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IN D PURITY COUNTS FOR E WE CARRY Pl WALHALLA DI YVALH?I . LOCAL AND PERSONAL. -Dr. Probst's dental office at resi dence. Norman building, Main street. -James R. Keith, of Anderton, spent Sunday In Walhalla among friends. -Miss Annie Reid left Monday morning for Hatesburg, where she will spend some time visiting her brother, J. B. Reid, and family. - See Abbott nt the Old Tobacco Factory. -Ed. Angel and John McCoy, of Franklin, N. C., are welcome visitors to Walhalla this week. They have a lot of trading stock with thom. - Mrs. Bettie Rnmscur, of Central, spent several days last week and this visiting at the home of Col. and Mrs. R. A. Thompson. She returned home yesterday. -For Rent or Sale-One-horse farm below West Union, recently bought from John Henry Lee. Good buildings. Frank H. Shirley, West minster, S. C. 3-5 - Mrs. G. W. Gardner, of Green wood, who spent Boveral days lu Walhalla visiting at tho home o? Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Shelor, returned to her home this morning. -The Walhalla Cotton Gin Com pany will operate their gin Friday of this week if the weather remains good. Remember this and have your cotton ready foran early start. - 1 have saw mill, engines, boilers, cte,, for snle. Parties looking for bargains in this lino should se,, me. Terms liberal. J. W. Shelor. Atty. - Mrs. L. R. VanDIviere, of Sa vannah, is in Wallialla for a few days among relatives and friends. Miss Georgia VailDlvlore, who bas been visiting in Savannah, accompa nied her to Walhalla. Capt. S. K. Dendy has purchased from Major Win. .1. Stribling bis mist mili and is now operating it dally. Tile mill is localed back ol' A. I'. Crisp's stoic ami is kept busy most of the timo. - Go to W. M. brown for buggies, wagon:;, harness, otc. tf -Mr. and Mrs. .1. S. Colley, of the Tabor section, arc spending some time at the home ol' the latter's fa ther. .1. W. Abbott, near town. Mr. Colley is improving very fast from a severe attack of pneumonia. - J. ll. Harnett, of Westminster, left Walhalla yesterday to attend the Farmers' Union meeting in Colum bia, which ls being held to-day. Mr. Harnett went as tho delegate from the Oconee County Union. -Abbott has moved lils New Home sewing machines to tho Old Tobacco Factory. -C. W. Bauknlght left yesterday for the West to buy horses and mules, and will soon li,? ready to supply his friends and customers. He will be here next week with as line a lot of animals as ho has ever bought. - Hugh Rankin, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Rankin, ol' the Taniassee section, ls seriously 111 at Chino, Cal ifornia, In wheh place he has been nt wOrk for some lime. His many Oconee friends hope for his speedy iecovery. -Wanted-Ten or Fifteen girls to learn to make overalls and drawers. Will pay expenses while learning. Light work; good pay. We work 7 till 12 ; 1 till c. Anderson Overall Factory, Anderson, S. C., O. H. Vnn Wyck, Manager. 3-4 -T. M. Lowery, of Seneca, lett last Saturday for the Western mar kets, where he is now purchasing a larne stock of horses and nuiles for bis Seneca and Westminster stabels. Watch for his announcement next week. Something ol' interest, to horse lovers. -Any of The Courier readers in terested in building or repairing can gain valuable Information about roof, lng by w riting the Cort right Metal Shingle Company, Philadelphia. Pa., for their Metal Shingle Advocate, which will be sent thom free of charge. -Abbott has moved good beds to the Old Tobacco Factory. - Recently J. I. Loudermilk pre sented at Tho Courier office two spec imens of the products of the "Shake rag" settlement - an opossum which weighed 1 1 Vi pounds and a lien egg which weighed five ounces, was 3 Vi inches long and measured 7 inches In circumference. - Rev. G. W. Gardner, of Green wood, occupied the Baptist pulpit here last Sunday morning and even ing, when good congregations greet ed him. His sermons were excellent, and his visit was highly appreciated by the Baptist congregation and friends of other denominations, -Abbott has moved bis sewing machine needles to the Old Tobacco Factory. -The Emery Club held a most de lightful meeting last Friday after noon with Mrs. B. P. Sloan as hostess. Those present were Mrs. L. M. Brown, Mrs. C. G. Jaynea, Mrs. Sidney Adams, Mrs. J., il. S. Dendy. Mrs. George Seaborn and Mr?. A. C. Merrick. After the usual fancy work hour the guests were treated to a delicious sweet course, consisting of cakess ambrosia and coffee. Before adjournment the club accepted Mrs. C. G. Jaynes's Invitation to meet with her Friday afternoon, January 29th. VERYTHING. JRE AND FRESH DRUGS. IUG COMPANY, ^LJA^ S. C. -Abbott bas move] bis lounges to the Old Tobacco Factory. -Mr. Tatt-, of triberton. Ga., vis ited at the home ot* his uncle, F. A. Lewis, Monday night. - Wanted Renter-Large family preferred. C. Melchert, Walhalla. -Bond Anderson, auditor for the Min?? Ridge Railway, spent last night in Walhalla on official business. -Mrs. G. K. Maxwell and Thos. Maxwell spent n short while last week visiting the family of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. iN'lx in Greenville. -Abbott has bought forty organs for the Old Tobacco Factory. - Mrs. E. R. Lucas nae been quite sick for several days She ls im proving nicely now, however, and her friends hope to see her out soon. -Misses Annie and Mary Kay, of Westminster, are visiting their cou sins, Misses Allie and Ruth Kay, sit the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Kay. -Abbott has moved his bed Bpiings to the Old Tobacco Factory. - Miss Mattie Whltmlre, of Salem, has been quite sick for some time, suffering from a severe attack of fever. She is reported better this morning. -Lewis Gelsert, linotype inspec tor, representing the Mergenthaler Co., of New York, was in Walhalla Saturday of last week, inspecting The Courier's linotype machine. -C. R. D. Hums left this morn ing for Atlanta, where he will be for fl week or ten days on business. Mrs. Burna will join bini Friday in the "Gate City" for a few days of recrea tion and pleasure. -Abbott has moved his rocking chairs to the old Tobacco Factory. ---The many'friends of Capt. \v. A. Strother will be glad lo learn that he has so far recovered as to bo able to bc out again. Yesterday for a short while be occupied his accus tomed place at the People's Hank. -Young men! ll* you want to know why you should become tele ! graph operators and what school to attend, write to Southern School of Telegrai'v. Newnan, Ca., for free Catalogue "A." Everybody should read it. Positions positively guaran teed. -0 - D. Conger, manager of the Pied mont Land and Improvement Com pany, was in Walhalla for a short while Tuesday on business. Ile is making elaborate preparations for the big land sale by his company at Westminster on Thursday of next week. January 28th. -Abbott has mox cd his sewing machines to the Old Tobacco Factory. - Pp to the present time the Wal halla Cotton (Jin Company luis gin in d ST7 bales of cotton of last year's crop. This company xvas organized and began operation late in the sea son, but notwithstanding this fact the number of bales ginned xvas in excess of what the company expected for the first year. Strother & Phin ney. of West Union, have ginned 1,500 bales from the past season's croi>. - Little Funice Beatty, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. .1. I*. Beatty, has had more than he? share of suffering for the past year. Last winter she was stricken with a severe attack of scarlet fever, from which she recov ered only to be taken, a short while later, with measles and whooping cough, which xvas followed by pneu monia. lt has been only a few xveeks since sile recovered from the latter, and last week Ors. ll. F. Sloan and .1. W. Pell were again called to walt on the litle girl, xvho is noxv suffer ing with pleurisy. An operation xvas performed by her physicians last Sat. unlay and lias given her much re lief, but, judging by present indica tions, they do not hope for her re covery Without a second operation. We hope the litle one may soon be restored to perfect health. - Frank Brennecke, formerly of Walhalla, was painfully hurt last Saturday while on his run on the Southon Railway betxveen Columbia and Augusta, Ga. , .lust as the engine on which Frank xvas firing stopped at a 65,000-gallon watering tank to lake on water, one of the iron bands af the bottom of the tank gave way, and the force of the great amount of water above burst the big tnnk in stantly. Roth the engineer and young Brennecke were knocked down and painfully hurt. Prennecke is noxv in thc Augusta Hospital and is getting along nicely. Ills brother. Louis A. Brennecke, left Greenwood on hearing of the accident and ls with him at the hospital. Some Idea of the terrific, force occasioned by the sudden turning loose of 05,000 gallons of water may be gained by the fact that the txvo freight cars next to the engine are reported to have been knocked completely from the track. Mr. Hrennecke's ninny Walhalla friends hope for his speedy recovery from his injuries. The Walhalla Cotton Oin Company will run their gin Friday, January 22d, if xveather is good. If bad wea ther the gin xviii not run that day,but will gin the following Tuesday, Janu ary 20. Parties having cotton to gin please take notice and have cotton ready to handle promptly. Walhalla Cotton Gin Company, Per S. K. Dendy, Mnnager. -Abbott has bought baby cradles for the Old Tobacco Factory. -Dr. Probst's dental office open ot residence, Norman building, Main street. -or-,ure Conclave, N?. 827, I. O. H., will Install officers to-morrow (Thursday) night. All members are earnestly requested to attend prompt ly, eight o'clock being the hour of meeting. -Invitations have been received In Walhalla to a dance to he given next Tuesday, January 26th, by the Seneca Gorman (Hub, at Ballenger's Hall, Seneca. The dancing contin gent here are anticipating a most pleasant evening. -Abbott has bought White sewing machines for the Old Tobacco Fac tory. -Owing to the continued warm weat her, and in order not to Incon venience citizens unnecessarily or to cause them loss, time has been grant, ed during January and February for disposing of hogs now on hand. It will be the part of wisdom, how ever, to kill all hogs ready for slaughter at earliest favorable wea ther, and get new stock only where the terms ol' the hog law cnn be com piled with. -Two of our staunch friends Mrs. Laura Dodd, of West Union, and J. N. Rutherford, of Walhalla Route 2-paid us appreciated calls this week. Mrs. Dodd has read The Courier for fifty years, lt having gone to her father's home when she was quite a child. Mr. Rutherford In formed us that his payment Monday was his '."'1 annual payment. May both th se /oeJ people yet live long and prosper. -The many friends of Mrs. John D. Callas, of West Union, who has been critically ill for some time, will be glnd to learn that she ls greatly Improved, and hopes are expressed for her early restoration to health. Her physicians, Hrs. Thode, Bell and Sloan, assisted by Dr. Black, of Greenville, performed an operation Saturday, after which Mrs. Callas's condition Improved materially, and she has continued to gain dally since. -Attention ls directed to the ad vertisement of the Piedmont Land and Improvement Company, which will be found in this Issue. 'Phis company, on Thursday, January 28, (next week) will sell the remainder ot' the lots In Kastmlnster, the new residence portion of Westminster. The terms are very reasonable, and parties wishing lots for homos or as an Investment will do well to attend this sale, which will commence at 10 o'clock a. m. Numerous good lots were sold at the foi mer sale and preparations are going on for build ing residences. A good neighbor hood is assured all purchasers. Read the advertisement and attend the sale. FKARFUii Wltl?CK IX COLORADO. Twenty Persons were Killed and Thirty Injured. Glenwood Springs. Colo., Jan. li!. Twenty persons were killed and thirty injured, many of them seri ously, in fl head-on collision between west-bound passenger train Xo. 6 and an east-bound freight train on the Heaver and Rio Grande Railroad, between Dolsero and Spruce Creek, twenty-two miles from (Henwood Springs, at O.?it? o'clock last night. While nothing official has been given out as to the cause of the wreck, it is stated to have been du? to a misunderstanding of orders on the part of the engineer, Gustaf Ol son, of the passenger train. Olson, however, claims that he understood his instructions perfectly, but that he misread his watch, thus encroach ing on the time of the freight train, which was being drawn hy two loco motives, the first of which was in charge of his brother. Sig Olson. Missing Teacher Commits Suicide. Columbia, Jan. 18.-John Haw kins, the school teacher whose fail ure to return to Ridgeland, Beau fort county, to reopen his school after the holidays created surprise and anxiety there, was found dead In his room at the Columbia Hotel yester day afternoon. A revolver on the bureau, with the handle toward his body, and a bullet hole in lils head showed the cause of his death. Prof. John Hawkins, pritu-'pal of the Ridgeland school. cir.sed lils school December 24 and felled to re turn, as was expected, t', reopen the school on January 1. Foin p'ny v.ua feared by the patrons and trustees of the school. Ile natl left Ridgeland to visit friends and to attend the mettlng Of the State Teachers' Asso ciation in Columbia. lt is learned since his death that he has been In Columbia since the meeting of the teachers. There is no doubl that he took his own life, sup posedly about I o'clock, as he had evidently been dead several hours when his body was discovered about 7 o'clock. Physicians state that the shot must have been fired about 4 o'clock that morning, death following instantly. Hawkins was 48 years of age and was a native of Newberry county. Italy's Rulers Coming ? Rome, .inn. 16.-A report is cur rent to-day that King Victor Emman uel and Queen Helene will visit the United States to personally thank the government for its timely aid to the earthquake sufferers. Family Burned to Heath. A bl hine, Texas. Jan. 18.-M. H. Stream and three-year-old son, liv ing five miles west of Roby, were burned to death and five other mem bers of tho family were fatally burned yesterday by a gasoline ex plosion. Physicians entertain little hope for the recovery of any of the family. Groom 75, Bride Til. WaycroBB, Ga., Jan. 16.-W. R. Younians. aged 7f>, and Mrs. \V. R. Harbin, aged 73, were married this morning In Waycross. The groom ls a pioneer fnrmer in Pierce county and prominently connected. Mrs. Harbin's husband died here a year ago ns the result of Injuries received in a runaway. SOMETHING TO YOUR INTEREST ! We have a few good Horses and Mules for sale cheap? Be sure to see them for this ??. a chance that does not present itself every day. Come in and let us talk to you about Fertilizers and Plantation Supplies. Wc also have a good stock of those celebrated Corbitt Buggies, and Birdscll and Thornwell Wagons. WE SELL CHEAP FOR CASH OR ON TIME. Carter & Company, WALHALLA, S. C. NOTICE OF SPECIAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION. COUNCIL CHAMBER, Town of Walhalla, S. C., January 6th, 1909. Notice ls hereby given that a Spe cial Municipal Election will be held on TUESDAY, January 26th, 1909, at Walhalla Court House, for the election of two Aldermen for the Town of Walhalla, to All the unex pired terms of J. Bennett Hill and Thomas Littleton, which end Decem ber 31, 1909. Also, for one Member of the Board of Health of the Town of Walhalla, to lill the unexpired term of W. B. Loehr, ending January 31st. 1909. Holls will open at 8 o'clock a. m. and close at 4 o'clock p. m. Voters holding registration certifi cates for the reguiar election in 1908 shall he entitled to vote In this spe cial election upon presentation of same. C. L. Reid, II. C. Husch and John Joost are hereby appointed manag ers to conduct said election. Uv order of Council: GEO. M. AN'SF.L, Clprk. January 0, 19 09. 2-3 LAND FOR SALE. For Sale, .">2 acres good farming land, located near West Union, ! known as the the Galbreath land, 'near Wolf Stake church; 10 acres Minder cultivation, balance? timbered; two-room house and out-buildings Terms Cash; price reasonable. Ap ply to J. C. MULKAY, ?* Route 1, West Union, S. C. Go to T. E. Alexander, For Your Riif?pries mid Harness. NORTHWEST BURIED IX SNOW. Trains Stalled in Saskatchewan and Alberta-Homesteads Hidden. Winnipeg, Jan. 19.--A blinding snow driven across the prairies and through the woods by n raging wind of forty-one miles an hour, enveloped western Canada to-day. lt was the wildest blizzard the country has ex perienced in recent years. Train ser vice is practically at a standst?'!. Passenger and freight t:;.<ns are tunnelling their way out through dense snow drifts In So-katchewan ard Alberta, while in .Manitoba all the short lines are tied up and snow ploughs are being driven with dou 1)1 e power. Const express trains have been burled for almost eighteen hours in snowdrifts near Swift Current, Sas katchewan, and the snow was blown back on the right of way faster than the auxiliary crews could cart it off, choking progress entirely. Hundreds of homesteaders, were buried in their huts and were forced to tunnel their way to the stock sheds. The Cough of Consumption Your doctor will tell you that fresh air and good food are the real cures for consumption. But often the cough is very hard. Hence, we suggest that you ask your doctor about your taking Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. It controls the tick ling, quiets the cough. A Wa publish our formulas mrs W, bsnlih ?loohol from our medloinaa Wa tirga jo? co aon.ult yoif dootor One of Ayer's Pills at bedtime will cause an increased flow of bile, and produce a fentle laxative effuct the day fellowing, brmuia on each box. Show it to your doctor. He will understand at a glance. Dose, one pill at bedtime. -- Mada by tho J. C. Ay ar Co., I.owall. K aaa' HORSE SWAPPING CONVENTION, SALEM, S. C. i January 27, 28 and 29, 3 909. ?yj^^J^PyJ.g CQMINQ-TP SALEM! All necessary preparations are being made. Good Boarding Houses, Stables, Shelters and Feed can be bad. COME EVERYBODY And bring all of your Broke-leg Horses, Cows, Oxen and Billy Goats. B. S. CHILDRESS, President, E. RANKIN, Secretary. F. L,. ALEXANDER, Treasurer. m I f MK* WANT TO SELL. We want to sell Trunks, Suit Cases, Shoes, Hats, Caps, Pants, Dry Goods, Hardware, Crockery, Tinware and Groceries, Dress Goods at 25c. to $1 per yard. Shoes for Men. Women and Children at 25c. to $3.50 per pair. Examine our Butchers' Linen at 45c. per yard. Buy a Colo Grain Drill. Something special in White Crockery. Call and prioe our Dry Goods. Wo will givo you a bargain and appreciate your trade._' i J.W. BYRD, SO. CAROLINA. Why Buy FERTILIZERS, Then let your land, fer tilizer and your crop wash away ? Get one of our Bostromj Farm Levels, terrace your lands, and it will repay you the original price of the level on each acre of ground every year. We are exclusive agents for Oconee County. SENECA HARDWARE CO., SENECA. S. C. H FLOUR! Still have some of Harter's A No. 1, Patent Flour in wood barrels at $5.50. Better try it; 'tis 50c. in your pocket. W.S.Hunter&Co., SENECA, S. C.