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There's sure a great difference be tween fitting a head to a hat, or fitting a hat to a head. With our large variety of sizes and shapes we fit the hat to the head with out a shoe-horn. For the man who wants the new things now while they're sparkling, this is the store. Stetson's #3.50, $4, #5 Evans Specials S2, #2.50, #3. Caps 2Sc to #1.50 "The Store with a Conscience Good Roads Proposed Bond Issue $75< March 3 Road Commissionei H M. Aull.Autun J. .M. liroyles.Townvllle j|. K. t.'ely.Ploilmunt Paul K. Kurie.Anderson, K. V. l> \V. Krank McGee. M KS. Ill ULMS W'KITKS IM it or Anderson Intelligencer: Dear Sir 1' Is wonderful howl people argue against Rood roads Hie thi:gs liny say against them! but more wonderful Hint they argue against lhem at all. What lias good toads ever done against these poo ple? llavr- they tried Ihotn? Nave tiny ?ver seen any landowner go bankrupt because a stretch of good road lay by the man*-* properly? What do people gain by voting and pounding down a good meus are that is for the betterment >>i n county? What will people gain by voting down these good roads? They will save Unir llltlo hit of money- maybe a dollar or two?or less?or a little more; they will have it to ko bank rupt with at the end of the year? that is. they will be worth not a dime at the ?'nd of the year that they would not have made without the little bond lux. They would be Just :u well off without it. and their spirits Will be Co buck ward that the forward move ment of tlie Holy Ghost will lake no part with thorn. The time in coming to vote for the bonds and by this season next, year according to the work or idleness of the roatl cadi separate citizen '.-r voter can say: 'I voted *jr tngi road, or - I am the; Benedict Arnold who voted against | if. There Is nothing whatever against i th<- romls, ell the people like them; ' :her>- are men who would parade no j and down a good road In show the creases nt the knee, the correct fold | of the cuff on tht> trocar.;, the glint ' of patent leather, the class of luven dar gloves and newest cane ?but they cannot spare that "l.'i cent in their Insldo pocket." It is a mutter tit parting wit!) a few dollars and cents. Were the people for the brief mo ment of fine between now ami the ..Oth of March to take their eyes off tlii -, paltry, trnfjley little amount and rest them on the good roads that are to begin when they say so and shall continue as long ua they live and for generations after, they wouuld not think of opposing the roads. Posi tively It will b? seen that the peo ple are not pushing ugainst ' good roads, they are preaching the old time poverty; "ferglt it." The poor we have always with us. Poverty will be our heritage as long as God loves the poor, but wo must not live low as swine who wallow in the mud, we must live as those whose father owns the cattle on u thousand hills, and who knows we are heirs to a heritage not made ?Ith bauds. That Is the secret of It all. taking our eyes off the beauty of our souls for the montent und burying them to the ground. There l.i supposed reasons in all that people say about hard times and how wc ought to save a little money, and by being careful how they curi tide over bard times; but at the end of the year will they hatfe saved that little road money? There men who say. "I won't pay out lifo insurance; I will save the money and have every dollar of it and not be keeping up life insurance companies. Do the;.' save it? Ask the orphan children o? such a father; they go through every dollar of It that the life insur ance would have saved for them, of ten with uni? .v. tedlv largo interest. If every man who thinks he will vote against the bond Issue were to save bis small apportioned bond tax to the end of a your, how much would the whole community be the better for his saving It? How much richer would the community be, because the other ninn had front 30 cents to per haps $:t.00 In his pocket? How much richer Is the man? lie must spend It or he will never get every thing out of it till his children get It out of it after he I.? dead, und by them they will bp walking th? streets of the New Jeru-ha-leni on, good roads that their father did not help In giv ing them.' Suppose that ho does spend his HO cents on S3.0(1.?that he Just had to have a pair of gloves or shoes, or a bottlo of beer Iron und wlno for his stomach's sake?where will the value of his savings bp in a very lit tle whll?? Meanwhile, tho road Is gone too. Must he be specially thank ful for this when he says grace ut tablo? The liptscopalean will say, "Good Lord deliver us." People will not save their money, md It Is as easy killing tho road ns H is to kill an infant and when the crime is committed it is too late to weop. Thoy may puddle, and muddle It along for ten or more year3, and While they may not care about that, their children will never write them down ao the wisest men who ever lived. _. ?* The arguments people bring up are very plnusable for action on non is sue of bonds; but when a second view is taken It will be seen that no plan of individual dollar or dime' saving comes up to tho prosperity out growth, bristling and bursting of new buds and leaves on the old tree like the scattering wldo of $750.000 upon the fields of Industry; the purchasing and selling, the hiring, the disposal of all ma.iner of farm and towa pro duct. The farmer who has anything to sell next ' year won't car* about cotton; his own county. Is his mar ket. Cotton may wait for ships to come tn; and all this bond money with Inter03t amounting In all to something like a million dollars fp stir and breathe through the dead bones of hard times will make 1915 the be Department D,000 Election to be Held 0, 1915. j ra Provided in Act : i .1 S. howler.Anderson j <!. K. Harper.Ibuica l'ail. .1. Mai'k Kitig, Supervisor.licit ou . ginning yi-or <.' Hie passovcr from i li.til Id l'iih;!. 'Commlsaioners is a word i<i con jure with. I'eople do not waul to !) . ... III?.....ii In horded MliefpirtiH} une . taxation without repr?sentation; but women have hud to lake it and may he could not have made ? better choice of things had they tlx- law In their hands. So while many a man ran fee u different man I?) Ida own liking in place of on,, of the chosen commissioners, yet he is ant going to break through the li?mes; for j sake of that one man who might nut turn out as well as was expected of! him. The road commissioners. <hos ca by the people are imbed the pot lambs of the whole county. Every body loves them; yet. these very men las/ fh'l at the campaigns, were I hey to breathe a whifl of bond issue would have been turned down: their wool was white as snow by not men tioning it. These commissioners probably would not want to have anything to do with il ; and the county saddles quit,, enough <>n com- j missioners' hacks anyway without tumbling a bond issue upon I hem and lh|i building of ?lieh roads entirely mil of their line ?f practice ami pro fession. II might alar) .be condoned that I he new commissioners are elect) d not because they know as much about roads as do the nlliclals elected law year, but that they are elected for management of the peo ple's finance and the letting of con tracts in entirely new phase of coun ty work I her than shovelling und j spading. Improved road building be ing the work of men brought up >? the service of science and sellouts. As the work is loo considerably over 1 hum- to be required of men not, as ; ii body, having been engaged in such work before; ami people who vote Tor the bond issue will want to see that I heir money's worth is in the j Kullicie ncy of the roads; a; well as in tlx1 amount of roads built. Many persona seemingly mistake j the word bond issue, am! call it bondage- which, in a way. it is as poll and other taxes are-?that la?they j must be paid; il is the obedience o.f children to their Stale, but as to the future, bonds mean that Hie future bonds Itself to pay for tbc good roads [given them by the present. They would rather pay for them than take I for an inheritance the had roads which the present has-to give them; Just such roads as the past haB willed to the present and which the | ; present ha3 had tu take and keep up with more money to each mile than would he required for ten or twenty miles or scientifically built road. Thi'? is the expense the present is seeking to escape from, and which they desire to deduct from the future and Its system of roads. Once while listening to debates in a Press Club meeting, when roads were tho highway cry of the country, an editor wa.i opposed to advocating bonds because, though it might bene fit the present, it would burden pos terity. A brother editor as full of mirth as o' common sense called out, "Hang it. v. bat has posterity ever done for us'.'" An editor of a four page weekly in a mill town observed that about three thousand persons looked to him for the news ar.d they were good pay. "If 1 advocate bond Issue," be }>nld, "I shall have to look for anoth er job. Everyone of my subscriners will quit. They won't sec what good roads mean to them, so they must pay for them?their turnpike is up am' down the mill ft'jr." "Ho they own pr? .?e-ty?" was ask ed. "O. very few." "Then convince them that they havc nothing to pay if they have nothing to own." Hut the editor had to visit every subscribers home and fully explain that If they had no property, they might use Hie good roads until king dom conic and pay nothing toward them. Even then the scare-head of bond issue frightened many into not voting for it, aud not Voting against It, /vliich helped in the road failure that year. The fact that manufacturing towns whose people may not have property but have free use of the very best roads ever built, ought to induea them' to vole witli a vim for bond issue, which only means taxes to the pro perty man and lets the laborer go free beyond his usual poll and road tax which -ho pays from 21 to r>0 years of age. There are no people who enjoy the country roads more than residents of manufacturing towns. They dot the roads like blos soms in spring time, going to and from visits in the country, and sing ings in country churches..; Tlioy are tho very life of tho country roads in the long summer days; tho buggies "id wagons and carriages aglow with the prettiest children and well dressed mothers and rathers; and a good, clean, wide road to them where dust does not clog their throats aud bomlre their clothing, and where automobiles- and bicycles have room also to pass at tho samo time?this .Is the road to be heartily desired and Voted for by these people. As h corporations and othar wealthy In teresta not paying tho burden, or two thirds of the whole amount, but that the people after all by some crooked turn are going to be forced Into pay ing?does anybody think a railroad Is going ;o charge more per mile, or mill men raise rents on the people, or anything else that one Can Imagine as trick bugglsxy or dark lantern ex tortion? Corporations aud Indus* trial capital ar,. ituill upon systems j of cfiulty a> tin; suns in their planets so (hat they cannot and du not break tile laws of organization without un doing themselves. V\ hen they now do so much to build good roads, then the bast the country people should du ta to do the little that Is asked of them. There are all sorts of ar guments that might be offered against good roads, but none that has reason or logic; and when conn- , ties in some measures are overruled by a minority, not majority, it is bc oiiise the county say.i as a school richer to pupil. "Now. you don't like tili; study, but while I don't wish to press :t to you against your will, i am obliged to do .<o for the good of your future happiness. ".Men are only hoys grown tall? "Henri*; don't change much after all." Al the next election may the boys grown tall, rise to their full stature and accept the lesson best for their future; may the heart of the hoy bubble up in the man for all that is good and beautiful. .v certain fraternal orHer know.; the powerful meaning ol thu I'.-alm ; ists words : "llehold how good and how pi cas uni il is for brcthereu to dwell to gether in unity. It is like the prec ious upon the head." j The writer comes pretty near be j ing one of them?or to them and asks for help. And when the next elec lion comes may the bond issue ho voted for, to have and to hold not I an a bondage or fetter but as a uulty that can truly feel, . "Most be the tie that binds." And in the summer mornings to j school or market, or church. the I roads shall feel clean and fresh to I the heart of tho hoy-man and girl? I woman. I "Ab the dew of Herman and as the j dew that descended upon the moun I tains of Eion . " IjBBKCCA li. LICK. A LEGACY OF POSTERITY. Money spent for the permanent Im provement of the public highways is an investment that will puy larger dividends than any money that the public could possibly spf-nd. A (ax tor the permanent Improvement of th.- public roaiis differs from other lax in that the other tax is levied for current expenses and has to be levied from year to year and is gone. The tax paid for permanent road work is an investment thai will pay divi dends every year ami larger dividends than money put in bank stock or cot ton mill stock, or in any other enter prise. Every county in South Carolina wa: tes enough money every ten yeurs ! lo build permanent, roads in the coun I Iy and ut the end of the ten year period the roads are no better than j they were ten years before. In this day the county that does not build rouds is going lo fall behind In the [ constructive advancement of the age. To levy a sufficient tax in one year to | build roads would be burdensome. , Tho only sensible plan is to Issue bonds and build the roads and thus spread the payment of the bonds over a number of years and the burden falls lightly on nil. There are those who will put up the plea that they do not want to saddle a debt on their children. There Is no better or greater legacy you could leave your children than a ! debt for money honestly and properly spent and invested in the permanent building of good roads and if you leave them the roads they will rise up and bless your name and the wisdom you displayed. 1 here is not a man in any county in this State who today would not willingly pay a tax for roads if a former generation had left him the roads. I believe If you demonstrate, that is as far as hunian agency can demon strate, that if the money is put up tho roads will be built, every man in every county in South Carolina would vote to issue bonds for permanent road work. It has always been a strange thing to me that, as a rule, the people-who pay the least and receive the greatest benefit are always the ones who op pose a tax of this kind. I recall once' n public' meeting to consider the ques tion of voting a tax for school Im provement in a certain district. The presiding offcer who had no children to educate, and who was the largest tax payer asked the privilege of cast ing the first ballot for the tax. The man who most vigorously opposed the tax had six children to educate and his tax would have been forty cents. zSo it is with roads, unfortunately. ! So It is with roads, unfortunately, who pay the greatest amount of the j tax and receive the leaBt direct bene fit always favor such improvements,) while the fellow who pays practical ly no tax and uses the roads every day is loudest in his exposition. It Is passing strange. The thing to do is to show him It is to his interest and get his vote right. It is to his interest to build roads. I 'remember once where a township proposed to vote bonds for roads and some of the citizens opposed It on tho selfish ground that they did not pro pose to. build good roads for the peo ple of another township to drive over. It is the selfish element to be rid of. From a selfish standpoint, thereforo. I argue that it is good to invest money | In permanent road work. Any man in Anderson' County, for Instance, would be willing to pay four dollars a year for a good road from Mb home to town. This average farm er will not have to pay oyer that amount If the bonds are Itsued. Then why oppose it. From a selfish stand point II will pay you. From a patrio tic standpoint it will pay you tenfold: I hope you may get your bond Is sue through In Anderson County and that your County may remain in the forefront of progress. fTo defeat the proposed measure would put yon back ten years. E. H. AULL. Nflwberrv. March 1?. .. THE TAX THF. AVERAGE ANDER SON COUNTY FARMER PAYS TO BAD ROADS If any farmer will take t> few min utes he will realise that I h himself is paying each year an enormous tax or toll to bad roads; and it is a tax which not only does not yield any return ut all. but docn himself and bis property a positive bann. Suppose we take a man whose pro perty Is assessed at $1.000. Under the proposed bond issue if the maxl ! mum rate is charged of :'>? cents on ! the $100 worth of property his road i tax for the year will V >:>.r.o. I A man who owns Jl.uOO worth of property usually has a team 01 two I horses or mules. Say this man lives I .. miles from mark''1, and makes one trip a week during the year, lie. us ual!" makes more than this, in going I to market over tie- present system of read-, he can only haul one-fourth I lite amount which he can haul over a I good road. It takes him from one to : three hours longer to ko a id return i from market than il would over a i good road; so thai on each trip we I will say be loses three hours of him-1 i self and team in eomg to market and carries only half a load. Thus he I would have to make two trips tn or j der to get the amount to market which he could carry over a good , road with one trip, and on the two trips lie would lose six hours. Now any man and team is worth at Icait ! ;to cents an hour, in some places i they are now churging lu cents an I hour. Then six hours lost at 30 cents an hour is $1.80. which each farmer I practically loses in each trip when ! he markets his produce. Averaging i Ills trips during the year at .VJ would I make his tax to bad roads $!l^.l!0, I which is about what the average far mer paying tax on $'.000 worth of ] property loses during the year in ac tual time of himself and his team and. loss of time in not being able to carry a full load, to say nothing of the wear and tear on bis team and barney:; and vehicle, the lack or op ' portunity of attending church when 'desired, the impossibility of bis child ren reaching school regularly, and I the lack of opportunity for carrying ! on the social intercours,, which is j necessary to the-life of every human being. Another tax he pays to bad roads is that in ca.ie of severe illness it is practically impossible to obtain a doctor in any reasonable time, so > that Iiis family is constantly running ii risk of losing their lives in case.; of emergency because of the physical impossibility of getting a physician there within a reasonable lime over the poor roads. All these latter phases cannot be. reckoned in dol lar? and ceyls. if you own less than $1.000 worth of taxable property you can divide the above r.um and get what you are paying to the bad roads. If you own more than $1,000 worth of property, you can multiply the above amount add get your tax to bad roads. Are you going to submit to this tax longer because it does not come in actual pennies out of your pocket? It comes out of you. out of your team, out of the net earnings of your farm, and in reality out of your pocket.?Taken from argument of Joseph Hyde Pratt, State Geologist of North Caro lina. Uncle Josh "Agin" ii "Agin." Editor The Anderson Intelligencer: I am very sorry that it 13 neces sary for me to say any more conceru I ing the bond issue, hut iu your com ments on my former article you "have misquoted tnc more or le::3, either by mistake or inteutionality. In the first place, you said that I had asstcrled that I was in favor of goo.l roads but- wanted them by di rect taxation. I said that while we would all like better roads (for who would be against good roads) but 1 am against anything that would add on to the taxpayers of Anderson County, at present. Now. you say another objection to my article is that I do not seem to have absolute confidence in the com mittee named to handle this fund. It may be that you want a fact about a good portion of this coiuhilttcc. If so it is in tills way, I will ask you one thing! You have only been a resi dent of Anderson County for a short while, and why do you .try to run your estimation of these particular men far beyond those of citizens that have been born and raised right up with them and have known them in all of their ways and doings? True, there is some objection there but not all because the whole thing is ob jectionable from beginning to end. Now, Mr. Editor, you seem to talk like the whole objection of us peo ple is from a .political standpoint why you know that this la not true, for look around you Tn the city and country and you will find the most influential men on both sldeB of the administration lighting the issue. So it could not be a political fight either way, and I think you-should be cr< icized more or less for your attempt to make it a political fight, thinking no doubt that this would tend to strengthen the measure; . Mr. Editor, why do you keep say ing that the'country people will only have to pay thirty per cent, of this tax, that you and the corporation will pay tho other seventy. Why'who are the corporations and new-way who makes them? Are they not made and supported by the country?. And be long to the country? Does not the country keep them up? Then why do you" want to join yourself to them in order to make your burden lighter? Don't you know that corporations seldom evir suffer from anything, if wo go and put something on them they will come right back at us and make it up right off of us country people, just as the oil trusts, etc. Why if you hit thorn a little what do they do, Just raise the price of oil a tittle and make you and me and ev erybody else pay f?r tho hit, and all corporations and trusts are Just the same. No, Mr. Editor, wo do not need any thing along this lino now, so lets get together and quit trying to pull this thing any further. Yours very truly, v. JOSH ASHLEY. Honea Path, March si. CHILDREN H?Tje pills, calomel and castor oil If cross, feverish, constipated, give "California Syrup of Figs." Look bark tit your childhood days. Remember the ''dose" mother insisted on?castor oil. calomel, cathartics. I low you hated them, bow you fough'. against taking them. With our children it's different. Mothers who cling to tho old form of physic simply don't realize what they do. The ehidren's revolt' is well founded. Their tender little "insldcs" e injured by them.g If your child's stomach. Hvcr and bowles need cleansing, give only deli cious "California Syrup of Figs." Its action is positive, but gentle. Millions of mothers keep this harmless "fruit laxative" handy: they know children love to lake it; that it never fails to clean the liver and bowels and sweet |en the stomach, and that a teaspoon lul given today saves a sick child to morrow. Ask your druggist for a 5n-cent bot tle of "California Syrup of Figs," which has full directions for babies, children of all ages and for grown-ups plainly on each bottle. Beware of counterfeits sold here. See that It is innde by "California Fig Syrup Com pany." Refuse uny other kind with I contempt. oooooooooooooooooooo o o o KEF CGF.# ITEMS o o o oooooooooooooooooooo The Uev. T. M. Land of Seneca filled his regular appointment at this place last Saturday and Sunday. A large congregation attended both ser vices although Sunday was a pretty rough day, it did not keep many away from church, for we ull love to hear this able man of God speak. Tho people of this community and of the Corinth section have united their preaching and Sunday school work. All are to work together. If some of us do not stall against a tiny pebble and go to kicking, blaking or pulling buck under the load, we can have an excellent Sunday school. Horn unto Mr. and Mrs. W. II. Hick Saturday. March t?, a son, Robert Lawrence. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Mayes spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Evatt. Mrs. W. H. CrenBhaw and Mrs. El len Jenkins spent Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs. Paul Glllespie. Mr. and Mrs. L. O. Evatt and little daughter, Agnes spent Sunday at the home of Mr. Foster Evatt. Mr. and Mrs. West White and little daughter, Leon spent Sunday at the home of Mrs. Jane^fiillesple. A goodly number of our young peo ple enjoyed a cotton picking at the Rev. R. W. NelBon'B TuoBday night. Mrs. Mary Wilson and two children spent last Wednesday at the home of Mrs. P. C. Glllespie. How many of us have a habit of finding fault with everything aud everybody? We can often find fault, with the other follow, but If we have the same fault he hac, we never see it in ourselves, but very easily do we see it In the other fellow. Ah me, how much belter off we would all bo if we could only find the fault In ourselves, and not bother with the faults of others. .Ffr6t get the mote out of tblrie own eye, be fore plucking It out of thy brother's eye. New ('utters to lie Launched. WASHINGTON. March 12.?The new coast guard cutters Osslpee, for use in Maine waters, and Tallapoosa, for the Gulf of Mexico, will be launch ed at Newport News, Va.. April 20. Miss Saille McAdoo, daughter of the Becretary_?f/the treasury, will chris ten the bssipee and Miss Mabel Hart well, of Mobile, will name the Tal lapoosa, wh'ch will he an oil-burner Agrees to Make Concessions. LONDON, March 12.?Authorita tive renorts reaching The Hague from Berlin seem to indicate that Germany, with ? view to securing Italy's neutrality, has induced Aus tria, dBsp'te vigorous opposition by Rmneror Francis Joseph, to agree to make territorial concessions to Italy in the event, that Germany and Aus tria are victorious in the war. rid stomach of gases, sourness, and indigestion "Pape'a Diapepsin" ends all stom ach distress in five minutes. You don't want a slow remedy when your stomach Is bad?or an uncertain one?or n harmful one?your stomach ts too valuable; you mustn't Injure It with drastic drugs. ' . Pane's Dlapopsin la noted for its speed In giving relief: its harmlesR nesB: its certain unfailing action In regulating ?Ick. sour, gassy stomachs. Its millions ' of cures in Indigestion, dyspepsia, gastritis and other Btoma?h trouble has made it famous the world over. Keep this perfect stomach doctor in your' home?keep It handy?get a large fifty-cent case from any. drug store and Oien If anyone should eat something which doesn't agr?e with them; if what t,hey eat lays like lead, ferments and sours and forms gas; causes aeadache, dizziness and nau sea; eructations of acid and undigest ed food?remember as soon as Pape'a Otapepsln comes In contact with : tho stomach all such distress vanishes Its promptness, certainty and ease i?\ overcoming thv worst stomach dlso> jtera is a revelation to those who tr? : . . i oooooooooooooooo o o ! 0 S VA NOTES o 0 Q oooooooooooooooo; Mr. nnd Mrs. S. E. Anderson spent j a few hours In Anderson Thursday on < business. . j Mr. Joe Shorarl has returned home! after spending several days in Angus- j tu on business. I Mr. Walter Sudier or Anderson ' spent u short while here this week with his parents, Mr. and Mra. U. F. j Sadler. MrB. John H. SiiU)ison of the Top- | lar Springs neighborhood dl-jd Th?r.?-1 duy afternoon und va3 buried the tel- ! lowing day at Genorastcr. cemetery,! bervice were condu cted I;.''her pastor, j Itcv. S. J. Hood. .Mrs. Simpson was til consistent member of the Grove church. She leaves a husbuud nnd several Bons ami daughters, two ras ters, Mrs. John Snow and Mrs. War ren Watt of Anderson to cherish lier memory. Miss Gertrud?) .Weldon was shop ping in AndersoL Saturduy. . Mr. and Mra. ,1?. S. Cllnkscales orj Starr w^-c the guests Saturduy of] their daughter, MrB. J. C. Ligon. A .meeting of tile Civic Association will bo held, in the school auditorium Monday afternoon at four o'clocn. The | . members ure urged to be present, bus. . iness of importance. Mr. Glonn Simpson of !/:urr wus In town several days this week on busi ness. The Woman's Missionary and Aid . Society of the Presbyterian church will meet Wednesday afternoon at the 1 home of Mra. T. C. Jackson at *l o'clock. Prof. Cliff D. ?oleman and wife spent the week-end in Anderson with 1 friends nnd relatives. Misses Nancy Pearson nnd Carrie .Iloweil were shoppers in Anderson Saturday. ' Messrs. T. C. Jackson, Jr.. Leltoy Sadler, T. E. Strlhllng. Ciaresco Shor. ard. H. W. Wakcfleld and Dr. C. H. Burton went to Anderson Friday night to attend the piny "Lady, Luxury." Fire Department Was Called Out. The automobile, fire truck was call ed to Franklin street west, yesterday shortly after 12 o'clock to .extinguish somo burning grass near the resi dence of Mr. Levi N. Gecr. No damage res caused by the fire. Mfttlnguifthed Veteran . VlHiling In City. u Copt.-P. A. McDavidn, distinguished 'Confederate veteran, of Greenville, is violtlng relatives in the city. Capt. Mc ,vid was an interesting and con picious visitor In Anderson durlpg e reunion hVro last spring of the 'confederate veterans of the State, bis Is his first trip to the' city since at time., and ho says that he is ppy to be here ngatp. ooooooooooooooooooofl o LO W NDESTILLE NEWS. o uooouoooooowooooOoo Tbo friends of Mr. L. ?. Speer will be Kind lu learn ihat be is improving aller a week ot suffering. Mr. I.. C. Hell of Augusta wns the week-end visitor of his brother. Mr. I. II. llfll. Mrs. T. I). Cooley entertained the U. 1). C.'s Thursday utlernoon. Au UitcrcHtJng program wus nredered af ter whlen refreshments were served. Mrs. Kate Petligrew of Harnes vls iteti lier sister. Miss Annie llutchl I on this week. Miss Agnes Speights spent the Sab lath day with Miss Ellen Tennant. This week o? line weather has brought gladness und activity to our community. The people are prepar ing thei." gardens. Farmers are h tiding sonm fertilizer, hut not linlf so much as last season. WIU Not Affect SerTlce. WASHINGTON, March 1?.-? Fail ure of the lulO postulhce appropria tion bill to pas? congrcjs will not result In curtailment of the service of reduction of the working force. Postmaster General Hurleson an nounced today, recent adjustments ot the postals service ?ad a general campaign of economy begun two years ago having made it possible to hold expenditures within the 11)15 totul. ANNUAL MEETING OF LOCAL COUNCIL C. C. T. Will lie Held Tonight In Knights of Pythias Halt ? o'clock. iFroiu Saturday's Dally ) The annual meeting of Anderson I Council No. 42a. United Commercial Travellers, will be held this evening I in Knights of Pythias hall, and all I members of the organization and all vlBlting travellers are cordially In vited to attend. The election of officers for the en suing year is to take place, and other i Imsinc-oH of an interesting nature will he transacted. I J. H. Shuuklln is Senior Counselor I and C. C. Gribhle Is secretary of the ! Anderson Council, which has a total of some 35 members, j It Is the intention of those calling the meeting tonight to put new life I In th? council and make It more in teresting for tbo members that it may have been In tho past. For that rea son n largo attendance of members Is earnestly desired for the meeting this evening. 1 Light Docket In The Police ConrL It was a light docket which de manded . the attention cf Recordor Russell yesterday at noon in the police court. Hen Drake and Lennle Trlbhlo wero tried on charges of light ing and disorderly conduct, and the I former fined $10 while tho charger, I against the latter were dismissed. The only other case on th? docket was that of Mr. 8am Trow bridge, Who was fined |5 for drunkenness. o o o