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..........?1 i Saved ? *'I want to tell you wha ceivcd from the use of The Mri. Sylvania Woods, of Cli "It certainly has no eq liver and stomach troubles, saved my little girl's life, they went in on her, but Black-Draught made them bi more trouble. 1 shall never I*. ? THEDI BLACK-I In my home." For constipati ' ness, malaria, chills and fev S ailments, Thedford's Black-D fi reliable, gentle and valuable ? M you suffer from any o Draught It is a medicine < I years of splendid success jg yoting and old. For sale ev< tWHMMIMI - Classified Want Advert Twenty-five words or lett, One T Six Times $1.00. All advertisement ovar twenty-flv word. Bates on 1.000 words to - No advertisement taken for lesa Xl your name' appears In the tels your want ed to 821 and a btu will prompt payment WANTS HOTIvE-We are now prepared to do j your grinding of al? kinds of teed ato ff-cotton stalks, corn c talks, j Shucks, straw, grain, etc. Price 20c wr cwt Strictly casb. Anderson Mattress and Spring Bsd Co. (TED-Still more sales ladies for j ?dar, Wednesday and Thursday. Brien ce unnecessary, will pay a price for ladles with ability, tpplv at office. 'J. 8. Minor. 6, 10 and 26c Store, 220 .iouth Main St. ._j , WHEN VKFTjtTECTlT detained down I town 'Cor luncheon, yen cannot do botte- than ?rep in here. A light ?each or r> eub?t^nii&i mt-ai. Cuisine and service O. K. and prices lust ss attractive aa our food. Tho Lunch eonette.-dtf. P?IE8-Wagon and Buggy poles new ind second hand. Paul-SJ. Stephens. FINE FRUITS-We carry the largest and moat complete assortment in the city-keep *em moving. Fresh Florida oranges, grape fruit ap ples, bananas, wholesale and re tail. J. K. Manoa. Phone 822.-dtf. O 0:0 ooo ooooooooooopo e' ? el o Wey don't your Clock run. o o Reese can make it run. $10 re- o o ward it not-dtf. o o o o o oooooooooooooooo FOR WENT LOST-On 3:80 car from Belton, Wednesday, a gentemajrs bill toidi puree, containing $7.35 ($6 bill, $2 \ bill, a quarter and two nickels and valuable receipts to C. P. Miller. Union, 8. C. Finder return to 461 Crayton Street and receive re ward.-lS-24-ltp. FC? RENT FOB BENT-My hoUse on West FraficUn street. Seo J. J. Trow bridge or Chas. W. Webb. lS-20-8tp. The Day io Congress! WASHINGTON. Dec. 23.-SENATE -Inda 'committee closed . public henrieta on water ?>ower site leeaing lalor Nowlands rooke on his plan ordinate river and harbor im scents into a broad national plan f?lopment *-' sumed at 1:10 p. vu. to noon wuiber 29. wUSK-ColCircdo officiels urged lands con^llt^ to create a Rocky Bfotoltonal-fark. .IHK? at 12:50 p. m. until noon t wonderful benefit I have re- J dfcrd's Black-Draught," writes 1 fton Mills, Ky. ual for la grippe, bad colds, i I firmly believe Black-Draught J When she had the measles, ' one good dose of Thedford's 1 reak out, and she has had no 1 be without FORD'S . ."?? )RAUGHT on, indigestion, headache, dizzi- J er, biliousness, and all similar , Taught has proved itself a safe, A remedy. jfr f these complaints, try Black- # rf known merit Seventy-five J proves its value. Oood for ? srywhere. Price 25 cents. fj 63] _P t Columns ising Rates imo 25 cents, Three Times 50 con-". e words prorata for each addition*:! be used in a month made on appU than 26 cents, cash l'a _dvan.ee. phone directory you can telephone be mailed after its insertion for PROFESSIONAL CARDS . DB. FOKEST P. BUGGS Bes Hst Offices ?i?*15 Weekley Bldg. . Associated With . Dr. w. W. Cbisobn . reviro S??H- Anderson, S. C- * * SAYRE * BALDWIN * ABCB1TECTS * Bleckley Bldg. Anderson, 8. G. * * athens National Bank Bldg. . * Bailesa, N. C * a - . BOBERS, TANKS. STACKS, ALL KINDS OF MACHINERY AND SUPPLIES, REPAIRS PIPE, GALVANIZED ROOFING LOMBARD IRON WORKS Asuntsta. Gau Dividends Farinera and Merchants Bank and Farmers Loan and Trust Co. The directors of the Farmers and Merchants bank and of the Farmers Loan and Trust Company have de clared the usual semi-annual divi dends, paydble January 1. The Farmers sud Merchants Bank will pay a dividend of S per cent, while the Farmers Loan and Trust Company will pay a dividend of 4 per cont, Dividends of tluse institutions are payable January 1 and July 1. Mr. J. R. Vandiver ts president of the Farmers and Merchants Bank and Mr. George W. Evans ls vice president ot the Farmers Loan and Trust Com pany. As yet a president of the latter named Institution has not been elect ed to succeed the lste Nim li. Sullivan. These are among the most prosper ous bunking institutions in the State, and their sound condition is due In large part to the very .able business mea who _hare charge of them. NTELL?GENCER 3EPARTMENT Probable Course of This map shows tho location of the owns and cities on the east coast of England which were bombarded by Herman cruisers, and the probable .ourse of the cruisers to tho attack lcross the North Sea. Scarborough, Hartlepool. West Hartlepool, and A'hliby were among those into which * ELECTRIC CIT * _ * Items of Interest and Person i * Wireless on the Si ********** * .*> * 9f? ? ??[aft of Boge* Cheeks Charged. A colored citizen by tho name of .awrence Walker was arrested ye?. crday by Deputy James Willlama on Larges of issuing boguo gji?&iiaa and I Dcked in thc county, Jail, where be rill remain until given hearing in the oort of Magistrate Broadwell. The :lving of bogus checks has gotten to ie quite a common offense, says tho uagistratc, as he now has several mildred stored away in a. big bill old which he keeps for the purpose: Ie han bogus checks in his possession ausging In size all the way from $100 own to $1. "1 am going to get a good tart some of these days," said Magls rate Broadwell yesterday, " and have i general cleaning up of this mal er." Luthorited to Bay 28,000 Bales Cotton. Mr. Robert Llgon, g?n?ral manager if the Gluck and Equinox cotton mills, as been authorised by Wellington ,nd Sears, ot Boston, selling agenta ind principal stockholders on these wo mills, to purchase 88.000 balea of ott on at the present prices. Of Ulla mount 80.000 will be purchased for ho Equinox mills and the balance for he Gluek milla. This number of bales rt il constitute a two year's supply. ir. Llgon states that the storage ac omoda tiona of the mills are limited ut he baa gained the permission of he Insurance companes to atore 1,000 ales in the basement of the Gluck lilla Other storage arrangements rill be made to take care of tba larg r purchases. o '? tekeel Children ?reed Yesterday, eaterday at noon over 3,000 child en were dismissed from tho city cbools for the Christmas holidays, ilad to be fr^a from the labors of tho lesa room tor aueh a long period, the oungstors gaye vent to their feelings i shouts and yella that were audible Dr blocks about each Behool housu nd arong the streets through which say passed en route homo The chools alli resumo work Monday, anuary 4, 1915. Teacher* in the city chools who Uro away from here left esterday afternoon for their respect re homes. lank Directors stat Yesterday. The regular/hon thly meeting of the oard of directors of the Citizens 'attona! Bask was held yesterday ai ? ooh. Only matters of a routine na uru were before the board. Between ow and the last of January annual testings of stockholders and dlree ?ra of banks and cotton mills and ther corporations will be In order. -o e Reeorder*? Court Yesterday. In the abaenoa of case?, on the po lee docket, there waa no session of He recorder's court yesterday. .And ?Oghag from the appearance * f th? ocher, at a late hour yesterday af jrnoon. there will be nothing tor Re order Russell to give his attention ? today. Up until a late hour In the fteraaoav not a singlo arrest ked bean tads by the city police, li the record i kept up though today: this will rove one ot the most orderly Chinit iases Anderson has ever known. German Ships That Bom! ORTH/ \ , CHM ST/i \ \ shells were thrown by the uerman cruisers. It was bc*, 'sm a by the naval ?ex perts thr.t 'hi, c! alsers left thc vicinity of thc i<iel Ki .ml or Heligoland and ! .ade their way up the coast of Den mark to a point on tlic coast of Nor way northwest from Christiania and that then they shot southwest across Y SPARKLETS * _ v * il Mention Caught Over the * tree ts of Anderson * 'A * * * * * ? * Large Influx College Fo'k. Practica'.!/ every train coming into An^.c.son yesterday brought in its <4GOta of college folk, comiug boluc to spend the holidays with pa rep ta or other relatives. Perhaps every college in tho State, or at any rato a large majority of them, were represented by tho students arriving during the day. Representatives of institutions out of the State were also numerous. Numbers of those coming in were An derson young men and young women who are teaching schools away from : home. Today will see others coming in but not so many of-these will bc col lege folk. They will be members of Anderson families- living elsewhere who are coming to spend Christmas with loved ones. Cats Up Seven Innocent "Htills." Thomas H. Gore, special agent ot the United States revenue department, yesterday destroyed seven copper stills at the county Jail which Sheriff 11 Ashley and his deputies had collected duriug the past several months. The stills destroyed, yesterday were those captured from George, Ernest and Will Willlford. negroes, who are charged with operating several miles 11 north or the city? (rom George WiUl ford. who is charged with, operating again west of the city, from a place < on the river; from down near Craft's i old ferry on Mr. Manning's place; \ from a farm- west of the city where two men are charged with having operated, and two stills which were captured down on Savannah River The agent spoke highly of the work done by Sheriff Ashley in suppressing the illicit distilling of whiskey in this county and ' stated that Mr. Ashley should receive the -anal compensa iron of $10 for every still destroyed and $50 for every conviction for vio lation ot the law against the mann facturo of whiskey. The agent inti mated that he might be sent back here with a deputy auurslC.lt for the purpose of making cases against par ties who-ire thought to have operated the stills. -o New Mall Car Has Arrived. The new steel mall car ordered some time ago for the Blue Ridge Rail road has put in its appearance and was formally put into commission yesterday. The new engine ordered for this road has been in corr. ?.vera! weeks. A steel coach and a steel baggage ?nd saasenger coach are yet to come, superintendent John R. Andersua of the Blue Ridge Rail road is expecting the balance of the equipment by the first ot January. gars Seester (Sere Is CiiJnf Were. .Thomas H. Ocre, a special agent of the United States revenus department, who came to Anderson yesterday on official business, ls authority for the st-Lenient that United States Senator and Mrs. Gore ot Oklahoma are going to visit Anderson .'county in th? near future. Mrs. Gore, is is stated, has an only uncle, a Mr. Day, who is said to be living in this enanty, and it is for the purpose ot visiting this relative that they are coaifng hew. The fifi* nne agent who was here yesterday stated that be dined with Senator larded British Towns. the North Sea to Scarborough. The j report that they made their way di rectly from Kjol to Scarborough which I would, of course, have taken less time 1 than the trip north, ls discredited be cause this port of the sea is believed I not only to be patrolled by British gunboats but to be covered with I mines. Bore in Washington Thanksgiving, and that he beard Senator Gore tell Congressman Johnson of Spartanbnrg if his intended visit to Anderson. Sen? ?tor Gore bas been engaged to appear m the chautauqua platform in 22 States and deliver his well known tem perance address, and it is while mak ing this tour that he contemplates visiting Anderdon. The grandfather of the revenue agent who was bere yes terday and the grandfather of the United States Senator were brothers. Senator Gore's wife was Miss NinnS Day. whom he met in West Texas. Ucorgin Hherlff Is Coming Here. Sheriff Std Johnson of Hart count lieorgia, is expected ao arrive in At lei ?un luCzy 'or th? nurpose of ta] >ng back to Georgia a white mar. tho nano of Will Keys, who ls want? sn charges of hsving eloped with jtep mother-in-law. The man Kcy:| was arrested in thia city Tuesd? night by a policeman. Keys was tak? to the county .'ail. where he will held until the arrival of the Georg sheriff. It seems that the chargf against Keys are tte result of a fa Hy fued. Sheriff Johnson waa exi sd to arrive either hist night or jay. but as he had not communicator with any of the city or county office up until a tate hour last night, it presumed that he did not arrive. t'hrh Dna* Weather Is a Beal Pussle. .Even the weather prophets are pi sled as to what mainer of weat Anderson is going to have for Chrl mas. The rain and sleet of Tuc broke Off about nightfall, but lt nained cloudy throughout the hif Yesterday the day dawned nartial slear, but later clouds gathered for a while lt looked very much hough snow would come. The day lot altogether a comfortable one, inc expressed lt, tho cold was "an? lng." It got hold of a fellow and :?im shivering ere he> realised that really waa cold.- Everyone ls tropel :hat tho weather on Christmas day. least, will be clear, crisp and bract In fact,'?prophets have ventured predict that such weather will but "Uten there la many a slip 't\ mp and Hp." Repair! We are specially equi?]: ped to give you the5 bea} and quickest service hjj repairs. "< mm BROKEN LENSES 1 ire duplicated in oi own shops within a few; I hours' time. 1 Ml work supervised aiK guaranteed. Rew^tod Optometrist. 'Hp Ofiee 112 W. VWtoer JkM\ Groans Floor., H Tes?* heno Connection* Ul YOUR CH ACCQUN' Parents : NOW is AC Tho very best present that yl little DEPOSIT in this bank, whlT Savings accounts; and 5 per eel cutes. A Christmas present of your children how to save mone| way you wish it to grow. im Dime Savii J. D. Brown, Pres. J. W. E. W* LEGAL NOTICES Delinquent Load Tax Notice, AU dinlenrfuent road tax collectors are provided with an official receipt book with numbcB, and stub numbes j attached. Pay no money to collectors unless you get the official receipt as j above provided or. J. MACK KINO, County Supervisor. ASES8MENT NOTICE Auditors Othce, Anderson South Caro lina. returns ot personal property for taxa tion, for iba fi??c?i? ?ear from tho first day of January. 1015, to the 20th of February following inclusive. AD personal property must bo Itemized. Real estate not returned, thia year but all transfers of reat estate made since last returns should be noted upon tho return blank whpn listing say on return to whom sold br from whom bought. The township, board of assessors are required by law to list for all those that fall to make their own returns .eithin tho time prescribed, hence tho difficulty of delinquents escaping the 50 per cent penalty, aa well aa the frequency of errors resulting from this practice by all means make your own return and thereby save expense ?nil touble. Ex-Confederate soldier's are exempt from poll tax, all other males between the ages ot 24 and 00 ye/.rs, except those incapablo of earn/ag a support from being main ed or other causes shall bo deemed taxable poli. All trustees must get up polls and dogs and turn into board of anse tor on or before the 20th of February. For tue convenience of taxpayers we will haro deputies to take returns at the following places: Hollands Store ob Friday, January 1st, 1015. Barnes on Saturday, Jan. 2nd. 1916. Iya en Tuesday, Jan. 6th. 1915. iva Cotton Mill on Wednesday a. ta* Ian. Otb, 1015. Starr on We?ncsd>?, 9. m., Jan. 6, 1015. 1-2 day. Cromer? store on Thursday, Jan. 7th, 1515. Townvill* en Friday, Jan. 8 1915. Autumn ou Saturday, Jan. 9,1915. Denver on Monday, a. aa.. Jan. ll,! 1016, 1-2 day. Sandr Springs on Mondar p. m., Jan. li th, 1915* 1-2 a day. P^oaleton C?ty, Tuesday, Jan. 18, I??5, Pendleton. MiW. Wednesdv>y, pi m. }aa. 13th, 1-2 day. . s>??u?? Branch ?n Thursday, ?asu. Hth, 1916. Five Forks on Friday. Jan. 16. 1915. Piercetown cn Monday. Jon. 39,1915 ^Airy Springs ob Tuesday, Jan. 19, ?labtowh on .W?dne*d< tv Jan. 20, mis. Cely Store on Tf ?>uraday, Jan. Sist, 1915. --.'-y W?ginghans Store on saturday. Jan, t?tt?, 1915. F?edmont on Monday, Jan. ts, 1915,. ?c?*?er OH^Klli on Tucafley, Ja J. teth, 1915. Peiier No, * Mill on Wednesday, s Frankrille on Taur *?, 1015, 1-? Williamsto? CH ins. JB?O? M: A, 1915. Cflty 00 ?Ml on ?. M. LDC EN A fov CHftt?TMAS. the time for you to __ . * lou can give your children is a ]ch pays 4 per cent interest on pt on six months time certili a bank book will help teach Bend the twig now in tho Honea Path City on Friday, p. m., |Feby. 6th, 1915. X-t day. Honea Path City on Saturday, A. I M., Fcby. 6th, 1915. 1-2 day. AU new school lines for new school districts must be In tho hand of the auditor on or before the 1st of April so they can be listed in the proper places. If they fail to get in hy that time it won't be-put on the books until the next year. -Please see that your property is listed in tho right school district. All tax levies lor school districts must bo. in hand of the auditor on or by the lat of June. . \ WINSTON SMITH, Auditor of Anderson County. December, 1914. ? NOTICE TO CREDITORS H AU persons having claims against Bsha: 'iiittafa jra? iD.. H. ??'WJAtrtrotrnnssirfo ?lite, hereby notified to present them properly provan to tho undersigned* ?edthln the time prescribed by law, and. those Indebted to make settle ment; . . . '. . '?'} ? J MRS BUZA WEBB. Executrix. ? . 'y. .'' it??lI?E: . : tit the Annual Meeting of the Board of County Commissioners. Tho nnmisl netting of the Beard of County commissioners for Ander son County will bo hold lo the Super visor's office on the first Thursday after the first Monday in Janvary, 1915. AU persons holding demands of any kind agalnrt. the County not' previously presented to the Board are required to file the some with the Clerk on or before the firct day of January, 1915, so that they may be examined and ordered paid at the an nual ; meeting. J. S. ACKER, derk of tho Board. Dec 2nd, 1914. CHECKS CBflt'P i?STANTLY Vbu know crop' is dsn ga." ?un. And you should also, know the senne ot Boeurity that corni s from always hav ing Foley's Honey aisd Ts*. Compound Ul the house, lt cuts the thick mucus and clears away thc phlegm, stops the strangling cough and gives o?sy breathing and quiet sleep. Take ?it fir cough?, colds, tickling throat, hoarseness and for bronchial and la grippe %onghs. Ct??A?? on opiates. Every user is a frisad. NOTICE TO ?REBITORH All persons pavlhg claims against the erst?te of Tolliver and Nancy M. Belt, deceased, are hereby notified to present them properly proven to the undersigned within the time prescrib ed by law, an;; make sett! Executors.