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An August Clearance Sale thai Means Something = TO YOU. ===== When you come to a Clearance Sale here you will find Goods and Values worth your while. In style, quality and price we can please you. A lot of seasonable goods are reduced in price in order to make room for our Fall Lines. Read the cut prices below and come and get the goods while they last : Dry Goods One piece Silk Brocaded Katina, 50 cents i>er yard, reduced to 10 cents. 25c. and 30c. Ratinas at 20c. per yard. 30c. Crepe for 2 0c. 20c. Riplette reduced to 12M?c. 10c. and 12 Msc. Colored Lawns only 7c. 15c. Linene Suiting reduced to 1 0c. yard. 20c. Poplin 12V??c. per yard. One piece 60c. Crepe reduced to 4 0c. i>er yard. 35c. Dress Linen, Blue and Tan. 2 5c. per yard. 10c. Percale, 8c. 6c. Calico, 4c. Summer Parasols $1.25 kind for 95c. each. 75c. kind, 50c. each. Shirts Large assortment of Shirts, $1 kind for 75c. To every girl tinder 10 years of age coming to our Store on Thursday, the 6th, between 2 and 2.30 o'clock, we will give a nice Fan Free. Silk Hosiery 60c. value, all colors, reduced to 45c. per pair. $1 values for 9 0c. TRI' X KS, VALISES A Xl) SI IT CASIOS. Slippers Pull line of Lndies' and Cents' Slippers. $4 Slippers reduced to $3. $3.50 kind reduced to $2.75. Cheaper ones reduced accord ingly. THE ?SAVINGS ON ALL SUMMER GOODS TO YOU IS LARGE J. S. CARTER, WESTMINSTER, S. C CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATES. The Aspirante for Honora in Third ! District. S|M>ke Thursday. Congressman Wyatt Aiken and the three candidates who are seeking his job were in Walhalla last Thursday and addressed an audience ol' about 200 in the Court House. They were given splendid attention from start to finish, and no demonstration of any kind was-made, those present be ing apparently intent upon hearing what each candidate had to say for himself or "agin' the other fellow.'' The meeting was called to order by County Chairman .las. M. Moss, who introduced the candidates and stated that each would be allowed ',]'> minutes in which to present his claims to the voters of Oeonee. Hon. Wyatt Aiken, the tirst speaker, took occasion to thank the voters of Oeonee for the hearty support they had always given him, and he hoped that they would give him their support in the present race. He did not care for as much timo as Ila minutes, hut since that much had been allowed him he would endeavor to consume the time in stat ing frankly and openly what he had been able to do for his constituents and hoped to do in the future. Ile stated that he had always acted upon conscience in all matters'of legisla tion; that he would be attacked for his vote on the Panama Canal tolls bill, but the exemption of American ships from payment of tolls was fixed as a plank I ii the Democratic plat form, and although President Wilson urged the passage of the bill abol ishing exemption of tolls to Ameri can vessels he had felt it his duty to stand by tho Democratic platform, had done so conscientiously, voting for the exemption, and would do so again if the same matters wore yet to be considered. Ile paid a high tribute to President Wilson, refor rt. g to him as "that fearless and con scientious man" who would go down in history as one among the ablest Presidents this country had ever bau. He gave a brief outline of the con templated workings of the new cur rency legislation and the anti-trust measures that sought to give relief to the consuming public from the grasping greed of the large corpora tions. "The money question," he said, "has been taken from the lim ited confines of Wall street, in New York city, and will hereafter he con trolled by the government in the In terests of the people." Hy means of the regional banks every section of the country will be provided for, and Hiere will he always at hand money with which to move crops advanta geously to the producers. He had supported both these measures in Congress. The banking system scheme is now law, and Hie beneficial effects will be seen in the moving of crops this year. Mr. Aiken said thai he was heart ily in favor of large appropriations for the building and maintaining of post roads over the South as well as in other sections, and he has been lending much ol' his thought and en ergy to such matters. Hut, he said, the benefits from this source will of necessity be governed largely by tho Interest taken by the several States in securing aid from the General Government, as it will expect each State to do its part, and will not un dertake to build roads unassisted. Mr. Aiken had been criticised, he Bald, foi1 drawing his salary. Ho had drawn a salary for a number of years from the government at Washington, was not ashamed of the fact, and ex pected to draw that salary in Hie fu ture, for Hie people of the district were going to send him back to rep resent them. Ile had gotten the sal ary honestly, had worked always in the interest ol' those whom he repre sented, and he had spent and Invested in South Carolina 75 per cent of all the money he had drawn as a Repre sentative in Congress, ile ls a far mer, be said, appreciates and knows the needs of Hie farmer, and had worked untiringly for their interests along with the interests of ail people in the Third District. "I don't swal low everything Mr. Wilson says, or everything Mr. Taft says, and don't follow any man blindly, and my op ponents can't read me out of the Democratic party beacuse I have seon flt to stand by tho party platform, even though tho President was op posed io the plank." Fred ll. Dominick, of Newberry, was the second speaker, and he asserted that he was going io be elected on tho first ballot. He had some criticisms to make about Con gressman Aiken's record, but he bad not a word to say against him i>er gonally. He criticised Iiis vote on tho i-anal lolls bill, and said he had been drawing his salary, but did nothing for the people of his district; had no standing in Washington as a Con gressman, as he had never been as signed to duty on any important com mittee, and ought to be read out of the Democratic party because he did not follow the lead of President Wil son In the matter of supporting the measure to repeal the tolls exemption clause in the Panama Canal bill Mr. Dominick read from what he called "Aiken's Obituary," this being the usual biographical sketch In the Congressional Directory, in which it was stated that Wyatt Aiken was ?"?1 years of age, had been Court'stenog rapher for 19 years, 12 yearT a Con gressman, making 31 years In public life, during all of which time he had been drawing a fat salary from tho public, or ever since he was 20 years of age, "and yet he says that he has been a farmer all his life." Mr. Dom inick figured it out that Congress man Aiken had drawn $105,110, or an average of $3,410 a year ever since he was 20 years of age, and thought it was about time to give some other fellow a chance. Aiken had made a good stenographer, and the people of the district had spoiled a good stenographer and made a bum Congressman out of him. Ile said that. Congressman Aiken had Introduced 313 bills in Con gress, of which number only 64 had met with approval and 24 9 had been killed. Most of those approved, he said, were merely little private pen sion bills. Mr. Aiken's public life was, he said, a multiplication of lit tle things, and the aggregate amount ed to nothing. He criticised the rural credits bill, saying that if a far mer wanted to borrow money on his farm he would have to go through such a lot of red tape that, If he ever got his loan application approved it would be so long after the applica tion had been made that he would have forgotten that he wanted the money, and said that he expected to introduce a bettor bill after March Ith next. "I am going to Congress to represent you, and I will go in on the first ballot, whether you want to believe lt or not. 1 have got the other 'bree candidates beat now. and I want you to put that In your pipe and smoke it." ('apt. F. S. Evans, of Greenwood, was the third speaker, and opened hy stating that he was glad to again stand before an Oco nee audience. He thanked the peo ple of tho county for the support they gave him in the race two years ago, and he felt thal he was going t< receive a better vote here this i me He felt confident of winning in Lui: race, and it he was the choice of thc people he promised them a clean fair and sonare deal in all matter! and close, conscientious attention t( any matters that the people fol would be for the Interest of tin Third District or any section of tin State. He had no political record he said, though two of his opponent: have, "and I am going to talk o those records, for they are pilbil' property." Mr. Evans criticised the vtoe o Mr. Aiken on the canal tolls oxemp lion bill and other matters, hut gav particular attention to Mr. Dominick who had made reference to Mi Evan8 in his speech. He Hayed th rjcord of Mr. Dominick as record? In the House Journals of South Caro Una for the years 1901 and 1903. ll referred the audience to the lions Journal of 1903, page f>ti3, whir refers to <? county government bil on to which had been tacked a se< tion with reference to the dispensar] Mr. Evans characterized the run . redits hill as political thunder, sa> lng that it really meant nothing t the farmers of the country becaus tin? whole thing was surrounded b intricacies that would practically pr< bibil the farmer getting money will In any reasonable time, and it woul be of but little benefit to the farn lng classes. He would If electee devote much of his first service t.? til consideration of freight rates, when by millions could be saved to tli producers ol' all kinds ol' farm pn ducts, manufacturers of all kinds < goods, and Hie general publ ? woul reap the benefit. (iood roads an h':iter roads would also come in f( Immediate attention hy him, and 1 felt that the question of roads en bodied the greatest economic prol loma of the day. Capt. Evans closed by saying th) if elected he would serve the neop of the Third District just as enth slastically as he now sought the votes. .lohn A. Horton, of Holton, oponed his remarks by stating that he was glad to have op portunity to address an Oeonee audi ence, though lu? was no speaker, and had never before sought the votes of any people for public office, save in his home town of Helton, where the voters had honored him twice with the office of mayor, and he had vol untarily declined to serve longer, though he had been besought to do so. He was born, he said, within eight miles of the county seat of An derson, and had worked on his fa ther's farm until he was old enough to go out into the world. When he said that he had worked on the farm, ho said, he meant work-not owning a farm and letting others do the work. He had always gone to the field and worked side by side with the hands, and he did this until he was 21 years of age, when he sought work and found it In the city of Anderson, where he was identified with business interests, afterwards going to Belton and establishing him self in business. He knew thc far mers' needs and was familiar with the farmers' trials, and he felt that he had the information necessary and at hand to make a proper representa tive in Congress for the people of his district. Mr. Horton stated that he favored Federal aid to good roads. We are spending millions r mall} on our navy and millions on other Ueno; of public expense, but we are negli the public highways, and this mat ter represents the greateBl economic principle of the da>. He bo i i also in Federal aid to public schoolfl to supplement the State aid now given. We need more schools and better schools, he said. "God speed the day when every community cam have a good school whose doors shall be open nine months in every year.' Favored extension of rural mail ser vice so that delivery of mails dallj might be the blessing of the agricul taral masses. We are spending mil lions to deliver mail to the doors o town people. Why not deliver it t( the doors of the people in the rura districts? Mr. Horton eulogized Presiden Wilson, endorsed his stand on tin canal tolls matter, praised the cana as the greatest piece of engineerini work that the world had ever known saying that he would have voted ii accord with Mr. Wilson's wishes ha? he been in Congress, "and not wl.tl the Republicans and in the Interest of the shipping combine, as Mi Aiken did." Mr. Horton charged that Mr. Alke had voted against tho pure food lav and stated thal he had gone again! the most vital interests of the pcopl when he did so. As he closed lil remarks Mr. Aiken asked Chalrine Moss to allow him just one minute I which to explain his position on th pure food law. He said that thei were several caters included in til original bill which ie could not sui port, as they were against the lute ests of the people of the countrj that these features w?*re eliminate by amendments, and that his vol would be found recorded In favor < the bill as it finally passed. The Meeting Closed with Mr. Horton's speech and M Aiken's remark?. Aside from one ; two instances where the (dapping i hands indicated approval on the pa of the audience there was no demo stratum throughout the meeting, ai it would be dlfllcult to give an esl mate of the division of the assei blage. We believe, however, that M Aiken was the favorite candida here, judging by the general faciale pressions of apparent, approval will speaking. A watch of the faces those present was tho only means judging the thoughts of the andient so far as any visible tokens of appl val or disapproval were concerned lK\?tli of Mrs. Lillie Trainmen. After suffering for about tilr months with pellagra, Mrs. Lil Trammed died Friday afternoon h about 2.30 o'clock, nt her home nc Greenville. She was about. 2!l yej of age. Mrs. Trainmen was tho young? daughter of J. T. Davis, of this coi ty, and was a young woman of ma Christian virtues and was loved all who knew her. Her donth can? great sorrow to her friends and re tives hero and elsewhere. I Besides her father, husband, c brother and one sister, the deceat ls survived by three small childi We extend deep sympathy io I bereaved family. COUNTY CANDIDATES AT SENECA Pirol Meeting Fairly IVell Attended. Only House Candidates Spejik. (Seneca Farm and Factory.) Tlie opening of the county cam paign Saturday was marked by the absence of any heckling of the candi dates. A large crowd was in the city and about lion voters heard the can didates speak in the park. Only the eight candidates for the House of Representatives spoke. Each and every candidate discussed good roads and better educational facilities for the county, promising to do all in their power to better con ditions. All were given a respectful hearing and no attempt was made on the part of the crowd to draw out the speakers' sympathies in Slate poltics. The meeting was called to order by County Chairman Moss and prayer was offered by Mr. Morgan, after which the candidates spoke in alphabetical order. J. H. HameUV, "he first speaker was J. H. Bar rule, of Westminster, who gave the voters his platform in a business-like way. He expressed himself as not be ing In favor of compulsory education, but he did want more money for ru ral schools. His stand in favor of better roads and a two-cent railroad not with the approval of the ero vu. .1. ll, Broun ? ol'" wed. and began his talk by stat in; that i ; i'grt would hinge on ho quosii of good roads and ed ucation. Mi. Brown made a good speech, in which he endorsed good roads and favored compulsory edu cation, subject to local option. Bet ter rural schools are the proper solu tion of educational problems in our State to-day, according to Mr. Brown. Elias Earle was the next speaker, and in his speech he gave the people to under stand that if he was elected he would be their servant in every way possi ble. Mr. Earle stated that if the peo ple of Oconee want compulsory edu cation he would do everything in his power to give it to them, but unless they did want It he would light such a bill to the very last. Hood roads came in for a. good share of his speech. Harry R. Hughs came next, and began by saying that lie? hoped there would be no mud slinging during the campaign. How ever, If the other candidates started lighting him he wants it understood that he ls able to defend himself. In no unmistakable terms he gave the voters his stand in regard to Issues at stake and favored compulsory edu cation with the referendum. He also favors a vehicle tax based on horse power-2ii cents per horsepower. Ile would reduce the commutation tax to one dollar. Ile drew scattered applause when he declared for fewer ai cheaper school hooks and a two co railroad fare. W. I?. Mason gave his reasons for being in poli tics and told the voters the things ho would do If elected. He said he would not favor an auto tax by horsepower if elected. The law. he claimed, would be unjust. He is not In favor of exempting any class from taxation. He also wanted better roads and schools. M. H. McDonald, candidate for re-election to the House, stood on lils past record and defended the measures he has been instrumental in passing. He was at tacked by one of the candidates for abolishing the rural police ol' this cou nt M Governor Blease was not in favor of the law, and Mr. McDonald could not get the Governor to confirm Mic man recommended. The Gover nor said "d-n If he'd appoint the man recommended as rural officer; I don't like the law nohow.'' Severa! magistrates were turned off by Mr. VoDqnald and the other members of the delegation. He said the sheriff is paid to travel over the county and take the place of the constables fired. He has not prepared a "platform," for they aro useless. Unless Sena tor Vernor favors a measure it is im possible for the other members to do anything. J. W. SI udor told of his early exi>erienees in Sen era and paid the city a high compli ment. IDs address was mostly a mnss of figures purporting to show that the expenses of the government were steadily increasing. The sann work could be done If economy wat practiced more. Botter roads could lie built with the money now spent ir TUM CANTllELLS MEET DEATH. Gainesville Men S|M>ak to Crowd .lust Before Trap is Sprung. Gainesville, Ga., .July 31.-Jim and BartOW Cantrell were hung here this morning for the murder of Ar thur Hawkins, a prominent planter of near this place, April a year ago. Tliey were unshaken until the last and (dead with their mother and their friends not to worry. The younger hoy said that he would like to he hung first, and the request was granted. The mother and sister of the boys were admitted to tho jail at 10.30 o'clock and were permitted to remain until just before tho execution. At 11.30 o'clock the younger hoy was hung. The body remained on the gallows for If? minutes after the trig ger was sprung. After the body was taken from the trap .Hm Can trell, the oldest brother and acces sory before the fact, was brought from his cell. Ile spoke for about 30 minutes to the crowd awaiting outside the cell, dealing at length upon the way they should live and expressing the hope that he would meet all in a better land, lt was 20 minutes from the drop until the phy sicians pronounced him dead. The most pathetic, scene was that of removing the mother and the sis ters of the boys just before the exe cution, it taking three men each for the mother and the two sisters to get them from tho jail. The boys walked to the gallows without emotion and until the trap was sprung under each there was ab solutely no fear shown. dil Killed by Lightning. Greenville, Aug. 2.-Myrtle Luns ford, 12 years old, daughter of H. Lunsford, was killed by lightning this afternoon in the Woodside cot ton mill village. The little girl was i at a neighbor's home and had just remarked that "she was going home if lightning did not strike her" when she was struck down. The electricity from the bolt ran through the house and tore up furniture, besides wreck I ing the interior. I ._ the effort. The (Hue Ridge road's charter was bought by the Southern Railway under the proniiso that the ! road would be built through to Knox I ville. Mr. Shelor would work for a j bill to take the charter away from I the Southern or make them build the I road on to Knoxville. The State has j siient two ni i 1 lio ti dollars on the road i and received no returns. Mr. She ! lor's actions wouid he governed hy j the people's wishes. He asked for j support on August 25th and proin \ ised an economical administration. Prank il. Shirley I is seeking re-election to the Legisla I tare and is standing upon his record, ile reviewed at length the automobile tax law and read a decision from a Circuit .lodge in which the law was upheld after a strenuous fight by law yers arti? automobile owners. Read manuscripts showing that hills intro duced and worked for hy him had meant a groat saving lo the tax-pay ers. 1 All Low-C Must ! SO MUST ALL EXTRA Pi Our Special Pt will M<_n COM i Lowry & 1 ;. Seneca i I l a__MMM_________M____a___ MISS RITE TO VISIT OGONEE. Will SIKMHI Week Visiting County Schools-Tho 1014 Prize List. Miss Mary Eva Hito, president of tin? South Carolina School Improve* ment Association, will spend tho week of August 10-1M in Oconee vis iting schools with the Supervisor of Rural Schools, Miss Hite has been an enthusiast ic worker for country schools tor a number of years, and all who hear her will receive Inspira* Hon and helpful suggestions for fur ther work. Noi only the patrons of the schools which Miss Hito will visit are invited to hear her lecture, but also those of other districts. Everybody interested in Behool work should avail themselves of this op portunity. Following is the schedule for tho week : Aug. IO, 4 p. m.- -Oak drove. Aug. ll, IO a. m.-Retreat. Aug. ll, 3 p. m.-Oakway. Aug. 12, 8 p. m.-Bounty Land. Aug. 18, 11 ft. m.-Keowee. Aug. 14, 11.30 a. m.-Belmont. Aug. 14, 4 p. m.-Whetstone. Aug. 16, 4 p. m.-Richland. A o non II cc i neill of Prizes offered by the South Carolina School Improvement Association (1914). Through the support of the State Department of Education the South Carolina School Improvement Asso ciation ls able to offer $1,250 in prizes to he awarded In 1914. This amount has been divided into 40 prizes and will bo awarded to tho schools showing the greatest amount of improvement during tho given length of time. There will be 10 first prizes of $50 each, and 30 sec ond prizes of $25 each. Regulations governing the award of these prizes are as follows: 1. Improvements must he made between October 1, 1913, and Decem ber 1, 1914. 2. Only rural schools can compete for these prizes. Districts barred hy the State High School Act or by the State Rural Graded School Act are Ineligible to enter the contest. 3. Prizes will be awarded by tho executive committee of the School Improvement Association immedi ately after the close of the entries. 4. All applications must be sent through the County Superintendent of Education, Rural School Supervi sor or the eounty organizer of School Improvement Associations. 5. Prizes will be awarded In checks sent from the office of the State Su perintendent of Education to the County Superintendent of Education. Thc money will be deposited to tho credit of the school district In which the prize-winning school Is located. This money must be used for tho further Improvement of the school winning it. 6. AU reports must bo made on the printed blanks furnished by tho association. 7. In making application for a prize, the "clean-up day" score card, a brief description, a photograph, and any evidences of improvements should accompany the regular prize score card. Respectfully submitted. Mary Eva Mite, Pres. S. C. School Imp. Ass'n. ?ut Shoes Go! . SUITS.HATS, \NTS, Etc. ice Reductions /e Them. E IN. Holloway, i, s. c.