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he Ties that No exaggerations, no disappointments, no promises with ut performance, but truth ever, duality always has bound to the people of ANDERSON. We stand to-day recog nized as one of tho foremost Stores in SOUTH CAROLINA* Our claim does not lie in ?pe words-we've acted ; and none can think of First Class TJn|ess the thought be linked with OSBORNE 6 PEARSON. OUR DRESS GOODS -ARE TEMPTINGLY PRICED. - We don't offer yon old styles or last year's goods. Every piece is as desirable as it is cheap. Consult your needs in this line and come and see the values we are now offering. We are showing especial at tractions in Black Wool Goods, Particularly adapted for separate Skirts. Splendid all-wool materials at 50c per yard. Better grades at 75c and $1.00. A number of good things in "W^ool IN o velties ! This is a .erreat- . Silk Season. We have been fortunate in securing the right styles at right prices, Our-? Yard-wide Taffeta 9 At 90c. per Yard, Has proven a Trade Winner. The greatest value ever offer ed the people of this section. We have a line of- . Beautiful SilkS * 50c. per yard. Also, lovely High Class Novelties. . 9 Our White Goods Are correct is Style, duality and Price. Our Wash Goods Are the most tempting. Beautiful Printed Muslins, and Lawns, Mercerized Chambray and Ginghams, Linens, Ducks. Ribbons, Trimmings, Laces, Embroideries, &c., In great abundance. Splendid assortment of Summer Underwear, 'Notions and Novelties, In great variety. The very things that are desirable in Home Furnishings. Beautiful Millinery. The most up-to-date line of Summer Oxfords and Shoes, For men, women and children. MERCHANTS Should see,our Stock. We are thoroughly prepared for the Supply Trade. FARMERS should send us their orders. The Public will And it to their interest to trade with ns. Yours truly, OSBORNE k PEARSON. Wholesale and Retail Sealers in f3-eneral ?/Iei?oliaiiciis)3. Local News* WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1902. Straw hats and light clothing have come to stay. Dc not fail to read tho advertisement of G. H. Bailes & Co. A few bales of cotton are K"u on the streets nearly every day. The flower gardens in the city are very handsome jost now. Bead the new advertisement of the People's Furniture Company. Osborne & Pearson's new advertise ment should be read caref olly. Don't forget to bring all the flowers you can secure on Memorial Day. Mrs. C. W. Webb went down to Sum ter last week to visit relatives and old friends. Tho old reliable blackberry crop gives promise of being a plentiful ono this year. John B. Anderson, of Seneca, was in Uie city Monday and gave us an appre ciated call. % Bev. C. Wardlaw, of Seneca, has re turned tu Arizona, where ho will spend the Summer. The farmers' in?tituto at Clemson College will be he.d about the first of August this year. Nearly every section of the County was visited by copious showers of rain during the past week. W. M. Tate, of Henderson, Texas, is in the County visiting his old home, relatives and friends. Mrs. D. J. Simpson, of Toccoa, Ga., is in Anderson visiting her parents, Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Nardin. If you want to learn something about shoes, be sure to read the new adver tisement of B. O. Evans & Co. Miss Winton Taggart, of Abbeville, is spending a few days in the city vis iting her sister, Mrs. Joe Hugheo. Tho new advertisement of J. H.Weil & Co. will tell you of the many bar gains they are offering the public The farmers especially will find the new advertisement of the Sullivan Hardware Co. interesting to them. If you do not believe Anderson is ex panding, just take a ride through the streets of the city these afternoons. Our young friend, Ernest P. Bell, of Macon, Ga., has been spending a few days in Anderson visiting his parents. Col. Wyatt Aiken, of Abbeville, can didate for Congress, was in the city last Friday and gave us a pleasant call. ? An extra term of the Court of Com mon Pleas for Oconee County will con vene in Walhalla next ilZonday, 12th inst. Fftttnets a?e too busy to talk poli* tics, but they are doing a lot of reading and hard thinking after the day's work is over. This section has. experienced some genuine Summer weather the past week, the thermometer registering 00 in the shade. At a meeting of Dixie Chapter, U. D. C., last Friday afternoon the sum of $20 was contributed to the Hampton monument fund. State Senator Sharpe, of Lexington, S. C., who is a- candidate for Comp troller-General, has been spending a few days in the city. Mrs. B. L. Osborne is having erected a commodious and substantial dwell ing house on the site ol her old one, on South Main street. Strawberries are very weil fruited this season and promise a good crop. Some of the early varieties are now ripening in this section. John K. Hood, Esq., of this crjy, has accepted an invitation to deliver an ad dress at the Memorial Day exercises at Due West next Saturday. Bev. O. J. Copeland will preach on "the second coming of Chiist" next Sunday, 11th inst., at Mt. Bethel Church, in Martin Township. Col. It. A. Thompson, of Walhalla, waa in the city yesterday. Ho has many friends in Anderson who are always delighted to greet him. . A series of meetings are being con ducted nt Riverside Mill this week by Bev. Mr. Robertson. Services are held twice a day-4.30 p. m. aud 8 p. m. Tho Methodist Church at Iva will ob servo Children's Day on Saturday, 17th inst. An interesting program is being arranged for tho occasion. The public is cordially invited to attend. Hon. G. A Bankin is an n on v.ced as a candidate for re-election to the House of Representatives, and James M. Payne as a candidate for re-election to tho office of County Treasurer. Our good old friend, Daniel E. Car lisle, who has been confined to his home for several weeks, is able to be ont again. We hope he will soon be re stored to his usual good health. J. Percy Walters, of Augusta, Ga., has moved to Anderson with his ram? j ily. Mr. Walters owns an interest in The Magnet Store, which is under the j management of John A. Austin. Chiquola Lodge, Knights of Pythias, i is arranging for a grand barbecue on Friday, Juno 0th. Several distinguish ed Knights from various sections of the State will be invited to attend. The Veterans who aro to receive Crosses of Honor from the United Daughters of tho Confederacy are re quested to visit tho city and receive them on Memorial Day, Saturday, 10th inst. The B. E. Leo Chapter will pre sent theirs between ll and 12 o'clock and tho Dixie Chapter between 12 and 1 o'clock, in the Court House. This will be a most interesting feature of tho exercises of tho day. -^ ? ' Mr. Robert B. Cheshire, who has been with Julias H. Weil & Co. for a number of years, yesterday reeigued his position with that firm. Prof. Henry Milford fill conduct an all day singing in thu Baptist Church at Iva next Sunday, I Ith inst, All leaders of vocal music a&d tho public generally are cordially invited to at tend. Mrs. Phoebe McCrary, of Anderson, is visiting relatives in and around Wal halla. She has not been in the city be fore ?.n twenty-five years, and it must be an interesting trip for her.-Oconee News. Anderson is one of the few counties in the State that will not get any por tion of the $25,000 recently appropri ated by the Dispensary Board to the school fund of the State. We do not need it. Married, on Sunday night, May 3, 1002, by J. P. Anderson, Magistrate, and athis residence, Mr. George C. Smith, of Hart County, Ga., and Mice Zora Gary, daughter of E. M. Gary, ol Anderson County. A meeting of the new County Demo cratic Executive Committee waB hele in the city last Monday, and itsorgeni zation was perfected by electing W H. Shearer Secretary and Jas. L Tribble Treasurer. The Anderson County Singing Con vention, which held its annual sessioi at Hopewell Church last Sunday, at tracted large crowds both days, an< the meeting throughout was most cn joyable and interesting. Last Thursday afternoon tho roof o a negro cabin, in the northeastern pot tion of the city, caught fire. The fire men were called out but the fire wu extinguished before they reached th cabin. The damage was slight. H.T. Hays left several days ago f( Anderson, where he went on account < the sickness of Mrs. Hays. Mrs. Hnj has been sick for some months, and is hoped that the change will be beni ficial to her.-Greenwood Journal. Mrs. Walter H. Edwards died at hi home in Millville last Sunday mornin, after an illness of several months, i the 24th year of her age, She leaves husband and ono child. The re mail were carried to Pendleton and intern on Monday. The various eoda fountains are doii a good business since the hot seast set in. All sorts of cooling drinks a to be secured, from the plainest soda the fanciest fruit. The proprietors the stands have made big preparatio for the business. At a meeting of the Anderson B Association Inst week a resolution w adopted endorsing the efforts of Co gressman Johnson, of the Fourth D: trict, towards procuring the establis ment of a separate Federal Court i the Western District of South Cai lina. Rev. H. R. Murchison, accompani by his wife, has gone to New York attend the General Assembly of t Northern Presbyterian Church as invited guest of the trustees of t missionary fund in the South. He M be absent from the city two or tiri weeks. Clerk of Court Watkins has recen a supply of the Acts of the last Gene Assembly. It is necessary that e< Magistrate in the County supply hi self with a copy of these Acts, and tl are requested to call at the ofl of the Clerk and secure them free charge. Miles T. Ho gan died at hiB home Hall Township last Sunday afterno after an illness of several weeks, was 02 years of age, and leaves a v an d four children to cherish his rn? ory. Mr. Hogan was a devoted m< ber of the Baptist Church, and n: highly esteemed by a wide circle friends. The last issue of the Keowee Cou says: "Mr. W. B. Frink, of Chict was in Walhallalast Monday. Her through the country from Dnckto Tenn., spying out the route for a i railroad from that point to Waihi He said he came as the representa of Western capitalists who propoB build a railroad bet ween these poi George M. Tolly, representing furniture house of G. F. Tolly & S< of this city, went over to SpartanV last week and was awarded the < tract for furnishing the large hott White Sulphur Springs, inSpartanl County, which will shortly he ope by its proprietor, J. T. Harris. \Y it comes to furniture or any other < of goods, Anderson cannot be-tm down in price or quality. Dr. Clark Richardson, a broths A. N. Richardson, of this County, at his home in Henderson Cou Texas, on the ?Gth ult., aged 53 yi Dr. Richardson was a native of An son County, having moved to hil western home more than twenty y ago. He was a most worthy, upi man, and his many old friends in section will long cherish his men A wife and two children survive Policeman Thomas Campbell, o Anderson police department, is sp ing several days in the city, takin the Exposition. The visiting blue dropped in at the Station House terday morning and had achat witl Charleston coppers. He made a: np e c t ion of the local headquai building and found everythin, splendid shape. Mr. Campbell been on the Anderson forco for se1 years, and ho is regarded as a b and fearless officer of tho law.-? and Courier, 3rd inst. W. B. Padgett, who writes from zer, S. C., came from North Caroli this County many years ago. II sisted in getting out tho heavy tin in Wofford College. Ho boarded self and worked for 7.1 centn a Many of these pieces are 40 feet and 0 by 12 inches. Tho longest ] ie 50 feet long and 0 by 19 inches. Mr. j Padgett is now an old wan, una bl- to work and is quite needy. If any ene is willing to help him a little Mr. Jr (in B. Cleveland will receive and forward the money.-Carolina Spartan, Spartan burg. It is now a settled fact that the erection cf a four hundred thousand dollar cotton mill will be shortly added j to the many mills now in operation in and nroun? Anderson. This new mill has been v orked up by Messrs. J. A. Brock and R. E. Ligon, who have jost returned from the East. No difficulty was experienced in interesting capital ists approached on tho subject. The period of experiment in the mill busi ness here is past, and the fact is known abroad as well ns at home. Northern capital is ready to flow into the development of our cotton industries, but our people at home should havo too much pride in tho development of our resources to invite tho investment of Northern capital without putting in a respectable amount themselves. This not only shows faith in results sought but exhibits a spirit of progress uad independence which produces con fidence abroad. Mr. C. lt. Makepeace, the engineer who will bo in charge of the erection of this new mill, will reach hero next Monday or Tuesday, when the location of the mill will bo decided upon. There was a quiet homo wedding in linnea Path Tuesday morning, 20th ult., at 10 o'clock, nt the home of tho bride's parents, Mr. Mn*, lt. O. Bran yon. It was the occasion of tho mar riage of Miss liosa Mae Branyon and Mr. J. Clyde Green. Tho happy cere mony was impressively performed by the bride's brother, Itev. L. Carly lo Branyon, assisted by Kev. H. M. Tato. Miss Zenobia Welch rendered Men delssohn's wedding march ns tho bridal party entered the beautifully decorated parlor in the following order: M?BS Thomasine Brock and MaBter Oliver Branyon, dower bearers, followed by the attendants, Miss Maude Branyon and Mr. W. L. Tribble, Miss Blanche Green and Mr. W. M. Grubbs, M?BS Rosa Maxwell and Mr. W. H. Cobb, Jr., Miss Maude Grubbs and Mr. R. J. Gambrell and then the bride and groom. After thc ceremony tho happy couple left for Charleston. The bride is one of Honea Path's most popular and charming young ladies, and the groom, who is ono of Belton's most worthy, upright young men, is fortu nate in his selection of a life compan ion. We join their many f riendsiu ex tending congratulations. Denver Dots. L. C. Garrison's little son, Clyde, had the misfortune to get his leg broken above tho kuee Saturday afternoon by falling oil'the wheel of a hny roko that was standing in the yard. He is a ded icate child, only three years old, and this accident is hard on him and on his mother, who is just gettiug up from a serious illness. Tho invalids, Mrs. J. W, Rothrock and A. E. Browne, ore suffering more than usual at present. R. W. Hammond and two children are on the Bick list this week. Benson Reeves was quite sick for a few days last week. W. D. Garrison and little daughter, Mamie, have just returned from a pleasant visit of a few dayB to relativea in Greenville County. Miss Annie Reed, one of Walhalla'? charming girls, left for home to-day after a visit of several days to relatives in Anderson and Denver. J. R. Garrison and J. W. Rothrock took in Anderson on SaleBday. C. W. Webb, of Anderson, was in Denver on business Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Hill house, oi Portman, were in Denver Saturday. Mr. Hilihouse boarded the train for a short visit to Greenville, their formel home. Cash Welborn, of Iola, was in Denver Monday visiting relatives. Farmers are complaining of the scarcity of farm laborers. Hardly any farmers of note have as many hands at they want. As soon as cotton gets ur. large enough to thin out tho denium! for hands will be still greater. Those not personally concerned de plore the action of tho Sophomore ClaBB in leaving Clendon College, af they did without first appealing to the Trustees to right their grievances. Bul not knowing all tho facts outsiders arc in no position to judge. Incognita. ? Omega items. A good rain would bo very much ap preciated by the farmers now. Mrs. H. A. Richey, of Picken*, visit ed her daughter, Mrs. Warren Martin, and other relatives last week. Redmond Henderson, one of Pied mont's popular clerks, visited his pa rents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Henderson, last week. Sam Henderson and Bailey Wyatt visited the Exposition last week. They report a most enjoyable trip. Purumu Johnson visited friends in Abbeville County last week. Misses Essie and Zoe Henderson at tended the picnic at Concrete last Sat urday. A number of our young people went to tho singing convention ut Hopewell Saturdav and Sunday. J! R. Devoro, of Donalds, is visiting friends and relatives in this commu nity. Ira Holder and mother, of William son, visited the family of G. N. Wyatt Saturday night and Sunday. St rs wherry pio has been added to thc bill ui fare. Come up, Mr. Editor, and help eat. Bluestockings. May 5,1002. _ School Meeting at Mt Airy. There will be a mass meeting of the citizens of Brushy Creek Township at Mt. Airy schoolhouse on Saturday, 17th inst., at 2 o'clock. The object of the meeting is to take action in, and make arrangements for establishing a com mon and industrial school at or near that place. Every man living in tho Township, who is interested in the cause of edu cation, is requested to be present. By order of tho patrons of Mt. Airy School. R. A. Gentry. Cor. Sec. jobbers prices on "Schapps," "Karly Bird" rind 4,Klue Jay" Tob?ceo*. Low cut piiom on Flour, Coffee, Corn, Bacon, and heavy Groceries. Vandlver Bros. Wo offor thia wook hundreds of pairs of Sample Shoes at prices to ploase. Como quick while wo havo your nu moor. Pri ces on th eso Shoes too cheap to quote. Vandiver Bros. 7 soc. rv? ? SU?J??. si (or u Kip. ' It is as necessary for a good merchant to have thelproper training as it is for a good doctor to go to a good college. . We point with pride to the MA.N that drilled us in the school of merchandising, that drilled i ful merchants we must fully and thoroughly understand the smallest details of that business, that we must learn where to buy and how to buy ( and goods well bought are half sold) and always have the cash to go direct to manufacturers and first hands, and save all middle men's profit. We strive to live up to our training, We buy for Spot Cash, We buy direct from manufacturers, We buy in large quantities, We do our own work, We own our Store room, And have no Renta to pay, Eighteen year*' experience, OUGHT TO COUNT. HALL BROS. Always Cut Price Clothiers. South Main Street. A Few Specialsl 25 Barrels No. 2 Plantation Molasses at 15c. per gallon. 100 Barrels No. 1 Plantation Molasses at 18c. per gallon-.. 1000 packages Levering's Roasted Coffee at 10c. package. These are rare bargains and will pay you to investigate them. Yours truly, D.C. BROW H?SFj?, \ JP. S. 3500 bushels Sound Mixed Corn, bought when the mar ket was low, consequently are offering it very cheap. D. C. B. & B. ON ROCK BOTTOM. THAT'S where we have been bending every energy for the past eight yeais to get our business foundation set. Wc knew that a foundation set in ? the saud was alike foolish and dangerous, and for this reason have labored in cessantly for all that meant a rock-bottom basis. Our prices have been kept : on rock bottom, our credit system has been kept on rock bottom, and we are pleased to announce to our friends that our business is ou a solid rock founda tion. This we attribute to tho fact that we give every customer sixteen ounces : of satisfaction to every pound, and throw in with every purchase a smile ! apiece for every member of his family. It is due also to the infallibility of [ the gilt-edged guarantee that accompanies every purchase, and the satisfaction and confidence with which our customers feel that they can send even a child to trade for them. We may have at some time sold shoddy stuff by mistake, but we have always Btood ready, and do so yet, to make satisfactory repara tion for any unsatisfactory purchases from us. That's our mode oi'doing business. If you want to buy tho best PLO UR on the market, and want to be j satisfied with it, buy DEAN'S PATENT. Likewise if you want quality in Shoes, Jeans, Hats. Shirts, Cheap Beady-Made Pants, And Staple Dress Goods, You will always be glad of it if you buy from us. Our stock of MOLASSES is complete, and we can satisfy thorniest fastidious. If your credit is good send us au order and it will be filled just as if you were here. Yours for business, DEAN & RATLIFFE. The Store where so ^many People.Trade.