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ein By STECK, SHELOR & SCHRODER. "TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE, AND IT MUST FOLLOW AS THE NlGH^iJIE DAY: THOU CANST NOT THEN BB FALSE TO ANY MAN.'? AVALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNJ?8DAY, APRIL 12, 101(1. Now Series No. ?UH.-Voluino DWI I.-No. Irs? MEN LIKE TO WEAR NEW SHOES that don't have to be "broken in \ You can put on a new pair of patriot Sfyoes correctly fitted to your feet, and wear them at once with comfort and satis faction. You'll like them for their style-and comfort. C PATRIOT SHOES are "Star Brand" Shoes-the star stamped on the heel is positive assurance of honest materials (all leather-no substitutes) and skillful workmanship. C. W. & J. E. Bauknight, WALHALLA, S. C. "IT PAYS TO BUY FOR CASH." ON EVERY HEEL ?j. ?j? ?j? ?j* ?j? ?j? * * * * 4? * 4 * 4* 4 4* 4? 4? FIELD DAY Inst week was probably the greatest day in Oeonec's history. Tlie children of tho county are learning that when they do any thing TO DO IT WELL. When you instill in tho mind of a child Mint when they do anything TO DO THEIR VERY. I HOST you have accomplished n great deal. They also lenin that In competition no half-hearted attempt will win. It is so in life. When you enter the competition for n liv ing you have ro do your best to win a good living. A bank ac count is possibly the greatest single help you can have. All of us need nil tho help we cnn get. Try Banking with us this year. WESTMINSTER BANK WU ION YOU THINK OF HANKING THINK OF THE WESTMINSTER BANK. 4? 4? 4 4? 4* 4? 4? 4 4? 4 4 4 4 4 4? 4? 4? 4? 4* 4* 4* 4? 4* 4? 4- 4" 4? Let Us Save You Money on Men's and Boys' Clothing. L. BLUMENTHAL'S Bargain Store, Westminster, S. C. RECITATION CONTEST Fill DAY. Westminster Ready to Re?oive Con tesuants und Other Visitors. Westminster, April ll.-Special: The Northern Division Institute of Woman's .Missionary Union, auxiliary to State Baptist Convention, Mrs. C. E. Watson, vic? president, held a very profitable meeting at the Bap tist church April 7th and 8th. This institute was a demonstration of "Ideals, Methods and Means." The State oillcers of thc W. M. U. in at tendance, were Mrs. J, D. Chapman, president: Mrs. W. J, Hatcher, lead er of Sunbeams; i.Mrs. George Davis, leader of Y. W. A.'s, and Mrs. J. R. Fixer, corresponding secretary. This institute had representatives front 13 associations. Owing to sickness the llth was not represented. In those associations there are i>2,000 members of 'Baptist churches includ ed. Owing to Inclement weather only 150 delegates registered. The con secrated women who came to dhow us how to do inore work for our Mas ter said so many good things it would take pages to tell everything. The church was artistically decorat ed by Mrs. W. IS. Cheswell. The com mittees appointed to look after tem poral wants were capable and effi cient. The luncheon each day was delicious. Wo greatly enjoyed hav ing this noble band of working wo men with us, and the meeting will be lon? remembered. Miss Margaret Williamson and Hon. Frank H. Shirley surprised their many friends last Friday even ing when they slipped away by auto mobile to Seneca and were there quietly married, passing through here Saturday 'morning on No. 29 en route to -Atlanta and other points on a short bridal tour. Mrs. Shirley is teacher for the 8th grade of the W. H. S. and a sweet and amiable young lady. Mir. Shirley is a young man of sterling .worth, and has been honored by being elected to the House of Representatives . for two consecutive terms. This young cou ple is very popular ?and count their friends by the score, Who desire for them every l.aippiness in their^ new H. S. auditorium next Frlady even ing, the 14th. The patrons of tho W. H. S., as well as the pupils, were delighted ?that they won first) place in the marching cou test a t Walhalla on Fair and Field Day. As an apprecia tion of this, a purse of $20. was pre sented to thom, to he used for the library. Mrs. W. G. Brown, of Athens, Ga., is visiting 'her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. G. "W. Leathers. Mrs. Barle C. Barton and children, of Townville, are guests of Mrs. Bar ton's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Stribling. Mrs. Clarissa Dickson has as her guests this week Mrs. O. K. Poore, of Bolton, and Mrs. S. L. Richardson, of Greensboro, N. C. Mrs. J. F. Geer, of Anderson, is visiting her father and mother, Mr. and Mi's. T. D. Poore. Roy A. Stribihvg, of Durham, N. C., is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Stribling. Mesdames J. R. Garner and Hazel Smith, of Greenville, visited their parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Terrell, last week. Judge Mendel H. Smith gave a wost Interesting address at the West minster Baptist church last Sabbath afternoon, irnder the auspices of the Berean class. Judge Smith is an el oquent speaker and held the atten tion of a large and interested audi ence. Splendid music was furnished by the Berean class. ' Rev. A. P. Marett, of Malvern, Ark., is visiting relatives and friends here. Kev. J. IS. Wallace and C. E. Gray will attend Presbytery, which con venes at Piedmont this week. Mrs. Anna J. Anderson will attend the meeting of U. D. C's at Greer this week. Mrs, Blalock, of Blackshurg, ls vis iting ber daughter, Mrs. S. F, Reeder. B. D. Broa/.eale 'has accepted a po sition with the Du Pout Powder Co. at City Point, Va. Herbort D. Moon, who has been with tho Stonecypher Drug Co. doing some special Avork for the past two months, returned to his home at Co mer, Ga.. Monday. J. I). Witherspoon and family aro now occupying rooms at tho Harris honre. Rev. H. M. Fallaw left Monday for 3partanburg to visit his wife, who is rapidly convalescing at Steedloy's Hospital. Misses Jewel Hayes and Minnie Lee Crawford, of Enstanolle, Ga., were guests of Dr. and Mrs. Stonecy pher the latter part of last weok. Mr. .-.nd Mrs. G. O. aim/son wore visitors In Atla/nta last week. Mrs. G. W. Leathers has boen ill for the past few days. Wc hope to hear of an early recovery. Henry C. Tillman, candidato for Congress from rtie Third District, made an address to Hi o citizens here In the Masonic Hall Saturday after noon. This was the opening speech in Mr. Tillman's campaign. A very pleasant social function of last week wa? tho party glvon last Saturday evening by Dr. and Mrs. Stonecyphor in honor of their guests, Misses Hayes and Crawford, of Easta nolleo, Qa. >PE FOR $100,000 Ml '1LDIXG. Seneca People Wand to Land New Home for Post Ollice. feeneea, April lt.-Special: The City Council is to be congratulated Ubpn the stand taken as regards Sun day closing of the business houses. Ymir correspondent is of the opinion th^t Chief of Police Corbett will see 'fjpttt the law is enforced, and if this stop is to be taken as an index of the j attitude of the present council ns re sj&ds law and order, it may bo sure' of ?he backing of the better element I ?fJf?ur people. ?Tho Christian Endeavorers had to ! caipcel their engagement to go to \ C Winson last Sunday afternoon on j account of bad weather. I Hilary Sllgh, of Red Hill, Qa., is visiting his daughter, Miss Kittie j S$sh, Ile is en route to his home ' fr?hv' Spartanburg, where he visited , hhftdaughtcr, Mrs. Archer. .'There was plenty of ice in Seneca SUnday and Monday mornings. .'Mrs. Andrew Brnmlett was visiting in Seneca Monday morning. 'Copies of the bill wh'loh Congress man Aiken Introduced hi Congress for the appropriation of $100,000 to build a post o ill ce here have been re ceived in Seneca. The attitude of om* poo pie seems to be "here's hop ing." The attendance at the meeting of the? Teachers' Association last Satur day in Seneca was small on account of . tho bad weather. There ?were present only about 30 of the 75 ex pected. Seneca will bo well represented at t|ie recitation contest to be held at Westminster Friday night, j Krrs. T. M. Qalphin attended the njeeting of the Missionary Union in jpptminster last week, taking with tr, a class of Royal Ambassadors, lore were a number of other repre sentatives from tho missionary so l?ty of the "Baptist church. jS?r^and Mrs. R; Wales Lowery, of reehville, -spent the past week-end Jt)i relatives here. "Wales" has iiany" friends in Seneca who are ?leased to know he ls making good ttjhis adopted city, and who are al- ! i ^\ .sind to see him on his return ' 'spenva few hours in Seneca last Sat urday. 1 Th* Oanip Eire Girls gave a de lightful entertainment at the audito rium, last Friday afternoon, demon strating in la charming manner prom inent features of this organization. Miss Ruth 'Berry, the efficient cap tain, is doing a splendid work among the girls in this lino, and the girls are most enthusiastic. Mrs. W. B. Morrison, of Clemson, silent last Wednesday afternoon with her daughter, Miss Margarjt .Morri son, coming! as far as Seneca with Prof. Morrison, who went on to Rich land for the meeting of the Sunday School Convention. SOLDIER KILLED IN ROW. Negro in U. Sj Inf an dry Meets Death in Texas. Del Rio, Texas, April 9.-Private John Wade, of Company C, 24th Uni ted States Infantry, a negro regi ment, was killed here late last night by State Ranger Barler, when two Ranger? and Sheriff Almond attempt ed to arrest 16 negro soldiers who had created a disturbance in a house in the restricted district. According to testimony before a coroner's jury to-day Wade over powered Barler after he had been placed under arrest and after throw ing the officer to the ground, was clubbing him over tho head with the butt of a revolver when Barler drew his pistol and flied, killing the sol dier. The jury's verdict held that Bailor acted In self-defense. Two of Wade's companions were arrested and are being held under guard at the military camp. As a*result of the occurrence tele grams, signed by a number of citi zens, were sent to Washington to-day asking that the negro troops, who have been on duty here about three weeks, be removed to some other sta tion. Twelve -Months for White Slavery. Greenville, April 8.-Found guilty of violation of the Mann white slav ery act, Harrison Pitts, a married man with five children, all under the age of 12, wns sentenced by Judge Jos. T. Johnson in the Federal Court yesterday to 12 months' imprison ment in tho United States peniten tiary at Atlanta. Pitts was accused of transporting or aiding in tho transportation of a girl from her home In Jackson county, Georgia, to Pelzer. Absolut* No Alum-N ?'I'T MORE TROOPS IN MEXICO. Conditions Along Hinder Atv Hotter. Negro Troops Ordered Across. Washington, April io.-Such n marked improvement in conditions ulong the Mexican border has lieon reported by den. Fullarton that til io War Department now is considering drawing upon some of (he troops sta tioned in Texas to strengthen tho ever-lengthening line of communica tion of the expedition seeking Villa. Many alarming rumors have been dis posed of and the border situation generally ts said to be quieter than heretofore, but tho plan is not to dis turb the garrisons or patrol hi New Mexico or Arizona for the present. Army olllcials stated to-night that from now on infantry will be used to reinforce the communication lines, tihe cavalry being kept at the front for the actual work of running down the outlaws. A part of the 24th In fantry, negroes, withdrawn from Del li lo, Texas, at the request of local authorities after one of the soldiers had been killed by a Ranger attempt ing to arrest him, already has been ordered into Mexico. Kv ld euee continued to accumulate to-day to refute rumors of an Im pending withdrawal of tho American expedition. Soon altor it became known that additional troops were to be sent across the border, the War Department announced tho purchase of six large tank motor trucks lo re place similar machines now rented to carry gasoline for Gen. Pershing's supply motors and aeroplanes. KINARI) SMITH DROWN Kl). Was Sou of the Date Bishop Coke Smith, of this State. Newberry, April 10.-MTB. Kate Kinar'd Smith, widow of Bishop A. Coke Smith, received a telegram Sat urday frqm Norfolk, Va., bringing the news of the drowning of her son, Ki nard Smith, In Honduras, March 26. The Intelligence had been cabled to Norfolk, 'Mrs. Smith's home. The de lay in the news was due, it is thought to tho fact that the deajt/h occurred tn .th*-o?ounVi^ try, far rr?m towns- or cities. He was advil engineer, just 21 years old, and wa? in Central America with a party of engineers laying out tho line for a railroad to be constructed through that country. Mrs. Smith's home is in Norfolk, but she. -with her daugh ter, Miss Ki'tty Smith, and her son, Jack Smith, has been at her old home in Newberry for a year or more, carltig for her aged mother, Mrs. Kin a rd, Hie widow of the late Cen. H. H. Klnard, after whom the young man was named. Tho telegram to Mrs. Smith say? the body of her son was recovered and was buried in Honduras. Much | sympathy ls felt for Mrs. Smith in j this city of her birth, where she spent the early years of her life and has so many relatives and friends. This is the second son lost to her hy violent death, one son having been acciden tally killed while hunting near Vir ginia Beach, Va., about 20 years ago. German Reply Will Disavow. Berlin, April 10.-Tho German note in response to tho inquiries of the American government regarding the chnnnel steamer Sussex and the steamers Englishman, Manchester Engineer, Eagle Point and Berwind vale will be transmitted to the Amer ican embassy to-night or Tuesday monning, The nole declares, ns previously cabled, that thc reports of thc com manders of submarines which might possibly have been involved in an at tack on the Sussex make it abso lutely certain that the Sussex was not destroyed by a Gorman torpedo. Likewise Germany denies respon sibility for the sinking of the other steamers, evidence having been nd duc.ed at the Investigation to show that no blame attached to Germany. Clothes for Troops in Mexico. Columbus, N. M., April 0.-Ameri can troops in Mexico will soon be equipped with new clothing to re place that torn into shreds In the strains of the campaign. A consign ment of shoes, hats, uniforms, sweat ers, and other wearing apparel, val ued at $100,000, was forwarded south along the American line of communication to-day. With the clothing went a shipment of approx imately a quarter of a million dollars in Mexican gold and silver coln to be used in paying tho wages of the sol diers, who, while In foreign service, draw 20 per cent additional pay. ?OWDER tiy Pure io Phosphate ALMOST ?rt Y H* UH AT LA KO IO. Ant ivy Cartel?, Negro, Kuhl to Ko IQ Custody ai AuguNtu, (Ja. M. C. Long, Esq., yesterday receiv ed tiio following telegroftt: "Augusta, Kn., April ll, 1016. "Marcum C. lH>?.ri, Walhalla, S. 0.5 "Como-to 431 Kenwick stroot, Au gusta, (la. Wo ha vo Antrov Carter. "J. W." Hurdy." On October io, 1891, lu ISdgotteld county, this Slate, Antrey Carmor, colored, shot and killed J, M. Long, a prosperous fanner of Mdgolleld. The murder took placo on Mr. Long's farm, the negro 'having followed Mr. Long id the field. Tho unfortunate victim ol' Mio negro was accompanied by his son. Marcus, then 14 years ol' ase, who grabbed the gun as the ne gro Hedi firing ai him as he sped away from the scene of his crime. Thc son of the murdered man. as well as others of the family connec tion, never gave up hope of dually capturing the negro. Time and again they have ' gotten clews a? lo hts whereabouts, bul euch time ho man aged to olude the oTlcers before posi tive identification could be made, th? has been located in Georgia, Florida and Alabama trine ami again, only to bailie o Ulcers an J mysteriously dis appear. This time, however. .M-, Lung (eels eure the man ls in hand. J. W. Hardy, wb . sent (bc tolo grnni above, is am uncle of Mr. I/or.g, and the latter leaves to-day for Au gustn Tor a further Identification of Carter, though he feels sure of the man, as Mr. Hardy, he says, knew Carter -well at the time of tho crime. GlCliMANK PINHOE FRENCH LINE. l'art lid Success on fiOO Yards of a Ht? Milo Front, London, April 10.-In n desperate struggle ?for possession of Dead Moat's Hill, the French lines weie penetrat ed last night for'a distance of about r>00 yards in tho 'vicinity of tho height, Paris announced this to-day In reporting a buttle which raged In the Verdun region along a. 13-mile front north of tho stronghold. Elsewhere the French li?tes stood th c tes t. of the savage, attachs of the IbraiKthemw Mclise, Just straightened out by tho abandonment of the Bethlncourt salient. Last night's battle ran from 'HUI No. 304, west of the Meuse, and on across the river to Fort Douamont, northeast of Hie fortress. Tho results on *he east bank of the river wore fnv rabie to the French, Paris as serts, tho Gennvniis winning no ap piociahle advantage. The British aro preparing for a new advance tn Mesopotamia, where the relief force on tho Tigris ls gradually approaching ?loser to Kut-el-Amara and Cen. Towltshend's beleaguered garrison, according to the British of ficial reports, hm proved wea th or and a cessation of a rise in the Tigris are reported, making conditions moro favorable for the operations. ! REPORTS SAY VH.LA IS DEAD. Fearing Ruse, U. H. Troopers Not Kluckening in Hmidlt Chase. Queretare, Mexico, April ll.-The Mexican War Department announced to-day lt had reason to believe Fran oise Villa had been killed in action, and that searching parties had been sent out to find his body. Gen. Pershing's Headquarters at front, April H.-Renewed reports have been received here by Gen. Per shing that francisco Villa ls dead aind burled. These reports are under Investigation. Meanwhile, the hunt for tho Villa bandits is proceeding with renewed vigor with the arrival at tho front of Gen, Pershing. Mexicans who had seen Villa on his flight south said thai Dbe bandit look ed thin and emaciated a -week ago. Reports, however, aro conflicting. Ono fairly good authority stated that Villa was able to walk tho first day nf ter he received his wound, which indicated that no bones were broken. lt is again reported that Pablo Lo poz, the Villa lieutenant who murder ed 17 Americans last January nt San ta Ysabel, is not dead, but is seriously wounded. Reports of fr Kind I y co-o|ieration of the Carranza troops continue. Native? Say Villa is Dead. Columbus, N. M., April 11-lil eu ts. H. A. Dargue and E. S. Correll, of the aero corps, returning hore to-day from a flight to San Antonio. Chihua hua, 3 30 mile? non th of thc border, said that report?, were current among the natives tn the vicinity of Santa Ana that Villa was dead of blood pois onimg, caused by his woundR. Than ks to HM> People of Walhalla. The teacherso/nd pupils of tho "Wal halla High School wish to heartily thank all patrons and friends who contributed to the success of the school on Fair and Field Day, March 31st. We wish to os-poclaHy thank those who donated or loaned articles for use In the booth, which helped to make lt so Attractive. Wttlhout your aid th? school could not have made the splendid showing it did. We trust vour kind assistance "will injvpire the pupils of the school to put forth greater efforts Kv the futuro and strive for even greater honors. H. W. <Jasque, Supt. .Wajball^ April 12, li 16.