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DARED ? Many Cases of ' Facing Death f< Foresight could not have averted the accident which overtook the fas mall train of the Chicago & North western railroad on the night of Jan uary 5, 1967. . Being behind time, L. H. Shull, th< engineer, was driving his locomotlv< at a terrific speed. As he nearet * Belle Plain. Iowa, two boiler studi blew out. With a pressure of 21( pounds behind It the steam instantl} filled the cab. Shull and his flremar were terribly scalded, yet the engineei tried vainly to close the throttle ant ^ apply the air brakes. While Shull was trying to stop th< engine Belle Plain was passed, ant the fast mall thundered on toward an interlocking point a few mile: away. It was absolutely necessary t< stop before this point was reached Shull. groping blindly, found the Are^ man's coal hammer. Then he clam* bered over the coal and back of th? tank, littered with slash bars, ash hoes, rerealing frogs, extra scoops and lumps of coal, to the door of the express car. ^ "Let me in!" yelled Shull, pounding on the door with the hammer. "Get away from there or I'll fill yot full of lead." replied the express messenger. believing he had been attacked by robbers. There was no time for parley. s< Shull paid no heed to the threats, and with a few blows smashed down th? 4 door. Providentially the express messenger withheld his fire until he could see his assailant. Recognizing the engineer, he low ered his revolver ana auowea mm u enter. Q| Shull had Just enough strength lefi to climb over the piles of freight tc the conductor's valve and apply th? brakes. Shull spent the next month In a hospital recovering frcm his burns Not long. afterward President Marvlr Hughltt. at an official banquet arranged in his honor, made a laudatorj speech and presented him a goid watch bearing an inscriptlgp: + TO L H. SHULL, For His Fidelity to Duty. January 5, 1907. Without an instant's hesitation n Riley, an engineer on the PenniJSPvania railroad, ventured his life . against tremendous odds merely tc save the company's property. Riley was sitting in the cab of hit engine, which was standing on the main line at Altoona, on May 2, 1901, when a highly excited op*i tor rushed up wavlr.g his arms. "Get in on a siding! Get in on a siding quick!" he shouted. "There's i runaway coming down the mountain Fifty-eight cars. Hurry!" Riley grasped the throttle. "Get off." he said to his fireman. The fireman made no*move to obey "Get out of here," or I'll break youi fool head," roared Riley, menacinj _hls mate with a hammer. The fireman turned quickly anc leaped from the gangway as the engine gathered speed. Riley sped up the mountain, keeping a sharp lookout for the runawa: train. When he saw It coming hi stopped and started back. By skillful Jockeying he allowec # his engine and the runaway to comt together while going at nearly the | some speed. Then he reversed and ap plied the air brakes. His big locomotive 'ground hei wheels and held the train back with all her power. Riley did not expect to stop the runaway. He was trying to mitigate not to prevent a disaster. The train rushed into Altoona al high speed, pushing the stubborn locomotive before It. Two other engines were In the way. These engine; and Riley's were partly wrecked. Tht damage was slight compared tc what It would have been. ^ Such conspicuous bravery was noi ? permitted to pass unnoticed. Th< board of directors sent Riley a golc watch worth $1,000, bearing an Inscrlption reciting that It was presentee in recognition of his "courage. Judg ment and high sense of duty." Ac companying the watch was a checl for $500. A strongly grounded superstition o the railroad man is that accidents al ways go In threes. It must be con fessed that this belief is fulfilled b; events with remarkable frequency. I is no less remarkable that, no mattei how strange and unusual an acclden may be. It Is often followed by tw< * others of the same character. On the day that Riley received hii reward for devotion to duty the boart of directors also sent to Engineer Wtl ^ Ham Black and Conductor Jamei Lundy two checks for $200 each ii recognition of an act of bravery per formed two months before. They hat voluntarily started In pursuit of t runaway train, had overtaken it whll< running at a lernnc speeu. nai coupled to It and gradually brough it to a stop. Some time before this incident ar engineer and fireman left their en ^ glne to look at a wreck. While the] were gone their engine ran away ant dashed Into Altoona at twenty-flvi miles an hour. Henry Cresswell, a switchman, sav it coming, and resolved to capture it Only an expert can board a caboo? running at half the speed at whicl the runaway was traveling. Owini to the arrangement of steps and ham holds, it is much more difficult t board an engine In motion than caboose. A false step would hav meant almost certain death under th wheel. Warily watching his chance. Cress well made a leap as the engine spei past. He succeeded In grasping the ham holds, though his arms were almos wrenched from their sockets. Hi body swung hack sharply and hi heels cracked together. His arms wer k benumbed, and for a moment the were useless. He was dragged som# distance be fore he could place his feet upon th steps and pull himself up. V, Once In the cab. he was soon abl t'Tfltop the runaway and prevent wht otherwise might have been a costl ^ wreck. It was such a notable fet v that General Superintendent Sheppar sent him a complimentary letter, wit \which was enclosed a check for $50. ? I \ \ H IN THE CAB. Heroic Engineers ? Save Trains. ::: i When an accident occurs on a rallt road there Is usually a clamorous de mand to know who made the mistake. - Mishaps frequently happen through no human error. 8 A string of seventy-two cars broke ? loose from an engine on December 1 24, 1908. and started down a steep 9 grade on the Buffalo and Susquehan) na. They approached Addison. N. r Y . at such high sDeed that they left i the rails at a curve, and dashed into r the small station, reducing it to ruins. ! Then they heaped themselves upon a creamery, demolishing it. A fire soon 5 broke out, and not only were the reI mains of buildings and cars burned, I but several coaches standing on a sid3 ing were also consumed. > Courage will sometimes point the . way out of a difficulty, but when the . unexpected arises heroism alone is . not sufficient. Quick wit must play ? a prominent part. i Many persons undoubtedly owe I their lives to Engineer Pierce D. . Marsh's ready resourcefulness. His engine was pulling a Chesapeake & f Ohio passenger train ur a heavy gijade near Jane Lew, W. Va., on June 25. ; 1907, when he saw a string of run. away cars coming down the hill at I forty-flve miles an hour. They were only three-quarters of a mile away. > As their speed was increasing with [ every turn of the wheels. Marsh had j less than sixty seconds in which to . comprehend the situation and act. I With one hand he closed the throttle. With the other he Jerked the . lever of the brake valve to emergency > position. The heavy train quickly came to a stop. t Seizing the reverse lever with both > hands Marsh pulled it over into the , back motion; then, releasing the ' brakes with his right hand, he opened the throttle with his left, giving the l engines all the steam they would take without slipping the drivers. The train almost leaped from the rails in 1 the suddenness of the start down hill. The space that separated the trains r became less every second, but the speed of the retreating train gradually increased. Soon it was backing down the mountain at fifty miles an hour, with the runaways pursuing it at fiftysix miles an hour. The two ckme together without violent impact after the train had backed 2,250 feet. , Again Marsh applied the brakes to . the limit of their power. None too soon, for the speed on that tortuous ' road was becoming dangerous. Grad ' ually the speed slackened, but not until the bottom of the grade was reach, ed did the thrilling race end. Wildly excited passengers clam5 bered from the cars, hurling questions , at the trainmen and curious to view . the results of the collision. The damage was slight. The incident came to the notice of 1 the trustees of the Carnegie hero fund i and Marsh was awarded a silver medal and $1,000 in cash. Quick wit in an emergency saved a tralnioad of passengers on the Central railroad of New Jersey on April 24, 1909. Percy R. Wooley was firing a Mother Hubbard, a type of locomotive on which the engineer's cab is perched over the center of the boiler, while ? the fireman's is at the rear of the sprawling Wooten firebox. This ar. rangement places the engineer at the middle of the locomotive and the flre man at the end. A running board barely six inches wide is their only . means of communication. The train was approaching Hamilf ton. N. J., at sixty miles an hour, when i Wooley heard a terrific clatter on the right side of the engine. I Peering around the edge of his wind shield he saw a cloud of dust, steam ! and splinters. In the midst of it was i Fred De Groff, the engineer, pale and . evidently fainting, clinging to the rear door frame of the cab in a position which indicated that his legs were nonlnuo A a Wj InnlfaH tha ciHp i of the cab fell from the engine, carrying De Groff with it. Wooley knew that the side rod had ! broken. The side rod Is the steel . beam connecting the front and rear drivers, through which power applied from the piston through the main rod to the wrist pin on the forward driver is transmitted to the rear. This steel beam had snapped in , two and the loose ends, whirling like steel flails, were smashing everything i with which they came in contact. Not > only was the locomotive "stripping herself," but Wooley knew that the . stripping process was likely at any Instant to plunge the train into the i ditch. Something had to be done 1 quickly. It was impossible to reach the . throttle and brake valve, for the right 1 side of the cab was gone. The levers - could not be reached from the left . side, because the boiler extended to the cab roof. The locomotive was one of the largest used on the road. The crash of snapping steel and a f roar of escaping steam told him that , an injector valve had been battered away, and spurred him to greater efforts as he climbed over the coal in V the tender. Down the ladder on the t back of the tank he climbed to a little f step a few inches above the rail with which all Jersey Central locomotives 1 are equipped. > Grasping the hand-hold with his right hand, he reached down with his left and seized the air brake hose. Air hose couplings are so made that 1 the two ends can be parted by a lift - and twist with both hands. Sometimes s a brakeman will part the couplings with his foot by throwing his weight 1 upon it. This is not difficult when cars - are standing in the yards, but to un1 couple a hose with one hand while a train Is running sixty miles an hour is a precarious task. ? Wooley threw every ounce of 1 strength Into the effort and the hose I parted. The end he held straightened so suddenly as the air escaped at a pressure of 110 pounds to the square i inch that it almost threw' him under . the wheels. The flight of air in the . train pipe set every brake, and in a few seconds the train came to a stand1 still. e Men hurried back to look for the engineer. He was found In a dying condition. A messenger was hurried to the nearest telegraph station for assistance. e Wooley, who Is now an engineer, h wears a costly gold watch, which was presented to hint by tne general manK ager as an appreciation of his pres3 ence of mind and quick action, o Devotion to duty under different a circumstances was shown by Ed Irish. an engineer on the Wabash. e Irish's engine was haulUig the cone tlnental limited on the night of January 12. 1903. The temperature was several degrees below zero. At Lafayette. Ind.. something went wrong with d the engine, and Irish was obliged to crawl under It to make repairs. He ^ crouched for a long time on the icy track and worked with bare hands. When he came out both hands and s feet were frozen. s In that condition he ran his engine to Danville, 111., and overcame thirty e minutes of lost time. His feet and y hands were so badly frozen it was feared for a time that they would have to be amputated. Handling a burning car known to ** be loaded with high explosives demands unusual courage, yet there e have been numerous instances in lt which railroad men have dared death in this appalling form to prevent dlsy aster. it The roof of a car In an east-bound Pan-handle train caught lire at South Charleston. Ohio, on June 21. 1905. " This car contained 12.000 pounds of giant powder. It was so labeled, and when the villagers hurried to the scene to form a bucket brigade they were afraid to venture near it. Towerman Lafe Holdren realized that unless something was done quickly a large amount of property would be destroyed, and probably lives would be lost. Arming himself with a hand fire extinguisher he hurried to the ca** and climbed to the roof. By dint of vigorous kicking and stamping and by an occasional squirt of the extinguisher he conquered the Are. No one witnessed his heroism, for villagers and trainmen had stampeded. Even this deed was outdone when, on July 4. 1903, a car of powder in a Baltimore & Ohio train on frhe Ohio division was found to be burning. Instantly apprehending the impossi bllity or extlnguismng me nre Decause i of lack of adequate means. Engineer v O. A. Duval determined to attempt to confine the danger to a minimum. Disregarding the extreme danger I should a spark reach the powder?before the bureau of explosives was organized there invariably were broken kegs in every large shipment?Duval \ ordered the head brakeman to un- t couple the blazing car. The moment a flourish of the brake- * man's hand indicated that this was c done, Duval opened the throttle and e sped down the line until he was at a safe distance from other cars or buildings. Here he stopped, while the " brakeman cut off the car; then he sped from danger and awaited the ex- p plosion.?Railroad Man's Magazine. q ? ? ? a HOW GOLD PENS ARE MADE. * v Pens of American Manufacture Sold ? Throughout the World. The tiny tip of white metal seen on ^ the under side of the point of a gold a pen may be of platinum, but it is more likely to be iridium. Iridium Is * a very hard metal and It Is expensive; 8 it costs about four times as much as f gold. The purpose of the iridium tip ' Is of course to give the pen a more t durable point. I The gold pen maker buys his gold at * the assay office in bars of pure twen- r ty-four karat gold, which he melts and b M11UJH Willi Silver OllU lup(>ci iu UIV| degree of fineness required. Gold of ^ fourteen karats is used In the manufacture of the best American gold pens, that being the degree of fineness a deemed most suitable for pen use; but v gold pens made in this country for sale in France are made of eighteen kar ats, the French government requiring a that all articles exposed for sale in . that country as made of gold shall be b of not less than eighteen karats. The gold from which the pens are to p be made is rolled and rerolled until I what was originally a thick, heavy bar of gold has been rolled into a thin a gold ribbon about three feet in length, t< ? A H WEBSTER'S NEW INTERNATIONAL DICTIONARY THE MERRIAM WEBSTER The Only New unabridged dio'tionary in many years. Contains the pith and essence of an authoritative library. Covers every field of knowledge. An Encyclopedia in a ingle book. The Only Dictionary with the New'Divided Page. 400,000 Words. 2700 Pages. 6000 Illustrations. Cost nearly a million dollars. Let us tell you about this most remarkable single volume. GUERNSEYS WE have a few to sell, and now is your chance to buy and start right with thoroughbred stock. Our herd of Guernseys is headed by Dan of Oakwood, No. 15,669, out of Golden Lad and the celebrated Ky. Beauty. Also a number of Grades for less price. Our Berkshlres are full, and Registered Boar, Pinehurst Col., took 1st prize at State Fair, 1910, over all 1 and 2 year olds. We have all kinds and sizes at moderate price. We want^ 20 or more customers for C Milk and cream. i J. MEEK BURNS. 1 4* 4* 4s 4* 4* 4^ 4- 4* 4 4 *i J FOR THE We have just gotten in a large *7* HAND-BAGS, SILK HANDKEH ?, And also have choice selections of *7* IN-HAND TIES, packed in lndlvh ? goods were bought especially for tl V splendid remembrances for friends < ? lng. Come early and let us lay awa; T PLACE AN ORDER NOW FO: ? FOR THE HOLIDAY WEAR. RO ??? PIT TO WEAR. DON'T PUT OFF : J. M. si JU REMEMBER OUR GROCERY ry complete lines of FANCY and H JL OF QUALITY at the most attract!1 ~ CITRON, RAISINS. CURRANTS, Christmas i akes. 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 * TTIJTymaTPD A i&tnnu A ah WE ARE NOW IN OUR NEW WELCOME OUR FRIENDS A SEE US?WE'LL BE PLEAS! The Christmas Holidays?the ( ofT?there ure only Thirteen More are searching for Rifts for friends o you the many beautiful things tha able for gifts, and have the further Beauty. Let us suggest: ROCKINO CHAIRS, DEATHEF PICTURES, Rl'ftS, ART SQUj HALL RACKS. And scores of other things that yoi look through our big line of FURh We want you to see our wares a line of goods that will appeal to taste, etc. You will find our prices . ties we offer?You'll be pleased wit YORK FURls >y four inches wide. Then this gold ihbon Is put into a machine which itamps out of it pen shapes, all still lat. Then on the tip of each of these >en shapes is fused the iridium point, md then the shapes go to a slitting nachine, which cuts the slit in the >en. From the slitting machine the >ens go through another, which gives hem their rounded, familiar pen form md then the pens are ground and polshed and finished ready for use. American gold pens in fountain pens >r as dip pens are sold in every counry in Europe in competition with >ens of British or of German manuacture, and under the same competlion they are sold throughout the vorld, in South America, Africa, Ja>an, China, wherever pens are used.? ?few York Sun. Coca's Wonderful Properties.?Some 'ery remarkable properties pertain o coca?the dried leaves of a small ree growing in Peru and Bolivia?the hief being its power to enable one ating it to put forth long continued xertlon without fatigue. Coca has mthing to do with cocoa. This property was known and >rlzed long before the Spanish congest, the leaves being employed even s a medium of exchange, so highly steemed were they. After the congest they became one of the most aluable articles of export. At Potosl Jone 100,000 bushels were consumed early. Uuder the Influence of the leaves of his plant miners can work night and lay, with only brief intervals of rest .nd sleep. Some time ago an Interesting test vas made In Canada of the power of oca. A lacrosse club, consisting of ixteen players, all of sedentary proesslons, held forth against all comers, vhite men or Indians. The clubmen vere fortified mainly by coca, which hey chewed during the game, swalowing the saliva. One day, during t'hich the heat in the sun was 110 deg. Fahrenheit, though their antagonisrts, nechanics and tradesmen of sturdy mild, were exhausted before the game eas finished, the men with the coca i-ere as free from fatigue as at the teglnnlng.? Harper's Weekly. A Bird-Woman's-Eye View.?The viator's wife was taking her first trip i'ith her husband in his airship. "Wait a minute, George," she said. *?? - ? ' i m arraia wc win uavc iu &\j uu?vu gain." "What's wrong?" asked the husand. "I believe I have dropped one of the earl buttons off my jacket. I think can see it glistening on the ground." "Keep your seat, my dear," said the " viator, "that's Lake Erie."?Youngs>wn Telegram. 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These < lie Holiday trade and will make t a md relatives on Christmas morn- i y FIRST CHOICE FOR YOU. ? j R A ROYAL TAILORED SUIT j YAL CLOTIIUS FIT AND ARE , J ORDERING TOO LONG. ??? I "ROUP I DEPARTMENT. Here we car- I IEAVY GROCERIES In GOODS - 1 re prices. Come and sop us for ? NUTS, FRUITS. Etc., lor you:' ~ HUHBHil I E5OT5 J/EKE ( r QUARTERS AND READY TO ND CUSTOMERS. COME AND ID TO SEE YOU. 51ft Season?is but a short ways Shopping Days?and when you r relatives, come and let us show t we ha\e that are entirely suitadvantage of Utility as well as of I BOTTOM STRAIGHT CHAIRS, XRES. TABLES, SIDE BOARDS. ur fancy might suggest when you JITITRE, FURNISHINGS. Etc. i. because we know that we have your good sense of values, good * extremely modest for the <|iialih our prices. Other people are. riTURE CO. Do Your | YORK There are on] fore Christmas. ey will buy. \ values your Gil together. You have the Goods the Prices that: full value for y< ' goods suitable 1 that will fit all we have. 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FERGUSON The Difference Between a good and a poor preparalon in business method is Just the dlference between system and carelessless, between success and failure. Deposit your money with us and do 'our business in a systematic manner. The Bank of Clover, OLiOVER, 8. O. I 1 < Rocks Going Up A visit to the cemetery will convince J ny one that (rRANITR is the only latfsfactorv material for enclosing iiirta) lots. Wood, brick, cement blocks or conrete are less expensive and will anwer the purpose temporarily, but they annot be made to give a plot that ubstantial, well-kept appearance so nuch to be desired. And In a very few ears renewals and rt.mirs WILL . ?OST MORE THAN THE GRANITE 'OPING WOULD HAVE DONE IN rHE FIRST INSTANCE. After January 1st Our Prices on ^ loping Will Be Advanced 25 Per Cent, 'lace Your Order NOW. CORKVILLE MONUMENT WORKS. . CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY RATES via o ,i n.!i souinern Railway )n Account Christmas Holidays ths Southern Railway Announces Attractive Round Trip Excursion Fares From All Points. Tickets will be on sale December 5th, 16th, 17th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 4th, 25th, 30th, 31st, 1011, and January at, 1912, limited good to reach orlgllal starting point returning not later han Midnight of January 8th, 1912. For information concerning Rates, Tickets, etc., call on Ticket Agents or ddress? . J. L. MEEK, Assistant General Passenger Agent, Atlanta, Ga. >r W. E. MoGEE, Division Passenger Agent, Charleston, 3. C. TAX RETURNS FOR 1912 Iffioe of the County Auditor of York County, 8outh Carolina. Yorkville, S. C.. December 1,1911. A S required by statute my books :X will be opened at my office In orkville on MONDAY, JANUARY 1. 912, and kept open until FEBRUARY 0, 1912, for the purpose of Hating for ixatlon all PERSONAL and REAL 'ROPERTY held in York county on anuary 1, 1912. All returns must be made In regular arm and it Is preferable that they be lade by the property owner In person a me or my assistant, direct, on lanks provided for the purpose. The eturns must be duly sworn to either efore me or my assistant, or some ther officer qualified to administer n oath. All items of realty, whether farms, r town lots, must be listed separately. Returns made on proper blanks, and worn to before an officer qualified to dmlnister an oath and forwarded to le by registered mall before February 0, 1912, will be accepted. All taxpayers are particularly reuested to Inform themselves as to the umber of their respective school dlsrlcts, and where they have property i more than one school district, they rill please make separate returns inicatlng the location of each piece of roperty. The school districts in which here are special levies are as follows: los. 22, 23 and and 27, In Bethel ownshlp; Nos. 6, 13, 14, 29, 33 and 3 in Betheada township; Nos. 9, 20, 8, 40 and 44> in Broad River townhip; Nos. 9, 16, 20, 38 and 48 in Bulack's Creek township; Nos. 12, 46 nd 48 in Catawba. townshiD. Nos.7. 2, 32, 35, 36 and 43 in Ebenezer ownshlp; Nos. 26, 28 and 39, in Fort fill township; Nos. 2, 21, 22, 37, 41. 4 and 49 In King's Mountain townhip; Nos. 11. 20, 21, 33, 36, 42, 43. 7, 48 and 49 in York township. For the purpose of facilitating the aking of returns, and for the greater onvenience of taxpayers, I will be at he following places on the dates lamed: At Bethany, (McGill's Store), Monlay, January 1. At Clover, on Tuesday and Wedneslay, January 2 and 3. At Bethel, (Ford, Barnett & Co.'s (tore), Thursday, January 4. At Bandana, (Perry Ferguson's Itore) on Friday, January 5. At Point, (at Harper's) on Saturlay, January 6." At Smyrna, on Monday, January 8. At Hickory Grove, on Tuesday and Vednesday, January 9 and 10. At Sharon, on Thursday and Friday, January 11 and 12. At Bullock's Creek, (Good's Store), in Saturday, January 13. At TIrzah, on Monday, January 16. At Newport, on Tuesday, January 6. At Fort Mill, on Wednesday, Thurslay and Friday, January 17, 18 and .9. At McConnellsvllle. on Monday, ranuary 22. At Ogden, on Tuesday, January 23. At Coates's Tavern, (Roddey's,) on Vednesday, January 24. At Rock Hill, from Thursday, Janlary 25, to Wednesday, January 31. And at Yorkville from Thursday, February 1, until Tuesday. February 10. All males between the ages of tweny-one and sixty years, except Confedirate soldiers over the age of fifty rears. are liable to a poll tax of 31, and ill persons so liable are especially re luesiea 10 give xne nuniuers ui men espectlve school districts In making heir returns. It will be a matter of much accoranodation to me if as many taxpayers is possible will meet me at the res ectlve appointments mentioned above, io as to avoid the rush at Yorkville luring the closing days. BROADUS M. LOVE. County Auditor. 96 f 4t COUNTY COMMISSIONERS Vnnual Meeting To Bo Hold On January 4, 1912. Yorkville, S. C., December 1, 1911. PURSUANT to the statute aa set forth In section 970 of the Report if the Code Commissioner for 1910, noIce Is hereby given to whom It may loncern, that the ANNUAL MEETNO of the County Board of Commisiloners of York county, will be held In he office of the County Supervisor atforkvllle, on THURSDAY, JANUARY 1TH, 1912, commencing at 10 o'clock, i. m. Under Section 974 of Report above eferred to, all claims against the :ounty, not previously presented, must >e filed with the Clerk of the Board on ir before January 1, 1912, and holders if claims will take notice that if the lame are not presented and filed durng the year In which they are conracted or the year following, such ilalms will be forever barred. All claims against York county must >e itemized, and they must be accom>anied by affidavits of the claimants letting forth that the amounts claim id are Just, true, due and owing, and hat no part thereof has been paid by liscount or otherwise. All persons authorized by law to adnlnister oaths, are required to prolate claims against the county free of iharge. By order of the Board. THOS. W. BOYD, Supervisor, tnnle C. Wallace, Clerk. 96 f 6t (professional awards. J. HARRY FOSTER ATTORNEY AT LAW, YorkvilU, 3outh Carolina. ^Office In McNeel Building. Dr. B. G. BLACK Surgeon Dantiat. Office aecond floor of the New McNeel building. At Clover Tuesday and Friday of each week. 3eo. W. S. Hart. Jot. E. Hart. HART & HART ATTORNEYS AT LAW Yorkvill* - - - ' - 8. C. tfo. 1, Law Range. "Phone (Office) 68, JOHN R. HART ATTORNEY AT LAW No. 3 Law Rang*. YORKVILLE, 8. C. J. 8. BRICE, ATTORNEY AT LAW Office Oppoaite Court House. Prompt attention to all legal buaiiess of whatever nature.