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M'U Tin Can Contest. , 9W>?*ECB u? the Theatre a? prixe*. To every bov bringing M <RnK Mondtty' Wednesday and ?*W*/ aVo The Thi'1 ticket for one ^nftiBHion to the the atre will be given, and to the buy feathering the largest number of c?m? for the week will l>e given ? F the theatre fur o.v. inonth Tho cnns will have to bo deliver*nl on tho ' va Sit tot M.t of tho Kloctrik Moid Bake .Shop on tho ???*?"** ^bove and counted by Health OuU .John W. WiUon. Wo?U?*? Auxiliary. Woman'B Auxiliary to tho Hotffital will meet at the home of tho Sent. Mr.. Henry ^ .o^ Monday afternoon, April iOth, at . o'clock. All member* are urged to be preaent. (^.rtrwle M. '/*?mp, Secretary. Christian Kndeavor Meeting. The Christian Kndeavor Society will meet on Sunday evening in the lpcUu^ room of the V ? ?mi u'clock. The topic is, My Denomi nation ? What My Denomination Ha* Meant to the World," the leader. Mm. J. W. Lenoir. The public is cordially invited to attend (mNHRAl/ NEW 8 NOYWfc. Uem? of Interest Gatkmred From Many Saurcen, Likening a drunken automobile dri ver to a drunken man with a torch, a Philadelphia judge on Friday 8ont^"?~ li 1 Ave drunken drivers to one hun dred dollar fines and thfrcc months the Eastern penitentiary. :?i?rwl Eleven men were seriously inj ? mi Argo, 111., Friday when a starch factory blew up from an explosion of ^The thermometer reached 77 de irreeH *n New York Saturday morning, very nearly the record temperature for the season for more than thirt> ^Vn peak, America's only active into violent eruption ' "t'ITo Commoner. established by Wil Iihiu Jennings Bryan twenty-two years ?K? nnd th?n run and his brother. Oovnrnor C . W . Mi > an. will lease to exist with tht April isnue. now on the .press. Luck of time to donate to it,, is Riven us a eause for it^ suspension. Daniel .J. Hickiy. private secretary to thp warden of Sing Sing prison. New York, last Friday missed thi first execution itl the prison in thirty vt..ir^ He was attending his nm bet funeral ... Brooklyn when William Kvans was execute. Hickey has wit ?ost.e<l 100 executions since 1 Alphonse Pilson was found dead in Hs automobile in tlie real " iiome at Diiluth, Minn., t nday norn ing He had quarrelled with his and had bum sleeping "1 the Ho went to sleep with tin; motor i un iting and the gas killed him. A dispatch from Mansonville. <ju hoc savs there are 1?? cases t)f ty phoid fever in the town out of a pop Nation of a little more than d00 The Big Four railroad, one of the larger systems of the middle wast, has ?announced an. increase of pay for it t mployees, the increase amounting <> *42<'l.00fl a month. ? Pour hundred "lady Klnnsmen members of the newly organized Ha melia brnneh of the Ku Klux K an rarnded through the streets of Iulsn, Okla.. Friday night. \ dispateh from Dublin says that Vi-oe Stale Loops have a party of Irish rebels bottled up m a eave 111 I'minty Kerry and lha. K?n? de Yalera is probably one of the part> Watch the date on your label this w eck. PLANT YOUR GARDEN NOW and buy "BUIST'S" Reliable Seeds ? Flower and Vegetable ? all fresh. W. ROBIN ZEMP'S i) r u g STORE Phone ,'{() Delivery 4/ Kodakers Send v<>ur films to us and get the best results l'rom your f.nap shots. Write for price list. Lollar's Studio I 12.1 .Main St. Columbia, S. C. Clarence Saunders* Special Offering . / i ? <? ; :\ ; m. % '? ? \ <VV\ \w. WE OFFER SUBJECT TO PRIOR SALE CLASS "A" COMMON STOCK OF WIGGLY STORES, Inc. At $55.00 Per Share . ? The Clm "A" Stock is preferred *? to assets up to $50.00 per ihfre in the event of liquidation. Class "A" Common Stock is preferred u to dividend* up to $4.00 per q^ere per annum, after which CIms "B" is entitled to $4.00 per share, and then all dividends in oxce?? of th* $4.00 per share are distributable equally share and share alike on botli classes of stock. At the present time, however. Class "X" Stock has due it $7.00 per share accrued dividends, which must be paid in addition to the regu lar dividend of $1.00 per each quarter before Class "BM will be entitled to receive any dividends- ? and this means, too, that Class MA" with the accrued dividencfs of $7.00 per share would be entitled in case liquidation at the present time to $57.00 per share before Class "B" would participate. Both of these stocks have the same voting rights per each share* This Company has no bonded debt and no preferred stock, either outstanding or authorised. 1 PRESENT SALES AND EARNINGS January sales of the present year amounted to $3,679,273.12, February sales to $3,615,889.39, and March sales to $4,425,173.43, which makes a total for their first quarter of the present year amounting to $11,620,335.94, and against which they realized net profits of $329,700.29, exceeding more than 50 per cent, of their dividend requirements at the Tate of $1.00 per share quarterly on the CLASS "A" COMMON STOCK. These earnings should be materially increased by the last quarter of the year which, should this be the result, will enable PIGGLY WIGGLY STORES. INC., to pay a larger dividend by that time. FUTURE EXPANSION PROGRAM PIGGLY WIGGLY STORES, INC., now has 667 PIGGLY WIGGLY STORES ? the Variety Stores are located in Chicago, Memphis, Terre either signed or in negotiation that will give 25 Variety Stores doing Variety Stores already operating they can safely count on a net profit at least $1,000,000 per year, and of course these 25 stores can be incre elusive PIGGLY WIGGLY contracts for rights for the entire United There are other companies operating PIGGLY WIGGLY STORES lor March, with those of PIGGLY WIGGLY STORES, INC., totaled posed by PIGGLY WIGGLY STORES. INC., to purchase as many of the full power of the organization and sales and, too, they can add towns that belong to the Company organization which will enhance responding reduction to be had on overhead expense. GROCERY STORES operating and 7 PIGGLY WIGLY VARIETY Haute, Chattanooga, Nashville, and San Antonio. They have lease* business by October 1923, and based upon the profit record of the according to an estimate of the Company, from 25 of these Stores of ased to 1.000 as their business develops as this Company has the ex States. with a total of over 600 stores and the combined sales of these stores $8,318,355.30, which is at the annual rate of $100,000,000. It is pro these separate units as possible so as to bring together this Company materially to the number of stores now being operated by them in the their profit^ considerably because of larger sales to be realized by cor PERSONAL STATEMENT OF CLARENCE SAUNDERS "Looking into the future and taking the record already made by in sales, and accompanied within five years against manifold obstacles, smilar line within a few more years. Is there such a record anything I am now offering to sell at $55.00 per share on ihe special terms of interest,, and, with the payment to the purchaser of the Dividends due of the stock which I purchased through the New York Stock Exchange There lias never been, according to the writer's judgment, such an the stockholder's interest is supreme against all other consideration. PIGGLY WIGGLY STORES, which is now in the $100,000,000 class there is scarcely any doubt as to this business leading the Nation in any else? ' Ask the 'croaker' this question. This CLASS "A" STOCK that $20.00 per share cash and the balance September 1, 1923, without June 1 and September 1 of $1.00 per share each dividend date, is part while I was protecting the markets gainst the 'short sellers." opportunity for a safe and profitable investment in a company where WE* RECOMMEND FOR INVESTMENT For people in all walks ol life. One Hundred People in Camden are wanted to become partners in PIGGLY WIGGLY STORES by becoming stockholders of from ONE to TWENTY shares each- CLASS "A" COMMON STOCK is offered for delivery when payment has been completed under tKe term^ of Clare nee Saunder's Special offering. All - statements herein are official or based on information which we regard as reliable, and, while we do not guarantee them, they are the data upon which we have acted in the offering ofcthis security. RESERVATIONS MAY BE WIRED AT OUR EXPENSE, TO BE FOLLOWED BY REMITTANCE, ON THE TERMS AS STATED IN COUPON BELOW. ORDER THROUGH YOUR BANKER, OR . . . . I > I Columbia Trust Company LIBERTY NATIONAL BANK BUILDING COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA Phone 4012 < I ;T OUT AND M All. I>nu I'Kb'ST COMPANY. ' ul.VMHIA. SQIJTH ? \KOLINA iiuy f??t n: ? ,u ioiuv ? n.i'V" in ' lii-y "A ' i ??ivwn??n Suk k i-f WKKJI Y STOKKS, 1\< . v*>.*..00 , ??? r nar-.-. ami i t in lux* m> < h>\ t\ fo! s . . ? hii h at th? rri*<' oi <?_'(>. imi fx-r -h;i!? ;nvi f h? n.-iiancc of $;{?*>. 00 pei -har<j < I, hi rv.iiil by me Septemt* r r.'_* .;n?! ir .k . orcixnn- therewith 1 have C1' ?*" tv \ '!<">'<? :t <* h e r* ? f > !? s ? undi-r^U'ir-.i :??ri a^n-e<J 'hai ? he amoun' <>f <lo> k nov. '?<> ri? cfT.-r.^t for -?*!?? un<>r> f'l:* plan h?- ? ?> . < r * nhsc ribeil. 1 will receive in> ittu ; at a a rnoup ' iJs'n.t St r w I ?r ? State 1 n Dve September I. f promise ?o pay to the order of Ctarenre Saunders at ' ? ?' , ? he Liberty ( entral rru*-t < ompanv. St. Louis. Mo. ' ? DOLLARS I hiv nu.t ^iv.?-p f<?; 'he balance due ;<r the rate of $.'}f>.00 per share on me purchase <?:' ... *; i ha res of Common Stock. Class "A" of Hi*gl> Wiggly Stores, Inc., at *66.00 per -h.iT". M\ :i -h pnymi nf on said -to K* having? amounted to DOLLARS v 1 betng tht rate o 1 J?20.p<) jn-r share with the ?inderstandin^' that ..he number of shares of stock as hotfeiYi specified are to be deposited with the I ilx r?y Ontral Tru^t Co.. St. IjrtttK Mo., for deliv ery to me upon my fuii payment of this note on the due date of saifce, and should payment be ma<v- sooner i am to receive said stock at that time. It L also uw.(rjtood r.d agreed that I am to pay no interest on this rvote and 1 am to r<i?.w t. dividends on thi? sto< k which arc payable June i. iy2;L and September ?. r.rjr>. ..,?!**? :0le ,t of hv me before the -aid dividend date-. Tr.,n Stat* KILL IN AND SIGN BOTH FORMS"