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Additional Locals Mrs. Pace Drennan was in the city Monday looking after business. She was accompanied by her pretty little, daughter. \ Mrs. G. A. Harrison and her family of interesting children went over to Greenwood Sunday and spent some time with her relaitve, Mrs. W. P. Atkins. Mr. Allen Martin, of Due West, was here yesterday on business. He brought two shoats weighing about 4^00 pounds each a'id a few pigs to eXniDIL itt LliC v^vvnivjr * m?*. Jas. M. Raysor, of Asheville, N. C.. but who was formei'ly of Donalds, is here with a string of race horses which he expects will win some of the money at the Fair. Billy Morrison has returned from Columbia, where he atended the Fair. Mr. Morrison thinks people are getting smarter every day. He says he has been attending the Fair for thirty years and was never robbed until this time. Some clever fellow missed his own pocket and ran his hand in Mr. Morrison's and pulled out fifteen dollars. E. W. Acker saw the Clemson T, J Carolina rooioau game, miu it Frank Gary and Andrew Hill were the center of attraction at the-school / house last week when they showed up in long trousers, Frank says that the change makes him feel 'solemn." Happoldt Neuffer passed his eighth mile post in his. journey through life ' last Saturday, and in the afternoon he celebrated the ocasion by taking ben little friends to the moving pic~ -'tares, to the drug store for ice cream and by having a hot game of football at his home Walter W. Visanska, of Atlanta, visited his father over Sunday. Mr. Visanska is one of the leading lawyers of his home city. . Dr. C. H. McMurray went over to Atlanta last week on business. Mrs. Nannie White/ Wardlaw is very sick at the home of Mr. A. M; Smith. Her friends hope that she will soon rally and be able to get out again. Dr. and Mrs. J. S. Moffatt were in Abbeville Saturday shopping and seeing their many friends. Prof, and Mrs. Mark Bradley were In he city from Clemson last week. \;They visited in Abbeville while the 'cadets took in the State Fair. Prof. David Henry was a welcome visitor to Abbeville last week. Mrs. C. H. McMurray and Mrs. Foster McLane went up to Due West last An** ^/\alr a of +V?a nnl 1 oiroo i' l luaj auu tuuiv a ivua ??. vuw w?*v0vw and visited Miss Ruth McLane. Mr. Livy Watson, of Bradley, was on our Streets last Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Barnwell were among the Abbeville visitors to the fair in Columbia last week. They went down Wednesday and spent the day. Miss Amelia Anderson came down from Greenville this week and spent Saturday and Sunday with her par\ ents. She is in College at Greenville and is taking a good stand in her classes. I Miss Florence Bradford was Miss ^Bessie Lee Cheatham's attractive visitor this last week. Mr .and Mrs. Jas. A. Hill and Mrs. Frank B. Gary went up to Anderson last Thursday and spent the day. The two ladies made the rounds of the millinery stores and were so ashamed of themselves for buying something out of Abbeville that they came home and told the editor that they met another woman from Abbeville and that she bought a sport coat and a pair of shoes. Miss Lucile Withers went over to Greenwood last Friday night and took in the circus. Mrs. Frank B. Gary, Mrs. J. D. Kerr, Mrs. T. H. Furman and Miss Maggie Xatimer made a pleasant party that went over 10 yreenwooa iasi r riuay 10 the circus. They made the trip in Mrs. Gary's car. Mrs. Lizzie Cason left Saturday to take charge of the Bethlehem school t for this session. She will board with Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Radcliffe. _*u. General News The Eastland, the steamship which turned over in the Chicago river this summer with such distressing loss of ife. is to be sold at auction soon and it is likely that the government will buy the ship and make it into a training: ship after it has been put in good shape. Eight ' hundred and twelve lives were lost when the Eastland turned over. , A merchant in Anderson last week sent a pair of shoes to Shanghai. China, by parcel post, the charge being only thirty six cents. W. N. Nutt, was last week elected president of the Nut Growers' Association at the meeting in Georgia. At the state fair last week many of the booths made a showing of sunflowers from which it seems that the people are going back to growing X* r% I* J.1 j 1_ tnese nowers lor tne seeu which makes a fine feed for poultry. There is a sunflower farm near Beaufort. Anton Lang, the man who has played the part of the Christ at the Oberammergau Passion play for the last three performances, has been killed in the war. He lived in Bavaria and his life was so quiet and peaceful that when he went to war he was so overcome with the distress and death that he became violently ill and had to be sent home. When he recovered he was called again to the colors and in a short time was killed. America is shipping frozen meat to Paris and it is selling in the markets there for less than the home a. j r l xi i r 11. meat anu lur less uian ueei sens lur in America. The price is from fourteen tc sixteen cents per pound. Picture fakirs in Germany are engaging the attention of the government. These fakirs are selling pictures of a camp of prisoners in France who are said\ to be restricted from writing home. People whose relatives have been reported missing are buying the pictures in the hopes of locating some of their people. Many poor women are saving their money in the hopes of being able to buy the pictures which are enlarged and are very dim. Foreign countries bought seventyfour million dollars worth of automobiles from America last year, Eng land buying more than any other country. I f France has a pension list now as large as the Civil war list in the United States. The rates provided for the new law are from 563 francs ($112) for widows of private soldiers running from that figure through the various grades up to 5250 francs ($1050) a year for the widow of a general of division; these figures being subject to increase in the case of orphans. If the soldier or officer died of wounds not received in battle or of disease contracted while on duty the pensions run from 375 francs ($75) to 3,500 francs ($700) dollars a year. Iji the United States only one person in 7,300 buys a book , in the course of a year, while in Great Britain, it is one in 3,800; in France, it is about the same; in Germany and Japan, it is one in 872. Cheaper books in paper covers, account for some of this difference, but, whatever the cause, it remains true that the Europeans buy twice as many , books per capita as we do. Coffee Time Tea Time o With the coming of cold weather a hot cup of coffee or tea is necessary for break- * fast. We carry the BEST. Grades at the most reasonable prices. o Fresh Shipments of Cheese, Crackers, Bacons, Hams, Etc. Every Week. 0 Try our Sliced Dried Beef, Breakfast Bacon and Ham. Our slicer will save you money. / A. M. HILL & SONS Phone 12(5 SALESDAY. Monday was Salesday and a large crowd of people were present in the City to attend the sales. On account of the low price of cotton last year and the inability of people to make purchases, a great deal of the iand which otherwise would have been offered on the market was not offered for sale. Consequently there is an unusually large numberof tracts of land being offered at public outcry this year. A healthful sign, however, is that a great portion of the lands offered for sale are estate lands which are being sold for division and partition between interested parties. There are few foreclosures. The property of the late James R. Haddon was sold by the Master, the same being divided into five tracts. The home place of 142 acres sold for $25.00 per acre and was purchased by R. H. Stevenson; tract No. 2 of 10 acres was bought by D. H. Hill for $212.50; tract No. 3, containing 57 acres, was purchased by R. H. Stevenson at $15.75 per acre; tract No. 4, containing 103 acres, was purchased by James A. Stevenson at $28.50 per acre; tract No. 5, of 108 acres, was purchased by Jno. R. Lomax at $16.00 per aci*e; Mr. Lomax also purchased tract No. 6, containing 54 acres, at $16.50 per acre. A house and lot lying between ; Cambridge Street and the Southern Railway, on the road to FortPickens, was purchased by J. Howard Moore, as Attorney, for $700.00. The Nancy Mcllwain place, containing 200 acres, and lying about five miles from town, was sold by the Master and purchased by C. W. Keller for $3225.00. ! The land cf the late Barbara Bosler, near Lourndesville, consisting of . 150 acres, was bought by Otto Nelson jfor $900.00. I The lands of Perry McKinney, near Bordeaux, sold at the suit of Union Central Life Insurance Co., were purchased by J. Howard Moore, as Attorney, for $1930.00. The 233 acres of land near-?.McCormick sold at he suit of Mrs. Lizzie Edmunds against Mrs. A. H. Jennings and others, were purchased by J. L. Jennings at $12.50 per acre. The W. H. Pennal lands containing 184 acres, more or less, and situated in the Bellevue section, were purchased by T. J. Britt for $2000.00 The Singleton lands, near Donalds, were sold in two tracts. Tract No. 1, containing 106 acres, brought $15.25 per acre and was purchased by W L. Singleton; tract No. 2, containing 130 acres, was purchased by J. tut *1 a aa j.u. as .rxtiA/i livy, at 911.UU per acre. The Whitten property in McCormick was sold by the Judge of Probate in two lots; one was purchased by M. E. Whitten at $1100.00 and the other by L. R. Sanders for $1,000.00. The Sheriff sold a lot of land situate in the town of Donalds in the case of Singleton against Booker, to J. M. Nickles, as Attorney, for $100.00. The property of M. L. B. Sturkey, Bankrupt, consisting of two store rooms, a ware house and 137 acres of land was sold by Robt. S. Owens, I Trustee in Bankruptcy. The two j store houses brought $7475.00 and the ware-house brought $1300.00, tViP heir or nnr/iliaead Kir A T """ """'a K,J /T... V? I Davis, as Agent. The .137 acre tract of land sold for $2805.00 and was purchased by Mr. Sturkey, through his Attorney. I In the case of M. B. Hipp against Jones, a one-half acre^lot in the City was bought by Robt. S. Owens, as Attorney, for $300.00. | The property, formerly of W. J. I Tucker, of Calhoun Falls, was sold by D. H. Hill, Receiver, as follows: the home place to C. H. Taylor for $1200.00; thu R. P. Martin house to S. J. Hester for $650.00; the G 0. Hall house to S. J Hester for $400.00; the Sharpton house to S. J. Hester for $750.00 and the two brick store rooms for $3500.00. L. J. Davis, of Donalds, as Executor, sold 52 acres near Donalds to John Donald for $830.00. Basil H. Callahan and M. E. Robinson, sold a 216 acre tract of land, formerly belonging to Basil Callahan, for $4800.00. The tract of land lies near Level Land. The estate lands of Mrs. Sarah Drennan were sold in three tracts and each bought by A. D. Kennedy, of Due West, the whole bringing $2875.00. The three tracts contained respectively, 96, 91 and 88 acres. M. T. Ellis and T. Sloan Ellis, as Executors of the estate of W. T. Ellis, offered for sale the estate lands of W. T. Ellis situate near Groggy Springs, on the Due West road. The same were bought by the Devisees under the will. They also sold two shares of stock in the Due West Oil Mill and one share of Due West Railroad stock, the latter bringing the sum of $1.00. 'The figures above quoted show that all of the lands sold brought .fair prices. Where the lands were jjj ' Because v ifi jewelry business I . FILL ffi Is our fav jjfj are on the job e^ g| When it c< jjj Silverware, Cut 31 will ficid that w? 1 MS [ j Our win^ I j with the largest 3j [ i with reliable go< E; enabled to win [ j holiday goods an I* Watcl ? ? KOREHE ST. 12 THE SWI IN 4 VAUDEVIL TheH The! Hi Wednesd Popul An Entirely New Specialties advantageously situated good prices were had. The lands which did not; bring so much either were without improvements or are hilly and rolling, or not in a good state of cultivation. All together the prices are as satisfactory as any price:; at which lands have been sold at Abbeville in recent years. MORGANUNDERGOES SUCCESSFUL. OPERATION New York, Oct. 29.?A successful operation for appendicitis was performed to-day upon J. P. Morgan, the head of J. P. Morgan & Co. The attack was a mild one and following the operations the surgeons expressed the belief that the finaris&i ING A ; i vre have put snap a again. JNG ORD orite amusement the irery day. U7_iJ i omes to vv aicnes, < Glass, and fine pla i are ENTER OF THE ' :er campaign haft b stock we have ever < i >ds bought at panic over all competitor riving daily. i Repairing a Spt m rhe Leading Jeweler !UiijaiiiniJiiJi!JEniiiinLfiUi!iiT ^m CLAIRE STOC PEOPLE Opening Play . EETEST GIRL II " FOUR AC1 IE SPECIALTIES BETWEI . ; , ' ? Featuring larmony Four Qu Sweetest Girl in e Idol Play of the Southla lay, Thursday, Friday and ar Prices: 15, 25 and 35 ' Different Play I Seats on Sale at * ' 'r lt i; cier's complete recovery wouljd be rapid. ' The operation was performed at noon at Mr. Morgan's home at Glen CoVe, L. I. The attack developed suddenly and it was not until this afternoon that it became generally known that the ?"?? ill ol+liAii<yTi Tip was ^ Ucinrvux woo ui) u?wwvv?^?* ^ ?? stricken on Wednesday. The following statement was given , out at Mr. Morgan's office: i "Mr. Morgan was at his office on ; Wednesday, but yesterday was indis- ; posed and remained at his home in < Glen Cove. His physicians discover- ] ed that he was suffering from a mild ] attack of appendicitis. In order to guard against any recurrence, they decided to remove the appendix. .. i rafaiginfiifEiiiipjHnuHiiTO SMILE I [[ nd go into the ij i ERS e" se days, and we j 1 Clocks, Jewelry, |j .ted Wares, you |[ CIRCLE I 5 ii\ tegun, equipped | carried, fortified 1 prices, we are 1 Saturday Cents Each Night McMurray's Each Day "The operation' was performed at noon to-day by Doctors Markoe, Lyie and Smith, who report that it -was successful in every way and that Mr. Morgan is now resting comfortaMy. Mr. Morgan's condition is- so- excellent that his prompt recovery is looked for." A memher of .T. P. Morgan &L Co? denied that the attack was brought on by the wounds inflicted upon Me. Morgan by Eric Holt Muenter on July 3 last. However, it was recalled t&at ane of the bullets from the assailaEr^s pistol struck the financier in the side neat the appendix. In the flower of her youth eves a ividow has her weeds. , i aHi .A ' s. All kinds of j? *- j| m jcialty jj A W S 9 J I V' l<V^k-v!;, 1 8 .^H ^H' ?Wl n v*/ f S^E*' mii!nuiiiMfi!nnfimBr K COMPANY / ' s - - " 12 ; ' ." ' : N DIXIE rpg :N THE ACTS hi . :v . ; '' . . /.' artette Dixie nd.