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Guaranteed Footwear FOR FALL AND WINTER. THERE are Shoes and Shoes-the same as there are many kinds of I verytbing. But always in every trade, some one man's make becomes the acknowledged beat, and tokes the lead over all others. This h true of our hoea. [They are tty World's Best. Our Prices are the World's Least. This combination of the greatest superiority of Gooda in materia], de sign, style, form, finish and workmanship, combined with the greatest info riority of price, have raised our FOOTWEAR into this leadership of the Boot and Shoe trade. Thus it is that our competitors and the public, as well as ourselves, speak of i pattie Axe Shoes, Regina and Autohav Shoes AB the recognized beet Footwear for Women. No one offers a better Wo man's Shoe for $1.50 <;han we do. Ask to see our Crown line, also Pyramid Shoes in Vici Kid, and Battle Aze Shoes in Box Calf, and compare them with other $1.50 Shoes on the market. Our Regina Shoes at $3.00, Onr Autohav Shoes at $3.50. Are fit for Queens to wear. In fact there are higher priced Shoes*on the market that are no better. Our $2.00 and $2.50 Shoes are beauties. We have a great variety of Shoes for Misses and Children, for Men and BOVB. .Su Onr customers lake no risk whatever is dealing with us, for we guarantee every pair v?c sell. Yours truly, Wholesale and Retail Sealers in G enera! i^erciiandise ANDBHBOM. m. O. Local News* WBDNE8DAY, OCT. 15, 1902. TBS COTTO* HAHR. Good Middling-8r. Strict Middling-?i. Middling-^T^ The United States Coort will ocm yene in Greenv?le next Tuesday, 21et inst. Thoa. A. Murrah, of Union, 8. C., ia in the city visiting his mother and sisters. A weather prophet says this section will not have a killing frost until about Nov. 10th. Miss C. G. Clyde, of Greenville, is in the city visiting her aunt, Mrs. M. Kennedy. Col. J. D. Maxwell, of Charlotte, N.?., has been spending a few days in the city. The first frost made its appearance this morning, and it is feared has done much damage. T. J. Mauldin, Esq., editor of the jickeni Journal, spent a day or two in the city last week. Dr. H. A. Ligon, of Spartanburg, spent a few days In the city last week visiting relatives. The school at Starr, of which Prof. L. M. M ah ailey is mincipal, will open next Monday, 20th fnBt. We have heard several farmers say that their cotton crop was turning out better than was expected. Mrs. W. M. Wilcox, of Elberton, Ga., has been spending the past week in the city visiting her parents. Airs. Corrie Bozeman, of Greenville, is in the city visiting her sister, Mrs. ?nnah Norris, and oiher relatives. Mrs. Mary A. Murrah, who has been spending several months in Texas with relatives, returned home last Friday. Chiquola Lodge, Knights of Pythias, meets to-morrow evening at 8 o'clock. All the members are urged to attend. s Miss Adele Provost has gone to Greenville to spend sometime with the family of her brother, Capt. Stephen Pr?vost. Capt. John Snow, of Hartwell, Ga., was over to see the circus yesterday. He wea accompanied by his two grand children. Pickpockets were in evidence in the city yesterday. Several persons were relieved of their purses, one of which contained $50. Rev. O. J. Copeland, assisted by Rev. Wm. Brown, is conducting a series of meetings at Oakdale Baptist Church this week. The Long Branch school will open its fall session next Monday with W. H. Thompson as principal and C. H. Gassaway as his assistant. The Commissioners ot Election for this County will meet in the city next Saturday to appoint managers of the election for the various precincts. Are you going to the State Fair T It begins the 28th instant and closes the 30th. There will be a great gath ering in Columbia at that time. According to the almanac there will be a total eclipse of the moon tomor row' night, lt will begin about ll o'clock and end about 3 o'clock. Fall gardens are pretty luxuriant these days. Turnips, turnip salad, snap beans, tomatoes, lettuce, corn aud new potatoes are flourishing. If you want to receive an interesting book free of cost clip the coupon ad vertisement of Wi)hite & Wilhite, read it, and take it to their drug store. The annual convention of the W. C. T. U. of South Carolina was held at Leesville last week. Next year tbo convention will meet in Anderson. Capt. W. A. HudgenB has been elected principal of the high school at Ashland, S. C. He has moved his fanc ily there and entered upon his work. Dr. W. W. Chisholm, who has been uuu?? medical treatment in a hospital in Savannah for several weeks, has re turned to the city greatly improved in health. Very many and very beautiful are the latest creations in ladies and miss es hats that are being offered for sale by the various millinery establishments in the city. Married, on Sunday, October 12,1903, at the residence of the officiating min ister. Rev. W, B. Hawkins, in this city, Mr. P. O. Bowling and Miss Annie Garrison, both of Orrville. Matthew Corbin has given up his po sition as ehief engineer and master mechanic at the Riverside Mill, this city, to take a similar position with the Chiquola Mill, Honea Path. On Monday, Deo. 1st., John A. Aus tin and The Magnet Store are goinrr to give away a handsome Iron King Cooking Stove. Read their new adv. and you will learn how to secure it. The friends of Gen. M. L. Bonham, who is still under treatment in the John Hopkins hospital, Baltimore, are delighted to hear that he is improving, and hopes to return home in a short while. Perhaps one of the sm'Jlest debt? you owe, andona that will be tho easi est to pay, is what yon are due on sub scription to yonr home ??per. How ever small the amount is, we need it and want it. The Prea>v?er!an Synod of South Carolina m?ct? in Columbia next Tues day, 21st inet. The round trip railroad fare from Anderdon is $5.05. Tickets will be on sale 20tt. 21st and 22nd, good until 28th. Abner Horton, of Iva, Anderson County, was in the city yesterday. We heard a charming >on.ng woman, a friend of ours, speak in i:igh terms of tho visitor. We wish them happiness. -Abbeville Medium, The first month's work of the city schools for thia scholastic year closed last Friday, and the total enrollment for the month were 1,180 pupils, an in crease of ICO pupila over the number for the same month last year. The Sunday School at Varen nea Church will observe "rally day" next Sunday. The exercises will begin at 10 o'clock a. m. Rev. H. C. Fennel will address the school. Allthefrtends of the congregation are invited to at tend. James M. Owens died suddenly at the home of his son-in-law, J. H. Maddox, near Honea Path, on Sunday evening, 6tU inst., in the 75th year of hi? age. The deceased was a native of Laurens County, and was a most esti mable cltisen. ) Clerk of Court Watkins has received Anderson County's quota ot the last issue of the revised Statutes of the State, and the Magistrates in the Conn ty are requested to call and get their copy. I^t Monday morning Doc Williams and Bill Martin, two negroes employ ed at the Excelsior Oil Mill, got Into a row. when the former was nit in the noaa with a piece cf iron bar, inflict ing a severe wound. Martin was ar rested and locked op. Our yoong friend, J. Baker Gentry, has been elected principal of the Bethesda Bist h School, near Kock Bill, ?. C., and left Anderson last Monday to begin his work at once. Prof. Gen try is an accomplished pedagogue, and the patrons of his school will be pleas ed with his work. A good corn crop was made through out the State, and every farmer will have stacks of cobs on hand this win ter. Cobs make a fine fnel. They make hot fires, and the average coun try housewife had rather have cobs for cooking purposes than firewood. They are excellent for burning in the fire place. J. H. Hutchison, of Iola, exhibited to us a few days ago a species of the cot ton beetle, which is playing havoo with the cotton crop in Texas, lt is a bug about the size of a large fly, and has a long bill with which it bores into the boll and sucks the sap therefrom. They were sent from Texas in a glass bottle by a friend of Mr. Hutchison's father. At a meeting of the Board of County Commissioners last week the following resolution was unanimously adopted: "Resolved. That owing to the fact that the Board of County Commissioners have not sufficient funds to work the public roads now in existence as they should be worked, they will not con sider any new petitions or grant any new roads for the present." Lon D. Huntley, white, originally of North Carolina, a convict on the county chaingang, convioted a year ago of as sault and battery with intent to kill. H. N. Garrison being the victim, foll dead Sunday afternoon at the convict camp, two miles east of the city. Heart disease was the trouble. His term would have expired in 00 days. The burial was at the poor house Monday. Mrs. Martha Johnson died at her home at Orrville yesterday morning, after a brief illness, aged 62 years. She was a most excellent christian woman and greatly beloved by a wide circle of friends who deeply regret her death. Two sons are left to cherish her memory. She had long been a devoted member of Bethany Baptist Church, where her remains will be in terred today, Rev. N. G. Wright con ducting the funeral services. At the meetingof the Board of Coun ty Commissioners last week W. T. Mc Gill was elected Steward of the Count; Home to succeed Perry F. King, whe has resigned. There were more thai thirty applicants for the position, but the Commissioners could not have se cured a more efficient or better mat than Mr. McGill. He served in tin same position a few years ago, and hil experience, good judgment and energ; will make him a ''laborer worthy of hil hire." A 2-year-old son of I. O. Kay me with a painful accident at his home ii this city lust Monday morning. Tin little fellow was alone in a roon and was playing with some matches when his dress caught fire. His scream attracted the attention of hiB mothei who ran to his assistance, but be tor. she could put out the fire his body wa terribly burned, the skin peeling oil' ii places. Drs. Harris and Henry attend ed the little one, who lived until o'clock yesterday afternoon, whei death relieved him of his sufferings. A Republican convention was hell in this city last Saturday and John W Scott, white, of Newberry, nominate) for Congress. Scott is originally frot Illinois. The Republicans have n hope of success, but the nominatio and effort to elect puts them in a posi tlon to contest the election. Red K Tolbert and J. W. Tolbert, of Phoe nix, S. C., were prominent in the con vention. The convention was com posed of thirteen negroes and seve 1 whites. Resolutions were adopted ec ! dor sin g the administration ox Presi dent Roosevelt. Vess Brown, the Anderson negr who was operating with Anderso Stover, a negro emigrant agent fror Tennessee, has b*en put in Jail, il was arrested with Stover for violatio of the bill-posting laws and fined b the city authorities $0; Stover bein fined $50. When these tines were fina ly paid both negroes were confronte with a State warrant, but after admoi ishing Vess and making Stover pron iso to leave the State the warran were withdrawn. Stover left th State but Vess continued the emigra: agency and is now in Jail. After an absence of 45 years M George L. Schrimyf, of Anderson, S C., is visiting the scenes of his bo: hood days in this city. He left hei in 185?, and went to South Carolin where he settled, working for Mr. Jot Humbird in building a railroad. 1 went through the Civil War as a men ber of the Palmetto Sharpshooter Jenkins' Brigade, C. S. A. He is no a well to do planter in that State. ? is stopping at the Olympia and amazed at the wonderful change fro the Cumberland of 1857 to the fiouris! ing city of today.-Cumberland, [Md Evening Times. The Court of Common Pleas enter? upon its Fall session Monday Wi Judge Watts presiding. The calend is pretty full, but most of the cases a of little importance to the general pu lie. The meat impoi tantease is that J. mes L. Jones as administrator of tl estate of Susan V. Jones, against tl Charleston Sc Western Carolina Ra way, for damages. This caee went trial Monday morning. The durong asked for is $15,000. There have bei two trials of this case previous to th The first resulted in a mistrial. In t second the jury gave a verdict 81,700; the case was appealed and se back for trial anew. Tho j uri will probably be kept busy mc of the week. James P. Haynie died at his home Broadway Township, near Belton, h Saturday afternoon, after an illness several months, in the 71st year of 1 age. The deceased was born, rear and spent his life in this County, a was one of onr best and most higl esteemed citir.eno. Since his boyho he had been a devoted and exempts member of th? Baptist Church, andi gone to reap the rewards of a w spent life. Ile served his State thron the civil war, and won the reputati of a faithful, brave soldier. Mr. Hi nie possessed a generous dispositii and never torqed a deaf ear to a w thy appeal of charity. In his Chm and in bis immediate neighborhood will be greatly mioood and his pli will be hard to fill. On Sunday aft noon the remains were interred in I Long Branch churchyard. A sor bereaved wife, two sons and th daughters are left to cherish his me cry, and in their, bereavement tl have the sympathy of a wide circle friends and relatives. ? III??---?M Ji- -? Sometime ago the sinking fund com mission compromised with tho old Bine Ridge Railroad in tho matter of taxes due the State and to the Counties of Anderson and Ocoaee. The total Amount due was $11,000 and the road offered 60 per cent, as a compromise, which was accepted, and B. L. Abney, Attorney, deposited the check with the State Treasurer. The mombers of the commission now, however, doubt urbethe* or mit they have the legal right to accept this compromise with out the approval of the General As sembly ana the Treasurer will hold the sheck until a joint resolution is passed nontinaing the compromise.-Colombia Record. The Baptist Courier of the 9th inst, says: "Rev. T. H. Garrett has accept ed calls to Churches iu Texas, and will move to that State about the tlrst of November. He will reside at Hills boro, where one of the Churches is lo cated, about fifty miles north-east of VVaoo. We regret to lose Bro. Garrett from South Carolina. Ho is a good preacher, an activo pastor, and keeps in close touch with all denominational work. His removal will leave several excellent Churches in the Edisto and Barnwell Associations without a pas tor." Mr. Garr. tt formerly lived in Anderson County, and has many friends here who will regret to hear that ho is going to leave hts native State. Dr. Frank M. Lander, of Enoree, S. C., wa?married last Wednesday even ing to Miss Mary Eliza Mathews, of Williamston, the ceremony being per formed in the Methodist Church at Williamston. Dr. Samuel Lander, the groom's father, and Rev. John M. Lan der, the groom's brother, officiated. The wedding was a brilliant social event, there being twenty-four attend ants and the church being elaborately decorated. After the ceremony there was a reception at tho home of the bride's mother. The groom is a bright and promising young physician who ia meeting with success in his profession, and the bride is ono of Willinniston's most popular and charming young ladies. The Forepaugh &. Sells Bron, con solidated shows, on account of a wreck of a part of one of its trains between Augusta and Andeison, did not reach the city until late yesterday morning, and as a consequence there was nc street parade. TL hey eave two splen did performances, ana at each were greeted by a largo ' audience. Thc main tent is probably the largest evei brought to thiB section, and its seatinf capacity, it is claimed, is 10,000. A the afternoon performance there wen few vacant seats. It is the general opin ion that the show throughout is one o the best ever seen here. The show at tracted to the city one of the larges crowds ever seen on our streets Everybody seemed to be in a goo* humor, and good order prevailet throughout the day. Earle's Bridge, across Seneca rive below Portman Shoals, has been com ploted and the work was paBBed upo and accepted bv the County Commis sioners last Thursday. There wa some apprehension concerning th f oundaiiou of the middle pier, but was finally concluded that not ??in ahoit of the breaking of the dam I Portman wonld unsettle it, and as thi was not thonght at all probable, til work was accepted. The weight < the bridge material was also discuBse< some of the Board thinking it light? than specifications agreed upon. Tt objections were not found tenabh however, and the entire work was a< cepted and the contract money ordei ed paid. The Virginia Bridge ac Iron Company, of Roanoke, Va., wei the contractors, but sublet tho coi tract to George H. Crafts, of Atlant Ga. WAGON8-We have a larne stock c hand that we want to dispose of at wai down prices. Vaudlver Bro?. & Major. A tremendous Btook of high gra< Lanterns has just been received by Bull van Hardware Co.. They are sellit them at very low prices. Refined, up-tn date peoplo always wa tl -?best. GALLAGHER BROS. area k*. owled sred to be among the beat PH< TOGRAPHERS in the South. They < not waste their Bk 111 on cheap, fadh trash. A Dozen Times a Night. Mr. Owen Donn, of Benton Ferry. "\ Va., writes: "I have had kidney ai bladder trouble for years, and lt beeac so bad tbat I was obliged to get up least a dozen times at night. I never i calved anv permanent benefit from ai medicine until I tried Foley's Kldn Cure. After .usine two bottles, I t ou red." Evans Pharmacy. If your Bloycle needs truelng up you need a Bet of new Tires gives us call. Brock Hardware Co Yon will find a big stook of Viot Sweep Wings, all sizes, at Brook Hal ware Co. Never Ask Advioe. When you have a cough or cold do ask what ia good for lt and get soi medicine with little or no merit and p haps dangerous. Ask for Foley's Hoi and Tar, the greatest throat and lu remedy, lt eurea coughs and colds qul< ly. Evana Pharmacy. W. H. H h oarer, Surveyor, You v find me at Dean & Ratllffe'a. Long ci lance Phone at my residence. Just received two Cars of Buggies, prices-135.00 for a Top Buggy up, Vacdlver Bros. <fc Majoi Spent More Than a $1000. W. W. Baker, of Plainview, N< writes: "My wife suffered from lc trouble for fifteen years. She tri? number of doctors and spent over ai without relief. She became very low i lost all hope. A friend reoommem Foley's Honey and Tar and, thanki this great remedy, it saved her life, t enjoys better health than she has kno in ten years." Refuse substitutes. Ev Pharmacy. Sullivan Hardware Co. now hare hand two car loads of the well-kno Old Dominion Horse, and Mule Shi Thin la the greatest quantity of 8b ever brought to Anderson at one time Foley's Honey and Tar cures cou and colds and prevents pneumoi Take no substitutes. Evans Pharmi Wo sell the best and lightest d Mowers on earth. Come and see th Vsndlver Bros. & Ma) ? FOR RENT-One six-room dwell H ruse, with garden, stable and good bur, on Depot st. A. H. Osborn? No danger of consumption If you Foley's Honey *od Tatito oure that st born cough. Evans Pharmacy. Save your crana with a Blade Snath from Built van Hardware Co T have Blades perfectly sew and sharpe which they can furnish with any a boma wanted. Bronchitis for Twenty Years. Mrs. Minerva 8mltb, of Danville, writes : "I bad bronchitis for tw< years and never got relief until I i Pola*'a Honey and Tar, which la a i Bute." Contains no opiate?. Ei Pharmacy. A carpenter la often judged by quality and style ol toola he has ic cheat. At any rate no carpenter om: first-class work with shoddy toola you want the best Toola at right pi maka your purchases from Hull Hardware Co. - "Watch the Kidneys." "When they are affected, life io tn Er," saya Dr. Abernethy, the great 1 h physician. Foley's Kidney < makes sound kidneys. Evans Pharnc FALL All of the Shapes to prevail this Fall and Winter are now ready for you. Our Special Hawes $3.00 Is made exactly as we want it, and is really a higher cost Hat than Hats offer ed elsewhere at $4.00 and $5.00. See it, then, and decide for yourself. Other Hats in the New Shapes at $2.50, $2.00 $1.50, $1.25 and $1.00 HALL BROS South Main Street. Always Cut Price Clothiers. FALL SHIRTINGS FOR Swell Dressers ! Cold weather is coming, and you will have to discard that Negligee for a Stiff Front Shirt. lam showing them in all the latest patterns and weaveB. Fancies and Solids in all colors. Various Shirts in Pleated and Plain Bosoms. CALL AND ASK TO SEE THEM C. A. REESE, Post Office Block. Furnishings and Shoos*