Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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FIRE INSURANCE E. J. NORRIS, Agent Edgefield, South Carolina Representing the HOME INSURANCE COMPANY, ot New York, and the old HARTFORD, of Hartford, Connecticut. The HOME has a greater Capital and Surplus combined than any other company. The HARTFORD is the leading com pany of the World, doing a greater Fire business than any other Co. See Insurance Reports PRUDENTIAL LIFE "HAS THE STRENGTH OF GIBRALTAR. '' E. J. Norris, FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE. Pianos and Organs At present we desire to call especial attention to the Adam Schaff piano, which is used exclusively in the public schools of Chicago. The factory has been established forty years. It is a strictly high grade standard piano. Prices of uprights are from $300 to $500. Farrand Organs. We have sold over 1,500 Farrand organs and all ,of them are now giving satisfaction. We also car ry a line of other makes'of pianos and organs. Any of our goods are sold on liberal terms of payment. Satisfaction guaranteed in every particular. Holland Brothers, Greenwood, S. C. nm cragg For Boys and Men We have never been better equipped than we are this season to supply the boys and men of Edgefield county with Clothing, Shoes, Hats, Neckwear, Etc? Large assortment of all kinds. We de sire to call especial attention to our large stock of Eclipse shirts for men. Notqingjbetter on the market for the money. Drop in to see us. If we haven't what you want, we will order it out for you at once. Dorn & Mims A E. Padgett, President W. H. Harling, Cashier Thos. H. Rainsford, Vice President W. A. Byrd, Asst. Cashier The Farmers Bank STATE, COUNTY. AND TOWN DEPOSITORY Capital and Surplus Earnings , $110,000.00 Total Resources over 300,000.00 After 20 years of successful banking, greets the public and its patrons for the year 1912 with best wishes, thanking them for their patronage and confidence in the past. Conservative business solicited. Interest paid on special deposits. Your account ap preciated. If not already a depositor, begin now. DIRECTORS: Thos. H. Rainsford, Dr. C. P. Pe Yore, W. B. Penn, E. H. Folk, S. B. Mays, C. A. Wells, W. H. Harling, A. E. Padgett. Winthrop College Scholarship and En trance Examination. The examination for the award of vacant scholarships in AVinthrop College and for the admission of new students will be held at the county court house on Friday, July 5, at 9 a. m. Applicants must not be less than 15 years of age. When scholarships are vacant after July 5 they will be awarded tn ihose mak ing the highest average at this ex amination, provided they meet the conditions governing the award. Applicants for scholarships should write to President Johnson before the examination for scholarship ex amination blanks. Scholarships are worth $100 and free tuition. The next session will open September 18, 1912. For further information and catalogue, address, Pres. D. B. Johnson, Rock Hill, S. C. EYE TALK NO. 4 DETAILS The difference between a peni tentiary and a palace is largely a matter of detail. Both are designed for human hab itation and serve equally well to protect the inmates from the ele ments. But one is a vastly more comfort able place of abode than the other. SO IT IS WITH GLASSES Crudely fitted glasses MAY hell your vision, but great care in ever\ detail o? adjustment is essential to safetv and comfort. YOUR EYES ARE WORTH A CORRECTLY FITTED PAIB OF GLASSES. GEO. F. MIMS, Optician, Edgefield, S- C OUR CHOCOLATE SODA IS MADE r?f CHOCOLATE. The sams as used at thc founialns c' their Fifty Retail Stores and known thf world ever for its deliciousness of flavor " Huyler " quality fills every gla?i of soda that spurts from our fountain. The flavor you like best is her all the old favorites and a host of new ones. Frozen Dainties of Rare Excellence. W. E. LYNCH & CO. Ends Hunt For Rich Girl. Often the hunt for a rich wi fi ends when the man meets a wo man that uses Electric Bitters. IIe> strong nerves tell in a bright brail and even temper. Her peach-blooa complexion and ruby lips resuli from pure blood; her bright eye> from restful sleep; her elastic ste] from firm, free muscles, all telling of the health and strength Electric Bitters give a woman, and the free dom from indigestion, backache, headache, fainting and dizzy spell. they promote. Everywhere they art woman's favorite remedy. If weak or ailing try them. 50c at Penn & Holstein's, W E Lynch & Co. ^lllllllllllllllllllllllll*-M"WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIJ,illii 1 PROFESSIONAL ! z a iiiniMiiiniiiiimniii4^Huiiiimiiiiiifiniiiu? Drs. J. S. & F. P, BYRD, Dental burgeons Edgefield and Trenton Edgefield Office over Postoffice Office'Phone 3 . Residence 17-R AH. CORLEY, Surgeon . Dentist. Appointments at Trenton on Wednesdays. Crown and Bridge werk a specialty. James A. Dobey, DENTAL SURGEON, Johnston, S. C. FFICE OVER JOHNSTON DRUG CO. Move On Now! says a policeman to a street crowd, and whacks heads if it don't. Move on now," says the big, harsh mineral pills to bowel con gestion and suffering follows. Dr. King's New Pills don't bulldoze the bowels. They gently persuade them to right action, and health follows. 25c at Penn & Holstein's, W E Lynch & Co. WANTED-Several health and accident insurance agents to sell in surance for a reliable company. References required. Address, Insurance, Plum Branch, S. C. MISS CHUT COWARD By KATE CLEVES Melinda Chuffy fastened tho lasi window and looked the door leading to the side porch. Then she took her lamp and tiptoed softly upstairs very much as if she were afraid of awak ing somebody-all of whloh was qult? unnecessary as she was all alone in the big house. She scurried down the dark halL her lamp naring wildly in a draught from some unexpected quarter and she darted Into the big north cham ber which she occupied In summer and slammed the door and locked lt She placed rhe lamp on the tall ehest of drawers and lt cant a Bmall oasis of light In the big room. Me Jinda looked under the white-draped bed and arose relieved at the spick and span vacancy beneath the hand some mahogany structure; she peep ed. fearfully in the clothes pres? and screamed a little because a black shadowy Bomething leaped out of the darkness and brushed her cheek -then it drifted ba<5k against the wall and proved to be nothing more than her best black china silk gown which had been drawn forward by the draught from the opening door All her fears being quelled for the moment. Melinda Chuffy proceeded tc go to bed although the clock on the mantel piece pointed only to half past eight That was the way Me linda had done ever since her moth er's death a year ago. She had al ways been a timid little thing and in spite of her better sense and the re proofs and admonitions of her par ents and friends, Melinda went right on being as timid as a little white rabbit If sbe walked In the woods even' crackMng twig, every flurry of dead leaves, every rush of bird wings sent terror to her heart She was afraid of cows and horses and mice and snakes and she like parrots and cat* and flowers and everybody said Me linda Chuffy was cut out for an old maid and Melinda really believed them and became more timid and shrinking than ever. One or two intrepid youths had ven tured to can upon Melinda prelimin ary to more serious attentions for Me linda was sweet and pretty, but their visits had not exceeded a half dozen before they decided that Melinda Chuffy was eiher "struck-up" or too shy even to be amusing, so they stayed away and Melinda was much relieved and went back to her cats and her Canaries and her flowers, quite contented to be an old maid. So the years bad passed peacefully on until Melinda was now thirty-five Ernest Bruce did not count in the Hst of suitors; he had merely been Melinda's playmate and next-door neighbor. It was Ernest who shield ed her from gigantic cows and helter skelter horses and wringing snake? and creeping mice; Ernest never laughed at her fears and when they went through th? wood, and he was beside her, he would hold her hand in his and reassure her terrified lit tle mind until at the end of the wood she could look back and bid a quav ering defiance to all the bogies she had left behind. Tho Bruces had moved out to Ohio while Melinda was small and so she had never seen her old playmate since but she always- thought of him with grateful tendencies. She opened her windows wide, feel ing secure in the knowledge that her shutters were firmly nailed to the sills, and she looked with confidence upon the newly-Installed telephone that was beside her bed. That was Melinda's" concession to living alone. With that instrument at hand she could call for asssiBtance at any hour of the day or night So far, she had had no occasion to use the telephone except to speak to some friend or to transact her mar keting on a rainy day, and now she was startled to hear the sharp, incis ive summons of the bell at her elbow. Melinda paused in the act of blow ing out the candle and looked at the telephone as If it was some inani mate thing suddenly come to life. "For goodness sake-" she breathed hopelessly. Again and again the bell Jangled before Melinda went softly over to the Instrument and responded. "Hello!" she said in a weak voice. "Is this Miss Chuffy-Miss Melinda Chuffy?" asked a woman's Impatient voice. "Yes-what do you want?" Melin da was reassured. "I am Mrs. Peterson of Woodside; there has been an automobile acci dent in front of my house and one of the injured men has mentioned that he was on the way to your house. The doctor says his injuries may prove fatal and it would be just as well for you to come at once Immediately if you want to see him alive." Melinda was gasping. "But I don't know any such man," she protested. "1 certainly don't know a man who owns an automobile. You've made a mistake." "If you are Miss Melinda Chuffy you must know a man by the name of Ernest Brace-he said he was on the way to your house. That's all I've got time to say-there a?g sev eral injured people here and if yon know Mr. Bruce I would snggest that you come over and relieve me of his care!" and Mrs. Peterson of Woodside being in a highly nervous state hune up the receive and Melinda Chuffy. for the first time in her peaceful Hie wag forced to face a real situation. "Ernest Bruce!" she repeated help lessly. "I suppose he has grown to be a man-I always think of him as a little boy-but he was older than I why was he coming here and what shall I do? At this time of night, too-yet he ls dying and there is no one to go to him-not one of his folks ls here and there ls no one to call up on to drive me over there because they would talk all the resc of their lives about lt!-" As Melinda talked half hysterically to herself she was dressing rapidly, finally slipping Into the coolness of her black china silk gown. "If 1 am dressed in black no one can see me for the woods are dark," she shud dered. "I must take my pink Ghawl -black would look awful to a dying man-lt's so queer I can't think of Ernest as anything except a little boy!" Quite forgetting to err?nge her love ly fair hair which hung in two long braids over her shoulders, just as she had fixed If for the night, Melinda Chuffy, timid as a rabbit, fearful of her own shadow, hurried downstairs, locked the side door behind her and plunged into the velvet blackness of the night Woodside was a dalry farm and it was situated at the other end of the long strip of woodland which had been Melinda's dread in childhood. The woods bordered her orchnrd on one side and through the wood was a wide, well-made road much used as a short cut by automobiles In the daytime, but at night it was not light ed and had lost none of Its terrors for Melinda Chuffy. Nevertheless, she made directly for the road, almost feeling her way until her feet were set on its hard smoothness. Then, driven by terror mingled with pity for her old playmate. Melinda fairly raced along the road, her eyes fixed on the black darkness before her. As she ran Melinda Chuffy repeat ed over and over to herself a few words: "He never laughed at me when I was afraid--he always held my hand in these woods-I mustn't forget." An owl hooted and a whip-poor-will uttered his cry close beside her; In sects of the night achded their chorus. Twigs crackled, leaves flurried, and the wings of night-flying birds almost touched her as they oassed. Bats flapped around her unprotected head and Melinda alternately prayed for protection and repeated over and again her broken words" about Ernest Bruce and his loyalty. At last she stumbled up the steps of the farmhouse and sank a crump led littie heap of black silk, pink shawl und flaxen braids against the door. There the Petersons found her and carried her inside, adding anoth er to the number of their patients. As they carried her unconscious form into the sitting-room a tall, broad-shouldered man with one-arm in a sling, arose from the deep chair where l>e had been sitting. "Another one?*' he exclaimed, ard then coming forward and looking at Melinda s sweet pale l'ace Intently he stared up nt tho Patersons. "That must be Melinda Chuffy!" he cried, taking their slender burden and lay ing it tenderly on a couch. "How came she here?" Mrs. Peterson, a stout fair-haired woman, driven out of her few wits by the unfortunate accident of the .vening that had made her unevent ful home a hospital, looked stupidly at him and 6hook her head. "Miss Chuffy-why I guess I tele phoned her to come to you at once I said you were on your way to see her and dying and she must come without delay. You see, I made a mistake and got you mixed up with that other gentleman who is so badly Injured-your names were all strange to me and I did the best I could." "Of course you did. Mrs. Peterson and we are all more than grateful," assured Ernest Bruce as he leaned over Melinda Chuffy whose white eye lids were flickering. "Do you sup pose ''this little woman came all alone through those dark woods to see me?" he asked in an awed tone, but there was no one to answer for the Peter sons had departed for restoratives. "Poor scared little Melinda," breath ed Ernest Bruce, kneeling beside his one-time playmate. "I wonder If you know that you are a true sport after all?" Melinda opened ber eyes and looked dreamily on the face so near her own, so like the face of the little boy she used to know. "I got here In time. Ernie." she smiled tremblingly, contentedly let ting, ber hand rest In his finn grasp. "I came all the way here from Ohio to ask you to marry me. Melinda," he whispered, caressing one of her fair braids. "Somehow I couldn't fancy any girl but you after all these years and I was afraid to find that you were married after all." Melinda blushed and strange to say she felt none^of the shrinking that she had experienced with those other suitors. "I never-wanted-to marry anybody-before-" she whispered shyly. "I guess I was waiting for you!" Her Sorrow. Bessie-Why are you so sorry you refused him? Jessie-He acted with such utter In difference, instead of throwing a fit and threatening suicide. Hard Words to a Mendicant. "I was not always ns you see me now, mum." "I hope not. It is conceivable tbat In your younger days you were clean- ! SUMMONS. The State of South Carolina, County of Edgefield. Court of Common Pleas. G. W. Smith, Plaintiff, against S. W. Wideman, as administrator of the estate of Mrs. Margaret M. Smith, deceased. Lily E. Smith, Josie May Smith, Ira E. Smith, Defendants. Summons for relief. (Complaint not served.) To the Defendants above named: You are hereby summoned and re quired to answer the complaint in this action which is filed in the office of the Clerk of the Court of Com mon Pleas, for the said county, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said complaint on the subscrib ers at their office at Edgefield C. H. S.C., within twenty days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the complaint within the aforesaid time, the plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the com plaint. Sheppard Bros., Plaintiff's Attorneys. Test W. B. Cogburn (L. S.) Clk. C. C. P. <fe G. S. Edgefield Co., S. C. To the non-resident defendant, Lily E. Smith: You will take no tice that the original Summons and Complaint in the above stated ac tion, is on file in the ellice of the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions, in and fur the County of Edgefield, and State aforesaid. Sheppard Bros., Plaintiff's Attorneys. May 2Sih, 1912. Bankrupt's Petition For ?Jteg* Discharge. ,??? : In the District Court of the United States For the district of S. C. In the matter of B. H. Miller, bankrupt. To the Honorable H.A. M.Smithe Jodee of the District Court of the United Stales for the District of South Carolina: 13. H. Milier of Trenton in the county of Edgefield aud state of S. C. in said District, respectfully rep resents that on the 2o day of Au gust last past he was duly adjudged Bankrupt under the acts of Cong ress relating to Bankruptcy; that he has duly surrendered all his prop esty and rights of property, and has fully complied with all the require ments ot said, acts and of the orders of the Court touching his Bank ruptcy. Wherefore ?ie prays that he may he decreed by the Court to have a full discharge from all debts prov able against his estate under said i Jan km pt Acts, except such debts as are excepted by law from such discharge. Dated this 27 day of May, A. D. I91?. B. H. Miller, Bankrupt. ORDER OF NOTICE THEREON District of S. C.-ss: On this 3 day of June A. D. 1912, on reading the foregoing pe tition, it is ' Ordered by the Court, that a hearing be had upon the same <>u the 8 day of July, A. D. 1912, be fore said Court at Charleston, i$. C. in said District, at ll o'clock in the forenoon,and that notice thereof be published in the Edgefieid Ad vertiser a newspaper priuted in s;ud District, and that all known credi tors and other persons in interest may appear at the said time and place and show cause, if any they have, why the prayer of the said petitioner should not be granted. And it is further Ordered by the Court, that the Clerk shall send by mail to all known creditors copies of said petition and this order, ad dressed tc them, at their places of residence as stated. Witness the Honorable H. A. M. Smith, Judge of said Court, and thc Seal thereof at Charleston, S. C. in said District on the 2 of June / A. D. 1912. Rich W. Hutson, Clerk. A Word to Kodakers I am carrying a nice line of cameras and keep films in stock all the time. Noth ing but right fresh stock offered for sale. Geo. F. Minis Large Purchases. We have just unloaded One-solid car of chairs, One solid car of furniture, One solid car of Hackney wagons, One solid car of Hackney bug gies, and are now ready to supply you with everything in these lines. Ramsey & Jones.