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fi^e ?jfrtomtt ?onxitx. PU3LI8H?D EVCRV WIDNEtOAV MORNING. . - BY - JA VNE8, 8HKLOH, SMITH ?ll STECK . USSCRIPTION. tl.OO PCR ANNUM. ADVERTISING RAUS REASONABLE. rjf* Com mu nica tiona of a personal character duo god for as advertisements. ".if" Obituary notices and tributes of respect, of not over one hundred words, will be printed free of charge. All over that number must be paid for at the rate of one oent a word. Cash to accompany .-aanusoript. WALHALLA? B. C. t ^BDKEKSA?. JAN. IO. lUOO. AN INTERESTING STATEMENT. It is interresting and iuieuseiy gratify ing to wa tc li the ti nano i al growth of the deposit departments of tho various banks of Ooonee as iudioativo of tho steady march this county is making in a finan cial way. By referring to the several bank statements published in The Cou xior we fiud that the total sum on deposit in our banking institutions amounts to 455,774.75. These deposits are held and roportod as follows: Bank of Walhalla.$120,522.05 People*? Bank, Walhalla. 80,24,3.52 Seneca Bauk. 83,101.45 Citizen's Batik, Sonoca. 50,556.49 Peden- ? Anderson Bkg. Co., *~ Xv'estmiustor. 100,201.24 Total.$465,774.75 Four hundred and lifty-livo thousand, soveu hundred and suvonty-four dollars and sovonty llve couts in tho banks of Oconoe, ono of tho stun 1 lost counties iu tho State!-smallest iu ai ca and popula tion, but by no moaus in importance. ??onie is fast coming to tho front in manufaoturlug, industrial and financial ?ntcrests. Lot every citizen do his part and lend a baud in pushing our interests to tho front and upward. This steady md substantial growth is encouraging and ought to inspire us with evon greater coufidonco iu ourselves and our county. Taking tho figures as a whole for tho year 1905, wo lind hanking houses of the uiini y made tho followiug showing as to deposits: March 31.$882,962.88 Juno SO. 335,423.5:1 September 80 . 899,847.18 Docomher 30. 455,774.75 Wo 600 from this that the second quar (fm's , deposits exceeded the first by $2^468.70; tho third quarter exceeded the second by $63,920.65; tho last quarter ex ceeded tho third hy $50,427.57. This is a romarkablo gain in tho matter of deposita -steady, rapid gain. Taking tho open ing and closing liguros for the yoar'e banking business it SIIOWB more at a sin gle glance of tho growth of the ready cash surplus available in tho banks foi industrial and commercial purposes. The first quarter ot" 1905 showed $332, -002.83 on deposit, tho last quarter $455, .774.75-a gain for tho yoar of $122,011.92, ."ort ai ii ly we can judge from these figure. .. bat Oconoe is pushing forward rapidly, There is no surer indox to financial mat tors than tho deposit department of thc ?banks. The increase in deposits show* practically an incroaso of 40 per cont foi the year 1005. Assuredly Coonee starts tho year 1906 with bright prospects and in good shape to advancu in every lino. Let us seo to it that HNHI closes with oveu gloater things realizod and prospects hotter than 1005. "Nothing succeeds like success," but there must he no slackoniug in thu paco because tho goal is in sight. Koop every energy bout to tho finish. There ^vill bo timo to rest when tho goal is ..?cached ; thero is no time to rest until it ls._ HERE, THERE ANO YONDER. Colo L, Bloaso, of Newberry, announces that ho will ruo for Governor of .South : ai ol i na this ye ir. This strikes us as ieiny. amusing, not to say ludicrous. V The local political pot ref usos to boil; it won't oven "sizzle" when moddlors try to shako tho contents against tho sides. Everything is quiet and every? body satisfied." Wanted, patent bringo anchors. Ap ply to any comity supervisor in tho Plea moat section. There's a fortune in it "for tho man who can anchor a bridgo against a mountain stream and make it May within haling distanco of tho road. V The Anderson Daily Mail rocently pub lished a full roview of tho financial and business conditions of tho city and -county of Anderson. It is a splendid showing-in fact, wo doubt if any city or county in tho Stato can show such mag nifi te it financial and commercial growth ?and strongth. Wo congratulate our laaigbbor. May sho continue to prosper, %. "Soctional animosity," it is said, will run high in tho National House of Kopro sontatives whoa tho Statehood bills are called up for consideration-soctional animosity botwoon tho West and tho East. Won't lt bo pleasant for us South erners to sit and road of "seotional ani mosity" aud fool that we aro nothing more than interostod listeners or look crs-on? The eight bom question is the all absorbing one lu the printing world to-day. It .ia a system that ia bound to prevail within a short while. The United States Government has long since adopted it in all of it? departments. Just at present there are a minimi ol' strikes ia progress in the printing field in the employees' efforts to secure this conces sion. The Typographical Uniou has secured 312 cities and large towus, whore the eight-bour law is effective and satis factory. Spartan burg, so far, is the only town in this State in tm eight-hour column. A Orim Tragedy is dahy en uc ted in thousands of homes, as death olain.s, in each one, another victim of consumption or pneumonia. Hut tv mn coughs and colds aro properly treater tho tragedy \a averted. K. G. Huntley, of Oaklaodon, Ind., writes: "My wiio had the consumption, and three doctors gave ber up. Finally Bhe took Dr. Kiug's Now Discovery for Consump tion, coughs and colds, which oured her, and to-dav she is well and strong." It kills the germs of all diseases. One dose relieves. Guaranteed at 50o. and $1 by all druggists. Trial bottlo froe. % A Farmer's Wise Warning to Farmers. [Atlanta NOWB.J Tho farmers have reason to be thank ful for the good prices obtained thus far for cotton of the 1005 orop. Wo now have tho matter of pricos pretty well in band and if cotton declines wo think wo havo only ourselves to blame. But good prices tempt farmers to uiHut more cotton in their eagerness to mako mouoy, and moro cotton means lower prices and loss money. Nevor have we had more decided illus trations of this fact than is shown by the courso of prices the last threo years 1003, 1004 and 1005. Nineteen hundred and threo was a short crop yoar and juices wont abovo 16 cents. Nineteen hundred and four was a largo crop year and prices went below fcouts. There wns a difforonco of 10 cents be tween tho price in tho small and large crop year, and tho prico was actually more by about 3J cents than tho ontiro prico in the largo crop year; tho differ ence between tho prico hoing 10 cents and tho cut ire prico at tho lowest in tho largo crop yoar only 0} cents. Is thero a farmer in the cotton belt who is so simple that ho can't or won't learn a useful lesson hore? In 1005, wbilo not yot definitely known, tho crop promises to ho short, duo in part to tho discouragement of farmers ovor 0-oent cotton in tho spring after tho big crop yenr, partly duo to tho effort of tho Southorn Cotton Association to re duce acreage ami largely-I oxpoct mainly-duo to Providential causes, which tho farmers could not overcome. As a result of thoso threo things we havo (iu spite of tho efforts of many to tho contrary ) a rather short crop, good ju ices and plonty of monoy. If Providence bad not interfered, wc think wo would have had a largo quan tity of cotton, a small prico and very lit tle monoy. To those who aro now holding spot cotton for better prices wo would sug gest that your every movement is heine, watched. Anything that would indicate a disposition on your part to increase, tc auy extent, tho crop of 1000 will help to hold down tho price of the cotton you now have on hand. To thoso who have sold at lower prices than the present and havo nono of the 1005 crop on hand, wc would say, let uot tho present high price of an articlo which you do not now pos sess, tempt you to act so ignorantly and foolishly as to. plant largely and bring its valuo down by tho time you mako your crop and do have it for salo. Heavy salos of mules :*>d fertilizers in tho cotton States is an index to the si zo of tho cotton crop. Look out for this for 1000. This will tell tho world what wo are going to try to do. If wo invest excessively in mules and fertilizers (no matter what we say wo are going to raise with thom) the world is going to bolievo that Providonco alone can keep us from raising another big cotton crop. Hero is tho groat danger. Hore is whore the farmers' own courso can bo a menace to all chance for bettor pricos or oven to maintaing tho prices wo have. Tho farmors can do moro than every thing Also combined to givo tho bears an opportunity to depress pricos, hut with the experience wo havo had and the prosperous condition wo aro now in, wo can but hopo wo havo all learned good lessons which will not soon ho forgotten. We can only repeat tho old, old story. Lot evury individual farmer in tho cotton belt mako his farm self-sustaining by raising at homo everything needed for man and beast and then make what cot ton ho can. If all will do this wo need havo no fear about low priced cotton and hard timos. Providonco ot us havo our own way in 1001. Wo iriod to mako a big crop and tho Lord let us succcoN and certainly the simplest of us saw tho dis astrous consequences of our folly in the low pricos received. In 1005 wo reduced acroago some and Providonco hoi pod oui our efforts by Bonding unfavorable weather and cut the crop again, and the simplost of us now soo the advantage in tho good prices recoived. Why not in 1000 bo wiso enough to diversify tonsibly and thon trust Providonco to bloss us as in 1004 with good crops, no one if which will bo a burdon, but all aliko a blossing to us? If we act our part wisely tho more abundant our crops, tho moro prosperous wo will bo, but if we foolishly plant too largely of cotton, our vory success moans failure, for the moro we make the ICBS wo will got for it. Our own folly can turn evon tho bless ings of Providence into sorrowful disap pointments and bring povorty and want out of superabundance. E. A. Harnett. Washington, Wilkes County. nm vim un HIV You need not think you can make fifteen million bales of cotton this j ear and next fall say we want 12',. to 15 cents for J it. The only way to price your cotton successfully is to stay away from town, make your farm self-supporting. If nothing else will do you but that you must buy some goods. Come right on to Headquarters and pay the Spot Cash for what you want and save money. We are heavy loaned on Blacksmith, Farm and Carpenter Tools e. ml Builders* Hardware. SEASONABLE GOODS. Our stock of ?Seasonable Goods is complete and every thing fresh and new. Our expenses are light as we pay spot cash for everything we buy, getting every advantage. We are in a better position to save you money on your purchases than anybody in the County. f We want a lot of Feas, Beans, Cane Seed, Butter, Chickens, Eggs, etc. CRAIG, VERNER MERCANTILE CO SPOT CASH MERCHANTS, WALHALLA, S. C. JOHN F. CRAIG, BUSINESS MANAGER. ANOTHER. CAR. OF BUILDING MATERIAL JUST ARRIVED, CONSISTING OF Doors, Windows, Blinds and Moulding, Plain and Fancy Glass Doors. Plain and Check Rail Windows. EVERYTHING FOR THE BUILDER. Locks, Hinges, Nails, Lime, Cement, in Abundance. CARPENTER AND BLACKSMITH TOOLS. If you need Barb Wire or Field Fence, get our prices, as we have on hand a car load of each. MATHESON HARDWARE CO. 3 STORES WESTMINSTER, S. C. STORES Toccoa, Ga. 3 Martin, Ga Killed by a Jealous Woman. Troy, N. Y., January 8,-Herbert D. ?shdowne, collector for a local clothing hnuso, is dying in tho Samaritan Hos pital, having boon ahot in a restaurant this evening, it in alleged, hy Mrs. Jen ! nio Purkett Ashdowno was shortly to j havo boon married to another woman i and jealousy on tho part of Mrs. Purkett 1 is supposed to havo prompted tho ehoot ing. Mrs. Purkett'? husband is a wire worker, living in this city. Ashdowne j at first shielded Mrs. Purkett, but in his j ante-mortom statement ho told In dotail ; of tho shooting. 'A GUARANTEED CURE FOR PILES ! Itching, Blind, Bleeding, Protruding I Piles. Druggists aro authorized to ro fund money if Pazo Ointments fails to euro in t! to l i days. 50c. Negro Charged With Attempted Assault. Seuoca, January 0.-Freddy Taylor, a I negro youth of oightoon, was brought j boforo Magistrate Stribling this nfter ' noon and bound ovor to tho Court of , (lonoral Sossions on tho charge of at ' temptnd criminal assault. Ho was com ! roitted to tho Walhalla jail. There is no excitement and no inclination to lynch , bim. Two young women, who woro walking ' on a read flvo milos South of Soneca, 1 near the Anderson and Oconoo county lines, woro followed in a suspicious way by Taylor, who told conflicting stories about his buBinos8 in that locality, say ing ?rst that ho was looking for a lost ring, and later that he was in search of a missing bridlo rein. Tho young women woro very much frightened, but a con stable had Taylor In Soneca boforo tho neighborhood could bo aroused, and ho was safely lodgod in jail by nightfall. Beer Dispenser Bishop Guilty. Spartanburg, January I).-Tho princi pal case disposed of in Sessions Court yesterday was tho trial of John J. Bishop, heor disponsor, charged with violating tho dispel sary law in running a boor dispensary. Tho jury deliberated seve ral hours and returned a verdict of guilty with recoin mei dal ion to mercy. Counsel for Bishop gavo notice of motion for a new trial. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS Important Notice. ALL porsons indebted to JAMES BATES by noto account or other wise will lind the same loft with tho un dersigned at tho store of J. J. Haley ?fe Co., Oak way, S. 0., for collection, and thu same must he settled without delay. L. L. J A KHAKI), Oakway, S. C. January 10, HMM!. 2-tf We Guarantee STONECYPHER'S CATARRH CURE for euro of Catarrh. KIDNEY CAPSULES for Kidnoy Complaints. WHITE PINE AND TAK for Coughs and Colds. EXPECTOKINE for Croup. Sold by Druggists. Stonecypher Drei Company, WESTMINSTER, S. C. BRIDG-ES TO LET. rp HE Hoard of County Commissioner! X wUl lot, to tho lowest responsible bidder or biddors, at the rospocti vo bridge sitos, on tho days mentioned bolow, tin contract to rebuild tho following bridges Jenkins Bridge, ovor Chauga, on Wed neaday, January 24th, 1000, at 12 o'olocl noon. The Emerson Bridge, ovor Little Ki vor on Friday, January 20th, 1000, at li o'clock noon. Vf organ Bridge, over Little River, ot Saturday, January 27th, 1000, at ll o'clock noon. Tho successful bidder or bidders wil bo required to furnish all necossan . material used in tho construction of th< j bridges and to give bond in a sum twic< the amount of bid. Specifications wil bo made known at time of letting. Boan reserve* tho right to reject any and al bids. Ii. H. V. HOBSON, County Suporvisor. January 10, KKK!. 2-8 GUT ATI ON NOf ICE.-TIIK STATS Ol I SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF Ooo NBS.-(IN TBS COURT OF PROB ATS.)-Bi I). A. Smith, Esq., Probate Judge. Whoroas, Jool Pitts has made sui to mo to grant him Lottors of Admin ist ration of tho estate and effects o H. M. Pitts, deceasod- . Those are thorofore to cito and ad mon ish all and singular the kindred an< creditors of tho said H. M. Pitts deceased, that thoy bo and appca boforo mo, in tho Court of Probate, to bi hold at Walhalla, S. C., on Thursday 25th day of January, HMM), after publica ti on hereof, at ll o'clock in tho fore noon, to show causo, if any thoy havo why tho said administration shouh not bo granted. Given under my band and seal tint 8th day of January Anno Domini 1000 D. A. SMITH, Judgo of Pro hate, Oconoo County, S. C Publishod on tho loth and 17th dayi of January, 1000, in Tho JCoowoe Cou Ibmso Door foi SKA i,. rior and on tho Court the timo required by law. 2-3 \ GOODS ON THE BASIS OF Low Priced Cotton. A Great Stock in Quantity. A Great Stock Raup in Prices. A Great Stock ia Q?a?ity. From Front Door to Warehouse. Every Department full, up-to date and alive with DEPENDABLE MERCHANDISE Bought with au oyo singlo to tho two indisponsiblos-Quality and Low Prices, und when these meet the Goods move. Wo make the broad assertion this Store contains moro Specials, that is Goods undor tho market ip PricQ, than any othor in uppor Carolina. Almost every Store has some Specials; sometimos resorting to selling a well-known article under 00Bt to attract, ti ade, taking the chances on evening up profits. This Store will not do that kind of business.. When we buy an article at a low price we give our trade the benefit of our purchase. CLOTHING. Why buy Spocial Order Suit? and Trousers when you oan come to our Store and have yourself titted in Goods that PIT WELL and WEAK WELL, mado on same models as Tailor-Made Goods, with the unbreakable fronts and now shoulder pads. A Look Will Convince. Won't You Look? Bring your Boys along as we make a specialty of Children's i and Youths' Clothing. SHOES. j SHOES THAT ABE UNDER PRICED. SHOES THAT ARE STYLISH. ? SHOES THAT ARE SOLID. \ $5,ooo to select from. j Fodcastlors', Floishman, Morris & Co.'s,Milos', Risers', and Car j roll & Adams. Many styles at about merchant's cash price. 1 Come See ; You'll Buy. All purcha|os amounting to $5 and ovor dolivorod to noarost ox pross office in two hundred miles f of our Store. Sond UH your mail t orders. \ Follow the Crowd and you . will land at the Store of i \ YOURS FOR BUSINESS, : The Seneca ! Mercantile Company. i Department Storekeeper.