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It Isn't tr Man Behh You want to gua! the vaults behind you eau rely on ] always at your ct In-it costs you B Bank of Walha! 'JAMES SMITH SUICIDES. !? Hung Himself by Wire from Rafters of Shuck Pen. -r-. - * James Smith, single, about 30 years ot age, was found at his place near Prather's Bridge, last Sunday morning, his body suspenaod from the rafters of his shuck pen by a wire. Shortly after eating his break fast he left the house and went put Into the lot and was not seen again. When ?uuu? LIB body wti? daugiiug In the shuck pen at the end of a wire taken from a bale of hay. No cause ls known for the deed, as he was in fair circumstances, a hard-working, honest and upright farmer!** About two weeks ago, however, lt ls said that he attempted to kill himself, but was prevented from doing so. * No inquest was held. A telegram was sent, it is s Md, to the coroner, but this lay in the telegraph office at Seneca almost a day before being de livered to Coroner J. W. Hoi lem an..-. James Smith was a son of William Smith, of the Prather Bridge section of Oconee. His body was buried at Unity Tuesday. New Advertisements this Week. Attention ls directed to the new advertisements of the following mer chants this week: Bank of Walhalla. Moss & Ansel, Walhalla. W. M. Brown. Walhalla. C. W. & J. E. Bauknight.Walhalla. J. H. Adams, Seneca. Ruskin Anderson, Seneca. W. S. Hunter & Co., Seneca. T. M. Lowery, Seneca-Westminster M. S. Stribling, Westminster. Notice of Final Settlement. Watch the advertising columns of Wkn f <.I .. .... .,1, WAAl. ...1 1,.,..,. * v . ..... .. .? MHn ..... |J posted. The live merchants of the county advertise in The Courier be cause it reaches the people. Captured Malloyd in Charlotte. Sheriff W. M. Kay returned Mon day night from Charlotte, N. C., where he went in search of Will Mal loyd. colored, who was wanted on tho charge of murder. On July 4, 19l;d, in a base ball row at Westminster, Malloyd killed Luther Ferguson, cut ting his throat with a razor. He es caped then, and since that time has been at large. He says he has been working in New York, New Orleans and St. Louis since his esc.xpe, and only recently went to Charlotte, where he was in the employ of a e lal co un ia ny. At the time Of his arrest bj was driving a coal wagon, when Sheriff Kay and a Charlotte policeman recognized him, and Mal loyd's labors suddenly ceased. He is about 20 years of age. There was a fair reward offered for his Capture by the father of young Ferguson, his victim. Malloyd ls at last safely be hind the bars of Oconee's jail to? await his trial House and Three Cl?ldren Burned. Last Wednesday night the house of Elias Davis, colored, who lives in the Poplar section, Waa destroyed by fire and three of his children wero burned to death. Davis had left the house in charge of his four children, the?oldest onjy tei. years. It seems ?j that the children went to the kitchen , . to close a window, and lt hoing dark { they carriod a torch, and somo cot ton hanging in the loft of the kitchen caught Are from it. The children were panic-stricken, and In place of trying to make their escape they tried to extinguish the flames. The second child, a boy, mado his escape ; through a' window, and told his sis tor to hand him the baby, but he says he never saw or heard any more of her, and that the Aro was getting so hot he had to leavo tho building. One girl, aged about ten. one about four, and the baby were burned. The mother of the children died during last Christmas week. Lavis is a well-to-do and reopectable negro, and in his loss has the sym pathy of all who know him. Crosses of Honor. Confederate soldiers wishing crosses of honor should apply (a stamp enclosed) at once to Miss Marya R. Shelor, R. F. D. No. 1, Box 15, Westminster, S. C. As soon as you send your name the applica tion blank will be sent. Fill it out, going strictly by the directions, and return lt the next day, as Memorial Day is fast coming, when crosses will be given out. It ls hoped the Oconee schools will observe Memorial Day. The chil dren should bo taught to love and honor the soldiers while living, and to decorate their graves with flowers when dead. Got Second Grade Certificate. i Several weeks ago The Courier ' published a list of teachers granted certificates by the County Board of Education. The name of Miss Ada Wyly appeared as one of those re > ceivlng a third grade certificate, though, as a matter of fact, she was entitled to and received a second grade. Tho list was made hurriedly ' by tho Superintendent of Education, and the unintentional error crept into the list handed in to The Cou rier. IMPROVE THE SCHOOLS. Superintendent of Education Want? Rural Schools l<> Compete. Below ls given a letter from Miss Mary Nance, president of the Rural Sohool improvement Association for South Carolina. Look around your school buildings and Bee lt (herc is any work really needed on the house or grounds, nnrt if volt fln/I that vour school houses and grounds cap be improved, do lt and let us try for i ho prizes. I have been in nearly all the school houses of the County, and nearly every district has a nice frame, one room building, well-furnished with patent desks. I can think of but two or three Behool houses In the county that are not coiled. We have sevenl two and three-room country school houses. I think we are doing fairly well, even if the School Im provement Apsociation is inclined to criticise people who are doing the best they can. I think one of the best, it not really the best, way of improving the schools is to improve the teachers. This I have tried to do ever since I came into this office. A good school house with a poor teacher is worth very little to the community. I like flowers in the yards, piotures on the walls and a good Behool house, but what are they worth without sweet-spirited, competent teachers? So the teacher, as weil as the houses, are essential to a good school sys tem. The man who wrote the hymn that contains the words, "Sweet hirds and sweet prospects, sweet flowers, have all lost their sweetness to me when Jesus no longer I see," thought that in the absence of Jesus there was no real Joy. It matters not how much beauty and comfort there may be about a school house, there ls no real blessedness and progress unless tho teachers nre running over with kindness and efficience. C. L. Craig. Thirty-Five Prizes Offered. The South Carolina School Im provement Association offers thirty tive prizes to the schools of tho State for the most decided material im provement made during a given length of time. Five of the prises are to be $100 each, and thirty are to be $50 each. Regulations con cerning the thirty-five prizes that are to be awarded by this association are as follows: 1. Improvements must be made between November 1, 1907, a. d De cember 10, 1908. 2. Prizes will be awarded to sehouis where the most decided ma terial improvements have been made during the time mentioned. 3. Under material Improvements are included local taxation, consoli dation, new buildings, repairing and painting old ones, libraries, reading rooms or tables, iuterlor decorations, beautifying yards, and better general equipment. 4. No school can compete for any of these prizes unlet it is a rural school. No town with more than 500 population shall be eligible to the contest. 5. All who wish to enter the con test must send names and descrip tions of schools, before Improvements are made, t? the president prior to October 1st. 6. All descriptions, photographs aud other evidences showing improve ments must be sent to the president before December 15th, 1908. The chairman of the board of trustees of any school competing for a prize must approve all descriptions before and after improvements are made. 7. Prizes will be .warded in checks at the annual meeting of the South Carolina School Improvement Association December 31st, 1908. The prizes are to be used for fur ther improvements in the schools re ceiving them. Mary T. Najbeei President. i Columbia, S. C. No Usc to Die. "I have found out that there ls no use to die of lung trouble as long as you can get Dr. King's Now Discov ery." nays Mrs. J. P. White, of Hush boro, Pa "I would not bo allvo to day only for that wonderful medi cine. It loosens up a cough quicker than anything else, and cures lung disease even after the case is pro nounced hopeless." Thia most reli able remedy for coughs and colds, la grippe, asthma, bronchitis and hoarseness, is sold under guarantee by all druggists. 50c. and $1. Trial bottle ?vee. Greenville Gets Annual Reunion. The annual leunlon of the South Carolina division United Confederate Veterans will bo held in Greenville on August 12" and 13. The dates were changed by those in charge. Hereto'ore the gatherings have been held In May, but lt was thought that this would interfere with many of tho members of the organization who were busy with f -m work at that season. During the month < f Au gust there is a lot up in the work for a few days, and this will bo bet*' ter for the voterans. The \*A Gene ral Assembly continued the appro priation of $3,500 for the reunion and the citizons of Greenville will ?contribute liberally for the cause. IX? Xou Want Fish ? The Conrler ls In receipt of the following from Congressman Wyatt Aiken: A Washington. March 23.-Mr. Edi tor: . Please announce in your next issue that parties wishing Ash for ponds or streams should write me at t?ce at Washington. I hope to put over half million good fish In the Third District as soon as possible. Yours very truly, Wyatt Aiken. Dig Verdicts at Florence. Florence, March 21.-The biggest verdicts ever awarded by a Florence county Jury were recorded in the cases of Mrs. Maude Laughlin, and her little son, Law renco Laughlin, both of whom wsro terribly burne by an electric wire in this city last August, against the Florence Electric Light and Power Company, and the Southern Publlo Service Corporation. Mrs. Laughlin, who askod $60,000 damages, was awarded $17,000, and Lawrence Laughlin, whose suit was 'for $25,000 damages, obtained a verdict for $8,000. The case will be appealed to the Supreme Court. . Prof. Hailey to Sue Canon tadle*. --^ i (Toccoa Record.) It ls announced that Professor Bailey, who was recently cowhided by some ladles in Canon, has moved to Chattanooga. Tenu., and 1ms em ployed Sidney C. Tapp, of Atlanta, to bring suit for $20,000 damages in the United Slates Court against the ladles Involved in the rocont cow hiding. It ls stated that the com plaint will be salty. Bailey's wife, who was one ot the prettiest ?;r>d loveliest of Elbert coun ty girls, Is now suing him for di vorce. Good for Everybody. Norman ' R. Coulter, a prominent architect, in the Delbert Building, San Francisco, says: "I fully en dorse all that has been said of Elec tric Bitters as a tonic medicine. It is good for everybody. It corrects stomach, liver and kidney disorders in a prompt and efficient manner and builds up the system." Electric Bit ters is the best spring medicine ever sold over a druggists! counter; BB a blood pu ri lier it is unequaled. 50c. j at all druggists. ir Shirts! Shirts! We have now open a great line of Men's, Shirts for Spring. For 50 cents we offer a line of Madras and Percales in stripes, neat figures and solid colors that cannot be excelled. These colors are ab solutely fast. For $1 we will give you a strictly high class, beautifully made Shirt, with the new' soft attached collar, or without, as you wish. This is the Shirt that city dealers sell for $1.50. See our line of Four-in-Ha nd s for 2 5 cents. Men's White Vests at $1.25, $2 andj$2.50. W. vV, HUNTER <& CO.. SENECA.. S. C. DIES OF AUTO ACCIDENT. Representative of Automobile Fac tory Charged With Manslaughter. Savannah, Ga., March 23.-Police man H. H. Stra*? died Sunday of in jurleh sustained Saturday when he was run down hy an automobile. E. W. Gans, of Canton, Ohio, rep resetnlng a ?Cleveland automobile factory, is under bond of $2.000, having been arrested on a charge of Involuntary manslaoghter following the death of Strate. Gans was driv ing the machine that collided with Strate, who was mounted on a bicy cle at tho time of the accident. Cans was here for the recent au tomobile races. He ls an uncle of Lieutenant Laim, U. S. A., the bal loon expert. Will Take Off Two More Trains. (Greenville News.) Two more passenger trains on the Southern Railway main line are to be taken off. On Sunday next the changed schedule will go into effect and from that date on there will be no No. ll and No. 40 between Char lotte and Greenville. Thes? trains will have Greenville as their termi nus, however, and will continue to run between this City and Atlanta.? Mother Kills Self and Two Children. Fall River, Mass., March 23. Mrs. Florida Terrien, aged 25, 'and her two children, Mary aged 10, and Joseph, aged two months, were found dead in their kitchen yester day by the woman's husband. Mrs. Terrien held a crucifix in? her hand and a rosary about her neck. The coroner said it was suicide. Throat Coughs Ask your doctor about these throat coughs. He will tell you how deceptive they are. A tickling in the throat often I means serious trouble ahead. Better explain your case care fully to your doctor, and ask , him about your taking Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. Ith outr formule? Wo banlih ?loohol from our mcdlolnoi Wo uren you to conduit your dootor Who meVes the best liver pills?. The J. C. A/?*r Company, of Lowell, Mass. They have been making Ayer's Pills for over sixty years. If you have the slight est doubt ?bout using these pills, ?sk your doctor. Do as he says, always. ? -Mad? by th? J. O. Ay ar Co., Lowell. HM?.-" THE FAMO OX BRA N FERTILIZER OF THE Tennessee Chemical Co., ARE FOR SALE BY Strother & Phinney, West Union. J. G. Huff, Seneca, J. D. McMahan, Richland, Peden Bros,, Westminster, P. P. Sullivan, Madison* BUY THEM AND INSURE BIG CROPS. Spring Hardware ! BLACKSMITH TOOLS, ""FENCING. ROOFING. PAINTS-S. <tt N. Paints; full line. COLE'S Cotton Planters and Dis tributors. _ ^ m Disc Harrows, Acme Harrows, Cul tivators. MILL SUPPLIES. -"- PK ING FITTINGS. Rte. Car load Portland Cement. Ohio Steam CooKers. IN THE LOWERY, BYRD BUILDING. RUSKIN ANDERSON SENECA, S. C. THAT FCOr^O'MVjj *N O CRIME". IFVOVWIiHTo MAKE YOUR OWN/ DREYES THPN ctr COOD MATPR/Ai-S . % You CAN /.FPORDTO. i-BTVS FURNISH YOU VOUR, 0??yri$hr Hot by r \THAT5 \ COtvnjGMreo 100?. BVTH* 6U?VI? BROWN CO CMICACO CC AGREAT MAW JANE SMOffiJlC Did you over stand before your mirror just before you went out to make a call and feel ashamed because you knew you would meet people better clothed than yoursolf ? If so, you know how it feels. We have in our store many, many things it Would make you feel proud to wear. It is draw ing close to May-day now. Is this not the very latest date on which you should appear in your New Spring Garments? If you got thom now they can be worn just that much longer, and you will have just that many more times to fool proud when standing before the mir ror. Wo do not believe you can resist wishing some of those temptations. See my line of Silks, Linens, White Goods, Lawns, Dimities, Piques and Wool Dress Goods. Special values in White Lawns at 8c, 10c, 12 l-2c and up. All new goods just received. Let us show you our line of Oxfords for men, wo men and children just received. Everything in correct style at correct prices. Ruskin Anderson, Seneca. ibmS