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m l: "-1 PRICE, $3.00 IN presenting this wonder ful Shoe we have placed before you a Shoe of excep tional value for the price, $3.00. ...Best of Everything... Workmanship and mate rial?made in various styles, fit perfectly ? retain their shape. Superior to any sho? made at the price, $3.00. SEE TRADE MARK IN EVERY PAIR m H O ? m FOR SALR ONLY BY ?N THE CITY THE BEST DRESSED Hi N3^ THEIR FINE SHOES FROM US. Because for $2.00, $2.50, $3.00 and $3.50 per pair they get Shoes that wear better and have more style to them than they can get eloewhere. FASHIONABLY DRESSED GENTLEMEN H m SHOES from us, too, bscause our ?3.00, #3.50 and $4.50 Shoes are noted for style and durability. to great variety. Also, H3BAVY FAEH SHOES. Wholesale Buyers should see our Stock. Yours truly, Wholesale &sd Retail Dealers va Local News. WEDNESDAY, OCT. 3, 1900. THE COTTON MAUSET. Corrected Weekly by Brown, Osborno A Co. - Strict Good Middling?lOi. Good Middling?10. \ Strict Middling?91. \ Middling?91. Stained Cotton?7 to 8. The Cox Yarn Mill expects to bcgiu work to-morrow. See ginning notice of L. 0. Clink scales in another column. See advertisement of a lhio farm in Abbevillo County for sale. Attention is directed to the new ad vertisement of Frock Bros. Some very line homo rnised sweet potatoes are on the market. Anderson is well represented at the colleges in this and other States. The new advertisement of O. D. Anderson &. Uro. will interest you. Mi?s Gertrude Jones has gouo to Bal timore, where she will attend College. In his new advertisement C. Frank Bolt offers bargains in groceries. Bead his prices. M. L. Willis has a few pianos which he is f 'vering ntcost. Bead his new ad vertise \ent. Our next Solicitor, Hon. J. ?. Boggs, of Pickcns, spont a day or two in the city last week. Persons indebted to Vandiyer Bros. & Major for guano should read their advertisement. Mr. Thon. M. Kennedy, representing the Greenville JVcirs, spent last Thurs day in the city. Mrs. W. A. Tennent and Mrs. J. B. Franks, of LowndesviUe, are in the city visiting friends. The new advertisement of Van diver Bros, tells you about their big stock of fall goods. Bead it. Old September was another record breaker. Like July and August, it kept the mercury high. October peaches, muscadines, pears, and grapes are now engaging the atten tion of the housewives. Col. B. F. Sloan, of Seneca, spent last Monday in the city and was a wel come visitor to our sanctum. Our young friend, Paul Barr, has gone to Charleston to study pharmacy at the Charleston Medical College. Tax Collector Payne has an impor tant notice in this paper to the taxpay ers, who should read it carefully. Frank Watkins, of this city, who is attending Wofford College, has been elected manager of the college foot ball team. Streetoverseer Jackson, with his gang of hands, has made some much needed improvements in the Central graded school yard. Our young friend, Joe McCuUy, who has been spending the summer in An derson with his -mother, has retained to Charleston. i Col. J. N. Brown, wife and daughter, who have been spending several weeks at Beach Haven, N. J., are expected home this week. - The young caan of Anderson. should organize aflrst-cioss military company. We have the materioF arid we should have the company, *x%$r?pi~-. Mrs. S. M. Johnson, of Anderson, is on a visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John W. Monts, at Little Mountain.? Neieberry Observer. Married, on Sunday, September 23, 1900, by John T. Wigingtou, Notary Public, and at his residence, Mr. John W. Capps and Miss Ada Orr. Mr. H. L. Adams, th? popular agent of the Southern Railway at Charlotte, N. C, spent Sunday in the city with bis wife, who is visiting her mother. All persons interested in the Sandy Springs graveyard are requested to meet there next Friday morning at an early hour for the purposeT of clearing it off. Mr. J. T, C. Jones, who was recently elected county dispenser, has resigned. as Magistrate at S tore vi lie. His suc cessor will probably be named in a few days. The friends of T. J. Mauldin, Esq., who met with a painful accident two weeks ago, will be more than pleased to know that he is doing na well as pos sible. ' It is encouraging to know that many of the fanners of the country are sow ing rye and preparing to sow oats. They will need lots of horsefood next spring. Messrs. A. H. Dean, J. D. McCnUoUgh and J. A. Mooney, three popular mem bers of theGrecnviilo Bar, spent a few days in . the city last week attending Conti: The Knights ot Pythias will hold an interesting and important meeting in their castle hall to-morrow evening at 8 o'clock. All the members are urged to attend. The public schools in Centerville Township; District Ko. fit will open on Monday, 15th inat. The Union Grove School, in Broadaway; will nisoopen on the same day. Married, on Thursday, September 27, 1000, by Rev. J,-E. Spearman, at the home of the bride, Mr. George Evans and Mrs. Cynthia Spearman, all of Anderson Conn ty. Tom. Parka and Pierce Maxwell, two negroes, were committed to jaii.yester day by Magistrate Gllaier, charged with assaulting a negro woman, a few days ago. The preliminary barring of tho prisoners will take place this after-1 noon. Moore, Acker & Co'?, millinery de partment was opened this week with everything now aud stylish in tho way of pattern hats, etc., which are ready for your inspection. We have heard furaurs say that it took thirteen montliB tc cultivate and gut her h cotton crop; but this year breaks that record, as tho work will ho completed in less than nino months. I Nearly every day a half dozeu , "mountain schooners," loaded with apples, eabbogo and potatoes, make their appearance on our streets. All threo of these crops are reported line in tho mountains. H. C. Bcettie, receiver of tho Blue Ridge Railroad, spent Tuesday in tho city and promised to mako some much needed repairs on the McDullie and Main streetbridges as soon as tho lum ber could be .secured. Our venerable friend, Col. W, .S. l'ickcns, of the Brushy Creek section, spent Monday in tho city and gave us a pleasant call. Ho is one of Ander son County's oldest citizens aud is holding his own remarkably well. A commission for a charter has been issued to tho Ptndloton Telephone Company. The corporators are Messrs: J. C. Stribliug, H. P. Sitton, J. II. Mounce and J. B. Sloan. The capital stock of tho company is to bo $000. Deputy SherhT Dilliugbam, with his bloodhound, was summonsed by tele phone this morning to Pendleton to trace a negro who has mysteriously diappeared from there and who, it is feared, has been foully dealt with. Partridges are said to bo abundant this season. The shooting season will not begin until the iirst of November. There is a law against exporting par tridges, dead or alive, from the State and no one is allowed to sell them. The grand fall opening of Julius II. Weil & Co. took place last Friday and was a big success. Throughout tho day their establishment was thronged with the fair sex inspecting the beauti ful and stylish new goods in every de partment. Brown,, Osborne & Go's, establish ment attracted a large crowd of visi tors yesterday the occasion being their annual fall opening. Their i in men ne stock of fall and winter goods was tastefully displayed and were admired by everv visitor. Mr. F. T. Wilhito has been seriously ill the past week. This morning ho is much better, and we hope he will soon be_?ut again. His mother and sister; who have been spending a few months in Georgia, returned home lnst Satur day to bo at his bedside. Last Monday being salesday a large crowd was attracted to the city and everybody seemed to be buoy. Con siderable real estate was sold at public outcry by Probate Judge Nanco and all of it brought good prices, averaging more than twelve dollars an acre. Last Thursday morning John Smalls, a colored boy, while walking along West Market street, near the Enterprise store, fell on the sidewalk, and before a physician could reach him he was dead. A severe hemorrhage from the lungs was ihe cause of his death. Last Monday morni'jg Deputy Sheriff Dillingham went on ? to Portman and arrested six negroes, who had caused some trouble there c n Sunday, when a crowd of them were engaged in gam bling all day. 0 thors would have been arrested aa? th?y sot disappeared. i Tho South Carolina Inter-State and West Indian Exposition Company of Charleston, is organizing a board of four commissioners in each County of the Stale. Messrs. R. S. Hill, A. C. Lntimer, S. L. Eskew and C. E. Harper compose the board for Anderson Coun ty. The Woman's Missionary Society of Barker's Creek Church have arranged an interesting programme for the ob servance of missionary day at their Church next Sunday evening. Tho exercises will begun promptly at 7 o'clock. The friends of the congrega tion are cordially invited to attend. Mrs. J. B. Hall died at her homo in Martin Township last Sunday, after a long and painful illness with a cancer. Her remains were interred at First Creek Church Monday afternoon. Sho was about 55 years old, and a most ex cellent woman, whose death is deeply deplored by many friends and relatives. James Richie, who lives about six miles north of this city, was arrested and lodged in jail here last Saturday night by Deputy Sheriff Moss, of i Walhalla. He is charged with stealing a horse in Franklin County, 6a., re cently. An officer from Georgia is ex pected to come for the prisoner to-day. The State Fair will bo held in Co lumbia Oct. 3th to Nov. 2nd, inclusive. The premium list shows an increase in both the number and value of premi ums. The Society offers/ $1,000 for the beat County display? $400, $800, $300 and $100. Anderson County should arrange at once to secure one of these prises. Last Monday evening the Evening Literary Club was reorganized at Mr. J. A. Brock's residence by the' election j of the following, officers: President, Prof. T. C. Walton; Vice-President, Misa Nannie Harkne&s; Secretary and Treasurer, Misa Fannie Watkins. Sev eral new members were added to the roll of membership. The cattle of Mr. E. C. Marett are dying in his pasture on his plantation, on Togaloo river, near Fair Fl ay, from a disease which has been pronounced "Texas tick fever." The disease broke out there the first of last week and Mr. Marett has already lost several cows. Prof. G. E. Nesom, Veterinarian of Clemson College, Was over there last ; Friday, and, after a thorough examina tion, pronounced the complaint to be the "Texas tick fever," or "red mur- ' sjfcfof" ?*s formerly known in those pmta. Mr. Muret t has about llfty tine cattle in his herd, and ho is using every pre caution to prevent the spread of the disease.? Walhalla (Vmijkt. A slight change has been made in tho schedule of one of the trains on tho Blue Bvlge lhiilroad. The train leaving Ande? 'sou in tho morning for Walhalla no\r leaves at S o'clock aud returns from Walhalla in tho afternoon at 4.44 o'clock. This is a much more convenient schedulo to tho traveling public aud will bo appreciated. In accordance with their announce ment, C. F. Jones &. Co. held their an nual opening of fall and winter goods last Friday, and their many patrons and visitors were more than pleased ! with their grand display in every de- | partment. The millinery and dress goods departments were especially at tractive to the fair sex, who made many purchases. Mr. Evans Brown, a young farmer who lives a few miles north of the city, accidentally out his left wrist with a broken bottle while in the city last Thursday afternoon, A deep gash was made, severing the main arteries of his arm, from which tho blood flowed free ly. Dr. J. C. Harris soon reached the unfortunate man, tied the arteries and sewed up the gash. The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Claude Wilson, of Georgetown, S. C, died at the district parsonage, the homo of Kev. J. IJ. Wilson, the grand father of the little one, last Sunday morning. The child was only nine months old, and had been sick for two or three months, tho parents hav ing brought ii hero hoping that a change in climate would benefit it. Tho remains were carried to Florence for interment. I Two lire alarms in one day is some thing unusual in Anderson, but that was her record"1 yesterday. About 8 o'clock yesterday morning tho lirst alarm sounded. The tiro was in a small house occupied by a negro in the north eastern suburbs of tho city, near tho steam laundry, and was extinguished before the firemen reached it. The damage was slight. Tho second alarm called out the liro department about 1 o'clock p. m. The liro wns in the two story brick building opposite tho CountyJJail. The building is occupied by ucgroes aud owned by Copt. J. W. Daniels. Three Bteains of waiter were turned on tho building aud in a short while the liremen were the victors. The building was only slightly injured, but nearly all of its contents were de stroyed or damngctl. It is not known how the tire originated. The Willinmstoii correspondent of the Greenville yens, under date of the 1st inst., says: "Barney Owens, a far mer living near Grove Creek between Pelzcr and the Augusta road, met with a horrible accident yesterday afternoon that cost him his lite. Ho had driven his mule attached to a buggy to see his son-in-law near Piedmont, and on his return the mule became frightened and dashed oft', throwing him violently to the ground. His head struck a stump, knocking him senseless and fracturing his skull. Tho unfortunate man was carried home at once and medical aid called in, but he never regained con - sciousness, lingering un^il 4 o'clock this morning, when death relieved him. It is said that he was considerably un der the influence of liquor, which doubtless accounts for his untimely death. A wife and several children survive him." Last Saturday night about 0 o'clock at Beltou, Elias Green, a negro, shot and seriously wounded Tom. Hender son, an operative in the Belton cotton mil!'. Green and another negro were in a store near the mill when n crowd of boys from the mill camo in and accus ed Green of having cursed one of their number a few days preceding. Green denied the charge and a quarrel ensued. The proprietor of the store ordered tue whole crowd out of his door, and when Green reached the sidewalk several rocks were thrown at him. Green pulled his pistol, tired into the, crowd and fled. The news of the shooting spread rapidly, considerable excitement was moused and a crowd started out to capture the negro. In the meantime Sheriff Green was no titled over tho tel ephone of the affray and in ashort while Deputy Dillinghnm, with his blood hound, reached Belton and took up the trail of the fleeing negro, who was cap tured near Honea Path, where he had stopped to spend the night. Mr. Dil lingham brought tho negro at once to this city and lodged him in jnil. The Westminster correspondent of the Walhalla Courier says: "Mrs. Annie P. Brownlee, whom'w? reported to be desperately in a week ago, died on Saturday morning, 22nd instant, at 8:15, and her body was laid to rest in the town cemetery on Sunday morning at half-past teh, Elder W. P. Anderson conducting the burial service. Her illness of six weeks duration was borne with Christian fortitude, patience and resignation to tho very last. Mrs. Brownleo's maiden name was Baker and she was the Iaat member of a fami ly of twelve sons and daughters. She was born October 24, 1882, and was brought up in Anderson County, near the section known as the Dark Corner. Her husband, the late Wm. A. Brown lee, was one of Anderson County's most influential citizens. She was left a widow six years ago last May and moved to Westminster soon after her husband's death. Three children Mrs. H. J. Tribble, of Elberton, Ga., and Mrs. W. G. Smithson and Mies Ellen Brownlee?survive her. Mrs. Brownlee was a good woman and a zealous, conscientious Christian, being a consistent member of the Presbyter ian Church." The deceased has many friends and relatives ia Anderson County who will regret to hear of her death. j? No wonder a young mej looka all btokf* up when his best girl throws FOR THE HAPPY SCHOOL BAYS. 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SO" PRESCRIPTIONS carefully compounded. -THE ANDERSON ? Mutual Fire Insurance Co. WROTE its first Policy Sept. 23. 1896, and has made only two assessments sinco it commenced business. This is a great deal cheaper than you can gqt fire insurance elsewhere. Any of our Policy-holders will toll you that. Other people have saved money by placing their fire insurance in this Company, and ic is confidently behoved yon can. t ?._?,, J. RrATandiver, President. J. J. Fretwell, R. S. Hill, J. J. Major, Jim. G. Duoworth, W. G. Watson, R. B. A. Robinson, J. P. Glenu.A. P. Huo bard, Directors. ; / , / J- ?L BECK, Agent.