely given, That we through His grace May have everlasting life. To Thee, O God, we offer praise, . And ask that we with Thee May dwell and feast upon Thy grace and love. Miss M. A. Q. Modoc, S. C. Make your wife happy by giving her a new Ford car as a Christina's Present-something that will afford pleasure for the family every day in the year. YONGE MOTOR COMPANY. Auditor's Notice For Return of Personal Property and Real Estate. All persons owning property, both real and personal, or in any capacity, as husband, guardian, executor,, ad ministrator or trustees are required to make x re tur ns .of the same to the Auditor under oath with hi the time mentioned below and the Auditor ia required by law to add a penalty of 50 per cent, to all property that is not returned on or before the 20th day of February in any year. All male citizens between the ages of 21 and 60 years except those ex empt by law are deemed taxable polls. The 50 per cent, penalty will be added for failure to make returns. For the convenience of tax pay ers, I or my representative will be at the following appointed places on the dates mentioned to receive tax re turns: Ropers-Monday, Jan. 15, 1923. Thurmond's Store, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 1923. Collier, Wednesday, .Jan. 17, 1923. Red HilL Thursday, Jan. 18, 1923. E. P. Winn's Store, Friday, Jan. 19, 1923. iCleora, Saturday, Jan. 20, 1923. Pleasant Lane, Monday, Jan. 22, 1923. Meeting Street, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 1923. Johnston, Wednesday, Jan. 24, 1923. Lewis Clark's Store, Thursday, Jan. 25, 1923. Trenton, Friday, Jan. 26, 1923. The office will be open to receive returns from first day of January till the 20th day of February, 1923, as prescribed by law. .-. ... J. R. TIMMERMAN, . Auditor E. C., S. C. Trespass Notice. AH persons are hereby warned not - to hunt on land owned'or. controlled byrne. '': . D. R. DAY. Trenton, S. C. ? ? ? H y^\T S * * ? For motlier and sister and cute and Hand-Made SACKS and BOOMS and MITTENS for the baby. Norris Millinery Co. Johnston* S. ?.