Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Clearing Out Summer Goods ? Their Room More Desirable than their Presence. Extraordinary Inducements offered on many Summer lines just Now. We will continue our SLAUGHTER SALE of? Ladies' Summer Shirt Waists Until they are all gone. We are determined to close them out. / Just think of buying a Waist for 25c. that is worth any - where from 50c. to $1.50. Just think of buying a pretty White Lawn Waist for 40c. that is worth from $1.00 to $2.50. And pretty Fancy Waists for 50c. that are worth from 90c. to $2.00. Black Muslin Waists at 50c. worth 75c. and $1.00. Black Muslin Waists at 90c. worth $1.75. Fancy Assorted Waists at 65c. worth $1.25. Summer Silk Waists at $1.25 worth $2.75. Also, the remainder of our? SUMMER WRAPPERS and SUMMER SKIRTS At and below New York CoBt. We have a few? SUMMER FANS and SUMMER PARASOLS That we will offer at a loss. OUR LADIES' SUMMER NECKWEAR We will sell at Cost. Some High Novelties even less. OUR STOCK OF SUMMER RIBBONS Is up-to-date in style and. reasonable in price. Our daily business on? , 7 LACES and EMBROIDERIES Is most satisfactory. Explanation : BIGHT GOODS AT RIGHT PRICES. We wish to close out a lot of? SUMMER PERCALE REMNANTS. 36-inch Goods, as good as you have paid 10c. for?our closing out price 5c. per yard. Also, a lot of? BLACK REMNANT DUCKS. Goods well worth 10c?to close out at 5c. per yard* You will find in our? Millinery Department Some extra good things just now. Also, some big values in SUMMER OXFORDS and LOW CUT SHOES, For men, women and children. All Remnants, Odds and Ends and Broken lots of? Summer Goods Will be offered .at a SACRIFICE for the remainder of the Summer. You will find OUR CUT PRICES truly refreshing, and what out low prices may like in keeping you cool our ELEC TRIC FANS will furnish, so between the two you may find that a trip daily to our Store may save you the trouble and expense of a mountain trip. To those going away, either on business or pleasure, or to young ladies and young men going away to school, we wish to say that we are now prepared to supply your wants. To Merchants Wishing to H?? &ec?s Wholesale we can meet all com petition* Hail Orders mied promptly. Yours truly, ae & Co. and Retail Sealers in l(^ener Local News, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 5, 1900. The Anderson Graded Seh .?ois will,. open next Monday. It is to be hoped that the backbone of sammer is broken. Mr. N. 1). Sullivan and family have returned from tho mountains. Merchants are receiving b*g ship ments of fall and winter goods. Attention is directed to the new ad vertisement of B. O. Evans ?fc Co. Several communications reached us too late for publication this week. Tho supply of chickens and eggs is not equal to the demand in the city. The new advertisement of Hall Bros, will interest school hoys and their par ents. Put in a good crop of turnip seed. They make line food for both man and beast. A large crowd from this section went ou L. P. Smith's excursion to Atlanta yesterday. Tho Pcndleton Graded School will open on Monday. 17th inst. See ad vertisement. Mr. J. B. Douthit, of Columbia, is spending a few days in the County visit ing his family. J. B. Douthit, Trustee, will sell 2,000 acres of land on Salesday in October. See advertisement. Mr. M. Kennedy has just opened a fine kiln of brick in the southwestern suburbs of the city. Several "mountain schooners/' load ed with cabbage and apples, were on the streets last week. The early closing of the business houses in the city ceased on the 1st inst. for this season. Mrs. H. L. Adams, of Charlotte, N. C, is in Anderson visiting her mother, Mrs. A. S. Stephens. Mr. H. G. Anderson, of Abbeville, spent a few days in this section last week visiting relatives. The second primary will take place next Tuesday, 11th inst. Every Demo crat should turn out and vote. Col. J. B. E. Sloan, of Pendleton, ad vertises two tine plantations for sale or rent. Head his advertisement. Gardens have heen burned up by the dry hot weather and there is a genera! scarcity of vegetables of all kinds. Mr. and Mrs. H. II. Watkius, who have been spending a few weeks in the mountains, returned home last week. Col. D. K. Norris offers a valuable plantation near Central, for Bale. See his advertisement in another column. It. A. Ford, Esq., of Washington, D. C, is spending a few days in Anderson, the guest of his friend, H. H. Watkius, Esq. Dr. M. L. Sharpe, of Spartanburg, is spending n few days in the city. His many old friends are delighted to greet him. Mr. W. II. Shearer has commenced the ?rection of a cottage on his lot on Evans street, near the home of J. K. Hood, Esq. From what we can learn tho farmers in this section are making preparations co sow a big crop of wheat and other small grain. Mrs. W. F. Cox and Mrs. J. W. Quat tlebaum. who have) been spending a few weeks in the mountains, have re turned home. Mr. J. M. Giles has changed base, and is now clerking for Moore, Acker & Co., where he will be pleased to greet his friends. . Mr. J. E. Britt, one of McCormick's most popular merchants, spent last Friday in the city and wns a welcome visitor to our sanctum. Mr. W. A. Dean, of Deans, who was seriously wounded about three months ago, has gone to Augusta, Ga? to be treated in a iiospital there. Mid way Sunday School will have a pic ric at Williamston next Saturday, 8th inst. The friends of the school are ccvdially invited to attend. Capt. P. K. Norris lost a fine old family horse last Sunday afternoon. He was being driven down Main street and fell dead in the shafts. I JChiquola Lodge, Knights of Pythias, will meet to-morrow evening. All the members are urged to attend, as the meeting will bo an important one. Mr. C. M. Buchanan has purchased from Mrs. Jane Sayre the house and lot at tho corner of South Main and Hampton streets and will occupy it. Lonis Mattison, of Honen Path, has accepted a position in the store of Brown, Osborne & Co., where he will bo pleased to serve his friends at any time. r - Air. T. A. Bolt brought the first load of new cotton seed, for this season to the city last Thursday and sold them to the Farmers' Oil Mill Co. at 25 cents a bushel. \ At the recent session of the National Reporters* Association at Toledo, Ohio, our young friend, James D. Campbell, of Bel ton, was elected Secretary and Treasurer. Rev. J. N. H. S ii mm ere 1 is attending the semi-annual session of the South Carolina Presbytery, which convened this morning at Smyrna Church, near Newberry. At a meeting of the representatives of the Camps of the United Confeder ate Veterans of this County in the Court House last Mondaythe follow ing were elected members of tho County Pension Board: John T/ Green, chairman. J. J. Gilmer,secre tary, W. C. Meredith and Wm. Bolt. l?ev. H. B. Tant will p.euch ntXeaVs Creek Church next Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. The friends of the congre gation are cordially invited to attend the services. ^/fflanied, at the residence of the bride's brother, on Tuesday, Septem ber 4,1900, by Rev. E. Z. Brown, Mr. M. J. O'Neal, of On* Mills, and Miss Susan Kays, of Oconee County. Two popular beliefs have been wrecked this year. One is that there is always a cool week in August, nud the other that if it rains on the first of the dog days it will rain on all of them. Messrs. C. F. Jones, B. O, Evans and W. R. Osborne have gone to the North ern markets to buy their stocks of fall and winter goods. Mr. Osborne was nccompained by his neicc, Miss Helen Cater. There is an ordinance against fast driving through the streets of the city, but it is violated nearly every day. The police would do well to arrest the violators and bring them before the Mayor. ... v Lesser &. Co. ore ottering a big lot of goods at cost, in order to make room for their fall and winter stock of goods. If you are seeking bargains rend their new advertisement and give them nn early call. Mr. J. W. Rucker, accompanied by his daughter, of Elber ton County, Gn., and Mr. J. H. Rucker, accompanied by his three sous, of Middleton, G a., came to Anderson last week to spend a few dnys with thtfir parents. Mr. T. S. Glenn, of Equality, who has been spending awhile at T?te Springs, Tenu., I'm* the benefit of his health, returned home a few days ago. We hope he has been greatly benefited by bis stay at the Springs. Mr. Kurty 1?. Smith, of Columbia, has decided to locate in Anderson and has cast his lot with Messrs. Dean &. Ratliffe. He is a son of Cnpt. Billy Smith, who numbers his friends in this County by the latest census returns. Mr. I). A. JPresBly, one of Due West's popular young men who has been elect ed teller of the Bank recently organi zed there, is spending a few days in Anderson posting himself in the bank ing business nt the Bank of Anderson. The Gains correspondent of the Elberton (Gn.) tiUir says: "Messrs. S. H. Psrtain and R. P. Craft have sold their farms on the Savannah River, at Craft's ferry, to Homer Newell, of Anderson, S. C. Mr. Newell will nt once erect a factory."1 Sam Robinson, a negro wiio until a few months ago lived on the planta tion of Mr. J. H. Masters, a few miles south of this city, was hung nt Mariet ta, (Ja., for committing a nameless crime on a respectable white woman near that town a few weeks ago. Star service change from Belton to Laureus has been ordered by the Post otlice Department, so as to permit post masters at termini to dispatch mails half an hour iu advance of schedule time, provided no connections are broken, and no complaints made. A. H. Daguall, Esq., of Spartanburg, has located in Anderson to practice law. His ottice is over the postotlice, as w*ll be seen by referring to his card in an other column. We extend Mr. Dag uall a cordial welcome to the Electric City, and wish him much success. D. C. Brown & Bro. are too busy checking in their big stock of clothing, which has just arrived to write an ad. this week, but will tell you next week something about the very low prices they are going to make this Fall. Be sure when in the city to give them a look. Mr. Charlie Buchanan has wandered back to his old home at Messrs. Dean & liatlitie's, where he says he wants to see everyone of his friends. He says in addition that he just wanted to get back where he could sell Dean's Patent Flour and Buchanan's Delight Tobacco to his heart's content. Anderson County has lost another excellent woman in the death of Mrs. Louisa J. Keatou, wife of the lote B. F. Keaton, which occurred at her home in Martin Township on Friday, 24th nit. She was 70 years of age, and had been quite feeble for sometime. Seven children survive her. Her remains wero interred in the Ebenerer Church 'yard. Mr. J. Baker Gentry has been elect ed principal of the Mt. Pleasant School in Newberry County, and will go down next week to confer with the trustees. Mr. Gentry is a moat excellent young man, nn energetic, progressive teacher of experience, and the patrons of this school arc fortunate in securing bis services. The Piedmont correspondent of the Greenville Mountaineer says: "Mr. R. Monroe Smith, who has been connected with the People's Store has accepted the position of overseer of the cloth room of the Orr mill at Anderson. Mr. Smith has had a n amber of years of experience in the cloth room and will be a valuable acquisition to the On mill force." The ginnery of lue Furnier?' Oil Mill Co. will be completed and ready foi work in a day or two. Tliia is one oi the most complete and modern ginne ries in the State and it is worth yout time to visit it. It is supplied with four TO-saw Hall gins, and will turn out a bale of cotton every ten minutes, The cotton is not touched by the hand from the time it leaves the farmers' wagon nntil it is turned out of the press. The survivors of Co. E, 20th S. C. V., held their reunion at Neal's Creek last Friday, in accordance with previous announcement, and the occasion throughout was a most enjoyable one. About 800 people were present. Hon. C. G. Danteler, a son of the Colonel of the Regiment, who had been seU-cted as orator of the day, was present, and delivered a most eloquent address. He was followed by Geo. M. L. Honliam, Geo. K. Prince and K. M. H?cker. Jr., hi the order named. A bountiful din ner was served. The negroes had a barbecue near Hel ton last Thursday, and as a result George Bozenian, a negro about 25 years old, was killed, and two or three other negroee were slightly wounded. It seems to have been a free-for-all tight, about twenty shots having been tired. Coroner Miller held an inquest over the body of Bozemau on Friday, and the verdict of tin jury was that "the deceased came to L is death from a gunshot wound at the hands of Henry Washington, or of Br.u Williams and Jyik Gnmbrell as accessories.11 These three negroes were lodged in jail. Mr. Joseph T. Hawkins died at his home in Martin Township last Thurs day morning. Ho was ill only about ten days with typhoid fever, and the announcement of his death was a great shock to his friends, many of whom had not heard of his illness. Mr. Hawkins was about 45 years of age and was a son of the late Hev. Paris Haw kins. He was a worthy, upright man, and highly esteemed by his friends and neighbors, who deeply sympathize with tho devoted wife and two children who survive him. On Friday his re mains were buried at Long Branch Church. Mrs. Eleanor F. Morgan, wife of Mr. J. 1*. Morgan, died at her home near Beltou, on Wednesday evening, 20th ult., after a long illness with paralysis, she having been an helpless invalid for more than two years. Mrs. Morgan was a daughter of the late Hev. John! Leavel, who, in his day, was a well known Baptist minister in this County, and was 72 years of age. Iu her girl hood she joined the Baptist Church, and throughout her life was a most devoted and exemplary member. On Thursday her remains were interred in the cemetery at Bel ton. She leaves a devoted husband, two sisters and one brother to cherish her memory. The friends of Mr. John (J. Simpson will regret to hear that he has resigned his position at Clemson College. He is a son of Col. Ii. W. Simpson, of Pen dleton, and graduated in the first class from Clemson?the class of '00. He was then called to the well-known Miller School in Virginia, where lie taught with success until he was called by his alma mater to take charge of the machine shops there, a year ago. Mr. Simpson has remarkable mechan cal talenfand resigns his place there because he wants more latitude for the exercise of his skill. He has accepted the position of machinist in the cotton mill at Laurens. The Superintendent of that mill is fortunate in securing the ' service of Mr. Simpson. Miss Helen Brenzeule, the second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Brea zeale, died at the residence of her par ents in Helton on Tuesday evening of last week. Though she had been con fined to her room for ten days by a serious attack of illness, the fatal ter mination which marked its course was nevertheless sudden and unexpected. The body was interred ou Wednesday afternoon after funeral services con ducted by Rev. \V. P. T?te in the pres ence of a large congregation in tho Bel tou Baptist Church, of which tho de ceased was a member. Heath in this case came with an unusual sadness. Its victim was one who had but recent ly attained her maturity, a young lady of attractive personality, of marked in tellectual force, and the possessor of many excellent moral qualities. Her courteous manners and genial disposi tion secured for her tho love of her friends and the esteem of all with whom she came in contact, and her untimely ending is a matter which elicits the deep and genuine regret of the entire' community in which she lived, and secures for her family sincere and wide-spread sympathy. Excursion--Anderson to Augusta, Sept. 10. The Charleston and Western Caro lina Railway beg to annouucothat they will operate excnrsion from Anderson to Augusta and return on Monday. Sept. 10th, leaving Anderson 0.35 a. m., and returning leave Augusta 7.00 p. m. Kato for round trip from Anderson $1.50; Dcaus, $1.50; Starr, $1.50; Iva, $1.80; Barnes, $1.50; Lowndesville, $1.50; nnd correspoding low rates from all other stations. Thelnstopportunity of the season to secure such a low rate. See fivers for further information. W. J. Ckak?, General passenger Agent, Augusta, G a. L>s\ botween Pondleton and Aetun, a lap robe of dark lead color, frinped on both end?, with th? letters "L. M. S." worked in center. T?h linder will bo re warded by returning it to IVndleton or Autun. 1*. Wheoler'h Photograph ?idlhr3', in tho Mnxwr-11 building, will he opened on Sept. !'0'h and remain opt n until Oct. 1st, woo. to. Wli i is to benolit? Who will lose? If It's a Piano you're buying come here to cbooBe, and we will convince you that . you, at least, bave lost nothing. The V. A. Reed Music House. This is onr greatest year. Wo are proud of our record, and are striving by every honest meana to win you for a cub - tomer. Give us a trial if you bave never done so before. Vandlver Bros. Have bot water pipes run from your Btovo to bath room.. Try Oabom? * Oibsrsc. Roofing, tin work, galvanised iron ! work and plumbing done on short notice ' by Osborne A Osborne. Best Brick 8tore in Livonia, Ga., for . ren- rJso good two-horse Farm, will rent or sell. Apply to T. H. Roberts, j Lavonlt, Ga. 0?4. i W. H. Shearer, Surveyor. Yon will , find me at Dean & RatliLWa Iron King Stoves are sold in Anderson i only by Osborne A Osborne. The McCormiok is the lightest, smooth eat running machine in tue world. Its cutting 1? perfect. Yon cannot atlck it. It la tbe machine for youi)dollars because you get more value with thia machine on i the farm than if your dollars were in , your pocket. You can use tbe McCor rolck In new land?rough and full of stumps. The McCormick is tbe king in the meadow and tbe boss amongstumps. Sullivan Hdtr. Co. invite you to come and examine the McCormick. Pot Plants and Cut Flowera for ?aie. Large aud small Palms a specialty. Mrs. J. F. CUuksoAlw, 212 North Main St. HO, BOYS ! FOR THE HAPPY SCHOOL BAYS. We know you are delighted?you will get a new SUIT, CAP and SHOES. Mothers, remember the only CLOTHING that will stand the rough and tumble of the School Boy, is the? Celebrated Jane Hopkins School Suits. Double Seat, Double Hnec, Patent Waistband, Warranted not to Rip. New Stock now ready for the opening of the School. ALL STYLES, ALL GRADES, ALL PATTERNS. Prices $1.50 to $5.00. We are waiting ?ot you to select a Suit for your Boy. HALL BROS AT COST! OUR ENTIRE STOCK OF SHOES AND HOSIERY COST ! Come early, before the sizes are broken. No Goods charged. COBB ft CRAYTON J. M. RICHARDSON, M. I). K KM PK It !?. SENN? For Pure, Fresh Drugs GO TO THE CKIQUOLA DRUG COMPANY ! Try our CHILL TONIC. Our Turnip Seed are fresh from the growers and are guaranteed to be good Th? place to get Frail .Jura cheap. *?e are sole agents for the Heath & Milligan Paints, which are consider ed b> all Painters, after a trial, as the best on the market. PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES. BST PRESCRIPTIONS carefully compounded. ? THE ANDERSON ? Mutual Fire Insurance Co. WROTE its first Policy Sept. 23, 189?, aad has made only two assc?*monts since it commenoed business. This is a groat deal cheaper than you can g^.t firo insurance elsewhere. Any of our Policy-holders will toll you that. Otlnp? people have saved money by placing thoir firo insurauce in this Company, and it is confidently belioved you can. J. R. Vandiver, President. J. J. Frotwell, R. S. Hill, J. J. Major, Jn^. G. Duoworth, W. G. Watson, R. B. A. Robinson, J./P. Glenn, A. P. Huh* bard, Directors. ^J^BECK, Agent.