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TO murjg pire MW r*p? IT MUST FOLLOW AS THE NIGHT THE DAY, THOU CAW ST NOT THEN BE FALSE TO ANY MAN BY J A YNES, SHELOR, SMITH <fc 8T?CK. WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, MARCH 6, 1007. '?sa NEW 8ER?ES, NO. 403_VOLUME LVII_NO. 10. I AT COST TO H ? CLOSE OUT u n Horse Collars, Check Lines, Hame Strings, Holding Back Straps, Trace Chains, Nails, Horse Shoes, Mule Shoes. Tin Ware (all kinds), Water Buckets, Hoes, Rakes, etc., Ames* Shovels, Axes and Handles, Mattocks, Picks, and lot of Small Hardware, Soap. Washing Powders, Salmon, Potted Ham, Sardines, Soda, Candy, Tobacco, Plates, Cups and Saucers, Etc., Etc* Call and get prices? C. W. & J. E. BAUKNICHT IT PAYS TO BUY FOR CASH. Unusual Spices. I supply grades of t?pioofl that ?re seldom bandied. Goods th?t ?re not only pure? bat of unusual strength end flavor. These Spices cost jon little If any more than the common varieties, end are far more economical to nae while giving better result?. Test them during the Canning and Pickling Season. Allspice, Mixed Spices, Black and Red Pepper, Cinnamon, Cloves, Oinger, Celery and White Mustard Seed, Tumerlo, Mace, etc. Lunney, The Druggist, Yellow Front. Seneca., S. G. WESTMINSTER. . Westminster, March 6.-Everett Kemp vfitl present "Seven Oaks" at the aohool I house on Monday, Maroh ll, at 8 p. m, j It has been the aim of our Lyceum com- j mittee to always have pure, olean and j wholesome entertainments and we hope j our oiticens and friend) in the surround-1 ing community will Bho v their appr?cia-1 t!on by coming out tr bear Mr. Kemp, Tin; management of the Alkahest Ly R)um Bureau has this to say of him: ^Everett Kemp has won an enviable plaoe among lyceum attractions. To meet Mr. Kemp is to bo impressed that he has a groat purpose and that he must j and will succeed. His art is to interpret ! life and be duos this with all tho varying ' shades and subtile emotions peouliar to this great humanity of ours. Ile is a horn comraedian anti brings to his audi enoe that rare treat-oloan, pure fun. His humor is delioious. Everybody likes his funny people, but best of all they like him. But ho is not always laughing and making others laugh. His linc sympa thetic nature, wide versatility and keon perception enables him to interpret tho more serious side of life in a way to de light the popular as well as the literary audience." Miss Mary Sheldon, of Fair Play, re turned home last night from a visit to relatives at Greenville. Tho Westminster correspondent of the Greenville Daily News says: "Prof. E. L. Hughes, of the Greenville City Graded School?, will. visit the Westminster Graded School on Tuesday, Maroh 5. At 10 o'clock he will deliver a lecture to the patrons, trustees and pupils of the school. We are indeed glad of an op portunity of hearing Prof. Hoghes In our town, for he is a live, up-to-date Wfchool man, without a peer in this State as a sohool superintendent." * W. M. Fennell, of Bear Swamp, was in Westminster yesterday. E. O. Marett, of Fair Play, was here yesterday. (Ia^aHiaQaQ?a^L^3a?H9laUalBaHam J. A J. S. Carter are getting ready for another big sale, oomtnenoing to-morrow, Maroh 6, and lasting ten days. They will give away the following artioles in the order of ten days, beginning on Wednesday: $2.60 hat, $2.60 per shoes, *8 floe shirts, $6 rocker, $8 dress pattern, handsome water set, $8 suit of clothes, fine rag. water set, 40 pounds granulated sugar. Every dollar's worth purchased entitles the customer to a numbered ticket. The drawing takes plaoe at 2 p. m. eaoh day. The Ooonee County Semi-Anpual Sing ing Convention of the colored people will meet at st.. Paul church the first Saturday and Sunday in April. Chas. J. Mulkey is making prepara tions to conduct a banking business in his new building below Carter's coDorete warehouse, about April 1. He says be is going to put in a vault 4x6 feet to de posit his flnanoes and valuables. It is his intention to run a small bank by himself the remainder of this year and get a regular set of bank books next year and organize a oompany if othors wish to tako stock with bim. J. E. Diokorson has opened np a stock of groceries and oanned goods in front of the house in whioh bis grist mill is situ ated. Mrs. E. O. Poore and little daughter are in Hartwell, Ga,, where they will i spend some time with Mrs. Poore'a mother, Mrs. C. E. Dickerson. Mr. and Mrs. John W. Welborne re< turned to their home at Almira, Wash ington, Thursday, after spending two months with relatives in Ooonee county, They have been living in the State ol Washington three years. Mr. Welbonu is the youngest son of the late Col. Wei borne, who formerly resided near thc Prattler's bridge, on Tngaloo river. Mrs Welborne waa before her marriage Min Lela Smithson, a daughter of D. E Smithson, deceased. Phillip Gaines died at his home ii Hr uns wick, Ga., one day last week fron an attack of fever. He was 87 years ol< and leaves a wife and three children He wan a BOD of J. J. Gain?e, of Okluho ma, and a brnthor of onr fellow towhn man, J. E. Gaines. The latter left West minster last Tuesday fur Brunswick, but before he reaohed his destination hit* brother bad panned away. The inter mont took place hi Gainesville, Ga., the, ' former home of the deceased, on last Thursday. Mr. Gaines had many friends in Westminster, who will hear of hi? death with deep sorrow. About sev enteen' years ago he worked hore in the blacksmith shop with his brother, J E. Gaines. Mrs. John Drake, formerly of North Carolina, died at the home of W. E. Dickson in the Chea well mill village on March 1. She was a victim of consump tion. Mrs. Drake was only 22 years of age. He husband, one son, aged two years, and a brother, S. E. Bat non, sur vive. Mr. Drake is an employee of the Three State Lumber Company, of Madi son. The body waa taken to Riverview charol), 25 miles north of tho city of Greenville, on Friday for interment. The grief-strioken husband and brother accompanied the remains to their last resting place. The bereaved relatives have the sympathy of' many friends in their sad affliction. Rev. J. J. Harrell, pastor of the Pres byterian oburoh, has announced that if the weather is favorable next Sabbath the subjeot of bis discourse will be the eighth commandment, "Thou Shalt Not Steal." Public cordially invited to at tend the Cervices. Mr. Ci wyon, of Greenville county, vis ited his uuclo, Dr. J. M. McClanahan, this week. Samuel E. Ervin and Mies Missouri O. Hammett spent Monday at Newry. Rev. J. S. Beasley, presiding elder of the Anderson district, preached excel lent sermons in the Methodist ohurob Saturday and Sunday. He also preached an able sermon in the newly organised church in the old Masonic hall on ?Sun-, day night Rev. Beasley was the guesi of Rev. Geo. T. Harmon, Jr., during tho ' quarterly conference. The next lyceum attraotlon will be "Seven Oaks," impersonated by Everett < Kemp, on Monday, March ll, in the < school auditorium. Admission twenty- * live centric Be sure to atten J. , i E. G. Poo re spent a day or two io 1 Hartwell, Ga., last week. s : ? Henry Vernor, of Retreat, retornad Friday from a throe weeks' trip in the J middle section of Georgi?*. ^ SJ. E. Gaines returned Friday from 1 Brunswick and Gainesville, whore he C had been on the sad mission caused by 1 the sickness and death of his brother, 1 Philip Gaines. I Miss Susan Leathers, residing one mile south of Westminster, had the mis- t fortune to fall and break her left arm in two places one dav last week. The limb t was badly crushed, the fracture extend- i ing to the shoulder. Miss Leathers had just returned from the spring with book- c eta of water, when the vaasel she waa oarrying on her bead nt ruck the top of the door, causing her to fall backwards on some rocke in the yard. Dr. Bnrt 1 Mitohell dressed the wound and set the , broken limb. ] M. A. Terrell baa been siok the past ? week. Mr. and Mrs. Terrell had planned a trip to Texas this week, but had to postpone it indefinitely on account of the siokness of the formor. The Westminster Orchestra, composed ] of six young men, John A. Durham, * Anthony B. Stewart, Creighton C. Moore, ! Thornton P. Moore, G. C. Trico and j Sloan narkey, furnished enchanting i music at the Odd Fellows' hall last Friday . evening. E. P. Keys visited his daughter, Mrs. John Griffin, this week. Mr. Keys re sides in Anderson county. M?BS Eva L. Dunning, the lady elocu tionist and impersonator, arrived on t sohedule time last Friday and took her . departure twenty-four hours later for , Easley. Inclement weather interfered to some extent with the attendance and tho program. She recites very well, but she is not the BUCCOBB the testimonials and common ts on the hand hills would have one bol i eve. James Jones and Joseph Frioks, of Madison, were in town yesterday. Samuel Stribling, eldest son of John V. Stribling, of Anderson, was visiting his uncle, Wm. J. Stribling, this week. Thursday and Friday nights, March 7 and 8, the entertainment will be given under the auspices of the oornet band, in the Odd Fellows' Hall, whioh was an nounced to tako place Monday and Tues day evenings of this week. There will be comic music, dialogues, oto. We have not learned what the entranoe foe will be. Mrs. Wm. Stegall lost a $5 oape on the streets, somewhere near the poet office, last night abopt dark. Somebody picked it up immediately. Finder will please take oare of crae and return to owner. J. R. Jones, of Madison, was in town one day last week. J. M. and William Hull and D. T. Mul kay are spending some weeks in Ala bama. xcMSBBiftufivlOaM&nKauaB 1 I ? it with food by che H Aire a delicious, pi le ^ To |>? ?ure of m ! i maks* % diffei RC Following ia the honor roll of tho seo ?od and third grades of the Westminster j Cradled 80hool for the mooth of January : I 'Second Grade-Mildred Bearden 100, Vibe rt Diokwon 08, Lois Morgan 97, Lil ian Morgan 97, Oura Freeman 97, Bala limmona 96, Maggie Mitchell 96. Third Grade-Bilby "Miller 98, Boon h ook 98, Julia Dickerson 96, Carrie Lou Vhite 07, Hattie Simpson 97, Edna Ktur an d 97, Marie Lesley 97, Paul Ballenger ?, Alu Prichard 96, Annie Bell Wnt dns 95, Ila Wilson 96, Andrew Holly 95, tosalee Wilson 96, Victor Marett 95. Lena Waddel], Teacher. Charles Webb, of Anderson, waa in own one day last week. Clifton F. Adams left to-day for a bree weeks' visit to Dalton, Canton and atlanta. . Born, unto Mr. and Mrs. Hoi fe Hunt, m February 88, a son.' A. L. Goesett. Tettor, Sall Rheum, and Eczema. These are diseases for which Chamber sin's Salve is especially valuable. It ?uiekly allays the Itching and smarting md soon effects a obre. Price, 25 cents, 'or sale by Dr. J. W. Bell, Walhalla; W. I. Lunney, Seneca. Town Inundated. Vaooleave, La., Maroh 1.-This town vas partly washed away last night when n five hours' time Bluff creek rose to a width of a mile and a half. People were li i ven from their homes about midnight md soon afterwards the water was run ling several feet deep in the prluoipal ttreets. No lives were lost, but many lead of stock and numerous SCM.11 bulla nga were carried away. Work of Tornado. Little Kock, Ark., Maroh 1.-Washing on, a small town in the southwestern tart of Arkansas, was swopt by a tor >ado last night and almost the entire louthern portion of that place was de itroyed. Three ohurob buildings and tbout 180 small houses, ocoupied prinoi .ally by negroes, were blown down. Two negroes were killed and several >ther persons are reported to have been njured. The property loss is estimated kt $70,000. Worked Like a Charm. D. N. Walker, editor of that sploy lournal. The Enterprise, Louisa, Va., lays: "I ran a nail in my foot last weok md at onoo applied Bucklen's Amloa Jal ve. No inflammation followed; the lalve simply healed the wound." Heals ?very sore, ourn and skin disease. Guar anteed at all druggists. 25 cents. SENKCAi Seneca, Maroh 4.-Seneoa Ss ip the h roes of ls grippe I Dr. J. H. Burgess has'been on the siok 1st for some days. W. mt. Prepat suffered the misfortune o fall last week, injuring himself pain olly, though it ls hoped not seriously. The baby boy of Dr. and Mrs. E. A. lines bas been ill with pneumonia for a veek, but it ls thought that tbe little fol ow ls improving. Thej eon j You remet .-Home < ' in thc chtl ute of poor .baking powder, ire, home?-made muffin, cake 01 thc purity, you mutt ute ?nee in your home-a diff? a difference in your cookin ?YAL b absolutely P . Tho entire family of A. P. Browo, ex cepting himself and one other member, hare, been at the mercy of grip for a week. Hon. John G. Cary was strioken with sn attack of what <WM th ou ?hr, t ? be acote indigestion while in Seneca last week , and suffered, intensely, bat was oarried to his home, in Lookhart a few boars after the attack. Mrs. H.. F. Alexander's friends are happy In the fact that she ls able to be out again, after an indisposition whioh held ber a victim for many weeks The many friends of Mrs. W. P. Reid and daughter, Miss Mary Julia, were de lighted to see her in Seneca tho past week. Mrs. L. R. Van DI viere and ber charm ing daughter. Miss Margie, were guests of Mrs. C. V. M clarey last week. Master David Vernor waa the host to a number of his young gent friends last Saturday at a splendid 'possum dinner. The affair waa replete with every good tbiug that goes to make a boy's heart glad. Mrs. John Myers is at home again, after a visit of some days to her son and daughter in Atlanta. misa Annie Leckey, of Chester, ie the charming guest of Miss Bessie L. Pea tross The pastor of the Presbyterian church anuounoed last Sabbath that he would be absent from his pulpit until the fifth Sabbath. On next Sabbath Rev. Sam Wilson will occupy the pulpit, but there will be no services in this chu rob on the third Sabbath. The pastor, however, will be at all of the prayer mee ti ?g dur the month. We would like to know what grudge the council owed the mothers in thin town that they should bring the oarnival on them again. Already for a woek the Katzenjammers (and this inoludes every small boy in every family in town) have been rehearsing the possibilities of the entire program as a prelude to this week's attractions. Of oourse, this in oludes the high diver, the low dodger, and etcetera, with all the casualties inoident thereto. The streets present a cosmo politan appearance, whioh ' bespeaks a widely foreign element to the oarnival attractions. Next week we are promised an all week's engagement by a tent show. Af terwards we expeot big things of the town council. Miss Christine Dickson has returned to her work in Thomaston, (in., her depar ture giving genuine grief to her numer ous friends hero. ? C. N Oignl'.liat waa struck by a loose box oar on a side track of the Southern, near bis fertilizer works, last Saturday and considerably bruised up. Mr. Gig nilliat is, however, able to resume his duties this week. Miss Remer Farmer, one of Anderson's beautiful daughters, visited Miss Carrie Hunter lastjweek. On last Friday evening Miss Leah Har per entertained a dosen of her young frlonds most delightfully. Progressive flSnoBinSuJlfls^B^HKzsiHBH ! usually want nething from the pantry nbcr th? hunger you had cooking counts for much Id's health; do not imperil .' ? tv V; ;?j ?? '. ? r biscuit ready when they ?renee in your health g? tare. I anagrams waa played, and a bright, charming, Intercourse was enjoyed dur ing tho content. The prize was won hy ' Dr. W. H. Doyle, the consolation going to Frank Piokett After the contest a delicious inonu was served in the dining room, whioh was brilliantly, decorated with the colors red and white. The colors were also iotroduoed in tho pre paration of the menu, the effect being most pleasing. Those present were) Misses Eleanor Riohardaon, Ethel Kirk- . patriok, Eather Cary, Maud Hopkins and Garrie'Hunter; Grady Ballenger. Frank j Piokett, Dug. Seaborn, 3am Holland, Eustace Hopkins and Dr. W. R. Dpyle. Miss Bessie L. Peatrose waa hostess to the Gossipers last Saturday afternoon, the affair being given complimentary to her chancing visitor, Miss Annie Leokey, of Chester. The occasion ' was one of distinot ohsrm, the hostess sparing no pains to make lt in every way creditablo to the fair honoree. The decorations were elaborate, in wbiob the olub colors, red and white, were need in most effect ive arrangement. The parlor, hall and dining room were used and were dark ened, red lights from shaded lamps and candles enhanoing the effect of the color scheme. Upon the arrival of the guests they were given leaflets containing lists of mismatched heroes and heroines, whioh were to be properly matched, blank leaflets, with corresponding num bers, being used for that purpose, the guests working in couples. A lively con test ensued, resulting in the prize, ex quisite manloure articles, going to Misses Mary Cherry and Ellen Todd, whioh they presented the gneat of honor. Tho hostess then asked the company into the dining room, where a delightful three course luncheon waa served. The usual small tables were conspicuously absent, one long table seating the entire Com pany. Butterfly decorations were used in many beautiful conceits. The plaoo oards bore on one corner a tiny butterfly, the broad streamers extending from tho ohandelier to the corners of the table were confined by immense butterflies in the most gorgeous oolorlng. The centerpiece, a pot plant of oaotus, ablaze with brilliant blooms, rested upon a handsome battenburg piece, whose proportions were outlined by tiny rod jap?nicas. These were also showered upon the snowy doth in pretty effect. The menu, consisting of a salad oourse, coffee, loos, oakes and orystalized ginger, was beautifully served, the colors being in evidence throughout Mrs. Wm. Neill proved an invaluable assistant to tho boatos? in serving and the beautiful affair goes into history as being one of the most sucoossf ul of the long list whioh fills the past season's calendar. Charles, Hoke and Tom Swann, of At lanta, are h ?re. W. A. He Hand's friends are glad Lo have him In Seneca again. Mrs. Miles Sttton is visiting the family of W. A. Holland. This data marks tho fifth anniversary of your correspondent's work with the Courier over the signature of M. V. ?. BBMBI