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y. | 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 tit 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 S7,.5o, $4, ?5 Evans Specials $2, $2.50, $ 3. Gaps 25c to S 1.50 "The Store with a Conscience" Good Roads Proposed Bond Issue $751 March 3i Road Comrnissionei !5. M. Aull. Autun J ,M. liroyles. Towiiville II. F. Cly.Piedmont Paul It. Karle.Amlcrsou, It. P. D. w Prank McGce. H us. i.kk \i;\in ivitri'ks ? I ICditor \mhirson lnti'lll?.:*'iic?>r: |)?>ar sir i! is wonderful how people argue against good road- thu thi:;i:s 1 hey ?a> against ilieni! hut mure wonderful mat l hoy argue against them al all. Whit has good roads ever done against tiese peo ple? Have they tried tin in .' Have they ever seen any landowner go bankrupt because a stretch of good road lay by the man's property? What dr? people Rain h> voting and pounding down a good measure that is for 1 he betterment of a county'.' What will people sain by voting down these good reads? Tiny will save their little bit of money maybe a dollar or two- or less?or a little more; they will have It to go bank rupt with at the end of the year? that is. they will he wurth not a dime | nt the end of the year that they would | not have made without the Mille bond lux. They would he Just as well off without it. and their spirit*; will be so baekwarfl that the forward move ment of the Holy Ghost will take no part with them. The time is coming lo vote for the bonds and by this season next year according to the i work or idleness of the road each . separate citizen or voter can say: -f voted *'.t tins road, or?I am the I.? ncdit i /?ruolil who vnti'il against if. There is nothing whatever against i tin* roads, all the people like them; there are men who would parade up | and down a good road to show tin-j creases a) Ihe knee, the correct fold ' of the cufi' ou Iht* trou a ra. the glint ! of patent L ather, (he c!ib.; nf Inven dar gloves and newesi cane but Ibey j eannol spare thai "l? cents in their inside pocket." It i'* a matter of parting with a few dollars and cents. Wir,, the people for the brief mo-j ment of time between now nr. I the .iOth of March to take their eyes off tbi-. paltry, trallley litt le* amount ami rest them ?.n tin* 'mod roads that are to begin when they say so ami shall continue us Ion? as they live and for generations after, they woutlld not think of opposing the roads. Posi tively it will b(. seen that the peo ple are not pushing against kouiI roads, they are preaching the old time poverty; "fergit it." The poor we have always with us. Poverty will be our heritage as long as (iotl loves the poor, but we must not live low as swine who wallow in the mud. we must live us those whose father owns the cattl on a thousa* d hills, and who knows we are heirs to a heritage not made with hands. That is the secret of it all, luk'.M, our eyes o?T the beauty of our souls for the moment ami burying them in the ground. There is supposed reasons in nil thai people say about hard times and how we ought to save a little money, and by being careful how they can tide over hard times; but at the end of the year will they havto saved that little road money? There men who say. "I won't pay out life Insurance; I will save the money and have every dollar of It und hot be keeping up lifo InSurhnco companies. Do the;, save It? Ask the orphan children 0? such a rather; they ?o through every dollar of It. that the life insur ance would have saved for them, of ten with unexpectedly large Interest. If every man who thinks he will vote against the bond Issue were to save his small apportioned bond tax to the end of a yenr, how much would the whole community be the better for his saving it? How much richer would the community be, because the other man had from 30 cents to per haps $3.00 in his pocket? How much richer is the man? He must spend it or be will never get every- I thing out of it till his children get it out of It after he Is dead, und by them they will be walking the streets of the New Jeru-.ia-lein on good roads that their father did not help In giv ing them. Suppose that he does spend his r.O cents on $3.00.?that he Just bad lo have a pair of gloves or shoes, or a bottle of beef iron and wine for.bis stomach's sake?where will .the value of his savings be In a very lit tle while? Meanwhile, the roa?l Is sone too. Must he be specially thank ful for thin when he says grace ot '.able? The Kplscopulean will say, 'Good Ixml deliver us." People will not save their money, and It is as easy killing the road as !t is to kill iiji Infant and when the -rime Is committed It is too late to weep. They may puddle and muddle It along for ten or more years, and whllp they may not enre about that, their children will never write them down an tho wisest men who. ever lived. . ? The arguments people bring up are wry plausablc for action on non is -5UP of bonds: but when a second view Is taken It will bo 6con thdt no plan of individual dollar or dime saving comes up to tho prosperity out growth, bristling and bursting of new buds and leaves on tho old tree like the scattering wldo of $7r>0.000 upon tho fields of Industry; tho purchasing and Belling, the hiring, the disposal of all manner of farm and town pro duct. Tho fnrmor who has^ anything to sell next y*?r won't euro about cotton; his own county Is his mar ket. Cotton may wait for ships to come in; and all this bond money with lntere.it amounting In all to something like a million dollars to sth and breathe through tho dead bones ot hard times will make 1015 the be Department 0,000 Election to be Held 0, 1915. ! rs Provided in Act: .1. s. Kow 1er.Vnderson I ?'. K. Ilurper.Ilonoa I'ath .1. Mack King. Supervisor.1 ?#-i ? ? ?i 1 ( .Iva i glutting year of I be p.issover from li.ill in good. "Commissioner* I? a word to con jure with. I'eople ilo tu?', want t<> in* I horded sheepishly like women in taxation without representation; but women have had in take it and may he could mil have made 11 better ,:hoi<.f'things bad they I he law in their.haada. while many a man ran aee a different man t<> bis "w" likitn, in pla.f oiio "!' ?'hoaen commissioners, yet he is-not going in break through the names:! f'?r, sake of that one man win) mlghl not turn out as well as wan expected of him. The road commissioners. cIiob en by the neo;>l<! arc Indeed the pot lambs of the whole county. Kvury hody loves them; yet. ihcie very men la<t fall at the campaigns, were they to breathe a wliifl of bond Issue | would have been turned ?lown; their j wool was white us snow by not men tioning it. These commissioners! probably would not want to have anything to do with it: and the. county saddles quite enough on com missioners' backs anyway without tumbling a bond issue upon them and the building of such roads entirely tint of their line of practice and pro fession. It might also be condoned that the new commissioners, are elected not because they know as much about roads as do the oflloiabi elected la ;i year, but thai they are elected for management of the peo pled finance and the letting of con tracts In entirely new phase of cottn lj work (her than shovelling and spading. Improved road building be ing Iii? work of men brought up in the service of science and schools. As*tlie work is too con dderably over large to bu required 01? men not. as a hotly, having been engaged in such work before; and people who vole ; for the bond issue will want to see 1 thul their money's worth is in the BUlllciciicy of the roads; a-, well as In Ihn amount of roads built. Many persons seemingly mistake the word bond issue, and call it ! bond.me which, in a way. it Is as poll j and other taxes are?that Is?Ihey ! must be paid; it is the obedience of ' children to their Stale, but as to the i Tut ni e. bonds mean that the future j bonds Itself to pay for the good roads given them by the present. They would rather pay for them than take for an inheritance the had roads which the present has to give them; Ju3t such roads as the past has willed to the present and which the present has had to take and keep up 1 with'more money to each mile than would le required for ten or twenty miles of scientifically built road, j This is thL? expense the present is > seeking to escape from, and which j they desire to deduct from the future I and its system of roads. ; Once while listening to debates in ! a I'ress flub meeting, when roads were the highway cry r?f the country. , an editor wa ; opposed to advocating ; bonds because, though It might bene fit I lie present, it would burden pos ; tcrlly. A brother editor an full of , mirth as o" common sense called I out, "Hang it. what has posterity ! eV..t done lor us?" An editor of a four page wecKly in 1 a mill town' observed that about three .thousand persons looked to him for- the news and they were pood pay. "If I advocate bond Issue," he saidi "I shall have to look for anoth er job. Everyone of my* subscribers will quit. They won't see what good roads mean to them, so they must pay for them?their turnpike is up and down the mill floor!" "Do they own property?" was ask ed. "O. very few." "Then convince them that thoy havc nothing to pay if they have nothing to own." Hut I be editor had to visit every subscribers home und fully explain that If they had no property, they might use the good roads until king dom come and pay nothing townrd tl\em. Even then the scare-head of bond issue frightened many into not voting for it. and not Noting against It, which 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 induce tlieni to vote with 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 read tax which he pays from 21 to 50 years of ago. There are no people who enjoy the country roads more thnn residents of . manufacturing towna. They dot the roads like blos soms in spring time, going to und from visits In the country, nnd sing ings In country churches. They are the very life of the country roads In the long summer days; tho buggies nnd wagons and carriages nglow with the prettiest children and well dressed mothers and fathers; and a good, clean, wide rond to them where dust does not clog their throats and benilre their clothing, ' and where automobiles and bicycles have room also to pass at tho same time?this Is tho road to be heartily desired and *otcd for by those people. As h corporations and other wealthy in terest 3. not paying, tho burden, or two thirds of the whole amount, but that the people after all by ?orne crooked turn uro going to be forced into pay ing?does anybody think a railroad is going |j charge tuoro por mile, or mill men raise rents on* the peoolo. or anything elso that one can Imagine as trlcU bugglary or dark lantern ox tort ion? Corporations and Indus* ;. ' ; ' v q?m - M triai capital ar,. built upon systems i ut equity a- the suns in their planets j su that they cannot anil ?lo not breuk t)ii> laws of organization without 1111 doing themselves. When they now du so imieli to build good roads, then Hie i'-asj the country people should do Is tu do th.- little that is asked of them. There are all sorts of ar guments that might he offered against i-'ood roads, but none that i Las reuson nr logic; and when eoun-I lies m .'>iiiii> measures are overruled i-> :i minority, not majority, it is be- | cause the county s?ys a-- a school! i r tu pupil, "Now. you don't like j thin rtmiy, but while I don't wish; tu press ii tu yon against your will, j i obliged t<> do so for tin' coud of your future happiness. "Meii are only boys grown tall "Ilearts don't change much alter all." At the next election may the boys g^-iwii tall, rise to lhc!r full stature and acee|>t the lesson best for their future; may the In-art of the boy bubble up in the man for ail that is good and beautiful. A certain fraternal orller know; the powerful meaning of the Psalm ists words: "llehold how need and how pleas ant it is for bretheren tu dwell to nether in unity. It h like the prec ioi's upon (he head. " The writer comes pretty 'near be i in? one of them?or to them and asks for help. .And when the next elec tion comes may the bond issue be i voted fur. to have and lo hold not as a bondage or fetter but as a unity that <'an truly feel, "West be the tie that binds." And in the summer mornings to school or market, or church, the roads shall feel clean and fresh to the heart of the hoy -man and girl?! woman. "As the dew of Herman and a3 the lew that descended upon Hie moun tains of Zion. " frlSIIKCCA i?. LKB. A LEGACY OK I'OSTKHITV. Money spent for the permanent Im provement of the public highways is an investment that will pay lurger dividends than any money that the public could possibly spend. A tax tor the permanent, improvement of the public roads differ:; from other' lax in that the other tax is levied for current expenses and has lo be levied j from year to year and Is gone. The i I lax {taid Tor permanent road work is an Investment that will pay dlvi i (lends every year and larger dividends I than money put in bank stock or cot ton mill stack, or in any other enter prise. . j Kvery county in South Carolina wa* tes enough money every tell years to build permanent roads in the conn- J ly und at the end of the ten year j period the roads are no better than they were ten years before. In this I day the county that does not build roads is going to fall behind In the constructive advancement of the age. To levy a sufficient tax in one year to build roads would be burdensome. The only sensible plan is to Issue bonds and build the roads and thus spread the payment of the bonds over ? number of years and the burden falls lightly on all. There are those who will put. up the plea that they do not want to saddle a debt on their children. There ia no bettor or greater legacy you could leave your children than a debt for money honestly and properly spent and invested in the permanent buihhnir of Rood roads and if you leave them the roads they will rise up and bless your name and the wisdom you displayed. 'l iiere is not a man in any county in this State who today would not willingly pay a tax for roads if a former general Ion hud left hlni the roads:. f believe If you demonstrate, that Is j as lar as human agency can demon- j strate, that If the money is nut up I the roads will be built, every man In every county in South Carolina would vote to Issue bonds for permanent road work. !t has always been a strange thing to me that, as a rule, tho people-who pay tho least und receive the greatest bencllt are always the ones who op pose u tax of this kind. I recall once a public, meeting to v-onshler 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 und 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 tax and receive the least direct bene fit always favor such improvements, while the fellow who puys practical ly no tux and uses the roads every day Is loudest In lits apposition. It Is pussing strange. The-thing to do Is. to show him it is to his interest and get his vote right. It Is to his j interest to build roads. I remember once where a townBhlp I proposed to vote bonds for roads' and ! some of the citizens opposed It on the 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 clement to bo rid of. From a selfish standpoint, therefore, 1 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 his home to town. Tho average farm- [ er will not havc%to pay over that amount If the bonds are issued. Then why oppose it. From a selfish stand point It 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 I that your county may remain In the j forefront of progress. To defeat tbei proposed measure would put you bach ton years. E. H. AULL, N>wberrv. March 15*. THF. TAX THF AVER.tflfi. AXDKJl SON COITXTY F AHME K PAYS TO BAO ROADS If any'farmer will take a few inln-j utes ho will realise that he himself1 ? is paying each year an enormous tax or toll to bad roads; and it is a lax which not only does not yield any return at all. but does himself and ids property a positive harm. Suppose we take a man whose pro perty is assessed at $I.O0O. I'nder the proposed bond Issue if the maxi mum rat?> i.; charged of 85 cents on the $ll)o worth of property his road tav f'ir the year will !.. $0.50. A man who owns $1,000 worth of property usually has a team oi two horses or mules. Say this man lives ". miles from market, ami makes one trip a week during the year. He us uall- makes more than this. In going to Ui.irkel over tin; present system of toads he can only haul one-fourth the amount which he can haul over a good road. It tabes him from one to three hours longer to go a ;d return trout market than it would over a good road; so that on each I rip we will say he loses three hours of him self and team in coing to market and carries only half a load. Thus he would have to make two vrips m or der to get the amount to market which he could carry over a good road with one trip, and on the two trips he would lose si\ hours. Now any matt and team is worth at lea ;t :'.() cents an hour. In some places i they are now charging 40 rents an : hour. Then six hours lost at SO tents! an hour is $1.80, which each farmer I practically loses in each trip when i he markets bis produce Averaging ! lii^ trips during the year tit .">2 would I make his lax to bad roads .GO, I which is about what the average far iner paying tax on $l.00ti worth of properly 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 sav nothing of the wear and tear on his team and I harness and vehicle, the lack of op I port unit y of attending church when desired, the impossibility of his child I ren reaching school regularly, and I the lack of opportunity for carrying ! on the social intercourse which is necessary to the life of every human being. Another tax he pays to bad roads is that in case of severe Illness it is practically Impossible to obtain a doctor in any reasonable lime, so that bis family is constantly running n risk of losing their lives in case:; of emergency because of the physical impossibility of getting a physician there within a reasonable time over the poor roads. All these latter phases cannot be reckoned in dol lars and cents. If you own leas than $1.<I00 worth of taxable property you can divide the above sum and get what you arc paying to the had roads. If you own more than $1,000 worth of property, you can multiply the above amount and get your tax to bad roads. Are you going to submit to thit 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. tticle Josh "Agin" it "Agin." Editor Tho Anderson Intelligencer: I am very sorry that it is neces sary for me to any any more concern ing tbe bond issue, but in your coin [ ments on my former article you havo misquoted me more or ler.3. either by mistake or intetttionalily. In the llrst place; you said that 1 had asstcrtcd that I was In favor of good 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 1 do not seem to have absolute confidence in the com mittee named to handle this fund. It may bo that you want a fact about a good portion of this committee. If so it is in this way, 1 will ask you one thing! Von have only been a resi dent of Anderson County for a short while, and why do you try to ruu your estimation of those particular men far beyond those of citizens that havo 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 bacausc 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 13 not true, for look around you in tho city and country and you will, find the most influential men on both sides of the administration fighting 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 ho 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 the 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 tbe country keep them up? Then why do you want to join yourself to tbem in order to make your burden lighter? Don't you know that corporations seldom ever suffer from anything, if we go and put aomothing 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 them a little what do they do. Just raise the price of oil a little and make you and me and ev erybody else pay for the hit, and all corporations and trusts are Jnst tho same. No, Mr; Editor,' wo do not need any thing along this Ilde now, so lets' get together and quit trying to pull this thing any - further. Yours very truly, JOSH ASHLEY, Honea Path, March n. CHILDREN HATE PILLS, CALOMEL AND CASTOR OIL If cross, feverish, constipated, give "California Syrup of Figs." Look back at your chjhlhood days. Remember the ' dose" mother instated on -castor oil. calomel, cathartics. How you bated them, bow you rough', against Inking them. With our children It's different. M 01 h era who cling to the old form of physic simply don't realize what they do." The chfdren's revolt is well founded. Their tender little "itisides" are iujnn d by them. If your child's stomach, liver and bowles need cleansing, give only d?li ions "California Syrup of Pigs." Its action is positive, hut gentle. Millions of mothers keep this harmless "fruit laxative" handy; they know children love to take it; that it never falls to dean the liver and bowels and swect ?n Hie stomach, and that a teaspoon tul given today saves a sick child to morrow. Ask your druggist for a 50-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 made by "California Fig Syrup Com pany.'' Refuse any other kind with I contempt. o O O O O 0 0 O o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o ItF.FCGK IT F.11S ? a ooooooon'oooooooooooo The Itev. T. M. Land ot 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 all love to hear this able man qf Und speak. The people of this community und 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 und go to kicking, oiuking or pulling hack under the load, we can have an excellent Sunday school. Horn unto Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Hick Saturday, March ?!. a son, Robert Lawrence. Mr. and Mrs. W. IS. Mayes spent Sunday at the home or Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Evntt. Mrs. W. H. Crcnshaw and Mrs. El len Jenkins spent Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs. Paul Glllesple. Mr. and Mrs. L. O. Evatt and little daughter, Agnes spent Sunday at the home of Mr. Foster Evatt. Mr. ami Mrs. West White and little daughter, Leon spent Sunday _at. the home of Mrs. Jane Glllesple. A goodly number of our young peo ple enjoyed n cotton picking at the Itev. R. W. Nelson's Tuesday night. Mrs. Mary Wilson and two children spent last Wednesday at the home of Mrs. P. C. Gillespie. How many of us have a habit of finding fault with everything and everybody? We can often find fault rith the other fellow, but If we have the same fault he has, we never see it in ourselves, but very easily do we See it in the other fellow. Ah me. how much better off we would all he If we could only find the fault In ourselves, and not. bother with the faults of others. First get the mote out of thine own eye. be fore plucking it out of thy brother's eye. \ew Cutters to He Launched. WASHINGTON. March 12.?The new roast guard cutters OsSipee. for use in Maine waters, and Tallapoosa, for the Gulf of Mexico, will he launch ed at Newport News, Va.. April 20. Miss Saille McAdoo. daughter ot the 8ecretary_jjf/the treasury, will chris ten the Osnlpee and Miss Mabel Hart well, of Mobile, will namo the Tal lapoosa, wh'ch will be an oil-burner AirrepN to Make Concessions. LONDON, March 12.?Authorita tive renorts reaching The Haicue from Berlin ?cem to indicate that Germany, with a view ro securing Italy's neutrality, has Induced Aus tria, desphe vigorous opposition by Emoeror Franchi Joseph, to agree to make territorial concessions to Italy In the event, that f?ermany and Aus tria are victorious in the war. RID STOMACH OF GASES, SOURNESS, AND INDIGESTION j "Pape's Diapepsin" ends all stom? ach distress in five minutes. You don't want a slow remedy when vour stomach Is bud?or an uncertain one?or a harmful one?your stomach Is too valuable; you mustn't lnluro 11 with drastic drugs. Pone's Diapepsin Is noted for its speed In giving relief Its harmless ness: Its certain unfailing action in regulating sick, sour, gassy stomachs'. Its millions of cures In indigestion, dyspepsia, gastritis and other stomach trouble has made it famous the world over. Koep this perfect stomach doctor in veur home?keep it handy?get s largo fifty-cent caso from any drua store ond then it anyono should eat something which doesn't agree with them; if what they eat lays like lead, ferments and sours and forms eaa? causes headache, dizziness and naul !^a;A^5iaotot,onV,t NH and undigest ed food?remember as soon as Pape's Dlapepsln comes In contact with tho stomach all . such distress; vanished tts promptness, certainty und ease1 ht overcoming, the- worst stomach dlsoV Jera ia a revelation to those who tr* oooooooooooooooo o o o IVA NOTES o o oooooooooooooooo: Mr. nml Mrs. S. 13. Anderson spent i a few hours In Anderson Thursday on i business. . M?\ Joe Shornrd has returned homo! after spending several dnys in Angus- ; la on business. Mr. Walter Sadler of Anderson spent n short while here this Week j with his parents, Mr. ami Mrs. i). F. ' Sadler. ! Mrs. John It. Simpson of the l'op- | lar Springs neighborlrood dlvd Th?rs.- ' day afternoon and wau buried the fol- J lowing day at Generastcr, cemetery, ! uervico were conducted \ ji her pastor, j Rev. S. J. Hood. Mrs. Simpson was a ! consistent member of the Grove j church. She leaved a husband and several boob and daughters, two sis ters, Mrs. John Snow and Mrs. War ren Watt of Anderson to cherish her memory. Miss Gertrude .Weiden was shop ping in Anderson Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. J>, S. Cllnkscnlca of Staw Wfc.re the guests Saturday of their daughter, Mrs. .1. C. Ligon. A meeting of the Civic. Association will be held In the school auditorium Monday ufternoon at four o'cloen. The members are urged to lie present, bus. inesB of importance. Mr. Glenn Simpson of :/;arr was In town several duys this week on busi ness. The Womnn'a Missionary and Aid Society of the Presbyterian church will meet Wednesday afternoon at the homo of Mrs. T. C. Jarksou at ?I o'clock. : Prof. Cliff D. Coleman ami wife spent the week-end In Anderson with friends and relatives. ; Misses Nancy Pearson and Carrie Howell were shoppers in Anderson Saturday. Messrs. T. CS, Jackson, Jr.. LeRoy Sadler. T. K. Strlbliug, Clarence Slier, ard. H. W. Wukefleld and Dr. C. II. - Burton went to Anderson Friday night to attend the play "Lady, Luxury." Fire Dentirt tuen t -, cd to Franklin street weat, yesterday 1 shortly after 12 o'clock to extinguish iBoine burning grans near the resi dence of- Mr. Lovi N. Goer. No damage .. was catised by the fife. Distinguished Veteran Tlslilng In City. Capt. Pi*A. McDavlda, dlstingukaed Confederate veteran, of Greenville, is /'visiting relatives In tho city. Capt. Mo David was an Interesting and . coh-? eplclous visiter In Anderson during tho reunion here last spring of the 'Confederate veterans of tho State, This is his first trip to thn V.?y slnco thnt time, and he says that he la jh'appy; to be here again. OIIOOIIIIUOOOOOOOOOOOUO n o o LOWNOESVILLE NEWS. <i o o U O O O 0 O O O O 0 0 o o 0 O O 0 o ? The friends of Mr. L. O. Spoor will bu glad to learn that h? is improving alter a week of Buffering. Mr. I,, i'. Hell of AuguRta was the week-end visitor of hia brother, Mr. 1. 1!. 11 il. Mr?. T. I>. Conlcy entertained the U. 1). ('.'? Thursday afternoon. An Interesting program was nredcred af ter which Iefr?Hhineuta were served. Mrs. Kate I'eltlgrew of Harnes vis {teu lier sister, Alias Annie llutuhl ) on this week. Miss Agnes Speights spent the Sab l.uib day with Misa Bllon Tonnant. This week of Uno weather has hroughl gladness and activity to our cominuuity. The people are prepar ing Ihci? gardens. Kariners uro huit ling some fertilizer, but not half so much ns lust season. WUl Not Affect Service. WASHINGTON, March 1.;.--Fail ure < i the 1W16 postotliee appropria tion bill to imas congre is will not result In curtailment of the service of reduction of the working force. Hosimaster General Hurleaon an nounced today, recent adjustments of the postals service ?ind a generul campaign of economy begun two years ugo having made it possible to hold expenditures within tho 1918 total. AN M'A I, MEETING OF LOCAL COUNCIL IT. C. T. Will He Held Tonight In Knights of Pythias Hull s O'clork. (From Saturday's Dally ) The annual meeting of Anderson Council No. 42:t. United Commercial Travellers, will be held this evening In Knights or l'ythlus bull, and all members of the organization und uil visiting travollers are cordially In vited to attend. The election of officers for the en suing year Is to tnke place, und other business iff an interesting nature will be transacted. ; J. H. sbanklln is Senior Counselor and ('. C. Grlbble is secietary of the Anderiron Council, which bas a total Of uopie 35 nu-tubers. It is the intention of those callln the meeting .tonight to put now life In tho councit and make it moro In teresting Tor tho members that it may have been in the past. For that rea son a largo attendance of members is earnestly desired for the meeting this evening. Light Hochet In Tho Toltre ConrL It was a light docket which do manded the attention cf Recorder Russolt yesterday at noon . In the police court. Hen Drake and Lcnnle Tribbie wcro tried on charges of fight ing and disorderly conduct, and the former fined $10 while the charges agalas. the latter were dismissed, The only other, case oh the docket was that or Mr. 3aih Trowbridge, who was fined $5 for drunkenness.