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To the Property Owners of Laurens County: On account of the recent passage of the "Anti-Compact Law," several Fire Insusance Companies have withdrawn from the State. We desire to say that the passage of this law in no wise effects the interests of the old RELIABLE HOME Institution, the ABBEVILLE-GREENWOOD MUTUAL INSURANCE ASSOCIATION This Association of the people, for the people, and by the people, for twenty-five years has been insuring the Property of its policy holders, both in city and country, against damage by fire and lightning, cyclones, tor nadoes and wind storms, and has never been in a more prosperous condition than at present. Speedy and fair adjustments of all losses of property are made at assessed valuation when insured, with no three-fourths clause attached. Of the TWO MILLION DOLLARS of insurance now carried the money paid out is kept at home and dollar goes to the loser property, which means the upbuilding of your own county. To those who desire safe protection for their property at the minimun cost of Insurance and would co-op erate in building up home enterprise, we would say insure in the Abbeville - Greenwood Mutual Insurance Association. For further information, call upon the local township director, or upon J. R. BLKE eneral Agent NATIONAL BANK BUILDING, GREENWOOD, S. C. SENA'1'Olt .1. A. BANKS SSES A "CRISIS" Calhoun Senator Issues Warehouse Call. Members of State Warehouse Assoclation Urged to Attend Meet. 1ng in ('olumbla Wednesday After neon. 1'olumbia, April 25.-"We are pre pared now we are beginning to move", said John L. McLaurin, State ware house commissioner, this afternoon in connection with the issuance of a call by Senator J. A. Ilanks, of St .ltthews, for a meeting of the warehousemen in the State system, to be held in Colum bia on Wednesda.y, May 3. The call says a "crisis" has been reached in the life of the State warehouse sys tem, and the call is made for the pur pose of "that. in the multitude of coun sel a plan of effort may he agree on." The ^all was issued after a confer ence participated in by Senator Blanks, lepresentative W. -P. Odom, one of the authors of the famous Laney-Odom anti-compact bill, and others, it was learned here tonight. The call is sued by Senator Banks, the president, and addressed to the members of the State Warehouse Association, fol lows: "Tile State warehouse system has reached a crisis in its life. Our one mies are strongly organized and pre pared for its destruction. The useful ness of this system has been demon stated wherever operated; its possi bilities of development for tabilizing cotton values cannot be over-esti mated. It can be. preserved and ex tended if its friends unite and work in harmony to this end. "You are, therefore, urged to attend a meeting of the Association, to be held in the offices of the State ware house commissioner, in the city of Co lumbia, on Wednesday afternoon, May 3, in order that in the multitude of counsel a plan of effort may be agreed on. The meeting will be called to or ,der at 2:30 o'clock. It will not be pos sible in the short time intervening to reach the members by personal let ters, but the meeting is of vital im portance, and each member is urged to attend." Whooping Cough, One of the most successful prepara tions in use for this disease is Cham herlain's Cough Remedy. S. W. Mc Clinton, Blandon Springs, Ala., writes "Our baby had whooping cough as bad as most any baby could h'qve it. I gave him Chamberlain's Cough Rem edy and it soon got him well." Obtain able ever where. FIRES ItAGE IN DUIAN, SAYS IIELFAST RIEPORT 'ity Sold to be Surrounded by Troops. 'rhe Lord Lieutenant of Ireland Says "Seditious Movement Will be Sup. pressed Soon. London, April 29.-Parts of the city of Dublij are in flames, an lvening News dispatch filed at Belfast says. S reet fighting continues and there is much looting, it is said, but the rein forced military is making steady prog Sress. Most of the shops are closed. Simultaneously with the outbreak in Dudlhi Monday, says a Reuter dispatch dated yesterday, a number of excur sion trains arrived with nen appa rently pleasure-bent. Upon reaching the station the ii. joined .the rebels, and by a concerted move captured all the bakeries and their delivery wag ons, as vell as motor cars, street cars and carts in the vicinity. Many of the vehicles were used to erect barricades, while the cashions were utilized in the line of trenches which was in St. Ste phen's Green. Some of the earliest fighting oc curred at Dall's bridge and on the main road from Kingston to Merrion square, where the rebels seized a school house and a small hall adjoin ing. Along the road also men who seemingly were working in gardens suddenly picked up guns and began firing at passers-by, the dispatch states. These outbreaks in the outskirts lio% ver, have now become rare, adds the correspondent, and in the centres in Spekville street, where the post office 'is barricaded on the inside with bags of paper and all available books. Around Jacob's Factory the trouble is accentuated by women taking sides. Their attempts to got provisions into the besieged rebels are resisted by co-workeds who remain loyal. Many free fights among the two factions of women are reported. The flat roofs of the houses are af fording an excellent scope for the tac tics the rebels are employing, the cor respondent continues. They can lie flat and hide behipd chimneys and fire down on the military, However, with the proclamation of martial law and orders for the peopl to remain in their houses between 7:30 P. M. and 6:30 A. M., the sitation improved and the streets are practically deserted except for the military. Not only has the cordon around the disaffected area in the centre of the I* LANFOIJD NEWI'S. 4 Lanford, April 24.-Our community was shocked and saddened'at the death of our dear pastor, Rev. W. P. Smith, which occurred at one of his church es, West Springs, in Spartanburg county, Mrs. II. .\l. Johnson doesn't improve very fast. Mlr. WN. Hf. Drummond is very 1un1i(h improved. .J r. K. ii. .oore spent Sunday at MlcCormick with his daughter, al rs. W. 10. 'Thomas. Mrs. Frank Randals returned to Ilendersonvilie, N. C., Monday, accom panied by her little daughter, Miss E~stelle Nelson. .lisses Robin Patterson and Carrie Lou Iliggins were in Laurens Satur day shopping. Mish. Winnie -Jeans spent the week end with Miss Grace Deshields. Capt. J. W. Lanford, John F. Wal drep and J. B. Wright attended the re union at Laurens Saturday. Mr. Dugan Martin spent Sunday here with his family who are visiting at N. 11. Moore's. Mrs. C. L. Waldrop was in Spartan burg Monday shopping. Mr. B. W. Johnson and family spent Sunday here with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Johnson. Mrs. Alice Mills spent Sunday with Miss Minnie Lanford. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Drummond spent Sunday at J. S. Higgins'. Mr. I,. M. Cannon went to Spartan burg Monday. Capt. and Mrs. J. W. Ianford spent Monday and Tuesday in Spartanburg. "Chamberlain's Tablets Have Done Wonders for Me." "'I have been a sufferer from stom ach trouble for a number of years, and although I have used a great number of remedies recommended for this complaint, Chamberlain's 'T'ablets is the first medicine that has given tne positive and lasting relief," writes Mrs. Anna Kadin, Spencorport, N. Y. "Chamberlain's 'T'ablets have done wonders for me and I value them very highly." Obtainable everywhere. city been amply sti'engthenod, but the outlying districts have been strongly picketed, so that if any rebels succeed in escaping from the Capital, the cor respondent points out, they cannot roach the seclusion of the mountains. f * ****e* a . ** ee.*.*.. * hOLLY 11 OVE NEWS. * * e * e e e * ..* ..., 1olly Grove, April 24.-Mr. Ernest Compton of Greenwood and Messrs S. M. Taylor, Wylie Wells of Fork sec tion visited relatives in this Vicinity last week. A ir. .l. K. Templeton of Clinton is spending a fcw days with his mother recuperaling fromt sickness. Mr. I. . Blakely went to Alabama a few weeks ago, to purchase some blooded stock, among wItic h is a reg islered I3ei lshiire brood sow. On his return trip he V isited his aunt, at. Lau rensviIle, Ga. Alr. Blakely is a pro gressive farmner. Professor leewell's article on the night school touched t responsive chord. This school tills a long-felt. need. Before President Lucas built the present academy the writer opened a night school at the I.aurens cotton 1ills. So anxious were the parents for the school that they offered the use of their spare room a month each. The school ran through one whole summer and was a marked success, only the failing health of the teacher caused it to be discontinued. I remember one young man, more determined than the others, to improve his mind. lie now fills a responsilble position. It touched my heart to see boys from fifteen to twenty-two years of ago who could not write their names. I remarked to a friend at the time, "In a few years these boys will be the voters of our country." A young man or woman yho starts in life with an untrained m Is sadly handicapped. For the bene j somc boy or girl who can see n for his or her advancement I will rete an instance of one boy who tunnelled through mountains of diliculties to reach the desired goal, lie realized his most exalted dreams. 1llt his was no half-hearted purpose. It was the aim of his life. Left fatherless at an early age he had no advantage, not even the country schools, for he was the stay of his widowed mother, but by studying at night after a hard days work, lie learned enough to enable him1 to pass the county examinations. After that he would teach one term and go to school the next. In the meantime he never neglected his moth er and sisters. After several years, lion. J. L. M. Irby, Rev. N. J. Holmes seeing his struggles for advance. Special ValuesI The most comprehensive line of white and colored wash fabrics we have ever shown here---see the variety, the prices run from 1 Oc to 25c the yard. New Torchon and Val Laces, just opened. Hosiery This stock is complete in all sizes in ladies Pure Silk and Silk Lisle. Misses and infants in black, white and colored. Childrens col ored-top socks in all sizes. W. G. Wilson & Co. ment, kindly loaned him money to fin- Fishing at Yarborough. iah school. When lie entered the Theo- Mr. .John Yarborough, of Yarbo, logical seminary he could compete with ough's mill, was in the city one day ;3 college men, he having never entered last week and stated that lie wouldulika college. When several years after he the public to understand that he ha graduated, God called him home lie not forbidden fishing on his prope was a cultured man, as well as an ties. Fishing parties, picnic Parti earnest Christian. That boy was my and all are cordially invited to mali brother, Rev. N. M. Templeton. I'feel use of the stream and grounds for no egotism in relating this, for he de- their pleasure without charge. served all honor. First Pea Bloom, Rheumatism. On April 5th The Advertiger's gar If you are troubled with chronic or den editor received "a pea bloom from muscular rheumatism give Chamber- Miss Bolyn Arnold, of Princeton. lain's whniment a trial. The relief which was the first that he had seen work many times its cost. Obtain- up to that time. There was no prise able everywhere. offered for pea blooms this year. .4