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For Monday\s Selling We Offer Many Values of Interest Patent turn Mumps Piped with White, very Ililli heel and no ornament. A good titting d* O *"7 Ci Pump tor . / %J Bronze Pumps with a Leather Louis d?Q pf/V Heel and hutton ornament, toi. tPOeOvJ Gray Tops Pumps in Patent and Dull I eathers. Hul ton ornament and leather I ouis heel. AA Regular SA values, for. ?P*J?UU White ( air.as Rubber Sole Oxfords. 0*? Round toe la^t. d) 1 .^?) White Canvas Veranda Pumps. Sold t?* 1 A f\ in larvei cities foi but here for. . . ?pi .^?/vr WE CABBY AU, SIZES AM? WIDTHS. ?ONE CHARGED UK SENT ON APPROVAL. Geisherg Bros, Shoe Co. Palmed? Tlheata MONDAY MOVIES ONLY "The Sinking of the Lusitinia"-American. "WHEN CAMERON PASSED BY"-Reliance "THE ELECTRIC ALARM"-Majestic "THREE ROSES"-Thanhau.er We were unable to secure a GOOD Vaudeville this week, so we will have noil this week. Austrian Alps, Which Italians Must Cross. This is the character ot the country Uie Italians, now marching north, must cross to reach Austrian terri tory. The figure In the centre shows one of Che Alpine chasseurs of the italian army. These men are equip ped and trained for warfare on the monntcin passes. Bo ?ar as can be learned from des patches, the Juliane are Sow making two movements against. Austria. One takes the mover the lowlands, north of Venice, In the direction' ot the province of Trieste. The other re quires them to puBh north over moun tainous country. Io some of the pass es more than 11,000 feet high,, there ls snow the year round. Bat lt will not greatly interf?re with fighting In th? sommer. PRIZES FOR WINNERS CORN CLUB CONTESTS ARE ANNOUNCED BY W. W. LONG, STATE DEMON stratton Agent. SIX PRIZES OFFERED Most Prizes Will Be tn Form of Cash-Clemson Scholar STRATION AGEN T. The following circular letter has b?-en received by Mr. S. M. Byar?, farm di nioiiBtration agent, and gives a list ol prizes which will ne fclven to the wilmer? in the Boys' Com club con ti hts this year: Bishopvllle, S. C ., May .8. ISMS To All Demonstration Agents and iMembera of the Boyf ?'orn Clubs of S. C.: 1 beg leave to announce the follow I. -.u. prizes: ll First Frite. To thc boy in the stuto making the highest general average according to rules and regulations confined in Cir cular No. "A" 47, reviled edition, and In Clemson College Corn Club Cate chisms, volumes I and If. will be awarded a gold medal offered by the lion A. P. Lever, and $40 In cash, of fered by the H. Q. Hastings Seed com pany of Atlanta, Go. Second Prise. To the boy making the second gen eral highest average according to rules and regulations contained in Circu lar ?No. "A" 74. revised edition, and in Clemson College Corn Club Cate chisms, volumes I and II. will bo awarded a 14k gold, open faced. 19 Jewelled, adjusted Waltham movement watch, offered by the W. H. Misson Seed company of Charleston. S. C., and $30 in cash offered by the H. C. Hsst ings Seed coron inv of Atlanta. Oa. Third Prise. To the boy In the state making the highest y'.bld at the lowest cost per bushel, In accordance with the rules and regulutions in circular No. "A" 74, revised edition, and in the Clemson Corn Club Catechisms, volumes I snd II. will be awarded $30 In cash offered by the H. Q. Hastings Seed company of Atlanta, Cia. Fourth Prise. To the boy In each congressional district of the Btate making the highest general average according to rules and regulations contained in circular No. "A" 74, revised edition, and in the Clemson College Corn Club Cate chisms, volumes I and II, will be awarded 1.000 pounds of sulphate of ammonia, or an agricultural short coures of one month at Clemsca col lege. This prize is offered by Ameri can Coal Products company of At lanta ,Q?. Fifth Prise. To the two boys in each county nuk ing the highest two general averages according to rules and regulations contained in circular No. "O'* 74, re vised edition, and In the Clemson Col lege Corn Club Catechism, volumes I and II, will be awarded one month free scholarship to agricultural short course at Clemson college. These prlr.es sre offered bv Clemson clolege. Sixth Prise. To the county agent who secures the greatest percentage of bon Ilde club reports ob the largest enrollment of boys, enrollment to count 25 per cent and reports to count 75 per cent, will be awarded $25 in cash, offered by the C. H. Hastings Seed company, At lanta, Qc. L. L. BAKER, Supervising Agent ot Boys' Corn Club Work. Approved: W. W. Long. State Agent. J. E. Swearlngen. State Supt of Education. 6000 YIELDS OF OATS BEING HUBE THIS YEAR Mr. Wada Drain Averages 40 Bushels to Aero on 80 Acres Brother Makes Wheat. Mr. Ralph Drake waa among the visitors in Anderson yesterday snd Btated that he and his brother. Mr. Wade Drake, had finished harvesting sod that they had had their grain threshed. He saya he has made more, than enough oats for his own uso and also has made onough wheat ' > fur nish him with flour for the next ?wolve months. Mr. Wade Drake made about 3.SOO bushels of oats on 80 servo, or an av erage ot 40 bushels to the ?ere. This is a very good average. Mr. Drake stated yesterday that all the farmers had been busy for the past week getting their crops worked out He said that nearly all of them waru getting up with their work and that the cotton and corn was looking well. i Mrs. Mattie Ledford. . Mrs. Mattie Ledford died In this city Thursday afternoon at t:*0 at the home of her daughter. Mrs. O W. Bar rett, c street. 38. Anderson mill vil lage. Funeral services were held Fri day afternoon and interment wss made In Silver Brook cemetery. She waa from Canton, N. C., aad widow ot Mack Ledford ot Clay county. N. C. Mrs. Ledbord was visiting her daugh ter at the tune of her death. She had made her home with her son, J. D. Ledford, at Canton, N. C. Bah 0 Lia*-Welt? JB. leese 4% Csv. ite-18-i* RENTED NEW STORE ?VI?L OCCUPY OSBORNE & PEARSON BUILDING ON DECEMBER 1. HAVE EIGHT STORES First Store Started in Anderson in 1908 on East Whitner St. Will Remodel Building. Fleischman Bros. have rented the store room now occupied by Osborne ?Sc Pearson and will occupy it on ur about September 1st. They stated yesterday th it much work would be done to the interior of the ?tore in the way of .tainting and rearranging the fixtures. This is one of the largest and best situated store rooms in the city iud is an especially good stand. Fleischman Uros, ^amc o Anderson lo 1908 and first had a store on East Whitner street. Recently they have been In business on South Main street. They do business on a lurge scale and have six stores in North and South Carolina. I DEATHS I Mrs. McConnell. Bevard. N. C.. June 8.-Mrs. Eu genia McConnell of Anderson, died Tuesday, June 8. at the home of her daughter. Mrs. Milan Nicholson, where she had been visiting for the past few weeks. In the last year's time Mrs. McConnell had suffered from a serious cuse of typhoid fever from which she hud never regained complete health. She had been sev eral times before to tills place visit ing her daughter and was quite well ind favorably known io many Bevard people. Her kind and penile disposi tion easily made friends for her with those she met. The funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at the Olazener burying ground, conducted by r.-?v. A. V. McDaniel. Mrs. Con nell's maiden name was Miss Eugenia Adelina Hail. She was born at Anderson, S. C., in 184ii and was twice married, first to Thaddeus Orav and next to Newton McConnell, both of Anderson, S. C. She ls sur vived by three children: J. M. Ora* and J. C. McConnell of Anderson county, S. C., and Mrs. Milan Nichol son of Brevard. For many years she had been a member of the Baptist church. 50 DALLONS TO ACRE Negro Sa j s He Hade ?S Gallons Ny rap On 1 l i Acres. There ls a colored man near the Savannah river on lt. P. D. No. 3, I s . who knows how to raise cane to tia id Into syrup, ilia name la J. G. S - .-rani and while .lu the city yes terday he was talklr.g about his farm. He says that last year off 1 1-2 acres of land he made 73 gallons of syrup, or an average of 50 gallons,to the acre. Ile says that he was able to sell all of this that lie did not need for his own use at 60 cents a gallon. This would make a total for the 73 gallons of $43.80, which ls much bet ter than the average cotton raised per acre. Sherard says that he owns 160 acree of land and that there is not a penny owing on lt. He believe in raising everything he can ut home and then raising cotton as a surplus crop. This year he has 40 acres of cotton plant ed and has plenty of corn, peas, cans peanuts and watermelons. He said that he bad just finished harvesting bis wheat and oats and that he thought he had made enough to last bim for the next twelve months. STATE LEAGUE CONFERENCE State Conference Epworth League la Columbia. Misses Irene and Sarab Prince and Mr. John Owens have been elected as delegates from Anderson to the Ep worth league conference which will meet in Columbia June K-17. This State conference is Very im portant and lt ls expected that lt will be largely attended. Since tbe divis ion of the South Cai ot ina Methodist conference into two divisions lt ls thought that the Epworth letgue con ference will do the same thing. NEWS t ROM NENEC* Seneca., June ll.-A party of th? young peonlc went to the Tunnel on a picnic Wednesday. The'party con slated of Messrs. Wilkes Dandy, Thornley Cary. O. W. O rant, Jr.. Wil lie Austin, T. R. Ntmmons, Bill Adams, Herbert Sullivan, of Laurens, Francis Wallace, Julian Kolleman, Misses Gladys Twnsey, Lucile Mason, of Charlotte, Louise Dandy, Suanee Daly, Louise Lawrens, Misa Akerman, of Sumter, Sue Ellen Hanter, Misses Eunice and Gargaret Golphln. The chaperons were; Mrs. J. W. Austin, Mrs. Lesley Strlbbling and Ber. I. E. Wallace. The Misses Hines entertained Thurs day evening at their home here for their house visitors, Miss Francis May Milling, of Rock Hill. Miss Adele Pitts, of Sumter. Miss Alta Anderson, of Kdlsto Island. Mr. P. B. Nelson, of Manning, and Mr. M. C. Green of Greenville. Among the out of town gue*t attending were: Miss Ruth Per? ry .Richland, MT. Prank Barnes, Rock Hill, Mr. Joan Treacott, Pendleton, Mr. Jo? Doutait, Sandy Springs, ^^^^^^^^ When You Go For a Trip Or On a Vacation Youl) of course want handy luggage-a suit case or traveling bag, and there%s no reason why it should not he as "right'1 as your clothes. The kind that combines ' long service with the greatest convenience and good ap pearance is here in our liberal stock of traveling needs. Suit Cases $3.50 to $12.50. Traveling Bags $3.00 to $12.50. PARKER ?? BOLT The One-Price Clothiers __J $2.00 to $10.00 Fitted bf oar Corsetlere. D. GEISBERG Messrs Geo. ArmsL-cng. and Clarence Brack, it, denison College. F?iV. and Airs. W. H. Hamilton visited Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Lowry' for a few days this week. They were returning home from the meeting ot the general assembly of the Presby terian church, which met recently at Newport News. After the close of the assembly they visited Washing ton and other places of interest. Mrs. W. H. Moore and daughters, Misses Mary. Fannie and Willie Fay have returned to their homes here af ter an extended automobile tour of the State. They visited Columbia. Hartesvllle, Sumter and other places, and attended the commencement of Coker college, where Miss Fannie graduated this year. They were driv en by Mr. C. F. Adams of the Sene ca garage._ _I ?- > - I\ Y m Their Cost Con Percolators . Toasteis Southern P rs ?OU THE?TR] MONDAY "A Witch of Salem Town" Two-reel Costume Victor Drama, featuring Mary Fuller and Matt Moore. "Fifty-Fifty" Imp Comedy? featuring King Baggott and Jana Gail One Selected Reel Yet to Be Added John Thompson Moore Dead. Mr. John Thompson Moore died at his "home near here Thursday morn ing at about 2 o'clock. Mr. Moore was a good man, and citized. Until the first "of this month he was the proprietor and manager of the Se?e ra implement company! which he founded several years ago. He had been in declining health for several month;;, but until within the last few weeks had been attending to business and going about as urual. And his death was quite a shock to his many friends here, who had not realized that he was In so dangerous a condi tion. He is survived by bis wife and three children. Mrs. J. W. Byrd and Mrs. Jasper Doyle have returned from Columbia where they went to Witness the grad uation of their sons, Chas. Byrd and Oscar LAjle, from the University of South Carolina. VIII v;ouopeit Dur Door to these Summer Comforts! Is Very Small And The venience Is Great Irons . . . Grills . . . $5.06 $2.00 $3.00 $5.00 Fans $10.00 and up >uWc Utilities Co. West Whitner Street PHONE 223 ? ? v .- **".' *' ' ' : *?5&JNS9BVBVBMH?V^3W^S^B1